Special Session Opens Tomorrow in Kansas
Topeka Feb 28 AP Kansas legislature will convene in a special session called by Gov Alf Landon to consider a new mortgage moratorium law. A short three day session is expected with lawmakers aiming to limit debate to the moratorium issue. Costs estimated at about 10090. The session is the 13th in state history and the second in Landons term.
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Topeka
Kansas
Alf M. Landon
Landon
Lawma Kers
Will J. French
Govrnor Landon
Unsettled Weather Nets Rain Likely In Southeast Kansas
Kansas forecast shows unsettled conditions tonight and Thursday with rain possible in southeast areas. Morning outlook has cloudiness except clear spans at Topeka Salina and Manhattan. Road conditions vary from snow covered to good with dirt roads affected. Douglas County roads listed as good and temperatures recorded from yesterday evening to today noon.
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Kansas
Topeka
Salina
Manhattan
Pittsburg
Coffeyville
Ottawa
Douglas County
Wave of Counterfeiting Sweeps Country
Washington reports a nationwide upsurge in counterfeit currency with spurious $5 and $10 notes. In the 1934 fiscal year thus far arrests exceed 1933’s record 3,003 and seizures surpass $921,499, with Secret Service chief William H. Moran noting about 80 percent of arrests lead to convictions and that roughly half of fake money seizures enter circulation while the other half is stopped at arrest.
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Washington
Secret Service
William H. Moran
Moran
NRA Critics Clash Over Labor Codes In Washington
Mrs. Gifford Pinchot called NRA enforcement a ghastly farce and urged action against firms not obeying the law. Mary W. Dewson of New York led a charge stating wholesale employer chiseling threatens recovery, citing wage cuts, extended hours, and pay deductions. Ruth Scott testified about a brother in Massachusetts theater earning only 12 weekly after NRA. J. E. Burke urged removing wage scales from codes, citing Kansas City garment plants.
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Washington
Gifford Pinchot
NRA
Weir
Budd
Little Fellows
Mary W. Dewson
New York
National Consumers League
Hugh Johnson
Recovery Administration
Ruth Scott
Massachusetts
J. E. Burke
Kansas City
New York City
State rests case in Wynekoop murder trial
Chicago court reports the state resting in the second trial of Dr. Alice Lindsay Wynekoop for Rheta Gardner Wynekoop’s murder. Key testimony linked cartridges to a pistol on the operating table and a gun repaired by Earle. The defense opened with Wynekoop in stable condition amid health concerns.
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Chicago
Alice Lindsay Wynekoop
Rheta Gardner Wynekoop
Wynekoop
Charles S. Dougherty
Samuel Peterson
Earle
Four Held in Kansas City Bank Robbery Case
Kansas City February 28 AP four men and possibly a woman were involved in the Commerce Trust bank robbery and slaying of teller Webster Kemner. Taibi alias Ry an was arrested after witnesses linked his photo to the gunman. Others taken included Sam Decaro Mrs Decaro and Joe Martino. A reward of 10009 is offered for arrests and convictions of active participants.
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Kansas City
Charles Taibi
Charles Ryan
Webster Kemner
Commerce Trust Company
Teller
Taibi
Sam’ Decaro
Decaro
Joe Martino
Thomas J. Higgins
Detective Department
Kemner
Doyle Swofford
Martino
Cleveland
Lazia Receives Split Sentences in Tax Case
John Lazia, north side Democrat, sentenced to one year in Christian county jail Ozark Missouri and fined 2500 on one count for failure to file 1929 and 1920 income tax returns. Second count yields 12 months in Gentry county jail and 2500 fine with five year probation. sentence suspended. Jury findings allowed jail or fine or both. Acquitted on federal income tax evasion. New trial motion overruled. appeal planned.
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Kansas City
John Lazia
North Side
Christian County
Ozark
Gentry County
Merrill E. Otis
Lazia
Frank P. Walsh
Jerome Walsh
Otto
Walsh
Liberty
Explosion in Oklahoma coal mine injures six workers
A flash explosion at the Kali-Inia mine in Cambria Oklahoma burned six miners on February 28. One man, Fred Ward, was severely injured. The others John Detheridge George Kinikin Otto Pearce Tony Simonosky and Gus Tomasella were treated at the scene and then taken to McAlester hospital. Orley Smith Coal Co provided the response.
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Cambria
Okla
Kali-Inia
Fred Ward
McAlester Hospital
John [Detheridge
George Kinikin
Otto Pearce
Tony Simonosky
Gus Tomasella
Cigaret Law Raids Target Three Kansas Merchants
County Attorney R B Stevens filed complaints against George Richardson E R Hess and A L Wolfe for possessing un stamped cigarets for more than 24 hours and failing to keep an invoice. State inspectors confiscated about 20 dollars worth of cigarets from the defendants. Warrants served and defendants to appear in Justice Frank Dodds court.
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Kansas
R. B. Stevens
Department of Inspection and Registration
George Richardson
Twenty-third
Louisiana _ streets
E. R. Hess
Court of Justice
Frank Dodds
Schall Warns of Censorship by Roosevelt Plan
Senator Schall of Minnesota denounces a proposed federal communications commission as risk of press censorship. He frames the move as undermining press freedom won in the publishers code and calls for a legislative bureau to monitor Washington and thwart dictatorship efforts. He warns every dispatch could be censored and urges public defense of free information.
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Washington
Schall
R.-Minn
Roosevelt
a_ federal communications commission
United States
Roosevelt’ Administration
Federal Communications ’Commission
Quick End Expected to Special Session by State Senator
State Senator Carl Friend of the Douglas-Jefferson district predicts a rapid closure to the special legislature session in Topeka tomorrow. He cites bills beyond the session’s purpose, doubt on passage out of committee, and a push to finish by Saturday night while considering appropriations and the Minnesota moratorium law.
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Carl Friend
Douglas-Jefferson
Topeka
Ser
Friend
Minnesota
Corn loan deadline moved to March 31 for applications
Kansas City AP dispatch reports RFC Kansas City district manager Frank Hodges says $509,053.91 in corn loans have been paid to Missouri and Kansas farmers. The final date for loan applications is set for March 31. Reno AP dispatch notes Mrs Thalia Fortescue Massie quietly left Reno after hospitalization since last Friday and departed by train to New York following her divorce from Lt Thomas H Massie US Navy.
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Kansas City
Frank Hodges
RFC
Missouri
Kansas
Massie
Reno
Nev
Thalia Fortescue Massie
New York
Thomas H. Massie
U. S. Ni
Senate approves arms embargo bill without debate
Washington February 28 The Senate passed without debate the House bill authorizing the President with other nations to embargo arms shipments to belligerents. Objections over neutrality were removed with an amendment applying the embargo impartially to all parties. The bill returns to the House for acceptance of the change.
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Washington
Senate
House
America
Roosevelt Announces Reorganized National Relief Plan
President Roosevelt unveiled a reorganized national relief program replacing the civil works lineup demobilized. He spoke at a press conference before a Capitol area meeting with Democratic leaders. The plan targets distressed rural families, stranded urban populations, and the unemployed in large crises, with $950 million in relief funds to run through spring 1924. Federal money focuses on wages and truly needy cases, expanding public works opportunities and urging states to finance and extend work programs with local communities taking greater responsibility.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Civil Works
Congress
Capitol
White House
Rure
Fr. Roosevelt
Kansas may seek new car tag law in special session
Topeka Feb 28 AP Possibility the Kansas legislature, convening in a special session tomorrow, may be asked to change a law requiring municipalities to buy license tags for city owned cars. Dean Van Ness plans talks with Gov Landon on submitting a proposal to eliminate these fees.
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Topeka
Kansas
Dean van Ness
Alf M. Landon
George Reid
Reid
Landon
Lindley Receives CSEP Payroll Funds at KU
Chancellor E H Lindley received a 250 signed by John Stutz CWA administrator for Kansas to meet the February payroll for 350 KU students working under the CSEP act on campus. The full sum likely won’t be paid this month as students have worked less than ten days. the remainder will be held for next month and deducted from March pay.
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John Stutz
CWA
Kansas
E. H. Lindley
K. U
CSEP
H .Y
Raymond Nichols
Farmers Guest Night Mixer at Haskell Gym
About 500 farmers and business men are to attend tomorrow at 8 p.m. in Haskell gymnasium for the fourth annual rural acquaintance, a musical and athletic smoker staged by Haskell students and sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce. Tickets are available at the Chamber office for farmers and their guests, with welcome talks by Henry Roe Cloud and I J Meade. Gus Welch has arranged five boxing bouts, the Haskell orchestra will perform, and Native dances will be offered by Indian Braves in tribal costumes.
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Haskell
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Henry Roe Cloud
I. J. Meade
Gus Welch
State reports savings in Topeka budget across institutions
Budget director Chase told Gov. Landon that seven months into the 1934 fiscal year the 28 state institutions and experiment stations posted a net expenditure reduction of 206,136 dollars versus the prior year. Salaries cut 185,820 dollars, maintenance and repairs 20,315 dollars, with 129,575 from experiment stations and educational institutions and 7,532 from penal institutions.
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Topeka
Chase
Eat
Alf M. Landon
Banquet Tonight of Lawrence Council of Religious Education
The annual banquet at First Methodist Church begins at 6 30 with a four man First Baptist quartet led by Rev Charles Thomas performing. Dean Homer K Ebright will present training school credit certificates, and Miss Mary Jones of the International Council of Religious Education will deliver the message. The program at 7 30 is open to the public. teachers and officers are especially invited.
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Lawrence Council of Religious Education
First Methodist
First Baptist Church
Charles Thomas
John Schmidt
Samuel Thierstein
Coulter Cunningham
Homer K. Ebright
Baker Univeristy
Mary Jones
International Council of Religious Education
Parole Granted for Henry Fentem Serving Forgery Sentences
Henry Fentem, convicted in Douglas County on March 13, 1931 for forgery, was granted parole by Governor Alfred M. Lan. He faced four counts, with two 1 to 10 year terms running concurrently and the other two to run concurrently after the first set ends. An unrelated line notes an electrical current concept.
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Henry Fentem
Douglas County
Alfred M. Lanon
Fentem
Avert Kansas City Southern Rail Strike Talks
President Charles J Johnson of Kansas City Southern Rail and federal Transportation Commissioner Joseph B Eastman conferred in Washington on a plan to avert a threatened March 1 trainmen strike. An order had been issued for a 6 pm strike tomorrow, posted by the railroad brotherhoods executive committee.
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Washington, D. C
Charles J. Johnston
Kansas City
Southern Railroad
Joseph B. Eastman
Eastman
Kansas City Southern
Railroad Brotherhoods
Southern
Submit Dog Plan Drives City Dog Policy Proposal
A Chamber of Commerce committee report on dog control is submitted to the city commission amid resistance. The plan seeks licensing reform and rabies immunization, with stray dogs to be housed or sold, fines for violations, and possible incineration of unwanted animals, costing about 2 dollars. Mayor Spalding will consider the proposal.
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Chamber of Commerce
Conrad McGrew
Louise Wiedemann
E.W. Penchard
Glenn Chariton
T. J. Leasure
Wiedemann
Penchard
W. E. Spalding
Attorney General Ready to File Suit in Topeka Bank Case
Topeka Kansas February 28 AP Roland Boynton attorney general prepared to sue the National Bank of Topeka for 150000 alleging due from the bank. He received a letter from bank attorneys refusing to comply with a formal demand for the claim tied to bogus bond manipulations involving Ronald Finney, bond broker. The bank disclaimed liability in the related transactions.
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Topeka
Kan
Roland Boynton
National Bank of Topeka
Boynton
Ronald Finney
New Deal Helped Kansas In Some Sectors Governor Says
Governor Alf M Landon said in Kansas City on February 28 that the New Deal has helped Kansas in some respects, notably the oil industry, but has not worked as well for agriculture. He urged reserving judgment on Roosevelt's program until it develops further during a trafficway project celebration.
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Kansas
Landon
Kansas City
Kan
Alf M. Landon
Roosevelt
Sheriff Escort to Lansing for Prisoners
Sheriff Jack Dunkley and Deputy Sheriff Fred Vogler left this morning for Lansing to transfer Ken ner Myers and Bidinger, prisoners, to the state penitentiary. Myers carries a life sentence for murder while Bidinger faces 3 to 15 years for embez zlement. The trip was by motor car. Myers was handcuff ed.
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Jack Dunkley
Fred Vogler
Lansing
Kenner Myers
Bidinger
Estate
Myers
Hearing on Seventeenth Street Extension in Lawrence
City commission held a morning hearing on the proposed Seventeenth Street extension as a rear entrance to KU campus. The report by the board of appraisers fixes 119 lots at 44825 dollars and allocates 5090 to the district and 5096 to the city. The panel noted only four petitioners resided in the benefit district. the decision hinges on full acceptance or rejection of the plan.
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City Commission
Seventeenth Street
K. U
Board of Appraisers
T. D. Prentice
Prentice
Sixteenth
Louisiana
Illinois
C. F. Nelson
Indiana
J. L. Constant
District Court
CWA
Lawrence
Ware
Commission
Massachusetts
Highway Department
Fire damages two story house at 722 Louisiana street
Fire started yesterday afternoon in the basement furnace and heavily damaged the kitchen dining room and rear roof of the two story 722 Louisiana street residence owned by G R Shultz and home of Mr and Mrs Paul C Hutton. Deputy clerk Elizabeth Carman saw smoke and alerted firefighters who confined most of the blaze to the rear and upper areas. Loss amount not yet estimated. two small Daubermann Pinscher dogs died in the basement from smoke and asphyxiation.
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Louisiana’ Street
G. R. Shultz
Paul C. Hutton
Paul Ingels
Ingels
Elizabeth Carman
District Court
Louisiana Street
Hutton
Phonograph concert trial at University Union ballroom
An experimental noon concert series will be held tomorrow at the University Union ballroom. The program includes Schubert’s Unfinished Symphony by the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra and Beethoven’s Menuetto from Quartet No. 4 by the Flonzaley Quartet. The concerts run daily from 12:50 to 1:20 pm under a committee led by Henry Goode, William Howie, and Catherine Owen, with Foote Rutledge permitting the Promethean club to sponsor during a trial period. Everyone is invited.
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Anl
Union
Schubert
Philadelphia Symphony ‘Orchestra
Beethoven
Flon‘zaley
Henry Goode
William Howie
Catherine Owen
Foote
Rwin Rutledge
Promethean Club
Unitarian Church
Harry Tover -Coal Co
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Richard Long
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Sedan
Dr. Wynekoop
W. H. Lowe
Rhode Island Street
Oklahoma
Orley Smith Coal Co, Phone Ab
Dr. Lindley
Methodist Church
Douglas ‘County
Promethean . Club
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