Methodists Vote to Consolidate Missions in United Church Plan
At the uniting conference in Kansas City on May 9, Methodists voted to consolidate major mission enterprises under a General Commission on World Service and Finance. The merger unites church, school, and hospital missions with divisions for foreign and home missions and the Woman's Division, while preserving episcopal assignments and creating a nine-member judicial council.
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Kansas City
Methodists
Uniting Conference
Board of
Church Missions
Foreign Missions
Home Missions
Woman's Division
Christian Service
Unified Mission
General Commission On World Service and Finance
General Administration Fund
Episcopal Fund
Judicial Council
Supreme Court
Church
Francis R. Bayley
Baltimore
H. R. van Duren
Scranton
Vincent Paul Clark
Winchester
Mass
Walter C. Buckner
Los Angeles
North Church
J. Stewart French
Bristol
Tenn
Martin E. Lawson
Liberty
M. A. Childers
San Antonio
Tex
W. G. Henry
Atlanta
Mead
St. Louis
Altho St. Louis
John Calvin Broomfield
Bishop Mead
Missouri
Kansas
Barbecue for Army Was Largest Ever Held Here
The Has kell Institute hosted the largest army barbecue in Lawrence history for the Gist Coast Artillery unit and nearby forces. More than 1,000 men received 2,000 servings. event sponsored by the University R O T C and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce with attendees including 300 ROTC students 150 National Guardsmen 3850 artillerymen 1500 Reserve Officers and local business leaders.
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Haskell Institute
Gist Coast Artillery Unit
Lawrence
William Kol Jender
University
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Visitors from Shanghai Tour Local Farm Family
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lock Fong of Shanghai, visiting rural route 3 hosts G. R. Shultz. Fong, a former Goodyear employee, plans a six month stay in the United States after stops in Honolulu San Francisco and plans to visit Akron to confer with Goodyear officials. He studied in New Bedford in 1917 and notes Chinese optimism about wartime resistance.
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Robert Lock Fong
Shanghai
China
G. R. Shultz
Fong
Joseph Shultz
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Hono-lulu
San Francisco
Akron
Goodyear
New Bedford
Mass
Cranium Cracker Occupational Match Quiz
Five occupations are given with misprinted labels. Choose the correct descriptor for each: ophthalmologist fits eye diseases, voyageur travels, surveyor makes surveys, finishers do woolwork, antiquities scholar studies antiquity, botanist studies plants, cooper makes barrels, policeman enforces law, boatman rows, surgeon performs operations on the abdomen.
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Irainer
Cooper
Haskell Sky Show Draws Large Crowd Near Ft. Leavenworth
A Haskell sky show drew many spectators as Army planes demonstrated heavy weapons and searchlight gear. Equipment costs ranged from 7 000 to 25 000 dollars per unit, with planes and flares used to illuminate the display. Traffic control aided by state troopers handled heavy congestion around the event.
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SKY Show
Haskell
Nelson
Army
Ft. Leavenworth
Command and General Staff School
City planning dinner urges long range program
A discussion on planning for growth and housing standards was led by Pomeroy with Albert Martin introducing him. Mayor C. B. Russell presided as Mrs. Pomeroy attended, and the group debated a five to six year plan to guide urgent needs and long term goals for the city.
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New York
Commission
Pomeroy
Albert Martin
League of Kansas Municipalities
C. B. Russell
Seek Woman With Whom Schneider Had Meeting
Federal officials seek a woman who dined and had a conference with Edward L. Schneider two days before his drowning in the Missouri river. The jury probes his whereabouts from 12:30 to 2:30 pm on April 29 and whether he told her of his activities or discussed connections with Pendergast who was indicted that day.
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Kansas City
Edward L. Schneider
Missouri
Schneider
Pendergast
Ready Mixed Concrete Company
Isaac Miller Rites Planned In City Funeral
Isaac Miller aged 63 died Sunday at home 628 Massachusetts Street. Funeral services 2:30 tomorrow at St Luke AME Church with Rev JN Goddard officiating. Burial Oak Hill cemetery. Pallbearers James Bowers Lee Pitts Charles Hackley Clarence Cropp Adam Carter Charles Barker. Dotty Lamour recording heard by K A students as bus PA played near the chemistry building before campus police moved it.
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Isaac Miller
Massachusetts Street
St. Luke A.M.E
J. N. Goddard
Oak Hill Cemetery
James Bowers
Lee Pitts
Charles Hackley
Clarence Cropp
Adam Carter
Charles Barker
Glee Club Elects Officers at Kansas University
Heads K U Glee Club Ann Rightmire Topeka elected president of the women glee club at K U in a meeting yesterday. Other officers chosen are Rosalys McCrerey Hiawatha secretary Beth Young Kansas City Md business manager Helen Edlin Herington librarian and Greta Gibson Altamont student director.
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K. U
Ann Rightmire
Topeka
Rosalys McCrerey
Hiawatha
Beth Young
Kansas City
Helen Edlin
Costa Rica Orders Jewish Refugees Depart In Toursits Wave
A Costa Rican government decree orders the immediate departure of all Jewish refugee families who recently arrived as tourists. The action directs travel from San Jose and affects families that arrived in the past few months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Costa Rica
San Jose
Filibuster Threat Lands On Pittman Neutrality Bill
Washington reports of a potential senate filibuster against the Pittman neutrality bill if approved by the foreign relations committee. Senator Borah privately touted as a leader, while Barkley cautioned on talk. The bill would reenact cash and carry with munitions included, challenging today’s neutrality limits. The House passed Roosevelt defense funding, $773,414,241, easing toward a Senate vote.
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Washington
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Borah
Idaho
Barkley
Pittman
United States
Great Britain
France
Europe
America
House
Roosevelt
Final Presbyterian Dinner Seeks Annual Birthday Festival
Members of the Presbyterian church and congregation plan a final dinner of the year on Wednesday at 6 15 p m at the church to celebrate the annual birthday dinner. Representatives from Wimodausis Westminster Foundation Women's Guild Men’s Bible Class Taxis Society and Young Married People’s Class will host and decorate tables with program tasks. May Calendar organizers Mrs J M Sanderson and Mrs F L Riederer will oversee dinner arrangements.
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Presbyterian Church
Wimodausis
M. C. Cannon
Ray Edwards
Westminster Foundation
Anna Olinger
Bruce Cameron
Jean Dooley
Women’s Guild
E. J. Coy
Lloyd Boughton
R. D. Fink
W. J. Baumgartner
Taxis Society
A. E. Garrison
Vivian McBeth
George Ansdell
Neal Wherry
J. M. Sanderson
F. L. Riederer
Cochairman
Pershing Returns From Tucson to Washington
Gen. John J Pershing, 78, arrived in Washington from a winter in Tucson Ariz. He appeared lighter in weight yet erect and planned to visit France as chairman of the battle monuments commission this summer. He will likely live quietly at a hotel in the capital.
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Washington
John J Pershing
National Capital
Tucson
Ariz
France
Battle Monuments Commission
Dean Stouffer to be honored at KU dinner
Dean E B Stouffer graduate school dean and vice president at the University of Kansas will be guest of honor at a Me morial Union dinner tomorrow evening. About 65 attendees will celebrate his 25 years of service and his long tenure as budget committee chair. He was born November 7 1884 in Melbourne Iowa and joined KU in 1914 after studies at Drake University University of Chicago and University of Illinois.
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E. B. Stouffer
Graduate School
University of Kansas
Memorial Union
Stouffer
Dean Stouffer
Melbourne
Drake University
Des Moines
University of Chicago
University of Illinois
Department of Mathematics
Canker worms threaten Lawrence trees if not sprayed
In Lawrence the slow starting canker worms now escalate damage in some city areas. Leaves full of holes signal activity when sunlit. A separate note recalls an army air corps pilot’s daughter failing to greet her father by radio during a night demonstration, greeting a lieutenant instead. A local citizen receives a lapel pin featuring a brass screw and ball, labeling him a screwball in good standing. The tribe is expected to increase.
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Army Air Corps
Lawrence
Legally Identified as Missing Charley Ross
Gustave Blair, a 69-year-old carpenter, was legally identified by Maricopa County Superior Court as Charles Brewster Ross, claimed as Charley Ross abducted in 1874. Blair rejects doubt from his brother Walter L. Ross of Philadelphia and plans to pursue family acknowledgment.
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Philadelphia
Charley Ross
Arizona
Phoenix
Ariz
Gustave Blair
Carpenter
Walter L. Ross
Blair
Maricopa County
Charles Brewster Ross
Germantown
Walter
Reluctant applicant wounds self with home made bomb
A disgruntled relief applicant in San Jose attempted to throw a home made bomb into the state relief administration office. The device exploded injuring Primo Trombella severely and causing shattered windows and plaster to fall as about 50 people fled in fear.
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San Jose
Cal
State Relief Administration Office
J. N. Black
Primo Trombella
Trombella
City Council Tonight Set for Regular 8 O'clock Session
The city council will meet tonight in regular session beginning at 8 o'clock. The agenda includes routine approvals and community matters for discussion.
Phelps Trial Recount At Lunch Stand near Topeka
Phelps testified he stopped for a lunch break and sandwiches and beer before speeding up to pass the Hamilton car. He said he braked when Brown appeared from the east and that a crash occurred as Brown moved onto the north side of the road. Witness Wilma Walker, 18, said she did not know Phelps before the evening and could not recall road events prior to the crash.
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Topeka
Phelps
Hamilton
Wilma Walker
Merchants Bureau Dinner Sets Night of Elections Plans
The Merchants Bureau of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual dinner at Wiedemann's at 6 tonight to elect new officers and map the year's plans. Retiring chairman Charles Radcliffe will be honored as part of the event.
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Merchants Bureau
The
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
Wiedemann’s
Charles Radcliffe
Reds, Cardinals, Dodgers, and Phillies games recap
In MLB action May 9 Walter Berger hit two homers lifting Cincinnati past Philadelphia 8 to 4 as Morris Arnovich drove in three for the Phils. St Louis routed Brooklyn 18 to 1 with Ducky Medwick homering as Dolph Camilli also connected. Chicago beat New York 6 to 4. Pittsburgh vs Boston postponed by rain. Philadelphia at Detroit and Washington at Cleveland also postponed or rained out.
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Kansas City
Milwaukee
Vance
McCullough
Willis
Blaeholder
Hernandez
Philadelphia
Walter Berger
Cincinnati
Reds
Phillies
Morris Arnovich
Phils
Grissom
R. Davis
Hershberger
Mulcahy
Poindexter
W. Davis
Milligs
Brooklyn
St. Louis Cardinals
Dodgers
Ducky Medwick
Cards
Dolph Camilli
St. Louis
Davis and
Owen
Fitzsimmons
Casey
Crouch
Phelps
Chicago
New York
Higbe
French
Root
Lillard
Herbert
Salvo
Lehrman
Danning
Pittsburgh
Boston
Japanese Air Raids Continue Across China
Air raids across China continued with the Japanese aiming at military targets. Shanghai and Chungking report heavy bombardments with about 3,500 casualties in Chungking from the midweek raids, roughly half deaths.
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Shanghai
China
Chungking
Knights Templar Conclave Opens With 50 Commanderies Present
The seventeenth annual conclave of the grand commandery Knights Templar convened with 50 Kansas commanderies represented in Newton on May 9, marking the meeting's opening.
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Kansas
Knights Templar
Newton
Ratner Praises Gains Made in Safety Drive
Gov. Payne Ratner opened Kansas safety conference saying public safety needs voluntary cooperation. He noted accidents are declining in Kansas and highways are safer year by year. Farm accidents fell 35 percent last year and farm safety work has shown excellent results. About 10 speakers were scheduled. D. J. Fair chaired.
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Topeka
Payne Ratner
Kansas Safety Conference
Kansas
Kansas Safety Council
D. J. Fair
Classified ad rates and services offered by Journal-World
The ad cost is low at 80 cents for six days. An Ad-Taker can help write and copy. Phone 22. The Journal-World classified page serves as a daily meeting place for thousands of buyers and sellers.
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Journal-World
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Bagby
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Glenn
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St. Mary
Lawrence K. C
K. C
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Ratner
MT. Hope Nurseries
Cook
Armorcore
Lawrence Paint and Wall Paper Store
Rumsey Funeral Home
Indiana
Langston Memorial Company
Lawrence, Kan
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