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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1935
Page
2
Cold winds sweep Mt. Dread as students juggle umbrellas and await General Johnson’s town visit. Kreisler recital draws mixed attendance. a sharp-eyed student jokes with algebra while others critique midweek Phono-Varsity. Pachacamac campaign leaflets spark student politics talk as Pan Hellenic plans a Halloween party at the Union and Jay Janes eye a Husker Kansas trip.
Kenneth House of Goodland placed fourth in the state cornhusking contest at Wellsville. He credited two Lawrence physician visits for arm treatment after spraining his wrist while winning a Sherman county husking bee. He stopped in Lawrence for diathermian treatment and visited again Wednesday morning before heading to Wellsville.
Arlington Downs officials announced that Discovery, famed American turf sensation, has been retired to a farm and will not race in the $15,000 Waggoner Memorial on November 16.
Answers cover biblical salutation to Jesus at Jerusalem, author of The Heart of Rome, North Dakota state nickname, poet of The Ladder of Saint Augustine, term for domestic knives and cutlery, hero of the Iliad, home of the Hottentots, alien status with only first papers, boundaries of the North Sea, and Boston building Gradle of Liberty.
In Kansas City Gen. Hugh S. Johnson says parts of the AAA may be struck down but the program overall will not be wiped out. He urges readiness for changes as the country won t revert to pre New Deal days. Johnson travels to Lawrence for a University of Kansas talk on Feomore and the Constitu en.
State teachers convention activities include a 5 30 pm K U Union meeting with vocal pieces by Mary Louise Beltz and Keith Davis, violin by Robert Sedore, and talks by Chancellor Lindley and Dean Schwegler. Dinner tickets 50 cents sold at multiple campus offices and venues. Also a Kansas State College alumni dinner led by Mrs. George Hedrick. Dramatic Club to present False Gods Saturday at 2 pm during the convention.
Students in Lawrence public schools will have a one day vacation tomorrow due to the State Teachers association meeting in town. It is the first holiday of the school year with no student activities planned. High school football practice is canceled until Monday.
Mrs. Mary Evans 75 of 1208 New Jersey street dies. Funeral Friday at 9 AM, corrected from 8. Mrs. Cornelia Hazzard Ward dies in Bartlesville OK, widow of Dr. E B. Hazzard, likely burial in Lawrence. Charles W. Brown, 75, of Kansas City, died after three weeks illness. born near Lone Star, funeral plans not announced.
The Commonwealth Lawrence Theater Corporation owner of the Granada theater declares a 6 percent dividend as of October 28 for its first year of operation. It has forty stockholders residing in Lawrence. Officers and directors include Clarence Schultz president S E Schwahn vice president Agnes Kemp secretary Owen Carl F C Allen and Harry Nevin. Classified advertising often sells articles by 6 p m.
Italy offers to negotiate a complete halt to trade with England as sanctions loom. Mussolini’s envoy Baron Pompeo Aloisi travels to Geneva to meet Sir Samuel Hoare Eden and Pierre Laval, who say peace will be made, while fighting continues in Ethiopia with Italian advances and arms redistributions across regions including Goroachei Makale and Addis Ababa.
Postmaster Roger Williams says relatives of honorably discharged war veterans may obtain burial flags from the veterans office in Kansas City. Applications must be made before burial, the flag is to drape the casket and remain in its original package to the next of kin, and the flag must not be buried with the casket. Any county seat postmaster may deliver the flag with proof of enlistment and honorable discharge. Five beauty candidates.
Co Eda five Kansas University co eds were nominated for the School of Engineering Hobnail Hop. Final election is set for Wednesday November 6 with Helen M Deer Catherine Dunkel Jeanette Jenkins Mary Katherine Markham and Elizabeth Shearer named as candidates. The queen will be crowned during the Hop intermission Friday November 8 in the Union building. Gerry Gant was queen last year. The council also voted to make the dance semi formal.
Dr. William Foster of the Pollak Foundation and Dr. E H Lindley hosted in a campus visit. Foster, a former Reed College president, attended Kreisler concert with Chancellor Lindley and may speak at a November university convocation.
A Winter intrusion hit the northwest with near zero wind chills and cold rain. Snow blanketed North Dakota and parts of northern and western Minnesota as Williston reported temperatures just above zero.
Fritz Kreisler drew about 4200 music lovers to University Auditorium in Lawrence for a spellbinding recital. The program mixed classics from Tartini Bach and Viotti with Kreisler’s own arrangements and pieces by Debussy and Ravel.伴 Carl Lamson aided with accompaniment as Kreisler skipped encores until finishing the scheduled program. The next concert features Ignaz Friedman on December 6.
Lawrence Frits Kreisler, famed violinist, is introduced as an Austrian native with a war record. He served as a captain in 1914-15, was wounded, then resumed concert tours on leave. The piece reflects on his artistry, radio prospects, and the audience’s response to his performance.
Davenport Iowa October 31 four farmers were fined and a fifth jailed for 80 days by Federal Judge Charles A Dewey on conspiracy to defraud the government by making false reports on corn hogs contracts. John T Turner Jr fined 1000 Lawrence Beck Lyle George and Jack Kenyon fined 500 each Fred Fanning jailed later paroled on own recognizance for two years all five pleaded guilty yesterday.
The Southwestern Federation of Religious Liberals will hold its annual meeting this weekend at the Tulsa Unitarian church with the theme The Opportunity and Responsibility of Liberal Religion. Delegates from the local church depart Saturday morning. Lectures and addresses by Lon R. Call Dr. Charles R. Joy and Richard Lloyd Jones are planned along with a Friday evening dinner reception and dance. Harold Bushman from the University of Kansas City will preach Sunday morning.
New York October 31. Federal communications commissioner George Henry Payne warned broadcasters to boost educational content and reform advertising to keep private radio. He warned against political power claims, noting a claimed fifth estate would undermine public interests. Experts later debated concealing Roosevelt’s profile on the new Boulder Dam stamp, finding no clear image with standard magnification but possible shapes with imagination.
A United Airlines 138 passenger airliner crashed on a snow covered hill southwest of Cheyenne during a test flight. Four crew members died M T Arnold Hanley G Cohn Edward Yantis and Harold Kaufman. Witnesses saw the three explosions and the fireball as the plane tumbled from zero weather into the earth.
The Douglas County Sportsman's club hosts a dinner at Hotel Eldridge starting 6:30 PM with two speakers. Fred Hans state fish and game warden speaks, joined by Frank Roble of Ellinwood Kansas a district game warden and migratory bird researcher who will present charts and maps on bird movements. The Lawrence Cooperative Club members will join the gathering.
Phi Delta Kappa will hold a special luncheon tomorrow at 12 20 at the University Club 1485 Ohio Street. Tickets are 50 cents. A program including talks by visiting convention speakers is arranged by N D Rizzo president and Keith Roberts program committee chair.
In St Louis on October 31, the Gift Baby parentage hearing resumes after a day of court delays. Anna Ware and Mrs Nellie Tipton Muench claim motherhood of the 10 week old child. experts review the infant at a hospital while Judge Becker limits spectators to 15 seats. Testimony from Miss Ware and Ms Ware's lawyer indicate the case will continue tomorrow as child specialists observe.
Los Angeles on Oct 31 reports a government plan to spend 2.5 million to rehabilitate culture. More than 3,000 actors, musicians, writers and artists will be aided, with 760,000 for plays in schools and theaters, 1 to 1.5 million for music development, and 220,000 for writers assisting a new American Guide.
Ginger Rogers first public stage appearance came with Henry Santrey’s show, whose soldiers of fortune helped shape her film career. Santrey’s group finished a 20 short Warner Bros series, with two shown at the Granada. Local theatregoers recall Santrey’s Kansas City Main Street stage show last year. Tonight at 11:15 and Friday and Saturday at 3:15, 7:15 or 9:30, Santrey’s big stage show continues.
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