Obregon Support Turns To Calles In Mexico Crisis
Mexican officials slow to act against Jose de Leon Toras, linked to General Obregon’s slaying, as Calles faces heavy guard and a national mourning period. The Obregon bloc debates preserving Calles as interim president amid succession questions, while clergy and police probe plots tied to religious liberty movements and the assassination aftermath.
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Mexico
Jose de Leon Torras
Alvaro Obregon
Hou
Antonio Rios Zertuche
Ing. Anced
lic_clérry
Villa Guadalupe
Our Lady of
Miguel Pro Jauraz
Glrewen
Elsuniversal | Grafico
League For the Defense of Religious Liberty
Agai Obreron
Pro Juarez
Calles
Funeral train carries Obregon followers to Navajoa burial
The Mexican village of Navajoa in Sonora becomes a gathering point for Obregon supporters from across the north. A special train from Nogales carries friends relatives and citizens hundreds of miles to attend the burial. Camps and hotel rooms fill as Mayo Yaqui and other locals prepare for the funeral rites in the town near the Mayo River.
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Nolales
Aviz
Navajoa ix
Sonora
Mexico
Hank
Obregon
Hue
Navajoa
Mexico City
Nogales
Presidents receives coaches in Superior Wisconsin
Two hundred football coaches from thirty states met President Coolidge at the executive offices in Superior. He signed a football that bore signatures of famous coaches, then posed for a group photo on the high school steps. W. W. Roper of Princeton and Howard Jones of USC stood on his right and left respectively.
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Superior
Wis
Coolidge
Superior School
W. W. Roper
Princeton
Howard Jones
University of Southern California
Athletics Beat St Louis 4 0 In Philadelphia
AP reports the Philadelphia Athletics defeated St Louis 4 to 0. Earnshaw struck out ten, allowing eight hits as Crowder Coffman and Manion worked for St Louis, while Schang Earnshaw and Cochrane handled the Philadelphia battery. Also notes Detroit at Washington and Pittsburgh at Boston results and a study on student councils in Washington.
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Philadelphia
Athletics
St. Louis
Earnshaw
Phladelphia
Crowder
Coffman
Manion
Schang- Earnshaw
Cochrane
Detroit
Colunnet
Washington
Sorrell
Woodall
Jones
Kenna
Federal Bureau of Education
Tne
Kansas Forecast With Scattered Thunderstorms And Cooler Temps
Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered thunderstorms and cooler temperatures in the north central area. Weather updates note clear conditions elsewhere, with road conditions described as good in Douglas County. Temperature data from yesterday shows around 72 degrees, but today’s readings are unclear due to garbled text.
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Tessica
Arkansas City
Douglas
Senate Committee Reports on Road Amendment Findings
The Senate Judiciary Committee chaired by John W. Davis proposed only verbal changes to the road amendment, urging the constitution read to permit a state highway system and restricted taxes. The Senate approved a measure limiting bill introductions to roads and appropriations by a 23 to 1 vote, with E. E. Frizell the lone dissenter. No action on the House deadline for bill introductions or sine die adjournment was taken, as members awaited the committee report.
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Topeka
Judiciary’ Committee
Senate
John W. Davis
Greensburg
House
E. E. Frizell
Larned
Judiciary Committee
Seeenge Ace
J W. Davis
Patrolman Uses Street Car To Halt Auto Crash
Kansas City Kansas July 20 A street car driven by a motorman and commanded by Patrolman Richard Cashin chased and halted an automobile after it struck 14 year old newsboy George Cavolovich as he crossed a main street The patrolman ordered the car to speed up and arrested George Saines for careless driving Cavolovich suffered severe cuts and bruises and Saines posted 2000 bond
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Kansas City
Kans
Richard ‘Gashin
George Saines
George Cavolovich
Cashin
Enrollment Reaches New High at University of Kansas
More than nine hundred students enroll for the second term of KU summer session starting Monday, a new four week record. Total summer attendance likely exceeds all previous enrollments, with final exams August 10. Extracurriculars will be limited but an educational forum and campus movie series are planned along with student recitals and a speaker from the University of Missouri.
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University of Kansas
R. A. Schwegler
Robe
Fogel
Robert & Thompson
School of Education
University of Missouri
Helen Rhoda Hoopes
Myglish
Inite
Mack Sloan highway amendment passes House 85 to 36
The Kansas House voted 85 to 36 to ratify the Mack Sloan amendment to the state constitution and submit it to voters in November. It removes general state funding for internal improvements but allows a state highway system with special taxes on motor vehicles and fuel. The Senate may act next on a wording variant.
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Topeka
House of Representatives
Mack-Sloan
House
John C. Mack
Harvey County
E.R. Sloan
Jackson County
Four Die As Freight Train Plunges Into Creek
Four men including two Wabash freight engineers and two firemen were killed when the doubleheader train derailed into a rain swollen creek near Mineola Iowa fourteen miles east of Council Bluffs. The victims D D Turker 44 engineer George Wilson 43 engineer Jesse Davis 29 fireman John Butts 23 fireman all residents of Stanberry Mo. Heavy rains likely undermined the trestle causing a washout with about twenty feet of water in the creek. Tucker piloted the head locomotive and Wilson rode the second engine. Tucker’s engine overturned on the bank and Wilson’s engine lay amid wreckage in the creek bed.
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Omaha
Mineola
Iowa
Council Bluffs
D. D. Turker
George Wilson
Jesse Davis
John Butts
Stanverry
Tucker
Wilson
Boy Injured In Collision Near North Lawrence
Albert Falls eleven escaped serious harm after his bicycle hit a Chevrolet sedan driven by Eben Ramsey of Sonora California on Highway 40 near city limits. He was bruised and shaken but not seriously hurt. taken to his home for a doctor’s visit. Bamley not held liable. Cancer mortality linked to height, study notes tallest groups most affected.
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Albert Falls
J. B. Falls
North
Seventh Street
Eben Ramsey
Sonora
Calif
North Lawrence
Bamley
Million Dollar Whisky Cargo Seized on Nerissa
New York July 30. Customs agents seized a cargo of alleged pre war rye whiskey valued around 1 million dollars at retail. The contraband was in kegs hidden under pickled herring, brought from Halifax aboard the Red Cross liner Nerissa, which docked in Brooklyn yesterday.
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New York
Red Cross
Nerissa
Halifax
Brooklyn
Flying Circus opens in Lawrence with free tickets for youths
Journal-World declares Lone Star Flying Circus will perform four miles north of town near Midland with two large National Air Transport monoplanes and one monocoupe. The show starts at 2 36 with free passes for children under 14 within 25 miles. Tickets distributed tomorrow at 10 am.
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Shorty” Radack
Mike” Paskrich
Journal-World Office
Journal-World
tFleing
Lawrence
Fircus
Lone Star Flying Circus
Charles W. Hardin
National Air Transport
Arto 1 Goebel
Pacific Ocean
National Guard
Town
Midland
LU. S
Hardin
Hoover At Home On Stanford Campus July Visit
Herbert Hoover Republican nominee arrives at his Stanford home at 10 15 after a Washington trip. Ceremonies planned for San Francisco and Palo Alto are postponed due to the death of Mrs Hoover’s father C D Henry. Hoover’s Nevada trip update brings encouragement from Governor Balzar and state chairman N H Getchell and other supporters.
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Cal
Herbert Hoover
Stanford Campus
Washington
San Francisco
Palo Alto
Leviathan Mail Theft Charge Arises From Sea Voyage
New York July 20 AP Arch ibald Chapman assistant linen keeper in the steward's department was charged today with stealing registered mail from the United States liner Leviathan between July 16 and June 22 while the vessel Seas on the high seas. Chapman held in 7500 dollars bail for a hearing on August 9 before United States Commissioner O Neill. He is from London England and the Leviathan docked here yesterday. Loss estimated 4000 dollars after review by inspectors and detectives who investigated the robbery and checked mail senders.
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New York
Archibald Chapman
Steward's Department
United States
Chapman
O'Neill
London
England
Commodore. Cunningham
Iit
Four youths held up tourists near Leavenworth chase ends in seizure
Lawrence officers captured four Kansas City youths accused of a roadside holdup on tourists from Ohio near Tonganoxie. A stolen Chrysler sport roadster was recovered, and $118 taken. One suspect was shot in the jaw during a brief pursuit. The four, who claimed California residence, were returned to Leavenworth County for questioning.
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Lawrence
Kansas Citys
Ohio
Tonganoxie
Kansas City
Leavenworth
Isto Hoffman
Lnibiee
Will Johns
Hoffman
Willa Stumbaugh
Howard
Kelvey
Paul Blair
Slumbaugh
Johnny Dunn
Missouri State Penitentiary
Jefferson City
al ‘Hughes
James Messer
Donald Cooper
John Ingalls
James Weed
Seventh and Locust Streets
Stambaugh
Hughes
Chrysler
Stumbaugh
William Brett
Leavenworth County
Fred Kulman
Fred Kalman
Walter Diener
Marie Diener
Napoleon
Hutchinson
Kulman
Fire on Motor Bus Southeast of City Is Quickly Put Out
A Yellow Way motor bus bound for Oklahoma City and Tulsa caught fire about 10 30 this morning two miles southeast of Lawrence on highway 731. Gasoline in the carburetor ignited when the motor backfired. The driver and ten passengers extinguished the flames with dirt. A passing motorist alerted a filling station and the fire department, which arrived to find the fire out. The bus resumed its journey after minor motor work.
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Oklahoma City
Tulsa
Lawrence
Fire Department
Japs and Chinese Clash Near Shanghai Airport Action
Reports from Shanghai indicate Japanese troops clashed with Chinese regulars at Tsunanfu as Japan sought to disarm Chinese infringing on the Japanese railway zone. Details are scarce and unconfirmed by independent sources. Indianapolis judge denies rehearing for D C Stephenson in habeas corpus case, keeping life term in murder of Indianapolis girl.
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Shanghai
China
Tsunanfu
Stephenson
Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana Supreme Court
D C. Stephenson
Ku Klux Klan
Wheat Receipt Volume Sets New Record at Kansas City
Kansas City July 20 AP All previous single day wheat receipts at the Kansas City market were broken as 1128 cars arrived from Kansas Oklahoma New Mexico Colorado and Nebraska The prior record was 1109 cars set July 24 1926 Through this week 5297 cars have been received and the weekly record stands at 6344 cars for the period July 26 to August 2 1926 Elevators are operating around the clock to handle moisture content reported as high as 18 percent due to moist wheat.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Colorado
Nebraska
Sunday Union Service Welcomes Rev Ross Smith in Lawrence
Rev Ross Smith of Friends church Lawrence preaches first time at union service in South Park Sunday evening presided by Rev Charles A Richard. Miss Margaret Drennon will sing with Ruth Ellis on piano. service at 7 45 pm led by James W Thomas. Rain backup at First Methodist.
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Ross Smith
Friends Church
Lawrence
South Park
Smith
John Nelson
Lawrence Goithin
Charles. A. Richard
The
Christian Church
Ministerial Alliance
Margaret Drennon
Alice Moncrieff Jn
School of Fifine Arts
University of Kansas
Wvill
John
Prindle Scott
Walte, Gale
Ruth ‘Ellis
Pnnes W.W. Thomas
Direcor
Twenty Air Trippers Take Off From Spokane Tour
Spokane dispatch reports twenty airplanes of the national air tour leaving Spokane for Missoula. Led by Mrs Phoebe Fairgrave Omil[e] the field’s sole woman pilot, the group departed shortly after 9 am with aircrafts at one minute intervals. Cat R Robertson attempted the first takeoff in a Curtiss Robin but soon returned due to engine trouble, then resumed after adjustments.
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Wash
National Air
Missoula
Mont
Phoebe Fair
Greave Omile
Cat R. Robertson
180 on Dairy Tour Brings 1000 to Douglas County Farms
More than 1000 people attended the first annual Douglas County Dairy Tour organized by the farm bureau and the cow testing association. The morning visited seven farms with a neon program at the George J Bahnmater farm northeast of Big Spring. Prof H Cave of Kansas State Agricultural College spoke on Kansas dairy conditions as herds were inspected. A limestone pulverizing demonstration was planned after luncheon. Local businessmen joined the tour.
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Farm , Bureau
George J. Bahnmater
Big Springs
Banmater Farm
H., Cave
Kansas State Agcultural College
Kansas
Oakland Bank Bandit Takes $3,432 In Broad Daylight
An armed bandit held up the Broadway branch of the American Trust Company in downtown Oakland at 10 am. He jump over the counter, grabbed $3,432, and fled in a commandeered car with a man and a woman inside. The vehicle sped toward Berkeley after the robbery.
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Bandit
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Cal
Trust Company
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Berkeley
Smith
Cappon sues Kansas U for 472.76 salary in district court
Franklin C. Cappon, University of Kansas football coach, filed suit in district court seeking 472.76 dollars in unpaid salary for 1927-28 claiming a contract balance was due. The petition cites an August 29 1927 letter from Dr F G Allen detailing funding and payment arrangements. Cappon resigned November 24 1927 with resignations from assistants noted. he argues resignation effective September 1 and salary should run to then. Judge Hugh Means was away and a hearing was expected early next week.
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University F of
Kanse
Shroval
Edward M
Boddinton
Kansas City
Kans
K- U
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H. Lindley
Hugh Means
Kansas
City
C. A
Miller's
District Court
Geraldine Estes
John Estes
Kansas City Youths Sentenced in Store Robberies
Three Kansas City Kansas youths were sentenced to ten years each in the Missouri penitentiary for first degree robbery. George Williamson Gwynne Hentschel and Jerry Grindrod pleaded guilty to robberies of six grocery stores and two filling stations. Grindrod admitted aiding in one robbery. charges against Hentchel’s 18 year old wife and a Harsons girl were filed.
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Kansas City, Kan
Missouri Penitentiary
A. S. Lyon
George Williamson
Gwynne Hentschel
Jerry Grindrod
Hentchel
Harsons
Kans
Nine KU masters oral exams in summer session
Summer session at the University of Kansas will conduct oral examinations for master’s degrees during the present four week period. Several students completed the first term exams. The committee includes Professors Twent Arthout Bishop Tufney and Witty.
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Sever
Ee A. R. Baldwin
L., Bouska
D. Cruma
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A. D
Fisher
G. B. Mitchell
Leo J. Reed
Anthony Scalapino
Paul. Winening
Twent
Arthout
Bishop
Tufney
Witty
Esee
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