Four killed in Cincinnati tenement blast shock
In Cincinnati on December 17 a three story brick tenement blast killed four people and left nine injured with seven missing. Victims include eight year old Helen Schnetzer and seven year old Leonard Schnetzer. Joseph Koebbe, 83, and Dora Smith, 9, were among the injured. The cause was not determined. Police say about 20 people lived in the building on Elder and Pleasant streets and debris hindered recovery.
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Cincinnati
Helen Schnetzer
Leonard
General Hospital
Joseph P. Koebbe
Dora Smith
Hubert Smith
Raymond Roy
Frank Morgan
Lily Schnetzer
Roy
Koebbe
Elder and
Pleasant Streets
Lawrence Weather Noted Precipitation and Cold Reading
Lawrence observers report a 1.00 inch month total near Worden with the mercury at 10 above zero at 7:30 am. Two local men who hunted hawks earlier the season cooked jelly rolls at a restaurant, drawing a large onlookers crowd. Mr and Mrs Merle Lindsey of Lawrence, hurt in a crash near Harrisonville Missouri, are recovering in Kansas City hospital.
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Lawrence
Merle C. Lindsey
Harrisonville
Kansas City
Memorial Exhibition Honors Prof W A Griffith in KU Gallery
A memorial exhibition of Prof. W A Griffith’s paintings opens at Spooner Thayer museum loan gallery. The KU painting department head from 1899 to 1921, Griffith died last spring. The show features works owned by Lawrence residents and pieces donated by Mrs. Griffith, dating 1905 to 1939, on view until late January.
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W. A. Griffith
University of Kansas
Spooner- Thayer Museum
Griffith
Lawrence
Henry Family to Coast for Rose Bowl Trip
Coach and Mrs. Gwinn Henry and son Gwinn Henry III depart by auto for the Nebraska Stanford Rose Bowl game. They will visit Kansas coach and family and stay with Mrs. Henrys father in Brownwood Texas, then Christmas with their daughter Mrs Jack Nessly in San Diego. Acacia lodge special communication set for December 19 at 7 p m with first degree. Alfred H. Sluss WM and John H. Parker Sec Adv. Stover s Candies Wiedemann s.
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Gwinn Henry
Gwinn Henry III
Auto
Kansas
Henry
Brownwood
Tex
Henrys
Jack Nessly
San Diego
Former Students Honored in Federal Watercolor Purchase
Three hundred watercolors were chosen from about 10 000 sent by American painters to a national federal competition. Eight hundred were selected for purchase by the government for the Carville Marine Hospital in Louisiana. Former students James Penney and Chris Ritter, both of New York, had works among the selections View at Weehawken Bright Mushrooms and Fall Landscape. Jury members included Charles Burchfield John Marin Eliot O’Hara and Buk Ulreich.
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Department of Painting
Weehawken
James Penney
New York City
Chris Ritter
New York
Charles Burchfield
John Marin
Eliot O'Hara
Buk Ulreich
Carville, la., Marine Hospital
Kansas University requests continue to upgrade facilities and utilities
Chancellor Malott reports at Lawrence that no new buildings have been added since 1930. Funds urged total many thousands for water mains, fire protection, electrical rewiring, steam mains, intramural field drainage, and refinishing work. Medical School projects include building completion, street paving, elevator, therapy unit, and training labs. He cites enrollment growth and new departments since 1928 urging expansion to meet future educational needs.
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Law School
Kansas City
Malott
University At
Lawrence
Snow Hall
Mt.Qread
Frank Stronghall
Board of
Reents
Fuller Musicians Here on Western Tour to Stockton Kansas
The Fuller Concert company an African American organization tours the middle west en route to Stockton Kansas home of the musicians Lorenzo D. Fuller Jr a KU senior helped his parents in a sacred program Sunday night in TanGonoxie The Fillers spent six months in Iowa performing at church union services and high school programs L D Fuller Sr a harpist has been a musician for fifty five years
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Fuller Concert Company
Middle West
Stockton
Kan
Lorenzo D. Fuller
University of Kansas
Tonganoxie
Iowa
L. D. Fuller
Deaths and Funerals of Mrs James Fitzpatrick Ward
Mrs Ralph Achning received notice of the death of Mrs James Fitzpatrick of San Diego California. Funeral services will be Thursday morning with burial at Glenn Abbey cemetery San Diego. Survived by daughter Mrs Jane Rogers of San Diego and three sons Earl of San Diego Thurman of Fort Worth Texas and Roy of Lincoln Nebraska. Granddaughter Sally Fitzpatrick of Lawrence.
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James Fitzpatrick Ward
Ralph Achning
James Fitzpatrick
San Diego
Cal
Glenn Abbey Cemetery
Fitzpatrick
Jane Rogers
Earl
Thurman
Fort Worth
Tex
Roy
Lincoln
Neb
Sally Fitzpatrick
Lawrence
Harvard Peace Group Formed in Cambridge
A Harvard student group announced the formation of the Harvard committee Against Military Intervention in Europe. Members include Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., son of the U.S. ambassador to Great Britain, and Quentin Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt.
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Harvard
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard Committee Against
Europe
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr
United States
Great Britain
Quentin Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Doggies and donations mark campus Christmas joy
A Watkins Hall housemother received a famed "doggy" gift from 70 friends across the country including Phoenix and Washington DC. The package held a kiddies dog booklet with coins totaling about $10 and a poem urging a real dog. Read by Alpha Chi students, the event spurred a penny-pitching game and a Christmas drive by Alpha Phi Omega to aid Lawrence families.
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Watkins Hall
Charles Esterly
Phoenix
Ariz
Washington, D.C
Mra. Katerly
Cora Davenport
Iva Bello Harper
Esterly
Alpha, Phi Omega
National Service Flat
Do You Know Mother of Parliaments and Tax Basics
This seeks concise explanations: why the English Parliament is called the mother of parliaments. other names for taxes. early taxes were assessed on what and why. definition of single tax. general property tax. income tax. and the fundamental principle of all just taxation.
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Mother of Parliaments
Tax systems and their fiscal principles outlined
The passage discusses the English Parliament as a model for modern legislatures and lists tax types including land tax, general property tax, single tax, and income tax. It notes a single tax targets land, with other taxes covering various property and income sources, and asserts that justice rests on the taxed person's ability to pay.
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Congress
Britain Urges Longer Work Week for Defense Production
Austin supports extended hours for defense industries to clear bottlenecks and boost output. He favors overtime pay and contract changes to keep profits fair. Taft and McCarran warn against broad emergency moves, while Green defends industrial service and opposes mass walkouts. Sumners calls for unity to overcome wartime challenges. Hoffman accuses Hillman of prioritizing labor demands over national defense.
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Austin
Roosevelt
Taft
McCarran
D-Nev
William Green
E.L
Green
Sumners
D-Tex
House Judiciary Committee
United People
Hoffman
Sidney Hillman
Defense Commission
Hillman
National Defense
Students in War on TB at New York School
Sixth graders at a New York school join the TB fight by buying seals. Charles D. Stough, seal sales chairman, received a letter from Elmer Martin saying the class will purchase 100 TB seals and enclosing one dollar.
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New York
Charles D. Stough
Seal Sales
Elmer Martin
Christmas Music From Dyche Tower Lights Up Mt Oread
The Dyche museum tower on Mt. Oread fills the night with Christmas music played via a 150 watt amplifier and projectors. Five 60 watt projectors broadcast the sound 500 feet from the museum top. Raymond Crowe supervises the setup and explains the magnetism from the projectors may affect watches.
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Tower of Dyche
Mt. Oread
Raymond Crowe
University of Kansas
Ice-clad campus views colorful tower through snow
Party trekked from the ice clad campus down to the brightly lit city then walked across to Wat kin s hall Fraser hall and Dyche museum where the tower appeared framed by snow adorned cedar trees.
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Watkins Hall
Fraser Hall
Dyche Museum
Four Persons Injured by Falls on Icy Streets
Four people sustained injuries from ice falls amid icy conditions. Mrs. L L Richardson of 650 West Twenty third street fractured both bones of her right leg. Mrs. Frank Prosser fractured her right arm after a fall near her home. Mrs. V E Boardman of Baldwin fractured her hip in a fall at home. Mrs. Augusta Farris near Lawrence suffered an ankle fracture from a Saturday night fall.
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L. L. Richardson
West Twenty-third Street
Massachusetts Street
Memorial Hospital
Frank Prosser
Cme
V. E. Boardman
Baldwin
Augusta Farris
Lawrence
K U Band Plans 33rd Winter Concert Tomorrow Night
The University of Kansas band, in uniform, will perform in its thirty third annual winter concert in Hoch Auditorium at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. The program features military style numbers, popular selections, and transcriptions of symphonies. Works by Wagner, Holst, Vaughan Williams, Coleridge Taylor, Romberg, Gould, and Coates will be heard.
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University of Kansas
Hoch Auditorium
Richard Wagner
Gustav Holst
Vaughan Williams
Coleridge Taylor
Sigmund Romberg
Morton Gould
Eric Coates
Music Teachers leader confers at Kansas university
Warren D. Allen president of the Music Teachers National Association met with D. M. Swarthout dean of the University of Kansas school of fine arts to discuss the Cleveland meeting program. Allen's daughter Patricia visited with Prof. and Mrs. Raymond Wheeler before returning to Cleveland.
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Warren D. Allen
Music Teachers National Association
D. M. Swarthout
University of Kansas
Allen
Cleveland
Swarthout
Patricia
Raymond Wheeler
Fire destroys barracks at Fort Leavenworth
Fire destroyed a former CCC barracks at Fort Leavenworth in the early hours. The building, erected in 1935 at a cost of 1745 dollars, was occupied by several non commissioned officers and cooks of the 10th cavalry.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kan
CCC
10Th Cavalry
British shipping losses rise in week ending December 8
The admiralty reported 291 190 tons of British allied and neutral merchant shipping sunk during the week ending December 8.
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Ndon
Admiralty
Beta Sigma Phi supper and Christmas party details
Gamma chapter of Beta Sigma Phi held a covered dish supper at 7 last evening at Mrs. E M Paxton home followed by a Christmas party. Santa distributed gifts around a large Christmas tree and members voted to pay two hospital patients’ tonsillectomy bills and buy a quartz lamp for the crippled children’s clinic.
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Beta Sigma Phi
E. M. Paxton
Santa Claus
Kebker to Attend U of Minnesota Commencement
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Kebker plan to travel to Minneapolis for the December 19 University of Minnesota commencement where Kebker will receive the PhD. He teaches marketing at the University of Kansas business school and wrote a dissertation on consumers cooperation. The couple will also visit Kebker’s parents for Christmas before heading to Chicago for American Marketing Association meetings. Stanford senior Charles Decker returns home for the holidays with three classmates, traveling by car with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. I. Decker.
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W. W. Kebker
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Mr. Kebker
School of Business
University of Kansas
Roger Williams Returned Home From Memorial Hospital
Roger Williams was taken to his home this morning from Memorial Hospital after a brief medical stay. No further conditions were released and family said he is resting comfortably.
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Roger Williams
Memorial Hospital
Roosevelt Signs Bill Authorizing War Undersecretary
In Washington on December 17, President Roosevelt signed a bill allowing him to appoint an undersecretary of war to serve during a national emergency. The White House had no immediate candidate for the post.
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Washington
Roosevelt
White House
Dutchman executed for spying at Pentonville prison
London reports the British home office announced the execution of Charles Albert van den Kieboom a Netherlands citizen born in Jararamens Japan on September 6 for spying for Germany.
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London
Netherlands
Pentonville Prison
Germany
Charles Albert van den Kieboom
Jararamens
Japan
Local family thanks 1.C.C.F. Lodge No. 4 for kindness
The family of Irman Ormsby thanks friends and neighbors and the 1.C.C.F. lodge No. 4 for kindness during the illness and death of their husband and father and for the floral offerings. Signed by Mrs. Irman Ormsby and relatives Vern Pettit Mollie Pettit Marie Taylor.
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1.C.C.F. Lodge No. 4
Irman Ormsby
Mollie Pettit
Marie Taylor Vern Pettit
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