American Seaman Convicted of Sedition in Berlin Trial
Lawrence Simpson, an American seaman from Seattle, was found guilty of sedition by Berlin’s peoples court after a swift one day proceeding. He admitted he and three German communist affiliates attempted to form a front government using balloons and anti Nazi propaganda. He testified of smuggling 69000 death to fascism stickers aboard the S S Manhattan and delivering balloons for distributing handbills from the sky, with one associate revealed as a police spy. The verdict followed over a year in German prison camps. The U S State Department said it will review the case once consular reports arrive to assess fairness and rights under German law.
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Cepsin Aggsociated Press
Berlin
Lawrence Simpson
Peoples Court Today
Simpson
S. S. Manhattan
Nazi Germany
Hamburg
Moson
Washington
State Department
Seattle
Wash
Seaman
Peace Officers At School In Wichita Intensive Study
More than 100 peace officers from the Midwest began a week long intensive training in Wichita Wichita set. 28 1911 under the Kansas League of Municipalities auspices part of the International Association of Chiefs of Police meeting in Kansas City last week Courses covered shoplifting to police administration taught mainly by Wichita officers and other local instructors
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Wichita
Kan
Middlewest
Kansas League of Municipalities
International Association of Chiefs of Police
Kansas City
Geeates Ahi
Granada screens Mary of Scotland with Hepburn star turn
Maxwell Anderson’s Mary of Scotland at the Granada features Katharine Hepburn in a down to earth Mary Stuart with Fredric March as Bothwell. Florence Eldridge as Elizabeth, Douglas Walton as Darnley, John Carradine as Riaszia, and Moroni Olsen as Knox support a romantic tragedy detailing Mary’s life, royal plots, and downfall amid a large cast and a newsreel color cartoon. A World War I human toll note closes the item.
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Maxwell Anderson
Mary of
Scotland
Katharine Hepburn
Mary Stuart
Granada
France
Earl of Bothwell
Fredric March
Elizabeth
Florence Eldridge
Mary
Lord Darnley
Douglas Walton
James
Bothwell
John Carradine
Riazzia
Moroni Olsen
John Knox
Ian Keith
Moray
Worshire
Art Work Sales and Local Education News
Word arrives that Karl Mattern and Albert Bloch watercolors sold in New York to collectors. Also Douglas County Teachers association to meet at Lawrence Memorial high school with Miss Gertrude Eakin presenting and Haskell students performing. Families relocate and a birth announced in the community.
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Karl Mattern
Albert Bloch
New York
Walker Galleries
New York City
Kansas
Kansas University School of Fine Arts
Kansas University Department of Drawing and Printing
Thayer Museum
Teachers Association
Douglas County Teachers Association
Lawrence Memorial High School
Gertrude Eakin
Haskell
Valley Grove Club Aids Anniversary Plans
Mrs Jimmie Holladay Jr and Barbara Joan and Jimmie Lee and Maxine Husted visited DeSoto with her parents Mr and Mrs John Blaylocks. Mrs W C Thiry hosted the Se and So club at her home with ten members attending and sharing scripture verses. Guests included Mrs Grover Husted and two children of Lawrence plus Mrs Hazel Welliver and Mrs Ruby Rolladay. Three contests were held with awards to Mrs Ruth Petrie Mrs George Welliver and Mrs Luella Petrie. Plans were set for the anniversary program Friday evening.
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Jimmie Holladay, Jr
Barbara Joan
Jimmie Lee
Maxine Husted
DeSoto
Lawrence
Hazel Welliver
Ruby Rolladay
Ruth. Petrie
George Welliver
Luella Petrie
Social visits and local gatherings reported in Lawrence area
Sr. spent time with her daughter and family last week. Mrs. Russell Stewart assisted at Cole's Ready to Wear in Lawrence Saturday. Several families including Petrie, Dunbar, Stewart and Ford visited in O'Neil on Sunday. Kenneth Herschell Cecile Ewing and others enjoyed a lakeside picnic Sunday. Ray and Marvin Stewart from Lawrence visited Russell Stewart and wife. Jeff Barnes family drove to McLouth to join Harris for the day.
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Russell Stewart
Cole’s
Lawrence
C. A. Petrie
Walter Dunbar
Petrie
Albert Ford
Charles Stewart
O’neil
Kenneth Herschell
Cecile Ewing
Lone Star
Richard Petrie
Gerald
State Lake
Ray
Marvin Stewart
Stewart
Jeff Barnes
Collene
Bonnie Jean
McLouth
Harris
Harold Skeets Lime Spreading Farm Gathered by Farmers
The Harold Skeets farm spreads lime to improve soil health with supplies obtained through several farmers. The effort ties local agricultural support as multiple farmers contributed to the lime mobilization.
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Harold Skeets
When the Rock Quarry Was in Operation Here Last Spring
A fragment notes that a rock quarry operated locally last spring. It mentions the period of operation but provides no dates or outcomes. No further details are available in readable text.
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Pig
Penguin
John
Puff
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Srs. Thiry
Arnold
Ira Ward
Ren Werst
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Louie Keerner
Keerner
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Earl Beard
Grantville
Beard
Mary Holladay
Holladay
Valley Grove
Santa FE Trail
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Los Angeles
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OWL
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Berth
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Massachusetts
Fred Harvey
Atharine Fucks
Tue
Mary OF Scotland
Pathe News
Callander
Ontario
P. G. Wodehouse
P.G. Wodehouse
Wheeler & Woolsey
Kansas Public Service Co
Carter
Jayhawk
Robert Donat
Madeleine Carroll
Hong Kong
Tom Keene
Vera Englea
Little Theatre OF
Patee
Anne Shirley
Guy Kibbee
John Beal In
Bret Hart
M’liss
Bette Davis
George Brent
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Dickinson
Loretta Young
Fox Movietone
Popeye Cartoon
Don Ameche
Edmond Love
Constance Cummings
Manhattan
Jean Arthur
Joel McCrea
Irene Dunne
Robert Taylor
Liberty
Lew Ayres
Mary Carlisle
Omaha Hat and Shoe Works
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