United States and Mexico near all embracing neighbor pact
Washington reports a comprehensive road neighbor agreement between the United States and Mexico is expected to be signed soon. Key negotiators Undersecretary Welles and Mexican ambassador Dr. Francisco Castillo Najera aim for a lump settlement covering oil expropriation agrarian and other claims valued in the hundreds of millions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
Mexico
Welles
Francisco Castillo Najera
Mexico City
State Department
Padilla
Three Kansas Congressmen Oppose Aid Bill
Three Republican Kansas congressmen released statements in the congressional record opposing the aid bill. Rep. Frank Carlson warned the measure transfers congressional power to the President and risks bellicose actions. Rep. Clifford Hope argued it is unnecessary to aid Britain and could create a dictatorship and drag the nation into war. Rep. Thomas Winter called it an extraordinary unconstitutional delegation of legislative authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Threeansas
Congressional
Frank Carlson
Congress
Clifford Hope
Great Britain
Thomas Winter
Nazi Planes Reported Over Britain in Multiple Areas
Reports from London indicate German aircraft were seen over Liverpool in England and near towns in South Wales and West England tonight. Initial dispatches did not confirm bombing.
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England
London
Britain
Liverpool
Wales
Understanding US money and Gresham's law
The piece explains that all money except gold is representative and convertible to gold by law to maintain parity. It notes about eight million silver dollars were minted 1792 to 1873 and discusses how mint valuation of silver versus gold affected coinage. It ends with the condition for Gresham's law to operate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gresham
Secretary of the Treasury
Jefferson
German youth have goal says Smith College teacher
Dr. Walter M. Kotsching of Smith College argues in the Harvard Educational Review that German youth have meaning and happiness, posing the greatest challenge to American democracy. He faults the older generation for wartime cynicism and unequal educational opportunities, noting Germany’s lofty ideal has both liberated and exhilarated its youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Walter M. Kotsching
Smith College
Harvard Educational Review
America
Winant Named to Great Britain Post
The article notes Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice of Winant for a Great Britain posting after delays tied to Harry Hopkins. Winant, a Democrat with ties to the New Deal, previously chaired the Social Security Board and led the League of Nations research arm in Montreal. He is married with three children, residing in Concord, New Hampshire.
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Harry L. Hopkins
London
Hopkins
Altho
Winant
New Deal
Roosevelt
Social Security Board
International Labor Office
League of Nations
Montreal
Canada
Deerfield
Mass
University of Lima
Peru
Concord, N. H
Rip Van Winkle Tryouts Draw 125 Local Children
More than 125 children attended yesterday’s Rip Van Winkle tryouts at the high school sponsored by the American Association of University Women through the Children’s Theater. Additional sessions were planned this afternoon and organizers filed all applicants hoping unused parts will be filled later. Mrs. Deal Six, director, noted. Members present included Mrs. R. R. Jackman, assistant production manager, and several other participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Association of University Women
Deal Six
R. R. Jackman
Ivan Rowe
Frank Stockton
David McCreath
Charles Taylor
Peggy Clayton
KU design students vie for Taft history cover
University of Kansas design students showcase blue and gold cover concepts for Robert Taft's Through the Years. Tom Jones invites Lawrence residents to view the exhibit in Memorial Union as votes determine the final cover. Some entries resemble textbooks with silver red and beige color schemes and Old English lettering from 1866.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Kansas
Robert Taft
Tom Dpd. Jones
Lawrence
Taft
Memorial Union Building
Death Notice L E McBride Gridley Calif
Death notice reports L E McBride died at home in Gridley California after a year long heart illness. He formerly resided in Eudora and leaves a wife father E J Mc Bride and sister Mrs C M Williamson. Funeral service at Block funeral home Gridley Saturday at 2 PM with a Magonie service.
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I. E. McBride
L. E. McBride
Gridley
Calif
McBride
Eudora
E. J. McBride
C. M. Williamson
Block Funeral Home
Julius F. Wiedemann Dies at 84 in Oklahoma City Hospital
Julius F. Wiedemann 84 died this morning in an Oklahoma City hospital after a heart attack. Graveside services are planned for Saturday at Oak Hill cemetery with the body to be brought to Lawrence on the 1 o'clock Santa Fe train. He formerly lived in Lawrence and is survived by his wife two sons Carl Wiedemann of Tulsa and William Wiedemann of Oklahoma City and a sister Mrs. Robert Spietz of Colorado.
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Julius F. Wiedemann
Oklahoma City
Oak Hill Cemetery
Lawrence
Wiedemann
Carl Wiedemann
Tulsa
Okla
William Wiedemann
Robert Spietz
Colorado
Norman Turner
Art Turner
St. Margaret's Hospital
Kansas City
Kan
Louisa Frienmuth
Emil Frienmuth
Frienmuth
Topeka
Charles Merritt
St. Joseph, Co
Alicia Seifrit
of P.E.O
Leonard Denton
Helen Davis
Nan Tippin
Kentucky
Marilyn Turner
Leonard Turner
Memorial Hospital
Rebekah
Harold Cox
Kay
Basil Henderson
Henderson
Rollie Laster
la Vena
Highfill
Mary Fowler
Leavenworth County
Wesleyan Choir Plans Mexico Tour This Year
Kansas Wesleyan University's philharmonic choir announces a year tour to Mexico with the return visit to Coronado honored, following a prior Kansas cradle visit about 400 years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesleyan
Mexico
Salina
Kansas Wesleyan University
Philharmonic
Coronado
Kansas
U S Debate On War Aid at Hearing
In a congressional hearing, Lindbergh and Connally clash over U S diplomacy and war aid. McCormick outlines invasion hurdles across the South Atlantic and North Atlantic routes, arguing long distances and bases deter Nazi attack despite public panic. He notes Britain’s leverage via Portuguese territory and Cape Verde.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayack Connally
Europe
United States
Lindbergh
Britain
Connally
Germany
Great Britain
McCormick
South Atlantic
Dakar
Brazil
British Guiana
Portugal
Cape Verde Islands
North Atlantic
Norway
Iceland
Newfoundland
Canada
Pacific
Dr Harlow Shapley to Speak at University of Kansas
Dr Harlow Shapley renowned astronomer and Harvard Observatory director will deliver a Sigma Xi lecture at Fraser theater eight o clock this evening. The talk covers light year distances and Shapley’s Mt Wilson work from 1914 to 1921. He is joined by Phi Xi committee chairman Dr E L Treece and others. university officers listed.
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Harlow Shapley
Harvard College Observatory
Sigma Xi
University of Kansas
Fraser Theater
Shapley
Mt. Wilson Observatory
California
E. L Treece
Eugene A. Stephenson
A. W. Davidson
Walter H. Schoewe
W.C. Stevens
Guy Smith
Schoene
H. E. Jordan
New Kiwanis Club Welcomes teen Members with Sketches
At a Kiwanis meeting today eighteen new members gave two minute biographical sketches of other new members. C B Holmes introduced Ensign Hester of the Salvation Army Kansas City Kansas and Sergeant William Kollender as guests. Ensign Hester's father once served Salvation Army work in Lawrence forty eight years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
C. B. Holmes
Ensign Hester
Salvation Army
Kansas City
Kan
Sergt
William Kollender
Lawrence
Tri State Committee Probes Uniform Workmen Compensation
A Kansas City meeting of the tri state committee appointed by Secretary Perkins explored creating uniform workmen compensation laws in Oklahoma Kansas and Missouri to curb occupational diseases. The panel chaired by Associate Justice William A. Smith of the Kansas Supreme Court heard from Verne R. Zimmer director of labor standards.
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Kansas City
Secretary of
Perkins
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
William A. Smith
Kansas Supreme Court
Verne R. Zimmer
Department of Labor
Ford Plants Face IuW C I O Strike Threat
A threat by the United Automobile Workers to strike Ford Motor Company plants unless their demands are arbitrated signals a possible showdown in the growing dispute. The union warned of action at all three Ford plants in Detroit with escalation seen as likely if negotiations fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Uniteld Automobile Workers
C.I.0
Ford Motor Company
Nazi Planes Sink Ship in British Sea Lanes
German warplanes sank a 3,000 ton merchant vessel and damaged two others in attacks on British sea lanes yesterday, the high command reported today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
High Command
Northwest Airlines plans Alaska air service for defense
North west Airlines announced a new commercial air service to Alaska as a defense measure to enable emergency troop transport from the east coast to the nation's northwestern outposts within 24 hours. Joseph A. Ferris said an application to operate from Minneapolis and St Paul to Fairbanks was filed with the Civil Aeronautics Authority in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Northwest Airlines, Inc
Alaska
Joseph A. Ferris
Croil Hunter
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Fairbanks
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Washington
Lawrence Notes on Moves and Night Flight Training
Heard in Lawrence details Bill Replogle K U freshman coach leaving for Elgin Illinois to supervise packing and join his wife at 10 Winona Street. McKnight resigns from WREN to join TWA research in Kansas City this month. Night flight training begins for 20 students under Bill Ashcraft with moonlit conditions preferred. Fred Laptad of Lawrence cited as fourth among Kansas premier yellow corn growers at the Crop Improvement banquet in Manhattan.
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Bill Replogle
K. U
Elgin
Ill
Replogle
Winona Street
F. E. Morawetz
Bill. McKnight
Station Wren
TWA Airlines
Kansas City
Srs. McKnight
McKnight
CAA
Bill Ashcraft
Ashcraft
Fred Laptad
Lawrence
Laptad
Kansas Crop Improvement Association
Manhattan
Steel for Bomber Plant Let to Muskogee Iron Works
Maj. Alexander Neilson of the U S Engineers Corps announced a contract for 5000 tons of steel for a bomber assembly plant in Kansas City Kansas under the defense program. The steel firm is Muskogee Iron Works of Muskogee Oklahoma.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kan
Alexander Neilson
U. S. Engineers Corps
Muskogee Iron Works
Muskogee
Okla
Ed Cunningham Recovers After Six Day Hiccup Spells
Ed Cunningham aged 68 of Ives Chapel suffered six days of hiccups and found relief after a night of rest. The cause of the hiccup attack and its cure remain unknown though several home remedies were tried without clear success.
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Ed Cunningham
Ives Chapel
Local Notes From Tongoxie Short Wave News
Community notices detail visits hospital reports and club events from Tongoxie area. Teachers, church groups, and lodge activities highlighted include Mrs Gwendolyn Mounkes weekend in Emporia, ladies association event at Mrs Fat Martin, and Dr W B Coe returning from Bethany hospital.
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Gwendolyn Mounkes
Emporia
J. B. Mounkes
Ladies Association of the
Congregational Church
Fat Martin
Uriel Harling
W. B. Coe
Bethany Hospital
Kansas City
Kan
FE. H. Skaggs
Research Hospital
Wheat and livestock markets ease after brief gains
Chicago wheat prices rose briefly on heavy buying but closed little changed as mills and traders covered short positions. Kansas City hogs and cattle showed mixed to steady/weak moves with top hog prices near 7.75 and cattle values largely steady to firm on select weight classes.
Livestock Quotes Mixed as Hogs Unchanged and Lambs Rise
Hogs held steady while cattle and fed steers showed firm values. Cattle good 1112 pounds and 1280 pounds. Fed steers at 11.25 with other categories unchanged. Lambs strengthened up to 25 cents. sheep steady. Colorado fed lambs 10.25, other fed lots to packers and shippers 10.00 to 10.10. Top natives at 10.00. Slaughter ewes priced downward from 5.25.
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Kansas City Livestock
Kansas City
USDA
Colorado
Estimated Livestock Receipts for Tomorrow
Official estimates list tomorrow's livestock: cattle 100 calves 100 hogs 1500 sheep 1500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
USDA
Kansas City Grain Prices and Futures Report
Kansas City market notes show wheat bids mixed with gains and losses across grades, corn varied by type, oats steady to down, and rye and barley named. Futures quotes for Chicago wheat and oats listed, along with lard and stomach meat futures. regional hay and potato markets also included with price ranges and conditional lots.
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Kansas City Cash
Kansas City
Local Market Prices for Grains and Livestock
Grain prices list wheat 68 corn 64 white and mixed 61. Butterfat numbers 129 and 226. Poultry prices: hens under 4 pounds 9, over 4 pounds 13, springers and broilers 8 11, roosters 45, stags 6 1. Biges straight runs 12. Hogs 7 50.
Treasury bonds trade closing values on New York Stock Exchange
U S government bonds closed with Treasury 335s at 43 41, March delivery, and a price of 101.10 as trading wrapped up today on the New York Stock Exchange.
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U. S
New York Stock Exchange
Treasury
Wall Street mixed gains as market slips by end
Stocks showed fractional early gains, pulled back, then rose again before a final drop. Copper, mail orders, and several industries held near waterline while a broad list of big names such as Anaconda Chrysler GM U S Steel and Bethlehem Steel saw mixed moves. Cotton rose 15 to 30 cents per bale.
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New York
Anaconda
Kennecott
American Smelting
Sears, Roebuck
Montgomery Ward
Paramount Pictures
Consolidated Cigar
Loft
Allied Chemical
J. I. Case
Chrysler
General Motors
Santa Fe
Great Northern
American Telephone
U. S. Steel
Youngstown Sheet
N. Y. Shipbuilding
Bethlehem Steel
Douglas Aircraft
United Aircraft
N.Y. Central
Texas Corp
Chesapeake & Ohio and Southern Railway
Notice of hearing in Johnson estate in Douglas County Kansas
In Douglas County probate court a petition by Frances E. Johnson seeks to determine the descent of Newton C. Johnson real estate Lot 149 Kentucky Street Lawrence Kansas. Defenses must be filed by February 20 1941 at 9 a.m. with attorneys C. C. Stewart and O. K. Petefish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Dale Tv Journal-World
Douglas County
Kansas
Newton C. Johnson
State OF
Flancie Johnson Dahlene
Frances E. Johnson
Kentucky Street
Lawrence
C. C. Stewart
O. KK
Petefish
Power increase for WREN radio at night
The Federal Communications Commission authorizes WREN Lawrence to raise night power from 1000 to 5000 watts but local notice of when the change takes effect has not been received. The plan would boost WREN's nighttime transmission to 5000 watts.
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WREN
Lawrence
Federal Communications Commission
Washington
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