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Lawrence Journal World

Location

Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

Date

Nov 26, 1940

Page

2

Falling Ice Threatens Amarillo Amid Texas Floods

Rescue boats ferried hundreds to safety as floods eased statewide yet Amarillo and panhandle towns remained iced in. Communication to Amarillo was cut. power restored in parts, while crews worked to repair lines, water pumps, and 1,200 telephone poles across 16 counties.

Dallas Tex Texas Amarillo Borger Pampa Panhandle Galveston Texas Panhandle Coast Guard Frank Mueller Smith Brazos Brookshire Houston Coast Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Fort Worth Little and Leon Angleton Freeport Alvin West Columbia Gulf Coast Sabine Trinity Colorado Guadalupe Goose Creek Pelly Baytown San Jacinto Jerry Malin

Interview planned with Henry Gwinn on Grange program

Kansas athletic director Henry Gwinn, also football coach, will be interviewed by Red Grange on Grange’s radio show Friday evening December 6. Grange airs twice weekly on WREN and KCKN, with Gwinn at 6:45 from KCKN Mutual studios. Grange will be in Kansas City for Big Six conference sessions. On Saturday December 7 Don Faurot, Missouri coach and former pupil of Henry, is to be interviewed by the GRunning Ghost on WREN at 5:45.

Gwinn Henry Kansas Red” Grange Illinois Gridman Grange WREN KCKN Jayhawker Mutual Broadcasting System Kansas City Henry Don Faurot Missouri Tigers Galloping Ghost Faurot

University of Kansas Symphony to Feature Novelty Numbers

The thirty eighth annual KU concert, conducted by Karl Euersteiner, will be Dec 5 in Hoch Auditorium. Loren Withers plays Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with Alice Sherbon dancers weaving into the orchestration. Richard Rice bows out with Perpetual Motion, Eugene Crabb leads Pavanne, plus Bolero and Till Eulen spiegel highlight the program.

University of Kansas Symphony Orchestra Karl Euersteiner Hoch Auditorium George Gershwin Loren Withers Monett School of Fine Arts University Alice Sherbon Alice She National Guards Rice Johann Strauss Eugene Crabb McPherson Morton Gould Pavanne

ALL ITALIAN UNITS HEAD FOR ADRIATIC

A source said no German offensive against Turkey was imminent and Nazis would leave Greece fighting to Italy. It claimed Germany seeks only diplomatic moves to keep Turkey from joining Greece, noting few troops in Romania and none in Bulgaria.

Turkey Greece Italy Dardanelles Germany Balkans Rumania Bulgaria

Community thanks lauded for winter wood help

Local residents are thanked for preparing winter wood for an unable neighbor. Allison Andrews recognizes good Samaritans and Dr. F. C. Allen is noted for two speaking engagements this evening before a KU basketball game. Weather and local events fill the rest of the brief notes.

Allison Andrews F. C. Allen

Observing Art Week Highlights In Downtown Displays

Elementary students observe National Art Week with class projects and displays in two downtown windows. McAllaster Cordley and New York Cleaners host student works including glazed pottery plaster models cloth costumes and carved tiles. Fifth and sixth graders contribute soap carvings bound books and portfolios at Bell's music store and local studios.

McAllaster Cordley New York Cleaners Bell Lincoln New York Woodlawn

Deaths and Funerals Lyle E Shupe

Lyle E Shupe of Cush ing Oklahoma has died from injuries after a Saturday night auto accident. The Shupe family recently moved from Lawrence to Oklahoma, with daughter Shirley Helen a KU education student and son Warren a KU business student last year. They formerly lived at 713 Missouri Street. He was brother in law of I E Peterson of Topeka, ex Co-Operative store operator.

I. E. Peterson Toypeka Co-Operative Nineteenth Massachusetts Streets

Legal Institute Attended by Kansas Bar Leaders in Leavenworth

Dean F J Moreau Prof P W Wiesselman Henry H Asher John Brand Charles C Rankin and Alan F Asher joined the Kansas egal institute in Leavenworth sponsored by the Leavenworth County Bar association. Lee Bond president presided as Chief Justice John S Dawson and Judge Ellis Fink spoke. A banquet followed at the National hotel.

Dean F. J. Moreau P. W. Wiesselman Henry H. Asher John Brand Charles C. Rankin Alan F. Asher Leavenworth Kansasegal Institute Leavenworth County Bar Association Lee Bond John S. Dawson Supreme Court of Kansas Ellis Fink Winfield Banatuet National Hotel

Famous Compact Will Be Honored in Plymouth Pageant

Plymouth Mass November 26 AP The Mayflower compact scene will be dramatized in a Thanksgiving pageant with 41 signers agreeing to majority rule. Hugh R Maraghy said the motif fits a world growing skeptical of democracy. The original covenant dated November 1620 linked to the Declaration and Bill of Rights.

Plymouth Mass Old Plymouth Ner New World Massachusetts Kansas Hugh R. Maraghy Provincetown Virginia

Germans Again Attack Western England City

London reports a western English port city, identified as Bristol, was attacked again by German bombers after a prior raid on Sunday. Nazi aircraft raided at about one per minute, dropping bombs amid heavy anti aircraft fire, concentrating on a single section. Earlier in the day the same city came under attack.

London England Bristol

Lord Rothermere Dies in Bermuda at 72

Lord Rothermere 72 British publisher died in Bermuda. He and his brother Lord Northcliffe transformed English news presentation. Born Harold Sidney Harmsworth he left England in May for a war mission, reached Quebec, then New York for treatment before going to Bermuda to recuperate.

London Lord Rothermere Lord Northcliffe England Bermuda The Press Association Rothermere Harold Sidney Harmsworth Quebec Canada New York

Admiral Leahy Nominated Ambassador to France

President Roosevelt nominated Admiral William D. Leahy retired chief of naval operations and Puerto Rico governor to be ambassador to France. He would succeed William C. Bullitt who resigned earlier this month. Quick Senate confirmation is expected due to Leahy's prominence as a naval strategist.

Washington William D. Leahy Roosevelt France Leahy Puerto Rico Vichy William C. Bullitt

Perkins Addresses Labor New Orleans.

A newspaper brief notes Perkins speaking on labor issues in New Orleans on November 26, with details limited by the fragmentary OCR.

Perkins Labor New Orleans Sec

Secretary Perkins Urges Labor to Honor Contracts and Shield Production

Secretary Perkins told labor today it had a duty under national defense to keep contracts, resolve internal family disputes, prevent production delays, and resist influences from dishonest or subversive sources.

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Kansas City Wins Depot for Army Quartermaster

The War Department announced the acquisition of the National Bellas Hess plant in Kansas City to serve as a new quartermaster depot for troops in nearby states. The facility will procure store and distribute for the seventh corps area and parts of the sixth corps area, with the purchasing office moving from St. Louis medical depot. A treasury check of 1 400 000 dollars backed the purchase, the Star reported.

Washington War Department National Bellas Hess Kansas City Quartermaster Corps St. Louis Seventh Corps Sixth Corps United States Treasury Star

Officials say 550 remain near Kansas City in immediate vicinity

Officials indicated that about 550 persons will remain in the immediate vicinity of Kansas City. The statement outlined the ongoing containment and monitoring after the incident, with authorities emphasizing nearby safety and evacuation boundaries.

Kansas City

Communist Party Opposed New Orleans 26 Charged as Foreign Agent

The Communist Party in America was charged today with acting as an agent of a foreign power. Officials in New Orleans reported the announcement and described the political stance as interfering with domestic affairs. Further details were not immediately available.

Communist Party New Orleans Communist Party In America

Expressions of Sympathy From Dicker Family

The Dicker family thanks friends and neighbors for kind expressions of sympathy and for the beautiful flowers sent for their mother and grandmother. Mr. and Mrs. Claud Dicker, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Way, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Dicker, and their son Junior.

Claud Dicker J. W. Way Claude Dicker Junior

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