Kansas Wheat Yield Forecast From State and Fed Report
Kansas winter wheat production for this year is estimated at 99,362,002 bushels, down sharply from last year and well below the 1927-31 average. May 1 condition was 60 percent of normal, with 20 percent abandonment of 11.8 million acres sown. harvest could cover about 9.46 million acres. Pastures, hay, and rye show poor conditions, while eastern Kansas received rains improving growth.
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Topeka
Kansas
Nourast
State Board
Federal Department of Agriculture
J. C. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
F. K. Reed
Federal Agricultural Statistician
Two Autos Collide on Highway 10 East of Lawrence
Two cars collided on Highway 10 about six miles east of Lawrence at nine last night. Drivers were Robert Reynolds a KU student of 1260 Louisiana Street and Clark Brewster of Topeka. neither was injured. Reynolds drove a model A Ford coupe eastbound, Brewster a Nash sedan westbound. both vehicles were badly damaged and the Ford ended in a ditch.
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Highway 10
Lawrence
Robert Reynolds
Louisiana Street
University of Kansas
Clark Brewster
Topeka
Reynolds
Brewster
Fred Vogler
George Price
Commotion at bus station leads to police contact
A man on a Kansas City Hutchinson bus sought police protection at the station claiming a Mexican with a knife followed him. George L Brady Hutchinson appeared unbalanced, was taken to the county jail, then placed on a Hutchinson bus around 6 pm. Also noted are a Lebanon concert by Knox students Shirley Gibson Genevieve Hargiss and George Trovillo as part of Lebanon’s music week, and M D Gender of Dodge City filing for Republican nomination for secretary of state. A Holcom’s grove dance on Highway 73 W south of Lawrence is advertised along with poultry and stock remedies from Barbers Drug Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Lebanon
Shirley Gibson
Genevieve Hargiss
George Trovillo
K. WU. Fine Arts School
Trovillo
Miss Hargiss
Miss Gibson
Topeka
Dodge City
Frank J. Ryan
Salina Student Wins Gordon McKay Scholarship for Harvard
To Study at Harvard R Burton Power, a graduate student from Salina, Kansas, has won the Gordon McKay scholarship in electrical engineering for study at Harvard next year. Power is the third Salina student to receive a scholarship to Eastern schools, and he has been on the dean's honor roll and a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Tau. He assisted as editor of the Kansas Engineer and is a Salina high school graduate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Burton Power
University of Kansas
Salina
Gordon McKay
Harvard
Power
Summerfield
Tau Beta Pi
Sigma Tau
Kansas Engineer
Salina High School
Electrical Engineering
Robert Ganoung
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Porter
Yale
Ganoune
Porter
Bank robberies probe widens with undercover agent reports
An undercover Kansas investigator, John DeLong, traced suspects Rose and Mort Kraemer from Osawatomie to Kansas City, Missouri, with March 9 spent there. Camarata remains jailed after arrest at Leeds. no preliminary hearing yet. Rose captured near Beagle and jailed in Douglas County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Son
Independence
DeSoto
Edwardsville
E Ti
Journal-World
Smith
Kansas
John DeLong
DeLong
Topeka
Mort Kraemer
Rose
Osawatomie
Kansas City
Eudora
Camarata
Leeds
Lawrence
Stevens
Beagle
Kan
J. E. Johnston
Douglas County
Deaths and Funerals in Haskell area and beyond
Funeral services for Mrs. W. D. Breuninger, 54, of Haskell Institute, will be at 2 PM at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. Agszman and Rev. Van Sickle officiating. burial in Memorial Park. Survivors include husband Louis and five children in Wyoming, North Dakota, and Minnesota. Also noted: Mrs. Clara Carbis dies. services at Liberal Missouri, burial in Barton City cemetery. Mrs. Madge Cove, 61, dies at sister’s Vinland home. funeral details to follow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. D. Breuninger
Haskell Institute
First Presbyterian Church
Theodore Agszman
A. A. van Sickle
Baral
Memorial Park Cemetery
Husriend
Louis D
Ft. Washaka
Wyo
Williams Jr
Ft. Totten
N.D
John C. St. Francis
Maxine
Lawrence
Jess Peake
St. Francis
N. D
Clara Carbis
Liberal, Mo
Barton City
Madge Cope
Madge Cove
Phy Nichols
Vinland
Lawrence High Band Plays In Wyandotte Parade
The Lawrence high school band directed by C E Sawhill joined the Wyandotte seventy fifth anniversary parade in Kansas City Kansas at 1 30 this afternoon. About 50 members traveled by automobile with the Chamber of Commerce aiding in arrangements and providing transportation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence High School
C. E. Sawhill
Kansas City
Kan
Chamber of Commerce
Crop Prospects Growling Amid Dust Storms Across Plains
Chicago May 11 AP apprehension over middle America's crop prospects grew as parched prairies bred by a blazing sun and dust storms spread alarm. Local showers offered brief hope in Nebraska North and South Dakota and Iowa with unsettled forecasts elsewhere. Dust swept across the region closing air routes and driving wheat prices higher while reports of crop impairment and municipal water embargoes spread fear. Meanwhile Walter Maranville of the Boston Braves said he doubts he will play again this season due to a broken leg that may end his career.
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Chicago
Middle America
Nebraska
South Dakota
Iowa
Great Plains
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
Chicago Board of Trade
West Plains
Canada
Montana
Ohio Valley
Wero
St. Paul
Clark
Washington Streets
Chicasto
Dupree
N.D
Sykeston
N. D
West
Cumberland
Rochester
Walter E. “Rabbit” Maranville
Boston Braves
Rabbit
Maranville
Law Partners 19 Years In Philippine Life Of Hawkins
Ed Harvey recalls his brother Sherman A. Harvey as Hawkins law partner for nineteen years in the Philippine islands. Sherman Harvey, a Lawrence native now in Los Angeles, was Douglas county district court clerk 1893 to 1897 and served as a captain in the Twenty third Kansas infantry during the Spanish American War before moving to Tuguegarao near Manila.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal-World
William Marshall Hawkins
Manila
Ed Harvey
Blue Mound
Sherman A. Harvey
Hawkins
Philippine Islands
Sherman Harvey
Lawrence
Los Angeles
Douglas County
Twenty-third Kansas Infantry
Islands
Tuguegarao
Joint Recital Monday by Adelen a Druskus and Virginia Thies
Adelena Druskus violinist and Virginia Thies pianist seniors at the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts plan a joint graduating recital Monday at 8 pm in the Administration Auditorium. Druskus studies with Prof. Waldemar Gelich from Neodesha and Thies with Prof. Howard C. Taylor. Mary Lou Berlenbaugh will accompany Druskus. The program features Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Gluck, Saint-Saëns, Griffes, Wieniawski, Rubinstein, Popper-Auer, and Tipton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adelena Jana Druskus
Virginia Maribelle Thies
K. U. School of Fine Arts
Druskus
Neodesha
Waldemar Gelich
Thies
Howard C. Taylor
Mary Lou Berlenbaugh
Mozart
Tachaikowsky
Gluck- Sxambati
Saint-Saens
U Charles Griffes
Wieniawski
Rubinstein
Popper-Auer
Campbell Tipton
Baldwin Chorus Performs The Rose Maiden Cantata
The Baldwin Community chorus directed by Howard M. Sanders will present The Rose Maiden by Frederick H. Cowen on Wednesday evening May 16 at Centenary Hall Baldwin at 8 o clock. The 60 member chorus will be accompanied by Mrs. Florence Remington and Mrs. Cecil Sanders with a small orchestra. Soloists include Grace Huey Baldwin soprano Lola Burton Craig Lawrence contralto Cecil Sanders tenor and Lloyd Sahin baritone both of Kansas City.
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Baldwin Community Chorus
Howard M. Sanders
the Rose Maiden
Frederick H
Cowen
Centenary Hall
Baldwin
Florence Remington
Cecil Sanders
Leavenworth Clinic to Aid Crippled Children May 15
A conference and clinic for crippled children will be held in Leavenworth on May 15 with delegates from Douglas, Leavenworth, Jefferson, Johnson, and Wyandotte counties. The event, sponsored by the Leavenworth County Medical Society, starts at 9 AM at the Abdallah Temple, with a 6:30 PM dinner. Noted speakers include Victor Murdock, Earle W. Evans, C. Q. Chandler, and Prof. Ray Wheeler, under the county supervision of Judge L. H. Menger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northeast
Kansas
Victor Murdock
Wichita
Earle W. Evans
American Bar Association
C. Q. Chandler
Kansas Crippled Children's Commission
Ray Wheeler
University of Kansas
Douglas County
Crippled
Judge Menrer
Leavenworth seeks bonds to fund pegged fund
Leavenworth county commissioners plan to apply to the state tax commission for permission to issue bonds totaling thirty thousand dollars to carry the peo r fund to January first. The county says current funds raised thirty one thousand are exhausted and the extra amount is needed to meet the cash basis law. Rain harmed local fish as bass numbers dropped after muddy runoff flooded a Douglas county pond killing 356 bass. The city of Leavenworth enacts a new dog ordinance charging two dollars yearly for dog registration and confinement of pets with fines for dogs running at large, plus mandatory three day holds for unclaimed animals. A landmark street tree stump at Tenth and Tennessee is being removed to improve street lighting. A local resident jokes about the fire chief backing into his driveway to avoid backing out during emergencies. A consumer note mentions Mentholatum used on hose suiting a remark about mend—this odd tidbit reflects local humor. J W Alder lineage linked to old Universalist church record once presented to Lawrence Journal-World. Rabies caution issued for southern Lawrence squirrels after an incident involving a tree dweller pursuing a gardener’s cat.
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Leavenworth County
State Tax Commission
Mrs H A Jetmore Travels North for Visit
Mrs. H. A. Jetmore left yesterday for New York City to visit for several weeks. En route she is stopping at Marshalltown Iowa where she will be joined by a friend. She will also visit Syracuse and Dunkirk New York.
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H. A. Jetmore
New York City
Marshalltown
Syracuse
Dunkirk
N. Y
Miss Swarthout Recital Highlights Recent Piano Mastery
Miss Evelyn Swarthout daughter of Dean Donald Swarthout gave a senior study recital in FeeRutorium reflecting London training under Tobias Matthay. She performed Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven Fantasie Sonata, Schumann Intermezzo, Chopin Fantasie, Debussy Stravinsky and Grunfeld. Crowd praised her refined technique and interpretive clarity with strong audience approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evelyn Swarthout
Donald M. Swarthout
School of Fine Arts
Hallwo
Tobias Matthay
Matthay Piano School
London
British Broadcasting Association
Rummel
Scarlatti
Beethoven
Schumann
Chopin
Misa Swarthout
Debussy
Stravinsky
Grunfeld
Strauss
Fledermaus
Lawrence
Palmaaren
Gavotte
Prokoieff
Adopt School Calendar for 1934 35 Year
Lawrence public schools will not close this year but have set the 1934 35 calendar. Opening day is September 10 with closing May 31 and mid year close January 25. Recess periods include November 28 to December 3 Christmas break December 21 to January 7 and Easter break April 18 to 23.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altho
Lawrence
Board of Education
Highway boosters meet Emporia to discuss Kansas surfacing
Several hundred road boosters from nearly all towns along highways 50S and 75 in Kansas meet in Emporia on May 11 to discuss plans for concrete surfacing of gaps in the two highways. Abilene bride a death by own action. Abilene, Kan., May 11 AP Ms. George Powell, 20, bride of two days, took her life by poisoning here last night after marrying Tuesday to George Powell of Trenton Texas.
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Emporia
Kan
Kansas
Abilene
Abilene, Kan
George Powell
Trenton
Texas
Temperance Play Draws Bethel Crowd at Appanoose Church
Mr and Mrs Otto Garber and Mr and Mrs Lee Jones attended the temperance play What Shall It Profit at the Brethren church in Appanoose on Sunday evening. The production was presented by a Baldwin group. Albert Eno of Overbrook called on Cecil Brecheisen on Tuesday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Garber
Lee Jones
Brethren Church
Appanoose
Baldwin
Albert Eno
Overbrook
Cecil Brecheisen
Greenwood Valley Gatherings and Visits Highlight Week
Miss Fern DeWittie returns from Galveston to Greenwood Valley. Mrs. A P Riley visits Dowers. Edna Mae Horton and Ruth Bertschinger visit L R H S. Henry Riley and children host Ora Goff family. Reading circle meets. picnic lunch planned for end of term. McLouth visitors include Elton Dark and others visiting S Dark. Topeka families visit Glenn and Downs groups. Roy Armstrong spends weekend with parents A J Armstrong.
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Fern DeWittie
Galveston
Tex
A. P. Riley
Dowers
Edna Mae Horton
Ruth Bertschinger
L. R. H. S. Tuesay
Henry Riley
Ora Goff
Greenwood Valley Reading Circle
Meers
Elton Dark
Bobby Dark
S. J. Dark
Gerald Holloway
S. Dark
McLouth
Ed Smelser
Topeka
George L. Glenn
Rosemary
Glenn
Wilma Glenn
W . Glenn
Frank Downs
Dr Chambers Heads Kansas State Medical Society
Dr J F Hassig of Kansas City was elected president of the Kansas State medical society at the closing session in Wichita. Lawrence figures include Dr H L Chambers named secretary and Dr W F Bowen chosen as AMA delegate. Douglas County delegates Dr Chambers and Dr Powell, who piloted a plane, will form part of the executive council alongside several district physicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wichita
J. F. Hassig
Kansas City
Kansas State Medical Society
H. L. Snyder
Winfield
George Gray
H. L. Chambers
Lawrence
W. F. Bowen
Topeka
American Medical Association
Chambers
R. Canutesen
O. O. Stoland
N. P. Sherwood
Lyle Powell
Powell
State Society
Harry Gradle
Chicago
Mr. Powell
Douglas County Medical Society
Acquits Ernest Blunk in Dillinger Escape Case
Crown Point Ind May 11 Judge Maurice Crites acquitted Ernest Blunk a Lake county fingerprint expert charged with aiding John Dillinger's jail escape. The trial by judge without a jury found evidence insufficient to prove willful, independent assistance by Blunk in the March 3 escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crown Point
Ind
Maurice Crites
Ernest Blunk
Lake County
John Dillinger
Crites
Blunk
Dillinger
Desperado
Social rounds and church events in Eudora notes
Mrs Ben Erwin hosted a small birthday gathering Friday with guests including Bird Erwin Lawrence and the Everley and Erwin families. Pearl Smoots visited Mr and Mrs Louie Hadle for dinner Sunday. Kansas City visitors V N Patterson and Anna Dickerhoof spent Friday with Mrs John Miller. The St Paul Evangelical church Du Rite class plans a mothers and friends reception Thursday in the basement. Maybelle Slavens Agnes Betty Strachan and Frank Klingsberg attended Josef Hofmann’s concert in Lawrence Monday evening. Mrs Ora McCobrin hosted the W I T Y club and two guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Erwin
Mr. Erwin
Bird Erwin
Lawrence
John Everley
Richard Erwin
Ben Bart
Richard Bryant
William Ziesenis
Charleton
Milford Bartz
Pearl Smoots
Louie Hadle
V.N. Patterson
Anna Dickerhoof
Kansas City
John Miller
du Rite
St. Paul Evangelical Church
Maybelle Slavens
Agnes
Betty Strachan
Frank Klinzberg
Josef Hofmann
University Auditorium
Ora McCobrin
W. I. T. Y. Club
Laughlin Hosts Bridge Party With Traveling Prize
Laughlin and Mrs Floyd Pierce hosted a bridge party on Wednesday afternoon. The traveling prize went to Mrs Daugherty. Refreshments were served after the games. Members present included Mrs Leoni Walker Mrs Mayne Kohler Mrs Lydia McCabrin Mrs Grace Dizmang Mrs Ethel Daugherty Mrs Mary Merts Mrs Bernice Davis Mrs Margaret Hagenbuch and Mrs Ethel Bohnsack.
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Yaseenaer
Holcom’s Grove
Highway 73
Barber’s Drug Store
BANK
FROBE
Walter Maranville
Brother
W. M. Hawkins
Adelena ‘ Druskus
Virginia Thies
K. U
Baldwin Community Group
Lola Burton Craig
Crippled Children’s Association
Leavenworth
City of
Tenth and
Tennessee
Abraham Lincoln
Lee Riling
Universalist Church
J. W. Alder
South Lawrence
Skillon
Bethel
Greenwood Valley
DR. Chambers
State Medical Society
Lawrence Man
Nadh
LaFayette
W. Nash Movement
Nash Motors Company
Kenosha
Wisconsin
Tovar
Nashition
Seaman
NASH
H. D. Hill Motor Co
Maas
Fritz Co
T. G. Fitch
Meaford & Arnold
Dickinson
Lew Ayers
Bud and
Ben
FOX
Madame Anitra
S-E
Erich Maria
Remarque
Carl Laemmle
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