Shooting Feud Sparks Missouri Campus Violence
In Columbia Missouri three engineering students were shot during a feud with law students after a social event. Burnis Frederick a Missouri Law student was charged with carrying concealed weapons for the shootings which left Frank Luckey injured and hospitalized with peritonitis risk. Captain-elect Jerry Love and another student were wounded, while Frederick was beaten by a student group near campus. Frederick claimed the act followed a kidnapping incident involving Miss Butterfield of Kansas. University officials pledged swift action and a disciplinary review by Dean Albert Heckel and the faculty committee.
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Columbia
Unniversi Pital
Dudley Conley
APJ
St Pat's
Engineering School
Frank Luckey
Jerry i
Louis
Lot City
School of Engineering
Borris Frederick
Union Star
School of Law
Franklin Er. Ragan
Engineering
Law Schiors
X Butterfield
Kansas, Co
Ragan
Frederick
Iat
Prosk
Lackey
Cebe
University Hospital
Love
Miss Butterfield
Justice of Peace
Walter
Wil
University
Z “College
Williams
Witl
Easter recess starts at KU tomorrow for final exams
The University of Kansas will begin its Easter recess tomorrow at noon, with classes resuming Tuesday morning. Most students plan to return to their homes for the break, which precedes final examinations starting Thursday, May 26.
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University of Kansas
Kansas Weather Forecast and Road Conditions
Generally fair tonight and Thursday with warmer temperatures in the east and south. Morning says clear skies and good dirt roads except muddy at Wichita and Salina and snow covered and muddy at Topeka. Douglas County roads are muddy and temperatures show a trace moisture at 7 p.m. yesterday and 7 a.m. today.
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Kansas
Wich‘ji
Salina
Topeka
Douglas County
Senate moves to cut federal expenses by 10 percent
Washington March 23 AP The Senate approved a drastic measure to trim all operating government costs by 10 percent. The $124 million state justice commerce labor appropriation bill was sent back to committee for the cuts, a move expected to trigger similar reductions across the remainder of the supply bills. Senator McKellar of Tennessee said savings could exceed $250 million. The 50 to 29 vote split along party lines.
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Washington
Mar
Senate
State, Justice, Commerce
Jones
Appropriations Committee
McKellar
Tennessee
Relief Efforts Rushed After Southeast Tornado Toll
Birmingham amid devastating tornado damage pivots relief to victims as Red Cross and American Legion lead aid. Dr. William DeKleine directs medical relief from Washington while JC McFarland oversees field operations. Northport bears the heaviest losses with 32 killed and 100+ injured as guardsmen withdraw. mass funerals continue and crops and property losses run into millions.
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Birmingham
Ala
Red Cross
The
American Legion
William DeKleine
Washington
Medical and Health Service
JC. H. McFarland
Georgia
Volonteer
Alabama
State Department of Agricul Iture
Montgomery
Northport
Sniper Fire Targets Mine Guard Near Nelsonville
An ambushed sniper fired on a guard patrol at the Lick Run mine two miles west of Nelsonville in the Hocking Valley. The guard returned fire with a submachine gun, forty rounds fired. no injuries reported, sniper fled. The area is remote with heavy woods and intermittent patrols as mines plan resumption of operations later this week.
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Athens
Lick Run
Manhattan Cocal Company
Nelsonville
Hacking Valley
George White
Hocking Valley
Hanna Coal Company
Warden Van Gaasbeek Dropped in Revenue Cutbacks
The state fish and game department announced several wardens are dropped due to revenue declines. Ottawa’s M. F. Van Gaasbeek, eight years with the force and in charge of six counties, including Douglas, is replaced by Deputy Fred Anderson. Izaak Walton League members in Ottawa seek Van Gaasbeek’s reinstatement.
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State Fish and Game Department
M. F. Van Gaas_beek
Ottawa
van Gaasbeek
Douglas
Fred Anderson
van Gaasbeek i
Great Bend
Izaak Walton
Battles in Kirin Province Kill Five Japanese and Forty-Two Chinese
In Changchun Manchuria on March 23 a fresh clash near Taoehia tun 35 miles southwest of the city on the South Manchurian railway left five Japanese and 42 Chinese dead. The revolt against the Manchurian state is led by the anti-Japanese war lord Tsing Hai. Japanese forces said the Chinese retreated. Over 150 were reported killed yesterday in separate fights at Nanhuto Huangniho and Tatun.
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Changchun
Manchuria
Kirin
Taoehiatun
Here
Tsing Hai
Nanhuto
Huangniho
Tatun
Theaters seek injunction to run Sunday films in Lawrence
Lawyers for Dickinson Theater Corp filed in federal district court for a temporary injunction to stop state and local officials from blocking Sunday operations in Lawrence. Judge Pollock set a Kansas City hearing for next Tuesday and subpoenas were issued to officials to appear March 29. Frazee claims Sunday showings violate interstate commerce and amount to fourteenth amendment discrimination. Ottawa theaters opened Sunday under a related injunction.
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Topeka
Mar
Dickinson Theater Corporation
Federal District Court
Lawrence
Harry Frazee
The
Theater Corporation
J. C. Pollock
Kansas City
Frazee
Kansas Cities
Fox
Pollock
Namin Roland Boynton
Renera
B Stevens
Jack Dunkley
Marshal Frazee
Ottawa
Woman Seizes Knife During Franco American Tennis Match
Mrs Dorothy Cutler, 33, attacked the Franco American match at Seventh Regiment Armory during a gallery incident. She waved a paper knife near French star Borotra as Borotra and Gentien played Lott and Van Ryn. Cutler, estranged wife of Merritt Cutler, is hospitalized at Bellevue amid reports of financial woes and separation.
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New York
Dorothy Cutler
Bellevue Hospital
Seventh Regiment Armory
Jean Borotra
Borotra
Antoine Gentien
George Lott
John van Ryn
Sour Owl Debuts March Issue From KU Fraternity
The Sour Owl, Sigma Delta Chi at the University of Kansas, goes on sale yesterday with John H. Martin as editor in chief. The World Company pressed the cover ten times to finalize the complex color scheme. Copies are available from campus salesmen or city newsstands.
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Sour Owl
Sigma: Delta Chi
University of Kansas
World Company
K. U
Voters Register In City Election Day Turnout
Brighter weather drew 46 registrations at city hall yesterday while Monday’s storm kept only four. Since the March primary 320 have registered, totaling 7 084 eligible voters. City clerk’s office stays open nightly to 10, closing Friday. The Union Noon Day Service will be Thursday at 12 80 with Rex G Lindquist of Lawrence as speaker, ending at 1.00.
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Ministerial Alliance
Rex G.E. Lindquist
Lawrence
Lindbergh Plans Sale of Sourland Estate Near Hopewell
The Daily News reports Col. Charles A. Lindbergh intends to sell the Sourland estate in Hopewell, New Jersey, as soon as the kidnapped child is recovered or hope is abandoned. The property was bought for seclusion, but since the kidnapping it has drawn intense attention.
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Lindy
New York
The
Daily News
Charles A. Lindbergh
Sourland
Hopewell
N. J
Kansas Taxpayers Group to Quiz Candidates on Economy Program
Kansas taxpayers organization will survey candidates for county judicial legislative and state offices about views on deep public spending curtailment. A questionnaire asks about salary cuts real estate tax relief automobile taxes county funding for farm bureau and state publications while considering a road tax reallocation and elimination of property taxes for roads.
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Kansas Taxpayers’ Group
Topeka
Mar
Kansas
Kansas Taxpayers’ Organization
Ralph Tennal
Sabetha
Farm Bureau
Hutchinson
Wichita
School Book Commission
Committee For Action
Johnathan M. Davis
Harry H. Woodring
Ewing Herbert
Hiawatha
Capone given 30 day stay on appeal to high court
Chicago report states Alphonse Capone remains jailed five months while lawyers seek a writ of certiorari for appeal to the U S Supreme Court. The U S circuit court of appeals refused further hearing on his tax evasion conviction, leaving only Supreme Court recourse. Proceedings reflect ongoing battle over Capone’s punishment.
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Bulletin
Chicago
Alphonse
Capone
Samuel Alshuler
United States Supreme Court
Mar
APJ
U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals
al Capone
U.S
James H. Wilkerson
U. S. Supreme Court
Gaingster
Scarface
Trace Two Slayings in Coffeyville Area
Montgomery county officers seek clues to blame for the slaying of Dr S H Kellam Cherryvale physician and the murder of Rod Kelly Missouri Pacific special agent near Salem Ned on one hand and the Nebraska shooting gunmen in a brown sedan. Ed Monroe Southern KS and Central divisions of South Pacific agent asked to submit spent bullets from the Kellam pistol found near the body for comparison with three bullets from Kelly shooting.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Montgomery County
S. H. Kellam
Cherryvale
Rod. Kelly
Missouri Pacific Special
Ent
Salem
Ned
Iff
R. W. Lewis
Ed Monroe
Spe
Cial
Kansas
Central
South Pacific
Ketlany
Kelly
Lewis
Nebraska
Kellam
Rail Loan 18 Authorized for D and R G Western
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad to borrow 2,500,000 dollars from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The loan will pay semi annual interest on Rio Grande Western bonds and taxes for the second half of 1931 due July 31.
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Washington
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Reconstruction Corporation
Rio Grande Western Railway Company
Denver and Rio Grande Western
Many Men Back To Work In Legion Reemployment Drive
President Hoover was informed the American Legion drive has returned 312,897 jobless men to work in its fifth week. Campaign director Mark T. McKee reported 13,383 reemployments in 1,791 towns and cities yesterday. Kansas banks merge Sitka State Bank with Stockgrowers National Bank in Ashland, effective yesterday.
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Washington
Mar
Hoover
American Legion
Mark T. McKee
Detroit
Legion
Kansas
Topeka
H. W. Koeneke
Sitka
Register to Vote in City Election
It urges citizens to register and vote in the city election. The piece stresses duty and civic participation ahead of the April 5 election date.
Choir to Sing at Good Friday Service in Lawrence
The Lawrence Ministerial Alliance announces a Good Friday service at First Presbyterian Church in Lawrence with a 2:15 PM start, featuring the cantata The Seven Words of Christ by the First Presbyterian choir under Dean D M Swarthout, and a sermon Calvary Then and Now by Rev R A Hunt. Merchants are asked to stop work for five minutes at 1:15 PM as bells ring.
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Lawrence
Ninth
Vermont
First Presbyterian Church
D. M. Swarthout
Calvary
Christ
First Methodist Church
Merchants Bureau
Tieneath
Clephane
Ihe
Seth W. Slanshter
Watts
Batts
Lindbergh Baby Kidnap Case Still Unsolved
Hopewell New Jersey March 23 AP police morning bulletin on the Lindbergh estate reiterates the missing Lindbergh baby and that all clues have proved worthless. Outlaws Racketam campaign failed to locate the child as Owney Madden and three independent pursuers have made no progress.
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Hopewell
N. J
Touay
Owney Madden
Manhattan
Lindbergh
Salvy
Spitale
Bitz
Lindberghs
Morris
Rosner
Foil Penitentiary Escape Foiled at Missouri Prison
Jefferson City officials report a short tunnel discovered near the main sewer leading from the penitentiary, halting an escape plan. The sewer drains into the Missouri River. Names and number of inmates involved are not yet known. This is the second tunnel found within weeks, following a separate plot from four inmates in the hard-boiled cellhouse who hid single shot pistols and dirks made from scrap iron in their cells.
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Jefferson City
Mar
Missouri Penitentiary
Missouri Tiver
Big Estate Taxes Will Bring Small Returns, Mills Says
AP reports Secretary Mills estimated the Ramseyer amendment to estate taxes in the new revenue bill would yield no more than 20 million dollars in fiscal 1933 and not more than 135 million dollars in 1933 and 1934. In New York, March 23, AP notes steel industry expects a seasonal rise within two weeks as business looks around the corner per Iron Age. Earl Rockard, 18, Elgin, died in Independence Kansas from injuries at a pump station near Sedan, skull fracture and limb injuries reported. Majestic Refrigerator runs for Jess. ady.
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Washington
Mills
Ramseyer
New York
Independence
Kan
Earl Rockard
Elgin
Sedan
His Second Inaugural at Southwestern College
Dr. Frank E. Mossman was inaugurated president of Southwestern College Winfield Kansas marking his second tenure as head of the Methodist school. He previously led the college from 1905 to 1918 before returning to Morningside College. The ceremony in Stewart Gymnasium featured Dr. W S Bovard presenting the presidency and Dr. John Lawrence Seaton of Albion College delivering the principal address.
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Winfield
Kan
Frank E. Mossman
Methodist
Southwestern College
Methodist School
Morningside College
Sioux City
Stewart Gymnasium
Mossman
W. S. Bovard
Chicagy
Methodist Episcopal Church Board of Education
Southwestern
John Lawrence Seaton
Albion College
Albion, Mich
Northeast Kansas grain judging contest set for April 16
The eleventh annual grain judging contest will be held in the Lawrence High School gymnasium on Saturday April 16 sponsored by the Jayhawk Chapter of the Future Farmers of America. Six member teams will compete in judging and grading grains with cups and gold and silver medals awarded. The state contest at Manhattan May 2 3 4 follows as a training event.
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Northeast Kansas
Lawrence “High School
W. R. Essick
Jayhawk
Future Farmers of America
Wamego
Tonganoxie
Pee
Essick
Manhattan
Neal M Wherry Likely New Principal At Liberty Memorial High
Lawrence board plans to appoint Neal M Wherry as principal of Liberty Memorial High School replacing H L Baker who will not be retained. Wherry has 11 years in Holton schools and was superintendent, with prior teaching in Kansas. Salary set at 3000 with broader budget cuts expected to trim overall school administration costs.
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Liberty Memorial High School
Neal M. Wherry
Holton
H. L. Baker
Hia
Joe Ulm
Board of Education
Co. B. Birch
Wherry
Sterling College
University of Kansas
State Agricultural College
Kansas State Teachers Association
Topeka
North Central Association
Legion
Rotary Club
Presbyterian Church
Lawrence
A. B. Ewing
Lawrence Board’of Education
Baker
Metcalf denies Wisconsin football coaching rumor
Ames Iowa March 23 AP T N Metcalf Iowa State College athletics director said he had received no information about coach George Veenker moving to Wisconsin. Veenker is out of the city and not expected back until late tomorrow or Friday and Metcalf will not comment without a direct statement from Veenker.
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Ames
Iowa
T. N. Metcalf
Iowa State College
George Veenker
University of Wisconsin
Ai ‘Veenker
Metcalf
Veenker
Man Hangs Self After Requesting Rope in Colorado Springs
Colorado Springs police report W. D. Lange, 40, went to J. J. Cooper early this month asking for longer rope claiming the rope he had was too short to hang himself. Cooper supplied rope, then about half an hour later found Lange’s body dangling from a nearby telephone pole. Lange had also cut his throat in the incident.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Mar Os
W. D. Lange
J. J. Cooper
Cooper
Land
Income Tax Collections Exceed Early Estimates
Washington March 23 AP income tax receipts for the first 21 days of March totaled 178,567,11% with a forecast for the month near 175.9 million dollars. Monday receipts reached 11.12 million, down about 2 million from a year ago, and March total is seen around 195 million, about 140 million less than last year. Fiscal year receipts stand at 836.7 million versus 1.484 billion prior year, leaving a large deficit.
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Washington
Mar
Treasury
C of C Board Election Sees Strong Ballot Return
Chamber of Commerce officials report record voter interest in electing seven new members to the board of directors. Of 250 ballots mailed Monday, 215 returned. all must be in by Friday evening. Fourteen nominees compete, with the five highest votes earning seats.
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Chamber of Commerce
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