Unexploded Bomb Kills Ethiopian Missionary Doctor
Dr Robert W Hockman American medical missionary to Ethiopia was killed while handling an unexploded Italian bomb at Daggah Bur on the southern front. The Wheaton Illinois native leaves a widow and a month old child. He came to Addis Ababa in December en route to Egypt to see his child but Red Cross officials urged him to stay. He supervised bomb disposal and helped inoculate Haile Selassie’s army against typhus and smallpox.
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Associated Press
Ethiopia
Robert W. Hockman
Daggah Bur
Egypt
Hockman
Addis Ababa
Red Cross
Ogaden
Jijiga
Chicago
Robert William Hockman
Wheaton
W. H. Hockman
China
Chefoo
London
United States
New Concord
Ohio
Muskingum College
Northwestern University
Ilinois
Returns From A Tour Evelyn Swarthout Asks For Encores
Pianist Evelyn Swarthout and her parents returned Friday from a ten day concert tour in Illinois and Iowa. She gave recitals at the University of Illinois Urbana, two in Evanston, one in Burlington, and in Rockford. Reports from the cities praise her playing and she was asked to consider a re engagement soon.
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Evelyn Swarthout
D. M. Swarthout
Illinois
Iowa
Miss Swarthout
University of Illinois
Urbana
Ill
Evanston
Burlington
Rockford
Luncheons Are Meatless At Baldwin City First Methodist
In Baldwin City on December 14 the Ladies Aid did not include meat in recent covered dish luncheons. About 100 attended the events at the church and at the nearby venue only two small meat dishes were served amid vegetables pastries and other dishes. A Douglas County Farm Bureau meeting at Lone Star hall Monday will cover bot fly control with Dr I J Pierson explaining effects and control methods.
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Baldwin City
First Methodist ‘Episcopal Church
Douglas County Farm Bureau
Lone Star Hall
Lone Star
I. J. Pieraon
Test Your Knowledge: seven questions from classified page
Seven sample trivia prompts ask about crystallography Woodrow Wilson Emmeline Pankhurst Libyan desert Tron Mountain and other facts. The set includes questions on astronomy politics geography aviation and language terms for a general knowledge page.
Editors visit Kansas governor amid 1936 hopes
Topeka reports note visits by Hearst Block and Brisbane to Governor Landon fueling predictions he could be the Republican nominee and win the White House in 1936. Grange at Liberal backs farm program changes as McPherson backs West for governor. Erie train escape ends in Oklahoma City.
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Topeka
Alf M. Landon
Kansas News
Grange
Liberal
Erie
Mulberry
William Randolph Hearst
Paul Block
Arthur Brisbane
Kansas
Hearst
Landon
McPherson
Wiil G. West
C. C. Cogswell
Abilene
Eel
Oklahoma City
Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary
John Wilbur Voss
Kan
U. K
George Robb
Wallace B. Fleming
Baker University
Edward Casebeer
Waukesha
Wis
First National Bank
Smith Center
Ben F. Armstrong
Joe Martin
Supreme Court
Texas
Belpre
Walter J. Trousdale
Newton Banker
Cal
George L. Byroade
San Juan
Leavenworth
Nick Sklar
K. U. Guard
Ralph Churchill
Kansas State
San Francisco
Hutchinson
Chamber of Commerce
United States C
H. H. Ruehmann
Wamego
Raw Valley Potato Growers
Lawrence
AAA
Kansas Taxpayers League
Albert Weaver
Bird City
Cherryvale
Kk. U. “Conscience Fund
Winfield
Aurora Mills
Junction City
Milford
Plainville
Verdi
Hart - Bartlett - Sturtevant Grain Company
Kansas City
Unlucky for Play Cast Illness Delays Kansas Play
The Manhattan theater at Kansas State Teachers College produced its second play of the season but lead actor John Van Aken fell seriously ill just before Friday the 13th performance. Prof. H Miles Heberer replaced him as director and actor. A separate casualty note mentions a skunk causing an accident.
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Manhattan
Kan
Manhattan Theater of
Kansas State Teachers College
John van Aken
Lyong
H. Miles Heberer
Salina Man Drove Car Into Ditch to Avoid Animal
Salina Kansas December 14 a skunk caused a crash when Harry Engstrom swerved to avoid it. His arm broke and gashed as it went through the windshield. The incident prompted advice on safe auto insurance from Let Butcher.
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Salina
Kan
Harry Engstrom
Ngstrom
Vesper Services Set by KU ShFine Arts Tonight Sunday
Final rehearsals wrap for Kansas University School of Fine Arts Christmas Vespers to be held tomorrow at 4 PM in the University Auditorium. The hour and a half program features an 85 voice choir, KU string quartet, organ and harp, vocal solos, and four tableaux staged by design and painting faculty and students.
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Kansas University School of Fine Arts
University
School of Fine Arts
Donald M. Swarthout
K. U. String Quartet
Dean Swarthout
Joseph Wilkins
Fine Arts
Laurel Anderson
Marvy Anderson
Isaiah
Rosemary Ketchum
Karl Mattern
Raymond Eastwood
Lawrence boxing broadcast shocks locals in New York bout
A Lawrence observer reports Louis Uzeudun's four round fight in New York was heard via three broadcasts not intended for American audiences. Two Spanish stations aired it, while a bilingual feed offered both Spanish and English updates. Nearby residents also faced a temporary power outage from a transformer fire.
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Altho
Louis Uzeudun
New York
Azcudun
Spain
Christmas party chaos at sorority houses tied to water woes
Pi Beta Phi and Alpha Chi Omega houses faced a cold bath crisis as many coeds dated for Christmas events causing a water shortage. Penny Ann Landon, daughter of Governor Alf Landon, was late to a party. three or four girls sought baths at a beauty parlor. Other notes mention a Rose Bowl contest winner, intramural basketball, and dating mixups among KU students. A Wichita girl is killed.
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Pi Beta Phi
Alpha Chi Omega
Penny Ann Landon
Pi Phi
Alf Landon
Alpha Chi
Jeanette Jenkins
Wilmer Shaffer
Phi Delta Theta
Wilmer
Jeanette
McLouth
Kansas City
Wichita
Bonnibelle Hardy Dies After Bicycle Car Crash
Bonnibelle Hardy a 15 year old daughter of Mr and Mrs A D Hardy died in a Wichita hospital after a bicycle crash with a car. She was thrown through a car window and her throat was cut by flying glass. This marked the seventeenth traffic fatality in the year. She was a high school junior noted for vocal and elocution talents.
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Wichita
Kan
Ute
Bonnibelle Hardy
A. D.hardy
Bonnibelle
Early Bible Exhibits Displayed at KU Museum
Displays show early Bibles and page reproductions at Spooner Thayer museum. The exhibit linked to Dr. Edgar J. Goodspeed's talk marking the 400th anniversary of the English Bible printing.
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Spooner-Thayer
K.U
Edgar J. Goodspeed
Kansas City bids to host 1936 GOP convention
A delegation of ten Kansas City civic leaders pressed to win the 1936 Republican national convention with Chairman Herman M. Langworthy declaring the city the logical choice and noting readiness to meet the $150,000 minimum bid. In Clay Center Kansas Cal Ward will address Farm Bureau members on December 17. Collegian club dances continue at the LO C F hall while Mrs Anna Myers departs for Hot Springs Arkansas to spend Christmas with her daughter Mrs R Brach.
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Washington
Kansas City
Herman M. Langworthy
Clay Center
Kan
Cal Ward
The
Resettlement Administration
Kansas Farmers Union
Clay County
Farm Bureau
Anna Myers
Hot Springs
Ark
R. ©. Brach
Masaryk Steps Out as Czechoslovakia’s First President
Praha dec 14 masaryk 85 resigns first president of czechoslovakia after leading the nation to independence in 1918. he was elected in november 1918 and named president for life by the national assembly in february 1920. masaryk’s life spanned study in vienna and leipzig his marriage to miss charlotte garrigue of brooklyn and wartime leadership in russia and after.
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Praha
Czechoslovakia
Thomas G. Masaryk
Dr. Masaryk
National Assembly
Hfe Lang
Masaryk
Czechoslowakia
United States
Moravia
Vienna
Liepzig
Charlotte Garrigue
Brooklyn
Garrigue
Russia
Kellogg opposes more neutrality laws in embargo debate
Frank Kellogg, Nobel Peace Prize winner and co author of the Kellogg Briand pact, frowns on further American neutrality legislation. He said including oil, iron and steel in an embargo policy would interfere with legitimate commerce and possibly heighten war risks. President Roosevelt signaled a new neutrality law would be sought from Congress, with Coolidge’s secretary of state weighing in.
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Washington
Frank RB. Kellogg
Coolidge
Roosevelt
Congress
Debaters Headed to Topeka invitational tournament
Lawrence High School debaters and coach Marston McCluggage traveled to Topeka for an invitational tournament hosted by Topeka High. The affirmative team Mildred Ewing and Everett McPheeters will face Aaron Cohen and Ruth Warren on the resolution that the state should provide adequate medical care to the public at state expense.
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Lawrence High School
Marston McCluggage
Topeka
Topeka High School
Mildred Ewing
Everett McPheeters
Aaron Cohen
Ruth Warren
Merrill on Second Lap Toward Magallanes Flight
Pilot Dick Merrill and mechanic William H. Klenke departed Brownsville Texas today on a second leg toward Magallanes Chile in a search plane for missing Antarctic explorer Lincoln Ellsworth. They plan stops at Tampico or Mexico City and the aircraft was prepared in Kansas City.
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Brownsville
Tex
Dick Merrill
William H. Klenke
Magallanes
Chile
Lincoln Ellsworth
Tampico
Mexico City
Kansas City
Cunningham to Travel with Kagawa to U S tour
Rev. C. C. Cunningham former pastor of the First Baptist church and president of the Baptist Theological Seminary at Kansas City left yesterday for San Francisco to meet Japanese Christian leader Kagawa who arrives December 18. Cunningham named by the Council of Churches of America to host Kagawa and travel with him on his U S tour. Kagawa is expected to visit Kansas City. Cunningham will preach at the First Baptist church in Los Angeles tomorrow.
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C. C. Cunningham
First Baptist Church
Baptist Theological Seminary
Kansas City
San Francisco
Kagawa
Cunningham
Council of Churches of America
United States
Los Angeles
Liberal paper sale to Van W Stewart reported
Van W Stewart of Perryton Texas announced the purchase of the Southwest Daily Times of Liberal from Warren Zimmerman who had owned it through the Liberal News. Norman Thompson and William Stroud previously ran the paper after a dayto-morning format change. The sale takes effect Monday with Charles W Claybaugh named editor. TO GIVE ANNUAL PROGRAM.
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Liberal
Kan
Southwest Daily Times
van W. Stewart
Ochiltree County Herald
Peryton
Tex
Times
Warren Zimmerman
Liberal News
Norman Thompson
William Stroud
Charles W. Claybaugh
Cardley School to Present Christmas Entertainment
Cardley school children will present their annual Christmas program for parents next Thursday at 1 40 o'clock in the school gymnasium. The event replaces the regular December meeting of the Parent-Teachers Association.
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Cardley
Parent-Teachers Association
Thanksgiving Guests Gather Across Kaw Valley Families
Mr and Mrs Levi Woodard hosted a Thanksgiving reunion at Mrs Nellie Kennedy’s home in Kaw Valley with extended relatives from Rogers Wichita and Topeka visiting. The article lists numerous households sharing meals and welcome guests including the Pfleger and Neis families and others in Lawrence and Prairie Center over the holiday.
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Levi Woodard
Woodard
Nellie Kennedy
Kaw Valley
Frank Terrell
Rogers
Ine
Sarah Terrell
Ralph
Thares
George Schubert
Louis Bartz
Ruth
Jean
Tom Bird
Charles A. Gordon
Prairie Center
Herbert Knabe
Ed Knahe
Fidward
Harold
Gerald
Irvin Wotan
Everett
Easther Pfleger
Wichita
Carl
Pfleger
Alice Walters
Helen Pfleger
Esther Pfleger
Wichta
L. H. Marsh
Eileen
Kansas City
Fred Pfleger
Theodore Pfleger
Carl I’fleger
Ray Miller
Maxine
William Miller
Billy
Eugene Griffen
Act Ag
Noel
Sam
Daughte Reith
Maurice B. Starr
Virginia
Ruth Neil
O. J. Lane
Lawrenee
Alfred Seiwald
Rosalene
Bezthold Seiwald
William _ Mercer und Ward
Thanksgiving Guests Across Topeka and Lawrence
Wendelin Schehrer and Gerald Grosdidier joined Mr and Mrs Jerry Harris Gloria and Geraldine for Thanksgiving with Mr and Mrs P Y Cree van in Topeka Rosemary Harris Virginia and Keith Starr KU students spent the break with home folks Mr and Mrs J D Harris dined with Mr and Mrs D M Harris Nadine and Rosemary Mr and Mrs Carl Kurtz Raymond and Carl Vernon with Mr and Mrs Ed Vogler in Lawrence
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Wendelin Schehrer
Gerald Grosdidier
Jerry Harris
Gloria
Geraldine
Topeka
P. Y. Creevan
Rosemary Harris
Virginia
Keith Starr
K. U
J., D. Harris
D. M. Harris
Nadine
Rosemary
Carl Kurtz
Raymond
Carl
Vernon
Ed Vogler
Lawrence
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