President considering expansion of munitions plant network
Washington reports official recommendation for a billion dollar chain of government munitions plants to boost the defense program. The plan includes 20 new factories across the middle west and south to produce powder shells armor plate aircraft and other weapons with an estimated cost of 527 million for new ordnance plants plus 376 million already allocated.
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Smedley Butler dies veteran Marine Corps leader in Philadelphia
Major General Smedley D. Butler known as a fighting Quaker dies at Naval Hospital after a long career spanning the Boxer Rebellion World War I and service as Philadelphia public safety director He was born July 30 1881 in West Chester Pa and survived by his widow two sons and a daughter.
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Topeka Meeting On Santa Fe Wage Records
Henry F. Holtzclaw regional ad judicator of the railroad retirement board visits Topeka for a conference with Santa Fe railway officials about wage and service records reported to the board for 1929.
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Regional Methodist Leadership Conference At Baker University
One hundred fifty youth leaders from across the United States enrolled for a Methodist student leadership training conference at Baker University June 24 to 29. The event gathers students and counselors from Wesley Foundations and related colleges and seminaries with lodging and meals provided in Baker dormitories and dining hall. The conference council will include student officers from state or regional groups, national staff, and the registrar to oversee the student-audit steering function. Faculty listed include ministers and educators from North Texas State, Cornell, Colorado State, Iowa, Morningside, Missouri, Southern Methodist, and other institutions, along with officers from the Women's Foreign Missionary Society and National Council of Methodist Youth.
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Denton
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Ithaca
N. Y
Harold Ehrensperger
Methodist Episcopal Church
Chicago
Ill
John Irwin
North Dakota State College
Fargo
N. C
Gilbert S. Cox
Colorado State College
Fort Collins
Colo
Ruth Ransom
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
Board of Foreign Missions
Robert Hamill
State University of Iowa
Iowa City
Paul Johnson
Morningside College
Sioux
City
Tom Pendell
National Council of Methodist Youth
Walter A. Hearn
University of Missouri
Columbia
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Prizes Awarded at Lawrence Flower Show Exhibits
Lawrence Flower club awarded prizes at the annual show staged in the Dickinson and Granada theaters. Winners earned rib bons and theater tickets for shadow box and flower arrangements, with numerous first and second prizes across categories including roses, annuals, perennials, and miniature displays.
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John Nelson
Frank E. Jones
Gallardia
D. Ransdell
Fred Hunsinger
Ed Anderson
Will Torgeson
D. T. Ransdell
John Selig
John H. Nelson
Frank Jones
Carl Graeber
E. J. Neizer
O. O. Kennedy
H.M. Stucker
H. W. Edmonson
Will Torgesen
D. Edmondson
Vantoy’ Miller
H. M. Stucker
Vannoy Miller
Elizabeth Wiggins
Kansan Harry Woodring Fired as Secretary of War Criticized
Washington reports Kansas lawmakers sharply attacked cabinet changes with Harry Woodring's resignation seen as opposing intervention in Europe. Senator Capper and Rep. Carlson urge investigation while Rep. Hope and Rep. Winter warn of pro war moves and policy shifts. The lone Democrat Rep. Houston lamented the loss of an efficient secretary.
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Lone Star community notes and church services update
Attendance at Sunday school reached 57 with preaching at 11 Rev L H Griffith delivered a sermon Evening services were led by Mrs Aubrey Fishburn Families shared meals and gatherings across Lawrence Clinton Topeka and Beverly Kansas A Republican caucus was held at the Globe school house Monday evening Community events include club meetings birthdays and a two week Boy Scout camp at Windy Gulch lake. Glen and J W Garbutt reported a relative in an accident with recovery anticipated.
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Washington Creek
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Topeka
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Ulrich
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Delia
Whitman
Walter
Guido Schott
Hugo Schott
Globe
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Frances Christenson
Florine
Smith
Iva Curtis
Frank Flory
Ivan
Erma
Alvin Daniels
Beverly
Donald Anderson
Will Bachelor
Jolly Stitchers Club
Howard Creel
Jerry Petrie
Midland
C. J. Herschell
Russdolf Dietz
Lyle Morton
Kan
Alvin Anderson
Melvin
Gordon
Alvin Fishburn
John
Calvin
Raymond Flory
Charles Jr
Donald
Merle
Loren Lamb
Leslie Downing
Robert McCormak
Billy and
Robert Childs
Junior Cort
Delbert
Claude
Rudolf Dietz
Opal
Charles Lamb
Anderson
Aileen
Marilyn Ann
Harry Gregg
Lone Star
Grever
L. H. Griffith
Jesse
Minnie MclIntyre
Raymond Sanders
Fred Sanders
Windy Gulch Lake
J. W. Garbutt
J. W. Bonelli
Caspar
Wyo
Murray Bond
Everett Bond
Caroline
Twila
Franklin
Centropolis
John Duggett
Cecil Rhodes
Overton
Tex
W. E. Johnson
Harry Norman
Pomona
Charles Stowder
Charles Weybright
Ralph Weybright
Addison Glock
Lawrence Glock
Oskaloosa Sundby
Gage Park
Clyde Hoover
J. D. Flory
Junior Richardson
Hazel Boerkircher
Dorothy Bachelor
Bernice Goff
Elaine Herschell
Virginia
Jack Gregg
Margaret
Billy Daggett
Charles Mowder
Hary Norman
Olin Harrell
Tuestle James
Eastil James
Noah Morton
Rex
Leroy
Mable Roger
Roland Garrison
Dietz
Louis Griffith Jr
FP. Fe, Bohn
Riverside
Calif
Mary Shide
Everest
Run
Bly Whittaker
Highland
Irian
J. W. Gorbutt
Gorbutt
Lawrence Solberg
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Kansas City Blues
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Whima Jean
Michael Harris
W. Ef, Johnson
Neal Banks
Reta Mae
William
Valley Chapel
Wesley Flory
Pleasant Grove
Victor Solberg
Charles Boerkircher
Hazel Pauline
Judith Ann Hoover
Carl Wieder
Max
Henry
Linus Dietz
Delbert Anderson
William Johnson
John Smith
Welda
Lanty Brubaker
Fred Waters
Ray Harel
Fred Mckinney
Topeka Youth Gets Murals Assistant Role With Curry
Robert Hodgell a 17 year old Topeka high school graduate and aspiring artist has been chosen as a second assistant to John Steuart Curry for the state house murals project. Hodgell who recently won a national art award in New York and had 40 drawings accepted for Carnegie traveling exhibitions will aid Curry with backgrounds and scene corrections. Curry’s first assistant is J R Mathieson a University of Wisconsin student.
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John Steuart Curry
Kansas
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Hodgell
New York
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Banker and Senator Frank W. Sponable Dies in Kansas
Paola Kansas June 22 Frank Warren Sponable banker and state senator from 1901 to 1905 died last night He led the Miami County National Bank at Paola the Spring Hill and Gardner banks which he organized He was a director of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank and of the First National banks at Olathe Osawatomie and the Lenexa State bank
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Paris in numbness as armistice talks reported
Paris received word of armistice discussions with muted shock after Le Matin carried the first report at 4 p.m. The scene showed a painful ceremony in Compiegne forest and a German radio car broadcasting news as martial music played in the Boulevards. A German victory parade was expected Sunday.
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