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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1939
Page
3
National Debt Week spotlight by Republican committee
The GOP designates the week as National Debt Week to highlight growing national finances and cites Roosevelt quotes from 1932 and 1933. It notes debt has risen 20 billion since 1933 and urges renewed effort, while warning that the year has many similar burdens ahead.
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Republican National Committee
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt
F.D.R
Ten Year Treaty Between Germany and Italy
The article notes the ten year alliance between Germany and Italy as not ground shaking, given both powers view treaties as tradable or breakable under various pressures. It contrasts Nazi cynicism about treaties with Italian alignment, suggesting the internal dynamics may affect the pact's longevity more than the agreement itself.
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Germany
Italy
Pendergast Sentence Won’t End Kansas City Power
The article argues that sentencing Boss Tom Pendergast on income tax evasion does not guarantee the collapse of his political machine in Kansas City. It warns federal interest may wane while remnants of the organization cling to power, urging local citizens to remain vigilant and assume responsibility.
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Tom Pendergast
Kansas City
Pendergast
Disease and Cure In A Dies Committee Testimony
The text discusses a claimed link between socialite status and mental capacity, citing Dies committee testimony. It mentions an uprising described as the “Franco method” as a proposed cure to prevent a leftist revolution, presenting the disease and its cure as inseparable in the argument.
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Dies
Readers Prefer Uplift Over Mass Migration to Europe
The passage argues that most people will stay in the United States rather than emigrate to Moscow or Berlin. It suggests that despite flaws in the U S, few would choose to turn the country into another Russia or Germany, and relocation abroad remains limited.
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United States
Moscow
Berlin
Russia
Germany
War referendum plan draws mixed public support
Questionable Senator Capper and Representative Lambertson push a war referendum amendment while Lambertson claims near universal sentiment. Critics note distrust of referendum methods and point to Western states’ extended referendums, arguing representative government and responsible officials better protect the public interest in peace or war.
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Capper
Lambertson
White House Prefers President’s Fund Over Stabilization Aid
The administration signals the new spending program will operate without the stabilization fund. Lawmakers eye a two billion dollar infusion, but the White House insists Congress has no say in a fund it deems the President’s own.
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White House
Congress
Royals view Dionne quintuplets in empire's wonders
The king and queen have seen the Dionne quintuplets, described as a unique wonder of the empire where the sun never sets. They may reflect on Kipling's question about England and its wider world.
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Kipling
England
Farley The Wise Politician In KC Boss Crisis
The article contrasts Senator Truman’s hurried defense of Tom Pendergast with Jim Farley’s cooler approach. Farley, seen as astute and less tied to the Missouri boss, avoids public calls and fingerpointing as the political ship risks sinking. The piece notes ingratitude and ruthlessness in realignments around the Kansas City affair.
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Farley
Coffeyville Journal
Truman
Tom Pendergast
K. C
Jim Farley
Missouri
Kansas City
Queen is a Woman says Etiquette Column
The Boston Herald quotes etiquette saying it is the prerogative to speak first while noting the Queen is a woman. The remark contrasts traditional speech roles and royal status.
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Boston Herald
Baker's Runaway Horse Scatters Pies Across Route
In upstate New York a baker's runaway horse scattered pies along the route as spellbound spectators cried out about government oversight, a scene reported by the Detroit News.
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New York
Detroit News
New York World’s Fair Seen Driving Merchants to Rise
The Joplin Globe forecasts the New York world fair will lift Manhattan merchants and energize national markets, describing the event as a key economic spur for shops and industries across the country.
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Manhattan
Joplin Globe
Knights of Columbus elects state officers in Salina
E L Dunbar of Topeka will continue as state deputy of the Knights of Columbus. Karl Gutzner of Newton was elected treasurer. The 1940 convention will be held at Beloit.
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Knights of Columbus
Salina
Kans
E. L. Dunbar
Topeka
Karl Gutzner
Newton
Beloit
Quotations Speak From The Record Of Public Figures
A collage of quotes from U S ambassador Joseph P Kennedy Roger N Baldwin and Maury Maverick plus a Detroit wife and Indians at a New York fair. The remarks touch on authority education political rights and personal relationships in a dated public discourse tone.
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U. S
Joseph P. Kennedy
New York Fair
Manhattan Island
Continuing Medical Research on Sulfa and Kidney Stones
The American Medical Association notes ongoing research on sulfanilamide use to control infections and determine optimal treatment duration. It also reports trials to dissolve kidney stones without surgery, exploring urine acidification and direct kidney or bladder dissolving fluids. The article highlights rheumatic fever risks in children, with data from a large case series.
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American Medical Association
H. Marshall Taylor
Florida
Medical Association
Medical Study Tracks Heart Disease in Early Patients
The article notes that initial cases showed no heart damage, yet by adulthood 25 percent developed heart disease and rheumatic fever recurred in many. It stresses ongoing medical observation and early symptom control as crucial to survival.
Indian Princess Invited to Meet King and Queen
Te Ata, an Oklahoma Chickasaw princess and wife of Dr. Clyde Fisher, will appear before the king and queen of England during their Washington visit to the Roosevelts. Mrs. Roosevelt invited her to perform a dramatization of American Indian folk lore at a musicale.
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Oklahoma City
England
Clyde Fisher
Hayden Planetarium
New York
Dr Gatewood Dies in Highland Park After Name Debate
Chiccaro May 23 reports Dr Gatewood a 51 year old physician who never chose a first name. He died in suburban Highland Park after a life marked by a unique naming story. He joined the American College of Surgeons and the American Medical Association as a board of governors member.
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Chiccaro
Gatewood
Highland Park
Nashville, Tenn
Ohio State University
Ie Medical School
American College of Surgeons
The
American Medical Association
Colorado couple held in $300 protection drug store robbery
Curtis Lindsey and his wife Clara Lindsey, both from Protection Kansas, are held in Colorado Springs on charges of the $300 burglary of a Protection drug store. They waived extradition after arrest in Colorado Springs. Detectives say part of the money and merchandise was recovered.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Coldwater
Kan
Curtis Lindsey
Clara
I. B. Bruce
Inman Farmer Sentenced for Assault with Dynamite
Hutchinson Kan May 23 Pauls indeterminate prison term not more than ten years after guilty plea to assault with intent to murder. He admitted he exploded two sticks of dynamite outside a rooming house door of a waitress who had jilted him.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Side Pauls
Inman Farmer
Pauls
Germantown academy quiz tests news knowledge
In a school information test the Germantown academy asked who Boeing, Douglas, Ben dix and Curtis-Wright are. A student answered Justices of the U S Supreme Court. The correct response is that they are airplane manufacturers.
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Philadelphia
Germantown Academy
Boeing
Douglas, Bendix
Curtis-Wright
U. S
Supreme Court
Notre Dame basketball veteran becomes St Joseph County GOP chair
Ed Smith, once a Notre Dame All Western guard for three seasons, now serves as Republican county chairman in St Joseph County, reflecting a shift from college basketball to local political leadership.
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South Bend
Ed Smith
Notre Dame
Republicn County
St. Joseph County
Amateur Weatherman Joins Michigan State Football Staff
Joe Hol, newly named backfield coach at Michigan State, is an amateur meteorologist and civil engineer by training. The East Lansing resident combines football duties with hobbyist weather forecasting.
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East Lansing
Mich
Joe Holsinger
Michigan State
Kaw Valley potato acreage dips after flood year
Acreage this year totals about 12 160 acres or 71 percent of last year’s harvest of 18 160 acres caused by a recent flood. An 80 firm co operative sales event will be staged in Lawrence offering a main Special.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kaw Valley
Lawrence
Leslie Pride
Water Department
Barker Avenue
Memorial Hospital
J. Transue
Ike Fairbanks
Price
George Cady
Berkeley
Cal
University of California
W. B. Ross
Kenneth
Greensboro
N. C
W. E. Hockett
John Perkins
Famly
Richmond
F. B. Dodds
Orry W. Owens
Hocker line to Lawrence delayed. Heim line may serve city
R W Hocker says the Hocker electric line will not reach Lawrence this summer forcing the city to rely on the Heim line coming from the north bank. William Crutchfield, 85, celebrates with friends as Lawrence honors its early settlers amid high school veterans’ talks and a grand recital by William Hoyt. An alumni picnic is planned for 1912 at Paul McFarland’s country home with Riggs and Miss Wallace chaperones. Post office staff with 25 years service honored at a dinner hosted by C S Finch.
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Hocker
Lawrence
R. W. Hocker
William Crutchfield
Lawwrence High School
Paul McFarland
Riggs
Wallace
Post Office Department
C. S. Finch
Duffee Birthday Party Lights Kanwaka Neighborhood
Mr and Mrs Duffee held a 65th birthday party for Mrs Duffee at their Kanwaka home with Sophie Scheer as planner. Elias Summerfield plans Europe departure. others like Dr Summerfield and family, and Prof Penny lead a busy week of travel, meetings, and social events. Laura and Amy Babbitt visit Ruth Whitman and Laura hosts an elocution recital at Haskell. C A Ratherman returns from a year at Howard Kansas. Mrs William P Flash of Galveston to visit Hill family.
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Tomorow
Haskell
B. W. Woodward
L. E. Sayre
Laura Babbitt
Amy Babbitt
Larned
Ruth Whitman
C. A. Ratherman
Howard, Kan
William P. Flash
Galveston
E. N. Hill
Nightlife intrigue in Mary Franklin's Parisian set
Society editor Mary Franklin follows clues in the French case as Duke Martin meets Clem Shirley and Jack Burden. Clem accepts an invitation to The Dove, where Duke sketches a life of danger in Hell's Kitchen. A plan to corral Jack Burden and explore the town unfolds with suspense.
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Mary Franklin
Duke Martin
Janice French
Jim Shirley
Playboy
Penas
Clem Shirley
Jack Burden
Clem
Duke
Jack
Mr. Martin
Mademoiselle
Marie
Mike
Martin
Jim
11Th Avenue
Cove
Burden
Poppy Day Saturday Honors World War Dead
Poppy day on Saturday May 27 provides work for hundreds of disabled veterans through the American Legion Auxiliary. Poppies are manufactured in Kansas and distributed locally with volunteer Auxiliary workers at a gas company office. Poppy earnings aid veterans' families as the only paid workers in the program.
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Lloyd Boughton
Dorsey Liberty Post
American Legion Auxiliary
A. B. Elliot
Legion Auxiliary
Lawrence
Gas Company
Kansas
Kansas Department of the Auxiliary
Auxiliary
WPA Worker in Illinois Seeks Use of Own Shovel
A Lawrenceville WPA worker asks Representative Arnold if he may use his own long-handled shovel instead of the agency provided tool. Arnold found federal officials have no objection but seeks state or local rulings. The man, a former soldier with back injuries, urges consideration.
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Washington
WPA
Lawrenceville
Arnold
D.ill
Professor Virgil Cherry Death By Own Action
Berkeley California May 23. Police listed death as by own action in the case of Virgil H Cherry 32 year old UC Berkeley engineering instructor whose nude body was found in a ledge in his dis arranged home Sunday night a pathologist's report showed he died from poison and there is no question Cherry administered the poison himself Mrs Jacqueline Williams 26 a seamstress who police said had lived with Cherry three years as his wife was released
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berkeley
Calif
Virgil H. Cherry
University of California Engineering
M. Thompson
Cherry
Jacqueline Williams
Householder in Comeback Says Small Borrowers Recovering
HOLC manager Charles A. Jones reported a consumer recovery among small and moderate income homeowners. He cited more loans paid in full, more back installment payments, higher collections than 1938, and a surge in sales of small homes.
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Washington
Charles A. Jones
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
HOLC
Jones
A's Sign Cheap Phillies Recruits as Free Agents
The Athletics signed a group of 1939 Philadelphia nine athletic recruits as free agents and drafted an equal number, bolstering their roster with outside talent.
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A’s
Philadelphia
Hitler Advances New Dinner Jacket Fashion at Banquet
At a May 22 dinner in Berlin hosted by Joachim von Ribbentrop for Count Galeazzo Ciano, Adolf Hitler wore a white uniform dinner jacket with a silver belt, displaying his Iron Cross, Nazi Party badge, and a veteran’s medal. The gathering marked the signing of the German Italian alliance.
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Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Ibe
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Galeazzo Ciano
Italy
Hitler
Germany
Fuehrer
Pope Pius XII to likely summon cardinals in November
Vatican officials expect Pope Pius XII to call a consistory in November to fill about eleven cardinal vacancies. Earlier plans spoke of a May or June event but sources now say autumn is more likely.
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Vatican City
UPI
Vatican
Pius XII
College of Cardinals
District Chamber Leaders Attend Topeka Meeting
Charles Radcliffe president elect of the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce and George Hedrick secretary joined district chamber leaders in Topeka this afternoon to choose representatives for state wide industrial and highway committees. F C Huljer Emporia district vice president was scheduled to preside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Radcliffe
Lawrence Chamber of Commerce
George Hedrick
Topeka
District Chamber of Commerce
F. C. Huljer
Emporia
Four Killed as Bomber Crashes Near Newark England
Four members of a Royal Air Force bomber crew were killed and a fifth seriously injured when the plane crashed today near Newark England. The crash occurred during operations with the Royal Air Force.
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London
Royal Air Force
Newark
Eng
Baldwin News Highlights Local Social and Graduation Events
Local social visits unfold in Baldwin with Mrs. Earl F Martin and others in Ottawa. Lyons teachers Alice and Elsie Haigh return for summer with their father Samuel Haigh. Baldwin hosts baccalaureate service at First Methodist Church with Dean Paul Kochan of Baker to speak. Graduation list includes many seniors with Charlene Elm salutatorian and Chester Gates valedictorian. Baldwin Garden Club to sponsor annual flower show at Fellowship Hall.
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Earl F. Martin
A. M. Hanks
Margaret Dickinson
Clara Alice Beach
Ottawa
Alice
Elsie Haigh
Lyons
Alice Haigh
Baldwin
Samuel Haigh
Rollo Mueller
Donald Keith
Marcelle
Columbia
Salina
Jack Hoefer
Mueller
Robert E. McHenry
Hoefer
Frank E. Wolf
Homer K. Ebright
Marjgere Mae Randall
Topeka
Alpha Chi Omega
Bessie Boughton
Dean Grace Irwin
Bennett
Eula Smith
Lawrence
Katherine van Keuren
H. K. Ebright
Albert Ivanhoff
Dennis
Cape Cod
Ivanoff
Prof
Ivanhoff
Boston
Baldwin High School
First Methodist Church
James 8. Chubb
Anna Moore
Mendelssohn
Handel
Jeremiah Martin Bacon, Jr
Ethel Caldwell
Maryann Counts
Paul
Edward Curtis
Kenneth Eugene Enyart
Charlene Eleanor Elm
Robert L. Gilman
Noah Gimbler, Jr
Chester W., Gates, Jr
Mary Kathleen Huey
Milo Dean Hutton
Marcella Jardon
Beth Louise Jones
Helen Elizabeth Ann Leach
Cleo B. Price
June Beck Purvis
Geraldine Runnion Burton
Raymond F
Shirley
Baldwin Garden Club
Fellowship Hall
Radio Listings for May 23 Evening Programs
Radio schedule fragment lists WREN KMBC WDAF programs by time from 5:30 pm to 2:00 am with bands, talk shows, serials, newscasts, and weather forecasts across stations WREN KMBC WDAF. Notable acts include Johnny Presents Dick Powell Fred Allen Burns concerts and sports program references.
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Wren
KMBC
WDAF
Jimmy Alen
Clyde Reed
Edward G. Robinson
Wbaaf
Johnny Presents
Dick Powell
Mary
Bob
Benny Goodman
Fibber McGee
NBC
Hal Kamp
WDAK
Bob Hope
Uncle Walt
NBC T
Amosi 'N’ Andy
WDAKF
Jimmy Fidler
Richard Himber
Johnny Messner
Dick Barrie
Orch
Anson Weeks
Carlos Molina
Moonbeams
Pliner and Earl
Count Basie
Henry King
AKMBC
Vireen—Manhatters
Buck Rogers
Jimmy Allen
Dance Cavaliers
Wren—Employment Service
Roy Shield
Iwmbc
Hobby Lobby
Paul Whiteman
Tommy Dorsey
Star Theatre
Fred Allen
T.c—Wren
Idea Mart
Raymond Paige
WDAPF
Kay Kyser
KKMBC
Jay Franklin
Blue Barron
Orb
Amos 'N' Andy
Lum
Abner
Larry Clinton
Shep Fields
Harry Owens
Wdaf Moonbeams
Pliner
Earl
Sterling Young
Muehlebach
French and Spanish Lessons Highlight Busy Broadcast Day
The schedule lists Ruth Ardis Bow man, Jane Chesky, Allie Merle Conger as piano digg crew. A cornet quartet featuring Bob Boyle, Eugene Crabb, Louis Maser, Clayton Krehbiel, Marshall Butler with an accompanist is set for 10 00.
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Ruth Ardis Bowman
Jane Chesky
Allie Merle Conger
Bob Boyle
Eugene Crabb
Louis Maser
Clayton Krehbiel
Marshall Butler
Aid society covered dish lunch planned this week
A community aided covered dish lunch is scheduled for Wednesday. The northeast section will meet with Mrs. Charles E. Beeks, the southwest section with Mrs. F. M. Hartley and Mrs. Margaret Dickinson, and the southeast with Mrs. Edward Huey.
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Charles E. Beeks
F. M. Hartley
Margaret Dickinson
Edward Huey
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