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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1940
Page
5
Aurora Illinois March 1 city officials swept the hairpins from offices and, under leap year tradition, the ladies ruled for a day. Miss Audrey Kesel, 19, led the Powder Puff Administration sending bachelors to be rounded up as part of the playful local custom.
A riotous courtroom scene features Police Magistrate Mary Whiters enforcing a bachelorhood crime. Men crowd the jail awaiting trial while Dr. Joseph Wadkins pleads to wed, only to be sent back. Mayor Kesel touts rising marriage license stats as proof of her administration.
The First Christian Church high school department plans services with C. E. Birch speaking at morning worship on church membership value. An evening 5 30 miniature world fellowship features reports from Marguerite Bellinger Beverley Gaines and Flora Penn on a Bonner Springs meet.
Classified page highlights reader responses and strong results from recent ads. Local businesses and residents report effective placements and noticeable engagement, with several sales leads and inquiry spikes noted across categories from autos to real estate.
Hollywood reports Gone With the Wind dominated the eleventh annual Academy Awards with eight wins including best production, best actress Vivien Leigh, best director Victor Fleming, and best supporting actress Hattie McDaniel. Robert Donat edged Gable for outstanding actor. David O. Selznick received the Irving Thalberg award. others honored include Thomas Mitchell, Lewis Foster, Greg Toland, Herbert Stothart, and Harburg Arlen for song Over the Rainbow.
Defense testimony began in federal court in Kansas City Kansas in the food terminal case. Defendants include Kansas City Kansas Union Pacific Railroad and 30 produce dealers. ICC accuses rebates violated federal law as dealers moved from Kansas City Missouri to Kansas City Kansas. Intervenors Santa Fe Rock Island Missouri Pacific and Burlington support ICC. Defense says it will take a week to ten days to present.
The hulk of the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee has been sold in Montevideo to Julio Vega Helguera, a local salvage firm. The ship was scuttled by its crew in December after being trapped by three British cruisers and later burned. The sale price was undisclosed.
Two persons were injured in a blast and fire at the Oxford hotel in Topeka. Phillip Miller, a salesman from Manhattan, was burned critically. Mrs. Charles Puff, proprietor's wife, suffered nervous shock. A gas stove in Miller's room is blamed for the explosion.
Minneapolis report says Officer Maurice Kohlers not easily frightened by a pretty girl shouting boo. He halted a couple after 2 45 am urging them home. Judge Paul Guilford fined $5 but suspended the penalty.
PICTURED entries include a French army official at position four across and the chief of the army at vertical 16. clues span anatomy, geography, virtues, tools, and common words like light and law with multiple cross references. The puzzle weaves naval terms with age old descriptors and ends with standard alphabetic cues.
The Rockne club led by Dr. D. M. Nigro will hold memorial services March 4 at the Cottonwood Falls shrine in memory of Knute Rockne. Members of the Rockwe and Notre Dame clubs will depart Kansas City at 8 a m on Sunday for the observance.
An extensive meat and groceries advertisement lists Lamb Shoulders and Lamb Chops with varied weights and prices, plus chicken specials including roasting chickens and hens. It also features pork, veal, beef cuts, smoked meats, frosted foods, and produce with bulk items and prices, plus delivery details.
A group including Emporia Mayor Lostutter will travel to Strong City for lunch and memorial ceremonies in the afternoon. Luncheon speakers include Jess Harper former Notre Dame athletic director Ralph O Neil Al Gebert of Wichita University and E C Quirley a renowned official. Rockne was killed in a plane crash near Cottonwood Falls.
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