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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1929
Page
1
12 Story Office and Shop Building to Rise at Eleventh and Baltimore
Downtown development accelerates with a 12 story International building planned on the Eleventh and Baltimore site formerly housing the University Club. Prescott Wright Snider arrange financing. Manhattan Construction to begin next week under Alonzo H. Gentry design. Eleventh and Baltimore Corporation will own and occupy the structure, with strong lease prospects expected from national firms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eleventh
Baltimore
Fifteenth
Oak
Tenth
Mc- Gee
Ninth
Grand
Twelfth
Walgreen
Central Drug Comny
Walnut
Walgreen Drug Store
Liberty National Peoples Trust
Helzberg Diamond Shop
Rossman, Inc
Main Street
Main
Pennock
Louis K. Liggett Company
Thirteenth
O. G. Lée
Fourteenth
Southwest Corner
McGee
New Bryant
Gates
Southeast
Fidelity Bank
Northwest Corner
Katz
Street
Southeast Corner
Kansas City Power and Light Company
Old
New England Bank
Eleventh Street
Baltimore Avenue
University Club
Kansas City
Prescott- Wright-Snider Company
Manhattan Construction Company
Alonzo H. Gentry
International Building
Eleventh and
Baltimore Corporation
Clark H. Smith
Moseley-Comstock Realty Company
A Doll to the Princes Aid At Paris Dinner
The Prince of Wales avoids dining with thirteen guests. At Le Touquet a doll named Guard of the Grenadiers was placed as the fourteenth guest to suit his superstition. The story comes from a guest at the dinner at Casino de la Foret in Belgium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Prince of Wales
le Touquet
Belgium
Casino de la Foret
Guard of the Grenadiers
Oberfelder-Ketcham Players to Open Kansas City Season
The Oberfelder Ketcham Players announce a second Kansas City stock season opening October 12 at the Orpheum theater. Top ticket 1.50, matinees Sunday Thursday and Saturday. guest stars expected, with Helen Manken, Edith Taliafery or Vivian Martin likely. Director Dickson Morgan returns. nucleus includes Eldridge, Shelden, Rogers, Talbott, and others. talks to bring back Guy Kibbee amid competing contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oberfelder-Ketcham
Kansas City
Orpheum Theater
Arthur Oberfelder
Helen Menken
Edith Taliafery
Vivian Martin
New York
Miss Martin
Dickson Morgan
Harry Eldridge
Midway Mark
Jerome Shelden
Laura Rogers
Missouri
Jack Talbott
Guy Kibbee
California
Leavenworth Police Trapped In Bribery Probe
Special Agents of the Attorney General break up a bootlegger protection scheme in Leavenworth as four police officers confess or prepare to testify. Bribes ranged from 50 to 75 dollars with arrests and arraignments pending. Authorities deny wider involvement beyond the four officers and bootlegger suspects.
Trumbull Rites Set For Governor’s Daughter John Coolidge
In Plainville Connecticut on September 19 the wedding of Miss Florence Trumbull daughter of Governor John H Trumbull to John Coolidge will be covered both in pictures and words. The governor arranged for a personal representative to handle publicity and advance notices. Mrs Trumbull also arranged to keep information flowing through designated aides to preserve a quiet family atmosphere amid interview requests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainville
Conn
Florence Trumbull
John H. Trumbull
John Coolidge
Air death inquiry hints at state and federal probes
Whearts Kansas September 19 possible grand jury investigations at liquor law violation level were intimated by county attorney William J Wertz after an inquest into the death of Helen Williams 18 who died when her parachute failed to open during a plane jump Witnesses including parachute company demonstrators described an all night party at a road house south of Whearts where drinking and gambling occurred Wertz said fourth degree manslaughter warrants could be issued if it is found others knew she was unfit to leap from the plane
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McClements
C. W. Lytle
Fred Korth
George Cummings
Jesse A. Hall
Leavenworth
Jackson
Charles L. Whitehead
John Powell
Kansas City
Cummings
Lytle
McClements
Korth
Hall
Jim G. Johnson
Clarence Geiger
McClement
Geiger
Topeka
J. J. Codding
Whearts
Kas
William J. Wertz
Helen Williams
Here
Wertz
Miss Williams
Weather Outlook Kansas City Area Mostly Cloudy
Forecast calls for mostly cloudy conditions in Kansas City and vicinity with showers possible and a slight warming Friday. Winds from the east at 7 miles per hour, humidity steady, and a grain market note accompanies the forecast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Mrs. DePriest Seeks Club Entry in Washington Controversy
The congressional club faces a heated dispute over admitting Mrs. Oscar DePriest wife of the only Black member of Congress. A Vestal resolution would require endorsements from same state members before membership. If DePriest applies a showdown could occur as Southern wives threaten to resign if she is admitted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kansas City Star
ALBEE
Star
Oscar DePriest
Congress
Congressional Club
Albert H. Vestal
Indiana
DePriest
Calvin Coolidge
Pan-American Union
Porter H. Dale
Vermont
Father Sues Parachute Company Over Daughter's Death
C R Williams of Thomas Oklahoma sues Irving Parachute Company for 2999 damages after his daughter Helen Isobel Williams died in a Wichita Parachute jump incident. He claims death resulted from lack of instructions or a defective parachute. The case references a separate 10000 damages suit and notes the plane crossed the state line to Ponca City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Newkirk
C. R. Williams
Thomas, Ok
Irving Parachute Company
Helen Isobel Williams
Wichita
Williams
Kansas-Oklahoma
Ponca City
Vatican Soviet Truce Foreseen by Vatican Official
Monsignor Victor Bede, former Osservatore Romano staffer, predicts restoration of official Vatican Soviet relations. In Oberschlesische Kurier dispatch from Kattowitz he asserts no inherent obstacle to establishing diplomatic ties between Rome and Moscow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benun
Vatican
Kremlin
Moscow
Victor Bede
Osservatore Romano
Oberschlesische Kurier
Kattowitz
Bede
Air mail becomes social right for distant friends
The post office department asserts air mail is the modern social method for communicating with distant friends and foes. A poster features a blond beauty contemplating the speed of air mail delivery. Jadwin’s Pay to Be 8,250 a Year. Comptroller General authorizes retired Lieut Gen Edgar Jadwin to receive 8,250 dollars annually on the retired list.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Post Office Department
Air Mail
Jadwin
McCarl
Edgar Jadwin
Bootlegger Trust Nets Leavenworth Police Chiefs
Four Leavenworth police officers were arrested on charges of accepting bribes to protect bootleggers. A Topeka attorney general probe found a bootleggers' trust in Leavenworth, with a $350 monthly protection fund and staged liquor sales via government officials. Arrests followed meetings with bootleggers and paid kickbacks as the investigation widened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Ben Gumm
James Mallody
Abe Mallody
Clarence Hathorn
Lytle
Robert Mason
Baltimore
Mason
Mrs Long Inheritance Tax Second Largest On Record
The state must receive 89044.99 from Mrs Ella M Long estate, the second largest on record. The appraisal filed in probate court notes an estate valued at 2204732.55 with fifty seven beneficiaries, deceased November 22 1928.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Ella M. Long
R. A. Long
William Rieger
Joseph S. Loose
Tariff action sped as Senate Republicans plan early meetings
Senate Republicans meeting to speed the pending tariff bill decide to start sessions an hour earlier from Monday. The aim is to finish the bill before the regular session. if progress stalls, night sessions may be ordered. Hoover proclaims Fire Prevention Week for October 6. Drink Pickwick Coffee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Car Crash A Family Affair at Loneview Corner
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Rockett were riding together when their cars collided at an intersection in Loneview Washington. Mr Rockett’s vehicle overturned and was badly damaged while Mrs Rockett’s car escaped with only a few marks. Neither driver was injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Associated Press
Loneview
Wash
Bob Rockett
National City Bank to Merge with Corn Exchange Bank
National City Bank and Corn Exchange Bank Trust Company announce a planned merger pending stockholder approval. The combined group would exceed 100 branches in New York metro and over 2.3 billion dollars in resources, with an exchange ratio of four fifths National City stock per Corn Exchange share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
New York
National City Bank
America
Corn Exchange Bank Trust Company
New York City
National City
Corn Exchange
The
Guaranty Trust Company
Charles FE. Mitchell
Farmers Loan and Trust Company
Corn Exchange Bank
Ay Institution
Plan Huge Harmonica Band At Penn State Freshmen
At Pennsylvania State College 1200 freshmen tuned mouth organs to form the world largest harmonica band as they warm up for the first public concert planned for September 28 at the first home football game. The effort aims to ease saxophone workload by providing musical encouragement for athletes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Colliege
Pennsylvania State College
Allan Hoover Enrolls at Harvard Business School
Allan Hoover, the President’s younger son, arrived in Cambridge to begin studies at Harvard business administration. He was unaccompanied by security and identified himself to photographers while leaving the administration building with a telegram from his father advising him not to speak for the talkies. He will reside in Mellon Hall dormitory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
CambBriper
Mass
Allan Hoover
Harvard School of Business Administration
Young Hoover
Mellon Hall
Harvard
Government demands sewer tax before post office site acceptances
Negotiations finish next week between Samuel W Sawyer general attorney for the Terminal company and Samuel M Carmean assistant United States district attorney. The Turkey Creek sewer runs beneath the site at Pershing road and Broadway and the government insists the sewer tax be paid by the Terminal company before final acceptance of the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel W. Sawyer
Terminal Company
Samuel M. Carmean
United States
Turkey Creek
Pershing Road
Broadway
Court in an airplane to hear Coney Island death case
Magistrate Leo Healy of Brooklyn homicide court will hear testimony aboard an airplane in the William H. Alexander case. The flight will retrace the route of the fatal landing that killed two children at Coney Island. The crew includes the pilot, the defendant, counsel, an assistant district attorney, and a court stenographer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Leo Healy
Brooklyn
William H. Alexander
Coney Island
Alexander
Divorce Granted in Independence Circuit Court
Oswald H Christian of 3015 Paseo was granted a divorce from Gladys Marie Christian in the Independence division today. The husband alleged excessive quarrel and abandonment since August 30. Mrs Christian denied the charges in an entry of appearance but did not appear in court. Christian is identified as a druggist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H. Christian
Willard P. Hall
Independence Division
Circuit Court
Oswald H Christian
Paseo
Gladys Marie Christian
Christian
Safety zones vitally important for Kansas City's downtown
Emery Thayer secretary C C Peters urges immediate action to route motor cars on both sides of safety zones in the central business district. He cites downtown street car traffic as monopolizing streets and calls for a real test as traffic signals near completion prepare for operation within thirty days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emery Thayer
C. C. Peters
Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company
Street Railways Company
Peters
Street Railways
ST. Louis
Kansas City
Kansas City Power and Light Company
Charles Edwards
Chamber of Commerce
D. L. Fennell
Kansas City Public Service Company
H. F. McElroy
Cougars Follow Man Through Bushfire Then Seek Safety
Pierre Olsen recounts a dramatic experience in the Alberni district where three cougars trailed him for about three miles and then a further mile and a half along the highway as fires raged. The beasts showed no aggression beyond occasional grunts and appeared to seek guidance to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanaimo
British
Colummsia
Pierre Olsen
Alberni
Olsen
Maid theft leaves infant asleep as culprit flees
Mr. and Mrs. Bordman return from a theater to find their new maid missing with their 8 month old daughter asleep in a buggy. Items stolen include two wrist watches three rings silverware linens and a pearl necklace. A $50 reward is offered for Louise Newton a 25 year old previously housed by Provident Association. Police traced her to a known address and recovered a diagram of the Bordman apartment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo Bordman
Linwood Boulevard
Louise Newton
Provident Association
Bordman
New Independence-Liberty Toll Bridge Opens Sept 28
The Independence-Liberty toll bridge north of Courtney will open to traffic on Saturday September 28 officials of the National Toll Bridge Company announced. Formal dedication will be October 11 in Independence after a postponement due to Governor Caulfield’s absence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence-Liberty
Courtney
National Toll Bridge Company
Independence
Caulfield
Ford Won't Bid On Muscle Shoals Project
Henry Ford has no plans to bid again on the Muscle Shoals Alabama power project. He informed Senator Heflin that Ford has no current use for the power and has no plans to pursue the venture at this time, via a reply from E G Seibold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasurinoton
Henry Ford
Alabama
Heflin
Detroit
E. G. Seibold
Lindberghs Land in Miami After Charleston Flight
Colonel and Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh landed in Miami Florida on September 19 concluding a flight from Charleston South Carolina. The sight drew crowds as the aviators rest and plans for the next leg of their journey are discussed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindberghs
Miami
Fla
Charles A. Lindbergh
Charleston
8. C
Stimson to Lead U S Delegation in London Naval Talks
Washington learns Secretary Stimson will head the American delegation to the London conference likely in January with Ambassador Dawes and Senators Borah Swanson as other members. Paris chatter hints France may quibble over reductions, Italy may protest. About 230000 tons of American destroyers and second line cruisers built in the war will be scrapped regardless of conference outcome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Stimson
London
Dawes
Borah
Swanson
Paris
France
Italy
Marines Force Quiet in Quantico Town Turmoil
Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler takes charge as martial law clashes with civilian life in Quantico Virginia He orders removal of 2000 Marines after a week of bootlegging arrests and business disruption while the mayor and town police struggle to restore order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Quantico
Smedley D. Butler
Devil Dog
Philadelphia
A. E. Mcinteer
Boston Fishermen Unload 40000 Pounds Mackerel in Two Hours
Boston on September 19 reported a remarkable fish tale as the auxiliary schooner Bethulia delivered 40000 pounds of mackerel after only two hours at sea following a three and a half hour return. The cargo sold for 1500 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Bethulia
Blues Postpone Third Game Through Rain. Doubleheader Tomorrow
The Blues series with Louisville is deferred due to rain and cold. A doubleheader starts at 1 30 tomorrow. The Blues hold a nine and a half game lead over St Paul with thirteen games remaining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blues
Louisville
St. Paul
Council Fire Committee Postpones Hearing on Gas Stations
Absence of council member Ira B. Burns, the committee chair, delays tomorrow's hearing on an ordinance by Mayor Albert I. Beach regulating filling stations and garages. The hearing will be rescheduled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council
Ira B. Burns
Albert I. Beach
Secretary Stimson To Lead U8 Delegation At London Naval Conference
Secretary Henry L. Stimson will head the United States delegation to the London Naval Conference. The move positions the U8 to engage in talks on naval limitations and disarmament with allied powers.
Borah Swanson Likely United States London Naval Delegation
Secretary of State Henry Stimson will head the American delegation to the five power naval reduction conference in London in January. Charles G. Dawes and Senator William Borah are expected in top roles with Senator Claude Swanson favored for a fourth seat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wasitington
Kansas City Star
ALBEE
Star
Washington
Henry Ja Stimson
London
Charles Evans Hughes
United States
Charles G. Dawes
Great Britain
England
State Department
William E. Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Claude A. Swanson
Hoover
Harding
Hughes
Elihu Root
Henry Cabot Lodge
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Oscar Underwood
Wilson
Senate
Borah
Swanson
Threat of French Dissent Over Anglo American Naval Accord
Paris reports rising French anxiety about a proposed Anglo American naval accord hindering armament reduction. Temps and L Intransigeant warn the move weakens French defense while Geneva coverage notes doubt over a five power conference. German press urges cautious optimism toward disarmament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Paris
Geneva
Germany
Temps
America
Britain
Great Britain
Robert Cecil
Gland
Journal de Geneve
France
Italy
Diplomatische Politische Korrespondenz
U. Will Dispose of Vessels After Parley Outcome
Washington September 19. Upwards of ships to be disposed of regardless of parley results. The plan follows talks and signals a hard stance on naval assets. Officials emphasize rapid action to retire or transfer vessels from inventory.
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