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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1938
Page
3
The week offers Freddie Bartholomew and Mickey Rooney in Lord Jeff from Sunday to Wednesday and John Litel Ann Sheridan and Frank McHugh in Little Miss Thoroughbred from Thursday to Saturday with Lewis Schmeling fight pictures.
Howard Hughes, 34, announces a new long overwater flight in a Lockheed 14 to aid the New York World’s Fair in 1989 and test advanced navigation gear. The mission, starting from Los Angeles toward Floyd Bennett Field, may begin as early as Wednesday.
The court house issued licenses to couples including J Gordon Claypool and Martha Reena Tillman in Lawrence, Charles R Guffin and Imogene Hyde in Reading, John L Priest and Hazel J Crum in Linwood, William R B Covert and Marion J Bair in Topeka, Harold H Rappard and Evelyn J Collins in Wakarusa.
Hugh Thurber of 1128 Delaware street Lawrence told the sheriff his pocket was picked at the carnival last night. His billfold with $1, papers and a social security card were taken.
Loretta Young, Joel McCrea, Marjorie Weaver and Pauline Moore star in Three Blind Mice while Melvyn Douglas and Joan Blondell appear in There’s Always a Woman. The listing notes two feature films likely showing this Wednesday.
Sunday through Tuesday presents Joe Louis in Spirit of Youth first run to general audiences and Bing Crosby with Martha Raye in Double or Nothing a return engagement. Wednesday and Thursday show These Three with Joel McCrea Miriam Hopkins and Merle Ober and The Devil Is Driving with Richard Dix and Joan Perry. Friday and Saturday feature The Crime of Dr. Hallet with Ralph Bellamy Josephine Hutchinson Barbara Reed and William Gargan.
On the upcoming showings Lola Lane and Paul Kelly star in Torchy Blane in Panama with Fred Astaire in Damsel in Distress returning. The Friday lineup features Lew Ayres Helen Mack and Alison Skipworth in King of the Newsboys and Buck Jones in The Man Trailer, both first run engagements.
Pi G William Schall state grain inspector and chemist said today the wheat protein content in the southwest Kansas crop would average about 14 percent lower than last year. He reported from Dodge City on the condition and quality outlook for the harvest.
Schall stated central and eastern Kansas wheat protein likely lower, while the top quality No. 1 wheat is expected to come from the southwest region.
WPA workers will mix grasshopper poison in 105 Kansas counties over four months. The project costs 220000 dollars with poison bait sold to farmers at low cost and distributed along public highways. State director William C. Connors announced cooperation with Kansas State College extension division and the state highway department.
The First Methodist church will hold an 8 30 a m early service with Dr R A Hunt delivering a sermon titled Guidance in Human Affairs Mary Elizabeth Bear will sing I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked Gwen Marie Hunt will play piano and provide postlude including pieces by Massenet Rimsky Korsakov and Tschaikowsky Sunday school follows at 9 45 a m All friends are invited to attend
Don Cole and Charley Kern marketed the first of the new wheat in Logan Kansas on June 25. It tested 52 pounds to the bushel with an estimated yield of 16 bushels per acre.
Adventure film starring Madge Evans John Boles and Bruce Cabot opens with a giant plane crash in mid Pacific. Survivors reach a lonely island far from ship lanes.
A cramped voyage scene features Boles and his Chinese servant with two gangsters two munitions salesmen a senator and several women aboard a ship. Suspense builds as some visitors attempt an escape. Miss Evans and Boles fall in love before they all head back to China where Boles faces a murder charge. Shorts include a musical a cartoon and the news.
University of Kansas adviser Henry Werner reports a prime fishing spot in Lawrence. In a tale unfolding in local lore, Werner and a friend fished at a state lake in Tonganoxie, saved a three pound bass, and used a yellow fly to land the bass that had devoured several goldfish.
Thirty four girls six white and ten colored learn house keeping techniques at the WPA home economics training center on Tennessee street. Mrs W O Hamilton WPA in Douglas county reports the center has run two weeks and will continue with A A U W and Business and Professional Women's Club advising. Girls arrive at 8 and receive intensive training in cleaning serving meals laundry and related tasks then finish by 1 with noon meal provided. Mrs William Huttig leads the class and the public is invited to observe.
A 45 mile road is being built through the King ranch in Kennedy County Texas. The project opens a vast frontier area to motorists and commerce. The ranch is described as a wilderness teeming with game and fish and touches the Gulf of Mexico.
Bobby Walker of Grand Junction announces plans to enroll next fall at Colorado College, citing Dutch Clark as his inspiration and noting the alma mater of the famed 1928 All-America quarterback.
India is a great potential market for American apples, Mrs. Crowe Buck told Washington fruit growers. She said Indians need fruit and noted Australia is selling apples briskly at 35 cents a dozen.
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