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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1939
Page
5
Society notes must be delivered to the Journal-World office by noon on the day of publication. Include contributor names and a brief item to appear in the society column.
Row of brief society items lists a resident physician at Hertzler hospital in Halstead, Lieut Otis O Perkins visiting his parents, university officials and their family traveling between Forts Sheridan and Crockett, and various residents returning from trips or preparing moves. Also mentions hospital staffer Winifred Benander planning California vacation and local residents hosting guests in Topeka and Lawrence.
Abdallah Shrine temple will keep its headquarters in Leavenworth for at least another year. The Shrine imperial council in Baltimore delayed action on a planned transfer to Kansas City until its 1940 meeting. A move was studied after a member poll, officials citing finances. The Shrine district covers 10 northeastern counties.
Hollywood police claim Campbell McDonald a 25 year old student confessed to beating his mother Mrs Margaret Campbell 56 a former silent screen actress to death with a hammer five months after the death of Anya Sosoyeva former Ziegfeld Follies dancer on the Los Angeles City College campus. McDonald also denied knowledge of the Sosoyeva murder and faces police psychiatry evaluation while investigators pursue questions about a 17 year old dancer Delia Bogard who was wounded.
Enrollment at the Reading Institute topped 180 with nine more registrations bringing total to 180. The Reading Extension Division chief said the response warrants an annual event and noted plans for an annual program. Tonight Fraser theater screens films for all ages at 8 o clock and a dinner and closing program in the Union building at 6 features a burlesque on reading methods and community singing.
Former world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey underwent an emergency appendix operation at Polyclinic hospital after falling ill Wednesday. Dr Alfred Lilienfeld reported his condition as excellent and his stamina noted from years in boxing. His wife Hannah Williams remained by his side through the night.
The flying boat Guba, commanded by Richard Archbold, touched down at Pan American Airways airport in Charlotte Amalie, Virgin Islands at 5:30 a m local time after an 8200 mile flight from Dakar. The craft circled until daylight and was to depart for New York at daylight the next day.
Mr and Mrs Harold Longenecker and daughters Louise and Mary arrive from Joplin Missouri to spend the weekend with Mr and Mrs F H Smithmeyer. John Bondeson WREN promotion director leaves Sunday for a two week trip to the east visiting New York Erie Pa New Haven Conn and Washington DC. Dr and Mrs F T Perkins and daughter Patricia Alice arrive from Claremont California to stay with Dr Perkins parents. Riley Moore and son Riley Roy of Topeka visit the Moore home over the Fourth of July. Dr George Mandeville and daughters Charline Joanne depart for Halstead Kansas where he will assume duties tomorrow.
Last evening a large audience enjoyed a School of Fine Arts recital with faculty performers and guest musicians Marie Wilkins soprano Edna Givens violinist. The program featured two piano works by Ruth Orcutt and Allie Merle Conger a Puccini Madame Butterfly aria by Joseph and Marie Wilkins a Franck Quintet opening movement and a Meribah Moore song set with Lucille Wagner as accompanist. A similar concert is planned near month’s end.
Paul F. Wray, senior at Kansas University, has been notified of his civil service appointment as an accountant and must report for duty July 5 at the Commerce Department in Washington. He is the son of Mr and Mrs F H Wray of Lawrence, and has worked for Continental Oil in Lawrence for four years, with a transfer to the Kansas City divisional office last February.
The report lists several individuals with weight figures and loss percentages for last month. Marie 49174 pounds and unspecified loss, Emilie 51 percent with unspecified loss, Cecile 52 percent with 1 percent loss, Annette 52 with 1 percent loss, and Yvonne 49 percent with 1 loss.
A county bridge crew is constructing a crossing over a stream for a new township road around Lone Star lake to reroute traffic before the old route is submerged when the lake fills. The general crew has been grading the road bed for days and aims to finish by August 1, per county engineer E. E. Trueblood.
A J Baumann of Grand Island Nebraska former national auditor for the Standard Life association since 1925 died at his home last Saturday He also served as postmaster for many years A Lawrence resident praised him as one of Grand Island finest men. Rev Harold G Barr attended the Kansas Christian Ministers Institute at McPherson College with Mrs Barr presiding over the Ministers Wives group.
The Duke and Duchess of Kent departed by air to attend the wedding in Florence tomorrow of Princess Irene of Greece and the Duke of Spoleto.
Five men were sentenced today to twenty years penal servitude each for conspiring to cause explosions. Police attributed a series of explosions to members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
In Callander Ontario Dr Allan Roy Dafoe reports one month of dieting reduced the weights of the Dionne quintuplets. The regimen began May 28 with reduced starches and sugars and ban on potatoes as the children shed pounds.
Lavene Vincent was elected president to succeed C. A. Schultz at a Holcom's grove fish fry. Ernest Pontius became vice president and Fred W. Kahn secretary treasurer as about 100 attendees heard plans to continue the lake program and fund new lakes with a $2 assessment.
The Lawrence Lions club installs officers for the coming year with Dr. J. M. Mott as president. The outgoing year closed under C. D. Maier. A piano program by Blanchard Mickel, Robert Sigman, Leland Penner, Billy O'Beaver and Frank Atkinson, pupils of Mrs. C. G. Mickel of DeSoto, was presented.
In Philadelphia on June 3 a foul ball struck spectator Vince Griffin twice. He was hit on the thumb and later between the eyes when the ball rebounded after hitting a player and a girder. Griffin was watching the play when the accident occurred.
In Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania an eight year old named Paul Martin discovered about four hundred dollars when a cellar picture fell and he gathered the money and distributed the bills to friends and neighbors without family notice.
The lightweight championship between Henry Armstrong and Lou Ambers, set for August 9 at Yankee Stadium, is moved to August 22. Armstrong requested the delay to allow healing after injuries in bouts against Davey Day and Ernie Roderick.
Mark Alexander son of E K E Alexander left for Estes Park Colorado to teach hand crafts and archery at Cheley Boys Camps. A School of Fine Arts graduate this year he previously served as swimming instructor at the Jayhawk Plunge for three summers.
Citizens of Lawrence will wear a tag to show support for the Salvation Army and its community work. The event marks the first tag day since Captain Brigman arrived 15 months ago and aims to raise funds for the upcoming summer period. Workers will be downtown all day Saturday selling tags to contributors.
City engineer B. M. Babb announces mid July start for Indiana Street resurfacing in the 900 and 1100 blocks. WPA will provide unskilled labor while the city supplies materials and skilled labor. Rock asphalt to be used on the steep grade.
A marriage license was issued yesterday to Raymond W. Seward and Edyther M. Murray, both of Excelsior Springs, Missouri. The notice appears on the classified page.
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