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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1933
Page
2
A jumbled Washington diary notes Kansas Jayhawk football veterans in the nation’s capital. James Bausch, famed decathlete, hints at a government post while misadventures with Harry Woodring and a skate of backstage social gossip color the trip.
Funeral services for Herschel D White age 23, who died in a car crash on Highway 73 W west of Lawrence, will be held tomorrow at 2 PM from Funk chapel. Rev Seth W Slaughter will officiate and burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Chief W J Cummings announced a Massachusetts street center parking ban to keep traffic clear while resurfacing tracks. Truck operators were warned, one detained and bonded. fines and court action follow repeat offenses. Plans include marking a center line with bolts or paint to guide traffic. A four and a half foot hur tle was involved in an unrelated Georgia incident.
The schedule lists a Tuesday 6:00 p.m. athletic interview with Mike Ahearn Kansas State College director of athletics and Prof. E R Elbel. Wednesday 2:30 p.m. KU news notes by KU News Bureau directed by Prof. W A Dill. Also 2:45 p.m. elementary French lesson by W K Cornell, 6:00 p.m. musical program by Roy Underwood, and 6:15 p.m. The Pupil Insists training discussion by Prof. H B Chandler.
A rundown of social events includes the Wives of K U engineers hosting a Saturday dinner at 7 at the University Club with bridge to follow. Coordinators include Mrs Verner Smith and Mrs W C G McNown, among others, with additional gatherings at Hotel Eldridge and the Eldridge hotel anniversary dinner featuring Omega chapter members and alumnae.
Mrs. Robert O. Carr returned to her Girard home after visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. C C Winslet. Mrs. Hubert Else of Osborne was yesterday's guest of Mrs. Dick Williams. Lanes Hazel Anderson spent the day in Kansas. Miss Frances Ice returned to Kansas City after a weekend with Miss Hazel Houk of Stull.
Miss Ida Lyons notes that Home Room 201 H led the seventh grade assembly at the school yesterday. James Parsons presided as vice president, with Charlotte Castle announcing program numbers. Readings by Winifred Regier David Jackson and Norma Jean Drebing. Musical pieces included violin and piano solos, a musical reading, a stunt, and a tap dance performed by students with accompanying teachers.
Missouri will employ between 4000 and 5000 teachers under a relief program to sustain regular school sessions in towns under 2500 residents where funds are exhausted. State Superintendent Charles A. Lee said most regular teachers will be rehired. full time positions pay 50 to 80 cents monthly?, part time wages are hourly.
Greyhound Corp reported net profit for the nine months ended September 30 of 31,385,634 equal to 33.042 a share, versus 256,230.66 a share in the prior year's period. AP report notes improvement in earnings for the company.
Lawrence High School will stage the operetta Tulip Time in February with understudies for leads to ensure smooth performances. C E Sawhill directs with a new plan emphasizing ready replacements and elaborate choruses set in a Holland tulip scene with Dutch and American botany students.
Washington dispatch reports Mrs Robert Todd Lincoln, daughter-in-law of Abraham Lincoln, canceled plans to visit Mrs Roosevelt at the White House due to a slight illness and cold weather. Her daughter said Mrs Lincoln had been ill last summer, and though nearly recovered, travel in the open air was considered risky. A postponed visit may occur with warmer weather.
Washington reports indicate Walter J. Cummins could step down as FDIC chairman after January 1. A related treasury personnel shift is expected with Assistant Secretary Thomas Hewes resigning. Morgenthau has placed the Internal Revenue Bureau under his direct supervision.
A brief Christmas program will be presented with a covered dish dinner at 6:30 tomorrow evening at First Christian Church. All members and friends are invited, including new families. Attendees should bring a dish such as salad cake or hot dish and enough sandwiches for the family. The program features singing by Mrs Mildred Dunn violin selections by Charles Noble and a Christmas story by Rev Seth W Slaughter. Candie light will be used during part of the service.
A small downtown Toneka theater fire broke out in the projection room this afternoon. One man, Charles Calderwood, the theater operator, was burned slightly as about 100 patrons exited in an orderly fashion.
Police Chief Earl Johnston said an investigation showed Jack Wisdom held in Hutchinson for murder of three persons had recently sold stolen cattle at the Parsons stockyards.
The city will receive sealed bids for the foundation work and installation of pipe and lead cable for a new water tank west of the city limits. Bids due at 10 o clock morning December 26 at City Clerk A. E. Woestemeyer’s office. Project includes concrete tank foundation excavation 1,450 feet of eight inch cast iron pipe 6,050 feet of lead cable and other electrical gear and a centrifugal pump. Wage rates fixed at 45 cents hour for unskilled 64 5/? cents hour for semi skilled and 1.10 hour for skilled labor. Steel tank contract let to Pittsburg Des Moines Steel Company and construction underway. estimated total project cost 6910 dollars.
In Newark, Vice Chancellor Malcolm Buchanan temporarily restrains a chain of Black and White Cleaners and Dyers stores from charging prices below NRA code minimums. The state of New Jersey, suing Bloomfield based Black and White and associated firms, argues the group displayed the Blue Eagle but set prices under half of the mandated rates.
A posse of about 75 officers and residents surrounded a wooded area southwest of Fay and captured a young man and a girl suspected of killing Fay merchant and wife and a customer during a store robbery attempt. They gave names as Fred Overstreet, 21, and Cleo Owens, 18, both of Anadarko. Henry Weiser, Mrs. Weiser, and Tom Tennise were killed in the incident.
Warren W. Finney, a former Emporia banker serving a prison sentence for embezzlement, resigns as president and general manager of the Emporia Sabetha and Paola telephone companies.
Topeka Dec 12 AP Roland Boynton Kansas attorney general says he prepared an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to uphold a six month mortgage moratorium law enacted last winter. He argues extensions may be valid if needed to preserve public peace and safety and notes the governor extended the moratorium once.
The Christmas cantata The Children of Bethlehem by Priere will be presented Wednesday night at 8 o clock in the high school auditorium. Directed by Miss Mabel Barnhart, with a chorus of about 100 children and soloists Mrs Henry Werner Mrs John Nelson and others. Mrs Karl Bratton is the accompanist and Mrs Ralph Wolfson the narrator, with Mrs L E Sisson directing the stage settings. The program includes costumes and a drama arrangement.
Secretary Hull urged bilateral reciprocity treaties before the Pan American conference in Montevideo. He advocated removal of prohibitions and gradual tariff reductions to boost trade among American republics. A white rose bush in Mission San Gabriel, planted 127 years ago and brought from Madrid, is noted as still blooming.
Stockholders in several large industrials, long deprived of regular dividends, are seeing gains as treasurers report improved earnings. In November, 83 favorable changes versus 29 unfavorable. 11 initial payments, 30 resumptions, 14 increases, and 30 extra payments noted as new dividends resume after years of scant or no payments.
Motion picture actress Betty Compson and her manager Irving Weinberg plan to marry in Albuquerque New Mexico during a 20 minute train stop. Mayor Clyde Tingley will arrange for a license and the ceremony with a county clerk and a justice of the peace present at the railway station.
Col. John C. Dent age 76 retired U S A died at Letterman General Hospital San Francisco after a long illness He was son of the late Gen Frederick T Dent and brother-in-law to Ulysses S Grant He retired in 1910 after serving in the Spanish American War and the Philippine Insurrection The death was noted on the army roll.
AP reports that contracts totaling nearly 22 million dollars for liquor manufacturing plants were announced by L Seth Schnitman, chief statistician for the Dodge Corporation. The award covers 37 states east of the Rockies and reflects substantial growth in the liquor industry and regional plant construction activity.
Mr. and Mrs. Bronson of Overbrook were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Beaman and Norma Jean. Mrs. Ed Heaton and Marie Dane visited Mrs. Willell. Mrs. Godell has been ill. Mr. and Mrs. Orville Flory and Phyllis of Lawrence were dinner guests at the I. S. Flory home. The group also visited and quilted with Mrs. Félix Tucker. Miss Mable Shaw and pupils are practicing for a program to be staged soon.
Fairfax Belmont Mr and Mrs L S Andd of Kansas City spent the weekend with Ida M Gulley and L B Robinson. Mr and Mrs G W Jackson had Thanksgiving guests Mrs S M LaRue and daughter Marjorie of Kansas City Kan. Athens The continued presence of an Assistant United States Attorney General indicated the United States aimed to return Samuel J Insull Sr to Chicago for trial on embezzlement charges.
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