Schoeppel is New Kansas Governor
Schoeppel 48, Ness City lawyer, sworn in as Kansas 29th governor in a republican ceremony. Chief Justice Dawson administered the oath at 12:25 PM before about 3000 attendees. He pledged to trim government for wartime conditions and urged unity. Former governors Ratner Woodring and Landon attended. Ratner noted farm sounds from a poultry show as fitting agricultural backdrop.
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Topeka
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Ness City
Kan
Sas
John
Dawson
Schoeppel
Payne Ratner
Harry Woodring
Alf M. Landon
Ratner
Kansas
Arnold Jones
Corporation Commission
Tace
Roger Almond
Fort Riley
Harry K. Allen
Supreme Court
Jay S. Parker
Hill City
Western End
Far Western Kansas
Ratner Nearl
Jess C. Denions
Far West
Dodge City
Carl E
Lawrence
Baldwin Mitchell
Parker
Hugo T. Wedell
Frank J. Ryan
Walter E. Wilson
George Robb
George L. McClenny
Charles F. Hobbs
W. C. Austin
Ryan
Hobbs
Austin
South Coffeyville Seeks New Sooner Governor
Oklahoma City reports Jan 11 that the retiring governor Leon C. Phillips urged the incoming Robert S. Kerr to consider changes. Phillips said South Coffeyville near Coffeyville Kansas faces a renewed dry law stance after a raid by state officers. Kerr, a personal dry, will take office at noon.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Coffeyville
Kan
Leon C. Phillips
Robert S. Kerr
Phillips
Kerr
Large Agricultural Aid Funds Recommended in Food Program
President Roosevelt calls for 837 million dollars in agricultural aid to back a war oriented food program. He urges increased production of essential crops, soil conservation payments, and rationing measures to secure supplies for war and civilian use.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Agriculture Department
Wickard
Nominations Sent to Senate Include Rutledge and Brown
President Roosevelt named Wiley B. Rutledge to the Supreme Court and Prentiss M. Brown as price administrator. Edward J. Flynn was picked as minister to Australia with ambassadorial rank, while Osh Lee was nominated to the civil aeronautics board. Flynn announced a Democratic committee meeting in New York and discussed the nomination with White House officials.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Wiley B. Rutledge
United States Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Supreme Court
Prentiss M. Brown
Michigan
Edward J. Flynn
Democrat National Committee
Australia
Nelson Johnson
Osh Lee
Oklahoma
Civil Aeronautics Board
Rutledge
Law School
University of Iowa
James F. Byrnes
Devstor
Lee Flynn
Southwest Pacific
Democratic National Committee
Walker
White House
Flynn
Eddie
Senate
Patrick J. Hurley
New Zealand
Hurley
Moscow
Cairo
New York
Stephen Early
Democratic Committee
President Roosevelts Budget Big Expenditure Ideas
Washington January 11 109000000000 dollars is the size of President Roosevelts new budget. Divided equally it would be 819 for every person. Treasury would pay out 3516 each second day and night including Sundays. If funded from current earnings 75 percent of national income would go to the budget. The Journal World reaches 35000 readers daily and many read the Too Late to Classify column.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Treasury
Journal-World
Flynn minister to Australia stirs Senate clash
Senator Bridges denounces Edward J. Flynn nomination as diplomat amid calls for hearings. McNary and Connally pledge scrutiny while GOP critics cite a Bronx grand jury probe. Willkie and Landon condemn the appointment as politically expedient and tasteless.
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Washington
Bridges
iTopeka
Kan
Pi—Ailf M. Landon
Edward J. Flynn
National Democratic
Australia
Flynn
Tammany Grand
A Children’s Charter in Wartime Series Planned
The Kansas Council of Children sponsors a radio series on KFKU titled A Children’s Charter in Wartime. It airs alternating Mondays at 9:45 pm starting tonight with Dr. Bert Nash on The Security of the Child and family ties. Subsequent topics cover education, child rights to live, proper wartime food, day care for working mothers, and child labor in war.
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Kansas Council of Children
KFKU
Bert Nash
Kansas Mental Hygiene Society
Charles Wright
Kansas State Teachers Association
F. C. Beelman
State Board of Health
Edna Hill
State Home Economics Association
Helen Mawer
Division of
J. A. Lundgren
State Labor Department
German radio confirmsHungary revolt trials begin in Klausenburg
The German radio acknowledged actions against the Hungarian government and reported that 78 people went on trial at Klausenburg as the first of 664 accused of attempting to overthrow the state order.
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Hungary
New York
Axis
Klausenburg
Russians Inch Toward Rostov-Mozdok Rail Hub in Caucasus
Soviet forces claim 18 towns recaptured along the Rostov to Baku rail line tightening around Georgievsk while German defenses in the Caucasus appear to crumble. In air war, Russians report a three to one victory margin, as American and British bombers strike Gabes and other North African targets.
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Associated Press
Rostov-Baku
Caucasus
Georgievsk
Mozdok
Grozny
Gerany
Europe
North Africa
Fig
Tunisian
Gabes
Kebili
Salt Lake
Maj
Phillips George Cochran
Erie
Kairouan
Libya
Tripoli
Tunis
Sicily
Cold air moving in topeka winter weather outlook
Federal Meteorologist S D Flora said Kansas would see only slight cooling with no major change from current mild conditions. Sunday was unusually warm with Goodland at 61 degrees and Good ates noted. no moisture was forecast and cooler air would reach most areas tonight except the southeast corner.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Goodates Goodland
Flora
Henry S. Buzick Marries Kathryn Brenner in Hays
Henry S. Buzick representative from Lincoln county in the Kansas legislature and Mrs. Kathryn Brenner were married Saturday night at the bride’s home in Hays. Buzick, a banker and rancher, was speaker of the house in 1933 and has served in the legislature since 1932. He is a past president of the Kansas Bankers Association and has twice refused requests to run for governor on the Republican ticket.
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Hays
Kan
Henry S. Buzick
Lincoln County
Kathryn Brenner
Buzick
Kansas Bankers Association
Stock Market Index Readings for Saturday
The stock market index for sixty stocks shows 42.0 in one measure and 44.8 in another on Saturday, reflecting mixed performance across the group.
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Everrnn
Reduction in Truck Mileage Urged by Senate Panel
John Turney, former official of the Office of Defense Transportation, told a Senate committee that commercial motor vehicle mileage must be cut 40 percent to keep trucking within rubber limits. He noted 1943 tire rubber will be about 40 percent below 1941 consumption and that farm truck mileage has fallen about 10 percent under current controls. Turney urged transferring gasoline rationing for farm trucks to county war boards of the Agriculture Department.
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Washington
John Turney
Office of Defense Transportation
Senate
ODT
Turney
Department of Agriculture
Farmers Meet to Plan Roosevelt Day in Douglas County
Douglas county farm headers meet tomorrow at the courthouse at 1 PM for National Farm Mobilization Day to discuss county food goals and methods. A USDA war board broadcast from 2 45 to 8 PM features Roosevelt Wickard and Eisenhower from Africa. crop goals are set for 1943 with targets for hogs cattle sheep milk hens turkeys corn sorghum hay flax potatoes and more.
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Douglas County
Roosevelt
Usda War Board
Claude E. Wickard
Dwight Eisenhower
Africa
Lawrence Library Drives Second Victory Book Drive
Lawrence Free Public Library staff join the second victory book campaign collecting popular fiction and non fiction adventures detectives technical titles and humor books. Initial donation includes volumes by Wilfred Leisher Hugh Gibson Howard Haycraft Upton Close Carter Dickson and others in good condition.
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Lawrence Free Public Library
Army and Navy Special Service
Lawrence Public Library
Kansas farm groups sponsor radio programs January 12 mobilization
Manhattan Kansas January 11 farm organizations plan radio programs and meetings for January 12 mobilization day. The Kansas State Grange Farmers Union and AAA committees schedule meetings while the department of agriculture agencies limit observance to radio programs.
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Manhattan
Kan
Kansas Farm Organizations
Kansas State Grange
Farmers Union
AAA
Department of Agriculture
Russians encircle Georgievsk rail junction in Caucasus
A Stockholm Reuters report says Russian forces have fully encircled Georgievsk an important North Caucasus rail junction located 275 airline miles southeast of Rostov. The encirclement traps traffic toward Mineralnye Vody 20 miles farther up the Rostov Baku Tailway.
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London
Stockholm
Reuters
Georgievsk
North Caucasus
Rostov
Mineralnye Vody
Rostov-Baku
Oath to County Officials at Douglas Inauguration
One newly elected Douglas county official was absent at the noon courthouse ceremony. Robert Oyler, who joined the army the day before his November election, was replaced by Milton P. Beach as county attorney. M. N. Penny and Roslan Skinner were sworn in as commissioner and sheriff respectively, with other officers reaffirming oaths. Gifts were exchanged for retiring officials and a recently married deputy probate judge.
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Executive Mansion
Ratner
Douglas County
Robert Oyler
Hugh Means
Milton P. Beach
Oyler
United States of America
State of
Kansas
M. N. Penny
Roslan Skinner
T. R. Gerhart
John Callahan
Beach
Judge Means
L. K. Zimmer
Harold Beck
Register of Deeds
Frank R. Gray
J. M. Sanderson
Charles E. Banning
Lorene Hollingsworth
Air Attacks Damage Japanese Convoy Fleet Near New Guinea
General MacArthur reports new aerial blows cripple two more ships of the battered convoy fleeing Lae. Allied air forces claim 138 Japanese planes shot down or crippled in four days of action. Japanese landings at Lae were costly and subjected to continued air attacks on town and airport.
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New Guinea
MacArthur
Lae
KU Student Supreme Court Hears Evidence in Demonstration Case
The University of Kansas student supreme court continued hearings this afternoon in the trial of seven male students charged with instigating the December 18 demonstration. Charles Dreyer, a junior engineer, faces contempt of court charges for his absence during six others' sentencing, which was handed down Saturday and will be released after Chancellor Deane W. Malott reviews the action. The six students named are Wallace Kunkel, Harry McClure, C. D. Williams, Earl Pickerill, Jay Gunnels, and Norman Higgins.
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Wallace Kunkel
Harry McClure
C. D. Williams
Earl Pickerill
Jay Gunnels
Norman Higgins
Curtis Promoted to Lead Carver Foundation at Tuskegee
Austin W. Curtis Jr., son in law of King Adams, will succeed George Washington Carver at Tuskegee Institute as director of the George Washington Carver foundation. Curtis, Cornell 1932 graduate, has eight years as Carver’s assistant and plans to continue the educator’s research, once lauded as "my baby" by Carver.
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Austin W. Curtis, Jr
King Adams
Locust Street
George Washington Carver
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee
Ala
F. D. Patterson
Curtis
Cornell University
George Washington Carver Foundation
Young Curtis
Carver
Government costs rise as emergency warrants issued in 1942
Topeka reports Kansas governmental subdivisions authorized 270 950 in emergency warrants for 1942 up from 504 358 the prior year. Tax officials say districts mostly sought funds to raise salaries while counties aimed to meet wartime wage levels. In Guadalcanal, U S forces made small advances after artillery and air bombardment with light resistance.
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Topeka
Kansas
Guadalcanal
Washington
Navy
Welsh Trial Set For February 15 In Sister Slaying
Kansas City January 11 The trial of George W. Welsh Jr. on a first degree murder charge in the slaying of his sister Leila was set for February 15 today by Circuit Judge Allen C. Southern.
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Welsh
Kansas City
George W. Welsh, Jr
Leila
Allen C. Southern
Extra-territorial rights in China abolished by treaty
Washington and London report Britain and the United States have signed treaties with China ending extraterritorial rights. The pacts place China on equal footing with other nations and promise sovereignty not to be impaired by foreign privileges. Britain’s agreement to relinquish rights is effective immediately.
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Washington
China
United States
London
Great Britain
United Nations
Britain
Foreign Office
Baker University Plans $200,000 Drive for Replacing Fire Loss
The Baker University board of trustees approves a campaign to raise 200000 to build two new campus facilities after a January 3 fire destroyed Taylor hall gymnasium and classroom building. Funds include 93230 in insurance and future donations.
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Baker University
Taylor
Nelson P. Horn
Taylor Hall
William A. Quayler
Horn
Parmenter Commons
Abraham Lincoln
Henry Allen
Local men join ranks for Fort Leavenworth induction
Nineteen selectees departed for Fort Leavenworth including eleven locals on eight transfers and three volunteers Robert Milton Williams Carl Robert Paden and William Donald Vaughn led by Glenn Kirby. Three colored men also left Saturday two locals and one transfer. Navy volunteers for general service will be accepted within weekly quotas starting today though clearance from a navy recruiting office is required with nearest office in Topeka.
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Ft. Leavenworth
Army
Grou
Robert Milton Williams
Carl Robert Paden
William Donald Vaughn
Glenn Kirby
Selective Service Office
Navy
Navy Recruiting Office
Loca Board
Topeka
Get-Acquainted Dance Tickets Go On Sale in Lawrence
Tickets for the Get-Acquainted Dance go on sale today at local drug stores and men’s shops. The event at the Community Building Saturday features Russell Wiley K U Cowboy band and Danny Bachmann’s 12 piece orchestra. Cap at 400 couples with 150 Lawrence residents and 250 Sunflower ordnance plant representatives. Sponsored by Chamber of Commerce and ordnance plant PR department led by Ed V Sargent to better mix longtime residents and war workers. Tickets at $1.50 per couple.
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Lawrence
Sunflower Ordnance Organization
Communit
Russell Wiley
K. U
Danny Bachmann
Chamber of Commerce
Ordnance Plant
Ed V. Sargent
Wiley
Inspections Deadline Looms for Kansas Motorists
Wichita Kansas January 11 H O Davis OPA state director says waiting for the January 31 deadline burdens OPA approved inspection stations. Some areas show inspectors behind schedule. Those missing the deadline will be denied future tires and gasoline ration books. January 31 limit applies to passenger cars. commercial vehicle owners must inspect by January 15.
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Wichita
Kan
OPA
H. O. Davis
Kansas
Davis
Lawrence board of education wins partial federal aid approval
The Lawrence board of education's request for federal funds to cover rising school costs has received St Paul regional office approval and was forwarded to Washington for final review. The approved amount is 23 846 dollars, 2 000 less than requested, with 1 600 cut by the St Paul office and 500 for government field expenses.
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Lawrence Board of Education
St. Paul
Washington, D.C
Clifford D. Dean
E. B. Curry
Federa Works
Dean
Washington
Two Cars in Wreck on South Massachusetts Street
A southbound 1936 Ford driven by Ellis Jackson crashed into a parked unoccupied 1936 Ford coach at 1741 Massachusetts, starting a fire that nearly destroyed the coach. Jackson, rescued by patrolmen, faced drunk driving charges with trial set for Friday. Firefighters attempted to douse the blaze with a fire extinguisher but flames persisted.
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Massachusetts
Ellis Jackson
Lawrence
Harvey Schmedemann
Clarence McKay
Francia Skinner
Jackson
Andy Taylor
Indiana
Number Two
Excellent Sermon by Dr R A Schwegler at Baptist Church
Dr R A Schwegler Sr delivered an excellent sermon at the First Baptist church Sunday morning. He responded to a call from Rev H E Koelb who was ill and did not decide to carry on until a late hour Saturday. Schwegler has been gracious in responding to calls and has preached in many Lawrence churches and statewide as an orator. Miss Janice Patchen, violinist, was the guest musician.
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R. A. Schwegler
First Baptist Church
H. E. Koelb
Weather Forecast and Readings for Kansas Region
Little change in temperature tonight southeast and warmer west and north. Tuesday forenoon shows small temperature rise. Yesterday high 44 low 31. Saturday high 48 low 26. Year ago today high 35 low 5.
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Kansas
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