Rumors swirl as Lindbergh search widens
Hopewell New Jersey March 10 AP Rumors dominated the Lindbergh baby kidnapping scene as patrols and state police maintained the nationwide effort at the Lindbergh estate. Reports of a discovery in Connecticut and a nearby lead were dismissed as groundless. Police noted no new solid clues while the laborious search continued with dozens of troopers detectives and clerical staff. Col Lindbergh’s absence from a New York banquet remains unexplained as authorities press for answers.
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Hopewell
Eas2
Earth
Be Worthle
Lind- Hereh
Connecticut
Chica
New York
Lindberges
Photograf Slice
de France
Plymouth
Lindbergh
Col. Lindbergh
Po- Yew
Young Musicians Enter Contest Here Tomorrow
The annual Young Musician Talent contest by the Kan s Federation of Women's Clubs is tomorrow at 1 p.m. in Administration auditorium. Signatories include Veice Ruth Warren Beltz Ottawa Cora fz Paola Carol J Scatvialin Lorene e Liston Frederick Pearson Ft. Scott, with entries from Olathe and other towns. Swarthout of the E. U. of fine arts will lead as judge.
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My Music Department
Kans Federation of Women’s Clubs
Administration Auditorium
Veice
Ruth Warren
Beltz
Ottawa
Cora Fz Paola
Carol J. Scatvialin
Lorenee Liston
Frederick Pearson
Ft. Scott
Fay Goffman
Weather Outlook For Kansas Shows Increasing Clouds Tonight
Kansans should expect rising cloudiness with a likely cold front. Forecasts note scattered light snow in western counties and frozen roads elsewhere. Salina and Coffeyville expect fair to good travel, with Salina possibly rough in patches. Temperatures show yesterday’s high and today’s low with a cold trend ahead.
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Kansas
Pittsburg
Salina
Kansattan
Coffey- Wille
Douglas County
Legislation Aids Business Optimism
Washington March 10 AP Secretary Mills says national business mood brightens due to Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the Glass Steagall act. He notes no new regulations yet for liberalizing Federal Reserve rediscount facilities but expects announcements soon, already improving banking conditions.
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Washington
Mills
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Treasury Department
Federal Reserve
Woodring urges counties to tax hidden property to curb levies
Governor Harry H. Woodring asks county officials to locate personal tangible and intangible property escaping taxation to offset a 14 percent cut in farm land values and an 8 percent drop in improvements, aiming to prevent higher levies and ease the tax burden on Kansas residents. A state budget chart accompanies the letter.
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Topeka
Harry H. Woodring
Srks
State Tax Commission
Woodring
Kansas
State Budget Department
Not the Lindbergh Kidnapper Arrest Not Guilty Cleared
San Francisco reports Alfred C Manning after arrest in a green coupe hearing is cleared as the Lindbergh baby kidnapper. He traveled from Trenton New Jersey on February 16 to California, police say the case is closed with him given a clean bill of health.
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San Francisco
Cal
Alfred C. Manning
New Jersey
California
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr
Manning
Trenton
N. J
Ford Eight Off Line Witnesses First V Eight Rollout
Henry Ford and Edsel Ford attended a brief ceremony at River Rouge as the first unit of Ford Motor Company's new V eight line rolled off the assembly line. Charles E. Sorenson, factory general manager, observed the stamping of the initial serial numbers on the automobile. In Detroit on March 10, the event marked the production start of the enhanced engine series.
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Henry Ford
Detroit
Ford Motor Company
River Rouge
Henry
Edsel Ford
Charles E. Sorenson
Ford
Lawrence residents urge saving city heirlooms for future display
Clif Carl calls for gathering and storing Lawrence historic conveyances clothes and other items from the 75th Anniversary celebration to protect them until a suitable museum or proper housing exists. He notes the need for civic action by the Chamber of Commerce and city to preserve these items and enhance future plans. The Lawrence Room at K U houses photos and artifacts but lacks space for a larger collection.
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Lawrence
Clif Carl
Cerl
Chamber of Commerce
Carl
Douglas County
K. U
Watson Library
Switc
Jim Lane
Robinson
Ozark Wesleyan May Be Merged With Baker U
Ozark Wesleyan College trustees approved a merger plan with another Methodist school due to financial troubles. Negotiations with Baker University of Baldwin Kansas aim for Baker to take over the college’s work and obligations possibly ending Ozark Wesleyan at the close of the current year.
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Carthage
Mer
Ozark Wesleyan College
Baker University
Baldwin
Kansas
Kansas School
Kansas’ School
Lindberghs Face Distress Over Missing Baby
Hopewell New Jersey March 10 Anne Morrow Lindbergh has been deeply worried by the continued absence of her baby. She spent yesterday in her room with her mother Mrs Dwight Morrow coming down only for meals. Colonel Lindbergh spent most of the day in the house on Sourland Mountain reading mail and having lunch with state troopers and a deputy.
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Hopewell
N. J
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Dwight Morrow
Colonel Lindbergh
Diz
Sourland Mountain
Powers to be hanged at Moundsville March 18
West Virginia news reports Harry F Powers known as Bluebeard will be hanged at Moundsville penitentiary at 9 p m March 18. Warden Scroggin and Sheriff Grimm confirm. Powers was convicted of murder and the assault of Mrs Dorothy Pressler Lemke near Northboro Massachusetts.
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Clarksburg
W. Va
Harry F. Powers
Bluebeard
West Virginia Hills
Moundsville Penitentiary
W. B. Grimm
Herrison County
A. C. Scrogovnk
Lindberch
Powers
Dorothy Pressler Lemke
Northboro
Mass
Warage
Peel
German Police Ready With Stern Measures to Suppress Any Post Election Disorders
Berlin March 10 AP Government officials prepared for any outcome after next Sunday's presidential election including a possible Nazi revolt. Two Hitlerite engineers were arrested for manufacturing eighty bombs. Police chiefs nationwide pledged readiness to use strong measures if needed and editors were barred from posting results in windows.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Theodore Eickel
F. Kemmet
Ludwigshafen
Halle
Gustave Noske
Paul von Hindenbute
Hanover
Kennedy bids for lieutenant governor in GOP field
Dr A R Bert Kennedy local dentist and Lawrence board of education member announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor in the Republican primaries August He has long been active in city and state politics coaching at K U Haskell and Washburn producing the 1908 Kansas football champions He is a family man with five children and strong education interests. Also noted are crowded Douglas county sheriff races with six candidates already public and others rumored. incumbent Jack Dunkley seeks re election facing Walt Nieder Four Republicans D F Smith Jack Hughes Charles Edmondson Theodore Charlton filed by June 22 declarations or petitions. general election November 8. Fire in Perry causes light damage to a two story building housing a pool hall and barber shop. flames spread from a chimney with assistance from Lawrence fire apparatus. under control upon arrival.
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A. R
Bert) Kennedy
Lawrence
Kansas
Douglas County
Jack Dunkley
Sheriff Dunkley
Walt Nieder
D. F. Smith
Jack Hughes
Charles Edmondson
Theodore Charlton
C. C. Bowman
Perry
Steinmetz
L. W. Greene
Thej
Tennis Exhibition At University Auditorium Tomorrow
Lawrence fans anticipate an exhibition tennis event at 7 30 pm tomorrow in the University auditorium featuring Bill Tilden and foreign stars. The program runs about two and a half hours with two singles matches against Hans Nusslein and one or two doubles, tickets priced 1 50 for first floor and balcony and 1 for second balcony, students with athletic books admit for 50 cents.
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University
Bill” Tilden
Ereign
K. U
Tilden
Hans Nusslein
Europe
Alternative tax plan proposed if sales tax fails
Washington March 10 AP The House faces a choice between a 2.25 percent manufacturers sales tax and an alternative program of heavy excise levies. Acting Chairman Crisp says if the sales tax and $675 million in levies fail, the Treasury plan could be adopted. Tax targets include tobacco autos gasoline radios phonographs electricity household gas bank checks real estate transfers and higher first class postage.
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Washington
House
Wars and Means Committee
Crisp
Treasury
Threats to Spitale children stir Lindbergh case
The Evening Post reports Salvy Spitale’s two children have received kidnapping threats over his role as go-between for the Lindbergh baby case. Mrs Spitale says she has three letters demanding he stop tracing the abductors and the children are under guard.
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New York
The
Evening Post
Salvy” Spitale
Lindbergh
Spitale
Four delegates elected to Methodist general conference
At Topeka the Kansas conference of the Methodist Episcopal church named four delegates for the Atlantic City meeting next May. The first ballot selected C L Hovgard, Wiley A Keve, W B Fleming, and C E Allison. An additional ballot was taken, results later, with eight total delegates to be chosen.
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Topeka
Mar
General Conference
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Atlantic City
Kansas
Wrightsman elected Standard Oil of Kansas president
C B Wrightsman of Wichita was chosen president to succeed A S Hopkins of Neodesha at a meeting of the new board of directors Hopkins remains vice president Wrightsman led a stockholders committee that opposed certain policies of the prior administration Boiler explosion near Lawrenceburg Tenn kills three injures three more Joe C Ivey owner of the mill is among the deceased Minnesota poultry business estimated at over 60000000 annually by the state university
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Neodesha
Kan
C. B. Wrightsman
Wichita
Standard Oil Company of Kansas
A. S. Hopkins
Hopkins
Wrightsman
Lawrenceburg,Tenn
Here
Joe C. Ivey
Minnesota
State University
Mayor Ellis Hurt in Fall From Car
Mayor W. C. Ellis suffered a head injury when he fell from a car in front of the Ernst hardware store at 826 Massachusetts street. He was unconscious on arrival at Memorial hospital and remained semiconscious but not in serious condition. Eyewitnesses and bystanders aided him before he was taken to hospital.
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W. C. Ellis
Ernst Hardware Store
Massachusetts Street
H. O. Richards
West Sixth
Fllis
Memorial Hospital
Phil Ernst
Rhode Island Street
W. J. Cummings
Ellis
E. R. Keith
Kerel Bb. Butler
Johnson Avenue
Ernst
Butler
Arvin Jacobson
Round Corner Drug Store
Jacobson
Richards
Ernst Store
New Features Planned for Spring Unveiling Event
The annual spring window unveiling and auto mobile show has been postponed to next Friday due to cold weather. Merchants plan new ideas to enhance the program while arrangements are finalized by the Chamber of Commerce officials who sponsor the event. The same entertainment lineup will be used next week with hopes for warmer temperatures.
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The
Chamber of Commerce
Kearney Appointed Deputy Warden at Leavenworth
Announcement at the federal penitentiary annex names Capt. P. J. Kearney as deputy warden to fill the vacancy created by R. H. Hudspeth becoming warden. Lieut. Albert Sineer promoted to captain of the guard, and Big Shields named lieutenant. Kearney, a Spanish War veteran, organized the Manila military police during the insurrection and later oversaw the Manila prison.
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Leavenworth
Federal Penitentiary Annex
P. J. Kearney
R. H. Hudspeth
Albert Sineer
Big Shields
Kearney
Military Nolice
Manila
Dodge City Pastor Plans Boycott Cards for Sunday Shows
Dodge City Kan March 10 A warrant Rev Homer Gleckler Methodist pastor says he will distribute two thousand cards in Dodge City churches Sunday asking a boycott of all Fox theaters shows until they end Sunday screenings. Theater manager A R Zimmer says he will open next Sunday under federal injunction served on county and city officials. Fontaine Remanded in Windsor Ont police court as immigration waits. Film injunctions filed in Wellington Kan against authorities to stop interference with Sunday shows. Fox Regent theater plans Sunday movies starting March 13. Rent vacant room through Journal World want ad.
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Dodge City
Kan
Homer
Gleckler
Fox
A. R. ‘Zimmer
Wellington
Fox-Regent
Oren Rss
New Government Frees Political Prisoners in Ireland
Dublin March 10 AP reports the release of twenty political prisoners jailed under emergency ordinances by the Cosgrave government. The act, among Fianna Fail’s first, aligns with De Valera’s pledge to revoke the emergency laws. Automobiles carried welcoming flags as people anticipated their release.
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Dublin
Irish Free State
Mar
Cosgrave
Arbour Hill
de Valera
Fianna Fail
Ireland
Suit Filed Over Cistern Injury At 1120 Tennessee Street
Mrs. Lottie B. Haller sues R. L. Anderson for 15000 dollars for damages plus 100 for medical bills after falling into an inadequately covered twelve foot deep cistern beneath the back porch of the home at 1120 Tennessee Street on June 27 1980. The petition says her injuries included two cracked ribs and a wrenched back and that the danger was not warned by the defendant. The suit claims permanent health impact and alleges negligence in supplying only an unsubstantial board cover.
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Lottie B. Haller
Tennessee Street
R. L. Anderson
East Eleventh Street
Briand Body Taken to Quai D'Orsay for Funeral
Aristide Briand's body was moved to the Quai D'Orsay in Paris with only a brief ceremony as Parisians lined the streets in mourning. Premier Andre Tardieu and government members attended, the coffin placed in the clock room ahead of Saturday funeral. Crowds from across France gathered to honor the peace advocate, including Briand's valet Emile who had stood by him for two decades.
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Paris
Aristide Briand
Quai D’orsay
Andre Tardieu
Vai D'Orsay
France
Apostle of Peace
Briand
Kleber
M. Briand
Emile
New Dean Named for Illinois Fine Arts College
Rexford Newcomb, ex KU student and longtime University of Illinois history of architecture professor, is appointed dean of the new college of fine and applied arts by the Board of Trustees. Born 1886 in Independence Kansas, he studied at KU, Illinois, and Southern California with extensive Europe and Asia travel. Mrs Newcomb, Ruth H Bergers, formerly attended KU in 1907 1908.
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University of Kansas
University of Ilinois
College of Fine and Applied Arts
Dean Newcomb
Independence
Kan
K. U
University of Illinoii
Southern California
Europe
Orient
Newcomb
K. A
Ruth H. Bergers
Kiwanis meeting hosts fuel talk by Homer Dedo
Homer Dedo, a 1927 KU graduate and Ethyl Corp research assistant in Detroit, spoke at the Kiwanis meeting at Wiedemann's on engine fuels. He demonstrated how knocking stems from fuel choice and noted attendees H L Nixon and P F Johnson of Ethyl Corp. Dean George Shaad introduced the speaker.
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Wiedemann's
Homer Dedo
University of Kansas
Detroit Laboratories
Ethyl Gasoline Corporation
Dedo J
Dedo
H. L. Nixon
Kansas City
P. F. Johnson
Kansas
Ethyl Corporation
Dean -George Shaad
Mr. Dedo
Essay Contest Entrants Pile Up From Four Douglas Schools
Four Douglas County high schools Vinland Haskell Lawrence and a junior high have entered the United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission essay contest. More schools are expected to join before the March 17 deadline. Cash prizes totaling 10 are offered with a 5 3 and 2 split plus a Washington bust photo for the winner. Each school may submit three essays and top entries advance to the district and then state contests. Essays must be original 600 to 750 words single sided typed if possible and must be countersigned by a teacher.
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Douglas County
United States
C. E. Birch
Vinland
Haskell
Lawrence High School
Washington
Birch
W. L. Rambo
Paola
M. E. Pearson
Kansas City
George Washington
Mount Vernon
George Washington Hill Guest at Gas and Electric League Dinner
George Washington Hill of Newton Iowa headlined a dinner for Gas and Electric League members and salesmen at Wiedemann's sponsored by Kansas Electric Power Company. Hill director of public relations for Automatic Washer Company spoke forcefully about inspiring appliance salesmen. Attendees included J W Alexander Charles Alexander Charles Cowell G E Faringer E Ve Swineharts Al Green William ane J A Harris TH J Hanna Gene Humphrey J E Derrington R C Miller Frank Pippert Charles Sehilli Fred Shimmons Robert Davis C J Dodds W F Jor son J T Skinner C W Amidon n B C Swinchart F D Prentice H Russell Séncat MT Coolidge.
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George Washington Hill
Newton
Iowa
Gas & Electric League
Wiedemann’s
Hill
Automatic Washer Company
Kansas Electric Power Company
J. W. Alexander
Charles Alexander
Charles Cowell
G. E. Faringer
E' Ve Swineharts
al Green
William:ane
J. A. Harris
TH. J. Hanna
Gene Humphrey
J. E. Derrington
R. C. Miller
Frank Pippert
Charles Sehilli
Fred Shimmons
Robert Davis
C. 3. Dodds
W. F. Jorson
J. T. Skinner
C. W. Amidon
B.C. Swinchart
F. D Prentice
H. Russell Séncat
MT. Coolidge
No rewards for captures in Leavenworth mess
Leavenworth Kan March 10 4 P Applicants seeking rewards for the capture of Thomas Underwood Charles Berta and Stanley Brown three convicts in the break December 11 have been advised by Warden Fred G Berkst that claims for 150 have been disallowed by the comptroller general at Washington The comptroller noted no reward had been posted when the men were captured within hours after the break A reward of 150 for Earl Thayer paid later George Curtis Grover Durrell and William Green the other three prisoners involved died by their own hand in a beleaguered farm house rather than be captured
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Leavenworth
Kan
Thomas Underwood
Charles Berta
Stanley Brown
Fred G. Berkst
Washington
Earl Thayer
George Curtis
Grover C. Durrell
William Green
Bank of England Lowers Discount Rate to 4 Percent
The Bank of England cut its discount rate from 5 to 4 percent, following a prior easing from 6 to 5 percent on February 18 that prompted favorable reactions. In Manila, the destroyer Tracy and four supporting vessels rescued forty or more Japanese from the burning freighter Kaku Maru near Mindoro.
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Bank of England
RT Es Ae
Manila
Unite States Navy
Mindoro
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