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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1935
Page
4
The piece notes Austrian royalty restoration chatter and a Chicago group of self styled radicals discussing forming a new party. It warns third party movements fail when discordant blocs lack a shared program or broad following, despite a desire for change.
The administration weighs broadening the tax basis to share revenue across all income groups and balancing the federal budget. Milk ordinance debates loom as consumers seek safe, healthy dairy. Addis Ababa asks if the Kellogg peace pact still bears weight for international affairs.
Old Home Town crowds gather for Defense Day parade at 1 PM and a 2:30 PM patriotic address by Fred Veiland of Topeka at Woodlawn Park. Evening boxing, dancing and fireworks draw many. local fires and travel notes include school moves and births.
Twenty five years ago, a delightful luncheon was hosted by Mrs. Clarence Hall at Tennessee Street home for her niece Miss Charlotte Boutwell of Denver. Jowers were laid for twelve. Invitations were issued for the wedding of Miss Nell Everett of Fort Scott and Mr. Asa Richard Coleman on July 20 at the bride's home. Everett graduated from K U in 1909 and has been teaching in Leavenworth. Coleman is a prosperous young farmer with a California road farm. Mr and Mrs Charles Sparr and continues.
Forty years ago, five applications for mobile licenses were submitted as Mayor Bighop's ordinance requires 18 as age threshold. Names include Don Morrison Julian Bueker Rot Fitzpatrick Jerry Simmons and backers. Other items note local moves, new machine shop openings, and residents planning trips to Colorado and Oregon.
Tales from several towns recount odd incidents. A Pleasant, Pa man wakes to theft of his store teeth and eight dollars. Danville, Pa seeks work for an "identition 2" inventor with unmarketable ideas. Pittsburgh reports hot Clover Road over coal vein, steam shovels at work. St Joseph notes a farmer dragging a suspected thief for a three-quarter mile chase. the man is a former Nebraska convict. Orville Kansas City, bedfast 17 years, attends a municipal band concert carried to the park in his bed.
Bendane Furnell Mars arrested Kenneth Howard of Klamath Falls after charging him with selling whiskey to an Indian through prison bars. Officer Marr stated the sale occurred while the Indian was jailed. Mrs. S. M. Paddleford died in Manhattan, Kansas, after a long Kansas State College tenure.
Laurie Moore’s employer Mark Albery, an airplane maker, is keen on her. Laurie travels to Liverpool to visit her showgirl sister Gladys, but a chance remark by a stranger on the train angers her. The man later informs Albery that Laurie is Rex Moore, Laurie’s husband who reportedly perished in a Pacific crash.
Rex Moore, thought dead, reappears in Finland after surviving a typhoon near the Marquesas and an early flight to Fiji. He reveals a year of recovery with a yacht crew in California and a life lived under secrecy. He returns seeking a fresh start and asks Albery about his wife, now working for the London office, revealing she believed herself a widow during his absence.
Rip explains he wandered off after being mistaken for a stray and taken to a beach by helpers. He traveled by automobile and train with the leash still attached, hoping to reach home. The pursuing dogs release him, commend his pluck, and guide him toward a shortcut to the railway, as Rip vows to complete the journey on foot.
Dr Iago Galdston reviews somnambulism once feared as mystical possession. It is now seen as a symptom of neurosis, with sleep walkers pantomiming dream actions. Treatment centers on thorough mental activity examination and underlying causes.
Albert A. Sutton, a Wichita high school journalism and printing teacher, will supervise the University Daily Kansan next year. He brings eight years of newspaper work and has taught at Cherryvale and in Wichita, with stints at Emporia Gazette and Larned Tiller and Toiler. The Kansan will remain a morning publication.
At Erie Kansas July 5 a meeting of 75 farmers landowners and three federal engineers launched a federal flood control effort for the Neosho and Verdigria valleys. Cant. Hans Cramer led the session stating reasonable projects would be considered and a Neosho flood district survey would start next week JC Baldwin to direct field work may set Parsons headquarters. Twenty seven farmers sought federal aid to rebuild levees damaged in floods while river channel cleaning dominated discussions.
Tom Robertson, arrested Wednesday night at his operation west of Reno, was released on $500 bond pending trial at Leavenworth on liquor charges. Officers seized a case of alcohol and a case of whisky from his home. Robertson pleads not guilty. arraignment set a July 15 trial.
Washington reports J. J. Bernet president of the Chesapeake & Ohio and Pere Marquette railroads died at his Cleveland home after a brief illness He was 67 years old and had risen from a minor employee to chief operating officer of the Van Swearingen railway properties in the east
Firemen answered a call from Varsity Cleaners at 1405 Massachusetts Street after sparks in the equipment room frightened workers. No damage occurred and officials reported the incident as under control.
Saturday night radio across WREN WDAF KMBC lists multiple hourly shows from 5:30 to 12:00. Programs include talk, operatic gems, concerts, orchestras, dance bands, Gospel and variety segments with notable names like Carmey Roselle Grant Park Lincoln Tavern and Lee Gordon.
Kansas City July 6 three bandits robbed two Florida horse buyers Edwin Hague and Rufus Goff at the Robert E Lee hotel. A diamond ring worth 2600, 120 in cash and 159 from the hotel desk were taken. Three women Billie James Jean Willis Florence Staback and Ray Willis were held. The men had ridden with two women before the intrusion and fled in a car.
The Chamber of Commerce says midsummer dullness is less than last year and signs of improvement by early fall may appear within weeks. Its review notes that detailed evidence for the first five months of 1935 shows general business activity remained steady and higher than the same period in 1934.
In Detroit on July 6 Merton Ward Goodrich a man described as a parricidal musician and his limping wife were brought into police headquarters after confessing to the brutal trunk murder of year old Lillian Gallaher. The pair were hurried through Union Station and into a patrol wagon for processing.
Rev. C. J. Knox will preach at Centenary Methodist church at Fourth and Elm streets tomorrow at 11 o'clock. Sunday school is scheduled for 10. Classified ad offers odd and ends for sale to raise extra cash.
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