Hoover greeted by Bolivian party in Antofagasta
President elect Hoover aboard the Maryland is greeted by Bolivian acting foreign representatives in Antofagasta Chile. Alberto Palacios delivers a brief address praising U.S.-Bolivia friendship. The visit includes a luncheon aboard the Maryland and an exchange of salutes before the ship sails to Valparaiso en route to Santiago and Buenos Aires.
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Hoover
Antofagasta
Chile
Dee
Maryland
Det Hoover
Latin America
Mr. Hoover
Bolli
United States
Fortign
Alberto Palacios
Hernando Siles
Tives
Hoovde
Antogagasta
Bolivia
Hloover
Simon Wholivard
South
America
George
Antofafrasta
Valparaiso
Santiago
Buenos Aires
Accident Witness Reports Serious Ottawa Crash Near Lawrence
Dr J T Kennedy of Blue Mound traveling to Lawrence witnessed a serious automobile crash just north of Ottawa. He aided the injured, who included a family of four tourists and two men. the driver of a large Studebaker touring car and two others were seriously hurt.
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J. T. Kennedy
Blue Mound
Lawrence
J R .Holmes
Ottawa
Kennedy
Eureka College Resignation Ends Student Strife
Eureka College in Eureka Alabama ends a week of student unrest as Bert Wilson resigns the presidency after trustees accept the move amid a strike and low class turnout. The faculty changes sparked protests and empty classrooms during Thanksgiving week. A separate Washington item notes a proposed constitutional amendment enabling uniform labor laws for women and children, introduced by Rep Frederick W. Dallinger.
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Eureka
Eureka College
Bert Wilson
Wilson
Washington
Congress
Frederick W. Dallinger
Massachusetts
Leidner Shot Son in Domestic Tragedy at University City
Edward L Leidner, 60, cashier of a cream company, admitted firing three shots at his son Walter, 35, at their University City home. Police say the death was not intentional and a coroner exonerated him after review.
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Lois
Edward L. Leidner
Tenter Tee Cream Co
Ecate
Walter
University City
Yheidner
Weather forecast for upper Mississippi and Missouri valleys
Forecasts show temperatures above normal for much of the week followed by a turn to colder conditions. Precipitation expected mainly in the latter half with general rain or light showers. Rocky Mountain plateau region to be mostly fair with normal temperatures. Kansas to have fair tonight and Sunday, warmer tonight in the east and south portions. Roads in Douglas County reported good.
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Mississippi
Missouri
Rocky Mountain
Plateau
Kansas
Prohibition Bureau Reports Arrests and Seizures in 1928
Washington dispatch summarizes the Prohibition Bureau and Treasury Department’s 1928 fiscal year results. Commissioner Doran notes 75,307 arrests with 58,813 convictions, and seizures including 1,048,636 gallons of spirits, 4,254,029 gallons of malt liquor, 399,603 gallons of wine, 16,220 illicit distilleries, 18,1980 stills, and 217,278 fermenters. The year saw 6,934 vehicles and 81 boats seized, with 77,799 violations terminated and 15,793 jail terms and fines totaling millions. Narcotics work yielded 4,738 convictions and 8,786 years in prison.
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Washington
Prohibition
Bureau of
Treasury Department
Doran
Manent c
Bureau
Doman
Market in Crash Consider Dam Bill
New York reports a sharp stock market crash with radio down 72 points to 296 as pools left supporting favorites. Major losses hit Wright Aeronautics, Montgomery Ward, Packard, Johns Manville, and Chrysler, while Bethlehem Steel and General Electric closed higher. Volume neared a record for a Saturday session with about 2.74 million shares traded.
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New York
Radio
Wright Aero
Montgomery
Ward
Case Threshing
Byers
Sears
Roebuck
Packard
Johns Manville
Chrisler
General Motors
Bethlehem, Steel and General
Electric
Montgomery Ward
Café Threshing
A. Byers
Sears, Roebuck
Greene Cananea
Packard Motors
Johns
Texas Corporation
Janusz
New Orleans
Ero
Sinnines
Mail out ballots for chamber of commerce election
Ballots for the annual seven member board election will be mailed tonight and must be returned by 6 p.m. next Tuesday. No luncheon meeting will be held due to the election and holiday rush. Retiring directors will canvass the primary ballot and prepare the final ballot.
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Chamber of Commerce
C. L. Scott
Chamber
Eae
Election Board
Arnold
C. K. Fearing
Paul Friend
Hobart
J.T. Skinner
George ‘J.kirchhoff
B. Lawson
Scott
Fine Week End In Sight Sunday Afternoon Temperatures Expected
Sunshine and moderate temperatures were forecast for the weekend in Kansas. Lows tonight to 25 western and 30 eastern degrees. Sunday afternoon readings projected near 50 degrees in portions of the state. Milk Producers meeting set for Douglas County Chamber of Commerce Monday at 1 8 oclock. Emil B Hohenthal, longtime prohibition worker, dies at St Vincent's hospital in South Manchester.
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Topeka
Weather ‘Bureau
Kansas
Luna
Farmer
Hherstate
Mercury
Milk Producers
Douglas County
Milk Producers | Association
Commerce
Builing
Emil B. Hohenthal
Manchester
Font
St. Vincent's Hospital
Haskell trailing Tulsa in football clash at Tulsa
The Haskell Indians trailed Tulsa by 14 to 6 at halftime as Haskell faced Tulsa in an afternoon football game. Weller scored a 39 yard TD on a Cross pass, Blackman and Pearson registered touchdowns, with Beattie adding the extra point after a Beattie kick.
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Haskell Indians
Tulsa
University
Cin
Gus
Hender- Son
Louis Weller
Hagkell
Cross
Blackman
Hurricanes
Haskell
Pearson
Indians
Boehm
Beattie
Charles
Teirage
Beattle
Beer
Hasitella
Tul- Phe Indians
Johnson
Weller
Hurricane
Wiveler
Posit
Tulsai
Leslie Edmonds
Ottawa University
Football scores from various college games
Second period figures show Georgia 6 Tech 7 while Florida tied Tennessee 0. Clemson and The Citadel both held to 0 in first periods. Loyola of New Orleans led Quentico Mariies 7 at half. Creighton 9 Marquette 0 led after the third period with N C Duke and Loyola games noted in partial form.
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Georgia
Tech
Tennessee
Florida
Clemson
the Citadel
N. C
Duke
Loyola” ‘of
New Orlleans
Quentico ‘Mariies
Creighton
Marquette
Costello to be taken to East St Louis for murder trial
Joe Costello arrested in Kansas City waives extradition on request of Illinois authorities and will be sent to East St Louis to stand trial for murder in the case of John Reinhardt. He admitted possible accessory role but denied committing the crime and said he was marked for death by Al Capone’s gang.
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Miami
Fla
Williams
Grubbin
United States
Grubb
Paul C. Bryan
Florida
Grabb
Oe Geen
Joe _ Costello
East St. Louis
Kansas City
Joe Costello
Illinois
John Reinhardt
Costello
al Capone
Chicago
Byrd Antarctic expedition dog trip eyed in 14000 mile plan
Vancouver report details Commander Richard E. Byrd planning a 14000 mile return trek from New Zealand to the Yukon replacing dogs lost before departure. Bill Riley, a longtime dog driver, joins to supply replacements as the expedition sails from tropical regions and faces dog casualties after the Sir James Clark Ross voyage.
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Vancouver
New Zealand
Yukon
Richard ‘E. Byrd
Bill Riley
53Rd Parallel
Riley
South Pole
James Clark Ross
Tropics
NAMES COMMITTEE FOR MUNICIPAL BASKET DISTRIBUTION
Mayor R C Rankin appointed a committee to prepare this week for distributing Christmas baskets to the city’s needy. Robert C Manney named chairman with members L N Lewis Charles Elwell Ed Anderson Walter Iele Rotary president Dr H L Chambers Kina Dr JW Watts Ministerial Alliance Captain John J Potts Salvation Army Miss Minnie Scott nurse Mrs Tom Kennedy commissioner of poor Mrs T D Funk Mrs Harriet E Rynerson Mrs Ed Anderson and Mrs C E Lindley. No definite distribution plans yet announced.
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R.C. Rankin
Robert C. Manney
L.N. Lewis
Charles’ Elwell
Ed Anderson
Walter, Iele
Rotary
H. L. Chambers
Kina
Jw. P
Watts
Ministerial Alliance
John J. Potts
Salvation Army
Minnie Scott
Public Health Nuirse
Tom Kennedy
Commissioner of Poor
T. D. Funk
Harriet E. Rynerson
C. E. Lindley
Big Six Conference Backs New Year’s Day Benefit Tilt
The Big Six athletic directors and faculty representatives approve a New Year’s Day football game in Dallas between an all-Big Six senior team and an all-Southwest Conference senior team to aid crippled children. Nebraska’s Ernest E. Bearg elected coach for the all-star squad. The game events include a Dallas invitation extended by the Scottish Rite order. Bearg’s players will remain eligible for other sports.
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Kansas City
Dallas
Texas
Scottish Rite Order of Dallas
Big Sik
Gorch Ernest E.bearg
University of Nebraska
Bearg
Paintings of Susan Ricker Knox Displayed at KU
Exhibits open Monday feature oil paintings by Susan Ricker Knox in room 310 west admin building. Public viewing runs Sunday afternoon from 2 to 5 o'clock and again Sunday, December 16, at the same hours for those who cannot visit weekdays.
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Susan Ricker Knox
K. U
Rosemary Ketcham
Department ‘of Design
Deputy Marshal Resigns in Wichita
Walter A Race, deputy United States marshal at Wichita, announced his resignation effective at once citing long travel from home. Frank Boone of Wichita appointed to succeed him by U S marshal for the Kansas district F R Fitzpatrick. Theater managers fined for objectionable performances in Kansas City. Asa Collins sentenced to life for wife slaying in Wickett.
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Frank Boone
Walter
Wichita
Kans
Walter A. Race
United States
Race
F. R. Fitzpatrick
Topeka
Kansas District
Kansas City
Sam Reider
Gaye
George Scoville
Twelfth Street
Carlin
P. Smith
North Side Municipal Court
Wickit Kane
Asa Charles
Cna "Collinson
Cryatal Collllinson
E. Alexander Strict
Santa May Visit Lawrence Kiddies
Thousands of children and adults enjoyed a Santa radio broadcast from station WREN at the diner hour last night. Santa spoke warmly, hinted he might visit Lawrence before Christmas, and urged letters via WREN. Reindeer details and a doll shop feature followed as the announcer promised another broadcast next Tuesday at 6:15 PM.
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SCNF
Santa
North Pole
WREN
Dunder
Blitzen
SCNP
Lawrence
Refund linked to Couzens tax case and King George update
Refund of 989533 to Senator Couzens tops section. The treasury dropped a 10.9 million assessment dispute linked to Ford stock profits from 1919 while a separate king’s condition bulletin notes a quiet, feverish day and slow lung inflammation. A Nebraska veterans bureau hospital location near Lincoln is announced with a free Christmas turkey offer at the office.
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Washington
Dee
PIA
Treasury
Couzens
Republican
Michigan
Ford Motor Company
Mellon
Senate
Ford
London
King George’s
King
Lawsuit Seeks Block on Hoover Presidency
Gustave F. Ebding files in federal court to stop Herbert Hoover from taking office arguing Hoover became a U S resident only in 1919. Ebding, known for anti globes theory, tells Secret Service patriotism and conscience led to the filing. He seeks to restrain Vice President Dawes from certifying Hoover’s electoral vote.
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Cleveland
Herbert Hoover
Gustave F. Ebding
Hoover
United States
Ebding
Globe
Secret Service
Dawes
Senate
Kansas Supreme Court rules on public safety rail crossings, memorials
The Kansas Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of a Shawnee county injunction delaying U S highway No 40 improvements linking Silver Lake and St Marys by relocating the route south of Union Pacific tracks. The ruling weighed public convenience against individual hardship and upheld public safety. The decision also held city authority lacking to profit from military memorial auditorium events and affirmed a Mitchell county ruling upholding the anti Sunday labor law in a stunt aviator case.
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Topeka
Kansas Supreme Court
Shawnee
Rossville
Supreme Court
Ruff
Hiawatha
Brown County District Court
Kansas
State Supreme Court
George Halsey
Halsey
F.M. Ewing
Mitchell County
Seizure of Narcotic Cache in Rothstein Case
Federal investigators seized narcotics valued at about 2 million dollars tied to a late Rothstein syndicate. Two trunks were found in an apothecary suspected of inland shipment, among papers from slain gamblers. Authorities pursue three indicted men and questions from George A McManus in the case.
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New York
Arnold Rothstein
Aphontel
J. S. Atney Tuttle
United States
Banton
George A McManus
King of Car Thieves Gets 5-Year Sentence
Kansas City AP report says Cleveland Tippet, calling himself the king of motor car thieves, was sentenced to five years in the federal penitentiary after pleading guilty to transporting stolen cars. He aided a ring linked to about 200 car thefts across eight states. his wife Velma Tippet, dubbed queen of motor car thieves, remains jailed in Kansas City awaiting action.
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Kansas City
Cleveland
Tippet
Merrill EK
Otis
Federal
Velma Tippet
Kan
Lake Charles
Wichita
New Orleans
Police kill two men in failed dry goods store hold up
A squad of police killed two men Carl Kittlet 34 and Otto Price 40 both of Indianapolis Pa was killed during an attempted hold up of two small dry goods stores early today a third man was captured Also noted Pioneer Oil Man Dead Charles M Whaley editor of the Muskogee Phoenix and Pioneer Oil operator died after a long illness in Muskogee Oklahoma
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Carl Kittell
Otto Price
Indianapolis
Pioneer Oil
Muskogee
Oklo
Charles M
Whaley
University influenza scare eases as precautions continue
A wave of influenza among University students showed few new cases and no complications, with the university and dispensary reporting the high point past. Additional beds were arranged at the emergency hospital on 1100 Missouri Street to handle any surge, while several events including the Varsity dance and organ vespers were postponed. Public school measures paused health meetings and postponed grad activities until the outbreak subsides.
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Missouri Street
Parent-Teachers Association
Pinckney’ Schoio
Plan Five Sectional Meetings of Teachers Topeka
Five sectional meetings of the Kansas Teachers Association will be held next year. The Northeast meeting will be divided between Topeka and Kansas City Kansas. Other sections meet October 31 and November 2 at Independence Wichita and Salina. L W Brooks was elected president, succeeding Dean Panzile. Sant Fort Scott city elected treasurer and secretary. The committee proposed creating a state teachers retirement fund.
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Topeka
Kansas Rence ‘Teachers’ Association
Kansas City
Kan
Independence
Wichita
Salina
L. W. Brooks
Wichita High School
Dean P. Vanzile
The
Kansas, & E Agricultural College
Sant
Fort Scott City
Treasur Frak L. Pin
Prenosert
Mayes McLain Declared Ineligible in Big Ten
Mayes McLain fullback from Iowa or Kansas state is ruled ineligible by the faculty committee. The decision cites prior play for Haskell and other institutions, affecting his Big Ten competition eligibility.
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Mayes McLain
Chicago
API
Towa
Faculti Be
McLain
Haskell Trate
Rine Uta
County clubs to publicize University program
County clubs of the University plan publicity material including a twelve minute newsreel of campus, buildings, students and more plus slides and information sheets. Kansas University song hooks and phonograph records are suggested but not furnished. Other items cover displays and transport costs. County clubs meet Tuesday at 10 am.
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T. C
Kansas-Missouri
Kansas University
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