Hitler Seizes On Schuschnigg Missed Chance Demand for Austria’s Return of Colonies
Berlin reports prominent Nazis condemn Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg for not praising Hitler in a parliament address and failing to rally to the Nazi cause. They declare Austria’s sovereignty is over, foresee German control, and push for return of war losses and colonies as Hitler renews pressure after Berchtesgaden talks.
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Berlin
Austria
Schuschnigg
Hitler
Schuschnige
Germany
Jas
Seysz-Inquart
Fatherland Front
Mussolini
Munich
Hofbrauhaus
Nazi Party
Fuehrer
London
Austrian
Berchtesgaden
Czechoslovakia
Italy
France
Moscow
Britain
Europe
Measles Strikes Thirteen Children in Gordonville Family
Thirteen children from the Blank family in Gordonville Lancaster county are ill with measles. They all contracted the disease at about the same time, with the family noted as the affected household today.
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Lancaster
Lancaster County
David Blank
Gordonville
Judge Grants Divorce Between Bertha Garrett and J M Garrett
A decree of divorce has been granted by Judge Hugh Means to Bertha Garrett from J M Garrett. The ruling ends their marriage and sets terms for the finalization of the divorce.
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Hugh Means
Bertha Garrett
Test Your Knowledge Quiz Questions
A list of seven knowledge prompts asks for sun earth light travel time DePauw University country capitals Australia Mary Queen of Scots execution year official title of Charles Evans Hughes capital of West Virginia Foreign Relations Committee chair birthstone June and Switzerland’s most populous city.
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Mary
Queen’ of Scots
Charles Evans Hughes
West Virginia
United States Senate
Switzerland
Under-Sheriff George Price Announces 1938 Sheriff Bid
George Price, a Lawrence native and 14 year veteran of the sheriff and city police forces, announces his candidacy for Douglas County sheriff in the Republican primary this August. A World War II veteran, he served overseas for a year and a half and later became deputy sheriff and the first motorcycle patrolman on area highways.
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George “Game” Price
Douglas County
Price
Lawrence
Lawren
Fred Vogler
Landon Defends Academic Freedom in Letter to Kansan
Former Governor Alf M. Landon replies to the University Daily Kansan editor regarding a proposed legislative probe into red activities at the University of Kansas. He argues freedom of speech and academic freedom must allow opposing views while condemning indecency and urging tolerance in classrooms.
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Red
University of Kansas
Alf M. Landon
Marvin Goebel
Alton
Kansan
Landon
Kansas
New Jersey
Lawrence Chosen for Kansas Grange Annual Meeting
The Kansas Grange will hold its annual convention in Lawrence on December 14 and 15. The executive committee selected Lawrence over Emporia with an expected attendance of 300 to 500. J. F. Foltz of Wakarusa chairs the committee and local plans will be led by Mrs. C. A. Deay, Henry Miskimen, and E. C. Bussing.
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The
Kansas Grange
Lawrence
J. F. Foltz
Wakarusa
Emporia
C. A. Deay
Henry Miskimen
E. C. Bussing
Rocket Train Tops Speed on Kansas City to Oklahoma City Run
The Rock Island Rocket operates a daily round trip between Kansas City and Oklahoma City passing through Lawrence with morning 8 42 and late night 10 25 departures. It reaches 117 mph top speed though typical speeds are around 90 mph and the 409 mile journey takes about seven and three quarter hours. J K Gillette of Kansas City inaugurated the schedule as division passenger agent and Dr Lyle S Powell lists a new address at 736 Kentucky street.
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Lawrence
Ock Island
Kansas City
Oklahoma City
Union Pacific
Oklahoma
Rock Island
J. K. Gillette
Gillette Bitzer
205 High School Students on List
Liberty Memorial high school principal Neal M. Wherry announced a spring graduation list of 205 seniors including 104 boys and 101 girls. The class would be among the largest and features equal gender representation in top ranks with five boys and five girls in the ten highest grades.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Neal M. Wherry
Wherry
Lawrence, High School
Suit for 5000 Damages Over Shawnee County Collision
Alatha E. Mullen files a 5000 damages suit in district court against Katherine Barnes and Billy Barnes of Douglas County. The petition alleges injuries occurred the morning of September 6 1937 when a car driven by Billy Barnes collided with the car in which Mullen was riding at a road intersection in Shawnee County. Mullen claims Barnes drove recklessly at about 50 miles per hour.
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Alatha E. Mullen
Katherine Barnes
Billy
Barnes
Douglas County
Mullen
Billy Barnes
Shawnee County
Laster Bound Over For Trial On Child Desertion Charge
Rollie Laster is bound over to district court for trial on a child desertion charge after waiving preliminary hearing in Milton Beach justice court. He remains free on a $200 bond pending district court proceedings.
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Rollie Laster
Justice Court
Milton Beach
Laster
Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg Faces Nazi Pressure
British officials knew Nazis would try to oust Schuschnigg who has led Austria for four years as a vigorous anti Nazi. prominent Berlin Nazis declared he must be discarded for failing to align with Hitler.
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Schuschnigg
Berlin
Thiu
Hitler
GM to Cut Salaried Pay Across General Motors
Alfred P. Sloan, GM chairman, announces staged pay reductions for salaried staff due to lower business volume. Reductions start March 1 1938 with 10 percent up to 10000, 20 percent on excess to 50000, and 30 percent on amounts over 50000 for executives.
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Detroit
Alfred P. Sloan
General Motors Corp
General Motors
Sloan
Deaths and Funerals Jerome Gilmore
Jerome Odell Gilmore 61 died at home after a brief illness. He spent most of his life in Lawrence with time in Oklahoma Arizona and New Mexico. KU 1900 graduate. Plymouth Congregational Church member. Survived by two brothers William L. Gilmore Chicago and Charles W. Gilmore home. four sisters Mrs James W. Gowans Hutchinson Mrs George J. Kirchhoff Lawrence Miss Isabel E. Gilmore home and Mrs Paul N. Kent Johnson County Kaw. Funeral Saturday February 26 at 2:30 from the home. Oak Hill cemetery burial.
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Jerome Odell Gilmore
East Seventh Street
Lawrence
Oklahoma
Arizona
New Mexico
University of Kansas
Plymouth Congregational Church
William L. Gilmore
Chicago
Charles W. Gilmore
James W. Gowans
Hutchinson
George J. Kirchhoff
Isabel E. Gilmore
Paul N. Kent
Johnson County
Kaw
Oak Hill Cemetery
Graduates Named by Kansas University Engineering School
Dean Ivan C Crawford announced the names of graduates from the School of Engineering and Architecture at the close of the last semester. Degrees include architectural chemical civil electrical industrial mechanical mining with graduates listed from Kansas City Kansas City Mo Lawrence Wichita Pratt and others.
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K. U. School of Engineering
Ivan C. Crawford
School of
Engineering ‘and Architecture
Raymond W. Kerfoot
Detroit
Mich
Philip Brighton
Coffeyville
Twyman J. Klayder
Neodeshre
Arthur H. Lippitt
Meadville
John R. Shaw
Cherryvale
Burle F. Webker
Kansas City
James P. Looney
Lawrence
Harry L. Hall
Perry
Clifford Sharp
Kenneth
Neal
Roy Mannon
Chillicothe
Theodore Neyer
Kan
James Edward Busher
Daniel Citron
New York
N. Y
Leighton M. Harvey
Melrose
Mass
Emilio Marchio
George M. Pro
Wichita
Preston A. Colé
George C. Lemon
Pratt
Professors Leave for National Pharmacy Conference in New Orleans
Prof. and Mrs. Lloyd Boughton and Mr. and Mrs. Walt Varnum depart for New Orleans to attend the annual conference of Boards and Colleges of Pharmacy for the sixth district including Arkansas Louisiana Missouri Kansas Oklahoma and Texas. Boughton and Varnum serve as co chairmen and will be gone a week including part of Mardi Gras.
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Lloyd Boughton
Walt Varnum
New Orleans
Boards and Colleges of Pharmacy
The
National Association
Arkansas
Louisiana
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Boughton
Varnum
Cochairmen
Insurgent Drive Pauses at Teruel amid Mediterranean push
Spanish insurgents halt main Aragon army for rest around Teruel after fanning out to defend the city. Advices say forces remain poised for renewed drive toward the Mediterranean. Madrid shelled overnight, government batteries responded, ending the clash after about 30 minutes. Also notes a missionary society meeting at St. Luke's A M E church with delegates from Topeka Emporia and Lawrence.
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Hendaye
France
Aragon
Teruel
Mediterranean
Madrid
War profits bill advances with broad powers for president
Washington reports the House military committee approved a bill to curb war profiteering and grant the President wide authority in wartime. The measure allows universal draft, price ceilings, a tax system to absorb excess profits, and government control over resources, industries, and services. It imposes heavy penalties for violations.
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Washington
House Military Committee
Roosevelt
National Defense
Congress
Treasury
Navy
Arthur B. Cook
House
Navl
Cook
Department of Defense
Senate votes for probe of paroles and relief bills
Legislative wrangling centers on parole hearings and an emergency relief program. Senate leaders expect swift passage of relief bills after House action, while the conservancy measure looms as a potential bottleneck. Adjournment timelines remain uncertain as local bills move forward.
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Senate
Raimon G. Walters
Senate Taxation Committee
House
Walters
Walter A. Haxman
Conservancy
Indictments Rise in Kansas City Vote Fraud Probe
Federal grand jury adds 18 defendants to the Kansas City election fraud case bringing total indicted to 199. The new list includes Republican precinct captain George O Neal and Mrs Frances Ryan of the twelfth ward. All charges allege vote fraud conspiracy. Fifty have been convicted with six reversal rulings.
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Kansas City
George O’neal
Frances Ryan
Twelfth
T. J. Pendergast
Ryan
Roosevelt Says Army Navy Working Together Better Than Ever
A question on a single department and friction between services prompted Roosevelt to note that the army and navy are cooperating more effectively now than at any previous time. The exchange reflected wartime efficiency and improved unity in defense.
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Army
Navy
Capitol
Roosevelt
San Romani Visualizes a 4:03 Mile This Year
New York reports Archie San Romani a Kansan projects a 4:03 mile this year. He aims for the outdoor record around 4:08 while defending the indoor 1500 meters title in Madison Square Garden. Cunningham, former Kansan, set world and American marks and is also entered, both as NYU grad students prepping for tomorrow night’s race.
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New York
Archie San Romani
San Romani
Madison Square Garden
Bichon Cunningham
Cunningham
Long
New York University
Move for Turkish Navy aims for eastern Med dominance
President Ataturk approved a five year rearmament plan to make Turkey a leading naval power in the eastern Mediterranean. The program includes completing four submarines in Turkish yards and adding a pocket cruiser and 20 submarines already ordered from German yards. Water waste report notes 160 gallons daily loss from a faucet the size of a pin.
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Ankara
Turkey
Kamal Ataturk
Mediterranean
Subsidy rates set for wheat and cotton in new farm program
Washington reports tentative subsidies under the crop control plan. Wheat will receive 12 cents a bushel, cotton 2.4 cents a pound, with tobacco and potato rates also noted. Deductions apply for overplanting and penalties for excess wheat production amount to 96 cents per bushel.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Congress
Raccoon Bite Not Rabid. Lawrence Girl Injured
Dr T J Iseasure reports Kansas State tests show the raccoon that bit Vera Spence 14 in Lawrence did not have rabies. The animal appeared on the Spencer porch at 815 East Twelfth Street and scratched her last Tuesday. It remains unclear whether the raccoon was a pet or wild. Coach H W Hargiss says Glenn Cunningham will appear on Believe It or Not tomorrow night on WDAF and will run the 1500 meters at the AAU meet broadcast by NBC from 9 30 to 10 EST.
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T. J. Iseasure
Kansas State College
Lawrence
J. W. Spencer
East Twelfth Street
Vera Spence
H. W. Hargiss
Glenn Cunningham
Glenn
Robert Ripley
WDAF
Journal-World welcomes visiting girls and chaperones
Five girls from the 9H room at the Junior high, led by Miss Rachel Gard, toured the Journal-World plant with chaperones Mrs. J. C. Silvis and Mrs. J. H. Brown. The visitors were Fern Silvis Norma Day Helen Pierson LaVerna Ice and Dorothy Cooper. William Prynne, noted as an author of controversial theater works, also wrote a volume criticizing love-locks as unseemly.
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Journal-World
Rachel Gard
Fern Silvis
Norma Day
Helen Pierson
LaVerna Ice
Dorothy Cooper
J. C. Silvis
J. H. Brown
William Prynne
University Engineer Speaks to Liberty Memorial Students
Prof. R C Mitchell of the University of Kansas speaks at Liberty Memorial high school on his Sumatra tenure. He shows native weapons and python skins, explaining the serpent and its food. Edwin Price presides. Red and Black staff sponsors. piano solo by Mary Bitzer opens program. Sale of the Red and Black set for March 5 at the school party.
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R. C. ‘Mitchell
University of Kansas School of Engineering
Sumatra
Liberty Memorial High School
Mitchell
Red and Black
Edwin Price
The
Mary Bitzer
Co-Operative Club Hosts Musical Evening
The Lawrence Co-Operative Club enjoyed a dinner meeting at the Colonial featuring Earl and Harry Stuckenbruck. Music included Home Sweet Home and Juanita on musical glasses, Among My Souvenirs on flexitones, and When I Grow Too Old To Dream on musical saws. Miss Agnes Romary accompanied on piano. Leslie Allen led the program with a talk on Co operation. The gathering adjourned before 8 to attend the Rural Acquaintance party at the Armory.
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Lawrence Co-Operative Club
Colonial
Earl
Harry Stuckenbruck
MUST ASSIGN CERTIFICATES Farmers Union Bank Depositors Urged to Act Now
H H Ulrich chair of the Douglas County Farmers Union bank liquidating committee says one certificate remains unassigned. To receive the five percent dividend, holders must send certificates to the banking department in Topeka. A total of 95 percent has been paid. those who assigned can collect at the Kaw Valley National Farm Loan Association office at 1021 Massachusetts St.
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H. H. Ulrich
Douglas County
Kaw Valley ‘National Farm Loan’ Association
Massachusetts Street
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