Parley Breaks Up Miners May Quit
Atlantic City talks between anthracite operators and miners over a wage contract ended with adjournment subject to the secretary’s call. John L. Lewis warned miners would consider themselves unemployed by September 1 if no agreement is reached. Government intervention was seen as necessary to avert a coal mine shutdown. Washington prepared to renew efforts and draft a report for President Coolidge.
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Atlantic
Associated Press
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Washington
Atlantic City
John Hayes Hammon
Hammond
Coolidge
White House
Commission
Tempe
Gas Well Fire Rages Near Winfield Kansas
A five million foot gas well on the Porter farm six miles east of Winfield caught fire late yesterday from an electrical spark. The blaze destroyed the derrick and endangered workers as oil field crews fought flames with steam, seeking control of one of the region's largest gas finds.
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Winfield
Kans
Porter Farm
One Eye Cars Rally Night Driving Lights War
County officers patrol Fort to Fort road to curb night driving with a single or overly bright headlight. Several motorists were detained and sent to shops to buy new lights. Sheriff Will Johnsig vows strict enforcement, promising arrests until fines are paid or headlights corrected. President and Mrs Coolidge take up residence in the White House in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Will Johns
Fort
White House
Washington
Coolidge
Oklahoma to prevent waste of oil in state action
Oklahoma City, Aug 21. Governor Walton announced the state would curb wasteful crude oil production to prevent depleting oil wealth by dumping on a market flooded with California crude. Details of any action were not specified, but regulatory oversight exists through a conservation officer.
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Oklahoma City
Associated Press
Oklahoma
J. C. Walton
California
Airmail Test Marks New Transcontinental Route
New York Aug 21 planes carrying 24000 special delivery letters and 575 pounds of mail and newspapers began a five day aerial mail express trial from New York to San Francisco. The schedule plans daily hops and a 30 hour westbound time, with night flying limited to Chicago to Cheyenne and Omaha. Airfields at Chicago Iowa City Omaha North Platte and Cheyenne feature powerful beacons and landing guidance as the two planes pass tonight en route to checkpoints.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Aerial Mail
San Francisco
Chicwio
Cheyenne
Omaha
Grand Island
Nebraska
United States
Alleghenies
Rockies
Sierraa
Chicago
Iowa City
North Platte
Free cadet scholarship offers two Kansas path to West Point
Major Sam Clarke announces a Kansas cadet scholarship program open to Lawrence boys with a two year path to Kansas Military Academy Oswego and eventual West Point. One Kansas winner, chosen by Kansas Cadet Committee, must be KS resident, complete high school, obtain three fitness recommendations, and submit an essay on The Ideals of Kansas before Sept 1. Finalists meet Sept 5 for final selection under Col Clade Terry.
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Sam Clarke
Kansas Military Academy
Oswego
Kansas
West Point
Lawrence
Senator Capper
Kansas Cadet Committee
Adjutant General's Office
Topeka
Adjutant General’s Office
Col
Clade Terry
Sinclair President Resigns Amid Time-Devotion Move
Sinclair Oil chief John D. MacMahan resigns today to devote himself to other pursuits. The announcement notes his departure from the presidency of Sinclair Oil and Fampa, with no immediate successor named. The resignation takes effect immediately, prompting a search for interim leadership.
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Sinclair
New York
John D.macmahan
Sinclair Oil and
Fampa
German firms to reveal foreign currency holdings under oath
Berlin and Duesseldorf dispatches report measures to force industrialists banks and commercial bodies to declare foreign currency possession to enable a government defense fund. Officials warn dictatorial steps may be needed to stabilize the mark amid chaos from gold mark wages and prices. French observers note wage disputes in the Ruhr threaten worker flight and unrest among miners and other groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Associated Press
Germany
Pbert
Stresemann
Duesseldorf
Ruhr
Manila in turmoil as ex convict named mayor faces controversy
Manila Aug 21 Associated Press In a sharp clash between American admin and Filipino leaders Manuel Quezon charged Manila mayor E Flagio Rodriguez with a criminal past. Quezon said Rodriguez, ex-convict from Bushid prison, was convicted of conspiracy to abduct a woman and complicity in murder of an American soldier. Rodriguez had been Rizal province governor and became Manila mayor on July 28 after Ramon Fernandez resigned amid a cabinet shakeup.
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Manila
Associated Press
Manual Quezon
Philippine Senate
Washington
E. Flagio Rodriguez
Leonard Won
Bushid
Rodriguez
Rizal
Mayo
Ramon Fernandez
Council of State
Quezon
Perry to gain electric link with Lecompton line
Work began on extending transmission from Kansas Electric Power plant at Lawrence to Lecompton to connect Perry. The Perry light supply will come via Lecompton, relieving Perry from maintaining its own costly plant. Completion expected by early October.
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Kansas Electric Power
Lawrence
Lecompton
Perry
Lawrence Electric Light
Tourists Car Damaged In Route Near Lawrence
A Dodge touring car owned by a California tourist was badly damaged six miles northeast of Lawrence on the fort-to-fort highway this morning when it slipped off the road into a ditch. The driver was uninjured and was headed toward Lawrence. The top was smashed, the body bent, and the windshield broken. The car and occupants were brought to Lawrence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Lawrence
Fort-To-Fort
Rest Room Use At Chamber Summary Surges This Month
Four hundred visitors registered at the Chamber of Commerce community rest rooms this month. Mrs M E Lawrence notes high attendance and expects continued use as locals seek facilities during business hours.
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Chamber of Commerce
French Seize More Dal Mines in Occupied District
Duesseldorf reports three additional coal mines in the Gel senkirchein district seized by the French. The occupation headquarters also announces confiscation of thirty five billion marks in the city. Herr Rudert editor of the communist organ Reicheit arrested after a May 1 inflammatory speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duesseldorf
Gelsenkirchein
Herr Rudert
Reicheit
France sends reply to Curzon note on reparations
Paris reports the government’s reply to the Curzon note will likely provoke a rupture in the entente. French officials doubt Britain’s cabinet will find it conclusive, while Premier Poincare remains unyielding on key issues. A new Allied reparations conference is seen as more likely than separate action toward Germany.
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Paris
Associated’ Press
Marquis Curzon
Poincare
Baldwin
Germany
Governor J M Davis in critical phase of illness
Topeka August 21 Governor J M Davis is in the most critical period of typhoid fever, doctors report. A bulletin notes a restless night with fever ranging from 101 to 104 and a morning temperature around 102 degrees, but says no complications are present and his general condition remains fine given his robust constitution.
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Topeka
J. M. Davis
Raid on Counterfeiters Nabs Six in New York
Federal agents raided the Consolidated Importing & Exporting Company quarters and arrested five men and a woman on counterfeiting charges. They seized samples of revenue stamps whiskey labels and doctors liquor blanks along with several stills 100 gallons of alcohol and a dozen cases of whiskey. The building also served as the Montreal Bottlers Corporation headquarters and the publication hub for the Fuld matrimonial paper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Associated Press
Federal Secret Service
Consolidated Importing & Exporting Company
Consolidated Importing & Exporting Co
Kansas City Veterinarians Visit Lawrence Tour
Members of the Kansas City Veterinary Association and their wives toured Lawrence this afternoon visiting the University and Haskell Institute as key sights. A 6 50 PM dinner at the Chamber of Commerce building followed by a business meeting with papers on recent medical discoveries for veterinarians and related topics.
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Kansas City Association
Lawrence
Kansas City Veterinary Association
Lawrence Association of Veterinarians
University
Haskell Institute
Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence Veterinarians
Journal-World clarifies Truitt Edgar relation error
The Journal-World corrects a report on W. E. Truitt and J. H. Edgar found in the river Sunday. Edgar is Truitt’s son-in-law, not brother-in-law as previously stated. A Rotarian speaker is listed for the Saturday noon meeting at the club.
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Journal-World
W. E. Truitt
J. H.edgar
Mr. Truitt
Mr. Edgar
Full confession ties Gentry to McNutt murder at Salina scene
Al ber Gentry told Sheriff Johns and officers that Kenneth Sullivan killed Nok McNutt during a hold up near Muzzy's Cafe in Lawrence on the night of August 11. Sullivan fled toward Salina after discharging the weapon, while Bateson and Bryant were cleared of complicity but will be witnesses. Bateson owned the revolver used. Gentry faces first degree murder charges with bond set at 10,000, while Bateson and Bryant receive 500 bonds to appear as witnesses.
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Nok McNutt
Alber Gentry
Will Johns
Mitchell
Elhmer Bateson
Bateson
Kenneth Bryant
Kenneth
Sullivan
Lawrence
Gentry
Johns
Byent
Massachusetts Street
Elmer Bateson
Seventh Street
Kansas City
McNutt
Bryant
Gentcy
O'Clock
Salina
Salvia
T Yne
Rhode Island
Graeber
North Lawrence
Salino
A. B. Mitchell
Santa Fe
Henry Smith
Harry Weyermuller
Albert Gentry
R. C. Manley
Justice Mantey
Five Americans killed in Nice bus plunge into river
Five American tourists and a Frenchman died when a sightseeing bus crashed through a parapet on a mountain road near Nice and fell about 100 feet into a river. Eighteen of the twenty‑two passengers were Americans. several injured, including Mr and Mrs Wade R. Coffey of Dexter Kansas.
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Nice
France
Crator
Via
Terson
Newton
Alexander Sondheimer
D. S. White
Charles H. Gray
Gardiner
Maine
W. R. Caffey
Dexter
Kansas
Wade R. Caffey
Coffey
Dexter State Bank
al Spencer
Oklahoma-Kansas
Cammidge
Red Cross
Coffeys
Montreal
Epidemic of infantile paralysis hits Kansas core
Dr. C H Kinnaman, state epidemiologist, reports forty four Kansas polio cases concentrated within 150 miles of the capital. Four additional cases were reported yesterday to Dr. Earle G Brown, city health officer, on August 21, bringing the Topeka area into focus.
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C. H. Kinnaman
Kansas
State Board
Earle G. Brown
Topeka
Approved Mineral Belt Sale by St Louis and SF Railroad
The Interstate Commerce Commission approved the purchase by the St. Louis and San Francisco of the Mineral Belt railroad. The line runs from Joplin to Pitcher Oklahoma. The deal settles ownership and operation under new control.
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St. Louis
The
Inter-State Commerce Commission
San Francisco
Mineral Belt Railroad
Joplin
Pitcher, Okla
County officers busy with tax figures
The county clerk receives levy figures from townships, city officers and school boards. City Clerk Lawrence certified sixty four pages of figures on special tax levy for paying, sewers and more, plus eleven pages on the general tax levy. Cooperation from city, township, drainage and school district officers is strong as levies come in on time.
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Lawrence
Check on Movies Le Louis Theaters Across Southwest
The government started auditing motion picture theatres in the southwest and parts of the Mississippi valley showing feature films on a percentage basis to detect fraud or tax avoidance. Officials received suspicions from film exchanges about discrepancies in records, noting features drew large city crowds yet underperformed in smaller towns and possibly yielded little revenue compared to low rent clean films.
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LE Louis
Associated Press
Southwest
Mississippi Valley
Internal Revenue Department
Employment Decline in July Across Industries
Washington reports July employment fell 1.8 percent from June in 6749 firms across 51 manufacturing industries. Wages rose 4.7 percent but total wages show a decline. Average weekly earnings for 2,353,258 workers dropped 2.9 percent. Seasonal factors blamed. Thirty-one industries up, twenty-nine down.
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Washington
Department of Labor
Hog Cholera In Midland County Returns
Hog cholera appears in Midland County again this summer. Twenty two hogs owned by A F Leary near Midland are sick with the cholera. He owns about forty hogs. Few hog owners vaccinated the herd recently. Veterinarians say this is the worst time of year for the disease.
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A. F. Leary
Midland
Two Firemen Die as Brooklyn Hall Collapses
Two firemen were killed when the roof and a wall collapsed at the New Plaza Hall in Brooklyn during a blaze. Forty seven people were injured as rescue teams battled intense heat amid hours of debris removal in the Williamsburg landmark once tied to political battles and a Masonic hall.
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New York
Associated Press
Brooklyn
Williamsburg
Guards Withdrawn as Two Guard Companies Go Home
Two National Guard companies assigned to protect the American Zinc Co plant at Taylor Springs depart for home after serving since August 11. The withdrawal follows a near riot triggered by a strike at the plant in the Taylor Springs area near Hillsboro and Fil.
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Taylor Springs, Fil
Hillsboro
National
Fair Board Inspected Grounds at Woodland Park
The Douglas County fair board met this afternoon for grounds inspection and to finalize plans for the fair opening next week. Changes are planned in several departments before the event.
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Douglas County Fair Board
Woodland Park
Wanted at Salina Walter Williams Held by County Officers
A colored man named Walter Williams is being held by county officers for Salina sheriff on an unknown charge. The notice provides limited details and lists no further information on the offense or custody status.
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Salina
Walter Williams
Young Co Given Paving Contract In City Session
The city commission approved a bonding ordinance for four paving projects totaling 523,349.44 and awarded seven more projects to A R Young & Co. The firm will pave Illinois, Michigan, Twenty-First Street segments, an 800 block alley, and Johnson avenue area. A push for a reward in the Roy McNutt murder failed as the city has no authority to offer one. The panel noted a needed street light on the southeast corner of South Park. The commission planned to reconvene Friday to fix the coming year’s tax levy due by Saturday.
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City Commission
New Hampshire Street
Seventeenth Street
Twenty-Third Street
Nineteenth Street
Massachusetts Street
Fourteenth Street
New York Street
New Jersey Street
Twenty-Second Street
A. R., Young & Co
Young Company
Illinois Street
Third
Fourth
Michigan
Fifth
Twenty- First Street
New Hampshire
Barker Avenue
Massachusetts
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Ohio
Streek
Johnson Avenue
Barker T Learnard
Society For the Advancement of the Colored Race
Roy McNutt
Cornier
South Park
Big Picnic At Eudora Draws Civic Crowd
The annual Eudora picnic at the city park will feature Attorney General Q B Griffith speaking in the afternoon. A platform dance and carnival events provide evening amusement. Basket dinners are served at noon and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce urges members to attend and meet neighbors.
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Eudora C. P. A
Fadora
Q. B. Griffith
Chamber of Commerce
of Lawrence
Eudora
Lawrence
Typhoid Fever Cases Reported in Lawrence
Three cases of typhoid fever have been reported to Dr. A W Clark superintendent of the city health department. Another case suspected. Dr Clark urges inoculation and says city water supply not responsible for the cases. Tax warrants out tomorrow for delinquent 1922 second-half taxes.
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Lawrence
A. W. Clark
City Health Department
Clark
Rankin Improves at Excelsior Springs After Illness
Paul Rankin advertising manager for the Journal World is recuperating at Excelsior Springs showing marked improvement. He was visited Sunday by Mrs Rankin and Mrs Simons and Dolphy Simons.
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Rankin
Paul Rankin
The
Journal-World
Excelsior Springs
Bodge Coupe Stolen From Doctor Esterly Office
A Dodge coupe owned by Dr. G. A. Esterly was stolen yesterday afternoon around 3 o clock from in front of his office at 801 Massachusetts street. The incident occurred in broad daylight and police are investigating leads.
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Parley
Coal
Manes
Agents Continental Flight
U. Slail
Australia
Tigi Bank
Tawi Tawi Island
Philippines
Kansas Electric Power &Co
DAVIS
Secret Service
Iede
M’nutt
Kenneth Sullivan
Arkansas Street
Nick Sullivan
Clears Bateson and
Riviera
Fopera ‘Paralysis Center
State ‘Health Board
Internal Revenue
Labor Department
Henry
Health Department
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