Interstate Literary association closes with contests and elections
The forty-fourth annual session of the Interstate Literary Association of Kansas and the West ended at Ninth Street Baptist church with poetry, vocal and instrumental numbers, declamation and oratory contests. Mrs. Lillian Webster of Lawrence was elected president. Atchison chosen as 1936 meeting site. Officers include Lora Penn, Morgan Maxwell, Gertrude Clark, Joe Brown, Carrie Davis, Minnie Williams, W. Phoenix, Rev. Whitman, Lula Irving, J. R. Crosland. Judges and prize donors are listed. multiple college and high school award winners named.
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Interstate Literary Association of
Kansas and the West
Ninth Street Baptist Church
Lillian Webster
Lawrence
Topeka
Gertrude Clark
Joe Brown
Emporia
Carrie Davis
Minnie Williams
Peka
W. S. Phoenix
St. Joseph
B. L. Whitman
Lula Irving
J. R. A. Crosland
David Bradshaw
Atchison
Charles Stokes
Leavenworth
LeRoy Harris
F. Brock
Toyoka
Joe Thompson
Banta Davis
Mabel Pitts
DeWitt Alcorn
Arthur McLendon
Kansas City
Kan
Alpha. Phi Alpha
Kangsae University
Lloyd Groves
Edwardaville
Alpha Phi Alpha
K.U
Florenceobinson
Western University
R. Nathaniel Dett
Clyta MecMurray
Alpha Kappalpha
Kansas University
Betty
Blanche Brewer
Belshazzar
Jean Coleman
Lawence Junior High School
Wean
Gertrude Park
Delta
Sigma Theta Patronesa Club
Flossie Wilson
John Marshall
The
Constitution
Reuben Brown
Kappa
Alpha Psi Kansas University
Fred
Brick Douglas
Bierra Fine Club
Nterstate
George Snowden
Delta Sigma
Heta
J. T. Garrett
Orratory
Gileed
Gleed Produce Company
Pallens
Salena
Holmes
Robert Davis
Church Aid
Mien
Flossie New Jan
Lincoln School
Jack Warfeld
Arthur Standfield
Lil
Jan M. Webster
Test Your Knowledge Quiz from Classified Page
A reader challenge asks seven trivia questions covering rivers and cities, mythological figures, authors, and historical figures. It invites turning to the classifieds for answers.
Kansas Faces Fatal Week With 21 Auto Deaths Across State
Topeka reports one of its worst weeks of the year with 21 automobile fatalities, including four on Christmas Day and five the following day. Governor Landon remains a focal point as political figures plan Washington appearances and a state editor role shifts hands. Temperatures plunged near zero in eastern Kansas while the west stayed milder, and snow fell in the east. Agriculture notes show 90 percent wheat control signups across 105 counties. A university professor died in Kansas, and George Ohlrich from Leavenworth County killed himself after an attempted attack on his wife before Christmas. Jackrabbits damaged Hedgerow wheat at Hugoton.
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Topeka
Kansas
State Board of Health
Alf M. Landon
New York
Washington
Arthur Capper
Landon
Rep
Frank Carlson
Congress
Harold McGugin
Coffeyville Republican
E. W. Patterson
Pittsburg
Harness
Henry J. Allen
Wichita
Topeka State Journal
Associated Press
Edward Usher
Kansas City
Usher
George Ohlrich
Leavenworth
Frank H. Hodder
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Pasadena Open opens with three under par leaders
In Pasadena Cal on December 28 PKR closes first round at the $4 600 Pasadena Open as Sam Parks Jr national open champion arrives from Florida The early lead is shared by Wilford Cox Al Krueger and Jimmy Hines with Cox carding 34 on the outward nine Hines making an eagle on the opening hole and posting five birdies The field of 90 pros and 30 amateurs resumes tomorrow with the 60 low scorers advancing to the 36 hole final on Monday
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Pasadena
Cal
PKR
Sam Parks, Jr
Florida
Wilford
Wilfy) Cox
Bethesda
al Krueger
Beloit
Wis
Jimmy Hines
Garden City
L. I
Cox
Hines
Krueger
Parka
Johnnie Dawson
Ky Laffoon
Hal Cooper
Bill Melhorn
MacDonald Smith
Vic Ghezzi
H Picard
Olin Dutra
Bing Crosby
Movie Crooner
Horton Smith
Lawmaker proposes luxury sales tax to fund social security
Washington, Dec 28 P The idea of levying sales taxes on luxuries to support the new deal's social security program was suggested today by Chairman Buchanan of the house appropriations committee. He said a luxury tax could substitute for payroll taxes and ease the accounting burden on workers.
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Washington
New Deal
Buchanan
Dtex
House Appropriations Committee
Reng
Harrison
D.-Miss
Senate Finance Committee
Congress
White House
A Scotch Trick and Oddities from Douglas County
Lawrence items recount a cow rampage during a wolf drive near LeLoup and a humorous Douglas County court scene labeled A Scotch Trick. Other notes describe Bill Rogers getting a playful police pickup, a mis-measured two car garage, and KU HoBo Day ice at Potter Lake with six inch thickness and daily skaters.
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LeLoup
Snow Ends Long Drought Across Colorado and Plains
Denver reports snow ending a six week drought as a broad swath of Colorado New Mexico and Wyoming receives two to four inches. The snow blankets areas from southeastern Colorado to the Montana border and reaches Santa Fe New Mexico and the high continental divide westward.
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Denver
Colorado
New Mexico
Little Dust Bowl
Continental Divide
Santa Fe
N. M
Montana
Springfield
Colo
Milne Kidnapping Hoax Shocks Albany Area
A staged kidnapping plot by Caleb Milne Jr. is revealed as a hoax. Milne mailed a ransom note from Grand Central and rode trains and buses across New Jersey and Pennsylvania to mislead authorities. He later confessed to fabricating the tale with police oversight, while his grandfather discusses the boy’s dream of acting not money.
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Grand Central
Albany
Poughkeepsie
Milne
Trenton
Lambertville
N. J
Delaware River
New Hope
Doylestown
Woodstock
Hoover
New ‘York City
Caleb
New York
Caleb J. Milne
Grandfather Claims Milne Sidelined by Money
Philadelphia on December 28 reports Caleb J. Milne is accused by his grandfather of caring not for money. The statement frames a family dispute as part of a larger personal conduct issue.
Milne Hoax Kidnapping Not Counted in FBI Box Score
In New York on December 28 7 the hoax kidnapping of Caleb J Milne the fourth will not be entered in the FBI kidnapping box score. J Edgar Hoover director says the case remains unsolved but the tally stays at 63 solved kidnappings.
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New York
Caleb J. Milne
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover
Bureau
Eruption of Nova Herculis Linked to Ancient Ejecta
Harvard astronomers report Nova Herculis flared last December, now heating as its light fades. They base three months of observations on a 2 000 year old eruption, estimating material ejected at 200 miles a second and a core size comparable to the sun, with temperatures near 9400 to 10000 degrees absolute. Meanwhile icy pavements in Oklahoma City caused two deaths as heavy snow fell and colder weather loomed.
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Princeton
S. J
Dee
Fred L. Whipple
Cecilia P. Gnopschkin
Harvard Observatory
American Astronomical Society
Oklahoma City
Weather Bureau
Tomorro
Kansas Plans Cooperation On Social Security Program
Topeka announces a Kansas plan of cooperation under state relief laws to work with federal social security aid for the aged blind and dependent children. County relief offices must fund part of the assistance and certify beneficiaries for federal approval. Congress anticipated to appropriate funds retroactive to January 1.
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Topeka
Kansas
John G. Stutz
Kansas Emergency Relief Committee
Social Security Board
Stutz
Kansas County Relief Administrations
Congress
Alf M. Landon
Southeast Kansas Association of County Commissioners
Chanute
KERC
Hitler Youth marksmen drills reported in Franconia
Munich reports high arms proficiency among German youths chosen to supervise target practice within the Hitler Youth. About eighty percent of trainees passed exams covering theory and practical shooting. Some 2,500,000 boys of pre military age are involved nationwide with Roth in Franconia hosting ongoing courses to replenish supervisors.
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Munich
Germany
Hitler Youth
Frankische Tageszeitune
Franconia
Roth
Regional tourney dates for state high school hoops
Topeka will host the 1936 state class A tournament with class B in Salina. Regional qualifiers are set for March 13 and 14 across Kansas City Kansas Holton Osage City Fredonia Parsons Winfield Newton Junction City Concordia Hays Colby and Pratt ahead of the March 19 20 21 state finals.
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Topeka
E. A. Thomas
State High School Athletic Association
Salina
Kansas City
Kan
Holton
Osage City
Fredonia
Parsons
Winfield
Newton
Junction City
Concordia
Hays
Colby
Pratt
Ninth and Vermont Church Service Teaches Year’s Start
First Presbyterian Church at Ninth and Vermont invites all to a 11:00 worship service with theme Looking Both Ways From New Years and special music. 45-minute church school for all ages. 6:44 Tuxis Society meeting in the parlors led by Evelyn Hannon on A Preview of the New Year.
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First Presbyterian Church
Ninth
Vermont
Theodore H. Astman
D. M. Swarthout
C. W. Straffen
Tuxis Society
Evelyn Hannon
NCAA backs American Olympic participation and reforms
The NCAA adopted a resolution praising American Olympic committee members for resisting racial political or religious influence and urged member schools to financially support the team. The convention also approved a study into athletic influences, scheduled Washington & Lee wrestling champs for March, and discussed adding golf to a national championship. President Griffith urged education against recruiting and subsidizing evils, preferring moral education over coercive policing.
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Tional
A. A
Berlin
N.C.A.A
New York
America
Nc.a.a
Association
Southeastern Conference
Southeastern
University of Washington & Lee
Lexington
N.c.a.ajs
John L. Griffith
Deaths and Funerals feature multiple local figures
George M Holiday 78 died at 1725 Indiana street. Funeral Monday at 3:30 pm from Rumsey funeral home officiated by Rev. Robert A Hunt. John W Newhouse 84 died at 947 Massachusetts street. Funeral Monday at 2 pm at Rumsey funeral home with Rev. Robert Hunt. burial Oak Hill cemetery. Ada Debout 77 died at daughter's home in Perry. Survived by husband two daughters Irene McKenzie and Florence Whitney one son Ed O Neal grandkids Pearl Law and Walter Brown.
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George M. Holiday
Indiana Street
Rumsey Funeral Home
Robert A. Hunt
John W. Newhouse
Massachusetts Street
Rumsey
Robert Hunt
Oak Hill Cemetery
Mr. Newhouse
Newhouse
Ada Debout
Perry
Irene McKinzie
Kansas City
Florence Whitney
Ed O'Neal
Lawrence
Pearl Law
Walter Brown
Al Smith to Decline White House Visit in Washington
Alfred E. Smith, en route to address the American Liberty League dinner in Washington, said he would not stop at the White House. He plans to stay at a nearby Pennsylvania Avenue hotel with friends and has not yet replied to Mrs. Roosevelt's invitation.
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Washington
Alfred E. Smith
White House
American Liberty League
New Deal
Roosevelt
New York
Smith
Pennsylvania Avenue
Insull eyeing new radio chain in Midwest
Chicago reports Samuel Insull, 76, once head of a two billion dollar utilities empire, has emerged from voluntary retirement after acquittals on conspiracy charges. He hints at possible new business ventures while other reports say Midwest stations have been approached to form a radio chain with capital around 100000, not offered to the public.
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Chicago
Samuel Insull
Middle West
Insull
Midwest
la Salle Street
Police raid at 821 Pennsylvania uncovers liquor in house
Police swept a residence at 821 Pennsylvania Street and seized a five gallon bottle of alleged whiskey. Seven people were arrested, including Edna Harding and Charley Forman, who remained jailed as County Attorney R. B. Stevens prepared three counts of possession transportation and maintaining a nuisance for filing in justice court.
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Pennsylvania Street
Edne Rarding
Whitey
Edna Harding
Cecil Georgia
Thelma Georgia
Bob Ingalls
Kennneth Higgins
Bob Sheets
Charley Fortson
Hunter
Ingalla
Dowers
McCall
Hayter
Kenneth Higgins
Charley Forman
R. B. Stevens
Justice Court
Family Dinner Brings Sulter Kin Together After Fifteen Years
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Sulter hosted Christmas day dinner at their northeast Lawrence home. Fifteen years passed since the entire family gathered on Christmas Day. Attendees included Ernest Sulter and family, Joe Woolf and daughter Mildred, Melbourne Emery and Dorothy, John Hogg and Donna, John Hogg Jr., Seiwalds, Sutter, Mole family, and others. A separate birthday dinner for Mrs. G. G. Goodger at 1108 Connecticut Street featured Olive Howard baking the cake, with guests Mary Fairly Ida Mitchell Dale Mitchell Golda Schutz Irma Davis Cecile Chaney and families Delbert Vera Rose Eva Davis Olive Howard Mabel Davis present.
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Maurice Sulter
Lawrence
Ernest Sulter
Billie Lawrence
Dwight
Joe Woolf
Mildred
Melbourne Emery
Dorothy
John Hogg
Donna
Alma Seiwald
Carl
Herbert
Anna Mary
James Seiwald
Elmer Sutter
Ida Mole
Albert
Frances Mole
G. G. Goodger
Connecticut Street
Olive Howard
Mary Fairly
Ida Mitchell
Dale Mitchell
Golda Schutz
Irma Davis
Cecile Chaney
Delbert
Vera Rose
Eva Davis
Mabel Davis
Track Meet Postponed By New Orleans Rain
The Sugar Bowl track meet in New Orleans was canceled due to a heavy downpour that flooded the track. The Mid-winter Sports Association rescheduled the event for Monday at 8 p.m. at Loyola Stadium.
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Loyola Stadium
New Orleans
Sugar Bowl
Mid-winter Sports Association
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