Drought Ends Across Southwest After April Showers
Kansas City reports a end to a five month moisture deficiency as April showers drenched eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, and parts of Texas. Intermittent rain and cooler temperatures spread across the region with scattered damage from hail and wind in Fort Worth.
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Kansas City
Fort Worth
Tex
Oklahoma
Dallas
Kansas
Arkansas
City
McFarland
Junction City
Alaham
Texas
Missouri
Nebraska
South Dakota
Clover Leaf 4-H Club Wins District Contest
The Clover Leaf 4-H Club won the Baldwin district medal contest held at the Baldwin high school Saturday afternoon. Prairie City 4-H Club placed second. The district winners advance to county contests at Tiberty Memorial High School on April 28.
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Baldwin
Prairie City
J. B. Taylor
Tiberty Memorial High School
Taylor
Eudora
Bir Springs
Lawrence
Taslor
Recognition Services Honor Roll at Emporia Teachers College
Emporia Kansas April 14 recognition ceremony honored 241 students for scholarship excellence across all four class years. Honor roll lists those in the top ten percent. J Frances Gunning of Lawrence appeared on scholastic list for both semesters.
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Emporia
Kan
Emporia Teachers College
J .Frances Gunning
Lawrence
Baby chicks stolen from depot platform in railroad theft
Lawerrelly police were notified Saturday afternoon by a special officer of the Union Pacific that two crates holding one hundred white baby chickens were stolen from the depot platform. The chicks were being shipped eastward when two tramps, believed to be Rock Island transients, boarded an eastbound train and stole the chicks.
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Lawrerlee
Union Pacific Railroad
Rock Island TS
Marriage Licenses and Local Notices T: Woodlawn Preschool Meeting and Lipton Launch
Marriage licenses granted by the Probate Office include Levy Kurt and Minerva Givens of Lawrence, Charley Moore and Esther Gerisch of Richland, Chester Hards and Hattie Schul ts of Topeka, all married by C. E. Lindy. Also notes Education Degree applications from Emporia for May commencement. Miss Baker of Lawrence among applicants. Woodlawn Pre-School Myth Group meeting rescheduled for Wednesday April 15 at 2:15, speaker Mrs. Istin Turney on Creative Expression in the Child. Lipton’s yacht Shamrock V launched at Beacport England as he pursues the historic cup. An ear, nose, and throat clinic will be held at the health department in City Hall from 2 to 4 Wednesday afternoon. End of entry mentions Journal-World want ad for used automobile.
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Kan
Euma Pauline Baker
Lawrence
College
Tais Group
Woodlawn
Tyas
Hald Mesday
Istin
Turney
Crea
Lipton
Shamrock
Beacport
England
Thomas Lipton
Nelson
J. W. Bayles
Lillian
Howard
E. E. Bayles
Clay Center
Leattie Perkins
Lucy Purcell
Farent-Teachler Association
Wichita
Haber G. Crumrine
Aliquippa
iFa
Topeka
W. T. Courtney
J. W. Eby
Shome St Howard
Eby
W. F. Shaw
Trot City
J. B. Cartier
Wilson
Melinda S. Maloney
Tulisa
Oklo
W. Maloney
Georges March
Madisonville
Prisoners to Work at Fort Riley Detail Planned
Leavenworth Kan April 14 Warden Thomas B White announced a plan to detail 250 federal prisoners to Fort Riley to work as laborers on the military reservation. The first 50 will go this week with two guards and soldiers aiding watch. The job includes food construction hay harvest and farm work. Good time credit five days a month may be earned for good conduct.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Thomas B. White
Federal Penitentiary
Fort Riley
White
Fort Rile
Department of Justice
Clothing school for 4 H leaders held tomorrow
A clothing school for leaders and girl 4 H members will be conducted in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Miss Loretta MecEMurry, Kansas State Agricultural College clothing specialist, will conduct sessions starting at 9:30 a.m. An evening meeting at 7:30 p.m. will accommodate those unable to attend in the morning. Morning focuses on clothing projects and afternoon on judging.
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Chamber of Commerce
Loretta Mecemurry
Kansas State Agricultural College
J. B. Taylor
Deaths and Funerals in Eudora Area
Catherine Susan Zimmerman age 87 dies at home south of Eudora. Funeral from home Tuesday at 2 pm, Holler to conduct, burial in Eudora cemetery. Survived by two sons and two daughters. James W. Monroe, 67, dies at home in Eudora. Funeral at Baptist church Wednesday at 2:30 pm, Rev Burbridge officiating, burial in Eudora Cemetery.
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Catherine Susan Zimmerman
Eudora
Re. EL Ey Holler
Eudora Cemetery
Zimmerman
Harley Zimmerman
Fred Luckan
Lawrence
Rilie Godding
Olathe
Thad. S. Zimmerman
Perry
Oklahoma
James W. Monroe
Baptist Church
Mr. Burbridge
Funeral of Mrs Sweeney Held at Catholic Church
The funeral for Mrs T J Sweeney sr was Saturday morning at the Catholic church with Father Henry Fitzgerald officiating. A heartfelt tribute on Christian Motherhood followed, and interment occurred at Calvary cemetery on the city hilltop. Pallbearers included Joes Graves Parsons Geo R Allen Topeka W J Caulfield Kansas City J A Schaefer L N Lewis S Baty BE L Riling and W C Simons of Lawrence.
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T. J. Sweeney
Lawrence
Henry Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Calvary
High Point
Sterling college student faces manslaughter charge
Clyde Vincent 19 near Alden Kansas was freed on 11000 bond after being charged with second degree manslaughter in a fatal Sterling area car crash that killed three Hutchinson couples. Sheriff Faye Brown said Vincent admitted crowding a car with the group into a ditch south of Sterling and leaving the scene. Victims included Mr and Mrs Robert Knightly and Mrs Ralph Wallace. Ralph Wallace and Mrs Carl Kerrich were injured.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Sterling College
Clyde Vincent
Alden
Sterling
Faye Brown
Robert Knightly
Ralph Wallace
Carl Kerrich
Wamego Wins Grain and Agricultural Contest Honors
Emporia April 14 1930 Wamego high school captured top combined rating in a grain and agricultural judging contest held at the state teachers college with Ottawa high placing second and Newton third.
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Kan
Wamego High School
Eastern Kansas Agricultural
State Teachers College
Ottawa High Nedk
Newton
Gandhi Arrests Spark Salt Act Crackdown in Bombay
Government detained leaders of the Indian nationalist civil disobedience movement led by Mahatma Gandhi. Jawaharlal Nehru was sentenced to six months for salt act violations, arrested near Allahabad, with widespread market suspensions in Bombay. Sixteen others were arrested in Lucknow for salt law offenses as Gandhi remained at Dandi during his day of silence.
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Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
All- India National Congress
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Cheoki
Naini
Allahabad
Lucknow
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Mohanlal Saxena
National Congress
Imttia] Ahmed
Ahmadabad
Come Seven opens with all Negro cast at Fraser Theatre
Tonight at 8:15 the Fraser Theatre hosts a three day run of Come Seven Octavus Roy Cohen’s comedy of Birmingham Negro life. Kansas Players stage the production with an all student cast from the fine arts and dramatic departments. Dress rehearsal received praise as the season’s best comedy. Tickets at the door. reservations for tomorrow and Wednesday in Greenhall basement.
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Octavus Roy
Cohen
Birmingham
Kansas Players
Fine Arts School
Allen Crafton
Dotor
Greenhall
Haskell Indians Scrimmage Emporia Teachers Saturday
Haskell Indians and Emporia Teachers held a second spring football scrimmage on the local field. Coaches directed the session from the sidelines as McCoy of Emporia showed strong ball carrying in the practice. no regular game was attempted.
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Haskell Indians
Emporia
McCoy
K. U
Pageant At First Baptist Draws Large Audience
A large audience witnessed the pageant The Challenge of the Cross at First Baptist Church Sunday evening. Miss Dorothea Simons led Evangel the call to discipleship while six young women from the church’s Young Peoples Group portrayed the journey from selfishness to cross bearing. The episode with the cross was noted as especially impressive with the hymn Beneath the Cross of Jesus. Chas W Thomas directed pageantry and sang hymns. Rev J F Watts spoke on The Cross the Symbol of Christianity. Attending guests included Rev S W Slaughter and members of the First Christian church.
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First Baptist Church
Evangel
Dorothea Simons
Jesus
Elizabeth Moody
Rachel Gard
Elizabeth Stapleton
Rowena Hammons
Irene Farrar
Dorothy Knapp
Pyar
Phos
Brotherhnad
Rotary exhibit drills by Kansas National Guard at Haskell Institute
Two Kansas National Guard organizations at Haskell Institute plan an exhibition at 4 o clock Friday afternoon for delegates to the district Rotary International meeting and others. Troop I cavalry will perform its pie lent drill with Captain Sam P. Moyer directing, a movement of over 1 000 counts without commands. Cavalry will stage a mounted rescue race and an epe race. Company D 157th Infantry machine gun unit will assemble guns and demonstrate firing under Captain Frank Dunkley.
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Kansas National Guard
Haskell Institute
Rotary International
Haskell
Sam P. Moyer
157Th Infantry
Frank Dunkley
Cactus on Display at Kaw Valley Bank Window
Six year old two foot cactus plant with forty five buds is exhibited in Kaw Valley State Bank windows in Eudora. Seventeen flowers in full bloom, nine about to bloom. Belongs to Mrs. A Durr of Eudora who grows it. Ed Mellville urges flower enthusiasts to visit Eudora to see the plant.
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Kaw Valley State Bank
Eudora
Ed Mellville
Largest Douglas county egg produced by Roy Jameson flock
Roy Jameson of Vinland brought to the Journal-World office on Saturday one of the largest eggs ever produced in Douglas county. Laid by an English White Leghorn, the seven ounce egg measured 9.54 inches in lengthwise circumference and 8 inches in the other direction. A typical large egg weighs about 2 1/4 ounces, making this egg at least three times the usual size.
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Roy Jameson
Vinland
Journal-Worlds
Douglas County
Cooperation Sought For City Census in Lawrence
Census takers in Lawrence report difficulty obtaining full information. Birthplaces of grandparents prove hard to collect as many households are away when called. Shortages in informed residents and careless answers slow the count. officials urge cooperation and ensure information remains confidential.
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Lawrence
Aevnse
Palm Sunday Services Across Churches Face Holy Week
A report from churches on Ninth and Tennessee and Trinity Lutheran describes Palm Sunday observances with special music and tableaux. Highlights include the Wing of Kings sermon, choir solos, and planned processions, plus Sunday school and worship plans at First and Congregational churches. Also noted are Munich to Adriatic motor road plans and Argentina’s 1929 rise in American auto imports, underscoring broader regional events.
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Munich
Austrian Alps
Adriatic
Race mix in Hawaii challenged by Rowell speech
Chester H. Rowell, Kansas University, warned that Hawaii’s racial blend creates test-tube society issues. He traced immigration from Portuguese to Chinese Japanese and Filipino workers and urged immigration limits until Orientals adapt to American society while noting the Pacific as a bridge not a barrier.
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Chester H. Rowell
all-University of Kansas
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Torium
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Fan Islands
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United States
Pacific Ocean
Williams Hauls Hogs and Cattle to Kansas City for Beeghley
Columbia notes show Sandy Williams trucking a load of hogs and cattle to Kansas City for Daniel Beeghley, with Lloyd Beeghley accompanying. The column lists multiple local families hosting dinners, visits, and weekend activities across Solon Markley, Flory, Hesler, and related households, including excursions to Topeka and Lawrence.
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Sandy Williams
Kansas City
Daniel Beeghley
Loyd Beeghley
Charlie Brohammer
Lillian
Alda
Wesley Flory
Elmer Flory
Henry
Arley
Charles
Lloyd Shuck
Harve Flory
Harold and
Wayne
Will Postma
Florence
Laurie
Richard
Virgil
Kesler
Wilt Postma
A. J. Flory
Slda
Flory Cemetery
John Brohammer
Bey
Pearl
Harold
Harding
Richland
Local Families Gather for Visits and Events
Florence Postma and others hosted guests of Cecil Duver in Lawrence Sunday evening. To ka trip for baby chicks, sheep meeting in Manhattan discussed. Funeral attendees from the neighborhood for Mrs Crowl at Ap panoose church. Elmer Churchhaugh, Miss Stevens, and Pearl Brohammer joined guests at various events. Harold Wesley Wray of Sawyer died at 2 25 with intestinal flu. Funeral in Sawyer.
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Florence Postma
Virgil Shoejmaker
Lillian
Alda Brohamimer
Charles
Lloyd
Evelyn Shuck
Cecil Duver
Lawrence
Solon Markley
Mary Katherine
Toka
George Markley
Manhattan
A. J. Flory
Charlie Brohammer
James Wray
Sawyer
Wesley Flory
Dunkard Church
Will Postma
Pacific Air Transport pilots make four emergency landings
In Los Angeles officials report Pacific Air Transport pilots performed four nonforcible emergency landings between Seattle and Los Angeles for mail and passengers, each at precautionary fields. Separately, Mrs. G. V. Hansen of Edinburg, Texas, collected twenty six varieties of cactus native to the Rio Grande valley.
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API
Seattle
Wash
Pacific Air Transport
Rio Grande Valley
G. V. Hansen
Edinburg
Tex
Endorsed By Beautiful Women Face Powder Ad
An advertisement touts Mellow-Glow Face Powder as pure and government endorsed. It claims smooth spread, lasting wear, and a youthful glow made by a new French process. Eldridge Pharmacy and The Round Corner Drug Co. are named retailers.
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Seattles
Eldridge Pharmacy
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