Supreme Court upholds major New Deal acts
The Supreme Court ruled for Washington state minimum wage law for women, and upheld the railroad labor act and the Frazier-Lemke mortgage relief. Justices split on the Washington wage act, with Adkins precedents overruled. Wagner labor relations act pending. social security act reviewed for April arguments.
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Washington
Mar
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
High Tribunal
Hughes
District of Columbia
Anct
Adkins Vs. Children’s Hospital
Adkina Vs
Children’s Hospital
Supreme Court of the State ‘of
Ftip
New York
No Man’s Land
Roberts
Washington State
Tribunal Deal Guora
Iaw
Capitol
Temple of Justice
Capitol Hill
Stone
Brandeis
Cardozo
Butler
van Devanter
Sutherland
McReynolds
Justice Stone
Virfinina Railway Company
American Federation of Labor Union
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Preliminary filings ordered in child labor litigation
The Kansas attorney general reports pleadings due by April 3 for defendants and April 7 for plaintiffs in the child labor case. The hearing, set for April 5, will likely not occur until the June term. Plaintiffs led by Senator Rolla W. Coleman have until April 27 to file briefs, defendants until May 17. Coleman opposed the ratification and sought a writ to certify the resolution as killed.
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Topeka
Mar
State Supreme Court
Clarence V. Beck
Rolla W. Coleman
Overland Park
Coleman
Hlouse
Senate
Secretary of State
W.M. Lindsay
Easter truce ends as Spanish forces renew attacks
On March 29 UPi reports in Spain Gov ernment and insurgent armies resumed general offensives on multiple fronts. Government troops moved toward Avila from Escorial Heights while insurgents attacked mining areas near Ciudad Real and Pozoblanco. In Orgiva area insurgents repelled a government assault. Italian prisoners claim many Italians in the Guadalajara salient were shot by mistake.
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Upi
Spain
Escorial Heights
Madrid
Avila
Navalperal de Pinares
Pozoblanco
Almaden
Andalusia
Malare
Orgiva
Villa del Rio
Andujar
Daen
Sheila
Valencia
Il Duce
Guadalajara
Bayonne
Spring Show Plans At Chamber Of Commerce
The fifth annual spring trade show sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce will run four evenings from April 7 to 10 at the National Guard Armory. Booth space is being reserved by many firms, with committee members Robert Haggart J R Traylor John Andrews William Cain and H J Hanna guiding preparations. The event has drawn large crowds in prior years and showcases a wide range of products.
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Plana
Chamber of Commerce
National Guard
Robert Haggart
J. R. Traylor
John Andrews
William Cain
H. J. Hanna
Sales Tax Bill Is Passed By House In Topeka
The Kansas House approved a 2 percent sales tax covering retail sales of tangible goods, certain utilities, meals, amusements, and some services, with exemptions and phased distributions to social welfare, unemployment, and school aid funds. It requires certificates for sellers, reports by the 20th each month, and takes effect June 1, 1937.
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Topeka
Mar
House
Senate
State Tax Commission
Commission
Employment Service
Kansas
Relihan
R-Smith
Muir
D.-Harper
Walter A
Huxman
State Highway Commission
Roosevelt-DuPont Vows Set for June 30
Miss Ethel du Pont and Franklin D Roosevel Jr will be married on Wednesday June 30 in Christ Protestant Episcopal Church Wilmington Del The Du Pont parents announced the date and a reception will follow at the Du Pont home.
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Wilmington
Del
Ethel duPont
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Evco du Pont
Misa duPont
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church
du Pont
Western Kansas Sees Light Snow Across Broad Area
A late March snow blanketed western Kansas from the northwest to the south with depths from a trace to over two inches. Garden City and Liberal reported notable accumulations with more falling in progress, while officials hoped the moisture would curb dust storms and aid wheat and spring crops. Forecasts warned of additional flurries tonight and tomorrow.
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Kansas
Garden City
Lincoln
Hays
Oberlin
Colby
Norton
Dodge City
Macksville
New Mexico
Elkhart
Rolla
Hugoton
Ulysses
Manter
Kan
Pritchett
Colo
Liberal
Sublette
Lakin
Topeka
D. Flora
Injured Kansas City man after gas barrel blast at Lawrence underpass
Louis F. Finnell of Kansas City suffered severe head injuries when a blow torch propelled by a filled gasoline barrel exploded at the Union Pacific underpass project in North Lawrence. Finnell, a Peterson Sheet Metal employee, was treated at Memorial Hospital. The accident occurred during soldering of copper expansion joints. no other workers were near.
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Louis F. Finnell
Kansas City
Union Pacific
North
Lawrence
Finnell
Peterson Sheet Metal Company
Peterson Company
Kansas City Bridge Company
Memorial Hospital
Snow Flurries Persist Across Western Kansas and Nebraska
Topeka dispatch reports more snow flurries across western Kansas with little temperature change. Meteorologist S D Flora notes winter lingering into spring and passably cool weather aids wheat but delays plowing. Snow observed in Ellis Phillipsburg Garden City Lincoln Hays Colby Norton and Oberlin with distant effects in western Nebraska eastern Colorado Oklahoma and the Texas panhandle. North east winds and lows near 25 to 30 degrees expected to edge up to 45 to 50 tomorrow. A Beloit furniture store fire of undetermined origin damaged stock and nearby shops by smoke.
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Topeka
Kansas
S. D. Flora
Ellis
Phillipsburg
Garden City
Lincoln
Hays
Colby
Norton
Oberlin
Flora
Nebraska
Colorado
Oklahoma
Texas Panhandle
Mercury
Huxman Signs School Aid Measure Through Sales Tax
Governor Huxman signed the school aid bill in Topeka in the presence of sponsors. The plan funds elementary districts to maintain a minimum $675 yearly for small schools, using the difference between a 3 mill levy and 675. Financing tied to the pending 2 percent sales tax could exceed $2 million to grant the aid.
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Huxman
Topeka
Mar
Payne Ratner R.labstte
Walter A. Huxman
Ratner
Topeka hearing set on Kaw river flood project
The Chamber of Commerce reports a public hearing with Lt Col Hodgson on April 8 in Topeka to seek opinion on a flood control and soil conservation project for the Kaw river valley. The plan emphasizes reservoirs on the Kansas river main stem and soil erosion prevention with army engineers and soil conservation service surveys.
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Chamber of Commerce
P. A. Hodgson
Army Corps of Engineers
Topeka
Kaw River
Army Engineers
Soil Conservation Service
North Lawrence
Kansas River
Kansas City
North Lawrence Ring
The
Douglas County Kaw Drainage Board
City Auditorium
Nominees Named by Rotary for Board of Directors
Rotarians nominated fourteen candidates for election to the board of directors next year. The nominees include Eugene Glahn John Jacobs Cliff J Ram sey Raymond F Rice Walter Keeler Russell M Kelley Rev Theodore Astman Dolph Simons John T Andrews Robert M Davis Charles Louk M S Winter Corlett J Cotton and Karl Klooz. Corlett Cotton sang solo in a club music program led by John T Andrews with Prof Otto Miessner at the piano. A Kansas City Rotary delegation attended, including Bob Leonard A Hadley James Crockett Ralph Miller Bergman H R McFarland George Montgomery and Dr G W Robinson Jr.
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Board of Directors
Eugene Glahn
John Jacobs
Cliff J. Ramsey
Raymond F. Rice
Walter Keeler
Russell M. Kelley
Theodore Astman
Dolph Simons
John T. Andrews
Robert M. Davis
Charles Louk
M. S. Winter
Corlett J. Cotton
Karl
Corlett Cotton
Miessner
Kansan City
Kansas City
Bob Leonard
A. Hadley
James Crockett
Ralph Miller
Bergman
H. R. McFarland
George Montgomery
G. W. Robinson, Jr
Appointment on Williams to Tenth Circuit Bench
Washington March 29 The senate judiciary committee named a five man subcommittee to review President Roosevelt's nomination of Federal District Judge Robert L Williams of Muskogee Oklahoma to the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals bench The subcommittee includes Senators Logan Hatch Van Nuys Norris and Austin
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Washington, Mar
Senate Judiciary Committee
Roosevelt
Robert L. Williams
Muskogee
Okla
Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals
Logan
D-Ky
Hatch
D-N.mex
van Nuys
D-Ind
Norris
Austin
Relief Projects Use Labor Supply In Douglas County
Milder temperatures revived outdoor work and drained the labor pool at the national re employment office. Five PWA projects in Douglas county are active with 194 relief and non relief workers, 45 added last week. Workers are spread across Union Pacific underpass, Massman on Eudora bridge, Constant on Eudora water works and Lawrence library, plus sub contractors for J T Constant and Western Engineering repairing Kaw river jetties. A paving project and a bridge repainting job will start soon. A new WPA order allows re assignment of employables aged 65+. about 16 over 65 were dropped earlier. Total WPA engaged in Douglas county and Lawrence exceeds 400.
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Merle Akers
PWA
Douglas County
WPA
Union -Pacific
Massman Construction Company
Eudora Bridge
Constant
Eudora Water Works
J. T. Constant
Lawrence Public Library
Western Engineering Company
Kaw River
Crescent Road
M. N. Penny
Lawrence
Standard Roofing Company
Kansas City
Topeka
Clarence Nevins
Kansas
Walter A. Huxman
City of Lawrence
Stalin warns Russia to stiffen revolutionary vigilance
Stalin in a stern lecture to the communist party warns against dizziness from success and flattery. He urges self criticism, cautions against servility, and stresses strengthening the party to fight capitalism Trotzkyists and conceit ahead of the Soviet elections.
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Moscow
Mar
Communist Party
Joseph Stalin
Russia
Stalin
Central Committee
Supreme Council
Schools Resume After Easter Vacation Across Lawrence KS
Lawrence city schools and the University of Kansas plan to resume classes Tuesday morning after the Easter recess. KU students were dismissed Wednesday noon. Public schools had been on vacation since Thursday evening, and Haskell students enjoyed a one day rest on Good Friday. Salina hosts a qualifying band festival for the National Music Festival in Law rence the week of May 3 inviting 280 bands in four divisions.
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Lawrence City
University of Kansas
K. U
Haskell
Ualify
Salina
Kan
Lawrence
Regents Delay KU Athletic Director Decision This Week
The state board of regents athletic committee will not meet today or Tuesday to choose a KU athletic director. Chairman Ralph T. O’Neil said the trio cannot convene until late this week due to schedules and his own travel and heavy fan mail about the selection process.
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State Board of Regents
K. U
Ralph T. O’neil
Topeka
O'Neil
Fred Harris
Ottawa
Drew McLaughlin
Paola
Kansas beer law sparks court tests as May implementation nears
Lawmakers and Lawrence attorneys debate provisions on wholesale ownership bans and payment forms, with challenges expected before the May 1 effective date. City licenses run 12.60 every six months for retailers and 25 for wholesalers. 49 retailers and 11 wholesalers had Lawrence licenses for January 1 to July 1.
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Kansas
Lawrence
State Department of
Lawrence City
Recover Bodies of Miners and Men Sent to Aid Them
District Mine Inspector Tom Lewis said he is investigating a report that ventilating fans were cut off for hours at the Kramer mine in Dubois Pennsylvania. Rescue workers who toiled 27 hours recovered the last body Francis Dixon as others perished in the second blast while attempting to rescue Dixon and Heberling.
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Dubois
Mar
Tom Lewis
Kramer
Lewis
Pennsylvania
Francis Dixon
Dixon
Thomas Heberling
Heberling
Noble Out Of Track At Texas Relays In Austin
University of Kansas senior Ray Noble a star in track and basketball will miss this week’s Texas Relays after nose surgery two weeks ago. Coach Hargiss said healing may allow competition by the Kansas Relays on April 7, but this remains uncertain. Noble is a pole vaulter and basketball star for KU.
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Ray Noble
University of Kansas
Pole Vauiter
Austin
H. W. Hargiss
Noble
Kansas
Land sale funds KU athletics and stadium plans
Governor Huxman approved the state purchase of several acres from the University of Kansas Physical Education corporation for 31159.06 to bolster KU athletics funding. The surplus will be invested in bonds and may cover stadium debt payments and next year's expenses including the Kansas Relays and spring sports.
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Walter A. Huxman
University of Kansas Physical Education Corporation
K. U. Corporation
W. W. Davis
Kansas Relays
Michigan State
Washburn College
Athletic Corporation
Quivera Place
Minois Street
Sinclair Addition
Mississippi
Hironoia Streets
Robinson Gymnasium
Gowan
Physical Education Corporation
Haskell Institute
Haskell
Athletic Association
Kansas Weather Forecast Cloudy Snow Tonight and Tuesday
Cloudy conditions with snow in the west and possible snow Tuesday morning. Roads fair to good as daytime temperatures and wind remain steady. Gas Office Record reports temperatures and a weather advisory from Turner Coal Co and University Coal Co.
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Kansas
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Wright
Virginia Farmer
Guard Armory
White House
Sat
Hamilton
Heer
Roosevelt-DuPont
Farmera
Associated Press
Louis Finnell
Beloit
McDonald Furniture
Kaw River Valley
ASK
Rotary
Senate Group Studies
Hanna
Prigidatre
K.U. Choice
Miller’s
University of Kansas School of Medicine
Board of Regents
Braddock
Newark
N. J
Jimmy” Braddock
Joe Louis
Chicago
Max Schmeling
Parsons
W. A. Buel
Stewart Drug Store
Winkler Jewelry
Bodwell and Henderson
Turner Coal Co
University Coal Co
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