Election figures compiled by AP show Roosevelt wins third term
The Associated Press tally reports Franklin D. Roosevelt with 27,241,939 votes and a 4,914,713 plurality over Willkie 22,897,226 across 46 states with 449 electoral votes to 82. Nebraska and Rhode Island canvasses incomplete. Willkie sets record Republican popular vote. minor parties limp.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Associated Press
Nebridéka
Rhode Island
Wendelle
Willkie
Oo Norman Thomas
Roger W. Babson
Prohibition
Earl R. Browder
John W. Aikett
Nebraska
Roosevelt
New York State
Georgia
South Carolina
Herbert Hoover
Alfred E. Smith
LaFollette
Roosévelt
Woodrow
Aison
Willekie
Hoover
Colorado
Diana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Michigan
North Dakota
Vermont
Texas
Wyoming
Walkie
Browder
William Z. Foster
Will Entertain Valley Chapel Farm Bureau Unit
Mrs. W. C. Boardman will entertain members of the Valley Chapel Farm Bureau unit at year end meetings next Tuesday. The unit gathers at the Boardman home on West Twenty-first Street for a 1 o'clock covered dish luncheon and small gift exchange. To Topeka, Dec. 13.—State Republican Chairman Walter Fees and Gay N. Seaton depart for Chicago tonight to attend a conference of G O P officials from 12 midwestern states. The meeting, called by Illinois State Chairman Ben Li Berve, will consider mutual problems and run tomorrow and Sunday.
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W. C. Boardman
Valley Chapel Farm Bureau
Board-home
Topeka
Walter Fees
Ay N. Seaton
Manhattan
Chicago
Illinois
Ben Li. Berve
Pinckney School Christmas Program Highlight
The Pinckney school prepares a student led Christmas celebration with candles tree and wreaths. A December 19 program at 7 45 pm features carols songs and a pageant directed by Miss Barnhart Miss Konantz and others with Mrs Stringham and several teachers. Special roles include Barbara Haye Charles Haverty Shepherds Edward Franks and more.
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Pinckney School
Asc Iaren i
Rendines
Coe
Barnhart
Gridiron Highlights Arrangements For Community Dinner
A 20 minute football film from New York will show game highlights including Penn Cornell, Army Navy Notre Dame Michigan. Adrian Lindsey may introduce George Patsy Clark at the banquet honoring 126 gridmen from University, high school, and Haskell Institute. Tickets are $1 and open to all community members.
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Bob Hasgart
New York
Penncornell
Michigan
Army
A.E.F
High School
Haskell Institute
Christmas Music Program At Trinity Lutheran Church Service
Trinity Lutheran Church announces an 11 o clock service featuring special Christmas music directed by Dr. E Thayer Gaston. The choir performs Lullaby On Christmas Eve and Behold We See Him with soloists Crystal Price Marvin Wadler and Clayton Krehbiel. Organist Barbara Brooke plays Gesu Bambino and Christmas Fantasy. Pastor Alfred J Beil will preach Advent sermon The Virtue Of Faithfulness.
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Trinity Lutheran ‘Church
E.thayer Gaston
Christiansen
Palestrina
Crystal Price
Marvin Wadler
Visions of the Shepherd
Jewell
Clayton
Krehbiel
Barbara Brooke
Ganist
Pietro Yon
Norris
Alfred J. Beil
KU Band Director Conducts Iowa Clinic at Ames
Russell L. Wiley director of the University of Kansas band leads a two day music clinic at Iowa State College Ames with the Iowa State band. The event, sponsored by the Town Bandmasters Association, covers instrumentation conducting and teaching materials.
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Russell L. Wiley
University of Kansas
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa State Band
Wiley
Town Bandmasters Association
Germinal Jury in Anglo Norman England
The text explains methods of determining guilt in early England such as compurgation and ordeal, noting the use of oath helpers and battle oracles. It cites trial by judges with a grand jury, and the king's use of an inquest as a germinal jury to value a subject's property. William the Conqueror employed inquest to appraise England’s landholding value.
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England
Willian the Conqueror
William
Christmas convocation actions and campus holiday events
The report notes home town convocations at Hill. students attend, plan Christmas dinners, Santa parties, and a lantern request to Santa. Roscoe Born funded a tree via subscriptions. posters promote Variety ads. Christmas parties are planned at Battenfeld Hall Carruth Templin and several campus groups tonight.
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School of Business
Roscoe Barn
Wilson County
Hill
Game County
Battenfeldi
Carruth
Templin
Deaths and Funerals Marion Peterson 31 Wichita
Marion Peterson aged 31 of Wichita died last night. Survived by wife Beulah Black Peterson of Reno, parents Mr. and Mrs Oliver Peterson, 1108 Kentucky Street, three brothers and one sister. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
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Marion Peterson Marion Peterson
Wichita
Marion Peterson
Oliver Peterson
Kentucky Street
Beulah Black
Reno
George E Berg Sr 79 Dies at Home in Kansas City Area
George E Berg Sr age 79 died at his home on Tennessee street. Private funeral services will be held at Funk's chapel at 1:30 PM Saturday with Rev. Robert A Hunt officiating. Graveside services follow at 3:30 PM Saturday in Mt Hope cemetery Kansas City Kansas. He is survived by daughter Julia R Bell and son George E Berg Jr both of Lawrence.
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George E. Berg
George.e. Berg
Tennessee Street
Funk
Robert A. Hunt
Mt. Hope Cemetery
Kansas City
Kan
Julia R. Bell
Berg
George E. Berg, Jr
Lawrence
Hutchinson Wins National Coursing Meets Site
The National Coursing Association awarded Hutchinson Kansas the spring and fall race meets after Abilene hosted them for eight years. Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce received the notice, with gift subscriptions to the Journal-World growing yearly. Phone 22.
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Hutchinson Hutchinson
Kan
National Coursing Association
Hutchinson Chamber of Commerce
Hutchinson
Abilene
Journal-World
KU Band Plans Thirty Third Annual Fall Concert
The University of Kansas band schedules an 8 p m concert next Wednesday in Hoch Auditorium featuring Richard Wagner and Sigmund Romberg works plus Othello Suite by Coleridge Taylor and other selections. The program highlights include Overture to Die Meistersinger and Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral along with Holst military suite.
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University of Kansas
Hoch Auditorium
Richard Agner
Coleridge Taylor
Ruth Lowe
Old K.U
Fred Waring
Sigmund Romberg
Gustav Holat
Elsa
Wagner
Taylor
Romberg
Gustav
Holst
Summerfield Scholars to Speak at First Dinner Colloquium
Scholars Harry M. White Lawrence Melvin McDonald Wichita will speak at the Summerfield first of five dinners Colloquiums in the Colonial Tea room at 6 p m tonight White a pre medic will discuss Proposed Group Medicine McDonald an economics major will address Labor Faces Another ar The faculty committee includes Olin Templin presiding J H Nelson Hilden Gibson James K Hitt T H Marshall A H Turney and others
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Harry M. White
Lawrence
Melvin McDonald
Wichita
Summerfield
Colonial Tea Room
White
McDonald
Olin Templin
Wis
Endowment Association
J. H. Nelson
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Hilden Gibson
James K. Hitt
T. H. Marshall
A. H. Turney
Have Charge of Assembly at Liberty Memorial High School
The Home Economics club led the assembly with help from the home economics department. Ruby Lindell served as club president. The girls’ glee club performed two numbers, The Old Refrain and The Japanese Lady. Shirley Nan Hargiss played Manhatt an Serenade. o. A’skit Yesterday closed the program, written by the department’s girls and featuring costumes from mothers and friends, wedding dresses, a bustle dress, an old 1912 duster, and a gym suit of a similar era.
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Home Economics Club
Liberty Memorial High School
Home Economics
Ruby Lindell
Shirley Nan Hargiss
Wreaths Placed in Lawrence Windows by Chamber Request
The Lawrence Chamber of Commerce asks businesses to hang wreaths in upper story windows. John Andrews of the gas company leads by example as two Kansas Public Service windows display wreaths and the center lights spell Gas with colors.
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Chamber of Commerce
John Andrews
The
Gas Company
Kansas Public Service
Masonic Lodges Elect Officers For Joint Installation
Lawrence lodge No 6 and Acacia lodge No 5 elected officers at meetings last night and plan a joint installation Monday night at the Masonic Temple. Lawrence lodge officers include W C Woodcock master Sam Moyer senior warden Walter Varnum junior warden David Passon treasurer W H Quakenbush secretary. Acacia lodge officers include Alfred H Sluss master Marion A Barlow senior warden Verne M Smith junior warden John H Parker recording secretary Frank Whipple treasurer.
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Lawrence Lodge
Acacia Lodge
Masonic Temple
W. ©. Woodcock
Sam Moyer
Walter Varnum
David Passon
W. H. Quakenbush
Alfred H. Sluss
Marion A. Barlow
Verne M. Smith
John H. Parker
Frank Whipple
Sigma Xi speaker Dr. Robert G Green to address KU chapter
Dr Robert G Green of the University of Minnesota department of bacteriology and immunology will speak to the KU Sigma Xi chapter Monday at 7 30 in Blakehall on The Nature of Virus Infections He has studied virus infections in animals especially silver foxes and is a relative of Mrs Frank Brown. Mary Louise Beltz will sing in Bach Christmas Oratorio broadcast tomorrow 8 00 to 4 00 on WDAF Raleigh NC directed by Dr Harry Cooper.
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Robert G. Green
Department of
Bacteriology and Immunology
University of Minnesota
K.U
Sigma Xi
Blakehall
Green
Frank Brown
N.P. Sherwood
Brown
Mary Louise Beltz
The
School of Fine Arts
Bach
WDAF
Raleigh
N.C
Harry Cooper
Ottawa
Kan
PTA Junior High Christmas Program Set for December 16
The Junior High P T A plans the annual Christmas program in the high school auditorium at 8 p m on December 16. A brass quartet will play carols from the tower before performances by the Junior High benig players. The program features panto mime, musical numbers, glee clubs, a scripture reading, and a pantomime.
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Big Tower
Benig
Jack Aahaieene
Billy ‘Wigglesworth
Elizabeth, Henderson
Nancy McClelland
Curtis
Eldon Sheneman
Nancy McAlearney
Maurice Martin
Two Musical Programs On KFKU This Evening
KFKU airs two programs tonight. The first from 6 to 6 15 features the niv tity pien's glee club directed by Joseph Wilkins with Marshall Butler on piano including A Song of Joy and two choral pieces. The second from 6 15 to 6 30 features Ruth Orcutt on piano Chopin Scherzo in C sharp minor and a woodwind ensemble performing Sextette in B flat Major by Thuille with Virginia Rigel and Olga Carl among others.
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KFKU
Niv Tity Pien
Joseph’ Wilkins
Marshall Butler
Gretchaninoff- McKinney
Sir John Stevenson
Sir John Stevenson and ~ Canned For Men’s Voices. By. C. F. Man
Movgorod
Boris’ Levenson
Rout Marchin
Stock
Ruth Orcutt
Chopin
Ludwig Thuille
Virginia Rigel
Olga Carl
Robert Forman
Bruce Thomas
Jimmy Berksoh
Edward Alisup
Mattern Wins First for Water Color at Joslyn Show
Karl Mattern of the University School of Fine Arts painting department received word yesterday that his water color Smoke and Snow won first place in the Joslyn Memorial States Show. The exhibit, held last month in Omaha Nebraska, featured works from Nebraska Iowa Missouri Kansas Colorado and South Dakota.
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Karl Mattern
School of Fine Arts
The
University
Omaha
Neb
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Colorado
South Dakota
Christmas Drama at Eudora by St Pauls Church Players
The St Pauls Evangelical Church Young Peoples League in Eudora presents Dust of the Road a Christmas drama by Kenneth S Goodman next Sunday at 7 30 pm in the Eudora high school auditorium Cast includes Homer Altenbernd Freddie Trefz Elvin Altenbernd and Lois Gerstenberger There is no admission charge but a silver offering will meet royalty and incidentals Public invited
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Eudora
Young People’s League
St. Paul's Evangelical Church of
Kenneth S. Goodman
Eudora High School
Homer Altenbernd
Freddie Trefz
Elvin Alterbernd
Lois Gerstenberger
Christmas Party Sets Plans for January Dinner
Keystone Korner Klub of Eudora met for its annual Christmas party with Mrs Corabell Williamson and members including Hazel Harris Lola Page Marie Cramer Esther Henley and others. Plans were made for a January 14 dinner at the Page home and a sunshine box for a shut in. Elsie Gerstenberger won a prize. The group also noted upcoming meetings February 11 and other social clubs gathering at local homes and venues.
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Keystone Korner ‘Klub
Eudora
Corabell Williamson
Mra
Hazel Harris
Jimmy
Lola Page
Marie Cramer
Esther Henley
Yvonne
Inez Griffin
Elsie Gerstenberger
Sylvia
Mary Harris
Ethel
Wotan
Ida Deay
Deane
Haverty
Willamson
Friday Contract Club Reports at Evans Hearth
Mrs J B Henry hosted a Thursday contract club at her home with Mrs Arthur Marks substituting for an absent member. Gertrude Gilmore served as hostess. prizes included black cats, a silver horseshoe archway ornament, four leaf clovers, and crystal-studded numbers on the walls. Chaperons listed as Mrs J N Gilbert and others. patrons and patronesses named include Dean J Jakosky and several Mrs and Mr individuals.
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Evans
J. B. Henry
Arthur Marks Ib A
Haneh
Mias
Gertrude Gilmore
George Asiltet
J.N. Gilbert
Stoner and Peret to Visit From Santiago
Mr and Mrs Donald Stoner and Alfonso Peret of Santiago plan a Sunday visit with Mr and Mrs Solon Emery They will then fly from New York to California The report notes the condition of Gene Glahn remains unspecified
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Donald Stoner
Alfonso Peret
Santiago
Chili
Solon
Emery
New York
California
Gene
Glahn
Illness Report From Memorial Hospital Mentioned
A brief notice states Miss Jane Miller has been ill for several days at Memorial hospital and is expected to improve. She plans to return next week from Monticello to visit her parents Mr and Mrs BR Miller who will spend the holidays at their home.
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Memorial Hospital
Jane Miller
Onerday
Monticello-at-God
BR. Miller
Wallace W C T U Holds Local Institute at Conner Home
Wallace W C T U met at Mrs. A B Conner's residence with devotional led by Mrs. A L Caray and a brief business session. Woodlawn school teachers joined for a noon luncheon while Baldwin guest Inez P Ross county president spoke on W C T U principles and the year’s work. The theme emphasizes temperance and Christian service and the song for the year is What the World Needs In Jesus.
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A. B. Conner
A.L. Caray
Woodlawn
Baldwin
Inez P. Ross
Kansas Defense Taxes Wichita Report on Tax Collections
Kansas defense taxes show total federal tax collections in Kansas for July 1 to November 30 amounting to 9,854,970 dollars, with Kansans paying 95,344.55 dollars in defense taxes. The figure is 1,172,564 dollars above the same period in 1939, according to acting collector Frank E. McMullen.
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Wichita
Kansans
Frank E. McMullen
Internal Revenue
Kansas
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Reggie
Clem
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Union
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Dean Werner
A.T.O
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Ricker Hall
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W. C. Woodcock
Alfred’ H. Sluss
Minnesota
P.T.A
Mattern
E. O. W. Bridge
Arthur Marks
William Kandt
Frank McDonald
M. M. Wolfe
Kandt
John Brand
Lawrence Co-Operette Club
Raymond Laessie
M. N. Penny
Elmer,Douran
Elsie.o’connell
Clifford Beguelin
Bert Floro
George Mohler
New Hampshire Street
Larry Wayne
Mohler
Deverns Hatcher
Sigma Wanna Sorority
Chanter
Stardusters Orchestra
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Westinghouse
Olson- Bros
Allison
Armstrong
J. F. Baker
Fred A. Bremer
Matthews
First Baptist Church
8Th and
Earth
Reedy
Sriider Coal Co
Logan-Moore Co
John
Krum Coal Co
Orley, M. Smith Coal Co
University Coal Co
Oal Co
Dean
J. J. Jakosky
K. W. Davidson
J. Blenry
Roy
H. Parker
F. W. Cutter
W. C. T. U. Meeting
Kansas Defense
MD Place Clothing
Douglas County
Ey Elling & Loan
Massachusetts St
John C. Emick
Jayhawk
Snider Coal Company
Quality Coal and Service
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