28 Sep 1929
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Newspaper
Kansas City Star
Location
Kansas City, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1929
Page
1
Weather bulletin notes a tropical cyclone forming near the Florida Straits moving westward along the coast. Forecasters expect strengthening as it tracks toward open waters, with residents urged to monitor advisories and prepare accordingly.
Hurricane force winds sweep South Florida with Key West boarded up and many vessels moored tight. Miami endures flooding, power outages, and widespread damage as the storm moves toward the Gulf, with evacuation efforts ongoing and authorities warning of continuing high winds and dangerous seas.
The Kansas City Radio and Electrical Show ends tonight at 10 30 after an open at 1 pm and a week of performances. Large crowds attended the exhibitions late in the week with many events scheduled at Fairfax Field air circus beginning at 1 pm. The circus wraps up tomorrow night.
Chicago millionaire Gordon C Thorne faces court as he seeks an extra week to pay 2000 alimony to Anna Clare Hutchins ex wife No 3. Attorney Donahue details 2 million dollars spent on three marriages and reports bare rooms in an 8 room Gold Coast apartment. Earlier wives receive sizable alimony totals.
The Railroad Carmen of America convention adjourned after paying 510 delegates a daily salary of 10 dollars and expenses of 7 dollars, with 190000 spent on salaries and travel. Delegates gathered in squads to receive pay at Fidelity National Bank, prior to approving resolutions praising Kansas City and setting Montreal as next year's site for September 1933.
In St Paul Minnesota on September 28 Dorothy Virginia Millett of St Paul and Minneapolis and Louis W Hill Jr were betrothed. The couple plans a late November wedding. Both hail from pioneering Minnesota families with ties to James J Hill and James Martin Millett.
Governor Dan Moody said he will not announce martial law for Borger and Hutchinson County before Texas troops arrive. He declined to discuss the action today or tomorrow, stating residents would learn of any declaration when militiamen arrive.
Miss Isabelle Pope former fiancée of William Nelson McClintock to marry Melvin Veeder of Winnetka tonight in Curiaco Sept 28. Marriage follows settlement of the bitterly contested one million dollar McClintock estate battle and its infamous guardian murder trial history.
Pan American Airways reported Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and party departed Marcay Venezuela for Curacao in the Dutch West Indies at 8 32 o clock today. London elects a lord mayor Sir William Waterlow was chosen for the coming year as lord mayor.
Col A H Harrison and C M Harrison dispute Dr Hart report on Boonville reform school. They say many conditions have been corrected while blaming limited funds for remaining problems. They defend meals and beds, cite corporal punishment, and push for a new plant and higher funded staff and parole efforts.
Fox West Coast Theaters completed a 4 million dollar purchase of the Midland Theater and Realty Company of Kansas City, gaining control of the Midland Circuit of 61 theatres in Missouri Kansas and Iowa. Transactions hinge on an immediate audit with control to pass in about 30 days. Midland none of the Kansas City Midland Theater is included.
John Dirocco fired at a distant figure while aiming at a hawk in Tuckanor New Jersey. He fled into a swamp and hid for thirty hours before a posse found him. He believed he had killed a real person, but the figure was a scarecrow.
The forecast calls for cooler conditions and likely showers tonight or Sunday for Kansas City and vicinity. South wind at noon around 6 mph, humidity near 0, no precipitation in the last 12 hours. Next week, rains in the Lower Missouri Valley and central Great Plains with fair weather in the north, temperatures near normal or below early week and near or above later.
Detroit officials report a second submerged liquor smuggling cable system discovered by customs border patrol at Ecorse. The American end lay in a boathouse, with loading from a partly submerged Mind Island shack, using a windlass and a man in a diver outfit to haul the sled along the river bottom.
Seventeen convicts tunnelled under the high wire fence at Wynne state prison farm for tuberculars near Huntsville Texas escaping last night. North K. C. is a tremendous attribute to in entire community Levit2Lyle.
In Hidalgo state, flooding of the Metztitlan River and four towns inundation left more than a hundred believed dead and hundreds homeless as of today in the Mexican capital dispatch.
Crawford County State Bank in Girard Kansas failed to open as directors decided to turn over control to the state banking department amid rumors and deposits withdrawals. J R Emery of the state department heads to Girard to assume charge. Bank directors include Clay Burnett and R H Lashley with R T Kirkpatrick as vice president. Incorporated 1905, one of the county’s older depositories.
Probate filing outlines James Doarn estate valued over $100000 with grandson James Doarn as sole heir. Trust to Traders National Bank and niece Nellie Cronin funds $200 monthly to age 25 then $250 to 20 then $300 to 35, half estate at 35, remaining half at 40. Will dated 7 24 1929. grandson presently 20.
J C Nichols sent letters to about 1000 Kansas City and nearby shippers urging attendance at a Chamber of Commerce meeting at 3 PM Wednesday on the 9 foot Missouri River channel. District river engineers will hold a separate October 8 session to discuss the proposal. Nichols seeks shipper tonnage figures to present a persuasive case for deepening the channel to justify federal spending.
P Connor said cooler air will reach Kansas City and nearby areas with probable showers tonight or early tomorrow. A northwest break in hot spell since Sept 21 brings temperatures down from the Dakotas to the 40s and into the 20s in lower Canada. Last 24 hours saw showers across Kansas Nebraska Iowa and the Great Lakes region.
The real estate board today endorsed a million dollar school bond issue. The endorsement was tied to the school board’s guarantee that the current tax rate would not rise. New bonds would be issued over five years, in roughly the same volume as bonds retired through the sinking fund.
The downtown ticket office for next week's junior world series games closes at 5 tonight. Tickets remaining after hours will be sold at Muehlebach Field box offices starting at 9 tomorrow morning. The office is located at 17 East Tenth Street.
Washington September 28 Senate Republican leaders aim for a 4 o'clock Tuesday vote on retaining the flexible principle in the pending tariff bill. Chairman Smoot of the finance committee said it was their present plan if all aboard could be rounded up by that time.
Protest briefs filed against proposed changes to grain schedules argue for maintained rates and orderly trade. Lawyers for farmers and local merchants press officials on timing, fairness, and impact on market stability.
The Kansas City Board of Trade and other pro testants urge the Interstate Commerce Commission to suspend new grain and grain products rates from Kansas City territory to Gulf ports set by the Santa Fe and other railroads. The Board argues the 7 cent per hundred pounds cut and its spread harms farmers and regional markets, while Southern lines defend the change as needed against Santa Fe tactics.
Sou Southampton England Sept 28 The Berengaria ceased to be known as a Cunard liner and sailed for New York as a peace and good will ship with Prime Minister MacDonald aboard on a mission for disarmament. The voyage marks a new era of world peace through disarmament and closer Anglo American understanding.
A largely female strike at the Loose-Wiles plant persisted while men returned to work on the same terms as before. About 600 to 700 employees gathered outside, then entered quietly for pay and clothing envelopes. A mass meeting is planned at Labor Temple to settle terms, with reopening possible Tuesday.
A general pair arrangement links New Jersey Republican George N. Seger’s daughter Miss Alva Seger to South Carolina Democrat Representative Frederick H. Dominick. The engagement implies a united front during the December congressional session in Washington.
New York today reports 39 year old Robert Randolph Ashner of Brooklyn who was to inherit 3 million dollars at age 40 died in a Stuttgart bathtub last week. He toured Germany with his mother, widowed Brooklyn broker’s wife who will receive one fourth of the fortune. One fourth goes to Bertie Fink, his godson, and the remaining half is divided among thirty relatives.
A 34 passenger Commodore seaplane, one of the largest flying boats built in America, was launched by Consolidated Aircraft Company at Burrato N Y. It is the first of twelve ships planned for service linking New York with Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Powered by 575 horsepower twin motors, it can reach speeds up to 130 miles per hour.
Worcester, Sept 28 Mrs Anna Kandart 37 confessed at the police station after throwing a bread knife on the desk saying she had just killed two children The victims were her daughter Ellen 4 and Julia Chipulongis 3 neighbor's child The case follows a fatal incident earlier involving Kandart and a neighbor.
Ramsay MacDonald departs Southampton aboard the Berengaria signaling a new epoch. The voyage is seen as heralding disarmament and a closer Anglo American understanding, with potential shifts in postwar diplomacy and policy.
Ramsay MacDonald sails from Southampton aboard the Berengaria on a mission of peace and unity between Britain and the United States. He aims to narrow the Atlantic gap through personal government contact and disarmament efforts, with his daughter Sheila aboard and fog delaying departure.
In Tokyo a belief is reported that Anglo American cruiser parity is set so high it will drive other nations to build more ships. Japanese officials in London and Washington reportedly want the parity to require no further Japanese cruisers to keep a defensive proportion.
Bern reports Ivar Kreuger arrives as Swedish private lender considers a 150 million dollar loan to the German government in exchange for authorization to develop a German match monopoly under Swedish control. The arrangement would grant Kreuger access to Germany's match market, tying financial aid to monopolistic rights.
Paris reports Georges Clemenceau marked his eighty eighth birthday quietly at a Vendee coast cottage with many messages arriving. In Mineola New York Viola Gentry, who survived a long endurance flight crash, was allowed to sit up in a chair after recovery while copilot Jack Ashcraft died in the crash.
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