Will Recommend Extended Pension
New York December 9 The National Association of Manufacturers endorsed a government cooperative program for industry and labor with the aim of restoring jobs for about 9 million unemployed. The platform backed collective bargaining rights, lower prices, honest public dealings, and fiscal steps toward balancing the national budget. Eden's impending U S visit loomed as a backdrop to the concluding convention.
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New York
National Association of Manufacturers
Anthony Eden
United States
Eden
Jiner Acquitania
Battery
Waldorf Astoria
Association
Resolutions Committee
A H Club Members to Be Bankers Guests Tonight
Approximately 300 Douglas County 4-H club members, leaders, and vocational agriculture students will attend the eleventh annual Achievement banquet hosted by the Douglas County Bankers association. Awards earned during the year will be presented by Deal Six, county farm agent, with music and motion pictures closing the program. George Dunkley, president of the bankers association, will serve as toastmaster.
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Douglas County
Douglas County Bankers Association
Deal Six
George Dunkley
The
Bankers Association
Reelected Hospital Board at Lawrence Memorial
Regular monthly meeting at Lawrence Memorial Hospital re elected all board officers for another year. Officers named include President W C Simons Vice President A D Weaver Vice President Dick Williams Treasurer I J Meade Secretary Madge Bullene. Also notes per wire dispatch Landon removes eye patch in Lima Peru. Shedding light on infection clearance. Albert N Howard dies near Derby at 70 a Mulvane stockman and Holstein breeder. He arrived in Kansas in 1883.
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Lawrence Memorial Hospital Board
A. D.weaver
Dick Williams
I. J. Meade
Madge Bullene
Landon
Lima
Peru
Alf M. Landon
Kansas
United, States
Test Your Knowledge Quiz From Classified Page
Trivia questions cover presidents vice presidents taxation roman numerals and public agencies. Items include naming Bobby Cruickshank golf and the recently deceased president of Turkey with a request for answers on the classified page.
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United Es
Bobby Cruickshank
United States Shipping Board
Turkey
Freshman squad serenades Conger amid staff shakeup
A 26 man freshman football squad serenaded Ralph Conger at his home after he was among three staffers dropped in a Wednesday athletic shakeup. The group planned a social club to unify varsity and freshman players, and also noted ROTC mock court martial events and campus social plans for the weekend.
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Ralph Conger
Conger
Cancellation of Lawrence Town Hall Meeting Not Held
The Lawrence Town Hall announces that no meeting will be held next Sunday December 11 due to inability to secure a satisfactory speaker on Where Is the New Deal Taking Us The program tentatively moves to January 15 and two more five session series are planned beginning then Suggestions for future topics and speaker names are welcome.
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Lawrence Town Hall
H. Lee Jones
Town Hall
Forum
Town Hall Associates
Town Hall Committee
Topeka man pleads guilty in liquor case
Fred Johnson of Topeka pleaded guilty to two counts of possession and transportation of intoxicating liquor in Milton Beach justice court. He received 380 days and a $100 fine on each count with total costs of $57.50. Johnson was arrested November 22 after a State Highway Patrol officer found about 1,600 pints of bottled liquor in his car on Highway 10 near Eudora.
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Fred Johnson
Topeka
Justice Court of
Milton Beach
Johnson
Larry Porter
State Highway Patrol
Porter
Highway 10
Eudora
Two Die in Gas Chamber at San Quentin
California reports two more convicts executed in the new glass and steel gas chamber at San Quentin. Wesley Eudy, 34, and Fred Barnes, 40, died after being sentenced for murdering two men during an escape attempt.
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San Quentin
Calif
California
Wesley Eudy
Fred Barnes
Waging the Peace Topic Highlighted by Melvin Talk
Prof. F. E. Melvin of the University of Kansas spoke on Waging the Peace at a League of Women Voters luncheon. He argued treaties reflect peace, not create it, and warned against overstressing treaties while underscoring the armistice’s significance.
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F. E. Melvin
University of Kansas Department of History
League of Women Voters
Melvin
Wilson
Edward M. House
Foch
France
Pershing
Berlin
United States
League
Kaiser
Hitler
Fake job applications sent to state jobs investigation
Topeka reports Republican state chairman Walter Fees plans to seek federal aid over alleged fake job applications mailed across the state. The forms supposedly required a monthly two dollar contribution to the Republican committee as a condition of employment, and were sent in blank envelopes with no sender ID. Fees said the party did not dispatch any such applications and would not attach obligations to any employment forms.
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Topeka
Walter Fees
Fees
Republican State Committee
State Committee
Obituary for Wiley Wilson of Lawrence Kansas
Wiley Wilson born August 19 1900 in Lawrence Kansas died November 25 1938 at his home 141 Maple Street after a several year illness He was 38 years three months and six days He joined the navy April 12 1917 was frozen at sea and spent much of enlistment in hospital Honorably discharged July 12 1919 He married Myrtle Jones October 20 1921 they had a daughter Peggy Louise He worked at University of Kansas until ill health and spent time in Leavenworth veterans hospital In the last three years he was unable to work He leaves wife daughter his mother two sisters three brothers and many friends
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Wiley Wilson Wiley Wilson
Lawrence
Kan
Maple Street
Navy
Wilson
Myrtle Jones
Peggy Louise
University of Kansas
Veterans Hospital
Leavenworth
Tunisian Crisis Rumor Sparks French Defense Stance
French military sources dismissed Italian massing reports as unlikely to seize Tunisia. They stated Tunisia would remain French until France ready to surrender its African and eastern empire, noting 40,000 Italian troops in northern Spain could not overcome strong defenses.
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Defense Ministry
Pyrenees
Spain
Italy
Tunisia
France
Daladier
Mediterranean
Chamber of Deputies
Goebbels Laughs at Quaker Delegation Visit
Berlin reports Der Angriff mocks the American Friends Service Committee observers heading to Germany to study the treatment of Jews and minorities. The Nazi paper taunts the Quakers promising mock reverence and a staged welcome while signaling disbelief at their mission.
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Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
der Angriff
United States
Germany
American Friends Service Committee
Society of Friends—Quakers
London
Rufus Jones
Haverford
D. Robert Yarnell
Philadelphia
George A. Walton
Newton
East
Deaths And Funerals Of Local residents
Mrs Annie Vannest 73 of St Louis Mo died yesterday afternoon at her brother S A Johnson 815 Elm St. Survived by son Earl Vannest and brothers S A Johnson and Arthur Johnson of Lawrence. W T Sweangen 84 former Lawrence resident died today at his son Claude Sweangen s Topeka home. Funeral services set for Stratton Colo Sunday. Mrs M C Adams daughter of Sweangen now living in Topeka was also a former Lawrence resident.
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Annie Vannest
St. Louis
S. A. Johnson
Elm Street
Earl Vannest
Arthur Johnson
Lawrence
W. T. Sweangen
Claude Sweangen
Topeka
Stratton
Colo
M. C. Adams
Mr. Sweangen
Funeral services for Mrs Pearl Hayes
Mrs Pearl Hayes 45 died Tuesday. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at Ninth Street Baptist Church conducted by Rev I S Fisher of Kansas City Kan. Pallbearers listed. Body taken to her home this afternoon.
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Pearl Hayes
Ninth Street Baptist Church
I. S. Fisher
Kansas City
Kan
John Anderson
Leroy Harris
Frank Dickson
Frank Robinson
D. R. Rentz
Carl White
J. Penders
Harold Rogers
More Money for Defense
President Roosevelt said coordination among U S intelligence forces is effective but he will request another appropriation to address ongoing threats after the New York spy trial. He stated no OGPU or secret police are needed to watch Americans, but the nation must monitor foreign secret police.
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Washington
Roosevelt
New York
Ford stolen and found near Stony Point school house
A stripped and burned 1989 Ford sedan was found near the Stony Point school house on a road by Milton Holmes farm. A briefcase bore Glen T. Lindsey's name, a Topeka salesman for a motor car dealer, and authorities learned the car was stolen from him in Topeka on November 26. it had traveled 43 miles. No suspects have been located.
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Stony Point
Milton Holmes
Fred Vogler
Glen T. Lindsey
Topeka
Welfare Club to Meet at Lincoln School
The Community Welfare club holds a regular meeting at Lincoln School on Monday night. Members are urged to be present.
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Lincoln School
Monda
Resignation Opens Douglas County Birthday Ball Chair
O D Lile wired his resignation yesterday as chair of the Birthday ball to Keith Morgan of the national organization. The resignation was accepted and the Douglas county chairs position is now open. The ball raises funds to combat infantile paralysis. Last year the money went to the national body. this year Lawrence gets a local share with half retained for a new Douglas county chapter.
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O. D. Lile
Chai
Keith Morgan
Douglas County Arran Ents
Altho
Lawrence
Douglas County
Christmas Lights Shine at Liberty Memorial High
An unusual lighting setup decorates Liberty Memorial high alongside Haskell Institute. Blue lights outline the front, blue candle posts flank the sidewalk, isinglass globes replace standard ones, and small color trees dot the facade. At Haskell, lights go on around December 21 or 22 with colored floodlights planned for stadium arch and auditorium.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Haskell Institute
Stadium
Commodities for Douglas County relief list totals items and weights
The December federal surplus goods allotment for Douglas County relief clients includes wheat cereal 1666 pounds prunes 2050 pounds butter 2079 pounds navy beans 1000 pounds raisins 1375 pounds graham flour 2352 pounds wheat flour 8428 pounds and 2123 cans of cane syrup. Walter Varnum Jr. nearly became owner of Irene Brown's steer Mercer at the Chicago International Livestock Exposition after a broadcast time bid.
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Douglas County
Walter Varnum, Jr
Irene Brown
Mercer
Chicago
WLS
Walter
Varnum
Chinese Forces Rout the Japanese After a Battle
Chinese forces, blocking Nanchang’s path for months, crossed the Siao river and routed the Japanese at Yungsui after a three hour engagement. Yungsui sits 30 miles north of Nanchang on the Kiukiang Nanchang railway, a key Chinese air base and Kiangsi capital. Japanese advance along the line has halted after 135 days of fighting, with a separate drive from Hankow bogged down westward toward Tsaoshin.
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Shanghai
Nanchang
Siao
Yungsui
Kiukiang- Nanchang
Kiangsi
Kiukiang
Hankow
Tsaoshin
Detective Gaston B Means Seriously Ill in Springfield
Gaston B Means once famed detective is critically ill at the U S Medical Center Springfield after a heart attack last night. He had gall bladder surgery Tuesday and was said to be recovering until the attack changed his condition. Warden M R King informed Means' sister Miss Mary Belle Means of Concord N C that his condition is serious. Means is imprisoned for allegedly defrauding Mrs Evelyn Walsh McLean of Washington in the Lindbergh kidnapping case effort.
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Springfield
Gaston B. Means
U. S
Means
M. R. King
Mary Belle Means
Concord
N. C
Evelyn Walsh McLean
Washington
D. C
Hearing Set For Former Ambassador W E Dodd on Hit and Run
Former ambassador to Germany William E Dodd Sr faces a preliminary hearing December 17 in Ashland Virginia on a hit and run charge. He posted a $2000 bond after returning here last night. The incident involved a collision with Gloria Grimes a four year old girl near Hanover.
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Hanover
William E. Dodd, Sr
Germany
Trial Justice Court
Ashland
Odd
Gloria Grimes
Daugherty Couple Mark Fifty Years In Eudora
Bert and Mrs. Daugherty of Eudora will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on December 9. They will host a family dinner on December 11 with all seven children and eight grandchildren present. The couple married in 1888 in Eudora and ran the Daugherty grocery.
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Bert Daugherty
Eudora
Daugherty
Mr. Daugherty
George
Lucy Daugherty
Clarence
Harold
Mayme McGuire
St. Louis
Roy
Lucille Brown
Gardner
Kan
Meeting Preview and Club Christmas Reports
Next meeting will be Saturday afternoon January 14 with Supt W T Markham speaking on pending state school legislation. Mrs Deal Six reported 2115 attendance for the Christmas Carol presentation and expected to clear at least 150 from two performances. Meetings, teas, and gifts marked by local clubs with members and guests in attendance.
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W. T. Markham
Local Social Notes Doings and Travel Amid Visits
Mrs. T. M. Hopkins and Miss Ednah Hopkins returned from Kansas City after the illness and death of Mrs. Hopkins sister Mrs. Millie Quinin. Mrs. Seba Eldridge travels to Kansas City Kan to attend a Kansas State Tuberculosis and Health association meeting. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Bolton of Drinkwater Canada visit sister Mrs. George Cease. Mrs. Jonathan B. Carter of Wilson and Mrs. J. W. Eby of Howard return after brief visit with mother Mrs. W. T. Courtney and sister Mrs. W. F. Shaw of Kansas City Kan. Courtney accompanies them. C. V. Leigh and son Harold return from Pueblo Colo where they had been since last Friday.
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T. M. Hopkins
Ednah Hopkins
Kansas City
Hopkins
Millie Quinin
Seba Eldridge
Kan
Kansas State Tuberculosis and Health Association
Chamber of Commerce
J. H. Bolton
Drinkwater
Canada
Bolton
George Cease
Jonathan B. Carter
Wilson
J. W. Eby
Howard
W. T. Courtney
W. F. Shaw
Courtney
C. V. Leigh
Harold Leigh
Pueblo
Colo
Reed condemns WPA politics as an outrage
Senator elect Clyde Reed replies to a Bourbon County workers letter urging him to press President Roosevelt to speed WPA funding. He says he opposed political management of the WPA and will continue to criticize it, vowing action only after taking his seat in the U S Senate.
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Parsons
Kan
Clyde M. Reed
WPA
Reed
Kansas
Dr Jardine To Address Douglas County Farm Bureau
Dr W M Jardine president of Wichita University will be the principal speaker at the Douglas County Farm Bureau annual meeting. The event occurs Monday at Trinity Lutheran church located at Thirteenth and New Hampshire streets with opening sessions scheduled.
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W. M. Jardine
Wichita University
Douglas County Farm Bureau
Trinity Lutheran Church
Thirteenth
New Hampshire Street
Luncheon and Talk Scheduled After Church Services
The program begins at 10 oclock Monday morning with church services followed by a luncheon at 12 15 oclock served by church ladies. Dr Jardine will give the address after the dinner.
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Sions
Mystery in Bids Signals Record Subscriptions to Treasury
Washington reports investors offered 10.3 billion dollars to lend the government last Monday, more than ten times the amount sought, yet officials warn of padding and doubt bidders can pay for all subscriptions as bids equal about a fifth of all bank deposits.
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Washington
Treasury
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