Creager delegates in contest overshadow Hoover fight
Four Texas at large delegates backed by Creager won seats at the Republican convention amid a heated dispute with the Wurzbach faction. A later South Carolina token seating and Tennessee gatekeeping followed as the committee forges ahead with ratifications and withdrawals. The Italia airship missing in the Arctic spurred multiple search efforts from Hobby, Norge, and Soviet forces, with no trace found to date.
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Kaunas
Merhert Hoover
Cadar
Wurzbach
South Carolina
London
National Committee
Mth
Carolina
Lowder
South Caroline
Tennessee
Fey Morbert
Hoover
Pershing for Return His Boom Discussed
General John J. Pershing sailed from Paris to Cherbourg on the Leviathan after a sudden call to return home. Reports in Kansas City and Washington say he is not a likely Republican presidential nominee, though his name has surfaced as a possible dark horse. Friends say his departure was not tied to politics and no definite travel plan was announced beyond a return date.
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John Fe
Cherbourg
Pershing
France
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Kaus
Kansas City
John J. Perking
Dirk Horse
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Nebraska
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Lowden in Saturday Chicago June 6 AP report
Chicago dispatch notes Republican presidential candidate Frank O Lowden in Kansas City for convention activities. Buck, manager of the entourage, has been in Missouri City for several days. Kansas City lawyer H Evans dies, attributed to sleeping sickness after a two week illness.
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Lowden
Kensas City
Sempas Aty Buck
Ensign
Missouri City
Phillies Drop First Game Of Three With Chicago
Philadelphia Nationals lose 5 to 3 in the opening game of a three game set with Chicago. Wil Williams pinch hits for Friberg and homers in the seventh with one aboard. St. Louis and Brooklyn split. Brooklyn adds an eighth inning rally for a 8 to 7 win on June 6.
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Aoe
Philadelphia Nationals
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Friberg
Chiealo
Malone
Bush
Jones
Hartnett
Miller
Walsh
Schulte
Isburgh
Boston
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Henline
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Mitchell
Wilson
Aldridge
Faulkner
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O'Farrell
Kansas City Area Weather Forecast Update
Kansas forecast shows fair tonight with unsettled conditions possible Thursday. Temperatures rise Thursday night. Roads vary with cities Hutchinson Ottawa Arkansas City Topeka Dodge City Coffeyville Wichita Emporia Salina Pittsburg and Coffeyville noted for rough or muddy conditions. Temperatures yesterday and today cited. tropical insects and railway ties mentioned in stray details.
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Kansas
Hutchin
Sony
Bird Wing Flier Given a Tryout in St Augustine
A large ornithopter built by Captain George White of New York flew over a beach in St Augustine Florida during a tow test. The craft rose for about 200 feet as a car towed the flier along the shore. A return run caused a broken wooden elevator control requiring minor repairs. White plans another attempt with favorable winds and without towing assistance.
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St. Augustine
Fla
Piper
Zoot Power
George White
New York
White
Union Pacific Files Tax Suit Against Douglas County
The Union Pacific railroad sues the Douglas county board of commissioners to stop tax collection of 4293.32 on property in Gravit township within the benefit district. A Topeka hearing before Judge John C. Pollock is set for June 2 after a subpoena to county clerk C. C. Bowman. The railroad owns about 70 acres with track and station, valued at 716,000 with tax at the same rate as other benefit district property, under one mill. The goal and outcome will be decided at the hearing.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Board of Commissioners
Douglas County
Youth Held Under Guard After Slaying Connection
Edgar Parks ten year old suspect from Joplin was moved to county jail under armed guard after confessing to involvement in the slaying of Perry C. Brite, a Las Vegas cattleman. Authorities feared possible violence, three guards posted at the jail. Parks has no local police record.
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Las Veras
N. Mi
Edgar Parks
Joplin
Perry C. Brite
Las Vegas
Goodwater
Ariz
Parks
Brite
Edwboys
Joe Romero
N. M
Ertireman
Baxter Springs
Krsi
Pp- Hine
Nolice
Detroit News Payroll Heist in Wild West Style
Six or seven armed men robbed the Detroit News offices shortly after 11 am trapping over 150 employees on the second floor. They looted most of the $65,000 payroll, wounded two officers and two bystanders, and fled in a car parked outside. Shots were exchanged with police on Lafayette Boulevard. no bandits believed wounded.
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Detroit
Detroit News
Wild West
Strle
Lafayette Boulevard
Japanese cabinet says Chang alive in serious condition
Tokyo reports say war minister informed the cabinet that Chang Tso Lin, former Peking dictator, survived a bomb blast near Mukden but was seriously injured. Foreign office notes deny death claims and report condition improving. Cabinet pledges protection of Japanese nationals in Manchuria and Morgania and vows neutrality over China’s leadership. Also: George Fraker vs Nina Dias damages suit heard in district court this morning and afternoon.
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Tokyo
Forie
Chang
Tso-Lin
Peking
Mukden
Foreign Office
Tso- Lin
China
Manchuria
Morgolia
George Fraker
Nina P. Dias
Ning P. Didp
Perky
Colusias Takeoff Set For Thursday in Transatlantic Run
Miss Mabel Boll plans a nonstop flight from New York in the Columbia toward Europe with pilots Oliver Le Boutilier and Arthur Argolls aboard. The mission aims to cross the Atlantic with fuel loaded, weather conditions uncertain and destination not fixed.
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Curtiss Hield
N. Y
A. P
Mabel Bell
Screw
Roosevelt
Field
Question over legality of senate committee meetings
Washington files show the Senate committee hearings tempers flare as Robert W. Stewart of Standard Oil refused to answer, defense counsel challenged, and prosecutors seek to strike testimony related to the Fall-Sinclair conspiracies and prior motions. Meanwhile five Army officers are ordered to Paris to study French tactics, sailing July 7 from New York. Major Robert W. Strong and Major Richard K. Sutherland from Fort Leavenworth head to Saumur cavalry school and Ecole de...
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Washington
Twai Senate
Robert W. Stewart
Standard’ Oil Company of Indiana
Len A. Raver
Edward J. Bullock
Indiana Company
Stewart
Siddons
Sinclair
United States Army
Paris
War Department
New York
Washin
Robert W. Strong
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Cavalry
Saumur
Richard K. Sutherland
Ecole de
County office candidates file for August primaries
Three Republicans filed for county offices: D. F. Smith district court clerk Louis Menger probate judge and John F Metsker county treasurer. Two Democrats filed: Mrs Fima R Corey county superintendent of schools and E G Harbour precinct committeeman Wakarusa township. Attorney General Resigns after impeachment vote.
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D. F. Smith
Louis Menger
Nebate
John F. Metsker
Fima R. Corey
E. G.L. Harbour
Wakarusa Township
Farm loan system shows turn in tide says 1930s report
Washington June AP reports the federal farm loan board in its annual review says farm values have bottomed and are improving. It notes some banks were mismanaged and three failed, but asserts the farm loan system remains sound with about 2.5 billion dollars in loans outstanding as of December 31 and should help farming communities under Eugene Meyer’s improved oversight.
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Washington
Federal Farm Joan Board
Eugene Meyer
Farm Loar
Half for Hoover in preconvention report
The Senate Investigating Committee listed campaign expenditures of all presidential candidates at 731087.75, with over half attributed to Secretary Hoover. Hoover's Republican expenditure was 380822.11, leading the list of fifteen candidates examined as the panel wraps its work until after the convention.
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Jone
Senate Investigating Committee
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Steiner
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Dawes
Lewden
Watson
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Norrig
Tilchcork
Potherene
Smith Reed
Sargent Held in Kansas City as Appeal Proceeds
Frank Sargent, a Lansing bank burglar convicted of burglary and attempted arson, is in custody in Kansas City as his appeal to the state supreme court proceeds. Bondsman C. Clark had obtained Sargent's $5,000 appearance bond and requested arrest. His wife Julia Murray, once cashier, remains sentenced to five to ten years at the state industrial farm for women.
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Topeka
Frank Sargent
Penytiary
First State Bank
Lansing
State Supreme Court
Wto
Kansas City
Supreme Court
3. C. Clark
Sargent
Ben
Lindley to Leave Tonight for Coast
Lindley travels to the Pacific coast to deliver the baccalaureate at Washington State College Pullman on June 14 and will also speak at the University of Idaho Moscow and Southern branch at Pocatello. He already left for Kansas City for the Pembroke school and Kansas City Teachers College commencements. Dailey Wins in Indiana
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E. H. Lindley
Pacific Coast
Washington State College
Pullman
Wash
University of Idaho At
Moscow
State University
Pocatello
Dr. Lindley
Kansas City
Pembroke School
No Protest Filed On East Fifteenth Street Project
City and county commissioners meeting as a joint board declared the project a public utility after no protests were heard or filed by property owners. The plan calls for paving east Fifteenth Street to the city limits and a 30 foot slab on Highway 10 with possible curb and guttering and plans to be ready by year’s start. State and federal aid are anticipated, with cost shares outlined and a box of cigars presented to attendees by W H H Martin in acknowledgment of a legal dispute over highway signs.
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East Fifteenth Street
Court House
Fifteenth Street
Barker Avenue
Cemetery Gate
Walter , Thiele
C. E. Lindley
F. Su. Lawrence
sueTe
X. J. Kennedy
Althot
Duglas County
H. M. Marshall
Kennedy
W. H H. Martin
National Sign Company
Ottawa
Mr. Martin
Supreme Court
League council defeats Polish Lithuanian dispute resolution
In Geneva on June 6 the League of Nations council rejected a quick settlement proposal for the Polish Lithuanian dispute. France and Britain publicly declared no settlement is imminent without direct negotiations. Premier Wladymarts of Lithuania was the sole vote against the measure as unanimity was required.
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League Council
Wlademarts
Lithuania
France
Great Britain
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League of Iions
M. Paul Doncaut
Briand
Grent
Austen Chamberlain
Local clothing merchant George B Sheets suffers heart attack
George B Sheets a well known local clothing merchant was stricken with a severe heart attack on the front porch of his home at 622 Ohio Street yesterday afternoon. He was taken to Simmons Hospital unconscious and in critical condition but improved by this afternoon. Mrs J W Dyche his daughter arrived from Oklahoma City to be with him.
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George B. Sheets
Ohio Street
Simmons Hospital
Sheets
Oklahoma City
Killed in Derailment Near Fanshawe Oklahoma
A Rock Island freight derailment near Fanshawe Oklahoma early today left Bailey a 17 year old dead and his 20 year old brother maimed. Two other men in the party of about 14 who were riding the train sustained light injuries and were not identified. The train crew were unharmed.
Voliva Counsels Byrd on Flying the Flat Earth
New York June 6 AP Wilbur Glenn Voliva Zion City overseer says Richard E Byrd may fall off the earth if he flies over Antarctic plateau He warns Byrd against crossing icy mountains fearing he will not return after his four month Europe tour and reiterates his flat earth theory in a radio or press setting
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New York
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Richard E. Byrd
Antarctic
Byrd
Zion City
Ldconia
Europe
Enroll For Term At University Of Kansas Summer Session
KU students actively enrolled for the first six weeks term with registration at Robinson gymnasium and business-office payments to bursar Karl Klooz. Total uptake may match last summer, despite a 70-student gap yesterday, as many Kansas City teachers plan summer study. Missouri students face weekend end before joining later, with psychological testing underway in Fraser Hall for new entrants.
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University of Kansas
Robinson Gymnasium
Karl Klooz
Bursar
Santa Fe Demonstration Train Plays Into Kansas Stops
A Santa Fe lime demonstration train aimed at promoting legume crop use will stop in Lawrence on Wednesday morning as part of a 57-town Eastern Kansas tour from July 9 to July 27. The five-car train features crops and soils, farm appliances, 4-H and home demonstration work with speakers from Kansas State Agricultural College and 4-H leaders.
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Santa Fe Railroad
Lawrence
Topeka
Santa Fe Agricultural Development Department
Kansas
R. I. Throckmort
E. B. Wells
Kansas State Agricultural College
M. H. Coe
Marie Antrim
Kingman County
Lloyd, Davies
Lydn County
United States
Gonnie Foote
Georgina Smurtleweite
The
Santa Fe Railway
Kansas State Agricultural Callery
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Prize Unclaimed In Calcutta Sweepstakes Derby Payouts
London June AP Some body somewhere holds a slip worth 262000 pounds about 1310000 dollars due to Felstead Derby victory. This is the first prize in the Calcutta Sweepstakes. The holder of the Hicker has not been discovered. Flamingo’s number second in the derby held by a Calcutta syndicate will pay 131090 pounds while 64000 pounds go to the person holding the Black Watch ticket, third in the classic. The winner yet nameless. John Flexman of London who drew Fairway the favorite in the stock exchange sweep is not downhearted. He sold half his ticket for 16000 pounds and an eighth for 4000 pounds before the big race. With this 20000 pounds, plus mid he gets from Fairway’s participation, he seems content this afternoon. No, he said, I am not going to Monte Carlo. Italy Makes Gift to U.S. Philadelphia June 6 AP A gift by Italy to the United States. A reproduction of the Fountain of Seahorses was accepted by Secretary Kellogg today. The sculpture commemorates the sesquicentennial of the signing of the declaration of American independence. Pullman Cashier a death by own action Kansas City June 6 AP Frank S Lehnerts 54, receiving cashier of the Pullman company here the last eighteen years, committed death by his own action at his home today. Mrs Lehnerts, the widow, said her husband had been in ill health for some time.
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Felstead
Calcutta Sweenstakes
Hicker
Flamingo
Calcutta
John, Flexman
Fairway
Stock Exchange
Flexman
Monte Carlo
Italy
U. S
Pullman
Kansas City
Frank S. Lehnerts
Pullman Company
Federal Reserve Banks Set Rediscount Rate at Four Percent
The Federal Reserve Board announced that the Kansas City Fed, effective tomorrow, has established a rediscount rate of 4 1 4 percent placing all twelve Federal Reserve banks on a four percent basis.
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APJ
Federal Reserve Board
Kansas City Federal -Reserve Bank
Federal Reserve Banks
Lawrence Board authorizes school repair and curriculum plan
Lawrence Board of Education approved a summer repair program with estimated expenditures of 5477.65 for sidewalks, doors, toilets, windows, and equipment upkeep. The plan also proposes a 6:53 start and later dismissal, 182 steel lockers, and added programs in automatic mechanics and expanded trial arts for boys. A four-teacher English curriculum committee will draft outlines for junior and senior high work. Vaccination coverage reached 1772 protected students, with 802 vaccinated this spring and 434 by doctors. Staff changes include resignations of two senior tech instructors, appointment of a new music instructor, and a kindergarten assistant.
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Tota
Aps
Thes
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Innie
Thian
Stpadium
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Allen
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Marie Gapen
Schpol
Tthe
Ray Boyevarth
Jane Gordon
Byron’ Bonmeyer
Ruby Kendall
Kindengarten
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Lawrence
Petitioned Smith Nomination Sparks Methodist Protests
Bishop H M Dubose announces a 500000 signature petition opposing Al Smith's nomination for the Democratic national convention. He says he would tear the party if Smith is chosen and notes his leadership of anti saloon groups in Nashville. Mrs B R Corey and son Bill plan a Galveston vacation trip next week.
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al Smith
H M
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Methodist: Episcopal Church
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Anti-Saloon League
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