Machine Gun Politics and Liquor At The Wheel
The piece links John Lazia’s murder in Kansas City to gangster political pressure, noting his role in the local machine and the north end suppression of rivals. It contrasts Kansas City’s corruption with Chicago, then reports a Tribune note on rising drunken driving after repeal, and a federal plan to lift liquor imports for two months to curb bootleggers, risking more drunk driving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lazia
Kansas City
Lazia
North End
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Federal Alcohol Control Administration
Questionable federal funds sought for Kansas City railroad
Eleven million dollars in federal money is asked for a Kansas City to Jefferson county railroad along a roadbed torn up years ago. Proponents claim it would create many jobs, but critics fear it will require ongoing, costly sustenance with little chance of financial success, given past failures and limited demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Jefferson County
Goebbels hits press control amid air mail delay in Kansas City
The article notes Goebbels accusing the press of disseminating a few errors to claim a conspiracy to falsify the German situation while Germany remains unsettled under Hitler. It reports Hitler’s Reichstag appearance, the anticipated whitewash, and the Kansas City air mail restoration delay prompting locals to seek direct action with Postmaster General Farley after bureaus delayed renewal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Goebbels
Germany
Hitler
Reichstag
Kansas City
Paraded Ku Klux Klan float in Tonga town parade
Large crowd watches a torchlit Klan procession through Tonga with a 3000-strong marchers mass meeting atop a hill where a fiery cross burned. Nearby residents and participants from Lawrence join in this controversial event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonga
Noxie
Jean Lyon
Jeanette Lyon
Ohio Street
Vancouver
Tokio
Japan
Miss Lyon
Katherine Eddy
New York City
Ad Lindsey
University of Kansas
Bethany College
Montreal Canada
Patsy Clark
Lindsey
Sam W. Adams
Topeka
Fred Clarke
California
Mr. Adams
Adams
Los Angeles
Cal
Eminance Corporation
H. L. Stover
Thelma
Douglas Schrover
Betty Ann Dicker
Margaret Dicker
Barbara Chase
Betty May Dunn
Ralph Pine
Marguerite Rose
Earla Stevens
Mary Agnes Vale
Donald Palmateer
Walter Palmateer
E. Chase
Myron Ficker
W. A. Dunn
Walter Rose
M. W. Callahan
Vera Lear
Agnes
Great Lakes
Mackinaw Island
Twenty Five Years Ago in July On the Way to San Francisco
A Kansas City automobile party including Mr. and Mrs F Huttig H E B Huttig and George B Crabbs arrived here late this morning in a Stoddard Dayton touring car bound for San Francisco The mud on roads between Kansas City and here reduced visibility of a woman in the group George Farley left for Seattle May Noah will visit Hays City starting Monday Gibbons of the Aurora theater invites Kansas City children at the Vrooman farm to a free Aurora performance Raymond McKee has a bookkeeper position in Victoria Harbor Canada An Ottawa girl appeared on the street with her hair done in a then notes end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Kansas City
F. Huttig
H. EB. Huttig
George B. Crabbs
Dayton
Here
George Farley
Seattle
Wash
May Noah
Hays City
Gibbons
Arora Theater
Vrooman Farm
Aurora
Raymond McKee
Victorian Harbor
Canada
Ottawa
Marie Monroe Wins Air Dome Gold Watch in Monte Cristo Night
In Lawrence the Psychee knot craze drew free publicity for a girl with unique hair. Miss Marie Monroe, daughter of night watchman Jim Monroe, won the gold watch in the Air Dome drawing Saturday night as a mammoth crowd enjoyed the production of Monte Cristo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence
Marie Monroe
Jim Monroe
Airdome
Monte Cristo
Forty Years Ago Republican Delegates Conclude Balloting
The 81st ballot convention for nominating a candidate for Congress adjourned after 1 053 ballots with no winner. Chairman Anthony urged swift action as Kansas voters watched. Notes mention Alex Love as sergeant at arms and Mud Creek area farming updates. Peter E Emery visited southeastern Missouri and Will Zimmerman harvested 125 acres of wheat yielding about 25 bushels per acre on the Cherokee farm.
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Congress
Anthony
Opera House
Funston
Smart
Howard
Parker
Buchan
Kansas
Althe
Ben Friendly
Alex Love
Country News
Mud Creek
Peter E. Emery
Missouri
Will Zimmerman
Homeopathic Doses or History by Dr Edward Bumgardner
The Steel Trust The United States Steel Corpora tion was organized in 1901 with a capital of more than a billion dol lars. Within three years it had absorbed more than 5,000 plants and controlled ten times its orig inal capital. In 1911 the govern ment brought suit under the antitrust aw to have the corporation dissolved. The case came to an end in 1920 when four members of the Supreme Court rendered a decision that it was not violating the Sherman Act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Steel Trust
United States Steel Corporation
Supreme Court
World and Politics In Brief Across Cities
Cable News in Brief reports tension in Berlin with threats to expel foreign reporters over second revolution coverage. Dollfuss expands powers in Vienna, bars the heimwehr. London plans fall disarmament meetings after talks praised by Barthou. Havana cites a 50 000 worker strike supporting hunger strikes and possible unrest. Tokyo floods kill sixty. bridge collapse. Moscow abolishes O G P U judiciary, shifts to Soviet courts. London cites 15 million dollar cattle subsidy. Delft burial of Henry prince consort with royal attendance.
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Berlin
Hitler
Reichstag
Vienna
Dollfuss
Heimwehr
London
Louis Barthou
Havana
Tokyo
Ishiawa
Moscow
Hague
Henry
Prince Consort
Netherlands
Delft
Wilhelmina
Juliana
Kansas News Briefs Highlight Appointments and Accidents
Dr. R H Stevens of Stillwater Okla named chief statistician for four farm credit agencies in Wichita. Alfred Bitting 88, jeweler and civic leader, dies after two week illness in Wichita. Oscar Milstein 18 of Minneapolis injured while attempting to board a Rock Island freight train in Topeka. June wheat movement at record high as early crop and strong prices boost market activity per state grain inspection chief Tom Armstrong.
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Associated Press
Wichita
R. H. Stevens
Stillwater
Okla
Federal Land Bank
Production ¢Redit Corporation
Bank of Cooperatives
Federal Intermediate Credit Bank
Stephens
Oklahoma A. and
M. College
Alfred Bitting
Topeka
Oscar Milstein
Minneapolis
Tom Armstrong
State Grain Inspection Department
Mocking House Rope Clue Drives Harper Mystery
In a snowbound mansion the inspector and Det. Lafferty unravel a staged suicide by Donaghy tied to a rope escape device. Weapons tests and fresh clues emerge from the house as Harper questions Andrews Whitmores and OConnell while confronting new theories about the deaths and a possible wider plot.
Aline Croyden Revealed In Hidden Clues At Last
Sergeant Harper discovers a double ring mark on a table and a clenched hand wearing a two-stone ring. Aline Croyden enters the room with a hidden object, locking the door as Harper senses her intent and anticipates her tomorrow testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aline Croyden
Harper
Jelly Bear Rescues Girl From Pond
A story recounts Jelly Bear, a bear, rescuing a girl who fell into a deeper pond after heavy rains. He reaches her, steadies her, then carries her to shore, saving her from drowning as spectators misread the scene. The bear’s growl and calm care reassure onlookers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Graham Bonner
Sim
Jelly Bear
Swan
Diabetes in Children and Racial Health Gaps Talked
The piece discusses mortgage pressures on a family and a heated debate over racial health differences. It notes various factors such as income work type personal hygiene and access to health resources as explanations for tuberculosis prevalence among races while highlighting medical skepticism about intrinsic constitutional factors.
Lincoln voters to decide on Sunday picture shows law
Lincoln Neb voters set August 14 for a ballot on amending blue laws to permit Sunday moving pictures while retaining bans on Sunday dancing racing foot racing loud drums and other Sabbath amusements. Joliet and Raleigh reports cover prison life suggestions and escape incident.
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Associated Press
Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln
Joliet
Frank D. Whipp
Illinois State Penitentiary
Raleigh
N. C
Dallas Brown
Dallas
Linwood Sunday Guests and Local Postings
Linwood social notes list Sunday visitors from St. Joseph and Davenport Iowa to Linwood families. The report covers sorities, hospitalizations, obituaries, revival services, and travel between Linwood, Lawrence, Topeka and Kansas City. Notable items include the death of Henry Patrick and funeral plans in Lawrence and Linwood cemetery.
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Lorenzen & Thompson, Inc
New York
West 44Th
South Michigan Ave
Sansome
A . Angeles
New Orpheum
Pansas City
Louis Star
Atlanta
Walton Building
al News
Pa Sea Eae Oe
SNR
Audit Bureau OF Circulations
Herr Goebbels
Robert Quillen
Jim
Dora
Publishers Syndicate
W. W. Blaylock Last Moeht
Anna McKinnon
Europe
Edward Bumgardner
Cable News
the Assecision Press
Mocking House
Walter C. Brown
Just
Pierra Dufresne
Doc
Hoyle
O'Connell
Lafferty
Donaghy
Andrews
Joseph Donaghy
John
Sabne
John Whitmore
Whitmore
Joe
Whitmores
Martha
Sergeant Harper
Man
Steve
Dufresne
Jack
O’connell
Mrs. Croyden
Iago Galdston
United States
Puff
Linwood
Otto Telker
Dr. Parker
Ruby Jones
St. Jaseth Mo
Ruth
Harvey Bridenstine
Davenport
Iowa
W. F. Ross
Elinore
Louise
Dorothy
Kan
Misa Eleanor Walberg
As City
Goff
Hughes
Jack Curtiss
Osceola
Meo
Harvey Potter
J. E. Tudehope
T. W. Martin
John Hughey
Helen Lois Martin
Ollie Brewer
Lawrence Memo Hospital
James Tudhope
Mayetta
John Robgon
John Parry, Jr
Haa
Armour's
Fay Parry
Minnie Parry
Irs
Roy Power
Robert
Salina
J. E. Tudhope
Fred Siscoe
Roy
Siscoe
Robert Hedrick
Lenape
P. B. Gray
Federated Church
WREN
Chas. Pull
Henry Patrick
Linwood Cemetery
Funston Barrett
Clinton Siscoe
Gertrude Siscoe
Fred Johnson
Lecompton
Howard Tudhope
J. ©. Tudhope
Estal Starr
Floraleo
Neodesha
CG. C. Burnett
Kelah Burnett
Earl Ross
Telker
Bernard. Williams
Jackson
Elsie Meinke
Barbara
Bonner Springs
John Tudhope
George Tudhope
Robert Elder
John Robson
Maretta
Edwards
Junction City
Clinton Chance
Mallie May York
Afr
Homer McMillan
Handley
Martin Potter
Will McKinney
McKinney
Pat Collins
Sinclair HC
Wise Investor
Lawrence Building & Loan Association
Member
Federal Home Loan Bank
Journal-World
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