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Newspaper
Atchison Weekly Globe
Location
Atchison, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1927
Page
5
A deadly tornado struck St Louis causing extensive property damage and multiple deaths and injuries. Among the dead are William Owsley and Joseph Simon, with collapses at local plants and police reports indicating numerous unconfirmed fatalities and widespread destruction citywide.
Constantinople on September 29 reports Turkey will begin its first complete census on October 28 with 6,000 officials conducting the count. No travel or school activity allowed. residents must stay home until counted. those leaving before noon may face fines or imprisonment.
Harbor Grace Newfoundland Sept 2 A report said a man wearing an aviator style helmet was seen floating between Bell Island in Conception Bay and the mainland town. No confirmation yet.
The Weather reports unsettled conditions in eastern Kansas tonight with cooler air in the north and east. Missouri expects unsettled skies with possible local showers and thunderstorms, cooler tonight in the west. Friday is partly cloudy with varied cloud and rain patterns across towns. temperatures today at 3 PM reached 75, while the high a year ago was 59. Road conditions are mostly muddy or rough in many locations including Topeka, Manhattan, Wichita, Hutchinson, Pittsburg, and Ottawa, with mist and rain in Coffeyville and Emporia.
Captain Rene Fonck, famed French war ace, outlines plans for regular trans Atlantic air service linking New York and Paris with stops at the Azores Newfoundland and Ireland. Six planes would carry mail and passengers after initial demonstration flights. Fonck expects to sail to Paris soon and order two more planes.
Babe Ruth matched his 1921 season home run mark by belting his 58th of the year for the Yankees against the Senators. He previously hit his 58th in the first inning, tying the record in New York on September 29.
A Coburg dispatch describes the city as governed by four princely houses the ex- czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria the Duke Karl Eduard of Coburg-Gotha the Russian pretender Cyril and the Prince Regent von Hohenlohe Langenburg. The Duke Eduard dominates social life from Coburg Castle while audiences honor him at concerts and theatres. Ferdinand leads a quieter, culturally inclined existence at the Hofgrafen Palais and Buerglasse bloessschein.
In Nutchinson Kansas a new curbside mail system places a box at the east curb and another at the south curb so drivers can mail letters and packages from their cars. Two car lengths in front of the boxes are forbidden to park. Also in New York Lady Patrician Russell, who left home at 17 to train as an actress then maid, now appears on stage in the city.
The eighteen month old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Padgett on Atchison street shows partial paralysis in both legs and cannot stand. Doctors report brief improvement then relapse, and the Padgett home is quarantined as physicians warn of the sneaky infantile paralysis.
Paris reports a presidential decree increasing official France population by 25 to 40,745,876, noting previous totals in guidebooks were in error. Names from Tronnecourt near Cambrai were omitted in the last census and later added by government decree.
Nurses from Kansas will meet in Newton on October 6 7 and 8 for the sixteenth annual Kansas State Nurses Association convention the fifteenth annual Kansas State Organization for Public Health Nursing meeting the eighth annual Private Duty Section gathering and the fourth annual Kansas State League of Nursing Education session The Associated Press reports from Newton Kansas.
Berkeley reports UC coeds have solved girth control. The 1920s style change shows swimsuits shrinking. Last year two thirds of students sought perfect 36s, this year only one third. Likewise 34s now account for one third, signaling a shift in dress expectations at the university.
National Broadcasting Co and Columbia Broadcasting System will link 16 stations to describe the World Series games next week. Graham McNamee will host for NBC and Major J A White for CBS with Kenesaw M Landis granting permission for the broadcasts.
In Enid Oklahoma on September 29 a chemical test found no poison in the viscera of Mary Jane Bailey 18, heard Mary Atkinson nurse charged with murder in Bailey death. Attorneys Harry Glasser and IL G McKeever predicted acquittal citing pathologist W H Bailey revised report.
Rebecca Bradley Rogers, former University of Texas co ed, faces arson charges in Round Rock blaze last December. In district court here the state reopened its case to counter defense claims that Mrs Rogers is unstable. Dr Joe S Wooten of Austin testified for the prosecution to challenge those claims.
A section of the Bowersock mill in Lawrence Kansas collapsed from the second floor to the basement today. Several people narrowly escaped injury but no employees were harmed.
Topeka on September 20 AP says Governor Paulen and Mrs. Paulen departed in their motor car for Tulsa Oklahoma to attend the National Petroleum Exposition. They expect to return to Topeka on Monday. As state oil inspector he built many friendships in the oil fraternity.
Washington and Mexico City will formally open the long distance line with a bilingual exchange. President Coolidge will hear Calles speak Spanish while Calles greets Americans in English via interpreters, highlighting advances in international communication.
Los Angeles reports three screen actresses plan weddings as romance takes center stage in Hollywood. Helene Costello will wed John Regan of Washington, D C, after finishing a film, with Diana Kane engaged to director George Fitzmaurice following a shower by Bebe Daniels. Norna Shearer will marry Irving Thalberg, among a prominent Who's Who guest list.
Temperatures in Kansas near seasonal norms with little change expected. Rainfall reported in the last 24 hours hit Chanute 1.68 inches, Iola 0.60, Kansas City 0.10, Wichita 0.92, and Topeka 1.0 inch, with southeastern heavy showers and generally fair conditions statewide thereafter.
Baldwin City Kansas September 20 Associated Press reports Baker University expects more diplomas at spring convocation than in the first 32 years. Registrar records show eighty six seniors enrolled to date with next semester additions pushing total above one hundred.
Dispatches report federal troops in multiple Mexican regions with varied aims. In Jalisco rebels described as Catholic fanatics were engaged, 34 rebels killed, Father Sedano captured and executed, and 14 rebels killed in the Los Mezquites fight. An attack by 250 rebels under Parajas and others was repulsed with 18 dead. In Nayarit troops protect American lives at Ixtlan del Rio mines after embassy concerns. Troops moved from Vera Cruz to Jalapa to depose Governor Heriberto Jara under a state legislature resolution.
Brussels reports that Europe may form an economic union to defend Old World interests against the United States. An Independence Belge article cites Belgian shipping and industrial interests and notes U S tariff policy opposes reciprocity while possibly making concessions on loans and debt conversion.
Mia Kartschke, a young woman, shocked fifty veteran male smokers at Luna Park Berlin by smoking a Havana for two hours and fifteen minutes to win first prize and be crowned Queen of Smokers, receiving 1,000 cigars.
Junction City Kansas prepares for the League of Kansas Municipalities nineteenth annual convention October 12 13 and 14 where the gas research committee will present its progress. Walter F Jones of Hutchinson a legislator and former mayor chairs the committee formed in August to push a campaign for lower gas rates in Kansas cities.
Athens reports the government intends to seek a joint protest with Jugoslavia against Bulgarian comitadji activities. The aim is to prevent further trouble between Greece and Jugoslavia over Bulgarian actions.
The Nortonville road case, a dispute over county demand to finance highway paving via a benefit district, seeks to restrain collection of a $67,000 special tax. Filed in district court, outcome may set a state precedent and could reach the supreme court if plaintiffs prevail. Judge W A Jackson expected to hear the petition next week.
Paris reports President Don mergue signed a pardon for Bennett J. Doty, who served part of an eight year term for desertion during active service in Syria. He is Memphis, Tennessee born and will report to the First Regiment of the Foreign Legion at Sidi Bel Abbes Algeria to complete forty nine months of his five year enlistment under the alias Gilbert Clare. He left prison for Marseilles today with orders to depart for Algeria. The war ministry believed a pardon was allowable but releasing him from his oath would harm discipline and require him to fulfill the contract.
In Ithaca on September 2 the Associated Press reports that Helen H. Gardener, a federal official, author, lecturer and feminist, is shown by an exhaustive brain study completed after her 1925 death to have no inherent mental inferiority to men. Dr. J W Paper cites abundant cortical matter in her brain, matching top minds at Cornell and contesting doctors and professors who claimed female inferiority.
Fire Prevention association elected I. D. Air of Kansas City as president at its annual Manhattan convention. W. R. Kirk of Topeka was named vice president and W. E. Herbert of Topeka secretary. Membership includes outsiders engaged in related work in Kansas. Today featured inspection, school drills, a chamber of commerce dinner and special picture shows. The convention adjourns tonight.
Paris report cites Le Matin saying Rakovsky’s revolt delay stems from absence of a successor as Soviet ambassador to France. French discontent grows after his move urging troops to rise against capitalist governments and signing a communist manifesto.
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