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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1939
Page
2
Washington reports a paradoxical Congress that cut WPA funds by 50 million while approving vast defense and social security outlays. The session ended with appropriations exceeding 13 billion, complicating any simple read of a trend toward budget balance.
Wes Roberts, secretary to Governor Payne Ratner, left Topeka with his family for a vacation to Colorado. He plans to stay ten days to two weeks and said he intends to catch up on sleep after months of heavy patronage work since the governor took office in January.
A quiz based on recent news asks questions about Governor Dickinson of Michigan and other topics. It covers options on hometowns, British officials, a snow avalanche at a mountain, a minister in Ohio, and a tragic accidental shooting involving a Michigan boy.
The article notes a Kansas Jayhawk promoting the National Cornhusking Contest to be held near Lawrence on November 3. Visitors buy souvenirs and many Lawrence families purchase statuettes from local stores for vacation trips.
Detroit Aug 7 A UAW AFL poll at Packard is approved avoiding a local strike after Curt Murdock says the vote aims to prevent double crosses on elections. Chrysler Hudson and Nash plan 1940 model changes while Ford continues 1939 production. GM recalls 7,500 skilled workers and later 150,000 production workers as tools and dies are finished.
Robert Haggart, chair of the concessions committee, invites early applications for concessions at the November National Cornhusking contest. A 4 pm meeting will set final rules in the Chamber of Commerce rooms. The list covers cigars, tobacco, candy, gum, 50 food stands, and soda concessions.
On the C.P.A. picnic program a special tug-of-war pits Growers against Sellers or City Slickers against rural men. Charles E. Banning leads the city team with Nick Thome for the rural side. Teams will pick 12 men apiece and pull at 4730 in Southpark. Banning jokes of jail. Thome calls it a river test for townsmen.
W. S. Russell of Lawrence fined eight dollars for running a stop sign and not stopping. R. F. Bailey D. E. Coleman and E. B. Farley of Lawrence fined five dollars each for speeding. Leslie Ulrich of Lawrence fined one dollar for incorrect parking.
Gov. Payne Ratner announced plans to speak at the Delia civic picnic in Jackson county Wednesday evening and to attend a Marion County Cooperative Creamery association meeting on Thursday. Berlin shows one beerhouse and one telephone for every 271 residents.
Washington reports a partisan split as the first 1940 Congress lays its record. Democratic leaders stay optimistic on Roosevelt program while Republicans pledge to curb one man rule and resist new deals and debt.
Hollywood executives and staff will receive an extra thirty minutes for lunch if they spend it playing badminton. Producer Sol Lesser says the change should boost worker health and morale. He hired Norm Durkin of Detroit, a Midwest badminton champion, as the instructor.
A Filipino mother Esperanza Rafael gives birth to a baby girl in Manila whose heart was outside the body resting on the chest. The infant lived twelve hours after birth with the heart beating normally, a glass bowl reportedly placed over the exposed organ.
Bouncing Billy Watson won the shot put and broad jump to pace the United States to a 54 41 victory over Great Britain in an international track meet before 60 000. George Varoff also won the pole vault with 13 feet 6 inches as Clyde Jeffrey and Roy Cochran posted strong showings.
The commerce department reports Germany is creating egg substitutes from fish meat protein and dried milk albumen to reduce egg imports of 38 million dollars in 1938. It is also testing cold storage of eggs with carbon dioxide, with long term storage claimed to match fresh eggs.
The Kansas Geological Society announces its annual field trip from August 30 to September 3. Geologists will study pre Pennsylvanian rocks in Southeastern Missouri and southwestern Illinois. Tour chairman Zonas B. Stucky said the five day trip starts in East St. Louis and ends in Rolla.
Staunton Virginia August 7 200 man posse hunted a two ton circus elephant named Elsie in woods near town after she escaped a wrecked truck trailer Located by an airplane 24 hours after the escape she briefly showed herself then disappeared again Deputies said there was much excitement among residents who feared damage and what the elephant might trample next
William E. Burnett Jr., son-in-law of Boss Tom Pendergast, testified he received $300 a month from Rathford Engineering but did no work for the leak survey. He said the pay was for Boyle-Pryor Construction work. The deposition occurred in Kansas City as the city seeks $356,000 back from the firm. City Counselor Sam Blair said he would subpoena H F McElroy, the former city manager, who has been ill since leaving city hall last April.
Residents of Nyack and Clarkstown flood the police with protests against Dixie Davis a former gang lawyer and Hope Dare a red haired ex showgirl as a rumored local wedding couple. Chief Walter Liebert notes fears of gang reprisals and asserts the county wants nothing to do with the pair.
In the Bronx an 11 year old boy begged his despondent mother not to die. The mother Miriam Kantor 32 reportedly smiled and said she was only fooling. Early today she left the apartment, went to the roof and leapt to her death, leaving a husband Isadore and children Norman 14 Ruth 9.
London reports a new mental ailment among relocated slum families. Dr F T Thorpe of West Riding mental hospital writes in the British Medical Journal that demolition melancholia strikes those who move from familiar neighborhoods with known shops and neighbors. Wives left alone during the day are especially affected. A proposed remedy is removing entire neighborhoods including shops churches and clergymen.
A fire in Mission Hills Kansas on August 7 destroyed a building housing three businesses on Highway 50 near the state line. Owners estimated a $20,000 loss to the community and properties.
Lansing Kan Aug 7 Warden M F Amrine abolished eight state penitentiary jobs to save 11000 yearly in salaries He cut water and assistant building superintendent posts calling them unnecessary and removed six guard positions Post Nos 2 on the south wall 334 on the east wall required three men daily A 12 foot fence on the 24 foot south wall was erected to reduce escapes Governor Ratners policy against useless state jobs guides the move
The city school board meets at 7 30 tonight at the high school and the city council at 8 in city hall for public hearings on proposed budgets. Art Weaver returns from an eastern buying trip with a big fishing tale after two trips in Long Island Sound near New London Conn. 166 mackerel were landed on one trip. West Ninth Street, Massachusetts Avenue approach blocked as city street department lays cables for a second traffic light installation in Lawrence.
Tonight at 7:30 the Panthers and Tornadoes, local boys aged 10 to 12, will face off on the University quadrangle. Panthers lineup includes Ray Boardman Charles Wagstaff Phil Stockton Steve Ellsworth Tom Jones. Tornadoes feature Charles Oehrle Kenneth Oehrle Horton Lee Fox Frank Davis and Maurice Martin.
Atchison Kansas August 7 District Judge Lawrence F Day refused to convene a county grand jury after petitions by George Herzog with about 400 names were found invalid because 56 signers were not taxpayers. Petitions lacked charges and the required signatures. Labor Board Order Opposed by Public Steel Agency.
The General Motors Corporation board today declared a dividend of 75 cents a share on common stock. This follows earlier 75 cent payments in March and June, bringing 1938 total common stock dividends to 1.50 per share.
Rye New York August 7 Gordon McNeill of Oklahoma City and Frankie Parker of Beverly Hills Calif reach the second round of the eastern grass courts championships Parker seeds No 2 defeats Robert Kerdasha 6 0 6 4 McNeill beats J Norman Anderson 6 1 6 1 in straight sets.
Federal employees numbered 925,260 in June, the largest total in history, according to Civil Service Commission figures. Officials cited seasonal increase, noting December total 919,161 with wartime peak around 918,000 and prior June levels near 918,000.
A four month old black and white panda cub left China by plane today for Hong Kong en route to the St. Louis zoo. Chinese officials say export bans were bypassed by a special exception for this 50 pound cub.
The National Association of Manufacturers reports Great Britain taxes up 480 percent and United States taxes up 640 percent since 1913. By 1924, the survey says, both nations had tax increases in roughly the same ratio.
Arthur Harris reported to police this afternoon the theft of a violin from 1003 Tennessee street where the instrument was stored. Harris said the theft occurred sometime last month.
King Levinsky, once a top fighter with earnings over 350000 in four years, says he is quitting boxing at 29 after a wrestling spell and a quick KO by an unknown opponent. He plans no further ring comebacks.
In Excelsior Springs Missouri an 85 year old man named John A Kasper collapsed in an alley claiming he could not afford hospital care. He was taken to a sanitarium where cash totaling 4975 in 500 and 100 dollar bills was found along with seven 1000 bonds a 988.61 cashier's check and a Taft signed North Dakota land grant. Dr J E Baird noted a 105 degree fever.
Humberto Gal Iino and his brother Captain Victor Gal Iino said their twin motor transport plane performed well and they hoped to leave Floyd Bennett Field New York on August 18 to attempt a nonstop flight to Lima Peru.
A Spokane report details a CPI A woman killed in Utah as western storms and fires cause property damage totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars across Washington Oregon and Idaho with ongoing rugged weather.
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