Snell Urges Unity to Defend Government for People
Representative Bertram Snell of New York told the Republican convention in Cleveland to unite and restore government to the people. He attacked the New Deal as a failure, warned of “reckless squandering” and constitutional liberty violations, and urged social cooperation while preserving liberties. He warned voters to beware empty phrases, called for fiscal sanity, and appealed to youth and women to back a return to sound policy. A Marion township caucus will nominate a township ticket at Globe school house June 12 at 8 p.m.
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Bertrand Snell
New York
America
Franklin Elano Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
House
Congress
Snell
Chicago
Hoover
Republic
NRA
AAA
New Yorker
United States
Test Your Knowledge Quiz on Page Seven Can You Answer
A compact quiz prompts seven questions on poetry astronomy geography history law ethnology and myth. It asks authors equinox Fiji Islands organization in the United Confederates and state nicknames with a final Greek myth query.
Platform tensions split on gold standard and policy
The platform makers faced a spectrum of views. Frank Knox backed a gold backed dollar while Borah pressed for managed currency and opposed the gold standard. London leaders signaled eventual stabilization on gold, avoiding the silver purchase program and stressing states rights across agriculture social security minimum wage and relief.
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Frank Knox
Illinois
Borah
London
Gann and Longworth Sit Side by Side at Cleveland Convention
Dolly Gann and Alice Longworth attend the Republican convention under the same roof, ending prior rivalries over seating. Longworth, an Ohio delegate, takes a middle aisle seat near the speakers while Gann, not a delegate, enjoys gallery seating with her husband.
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Cleveland, S
Dolly Gann
Curtis
Alice
Roosevelt Longworth
Washington
Longworth
Ohio
Gann
Local Social Notes and Meeting Announcement
Mrs Ella Doering is recovering after an operation at Memorial hospital. Prof Allen Crafton and daughter Elizabeth will spend the summer at a Colorado cottage. Mrs W E Tenney expected home from Santa Fe tomorrow. Ursula Henley and parents head to Idaho for summer. Mr and Mrs J R Holmes back from a trip to Washington and eastern cities. Acacia Lodge 9 A F and A M announces Stated Communication Thursday June 11 at 8 o'clock with regular business. visitors invited. Thos C Ryther W M John H Parker Secy Adv
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Ella Doering
Memorial Hospital
Acacia Lodge
Fl& A.M
Thos. C. Ryther
John H. Parker
Sec
Five Still at Large in Minnesota Jail Break Case
Melvyn C. Passolt announced the capture of two more insane criminals among 16 who escaped the state asylum. Wilbert Jovissen and Adolph Walworth were nabbed at Waconia, while Walter M. Hornstein and Percy Kenosha were recaptured. Five fugitives remain. three are murderers and two are bank robbers led by Lawrence DeVol with others including Albert Saroke Donald Reeder Frank Gibson and Tony Smith.
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St. Peter, Minn
P— Melvyn C. Passolt
State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension
Wilbert Jovissen
Adolph Walworth
Waconia
Carver County
State Crime Bureau
Jorissen
Edlahr
Walter M. Hornstein
Percy Kenosha
Lawrence DeVol
Barker-Karpis
Albert(Scarface) Saroke
Donald Reeder
Frank Gibson
Tony Smith
Deaths and Funerals Take place near Lawrence and Reedley
Mrs James Albert Ford 52 died last night at home twelve miles north of Lawrence. Funeral services Friday at 2 60 oclock conducted by Rev Seth W Slaughter First Christian church. burial Maple Grove cemetery. Surviving include husband James Albert Ford son Octave two grandchildren mother Rosa Green Lawrence sister Fern Branson Kansas City Mo. Mattie C Deneen 59 died Tuesday morning at home in Reedley California after winter pneumonia. Surviving include daughter Patsy Deneen mother Emma S Cummings Clinton sister Myrabell Cummings Clinton brothers Arthur Charles Clinton W J Cummings Lawrence. Marion Deneen died 1930. they left Lawrence in 1902. daughter Marion preceded her mother in death.
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James Albert Ford
Lawrence
Seth W. Slaughter
First Christian Church
Maple Grove Cemetery
Octave
Rosa Green
Fern Branson
Kansas City
Mattie C. Deneen
Reedley
Calif
Cunningham To Compete In Princeton Mile Invite
Glenn Cunningham the Kansas mile star and coach H. W. Hargiss will depart this evening for Princeton New Jersey for the Princeton Invitation track meet. Cunningham hopes to contend in the mile with 32 entrants including 19 record holders. last year he lost to Jack Lovelock and set the world mile mark at this meet in 1934. They will return to Lawrence early next week after the event.
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Glenn Cunningham
Kansas
H. W
Bill) Hargiss
University of Kansas
Princeton
N. J
Cunningham
Hargiss
Jack Lovelock
New Zealand
Lawrence
Iowa City
Aaa
Kansas City
Dr F C Allen Addresses Kansas City Rotary Meeting
Dr F C Allen director of athletics at K U spoke on Youth and Play at the Kansas City Rotary Club yesterday noon. After the meeting he visited his 86 year old father W T Allen improving after a recent operation at St Luke's hospital.
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F. C. Allen
K. U
Kansas City, Mo
Rotary Club
Allen
W.T. Allen
St. Luke’s Hospital
Hoover to Indict New Deal Tonight at Convention
Herbert Hoover arrived in Cleveland for the Republican national convention saying his purpose is to deliver a speech. He greeted thousands, met delegates including Senator Arthur Vandenberg, and urged saving the nation while denying plans for talks on platform issues.
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Cleveland
Herbert Hoover
Chester R. Rowell
California
Hoover
Lawrence Richey
Chester Rowell
William Jennings Bryan
Bryan
Rowell
Mr. Hoover
Chicago
Patrick J. Hurley
Harold H. Burton
Henry P. Fletcher
Republican National Committee
Fletcher
George Trombold Named NYA Director for Douglas County
George Trombold, KU graduate and former Kansas City area teacher and coach, returns to Lawrence to assume NYA program duties for Douglas County, succeeding T A Beatty who moves to another NYA post. Trombold plans to carry out Beatty's program including recreation, dramatics, tap dancing, handicrafts, art and music.
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George Trombold
University of Kansas
Lawrence
NYA
Douglas County
T. A. Beatty
Trombold
Washington Rural High School
Wyandotte County
K. U
Beatty
Plenty of Workers Available Through National Reemployment Service
Merle Wallace, director of the National Reemployment Service, announced approximately 200 men are registered for placement. She urged farmers needing labor for harvest to contact the office to secure extra help. She noted many registrants are not relief clients and that the service is free for job seekers. In May the office placed 103 people on private and public jobs, about 25 in private employment.
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Merle Wallace
National Reemployment Service
Miss Wallace
National
Kansas Nurses Association District Picnic in Kansas City
Last night the district two Kansas Nurses association picnic was at Waterworks park in Kansas City Kansas. Miss Jessie Rae Taylor WPA recreation assistant state director spoke. Miss Electa Kindlesperger school nurse was chosen as a delegate to the American Nurses association meeting in Los Angeles June 21 to 27. Clinton Township Caucus announces a Republican education meeting Friday at 7 o'clock to draft a township ticket with full attendance desired.
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Kansas Nurses’ Association
Waterworks Park
Kansas City
Kan
Jessie Rae Taylor
WPA Recreation
Topeka
Electa Kindlesperger
American Nurses’ Association
Los Angeles
Fan Ben Eee Sakon
Clinton
Jim Anderson
KU Men and Houses Open for Summer Session
Lawrence notes show Sam Elliott’s home hosting five Phi Gamma Delta members for KU summer session, Sigma Kappa sorority and Acacia house open for women and men students. Arbor work at Watson library partly removed a tree, improving view. Tulane grad Hubert Allen Jr. earns medical degree. family travels to Culver, Ind. for time, while Allen writes on basketball. KU coaches Lindsey and Hargiss perform in a Kansas City golf tourney with Lindsey winning his division. Needham beats Hargiss in another division.
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West Seventh Street
Phi Gamma Delta
K. U
Sigma Kappa
Acacia
Ad Lindsey
Bill” Hargisa
Coaches and Directors
Kansas City
Cpen Sporting Goods
Lindsey
Pat Mason
Rockhurst College
Don Needham
Mrs J H Parker dead in Lawrence kansas
Mrs John Howard Parker died at home on Rhode Island street after an illness of over a year. Funeral services set for Friday at 2 30 from the First Methodist church with Dr Edward Hislop of Kansas City and Rev R A Hunt in charge. Burial in Oak Hill mausoleum. Survived by husband, longtime Fischer’s shoe store worker. Born Racine Wisconsin, resident of Lawrence since 1891. Maiden name Eugenia Winship. KU graduate 1905 Phi Beta Kappa. Active in First Methodist church No Name club and University YWCA.
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John Howard Parker
Rhode Island Street
First Methodist Church
Edward Hislop
Kansas City
R. A. Hunt
Oak Hill Cemetery
Fischer
Parker
Quiet on Prohibition An Old Issue Bobs Up for GOP Consideration
A resolutions committee at the Republican national convention revisits prohibition era debates. Canon William Sheafe Chase urges a morality plank while noting past outcomes. The piece also notes a death in Tonkawa Oklahoma and a Warsaw fur order for Edward VIII’s coronation, highlighting Poland’s ermine supply.
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Cleveland
Resolutions Committee
William Sheafe Chase
Mayfair Boys
Warsaw
Edward VIII
London
Poland
England
Werber's homer helps Red Sox edge Tigers in finale
Boston wins 4 to 3 over Detroit with Bill Werber homering and Heinie Manush and Dusty Cooke adding two doubles. Pitcher lines show Werber, Ferrell, and Reiber contributing as Boston seizes the series finale amid rain delays elsewhere.
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Bill Werber
Heinie Manush
Dusty Cooke
Red Sox
Detroit
Gox
Phillips
Reiber
W. Ferrell
R. Ferrell
Cleveland
Washington
Whitehill
Chicago
Philadelphia
St. Louis
New York
Pittsburgh
Pirates
Brooklyn Dodgers
Guy Rush
Brooklyn
Gus Suhr
Clark
Jeffcont
Leonard
Sherrex
Phelps
Lucas
Bush Ant
Todd
Kowalski
Grace
Warneke
O'Dea
Cincinnati
Smith and Madijeski
Shaffer and
Thompson
Wheat Crop Indicated At 482 Million Bushels
Washington reports the agriculture department indicates a winter wheat crop of 482 million bushels for the year based on conditions June 1. A month earlier 464 million bushels were indicated and last year yield was 433 million. The 1928-32 average is 618 million. In McPherson Kansas the Empire Oil and Refining Co reports a new oil pool at No 1 Cunningham well, test flow 17 barrels per hour from Mississippi Lime at 2,825 to 2,835 feet. A Santa Fe train and a transport truck collided north of Ottawa, injuring three others and leaving one minor injury.
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Department of Agriculture
de Rerio
McPherson County
McPherson
Kan
Empire Oil and Refining Company
Ritz- Canton
Emporia
P— Santa Fe
Ottawa
G. B. Caryole
Yates Center
Hesper Social Roundup Lists May Visits and Meetings
Mary Lightbody and Car men Sue Martina of Topeka visited the Henleys for a week. Ed Knabe and family toured Mildred to see their daughter Mrs. John Mellinger. Laura Klopfenstein hosted the Hesper Friends Missionary Society for the May meeting. Eda Allis, visiting from Virgil, attended Baker University commencement with the Terrells, remained with S. V. Graham. Ralph Terrell bought the Fred Vogel farm. Several families traveled to DeSoto and Gardner for visits. Keystone Korner Klub hosted by C. M. Williamson with next meeting planned for A. Ambler. Jerry Harris and family spent Sunday with local residents.
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Mary Lightbody
Carmen Sue Martina
Topeka
N. P. Henley
Ed Knabe
Harold
Herbert Knabe
Mildred
John Mellinger
Laura Klopfenstein
Hesper Friends Missionary Society
A. Allis
Virgil
Eda Allis
Great Bend
Charles Terrell
Raymond
Carl Vernon
DeSoto
Robert Kurtz
John Finley
Gardner
Noel Griffen
Tressa Ella
Frank Helm
Robert
S. H. Davis
George Wotan
C. M. Williamson
Keystone Korner Klub
A. Ambler
Jerry Harris
Gloria
Geraldine
Local residents and family movements of Topeka and Great Bend
Topeka hosts Miss Lena Crouch of Great Bend visiting her parents Mr and Mrs S H Davis for a week. Mr and Mrs John Crouch and son plan a move from Great Bend to Kansas City.
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Topeka
P. V. Yeeman
Lena Crouch
Great Bend
S. H. Davis
John Crouch
Kansas City
Market News Chicago Wheat Rally Amid Rain Outlook
Chicago markets showed wheat prices firming with a rallying tendency amid expectations of more rain across the Dakotas and southwestern Montana. July wheat at 44 5, with futures purchases totaling 7.3 million bushels. corn and oats up slightly, other grains mixed. Livestock details from Kansas City show slow cattle and steady hogs, with cattle near weakness on heavier weights and calves mixed. cash grain and produce listings follow.
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Winnipeg
Dakotas
Montana
Wessel Space Wars
Buffalo
Kansas City
Stock, grain, and livestock notes from June markets
Market wrap covers Kansas City hogs and cattle prices with steady to weak demand. Rail and utility shares drifted, several sectors mixed as investors eyed political developments. Wall Street notes May steel shipments up while bonuses and dividends influence summer business.
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New York
Santa Fe
Great Northern
New York Central
Electric Power and Light
American Waterworks
J. C. Penney
Sears, Roebuck
Montgomery Ward
Transamerica
du Pont
J. J. Case
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New Jersey
Pure OS
General Motors
U. S
Schenley, Liggett and Myers “B
Westinghouse
American Telephone
U. S. Steel Corporation
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