Valkyrie Opens Met Opera Season With Glamour Idyll
New York views the Met 52nd season opening as Valkyrie at the golden horseshoe. Kirsten Flagstad as Brünnhilde drew praise along with debuting singers Kerstin Thorborg Anna Kaskas and Irene Jessner. Notables including Libby Holman Reynolds Fannie Hurst Mrs Joseph Davies and Mrs James Roosevelt attended amid sale out 4200 seats. Continuous star power and fashion highlighted the gala with Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt absent due to her husband’s illness.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera
Kirsten Flagstad
Brunnklide
Libby Holman Reynolds
John Jacob Astor III
Astor
Eileen Gillespie
Fannie Hurst
Joseph Davies
Marjorie Post Hutton
Russia
James Roosevelt
Andre
Kostelanetz
Roance
Rose Bampton
Wilfred Elletier
Kerstin Thorborg
Anna Kaskas
Irene Jessner
Cornelius Vanderbilt
South
Husand
Postoffice Letter Mark Is Bettered by 5000
The Lawrence postoffice saw a record day with 5000 more letters processed than last year. Long lines formed at the three mail windows stretching outside the building. Two windows stayed open late until 9 30 PM and much of the work moved through the merchants' bureau wrapping station in the gas office.
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Lawrence
New York Leads Se Cited In Old Age Annuity Applications
Washington reports the Social Security Board data showing New York with 3,433,631 applications topping state totals for employment participation in the old age annuity program. Total applications for all states reach 22,129,617, with over 24,000,000 workers represented on employers' applications. Other state figures include Colorado 132,542 Kansas 163,837 Missouri 604,225 Nebraska 275,399 Oklahoma 348,121.
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Washington
Social Security Board
New York
Ard
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahome
Co-ops Attend Funeral for Topeka Leader's Wife
Lawrence Co operative club members plan to attend funeral services in Topeka for Mrs. A H Marshall wife of the Cooperative International president who died last night. Services set for 3 o'clock at the Lutheran church. Dr and Mrs Marshall resided in Topeka.
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Lawrence Cooperative Club
Topeka
A. H. Marshall
Co-operative International
Test Your Knowledge Quiz on History and Science
Classic newspaper quiz item lists seven to ten questions about Mars moons decalv erizing Poitiers Judaean dynasty G men comets Central Powers and Theodore Robinson with a note to check classifieds for answers.
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Mars
Poitiers
Jerusalem
Theodore Robinson
Great Lakes
Honor roll honors at annual society dinner
At the annual dinner the society recognized long time members and new inductees. Living charter member Mrs John Levett attended from Lawrence though ill. New Lawrence members included Josephine Burnham and many others. out of town arrivals came from Topeka Wichita Leavenworth and St George.
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John Levett
Lawrence
W. C. Simons
Edward Bumgardner
F. N. Raymond
Wilam M. Exe
Skilton
A. D. Weaver
Hooker Spencer
S. Learned
E.R. Learned
W. W. Russ
Angel Whitcomb
Kathryne Wilann
Edith Haskell Burney
Dudley Haskell Burney
LaJola
Calif
Josephine Burnham
Marcia Wood Carter
W. A Dill
Ophelia Axtell Dyche
Mabel Noyes Glass
Eloise Francs Glass
Florence B. Merkle
A. M. Ockerblad
Ralph Ward
BE. M. Owen
Robert C. Rankin
M.K. Rice
Wiliam B. Reynolds
Roy L. Roberts
Roy Towne
Blanche Yeaton
Ernest W. Young
Out of Town
Sam K. Prager
Edwin A. Austin
W. Tom
Susan Margaret Guild
Charl E B. Heilmann
Elma Holmes
Topeka
E. M. Hichards
Crankle
Lawrence News Capsule Reflects Local Notes and Events
Local stamp dealers worry over one and a half cent stamps used on unsealed Christmas cards. Mrs Maggie Garvin of 901 Illinois lists 95 but says she is 97, turning 98 next year. Japan promotes tourist advertising with a 1940 Tokyo Olympiad calendar. Locust street paving repairs underway by Kansas City Kaw Valley and Western Railway. Jurors hear talk of lawyers with jokers in deck analogy at courthouse. A Lawrence mother recounts a boy pushing aside five girls to reach Santa. Scottish Rite hosts Masons with Dr Raymond A Schwegler speaking. Cadet Baldwin from West Point visits Lawrence for a week. Also a last minute gift ad from Rankin's Drug Store.
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Lawrence
Maggie Garvin
Illinois Street
Locust Street
Second
Eighth Street
North
Kansas City, Kaw Valley and Western Railway Company
Ben Babb
Cross Word Puzzle and Air Disaster at Gebhardt Greenhouse
A partial crossword puzzle appears, listing numerous across and down clues with scattered readability. A plane strike story follows: a ship vaults and crashes into a glass greenhouse 200 feet away, owned by August Gebhardt who predicted a hit. Welfare club at Lincoln school hosts a violin solo by Miss Helen Pierson.
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August Gebhardt
Lincoln School
Helen Pierson
Christmas observances planned in Eudora churches
Churches in Eudora set festive programs this week. Colored Baptist hosts a Christmas tree and program Wednesday evening. St Pauls Evangelical presents living pictures on Thursday at 7 30 pm. Salem Evangelical offers a mixed program and treats Thursday at 7 00 pm. Methodist pageant The Prophetic Child, with Virginia Brown, Myrnice Ott and Arden Ott in key roles, followed by 2 Christmas trees and treats. Holy Family Catholic Church sustains three Masses on Christmas Day with 5 am, 8 30 am, and a third Mass immediately after.
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Eudora
Colored Baptist Church
St. Paul's Evangelical Church
Salem Evangelical Church
Methodist Church
Virginia Brown
Myrnice Ott
Mary
Mother of
Jesus
Arden Ott
Joseph
Howard Wilson
Gene Daugherty
Don Westheffer
Shepherds
Charleton
Milford Bartz
Baby Panda Su Lin Creates Zoological Sensation
Mrs William H Harkness of New York and Su Lin infant giant panda drew a brief zoological sensation in Chicago. The two month old panda, about ten pounds, rolled over and whined while fed by bottle. Mrs Harkness, widow of explorer Li Shao, captured Su Lin in Tibet November 9 during her solo expedition and brought it from San Francisco en route to New York. Director Edward Bean of Brookfield Zoo commented on the panda as the most valuable mammal in captivity and hoped to keep it for the Chicago facility.
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Chicago
William H. Harkness
New York
Su-lin
Pana
San Francisco
Harkness
Palmer House
Eoward H. Bean
Brookfield
Robert
Roads to Get Gravel in Grant Township
Work began yesterday on gravelling about six miles of dirt roads in Grant township South of highway 40 and east of the Seventh street north Lawrence concrete road. Gravel hauled from a Leavenworth county pit at the farm owners’ expense. Riley Combest holds the hauling contract.
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Grant Township
Seventh Street
North
Lawrence
Reece
Highway 40
Bismarck
Kaw River
Ed Schaake
Maple Street
Lafwrence
Mud Creek
Alfred Heck
Union Pacific Railroad
Storm over Santa Claus in Michigan City schools
Educational dispute erupts as teachers tell pupils there is no Santa Claus prompting protests from parents and townsfolk. Adults largely defend belief while a few call for restraint with Mrs. William Green calling belief akin to teaching a child to believe in the Corey man, a tough nut for officials to crack.
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Michigan City
Ind
Santa Claus
William Green
Corey Man
Pope Plans His Talk On Christmas Eve Message
Pope Pius meditates on his forthcoming Christmas Eve address to the world to be broadcast at 12 30 p m local time. Vatican health officials report continued improvement though physicians fear the exertion may overwhelm him.
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Vatican City
Pius
Vatican
Holy Father
Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli
Giuseppe Pizzardo
Giuseppe Momo
Kiwanis Christmas Party Delights Lawrence Guests
Lawrence Kiwanis and wives hosted a Christmas party at Plymouth Congregational parish house for 120 children. The kids sang with Dean Swarthout at the piano and Joseph Wilkins leading. After dinner, motion pictures were shown and Santa distributed presents.
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Lawrence Kiwanis Club
Plymouth Congregational
Dean D. M. Swarthout
Joseph Wilkins
Santa Claus
Santa
H. L. Chambers
Woman Dead in Clubhouse Near Baltimore Mystery
In Nee, the head of a mental disease hospital identified a nude woman found dead in a gas filled kitchen of a deserted country club as patient Edith B. Gaither, 33, who escaped from Spring Grove State Hospital last night. The Rolling Road Golf Club near the site had been closed for winter.
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Baltimore, Nee
Silas W. Weltmer
Edith B. Gaither
Spring Grove State Hospital
Rolling Road
Eolf Club
Deaths and Funerals of Hicks Jr and Cayton Babies
Two infant deaths are reported. Bert E. Hicks Jr died Saturday in Providence R I at six months old. graveside services are set at Oak Hill cemetery Wednesday at 2 PM with Rev C A Puls. Roxiana Carrol Cayton, three months old, daughter of Hansel and Mrs. Cayton of 919 Connecticut St, died early today in Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Nazarene Church services Wednesday at 2 45 PM, Rev Roy E Swim will officiate, burial at Oak Hill Cemetery. survivors include grandparents J B Cayton Georgetown Ind and Mrs Lalla B Jacobs of unspecified location.
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Bert E. Hicks, Jr
Bert E. Hicks, Sr
Providence
R. J
Oak Hill Cemetery
C. A. Puls
Roxiana Carrol Cayton
The
Nazarene
Earch
Roy E. Swim
J. B. Cayton
Georgetown
Ind
Lalla B. Jacobs
Lawrence
Kellogg's Thrill At Pact Of Paris Birthday Note
St Paul Dec 22 Frank B Kellogg former world court justice and ex secretary of state marked his eightieth birthday by calling the signing of the pact of Paris his greatest thrill The pact renounces wars of aggression and was drafted by Kellogg and Aristide Briand and signed in Paris in 1928 The scene included Kellogg joking with a photographer between bouquets The rest of the snippet advertises Journal World gift subscriptions with rates and a gift card note.
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St. Paul
Frank B. Kellogg
The
World Court
Kellogg
Court of St. James
Aristide Briand
France
Paris
Rough Seas Delays Transatlantic Liners and Mail
Stormy seas hold ten transatlantic liners bound for New York with about 4500 passengers and thousands of sacks of Christmas mail. Vessels will arrive 18 to 24 hours late, delaying nationwide distribution. The Europa docks tomorrow morning. the Normandie Aquitania Deutschland and Pilsudski are among ships delayed a day.
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New York
New York Harbor
Vote Jury Asks Ballots From 100 Percent Precincts
A federal grand jury investigating alleged fraud in the November 3 election has requested ballots from two precincts where Democratic candidate C Jasper Bell reportedly defeated his Republican opponent Paul Byrum. One precinct in the twelfth ward credited Bell with 686 votes to Byrum zero. another in the ninth ward gave Bell 485 votes, Byrum none. Separately, Watkins Memorial Hospital at Kansas University reported a declining census with 12 students admitted today, down from 25 Friday as Christmas vacation began.
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Kansas City
Grand Pe
Congress
Jasper Bell
Paul Byrum
Bell
Byrum
Watkins Memorial Hospital
K. U
R. I. Canuteson
X ray Finds Missing Bolt in Fruit Cakes
Grand Rapids Michigan December 22 A physician and his X ray machine solved the mystery of which Christmas fruit cake contained a metal bolt from an electric mixer. Mrs Louis Hake baked 13 cakes mailed one to a sister and wrapped the rest. Dr G G Stonehouse X rayed a dozen cakes and located the bolt in cake No 3. He declined a fee and will receive one of Mrs Hake s best cakes for Christmas.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Louis II. Hake
G.G. Stonehouse
Ban on Santa Doublers Judge Rules Contempt Of Court
Pittsburgh judge M A Musmanno declares anyone who questions Santa Claus authentic becomes in contempt of court and commits to the hostil. A roof fire at 1130 Rhode Island Street damages the roof. Ruth Wilson's home. Unity Study class meets Wednesday 2 30 at Plymouth Congregational Church parish house with Jack Coulson leading.
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Pittsburgh
Santa Claus
M. A. Musmanno
Ruth Wilson
Rhode Island Street
Plymouth Congregational Church
Jack Coulson
Three Flier Crash Injures Army Crew in New York
A twin-motor Martin bomber crashed near Mitchell Field on the way from Langley Field to Boston, slicing high voltage wires and cutting power to Hampstead and Garden City. Injured are Lieut. Genn C Thompson, Corporal Moore, and Private Lowney. Moore reportedly sustained internal injuries while the others had superficial cuts and bruises. The aircraft was valued at about $20,000 and the crew were taken to Mitchell Field Hospital.
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New York
Army
Mitchell Field
L. I
Langley Field
Boston
Hampstead
Garden City
C. ‘Thompson
Moore
Lowney
Mitchell Field Hospital
Ruth Ann King to Speak at Lincoln School Event
Miss Ruth Ann King, case reader in the child welfare department at Lincoln Nebraska, will speak before the audience at Lincoln School. Her remarks will address child welfare services and community support.
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Lincoln School
Ruth Ann King
Lincoln, Neb
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Linwood
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Lecompton
Perry
Bill Riley
Sons and Daughters of
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Lawrence C. Baldwin
K. F. Baldwin
West Point
United States Military Academy
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Sentinel
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Burne
Maine
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Alf M. Landon
Baltimore
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Landon
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Associated Press
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Journal-World
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Fen NG
Rumsey Funeral Home
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Fldridge Hotel
B. F. Nanninga
Carl
Abe
Sitka
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