Seven in Custody in Bandit Roundup
Kansas City police say seven men were arrested in a sweeping roundup tied to a wide crime ring active in Kansas and Missouri. Leaders include Gar ret Petro and Ora Sheep Foster, with charges of bank robbery and related felonies across multiple states.
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Kansas City
Ray ‘Cochran
Kansas
Westerth
Missouri
Mt Joy
Green
Garrett Petro
Mills
Mobank
Cleveland
Petro
Edward P. Boyle
Lowell Foster
Clevelad
Ohio
Edward P. Bowie
Ora
Sheep
Foster
Louise Petro
Advertising May Relieve Shortage Of Dates At Bethel College
Newton Kansas February 1 AP dormitory coeds at Bethel College argue advertising is more potent than organization in modern life. Sorority girls have been snagging the desirable men while residents of less exclusive dorms felt the pinch. The Bethel Collegian prints a display ad inviting college men to the dorm hangout with new card games added to the reception room.
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Newton
Kan
Bethel College
Bethel Collegian
Butler NY and federal figures clash over prohibition measures
Washington reports two February actions in Congress on enforcing prohibition. Senator Brookhart criticizes high sovereignty obstacles while Major General Butler is proposed as prohibition commissioner. The House panel revises the Williamson bill to grant joint Treasury and Attorney General rulemaking power for industrial alcohol, transferring enforcement from Treasury to Justice. A Texan senator affirms humane motives behind prohibition and condemns personal enmity toward liquor opponents.
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Washington
House
Senate
Brookhart
Towa
Smedhey Butler
Philadelphia
Butler
Expenditures Committee
Secretary of the Treasury
Attorney General
Prohibition Enforcement
Treasury
Justice Departments
Lehrbach
New Jersey
Fort
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Copeland
New York
House Expenditures Committee
Justice Department
Democrats Bar Deserters in 1930 Texas Primary
The Texas Democratic executive committee voted 21 to 9 to bar as candidates in the 1930 primary any who refused to support the 1928 presidential ticket. An amendment to defer definite action until June passed 21 to 9. A motion to allow betting voters to participate in the summer primary carried with one dissent.
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Austin
Tex
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Winbotrn Pearce
Temple
Balters
Maury Hughes
Dallas
de Ogene
Weather forecast for Kansas shows fair conditions
Forecast calls for generally fair weather tonight and Sunday with warmer temperatures in the extreme north. Morning map shows clear in Arkansas City Coffeyville and Iowa. Roads range from rough to good with Emporia rough. Douglas county roads listed as good. Temperatures noted yesterday and today with noon readings, and local business ads for Dodge Service and Skinner Motor Co.
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Kansas
Arkansas City
Coffeyville
Towa
Emporial
Douglas County
Fire at Colorado prison tailors shop sparks alarms
A fire at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Canon City was controlled two hours after discovery. An escape attempt was allegedly made by several prisoners while state troopers and guards manned the walls. Convict Danny Reardon testified before a governor’s inquiry into last October’s prison riot and was stabbed in a later altercation. another convict, a man named Taylor, was injured falling from a ladder while trying to help extinguish the blaze. Reports of arson were not confirmed and the warden did not estimate damage.
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Canon City
Colo
Colorado State Penitentiary
Lo One
Danny Reardon
W. H Adams
Crawford
Reardon
Taylor
Francis Crawford
Colorado National Guard
Canon Cuy Fire Department
Hold Indian in Death in Okmulgee
Jack Severns, 25, ex Haskell football star and former husband of a wealthy Osage heiress, faced possible manslaughter charges in the death of his former father-in-law Clemens in Okmulgee Oklahoma. Clemen shire’s skull fracture and the murder case stem from a late yesterday rooming house assault. Fr. W. McDonald of Haskell Institute said records show Severns never played football or attended school there.
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Okmulgee
Okla
Jack Severns
Haskell Indian Institute
Clemens
Severns
Clemenshire
FR. W. McDonald
Haskell Institute
Burke Leads In Second Round Of Texas Open
Billy Burke, Greenwich Connecticut pro, shot 70 in misty rain to take a two round total of 143 at Brackenridge Park San Antonio. Tom Creavy and Ralph Guidahl trailed, while Guidahl matched Burke with another 70 to reach 144 and 385 on nine.
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Brackenridge Park
San Antonio
Yex
Billy Burke
Young Greenwich
Conn
Tom Creavy
New York
Burke
Créavy
Ralph Guidahl
Dallas
Williamson Bill
Couzens' Daughter Elopes in Baltimore Marriage
Margaret Couzens aged 19, daughter of Michigan Senator Couzens, elopes and marries William Jeffery Chowning in Baltimore. The couple's news reached the senator through his wife and press reports confirmed the event. The teller and son of a prominent family, Chowning works at a Washington bank.
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Washington
Margaret Couzens
Senator Couzens
Michigan
Baltimore
Wiliam Jeffery Chewning
Youth alleges third degree beating by county officers in cattle theft case
Otis Farmer, 20, of near Lawrence, claims he was beaten with a rubber hose by Douglas county authorities to force a confession on cattle theft. Sheriff Rutherford and undersheriff George Reed deny, while attorney general William A. Smith orders an investigation by Robert C. Mason. Carl Young, Farmer’s brother in law, confessed. three men, including Morris as an accomplice, are out on bond awaiting preliminary hearing.
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Yopeka
Douglas
William A. Smith
Robert C. Mason
Lawrence
Otis Farmer
Farmer
BR. R. Rutherford
George Reed
Rutherford
Topeka
C. 5
Shepherd
Alice
Carl Young
Dick Morris
Father to Alaska to recover body of Eielson aviator
Ole Eielson 66 of Hatton North Dakota travels to Alaska to claim his son Carl Ben Eielson’s body, believed lost in a plane crash near North Cape Alaska last November. Miss Adeline Eielson accompanies him, both opposing Arlington funeral, hoping for family plot burial if recovered. Efforts at the crash site continue with nine crew members clearing ice and snow but no bodies yet found.
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Seattle
Wash
Ole Fielson
Carl Ben Bielson
Alaska
North Gape
Siberia
Eielson
Watton
N. D
W. Ja. Borland
Earl ‘Borland
Teller
North Cape
Arctic
Adeline Eielson
Wenatchee
Arlington Cemetery
Hatton
Hilson
Fairbanks
Tielson
North
Rioters Quelled in Hamburg Police Clash
Rioting and communist-led demonstrations in Hamburg over two days prompted large unemployed crowds to ignore orders. Police fired on the crowd after methods failed to quell the unrest, injuring several and leading to about 20 arrests as workers faced sympathetic strikes.
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Harburg
Siating
Hamburg
Independents in Survey of Future Club Forms Campaign
A Lawrence Chamber of Commerce meeting of about 150 business men laid groundwork for a unified stand by independent merchants. Officers elected included C. E. Decker as president and Scott Holloway as vice president, with a 1950 club executive committee pledging an aggressive educational campaign to emphasize independent merchants’ civic value.
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Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
C. E. Decker
Scott Holloway
M. V. Kent
Lv Meade
Sam Hurwitz
al Green
L. A. Hunter
Two Texas Banks Close in Fort Worth Plan for Depositors
Two Fort Worth banks with combined deposits of 6 282 257 were temporarily closed as the Fort Worth clearing house association and the board of directors map a plan to pay depositors in full. The banks named were Texas National Bank and its associate First State Bank of Polytechnic.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Merchants' Bureau to Elect Officers This Evening
Officers of the Merchants' Bureau will be elected at the Chamber of Commerce Rooms Monday at 6:30 PM. The election is a postponed vote to give new members a voice. The planning committee will present a preliminary report with George Lowman as chairman.
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Merchants’ Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
George Lowman
AO CA Ee
Dark Horse Fraternities to Help Pick Kansas Beauty Queens
Dartmouth Dekes will share duties with two other fraternities in selecting six Kansas University beauty queens. Delta Kappa Epsilon at Dartmouth is revealed as a partial judge, with more details to come on the mixed panel. Morris Straight of the Jayhawker states nonlocal fraternities will assist, and a final plan is expected after midsemester vacation.
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Dark Horse
Dartmouth Dekes
University of Kansas
Kansas City
Delta Kappa Epsilon Fraternity
Dartmouth University
Hanover
N. H
Morris Straight
Jayhawker
K. U
Straight
Don McFarland
K. A
L. N. Flint
Jayhawker Advisory Board
Baker students in crash near Pleasant Grove
Five Baker University students traveling to Topeka in a Ford coupe crashed into a parked truck on highway 73 near Pleasant Grove. Injured were Glenn and Harley Haskins of Olathe, Floyd Ruppelius, Lawrence Flanner of Clathe, and LeRoy Smith of Herington. They were taken to Memorial hospital. Harley suffered the most severe injuries but internal injuries were not yet serious. The group, Delta Tau fraternity members, were en route to a basketball game. Sheriff and deputies aided at the scene.
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Baker University Stud
Ford
Topeka
Highway 73
Pleasant Grove
Memorial Hospital
Glenn Haskins
Harley Haskins
Olathe
Floyd Ruppelius
Lawrence Flanner
Clathe
LeRoy Smith
Herington
Glenn
Fort Regiment
Altho
Ruppelius
Flanner
Smith
Delta Tau Fraternity
Baker
William Robinson
Eli Wilson Produce Company
John Daniels
Olathe Hich
Haskins Brothers
R. R. Rutherford
Huston Turner
Turner
Chicero Adds Mincrs State as New Credit of
Chicero and Cook county face a cash squeeze as Illinois plans delay of tax money until June 1 Gov Louis L Einveerson warns of needed funds to retire bonds and avert a fiscal catastrophe The Citizens Rescue Committee raises 10 million from building managers association to support police health and fire services while awaiting 1928 tax collection and reassessment details A bankers son is noted in a separate item about a hold up
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Chicago
Chicasro
Cook County
Louis L. Einveerson
Zens
Silas H. Strawn
Building Managers’ Association
Jonp
Strawn
Bankers
Youth Aidsin Robbing Institute In which Father Is Cashier
Bowling Green Ky Feb 1 A 19 year old C Spillman confessed to police that he helped rob the Rocky Hill bank where his father served as cashier and sole employer Officials said about 4000 dollars was taken The crime happened shortly after 5 am and three men participated Police arrested young Spillman as he tried to cross a bridge over the Green River while driving away
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Al‘Yyert
Greeen
James McEchron
Green
Ray Cochran
Kansas City
Kan
Roy A. Anderson
Greer
Hickman Mills
Grandview
Richmond
Westphalia
Bowling Green
Ea C. Spillman
Bank of
Rocky Hill
Young Spillman
Spillman
Bow‘ng Green
Young
Green River
Two Slay Rosenheim Shot Dead in Chicago Ambush
Julius Rosenheim aged 45 a former investigator for the Chicago Crime Commission was shot to death by two men who stepped from an automobile onto the sidewalk and fired six shots into him They fled in the car driven by a third man authorities report from Chicago dated February 1 AP
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Rosenhein
Chicago
Julius Rosenheim
Chicago Crime Commission
Cable Not Cause Of K C Crash Says Lockwood
Wichita, Kan. Feb. 1 AP R G C Lockwood general operations manager for Aviation corporation controlling Central Air Lines announced that frayed aileron cable did not cause the Central plane crash at Ty Kan Monday killing five. He said investigation hit a blank wall and would be dropped unless later circumstances warrant reopening. He reiterated tests showed the cable was sheared by the crash impact.
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Wichita
Kan
R. G C. Lockwood
Aviation Corporation
Central Air Lines
Lockwood
Safety First Man Crippled After Bed Accident
Independence Kansas February 1 Py J P Ry Ki adheres to safety rules at crossings yet injures knee in bed King fell over turning in bed and strained knee Bean in Childs Throat Kills Baby Leonard Logston 18 months Sedan Kansas February 1 AP report says bean lodged in throat moved to lungs despite medical aid
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Independence
Kan
King
Kas
Leonard Logston
W. E. Logston
Sedan
Stomach Clinic Tuesday at City Hall with Dr Jones
The regular monthly stomach clinic led by Dr. G W Jones will be held next Tuesday morning at 8 30 at the new City Hall. Attendees are asked not to eat breakfast before examination.
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G. W. Jones
New City Hall
Radio Night at KU Falls to Tonight’s KU broadcast
University of Kansas radio night on KPRU from 9 to 10 30 tonight features Raymond Nichols and assistants finalizing plans. George Foster will host with medleys by Pred Agnew’s dance band and performances by the Tare Vox quartet, Miss Irene Peabody Meriliah Moore and student groups.
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University of Kansas Radio
KPRU
K. U
Raymond Nichols
George Q. Foster
Pred Agnew
Tare Vox
Irene Peabody
Meriliah Moore
Fine Arts
Brutus Hamilton
K. UL
H. Lindley
Hilden Gibson
Summerfield
Charles
Frank Strong
L. N. Flint
F. T. Stockton
G. C. Shaad
Agnes Husband
Elizabeth Mesuiar
M. Hopkins
H. B. Hungerford
F.C. Allen
Night chimney fires report across city streets
Firemen were called to 1608 Kentucky street and 801 Mississippi street last night for chimneys burned out with no loss reported. Smoke from pour heat at 824 Massachusetts street triggered a call with no damage. Sparks from a chimney at 724 Vermont street caused slight damage this morning.
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Kentucky Street
John Hills
W. H. McKore
Mississippi
Massachusetts Street
J. J. Smith
Vermont Street
Reorganization shifts AT A T operations headquarters
In a policy driven reorganization announced by J L Maddux new president of Transcontinental Air Transport Maddux Air Lines general offices in St Louis will close six local officials resign eight lines move eastern HQ to Columbus Ohio traffic office remains in St Louis Administrative offices in New York City and Los Angeles with traffic control in St Louis. Carl Foster of Everest replaces George Tudhope as Douglas County Cow Tester Tudhope resigns for San Antonio post at higher pay Tudhope is son of James Tudhope Linwood He attended K U and Agricultural College noted for strong testing record.
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St. Louis
Inos Angeles
J. L. Maddux
Transcontinental Air Transport
Maddux Air Lines
Columbus
Ohio
New York City
Los Angeles
Maddux
Foster
Tudhope
Carl Foster
Everest
Brown County
Lawreace
Douglas County
Cow Testing Association
George Tudhope
San Antonio
Tex
James Tudhope
Linwood
K. U
Agricultural College
A. TY. Dilkison
Walker Has Daughter as Custody Battle Rages
In Pasadena, California, a daughter was born to the wife of Mickey Walker, the heavyweight champion, while Mrs. Margaret Veronica Walker seeks divorce. She requests custody of their five year old son and an additional child. Curfman Heads Kansas City Superintendents election results named in state teachers association meeting.
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Pasadena
Cal
Mickey ‘Walker
Margaret Veronica Walker
Curfman
W. W. Gurfman
Lawrence
Council of Administration
Kansas State Teachers’ Association
Va Wichif
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Hanna
Prayer Generalis
Prohibition
Texas Party
W. H. Potterf
Oskaloosa
Jefferson County
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Potterf
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Bull -lene-Skinner Motor Co
Colorado
Son OF
Blaze
William Green
Gyawboys
Jeffret
Haskell
McDonald
Wexas Open
Connecticut
Frederick R.” Leh Thach
New
Stanton
Ernest Byrd
Stanton High School
Couzens
Earl Borland
Guffer
F. H. Smithmeyer
Winfield
Charles J. Lynn
Kansas Cities
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Court Room
John W. Brady
Lehlia Highsmith
Y. M. Loving
Ready
Henry Brooks
Civil Appeals Court
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Georgia
Ocilla
Jimmy Irvine
W. E. Tyler
Irwin County
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British Museum
London
U.S. Treasury
Carver
Tuskegee Institute
George W. Carver
Department of Agricultural Research
America
Union
First Methodist Church
Tenth
Vermont Streets
Council of Relious Work
Ministerial Alliance
Sam R. Carter
University
Council
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Oklahoma City
Olahoma
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Tulsa
United States Commissioner of Education
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Radio Night
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Walker Has
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