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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1929
Page
1
Charles Lindbergh finished the air mail leg visiting Panama and Honduras on the way to the United States, landing near La Fe and continuing toward the Caribbean Sea. The flyer's calm demeanor and arrival dates are noted as he proceeds toward the final leg of the route.
AP report notes Mexican interest as Colonel hh and Miss Morris meet ambassador Lindbergh. Columns describe Mexicans’ affection for his flight and scenes of the reception, with Lindbergh’s souvenirs and trophies drawing attention. Evangeline Lindbergh’s message and visitors from St. Louis are mentioned amid travel notes and upcoming visits.
Washington February 13 AP hearings on the sale of United States and American merchant ships to Paul W Chapman Inc of New York for 316 3 million were closed by the Senate commerce committee. The panel will reconvene to act on the project while the shipping board seeks to finalize the deal. W F Gibbs, bidder for the United States line, criticized the Chapman proposal as economically unsound.
The ways and means committee of the state legislature will visit the University on February 20. They will arrive around 1 pm, tour the campus after lunch in the Union, meet in Fraser Hall where Chancellor Lindley outlines university needs, attend a matinee of Ten Nights in a Barroom, host fraternities and sororities will serve supper, and watch the Kansas Missouri basketball game in the Auditorium before returning home.
Secretary Jardine, who led the culture department during the McNary Haugen era, will join a Washington firm as counsel for fruit interests. He announced his departure from the cabinet before March 4 and said headquarters will be in Washington.
New Orleans mourns after a Mardi Gras day of tragedy as six die and more than twenty are injured. A carnival truck crushed Henre d Laux, 53. Mrs. Margaret Wappler, 53, died after a hit and run. Mrs. Elizabeth James died from injuries after being hurled through a car door. Three Black celebrants were killed in gun battles amid the festivities.
Wil and Mrs Charles A Lindbergh are expected to undertake an aerial honeymoon. The couple, long connected with aviation, have recently traveled by air since his return from a major mission. Their engagement was noted as being influenced by shared flying experiences in Mexico City and other locales as friends hint at a romance “up in the air” amid references to Patatepetl volcano.
Weather and roads update across Kansas shows clear skies in most areas with fair to good roads in Dodge City and Arkansas City, while Topeka and Salina report slippery or muddy conditions. East portions will rise in temperature Thursday, with Coffeyville and Hutchinson noting rough or slippery road conditions and traces of snow.
The Rouse voted to nonconcur with senate amendments and sent the highway bill to a conference committee of three house members and two senators. The aim is to resolve the division of the gasoline tax and motor vehicle registration receipts between county and state systems. The conference lineup includes H.O Rees, Melaughan, Carpenter, Sen. Baker, and Sen. Gray. The senate earlier passed a near-identical bill with a 25 percent allocation to county roads and the rest to the state system, while the house favored a 50-50 split. Final action on the three-cent tax remains pending. The original bill also proposed funds for counties, cities, and state highway maintenance and construction. The highway commission would assume control of the state system April 1.
Five miles south of Big Springs neighbors search for a panther after 8 year old Evelyn Walker reports being chased near Twin Mound school. John Taylor organizes a posse. large tracks fade as snow melts. Fear and school disruption spread. Ottawa reports of a panther-like animal fuel concern.
AP dispatch reports an extreme cold front across Europe bringing record low temperatures to England France and much of the continent. Deaths and hardships mount as rivers freeze and shipping halts while Paris acts to reclaim pawned goods to aid residents.
Wynkoop Kiersted Kansas City consulting engineer opened the Seventh annual Three Day Waterworks School at the University of Kansas, with 160 officials attending. He noted many cities rely on wells and urged careful aquifer study before pumping, comparing centrifugal, deep well plunger, turbine, and air lift pumps and recommending separate lifts for supply and surface delivery. The report also covers a heavy Lawrence snow event raising city and county costs with plows, tractors, and power company expenses, plus ancillary weather road and transit impacts.
In Hutchinson Kansas Kven C Beck earns the nickname the man who will buy anything by trading thousands of jack rabbits and other animals. His business began in boyhood with nest raids and grew into a crew dressing creatures for sale to commission houses felt hair firms and tax farms. He once supplied 1 206 006 raduits for army cantonments in 1918 and now operates via a broad clientele using the meat for food and other uses.
Citizens of Washington build a Stonehenge replica memorial in Klickitat County to honor local soldiers who died in war. Funded by Ian Hill, the memorial centers a sacrificial altar motif and 18 foot diameter circle with bronze plates bearing the fallen names. Dedication planned for May 30 with stones modeled after the English landmark.
The Douglas County Memorial Association restarts a drive to raise 1400 for a Victory memorial marker on the Douglas Leavenworth line to honor World War dead. Aims to finish within ten days for Decoration Day dedication. tablet will list Douglas County soldiers and nurses who died in the war.
Washington reports on the Muscle Shoals issue as a long standing national problem tied to federal funds. Past records show a canal around the shoals proposed by Representative Mince to aid Alabama Kentucky Ohio Mississippi West Virginia regions, citing cotton shipments and high downstream transport costs as motives.
Idaho lumber expert W D Humiston says future timber will yield valuable by products via test tubes and enhanced processes. He cites cellulose derivatives and a new hydrocarbon synthesis leading to synthetic lumber as industry prospects. In other news coroner reports no poison in Burham death from heart disease and pneumonia.
Topeka February 13 AP A bill to repeal the Kansas state bank guaranty act enacted in 1900 was introduced by Rep. Lee Cowden Lyon county. The guarantee fund once included about 700 state banks and stood at roughly six million dollars with only a few banks remaining in recent years.
Dean Swarthout announced Beatrice Belkin, leading coloratura soprano of New York, will perform at the University Auditorium Thursday evening during the annual music week. She is a Lawrence native, a 1924 University of Kansas voice graduate, and has drawn strong local interest from radio broadcasts in New York. Star violinist Harry Farbman joins, praised for his countrywide concert circuit appearances. The program aims to be affordable for all attendees.
Walter James Sears born July 10 1868 in Belleview died at 2 this morning at his Chillicothe home after appendicitis operation. He was president of Sears and Nichols Cannery Co serving five states and a former editor of the University paper. He was a Sigma Nu member, a former Ohio regent, and presidential elector, leaving for funeral arrangements.
Congress met in the old house chamber to learn that Herbert Hoover was elected president and Senator Curtis was elected vice president last November. Tellers Shortridge California and King Utah announced the results as galleries filled.
Postmaster C B Hosford announces a new section of forty two lock boxes to be installed at Lawrencer postoffice. Faxes shipped and installation contract let. Boxes expected in service in about fifteen days. Applications to rent boxes to be received at the post office. Cars washed. Called for and delivered. Hudson Goff Ady.
Joseph Rex Smith 22, once known as J Rex Mifenrs in Kan sas, discovers his birth father James Smith of Kansas City after years apart. Born March 17 1907 in Altoona Kansas, he grew under foster care with the McHenry family of Thayer before attending the University of Kansas. He plans to move to Kansas City with his wife Iva Knight to meet his father and three brothers.
Senorita Pilar Careaga of Madrid becomes Spain’s first woman railroad engineer to pilot the Madrid express into Gijon on schedule. The Northern Trunk chief of the machine department and another engineer rode beside her as she, recently graduated from the engineers school, completed the trip. In Wichita, Kansas, religious leaders from 100 Protestant denominations convene for a conference planning a five year survey of state church problems.
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