Tornado sweeps Naples section. four dead, many injured
Naples August 14 AP government figures report four dead, seventy to eighty injured, and six dying after a tornado swept the agricultural district of Maples on Assumption Eve. Firemen and police cleared wreckage at Romeo aeronautical works as crowds crowded hospitals.
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Naples
Italy
Telice
Carabineers
Romeo Aeronautical Works
Viliceomen
Rome
Ascales
Gandhi Asks Britain’s Intentions for India
In Poona India Gandhi press his question to British authorities asking for assurances of India's future before he commits to abandoning the independence campaign. The Yerada jail conference adjourned for a day after two hours of debate as leaders Tej Bhhandur Saura and Jayakar arrive with Sarojini and prominent volunteers in attendance.
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Poona
India
Yerada
Mahatma Gandhi
Tej Bhandur Saura
Jayakar
Mahatma
Sarojini
Motilal
Aa Yadee Nebru
Vallabhail Atel
Laura Ingalls Sets Two Aviation Records At Lambert Field
Miss Laura Ingalls 25 of New York broke two aviation marks at Lambert Field in St. Louis. She completed 714 consecutive barrel rolls surpassing Dale Jackson by 297 and exceeding the previous women’s record by 647. Five observers witnessed the feat as she trains at Lambert Field and holds a transport pilot license.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Laura Ingalls
New York
Lambert St. Louis Field
Ingalls
Dale Jackson
Betty Lund Bala
Betty Lund Bala. Five Official Observers Watched Miss Ingalls
Miss Ingalls
Lambert-St. Louis Field
Ithin
No Rain Fails to Reach Neodesha Deserted Oasis Area
In Neodesha Kansas a rainless season leaves sections of land desertlike with no measurable precipitation since June. Official temperatures peaked at 110 degrees yesterday with a 92 degree midnight reading, marking the warmest night of the summer and a twenty degree spread from last Monday's coolest day. Only twenty days since June 1 did not reach 100 plus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kanade
Altho
Mother Kills Bridegroom in Philadelphia
In West Philadelphia Elizabeth Attillio, 40, shot and killed James Cassidy, 48, when he arrived to announce his marriage to her 18-year-old daughter Rose. The girl stood nearby as Cassidy collapsed. Cassidy had been boarding at Attillio’s home for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Elizabeth
Attillio
James Cassidy
Rose
Cassidy
Atillio
Turks Defeat Kurdish Rebels in Major Engagement
Turkish government troops clashed with Kurdish rebels in the Ighdir district near Angora. After several hours of fighting the Kurds were defeated, leaving about sixty dead. Ottoman forces planned continued actions around Mount Ararat with aims to crush the resisting tribes. Desperate Kurdish attacks near Ararat were reported as the campaign intensified.
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Angora
Turkey
Ighdir
Mount Arar
Ararat
R. C. T. C. Grads
Captain to Find Men Qualified to Receive Commissions
Captain L. J. Dillon of the U S Army Ordinance Department will visit Kansas City to interview University of Kansas engineering and ROTC graduates employed in Kansas City factories. Major W C Koenig confirms the interviews aim to identify men with proper qualifications to receive commissions in the Ordinance reserve for wartime munition plant supervision and inspection roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. J. Dillon
U. S. Army Ordinance Department
St. "Louis
Kansas City
University of Kansas
W. C. Koenig
University
Department of War
Two March to Death Cell Echoes From Condemned Row
At San Quentin eight condemned inmates mocked the hangings of John Gomes and George Ryley with a college yell parody. Gomes and Ryley, both in their early twenties, were slated for execution the next day for robbing taxi driver George Jones of 28.10 dollars. The condemned inmates in the row shouted a taunting chant about the rope breaks while the pair walked to the death cells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College Yell
San Quentin
Cal
John Gomes
George Ryley
George “Dad” Jones
Gordon Stewart Northscott
Los Angeles
Kansas Guard field problem at Fort Riley involving infantry and cavalry units
Junction City reporters note a Kansas national guard field problem on the Fort Riley reservation this morning before the state military committee. Gov candidate Frank W. Haucke led a delegation from Council Grove and Graves and camp members last night and will return home today.
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Junction City
Kan
Kansas National Guard
Fort Riley
Kansas State Military Committee
Frank Ev Ers
Haucke
Council, Graves
Way Out West at Varsity Delivers Laughs and Laughs
The film features William Haines as a carny sharp who is chased by cowhands through his ranch while theft comes under pressure. Leila Hyams Polly Moran and Clift Edwards co star as the laughs keep coming to the end. Accidents Will Happen and All Quiet on the Western Front shots headline the bill for next week starting Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Haines
Haines
Leila Hyams
Polly Moran
Clift Edwards
Otlan
Western Front
Varsity
Deaths and Funerals in Brief
Miss Hannah Anderson formerly of Haskell Institute died in Boston Massachusetts. Funeral arrangements for Mrs Phila Lescher 67 of 1157 Connecticut Street are pending with services to be held at Rumsey funeral home and burial in Oak Hill Cemetery. The notice lists surviving nieces Mrs M L Fr Ghat of Kansas City and Mrs Alex M Robertson of Lawrence along with Tulsa relatives.
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Mise Hannah Anderson
Hannah Anderson
Haskell Institute
Boston
Mass
Swe
McPherson
Misa Anderson
Phila Leacher
Phila Lescher
Connecticut Street
Rumsey
Oak Hill Cemetery
Indchil Diem
May Lindgren
Eran
May Kathleen Wilson
Philip C Wilson
Tulsa
M. L
Milk strike hits Kansas City area dairy supply
Organized pasteurized milk producers strike for a check off system and arbitration. A 12 hour notice followed by gunfire damaged a 2000 gallon thermos tank bound for market as driver Chester Collins reported shots were fired on a highway 22 miles south of Kansas City. The Pure Milk Producers Association seeks five cents per 100 pounds of milk and remittance via invoice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Chester Collins
Here
Pure Milk Producers Association
Legis Group
City Health Department
E Producers Association
Alata li Lil
Criss Simpson Named Musical Director for Trinity Lutheran
Trinity Lutheran Church announces G Criss Simpson will serve as organist and music director for the coming season. He renews his post at the University fine arts faculty and will succeed Lee S Greene. Simpson plans a choir of over thirty voices and invites interested singers to contact Mrs Frank Endacott at 943 Ohio. He is currently guest organist at Grand Avenue Temple in Kansas City.
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Trinity Lutheran Church
G. Criss Simpson
Simpson
Tnis
France
The
Lutheran Church
Lee S.greene
Ohio
Grand Avenue Temple
Kansas City
Election of Officera for Liberty Post Tonight
Post members prepare for annual officer election at the Liberty Post of the American Legion with a full slate by the nominating committee. Delegates and alternates to the department convention at Emporia are chosen, and the Labor Day observance may affect attendance. Card of Thanks expresses gratitude for kindness shown after Jane Schirmer’s death.
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Liberty
American Legion
Emporia Septembe
Ae Jane Schirmer
Schirmer
Geo. Schirmer
Ma Ay
Joe Schirmer
Antone Schirmer
John Balivan
Federal Agents Seek Liquor In Maze Of Passages
New York August 14 AP agents hunted for liquor links between a west Twenty Sixth Street storage warehouse and the Phoenix brewery at 441 west Twenty Fifth Street. They found ten empty vats and a hidden pipe yielding beer before the flow stopped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Prohibition
West Twenty Sixth Street
Phoenix Brewery
West Twenty Fifth Street
Martin Hanson
Phoenix Beverage Company
Globe girdler plans London departure for round-the-world bid
John Henry Mears and pilot Henry J. Brown announce a ten day sail to London to fly a moth plane across Russia and Siberia to test conditions for a 1941 world flight. They recently returned by ship from Harbor Grace Newfoundland after a crash on August 3 while departing for Dublin.
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New York
John Henry Mears
Globe Girdler
Henry J. Brown
Cleveland
London
Russia
Siberia
Mears
Brown
Harbor Grace
New Foundland
Dublin
Pony Express Hawks Trip Demonstrates Transcontinental Feasibility
Capt Frank Hawks told the Advertising Club luncheon that his Glendale Calif to Roosevelt Field New York flight in 12 hours 25 minutes with three refueling stops proves a coast to coast pony express airline is feasible. The goal is rapid document delivery rather than speed records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Frank Hawks
Yestead
Advertising Club
Glendale
Calif
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Youthful talent shines at Kiwanis luncheon program
The Kiwanis club luncheon featured nine young performers from member families. Stanton Kreider played piano while Mary Dalton Jane and Walter Ingham performed cello with Mildred Ingham on piano, Virginia Hosford on violin, and Betty Brown accompanying. All numbers drew hearty applause from Kiwanis members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis Club
Kiwanis
Stanton Kreider
Mary Dalton
Jane
Walter Ingham
Mildred Ingham
Virginia Hosford
Betty Brown
Manuel Herrick Represented Himself at Maryland Hearing
Manuel Herrick former Oklahoma congressman acted as his own attorney at a Maryland hearing tied to his arrest last week while working at a still in St. Marys County as a $15 a week handyman. He was held for a federal district court trial under $1500 bond. Herrick has been jailed since his arrest and no bond plan appeared likely. Two men arrested with him were held under $1000 bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Manuel Herrick
Oklahoma
St. Mary’s County
Maryland
Norris expends 2600 in Nebraska Senate bid
United States Senator George W Norris reported a campaign expenditure of 2600 for the Nebraska Republican senatorial nominating race. He said all but 228 came from out of state donors. The report also notes large contributions linked to national figures including Mrs Gifford Pinchot and Senator Bronson H Cutting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
Neb
United States
George W. Norris
W. M. Stebbins
Nebraska
Gifford Pinchot
Philadelphia
Bronson H. Cutting
New Mexico
Personal Notes and Legal News from August
Personal items report Mr and Mrs L N Lewis and Judge and Mrs Hugh Means leaving Thursday for Buena Vista Colorado for several weeks. An Iowa public service probe into intra state salt freight rates accompanies a national interstate commerce commission inquiry. In Bombay the war council of the provincial congress opposes peace talks. In Czechoslovakia Bishop Mrzena was found guilty of conspiring to divert sacramental wine to bootleg use.
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L. N. Lewis
Hugh
Buena Vista
Colo
Topeka
State Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Comission
Bombay
War Council
Bombay Provincial Congress Committee
Vevoda
Mahatma Gan
Gailty
New York
Charles Mrzena
Non-Unionists Hit Welders on Oil Pipeline Work Attack
In St Louis on August 14, 25 non union welders were attacked by around 200 union supporters along a 25 mile oil pipeline route from Tulsa to God River. Five seriously beaten. The incident follows a union threat to halt work near Missouri Point at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers.
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St. Louis
Tulsa
Okla
God River
Ill
Missouri Point
Missouri
Misssissippi
Remarkable case won by Konjola Mrs Sturgess shares cure
Mrs Charles Sturgess of Joplin recalls ten years of illness with stomach pain constipation vomiting and rheumatism. After two operations and wasting away she began Konjola and reports full recovery gaining weight and no more swelling. Konsola is sold in Lawrence Kansas and by local druggists in nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Sturgess
Konjola
Hill Street
Joplin
Lawrence
Kansas
Eldridge
Wet plan for prohibition repeal urged at state conventions
Three anti prohibition groups the Crusaders the Association Against the 18th Amendment and the Women s Organization for National Prohibition Reform join to press a wet plank at the Illinois Republican and Democratic conventions in Springfield next week. They seek state control of liquor repeal of the Volstead act and Jones law a national referendum and federal regulation of interstate liquor traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Springfield
Crusaders
Association Against
Women’s Organization For National Prohibition Reform
Hearing in Prison Sheds Light on Billings Plea
In Folsom California, six justices of the state supreme court will hear Warren K. Billings plea for a pardon inside a prison court chamber. The unprecedented proceeding will start after the prison population is secured for the night.
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California
Billings
Folsom Prison
Cal
Warren K. Billings
State Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Calfornia
Folsom
Floods Drown Thousands as 1000 Villages Flooded in China
Reports from Peiping say 3,000 Chinese have drowned in the Fuichungshien district about 40 miles north of Shan haikuan. Heavy rains flooded 1,000 villages along the Mukden railway, causing widespread damage and washing out the line.
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Peiping
Fuichungshien
Shanhaikuan
Mukden
Prairie Oil declares 50 cent dividend in Sept payment
Prairie Oil and Gas announces a dividend of 50 cents per share payable September 30 to stockholders of record August 30. The Kansas company issues the cash return as part of its fiscal distribution program.
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Prairie Oil
Independence
Kan
Prairie Oil & Gas Company Today
Fall Leaf Social Notes From Fall Oak
Fall leaf summaries of local families in Fall Oak include visits among Longacres Koerners Kirkmans Canarys and Canaries. Kansas City visitors Violet James Frank Kirkman and Eugene Norris with son Billie are noted along with school plans for Manhattan and Topeka. Local youth groups and church meetings are referenced, plus potato gigging and community visits around Lone Star Linwood and Midland.
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Ray Longacre
Wilma
Trula
Louie Koerner
Lone Star
Lawrence
Violet James
Kansas City
Frank Kirkman
Albert Wallace
Versailles
Vivian
Bonnie Jean
Clarence Canary
Manhattan
Canarys
Topeka
Nolan Guffey
Wilma Longacre
Edmund Koerner
Alice Wallace
Darlene
Jim Pritchard
Bobbie
Elsie Kirkman
Mary Alice Branum
Truta
Lee Moulton
Neva
Iowa
Linwood
Harve Schellack
Eudora
Falloat
Darlin Kindred
John Canary
Midland
Eugene Norris
Billie
Real Estate Transfers and Falls in Political Race
Real estate transfers include Daniel Heffner to George W. Jones a tract in section 1-13-19 and Cruse and husband to M A Gorrill Lot 45 and the north six feet of lot 43 on Bridge Street North Lawrence. Former Legislator Dead MacPherson Aug 14 AP Galle former state legislator and judge died at 70 after illness. Murray Leads Oklahoma Governor Primary by Nearly 95 000 Votes with 220 220 to 126 348. Former Soviet Official Shot in Berlin M Gurevitz former director of a petroleum syndicate in Latvia shot while attempting to cross the frontier.
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Daniel Heffner
George W. Jones
G ‘Cruse
M. ‘A. “Gorrill
Bridge Street
Lawrence
MacPhersoran
P. G. Galle
F Tae
Eyne
Halstead Way
Murray
Oklahoma City
W. H. Murray
Frank Buttram
Buttram
Berlin
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
M. Gurevitz
Iet ‘Petroleum Syndicate
Latvia
Russia
Canary Family and Relatives Gather in Local Visits
Local residents Mrs Mary McBride and son Roy shipped sheep to Kansas City last week. Q C Canary and daughter Vivian visited his mother Mrs McBride en route to Topeka. Vivian Canary will stay two weeks. Several other relatives including Bonnie Dablin Kindred and Miss Vivian Canary attended social events at Villa Eden school house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary McBride
Dablin Kindred
Bonnie
Jean Canary
Kansas City
George Adair
Q. C. Canary
Vivian
Topeka
Vivian Canary
Bowers
Francis Hohensch
Bonnie Jean Canary
Villa Eden
Roy
Clarence Canary
Roy Canary
Liberty bonds and market quotes from New York trade
Auction notes show Liberty bonds with prices and yields as of August 4. The list includes Liberty 4s, Liberty 3s and related Treasury issues with varying prices such as 102.30 and 103, reflecting market activity amid a mixed bonds session.
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New York
Liberty Age
Liberty Fleet
Liberty
Om Treasury
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All ‘Poplar’ Fia
Pei EH
Popilar Fia
Harold Olliphant
Prairie Avenue
Jiguoria
Eugene Clemens
Royston Turner
Charice Tains Oeent Peterson
George Atkeron
Criss Simpson
Officera
Eee
Bow
Varia
Neel
AD. Poplar
New
Pony Express
Hawks
Norris
George F. Ewald
Illinois
WM. Haines
Leila Hyams, Polly Moran
Cliff Edwards
Paul Cavanagh
William Boyd
Iez
Langdon McCormick
NEWS
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Copeland
Olson Bros
Schubert Funeral Home Ambulance
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