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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1937
Page
4
A devotional verse from Colossians 2 6 7 emphasizes receiving Christ Jesus and walking in him. It urges believers to be rooted built up and established in faith with thanksgiving as they are taught.
Kansas House returns a rural voter registration bill to committee for study and rejects expanding it to additional counties. The piece argues registration for large rural precincts near cities would curb violations as cold weather and displacement strain the Ohio Valley flood response. The Red Cross mobilizes aid for refugees, urging broad agency support.
John L. Lewis said Roosevelt should intervene in the motor industry strike, shaping a labor deal as a payoff for services rendered last November. He argues a settlement is due, reflecting a backstage agreement between labor leaders and the administration, while critics warn the issue is minority attempts to impose collective bargaining on a willing majority.
Washington reports note attacks on Roosevelt’s alleged pressure to sway strikers and discuss the 1940 Democratic race. Eleanor Roosevelt signals a public role at the inauguration. Germany may seek colonies via Angola leases, a cheaper method than war. John Stutz retires as KERC chief after turning over assets worth nearly three million dollars to his successor, revealing the scale of the organization’s operations tied to New Deal money.
Old Home Town Charlie Chapin, film comedian, gives what he calls his final New York interview after a nervous breakdown. He calls his wife’s $4,000 weekly alimony demand ridiculous. Also: Dr Curt Rosenow named biometrist at Institute for Child Guidance in New York City. Babe Ruth signs First National film contract with Anna Q Nilssen as lead. open house marks Golden Wedding anniversary of Margaret Jones and William Allen Pine in Zionsville Indiana. operetta Carrie Comes to College at Liberty Memorial High School. Ruthie J Wilson property at 1327 Haskell Avenue sold for remodeling. PIO Founders Day banquet with Mt Pleasant Iowa remarks.
Twenty five years ago on Saturday January 23, Mr and Mrs E S Peckham left for an extended trip in the east. Mrs Pearson arrived from Holton to visit the Peckham residence as part of the observed society notices.
A fragment from Claude Callan's piece Poor Pa describes the Smiths and others debating car usage while helping load belongings into another vehicle. The dated language and dialect hint at a humorous rural scene reflecting 1930s perspectives and family dynamics.
Lawrence chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution elected officers for the year, led by Regent Agnes Thompson and secretary Fredo Barteldes. The article lists famous visitors to Lawrence and the University, including Horace Greeley in 1859, Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1867, and General Grant in 1868, noting the city’s historic ties and a forthcoming wedding of Hazel Willis to Sherman Wiggins on February 14.
Fort Worth? No. Forty years ago the column notes residents traveling to Kansas City and California, visitors from Danville and Minneapolis, a campus oratorical contest at Kansas University with Will McMurray winning first place, and local items on coal prospecting in Lecompton plus a sale on kid gloves at reduced prices.
Kansas Electric Power officials returned from a regional sales conference in Tulsa at the Mayo hotel. Attendees from Lawrence included George Mills president and others. executives from Leavenworth Emporia Parsons Bonner Springs Council Grove Eureka Madison and Cottonwood Falls also took part. Mills stayed in Tulsa for an executive conference.
A capital investment of $10,000 or more is viewed as necessary to assure a farmer a reasonably satisfactory income in Logan Utah. A study of farm record books at Utah State Agricultural College shows among 784 owner operators 592 earned $600 or less annually. Seventy percent of those with low earnings invested under $10,000.
Bigelow reads of Thorne Dryden’s arrest for the killing of Count Vronski after a confrontation at a club and at his apartment. Lawyer Lyman Strong visits Bigelow to relay Dryden’s account of their alibi and the night’s events as police probe.
A Lawrence newspaper notes multiple new books and authors. Rufus Rockwell Wilson outlines Western expansion figures like Lewis and Clark and Marcus Whitman, while Cecila Rudin assembles hymn stories. George Stewart’s Relentless soil and Renfrew in the Valley of Vanished Men are reviewed alongside Gone With the Wind’s house and film talks. Major authors Bromfield and Priestley announce works, as Stanislavski’s acting manual inspires theater audiences nationwide.
Rip sits in a upstairs room as the Puddle Muddlers stage a playful snow day. Christopher Columbus Crow wins a snowshoe race while Sweet Face slips, topples, and a snowball clash slows Top Notch. Snow forts, a beaked duck, a cave collapse, and a playful scolding end the game with Rip amused and loyal, praising ears and a dog heart.
Flashes of Life from Raleigh reports Joe Whitley a 23 year old truck driver had a .32 caliber bullet removed from behind his left ear yet the skull remained intact. He says he does not recall being shot. In New York Mrs. Alice Rankin seeks separation as her husband quit work a year ago after 58 years as a carpenter and the judge comments on long work life in a Brooklyn court.
A dense listing outlines Saturday evening radio programming across stations KNMB C WREN WDAF KMBC and others. Programs include theater light entertainment the NBC Home Symphony hour dinners and orchestral sets plus noted acts like Ed Wynn Herb Foote and Liz friends with multiple time slots across hours from 6 to 12. The schedule also notes later Sunday and Monday lineups with weather forecasts and headlines and odd train moose incident notes from Alaska.
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