Topeka Society Men Subpoenaed In Liquor Inquiry
A Topeka deputy sheriff served subpoenas on hosts of social events in best Topeka homes where Jay E. House was entertained last winter. Atttorney General Smith and John J. Schenck led an inquiry into liquor sources and guest lists, with questions about where liquor came from and who supplied it.
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Topeka
Clyde M. Reed
William A. Smith
Eral
John J. Schenck
Shawnee
Smith
Mr. Kenck
Gene
Jay E. House
Topeka State Journal
R. B. Stewart
W.R Stubbs
C. Mohler
State Board of Agriculture
J. B. Walker
Pelletier Stores Company
Richard Halil
Bhultz
Booze Probe at Topeka Targets Local Homes
Kansas Governor Reed orders an inquisition into charges by Jay E. House that liquor was served in about fifteen Topeka homes. Attorney General William A. Smith collected hosts and guests from society columns. A deputy sheriff begins summoning witnesses. After morning session, little material evidence is found.
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Topeka
Reed
Kansas
Jay E. House
William A. Smith
Attorney General
House Says He Is Sorry
Philadelphia columnist Jay E. House of the Public Ledger apologized for unintentionally causing Topeka friends trouble. He criticized the Anti-Saloon League as a tyranny in enforcing its will and urged defense of freedom amid national pro prohibition debates.
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Philadelphia
Jay E. House
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Topeka
Anti-Saloon League
No Peace for Aged Elope r
Marysville Kas September report states David DeLair eighty two and blind of Oketo marries Mrs Rachel Cameron sixty nine of Summerfield after a probate court found him of unsound mind Guardianship assigned to C M DeLair Russell and guardian party traveled to Omaha for developments Immediate civil action announced to followers unclear details about the case The couple wed in Council Bluffs after a ten day prior license surrender DeLair a wealthy retired farmer stockman weekends with his fiancé before the ceremony.
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MaryYsville
Kas
David Delair
Oketo
Council Bluffs
Rachael Cameron
Summerfield
Claude DeLair
DeLair
C. M. DeLair
Russell
Omaha
Marysville
Relief at Swope Park as Mall Road Opens Sunday
W H Dunn announces traffic relief at Swope Park with Mall Road reopening from shelter house to the zoo after repairs. Hickman Mills road new slab to open Sunday from Seventy-first Street bridge to Lakeside drive. Five blocks of Benton plaza resurfaced from Chestnut to Walroad opened. Benton Boulevard redecking from Twelfth to Fifteenth streets will extend to Independence Avenue in two weeks.
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W. H. Dunn
Swope Park
Mall Road
Shelter House
Zoo
Hickman Mills Road
Seventy-first Street
Lakeside Drive
Mr. Dunn
Benton Plaza
Chestnut Avenue
Walroad Avenue
Benton Boulevard
Twelfth
Fifteenth
Independence Avenue
Dunn
Rest in Rogers Trial in Texas Bank Robbery Case
In Braunfels Texas on September 17 the state rested after five rebuttal witnesses were called in the Rebecca Bradley Rogers bank robbery case. The former University of Texas student is accused of stealing 1000 dollars from Farmers National Bank of Buda in 1926. Defense chief Otis Rogers planned rebuttal with three physicians likely to testify: Dr W J Johnson Dr H E Karbach and Dr Livingston Anderson.
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New Braunfels
Tex
Rebecca Bradley Rogers
University of Texas
Farmers National Bank of
Buda
Otis Rogers
W. J. Johnson
H. E. Karbach
Livingston Anderson
Scout Leaders Meet for Kansas City Dinner Tonight
One hundred fifty Kansas City Boy Scout leaders gather at 6 o'clock tonight at the First Baptist church at Linwood boulevard and Park avenue for the annual dinner. Discussion covers fall and winter scout work and the September 28 recognition service in Penn Valley Park with Governor Caulfield as guest.
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Kansas City
First Baptist Church
Linwood Boulevard
Park Avenue
Penn Valley Park
Caulfield
Downtown steer rampage shocks Kansas City crowd
A runaway Texas steer roamed Main Street at Tenth in broad noon traffic, goring a real estate man in the lip, smashing a storefront window, trampling bystanders, and prompting Patrolman Martin to fire three times. The beast was dispatched near Rothschilds and claimed by cowboys from the stockyards.
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Charles S. Davis
Linwood Boulevard
R. A. Long Building
J. S. Taylor
Wayne
Spalding Cloak Company
Main Street
Ninth
W. R. Martin, Jr
Tenth and
Main
Great Bend
Kansas City
Martin
Mr. Davis
Davis
Rothschild
al Rothschild
Mr. West Rothschild
F. F. Monroe
Rufe Rollins
Weather forecast and river reading for Kansas City region
The forecast calls for fair and continued cool weather through tonight and Wednesday. North winds at noon at 10 to 15 mph with humidity around 35 percent. The river level is 4.6 feet, with a rise of 0.1 foot expected in twelve hours. grain area notes follow on the next page.
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Kansas City
Hoon
Citizens' Union Forms Nonpartisan City Campaign
A nonpartisan Citizens' Union plans a citywide campaign to elect candidates aligned with its charter. The group aims for 15,000 members by October 1 and will launch with a dinner at the Women’s City Club, sending letters to 1,000 patrons.
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Citizens’ Union
Woman's City Club
Louis R. Ash
Crear-Leslie Building
Youth Held for Destruction Charge Leave City for Harvard
City detectives with a state warrant sought How ard A. Fitch Jr. 21 son of a KC steel executive. Fitch reportedly fled Kansas City last night to enter Harvard University after a disturbance at the Mill Creek delicatessen where he was charged with disturbing the peace. Mrs Kort, owner of the delicatessen, attacked him as he left the South Side courtroom following his dismissal.
Linwood and Prospect Get First of New Group
Kansas City installs first of fifteen outlying and thirty one downtown traffic light intersections. Linwood boulevard will have a thirty five second cycle and Prospect avenue a twenty five second cycle as part of the new signal system.
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Linwood Boulevard
Prospect Avenue
Kansas City
Linwood-Prospect
Bamberger Rewards Loyal Veterans With Large Bonus
About 235 veteran employees of L. Bamberger & Co. Newark receive a share of a $1,019,000 bonus in a historic distribution praised by Louis Bamberger. Individual gifts include a $20,000 mark for one employee, with others earning $10,000 or more. Police awards to Tunney’s brother highlight meritorious conduct in New York.
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Newark
N. J
L. Bamberger & Co
Louis Bamberger
Tunney
New York
Thomas P. Tunney
Gene
Whalen
Few True Bridge Experts Estimated by Whitehead
Wilbur C Whitehead told a convention of instructors that the number of real bridge experts is ten or fewer. He said the total could be counted on one’s fingers. The remark was reported from New York on September 17 by the Associated Press.
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New York
Wilbur C
Whitehead
Bandits Rob Sears-Roebuck Payroll at Fifteenth Street Plant
Two Sears-Roebuck employees in charge of payroll, George Mayo and Russell Ryland, were held up by three bandits inside the Fifteenth Street plant. The robbers took $8517 while one guarded the area and another escorted the funds to a car outside.
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Sears-Roebuck
Fifteenth Street
Cleveland Avenue
George Mayo
Russell Ryland
Need for More Men Teachers in Primary Schools
Dean Virginia Gildersleeve of Barnard college argues for equal numbers of men and women in primary teaching, urges reducing curricular subjects, and calls for greater thoroughness in core courses. She says both sexes bring balanced perspectives on health, peace, law, and commerce to educate the nation.
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New York
America
Virginia Gildersleeve
Barnard College
Dean Gildersleeve
Tragic train accident claims 9 year old Le Roy Aubuchon
Le Roy Aubuchon 9 is killed after a Kansas City Southern passenger train strikes him at Fifty ninth street and Brighton avenue. He attended Mark Twain school and was sent to fetch milk for his baby sister Bertha. He died at General hospital from a fractured skull. He leaves parents Harvey and Mrs Aubuchon and four younger siblings.
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le Roy Aubuchon
Harvey Aubuchon
Hardesty Avenue
Kansas City Southern
Fiftyninth Street
Brighton Avenue
le Roy
Mark Twain School
Bertha
Union Station
General Hospital
George Aubuchon
Gilbert Aubuchon
Edward Aubuchon
Bertha Aubuchon
Turkey Creek
City Drilling Dry Gas Hole at Airport
Matthew S. Murray announces the Kan sas City Airport gas well drilled by Butler Aircraft Corp reached 500 feet with no gas found and will be abandoned. The city to drill from hangar area behind the airport back of the Fairfax Airport producing well near the Missouri River site. An explosion near the Clay County side years ago was linked to a water tunnel under the river and eight workers died.
Indict 57 At Wichita Under Federal Liquor Law
A federal grand jury in Wichita Kansas returns a part list of true bills and indicts fifty seven persons under the Jones law for liquor law violations. Ten defendants are women and many had been arrested in a recent roundup in and around Wichita as the panel resumes deliberations.
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Associated Press
Wicarra
Kas
George H. McDermott
Wichta
Graf Zeppelin Flight Heads Toward New York Arrival
Graf Zeppelin with ninety two passengers led by Mrs Ecke ner departed Friedrichshafen at 4 12 a m to greet the steamship New York with Dr Hugo Eckener aboard near the Elbe mouth expected later today. The city plan commission will hear William E Lyons Real Estate and Mortgage Co request to rezone the south side of Fifty ninth street Cypress to Elmwood from residence to business use at 2 p m October 2. For rental, sale, or job, place a Want Ad with Harrison 1200.
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Associated Press
Friedrichshafen
Eckener
New York
Hugo Eckener
Elbe River
William E. Lyons Real Estate and Mortgage Company
City Plan Commission
Fifty-ninth Street
Cypress and
Elmwood Avenues
Air Lines Reject Push for U S Government Regulation
A 120 member air executives conference at the Hotel Muehlebach rejected a resolution for federal control and refused to form a committee to study regulation. Earl Halliburton urged government oversight, but critics led by William McCracken and Maj. Gen. John F. O’Ryan argued aviation should self regulate. The vote failed to materialize and the group left with the implication regulation would come anyway.
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Hotel
Muehlebach
Earl P. Halliburton
Southwest Air Fasts Express
A. F. Winn
Halliburton
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
William P. McCracken
Commerce
Aeronautics
John F. O’ryan
Colonial Airways
McCracken
Winn
O’ryan
Harp on Safety Sparks Debate in Air Transport
Ralph S. Westing, Pitcairn Aviation, tells executives to stop overemphasizing safety arguing the public tires of constant safety talk. J. M. Eaton of Pan-American Airways counters that safety remains the core selling point for passengers and business travelers.
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Ralph S. Westing
Pitcairn Aviation, Inc
Muehlebach
J. M. Eaton
Pan-American Airways, Inc
Smoker Arrested in 2000 Acre Brush Fire
Pomona California September 17 M J Ryan a surveyor for the Los Angeles City bureau of water and power was arrested and charged with smoking in a closed area and setting a fire which became uncontrolled. About 2000 acres of brush land burned.
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Associated Press
Pomona
Cat
M. J. Ryan
Los Angeles
Brown to Jadwin post and decentralization of army engineers office is ordered
President Hoover announced a centralized peace-time reorganization of the army engineers with three assistants. Brig. Gen. Lytle Brown named chief to direct inland waterways programs including the Lower Mississippi, tributaries to the Mississippi, and the Great Lakes link to the St. Lawrence. The aides will reside in their districts, with one likely in St. Louis to oversee Mississippi tributaries.
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Star's Star
Washington
United States Army Engineers
Middle West
Mississippi River
White House
Hoover
Lytle Brown
Panama
Army Engineers
Edgar Jadwin
Brown
Army
Mississippi
Great Lakes
St. Lawrence River
Atlantic Seaboard
St. Louis
Kansas City
Omaha
Tennessee
Leavenworth Retired General Brown Noted Engineer Leader
Brig. Gen. Lytle Brown named by President Hoover as chief of army engineers has long ties to Fort Leavenworth. His career includes command of an engineer battalion in 1912 and roles as instructor and assistant commandant at the Command and General Staff College through 1925.
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Tennessee
General Service
Ft. Leavenworth
Jadwin
Herbert Deakyne
King George Likely To Go Shooting At Sandringham
London reports King George has shown marked health progress and preparations are underway at Sandringham for a day of shooting if weather remains fair. Doctors previously kept him from using a gun after a November illness, but he is now near full recovery.
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London
George
Sandringham
Evening Standard
England
Marshal in Iowa Charged with Murder in Killing
Lineville Iowa night marshal Pete Hartley was charged with first degree murder in the fatal shooting of Gerald Hubbird a 24 year old man. Hubbird died after Hartley allegedly shot him while placing chains on Hubbird s car near the Missouri border. The incident occurred across the border in Missouri.
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Lineville
Princeton
Pete Hartley
Gerald Hubbird
Hubbird
Leon
Hartley
Missouri
Fire devastates Ventura area oil fields and sparks wider blazes
A wildfire roaring from Sulphur Mountain threatens Ventura Avenue oil field with 209 to 300 derricks as 11,000 barrels of oil boil over. Firefighters, police, and 250 residents evacuated while crews fight spread toward Santa Paula and sage district amid multiple fires in Riverside and San Bernardino regions.
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Associated Press
Ventura
Cat
Ventura Avenue
Santa Paula
Santa Clara River
Santa Paula Canyon
Canyon
Firefighters Escape from 18000 Acre La Ded Fire Trap
Two hundred forest firefighters led by T H Sherrard of Mount Hood national forest escaped a trap in the La Ded district fire. They reached Estacada after descending the North Fork River and helped stamp out the blaze five miles east of Estacada. They were last heard from Sunday morning and reported little worse for wear aside from fatigue.
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Portland, Ort
T. H. Sherrard
Mount Hood National Forest
Estacada
Ore
North Fork River
Troops Leave Rhine as Regiments Move to New Quarters
In Costenz Germany on September 17 soldiers from the 39th artillery began departing and two infantry regiments prepared new quarters at Metz and in Alsace. Meanwhile in Trenton Missouri two inmates Earl Kinecaid and James Fox escaped from Grundy County jail after overpowering a guard during the night. Read The Star’s Wanted columns for more local notices.
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Germany
Metz
Alsace
Trenton
Star
Earl Kinecaid
James Fox
Sir. Louis
Mercer County
Grundy County
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