May Reservations Open for University Basketball Seats
May reservations for the University season begin Monday December 10 at the athletic office in Robinson Gymnasium. Student activity ticket holders may file for seats, as may the general public. Floor seats are 1.26 dollars, balcony 1.00, with special season tickets at 5 dollars main floor and 4 dollars balcony for five home games. All reservations must be made by 4:30 p.m. Monday December 17, with distribution after Christmas holidays. Dr. Forrest C. Allen announced students with tickets may attend Notre Dame games in Kansas City December 28 and 29 or transfer six tickets. refunds are prorated if books cannot attend.
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Robinson Gymnasium
Tnse
Cone
Forrest C. Allen
University
Notre Dame
Kansas City
Mailing Dates for Christmas Packages in Lawrence
Lawrence postmaster C. B. Hosford warns mailing deadlines to ensure on time delivery. West coast by Monday or Tuesday, east coast by December 16, middle west by December 17 or 18, and cards by December 20. Extra staff and a new parcel post truck are to aid handling during peak season.
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Lawrence
Middle West
Hosford
Cleveland Police Round-Up of Gangsters Sparks Moonshine War
Cleveland officers and federal agents report a moonshine sugar traffic upheaval as the magnet drawing 27 gangsters to the city. Twenty three were arrested in a downtown hotel, four more captured the next night. Gang warfare over the sugar monopoly is blamed for 15 slayings, most notably the Lonardo brothers. Capone associates implicated. suspects refuse to explain reasons for arrival. Information ties three men to extortion gangs in St. Louis Chicago and Gary.
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Cleveland
Joe
John Lonardo
Lonardos
Scarface
al” Capone
Chicago
Jim
St. Louis
Gary
Ind
Petition Seeks Dissolution of United Home Insurance
In Topeka on December 6 AP reports a dissolution petition for United Home Insurance Co filed in the Attorney General’s office. The state Supreme Court may name a receiver after insurance commissioner William R. Baker revoked the company’s authority due to unsound affairs.
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Topeka
United Hail Insurance Company
William A. Smith
State Supreme Court
William R. Baker
State Insurace
Saddleries In Merger Plans Expand to 2 Million
Across midwest, four saddlery firms merge into a 2 million dollar concern. Henry Diegel of Atchison Kansas testifies before the Interstate Commerce Commission at freight hearing, detailing the incorporated entity to include Atchison Lincoln Nebraska Waterloo Iowa and Kansas City firms. A separate note reports a Kansas City shooting when P J Budreau fired a shot after a noise in his yard. his son Clarence was wounded in the right arm. A fourth producing oil well in Sedgwick County, Lyon No 2, offset to Wright discovery near Valley Center, strikes pay sand at 3350 feet, oil column rising about 1000 feet.
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Topeka
Henry Diegel
Atchison, Kan
Interstate Commerce Commission
R. Diegel
Atchison, Lincoln, Neb
Waterloo
Kansas ‘City
Kansas City
P. J.’ Budreau
Clarence
Aouth
aWichita
Kans
Edewick County’s
Lyon No.2
Valley Center
Explosion kills four in East 108th Street disinfecting plant
Four people were killed and at least six injured in an explosion at a disinfecting plant on East 108th Street near the East River in New York. Fifteen others were unaccounted for as ambulances, fire teams, and police rushed to the scene. windows within blocks were shattered by the blast damaging three one story buildings and an adjoining structure.
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New York
East 108Th Street
East River
Next Play Wednesday by Lawrence Drama League
The Lawrence Drama League to stage a public performance of Booth Tarkington’s one act play Station YYYY on Wednesday night December 12. Admission is free. A 7:20 pm business meeting at the senior high music room precedes the program. Cast includes William Wheeler and J Neale Carman directs. A pre show program by Miss Saynetta Munroe will feature Mrs. Charles Hazleton.
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Lawrence Drama League
Booth Tarkington
Station Yyyy
YYYY
J. Neale Carman
Saynetta Munroe
Munroe Jis
Charles Hazleton
Belvere
H.E. Don Carlos
Lawrence
William Wheeler
Winstead
J. 3B. Henry
Carolyn. Winstead
Roma Funk
Anita Winstead
Fannie Phillips Conley
J. W.o.bryan
Roger Colby
J. Neale
Carman
Charles
Elgin Milligan
SE Tertics
Injured student Feeney moved to Lawrence Memorial Hospital
University student Clinton Feeney, paralyzed from the lower body in a Robinson Gym basement class, was removed from the student hospital and sent to Lawrence Memorial to isolate him from influenza patients. Dr Canuteson said the condition is uncomfortable but not serious. recovery will be slow yet paralysis is not permanent.
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Clinton Feeney
University
Robinson Gymnasium
Lawrence Memorial Hosital
Ralph L. Canuteson
University Student Hospital
Feeney
Nomination for U S Circuit Judge Smith Hickenlooper
President Coolidge nominated Ohio lawyer Smith Hickenlooper to be United States circuit judge for the sixth circuit. Other nominations included George P. Hahn and Wayne G. Borah. United States attorneys nominated were Edmond Earl Talbot of Louisiana and Philip Forman of New Jersey.
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Washington
Smith Hickenlooper
Ohio
Coolidge
United States
George P. Hahn
Chips
Wayne G. Borah
Louisiana
James W. McCarthy
New Jersey
Oklahoma
Nelson McVicar
Pennsylvania
Edmond Earl
Talbot
Philip Forman
Wrecking crew member dies after block strike in Missouri Pacific derailment
Kansas City dispatch reports Jess Shirley of Osawatomie Kan died in a hospital after being struck on the head by a dropping block near here during a Missouri Pacific wrecking crew operation. A McKenna of Osawatomie and James Sweeney, injured in the derailment, were listed in dangerous condition.
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Kansas City
Jess Shirley
Osawatomie
Kan
Missouri Pacific
Devree
A. McKenna
James Sweeney
Reckless Driving Conviction For Topeka Driver Crites
Ora Crites of Topeka was found guilty of reckless driving in district court after a March crash that killed Frank Hobart. The jury acquitted him of drunken driving. sentencing deferred to December 15. Police said his car struck Hobart and then hit a sidewalk. Hobart was the father of Charles Hobart of the city.
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Ora Crites
Frank Hobart
Topeka
Crites
Hobart
Charles Hobart
Cosmopolitan Club Plans Annual Revue at Fraser Hall
University Cosmopolitan clubs held a special meeting naming Bob Myers as representative to the international clubs convention in Ithaca December 22 39. The group also mapped the East and West Revue for December 14 15 with a matinee for school children and a program of music songs stunts and a short play highlighting nationalities.
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Bob Myers
Ithaca
Fraser Hall
Bigamy case shocks Long Island as clergyman remarries
New York December 6 AP Bert J Leigh Manuelle 36 church organist and music teacher is jailed without bail for bigamy after leading his wife to witness his marriage to 19 year old pupil Martha Van Wyen in Sayville. The couple wed at Marble Collegiate Church with the wife present and the wife’s parents later confronted Leigh Manuelle in Sayville where a scuffle arose and he was arrested.
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New York
Herbert J. Leigh-Manuelle
Suffolk County
Leigh-Manvelle
Sayville
Martha van Wyen
Leith-Mannelles
Leith-Mannelle
van Wyen
Mar
de New York
Leith-Manuelle
Lcense
Leigh-Manuelle
Cornelius van Wyen
Leich-Manuelle
Richard F Allen Named Assistant General Counsel for Fraternal Aid Union
Richard F Allen, KU Law School 1926 graduate, was named assistant general counsel of the Fraternal Aid Union. Son of George F Allen, the union's general counsel and recent national president, his appointment eases the national president's legal burden. He previously led the Kansas insurance department claims division for two years. He served on the Mystic Workers Supreme Lodge legal committee and belongs to Phi Delta Theta. He is active in DeMolay, having led the Kansas City Kansas chapter and represented it at national affairs.
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Richard F. Allen
University of Kansas School of Law
Fraternal Aid Union
George F. Allen
Order
Kansas Insurance Department
Supreme Lodge
The
Mystic Workers
Allen
Phi Delta’ Theta
De-Molay
Kansas City
Eudora Man A Death By Own Action
A 66 year old veterinarian W R Shannon shot himself at a friend’s farm near Wellsville Eudora Kan motive unknown He is survived by a divorced wife and three children all residents of Wellsville.
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R. Shannon
iLife
Wellsville
Eudora
Kan
W. R. Shannon
Pearl Russell
Shannon
Wells
Music club programs and social gatherings noted
A meeting of the Temolaclus featured a program of piano pieces by Paderewski Schubert Grieg Liszt and Rubinstein among others. The Thursday whist club met with Mrs R C Morrow at Watkins hall, with several substitutes listed. The city library staff celebrated twenty four years in the present building with a cake and anecdotes from Mrs A Henley.
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M. Belles
R. M. Pratt
Washington, D
Schubert
Grieg
Liszt
Wi Teli
Switzerland
Barcarolle—Rubinstein
Trinity Chimes
Becker
R.C. Morrow
Watkins Hall
A. T. Walker
George Esterly
Sol Marks
Jeannette Wheeler
Lawrence
A.henley
Sorority Mu Phi Epsilon To Present Opening Program
Mu Phi Epsilon honorary music sorority offers its first program of the year Monday at 8 pm in the University auditorium. Free admission. Readings include ensemble pieces with vocal, string quartet, harp, violin and organ selections. The finale features Christmas carols by the sorority.
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Mu Phi Epsilon
University Auditorium
Baker Graduate to Furnish the Baby of the House
Dewey Short of Galena Missouri a Baker University graduate class of 1919 will be the baby of the next House of Representatives when it convenes in Washington on March 6 He was elected from Missouri 14th district by an 8000 vote majority and is reported to be 36 years old making him the youngest member of Congress.
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Baker
Baldwin
Baker University
House of Representatives
Washington
Dewey Short
Galena
Missouri
Short
Congress
Weekend broadcast lineup from ASE Genkee and partners
Thursday program runs 8:00 to 7:00 p m with Vincent Lopez at Hotel St. Regis, Lehn & Fink, Champion Sparkers. Friday morning features Sunrisa musica and footing school, Bratton brothers at 5:00 p m, Armstrong Quakers and Wrigley Review later, sixteen singers and Stromberg Carlson programs listed among other items.
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Wren
Vincent Lopez
Hotel St. Regis Orchestra
Lehn &Fink
Sparkers
Sunrisa Musica
Bratton Brothers
Armstrong Quakers
Wrigley
Stromberg-Carlson
Thursday Program at Lawrence Public Schools Recital
Lawrence public schools present a Thursday program titled How to Study Pictures with Mrs Loxonbury art supervisor. The event features Kathleen Carlos violinist Irene Feebody mezzo soprano and Ruth Orcutt pianist along with other performers including Frere Anesi Gypsy Serenade and Paris sketches and ends with a news bulletin.
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Loxonbury
Lawrence Public Schools
Romanze Andaluza
Sarazate
Gardner
Kathleen Carlos
Helen
Carlos
Ja—Albeniz
Granada
Albeniz
Ruth Orcutt
Frapz
Haile
Sylvia
Schubert
Irene Peabody
Tschaikowsky-Elman
Gayvotte—Popper
Valdex
Deaths and Funerals Mixed in Lawrence Notice
Lawrence notices report the death of Dee M. Wallace in Bowring Oklahoma where he taught. Katherine Rivar aged 5 died at Charles I Grant’s home in Kansas City and will be buried in Elk Falls Kansas. Mary Eliza Gowans aged 83 died at 1616 Indiana Street. Funeral plans to be announced. Dr N P Sherwood, ill and confined, attended a brief outing. Mrs F W Gaunt and Mrs J B Mack attend Osborne county reunion. Polk county plans to denature 2600 gallons moonshine as anti freeze for cars.
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Dee M. Wallace
Lawrence
Bowring
Okla
Wallace
University
Katherine Rivar
Charles I. Grant
Connecticut Street
Kansas
Elk Falls
Mary Eliza Gowans
Indiana Street
F.W. Gowans
J. W. Gowans
Hutchinson
R. H E. Gowans
Ottawa
H. W. Gowans
Tulsa
F. W. Gaunt
J. B. Mack
Osborne County
Inield
Chan Baldwin
Rosewood
Minn
Polk County
Government Bonds in New York Highlight Liberty Bank Deal
A terse AP item from New York notes Lee reports on Liberty Bank bond activity. The brief mentions government bonds and a Liberty-related development, with no further readable details available.
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New York, Lee
Real Estate Transfer and Educators Club Meeting
William Scott et al transfer east half of Lot 3% in Addition eleven (11) in north Lawrence to Jesse Scott. Kansas Educators club plans a meeting at Emporia Teachers College on Friday with over 50 state educators expected to attend including representatives from major schools and the university.
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William Scott
Jesse Scott
Lawrence
Educators. Club
Emporia Emporia
Kan
Kansas Educators Club
Emporia Teachers College
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Saddleries
C.C
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Ora, Crites
Madill
Marshall’ County
Ola Kimrlin
New
York
Efrem Zimbalist
Presbyterian Hospital
William Snavely
Clark
Strang Line
George A. Clark
Strang
Olathe
George T. McDermott
Federal District Court
Haskell
Joe Pappio
Cincinnati
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Papvio
City Hall
Sam’ Eliott
West Seventh Street
City Jail
Sam Ainsworth
Lyons
John L. Kilwort
Peggy
Colummn
Journal-World
Unitarian Church
Winters
Jaenes Evarts
Ira
Seltert
George Lowmats
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FP. T. Stockton
vVendredi Bridge Club
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Genkee Ee
Tin
N. P. Sherwood
Ee Aesey
Rumsey Bros. Funeral Home
Ind. St
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General Electric
Kennedy Plumbing Co
Barteldes Seed CO
Christmas Club
Douglas County
Merchants National Bank
Rachmaninoff
Ayos
Marshall & Wendell
J. Milton Delcamp
Adam Carroll
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