New York Adopts Full 40 Minute Game For Next Season
The national basketball committee voted to drop the two minute rule after a one year trial. United States and Canada will play under the standard 40 minute game. The panel favored enforcing intentional fouls with an extra free throw, and kept tight rules on clock stoppages, substitutions, the molded ball as official, and fouls. George Edwards of Missouri was reelected chairman.
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Mar
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National Basketball Committee
United States
Canada
George Edwards
Missouri
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U S Guns To Europe Aids Move Of Heavy Guns For Italy
New York March 31 The flow of army ground equipment to western Europe under the mutual defense aid program includes a big consignment of 105 millimeter howitzers and 67 millimeter field pieces for Italy. The Exilena freighter at Brooklyn will load at 11 a.m. EST and head to Trieste then Naples and Haifa with no delivery ports named. This vanguard is part of a thousand million dollars worth of fighting gear bound for Europe as aircraft have already been sent to France and Britain and another gun shipment to France is planned next week. Navy ships will also sail overseas.
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Europe
Italy
Brooklyn
Trieste
Red Yuroslavia
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Haifa
Trea Ne
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France
Britain
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Bids Open for New K State Class Building in Manhattan
Topeka bidding summary shows Pi Bennett Construction submitting the low base bid of 421,338 for a three story concrete and stone building planned at Kansas State College Manhattan. Other base bids include Brown Hawkins 483,876 Mont J. Green 437,000 Huff Brothers 438,527. Plumbing and heating bids: Woodhull Plumbing 36,697 Sharake Electric 33,400. Appropriations total 415,000.
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Pi—Bennett Construction Company
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Brown-Hawkins
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Mont J. Green
Huff Brothers
Fort Scott
Hoover committee to study state accounting setup
Topeka March 31 the Kansas Hoover committee appointed by Gov Carlson to seek greater efficiency in state government held its first meeting yesterday headed by Jess C Denous publisher of Dodge City and former lieutenant governor He said accounting could be improved and that strict accounting is a basic factor in good government The committee aims to simplify examining government for efficiency and economy through a standard system.
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Topeka
Mar
Kansas
Hoover
Frank Carlson
Jess C. Denons
Dodge City
Denicus
Cows Help Recover Air Force Balloon in Arkansas City
Curious cows on the Dwight Moiser ranch east of Arkansas City aided the recovery of an air force meteorological balloon. Mozier noticed cattle gathered around the object in pasture, approached, and found an exploded balloon with a red parachute and recording gear.
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Arkansas City
Ran
Dwight Mosier
Here
Mozier
Cox 80th birthday marks quiet retirement milestone
The former U S president candidate James M Cox turns 80 in Miami today. He halted interviews to avoid mail and kept a long career in publishing across Ohio and Florida. Cox rose from printer’s devil to congressman and governor, ran for president in 1920 with Roosevelt as VP nominee, then built the Dayton and Miami newspapers and merged outlets into a broader Journal Herald and plans a Atlanta paper merger with himself as board chairman.
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Ohio
Dayton Evening News
U.S. House of Representatives
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Wounded mayor in serious condition after shooting
In Stillwater Oklahoma Mayor A. B. Alcott was conscious but gravely hurt after a barber named Chris Dixon shot him in his office. Dixon, 71, killed the city chief. Alcott, 54, survived a 23 hour operation to remove a .38 caliber bullet that fractured his jaw and lodged in his throat.
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Stillwater
Okla
A. BL Afcatt
Chris Dixon
Dixon
Alcott
Betty Hayward to Give Her Senior Recital Sunday
Betty Hayward a KU voice major from St Joseph Missouri will give her senior recital Sunday at four in Strong auditorium accompanied by Willard Straight. She has sung with KU groups and in Light Opera and church choirs and will perform English German French and American songs with a final item by Straight.
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Irene Peabody
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Willard Straight
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Women’s Glee Club
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Schubert
Wolf
Brahms
Debussy
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Milhaud
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Baker University Breaks Ground For Landmark Donated Residence
Ground-breaking for a new eight room $35,000 home for the Baker university president in Bald win began this week across from the campus main entrance. The Cape Cod style brick veneered house with full basement and attached garage is a gift from George Collins Jr and Loreine C Deitrich of Tulsa, from the George and Jenny Collins Foundation, to be dedicated to late Baker alumni Mr and Mrs George F Collins. Cyril Ranfel of Baldwin leads construction by several firms. President Horn and wife plan to move in by September as 120 women students move into the old home. Ground-breaking occurred Monday morning.
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Baldwin
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George Collins, Jr
Loreine C. Deitrich
Tulsa
Okla
George
Jenny Collins
George F. Collins
Baker
Cyril Ranfel
Nelson P. Horn
GOP Leaders Meet in Salt Lake City Policy Panels
Republican leaders from nineteen states gather in Salt Lake City for a two day conference to shape national planks. Panel discussions today and tomorrow address farm vote outreach foreign policy and socialism perceptions while Guy Gabrielson National Committee chairman outlines party plans at a dinner.
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Mar Ala
Salt Lake Ciy
Rocky Mountain
Iona
America
Guy G. Gabrielson
Ex-State Judge Finds That He is Not a Citizen
Denver based story reports Thomas Evans a 78 year old former Colorado judge who for 16 years served on the bench and only now learned he lacks United States citizenship. He moved from Leadville to Denver to apply for an old age pension and discovered his status. Evans notes his Welsh immigrant father obtained citizenship two months after his birth. He has voted in past elections and has since begun the citizenship process.
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Thomas Evans
Colorado
United States
Leadville
Colo
Evans
Citizensip
Rumor Swirls Over Cage Mentor Move to Michigan
Eastern State College reports rumors that Wilbur Sparky Stalge may take a new head coaching position in Michigan. The piece notes Penn State fans’ discontent with current defense and mentions debates over zone versus man to man, plus accompanying college sports chatter from the NCAA boxing tourney and Idaho boxers Norman and Leonard Walker.
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Sheila
Sparky Starcup
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Michigan 5
Syracuse U
Norman
Leonard Walker
U. of Idaho
Deforert Tovey
Wisconsin
Dwaine Dickinson
Idaho
Penn State Tatudenta
British Bana Tribal Welcome for Young King
Seretse Khama exiled chief designate of the Bamangwato tribe would not receive the ceremonial welcome planned for him in Serowe Bechuanaland on arrival in southern Rhodesia. Police banned the demonstration fearing a tribal move to spirit him to Serowe in defiance of British orders. Khama, Oxford educated, was returning from London where officials told him he could not be chief and ordered exile for five years. He may stay briefly to arrange affairs and be with Ruth Williams, his wife.
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Serowe
Bechuanaland
Mar
Seretae Khama
Southern Rhodesia
Rhodesia
Seretse
London
Ruth Williams
Sony
Prohibition Sweeps Bombay Province Vast Dry City
Prohibition takes effect April 6 in Bombay Province after a four year campaign ending with a ban on public drinking. The 3 million residents will face sealed stocks and bootleggers as the city becomes the world’s largest dry metro. The initiative, a Gandhi era pet project, reduced the number of bars across 114000 square miles. Observers note the sweeping shift in social policy and the province’s formal dry status.
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Bombay
India
Indiana
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Prohibition Policy Expands with Home Guards Augmentation
Police will be augmented by 16 000 home guards to enforce prohibition while foreigners retain a quota and permits. An elaborate underworld system has grown with speghdanen and illicit diatitlera. Foreigners face restrictions, and a 20 percent decline in life expectancy is noted in the second year in some contexts.
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Speghdanen
Diatitlera
Lawrence Business College Opens Short-Hand Course
Good stenographers and secretaries are in demand. Conditions are favorable in the field. A new shorthand and typing course will be organized at Lawrence Business College on April 3.
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Lawrence Business College
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