German air raid sinks British liner as war stalls plans
London reports a Heinkel attack on the 8,441 ton liner Domala near the English channel. Of 301 aboard, 20 Britons and 88 British Indians feared dead. Survivors describe bombs and machine gun fire. Dutch ships rescue several. other vessels hit by mines and air attacks amid early war turmoil. The press questions wartime leadership as cabinet reshuffles loom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
UPI
Britain
English Channel
Domaia
Athenia
Straits of Dover
Daily Mail
Royal Air Force
Times of London
Mail
Antwerp
Belgium
Lascar
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Sint Annaland
Schieland
Albano
North Sea
Cato
Supreme Court affirms NLRB order on licorice plant union
The Supreme Court affirmed a National Labor Relations Board order against National Licorice Co of Brooklyn directing the firm to end domination of a union. It amended the order to say contracts violated labor law but individual workers may assert rights under them. Justice Stone led the majority. Justices Douglas and Black dissented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mar
Supreme Court
National Labor Board
National Licorice Company
Brooklyn
N. Y
Stone
Douglas
Black
Murphy
Circuit
Minersville
KU Athletic Board Honors Carlson and Naismith
The University of Kansas athletic board adopted two resolutions praising John H Carlson of Kansas City Kansas for his student athlete leadership and service and honoring James Naismith the KU alumnus and professor emeritus who introduced basketball and shaped campus athletics. The board hopes a future memorial bearing Naismiths name will serve youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Carlson
James Naismith
University of Kansas
K.U. Athletic Board
Committee On
Thomas M. VanCleave
Karl Klooz
Frank T. Stockton
Naismith
University
K. U
Annals of Athletic Board
Naismith Wyas
Red Cross Dinner Set for March Seventh in Douglas County
The annual Red Cross dinner will be held March 7 at 6 15 PM at the Lutheran church. Col Karl F Baldwin head of ROTC at the University will speak. Elections for the executive committee will occur with brief year in review and Roll Call report. Reservations may be made by calling 975 before Tuesday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
Lutheran Church
Douglas County
Karl F. Baldwin
R.O.T.C
University
John Cue
T. H. Jones
East Wakarusa
Asa R. Colman
Kanwaka
Harold Herschell
Clinton
Raymond Edwards
Wilpee Kollender
Harold Garr
Holiday to Star Voelker and Durand at Fraser Theatre
Conrad Voelker a college sophomore from Atchison and Reola Durand a Hoisington freshman will headline Philip Barry’s Holiday in Fraser Theater. The Dramatic club production runs four nights starting April 8 with two preview shows before opening. A March 29 high school audience will attend the state drama festival at the University, followed by an April 5 Wichita University campus performance. Director is Rolla Nuckles with Don Dixon guiding the stage crew.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conrad Voelker
Reola Durand
Atchison
Hoisington
Fraser Theater
Philip Barry
New Dramatic Club
Wichita University
Rolla Nuckles
Don Dixon
Katherine Hepburn
Cary Grant
Three Emporia Students Die in Strong City Grade Crossing Crash
Three Emporia State Teachers College students were killed and a fourth injured when a westbound Santa Fe streamliner struck their car at a Strong City grade crossing. Victims were Walter E. Larson 21 from Augusta Miss Mary Jane Ralph 20 from Arkansas City and Miss Jessie Trene Miller 20 from Great Bend. Ronald Smith 22 from Elkhart escaped with minor injuries. The car was hurled 50 yards and debris scattered for 300 yards. The locomotive was disabled and a second train was used to finish the trip to Wichita.
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Emporia
Kan
Emporia State Teachers College
Strong City
Walter E. Larson
Augusta
Mary- Jane Ralf
Arkansas City
Jessie Trene Miller
Great Bend
Ronald Smith
Elkhart
Charles J. Brown
Larson
Orville Ross
Ralph
Miss Miller
Wichita
Deaths and Funerals for Morris and Watson
Mrs Sarah Elizabeth Morris aged eighty two died Sunday at her son Sam Morris home 1700 West Fourth street She will lie in state at Funk chapel then be taken to Cowden Illinois for burial She is survived by two sons Sam Morris Lawrence and Harvey E Morris St Louis and fourteen grandchildren Funeral services for Ada R Watson eighty four who died Thursday at the El Monte California home of Gurney and Margaret Hill were held there Burial took place in Whittier California She was born near Brighton England married in 1881 and is survived by daughter Margaret Hill four sons Herbert Watson Central City Neb Ben Watson Humboldt Ia Clifford Watson Topeka Arthur Watson Whittier Calif one sister Alice Ransom Brighton England and eleven grandchildren She was a member of the Friends church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Elizabeth Morris
Sam Morris
West Fourth Street
Funk
Ada R. Watson
Gurney
Margaret Hill
el Monte
Cal
Whittier
Central City
Neb
Ben Watson
Humboldt
Clifford Watson
Topeka
Arthur Watson
Alice Ransom
Brighton
Eng
AMA to stand trial on monopoly charges in medical field
The U S court of appeals in Washington ruled the American Medical Association and partners must face trial on monopoly charges. The indictment accuses doctors and societies of restraining trade against Group Health Inc in Washington. The decision rejects treating medicine as a learned profession outside Sherman act limits.
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Washington
Mar
United States Court of Appeals
American Medical Association
Appellate Court For
District of Columbia
Group Health, Inc
Supreme Court
Seth W. Richardson
Thurman Arnold
Justice Department
Morris Fishbein
Journal of the
Olin West
The
Medical Association
District of Columbia Medical Society
Harris, County
University to finalize cast for moving picture week
Allen Crafton says casting will be chosen by week end for a University promotional film. About 50 students have screen tested. more tests planned as actors underperformed on test strips versus stage. The film follows five graduates through college life, will be silent initially with sound added later, and will be shown in several cities.
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University Moving Picture
Allen Crafton
Terre Haute
Ind
Crafton
Indiana State Teachers’ College
Lawrence figures in Kansas Chiropractic group election
Dr H W Craig of Lawrence is elected vice-president of the Kansas Chiropractic association at its Topeka meeting. Dolph Simons is sick at home for about two weeks after a flu attack. Rain totals 1.40 inches Friday night through Saturday. 3 06 inquiries flood the Journal World about basketball scores. An Oldsmobile sedan on Vermont Street is damaged when a truck backs into it. University publicity man Horace Mason leaves for Kansas City to handle Big Six indoor track publicity. New KU golf coach W H Shannon calls a meeting for students tomorrow night. University team will rely on veterans Dean Ritchie and Rod Waka for the 1940 squad.
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John H. Carlson
University of Kansas
Kansas City
Kan
University
John Carlson
Athletic Board
John FE. Carlson
H. W. Craig
Lawrence
Kansas Chiropractic Association
Topeka
Dolph Simons
Simons
Journal- World
O. W. Maloney
Vermont Street
Horace Mason
Mason
W. H. Shannon
K. U
K Club
Robinson Gym
Glenn Oatman
Shannon Sai
Dean Ritchie
Rod Wakaand
Sweden Lecture by Wilfred Laurier Husband at Hoch Hall
International political economist Wilfred Laurier Husband will discuss Can Sweden Stay Out at the fifth University series lecture in Hoch auditorium at 8:20 PM. He notes Sweden's success in cutting unemployment and inflation while boosting industrial output, and will show color motion pictures filmed in Sweden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sweden
Wilfred Laurier
Husband
Hoch Auditorium
Waldemar Gelich
Lawrence
K. U
Minneapolis
Los Angeles
New York City
Irving Fisher
Yale University
Scribner’s Magazine
Kansas State President backs KU KSU football peace pledge
President F. D. Farrell of Kansas State college praised Kansas University student leaders for proposing an end to free for all fights after football games. He urged both schools to discontinue unsportsmanlike conduct following clashes around the goal posts last fall.
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Manhattan
Mar
F. D. Farrell
Kansas State College
Kansas University
K. U. Men’s
K. U
Farrell
University of Kansas
Wind opens tomorrow at Dickinson theater in single film run
The Wind is staged tomorrow at 10 am for a one week run in Dickinson with a 15 minute intermission. The film stars Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh with matinees at 10 and 2 30 daily and evening shows at 7 30. Time lengths vary by program and newsreel addition. Box office opens 9 am and choice seats remain.
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Filmdom
Margaret Mitchell
Dickinson
Lawrence
New York
Atlanta
GWTW
S. E. Schwahn
British Denies Learning Trade Secrets From U.S. Mails
In Commons, Sir John Reith denies British blockade opening is a cover to study American trade secrets. Richard Butler confirms receipt of German peace proposals via Lord Tavistock but says no evidence they are authentic and Germany has repudiated them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
John Reith
House of Commons
United States
John
Richard Austen Butler
Commons
Butler
Lord Tavistock
Germany
Poland
Freedom
Deaths and funeral notices for Knowels and Leis
Mrs. Alice Knowels aged 87 died this morning at her daughter’s home in Glascow Kansas. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 PM from the Christian church in Glascow with burial in Glascow cemetery. She is survived by her daughter, two sons and many grandchildren. Miss Zoe Leis died at her home on Louisiana street and funeral services will be at the Unitarian church Tuesday at 2 PM conducted by Rev. H Lee Jones and the body will be cremated.
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Alice Knowels
M. L. Palmer
Ohio Street
Christian Church
Glascow
Kan
Knowels
Mrs. Palmer
Guy S. Knowels
George W. Knowels
Zoe Leis
Louisiana Street
Unitarian Church
H. Lee Jones
Leonard W. Waring Dies at 81 in Topeka
Leonard W. Waring 81 formerly of Baldwin died Sunday in the Topeka Methodist home. Funeral services set for 1:30 PM Tuesday at First Methodist Church Baldwin with Dr. James S. Chubb presiding and Rev. E. W. Spencer assisting. Burial in Agricola cemetery. Survived by widow Florence and four children Frank Waring Topeka James Waring Ottawa Walter Waring Salina and Bessie Collins Pasadena. The Waring family moved from a Waverly area farm to Baldwin to educate their children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonard W. Waring
Baldwin
Topeka
First Methodist Church
Dobbs-Rance
James S. Chubb
E. W. Spencer
Louisburg
Agricola
Two Wives Lived on One WPA Worker’s $61 Check
PR Thomas J. Wilson a 51 year old WPA worker admitted maintaining two wives within miles of each other on a salary of 61 dollars a month. He was sentenced to two years in prison and fined 260 dollars for bigamy. Osie Wilson is his first wife and Fay Cartwright is his second wife. He brought the second wife to Evans near Greeley and built her a trailer home costing 50 dollars.
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Greeley
Colo
Thomas J. Wilson
WPA
Wilson
Fay Cartwright
Olney
Tex
Osie
Evans
Bishop Elect Arrives in Wichita for Installation
The Most Rev. Christian Winkelmann bishop elect of Wichita arrived from St. Louis with 21 priests. He was welcomed by over 50 Catholic leaders at the railway station and immediately said mass at a private chapel before his installation the next day.
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Wichita
Kan
Christian H. Winkelmann
St. Louis
Fire in Red Headquarters in Lulea kills five
A blaze yesterday destroyed the building housing the communist headquaters for northern Sweden in Lulea. Five persons are believed dead in the fire.
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Red
Stockholm
Mar
Sweden
Lulea
British Tanker Torpedoed in English Channel
The 10,516 ton British tanker Charles F. Myer was torpedoed about 50 miles southeast of Hastings in the English Channel. The report notes an evening rescue at 8 p.m. and includes a lighthearted aside about reading the "Too Late to Classify" column.
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Amsterdam
Mar
Charles F. Myer
English Channel
Hastings
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 852 Meet Tonight
The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post No 852 will meet this evening at 7 30 o clock. The session is at the veterans hall located at 745 Rhode Island street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
V.F.W
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Veterans’ Hall
Rhode Island Street
Range Line Community News and Obituaries Briefs
A Range Line community page notes Mrs. Sarah Pippert funeral at Worden Evangelical Church with burial in Worden cemetery. Also reports Mrs. William Finch and Mrs. Finner Wintermantle at recent services, Mrs. St. John Church funeral in Lawrence, and Ruth Hornberger absent from school attending Pippert funeral. Community meetings, high school basketball at Baldwin, and local plays are described along with move notices, visits, and spelling award recipients.
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Sarah Pippett
Worden
Evangelical
George Finch
Floyd ‘Finch
Finner Wintermantle
William Broeker
Lawrence
St.John Catholic
Rock Creek
Ruth Darlene Hornberger
Sarah Pippert
Geneva Reynolds
Eunice. Pont
Keep Home
Emeryawford
Roy D
Brubaker
Baldwin
Baker University
Ethel Banks
Guy Desking
Eunice Pohl
Donald Breithaupt
Glen Donald
Saat
Range Line
Excelsior District
Glen Flora
Lavern
Buddy
Donard Gastrock
Naomi
Vera Bell Glaser
Orlynh Vaughn
Nadine Carpenter
Candy
George Shuler
John Watta
Harry Fisher
Lee Jones
Bethel Church
Marvin Wrightsman
Sam Wrightsman
Eldred Fisher
Lyle Clark
Eunice Watts
Max Hepner
Maxine. Finch
William Clark
Dee
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Wendy
Littlehampton
Emporia State College
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C. J. Posey
Wilfred Husband
Kansas
Finns Lindsborg
Ernst Pihblad
Finland
Salina
Ward A. Marshal
D. J
Jimmy) Richardson
Barteldes Seed Co
A. E.F
K.U
Carl C. Lappin
Sonotone Co
Eldridge Hotel
Sonotone Laboratories
A. L
Russell
Mass
Second Ward
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Willard Brown
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