Fairfax field to expand as aviation activity grows
The Fairfax flying field near Kansas City will grow from 200 to 800 acres, joining with the nearby Kansas City airport to form a combined 1,500 acre aeronautical complex. A new airplane factory and a 20 plane hangar are under construction as rival schools relocate. The field lies close to both Kansas City business districts and offers suitable emergency landing terrain.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Fairfax Flying Field
Fairfax Field
Fairfax Airport
Missouri River
Kansas
Missouri
General Plan for Uprising Uncovered in Pao-Ting
Authoritative reports say communists arrested at Pao-Ting carried plans for a general North China uprising. Nationalist safety officials pledge protection for foreigners if trouble arises as troop movements widen north and east of the city. Chungking reports lack details, but three British gunboats were ordered toward the Yangtze area amid halted shipping and rising tension.
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United Press
Peking
Pao-Ting
China
Chungking
Yangtze River
Ancient Gothic Ruins Unearth Feodora Capital in Crimea
iBy The Associated Press reports discovery of extensive ruins in Eski Kermen valley Crimea. The site spans over two miles with fortress walls hundreds of rock homes and six cave temples with frescoes. Archaeologists link it as Gothic Feodora city from Justinian era.
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Associated Press
Backtchisarai
Crimea
Eski- Kermen
Crimean Peninsula
Feodora
Justinian the Great
Oklahoma Texas Road Meet Opens Toll Bridge Talks
In Dallas today representatives from Oklahoma and Texas highway departments and the attorney general offices discussed purchasing current Red River toll bridges or building new ones. Oklahoma participants were W. C. Burnham, highway engineer, and Robert Keller, attorney.
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Dallas
Texas
Oklahoma and
Texas Highway and Attorney Generals Department
Red River
Oklahoma
W. C. Burnham
Robert Keller
Oklahoma Highway Department
Insurance Heads Here in Conference
District representatives of American Central Life Insurance attend a conference in Amarillo with Floyd Fisher agency secretary and Alford Gustafson field superintendent from Indianapolis. Floyd Studer heads the Amarillo branch as main office for a district covering ninety two Northwest Texas counties. Visitors were guests at a noon luncheon.
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American Central Life Insurance Company
Panhandle
Amarillo
Floyd Fisher
Alford Gustafson
Indianapolis
Floyd Studer
Texas
Winter Opens Engagement in Chicago
The article reports the official start of winter in Chicago with temperatures plummeting to 6 above and sub zero readings in nearby regions. At 8 04 am winter began astronomically as the day lasted only 9 hours 7 minutes, while a deadly cold wave caused a fire that killed Mrs. Mary Klingenberg and destroyed an iron works, hampering firefighters.
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United Press
Chicago
North Dakota
Minnesota
Canada
Winnipeg
Pas
Manitoba
Mary Klingenberg
Swedish vicar completes plant search in North American wilds
John Enander a Swedish country vicar finishes a long quest for rare plants visiting Canada and America. He traversed the Gaspe Peninsula in Quebec and reached the most inaccessible regions.
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John Enander
Canada
America
Gaspe Peninsula
Quebec
Connecticut Churches Are Tax Exempt
The Associated Press reports Connecticut has long exempted religious bodies from taxes, dating back to 1727 for Church of England parishes and later for Baptists and Quakers. By 1708 dissenters could use Presbyterian governance, shaping two centuries of tax relief for churches.
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Associated Press
Hartford
Conn
Connecticut
Connecticut Colony
General Court
Question Mark Leaves Midland for Tucson Refueling Mission
The endurance plane Question Mark took off from Midland airport at 7 30 a m bound for Tucson Ariz to obtain a fresh supply of gasoline while in flight Major Carl Spatz commanding the tri motored Fokker transport and the Douglas C 1 expects to reach Tucson in seven hours The aircraft will land at Lordsburg New Mexico to refuel and top up fuel in the air over Tucson
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Associated Press
Midland
Texas
Tucson
Ariz
Carl Spatz
Lordsburg
N. Mex
Word blind ness linked to temporal lobe development
The article discusses a historic view that word blindness or dyslexia was once blamed on feeble mindedness but now is thought to stem from defective development in the temporal lobe of the brain.
Wife of Senator Townsend Is Dead
Marlin Texas December 21 Mrs W J Townsend 45 wife of former State Senator Townsend of Wichita Falls and a daughter of Judge S P Will
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Townsend
Associated Press
Marlin
Texas
W. J. Townsend
Wichita Falls
S. P. Will
Mauretania Sets Transatlantic Time Record
Son of the chief justice of the sixth civil appeals court at Texarkana died here today. The Mauretania crossed the Atlantic from Cherbourg to New York in 5 days 3 hours 17 minutes, establishing a new world record.
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Sixth Civil Appeals Court
Texarkana
Cherbourg
New York
Rites for Dallas Stockman Saturday
Fu ral services for Lafayette Washington Bond prominent stockman who died here will be held here tomorrow in Dallas Texas.
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Dallas
Texas
Lafayette Washington Bond
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