Chinese students spread basketball across wartime China
Paul Moritz, 1939 Honor Man, reports from Kweiyang and Kwai chow that basketball has quickly spread among Chinese schools, hospitals, army camps, and villages. He notes courts outdoors, varied team sizes, and the game aiding physical and mental health under invasion, praising Dr. Naismith’s invention. Moritz serves on the YMCA national council and will lecture on China next year.
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James Naismith
Paul Moritz
Kweiyang
Kweichow
China
Moritz
Chungking University
Dr. Naismith
America
Naismith
National Council of Y.M.C.A
United States
Fear Government Will Make Alcoholic Beverages
Atlantic City April 27 The Methodist church temperance board warns the general conference that government manufacture and distribution of alcohol would corrupt democracy. It argues federal monopolization would create many liquor employees whose aim is to induce drinking to preserve jobs. It cites rising beer and wine consumption and attacks non intoxicating claims as undermining prohibition.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Board of Temperance
The
Methodist Church
General Conference
United States
Regents Back New Field House at Kansas State
Two state board of regents members expressed support for a new field house at Kansas State during a dinner with alumni. Coach Hobbs Adams attended as a guest. Three campus beauty queens will lead a delegation to present a petition to Governor Ratner next week, with about 3,500 student signers.
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Topeka
State Board of Regents
Ralph T. O’neil
W. T. Markham
Yates Center
Kansas State
Hobbs Adams
Manhattan
Kansas State College
Payne Ratner
Marjorie Jacobs
Shirley Shaver
Joan Hethaway
Woman Ends Sit Down Strike After 47 Hours In School Gym
Mrs Gladys G Lowe 49 ends a 47 hour sit down strike at a Missouri school gym centering on a broken nose suffered by her son Phil lip in a yard fight She slept on a bleacher and vowed to renew her protest if needed during the next school year as the building was left deserted and utilities cut off during the vigil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mighlandville
Gladys G. Lowe
Ozark
Phillip
May Consolidate Offices Legislative Proposal for 1941
Topeka April 27 A legislative council committee proposes consolidating three state offices the accountant budget director and business manager. The committee on federal state and local governments will present the plan to the 1941 legislature and has asked the research department to draft a bill and gather data. Senator Thale P Skovgard Greenleaf chairs the committee.
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Legislative Council
Topeka
Council Research Department
Thale P. Skovgard
Greenleaf
Wallace urges farmers to organize for land bank reform
St Paul Minnesota April 27 Secretary of agriculture Henry Wallace urged farmers to organize and push reorganizing the federal land bank system lowering mortgage interest and liberalizing farm credit. In a prepared address for a mass meeting of 18 states the land bank was praised as valuable yet criticized by bankers and state associations. The speech warned war in Europe would affect agriculture and called for agricultural and military preparedness as 12 000 attendees from the Northwest and Midwest heard the appeal.
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St. Paul, Minn
Henry Wallace
Federal Land Bank
Wallace
Land Bank
Farmers Union Hour
NBC
American Bankers Association
Bankers Associations
Europe
National Farmers Union
National Federation of Grain Cooperatives
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South Dakota
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Iowa
Ohio
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Maryland
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Oregon
Colorado
Eighty second commencement to honor 59 graduates
Baldwin Kansas April 27 eighty second commencement will be held Monday June 2. Fifty nine seniors will graduate and honorary degrees will be awarded to General Samuel McRoberts Wilbur F Denions and Oscar E Allison. Dr Paul Quillian will deliver the commencement address.
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Ralph Garrett Beach
Lorence Gregg
Estelle Kintigh
Harry Warnock
Kansas City
Verna Lee Carter
Simon DeLeon
Dorothy Ann DeWitt
George C. McCarten
Ned Parks
Lloyd Martin Ryan
Ilene May Schreck
Kan
Kenneth Charles Brown
Ethel Elizabeth Carpenter
Irving Gilman
Edward J. Harmon
Donald Teach
Earl Miller
Buena
Brite Gerke Maxwell
Omaha
Velma Elizabeth Filley
Houston
Tex
Wayne A. Gibson
Gaylord
Ruth Hunter
Rolla
Vernon Osbourn Wirhw
Alvin Wayne Pevehouse
Coffeyville
Clifford D. Longe
Edna
Dorothy Faye McLaren
Mhanute
Helen Makemson
Parsons
Kendall
Randolph Manning
Skidmore
Purl Hill Maxwell
Chicago
Mary Filizabeth Miller
Abilene
Margaret Joséphine Milligan
Garnett
Maxine Nash
Mathe
Julian Porter
Pleasanton
Elsie-Louise Reinecke
Webster Groves
Mow
Maurice Arlington Riseling
Columbus
Dorothy Violet Robinson
Bolivar
Moy
James Thomas Ross
Central City
Arthur Samuelson
Council Grove
Heart Dean Sneers
Scranton
Ivan Leo Swope
Shawnee
Jane Elizabeth Thomson
Irving
Lois Eleanor Watson
Westphalia
Rollin Francis Wade
Leavenworth
Excelsior Community News Briefs Feature Local Events
Mrs Henry Pehl returns home after two weeks with the Rappards of Lawrence. The Excelsior club hosted a play The Ready Made Family at the Ottawa area camp. Nadine Carpenter is rehired to teach the coming term. The school closed Thursday with a program led by Miss Carpenter. A basket dinner followed. Chaiivariil Sternberger hosted Monday near Worden as rain arrives. Farm Bureau met at Mrs Walter Pohl’s home to plan future events. Next meeting set for the home of
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Millard Jackson
Mahlon
Gromiller
Appanouse
Excelsior
Conrad Gastrock
Orlyn Vaughn
Walter Pohl
Miltie Kring
Walter Lindholm
Charley Girlland
Glen Flora
Ruth Johanning
Pancake Community Club
Dearon
Dubs
Minneolla
Perry Ewing
Lawrence
Wooker
T. Tu. Montgomery
Kenneth
Neva
Henry Pehl
Soimer Rappard
Excelsior Community Club
Ottawa
Nadine Carpenter
Julius Sternberger
Worden
Farm Bureau
Local Social Roundup in De Soto and Kansas City Area
Mrs. Jasper LeSueur hosted a dinner for her husband Jas per and his twin sister Ruth LeSueur with guests Kitty Mary and Nata LeSueur of Clathe, J Will Baker of De Soto, and Mr Gates of Coldwater visiting with Jesse Bird. The Gates family plans to move to town as Bird builds new houses in Kansas City. Willow Springs farm bureau met in De Soto with a noon covered dish luncheon and an afternoon program. Mrs Smalley of De Soto aided with house cleaning, Sallie Randall visited her sister in Kansas City, Arden Crushman and child from Overland Park stayed with the Atkinson family while Mr Crushman travels to Texas. Oma Dent of Kansas City spends weekends with her parents and joined a Sunday dinner at the Penner home.
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Jasper LeSueur
Jasper
Kuth LeSueur
Kitty
Mary
Nata LeSueur
Clathe
J. Will Baker
de Soto
Gates
Coldwater
Jesse Bird
Bird
Kansas City
Roy Frisbie
Frank Doane
Willow Springs Farm Bureau
Methodist Church
Smalley
de Soto,s
LeSener
Sallie Randall
Austin
Arden Crushman
Overland Park
John Atkinson
Crushman
Texas
Oma Dent
W. H. Dent
Birthday Honoring Mrs Kate Penner Noted
Guests included Mr and Mrs H Penner and Mr and Mrs DeWolfe of Lawrence and Misses Jessie Penner and Virginia of Kansas City in the birthday celebration for Mrs Kate Penner.
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H. Penner
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