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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1941
Page
5
Local social life and Bundles for Britain tea events
Lawrence society notes describe Bundles for Britain teas hosted by Landis and Dicker families, with guests including Mrs. Henry Werner and Miss Margaret Kane. Social gatherings at the Country Club feature dinners, dances, and desserts with attendees from Lawrence, Kansas City, Des Moines, and Topeka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helianthus Club
George Dunkey
Maude Landis
May Landis
Britain
W. O. Brownlee
Local Holiday Socials and Notable Births and Marriages
Lawrence social calendar shows Mrs Kreider hosting luncheon and open house in honor of guests. Crowe couple to return for New Year’s Eve party. Sommerville announce birth of Penelope Ruth at Memorial hospital. Mary Lou Shoffner wed to Harry Carlton Shoffner in Yuma Arizona. Frank R Green hosts Christmas dinner with kin from Nebraska and Kansas City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. O. Brownlee
C. '. Crowe
Amarillo
Tex
Brownlees
Colorado
Hazel Gilbert
Salina
T. G. Elliott
C. E. Martin
Vinita
Okla
Raymond Crumer
Texarkana
Fred Hi Harris
Stanley
Lawrenc
Elliott
Arnold Elliott
Camp Crowder
Neosho
Glenn Colburn
Topeka
Stormont Hospital
Gary Glenn
Colburn
Frances Thiry
Lawrence
Mr. Colburn
Douglas County
R. M. Lee
Hazel Katherine
Raymond Leroy ‘Anderson
Roy ‘Anderson
Plymouth Congregational Church
Mrs. Kreider
W. B. Sommerville
Barker Avenue
Memorial Hospital
Penelope Ruth
Frank R. Green
Frank H. Green
Lincoln
Neb
Virginia Graves
Judith Ellen
Omaha
Frank O. Banks
Roger Allen
Kansas City
C. W. Schubert
Local social round up of Kansas City region guests
Miss Christine Wenrich and Miss Violetta Garrett visit Florida for holidays. Kansas City residents and others travel to and from Nebraska Texas and Missouri for gatherings with family and friends. Notables include Dr. Ralph Canuteson attending New York meetings and Delma Oyler teaching in Sedan with return to duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christine Wenrich
Violetta Garrett
Kansas City
Florida
Fred Wood
Chicago
W. C. McConnell
E. S. Lyons
Theodore Vincent
Shirley Jean
Amarillo
Tex
Ida Lyons
Scottsbluff
Neb
Mary Louise Beltz
Jessie Beltz
A. L. Kiene
Belton
Beltz
School of Fine Arts
Mary Hardin-Baylor College
Ralph I. Canuteson
New York City
American Student Health Association
New Yorker
Canuteson
May Landis
Leavenworth
West
C. L. DeWatteville
Roland DeWatteville
Nellie Cutter
DeWatteville
Kansas City News
Otto Martens
Great Bend
Fred Bignall
J. M. Kellogg
Emporia
Charles E. Putnam
United States Navy
Relph Gentry
Harry Wimner
Ada Hicks
C. A. Davenport
Lawrence
Clifford Putnam
Meriden
Pearl Harbor
Bernard
Barney” Pipes
George Herrick
Hannibal
Long Beach
California
Barney
Quaker Oats Company
Frank Knotts
Paterson
N. J
Wright Aeronau
Tical Corporation
Knotts
Clifton
Cushing Hospital
Klemp
State Highway Department
George Alred
D. H. Spencer
Walter Johns
Muehlebach
Armour and Company
Hazel Gilbert
Wil‘ton
Salina
Gilbert
C. G. Bayles
Edwin Ott
Eudora
Association Hospital
Topeka
Norman Schweitzberger
Arthur Sweitzberger
New York Street
Navy
San Diego
Calif
Orpha Davis Smith
Jack Davis
Davis
Ottawa
New Haven
Conn
Smith
Ralph S. Canuteson
Stanton Kreider
Margaret Kreider
Stanley Crowe
Eileen
Music Hall
Lewis Moses
Wellington
Earl Hurley
Charles Doane
William Zweifel, Jr
Sedan
Edward C. Spencer
Milwaukee
Wisc
Walter
New World Filkin and Mr Spencer noted in legal dept
New World Filkin of Kansas City and Mr Spencer, part of the legal department for Allis Chalmers, are mentioned in the records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Filkin
Kansas City
Spencer
The
Allis-Chalmers Company
Army Urges Care at Kansas Railroad Crossings
The Seventh Corps Area HQ urged Gore Payne Ratner to warn Kansans to take special precautions at railroad crossings. Train accidents slow transportation vital to the war effort. police should act against violators. The highway department has workers cleaning signals and patrols enforcing safety rules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Army
Seventh Corps
Gore Payne Ratner
Kansas
Highway Department
Two Good Races Loom in Kansas
Topeka dispatch notes Kansas politics in 1942 will mix wartime factors with state races. With Arthur Capper seeking a fifth term and Gov Payne Ratner's potential bid for a third term in question, the governor's future remains uncertain. Democratic possibilities include Randolph Carpenter and Harry Woodring, while Republicans consider Carl E. Friend and Fay N. Seaton among likely rivals, amid a primary like 1938.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
America
Pearl Harbor
Arthur Capper
United States
Payne Ratner
Capper
Washington Post
Randolph Carpenter
Harry H. Woodring
Cupper
Carl E. Friend
Lawrence Lumberman
Fay N. Seaton
Manhattan
State Social Welfare Board
Kansas politicians eye 1942 battles over burke and ballots
The piece catalogs Kansas political figures from Sen Thales Skovgard to Rep Ed Rees and notes Democratic support for William H. Burke, plus the party's stance on seating him. It also discusses reapportionment, 1942 congressional races, and wartime shifts in GOP isolationism after Pearl Harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thales. Skovgard
Greenleaf Farmer
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Ness City
State Corporation Commission
Richard Robbins
Belvidere Stockman
Kansas Industrial Development Commission
Henry S. Buzick, Jr
Sylvan Grove
E. A. Briles
Stafford
William H. Burke
Little River
Ratner
Burke
Kansas Internal Revenue Collector
Evan Griffith
Manhattan
State Defense Savings
Democratic High Command
Supreme Court
G.O.P
Kansas
Ed H. Rees
Emporia
John M. Houston
Wichita
Capper
Roosevelt
Wendell L. Willkie
William Allen White
Japan
Germany
Italy
Kansan to the Dodgers Monte Basgall joins Brooklyn
Monte Basgall, 17, star of Wichita sandlot leagues and Sterling College, signed to play with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Named outstanding sandlot player of 1941 by the national semi pro baseball congress, he led the Enid Champion Refiners to national championship with a .589 batting average and flawless fielding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
Kan
National Semipro Baseball Congress
Monte Basgall
Brooklyn Dodgers
Basgall
Sterling
Enid Champiin
Hull Says Japan Uses Hitler's Method of War
Secretary of State Hull declared that Japan, in bombing Manila an open city, used the same barbaric cruelty and inhumanity as Hitler in Europe. He cited Japan’s record since 1937 invasion of China and questioned respect for international law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hull
Japan
Manilla
Hitler
Europe
Manila
China
Escape from Naziland arrests unfold in occupied Norway
The Norwegian telegraph agency reports Nazi authorities in German-occupied Norway have arrested nearly 100 men and women because their relatives escaped to Britain or left their jobs without permission. The Nazis are also confiscating parents' property when their children escape to England.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Norwegian Telegraph Agency
Norway
Britain
England
Rush for Defense Bonds Tightens War Supply Lines
Washington December 27 A treasury spokesman said banks faced shortages of defense bond supplies as the wartime rush continued. The bureau of engraving is turning out bonds on a 24 hour basis and Washington stocks are ample to meet demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Bureau of Engraving
Church Service Schedule Listing at United Brethren
Schedule from United Brethren Church at Seventeenth and Vermont streets lists Arthur Ward as minister at 9 45 morning service with Walter Woodcock as superintendent of the church school and children’s division. Morning worship at 10 45, Christian Endeavor at 6 30, evening worship at 7 30, and a Wednesday midweek service and prayer meeting led by Henry Pringle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Brethren
Vermont
Arthur Ward
Walter’ Woodcock
Walter Woodcock
Christian Endeavor Groups
Henry Pringle
Also Mentioned on This Page
Society News
Eugene Brune
Shirley Nan Hargiss
Patsy Creel
Irene Sandelius
E. B. Dicker
R.L.H. Club
J. C. Herriott
B. F. Engel
Agnes Engel
W. 8. Johnson
Seba Eldridge
Paul Dinsmoor
Margaret Kane
Vesta Kane
Ralph Collins
Maude Arnett
Winnie Lawrance
George Docking
Earl Potter
Shipman Winter
New Mexico Military Institute
Roswell
N.M
Virginia Winter
Country Club
A. B. Weaver
Lyle
Powell
M. S. Winter
Nancy Kuhn
Shirley Schroers
St. Joseph
Albert Veatch
Jack Bennett
Joe Springer
Ralph Graber
William Zweifel
Delphines
Trinity Lutheran Church
Frank Green
Massachusetts Street
Frank Banks
Anna Marie Frazier
EB. B. Dicker
H. D. Johnson
the Colonial
J. J. Carpenter
Morris Carpenter
Des Moines
John Markison
Carpenter
Mr. Johnson
George Newton
Harry L.'‘Newton
Clifford Cooper
Marian
Myrna
Loretta ‘Lee
Warren Gene
Wayne Dean
Route Three
Baldwin
B. B. Hill
Alabama Street
Anna Lucille Hill
Winfield
Wilma B. Caulk
Omsha
Richard Caulk
J. M. Jeffords
Karl Kreider
C. T. Crowe
Crowe
Mrs. la Verne Schubert
Bill
New World
Lucien Eyraud, Jr
New York
France
New Orleans
Churchill
Congress
Winston Churchill
William P. Cole, Jr
Wallace
Senate
Alben W. Barkley
Journal-World
de Luxe Cafe
Laundry Service
Kansan
Dodgers
Naziland
Allison
Armstrong
Lawrence Laundry & Dry Cleaners
Penney’s
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