Marines Work in Nicaragua Highlighted in Wilbur Report
Secretary Wilbur’s annual naval report praises Marine actions in Nicaragua and China and notes strides in aviation to fill a five year plan for 1,900 planes. It reports 19 killed and 47 wounded among forces, with 4,000 Marines in China and another 1,000 in Shanghai.
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Senate
Massachusetts
Coast Guard
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Selection Board
Navy
Women Workers Increase in Numbers Employed
AP reports a rise in married women employed as necessity and choice push more wives and mothers into paid work. Census figures show one in eleven married women worked in 1920 versus one in twenty-two in 1890. Variations in earnings and living costs are noted as factors.
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Anderson
Department of Labor
Economic Research
Policy debates in Big Six postponed at Kansas City meeting
The Big Six conference postponed two major issues at its Kansas City session last weekend the radio broadcasting of games and freshman competition. Iowa State and Kansas State cut broadcasting, Missouri University has none, narrowing to Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma. The panel tabled the topics to the spring meeting after agreeing broadcasting reduces attendance and considering a fifty mile radius restriction. The conference also opposed freshman competition, a stance likely to return at the spring meeting.
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Iowa State
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Nebraska
Oklahoma
Amon
Des Moines
Texist
Packing saves horse in truck wreck near Salina
J R Flemming of Raton New Mexico saved his prize saddle horse by placing two buffer horses between it and others in a truck that overturned south of Salina Kansas. A buffer horse died and the prize animal went missing but later was found safe in a farmer's barn.
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Salina
Kan
J.R. Flemming
Raton
N. M
Flemming
South
Kentucky
Namg
Oklahoma House Deadlock Over Speaker Prompts Impeachment Rumor
Oklahoma City December 10 AP The Democratic Representatives adjourned after failing to agree on a speaker acceptable to both Johnson supporters and opponents. Hinted impeachment talks resurfaced as lawmakers eyed investigations of state officers. Five candidates voiced varied stances. one offered to withdraw for a compromise, while another pledged to act without pledges to constituents.
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City
House
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Statehouse
Liang
Thye
James Nance
Walters
Claud
Briggs
Wilburton
Allen Street
Ity
Woody Dixon
Marietta
Ringling
One Killed and Six Injured in Rail Accident Near Lowell
Joplin Missouri dispatch reports a Southwest Missouri railroad passenger car collided head on with a freight near Lowell Kansas, killing an unidentified person thought to be a Black man and injuring six others one critically. Motorman Joe Davis was dazed but survived, rescued from the burning vestibule by Elmer Clark of the freight crew. A charred torso was recovered from the wreckage as flames subsided.
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Joplin
Southwest Missouri Railroad Company
Southwest Missouri
Lowell
Kan
Here
Joe Davis
Elmer Clark
Oil strike taps third Wright discovery well near Valley Center
The third offset to the Wright discovery well near Valley Center struck oil this afternoon. About 1,000 feet of oil rose in the well as reports described injuries to several men including Davis, Harry Teppers of Webb City and Mrs. Odel Cavender of Kansas City who were taken to a hospital along with Clyde Lewis and W. S. Scott and Garland Sheatley of Webb City.
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Harry Teppers
Webb City
Odel Cavender
Kansas City
Teppers
Cavender
Clyde Lewis
W. S. Scott
Garland Sheatley
Wichita
Kans
Wright Discovery
Valley Center
Oil strike hits pay sand at 3365 feet in Sedgwick County
The well struck the pay sand at 3,365 feet marking the sixth oil strike in Sedgwick County since the Wright well. Robert J. Schofield of Seattle visited his sister, Mrs. John C. Evans, over the weekend.
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Sedgwick County
Wright Well -Am
Las
Robert J. Schofield
Seattle
Wash
John C- Evans
Attends Federal Court by George K. Melvin
County attorney George K. Melvin went to Topeka this morning to attend Federal Court. The trip marks a routine appearance in a federal proceeding involving local matters.
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George K. Melvin
Topeka
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