Havener Sentenced to Six Years for Bank Fraud
Charles E Havener mining promoter was sentenced by Judge John Pollock to six years in Leavenworth for aiding and abetting Leo A Mergen in misusing Union National Bank of Beloit funds. Havener claimed he was a victim while acknowledging a crash of $1 400 000 involved. Mergen received a five year term.
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Topeka
Kays
Associated Press
Charles E. Havener
John Co
Pollock
United States Penitentiary
Leavenworth
Leo A. Mergen
Union National Bank of
Tria
Havener
Mergen
Viing
Charles F. Kagey
United States
Finland
Kagey
Atorney
Alison H. Stinner
United States ‘District Attorney
Jori
Kansas forecast notes unsettled conditions and cooler temps
Forecast indicates unsettled weather tonight with possible thunderstorms and cooler Tuesday, especially in the west and northern areas. Roads described as clear and good in several towns, with some rough surfaces noted. temperatures hint at a need to consider tire conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Ottawa
Himparia
Arkansas City
Hutchinson
Coffeyville
Pittsburg
Salina
Baseball results amid postponements in cold weather today
National and American league games were delayed by cold, with New York at Brooklyn and Boston at New York postponed. St Louis and Chicago/Missouri players posted an early homer run as Hartnett and Falk connected for first inning shots. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati games featured Meadows and Hargraves, while Uhle, Sewell, and Doyle pitched for Cleveland and Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Brockly
Philadelphia
St Louis
Cleveland
Detroit
Uhle
L. Sewell
Leonard
Doyle
Holloway
Woodal
Bassler
Burns
Homer
Boston
Washington
Chicago St. Louis
Lyons
Mangum
Vangilder
Severeid
Rego
Falk
Old Settlers Plan Meeting of Quantrill Raid Survivors
Old settlers and Quantrill raid survivors prepare an on campus roll of present day survivors for a Saturday University of Kansas gathering. Names from a published list turn up in cities including Lawrence Albuquerque Santa Fe and Willow Springs with many attendees recalling the raid era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas’ County
Quantrill
University of Kansas
Journal-World
Fletcher
Hatton
Ohio
Thomas Rown
Lawrence
Elmer el Brown
Wim. Harper
Adam Schaal
Franklin
Anna Mugler
Christine Wientge
Santa Fe
Jacob Mugler
Albuquerque
F.S. Learned
Alabama
Louise Dinglestedt
Louisiana
John Harrell
Connecticut
F. ‘J. Ecke
Tennessee
Ben
Ellis
New Jersey
L. J. Kennedy
Park Street
J. R. Ulrich
Kentucky
Wesley
Flory
Willow Springs
Matt Potter
Pennsylvania
K T STORE ROBBED IN NORTH LAWRENCE
The K T restaurant at 240 Elm Street North Lawrence was robbed last night of about 30 dollars of merchandise and three dollars in pennies from a gum machine. Entry was through the back door, likely via a key. Owner H Pasewark and wife left around 10 30 pm. Bert Brider saw a suspicious man near the restaurant early morning. No insurance coverage reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
K-T
Elm ‘Street
North Lawrence
H. Pazewark
Pasewark
Bert Brider
K-Tilling Station
Trial set for May 4 in pardons bribery cases
Two criminal suits against former governor Jonathan M Davis his son Russell and Carl J Peterson were tentatively set for trial May 4 in Shawnee county district court. They face charges of eliciting and accepting bribes for pardons and conspiring to obtain bribes from bankers Fred Pollman and Walter Grundy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kans
Jonathan M. "Davis
Carl. J. Peterson
Davis
Shawnee County
Ralph Onian
Fred W. Pollman
Peterson
Walter. Grundy
Hutchinson
New England in Grip of Cold Wave
Severe wind and rain storms mobile across the Midwest and into New England with deadly impact. The storms spawned tornadolike winds causing fatalities and injuries as property damage surpasses 1.5 million dollars. Snowfall blankets the region amid freezing temperatures.
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New England
Chicago
Associated Press
Mississippi River
Local Advertising Club Forming in Lawrence Chamber Luncheon
George M. Husser of the Better Business Bureau Kansas City Ad club will speak and assist in forming a Lawrence local advertising club at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon. G Randle and eight Kansas City Ad club extension committee members will attend as guests of honor. Lou Holland may attend. club to affiliate with Associated Ad Clubs of the World.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
George M. Husser
Better Business Bureau
Kansas City
Lou Holland
Associated Ad Clubs of the World
al Bureau
The
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Associated
Ad Clubs of
Ad Club
Appointment of Kent Cooper as AP general manager
New York April 20 Kent Cooper is named general manager of the Associated Press succeeding Frank Roy Martin who resigns effective Wednesday Cooper has served as assistant general manager for five years and entered AP fifteen years ago after long experience in press work AP marks its twenty fifth anniversary in its present form under Frank B Nosy Waldorf gathering today precedes tomorrow’s annual meeting Directors of fifteen with five slated for election will organize Wednesday
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Kent Cooper
Associated Presss
Frank Roy Martin
Martin
Cooper
Associated Press
Frank B. Noyés
Waldorf
Mello Beats De Mar In Boston A A Marathon
Charles L Mello of Ilindis A C won the twenty ninth Boston A A marathon defeating Clarence De Mar four time winner and world record holder by 100 yards. Mello time 2 38 3 5 De Mar 2 38 87 Frank T Zuna Newark N J finished third with 2 35 35 Whitey Michelsen Port Chester N J was fourth in 2 37 22.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Associated Press
Charles L. Mello
Ilindis A.C
Boston A. A
Clarence de Mar
Mello
Newton Hills
de Mar
Melrose
Frank T
Zuna
Newark
N. J
Whitey Michelsen
Port Chester
Fido Gets Night Off While City Chooses Dog Catcher
No definite action was taken against Lawrence dogs today as officials select a new dog catcher. Several applicants remain, with a decision expected by tomorrow morning. Dogs found on streets go to Woodlawn Park pound, owners pay fifty cents to city, fifty cents daily, plus annual dog tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Woodlawn Park
Hail storm damages Lawrence area and injures resident
Donald Lyons of 1004 West Fourth Street suffered a deep scalp wound when a light globe toppled from a street pole during a Saturday night hail and wind storm. He was treated at Simmons hospital and released. The storm damaged alfalfa crops, fruit buds, gardens, and caused widespread damage to telephone and power lines across Lawrence and nearby areas. A maple tree on North Lawrence fell on lines, knocking out rural service and severing poles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Donald Lyons
West Fourth Street
Seventh and
Massachusetts Street
Simmons
Lyons
Lawrence
Telephone Company
Kansas Electric Power Company
William Elkins
Third
Lake Streets
North
Light Company
Country Club
Dedicate New Organ At First Christian Church
Crowds attended the dedication of a newly installed pipe organ at the First Christian Church. John D. Zimmerman of Topeka led the dedicator y service in the morning. Lee Seifert Greene presented the inaugural organ recital with Miss Juliet Dowdy and Leon Fauley assisting. The recital featured Ferranta Modern Suite, first in Lawrence, and Yon Concerto Gregoriano.
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Ferranta
Greene
Lawrence
Discuss Electricity For Farm Use In Kansas
Topeka Kansas April 20 Education and farm leaders will gather at Manhattan tomorrow with the Kansas committee on the relation of electricity to agriculture to hear reports of surveys of farm conditions and electrical experimentation. Representatives of the Farm Bureau Farmers Union State Grange state board of agriculture the state university and agricultural college board of administration and public service association will attend. The committee will consider reports on two projects planned for Kansas in the next two or three decades and the agricultural experiment station will describe rural electrical survey and developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kans
Manhattan
Kansas Committee
Kansas ‘Public Service Companies
Farm Bureau
Farmers’ Union
State Grange
State Board of Agriculture
The
State University and Agricultural College
Board of Administration and Public Service Association
Kansas
Agricultural Experiment Station
Agricultural College
engineering experiment _ Station
Baldwin Hill grade to be reduced for federal aid plan
County road workers begin blasting stumps and rocks to ease Baldwin Hill on the Baldwin-Lawrence route as plans shift to a federal aid primary road. The project, now endorsed by Baldwin voters for the Pleasant Grove route, includes widening the Baldwin to Vinland segment and rerouting to a gentler grade for possible inclusion in the federal road system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Hill
Baldwin-Lawrence
County Commissioners
Pleasant Grove
Lawrence
Baldwin Hill
Vinland
Parents Indicted Over Government Custody in Kansas
In Topeka on April 20, Federal Judge John C. Pollock indicted parents for reliance on schools to rear their children. Pearl Shaw, 12, and Orvill Baker, 15, confessed to robbing the Williamstown post office of sixty cents. Pearl was adopted by a farmer and wife. Orvill paroled to his parents who pledged daily schooling. The judge urged home chores and fiscal lessons, noting schools do not teach work or economy. Pearl Shaw was adopted by Mr and Mrs Steve Welter of Williamstown. Mrs Welter expressed sympathy for the motherless boy, whose father is too poor to provide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kans
Associated Press
John C. Pollock
Pearl
Shaw
Orvill
Baker
Williamstown
Steve ‘Welter
AW Welter
Young Man Delayed Then Marries After Age Promise
Probate Judge Menger told of a Topeka couple who wed after the groom reached age. He was twenty one that day but needed parental consent until midnight. The pair returned early next morning and were married. Also reported Bloemfontein unrest with police firing on a crowd of 4000. casualties unknown. Ring leaders arrested and citizen militia called out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menger
Topeka
South Africa
Bloemfontein
Orange-Free State
Associated ‘ Press
iThe
Res
Clean Up Week Mobilizes Lawrence Volunteers
Lawrence observes Clean Up Week from April 20 to 25 with city authorities and civic groups coordinating to cut fire hazards, improve sanitation, and remove trash. The Knot Hole Gang and Boy Scouts will canvass homes to boost participation, while garbage contractor F H Harper adds wagons and workers. Pinckney schoolchildren collect recyclables for a piano fund via the PTA sale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Knot Hole Gang
Boy Scouts
James Akright
Boys of the
Knot, Hole Gang
Akvight
Knot Hole Gangs
Ralph Childs
Boy Scout
Holliday
Pinckney
Pinckney Parent-Teacher Association
Niano Fund
Russia declines to attend arms traffic conference
Geneva April 20 Soviet Russia refused to participate in the forthcoming conference on arms traffic control. Foreign Minister Tchitcherin said the Soviet government opposes the League of Nations in its present form and cannot collaborate on a matter it sees as interference in internal affairs. Opinions differ on how Russia's absence will affect the conference and the convention's force.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Russia
Tchitcherin
League of Nations
League
Moscow
UP chief denies merger reports amid rail consolidation talk
Seattle April 20 Carl Gray president of Union Pacific called a New Orleans report that a four line rail merger including Union Pacific with Missouri Kansas Texas Kansas City Southern and Louisiana railway and Navigation was under consideration entirely unfounded He said there was no intention of UP consolidating with lines south of Kansas City. Topeka April 18 Frank Mouse Emporia motor car wholesaler retailer was sentenced to three years in Leavenworth prison by Judge John C Pollock after a federal jury found him guilty of using the mails to defraud.
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Seattle
Wash
New Oleans
Union Pacific Railroad
Missouri, Kansas and Texas System
Kansas City, Southern Railroad
Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company
Carl Gray
Union Pacific
Kansas City
Mouse
Topeka
Kans
Associated Press
Frank FE
Emporia Motor Car
John C. Pollock
Leavenworth
Another Nation May Pay Its War Debt
Washington April 20 Conversations looking to the opening of negotiations for settlement of another foreign debt have been inaugurated Secretary Mellon announced today. The nation owing the United States less than 50 million dollars was not identified. The debtors under 850 million dollars include Romania Armenia Estonia Greece Latvia and Lithuania, and the negotiating nation was not Romania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mellon
United States
Rumania
Armenia
Esthenia
Greece
Lativia
Lithuania
Reunion of Scottish Rite Opens at Temple This Afternoon
The fifty-ninth reunion of Scottish Rite Masons in this vicinity opens this afternoon at the Masonic temple with class registration and a reception. Degree work will continue through the week, closing Friday night with a temple banquet. A detailed schedule lists multiple degrees and lectures, with committees named for organization, meals, and entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masonic Temple
Zerbal
Lodge of Perfection
Carl A. Preyer
W. B. Downing
Gola
W. Goffelt
A. Porter Hultz
A. E. Huddleston
E. F. Huddleston
H. Thompson
Bruce McKee
A. T. Johnston
Jesse J. Klum
Ford J. Ledoux
David M., Horkmans
Harvey A. Jetmore
U. 8
G. Plank
Exposition Prizes and Awards At University of Kansas
The Engineers Exposition at the University of Kansas awarded first prize in the general department exhibits to Civil Wins and received the society trophy. The hydraulic exhibit, part of the civil display, was named best individual exhibit. Second prize went to the mining engineers in general exhibits, with mechanics winning second in the individual displays. Special mention honored chemical and electrical general exhibits and civil and mining individual exhibits. Dean Walker called the event the best in the fair’s history. about 5,000 people visited over two days. Separately, the Interstate Commerce Commission rejected a proposed one cent per hundred pounds cement rate reduction from Kansas City and Sugar Creek to St. Joseph, ordering suspension of new charges. The world’s longest railway platform, 2175 feet, was completed by joining Manchester's Victoria and Exchange stations. Dr Albright Chiropractor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
Kansas Engineering ‘Society
Dean PF. Walker
E. U., Engineering School
Washington
Kansas City
Sugar Creek
St. Joseph
Interstate Commerce Commission
Victoria’ and Exchange
Manchester
Valley Debate Set for Wednesday Night Championship
The final Missouri Valley debate will be held Wednesday at 8 p.m. in the Central Administration auditorium. South Dakota and the University of Oklahoma will contest the championship on the resolution granting Congress power to override Supreme Court unconstitutional acts by a two thirds vote of both houses. Ex-Chancellor Frank Strong will chair, with five judges including A. C. Leach, J. H. Lawrence, and C. Wright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Valley
Central Administration
South Dakota
University of Oklahoma
Congress
Supreme Court
Frank Strong
A. C. Leach
Baker’ University
J. H. Lawrence
Emporia
C. Wright
Atchison High School
Club Women Open 30th Kansas Federation Convention
Wichita hosts the Kansas federation of women clubs for its thirtieth annual convention. More than 500 delegates expected, with Mrs. C. F. Miller and Miss Lutie Jackson presiding. The program features department reports, addresses, and a grand reception as junior departments are highlighted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kansas
Kansas Federation’ of
C. F. Miller
Fort Scott
Lutie Jackson
Kansas City
Miller
Miss Jackson
Federation
Willard Templar
Scott
G. F. Cress
Council Grove
Frank Northcraft
Abilene
T. V. Barrett
Upper Mississippi
Minnesota
Michigan
Wisconsin
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Missouri
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Charles Havener
Beloit Bank
Kangels
Executive Committee
Norton
Cedarvale
Florence
Hays
Dodge City
Empor Independence
Pratt
Wellington
Eee
C. McMilllan
Coffeyville, High School
State Typist, ‘Association
sMoberly
Dalton
Phose
Assistinn
Anderson
North Indiana
Co.of C
ALP
Ilinois A. C
Fido
Englad
First Christian
Rotary
Robert 3. Rowlands
Club
Robert J. Rowlands
Lawrence Rotary Club
Karl Klooz
J. Frank Jones
Mr. Rowlands
H. B. Hungerford
Rotary Club
Rotary Board of
Karl Klood
R. A. Eusden
R. C
St. Paul
Neb
Bella Sorensen
Danneborg
Here
Debry
Hastings
Howard County Sanity Board
H. V. Kibler
Hutchingen
Lessen Incline of
Hanna
Pacific Head
Carter
Albright
Chiropractor
Oklahoma
Ee Fisher
Lawrence Newmark
Charles Kadlee
J. W. Errant
J. K. Harnar
Bryan A. Gilkinson
University, of Kansas
Drake
Texas
Colorado
John Ferguson
Administration Council
Federal Council’ of Churches of Christ In America
Paris
Great Britain
Australia
British Museum
London
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