Hostilities on Christmas Day mark world peace efforts
Christmas observances varied worldwide as peace appeals rose amid war. Ethiopia front truce saw pilgrims praying for end to East African fighting while King George V urged peace. In the U S families gathered, gift shopping rose about ten percent and President Roosevelt spent the day quietly with family.
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Associated Press
United States
Bethieém
George V
Great Britain
Ethiopia
League of Nations
Roosevelt
Washington
Sara
J. Pierpont Morgan
White House
Morgan
Glen Cove
N. Y
Ome
Charles
A. Lindbergh
Jon
England
Officera
Brew
A. R. Dafoe
Wardian
Callender
Ont
Mama
Papa Dionne
Harvard University
Thomas W. Lamont
New York
Test Your Knowledge Classified Quiz Questions
Seven trivia prompts ask about national anthems and flags. Questions cover Marseillaise origin and per-country spelling, American enlistment in English air, Palmetto State nickname for South Carolina, Joseph Jefferson, deligation in chemistry, Shrove Tuesday date, Missouri statehood, singular of pewter data, Spanish term for an inner court, and Civil War end year.
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Palmetto State
Joseph
Jefferson
Missouri
Firemen seek donations for recreation room setup
Mayor Alfred Lawrence appeals to the public in Trenton to donate used furniture to the No. 1 fire station. Ladders crews need tables chairs and rugs to brighten the old city hall recreation room as firefighters work long shifts and await calls.
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Santa Claus
Alfred Lawrence
Lawrence
496
No. 1
Old City Hall
Mother Hubbard
Review of Kiwanis Club Work in 1935
Lawrence Kiwanis Club members heard a year end review at Wiedemann’s luncheon. Reports detail orthopedic and nervous and mental clinics with 325 cases and eight monthly cases, yard and garden contest with 30 entries and 14 prizes, high school honor society entertainment, and a junior high summer recreational school. The club added eleven members. Guy V. Keeler retires as president, Lloyd Houston will be installed as president, Harold Ingham elected secretary of the McKan Ark district Kiwanis for the third time.
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Lawrence Kiwanis Club
Wiedemann’s
Lawrence
Nervous and
Guy V. Keeler
Lloyd Houston
Harold Ingham
Lawrence Club
Mc-Kan- Ark
Kiwanis
Cop Killer hunted in western Montana hills
Police seek Harry Knight a Kingston ex convict in connection with a Christmas boarding house shooting that left Policeman Tom O Neill dead and two others injured Frank Walsh and Mrs Florence Benevue were wounded while Knight allegedly shot at Mrs Benevue s sister Jean Miller Knight reportedly fled as residents alerted authorities and a manhunt intensified across the Butte area with other brief notices on a railroad denial and local lodge meeting
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Butte
Mont
Montana
Harry Knight
Kingston
Tom O'Neill
James Mooney
Knight
Frank Walsh
Florence Benevue
Benevue
Jean Miller
Walsh
Comedian Healey jailed after Christmas impulse arson scare
Los Angeles police detained Ted Healey film comedian after a Christmas Eve incident in Santa Monica canyon. He is charged with attempted arson and facing a habeas corpus hearing. bail set at 1000 dollars. Healey claims memory loss and says someone shot at him. A dancer Bonnie Oredell alleges he smashed a glass door and tried to set fire to her home. his sister says it was a Christmas impulse. Healey showed a bandaged hand at the jail, said to be from a gunshot wound reportedly burned by the injury.
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Los Angeles
Ted Healey
Healey
Healy
Sata Monica Canyon
Bonnie Oredell
Marcia Healy
J G Jeffries to open new store in Lawrence
J G Jeffries, former Lawrence merchant, has leased 803 Massachusetts street and will open a dry goods and ready to wear store about March 1. The Hamilton Shoe store will close out sale starting tomorrow to vacate by February 1 for the new tenant. Jeffries has run a Chillicothe Missouri store since 1934 and will move with wife to 906 Alabama street. The Chillicothe shop was sold.
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J. G. Jeffries
Lawrence
Massachusetts Street
Hamilton Shoe Store
Fire unit answers alarm on model T blaze at 1247 Kentucky
The local fire department responded to a morning alarm at 1247 Kentucky Street where a model T Ford caught fire. Firefighters extinguished the blaze with minimal damage to the vehicle.
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Kentucky Street
New Railroad Service for Lawrence Shippers
John Robinson of Union Pacific announced a new pickup and delivery service for Lawrence shippers. The service will be free of charge for less than carload shipments to most points west of Chicago, continuing a similar restricted area program that has operated for two years.
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John Robinson
Union Pacific
Lawrence Shippers
Western Railroads
Chicago
Institute to Convene at First Methodist Church
The Mid-Winter Institute of the Kansas City District Epworth League meets Friday and Saturday at First Methodist Church with over 100 visiting youths. Leaders conduct four classes each day on The Life That Satisfies, followed by a banquet, sports event, and a leaders conference featuring ministers and educators from Baker University Ottawa Parsons LaHarpe and local churches.
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Kansas City
Epworth League
Guy Hartman
Kansas
James Chubb
Baldwin
Freeman Havinghurst
Robert A. Hunt
Lawrence
Clyde Brewster
Peru
Wiley A. Keve
C. J. Knox
Centenary Methodist Church of
E. J. Williams
Baker University
W. I. Hastie
Ottawa
R. O. Taylor
Parsons
Claude DeWitt
la Harpe
Tale of Two Cities at Granada shines for Coleman
The Granada presents the Dickens classic with Ronald Coleman delivering a notable Sidney Carton performance rivaling his silent era fame. Cast members Henry B. Walthall Edna May Oliver Basil Rathbone Blanche Yurka and Mitchell Lewis receive praise as the production showcases revolutionary scenes and MGM’s lavish investment.
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Ronald Coleman
Charles Dickens
Sidney Carton
Dickens
Coleman
Ut Coleman
Henry B. Walthal
Dr. Manette
Edna May Oliver
Miss Pross
Basil Rathbone
Marquis St. Evremonde
Blanche Yurka
Madame de Farge
Mitchell Lewis
Ernest de Farge
MGM
Mary Burns Fugitive at the Dickinson shines with romance
Sylvia Sidney stars in Mary Burns Fugitive at Dickinson with Melvyn Douglas Alan Baxter in key roles. The plot follows a woman who loves an ex gridiron star unaware he is a public enemy, leading to a trap when stolen bonds surface. Director William K Howard crafts a swift, dramatic finale. Kelvinator contest winner Marie Wilcox of Arkansas Street received a Kelvinator prize.
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Sylvia Sidney
Mary Burns
the Dickinson
Melvyn Douglas
Alan Baxter
Pert Kelton
Brian Donlevy
Wallace Ford
Miss Sydney
Baxter
William K. Howard
Two Killed in Highway Crash Near Trading Post
On U S highway 69 near Trading Post two men from Kansas City died when their car overturned early today. The victims were Ralph J. O Bleness 37 a Kansas City contractor and Tom S Woods of Kansas City.
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Highway Pleasant
Kan
Ralph J. O’bleness
Kansas City
Tom S. Woods
U. S. Highway 69
Trading Post
Seek to Unite Catholic and Episcopal Churches
Twenty nine leaders of a movement to unite Protestant Episcopal churches in America with the Roman Catholic church have appealed to Protestant Episcopal clergymen for support of the plan. The group includes 20 clergymen, two religious orders members, and seven laymen. The appeal criticizes Protestantism as bankrupt and calls for rallying around Rome.
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New York
America
Church Unity Octave Council
Franklin Joiner
St. Clement’s Church
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Ivan Lee Holt
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ In America
Protestant Episcopal Church
Holt
Quintuplets Born to Nic araguan Couple in Sabana Grande
The Managua Press reports the birth of quintuplets to Senor and Senora Timoteo Laines of Sabana Grande in Matagalpa. Three boys and two girls, all healthy, are noted as the newborns. Authorities express concern over Nicaragua's high infant mortality, compounded by limited communications in remote districts like Matagalpa.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Senor
Senora Timoteo Laines
Sabana ‘Grande
Matagalpa
Missing St James pupil believed lost in Missouri caves
Allen Hale, 16, a St James high student, has been missing for a week. Mrs. Nancy Hale suspects he is wandering in caves south of St James, lured by Civil War veteran treasure legends. He has previously spent two days and a night inside a cavern.
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Springfield
Allen Hale
Nancy E. Hale
St. James
New Hat for Norris from President in Christmas Gift
Washington reports Senator George W Norris received a new straw hat from President Roosevelt, sent after Norris noted he once lost a hat at the White House. In Oklahoma City, Harold Bradburn filed a UPA suit challenging the constitutionality of the federal low cost housing program to halt a local construction project.
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Washington
George W. Norris
Roosevelt
Panama Canal
Norris
White House
Oklahoma City
UPA
Harold Bradburn
Oklahoma
City
Lawrence Lee Weidlein recalls KU football days in town visit
Lawrence Lee Weidlein, former Kansas University football tackle end and center, visited friends today. He once worked as a night clerk at Hotel Eldridge and now travels from San Diego as a salesman. City councilman Willard Brown performed a fireman style rescue, helping neighbors escape a locked bathroom after the door trapped them. Frank Endacott heard a Christmas Eve broadcast from Buckfast Abbey, recalling his Devonshire roots and memories of Benedictine monks.
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Lee Weidlein
University of Kansas
George
Patsy” Clark
Weidlein
K. U
Eldridge
San Diego
Calif
Willard Brown
Mr. Brown
Frank Endacott
Wren
Devonshire
England
Buckfast Abbey
Dart
Father Abbott
Mr. Endacott
St. Benedict
Deaths and Funerals Charles Oliver Brooks
Charles Oliver Brooks age 63 died yesterday at his Topeka home. Funeral services are set for tomorrow at 2 30 pm in Topeka with burial there. He leaves a brother Jess Brooks of Lawrence two sisters Mrs Oscar Houston of Topeka and Mrs John Kline of Kansas City one daughter Mrs Leslie Wood of Richland and four sons C C G Brooks and L E Brooks of Topeka B E Brooks of Kansas City Mo and Rev W E Brooks of Springfield Ohio.
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Charles Oliver Brooks
Topeka
Jess Brooks
Lawrence
Oscar Houston
John Kline
Kansas City
Leslie, Wood
Richland
Cc. G. Brooks
L. E. Brooks
B. E. Brooks
Kansas City, Mo
Rev
W. E. Brooks
Springfield, Ohio
Woodstock Students End Semester Exams and Local News
Woodstock seventh and eighth graders finished semester exams last week. Sunny Valley Farm Bureau elected officers: President Mrs Russell Shaw, leaders Mrs Waller Love and Mrs W C Flory, treasurer Mrs Frank Brune, reporter Mrs Charles M Jones. Families from California visited, basketball game postponed, mumps and scarlet fever cases noted, and Christmas program held with Santa delivering gifts. Several teachers reported selling Christmas seals. Woodstock Christmas tree and program drew a good crowd with carols readings and a pageant. Attendees from McLouth included Mr and Mrs D E Russell and daughter Bettie, and Laverne Campbell.
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Sunny Valley Farm Bureau
Russell Shaw
Waller Love
W. C. Flory
Frank Brune
Charles M. Jones
John Stuedle
Thomas Boyd
Dannie
California
Normal Avenue
Los Angeles
Calif
Carl Bruchmiller
Lawrence
W. A. Wellman
McLouth
Russell Stewart
Kansas
H. Umberger
Kansas State College Extension
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
D. E. Russell
Bettie
Laverne Campbell
Barber School Community Meeting Hosts Christmas Program
A Friday night gathering at Barber School featured a Christmas program by Miss Smith and the pupils. The event included an invited India School entertainment and a Christmas exchange. Mrs. George Coffman returned from Memorial Hospital and Alma Harrell came home from Topeka after a stay there. Mr. and Mrs. M J Pierson hosted Christmas dinner with guests including Mrs Fred Richardson and her mother among others.
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Miss Smith
India School
Barber School
George Coffman
Memorial Hospital
Fred Gregory
Kanwaka Literary Club
Haverstock
Alma ‘Harrell
Topeka
M. J. Pierson
Fred Richardson
Marcus Richardson
Eddy
Community Notes From Kansas Issued Fragments
The report mentions of famus Cheary and son Oliver in Kansas City, Dorothy Forsythe returning home during Snappy's lunch room change, Mr and Mrs C E Stanwix visiting Kanwaka school house for a lecture by Dr and Mrs Owen with lantern slides, and Misses Marjory Cumming Irene Steele and Wayne Stover appointed to produce the program for the next community meeting held last Friday in January.
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Oliver
Kansas City
Dorothy Forsythe
Fires In De Soto Destroy Two Homes And Garage
De Soto residents faced two separate fires on Monday night. A garage on Ernie Johnson property burned with a car lost. A blaze on the Harry Cramer home roof destroyed the house though most belongings were saved. Ben Heckert owned the property and partial insurance coverage is noted.
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DeSoto
Ernie Johnson
City
Harry Cramer
Ben Heckert
Cramer
A. M. Walker
G. W. Longstreth
Phyllis
Overbrook Clubs Share Events And Community News
Overbrook residents reported club meetings and social gatherings. The Cosmos club held a program including a song by members and a book review, and hosted visitors. Adelphian and Birthday Luncheon groups met for bridge and lunch with several guests. The operetta The Gypsy Rover drew a capacity crowd at Heberling hall. additional notes mention family visits, a student injury, a Sigma Delta Chi initiation, a Christmas party, and local concerts with family attendance.
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Cosmos Club
A. E. Topping
Heaven’s My Destination
Gordon Wilder
Carl Coffman
Joe Coffman
J.leslie Long
John English
John Dodder
John Joyner
Mary Saile
Ed Griffin
George McClintock
Frank Kinney
D., M. Barrett
Wyle Harris
J. H. Haas
English
Rs. H. R. Wright
Adelphian Club
Mac Barbee
Loren Rundle
R. £. Tutcher
Jennings Price
Merrion Dodder
Ed Wadsworth
Roy Senior
Alvin Miller
Orville Lee
Carbondale
Heberling Hall
Overbrook
Clark Clover
Hazel
Nellie Finch
Osage City
I. D. Haag
Haas
Bobby Simon
Roy Simon
Mike Fisher
J. E. Wrenn
Topeka
McFarland
Lawrence
Laura Hart
Kentucky
Milburn Taylor
Taylor
Carol
Glenn Dodder
Bobby
George Sullivan
Bill Long
J. L. Long
Missouri
Sigma Delta Chi
Biel
University of Missouri
Thimble Club
G. M. Hart
Cleveland Clark
John
Laura Reed
Ests
Roy Eberley
Gay and
Avis
Dana Hobson
Near Baldwin
Walter Rundle
Marvin Forth
L. E. Dodder
Misa Cordelia Penn
Alvin Nieler
Washburn Music Department
Claudine
C. L. Knapp
Buffalo
N. Y
Local social notes and incidents from area residents
Community tables list visits and dinners among families including the Knapps Ford Dursts and the Val entines. Notable events include fifty six year anniversaries for Mr. and Mrs. Hoover, a dog attack on Emilou Hey, and a bridge luncheon hosted by Mrs. Ross Coffman. Nearby trips to Topeka, Burns, and Santa Fe area visits are noted along with illnesses and school substitutions.
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H. F. Hartman
Doris Jean Wright
Topeka
del Herlan
Edwin Lee
Janice
FE. EF. Tyner
Emilou Hey
S. F. Halstead
Halstead
Ross Coffman
Lloyd Coffman
Wilmer Bunn
Frank Kernes
Ann Paison
Kathleen Connolly
J. E. Wrenn
James Sullivan
Marjorie Beard
Nellie Cox
Miss Beard
A Tale of Two Cities Photoplay and Stars Over Broadway
A Tale of Two Cities promoted as highly entertaining invites two days remain to view. Stars Over Broadway debuts Sunday for three days featuring radio stars James Melton and Jane Froman in real life roles including You Let Me Down and Broadway Cinderella with Phil Regan.
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Two Cities
Broadway
James Meliton
Jane Froman
Miss Froman
James Melton
Phil Regan
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