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Washburn, the Central loop's new member, wound up in last place with nine losses and one win and rinses its campaign at Reck hurst Tuesday. Kansas Wesleyan, eo-champ with Baker for the Kansas diadem, played two games at Chihuahua, Mexico, last week end and enters the Southwestern Intercollegiate tournament at El Paso tonight. Nine men made the trip including Bob Hunt nnd Harold Johnson who accompanied the team on -the same journey two 1 years ago. William Monypenny, district chairman of the National Intercollegiate tourney, said that Southwestern and Pittsburg, runner-up and winner respectively of the Central Conference, appear to have an inside track lor invitations to.compete and that he probably would choose between Baker! and Kansas Wesleyan if any addi tional berths were available. Believe It Or Not IS THE 7ttSON OF A 7th SON AND FOR WE PAST 3 GENERATIONS HAS BEEN A pft' HELEN MAE MCCRACKEN PURCHASED 2 BOOKS IN OHIO SENT THEM AS GIFTS TO A FRIEND IN COLORADO AND BOUGHT THEM AGAIN 18 YEARS LATER IN CALIFORNIA K-State Engineers At H.

S. Tomorrow Three student engineers from Kansas State College In Manhat tan will present a preview pro gram of the annual open house over radio station KWBW at 1:45 p. m. and in the Hutchinson high school auditorium at 3:00 p. m.

tomorrow, as they tour the state to advertise the annual event. On the radio program the stu dents will explain the purpose of the open house an describe somn. of the They will put on a science show at the high school which will give students and faculty members an idea of plans made for the exposition given each year by the Division of Engineering and Architecture at the college. The exhibition, which will be March 13 and 14, will have for its theme: "1917-1941: 25 Years of Defense Effort." Last year the two day exposition had a total attendance of 12,000. The students appearing In Hutchinson are Jack Warner, electrical engineering senior from Clay Center; Max Gehvix, civil engineering junior from Thayer, and Vem Heinsohn, mechanical engineering junior from Wichita.

Among the exhibits they will show will be a bridge model which will support a.man's weight, an automatic ball selector and an M-l (Garland) rifle. Former Lyons Boy To British RAF R. Bell, a former high school student here, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter M.

Bell, is home for a week's visit, before starting to England to join the Royal Air Force. He is member of the Eagle squadron, of American volunteers, in training in California. He recently finished the course. Hei will go to Canada this week, and! from there to England. He has been flyer for ten years, having been a pilot with the Inman Bros.

Flying Service in 1932. Since January a year ago he had been doing commercial flying in California. He enlisted in the RAF last October, before the USA entered the war. With Hole In Body, Back to Duty Honolulu The first reported casualty of the Japanese at lack of last Dec. 7 on Hawaii- Private Archie R.

Gurkin of Pine town, N. back on duty duty again. As souvenir he has the 50 caliber bullet which went: clear through him, Gurkin was received at the army hospital 20 minutes after the Japanese assault began. He 1 was struck while driving an ficial car near Pearl Harbor. "I thought it was a flat Gurkin said in describing the noise which seconds later proved to be gunfire from an enemy plane, He got out ot the car to look at the tires and cried out: "I've been shot!" The bullet from the plane's ma chjnegun entered Gurkin's chest and emerged from the hack.

CIO Unionists Take Up Communist Cudgel Worcester, Mass. (IP) Mas sachusetts CIO urged President Roosevelt today to pardon Com munist Leader Ear! Browder. A resolution, adopted unanimously by 700 delegates to the organization's state convention, explained that the CIO was making the request exclusively on the issue of civil liberties and was in "no way endorsing his (Browder's) political philosophy." Browder is serving a four year tearm for falsification ol a passport. Holsington Theatre Closed Star theatre has been closed, John Turr, manager, explains because of "increased cost of theatre operations and war conditions." The Royal theatre, under the same management will be continued. Soft Water Soon Little a few more days work, and water will be running through the city water mains here, from the soft water wells north of the town.

The final work is being done on tho pumping plant and connecting up the two new wells. Open Recreation Hall recreation hall for transient soldiers and sailors stopping over in Newton has been opened by tho Veterans of Foreign Wars at their club rooms. an CM All HEADACHE Wflen your head and nerves are Jittery, Bet relief quickly, pleai antly, wltb Capudlne. Acta fait be. came liquid.

Uae only aa directed. All druggists. 10c, 30c, Mc, id. Fowler Represented In Armed Forces and Mrs. Sumner may hold the record in! southwest Kansas of stars in the service flag.

Three of their sons are in the army, all in California Four others here, the John Low Ed Leathcrman, Will Frank and Tony Miller families, have two sons each in the service. A check shows there are about 40 young men from Fowler and immediate vicinity in the armed forces. Need to Rechristcn One American Coin Washington the nation needs now is not so much a good five-cent cigar as a good name for what has been commonly called the nickel. The second war-powers bill passed by the house provides for elimination ot nickel from future five-cent pieces so that metal can be used for necessary war tools. Instead, they will be coined ot mixed copper, silver and any other alloy the director of the mint decides upon.

Suggested names heard around the capilol included "sico," "cosi," and the familiar old "jit." Young Republicans After Large Roster Salina Young Re publicans have set their membership goal at 30,000. The goal was fixed at a meeting of the executive committee ot the Young Republicans club attended by W. C. Jones, Olathe, state chairman, and other state club officials. "That goal may be harder than ordinarily to achieve because the call to war is thinning the ranks of Kansas Young Republicans, but we are optimistic," said Jones.

He added that the organization had no part in any "adjourn politics for the duration" talk. Band Contest Held place ratings In the Western Kansas Educational association band contest here were won by Dighton, Ness City and Scott City high schools. First in orchestras, went to Dighton and Ness City, Twelve schools participated. Boy Burglary Ring Is Broken Hugoton boys, three of them under 16 years of age, have been arrested, involved in a series of store burglaries, house break-ins, and other pilfering. Three were caught robbing the Harris billiard hall.

They implicated six others. Buys Colorado Taper Hobson, who has been editor of the Johnson Pioneer for more than five years has bought a newspaper at Louisville, tho Times, taking charge this week. Harold Anderson, with the Sublette Monitor for three years, will succeed him as editor of the paper here. The World War began on July 28, 1914. KEEP YOUR WARDROBE UP! Send It Regularly to "The House of Service" Phont 317 MAIN CLEANERS mi N.

MAIN Little River Boy On An Effective Sub Little Murphy, who is in Honolulu, wrote his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Murphy that he saw submarine coming into port at Pearl Harbor, on which Russell Hodgson, son ot Mr, and Mrs. C. M.

Hodgson is serving. "It had two tin cans and a fish to it's credit," he said. Two Jap anese destroyers and a submarine sunk. Greater Beet Acreage Permitted This Year Garden sugar company will contract for 1,000 acres more sugar beets this year than last. For several years the limit under the crop control provisions of the AAA has been below 9,000 acres.

Contracts will be accepted up to 10,000 acres for 1942. There was a time, some years ago when more than 13,000 acres of beets were grown in this area. The acreage limitation in recent years cut that. A New Youth Organization Thirlrett Cluirolies Are Hepffseiitrtl Youth groups representing 13 churches in Hutchinson were pies cnt at a mreting yesterday in First Presbyterian church to form permanent organization of the Youth Council. The organization will provide opportunities of religious and social fellowship for yoAng people of Hutchinson churches.

The group decided to have monthly meetings Sunday eve nings between ft and 10 o'clock in different churches. Hymns will be sung and a short devotional program included. Sunday, March 15, the council will sponsor a program by Pruth McFarlan, Negro singer. An Easter sunrise service and also radio programs are also planned. Officers elected are: President, Margaret King of First Presby- trian; vice-president, Willard Welch of Trinity Methodist: secretary, Virgil Mcgill ot Calvary United Brethren; advisors from the Ministerial Alliance, Rev.

Howard Tubach of Grandvicw Evangelical; Dr. Arthur Miller of First Presbyterian and Rev. E. T. Einerscn of Emanuel Lutheran.

Others present at the meeting, composing the permanent constituency of the Youth Council, arc: Phil Henderson and Edith Lock, Grandview Evangelical; Clarence ACCUSED SLAYER GETS FUNERAL Clarence McDonald accepts from his mother, Mrs. Carl Wagner, a rose she look him from thke grave of the girl he is accused of killing his pretty 17-year-old sweetheart, Dorothy Broi. Mrs. Wagner attended Dorothy's funeral In suburban Chicago then hastened lo the county jail to visit her son. Little.

Nov Victim A. Huffman. First Nazareno; Car-. i ci ol Arm O'Hara, First Methodist Accidental Shot Anna Louise Johnson and Robert! Martin, Emanuel Lutheran; Virgil Tucker, South Hutchinson Methodist; Laurine Quiring and Alida Funk, First Mennonite; Mary Louise Roark, First Baptist; Doris Robinson, Calvary United Brethren; Anna Mary Schott, First Naz- arenc; Gloria Grandon, First Evangelical; Marie Alstatt, Zion Lutheran; John Sutton, First Presbyterian; Mary Ellen Anderson and Esther Oyler, United Presbyterian; Jack Kendree, Trinity Methodist; Eldon Means, Dee Mackey ad Waller Rinehart, Christian Quest. To Gather Waste Civic club, an organization of Sylvia women, will tomorrow gather rags, rubber, paper, and scrap metal of all kinds, in Sylvia for national, defense.

Kansas IVot Sure of Places Topeka (IP) merit sys tern for state employes is about to become a reality but Gov. Payne H. Ratner emphasized that jobholders would not be "frozen" in (heir posts. The governor, in a radio talk, said first examinations under the system would be announced in late March or early April and that all 6.000 state employes must take the tests. Those on the payroll before June 1, 1941, he said, may retain their jobs if they make a passing grade but those hired after that date must compete with all other applicants.

The new law became effective last June 1. Texture and structure of bread found in the ruins of ancient Pompeii was the same as that of bread baked in modern times. Garden Don Hurd was shot in the head by a .22 caliber rifle, in the hands of his H-ycar-old brother, Eugene Hurd, while the boys were playing with a loaded gun. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs.

John Hurd. The bullet passed through the side of the boy's head, entering below the left eye and emerging below the left ear. The boy was reported in a critical condition. Traffic Fatalities Decline In February Topeka (IP) and automobile rationing can be credited with a drop in Kansas traffic fatalities. During February fatalities dropped more than 50 per cent un dor it year previous.

The January-February total of 52 is -well 1 under the 68 of 1941. "Motorists are slowing down," observed Safety Engineer Claud R. McCamment. Goes To Plane Plant K. Rogers, under- sheriff of Harvey county for four years has resigned to become a guard at an aircraft plant in Wichita.

He is succeeded by J. S. Whittmore, of Newton. For Husband Asks S5.000 Neva Rassettc has filed suit in district court here against Joan Fairchild for $5,000 damages, charging her with alienating the affections of her husband. First Steel Arrives For K-98 Bridge Work Great carload of rein forcing steel has arrived at Heizer, the first shipment of material for the construction of bridges and culverts on the new short-cut highway for Kfffi, lo complete the eight mile gap between Great Bend and Heizer.

Four carloads of steel will be needed for the bridges and cul verts, L. L. Robinson, state high, way commissioner said. But he added that assurance had been given it would arrive so the work would not be delayed. The Stamey Construction Co.

of Hutchinson has the contract to build the ten culverts, and to construct the grade. Ralph Sanford of Holsington, will build' two bridges. The total contracts amount to $130,305. Would Hall Fever Spread of the scarlet fever outbreak here, the county health officer, Dr. E.

S. Hymer has called off "all unnecessary public assemblies for children." The county 4-H club festival scheduled for Saturday was the first to be cancelled. There arc 39 cases reported to date, an increase of 14 over a week ago. Killed By Own Gun Winfield Herb Wright, 46, was shot accidentally and killed while cleaning his rifle. A native of Pretty Prairie, he had lived here many years.

Survivors include his widow and a daughter. Chief Jones To New Post Capl. H. J. Sloan Is In Charge of Department The police department functioned as usual today but without its chief.

Chief Ben L. Jones has gone to work at the Lake City plant of the Remington Arms near Kansas City, and Capt. 11. J. Sloan is In charge.

Mayor Willis N. Kelly said today that no change in personnel schedules will be made for several weeks. He also gave no hint as to Jones' successor. The chief's resignation, accepted by the city commission last Friday, is not effective until March 15th, but Jones is taking a two-weeks' leave of absence to be on tho new job. His last order to the department was: "Jt is requested that all concerned continue to perform their duties in their usual manner and show respect to and cooperation with whomever may be appointed as head of the department.

I have enjoyed working with you all." Mrs. Jones and their children will remain In Hutchinson until the school term is finished. Sterling-Lyons Airport Talked there is any possibility of the government authorizing an air pilot training school at Sterling college, which would require an airport, the Chambers ot Commerce of Sterling and Lyons will unite in promoting and securing such an air This was agreed at a joint meeting of the aviation committees of the two cities, with a view of locating the airport midway between the cities, making it only five miles out from each. A joint committee has been chosen which will locate sites for an airport and submit them to the CAA for approval, and be ready to meet any proposal of the government toward establishing an air-training school at the college here. It was agreed that there was no immediate need of an airport now unless the government cooperates with the college in establishing a training center.

The joint committee on airport site includes: From Lyons, Dr. J. E. Marklc, Louis Colberg and Paul Jones. From Sterling, G.

W. Nichols, Jack Davis and Harry Eaough. Murphy Back At Helm Murphy House, started by H. C. Murphy more than 20 years ago, and named after him, is again being run by Murphy.

He leased the hotel three years ago to Chas. Hemker, but has again taken charge. Dwight Fowler, of Kingman, will run the restaurant. Due to a cessation hunting, many species of wildlife actually increase in war zones. ore Measure To Plant Spuds Little Future Faim ers club, of high school boys here will have an "Irish garden." They have ordered 700 pounds of Irish Cobbler seed potatoes, certified seed, through the farm bureau, Want 2-Ton Load Boy Scout troop is after 500 pounds of waste paper.

They lack that much of having a two-ton load, having 3,500 pounds baled and ready to go. Tire Busy thieves here took a large tire from a Midwest Grain Co. truck, and took wheels and tires from a sedan belonging to Chas. Browning, farmer near here. Pull the Trigger on Constipation, with Ease for Stomach, too When constipation brings on discomfort after meals, stomach upset, bloating, dizzy spells, gas, coaled tongue, and bad breath, your stomach is probably "crying the blues" because your bowels don't move.

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