Smoky Hill River floods threaten Salina area
Salina faces rising Smoky Hill River with Lindsborg crest at 32.5 feet and Bridgeport, Salina region cut off by water. River spills over two miles of farmland, tracks and highways while Bridgeport brims Venice like and towns brace for more flooding as dikes fail. The Missouri Pacific line floods 134 miles between Lindsborg and Bridgeport.
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Salina
Smoky Hill
Lindsborg
Tswollen
Kansas
McPherson
Bridgeport
Highway Department
Smoky Valley
Venice
Missouri Pacific
Showers Over State Bring Flood notes and temps
Topeka reports continued showers across the state with chances east and south tonight. Flood levels rise on the Solomon at Beloit and Saline at Tescott while Kaw tributaries feed Smoky Hill. Precipitation totals for the past 24 hours are listed and temps forecast to reach 80 to 85 degrees with lows 60s east and 55 to 60 west.
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Topeka
Chansan
S. D. Flora
Ederal
North Central
Beloit
Tescott
Smoky Hill
Salina
Neosho
Kansas
Iola
Oklahoma Line
Arkansas City
Wichita
Win-field
Hutchinson
Lindsborg
Elkhart
Goodland
St. Francis
Flora
Marie Wilkins Recital Tonight on KFKU
Lyric coloratura Marie Wilkins the wife of Prof. Joseph Wilkins of the K U music faculty will sing in a recital tonight at 7 45 over station KFKU The program includes Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Mozart in die Nachtigall Hubert Liebestad Tristan and Isolde Wagner.
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Marie Wilkins
Lyric-Coloratura
Ife
Joseph Wilkins
Ie K. U
KFKU
Test Your Knowledge Trivia on Classified Page Confusion
Fragmented questions cover geography naval terms state nicknames and baseball. Pairs ask land versus sea area ratios purpose of a centerboard in small boats and painted deserts in the southwest. Answers appear on the classified page.
Pearson to Pursue Master’s Degree at Kansas
Robert Greenlees Pearson plans to return to the University of Kansas next year to study for a master’s degree in English. He denies taking job offers despite publicity from his ghostwriting. He will likely travel to New York briefly before resuming studies.
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Robert Greenlees Pearson
University of Kansas
Bob
K.U
Pearson
New York
Bhase
Lawrence News Briefs Highlight Local Letters and Elections
Mrs Charles H Hornville of Chicago prepared an obituary draft for Santa Fe Magazine in Chicago. Jimmie Weede, long a Lawrence football figure, visits with his wife and five year old. he works as a peace officer with the U S southwestern reformatory at El Reno Okla. Liberty Memorial high school June calendar, drawn by Margaret Whitman and engraved by Richard Street, shows a boy with an umbrella and rubbers in a museum cabinet. Co Operative Club meets at Independent Laundry with a Dutch Lunch. officer nominations due next week. George Mason spoke on Cedar Point convention. County filings show Elmer Nichols Kanwaka Democrat committeeman. George S Smith Republican constable. H P Jones Republican committeeman. Jess Brooks Democrat committeeman. J G Jeffries notes a post office floating on the Kaw river but received a money order stamped U S S California N Y rather than a city name.
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Jimmie, Weede
Lawrence
Liberty Memorial High School
Margaret Whitman
Richard Street
Co-Operative Club
Independent Laundry
George Mason
Kansas City
Cedar Point
Elmer Nichols
Kanwaka Precinct
George S. Smith
North Fifth
H. P. Jones
Arkansas
Jess Brooks
Maine Street
J. G. Jeffries
Kaw River
California
New York
U. S. S. California
N. Y
Traffic Bonds Forfeited In Police Court
Several drivers forfeited $1 bonds in police court for overparking. Earl Stuenkel Hickson W D Davis and H Schleifer all forfeited bonds. E C Erwin also forfeited $1 for parking in a restricted zone and Ralph Conger was fined $1 for double parking.
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Earl Stuenkel
Hickson
W. D. Davis
H. Schleifer
E. C. Erwin
Ralph Conger
Man Loses $1700 In Solitaire Heist At Taverns
William Bauman told police he lost 1700 dollars while playing solitaire alone in a room above his tavern in Oakland California when a gunman entered and left with the deck of cards.
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Oakland
Calif
William Bauman
Caneee
Bauman
Cambridge founder H. F. Hicks Dies at 83
H. F. Hicks, 83, founder of Cambridge, Kansas, died yesterday. He had lived in Cambridge for 60 years.
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Cambridge
Winfield
Kan
H. F. Hicks
Summer term opens June 6 at Lawrence College
The Lawrence Business College announces the summer term begins on June 6. The notice outlines enrollment for courses and the adv department's summer program offerings.
Lawrence summer art studio opens Monday for local children
The annual Lawrence children's summer art studio begins Monday at 9 am in the Central Building at Ninth and Kentucky. Enrollment is open to local children who have finished kindergarten but not yet graduated from senior high, with classes in drawing, painting, design, clay, crafts and more.
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Lawrence
Central Building
Ninth
Kentucky
Maud Ellsworth
Elaine Slothower
K. U
Wichita
Beulah Snell
Haskell
Arline Martin
Bonner Springs
Bernard Frazier
National Academy
Chicago Art Institute
Lorado Taft
Pearle LaMont
Wilda Lee McDowell
Lamont
Dorothy Wilson
Des Moines
Lucile Mavity
Oskaloosa
Department of Design
University
Mildred Wiedemann
Frances McCleery
Mary Isabel Taylor
Central
Governor weighs inquiries on three bank robbers
Topeka governor Huxman reviewed a report by Kansas highway patrol chief Jenkins deeming McCarthy and Korte truthful about bank robberies at Frontenac Blue Mound. Jenkins said witnesses shifted identifications but none ruled out Korte or McCarthy. The three Lansing inmates Persinger Rafferty Ledbetter face possible release if prosecutors’ offices concur.
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Topeka
Jack Jenkins
Kansas Highway Patrol
Walter A. Huxman
E. H. McCarthy
Harry H. Korte
Kansas
Haxman
Jenkins
Farmers State Bank
Blue Mound
Miners State Bank
Frontenac
McCarthy
Korte
FBI
Kansas City
Pete Rafferty
Melvin Ledbetter
Joplin
Linn
Crawford County
Tarkio
Bank of Imogene
Imogene
Crawford
Ledbetter
Rafferty
Persenger
Lansing
KU Graduates in Recital Highlight University Music Degrees
The University of Kansas presents a commencement recital featuring candidates for bachelor and master of music degrees. The program includes voice piano violin and organ numbers and a Preyer suite in Hoch Auditorium at 8 PM. Participants include Dorothy Rumbeck Helen Tibbets Mary Jane Bruce Corinne High Orena Vowell Lila LeVan Ruth Rice John Moore and others.
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University of Kansas
Carl A. Preyer
School of Fine Arts
Hoch Auditorium
Dorothy Rumbeck
Mus
Gitanerias ‘Hhapagey
Liszt Helen Tibbets
Novellette
Schumann Mary Jane Bruce Volce
Franvellette
Frat Tedlent
Eeense Dohnanyi
Ly Orene
Plans for University of Kansas Seventy Fifth Anniversary
A planning committee for the 1941 Seventy Fifth Anniversary of the University of Kansas met to map a program tracing events leading to the university’s founding. They approved recognizing all significant dates through 1941 and ruled out minor celebrations. An alumni statement will be issued by A G Mitchell, committee chair.
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K. U
University of Kansas
University
Slaying of Priest Mystery Stuns Centralia Area
Centralia Missouri June 3 The killing of 65 year old priest Father Emerg and beating of housekeeper Marta Rice drew state and county officers into a wide search. Rice said one assailant appeared black while the other white and slashed no motive beyond the assault. An autopsy by Dr. Pinson Neal found the weapon near the heart. A gray cap found near the rectory is the sole clue as police rule out robbery.
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Centralia
Charles Emerg
Marta Rice
Miss Rice
Father Emerg
Pinson Neal
University of Missouri
W.R. Toalson
Casteel
H. F. Dieckmann
Columbia
Eineig
Father Dieckmann
Holland
America
Father Eineig
Chicago slayings tied to confessed killer Nixon
Police say 18 year old Robert Nixon alias Thomas Crosby admitted to four Chicago murders and one in Los Angeles. The brick weapon killed Florence Johnson and three others in apartments and hotel rooms between 1936 and 1937. Nixon named Earl Hicks and Harold Green as accomplices in separate deaths.
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Chicago
Los Angeles
John Boyle
Walter Storms
Robert Nixon
Thomas Crosby
Boyle
Storms
Florence Johnson
Florence Thompson Castle
Jimmy
Anne Kuchta
Hicks
Pirates win over Giants in second straight victory
In Pittsburgh, rookie Bob Klinger earned his eighth win as the Pirates beat the New York Giants 6 to 5 behind an eight hit effort. Paul Waner joined the 2 500 hit club with two first inning singles, becoming the 30th in baseball history. Also noted were Cubs shutout of the Bees 4 to 0 and Red Ruffing’s seven hit outing for the Yankees in a 5 1 victory over Detroit. Bingo.
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Pirates
New York Giants
Bob Klinger
New York
Gumbert
Lehrman
W. Brown
Danning
Klinger
Podd
Chicago
Big Bill Lee
Boston Bees
Chicago Cubs
Boston
Fetteckson
Mueller
Lee
Hartnett
Brooklyn
Cincinnati
Mungo
Pel
Phelps
Derrin- Fer
Lombardi
Philadelphia
Nesmannees
St. Louis
Sivess
Atwood
Weiland and
Owen
Red Ruffing
Yankees
Detroit Tigers
Joe DiMaggio
Detroit
Gill
Coffman
Tebbetts
Ruffing
Dickey
Jorgens
Cleveland
Allen
Pytlak
Thomas
Potter
Wiliams
Hayes
Washington
Schlueter
W. Ferrell
R. Ferrell
Pi—Paul
Big. Poison
Waner
Bucs
Giants
Frankie Frisch
Rogers Hornsby
Creates his own office in Ponca City
G H Walker aged 31 passed the state bar exam and announced plans to create a public office. He argued Ponca City with 10 000 population is entitled to a superior judge and filed for the office after presenting briefs to the county election board.
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Ponca City
Okla
G. H. Walker
Oklahoma
Walker
County Election Board
British Hold Lead in Scotch Foursomes at St Andrews
At St Andrews Scotland on June 8 Great Britain's Walker Cup team led the United States 2 to 1 after the opening Scotch foursomes. Only Charley Yates and Ray Billows won for the U S, edging Charles Stowe and Alex Kyle 3 and 2. The rest of the American pairings fell, as Britain’s team featured strong finishes by Bruen and Bentley. The U S has won all nine Walker Cup matches prior to this day.
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St. Andrews
Scotland
Great Britain
Charley Yates
Atlanta
Ray Billows
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
Leonard Craney
Frank Pennink
Johnny Fischer
Cincinnati
Charles
Chuck) Kocsis
Detroit
United States
Bruen and Bentley
Britain
Fischer
Kocsis
Bentley-Bruen
Pine Valley
N. J
America
U. S
Bentley
Bruen
Goodman
Ward
Thomas-Peters
Ee . Yates
Dormie
Deaths and Funerals for Philip Taylor
Funeral services for Philip Taylor, 60, who died at 639 Massachusetts Street, will be held here at St. Luke A.M.E. Church with Rev. J. N. Goddard officiating, and at Paseo Baptist Church in Kansas City with Rev. D. A. Holmes presiding. Burial is in Highland Cemetery, Kansas City. pallbearers listed.
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Philip Taylor
Massachusetts Street
Kansas City
St. Luke A.M.E
J. N. Goddard
Paseo Baptist Church
D. A. Holmes
Highland Cemetery
Porter Silvers
Albert Shepard
D. Winfrey
Arthur White
Thomas Henderson
Clarence Richardson
Kansas Cash Balance Improves in General Fund Report
State Treasurer J. J. Rhodes reported May 31 unencumbered cash in Kansas general fund stood at 1 716 424, up from 1 346 223 a year earlier. Fiscal year receipts totaled 7 493 223 versus 7 768 805 last year, with highway and fee funds showing 13 702 612 unencumbered and receipts at 40 414 741 against 21 196 958 last year.
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Topeka
Kansas
J. J. Rhodes
Expect No More Trouble at County Relief Tomato Project
Weather permitting cultivation work at the county relief tomato project is expected to proceed without further difficulty. Officials say four or five persons who were not tending their one acre plots have agreed to fulfill their commitments. One plot was reassigned after a welfare office report of plans to leave for cotton picking in the South.
Nursing Degree Awarded to Miss Leona Berthot
Miss Leona F. Berthot received her nursing degree at Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing in New York in yesterday’s annual commencement. The class numbered 64. Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles I. Berthot of Chanute, she earned an A B from the University of Kansas in 1935 and majored in bacteriology there.
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Leona F. Berthot
University of Kansas
Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing
New York
Miss Berthot
Charles I. Berthot
Chanute
Abandonment Petition Placed for Kanwaka Area Road
Commissioners received a petition to abandon a mile seven sixteenths of county road southwest of Kanwaka. They ordered notice of proposed abandonment published. The road, unused for years, starts half a mile south and west of Kanwaka and extends west. Summer term begins June 6 at Lawrence Business College.
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Board of County Commissioners
Kanwaka
Marriages Recorded At Court House Yesterday
Marriage licenses issued at the court house include Raymond E. Dennis and Ruth E. Abernathy of Topeka married by probate judge pro tem Lorene Taylor. Alvin G. Faulhaber of Naperville Illinois and Elva Belle Lawrence of Chicago with Rev M T Hoff man. Charles Dalrymple Jr and Peggy M Clayton of Lawrence with Rev Robert Hunt.
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Court House
Raymond E. Dennis
Ruth E. Abernathy
Topeka
Lorene Taylor
Alvin G. Faulhaber
Naperville
Ill
Elva Belle Lawrence
Chicago
M. T. Hoffman
Charles ©. Dalrymple, Jr
Peggy M. Clayton
Lawrence
Robert Hunt
Bridge in Lecompton area advances on Coon Creek span
County Engineer E E Trueblood reports rapid progress on a new reinforced concrete bridge over Coon Creek on the Lecompton Big Springs road west of Lecompton. The 60 foot span with a 24 foot roadway is near completion, with a July finish anticipated. The project includes grading on the Coon Creek hill and plans for a Deer Creek bridge south of Stull.
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Coon Creek
Lecompton
E.E. Trueblood
Big Springs
Trueblood
Cros
Deer Creek
Stull
Belvoir
Baldwin
Sibleyville
Clinton
Westminster A Cappella Choir Ends Season With Final Concert
The Westminster a cappella choir directed by Dean Swarthout closes its season with a Sunday morning service at First Presbyterian Church. It will perform Nikolsky's The Earth Is the Lord's and Archer's Ave Maria during offertory. The 70-member group has staged two Lawrence concerts and multiple regional appearances and plans to reprise Beethoven's Ninth with the Kansas City Philharmonic next year.
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Westminster A Cappella
Dean Swarthout
First Presbyterian Church
Nikolsky
Archer
Lawrence
W. B. Olds
School of Fine Arts
Haskell
Topeka
Kansas City
Kan
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra
University design department to display student work exhibit
The K U design department opens its annual exhibition of student work tomorrow through Monday. It will run from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on the third floor of west Strong Hall with students on hand to discuss the pieces. Pottery handicrafts public school art and industrial design will be shown. Lawrence persons and commencement visitors are welcome.
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Department of Design
The
University
West Strong Hall
Lawrence Persons
Meeting Notice for W R C No 113 Samuel Walker
The Samuel Walker Womens Relief Corps No 113 will meet tomorrow at 2 PM in the court house. Each member is asked to bring a dime.
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W.R.C. No
Samuel Walker Women’s Relief Corps No. 113
Court House
Army ROTC Members Head to Camps This Summer
KU ROTC faculty members plan summer assignments at Ft. Sheridan and Ft. Leavenworth for six weeks of ROTC and CMTC training. Col. Karl F. Baldwin, son of the commandant, will attend the West Point graduation and wedding prior to the camp. Sgt. William Kollender, Maj. Earle Johnson, Capt. Raymond Edwards, and Maj. Carleton Smith are listed among those serving at the posts.
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University of Kansas
R.O.T.C
West Point
Karl F. Baldwin
K. U
Ft. Sheridan
William Kollender
Earle Johnson
Raymond Edwards
Ft. Leavenworth
Cm.t.c
Carleton Smith
R.U
China
Mie Pe
Leavenworth
Railroad Depots Sold In Cleaning Up Of Depots
The Newman and Fall Leaf Union Pacific stations have been sold as part of a general cleaning of unused depots. The Newman station was moved across the highway and is being repainted and redecorated to serve as a store post office and lunchroom.
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Newman and
Fall Leaf
Union Pacific Railroad
Newman
Card of Thanks for Lizzie Dixon and family
The Dixon family expresses gratitude for kindness shown during Lizzie K Dixon’s illness and death. Alma Turner and daughter and H A Turner family thank friends, neighbors, and old associates for their sympathy and support.
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Alma Turner
H. A. Turner
Lizzie K. Dixon
Power outages hit area during morning storm
A morning storm from here toward Topeka caused two brief power failures in Lawrence. Kansas Electric Power official J. T. Skinner said crews on an auxiliary line were overwhelmed as the line carried too much of the storm. Lights failed for three minutes at one stretch and five minutes at another.
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Here
Topeka
Lawrence
J. T. Skinner
Kansas Electric Power Company
Skinner
Going away Journal World subscription offer
Summer address readers can receive the Journal World for 25 cents a month with a phone order to 22.
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Journal- World
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