Abduct Wealthy California Man At Arcadia Estate
Two masked men abducted William F. Gettle, 47, a Beverly Hills oil magnate, from his Arcadia foothills estate during a midnight party. James Wolfe bound and gagged, left tied at a tree. Gettle strapped over a wall and driven away. Police seek leads as authorities, including federal agents, hunt a suspected big-gang operation possibly involving a woman, with ransom negotiations led by Ernest E. Noon for Gettle’s family.
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Los Angeles
William F. Gettle
Foothills
Arcadia
James Wolfe
Westwood
Gettle
Beverly Hills
Wolfe
Calif
Ernest E. Noon
Noon
Mr. Gettle
Gettie
Getties
Bills
Betty
Bobby
Jimmy
California
Washington
W. G. Luzzi
Suit Over Accident Damages Filed in District Court
Mrs Lula Shirar sues Bert M Briggs for 5645 45 in district court over a April 14 automobile crash at Haskell avenue and highway 10 east of Lawrence seeking medical and hospital expenses 100 for Shirars car and damages to the plaintiff and her nervous system Ray Shirar driver of the car also named in the suit alleging Briggs carelessness and negligence.
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Lula Shirar
Bert M. Briggs
Winois Street
Haskell Avenue
Highway 10
Lawrence
Shirar
Ray Shirar
Briggs
Lege
Ascension Day Service at Emmanuel Lutherans
Immanuel Lutherans hold a 7 45 pm Ascension service to mark Christ's fortieth day after Easter with Rev W W Stoepnerwerth delivering the sermon Our day in Christ s Ascension to Heaven at the Tenth and Kentucky church Everyone is invited to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Immanuel Lutherans
Christ
W. W. Stoepnerwerth
Tenth
Kentucky
Personal News From Lawrence via St Petersburg Visit
Mr and Mrs B B Power formerly of Lawrence arrived yesterday from St Petersburg Florida to visitMr and Mrs John L Kilworth The Power couple are en route to Michigan to spend the summer Mr and Mrs H S Foster will leave tomorrow to spend the summer with their son Edward Foster and family at Colorado Springs
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
B. B. Power
Lawrence
St. Petersburg
Fla
John L. Kilworth
Hutchinson Troops Mobilize to Restore Order in Wichita
Hutchinson Kan May 10 AP One battalion mobilized and two batteries held in readiness to answer a call as 65 artillerymen led by Capt Alva Fenn left Hutchinson to aid in keeping order in Wichita City guardsmen armed with rifles and ball ammunition were to support police after Governor Landon appealed and sheriff Hoover faced questions from the attorney general about yesterday’s riot
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Wichita
Hutchinson
Harry S. Mueller
Landon
Wells
Crawford
QO. W. Wilson
McLean
Roland Boynton
Charles Hoover
Sedgwick
Wichita Hutchinson
Kan
Alva Fenn
Deaths and Funerals: Clara Carbis and Gert rude Lewis
Clara Carbis 74 died last night at her daughter’s home 1116 Connecticut St. Survived by daughter Mrs Good and son Charles L. Jones of Durango. Funeral arrangements pending. Gert rude Lewis 44 died Tuesday at home in Hutchinson. Services tomorrow 2 30 pm Ninth Street Baptist Church Rev B L Wightman. Burial Oak Hill Cemetery. Formerly in Lawrence, she has lived in Hutchinson 15 years. Body lies in state at sister Mrs Lillie Lewis’s home Miles Funeral Home. James N Lydic services held in Topeka for Lydic who died Tuesday afternoon. father of Murray Lydic of this city.
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Clara Carbis
J. R. Good
Connecticut Street
Mrs. Good
Charles L., Jones
Durango
Gertrude Lewis
Hutchirson
Ninth Street Baptist Church
B. L. Wightman
Oak Hill Cemetery
James N. Lydie
Topeka
James N Lydic
Mr. Lydic
Murray Lydic
Cost of Eudora Waterworks Contract Awarded
The C A Shockley Engineering firm of Kansas City Missouri was awarded the contract to survey and estimate a waterworks system for Eudora. Survey work begins later this week and a special election will decide bond issuance after the estimate is completed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.A. Shockley
Kansas City
Eudora
Vandals remove campus fine arts event calendar
Dean M Swarthout of the fine arts school reports vandals tore the campus events calendar from the fine arts bulletin board in Lawrence during Music Week. He seeks information leading to the calendar's recovery and warns that such attacks threaten campus service programs and future calendars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas University
M. Swarthout
Fine Arts School
Fine Arts Bulletin Board
Dean Swarthout
Lawrence
Carnation Sale To Aid Ex Service Men In Lawrence
The American War Mothers will hold a carnation sale in Lawrence on Saturday May 12. Carnations will be sold at the gag office Cole s ready to wear Carl s clothing store and the Douglas County Republican with Mrs Lyons Eastman Starkweather Goldtran Garner Kennedy Whitten Kelsey Birch Johns Campbell Penny Courtney Brown and Plank in charge. Funds from the sale go to aid ex service men and their families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eudora
Mothers and Daughters Banquet At Local Methodist Church
About 180 mothers and daughters attended a banquet in the Eudora Methodist church community room last night. Mrs Ruth Kothrauff served as toastmistress and announced a short program featuring tableaux illustrating the seven stages of womanhood. Mrs Fred Walker and the May committee of the Ladies Aid organized the event.
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Eudora Methodist Church
Ruth Kothrauff
The
Ladies Aid
New York School to rise with PWA funds
Superintendent C E Birch said inquiries about a new school building using PWA funds began about a year ago while workers excavated the New York site. The replacement building is due for completion next fall as the current facility is removed.
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PWA
C. £. Birch
New York
Fine Audience For Musical Program
Music week in the university auditorium featured the University Symphony Orchestra under Prof Karl Euersteiner with Ruth Orcutt and the Hilger trio as soloists. Miss Orcutt dazzled with Concertstueck, the Hilger sisters delivered Bruch Kol Nidrei and Moses Fantasy, and Beethoven's The Triple Concerto Op 56 closed the program to glowing reception. The performance highlighted the orchestra's refined accompaniment and the soloists' technical prowess and musical maturity.
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University Symphony Orchestra
Ruth Qreatz
Hilger
School of Fine Arts
University Auditorium
C. A. Preyer
Ruth Orcutt
Lawrence
Miss Orcutt
University Symphony
Karl Euersteiner
Orcutt
Mana-Zucca
Elsa Hilger
Bruch
Kol Nidrei
Beethoven
New York City
Haydn
Mozart
Dean D. 4M
Swarthout
Tschaikowsky
Two Films Tonight at 827 Vermont in Lawrence
R E Arnold presents two talking pictures at 827 Vermont Lawrence starting at 8 pm free to the public. Hell Drivers features Barney Olfield ski jumping from a car wheel and Billy Arnold in a dramatic Indianapolis speedway crash. Three a Minute depicts operations in a leading manufacturing plant showing modern industrial methods.
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Vermont
R. E. Arnold
Lawrence
Barney Olfield
Billy Arnold
Indianapolis Speedway
Chancellor Lindley to Speak at Delaware Centennial
Chancellor E. H. Lindley of the University of Kansas will leave Lawrence tonight for Newark Delaware to deliver the principal address at the University of Delaware centennial celebration Saturday. His topic is The State University and the Democratic Hope. He will fly from Kansas City to Chicago and then take a train east, with a Washington visit planned before returning to Lawrence.
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E. H. Lindley
University of Kansas
Lawrence
Newark
Del
University of Delaware
The
State University
Kansas City
Chicago
Washington
Ernest K. Lindley
Kentucky Derby Pictures Shown In Special News Reel
A Dickinson theater secures a complete Kentucky Derby running reel and will show it at all performances for three days starting tonight. The film captures Cavalcade winning from start to finish using special lenses for clear, accurate footage.
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Dickinson
Dickinson Theater
Kansas Miners March Through Kansas Mines Idle Again
Pittsburg Kan May 10 AP militant Kansas deep miners resumed their march aiming to halt mining in the Kansas Missouri field. Six mines closed today with 200 workers laid off and more than 450 out in two days. Missouri patrols watched the border for a possible invasion by the marchers.
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Pittsburg
Kan
Kansas Deep
Kansas-Missouri
Missouri
Crawford County
Brennan Coal Company
Pioneer Coal Company
Kelly-Carter Coal Company
Adolph Kurent
Englevale
Mulberry
Joplin
L. E. Eslick
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Missouri-Kansas
Minden
Kansas
New York School Site Buzzes With Excavation Activity
Lundgren Carlson crew digs massive trenches for a New York school building as 15 to 20 workers clear earth. A digging machine lifts soil while laborers loosen it, with few rocks found and clay promising a solid foundation. Tearing down houses lags. officials expect structures to be moved promptly, holes filled with surplus dirt as sheds and barns block progress. Kansas City plumber T Conroy and crew trench toward the east side of the block.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lundgren & Carlson Contracting Company
New York
T. Conroy
Kansas City
Kiwanis Club Enjoys Music by University Quartet
The Kiwanis club heard a University string quartet perform during music week with strong applause after each number. They opened with Beethoven, then Dittesdorf Andanta, Valensin Minuet, Skilton War Dance, and an encore of Old Black Joe. The club voted to credit attendance for the Chamber of Commerce dinner on May 24 at the Country Club, with Rotary invited as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Dittersdorf
Valensin
Charles Sanford Skilton
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary Club
Beulah Morrison Inspires Class With Chalk Lecture
A university feature notes Miss Beulah Morrison, associate professor of psychology, spoke by writing lessons on the blackboard after losing her voice. She stayed with her class to avoid extra trips, showing care for students amid rush week and forthcoming exams. The piece blends campus life with party plans and looming finals.
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Beulah Morrison
Kansas freshmen mix with jazz and horses at KU
The piece notes a Kansas University scene where a freshman Johnny Phillips of Kansas City, Mo., once national constitutional oratorical champ, now haunts a distracting scene. A student teases a mower team against a pair of University of Kansas horses while a P S B member laments finals week and his failed attempt at study, joking about never finding the library front door.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Phillips
Kansas City
K. U
University of Kansas
Phillips
Man Dies After Six Days On Narrow Hotel Ledge
Miami, May 10. Shirley Brewer, 43, a pharmacist, died after six days imprisoned on a 15 story high narrow ledge of an unfinished Hotel Eldridge. Missing last Friday, he was found unconscious by a city observer after a climb to the roof. His right leg was wedged in masonry, trapping him on the ledge.
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Miami
Fla
Shirley Brewer
Brewer
Convention attracts 50 plus for KU business officers meeting
More than 50 persons registered for the twenty fourth annual meeting of the Association of University and College Business Officers at the University of Kansas. The two day session opens with a 6 15 PM dinner at Haskell Institute hosted by Dr Henry Roe Cloud and Indian school entertainment.
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Association of University and College Business Officers
University of Kansas
Haskell Institute
Henry Roe Cloud
Haskell
Kansas Memorial Union
A. H. Smith
University of Indiana
W. T. Middlebrook
University of Minnesota
Ralph J. Watts
Lawrence College
Northwestern
W. A. Dyche
Northwestern University
Roosevelt Grandchild Named Ruth Chandler Roosevelt
Fort Worth Texas May 10 AP The fifth grandchild of President and Mrs Roosevelt has been named Ruth Chandler Roosevelt The daughter born yesterday to Elliott and his wife is named Ruth Chandler Roosevelt Both mother and baby are reported doing nicely
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Eudora Waterworks
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Arnold Motor Company
Lindley
Kansas- Missouri
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O. Pi
Versailles Palace
Alpha Omicron Ti
Phi Alpha Delta
Alpha Chi
Union Building
Red Blackburn
Frank
Henry Halstead
Orch
Keysters
Henry
Kappas
Eldridge
Sinclair H-c
Mount Hope
Ros
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Tory
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Duco
Mari Batti
Hall
Federal
I. Tires
Name Roosevelt
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Coizic
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