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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1933
Page
1
Reports from Mukden indicate Japan may postpone her Jehol campaign until month end due to League of Nations moves and heavy snowfall. Chinese and Japanese sources describe bombings near Chaoyang and Peipiao, with two Japanese armies advancing and Beijing addressing troop withdrawals.
Washington reports prompt comment after Prime Minister MacDonald says any arms embargo in the far east requires international agreement. Nanking dispatches say China does not expect an embargo on arms, while the Senate delays a global embargo measure limited to Americas conflicts.
Alfred H. Clark, a well known portrait artist, will visit Lawrence this Saturday for a professional engagement. He has completed commissions for many Lawrence patrons with satisfactory results and will stay at Prof. C. G. Dunlap's home during the visit. Clark now lives on Mountain Meadow ranch at Lake George, Colorado, and is returning to his regular profession after a ranch work vacation.
A 1929 Ford sedan owned by H. H. Held at 332 East Nineteenth Street caught fire due to wiring trouble around 8 o clock last night, causing little damage after extinguishment. Earlier, hot ashes in a basket outside the Delta Sigma Lambda house at 1137 Indiana Street set grass ablaze and burned a lattice at the rear about 20 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Readable weather notes indicate a fair forecast for tonight and Friday with continued mild temperatures. Morning conditions show clear skies and good air quality in most areas, though dusty conditions are noted for Kansas City. Douglas County reports good conditions with no major weather hazards. Temperature data from yesterday and today appears fragmented but suggests typical daily fluctuation with no extreme values recorded.
In Miami on February 23 AP reports Dr Karl A Meyer stated Mayor Cermak showed progress with about an 80 percent chance of recovery. Visitors included George Getz Edward Kelly and Alderman James Bowler despite a no visitors sign. Cermak's noon temperature was 99 degrees.
New York dispatch reports William N Woodin plans a noon conference with Ogden L Mills and will disassociate from companies he heads ahead of inauguration. Salt Lake City notes former Governor George Dern accepts Roosevelt war secretary post after a late night call. Washington reports Cordell Hull still bedridden with a severe cold and bruised feet as he prepares for the new role.
About 75 Lawrence residents attended Washington Day Club activities in Topeka yesterday including a banquet addressed by Scott Lucas of Illinois. Mrs. F. W. Gaunt of Lawrence was re elected treasurer at the Woodrow Wilson luncheon. Democratic women met for breakfast with state central committee leaders presiding and planned to form young Democratic clubs. Former Governor Harry Woodring spoke and T J Sweeney Jr of Lawrence missed the events due to illness yet received a floral remembrance.
Peiping February 23 AP Colonel Walter S Drysdale United States military attache arrived in Jehol as an observer of the fighting between China and Japan He previously helped supervise the withdrawal of Japanese troops from Shanghai He began his career in Company H Twentieth Kansas and graduated from West Point in 1904.
Sam Moyer, acting superintendent of mails since July, is officially designated superintendent of mails at the local post office. The designation dates from February 16, per postmaster C. B. Hosford. Moyer began service in January 1925.
Topeka Feb 23 AP The house judiciary committee issued an adverse report on Rep George W Plummers bill to abolish the state board of regents and return school control to the board of administration and the state business manager. The Hayes bill legalizing sale of prescription whiskey in Kansas was reported adverse. The house approved a ways and means bill allocating 120000 for the next biennium with 223000 claimed by the chairman as available, meaning only 120000 federal funds will reach the state. A bid to kill the bill failed amid concerns over rural schools relying on federal vocational funds. The senate committee amended Hansens bill to limit terms of elective state officers to two consecutive terms, allowing reentry after retirement. Miller bill to reduce cigarette license fees was also amended and favorably reported. The House refused to override the Davis recall bill adverse committee report for state and local recall machinery.
Voters may register in the city clerk’s office until 10 pm daily through March 3. The primary is set for March and the deadline for candidate filing for mayor and the school board is 10 pm on that date. After the primary, registration remains open for ten days before the city election on April 4. Election boards are named and polling locations assigned for wards two three and five. Territory attached to the city votes for school board and treasurer only at designated schools. Four candidates have announced for mayor and two for the school board. more may enter by March 3. Theater article notes items found and encourages owners to inquire at the theater. Sir Malcolm Campbell will not race further in Daytona Beach this year and sails to England March 3.
Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson directed the receiver of Illinois Life Insurance to negotiate and contract with Associated Mutuals of Boston for the reinsurance of 75,000 policies in Chicago on February 23.
Detroit February 23 AP Michigan banks begin restricted operations for the first time since Governor Comstock's emergency order ten days earlier. State banking head Rudolph Reichert praised cooperation, noted cashing non cleared checks, and banks allow five percent withdrawals of deposits under the new plan. Banks in Detroit show no crowding at opening, awaiting clarifications of the governor's second proclamation and pending state and national relief legislation.
County Attorney R B Stevens announced an immediate reapportionment of costs for West Hills Terrace West Hills Parkway and Stratford Road to base assessments on actual front footage. Judge Hugh Means had curtailed lump-sum charging and will consider further action after hearings and arguments.
Kansas announces entries for Saturday practice indoor track at the cast stadium under coach H W Hargiss. Meet includes five lettermen and Jay Plumley, with several events listed for a Big Six conference indoor meet in Columbia Missouri on March 11. Also notes Lehigh Lincoln wrestling meet March 24 25 and Stone resigning from Farm Board.
Kansas track coach Hargiss received a letter from Glenn Cunningham, Kansas distance star, written Tuesday after Cunningham’s Baxter mile win over Gene Venzke at the New York A C games. Cunningham said he did not run a smart race and should have finished faster than 4 13.4.
Washington Feb 23 AP Inaugural fanfare to include a pep meeting by the Women’s National Democratic Era formed ten years ago. March 2 and 3 conferences announced with Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt to speak March 3. Planned speakers include Ruth Bryan Owen Nellie Tayloe Ross and Emily Newell Blair.
Memorial exercises were held in the Administration auditorium for the late Erasmus Haworth former head of geology at the University of Kansas. Dr Basworth died in Wichita in December. Olin Templin presided with talks by Chancellor E H Lindley Chancellor Frank Strong and Professors C M Young M W Sterling and R C Moore.
Warm weather helps finish the 700 and 800 blocks on Vermont Street as workmen push to complete the four block widening project. Kilmer Paving of Topeka is the contractor and officials expect triple parking space and relief to traffic on Massachusetts Street once all four blocks are done. About 60 to 60 men work daily from the approved relief list, paid in scrip, with storm sewer work about half finished and new lines extending to the main sewer in Central Park. Other projects include cemetery work, curb work inside Oak Hill Cemetery, and installing 65 new stop signs at intersections.
Washington February 23 AP Senator Kean introduced a resolution asking the attorney general for an opinion on the proper method for states to set up conventions for action on the prohibition repeal submission proposal. Congress debates whether states or Congress should define convention rules. The measure was laid on the table to refer to committee.
Wisconsin milk markets stood peaceful as a milk strike truce began, lifting pickets after Walter M. Singler led a pact with 20 farm groups. The pause runs until May 1, amid governor Schmedeman’s intervention and plans to raise dairy farmer issues with President Roosevelt.
Today marked the final deadline to pay fees at the University of Kansas, with students unpaid by tomorrow to be dropped from classes. A slate of late payments has accumulated a daily penalty of one percent, while many petitions seek refunds. Meanwhile, Dorsey-Liberty Post of the American Legion plans a 7:45 p.m. meeting at 1005 Massachusetts Street to discuss Happy Landings and high school show announcements.
Chicago February twenty eight AP reports a Loop bound elevated train collided with a coal train at a west side station injuring fifteen, mostly women shoppers. The three car passenger train buckled, flames burned one car, firemen extinguished the blaze, and engineer William Schneider plus five others were hospitalized.
Two more candidates for the Lawrence board of education were announced. Paul B. Lawson of the University of Kansas and George Docking of First National Bank filed for the March 14 city primary. Three seats will be filled at the April 4 spring election. terms held by Irving Hill A B Ewing and A R Kennedy expire. Irving Hill will not seek reelection while A B Ewing plans to run again and Walter Palmateer entered the race.
Fifteen senior high students were announced as new National Honor Society members at a morning assembly in the school auditorium. The new seniors are Robert Ardrey, Bob Gorey, Ruth Hicks, Ray Janeway, Delphia Louk, Bob Newman, Marie Russell, Mary KE. Rutter, Leonice Wadhams, with juniors Alice Daniels, Bernice Murray, Almarin Nottingham, Fred Scott, Doris Stockwell, and Elizabeth Wiggins. Previous electees include Imogene Beamer, John Chandler, Caralyn Stockwell, George Hamilton, Jean Russell, and Margaret Wheeler, while earlier this year added names were Jane Allen, Marian Craig, Edith Deay, Walker Josselyn, Vivien Lavery, Clara Lindquist, Boween Macoubrie, Barbara Pendleton, Delbert Richardson, and Helen Whetstone. The National Honor Society aims to foster scholarship, service, leadership, and character in high school students, requiring candidates to rank in the upper fourth of their class and generally above that threshold.
Topeka Feb 23 The federal meteorologist D. Flora says spring weather is in sight for Kansas as daily above normal temperatures erode winter. He notes northern states barely below freezing and expects 63 to 70 degree readings statewide tomorrow with above freezing temperatures tonight except in the far west.
Bill Baker, a Kerrville farmer, could not sell butter so he gave away a pound and exchanged the other two for six tamales. Farmers Union members will hear national president John A. Simpson on a Washington radio broadcast next Saturday from 11:30 to 12:30, with music by his daughter Mildred Simpson and the National Farmers Union orchestra on Station WREN.
The University of Kansas faculty voted not to recommend the B S degree after March and to revise requirements for the B S in Medicine with further action to follow. The report notes few students pursued the B S as distinct from the A B. The reinstatement committee reported fall 1932 failures and petition outcomes, and the faculty also recommended two graduates for Bachelor of Arts and listed several degree recipients, with the B S in Medicine to be addressed.
Frederick H. Klock longtime Lawrence merchant died at 5 20 p m yesterday at 95 Louisiana street aged 78 to have been 79 on March 4 born in Schenectady N Y came west 55 years ago opened a restaurant and later the block grocery at Ninth and Mississippi streets member of the Odd Fellows survived by wife two daughters Mildred Klock George T Wetzel and a son Helmer Klock two grandchildren funeral at 2 30 from the home Rev The more lastman in charge burial Oak Hill cemetery
La Harpe Kansas February 23 An attempt to measure ground distance to a high tension wire using a fabric tape with a wire inside caused fatal electric shock to Mayor George Ensminger who was killed instantly. Frank Wilson suffered serious burns as both men checked if a house they were moving could pass beneath the line.
The Kansas Federation of Rural Letter Carriers elected Q O Shelley of Winfield as president at its annual convention in Parsons. Byron Reed, H Layiman, John Brunbaugh, and A J Collins were named officers and board members. The group will choose the 1934 meeting place, with Emporia likely selected. High school students may leave classes tomorrow to see movie stars, with parental excuses. juniors can ride the train if parents request.
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