Fire After Gale Hits Spanish City Santander Devastated
Madrid reports 30 000 forced from homes as a gigantic fire swept Santander following a hurricane that killed at least 83 in Spain and Portugal. Portuguese forces joined rescue efforts as hundreds remain missing and buildings including the Bank of Spain and cathedral were damaged. Winds up to 125 miles per hour were logged at Cintra near Lisbon.
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Madrid
San E Sebastian
Santander
Spain
Portugal
Bay of Biscay
Bank of Spain
Government Revenue Office
Customs House
Cintra
Lisbon
Liberty Memorial juniors stage comedy Seven Sisters
High School Juniors present Seven Sisters a costume comedy Friday at 8 15 in the Liberty Memorial high school auditorium The play set in a small garrison town near Budapest Hungary centers on the Hungarian custom keeping younger sisters from marrying until elders wed The cast includes Mary Alice Martin Marilyn Maloney Vera Hurt Beverly Essick Barbara Roper Betty June Craig and others with Roberta Kackley Elain Schon Emma June Thodes Virginia Austin Betty Hodge and more in crew and production roles Dress rehearsal is scheduled for Wednesday evening
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Seven Sisters
Liberty Memorial High School
Budapest
Hungary
Mary Alice Martin
Marilyn Maloney
Vera Margaret Hurt
Beverly Essick
Barbara Roper
Betty June Craig
Uth Yeaton
Jean Musselman
Bob Ite
Charles Taylor
Keith Mann
Calvin Dresser
Jack Payne
George Ward
Roberta Kackley
Elain Schon
Emma June Thodes
Virginia Austin
Betty Hodge
Barbara McBeth
Betty Kieffer
Betty Mack
Mabel Baker
Margery Olson
Virginia Hunsinger
Winners announced in Kansas beef production contest
Charles Rezeau of Haviland Frank Steinbrook of Minneapolis and Robert Jackson of Holton won first places in the 1940 Kansas beef production contest. Awards were presented by Kansas State College extension service and sponsors. First prize paid 100 dollars in each class.
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Manhattan
Kan
Ansas
Charles Rezeau
Haviland
Frank Steinbrook
Minneapolis
Robert Jackson
Holton
Kansas State College Extension Service
Kansas City Stock Yards Company
Kansas City
Chamber of Commerce
American Hereford
J. J. Moxley
Rezeau
W. G. Craig and Son
Natoma
Steinbrock
C. G
P. W. Claassen
Whitewater
Jackson
Walter Lilliequist
Medicine Lodge
Do You Know Answers From 1932 Platform and Costs
This item poses five questions about a 1932 political topic and provides answers. It discusses the cost of government over 35 years, a peace time debt scenario, taxes, Roosevelt’s take on the Democratic platform, and platform calls for cutting federal expenditures and reducing commissions to save costs.
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Roosevelt
United States
Chicago
WSR
Federal housing official reports on Wichita home plan
Pi-Ivor and McFarlane of the Federal Housing Administration returned to Washington to report findings on a proposed 400 defense worker homes project near Wichita. The Wichita real estate board opposes the plan after opinions were aired at a Sunday public meeting.
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Wichita
Ivor & McFarlane
Federal Housing Administration
Washington
Wichita Real Estate Board
McFarlane
Deaths and Funerals for Wynn and Watts
John David Wynn 72 of West Twenty Third Street died at a hospital. Funeral at Trinity Lutheran Wednesday at 2 pm with Rev. Alfred J. Beil officiating. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Survived by wife Delphia. daughters Mrs. W A Daugherty Tulsa and Mrs. H A Olson Ann Arbor. sons W H Wynn G E Wynn Tulsa Albert Winn Wichita John Wynn Vincent. Howard Glenn Watts Jr 15 of 650 Fairfax Ave Topeka died Sunday at KU Medical Center after brain tumor surgery. Burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. Survived by parents Mr. and Mrs. Howard Watts brother Billy Wade Watts grandparents listed. Funeral Tuesday 2 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church with Rev. Beil officiating.
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John David Wynn
West
Howard Glenn Watts, Jr
Howard Glenn Watts
Fairfax Avenue
Topeka
University of Kansas
Howard Watts
Billy Wade Watts
W. L. Watts
Lathrop
Ida Wiggins
Lawrence
Mrs Emma Degenkolbe dies at 76 in town
Mrs Emma Degenkolbe 76 of 607 Maine street died Sunday morning at the hospital. Funeral services from Rumsey funeral home Tuesday at 10 o clock conducted by the Rev Reifschneider. Burial will be in Oak Hill cemetery.
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Emma Degenkolbe
Maine Street
Rumsey Funeral Home
Reifschneider
Oak Hill Cemetery
Spring Campus Scene as Students Prepare for Big Week
A lively campus morning finds coeds lingering near the Ad building while alumni join the army. Students await grades at the registrar, with schedule by last name. The chancellor travels on university business as a freshman law student departs to serve as a second lieutenant at Camp Murray.
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Mount Dread
University
Green Hall
Hill
Grauerholz
Kensington
Law Stude
Camp Murray
Tacoma
Wash
Regents member speaks on education in democracy
Regent Elizabeth D. Reigart of Baxter Springs will discuss The Place of Education in Democracy at the Pi Lambda Theta open meeting. The event occurs Thursday February 20 at 3 30 in the Kansas room Memorial Union. Tea follows with organizers presiding.
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Elizabeth D. Reigart
Board of Regents
Baxter Springs
Pi Lambda Theta
Kansas
Memorial Union Building
Ruth E. Litchen
Oread Training School
Reigart
Deane W. Malott
R. A. Schwegler, Sr
Junior High P T A Plans Evening Meeting and Coat Presentation
The Junior High P T A meets at 8 pm at the school. If coats funded for student traffic officers arrive, they will be presented during the meeting by Mrs. Frank Stockton. A program includes three sound films, a band performance directed by Curtis Johnson, and a social hour with refreshments after the presentation.
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P.T.A
Frank Stockton
Curtis Johnson
Ribble
Chapel Shrine
Leoni
Chenett
Albert Jewell
van Bebber
Lowell Bailey
Birthday greetings for Rev E T Rice and Bartlett lecture
Lawrence notes mark Rev E T Rice turning 74 today with birthday wishes arriving nationwide. Capt Bob Bartlett and Porter Fones berthed in Lawrence en route to a University of Kansas lecture. Dolph Simons reports a large Florida catch, while Mrs Catherine Stehcien recovers from a hip fracture at Memorial hospital with satisfactory condition.
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E. T. Rice
Barker Avenue
Bob Bartlett
University of Kansas
Captain Bartlett
Lawrence
Porter Fones
Kansas City
Eldridge
Catherine Stehcien
Memorial Hospital
Trinity Lutheran Church
Kansas senior Rosalys McCrerey Rieger to give recital
Hiawatha senior in the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts will perform in the second senior recital at 8 o clock Wednesday night in Frank Strong hall. She studies piano with Howard C. Taylor and is a Mu Phi member and former vice president of the University women's self governing association.
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Rosalys McCrerey Rieger
Hiawatha
School of Fine Arts
University of Kansas
Howard C. Taylor
Fine Arts
Frank Strong
Army recruiting station on wheels to tour western Kansas
A mobile army recruiting station will tour western Kansas for six months. Led by Set. Dewey M. Wilson and Pvt. Donald A. Moses, the unit will conduct physical examinations for prospects and accept applications at the single station location. It will visit towns without existing sub stations.
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Kansas City
Kan
Kansas
Dewey M. Wilson
Donald A. Moses
Miss Orcutt in Recital at K U Tonight
Miss Ruth Orcutt, piano faculty member at the University of Kansas, will give a recital at 8 oclock tonight in Frank Strong auditorium. The event draws unusual interest as she did not perform last year and has appeared with three major symphonies. Meld Prisoner in Consulate Istanbul details released by British consul A C Kendall.
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Ruth Orcutt
University of Kansas Fine Arts
Frank Strong
Tetanbul
Turkey
A. C. Kendall
Constanta
Rumania
Balkan Kingdom
Local personals note travels and family updates
Mr and Mrs R A Cox of Topeka and Mr and Mrs Kenneth Ewing with children of Kansas City Mo spent yesterday with Mrs P W Ewing who has been ill for a week. Rose Etta Carr of Watkins hall a senior in the school of education was called to Osawatomie by her father’s death. Frank Endacott returned from Topeka where he spent a week with his daughter Mrs Ted Shepard. Classifieds report hundreds of jobs located.
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R. A. Cox
Topeka
Kenneth Ewing
Kansas City, Mo
P. W. Ewing
Rose Etta Carr
Watkins Hall
School of Education
Osawatomie
Frank Endacott
Toneka
Ted Shepard
Celebration of 55th Wedding Anniversary at Lawrence Home
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Taylor hosted a family dinner yesterday for relatives and close friends to mark their fifty fifth wedding anniversary. The gathering included many Taylors and Snows with longtime Kansas connections and offspring spanning Des Moines Fort Smith and Lawrence. The couple, who married in 1886 in Oskaloosa, have nine grandchildren and thirteen great grandchildren. A classic social scene with flowers gifts and reminiscence, set against a lengthy calendar of district church meetings and a University Women’s Club dessert party planned for late February.
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A. L. Taylor
Taylor
Lawrence
Oskaloosa
Kansas
Bridgeport
Columbus
Mabel Rhodes
Des Moines
June Snow
Jane Roper
Frank Long
Fort Smith
Ark
Ara Murphy
Alhambra
Cal
Alfred Taylor
Market News Kansas City Cash Grain
Wheat til curs 144 lower to 4 higher with varying No 2 and No 3 grades. Corn 37 curs 14 to y lower with No 2 white and No 3 numbers listed. Milo maize Kaffir rye and barley prices shown with multiple No 1 hard grades noted.
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Kansas City Cash Grain
Kansas City
Wheat and corn futures quotes and price ranges
Chicago futures show May wheat at 2. one, July around 7?. Corn May at 59, July 69, Sept 0. Beans May 90, July 86. Lard contracts listed from March to Sept with values near 6.10 to 6.57 and Bellies at 11.00.
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Chicago
Livestock Prices Mixed at Kansas City Hogs Steers and Lambs
Hogs unchanged and cattle fed steers and yearlings slow with several loads unsold. Fat cows and other stock hold steady, feeders steady as buyers purchase numerous fleshy fed steers. Lambs rise 15 to 25 cents, sheep some gains, top Kansas fed lambs 10.50 and natives 10.25, ewes down to 5.75. Kansas City hay market lists several price ranges for four car shipments and No 1 and No 2 lots.
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Kansas City
Market Report From Kansas City Produce
Kansas City on February 17 reports eggs at 14 percent, current receipts 1344 for a Bonar 2914, butterfat 24 Peb. Poultry figures show hens 12 15, brooders 16 11, springs 13 184, and roosters 914.
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Kansas City
Springs
Market roundup shows mixed grain and poultry prices and Wall Street rally fades
Grain prices for wheat and corn appear alongside poultry figures for hens and turkeys in a local market listing. Government bonds in New York on February 17 show slight gains while the stock market posts a weak rally as Bulgaria and Turkey announce a non aggression accord.
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Wall Street
New York
Bulgaria
Turkey
Market Confusion Over Bulgaria Policy Sends Mixed Signals
Investors steered cautious as bidders faced limits amid Bulgaria’s wartime posture. Stocks fluctuated with U S Steel Bethlehem Youngstown Sheet Santa Fe Chesapeake and Ohio Chrysler General Motors and others edging up and down. Several names retreated including American Telephone Kodak and J C Penney as cotton rose 15 cents a bale before slipping to down 6.
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Bulgaria
U. S. Steel
Bethlehem
Youngstown Sheet
Santa Fe
Chesapeake and Ohio
Chrysler
General Motors
International Harvester
Sears, Roebuck
Anaconda
Kennecott
United Aircraft
American Can
General Electric
du Pont
Union Carbide
Allied Chemical
U. S. Gypsum
American Telephone
Iaximan Kodak
J. C. Penney
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Erich Raeder
Riccardi
Merano
Italy
DNB
Bailey Laboratories
A. Flexner
Mrs. Reigart
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Alfred H. Sluss
John H. Parker
Junior High
P.T. A
Dolph Simons
K. U
Miss Orcutt
W. H. Horr
J. M. Osma
J. N. Carman
Raymond Nichols
L. L. Boughton
Fred Noll
Eugene Brune
Miartin Jost
Robert Price
Paul Coker
Howard Chamney
John Selig
John Selig, Jr
Howard Martin
C. J. Eriksen
Will Johne
Harry Beguelin
Gus Wulfkuhle
George Frazier
Memorial Union
Misa Veta Learne
F. T. Stock
Gilbert Ulmey
R. A. Schwegler
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L.W.B
DODGE
Desoto
Ford Tudor
Chevrolet
Pontiac
New
Ree
Call
Bill Bodin
Trampy Erwin
Brownie Kerns
Milton Hall
Merl Lindsey
Paul Lyons
Edd Wood
Winter Chevrolet Co
A1 Ambulance Service
Tytra
Westinghouse
Olson Bros
Hay Market
Hay
Ag Op
Treasury
al Chem & Dye
Aman Sanssweetness
Smelt & R
Tel & Tel
Ateh
T&s
Beth
Cerro de Pasco
Chrysler Corp
Sk Con
Int Harvest
Kennecott Weyessee
Montgomery Ward
Nat Dairy
North Am Co
Penney J C
Phillips Potably
Union Pacific
Erenesweee
West el & Mfg
Citlea Service
McGrew-Pece Inv. CO
Fuchis Agency
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