Japan to strengthen army amid Soviet buildup in Siberia
Tokyo reports plan to replenish air and land forces as Soviet forces in the Far East expand. War Minister Sugiyama cites 15 divisions and outlines four defense expansion goals. Gov relaxes recruiting rules and lowers enlistment standards to secure manpower. China policy shifts observed as Tokyo hints at separate Sino Japanese settlements amid broader peace talks. Henry and Mrs. Asher travel to Newton for Dr. John T. Axtell funeral service.
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China
Siberia
Sugiyama
House of Representatives
Abia
Manchoukuo
Nanking
Senjuro Hayashi
Japan
Sianfu
Noking
Aoainant National Party
Kuomintang
Test Your Knowledge Seven Teat Questions for Classified Answers
A jumble of trivia asks who invented the shrapnel shell and other historical and general knowledge items. It directs readers to the classified page for answers and includes questions on geography, literature, and science with various named figures and places.
Grades Versus Dates at KU Spark Campus Boycott
A KU campus piece notes a Gamma Phi Beta freshman Virginia Griffin, high achieving yet elusive for dates. Local male sympathy shifts toward a boycott plan, with anecdotes of advance-scheduling, a dedicatee song, and campus humor about grooming, band performances, and fraternity party antics.
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K. U
Excelsior Springs
Gamma Phi Beta
Griffin
Virginia
Glass
Anyirl
Miss Griffin
Advertising Age Offers 1000 Prize Essays on Advertising
Chicago announces a 1000 prize essay contest for high school and college students titled How Advertising Benefits the Consumer. Two classes, high school and college undergraduates, compete for 250 first, 100 second, 60 third, and ten 10 dollar honorable mentions. First-place winners earn a New York trip. Entries due May 1, 1987, no fee. Contest details from Advertising Age, 10 E Ohio St, Chicago.
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Chicago
Advertising Age
New York City
United States
Ohio Street
Move On Chrysler Planned By Union
Detroit February 22 United Automobile Workers of America announced a fresh drive for recognition as the sole bargaining agency for Chrysler employees. Richard T. Frankensteen said the union would telegram Walter P. Chrysler for recognition. The rally at the state fair grounds cited recent gains as GM resumes production after a major strike.
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Detroit
Chrysler Corporation
United Automobile Workers of America
Richard T. Frankensteen
General Motora
Walter P. Chrvalier
Chrysler
General Motors
Frankensteen
Homer Martin
U.A.W.A
Ford
Frankensten
Thompson Products Company
Matthew Graham
Martin
State Fair Grounds Coliseum
Henry Ford
Herbert Hoover
Georgia
Corporation
Horses in Demand at Farm Auctions This Spring
Farmers report strong interest in horses and mules with young horses selling for 160 to 180 dollars and well matched mule teams reaching 400 to 500 dollars. Dairy cows bring 40 to 60 dollars, brood sows 16 to 30, and market demand is sliding but may rise with spring. Farm sales rise, including surplus stock and machinery closings.
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Eas
New Yorkers Try to Swim East River Turns Disaster
Four men celebrating George Washingtons birthday attempted to swim the East River to imitate Washingtons Delaware feat but none could swim. Patrolmen detectives and an ambulance surgeon rescued them and they were admitted to Bellevue hospital alcoholic ward. Names given were John McCarthy 26 Tony Missene 243 John Williams 44 and Thomas Picket 27.
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New York
George Washington
East River
Washington
Delaware
Bellevue Hospital
John McCarthy
Tony Missene
John Williams
Thomas Picket
Piano Recital Tonight by Willis Quant at University Auditorium
Willis Quant, a fine arts student from Kansas City Missouri and pupil of Prof. Carl A. Preyer, will present a graduate piano recital tonight at the Administration Building Auditorium. The program includes Bach Prelude and Fugue in D Major, followed by works titled in minor by Albert and Ady.
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Willis Quant
University of Kanana Fine Arts
Kansas City
Carl, A. Preyer
Democrats rally for party strength in Kansas
The Kansas Democratic gathering urged building party machinery across precincts and boards, warning against top heavy victory. Elwood Brooks urged focus on township units while Helen Houston and Georgia Neese Clark backed a 50 50 gender share in party organization. Carl Ries praised the Jackson club plan as a year round effort. Governor Huxman lauded the women’s influence and said Dems were a material factor in the latest victory. Thousands attended ahead of a banquet with Huxman speaking tonight.
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Fitzwilliam
Elwood Brooks
Oberlin
Oward Payne
Clathe
Speakers’ Bureau
Democrat Party
Kansas
Helen Houston
Wichita
Georgia Neese Clark
Topeka
Carl V. Ries
Parsons
Huxman
Walter A. Huxminn
Kansas Democratic Women's Club
Haxman
Appeals to farm leaders for aid in political clash
Roosevelt signaled no compromise on the Supreme Court plan as senators still held power. Nye and Green traded positions with Nye opposing the program and Green supporting it, while Nye urged a constitutional amendment empowering Congress to reverse a Court decision via a two thirds vote with a congressional election needed to intervene.
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Roosevelt
Nyesh N.D
Green
D-R.i
Nye
Ian Nye
Mr. Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Wheeler
N-Man
Bone
Congress
Mattern to Speak on Winslow Homer at KU Tuesday
Karl Mattern, assistant professor of drawing and painting at the University of Kansas, will lecture at the Spooner-Thayer Museum Tuesday night at 7 80 o clock on Winslow Homer. All interested persons are invited to attend.
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Karl Mattern
University of Kansas
Spooner-Thayer Museum
Mattern
Winslow Homer
Junior High Pupils Donate 23.47 to Red Cross Flood Relief
Pupils at Lawrence Junior High School contributed 23.47 to flood relief, diverting Valentine fund plans. Home rooms reported totals and kept Valentine observances while aiding relief. The collection was organized across multiple rooms. In Topeka, officials will discuss erosion bills at a Kansas luncheon with chambers of commerce from northeastern towns.
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Red Cross
Lawrence Junior High School
Topeka
Kan
George S. Knapp
State Water Resources
N. B. Winters
Salina
The
Soil Conservation Service
Chambers of
Commerce of
Kansas
Athletes Battle Snow in Lawrence Caravan Incident
Snow laden travel disrupted athletic teams and drivers as wind driven snow halted cars and forced Abels to guide his daughter from a running board. Wreckers towed stalled vehicles along highways near Lawrence while a fatal chill left roads slick and crowded with stranded motorists. A man was found dead in a snow bound car north of Manhattan, underscoring the peril of the storm.
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Lawrence
Abels
Sheriff's Office
Highway 59
Indian Village
John Bradley
Rhode Island Street
Eugene Ireland
Seneca
Kan
Cuinman P. Spence
Manhattan
Snow burial and mysterious deaths in Hutchinson area
Snow buried an automobile up to ten inches from the ton as Spence a St Joseph milling company salesman reported frigid conditions Hutchinson Kan February 22 Mrs Ethel Brewer 48 and her daughter Thelma 24 were found dead at their home after failing to appear at work coroner H M Stewart said autopsies pending A P Indians council to decide legal counsel Soldier Creek February 24 over tribal claims from old treaties Superintendent H E Bruce called the meeting
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Spence
St. Joseph, Mo
Hutchinson
Kan
Ethel Brewer
Thelma Brewer
H. M. Stewart
Mayette
Soldier Creek
H. E.ruce
Lawrence Heard: Democracy Night Singers Dress Up
In Lawrence a Washington Day pow wow drew Democratic singers Fritz Meyn and trio joining Jonas Graber Kent Robinson and Joe McDonald as a quartet. Meyn, famed for the loudest voice in Kansas, shopping for a tux, tailors let out the coat and pants after two days of fittings costing about 80 dollars.
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Altho
Topeka Capital
Lawrence
Democracy
Fritz Meyn
Meyn
Kansas
Jonas Graber
Kent Robinson
Joe McDonald
Washington Day
Fritz
Memorial Hospital Notes and Parole Officer Named
Memorial Hospital notes report George Bnnerwent recovering from an appendectomy with satisfactory condition. Mrs. C F ter improved after hospital care. Mrs. J K Fink sent home after fracture treatment. Alice Underwood Pringle listed as improving. Dr W F Bowen, once critical with pneumonia, shows improvement after transfusion and steady recovery. Parole officer Robert T. Schanze appointed by Warden Prather at Lansing prison in Kansas.
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George Kelvin
Rhode Island
Bowen
W. F. Bowen
Topeka
Lawrence
Christ's Hospital
Prather
Lansing
Kan
Robert T. Schanze
Leavenworth
Kanzas State
Kirk Prather
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