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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1934
Page
2
The eleventh annual music week festival at EKU School of Fine Arts opens with strong turnout and student enthusiasm. Journal notes playful antics, campus beeves, and social events across Kansas university life, including trips to Atchison and Lake LaBlanche, with lighthearted anecdotes on serenades and student humor.
Chris Schaake announces his bid for the Republican nomination for Douglas County First District commissioner. A longtime farmer and Lawrence Mill and Elevator company operator, he moved to Douglas County in 1888 and previously led Kaw Valley farming efforts. He served as Douglas County Fair Association president and remained active in community affairs. he left the German Methodist church after consolidation and became an active member of the Big Stone Church.
In Topeka 8 delegates gather for a United States debate meeting in the Topeka High School cafeteria. The event, starting at 6 30 p m, will include remarks by Hugh Means of the district court and a spoken address at Wiedemann's.
Grass roots rallied at the country club with a busy weekend as golfers swarmed the course. Muske teers добавлены two pistols to the foresome and may be known as the four horsemen in the future Achning Springer Carmen and McCoy. A large turnout of ladies impressed with strong strokes amid chatter that cool weather helped chopping. Dr. Penfield Jones boosted his brassie throw by 3 ft 4 in. Scotch Foresomes begin Wednesday with mixed foursomes at 4 pm nine holes dinner and a putting contest. reservations with the club manager by noon. dinner 50 cents per plate. Bring golf hammers and join the fun at 5 pm or after.
The condition of Miss Dorothy White of 1016 Ohio Street after an emergency operation last night is good today. Miss Mary Giesemen shows slight improvement a week after her operation. Gladys Seanor, daughter of Mr and Mrs W R Seanor of Tonnanoxie, underwent a major operation last night and is in satisfactory condition.
A mass movement from strikes into shops and mines followed by four major labor disputes being settled. Automobile strikes in St. Louis and Kansas City end, Leath er workers in Peabody Massachusetts and Hicks miners in Vandergrift Pennsylvania return to work, with others still out in Massachusetts and Cleveland. Independent gas station attendants in Cleveland threaten lockout as 2,000 workers strike. Wilson and Co packers Cedar Rapids Ohio faces 1,200 striker employees. Gulf port longshoremen strike remains at standstill.
Fire consumed a barn on the J S Taylor farm along Lake View road Saturday evening around 6 o clock. One horse, some feed and machinery were lost along with a Buick sedan. The blaze, origin undetermined, threatened nearby buildings as Fire Chief Paul Ingels noted. Insurance covered the barn value of about 1000 dollars and some machinery.
Fred W. Johnson of 837 Connecticut street was injured yesterday morning when he slipped from joists on the barn rear of his home. He was taken to Memorial hospital with a fracture to the left leg below the hip and minor cuts. His condition was uncomfortable this morning. Johnson, an employee of L. L. Rising furniture store, had climbed to the second floor joists to dismantle the barn when the eight foot fall occurred.
The oil properties of Producers and Refiners Corporation will pass to Sinclair owned Consolidated Oil Corporation on May 31. A federal judge confirmed sale of the producers holdings to Consolidated for about 13 million dollars, ending a receivership and long litigation over the claims. Also noted, Charles Hoinville of Santa Fe visited Lawrence with W. C. Simons and family, as Hoinville manages coal and fuel oil purchases for the railway system.
WREN at 3 15 Junior High School Colored Girls Glee Club directs Miss Henrietta Bates. University of Kansas band at 7 00 led by J C McCanles. Lawrence public school music festival at 7 30 in Liberty Memorial High School auditorium. XG Phi Mu Alpha programs feature works by American composers with Skilton organ piece. Mu Phi Epsilon concert in University auditorium with Kostuming by Miss Oliver Mrs Holmes and Rosemary Ketcham assisting.
Douglas county figure Jack Parnell announces for the Republican nomination in the First district. A former six year county commissioner and four year Clinton township trustee, he touts ten years of public finance experience and opposes wasteful spending. He argues taxes can be cut only through intelligent economy.
The Midland College a cappella choir from Fremont Nebraska performed before about 1000 in a Lawrence Methodist church as part of the eleventh annual music week festival. Director Oscar Lydera sang a Norwegian folk song solo with two choir members providing echo effects. The group joined the audience to sing Abide With Me and Beautiful Savior. After a reception at Trinity Lutheran they traveled to Haskell and then to Lincoln for another concert tomorrow night.
Miss Lucy A Wight reports the death of Oscar L Wight while fishing near Coronado Island and details his San Diego residence. Mrs Ed Stonestreet of Kansas City dies, with services in Pleasant Hill Missouri. John J North dies in Los Angeles and will be laid to rest at Oak Hill after arrival in Lawrence.
William Snavely and son Manuel, 18, of Lawrence, jailed on charges of possession and transportation of liquor. Deputies Vogter and Price chased their Chevrolet roadster on the old Eudora road, stopping it about a mile east of Lawrence. Officers reported broken jugs containing whisky and a half pint kept for testing. County Attorney R. Stevens to file confiscation against the automobile.
The board of directors meets in Lawrence this week for routine business. Members include national president George R. Allen and officers John C. Talson, T. J. Sweeney, S. S. Baty, and Hasselberger, Pearl, Hartray, Smith, and Miller from various cities. One member is present for the meetings.
The First Baptist Church announces weekly activities led by Rev. C. C. Cunningham including choir rehearsal Monday and Thursday events, a Wednesday prayer meeting, an ice cream social Thursday afternoon for Sunday school funds, and a Friday sewing circle and business meeting. Sunday marks Mother's Day with a morning service featuring violin solo Reverie by Vieuxtemps performed by Prof. Walde mar Geitch and Miss Stoner. The sermon urged religious liberty and a stance on prohibition amid concerns about communism and nazism. Need extra cash Sell odds and ads with a classified ad.
Fritz Meyn touts a share of rain credit after pumping over 200000 gallons into his lake during dry weeks. The heavy rainfall raised water by another foot. A Lawrence postman earlier helped three excited boys by delivering their mail. Fishermen report poor catches of sunburned breakfast, while two young ladies haul 15 crappie and five bass with cane poles. Tennis players on public courts hint at policing semi nudism in sports wear as summer heat rises and panty-sport style golfers face blistering sun.
Gov Alf Landon told about 1200 Legionnaires in Latvia Kansas that Kansas led the nation in emergency grant highway projects and ranked second in jobs under the recovery program. He urged honesty and vigilance against destructive forces amid economic stress and praised bipartisan cooperation in support of recovery efforts.
Mrs Kathren O Loughlin McCarthy of Mankato filed today with Secretary of State Frank J Ryan as a candidate for a second term for Kansas sixth district. She mailed her declaration from Washington with the $100 fee. McCarthy, elected two years ago as Kansas first woman in Congress, faces no primary opposition. Frank Carlson of Concordia Republican state chairman is pursuing the Republican nomination.
President Roosevelt and Secretary Morgenthau met for two hours in Washington to discuss the silver situation but gave no public decision on legislative requests from the senate silver bloc. C Stevenson of Lawrence Building and Loan was in Topeka for a State Building and Loan League advisory board meeting.
Andrew W Mellon, a 63 year old industrialist, faces a federal grand jury after the government pursued about 2,000,000 dollars in income taxes and penalties for the 1931 tax year. Judge Gibson did not reference the case in his charge to the largely craftsman jury. A second item reports William Wallace, 48, killed by an enraged bull near Clay Center Kansas while trying to drive it back to a pasture. He left a widow and four children.
Crown Point Indiana May 7 Ernest Blunk fingerprint expert and deputy sheriff stood trial charged with aiding John Dillinger in his dramatic wooden pistol jailbreak from Lake county jail.
Directors of General Motors Corp declared a regular quarterly dividend of 26 cents a share on common stock payable June 12 to holders of record May 17. Thrifty persons read the classified page regularly.
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