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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1939
Page
8
The Mount Hope nursery fair drew a record crowd for its largest edition last week. Deal Six, county farm agent, released prize winners across categories from Clothing and Food Preservation to Livestock and Poultry, naming numerous youths and their placements.
Senator Thomas of Utah told reporters after a White House conference with President Roosevelt that there would be no general European war, but Congress might act impulsively and discard the neutrality law if one began. He did not discuss European or neutrality questions during the meeting.
In Paris on August 29 crowds in clubs and cafes recalled 1914 18 wartime days. A peg leg veteran played a barrel organ with World War tunes and allies anthems while a wall once bearing a mobilization poster sparked chatter about war and Hitler. Orchestras played lilting war era songs as the city carried on.
Seneca Kansas August 29 A bank cashier Laverne Wolff 34 of the Kelly State Bank killed himself with a gun as FDIC examiners entered the bank to finish a Friday inspection County Attorney Harry Lanning and state bank commissioner Elwood Brooks said the books appeared in order and no reason for the act was found Wolff's wife died in a February 1938 coasting accident and he left three children.
Postmaster General James A. Farley, vacationing in Ireland with his family, visited Blarney Castle on August 29 and kissed the famed Blarney Stone, famed for bestowing eloquence upon those who kiss it.
Indian leader Mohandas Gandhi expressed hope that Adolf Hitler would respond to President Roosevelt's appeal for peace from Bombay on August 29. Gandhi said he prays daily for world salvation from war and would not purchase India's freedom by violence, reaffirming his belief that what is gained by the sword is lost by the sword.
Miriam Hopkins and her adopted son Michael arrive in Reno with Kay Francis. Hopkins leaves for Lake Tahoe amid questions about her pending divorce from Russian director Anatole Litvak, whom she wed in Yuma two years ago. Francis hints at plans to marry Baron Eric von Burnow but offers no details.
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