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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1935
Page
2
Washington notes the NRA code system expires after midnight Sunday as Supreme Court rulings curtailed industrial codes. The article traces Johnson Richberg tensions, financial costs, job claims, and the shift to a federal regulation path under Roosevelt.
Lawrence report covers Willard Mayberry arming for the KU ceremony with a ten cent newspaper, rain shifting events to the auditorium, and a mother and child incident near a puddle leaving a white suit stained. Wichita mural project awarded to Ward Lockwood and Richard Haines with Lockwood visiting Atchison.
A fragmented quiz note directs readers to the classifieds for answers. It lists garbled questions on history money water and rates, referencing teaberry and postal savings bonds with unclear phrases and misread terms.
Governor Alf M. Landon urged graduates to plan for the future and build a competent citizenry. Regent Fred M. Harris welcomed graduates and spoke of a new era and individual responsibility. Invocation and benediction followed by the University band as diplomas were presented.
Russell L. Wiley, KU band director, announced a four week band school for the summer session opening June 20 and ending July 20. A 30 piece clinic band would be maintained and a possible concert may close the term under seven or eight conductors from the band.
A sanity hearing for Harry Sutton of Lecompton, allegedly linked to four arson cases and property destruction, will be held Thursday at 2 PM in Probate Judge L H Menger's office. Sutton is jailed awaiting district court trial on charges tied to fires and dynamite blasts at E L Day properties last month.
The second quarterly meeting of Douglas County will be held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Entertainment and refreshments are planned and arrangements will be made for the annual picnic. All members are urged to be present. A lost pocketbook containing 160 dollars was reported at the University of Kansas auditorium.
Plans were completed for a free canning demonstration to be held Wednesday from 1 30 to 4 oclock in the American Legion rooms of the old city hall. Miss Evelyn Cruzan home advisor of the Douglas county relief office said the event was open to the public. Miss Vianna Dizmang of Muncie Indiana home economics specialist will lead the demonstration and has wide experience in foods and canning methods including improvised hot water baths for homes without other equipment.
Karl Hamilton Pfuetze of Manhattan was named the German exchange scholar for the University of Kansas, announced at the KU commencement by Chancellor BE Lindley. Pfuetze earned a B S from Kansas State College in 1930, a B S in medicine at KU in 1932, an M D from KU in 1934, and is completing an internship at Gorgas Hospital in the Canal Zone. He was head cheerleader in 1932 and is a member of Beta Theta Pi.
Julia Simons Hornville writes an appreciation of Mrs. Godfrey F. Wattling who died in Chicago on April 10. Born Ruiaus Drake in Oskaloosa Kansas she was educated in Topeka schools. She married Wattling in 1902 in Topeka and lived in Chicago since 1921. Survived by husband a son and two daughters.
Prof Albert Block head of the Kansas University school of fine arts drawing and painting has a painting chosen for the exhibition of American paintings to be held in Colorado Springs. The show includes 50 leading American artists and Block will send Dark Landscape from the Spooner-Thayer museum as his contribution to the exhibit.
A man identified as C. C. Kesinger of Winchester was held in the county jail today after being taken into custody late yesterday afternoon on a charge of driving a motor vehicle while under the influence. Kesinger was picked up on Old 18 Highway 40 just outside the city.
Contributions to the Red Cross flood relief fund in North Lawrence total 479.02 with a projected need of about 2,000 if rains continue. Donations are at the Journal World, the Chamber of Commerce, or local banks, with many individuals and businesses listed among contributors.
Mrs Katherine Conner widow of David Ewing Conner died Monday night at the Kansas Masonic Home in Wichita. Burial will be in the Masonic Home section of the Wichita cemetery.
Reno Nevada June 11 Taking preliminary steps toward remarriage of Pearl Buck author of The Good Earth Ruth Abbott Walsh filed suit to divorce Richard J Walsh New York publisher A few minutes before Mrs Buck filed suit to dissolve her marriage to John L Buck George A Whitely attorney for the two women declined to confirm marriage plans saying Walsh is not new in Nevada They lived at Lake Tahoe six weeks in seclusion both women charged their husbands with extreme cruelty and asked private trials both husbands answered denying the allegations The two cases were expected to be tried privately later today.
The General Federation of Women's Clubs endorsed disseminating birth control information via federal action and science based means. The vote stood 493 to 17 with other resolutions urging cancer control federal aid and child welfare. A strong anti lynching stance passed with four no votes.
The draft platform calls for enforceable anti trust laws to protect small business and equal opportunity. It endorses farm relief to stabilize prices and national income for farmers, while recognizing price fluctuations. It also supports free press, opposition to collectivism, collective bargaining, and justice for war veterans. The conference adjourned at 1:07 am, with a club hostess slain.
In a north side hotel a man shot six times at Celia Venable also known as Mrs. Jack Williams after she pleaded for mercy. The killer fled with police seeking Anthony Madona, a 26 year old gambler and wrestler, and a second man who aided him. The father said she had a husband in Montana and described Madona as harassing his daughter. Meanwhile a W C T U motorcade plan was announced for Monday at 10 am from First Methodist church with Mrs. Lydia Wellman to preside and an alcohol and narcotics study session. Birth control action began with a committee to study health and genetics effects to be determined by the American Medical Association.
Kansas City report cites University of Missouri Kansas City Alumni head Bill Mann accusing four Northeast High School athletes of leaving for Texas. Mann says they sought enrollment and work offers at Texas, naming Juricak Hockensmith Marvin Buford and others. Texas coach Chevigny counters with past Missouri defeats and confirms offers. Authorities note the group departed by car for Austin at 5 am on Thursday.
Francis Dill leaves for Conference Point camp Williams Bay Wisconsin to guard this summer. Myron A Peyton and Dale Pigg travel from Lawrence toward Mexico for the season. Robert Dill heads to Camp Theodore Naish Edwardesville to supervise waterfronts. F L Nichols and wife visit granddaughter Lucile Thompson in Lincoln after 35 years in Douglas County. J E Lindsheid returns to Newton after Dr W B Gorrill’s commencement. he earned a Ph D in English from Kansas. Senate moves toward final NRA extension vote with high earners under review.
As of June 11 a concentration of federal agents gathered at police headquarters in Anaconda Montana in the hunt for William Mahan a kidnap suspect connected to Weyerhaeuser.
Oskaloosa society guests from Shreveport and Pittsburgh visit Mrs. G E Tewell. Four state partners enjoy a reunion. Methodist Aid hosts a program with Grace Leaverton at the piano and readings by Millie Neel and others. Two plays, Be a Little Cuckoo and The Flivver Family, are set for June 11 at the high school auditorium. CCC camp site chosen at Hickory Point near Wincheaster, and ministers’ picnic in Nortonville reported. Katherine Hawk to teach Ross school. Clara Hawk returns to Pleasant Paint teaching.
The article lists teachers newly hired or rehired in nearby towns, including Miss Drake at Num Ten and Miss Gibbs at Basin Valley, with several families relocating to Lawrence, Holton, and Topeka. It notes summer study plans, a high school graduate starting work in Topeka, and local weddings and civic events amid flood recovery and community expansion.
Fort Summer, linked with work starting on the tenth, is noted in association with Charles Millet af Ton and related details. The fragmentary item references a delayed start tied to this individual and place.
An odd dialogue from the Border Cities Star shows a negotiator offering to pay for a wife and a rival demurring with a plan to delay. The exchange centers on control and profit, hinting at darker social tensions underlying the era.
The family expresses gratitude to neighbors and friends for kindness shown after the death and burial of Noah Steimer, and for the beauty of the flowers received. Louis Georgi
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