Plane Factories Shipyards Busy as War Orders Rise
Washington reports a boom in aircraft plants and shipyards due to largest army navy and foreign orders since World War I. Unfilled orders exceed 30 million dollars while total year sales run about 68 thousand. Employment climbs from 24,729 in January to 35,935 in June with navy yards expanding to 62 thousand workers and expected 100 thousand by end of 1941.
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Washington
Labor Department
France
Army Ordnance Department
Army
Navy
Europe
Reese Wee
Kansas State Coon Hound Trials Set for September
The Kansas state championship Xevon hound field trials will be held September 3 and 4 on the George Gast farm near Overland Park in Johnson county. Sheed races tap tree races puppy derby and a beach show will be included in the program. Other features will include husband and wife calling contests and horn blowing contests for men and women.
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Kansas
George Gast
Overland Park
Johnson County
Christian Endeavor Meeting in North Lawrence
Francis Frame led the North Lawrence Christian Endeavor Sunday evening with a lesson on gambling. Speakers included Lucile Traynor Helen Bond Merle Jackson Alvin Richardson Marion Jackson and Ralph MecClarry. Announced Fort Scott Paw Wow August 25 26 27 and NE district C E convention at Leavenworth October 13 14 15. Betty Cooper Nebraska field secretary guest speaker. Sorority party at Clinton Park Friday August 25 7 30. Helen Mason sponsor visiting Colorado. Choir practice Wednesday 8 30 PM.
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Christian Endeavor
Francis Frame
North Lawrence
Lucile Traynor
Helen Bond
Merle Jackson
Alvin Richardson
Marion Jackson
Ralph MecClarry
Fort Scott
Nebraska
Clinton Park
Helen Mason
Colorado
Four Word Puzzle Riddles Unfold Into State and Creature
A Cranium Crackers puzzle prompts four word riddles where each clue yields syllables. The solutions combine to form a mythical horse, a U S state, a recent motion picture, and a phrase ending with You stand on my first end. Read hints and assemble syllables to reveal the final words.
Army poised on Poland border faces path to peace or war
At the border tensions rise as observers foresee a possible German final offer to Poland on Danzig and the Polish corridor through East Prussia. Berlin papers cite German patience thinning while Poland hints at possible negotiations under pressure. Pope Pius XII pleads for peace as Mussolini and Ciano push diplomacy and Farley credits the pope’s peacemaking efforts.
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Europe
Germany
Poland
Danzig
East Prussia
Pomorze
Berlin
Albert Forster
Count Galeazzo Ciano
Fuehrer
Hitler
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Mussolini
Rome
Italy
Stella Dickson to Face Federal Trial in Deadwood
Stella Dickson a 16 year old widow and former public enemy was moved from Davison county Jail to Deadwood where federal court will hear two counts of robbery in Brookings and Elkton. She was transported after the slaying of her husband by G men and has been described as a model prisoner though ill at first.
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Mitchell
S. D
UPI
Davison County
Stella Dickson
Benny Dickson
Public Enemy
Deadwood
Brookings
Elkton
S.D
Collinses Welcome Baby Girl at Lawrence Memorial
Mr and Mrs J R Collins of 1022 New York Street are the proud parents of a baby girl born yesterday morning at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
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J. R. Collins
New York Street
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Deaths and Funerals in Lawrence Area
Funeral services for Mrs. Augusta Uhrlaub 75 were held in Florence Colorado with burial at Oak Hill cemetery. Helen Blair Smith 57 of Kansas City Missouri dies suddenly. services set in Kansas City with burial at Mt Moriah cemetery. Fred Hess 82 of Ottawa died in Boulder Colorado. buried in Ottawa after arrangements pending.
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Augusta Uhrlaub
Au J Ruste ‘Uhrlaub
Florence
Colo
Funk Chapel
Edwin F. Price
Oak Hill Cemetery
F. T. Barteldes
O. A. Barteldes
W. C. Richardson
J. R. Holmes
Eddy Teich
Walter Gudert
Nowecomer’s Chapel
Kansas City
Helen Blair Smith
Hugh Blair
William Blair Smith
Los Angeles
James P. Blair
Long Beach
Calif
Hugh M. Blair
Cheney
Wash
I. H. Emmett
Lawrence
F. W. Bruckmiller
Sugar Creek
Mt. Moriah Cemetery
Fred Hess
Ottawa
Joe Butrum
Boulder
Butrum
Hess
United States
Germany
B Hess
Sir Butrum
Velma Hess
Bridge inspection ahead of corn husking contest traffic
Sheriff Charles E Banning and Alva Hodges inspected a Mud Creek bridge near the F H Leonhard farm this morning. The 16 foot wide steel span may be too narrow for two lanes but widening is not planned. Minor floor improvements will be made and two planks indicating a single lane will be removed to improve traffic flow.
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Asn
Charles E. Banning
Alva Hodges
F. H. Leonhard
Mud Creek
Hodges
Wage Hour Inspectors Start Training At Washington School
The wage hour administration opened a school for about 300 new inspectors led by Major Arthur L. Fletcher who called them hard boiled diplomats. A bulletin clarifies agricultural exemptions from the fair labor standards act listing which farming activities are exempt and detailing exemptions for slaughtering dairying and processing of fruits during farm operations.
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Washington
Arthur L. Fletcher
Bulletin
Galvin Refuses Resign Demand in Kansas City
Councilman Galvin, in office for a week, declines Mayor Smith's call to resign. He says political affiliations will not affect his city service and notes his prior work as a fire department inspector. The appointment came amid Democratic machine influence at City Hall.
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Galvin
Smith
Kansas City
Jterome G. Galvin
Bruce B. Smith
Tom Pendercast
Lawrence Bids, Birds, and Butter: Local Happenings Timeline
A stray chicken was captured at Round Corner drug store with a raffle awarding the fowl to Harry Montell after failed approaches to local men. Dave Ohrhauser reports a 1144 pound blue catfish catch at Leavenworth county lake, tied to August 10. A Tarkie Mo. student rewarded a Lawrence lawn effort with Kentucky bluegrass seed. Surplus commodities warehouse received 2190 pounds butter and 1200 cans evaporated milk to be distributed with peaches. Temperature dipped to 54 degrees with allusions to August lows. Quantrill’s raid on Lawrence marked 76 years since the 1863 massacre. Camp Whitside reports Second Lt. Schiller Shore’s horned toad watchdog. Mammoth Cave surfaced in local lore from 1809 origin tale.
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Memorial Park Cemetery
Leavenworth County State Lake
Tonganoxie
Ohrhausen
Lawrence
Tarkie
Kerensky and Lydia Tritton Wed in Pennsylvania Town
Alexander F. Kerensky, former Russian premier, married Lydia E. Tritton of Brisbane in Martins Creek Pennsylvania, with Justice of the Peace Harry A. Stein overseeing. Kerensky, 58, and his bride 33 provided varying marriage histories, including a Paris divorce in 1909 and a London divorce in 1938.
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Alexander F. Kerensky
Russia
Pennsylvania
Easton
Harry A. Stein
Kerensky
Lydia E. Tritton
Brisbane
Australia
Stein
Paris
Nadayin
London
Old Kansas Industrial Court Law Will Be Revived
Topeka moves to revive minimum wage rules for women in industry under the old industrial court law and plans hearings to set wage scales. Labor Commissioner Jeff Robertson cites prior 1918 orders and a 1925 inoperative status, noting parallels to Washington state decisions.
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Topeka
State Labor Department
Jeff Robertson
Kansas Supreme Court
Kansas Court of Industrial Relations
Shawnee
Flora Campbell to wed Ben Cutler in Lafontaine church
Flora Campbell star of the Sin clair Lewis play Angela is 22 will marry Ben Cutler New York orchestra leader at noon Thursday in the Methodist church at Lafontaine Kansas. Mrs H M Hill aunt of the bride said Campbell family formerly lived in Lafontaine and Miss Campbell is a Tyler Texas native and sister of AP writer Beth Campbell.
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Independence
Kan
Flora Campbell
Sinclair Lewis
Angela
Ben Cutler
New York
Lafontaine
H. M. Hill
Miss Campbell
T. B. Campbell
Tyler
Tex
Beth Campbell
Associated Press
Washington
Campbell
Ill former city manager cited in water survey suit
Kansas City report says H F McElroy’s housekeeper testified he was too ill to answer questions in the city’s suit to recover 356 500 paid for a water leak survey. Miss Inez Shanze said she was a housekeeper not a nurse and that McElroy was not physically able to attend deposition hearings.
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Kansas Ciy
H. F. McElroy
Tom Pendergast
Inez Shanze
McElroy
State Bank Closes Amid Crop Failures in Aur
The Grinnell state bank with capital of 25 000 closed its doors as of last Saturday due to years of crop failures. Elwood Brooks, state bank commissioner, said it is the second Kansas bank failure since the 1933 banking holiday. The bank was chartered September 21, 1905.
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Toneka
Grinnell State Bank
Elwood Brooks
Kansas
Brooks
Ottawa Woman Who Heard Lincoln Dies at 97
Mrs. Mary E. Stevenson aged 97, who as a girl heard Abraham Lincoln speak during his campaigns, died Saturday in Ottawa Kansas. She had moved to Kansas 1 years ago and lived in Ottawa most of the time.
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Abraham Lincoln
Ottawa
Kan
Mary E. Stevenson
Kansas
Reds Nip Phillies Behind Niggeling Seven-Hit Gem
Rookie Tuk Niggeling fired seven hits for a 7 to 1 Reds victory over Philadelphia as Cincinnati broke a skid. The Phillies rallied with four runs in the fifth and three more in the eighth, ending a win streak for the home club. Dodgers rout Cardinals 7 to 1 behind Hamlin, snapping St Louis eight-game run.
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Tuk Niggeling
Cincinnati
Reds
Follay
Victoey
Phillies
Searson
Phillie
Philadephia
Niggeling
Hershberger
Pearson
Harrell
Dav
Brooklyn
Dodgers
St. Louis Cardinals
Luke Hamlin
St. Louis
Sunkel
Warneke Aml Padget
Hamlin
Todd
Farm Club Downs Mighty Yankees at Coopertown
The Newark Bears of the International League beat the world champion Yankees 5 to 4 in eleven innings at Coopertown Farm. Borowy Beddington Washburn Warne Holm Chandler Medley Diekes Rosar were among those listed for Newark as the visiting New York lineup struggled to convert late chances.
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Yankees
Newark Bears
Newark
New York
Act
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Beddington
Washburn
Warne Holm
Chandler
Medley
Diekes
Rosar
Jailed for Violation of the Wage-Hour Law
A West Virginia trouser maker was ordered jailed for six months for noncompliance with the wage hour act. Sanford Lerner, vice president and general manager of Standard Trouser Co, Buckhannon, was the first to be sentenced under the act. Release possible if back pay of 3152.23 is made at any time.
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Elkins
W. Va
William E. Baker
Sanford Lerner
Elmer F. Andrews
Lerner
Standard Trouser Company
Buckhannon
Crown Lerner Company
Williamsport
Baker
Valley Grove hosts mixed social events and bridal shower
Dr and Mrs W L Parele and guests from Philadelphia and Lawrence attend gatherings at Valley Grove. Mrs Mary Beard hosts a miscellaneous shower for Mrs John Hays with 23 guests and gifts. Ruby Holladay awards two contests and donates prizes. An unrelated note explains banana oil is a coal tar by product.
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W. L. Parele
Charles Bliss
Bnife
Holladay
Ruby Holladay
Beard
Arthur_Ousdaht
Lorraine Reynolds
G. Thiry
Ea A Retachela
Law
Lawrence Presbyterians Witness Western Union Wedding
The marriage of Miss Catherine Louise Holmes and H Clyde Holmes of New York City to Rev. Donald Robert Evans of Anthony Kansas occurred at First Presbyterian church Lawrence in a ceremony with fern and palm backdrop and music by Mrs Everett Dooley and the Evans family. Attendants included Ruth Wood and Jean Drummond with Paul Booz as best man. Afterward a Westminster hall reception featured a pink and white cake and elaborate floral centerpieces. The couple plans a home in Portland Michigan.
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Catherine Louise Holmes
Wood Holmes
H. Clyde Holmes
New York City
Donald Robert Evans
J. Merle Evans
Anthony, Kan
First Presbyterian Church of
Lawrence
Everett Dooley
Stanley Wood
Andrew Drummond
Edmonda Mercer
John Allison Holmes
Mary Caroline Thurston
Ruth Evans
Harold Dover
Paul Wood
Margaret Drummond
Janet Wood
Pauline Wood
Evans
Portland
Mich
First Congregational Church
Ts. Evans
Lawrence High School
University of Kansas
Chicago University
Chicago Theological Seminary
Carl Schlender
Personal News From Charles Kassinger Family Trip
Mr and Mrs Charles Kassinger and son Charles Jr returned yesterday morning from a 12 day tour across Colorado Wyoming New Mexico Texas and Oklahoma visiting Denver relatives. A F E Stoner and son Paul came back Friday from Chillicothe Mo after a 10 day visit. R C Rutter spent the weekend in Topeka with cousin Mrs John Newman. Miss Mabel Green of Kansas City Mo visited the Green home. Jean Makepeace named art teacher at Great Bend Junior College after serving as secretary at the high school office. Lawrence College enrollments open for fall term starting September 5.
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Charles, Jr
Colorado
Wyoming
New Mexico
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Oklahoma
Denver
A. FE. Stoner
Paul
Chillicothe
R. C. Rutter
Topeka
John Newman
Mabel Green
Kansas City
al Green
Jean Makepeace
Great Bend Junior College
Neal M. Wherry
Card of Thanks for kindness after loss
We express appreciation for acts of kindness sympathy and floral offerings during our recent bereavement in the loss of our husband father son and brother We especially thank the Rev H G Barr Odd Fellows Re bekahs the Journal World and its employees Mrs F W Mullin and children Elsie Marie Violet Dorothea and Firman Jr E F Mullin and family
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Odd Fellows
Rebekahs
The
Journal-World
F. W. Mullin
Elsie Marie
Violet
Dorothea
Firman
E.F. Mullin
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