Republicans Signaling Activity in 1936 Bid
Washington July 30 The Republican party pressures toward a 1936 bid grow as Senator Hastings declares no compromise with the New Deal and Henry Fletcher urges a conservative midwestern presidential nominee. Fletcher argues planned economy must be blocked to preserve the constitution with Hastings favoring a western candidate and noting eastern bias.
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Washington
LPI
Declard
Middle West
Hastings
R-Del
Henry P. Fletcher
Fletcher
Roosevelt
Herbe
Hoover
Kiwanis Picnic Draws Lawrence Topeka Members
Thirty seven Lawrence Kiwanis club members plus wives attended an interclub picnic and meeting yesterday at Gage park Topeka. Five Manhattan members and about 50 from Topeka joined in horseshoe pitching and other sports before a shelter house dinner. Bert Nash displayed notable skill during the activities.
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Lawrence Kiwanis Club
Gage Park
Topeka
Manhattan
Bert Nash
Lawrence Club
Shelter House
Lynch mob kills axe-slayer near Louisburg
A 25 year old Black man described as the axe slayer of Franklin county farmer C J Stokes was fatally harmed by a mob that dragged him from officers and hanged him from an oak tree half a mile away. Patrols and guards sought the mob as the incident followed the severing of Stokes head. A public safety crowd and injuries were reported. A picnic is planned for August 5.
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Louisburg
N. C
Sweat Ward
C. J. Stokes
Franklin County
National Guard Company
J. T. Moore
Stokes
Lawrence Vocational Agriculture Alumni Picnic at State Lake
The Lawrence High School Vocational Agriculture Alumni Association will hold a picnic at Tanoxie State Lake on Tuesday evening August 5 replacing the regular monthly meeting. The event begins at 5 30 with Howard Gregory in charge of a program featuring musical numbers and entertainment.
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Lawrence High School Vocational Agriculture Alumni Association
Tonganoxie State Lake
The
State Lake
Howard Gregory
Test Your Knowledge Quiz Headlines From Classified Pages
Seven trivia questions cover burial sites of a British Unknown Soldier, Wisconsin’s largest city, Joe Penner’s birthplace, the Panama Canal Zone malaria cure, Mount Hamilton’s observatory, the meaning of chutney, a nine sided polygon, a mosque tower, conchology, and the largest anthropoid ape in forest habitats.
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Wisconsin
Joe Penner
Panama
Canal Zone
Mount Hamilton
Cal
Kaw Valley Potato Harvest Delayed by Weather
Digging of Kaw valley potatoes stalls awaiting rain or cooler weather as two thirds of a carload showed red decay before shipping to Minnesota. Kansas shipped 536 carloads versus Missouri 747. remaining crop could add about 200 more cars. Max yield 200 bushels per acre, average 100, minimum 40. Local price 45 cents per hundred.
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Kaw Valley
Minnesota
Kansas
Missouri
Sacramento
Miss Beltz to Sing With KU Orchestra Tonight
Miss Mary Louise Beltz, contralto soloist with the University of Kansas summer session orchestra, is renowned in Lawrence for a rich powerful voice. Ottawa native, she led in high school music, won top ratings at Emporia State festival, and excelled in Atwater Kent contests. She studied under Jennie Schultz and Irene Peabody, and has sung with the Westminster A Cappella choir and KU symphony under Karl Euersteiner.
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Mary Louise Beltz
University
Lawrence
Ottawa
Kan
Ottawa High School
Emporia
Atwater Kent
Jennie Schultz
Kansas City
University of Kansas
Irene Peabody
Fine Arts
Westminster A Cappella
D. M. Swarthout
University Symphony Orchestra
Karl Euersteiner
Westminster A Cappella Choir
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
Kansas Ty
Death of W. N. Spear at Standard Life office
The Standard Life Association reports the sudden death of W. N. Spear, recently elected vice-president after the death of John N. Tolson. Spear, a Baltimore native, had served 30 years as a personnel man with Standard Oil. S.S. Baty and Martin Miller travel to Baltimore for the funeral set for Wednesday.
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Standard Life Association
W. N. Spear
John N. Tolson
Baltimore
Standard Life
S.S. Baty
Martin Miller
Fort Scott
Kan
Spear
Standard Oil Company
Wichita widow and child witness deadly motel double murder
In Kansas City a Wichita woman Mrs. Iva Mae Stull 30 was shot to death while her ten year old daughter slept in the same room. Frank Bohatch 39 of Great Bend shot them and then killed himself. The child Catherine Mildred Stull found the bodies and alerted hotel staff. Police found $3 and $1.35 in cash. Catherine was placed with public welfare.
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Kansas City
UPI
Iva Mae Stull
Wichita
Frank Bohatch
Great Bend
Catherine Mildred Stull
Phillips
Bohatch
Norse route by air crew leaves for Greenland
Thor Solberg anish American and Paul Oscanyan Armenian American depart from Julianehaab in Liev Erikson at 11:15 a m G M T to trace the Norse explorer’s route to East Greenland. The flight aims to cross the ocean in easy stages.
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Greenland
Copenhagen
P—Thor Solberg
Paul Oscanyan
Liev Erikson
Julianehaab
East Greenland
Newsee
Cool Wave Halts Heat Relief Fails in Kansas
Topeka reports a temporary northwest cool breeze but heat persists across Kansas with temperatures near or above 100 degrees for two more days. Meteorologists forecast limited relief, with night lows around 65 to 78 in northern and southern areas.
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Topeka
Prairies
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Goodland
Havre
Mont
Tno
Kansas City
St. Louis
Central States
South Dakota
Mitchell
Lawrence Scouts Return After Six Weeks Camping
Lawrence youths conclude a week at mp Naish ending the six weeks camping season. James Boyce Billy Joe Dill and Ed Bodine earned honor camper for Scout craft. Boyce led swimming among 500 plus Scouts this summer. Other locals in camp included Bob Polson Justus Frederick Reed Whetstone Buddy Herriman and more under Earl K Behrend and Robert Dill who led waterfront activities.
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Lawrence
Mp Naish
James Boyce
Billy Joe Dill
Ed Bodine
Scout Boyce
Bob Polson
Justus
Frederick
Robert Carman
Reed Whetstone
Buddy Herriman
Harry Frazee
Warren Springer
LeRoy Durban
James van Sickle
Allen Creel
Dick Keene
Mahlon Miller
George Learnard
Larry Osmond
Grover Denlanger
Edwin Burgess
William Johnson
Earl K. Behrend
Robert Dill
Deaths and Funerals Bert S. Sanders 62
Bert S. Sanders aged 62 died yesterday at his home seven miles southwest of Lawrence. Funeral services planned for Wednesday at 10 am from Rumsey Funeral home with Rev Charles Thomas officiating. Burial in Clinton cemetery. Survived by wife two sons James L Sanders of Lawrence and Bert R Sanders of Baldwin one sister Mrs Theodore Elm of Worden a cousin Miss Kelly and two granddaughters.
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Bert S. Sanders
Lawrence
Rumsey
Charles Thomas
Clinton Cemetery
James L. Sanders
Bert R. Sanders
Baldwin
Theodore Elm
Worden
Miss Kelly
Final Musical Vespers Will Be Sunday Evening
The final musical vespers on the summer session calendar occurs Sunday evening at 7 o clock in the University Auditorium. Laurel Everette Anderson opens with organ, the university string quartet plays Beethoven Op. 18 No. 2, a string trio with Ruth Orcutt Waldemar Geltch and D. M. Swarthout performs Arensky Elgie, Gelich with Robert Ledore perform a Bourree, Alice Moncrieff sings contralto, Irene Peabody and Meribel Moore offer a sacred duet, Rev. Robert A. Hunt gives a short talk, and the program closes with the Dohnanyi Quintette.
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University
Laurel Everette Anderson
Ruth Orcutt
Waldemar Geltch
D. M. Swarthout
Arensky
Waldemar Gelich
Robert Ledore
Bourree
Albert Stoessel
Alice Moncrieff
Irene Peabody
Meribel Moore
Robert A. Hunt
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Dohnanyi
Confession Claims Former Dancer Killed Ervin Lang Alone
Chicago reports assistant state’s attorney Charles Dougherty said Evelyn Smith a former burlesque dancer confessed early today to killing Ervin Lang a Chicago grocery clerk He said she carried out the crime July 6 alone with help from her husband Harry Jung then threw Lang’s body into a Hammond Indiana swamp The confession followed questioning and confrontation with Lang’s mother in law Blanche Dunkel who had alleged she hired Smith for $500 with $100 paid and later corroborated by Dunkel after her arrest Officials said Dunkel accused Smith in jealousy over Lang’s attentions and that Jung waited in a car nearby shaking during the admission
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Chicago
Charles Ss. Dougherty
Evelyn Smith
Ervin Lang
Harry Jung
Hammond
Ind
Dougherty
Thomas Kelly
Blanche Dunkel
Vics. Smith
Dunkel
Lang
Smith
Mystery Mule, Cape Cod Garage Note, and 102 Degree Day
A mule on west Fifth street ran out of gasoline and lay in the paring until the Buick trouble car arrived to tow it home under its own power. A Lawrence woman builds a Cape Cod garage to suit her house’s stubborn midwest style. A railroad switch near American Service Ice costed wheels off the track, then work crews realigned the engine. County clerk’s floor leveling begins as a KERC project with workers in the corridor. The August American Legion Monthly shows Neuvilly France church used as a dressing station in WWI, a photo with Soldiers near the Ar gonne forest dated Sept 25 1918. Petitions filed for temp injunction on hog tax collections in Chicago. Temperature hit 102 degrees briefly before easing.
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Buick
American Legion Monthly
Neuvilly
France
Harry 8
Greee
New Hampshire Street
110Th Sanitary
Greg
Argonne Forest
U S Expresses Sympathy on Religious Freedom
Washington on July 30 expressed American sympathy for religious freedom and liberty of conscience worldwide in a letter from Acting Secretary of State William Phillips. He replied to Jewish organizations protesting Nazi persecutions in Germany, reaffirming commitment to universal religious liberty and noting pending German protests over anti Nazi demonstrators in New York. The department will discuss with New York officials to pursue action against perpetrators.
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Washington
William Phillins
State Department
Legad
Germany
Phillips
American Jewish Committee
American Jewish Congress
B’nai Brith
Jewish Labor Committee
Bremen
New York
Hudson River
Three Bandits Confess Robbery in Iowa Bank Case
Lansing Kan July 30 UPR Paul Gruber said three bandits confessed to Sunday robbery of Pioneer State Bank at Sergeant Bluff Iowa. Suspects Howard Vernon 27 Larry Kruse 24 John Meade 19. Vernon and Kruse to be turned over to Iowa, Meade to Nebraska for kidnapping cases. Meade and Kruse allegedly consented to plead guilty to robbing Grogman of 18 dollars, a ten to twenty one year term. Kidnapping charges not filed in Grogman case per Kansas law.
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Lansing
Kan
Ackeman
Fairbury
Hooper
Neb
Blue Springs
Frank Stone
State Highway Patrol
Meade
Kruse
Grogman
Smith
Kansas
Dissolution of the Steel Helmet group and Saar youth ban
Berlin reports the Saxon interior minister ordered the dissolution of the Steel Helmet veterans across Saxony for state violations. In the Saar governor Buerckel bans confessional youth groups and orders sports political and military activities halted. Police chief Lingen of Cologne is replaced. In Kalgan, German journalist Herbert Mueller, kidnapped three weeks ago, reaches Paochang. Gareth Jones remains in captors’ hands awaiting ransom. Authorities in Britain seek contact with kidnapers.
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Berlin
Veterans’ Organization
Thruout
Saxony
Joseph Buerckel
Saar
Lingen
Cologne
Storm
Hoevel
Kalgan
Inner Mongolia
Herbert Mueller
Paochang
Here
Gareth Jones
Manchester Guardian
David Lloyd George
Senate to Explain 275 Million Tax Bill To Roosevelt Plan
Washington reports the Senate finance committee called Secretary Morgenthau to appear to explain the 275 million dollar tax bill and why it omits Roosevelt’s proposed graduated corporation levies and higher surtaxes. Hearings began today as L H Parker outlined that the House bill narrowed the executive’s graduated levy and included an excess profits tax as a fairness test. In other news, McPherson Kansas received a 68 thousand dollar increase from the PWA for a power plant project upgrade.
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Washington
Senate Finance Committee
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Senate Committee
L. H. Parker
Joint Congressional Committee On Taxation
Recommended Projects Allotment by Board
The Works Progress Administration board in Washington on July 30 recommended $370,056,258 in relief funds for a wide range of projects. The package includes $200,000,000 for the Civilian Conservation Corps and $28,000,000 for the National Youth Administration to aid students through useful work. The plan proposes monthly averages for aid: $62 for 250,000 high school students, $15 for 100,000 college students, and $30 for 4,000 graduates. It also sets aside $95,000,000 for August continuation of direct relief and work relief by the relief administration.
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Washington
UPI
Civilian Conservation Corps
Roosevelt
Works Allotment Board
National Youth Administration
Relief Administration
He Meets the Stranger in Fort Smith Court
Fort Smith Arkansas July 30 Ch George Weaver faced Municipal Judge James Gallaher for drunken driving and court noted a prior incident after a wild Tide event led to jail. Weaver was fined one hundred ten dollars and ninety days.
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Fort Smith
Ark
George Weaver
James Gallaher
Gallaher
Weaver
Localgossip and farming notes from Oskaloosa week
OsKaloosa updates include visits from Gladys Wellman Smelter and other relatives, Lawrence trips by Mrs Burnette and Miss Juanita Rumbaugh, and Wayne county figures. County commissioners set August 1 audits, threshing yields report wheat 16 bushels, oats 50, Ned Rice cites best wheat 26. Social Helpers Club hosted by Mrs E J Pentz with music readings and refreshments.
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Charles Evans
Lloyd Morris
Hoyt
J. L. Cleland
Merle Whitlow
J. L. Harcourt
Whitlow
Marysville
Court House
Ralph Newman
Emmett Thompson
Jesse Lowe
Nutwood Farm
Joe Hannah and Sons
Ned Rice
Juanita Rumbaugh
Lawrence
Pleasant Grove Threshers Feeding Equals Mrs Messer Aid
Mrs N D Messer assisted Mrs Virgil Landis in cooking for threshers Wednesday. Wanda May Turner fell on cement Thursday with injuries not serious, reported by Mrs Ella Daniels of High Prairie.
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N. D. Messer
Virgil Landis
Wanda May Turner
Ella Daniels
High Prai
Ihe
John Daniels
Pleasant Grove
Wieble
Flory
Jack Dillon
Patsy
Zella Turner
Centropolis
Bill Turner
Carl Peterson
C. N
Frank Deay
Joe Karnes
David Kesser
Kenneth
Irene
High Prairie
Bill Porter
Billy
Roscoe Daniels
Marie Daniels
Robert Phillips
Lawrence
Virgil Bond
Kermit Wilson
Pleasant Grove Community Threshing and Visits Report
Residents and visitors in Pleasant Grove share meals and helpers during threshing season. Notables include I. 8. Flory’s crew, Zella Turner from Centropolis, and many family gatherings with Daniels, Flory, Porter, Turner, and Bond households. Travel touches Topeka, Lawrence, Kansas City, and Missouri as neighbors assist with harvesting and meals.
ONeal District Visitors Note Family Ties In Midland
Fred Ousdahl of Midland and Elwyn Wier of Indianapolis called at the Wier home Monday. Wier grew up in Knowledge Hill and returns after 20 years. Kansas City visitors, Albert Taylor and son, joined Sunday guests of Mrs. Taylor's brother, J. B. Wells and Mrs. Wells. Sarcoxie Farm Bureau meeting postponed due to threshing. next luncheon at Mrs. Ethel Haley’s home at 1 pm. date to be announced. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Young and...
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Fred Ousdahl
Midland
Elwyn Wier
Indianapolis
C. Hi
Ethel Haley
Carl Young
Local Family and Friends Gather for Weekend Visits
Families from Sigel Pleasant Grove and Lawrence visit the Clark and Champion homes. Guests include Mr. and Mrs. William Haley Jr Rosa Fay Edith Clovis Walter Johnson from Kansas City and several others. Meetings at the Lee Coffman home and other local gatherings are noted with multiple social visits.
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Sigel
R. L. Clough
Pleasant Grove
Clark Farmer Home
William Haley
Rosa Fay
Haley
Jessie Hulce
Lawrence
Oscar Tenpenny
William Middleton
Walter Johnson
Kansas City
Edith
Clovis
Donald Bower
Frederick Earl
Virginia Ruth
Fred Champion
Valley Grove
Freda Thompson
Marcelene
Leslie Clough
John Winslow
Tonganoxie
Harold Champion
Joan
McLouth
Guy Halil
Viola
Beulah
F. H. Champion
May Smith
Darlene
Pearl Onsdahl
Veola May
William Haley, Jr
Gilbert Hulce
Lee Coffman
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