Emigration Proposed by German Jewish Council
Berlin reports a German Jewish council resolution urging emigration for Jews strained by Nazi policy. It calls to open Palestine and overseas routes, ease immigration laws, and halt curtailment of Jewish economic privileges while noting looming steps to liquidate Jewish life in Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
German Jewish Council
Palestine
Leo Baeck
Cuncil
Lowry
Gee
Economics
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Gore
Warnbuerg
Die Deutsche Volkswirtschaft
Gun that killed Mitchell linked to shotgun used by Hance
Jefferson City January 15 Captain R A ol salt oe Biatg patrol said the shotgun found at Norman E Mitchell’s Seneca Mo home was the weapon that fired the shell that killed Mitchell. Constables Ray Hance and Logan Hunt were shot during the confrontation with Hance, who testified he was shot in the hand and then shot Smith. Mitchell was slain December 28 by a shotgun blast through a basement window.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
R. Af Ol Salt
Carl Smith
Ray “E
Hance
Seneca
Norman E. Mitchell
Smith
Logan
Hunt
Ant
Setne
Mitchell
Wahl Camp marks thirteenth anniversary gathering
The Joseph A Wahl camp U S W V held its thirteenth anniversary meeting on Thursday night January 13 with eleven past commanders present including C H Simpson W Owens O J Lane Frank Jones W W Hulton F B Dodds C R Dicker W M Smith C Q Winters Simpson Taylor and M Stone Ed Mitchell commander in 1929 died January 24 1984 a framed picture of all past commanders was presented to the sea by F E Jones and V Mith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Wahl
U.S
W.V
C. H. Simpson
Oy W. Owens
O. J. Lane
Frank Jones
W. W. Hulton
F. B. Dodds
C. R. Dicker
W. M. Smith
Simpson Taylor
M. Stone
Ed Mitchell
F. E. Jones
V. Mmith
Two Men Plead Guilty in Coal Theft Case
Lincoln Johnson Jr and John Falls were arrested by Union Pacific officers on January 12 for stealing 100 pounds of coal. They pleaded guilty in Milton Beach justice court and were ordered to serve 30 days in the county jail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln Johnson, Jr
John Falls
Union Pacific
Union Pacific Railroad
Justice ‘Court
Milton Beach
De Valera Heads to London for Talks With Chamberlain
Ireland's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera and ministers travel to London on January 15 for meetings with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Topics include Irish unity and trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Burlingame Couple Wed at Court House
Judge James Jolly and Edna Mae True, both of Burlingame Kansas, were married yesterday at the courthouse by Probate Judge L H Menner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Jolly
Edna’Mae True
Burlingame, ”.Kan
Court House
L. H. Menner
Test Your Knowledge and Quick Quiz Puzzles
A fragmented quiz asks about historic battles like South Mountain and the best instrument lyre type. It seeks owners of Redskink and uses terms like pro-foot nicheity. It questions sun halo as corona, Montana capital Helena, NAM as National Association of Manufacturers, William Krisin birth state, and who served as U S Food Administrator in World War I.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Mountain
United
Montana
Santa Fe Opens 1938 With New Streamlined Passenger Locos
The Santa Fe received six high speed passenger locomotives from Baldwin, including one streamlined unit, for Chicago to La Junta service. The 4-6-4 engines haul a 21 000 gallon water and 7 000 gallon fuel oil tender with roller bearings on all axles. Engine 3460 features a steel streamlined shroud with a bullet nose that preserves rod and motion access and the driver's view.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe Railway
Baldwin Locomotive Works
Chicago
la Junta
Colorado
Homeless tom tom may be sent to Kansas City
The Kansas University drum known as the homeless tom tom, prize for the Kansas Missouri game, may be moved to neutral ground in Kansas City after discussions between KU and Missouri alumni. The drum, lacquered today, has rested in the KU athletic office since the scoreless Thanksgiving game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri University Alumni Association
K.U
Missouri Alumni Association
Carson E. Cowherd
Tiger Alumni
Kansas City
William L. Butler
K.U. Club of
George “Dumpy” Bowles
Lysle Kendig
Ed Elbel
First annual Jeffersonian Duad party planned tonight
The Union ballroom hosts the first annual Jeffersonian Duad with members from Phi Kappa Psi and Phi Gamma Delta fraternities attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Ballroom
Phi Kappacy
Phi Gamma Delta
Chancellor Lindley to Speak at Three Kansas Talks
Chancellor E H Lindley will address Dodge City Rotary January 24 and will speak at Great Bend high school January 25 afternoon. He will dedicate the new Russell high school building that evening. Cars lined the campus at K U this morning amid a nonofficial convention in the library, ahead of final exams next Thursday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Lindley
Dodge City
Rotary Club
Great Bend High School
Russell
Watson Library
K. U
Campus News Roundup Highlights Injuries and Appointments
Last week at the university Nancy Newlin Mary Lou Schmierer and Elinore Shockley were injured in a car crash near Eudora Kansas. Kansas State beat Kansas State 33 to 21 at Manhattan. Gwinn Henry was reappointed athletic director by the Board of Regents. Robert Grubb Newton lost a left leg to amputation. A group of coed chorines was selected for the Sigma Delta Chi musical revue. Bernard Poco Frazier received a Carnegie Foundation grant to pursue sculpture. William H Shoe maker named new Peace language department head effective September 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Campus News
Nancy Newlin
Mary
Lou Schmierer
Elinore
Shockley
Eudora
Kansas
State
Manhattan
Gwinn Henry
Board’ of Regents
Robert Grubb
Newton
Bernard “Poco” Frazier
Carnegie Foundation
William H.shoemaker
Founders in Storm London May Have Lost Skipper
A gale in the English and Irish channels battered a 355-ton Fermanagh and another small cargo vessel. The Fermanagh grounded and sank. Pembroke: ire. Seven crew and a passenger were rescued in a lifeboat. the captain is missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Fermanagh
Pembroke
Reed Named for Court Faces Mixed Political Response
The nomination of Stanley Reed to the court drew praise from McNary Burke and Vandenberg though House Republicans offered subdued remarks. The record notes Reed’s qualifications and the context of Roosevelt’s court enlargement plan. Separately, Erwin stated after a preliminary hearing that nine people were bound to the grand jury in a dynamite case tied to Pikeville, with Harmon Gouge’s family suffering injuries and deaths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McNary
Oregon
Reed
Senate
Burke
D.-Neb
Roosevelt
Hugo L. Black
Vandenberg
R. -Mich
House
Taber
R.-N.y
Ulysses Walling
Pikeville
Tenn
White Tollett
Church Lester
Erwin
Sonia
Luena
Roma Jean Gouge
Harmon Gouge
J. M. Moreland
White
Crave Tollett
Walker
Lawrence Student Graeber in Catalonia with Spanish unit
Kenneth Graeber son of Mrs G A Graeber and a University of Kansas student writes from Catalonia describing life with the Abraham Lincoln battalion in Spain. He notes warm weather and no snow as Don Henry, also a KU student, was killed on the front.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kenneth Graeber
G. A. Graeber
Abraham Lincoln
Spain
Catalonia
Graeber
K.U
Don Henry
Confess Dynamite Killing Trio From Elizabeth Town
Assistant District Attorney General Dennis Erwin said two men, Lee Walker and another, signed detailed confessions to the dynamite killings of three little girls last week in Elizabeth town Tennessee. The disclosures came as authorities continued to probe the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabethtown
Tenn
Dennis Erwin
Erwin
Lee Walker
Deaths and Funerals of Mrs Sa die Stroud in Lawrence
Mrs Sadie Stroud of Redfield Indiana received word of the death of her sister Mrs Sa die Stroud formerly of Lawrence who died this morning. Survived by husband two sons Charles and Robert one daughter Loretta Spicer Council Bluffs Iowa three sisters Spray Husted and Shultz all of Lawrence and two brothers Charles Jones Fowler Cole Funeral arrangements not yet completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sadie Stroud
Chester Spray
Redfield
Lawrence
Stroud
Charles
Robert
Loretta Spicer
Council Bluffs
Spray
Charles Husted
G. R. Shultz
Charles Jones
Route 3
St Jones
Fowler
Cole
Francis M. Browning Dead at 59 in Oak Hill Area
Francis M. Browning aged 59 died at his home on Massachusetts Street Friday evening. He is survived by his wife Emily Browning three sisters Mrs. R A Spahr Lawrence Mrs J O Lane Oakland Calif and Mrs Harry Martin El Monte Calif and one brother Clyde Browning Lawrence. Funeral arrangements will be announced later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis M. Browning
Massachusetts Street
Oak Hill
Browning
Emily Browning
R. A. Spahr
Lawrence
J. O. Lane
Oakland
Calif
Harry Martin
el Monte
Clyde Browning
Revelations Predicted After Attempt On Harry Raymond
A. Grigham Rose, attorney for the reform investigator Harry Raymond, predicts a sensational reveal of evidence linking Los Angeles vice and corruption over 25 years. Raymond, injured by a bomb blast while starting his car, is listed in fairly good condition as hospital attendants report. He says four people in Seattle, San Diego and New York hold documents and have been asked to come to Los Angeles with the information Raymond entrusted to them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Harry Raymond
Reform Group
A. Grigham Rose
Rose
Raymond
Seattle
San Diego
New York
Wheat on Kansas farms doubles stocks in 1939
Topeka January 15 stocks of wheat on Kansas farms on January 1 totaled 31,610,000 bushels, more than double the holdings a year earlier. The report from the federal and state departments of agriculture also shows corn stocks well above last year while oats on farms were about average for January 1. The on hand wheat was about 20 percent of 1937 production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Federal
State Departments of Agriculture
Southwestern Bell to take over Kansas exchanges
Ernest E. Blincoe, chairman of the state corporation commission, said the commission authorized Southwestern Bell to take over all Kansas property of United Telephone and Spandia Telephone. The property includes 55 exchanges across western Kansas, with Abilene Concordia Manhattan and Salina among the locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Topeka
Ernest E. Blincoe
State Corporation Commission
Kansas
United Telephone Company
Spandia Telephone Company
West Land
Blincoe
Abilene
Concordia
Manhattan
Salina
Republicans Side With Opponents of Cloture on Lynching Bill
Washington reports Senator McNary of Oregon rejected any move to cap debate on the anti lynching bill and warned Republicans would oppose cloture. Southern senators pressed for extended debate while House members clashed over item veto authority in appropriation bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McNary
Oregon
Barkley
Kentucky
McKellar
D-Tenn
Senate
Connally
D-Tex
House Appropriations Committee
Independent Offices
House
Winthrop W. Aldrich
Chase National Bank of New York
J. D. A. Morrow
Pittsburgh Coal Company
Roosevelt
Housing Conference
Beck says Wyandotte county office discrepancies minor
State Attorney General Clarence V. Beck said the Wyandotte county office discrepancies found were minor and no legal action will be taken at this time. Steps have been taken to correct the issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Jan
Clarence V. Beck
Wyandotte
Beck
New Tax Proposals From Washington Hearings Begin
Washington hearings on the new revenue plan start with Treasury undersecretary Magill endorsing proposed tax changes. He calls for a constitutional amendment taxing securities like other income and proposes combining estate and gift taxes. The panel suggests phasing out ten excise levies to recoup revenue via higher income and estate taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Roswell -Magill
Treasury
House
Ways and
Magill
Baldwin News Social Roundup Reflects Local Ties
Local columns note Prof Frank E Wolf transacted college business in Cameron Mo. Visitors include Mr Mrs Virgil Wood Mrs Charles Beeks in Kansas City and Baldwin groups hosting gatherings at the Aus party home and the home of Mrs Clark. Miss Weiler funeral services held in Vinland and city park golf course project slated for Baldwin lake area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank E. Wolf
Cameron
Virgil Wood
Charles E. Beeks
Kansas City
Kensington Club
Dean Grace Irwin
South &Th Street
George McClintock
Overbrook
Lola Dyer
E. W. Hubskmann
Frances
Beth
Aus
W. J. Williams
Harold W. Guest
Ladies Aid
William M. Clark
Elton Peterger
R. J. McCabe
Lawrence
P.E.O
Nelson P. Horn
Earl Black
C. E. Beeks
Baldwin
Annie Weiler
Presbyterian Church
Vinland
Weiler
Bertha Weiler
Charles S. Anderson
Curtis R. Anderson
Seneca
S. C
Edith Lewis
McLean
N. Y
Baldwin Lake
Ray Riley
Works Progress Administration of Kansas
Beulah Helen Stewart
Horton
Federal Building
J. Lindsay
Miss Stewart
Younemocratic Club
Baker
James Naismith
Parent-Teacher’s Association
Byron Donmyer
Insecticidal Dust by Airplane Boosts Farm Efficiency
The article notes two advantages of aerial insecticide dusting speed and the up draft that returns dust to leaf undersides. It claims viability on fields as small as two acres and cites a Wisconsin field test where hybrid corn produced more ears and fewer nubbins than regular corn. Michigan State College describes cider filtration using enzyme, infusorial earth, and a 12 to 16 hour cool settling period, with initial refiltering of the first three gallons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Michigan State College
Baldwin News Highlights Local Deaths and Events
This week reports the death of Mrs. L Yauslin in Tulsa and notes Baldwin ties including the Yauslin jewelry business. The Burlington high school basketball team visits Baldwin to play the Bulldogs. Irvin L. Cowger will speak at the American Legion meeting. A 4 H club is being formed at Baldwin high school. A family reunion at the Tunin home brings relatives from Canada and Indiana. Theodore Christensen hosts a bridge gathering with local leaders. The Home Builders class holds a pot luck at Mrs. Lloyd Dunn’s. The Hopewell Country Club holds its first year meeting at Mrs. Charles McKinney’s, with guest speakers from local groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Yauslin
Victor Hurt
Tulsa
Oklo
Yauslins
Baldwin
Baker
Yauslin
Burlington High School
Bulldogs
Irvin L. Cowger
State Department
Bert Tunin
Swalwell
Alberta
Canada
Ora Sloan
RTE Nst
Robert Tunin
Carl Sloan
Kingman
Ind
George Newlin
Brown
Lewis Johnson
Edmond, Shirley
Marlin
Harlan
Lawrence
Perry Sowers
Theodore Christensen
Carl B. Butell
Merle Hitchcock
W. J.adriance
C. W. Ridgeway
Robert Marsh
First Methodist Sunday School
Lloyd Dunn
Floyd K. Riley
Hopewell Country Club
Charles McKinney
Nettie Puckett
Leonard Whitted
Club Meeting Notes Include Guest Mrs Puckett
Mrs Orville Puckett was a guest at a club gathering. On January 27 the group will meet at Mrs L C Bakers home and members are asked to respond to roll call by naming noted individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Orville Puckett
L. C. Baker
Kan
DeSoto speaker to address M E church Sunday
Desoto H E Julien of Olathe will speak at the M E church Sunday morning January 16. He previously spoke to a pleased audience and is expected to draw a large crowd again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Julien
Olathe
M. E
Julien
John Pratt
Kansas City
Harold Heary
Heary
Little Sorf
Robert Lee
Harry E. Miller
Jd. Coy
Lawrence
K.a.oklahoma
Herre
Ey Bridge-Club
Bertha Blaylock
C. W. Morse
C. G. Chambers
B. Taylor
W. E. Burch
Hattie Lake
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J. A. Wahl
Santa Fe
K.C
Stanley Reed
Court
F. C Allen
University of Kansas
Kansas City Ministerial Alliance
Goal-Smiths
Allen
Robert A. Hunt
First Methodist Church
Robert Slater
Independence
Slater
Central Junior High School
Louis Ludiow
D.-Ind
Mimi Horn
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Baldwin News
T. G. Fitch, Agcy
Mass
Hosford
Arnold
Sy Wizann Coure
THE
Michigan
Desoto
National Thrift
Lawrence National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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