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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1933
Page
3
Sunday visits, church and club Activities fill Baldwin area pages. Evangeline Chapter of Eastern Star hosted at Lawrence. Baker and Arlington church events featured a student pianist and trio. doctors, teachers, and residents attend conferences, meetings, and family celebrations across Baldwin, Lawrence, Atchison, and surrounding towns.
Recheck of figures clears the way for mailing out wheat control payments to Kansas growers who signed contracts. Counties with increased or decreased allotments are adjusted to the revised federal estimates. Gray and Finney counties contracts approved with about seven percent reduction. Douglas county will begin initial payments totaling $19,737. Federal statisticians and county committees approved the revised figures as final basis for allotment payments.
A Kansan visits Hollywood and observes film making with Wally Ford on prize fight scenes and the Taxi Driver set featuring Skeets Gallagher Lona Andre Lucille Gleason and Warren Hymer. Skeets Gallagher proves likable while Lona Andre recalls a doll like memory. Lucille Gleason mentions loving hamburgers but being particular about them.
Interview notes describe a film scene with Skeets in a leather jacket between takes and Lona in a brown suit and hat. The Nut Kettle Imi area is praised for good hamburgers as cast and extras mingle during a six day shoot with strangers and local chatter.
At the Dickinson Theater a continental romance titled My Lips Betray features Lilian Harvey and John Boles with El Brendel in supporting roles. The film follows a young singer who becomes instantly popular after a mistaken belief she is the king’s chosen favorite in a fictional monarchy. Starting Friday Dickinson expands with Spencer Tracy in The Mad Picture on kidnapping.
A inmate asks for temporary release to assist authorities in solving a crime, arguing the needed freedom would allow him to provide crucial information and lead to the arrest of suspects. The proposal aims to balance public safety with investigative progress.
Washington Nov 21 AP Sprague resigns as special advisor to the treasury. He states there is no defense against inflation without aroused public opinion. He parts from the Roosevelt administration with profound disappointment. He previously held a key post at the Bank of England and disagreed with Roosevelt on monetary policy.
Abel Construction plans to resume resurfacing of street car tracks with asphalt starting tomorrow at the Santa Fe depot. Work will proceed west from Seventh Street toward Massachusetts Avenue pending a federal paving project decision. If approved, no work south of Eleventh Street. otherwise the Oes Street center will be resurfaced.
President Roosevelt presses ahead with the dollar evaluation program leaving the treasury to Acting Secretary Morgenthau while Sprague’s resignation as Bank of England adviser is not consulted. Early says press information will be centralized for accuracy, not censorship, and Roosevelt plans a radio reply with Governor Ritchie during Maryland’s tercentennial celebration.
Mrs John Wise of Lawrence visited this week with Mrs George Frye. Berean Sunday school class hosts an all day meeting Friday at Mrs Emma Kalbs south of town with a noon covered dish lunch. Mrs Leo Smith spent Monday in Kansas City. Attended Kansas Town State football game at University of Kansas stadium with Tisd Swenney. Sre R E McHenry spent two days at his farm near Lees Summit Mo. Northwest section of the ladies aid meets Wednesday with Mrs Clyde Stewart followed by a noon pot luck luncheon. Dr and Mrs Flickinger drove to Morrill Wednesday to visit Flickingers parents.
A fragmentary bulletin notes a 6:00 program on KFKU with a musical arrangement and lectures by Professor Engel on freedom and responsibility. An athletics interview by Professor B R was reported as severe injury in an automobile crash. Mrs Woodruff sister to Mrs Clark visited Coffeyville, funeral services held Monday for Mr Woodruff, music store proprietor there. Harmon Downs drove Mr and Mrs John B Ross to Kansas City for medical treatment.
The University of Kansas band reached a settlement after a senate committee approved one credit hour per semester for band work. The dispute began October 13 when the group demanded relief including uniforms, director retention, a student drum major, and football trips. The athletic department reportedly agreed to transfer tickets to parents for home games.
University of Kansas string quartet members Professor Waldemar Gelteh first violin Conrad McGreix second violin Karl Kuersteiner viola Dean D M Swarthout will travel to Chapman Friday to present a full program on the university extension concert series. Guy Keeler drives the group to Chapman and they return to Lawrence after the performance.
A three year old whiteface steer from the Willard Morgan herd north of Lawrence died suddenly on Monday. Veterinarian Dr E G L Harbour, sent by state livestock sanitary commissioner J H Mercer, performed an autopsy and attributed the death to forage poisoning. The remainder of the Morgan herd is reported in good condition.
Radwarid Teters of Kansas City Missouri a magazine salesman working in Lawrence was arrested on a woman resident of South Lawrence complaint for disturbing the peace. The complainant said he came onto her freshly painted front porch cursed when remonstrated and was acting improperly. He posted cash bond in police court but failed to appear and the bond was forfeited.
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