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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1928
Page
6
Big Six stars mobilized in Kansas City and traveled to Dallas for the New Year’s Day charity game against a Southwestern Conference squad. Thirteen players and coaches Beary and McMillin led a party bound for Texas with plans for workouts, drills, and team preparations.
The University of Wisconsin announces a 2 line schedule featuring the Osaka Mainichi team of Japan. Big Ten games with Michigan Illinois Indiana Minnesota Northwestern and Chicago plus spring training trips in Missouri and Kansas. A May 16 appearance at Randall Field with potential two frame events and possible games versus Kansas State Mississippi A&M and Kansas Aggies.
Mayes McLain, famed Cherokee fullback and former Haskell star, announces signing to coach the University of Iowa frosh football team next season. Details mention his prior Big Ten ineligibility and recent plans discussed with friends at Pryor.
Kansas basketball coach C Allen prepares the Jayhawks for a Friday and Saturday Notre Dame visit after a last practice at Robinson Gym tonight. Notre Dame brings a veteran lineup led by Crowe and Smith, with three other lettermen from the South Bend squads. Ramsey nurses a broken hand while Shane and Bishop show improvement as scrimmage likely closes the prep.
Des Moines reports that eighteen interleague games will pit the Big Six against Missouri Valley teams in 1929. Creighton faces the stiffest schedule, while Grinnell limits play to Valley foes. Drake and Washington schedule five games against Big Six opponents, with Missouri and Nebraska home-and-home dates and the Sooners and Bengals meeting twice.
Eighteen players from the Big Six era arrived in Dallas in good condition to train for a New Year’s Day charity game against a Southwest Conference seniors all star. Led by Coach Ernest Beary and A N McMillin, they will hold drills at a country club and plan a light workout. Bearg noted eight squad members earned all conference honors. The event aims to pit top conference talent against a SWC all star eleven.
H. W. Hargiss, University head football coach, sails for Chicago then joins western conference coaches bound for New Orleans for the annual Football Coaches meeting. No attendance at the Southwest benefit game in Dallas on January 1 is expected.
In Kelso near here, farmer Joe Pigg opened fire during a church service injuring Simmons and Neal Golden, while Floyd Steelman died at the scene. Eleven year old Paul Gattlin was wounded. Pigg surrendered after a rapid volley followed by chaos as the congregation hid and escaped.
Jacksonville Texas reports a woman found embedded to her waist in mud and slush at the railroad tracks after a wreck. She had reportedly fought free from the wreck but was overlooked by early arriving rescue workers.
Washington AP The Mississippi River has dumped 390 to 400 million tons of silt into a small crustal area at its mouth for centuries. A Dutch geodesist Dr Meinesz and American scientists on a navy submarine expedition found the crust adjusts to the weight, maintaining gravity readings near normal, suggesting no major quake risk.
A disclosed plot by young Scottish nationalists plans to raid Westminster Abbey to seize the Stone of Destiny and deliver it to the Lord Provost of Perth. The move is framed as a symbolic act toward Scotland's independence and a push for self government via a Scottish parliament. The Stone, linked to centuries of coronations, sits beneath the coronation chair since 1296.
Paris AP reports Sorbonne welcomes students from 25 countries with Americans forming the largest group. Since Locarno German enrollment rose, English Scandinavian and South American students also attend. Foreign students study together without friction, and Americans are viewed as the most faithful.
Paris reports the government will disburse about 290 million in pensions next year to 5.12 million ex-service members or dependents. Sixteen percent of applications were rejected, totaling 855000 cases. Payments range from 500 to 19 125 francs yearly. Ohio divorces: 15000 in Columbus, with 10000 children placed in care agencies. Belle Greene ties welfare trends to these figures.
Belem reports a Japanese colonization push with a $5 million capital venture to move up to one thousand families yearly to Brazil starting next April. The project aims to develop rubber, cacao, cotton and other crops in the Amazon region, aided by two Japan to South America steam services via the Straits and Cape. The effort follows earlier Japanese settlement in Sao Paulo and targets new agricultural zones beyond the coffee belt.
A crowded Valley Grove schoolhouse on Sunday morning heard a Christmas themed lesson and a program of songs readings and recitations led by teachers and students including Mr. and Mrs. William Puckett Ruth Johnson Lettie Gyrert and Mr Johnson. Gifts candy and nuts were shared and a decorated Christmas tree stood as pupils honored their teacher with presents. A sermon is planned for December 30 with a review lesson expected.
Corliss and Mrs W H Dent and daughter Oma with Mrs Robert Turner DeSoto motored to Kansas City for Christmas shopping visiting the market and Montgomery Ward. Several local residents appear in brief items including visits, illness and school news. Mrs Chas McDaniels died of pneumonia with funeral at Argentine. Earl Steed started county road patrol. many small social and family notes from DeSoto and Argentine.
The article notes Germanys festive goose tradition with fatty feedings and large imports from Romania Hungary Poland and Yugoslavia as a sign of prosperity. It also reports Barberis rare Vatican manuscripts in Londons Soho quarter including works by Bragmen te Donatella Mantegna Raphael and Piero della Francesca, plus a Michael Angelo document about Julius II tomb in St.
German rail officials consider abolishing women’s compartments and non smoking sections. Prolonged observation suggests women avoid women only cars and rising female smoking prompts debate. The Mail Carriers’ annual state camp will meet in Topeka on February 22 with about 450 letters carriers expected.
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