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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1926
Page
4
The Topeka State frames a story about several Teemer state raiders who recently fled their homeland, finding exile as a refuge. Their achievements are noted as significant given Kansas's history as a place of departure and return for notable figures.
In a drafty report from a state convention era, a delegate named Gur' grapples with the gap between dream and duty as he aims to serve as an official delegate at a future biennial meeting. A governor boom emerges in southeast Kansas, highlighting Republican hopes and a controversial crop-farm candidate for Congress, promoted by editor Ral Portas.
The piece portrays a turbulent Iowa primary scene with Senator Brankhart and Cummins linked to a farm vote drive. It notes farmer discontent, populist echoes, and Republican divides as candidates denounce party figures while farmers' prices and rural distress fuel political agitation.
The article discusses a new Hawes Plan urged by the Vice President to aid American farmers, framing it as a potential parallel to the Dawes Plan that helped Europe. It notes political momentum, debates over timing, and references Topeka politics and past remarks by Chancellor Lindley about life’s deadlines.
The University tonight confers nearly S06 degrees and diplomas as faculty recall past commencements and note steady growth alongside state progress. The graduating class marks Kansas’s journey over a lifetime, while a Turkish-British oil dispute over Mesopotamian fields shifts toward revenue sharing and avoidance of war.
A brisk note filled with local updates mentions a Dr. Naismith’s daughter’s burn from hot water, plans of a Postmaster Caldwell and daughter visiting Ohio and the East, Helen Thompson returning to Seattle with Claudia Pendleton, and Mrs. Mahlon Newlin and daughter heading to California. It also lists a class reunion of '81 members including Haworth and Mrs Sears Lawrence, plus today’s events from independence resolution to Kiwanis in Montreal and Good Roads conventions in Santa Monica.
A trove of small town items recalls 50 years ago with news of a fisher policeman, a wolf gift to Ottawa, a chemical samples shipment to Professor Pat in Pick, and a burned bath house near the river bridge. Fire crews failed to save the Quincy New York corner frame house built by Ex Mayor Grovnor. An elegant wedding tied Robert R Moore to Emma H Craveley, with Rev Phillips presiding and guests later dining before the couple’s trip to Topeka. Major B Stevens departs Baldwin City for Wisconsin. Lawrence musicians join Saratoga band with My Leeper added on piano.
Senator Albert B. Cummins seeks renomination in today’s Republican primaries. A veteran of the U S Senate since 1908, he has been indorsed by the state three times and currently runs on a record as a Coolidge Republican with focus on transportation and industrial management. He began as a railroad worker and studied at Waynesburg and Cornell Colleges in Town. Also reported, trouble in Poland with mutiny near Vilna and unrest in annexed provinces. real estate transfer shows Hannah F Oliver to Maude Landis for south half of lot 47 Kentucky Street for $2 000.
Hollywood worries about the shift from stage to screen as Allan Dwan predicts colleges will produce complete motion picture dramas. He notes letters from college theater figures urging screen courses and envisions producers and directors scouting college plays for new talent, turning class performance into film careers.
Four men in Montevideo are under arrest on charges of complicity in Friday morning’s bomb blast in the American legation entrance hall. The attack, aimed under the minister A Grant Smith’s office, sent debris through the hall but injured none. Authorities link the act to extremist sympathizers with Sacco and Vanzelli, noting pre-bombing threats and distributed leaflets declaring North American justice would soon commit crimes.
London June 7 AP Snob bishopness and selfishness have killed the British Actors' Association declares G Fisher White a former member of the council The council resigned as membership and funds declined There is a strong cleavage between provincial and London actors He says leading actors supported the association before 1919 when it became a trade union but since then have given it up They object to being organized with stage hands and other theatrical employees
Wichita police report May 1930 set a department record with 1,408 cases tried in police court and 1,041 convictions. Arrests for traffic violations topped 857, 61 cars recovered, 46 reported stolen, including two long-missing autos. Three automobile fatalities occurred and overall auto accidents declined from April. The month also featured a wind speed note at one mile altitude.
An eastern tender seeks adventure in the Rae Mountain district during the Boers era and meets a mysterious woman amid mining claims and stagecoach peril. Buck and crew struggle through canyon roads, crowbars, and pack trains, preserving realism while chasing romance and danger.
In a frontier tale Buck Hasden and I plod along a muddy mountain road from Plested's toward Catlow, facing a collapsed rock and a backloaded wagon. A creek roar and a looming canyon block progress as a stagecoach arrives, heightening a tense moment between us.
The narrator and Buck press on across snow and plains continuing along the old Ute trail. Buck grows wary as one horse sinks through crust and another plunges, throwing the pack and gear into the snow. A race against the elements unfolds with the trio facing mounting difficulties. (TO BE CONTINUED)
An AP dispatch from Washington notes Six senators signed an appeal to Iowa voters urging scrutiny of the Brookhart nomination in the Republican primary. The document warns the outcome will influence public questions in Washington, including the right of states to seated representatives. Churchill narrowly escapes car collision in England. he is uninjured.
Topeka June 5 AP Little if any wheat is beginning to fret between Florence Kan and Wichita Kan said S D Flora chief observer in Kansas for the United States weather bureau when told today a widely known crop expert has pronounced some of the wheat in that region near the limit of endurance Mr Flora pointed out that all parts of Kansas have been enjoying cool weather for the last few days A good general rain would do much good he said If any Wheat fields are beginning to fire the condition is very focal J Mohler secretary of the state board of agriculture declared Kansas a wheat needs a general rain and expressed doubt that dry weather has caused much damage We shall answer that report in our monthly crop review next week he added
Emporia county officials were surprised when Mrs Helen Burton asked for a higher home valuation. Most witnesses argued the valuation was too high. Open pavement project advances in El Dorado as a new stretch of paving nears completion within a month. Faris underground railways record 140000000 passengers in the first quarter of the year.
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