Doctrinal Report Divides Church on Creation and Evolution
London reports a 292 page Anglican commission study says scripture need not govern all scientific inquiry and that evolution may mix with creation. The panel split on miracles angels and virgin birth while affirming baptism as vital and resurrection as a real event.
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London
Anglican Church Commission
Church of England
Church Association
E. C. Bowring
York
New Truck Signals Aimed at Safer Highway Turns
Kansas Highway Patrol notes 1987 motor laws require four directional lights on wide trucks to show turns. Lights mounted on front fenders and rear body, visible 125 feet ahead, with left or right arrows activated from the cab to indicate turning direction.
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Kansas Highway Patrol
Lige Cook
Notable Guests for Kansas Republicans Lunch
John Vesecky of Salina Kan president of the National Farmers Union and Dr N E Winters head of the Regional Soil Conservation Service at Salina were lunch guests yesterday of Kansas Republicans. Attending were Representatives Hope Lambertson Rees and Carlson and Hutchinson attorney Erskine Wyman seeking admission to practice before the supreme court.
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Washington
John ‘Vesecky
Salina
Kan
National Farmers Union
N. E. Winters
Soil Conservation Service
Kansas
Hope
Lambertson
Rees and Carlson
Erskine Wyman
Hutchinson
Supreme Court
Seven Test Questions on Geography and History
Test asks seven trivia items including earth measurements relative to equatorial and meridional circumferences, origins of relativity theory, methyl alcohol, South Carolina governor, presidential marriages, Jack Johnson versus Bob Fitzsimmons, Josiah Bailey's Senate state, origin of the Philippine Islands name, largest inland sea, and the Hawkeye State nickname.
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South Carolina
United States
Jack Johnson
Bob Fitzsimmons
Josiah W. Bailey
United States Senate
Philippine Islands
KU Students Plan Big Apple Dance At Game
Students at the KU Union ballroom prepare to showcase the Big Apple dance at the Kansas Iowa State basketball game tomorrow night. Fifteen couples will perform under Miss Elizabeth Dunkel and Miss Maxyne Woody, with Dale Shroff calling the steps. A jam band from the KU concert group provides swing music for the half.
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Elizabeth Dunkel
Maxyne Woody
Chio
Barnard
Dale “Brodie
Shroff
Concordia
K. U
Wichita
Bob Hampel
Hiawatha
Clyde Ysom
Illinois Retains Guild As Adviser To Legislature
Dr. Frederick H. Guild a political science professor at the University of Kansas is named adviser to the Illinois Legislative Council which was formed recently. He has been teaching part time at Kansas University this semester and serves his third year as research director of the Kansas Legislative Council.
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Frederick H. Guild
University of Kansas
Illinois
Guild
K. U
Kansas Legislative Council
Two Fire Alarms Reported In City
Two minor alarms summoned the fire department yesterday. A clogged chimney at Hilda Laughlin’s home 710 Kentucky street filled the house with smoke and required chimney access. A defective chimney at Zelma Henderson’s 832 Garfield street started a small attic fire. firefighters extinguished it with little damage.
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Hilda Laughlin
Kentucky Street
Zelma Henderson
Garfield Street
Sonja Henie Is a Knight Youngest Norse Honoree
Washington Jan 14 Sonja Henie Olympic skating star and Hollywood actress became a Norwegian knight. She received the first class Order of St Olav in a ceremony at the Norwegian legation and was noted as the youngest recipient. Dr Wilhelm Morganstierne Norway's minister praised her as an interpreter of the youth of Norway.
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Washington
Sonja Henie
Miss Henie
Order of St. Olav
Wilhelm Morganstierne
Norway
Classified page habit and daily reading value
An editor’s quote highlights the benefits of reading the classified section daily. It frames classified ads as both good business and engaging to follow.
Dust storms sweep southwest crops threaten wheat
Dust-laden skies from Oklahoma to Kansas and New Mexico whip loose topsoil across five states. Farmers fear early dust storms worry wheat, with sight reduced to blocks and a head on collision injuring a man in Garden City.
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Forgan
Okla
Oklahoma Panhandle
Kansas
Oliver McGuire
Garden City
Guymon
Enid
Lakin
Kan
Liberal
Tucumcari
KU Student Remanded in Parole Violation Case
Karl Ruppenthal, 20, KU junior from Russell, was ordered jailed by Judge Richard J. Hopkins for further investigation into alleged parole violation involving unmailable literature. He pleaded guilty earlier to using the mails to defraud and received a suspended sentence on probation. Dean Paul B. Lawson vouched for his student conduct and employment record.
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Fopeka
Richard J. Hopkins
Federal District Court
Karl Ruppenthal
University of Kansas
Ruppenthal
Hopkins
Paul B. Lawson
College of Liberal Arts
University
Topeka
Retail trade stronger aided by January clearance sales
New York reports that retail trade rose 2 to 5 percent from last week and 2 to 6 percent from a year ago aided by January white goods promotions. Dealers cut inventories to levels below 1937 in some items while wholesale buying advanced 3 to 10 percent over last year.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Appeal Filed Over Probate Award To Garrett Claimant
Anna Garrett Harrah an heir at law filed an appeal in district court challenging Probate Judge L H Menger's December 9 hearing ruling that Alice E Garrett receive 5000 from the estate of the late John A Garrett for house keeper services from November 4 1924 to July 17 1937 against the estate of John A Garrett.
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Alice E. Garrett
John A. Garrett
Anna
Garrett Harrah
L. H. Menger
Garrett
James Roosevelt hires full time assistant
Washington reports that James Roosevelt has added a full time assistant to handle liaison duties with the President and many federal agencies. James H Rowe Jr of Butte Montana will start soon. He is an attorney previously with the securities firm Soren and joined the NRA.
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Washington
James Roosevelt
James H. Rowe, Jr
Butte
Mont
Securities Soren
NRA
Odom Executed in Arizona Gas Chamber
Elvin Jack Odom, 28, died in the Florence state prison gas chamber today for the confessed bludgeon murder of Charles E. Goade, a farm worker, in a robbery that netted Odom 54 cents. The execution took place January 14 in Arizona.
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Arizona
Florence
Ariz
Elvin Jack Odom
Charles E. Goade
Odom
Navy Cruisers to Singapore Seen as Far East Demonstration
Washington officials discussed three U S cruisers Memphis Milwaukee and Trenton sailing to Singapore for the February 14 dock ceremony marking Britain’s Singapore base opening. The trip would also illustrate possible U S British naval cooperation in the Orient and ease base limitations in the Pacific. Louisville will join in Sydney then visit Australian and New Zealand ports while the others proceed to Singapore.
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Washington
United States
Singapore
Japan
Great Britain
America
Far East
Britain
Bersons
Far Pacific
Hawaii
Philippines
Orient
Hull
State Department
William D. Leahy
Memphis
Milwaukee
Trenton
Louisville
Australia
Commonwealth
Sydney
New Zealand
Thieves Kill and Take Hog From Baldwin Junction Farm
John Lewis, two miles southwest of Baldwin Junction, reports to Sheriff Ed Vogler that thieves killed and butchered a hog last Wednesday night while in a pen. The animal was dragged about an eighth of a mile and loaded into a motor car before being driven away. No suspect identity has been found.
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John Lewis
Baldwin Junction
Ed Vogler
Fined in Police Court for Overparking
Wilma Miller F K Rogers Car roll Hawkins and Allen Nash were fined one dollar each in police court this morning for over parking. Frank Hormuth forfeited a one dollar bond on an overparking charge. Fred Alford Route three and John Ulm appeared on charges of parking trucks over 18 feet on Massachusetts street. Judge Hults explained the law and excused them.
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Wilma Miller
F. K. Rogers
Carroll Hawkins
Allen Nash
Frank Hormuth
Fred Alford
Route Three
John Ulm
Massachusetts
Hults
Committee picks eight to aid KU Birthday Party
Clark Howerton, chairman of the ticket sales committee, names eight students Bill Comer Blaine Grimes Ted North Bill Ferguson Charles Alexander C H Mullen Ralph Wire and Maurice Breidenthal The event occurs January 29 in the KU Union ballroom with Red Blackburn and his orchestra Tickets go on sale through W C Simons in Eudora and at other Douglas County towns
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Clark Howerton
K U
Bill Comer
Blaine Grimes
Ted North
Bill Ferguson
Charles Alexander
H. Mullen
Ralph Wire
Maurice Breidenthal
Red Blackburn
W. C. Simons
Jessie Grimes
Eudora
Douglas County
Open Letter Protests KU Parking After Basketball Games
KU alumnus G H Penney writes to athletic director Gwinn Henry urging campus parking reforms after a Kansas Oklahoma game. He recounts costs from the jam including wrecker fees repairs and two tickets totaling 7.07 dollars and missing a planned engagement.
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Gwinn Henry
K.U
G. H. Penne
Tennessee Street
Penney
Marvin All
Wrecker
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis Named Head of Kansas Women's Press Club
Mrs. Cora G. Lewis editor of the Kinsley Graphic was elected president of the Kansas Women's Press club in Wichita. The convention also paid tribute to 29 journalists who died this year and discussed funding for murals by John Steuart Curry in the Kansas state house.
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Wichita
Kan
Cora G. Lewis
Kinsley Graphic
Kansas Women’s Press Club Today
Will T. Beck
Holton
Larry Freeman
Ellis Review
C. M. Hamilton
Stockton
Young Editors’ Club
Kansas
Kansas’ Press Association
Lee Epperson
Scott City
Kansas City teen dies in car crash. Lawrence officials inspect new fire truck
The 14 year old Kansas City boy, nephew of Bill Oliver and a Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledge, died when the car he drove overturned east of Kansas City. Fredonia officials, including Mayor C R Mong and Finance Commissioner William J Rath, toured Lawrence to inspect the city’s newly purchased American LaFrance fire truck with representatives F W Fisher and Glenn T Smith. Mayor Alfred Lawrence joined the inspection tour.
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Ted Gyre
Kansas City
Bill Oliver
K.A
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
Fredonia
Lawrence
C. R. Mong
William J. Rath
J. A. Griffith
C. 0. Pingrey
F. W. Fisher
Glenn T. Smith
American LaFrance Company
Alfred Lawrence
Minnesota Becomes Mindful of Basketball Rise
Coach Dave MacMillan credits Minnesota’s basketball progress to a homegrown roster. He notes nearly all players are state natives except Gordon Spear from Montana as his earlier junior squads set new highs and the current team surpasses them.
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New York
Montana
MacMillan
Shanghai police end siege of Chinese gangsters
In Shanghai on January 14 police from the Shanghai municipal force joined 200 British and Chinese constables to storm a barricaded Chinese gang and their hideout in the international settlement. After a three hour gun battle a shot from the hideout wounded a British policeman in the head and a Chinese constable and a woman bystander were also injured. Five gangsters were captured.
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Shanghai
International Settlement
Deaths and Funerals for Robin Stockton
Infant Robin Hugh Stockton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Stockton of 834 Kentucky Street, died at home Thursday evening. Burial is set for Saturday in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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Robin Hugh Stockton
Hugh Stockton
Kentucky Street
Oak Hill Cemetery
Defier of Racket Slain in Brooklyn Shooting
Isidore Frank a 51 year old Brooklyn poultry dealer who had defied a 4 million dollar annual poultry racket ring was shot dead on his sidewalk last night by three men who trailed him from his shop prompting detectives to act amid fears of further killings.
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New York
Brooklyn
Isidore Frank
Mu Phi Epsilon Vespers At Hoch Auditorium
Mu Phi Epsilon presents a Sunday vespers concert at Hoch Auditorium at 4 PM featuring organ and piano numbers, two violins, two harps, a piano quartet, and a vocal ensemble. Violinist Miss Eitner performs a new manuscript work by Frank Cunkle and joins the Mu Phi Epsilon artist members.
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Mu Phi Epsilon
K.A. School of Fine
Water Tank Fall Kills Wichita Worker in Kansas City
Joe Milton Austin aged 47 of Wichita died while repairing the city water stand pipe in Council Grove Kansas when a windlass knocked him from a scaffold into the 75 foot deep tank. He was at work on the pipe when the accident occurred today.
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Council Grove
Kan
Joe Milton Austin
Wichita
Communications Board Attacks NBC over Mae West Eve Skit
The communications commission today sharply criticized the National Broadcasting company and 59 stations that aired the Mae West Don Ameche Adam and Eve feature the night of December.
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Washington
the Communications Commission Today
National Broadcasting Company
Ford Men Back to Work After Short Layoff
Ford Motor Company announced 10000 employees laid off December 23 will be recalled to work Monday. During the layoff period fewer than 25000 of the 87000 normally employed at the Dearborn plant were idle, the company reported.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company Today
Dearborn
Troy Negro Sentenced to 20 Years for Murder
William Botts, a Negro, is sent to prison for 20 years after a jury found him guilty of second degree murder in the death of Edward Appleby. The incident arose from an argument over closing a gate in an orchard near here. District Judge C. W. Ryan imposed the sentence yesterday.
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Troy Negro
Troy
Kan
William Botts
Edward Appleby
C. W. Ryan
Botts
Will of Frederick McOwen Leaves $5,000 to Bootblack
The Philadelphia will records reveal Frederick McOwen left $5,000 to Joseph Gonelli the bootblack who shined his shoes daily for nearly fifty years. This bequest highlights a long relationship spanning decades ending in a sizable gift.
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Boothblack
Philadelphia
Frederick Mc- Owen
Joseph Gonelli
Mc- Owen
Free Smallpox Vaccinations Offered Daily at City Hall
Dr. J. R. Mott, city health superintendent, announced free smallpox vaccinations at the health department in city hall every day from 9 to 10 in the morning and 1 to 2 in the afternoon.
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J. R. Mott
City Health
Funeral for James G. Strong in Blue Rapids
Prominent Kansan and former congressman James G. Strong was honored in a funeral service in Blue Rapids on January 14. The Rev E L Skinner delivered the sermon and burial followed at Fairmount Cemetery.
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James G. Strong
Blue Rapids
Kan
Washington
E. L. Skinner
Fairmount Cemetery
Farmers to receive 1937 soil conservation checks
Liberal Kansas January 14. Four hundred thirty six Seward county farmers will get soil conservation checks totaling 106000 dollars within the next few days. Checks reached the farm bureau office yesterday.
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Kan
Seward County
Farm Bureau
Wise Spending Drives General Federation Movement
Washington report notes officers of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs launching a mass movement for thoughtful and wise spending to end the business recession. The organizers aim to promote prudent budgeting and economic steadiness nationwide.
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Washington
Fficers
General Federation of Women 3 Clubs
Three Hanged in Louisiana Bank Holdup Case
In New Orleans on January 14, Joseph Ugarte, Van Owen Cauche aged 29, and Anthony Dallao aged 33 were executed by hanging in the noon hour for the murder of a bank guard during a $3100 robbery.
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Joseph Ugarte
van Owen Cauche
Anthony Dallao
December perfect attendance and spelling honors listed
The article lists students with perfect attendance in December across grades five to six, first and second, and third and fourth, naming Marilyn Bahnmaier, Paul Bradley, June Steinmetz, Charles Worley, Lois Jean Henninger, Jack Worley, Arthur Shaffer, Billy Wingfield, Lester Traxler, Betty Cole, Paul Eichman, Jim Norpeood, Jerry Schmitt, Lester Traxer, Roger Bahnmaier, Jackie Lee Hill, Bobby Steinmetz, Mary Garcia, Mary Jane Richardson, Betty Hibner, Mac Norwood, and others. It notes Roger Bahnmaier as December health contest winner and mentions Miss Roberta McClanahan of Topeka, Miss Helen McClanahan, and Clarence Reed of Lawrence.
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Marilyn Bahnmaier
Paul Bradley
June Steinmetz
Charles Worley
Thomas Garcia
Betty Crady
Dorothy Chicksfield
Frances Richardson
Geraldine Holloway
Jack Norwood
Homer Leslie
Lois Jean Henninger
Jack Worley
Arthur Shaffer
Billy Wingfield
Lester Traxler
Betty Cole
Paul Eichman
Jim Norpeood
Jerry Schmitt
Lester Traxer
Roger Bahnmaier
Jackie Lee Hill
Bobby Steinmetz
Mary Garcia
Mary Jane Richardson
Betty Hibner
Mac Norwood
Buddy Worley
Harry Heninger
Oscar Everett
Fae Carr
Billy Force
Roberta McClanahan
Topeka
Helen McClanahan
Clarence Reed
Lawrence
Lecompton Notes Big School Wins and Community News
The Lecompton Rural High School basketball team remains undefeated in the East Central league after a 46 to 16 win over Rossville with Gibbons scoring 22. The issue also covers hospital visits, fevers, family moves, quilting clubs, church activities, and social gatherings in Lecompton and nearby areas.
Sunday Dinner Guests at Several Local Homes
Sunday dinner guests included Mr. and Mrs. Emil Robinson of Lawrence and Mrs. Faye Slusser of Richland at the J. M. Taylor home. Also noted were Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maust with daughter Carol Lee and Mr. and Mrs. Earl Maust of Topeka visiting Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Maust for dinner.
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J. M. Taylor
Emil Robinson
Lawrence
Faye Slusser
Richland
Paul Maust
Paul
Maust
Carol Lee
Earl Maust
Topeka
C. H. Maust
Market News Chicago Close and Wall Street Roundup
Market report notes a mixed day with gains in utilities rails steels and aircrafts while bonds fade and commodities slide. Key stocks cited include Consolidated Edison North American Electric Power and Light Western Union Santa Fe U S Steel Chrysler GM Douglas Aircraft Boeing and U S Rubber amid broader trading activity and a Roosevelt press impression. Estimated livestock receipts forecast tomorrow: cattle 500 calves 100 hogs 100 sheep none.
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Electric Power and Light
Western Union
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U. S. Steel
Chrysler
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Douglas Aircraft
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American Can
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George Presgrove
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Utah
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