Five Meet Death as Plane Crashes in Massachusetts
A Fokker triplane carrying Representative Kaynor of Massachusetts and others crashed after takeoff from Bolling Field in Washington. All aboard were killed, including Captain Dinger pilot and Lieut McGill. The wreck occurred near Bolling Field as investigators and officials sought to learn the cause while noting the perfect weather at the time.
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Washington
Massachusetts
Springfield
Staines Bo Lowe
Ssengers
Bilot Rise Witted
H A. Dinger
Ithur A. McGill
Inye
Valadim Khkleniays
Hest
Laewip
Ria
McGill
Raynor Tol
Congress
Sanborn
Yale
Wea
Mass
Ini
Republican City Committee
Kayoor
Thaddeus Sweet
New York
Bolling Field
Dineer
Marport
Penn
Raynor
Sullivan Burgess
Scarsdale
Vine
Dinger
Davison
Representative Raynor
Lovile
Lawrence Burglar Nabbed After Rooming House Stop
Lawrence police nab an alleged burglar, C F Daniels alias L B Mason of Topeka, after a rooming house confrontation with two friends. He is held for investigation in connection with two local home robberies. Topeka police aided, noting prior prison terms in California Montana and Washington. Fire calls soon followed at two local homes with minor to heavy damage and a damaged car fire. County Attorney Frazee says Daniels will plead guilty to second degree burglary.
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Lawrence
F. Daniels
L. B. Mason
Topeka
Cussult
North End
George Atkeson
Henry Frazee
Will Johns, Jr
A. M. Werkentnin
Tennessee
Griesa
Missouri
Karl Kuglin
Oread High School
Holton
Werkentnin
Earlin Burgert
Bernard Nunninga
Daniels
Waty
Cers
Ralph Harman
Burgner-powman-iathews
Nanninga
Sixth Street
Massachusetts
Idenvette Wy Bt
Widdat
Montana
Spokane
Wash
Soys
Ose Han
Er Poer
Johns
Toveka
Cen
Toneka Police
Anna May Werkenthin
Frazee
Gricia
Lawrence Fire Department
W.W. Clawson
Alabama Street
EP. C. Reynolds
Rhode Island Street
Sue
G. E. Faringer
Nineteenth
Massachusetts Street
Forefathers Day Dinner Highlights New England Roots
Sons and Daughters of New England plan the thirty third annual Forefathers Day dinner preceded by a 6 pm business meeting. W C Simons will speak on the Background of Puritanism with Rev John F Watts leading singing of Whitters Emigrant Hymn Pilgrim Hymn and Holy Night Framing the event will be a roll call of states and a New England heritage program featuring music by Frances Robinson W B Dalton and others. Reservations with Mrs P D H Spencer encouraged.
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Sons and Daughters of
New England
Plymouth
New Lend
Paris
PD. H. Spencer
D. H. Spencer
John F. Watts
Whittier
W. B. Downing
St. Quentin
Beethoven
Trish Blood
Frances Robinson
W. B. Dalton
C. §. Skilton
Evenine
Nomination of Roy S. Lewis Reinstituted Sanctioned by Senate
The senate confirmed Roy S. Lewis for reappointment as district attorney for the western district of Oklahoma. The action was reported from Washington on December 20. AP noted the confirmation occurrence.
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Lewis
Washington
Dee
Roy St. Lewis
Western District of
Oklahoma
Senate
Bank Robbery Suspect Tied to Stafford Heist in Kansas
St John Kansas December 20 AP Employes of Farmers National Bank at Stafford counted six thousand dollars stolen Wednesday and were shown a blue corduroy coat with white collar linked to A R Fellis arrested in Hutchinson on county bad check charges. Deputies said no solid link yet to the robbery though fingerprints were taken and three guns found in Fellis's room.
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St. John
Kan
Farmers National Bank
Stafford
A. R. Fellis
Hutchinson
Stafford County
Fellis
Tom Davison
Davison
Senator Black opposes Alabama party primary ban
Washington reported Senator Black of Alabama condemned the Alabama Democratic central committee’s move to bar candidates who did not support the national ticket. He called the resolution a violation of law and stated the committee lacks authority to set different voter and candidate qualifications for the primary, jeopardizing Senator Heflin’s re-election bid.
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Washington
Alabama
Democratic Central Committee
Jas
Black
Heflin
Smith
Plan to finance KU band trip in Columbia
A committee of the men’s student council met Wednesday to organize funding for the University of Kansas band’s attendance in Columbia. A plan would use proceeds from a varsity dance for the band fund, following last fall’s Lincoln trip financed by student donations.
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University of Kansas
Columbia
Wave of Selling Sends Stocks Down Across Market
New York. A heavy wave of selling driven by bear traders pushed prices sharply lower on the New York Stock Exchange. Major declines included American Telephone General Electric and Anaconda Copper, with Columbian Carbon suffering an extreme $20 drop. The exchange reported November market value fell by about $8.16 billion, to $68.59 billion, while December 1 borrowings stood at 6.52 percent of market value. Total NYSE sales on December 1 reached 5,932,600 shares.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
A. S. Steel
Comton
General Electric
American Telephone
Anaconda Copper
Westinghouse Electric
Columbia Graphophone
United Aircraft
Radio
Montgomery- Ward
Johns-Manville
American & Foreign Power
Stock Exchange Today
Differences of Milk Producers Still Acute
Differences between pasteurizers and milk producers fueling a two week milk strike persist with violence, despite a conference. An expert committee from the chamber of commerce was to issue recommendations, but no committee was named and the gap remains over price increases and plant representation for milk tests.
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Kansas City
Chamber of Commerce
George W. Catts
Chamber
Massive grave prepared for 60 mine victims in McAlester
In McAlester Oklahoma a mass grave awaited the bodies of 60 miners killed in a mine explosion. Funeral services were directed by Father Maurice Fuerstenberg and organized for Mexican victims by H Valdez the Mexican consul in Oklahoma City. The grave site was prepared by 15 inmates from the state penitentiary.
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McAlester
Okla
Old Town Coal Company
Fin
North McAlester
Maurice Fuerstenberg
H. Valdez
Oklahoma City
Entertain for delegates before London voyage
Japanese delegates to the London naval conference were entertained by countrymen in New York before sailing tonight on the liner Olympic. They were met by Japanese officials and merchants led by Consul General Sawada as they arrived in two special cars from Washington yesterday.
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New York
London
Sawada
Washington
Youths Sentenced to Life Terms in Murder Case
Kansas City Kansas December 20 AP charges against Harry Dennis 20 and Elzie Messer 17. Their attorneys pleas for reformatory confinement were denied by District Judge E L Fischer. The youths received life terms for the murder of O B Johnson a Negro taxicab owner in the state prison.
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Kansas City
Kan
Dee
Harry Dennis
Elzie Messer
State Reformatory
E. L. Fischer
O. B. Johnson
Collision injures ten in Niagara Falls snowstorm crash
Ten persons were reported to be injured in a head on collision of two intercity rail cars in eastern Niagara Falls as a blinding snowstorm reduced visibility. Ambulances and physicians were dispatched to the scene.
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Niagara Falls
International Railway
Kansas Weather Forecast Confirms Snow Possibility
Kansas forecast calls for mostly cloudy conditions tonight and Saturday with a chance of snow. Extreme southeast part expects not as cold tonight. Morning outlook shows clearing skies and frozen roads, including Douglas County roads.
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Kansas
Douglas County
Waco
Area sown to winter wheat rises for 1930 crop
Washington reports the 1930 winter wheat area at 43,690,000 acres with December 1 condition at 86.0 percent of normal, compared with 42,820,000 acres and 84.4 percent a year earlier. Rye sown for grain totals 3,466,000 acres with a December 1 condition of 87.2 percent, versus 3,456,000 acres and 84.4 percent last year. Abandonment of winter wheat was 6.2 percent in 1929, 23.5 percent in 1928, with a ten year average of 10.8 percent.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Three Lawsuits Filed Against Douglas County Board of Commissioners
Three suits were filed in the district court clerk’s office this morning against the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners. Two suits, by Baldwin and Lecompton state banks, claim taxes were illegally assessed at the old ad valorem rate, seeks refund of excess over the fifty cent per hundred dollars rate. A third suit by the Douglas County Livestock and Agricultural Fair Association alleges the board has not paid in full for fairs past two years, listing expenses at 921.50 with only 460.78 paid and demand for the balance.
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District Court
Douglas County
Douglas County Livestock and Agricultural Fair Association, Incorporated
Bir Springs
The
Fair Association
State Order County Commissioners
Doulas
Bus Lines Lose Court Battle Against Railway
Topeka December 20 AP Another effort failed as Pickwick Greyhound lines lost a court challenge to a railroad subsidiary’s bus operation. Judge George A Kline denied an injunction against a public service commission order authorizing Union Pacific subsidiary Interstate Transit Lines to run intrastate service between Kansas City and Denver on US highways 40 405 and 10. The order would take effect 30 days after the commission denied a rehearing. The Interstate has been cleared for interstate and intrastate operating on the cross state route except between Topeka and Salina. Pickwick Cardinal State opposed the applications. Attorney M J Healy accepted the denial and plans to raise the issue with the commission.
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Topeka
Pickwick-Greyhound Lines
Kansas
George A. Kline
Shawnee County
Pickwick
Public Service Commission
Interstate Transit Lines
Union Pacific
Kansas City
Denver
U.S
Kline
M. J. Healy
Salina
Cardinal
Hnes
University Daily Kansas announces new editorial staff
Maurine Miller and Kenneth Paddock are named associate editors by editor-in-chief William Daucherty. Lawrence Mann appoints staff including Leslie Suhler Sunday editor Mary Bartram makeup editor Roberta Culbertson campus editor Leah Mae Kimmel teletrank editor Beulah Skinner society editor Iris Fitzsimmons exeharea editor Jack Morris alumni editor Marion Gilmore. No changes yet in sport editor Richard Danan and Sunday magazine editor Naomi Daeschner.
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University Daily
Kansas
K. U
Kansas Board
Maurine Miller
Kenneth Paddock
William Daucherty
Lawrence Mann
Leslie Suhler
Mary Bartram
Roberta Culbertson
Leah Mae Kimmel
Teletravhk
Beulah Skinner
Society
Iris Fitzsimmons
Exeharea
Jack Morris
Marjorit Gilmore
Richard Danan
Sunday Magasing
Naomi Daesehner
Santa Claus Visits Lawrence Elementary Schools
Santa Claus visited elementary students in Lawrence, riding a large sedan to the schools. He spoke to pupils about Christmas and the Christmas spirit, bringing delight to the children as he made his rounds today.
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Santa Claus
Lawrence
Santa
House Passes Annual Supply Bill for Culture Dept
The house passed the annual supply bill appropriating 153,255,000 dollars for the fiscal year. The report notes a Christmas appeal to readers for Journal-World subscriptions and mentions wall advertisements offering the paper at 2.50 and 3.00 dollars per year.
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House
Washington
Gets Culture Department
Kansas professors to attend meetings across the nation
University of Kansas faculty members will travel from Des Moines to New York and Washington for multiple meetings. Attendees include C. H. Ashton, A. G. Mitchell, E. B. Stouffer and others in mathematics, zoology, entomology, chemistry, sociology, Spanish and fine arts. Senator attendances include lectures by Dr. Lindley and papers on conflict theory and criminal law.
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University of Kansas
Des Moines
Middle West
New York City
Washington D. C
E. U
American Association For the Advancement of Science
E .H. Lindley
Earnest
Stanley
New York
Lindley
American Association For ‘the Advancement of Science
Department of Mathematics
C. H. Ashton
A. G. Mitchell
E. B. Stouffer
G. W. Smith
J. J. Wheeler
A. A
Queen
Miss Elliott
A. L. Owen
American Association of Teaching of Spanish
Washington, D. C
Dean TD. M. Swarthout
School of Fine Arts
Cincinnati
Music Teachers National Association
National Council of Geogra Department
National Council of Geography Teachers
Columbus
Ohio
Wealthy real estate operator faces record breach of promise award
Detroit report details Miss Bertha Cleavenger winning a jury verdict of 750000 against John H Castle, a rich Detroit real estate operator, in a breach of promise suit linked to their 1917 engagement. Judge Homer Ferguson noted the 450000 judgment may be entered, absent a new trial. The case cites Castle’s alleged gifts and trips as part of his courtship, with prior related suits and loans dating back to 1917.
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Detroit
Homer Ferguson
John H. Castle
Bertha Cleavenger
Castle
Ferguson
O’brien-Manning
New York
Ford Motor Company
Cleaveiger
Florida
California
Phyllis Linderman
Cleavenger
Hoover to get travel and mystery reads for Christmas
President Hoover will receive travel and mystery books in his Christmas stocking. Mrs. Hoover orders the books, once choosing them herself before becoming first lady now sends lists via White House secretary.
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Washington
Hoover
University of Kansas End of 1929 Classes
Students finish 1929 courses as Christmas vacation nears with many traveling home today. Fraser theatre hosted the Christmas tree program yesterday evening, featuring glee clubs, poetry by Helen Rhode Hoopes, and a candle sale benefiting the student loan fund. The candle sale and charity basketball games raised 239.46 dollars, with the basketball games netting 0.25 dollars. final totals may rise with late reports.
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University of Kansas
Lawrence
Engineering and Fine Arts
University
Fraser Theatre
Robinson Gymnasium
Helen Rhode Hoopes
Department of English
Hooveres Prepare for an Old Time Yuletide Season
Washington reports the Hoover family plans an old fashioned Christmas at the White House The east room tree will depict Christ s birth while upstairs a traditional tree will glow with tinsel and electric lights A Sherman Square outdoor party will light a community tree with Rev Lyman Wilbur delivering a Christmas address and President Hoover pressing a switch to illuminate the lights
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Washington
White House
Hoover
Sherman Square
Lyman Wilbur
Interior
Sorority Adopts Puppies During Holiday Pause
The Gamma Phi Beta sorority at 1339 West Campus Road faced quips as members prepared for Christmas travel after adopting a stray dog. They later found several new fat puppies in the garage, with cold weather and unrequested baths raising concerns of distemper among the litter.
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Gamma Phil Beta Sorority
West Campus Road
Christmas Journal-World Subscription Offer
A last minute suggestion for a Christmas present asks readers to consider a year’s subscription to the Journal-World by mail. Pricing is $2.50 and $3.00 depending on distance.
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The
Journal-World
Wall Adv
Ady
Santa Claus to visit Lawrence tomorrow afternoon
Old Saint Nick arrives shortly after two on Massachusetts street with about twenty five hundred toys for local children. The reception crew will escort him to a stand on the east side of the 800 block. thousands are expected to line the streets as he distributes gifts and greets youngsters. Motorists are asked to proceed with caution to avoid accidents during the crowd.
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Santa Claus
Lawrence
North Vale
Saint Nick
Massachusetts
Santa
Massachusetts Street
Senate Drive to Force Dry Commission Report
Washington AP reports Senate Democrats Harris of Georgia and Glass of Virginia push for an early report from President Hoover s law enforcement commission. They warn no further funds will be allocated unless a report on eight months of work is produced and open hearings are demanded. Senator Jones blocks action on the resolution.
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Washington
Senate
Hoover
Law Enforcement Commission
Harris
Georgia
Glass
Virginia
Commission
Comiissstar
Jones
Hoever
Near Death From Cold Hopes for Leg Amputations
Logan Wilkingen, 12, of near Wire, Oklahoma, was found unconscious beside a road in zero weather. He was rushed to Ardmore hospital where doctors say amputation of both legs may be necessary. He regained consciousness after emergency treatment and survived the bitter exposure.
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Ardmon
Okla
Logan Wilkingen
Wirt
Wilkinson
Wire
Plane Leap Is Fatal at Fort Sam Houston
Lieutenant Elmer Ro Miller of Dodd Field Fort Sam Houston was killed when his parachute failed to open during a jump from a plane at 2500 feet. The incident occurred in San Antonio Texas. A Christmas present reader promotion offered a year’s subscription to the Journal World.
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San Antonio, Tex
Cam
Elmer Ro Miller
Dodd Field
Fort Sam Houston
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