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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
7
Society items must be submitted to the Journal-World office by noon on the publication day. Contributions are accepted for the society column and printed in the next issue.
Thursday Miller Progressive con tract club hosts bridge lunches with Mrs. Jackman Moore and Mrs. James. Merry Matrons lunch and Mercreds club dinner at Evans Hearth. Minervian club anniversary lunch at Evans Hearth. League of Women Voters luncheon at Episcopal parish house. Friday University club dinner bridge. Entre Nous with Mrs D L Noone and Mrs A M Ockerblad at Helianthus club. Niotas club with Charles Fincher and ML c bridge club led by William Frowe and F B Butcher. Thursday and Friday contract clubs at Evans Hearth. Saturday Pi Beta Phi Alumnae luncheon at Mary Gilmore Allen home. A A U W tea at Memorial Union. City Pan Helene nic association lunch at Evans Hearth.
The American Association of University Women hosts a Saturday tea at 3 in the Old English room Memorial Union signaling year end. New officers will be introduced and Ingrid Frestadius will discuss A Swedish Student in an American University. Reports from the Topeka conference are included.
Mrs A B Mitchell and sister Mrs R Harvey of Cleveland visit mother Mrs A M Davis in Chanute. Mrs Harvey to visit Lawrence next week. Raymond Nichols buy Woodruff property at 1617 Alabama St to make home. Emily S Simmons returns to San Diego after visiting brother A B Glathart and friends Mrs Wiseley and Mrs Houghton. Lawrence Ward had an appendectomy at Memorial Hospital and is reported satisfactory.
Seven University of Kansas political science majors have secured fall appointments or scholarships at colleges and universities. Elijah Cole earns a public administration research assistantship at the University of Minnesota. Irving Kuraner wins a Columbia University law school scholarship in New York. Richard MacCann receives a graduate scholarship at Stanford University. Ira O. Scott Jr. secures a Kansas University graduate scholarship. Mac Wynne receives a Stanford graduate scholarship and assistantship. Mervel P. Lunn becomes an Eastern College instructor in Wollaston Massachusetts.
Rep Rees of Kansas failed to amend the fair labor standards act to exempt banks with under 100000 capital from wage hour provisions. He argued rural banks shorten hours under the law creating hardship for farmers merchants and laborers while bankers say they cannot serve the public if banks stay open as before.
Kansas Congregational Christian conference adopted a resolution protesting President Roosevelt's appointment of Myron C. Taylor as representative at the Vatican. The measure drew only minor dissent after the resolutions committee balked. The convention also opposed entering the war and elected officers for the church groups.
Merrill Clements of Standard Life Insurance in Lawrence will join two other speakers, Lawrence Vance and Elden Beebe, a Bucklin sophomore, for a vocational guidance roundtable on KFKU at 2:80 tomorrow afternoon.
Read the Journal World classified page for bargains and listings. Local ads feature items for sale, services offered, and community notices with prices and contact details.
The Lawrence chapter of American War Mothers plans a May 11 carnation sale to raise funds for veterans including blind soldiers at Wadsworth. A Christmas donation letter from Wadsworth praises the group and notes moving to a new building, with hopes for continued support and full health in 1940.
Pauline Cowger Salina president of the Kansas Federation of Business and Professional Women’s clubs issued the official call for the annual convention in Wichita June 7 to 9. An attendance of 1000 was expected.
A one-pound baby girl born to 21 year old Mrs. Ernest Gross in Coopersburg near Allentown Pa died 22 hours after birth. Doctors had kept her alive with an electric heating pad wrap.
Howard C. Hopson founder of the Associated Gas and Electric system is indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly profiting more than 20 million dollars in securities. Charles M. Travis Garrett A. Brownback and Frederick S. Burroughs also charged with mail fraud and conspiring to defraud investors and securities holders of subsidiaries.
J F Baker district manager and Fred A Bremer local agent attend the state conven tion of the Farmers Automobile and Truck Insurance Exchange of Los Angeles held at the Jay hawk hotel in Topeka yesterday Bremer wins high producer prize for April Baker earns two prizes first district manager to meet 1939 quota and outstanding April 1949 production Several home office officials attend the event.
Albert Lucero and Arthur Lucero pleaded guilty to stealing their victims' auto and received 50 to 65 years and 25 to 50 years respectively. The brothers confessed to shooting Benito Romero and Elias Quintana on a road near Deertrail and burying the bodies in the prairie, but bodies were not recovered for trial.
North Lawrence residents share a weekend of visits and gatherings. Among names mentioned are Miss Geraldine Peterson and Topeka visitors Mrs. Harley Davenport, Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Alexander, and the Alexander family of Parker Kansas. A Sisterhood Circle met with eleven attendees. James Wright, 43, died, and funeral services were held. An anniversary dinner honored G A Stanwix and family at the R D Stanwix home.
A board meeting of the elders of the North Lawrence Christian church was held at Jim Mills home. Mrs. Doris Henderson and two sons left for Miami Oklahoma to join husband for the summer. An A Christian Endeavor rally was held at the church Thursday night. Mrs. William Dunn and her young daughter visit her mother Mrs. Thomas Popplewell.
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