Decline in Campus Building at KU in 1933
In 1933 the University of Kansas faced heavy funding cuts and completion of only a few projects. Snow Hall was dismantled, the old biology building removed, and a warehouse near the power building repurposed for museum exhibits. Finishing touches on the Union ballroom progressed, while a landscaping program planted over 500 trees and shrubs across campus.
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C. G. Bayles
Dy‘che
School of Medicine
Dyche Museum
Buildings and Grounds Department
Bayles
Union Building
J. T. Constant
University
Veteran Lawrence officer marks 24 years of service
The oldest on the Lawrence police force, Officer Smith, reached 24 years of service today. He joined amid the 2 1/4 century of policing, has made hundreds of arrests and investigations, and has never fired a shot in duty. Born in Lawrence to Quantrill raid survivors, he previously worked for Union Pacific and now tends a garden at 501 Arkansas Street.
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Lawrence
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Union Pacific Railroad
Arkansas Street
Annual stockholders meetings held by banks and loan firms
Four banks and two building and loan companies in Douglas County plan annual stockholders meetings in January. Lone Star Bank meets January 1 from 1 to 3 PM. Douglas County Building and Loan from January 15 from 10 AM to noon. Lawrence National Bank January 2 from 10 AM. Lawrence Building and Loan stockholders have not yet set a date but will be held before January.
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Lone ~Star Bank
Douglas County, Building,and Loan Company
Lawrence National Bank
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Gasoline Price Drop Expected At Major Stations
Motorists may see a gasoline price reduction to six and a half or so per gallon at major filling stations tomorrow morning. The new rate, replacing the present higher price, is anticipated across standard grades of motor fuel as outlets advertise the change.
Local youths tied to cafe slaying. price Utah inquiry
Hays officers flew to Price Utah to return two Hays youths Ben Jacobs 18 and Richard Bahl 16 who signed a statement naming Bahl as the slayer of Orville Reed in a cafe Friday morning. The pair were arrested while driving a stolen car reported by A D Memphis Wichita.
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Price
Utah
Hays Ben Jacobs
Richard Bahl
Bliss
Jacobs
Orville M. Reed
A. D. Memphisl
Wichita
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Kansas City
Kan
George Smith
Parsons
Smith
Finney
Finneys
Dr Lindley Returns From Chicago Meeting
Chancellor Lindley returned to Lawrence yesterday after attending a National College Athletic Association meeting in Chicago with football coaches. He presided over faculty representatives from across the United States and spoke on mistakes in postwar collegiate athletics. Later he addressed the Music Teachers National Association in Lincoln Nebraska on art and the world of men.
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Chicago
E.H. Lindley
Lawrence
National
Colles Ave. Association
United States
Lindley
The
Music Teachers
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Lincoln, Neb
Denies Spy Charges Amid Paris Espionage Claims
In Paris, Lidia Tchekaloft Stahi, described as a Russian scholar, denies European police charges that she was the brains behind an international spice smuggling ring and connected to espionage activities in Finland. The Associated Press photo caption notes the denial.
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Leona Baumgartner to Resume Yale Medical Studies
Leona Baumgartner, Phi Beta Kappa, returns to Yale University medical school as a Pi Beta Phi fellow to pursue an M D degree and continue research on age related immunity. She plans to complete the degree in June and has already contributed a year of Sterling fellowship work at Yale.
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W. J. Baumgartner
New Haven
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Baumgartner
Lawrence
K. U
Eastern University
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E. H. Lindley
Frank Strong
The
K. U. School of Law
Law School
Yale Law Journal
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Yale Department of Architecture
Robert Cowgill
Felix Manley
K.U
Divinity School
Ann Suderman
Driest Kansas year ends as cold snap eases
Topeka reports New Year with crisp cold and minimal moisture. Despite 1934 likely the driest year, temperatures rise from sub zero in the north as forecasters say the worst of the cold wave has passed. Topeka recorded 0.02 inch rain in 48 hours with a 12 degree low at Concordia.
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Kansas
Mercury
S. D. Flora
Concordia
Flora
Canada
Standard Life shows gains in 1933 and name change
Indications of widespread improvement in business conditions appear from gains in all fields of the Standard Life Association in 1933. Samuel Baty, secretary, notes a substantial increase in insurance writing though final figures will take weeks. At Niagara Falls the Fraternal Aid Union renamed itself Standard Life Association and re elected national officers including Baty and Sweeney.
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Samuel S. Batv
National Fraternal Insurance Company
Standard Life
Baty
Fraternal Aid Union
Niagara Falls
Lawrence
T. J. Sweeney
George A. Allen
Tonekx
John C. Tolson
Daltimore
National Medical
Dr. & Dent
Townshend
Kansas City
Deaths and Funerals George L Phenicie
Funeral services for George L Phenicie age 55 who died this morning at a local hospital will be held Tuesday at 2 o clock from the Reno church. Burial will be at Reno No 3. Mr Phenicie became suddenly ill Saturday at his home near Reno. Surviving are the wife a son Lacey and a daughter Stella May all of the home and a daughter Mrs J McKernan Jr of Topeka.
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Reno
Phenicie
Lacey
Stella May
J. McKernan, Jr
Topeka
Violence flares in Philadelphia taxi and milk wagon strikes
In Philadelphia riots erupted as taxi drivers and milk wagon crews clashed. Three milk drivers were beaten, one, Richard Atkins, 21, suffered a fractured skull and was hospitalized. Officials link the attacks to striker anger over company actions, despite a labor board order to return to work. Four taxis were burned as strikers press for higher pay while union members plan to stay out pending board clarification.
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Philadelphia
Richard Atkins
Harbison Dairies
Teacher Injured in Wreck Near Salina Kansas
Ella Frey a Sylvan Grove teacher is in a local hospital with serious injuries after a car driven by her uncle W E Peck Newton hardware dealer overturned three times eight miles south of Salina. Peck and his daughter Edith had minor injuries.
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Kan
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Sylvan Grove
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W. E. Peck
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Newton
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NRA Takes Inventory Tasked to Regulate Wages and Hours
Washington reports the National Recovery Administration aims to regulate wages and hours in industries employing four to six million workers by end of January. The recovery administration notes some four million workers have returned to gainful employment and Blue Eagle codes now cover major industries. Tens of thousands of Blue Eagles remain displayed despite the end of the re employment agreement with voluntary coverage continuing until May for those not yet mandatorily coded.
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Washington
NRA
Recovery Administration
Roosevelt
LaGuardia Takes Charge of New York City Hall
New York Jan 1 AP The fusion administration led by Fiorello H LaGuardia began in a period of financial strain and alleged political crime links He warned police against interference as he sworn in Major General John I O'Ryan as police commissioner His aims include balancing a 40 million dollar budget and reforming city governance with a nonpartisan approach
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Fiorello H. LaGuardia
Samuel Seabury
City of
LaGuardia
New York City
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Fee
John I. O'Ryan
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Republican Party
Harlem
Year of Politics Opens Off-Year Campaigns in Kansas and Missouri
Kansas and Missouri brace for 1934 off-year campaigns with five major pep gatherings. Missouri hosts a Jackson Day dinner January 8 in Springfield with U S Senator Dieterick of Illinois as speaker, drawing Gov Guy Park and other leaders. Kansas Republicans plan two Topeka meetings January 20 and 29 featuring Ogden Mills, former Hoover treasury secretary, to gauge presidential prospects. Missouri Lincoln Day dinner February 12 aims to regain ground. Kansas hosts a Washington Day dinner February 22 while Kansas votes focus on governor, state offices, legislature and seven congressmen. Drury College Springfield names E Edmond Jarvis to head voice dept succeeding Felix Foudray.
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Kansas
Missouri
Guy B. Park
New York
Hoover
Treasury
Mills
Republican Party
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Wasington
Cinner
Topeka
U. S
Senate
Wife of insurer cashier dies after highway shooting
Mrs Clarence Potts, 32, wife of an insurance company cashier, died in a hospital after being shot by an unknown assailant in an automobile scraping fenders with a second car carrying eight people returning from a dance. The Grout party, including W O Grout driving, heard a remark during the incident and a subsequent shot.
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Topeka
Clarence Potts
W O. Grout
Automobile Backfire Leads to Fatal Shooting
A car backfire was thought to be the cause before Drs Potts in the rear seat slumped forward unconscious. A quick check showed she had been shot in the back of the head through the rear window. She died minutes after arrival at the hospital.
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Drs. Potts
Market News Kansas City Hogs Cattle and Sheep Prices
Kansas City market reports show hogs at about 3,000 head with prices 10-15 higher than Friday, cattle around 8,000 head with killing cattle steady to 15 higher and light to heavy classes advancing, and sheep near 9,000 with lambs active 15-25 higher. Local grain and poultry values listed include corn 37 cents, wheat 67, oats 28, heavy hens 7, eggs 12-16, and butterfat No 1 at 13.
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Kansas City Livestock
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