Baker speaks at women's meeting in Lawrence
Benjamin Franklin Baker world traveler and writer addressed a Republican women luncheon at the Eldridge in Lawrence urging support for the Kansas executive’s election to the presidency. He warned of alien influence and urged safeguarding American home and civilization while noting Landon’s perceived sincerity to appeal to eastern voters. The event featured local committee leaders, a musical prelude, and about 200 attendees.
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Lawrence
University of Kansas
Benjamin Franklin Baker
Eldridge
Baker
East
Landon
New York City
Pan-American Congress
Cuba
America
David McCreath
Douglas County Republican Committee
George O. Foster
Marcia Wood
E. F. Abels
Republican Women’s Club
Ed Graham
McCreath
Paul Luckan
Lawrence Republican Women’s Club
Gertrude Gilmore
London Business Women’s League
Sa.e. Wellman
London
Knox
Douglas County
C. E. Friend
Mary G. Allen
Complaint Filed Overcoat Theft and Forged Check Case
A complaint charges Joe Rapp with attempting to defraud L. E. Vieux by keeping a blue overcoat given for cleaning and alterations on October 29 in O. J. Lane’s justice court. Another complaint against W. P. Martin alleges forging A. V. Phillip’s name on a $23.50 check dated October 25 and passing it at Gibbs Clothing to obtain merchandise and cash. Sheriff Vogler departed for Muskogee, Oklahoma to recover Martin who remains jailed there.
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Joe Rapp
L. E. Vieux
Vieux
Justice Court of
O. J. Lane
Justice Lane
W. P. Martin
A.V. Phillip
Lawrence National Bank
Martin
Gibbs Clothing Company
Vogler
Muskogee
Okla
Ae Epgeee
Test Your Knowledge Quiz From Classifieds Page
Seven knowledge questions ask capital Iowa author Paul Meyerheim writer Richard Carvel Washington marriage semester electricity unit rhetorical term water between Sicily and Italy Ohio West Virginia boundary mixed race term for biracial person and author of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Ad promotes eye glass fitting by B F Nanninga D D 919 Mass.
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Iowa
Paul Meyerheim
Richard Carvel
George Washington
Sicily
Italy
Ohio
West Virginia
Windsor
Paint Trade Treaty May Bind Campuses
A treaty between the University of Kansas and Kansas State College student councils would require each campus to cover future damages from paint daubing amid recent incidents. The pact echoes the 1929 gent's agreement as KU and KSU tally costs, while students debate enforcement and ongoing pranks. Separately, campus polling noted ghosts, duplicate ballots, and varied presidential preferences, with ASU planning a poll and a campus violinist visit drawing crowds.
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University of Kansas Men’s Student Council
Kansas State College Council
K. U
Aggie
Kansas State
A. A. Holtz
Rank Grove
Gas Truck Law Urged By League At Topeka Convention
Kansas League of Municipalities urged state lawmakers to empower cities to regulate gasoline transport trucks on streets. Roy Moulton cited city street hazards while Vincent F. Hiebsch led a committee to craft recommendations for January legislation. The group discussed driver qualifications, safety devices, and tank sizes with possible state hearings on insurance and tank capacity. Talks also covered increasing city shares of gasoline taxes and vehicle fees.
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Topeka
Kansas League of Municipalities
Roy Moulton
Fire Inspection Bureau
Kansas City
Kan
League
Moulton
Vincent F. Hiebsch
Wichita
State Corporation Commission
Hiebsch
Tomorow
Floyd Shields
Motor Vehicle Department
The
Corporation Commission
D. J. Wilson
Hutchinson
Morland pleads not guilty in highway collision case
C L Morland of Oklahoma City truck driver pleaded not guilty to culpable negligence for parking on a public highway at night without clearance lights and placing a flare after a collision on highway 59 near Dut ton bridge with a car driven by Miss Anna Yahn. He was released on 260 bond for a hearing set for next Friday, likely postponed until after November 3. Injured riders Miss Isabelle Gill and Miss Florence Casey, Kan., are reported to be recovering satisfactorily at Watkins Memorial hospital.
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Oklahoma City
Highway 59
Dutton Bridge
Anna Yahn
Justice of the Peace
Donald Hults
Marland
R.B. Stevens
Morland
Fred Vogler
Lawrence
Isabelle Gill
Galena
Kan
Florence Casey
Coffeyville
K. A
Yahn
Swarthout Daughters Tour Schedule Moves to Lawrence
Dean and Mrs. Swarthout plan to drive to Kansas City to greet daughter Evelyn Swarthout on a short Midwestern concert tour. She performs in Cincinnati today and Wichita Monday, then Lindsborg Wednesday for Bethany College’s season opening recital. She returns to New York City after the trip to resume teaching at Dobbs Ferry and continuing advanced study.
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D. M. Swarthout
Kansas City
Evelyn Swarthout
Middle West
Lawrence
Miss Swarthout
Cincinnati
Ohio
New Art Museum
Wichita
Wichita Music Club
Lindsborg
Bethany College
Swarthout
New York City
Dobbs Ferry
Actor and actress marry in Las Vegas romance
Las Vegas on October 27 reports Guy Bates Post aged 58, long a Shakespearean stage star, wed Lilian Kemble Cooper, 35, a screen actress, by Judge Marion B. Eariare. The couple honeymooned after the ceremony. Post joined the Hollywood film colony in 1934. The sewing group of the K A Dames meets tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. at Mrs. W. B. Sommerville’s home, 1829 Barker Avenue, Dr. Alexander, Dentist. Ph. 506 Ady.
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Las Vegas
Nevada
Guy Bates Post
Hollywood
Lillian Kemble Cooper
Marion B. Eariare
K. A. Dames
W. B. Sommerville
Barker Avenue
Eudora Republican Women Entertain With Tea
The Eudora Women’s Republican club invites all community women to a Thursday afternoon tea at 2 in the Methodist church social room. Mrs. Paul Luckan presides, Mrs. Edwin Abels of Lawrence will speak on amendments to be voted at the next election. Officers will be elected and Miss Lucille Walker will sing a vocal solo.
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Women’s Reublican Club
Eudora
Methodist Church
Paul Luckan
Edwin Abels
Lawrence
State Women’s Republican Club
Lucille Walker
Lawrence Voters Plan Educational Visits at City Council
Lawrence residents note two members of the Lawrence League of Women Voters will attend council meetings through fall and winter to study city operations as part of an educational program. Former K U star Noland Logan, now with the Boston Red Sox, visits Lawrence ahead of winter stay in Florida. Local dealers report glycerine antifreeze scarce due to wartime production shifts, with other antifreeze options available.
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League
John Kistler
Lea Committee On
E. N. Dean
Noland Logan
K. U
Boston Red Sox
Lawrence
Logan
Kickapoo
Leavenworth
Sarasota
Fla
Florida
Red Sox
George Washington University
Educating Yourself through Self Analysis on KFKU
University of Kansas education dean R A Schwegler hosts a KFKU lecture series on self analysis for success. He argues growth starts with viewing oneself as a protoplasm bombarded by stimuli and stresses the need to use existing skills through effort to achieve greatness. He will speak every Tuesday at 6 o clock.
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KFKU
R. A. Schwegler
School of Education
University of Kansas
Dr. Schwegler
Schwegler
Swarthout to Lead Chicago Meeting for MTNA
Dean D M Swarthout will travel to Chicago to arrange the December MTNA meeting where he serves as national secretary. Chicago leaders and Earl Moore of Michigan will meet for a luncheon to finalize plans for three days of music educator sessions. A Saturday curricula committee gathering includes Howard Hanson Earl Moore Frank Shaw and others to discuss topics for the Chicago meeting. Swarthout plans to return Monday morning.
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D. M. Swarthout
Chicago
Music Teachers’ National Association
Earl Moore
University of Michigan
M.T.N.A
National Association of Schools of Music
Swarthout
Howard Hanson
Eastman School of Music
Earl V. Moore
Michigan University
Frank Shaw
Oberlin College
Albert Riemenschneider
Baldwin Wallace College
Harold L. Butler
Syracuse University
Edwin Kappelman
Milwaukee
Wis
James T. Quarles
University of Missouri
Picandontaine Deed Baths
Winter and salesmen view 1937 Chevrolet line at meeting
M S Winter local Chevrolet dealer and his sales force attended a pre showing of the 1937 Chevrolet models at the Municipal auditorium in Kansas City. A total of 1600 dealers and salesmen from Kansas and Missouri attended the meeting. Those who accompanied Winter to Kansas City were Arnold Rans dell Charles Meyn Earl Erwin Harry Held Delmer Hininger C F Barncord Oscar Gray and Lloyd Ericsson. The entire 1937 line of passenger cars and trucks were shown. The new cars will be shown here on November 7.
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M. S. Winter
Chevrolet
Municipal Auditorium
Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Winter
Arnold Ransdell
Charles Meyn
Earl Erwin
Harry Held
Delmer Hininger
C. F. Barncord
Oscar Gray
Lloyd Ericsson
Deaths and Funerals span several families in region
Mrs J B Russell mother of Charles B Russell of Lawrence died in San Diego after ten months illness. Body to be brought here by son Russells arriving tonight. Geneva Bamford Whitney of Freeport died October 20, survived by husband Charles Whitney and two children Mary Catherine and Charles B Whitney. G H Atwood ages 88 died at daughter J M Sutton’s home in Lincoln Kansas. Funeral Thursday 2 PM Rumsey funeral home with burial Oak Hill cemetery. Mrs Alice W Howard died Sunday night at 420 Michigan Street. Services Wednesday 2:30 PM at St Luke’s Methodist Church, burial Oak Hill cemetery.
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Charles B. Russell
Lawrence
San Diego
Cal
Russells
Geneva Bamford Whitney
R. R. McFarland
Freeport
S. 1
Whitney
Morris Bamford
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Pinckney School
G. H. Atwood
Sibleyville
J. M. Sutton
Lincoln
Kan
Rumsey Funeral Home
Oak Hill Cemetery
Sutton
C. T. Crowe
Amarillo
Texas
John Atswood
Topeka
James Atwood
Lamasa
Dick Atwood
Stanley Crowe
Exas
Alice W. Howard
Michigan Street
St. Luke’s Methodist Church
L. E. Mathis
Fire alarm delays Bison political address
CPA fire alarm interrupted C. C. Isely of Dodge City during a political address in Bison Kansas. He paused for the blaze to be put out and the crowd to return before resuming his talk.
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Bison
Kan
CPA
C. C. Isely
Dodge City
Window to Yesterday lecture on Kansas history at Liberty Memorial
Dr. Robert Taft of the University of Kansas chemistry department will present Historial Pictures A Window to Yesterday a pictorial history of Kansas at Liberty Memorial high school Thursday October 29 at 8 pm. Sponsored by the Douglas County Historical Society the lecture features early Wyandotte Leavenworth Lawrence and other towns with Gardner photographs from 1868. The event is praised by Dr. Frank Hodder and is open to the public with committee members H H Lane Kate Biggs and Mrs Guy Bigsby directing arrangements.
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Kansas
Robert Taft
University of Kansas
Liberty Memorial High School
Douglas County
H. H. Lane
Kate Biggs
Guy Bigsby
Steal of coat and hats hits Kansas pastor event
Parsons Kansas Oct 27 a thief stole Dr Harry L Ice Kansas City pastor s overcoat hat and gloves and three other hats from the church cloakroom Residents pooled funds and arranged a merchant to supply a new outf it for his return to Kansas City In Fairmont Nebraska Oct 27 Harvey Perkins 32 died in a failed rescue when a farmhouse blaze killed his son Max 11 and five others saved earlier died in flames
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Parsons
Kan
Harry L. Ice
Kansas City
Kansas
Dr. Ice
Fairmont
Neb
Here
Harvey Perkins
Max
Fraud probes opened in Wyandotte over election abuses
Kansas City Kan October 27 A J Stanley Wyandotte county attorney aided by Ted Warner launched an investigation into alleged election fraud charged by the county Republican committee Roy Thomas Republican chairman says 2500 names were fraudulently registered and provided a list of violators Warner said warrants would be sought against those who registered illegally and vote November 3 Registration for the general election reached 66398 about 5000 above the prior record
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Kansas City
Kan
UPI
A. J. Stanley
Wyandotte
Ted Warner
Feneral
Republican Committee
Roy Thomas
Warner
Sentenced to be Hanged for Silk-Stoking Strangling
Albert Walter Jr of New York was sentenced by Superior Judge Lile T. Jacks to be hanged on January 8 for the silk-stocking strangling of Blanche Cousins of Idaho Falls. The ruling comes as the case closes after a judge's decision in San Francisco. The report notes the date and the victim's city of residence.
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San Francisco
Albert Walter, Jr
New York
Lile T. Jacks
Huxman Caravan Visits Lawrence During Goodwill Tour
A 38 member Hutchinson business group from the Huxman Hutchinson club stopped in Lawrence at 4 PM yesterday as part of a three day goodwill tour for Walter A. Huxman Democratic governor bid. They traveled in an 18 car caravan with Huxman for Governor placards, making several street stops before planned stops in Kansas City Kansas and Coffeyville tonight.
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Huxman Hutchinson Club
Lawrence
Hutchinson
Walter A. Huxman
Huxman
Kansas City
Kan
Coffeyville
Hi Y Funds Stolen In Independence
Independence Kansas reports Hi Y club funds totaling 2 dollars were stolen from a classroom. Teacher R L Daggett said a robber sawn through a door panel to enter and left a note reading Thank you on the board. An advertisement for safer auto truck and fire insurance follows.
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Hi-Y
Independence
Kan
R. L. Daggett
Hi-Y Club
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