Graf Zeppelin completes long Tokyo leg in 101 hours
Graf Zeppelin circles Tokyo and Yokohama then lands at Kasumigaura naval airport after 101 hours 53 minutes aloft covering about 6500 miles. The German airship, on a round the world tour begun in Lakehurst, heads toward Los Angeles next, with 40 crew and 20 passengers aboard including Lady Grace Drummond Hay.
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Tokyo
Los Angeles
Lakshurst
Friedrichshafen
Hugo Eckener
Grace Drummond Hay
Baron Ehrenfeld
Kasumigaura
Eckener
Takarabe
Kasumigaura Naval Airport
Graf
Yokohama
Weather forecast and regional conditions in Kansas
Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday with possible thunderstorms and cooler conditions in the northwest. Morning weather and roads show clear conditions in Wichita and Ottawa, rain last night in Emporia, clouds in Coffeyville and Selina, and partly cloudy areas in Pittsburg with generally good roads except muddy in Emporia and dusty in Arkansas City. Douglas county roads reported as good with temperatures ranging from 60 to 72 degrees.
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Kansas
Yeas
Wichita
Ottawa
Emporia
Coffeyville
Selina
Pittsburg
Arkansas City
Fair Coffeyville
Around the World Log of the Graf Zeppelin
The Graf Zeppelin completes a lap around the world covering 6,500 miles in 101 hours 53 minutes with stops from Lakehurst to Kasumigaura airport. The log records dates from August 1 to August 19 including landings over Friedrichshafen Berlin Moscow and Tokyo and entries near Saghalien Hokkaido and the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Vyatka
Moscow
Kizel
Urals
Tokyo
Yakutski
Asia
Fort of Ajan
Sea of Okotsk
Saghalien
Gulf of Tartary
Mororan
Hokkaido
Japan
Shio- Igama
Rikuten Prefecture
Kasumi Raura
Naval Airdrome
Kasumigaura
Sino-Russian clashes intensify on Manchurian border
Reports from Peiping and Mukden indicate minor clashes between Russian and Chinese forces on the Manchurian frontier. Officials question the claim of 10,000 invading troops, awaiting confirmation. Chinese mobilization increases as 100,000 troops are pledged from Manchurian brigades across Fengtien Kirin and Heilongking.
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Peiping
Manchurian
Manchuria
Mukden
Harbin
Manchuli
Fnday
Chihese
Tokyo
Rengo
Manchuri
Shanghai
Fengtien
Kirin
Heilungking
Kuomin
Prosecutor Probes Dad Carey Safe Box In Murder-Arson Case
Kansas City dispatch reports County Prosecutor James R. Page intends to study a safe deposit box opened tomorrow linked to Dad M Carey Jr who killed himself Friday before his indictment for first degree murder in Reninechinn arson plot that allegedly killed three firemen. Funeral services for Carey were held this afternoon.
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Kansas City
James R. Page
Dad M. Carey, Jr
Reninechinn
Carey
Denver Man Falls From Longs Peak Likely Dead
Charles W. Thiemeyer of Denver plunged about 15000 feet to probable death from Broadway ledge on Longs Peak while ascending the east face. Dr and Mrs Arthur Stacher of Boulder, companions marooned on a narrow ledge, were rescued today after spending the night stranded.
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Denver
Charles W. Thiemeyer
Broadway Ledge
Long's Peak
Arthur Stacher
Boulder
Colo
Theiemeyer
Effort to Dry Up South Kansas Border
Independence Aug 19 AP Another push by state and federal officials to close liquor sales and gambling dens in South Coffeyville Oklahoma today led to 13 charges against four men believed to be involved. The suspects fled a few yards toward Oklahoma, with Oklahoma officers pursuing alleged violators who ran toward the north.
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Independence
Kay
Derby Leader Notch Injured In Santa Monica Air Derby
News from Phoenix Yuma Bernardino and San Bernardino report women aviators in the Santa Monica Cleveland air derby. Amelia Earhart overshot a landing in Yuma, a propeller broken but she was unhurt and planned to resume toward Phoenix. Eighteen contestants began the race in Santa Monica with a protest over Calexico landing rights resolved for takeoff checks.
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Yuma
Ariz
Santa Monica
San Bernardino
Phoebe Omile
Memphis
Terin
Bobbie Trout
Los Angeles
Claire Fahy
Ken Rasch
Germany
Edith Foltz
Portland
Ore
Keith Miller
New Zealand
Florence Barnes
San Marino
Cal
Marvel Crésson
San Diego
Blanche Noyes
Cleveland
Ohio
Louise Yhaden
Pittsburgh Pa
Ruth Nichols
Rye
Gladys O’donnell
Long Beach
Ruth Elder
Margaret Perry
Opal Kunz
New York City
Amelia Earhart
Boston
Neva Paris
Great Necks
N. Y
Mary von Mack
Detroit
Montebello
Netherton Case Moves to Douglas County for New Trial
The Netherton murder case shifts venue from Olathe to Lawrence as Dr S O Netherton seeks a second trial likely in February for the first degree murder of his wealthy wife Judge G A Roberts. No opposition from the Johnson county attorney. Netherton previously was convicted and sentenced to life, but the verdict was reversed by the state supreme court and he remains free on bond.
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Olathe
Kan
Lawrence
May revive V F W post in Lawrence
Lester H. Anderson national deputy chief of staff of the Veterans of Foreign Wars visited Lawrence last Friday. He travels from Fremont Neb to Kansas City visiting posts and towns with former VFW posts. He plans to return to Lawrence in September to discuss reviving the local post with former members.
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Lester’ H. Anderson
The
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Lawrence
Mr. Anderson
Fremont
Neb
Kansas City
Kansas
Railroad Employee Killed in Santa Fe Engine Explosion
An oil burning engine exploded in the Santa Fe yards at Oklahoma City injuring and killing railroad worker S nN Shaeffer 36 of Arkansas City Kan. He died at the scene and his body to be buried. Survived by widow and three children. The cause of the blast was not at once determined.
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Rnones City
Okla
Nn Shaeffer
Arkansas
Ls Kan
Santa Fe
Shaeffer
Arkansas City
Buck Jones and Horses Seized After Show in Kansas City
State court writs attach Buck Jones and his horses, including Silver, after a note for 183.40 plus costs totaling about 2000 dollars drew a lawsuit from C. L. Reed of Kansas City. Officers pursued and found the animals near the circus grounds after a chase that ended with the horses brought to Cummings barn in Lawrence.
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Charles “Buck” Jones
Douglas County
Silver
Jones
Vermont Street
D. F. Pil
Kansas City
Pilchard
Robbins, Brothers Circus
Shipley
Lawrence
Senate opens with three day recesses after summer break
Sixty four Douglas county teachers join opening day at Lawrence Memorial high school as they plan lessons on general methods, physical education, hygiene, and literature with a banquet at Eldridge hotel. In Washington the Senate reconvenes with tariff work pending and three day recesses until September 4. President Hoover silent on recess nominations as the finance committee continues tariff revisions. VISIT UNIVERSITY CAMPUS.
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Douglas County
Lawrence Memorial High School
Eldridge Hotel
Merchants Bureau
Douglass County Parent Teachers’ Association
Washington
Senate
House
Finance Committee
Curtis
Hoover
Farm Board
Watson
Indiana
Five Oklahoma youths to join Kansas university football and baseball programs
C C Custer, famed Kansas baseball star, and five Bartlesville high school athletes toured the campus with Dr Forrest Allen and coach H W Hargiss. The group will enroll at K U next fall. The players are Tom O'Neill Preston Cole LeRoy Barter Frank McGuire and Leighton Frank.
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C. C. Custer
University of Kansas
Bartlesville
Okla
Dr. Forrest
C. Allen
H. W. Hargiss
K. U
Tom O'Neill
Preston Cole
LeRoy Barter
Frank McGuire
Leighton Frank
Phillies Triumph In Twin Bill As Smythe Shuts Pirates
In Philadelphia Aug 19 AP Harry Smythe left handed recruit from Asheville held Pirates hitless through four innings and the Phillies won 7 6 in the opener and 7 ? The doubleheader featured strong pitching by Smythe and Kremer in the second game with Pittsburgh scoring late but Philadelphia pulling away.
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Harry Smythe
Asheville
Pirates
Hota
Phillies
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Phila
Petty
Hill
Swetonic
Hargreaves
Benge
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Smythe
Lerian
Kremer
French
Grimes
Helmsley
Sweetland
Davis
Forgotten pioneers claim early explosion engine car
AP dispatch recalls Edouard Delamare-Deboutteville and Semon Malandain as early creators of an explosion engine vehicle in 1883 Rouen. The pair reportedly ran a buggy with a gas line to the motor, shocking spectators as their improvised gasoline engine powered the car for a time.
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Rouen
Automobile ‘Club
Norandy
Mipdouard
Delamare-Deboutteville
Sean Maladain
Mae
Karen
Lerane
Moose Lodge Convention Opens in Detroit With Plans for Wales Village
Delegates from 112 British Moose lodges join U S representatives in Detroit for the forty first annual supreme lodge convention. James J Davis presided at the merit degree meeting and British delegates were welcomed at a banquet. Plans were announced for a Moosechild city near Cardiff similar to Mooseheart Illinois. Pledges totaling 325000 were raised toward a Mooseheart boys village for ages eight to twelve.
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Detroit
Moose Lodges
United States
Great Britain
Supreme Lodge of the World
Book- Cadillac Hotel
Pilgrims
James J. Davis
Order
Wales
Cardiff
Mooseheart
Ill
FINE WOMAN DRIVER Fined For Drunkenness In Kansas City
Mrs Ruth Brown a slight blond was fined 500 for drunkenness after police testified she crashed into a parked car in Kansas City Aug 19 She refused to pay and faces a year at Municipal Farm The large fine marked as the heaviest ever imposed on a woman motorist in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Ransac
City
Ruth Brown
Kansas
Kansas University Honor Rolls Announced Today
Honor rolls for freshman sophomore and junior classes in the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts were announced by Dean J. G. Brandt. Freshman list contains seventy two names, sophomores sixty two, juniors fifty four. The lists reflect less than 10 percent of enrolled students and include many students from Lawrence Topeka Kansas City and other cities.
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Sopho
College’ of Liberal Arts
University of Kansas
J. G. Brandt
College of Liberal Arts
Richard Barber
Lawence
Beck
Holton
Mary Bennett
Elsia Benyshek
Cuba
Mabel Such
Topeka
Lucille Blufodski
City
Margaret Boltonworth
Gladys Burdick
Elizabeth Buxton
Kansas City
Doothy Christensen
Junction City
Kennet Crumrine
Lawrence
Samuel Daykin
Taylorville
Irom. Evans
Salina
Fred Fleming
Emporia
Eleanor Gottlieb
Pleasanton
Fritz S Kirwin
Opal Greene
Mankat
Once Gregg
Arthur
Hal Ellinwood
Ethel Hardin
Elizabeth Hoffmar
Ottawa
Howard Holt
Uniontown
Virsel Marie
Holt
Ethel Horndale
Paola
Katherine Hosford
Stanley Humphrey
Eskridge
George Hurd
Abilene
Doris Huston
Denver
Colo
Marvin Johnson
McPherson
Milford Johnson
St. Francis
Margaret Johnston
Laura Judd
Raymond Kell
Anne Kent
Vivian Kershner
Barbara Kesterm
Mary Kreamer
Beloit
John LaDuex
Stilwell
Ruth Laing
Ames
Kan
Tasgaret
Horace Santry
Ellsworth
Bessie
Schesser
Norton
Murray Schwartz
Clarice Short
Glenn Smith
Wagan
Glen Sorat
Augusta
Viranes
Jon Wiliams Lawrence
Mary Williams
Kas
Mildred Wismer Wilson
Pontana
Earl Woodford
Ottumwa
Iowa
Clinton Young
Farm Board Plans Aid To Cotton Growers
Washington reports the federal farm board tentatively agreed to make financial advances to cotton cooperative associations to assist in moving this year's crop. The move follows conferences with the American cotton growers exchange. Carl Williams of Oklahoma, a cotton representative on the board, said the action is exactly what the cotton growers want and that the board is ready to go as far as needed on this basis.
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Washington
Federal Farm Board
American Cotton Growers Exchange
Carl Williams
Oklahoma
Local youths test motorless glider on university grounds
Lawrence two youths Earl Brown and Harold White built a motorless glider at their homes and tested it behind the university engineering building. A downhill skid momentarily failed to lift, causing two minor cracks to the skid and support. No major damage occurred, and another flight attempt is planned. Brown works at Fritz Tire Co and White at the university buildings department.
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Lawrence
Earl Brown
Maine Street
Harold White
Alabama Street
Brown
White
Fritz Tire Company
Department
Debated Tariff Bill Faces Delays in Washington
The House tariff measure with hundreds of rate changes advances after Republican senators submit it to eight Democratic committee members. It remains unreleased until tomorrow and full Senate debate shifts to September 4 under a recess plan. Democratic members, kept out of the room during public hearings, will compare rates with House versions before floor fighting begins. Mrs. Lindy to be pilot.
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Washinton
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
Democratic Committee
House
Lindy
Lone Eagle Teaches Bride to Fly in Hicksville
The Lone Eagle guides his bride Mrs. Iles A Lindbergh through a one hour flying lesson at a local aviation country club. She did not control the aircraft while Col Lindbergh demonstrated practice takeoffs and landings for her.
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Hicksville
N. Y
Lone Eagle
Iles A. Lindbergh
Ova
Hastened search for switch tamperer in Henryetta crash
Henryetta Oklahoma August 19 AP officers seek the person who opened a switch blamed for a collision that sent 13 people to their deaths. A tampered lock from the switch was found about 1000 yards from the wreck site as fingerprints were sought.
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Henryetta
Okla
St. Louis
City dads deny s zoning petitions near Thir teenth and Massachusetts
City commission denies two rezoning requests for W. Metcalf place and A Enlow property near 13th and Massachusetts. Corner lot remains in residential zone with decision due next week after planning commission recommendation upheld, while Park grocery remains in place under current rules. Michigan street paving petition referred to utilities commissioner.
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Thirteenth
Massachusetts
City Commission
W. 5
Metcalf Place
A. Enlow
Park Grocery
Commission
City Planning Commission
Planning Commission
Metcalf
Enlow
the Park Grocery
Walter Thiele
Alberta Thurber
Whic Mu Enlow
C. A. Smart
Himself
J. J. Simmons
Massachusetts Street
Lutheran Church
Thiele
Smart
Michigan Street
J. L. Constant
Runaway Horse Dash Down Vermont Street
A runaway horse caused by a broken hold back strap dashed along Vermont Street from Seventh to Tenth this morning around 8:30. No injuries or damages occurred as bystanders and locals including rs. A. W. Beer and William Hayter helped restrain the horse with assistance from George Mandeville and Officer Vogler.
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Vermont Street
William Hayter
Mandeville
Agnes Beer
Harold
Where Even Dry Is Wet Name Fails to Protect Against Beer
A Chicago police report describes a call to the Desplaines Street station after a caller accused Albert Dry of running a beer operation. Detectives visited his place amid hints of a beer flat and “this is a dry place” claims, with Dry quipping that anyone who doubts it is “all wet.”
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Chicago
Desplaines Street
Albert Dry
British to begin Rhineland evacuation September 1
The Hague report states British soldiers will start leaving the Rhineland on September 1. Foreign Minister Stresemann and French Premier Briand held talks on the Rhineland during the day but produced no clear agreement on the third zone or final liquidation.
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Hague
Rhineland
Stresemann
Cormand
Briand
Fra
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