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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1935
Page
2
Detroit reports the motor industry, the nation’s top industrial class, is in high gear with output surging. Since January 1 it has produced over 1,318,000 passenger cars and trucks, nearing 20,000 units daily and approaching peak yearly production, with demand absorbing much of the output and many orders unfilled.
Hollywood reports Charles Chaplin Jr and Sydney Earl Chaplin fought over a girl in a theater while escorting her. She reportedly sought reimbursement for ice cream money spent on a street car ride. The incident ends with the girl leaving, forfeiting the planned ice cream soda.
The Co operative Club seeks city council approval to install six flood lights at Hond Park for night baseball and other events. If approved, lights would be installed promptly with a target completion by May 1 at an estimated cost of 400 dollars, and the club would hand the system to Twilight league management for supervision. Representatives will appear before the council tonight.
City and county officials and friends were entertained at a dinner for Sheriff Fred Vogler and Mayor Alfred Lawrence. The affair at the sheriff’s residence featured several courses centered on fried chicken and finished with strawberry shortcake. Speakers followed the meal.
Witness W. Hi Quakenbush of the Lawrence Business College will travel to Topeka, Kansas tomorrow to testify as a handwriting expert in a federal court case. The item lists several knowledge questions about history, literature, science and music.
Readable essay contrasts a tired husband seeking comfort at home with a wife yearning for an evening out. It contrasts domestic chores and endless routines with the idea that a simple invitation to go somewhere could renew their bond and offer relief from daily bustle. The piece illustrates mutual longing and the social expectation of shared activity.
Professor Karl Kuersteiner has been elected to a Salzburg Festival conducting scholarship in Austria. The award covers tuition and board for two months starting July 5 in the Tyrol city. He will study under Bruno Walter and Felix Weingartner and attend the Salzburg Festival of Music.
Word reached Eudora of Clark Kendall, 76, dying in Modoc last night. Born near Hesper he moved to Modoc in 1917. Survived by wife, two daughters in Kansas City MO and Tulsa OK, son in Tulsa OK, two sisters Clara Kendall Sudora and Laura Cloud Haviland, four grandchildren. Funeral plans pending.
The morning service at First Methodist Church featured John Stainer’s oratorio The Crucifixion performed by the Wesleyan Chorus under Miss Dorothy Enlow. Soloists included Ray Wright tenor Herlan Loyd bari tone Miss Ednsh Hopkins violinist Arthur Fielder cellist Miss Anna Lee Hazen pianist and Charles McManis organist.
The state tax commission reports a flood of income tax returns as deadline day nears. Ellis D. Bever, department director, estimates at least 15,000 returns have arrived while Marco Morrow of Topeka, assistant publisher of Capper Publications, is set to speak at the American Newspaper Publishers Association dinner in New York on April 25.
Local markets report grain prices with Wheatorn at 87 and Butterfat at 33 plus hogs at 5.45 and hens at 6.8. Government bonds list Liberty issues around 101.7 and 103.15, Treasury 44 near 78. An advertisement urges turning odds and ends into cash with a classified ad pitch.
Topeka reports a strong influx of cattle from Texas New Mexico Arizona and Colorado into the Blue Stem pasture region of south central Kansas. Lease rates top last year with prices 40 to 50 percent higher than a year ago. About 85 percent of roughly 600000 acres in Flint Hill were leased by April 1. Almost a million cattle expected to graze in midwest pasture with Osage Oklahoma also set for a good year as 87 percent of Osage acres were leased.
Kansas University varsity band under Prof Russell L Wiley presents a varied program in the KU auditorium at 8:20 pm with Paul Smart Worth Blair Arthur Fielder Vernon Landon Horace Thronburg James Van Dyck and John Schnabel. selections include Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 Carnival of Venice Polka and Fugue, Schwanda the Bagpiper Air and other pieces. conducted by the composer.
In Lawrence a reported shooting in the 900 block on Massachusetts street proved a misread. A car backfire and red window cleaner dye caused the scene, while locals misinterpreted the glow as gunfire. Temperatures dipped 62.2 degrees from Sunday afternoon to this morning. The Gowdy Medical sign fell in wind, and a divorce suit was filed in district court by Caroline Young against Albert Young with custody sought. Thrifty readers check the classifieds regularly.
A campus section reviews the new Jayhawker yearbook and Sour Owl issue with Queens listing, Relays talk, and pranks. It notes Easter recess, KU band concert, and Relays date on the third Saturday, plus profiles of Fred Waring figures and local prank incidents.
Portland Apr 15 1933 plans were announced to relocate 25000 Midwest drought families to western Oregon and western Washington. The federal relief administration will fund the land purchase from water owned and later land bank assets. Survey of suitable lands will begin soon with placements starting in about a month using the $4.8 billion work relief funds.
Mrs Harry Norman and Sam Miller visit in Oklahoma. The Dodders and others called at the Chas Rappard home Saturday afternoon. Several ladies visit Louise Reilly home Wednesday afternoon. Baldwin family and Dorothy Miller spend Sunday in Topeka at Jim Atherton home. Teddy Flory visits grandparents. Coffman home hosts and Carl Carlson family entertain. Schutz, a Journal World solicitor, called in the vicinity Tuesday.
A 1934 consumers guide notes food costs rose 14.7 percent since 1913 while clothing gained 36.3 percent and fuel and light 58 percent and household furnishings 69.5 percent. The report contrasts city worker expenses with slower food inflation.
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