McNutt Seen Resigning To Run For President In 1940
Washington March 31 Friends say Paul V McNutt will resign as Philippine high commissioner this summer to lead his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination He is framed as a middle of the road choice with cross party appeal Senators Minton and Pepper discuss Barkley Garner as other viable candidates The White House reportedly expects McNutt to stay if he would not run while Roosevelt is nominated
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Washington
CRI
Paul V. McNutt
Philippines
McNutt
Indiana
Minton
Roosevelt
Islands
Frank McHale
Democratic
Congress
Pepper
D-Fla
Barkley
D-Ky
Garner
Senate
Chamber
Texas Legislature
Topeka Co-Op Guests Attend Dinner Meeting
Thirty five members of the Topeka Co-Operative club attended a dinner at the Colonial tearoom. District Judge George A. Kline introduced officers and guests. Laird Dean of Merchants National Bank criticized partisan legislation and warned of wrecking the economic system. Wayne Allphin spoke for the armory proposal and local entertainment plans followed the dinner.
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Topeka Co-Operative Club
Colonial Tearoom
Topeka Club
George A. Kline
Claude Scott
Stanley Baker
Frank Kampach
Fred Koenig
International Board of Directors
George Mason
William Hobbs
Topeka
Laird Dean
Merchants National Bank of Topeka
Carl Friend
Senate
Dean
la von Armendariz
Frances Williams
Wayne Allphin
National Guard
Armory
University Band
Topekans
No Names Yet For Roosevelt Grandson Born In Seattle
John Boettiger, son in law of President Roosevelt, reports his new son born yesterday in a Seattle hospital. Mrs Roosevelt attended the birth as Boettiger, publisher of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, paced the corridor awaiting a name. The president was notified upon his Warm Springs arrival.
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Boettiger
Seattle
John Boettiger
Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Lenten Question asks about Christ’s kingship and baseball ties
The page presents a word puzzle linking a famous orchestra reader’s last name to last year’s National League MVP, then asks to remove a letter to form a film star’s last name. It invites readers to name three people and answer on the Classified Page.
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Christ
Britain and France Pledge Aid to Poland Amid Turmoil
Britain and France commit support to Poland as the Czecho-Slovak conflict spills over. A Hungarian communique cites commissions from Hungary and Poland outlining a frontier between Slovakia and Carpatho-Ukraine to be detailed by April 3.
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Slovakia
Carpatho-Ukraine
Hungary
Germany Claims World’s Fastest Plane in Breakthrough Flight
Berlin reports Germany claims the Heinkel single engine one seater pursuit aircraft as the world’s fastest. It averaged 463.9 miles per hour over a three kilometer course and eclipsed the prior record of 440.681 miles an hour set by Francesco Agello of Italy. Captain Hans Dieterle piloted the plane with a 1175 horsepower Mercedes Benz engine.
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Berlin
Germany
Hans Dieterle
Francesco Agello
Italy
Canada asserts Parliament may guide Canada if war reaches Europe
Canada maintains that Parliament may determine Canada's course if war comes to Europe, warning that aggression against Great Britain would threaten the British commonwealth. Prime Minister Mackenzie King spoke in a full dress Foreign Affairs debate in Ottawa. Also New York reports Adolf Hitler’s Vonder Tirpitz launch speech will be broadcast nationwide Saturday morning via major networks.
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Ottawa
Canada
Europe
Great Britain
British Commonwealth
W. L. MacKenzie King
Afoe
Westera
Hitler
New York
Adolf Hitler
Consultation underway between British French and Polish staffs
Consultations among the British French and Polish general staffs for coordinating armies and air forces in case of a Polish attack were reliably reported to be under way tonight.
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Warsaw
Poland
Wrong Convention in Hoch Auditorium At KU Campus
At the university a convention mix up occurred as four or five men entered Hoch auditorium for the Independent Students Association session. The group eventually admitted they were in the wrong meeting and left to seek the Kansas Academy of Science. Meanwhile Floyd Kelly promoted C H Mullen with gimme matches. Ten Dodge City KU students rode home in a tarpaulin covered pickup planning to see the film Dodge City tomorrow.
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Independent Students’ Association
Kansas Academy of Science
Hoch Auditorium
Floyd Kelly
Pachacamac
Lit Ie
C. H. Mullen
Progressive Student Government League
Mullen
K. U
Dodge City
Judge Otis Addresses Kan sas City Law Convocation
United States District Judge Merrill E. Otis spoke at a Kansas City law school convocation this morning. He addressed the topic A Modern Judge Looks at an Ancient Trial.
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Merrill E. Otis
United States District Court
Kansas City
Judge Otis
Five prospective Kansas bee inspectors attend court house conference
At the Lawrence conference R L Parker of Manhattan state apiarist for the Kansas entomological commission outlined April to June work to detect and eradicate American foulbrood. Applicants include two from Brown, two from Allen, and one from Wilson counties. In Ft Scott the Douglas County Farm Bureau Women’s Chorus performed at the second district Farm Bureau meeting, singing Sylvia and God Bless America to a standing ovation.
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Court House
R. L. Parker
Manhattan
Kansas Entomological Commission
Brown County
Allen County
Wilson County
Parker
Douglas County Farm Bureau Women’s Chorus
Second District Farm Bureau
Ft. Scott
Sylvia
God Bless America
Japan Claims Spratly Islands Amid Africa-Pacific Tensions
Tokyo announces jurisdiction over the Spratly islands in the South China Sea a group of seven islets valued mainly for potential harbor facilities for seaplanes and submarines. The French embassy dismisses the claim as undoubted French while Paris reviews existing records for exact sovereignty.
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Tokyo
Spratly Islands
France
South China Sea
British North Borneo
Indo-China
Singapore
Japan
Philippines
United States
Foreign Office
Hainan
Hongkong
Dutch East Indies
Renzo Sawada
Charles Arsenel Henry
Itu ‘Aba
Paris
Mar
Tokyo Dispatches
KU Faculty To Judge Nebraska Interscholastic Finals
Five University of Kansas faculty members traveled to Lincoln Nebraska to judge the Nebraska Interscholastic debate finals. The delegation includes Harold G Ingham director of the Extension division John E Hawkins English professor E O Stone political science professor Guy V Keeler Extension division assistant director and Omer G Voss freshman debate coach.
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University of Kansas
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska
Army Supply Bill Advances in Washington
The Senate approved a measure authorizing the army and navy to buy reserve stocks of strategic war materials. The bill would permit annual purchases of 10 million dollars for four years and was sent to the house today.
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Washington
Senate
House
Army
Navy
Academy President Presiding at Kansas Academy of Science
Prof Walter H Schoewe of Kansas University geology faculty will lead a session opening at the University. He will address the gathering Saturday morning on The Conservation of Our Natural Areas.
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Kansas Academy of Science
Walter H. Schoewe
K. U
Schoewe
Academy
Woodlawn School Displays Reproductions Of Old Master Painting
Florence Snow presents a series of reproduced paintings to Woodlawn School with framing funded by the Woodlawn PTA. KU fine arts students mounted them in the corridor and staged three enacting scenes during a special assembly. The set, arranged by nationality, includes Reynolds Maes Murillo with students performing narrations and piano by Treva Thompson.
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Florence Snow
Lawrence Art Club
Woodlawn School
Woodlawn Parent-Teachers Association
Fine Arts
University of Kansas
Artclub
Kansas City Star
Woodlawn
Miss Bowles
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Mary Frances Lowman
Aleta Jones
Mabel Hayden
Nicholas Maes
Alice Wallace
Mildred Ice
Murillo
Gene Stanwix
Johnny Campbell
Juanita Smith
Irene Nordstrom
Louise Wilkes
Dorothy Bleakley
Eugene Brune
Treva Thompson
School of Fine Arts
Roger Ewing
C. E. Birch
Maud Ellsworth
Alice Dicker
Theft report delays belated to Sheriff Banning
Sheriff Charles Banning learned from a Wichita attorney that a Wichita man and his wife reported their loaned 1939 brown Chevrolet standard coach was taken three miles west of Baldwin Junction around 3:30 yesterday. No prior report to the sheriff or highway patrol, and the car bore Kansas license 1989 No. 3556.
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Charles Banning
Wichita
Lee Young
Winfield
Kan
Baldwin Junction
Highway Patrol
Banning
Kansas
Poles hail Britain and France pledge of aid
Warsaw reports Polish government sources welcomed Prime Minister Chamberlain's promise of military assistance to preserve Poland's independence and deter Nazi aims. Britain and France move to solidify support as Beck plans London talks and Poland weighs German guarantees over Danzig.
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Warsaw
Chamberlain
Poland
Britain
France
Foreign Office
Joseph Beck
London
Adolf Hitler
Kurier Czerwony
Germany
Danzig
Rumania
Soviet Russia
Czecho-Slovakia
United States
Senate confirms three and rejects seven appointees
In a closing Kansas session the senate approved three Gov Payne H Ratner picks for the state corporation commission and the building and loan supervisor post. It did not confirm seven selections from former Gov Walter Haxman across health, soldiers home management, and medical boards.
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Topeka
Kansas Senate
Payne H. Ratner
Walter Haxman
Andrew F. Schoeppel
Ness City
Arnold R. Jones
State Corporation Commission
Wesley G. Saip
Belleville
B. Anderson
Victoria
W. C. Lathrop
Norton
R. T. Nichols
Hiawatha
State Board of Health
Charles C. Calkin
Kingman
Henry Hensley
State Soldiers Home
Fort Dodge
J. W. Wheeler
Newton
C. W. Joss
Medical Registration Examination Board
Kansas Legislature wraps 48th session with reorganizations and new bureaus
In Topeka at 6:20 am the 48th Kansas legislature enacted laws to reorganize state departments handling tax collection welfare highways penal education and charitable institutions and labor inspections and motor vehicle registrations. It created a 10 member Kansas Bureau of Investigation under the attorney general with a $90,000 yearly appropriation and expanded social welfare funds to $3 million from sales tax plus boosted emergency welfare to $1 million.
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Topeka
Kansas
Forestry, Fish and Game Department
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Attorney General’s Office
Soil Control and Water Conservancy
Ramsey elected senior counselor of Lawrence UCT
W. A. Ramsey has been elected senior counselor of the Lawrence council of United Commercial Travelers. Other officers elected include Junior Counselor George Knight Past Counselor Ernest Pontius Secretary Treasurer Harold A Pontius Conductor Clayton Stone Page Howard Creel and Sentinel Frank Durland. Executive committee members are Walter Varnum J W Priestly L H DeForest and L C Allen. Past counselor honors were given to Walter Varnum and George Hedrick for six years on the executive committee. Ernest Pontius and Walter Johns were named as representatives to attend the Grand Council meeting in Pittsburg the second week in June. Wost Pontius Dolph Simons and George Hedrick were appointed to the membership committee.
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W. A. Ramsey
Lawrence
United Commercial Travelers
George Knight
Ernest Pontius
Harold A. Pontius
Clayton Stone
Page Howard Creel
Sentinel
Frank Durland
Walter Varnum
J. W. Priestly
L. H. DeForest
L. C. Allen
George Hedrick
Walter Johns
Pittsburg
Wost Pontius
Dolph Simons
Sunflower 4 H Tours Projects and Rummage Sale
Sunflower 4 H club plans a Sunday project tour starting at Bernice Wiggins home at 1 30 pm on April 2 followed by a visit to Kathryn Folks and a picnic supper with each member bringing a dish. A rummage sale is set for April 15 and club members Francis Perkins Bernice Wiggins Kathryn Folks Dottie Bruce Jean Perkins and Ruth Mitchell attended the 4 H festival in Leavenworth on March 25.
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Sunflower 4-H
Bernice Wiggins
Kathryn Folks
Leavenworth
Francis Perkins
Dottie Bruce
Jean Perkins
Ruth Mitchell
New Lumber Company to Reopen Eudora Yard
George H. Lothholz returns as proprietor of the Lothholz Lumber Company in Eudora after C. E. Friend moved stock to Lawrence. Francis L. Treff will manage with a national merchandise focus and farmer builder supplies. Open house set for Saturday April 1 with factory demonstrations, prizes, and a free souvenir.
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Eudora
C. E. Friend
Lawrence
George H. Lothholz
Lothholz Lumber Company
Lothholz
George Lothholz
Francis L. Treff
Topeka
Kansas legislative council assigns key study tasks
At Topeka on March 31 the Kansas legislature named 25 members to the legislative council known as the little legislature. The council will study Kansas tax structure and teacher retirement pensions and propose future action. Members include Senators Allen Calver Cavaness Coleman Crow Hackney Herbert Nurman Skovgard Waggener and Representatives Baker Beatty Carper Cross Johnson Jones Kesler Munson Parsons Relfhan Riegle Robbins Smith Williamson Wunsch.
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Topeka
CPI
Legislative Council
Kansas
Carl E. Friend
E. A. Briles
Donald C. Allen
Valley Falls
Cecil Calver
Hays
Wilfrid Cavaness
Chanute
Rolla W. Coleman
Overland Park
el Dorado
Ed T. Hackney
Dwellington
Ewing Herbert
Hiawatha
Fred R. Nurman
Ottawa
Thale P. Skovgard
Greenleaf
Babe P. Waggener
Card of Thanks for Kindness During Illness and Death
Mrs Anna Landon and Family express gratitude for kindness shown during illness and death of husband, father and grandfather. Thanks for flowers and support from friends and neighbors.
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Anna Landon
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University of Michigan
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