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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1934
Page
1
Washington June 7 AP The NRA adopted a policy banning price fixing in codes except in clear emergencies. It allows open price provisions with confidential reporting, but no upward revisions within 48 hours and authorizes emergency minimum prices when employment or small business viability is threatened.
New York June 7 AP Former Vice president Charles Curtis says the Republican rehab should build a strong national organization through hard working groups in every state. He hails Henry P Fletcher as a wise national committee chairman and urges unity beyond factions while predicting the country will recover from the NRA era.
Kansas City congressman A. Guyer filed with Secretary of State to run for re election on the Republican ticket. Fred R. White also filed for the Republican nomination. Howard Paine filed as a Democratic candidate.
The Kansas forecast shows unsettled conditions and cooler air in the west and north tonight, with partly cloudy skies Friday and not as warm. Morning conditions are clear, and roads in Douglas County are reported as good. Temperature readings from the gas office show averages for yesterday and today with noon values and highs and lows earlier.
Washington AP report says the NRA board of review chaired by Clarence Darrow will end its work and dissolve by July 1. A formal meeting issued the decision and noted hearings and investigations must conclude before final action. The board, appointed by President Roosevelt to probe alleged monopolistic practices under the NRA, has criticized various Recovery Administration initiatives.
The city opened the widened west Eleventh Street section between Massachusetts and Vermont streets under a CWA project, expanding to 50 feet from 30 with 10-foot concrete strips on each side and new curbing. Work continues on replacing sidewalks on south Massachusetts Street and paving checks by state engineers completed recently.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt tours subsistence homestead sites in the Tygart valley region during a morning drive from Grafton to Philippi. She speaks at each stop about the Reedsville and Tygart projects, the first Lady’s visit to Philippi, and a Civil War lamp presentation.
Topeka June 7 AP Gov Alf Landon announced six appointments to state boards with one reappointment. Names include W S Childs Salina on osteopathic board term to 1938 and J A Bogue Wichita on veterinary board term to 1937, along with E C Morgan Clay Center on medical board to 1938 and Ida M Grammer Junction City on education board to 1958. Additional appointees include James Sharpe Council Grove on education board to 1938 and Clara Shinn Barrier Topeka on podiatry board to 1936. Bogue noted as Kansas State College graduate and former Aggies football star. Baker University summer school opens with six weeks of classes through July 14. Second session runs July 17 to August 4 with Kansas and Missouri students enrolled.
Washington June 7 AP uncertainty over the projected steel strike and its possible effect on adjournment created tension in Washington. President Roosevelt signed a corporate bankruptcy bill at noon. The House moved to exempt farmers from taxes on 1000 pounds of hogs slaughtered for sale. A million dollar chinch bug program for corn belts was sent to the President for approval. Hugh S. Johnson’s return from steel talks drew attention as unions and manufacturers weighed next steps before the June 16 strike. Senate and House leaders eyed adjournment next week if settlements hold, while parallel measures on social insurance, unemployment, pensions, resource use, communications control, industrial loans, deposit insurance, and road building awaited action. The President is set to submit a $525 million drought relief request and a broad social legislation program for discussion in the fall.
Mrs Belle Fisk Newton 30 was jailed after admitting she shot and killed Detective James S Turner 46 near Denver. She described a drive with the officer to a secluded spot where she claimed he abused her and she grabbed his gun and fired. Her husband F H Newton a Denver car salesman was detained but expected to be released. Authorities said the shooting occurred in Jefferson county and the body was found near Arvada.
Topeka June 7 AP Attorney General Roland Boynton said he is closing the inquiry into affairs of Franklin county attorney C E Halloren and recommends using confiscation rather than injunction against liquor seizure cars. He had broadened the inquiry into several Franklin county officials but found no misconduct. He notes confiscation is more effective to stop cars used to transport liquor, unlike the injunction method which mortgage firms could seize under.
The Lawrence board of education sold eighty thousand dollars in New York school building bonds to a Kansas City syndicate led by Estes Payne Co. at 3 1/2 percent interest. Buyers paid a premium of 6.9 per thousand, shortening the issue to tenure of ten years to save about sixteen thousand dollars in interest versus a twenty year plan. The sale boosts local school funding with federal aid already contributing thirty thousand dollars and aims to benefit Lawrence taxpayers. The state school fund commission will review and approve the sale, with officials intending to print bonds locally.
Judge Hugh Means acted on 32 divorce cases in district court yesterday with six divorces granted, nine dismissals, and 14 passed. Divorces granted include Jennie Kennedy from Eugene Kennedy, Florence Peterson from Walter Peterson, Elizabeth Murphy from Richard Murphy, Bessie Rogers from Roy Rogers, Cora Wiggins from Alfred Wirwins, and Ilia Rennels from W. H. Rennells. Dismissed suits include Percy J. Humphrey and Lavera Humphrey, Jake Brown and Hetty Brown, Tillie Hunter and Hubie Hunter, Nell Beene and Tom Beene, Fay Holsapple and Frank Holsapple, Doris Ray and Orvil Ray, Caroline Young and Albert Young, Florilla Harbour and Burt Harbour, and Gay Perry and Emmett Perry.
Topeka reports a town row in Chetopa over appointment of city officials. Mayor H W Boon and the council disagree, and Attorney General Roland Boynton advised Boon to return to mediate. Boynton said no action is planned from his office.
The average of nine stocks rose to 17.1 as Ford V-8 and Hamilton's-Adv. led modest advances in a concise market roundup.
A drought tinted northwest Iowa with autumn hues as rains in the last 48 hours saved most of the corn crop for now though late planting and replanting remain. Pastures and other grains suffered, causing a critical feed shortage as last year’s cornstalks wilted in fields under government corn hog program leases.
Lawrence officials report Lawrence cigarette dealers paid local penalties after state inspector Walter F. McClanahan visited. Merchants cleared dues totaling about 35 to 120 dollars each, with Kansas City and Topeka also collecting results. Total local payment estimated 600 to 800 dollars. statewide sums approached 4,500 dollars in Kansas City and Topeka.
Two neatly dressed unmasked men robbed the WhirL State Bank of about 1000 to 1200 dollars at noon in Whiting Kansas. They left in a car with two companions who had waited outside. Bank employees were ordered to behave, but shooting occurred. Cashier Leo Jensen alerted authorities, but pursuit failed. It was the bank's first robbery.
German news desk in Kaunas reports Augustine Waldemaras, former dictator of Lithuania, has returned from exile by plane, staged a coup d etat and reassumed the premiership of Lithuania.
Gi mnix erased deficit with a 13 run surge in the seventh and eighth innings to beat the Braves 14 to 2. Mel Ott slugged two homers his 11th and 12th and Johnny Vergez and George Watkins homered for New York.
University of Kansas hosts Homecoming and open house with reunions for many classes, guest speakers including William Allen White and Gov. Alf Landon, and the 62nd annual Commencement awarding over 1,000 degrees. Notable honorees Miss Hannah Oliver and Mrs. Ida Blood Hasselman, plus Bishop Francis Kelley, highlight the program. Open house spans Spooner-Thayer museum, Fraser hall exhibits, and campus facilities with tours of university buildings and departments.
A man claiming to be Tommy Carroll of the Dillinger gang is shot five times after reaching for a pistol in Waterloo Iowa. He lies dying at a hospital. A accompanying woman identified as Jean Crompton, 21, is detained and says she is his wife. Carroll names Detectives Steffen and Walker as shooters. The incident occurred outside the police station as officers acted on a tip. Bond set for another murder suspect in Kansas City at 30,000 dollars.
Washington June 7 The Lozier bill to provide 10 million dollars for an agriculture unemployment census next fall passed the House today and was sent to the Senate. The census is set for November 12 with about 105000 people employed for the canvass and 200 to 800 field workers appointed per congressional district.
The Summerfield scholarship committee selected 17 freshmen for 1924 25 from 250 to 300 Kansas high school seniors after competitive exams. Thirty five previous recipients will continue next year. Recipients include Frere Armstrong Toronto Henry Barker Junction City Keith Coad Winfield Robert Crank Salina George Cronemeyer Chanute Arthur Latham Winona Kenneth Moore Pratt Dean Moorhead Hugoton Loren McCormack Mildred Ellis Pardee Wichita North Eugene Ricketts Paola Richard Stark Topeka Harvey Vigour Seneca Donald Voorhees Leavenworth Charles Ward Peabody Martin Withers Clay Center Louis York Wichita East.
A Baltimore report says spreading rails caused a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train wreck near Graystone. Engineer T. F. Bossom and fireman J. O Blauser, both of Baltimore, died after the engine plunged 80 feet into mud. Passenger Miss Margaret Frederick, 20, of Parkton, died later after being burned when the boiler exploded.
The General Electric Charles A Coffin foundation named Clark C Stephenson of the University of Kansas as a recipient of a Coffin foundation fellowship. He will study at the University of California as part of post graduate research support. Other scholars were chosen from over 100 applications to continue scientific investigations at various institutions nationwide.
Iola Kansas faces high Neosho River flooding in May that washed out the dam abutment. The city will spend 2700 dollars to strengthen the barrier and hire ten workers for six weeks.
Wyoming weather forecaster F. I. Disterdick faced a complaint from a resident who argued radio waves cause rain and asked for a 90 day halt on transmissions to allow precipitation. In Wichita police sought an unidentified youth who beat Ava Patterson, 23, a musician and stenographer, leaving her unconscious in a field southeast of town last Sunday night.
Lawrence citizens voted an $80,000 school bond last February with the understanding local men would be employed. A dispute over union labor for plumbers arises, with Kansas City firm Blair holding to union plumbers and fitters, and Topeka local requiring a $60 initiation plus dues for local workers. Officials in Topeka and Washington weigh relocation rules and travel distance, while unions seek to send one plumber and one fitter to work on the job. Plumbers would earn $1.10 per hour for 30 hours weekly, about $88 in a week, with local men needing nearly two weeks to cover the initiation fee.
In Kansas City Kansas Mrs Fritts resisted three robbers at her husband s Rexal drug store saving the cash drawer. She bore wounds to her hands from gunfire while one robber fled after firing twice and another grabbed 15 from a rear substation drawer. The couple previously ran a Rexal store in Lawrence.
Gasoline prices increased 3.4 cents per gallon for regular and cheaper grades, returning to levels before recent reductions. Ethyl gas remains at 18.7 cents per gallon, while regular and cheaper grades rise from 13.4 and 12.4 cents respectively to 18.7 and 14.7 cents. Stations say the increase could be general across the field.
William Rynerson, business manager of the Baldwin Ledger, was chosen president of the Second District Kansas Press Association at its semi annual meeting in Garnett. Jack McFarland, owner editor of the Ledger, was named secretary. Baldwin was chosen for the next district meeting. Oklahoma asks federal relief aid for drought counties.
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