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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1939
Page
2
President Roosevelt, on strong authority, urged Congress to close routine business and adjourn by May. He favors a lean session, offering no new proposals unless needed. Topics include foreign policy tweaks, tax or borrowing options for defense, reciprocal trade, and limiting new Deal changes.
Kansas Supreme Court upholds Douglas County ruling directing sale of 160 acres owned by Robert A. Baldwin to cover $300 yearly annuity payments to his stepmother Mrs Phoebe Jane Baldwin widow of John H Baldwin who died May 25 1935 The partition suit claimed Mrs Baldwin entitled to half the property while two sons Joseph E Baldwin and Robert A Baldwin were involved in the share and the court ordered each son to pay the annuity until sale.
The YWCA announces a three day Christmas bazaar to open Monday at 8 30 in the Union lounge and run until 5 30 on Monday and Tuesday evenings and 8 30 Wednesday night. Unusual early American brass and items from China and Mexico will be offered for sale. Visitors may view the exhibit regardless of purchase. Proceeds benefit the KU organization’s budget.
Guy Criss Simpson organ instructor at the University will be presented in the 106th Vesper Organ Recital tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock in Hoch auditorium. The program includes Bach Cantabile and Reubke Grave variants with movements Larghetto Allegro con fuoco Adagio Allegro Allegro assai.
A fragmented reading test item lists sea vessel descriptions and asks to match terms to images. It mentions a flat bottomed boat with high flare and a sharp bow used by England and includes options such as trawler destroyer frigate and references deck rigging and main sail.
Louis Untermayer, noted poet and critic, will address the second convocation of the school year at the University on Thursday morning. His talk, What Americans Read and Why, will run from 10 to 11 o clock, with class periods shortened to 35 minutes.
Lawrence notes include Dr. F C Allen and Jim DeCoursey among memorial speakers for John Swede Carlson one of KA s great roving centers of 07 09. reports on Goal hi progress and festive horse show ideas. Hoover relief appeal and lively local anecdotes from mice to a parade loving collie and Liberty Memorial high school lights decorate Lawrence scene.
The Bank of Mexico discontinued selling dollars today causing the peso to slide from 4.90 to the dollar to 5.03 at yesterday's close. No reason was given for the action.
Copenhagen December 9 reports the 2400-ton Danish steamer Beota sunk with 21 crew members unaccounted for. Early word notes loss in heavy seas with limited details available from coast guard authorities.
Governor Bricker says relief demand is offset by business growth and rising employment in Ohio. Despite statewide gains, Cleveland and Toledo face severe relief shortages with rent issues and continued federal aid dependence. State relief totals rise to about 100,500 cases while WPA payrolls shrink.
New York AP report tracks the Park Avenue romance of Eileen Herrick 20 a society debutante and George Lowther III 80 as authorities weigh contempt of court and habeas corpus filings. Herrick was taken from her Long Island estate with a bodyguard and remains missing amid family opposition to marriage.
Freshman Stanley McLeod played a hiccuping witness in the mock trial while rehearsing The Night of January 16th. Campus life buzzed with student dances and parties as Thetas Delta U’s and others planned events into the night.
Miami a WPA laborer Charles H Barnes who died in hospital left 47000 hidden in a safety deposit vault. his widow Anna and daughter Anastasia LaPlante knew nothing of the wealth. The money was found when the safety deposit was registered in Barnes name.
The Liberty Memorial high school band led a parade featuring a VFW float and a model state cottage. Jeanne Ringo won $3 for a tinsel decorated wheel, with 65 horses and 30 ponies in the rear guard. Prizes totaling multiple dollars were awarded by judges to riders including Verna Murphy and Jimmie Wemphill as best young riders.
In December Gov. Payne urges all Kansas motorists to drive unusually careful during the holiday season to ensure Christmas joy remains free from sorrow. The governor says the state cooperates through every agency in a nation wide safety campaign.
Police recovered stolen goods in Richmond Virginia as 125 homing pigeons released from a door carried the loot back to its rightful owners. The incident shows the birds aiding in recovering safes, boilers, and other heavy items.
The Kansas Electric Power Company declined a $400000 bid from Parsons to sell its plant calling the price far below the property's value. City commissioners pursue municipal utility plans but clash over a franchise. Parsons voters had rejected bonds for a municipal light plant.
The maritime commission announced that United States Lines has withdrawn its application to transfer nine vessels to Panamanian registry. The firm may file anew for registry of eight vessels to another country, with President Roosevelt moved to the New York Bermuda service since the Oct 31 filing. Commission officials did not know the new requested registry.
Topeka December 9 the state supreme court refused to dismiss a suit by osteopathic physicians Milton V. Gafney Neodesha and H C Wallace Wichita urging mandamus to compel Wilson County Hospital to permit operative surgery and drug therapy. Trustees asked quash but court declined setting stage for merits hearing.
County Attorney Glenn Jones said Lawrence Spillman 27 farmhand will be arraigned today in Oswego on first degree kidnapping and two counts of assault with intent to rape for the abduction of Betty Lawrence seven. Spillman has been held in Independence since Wednesday night.
William Christy, arrested Thursday by police on charges of stealing money and jewelry valued at 12 from Mrs. Anna Colbert on November 27, pleaded not guilty in the justice court of Charles C. Rankin. His trial was scheduled for Monday and he remains in county jail for failure to make bail. McNary for July Convention Washington, Dec. 9, Senate Minority Leader McNary of Oregon urged national committee members to fix a date in July for the 1940 Republican convention.
Kansas City December 9. L E Phillips of Bartlesville Oklahoma a director for the tenth federal reserve district told western bankers at the annual joint meeting of the Kansas City Reserve Bank and branch staffs and directors that if they could write their own ticket for 1940 they would call for an adequate normal rainfall. The silver anniversary conference marks the reserve bank’s 25 years since 1914.
Potwin, longtime McPherson schools sup t., elected president of the Kansas State Teachers association by the new board of directors. He succeeds Evan Evans of Winfield and takes office March 1 for one year. Directors reelected F. L. Schlagle and W. M. Liston as chairman and treasurer. Tebow chosen vice chairman.
Dr Robert A Hunt will speak on Taking Life in Hand at the union evening service at First Christian church Tenth and Kentucky streets at 7:30 tomorrow night. It concludes a ten service joint series with First Methodist. After the year’s start similar services are planned with William Henderson singing An Old Carol and Dr Hunt with Mr Barr in a duet at the Sunday service.
Paris reports France will observe two meatless days weekly. Agriculture Minister Henri Queuille announced that Monday remains meatless from October 17, with Friday as a likely second meatless day when Catholics eat fish, though prefects may finalize the plan.
Irwin Mingle an 11 year old boy escaped from the attic of a vacant house in Port Arthur after being held overnight by a kidnapper who demanded 15 000 dollars. He was rescued by neighbors who alerted his parents as police hunted for the suspect described as looking like a Mexican.
A freshman from Lawrence at 800 Arkansas street underwent major surgery at the student hospital this morning. His condition was reported good after the operation. He is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Yancy of Lawrence.
The annual party for L B C students and former students will be in I C C F Hall on December 14 with Bill Collier's Kansas City orchestra providing music. Wilma Stahel is doing stenographic work for Kansas Municipalities while Lois Bailey assists Forrest Jackson. Florence Hammond, from Baldwin, enrolled in the secretarial course this week and Mary Frances Haas worked public stenography. Fred Brecheisen and Wilda Oldham gave testimony in a court case this week.
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