Navy Department in Surprise Move Signals Crash Probe
The Navy seized documents and chemicals from the Bader airliner crash case amid a wartime espionage act intervention. A naval agent and aides retrieved the items from coroner Bourke after a Washington directive, with no clear explanation given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assaulted
Liberty
United States Navy Department
Mountain
Naval Intelligence Department
Naval
Victor G. Bourke
William Baxter Bader
Buffalo
Bourke
Washington
Roosevelt
Naval Department
Navy
Rates fight over gas charges in Catskills aviation case
Documents obtained from Coroner Victor Bourke in Liberty New York show the Semet Solvay company seeks to terminate involvement in a mandamus petition while the first rate hearing for several gas firms proceeds. The commission claims $3 000 in expenses and $500 in printing costs due to delays and obsolescence of material. The court took the matter under advisement as hearings continue after a 1932 finding fixed 30 cents per thousand cubic feet as a reasonable rate for main line gas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catskill
Naval Intelligence
Victor G. Bourke
Liberty
N. Y
Semet- Solvay Company
Bader
Cities Service Gas Company
Tthe City Gate
Speed in Rate Case Topeka June 13
The Kansas state corporation commission asks the supreme court to force 10 Cities Service gas subsidiaries to filed a motion for rehearing immediately. The commission seeks 3500 in damages due to delays in the rate hearing caused by injunctions in state and federal courts. The case impacts many towns and communities and the investigation has been delayed by pending injunctions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
State Corporation Commission
Supreme Court
Cities Service Gas Distributing Companies
Commission
Cities Service
Senate orders probe of 1934 senatorial campaign expenditures
The Senate moved to investigate 1934 senatorial campaign spending. Senator Clark of Missouri introduced the resolution, which was approved by unanimous consent, authorizing the inquiry into campaign expenditures and related financial matters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
Washington
Clark
KFAU Evening Programs Include Music and Pool
The listed KFAU schedule features a Thursday 45 p.m. swimming pool segment and a Friday 30 p.m. musical program with violinist Helen Stockwell and a piano recital arranged by M Alice Moncrieff. The notice notes the station’s annual programming reviewed by a Special senate committee to assess expenditures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Ashlee
Progran
Helen Stockwell
Alice Moncrieff
Senate
Kansas City Protest Over Airport Temperature Readings
Kansas City's Chamber of Commerce protested to Willis R. Groce, chief of the weather bureau, about airport temperature readings taken within 32 feet of the ground. They argued these readings misrepresent Kansas City's climate by showing a hotter summer than the true city temperature at the Scarlet building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Chamber of Commerce
Willis R. Groce
Weather Bureau
Washington
Baldwin News Aubrey Burgtorf Visits Potter
Aubrey Burgtorf spends several days in Potter with sister Mrs. Floyd Talley while brother-in-law Mr. Talley recuperates from an appendicitis operation in Cushing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aubrey Burgtorf
Potter
Floyd Talley
Mr. Talley
Cushing
Motor Oils Reeal Car Tractor and Gun Grease Freezer
Classified note lists motor oils vehicle and equipment items including car oil five gallon quantity tractor oil five pounds grease and gun grease for sale or trade.
Baldwin Area Persons Travel Virtually Across States
Hospital in Leavenworth and a string of visitors and travelers fill Baldwin's week. Aubrey Burgtort plans an overland trip to Detroit with parents to fetch sister Mrs Alfred Pardee and her son Russel from Baldwin Lawrance. Various ministers, doctors, students and Baker graduates pass through Baldwin for visits schooling and gatherings across Kansas City, Topeka, Chanute and Ottawa while Mrs Mary Martin and Dale plan a Chicago trip for the Century of Progress.
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Leavenworth
Aubrey
Detroit
A. E. Burgtort
Alfred Pardee
Russel
Baldwin
Lawrence
Frank H. Ebright
Methodist Church
Independence
Dean H. Kk. Ebright
Calvin E. Holm
Robert Woods
Bieen
Harvard
Mr. Woods
Parsons
Baker
Dean
Luther C. Leavengood
Lake of the Ozarks
Kansas City
Sedalia
Lucy W. Emery
Mary Emery
Wetmore
University of Kansas
Andrew Welling
M May-Torray
Maude
Warrenton
Francis Yeoman
Chanute
Josephine Yeoman
A. 0. Lockwood
Grace Irwin
California
University of Southern California
Edwin Randall
Seattle
Wash
Topeka
Benson M. Powell
Randall
Baker Vicnic
Epworth League
C. E. Allison
Dorothy Ann
Emporia
James S. Chubb
Robert
Harold
Eugene
Waverly
Mrs. Ford Winters
Mary Martin
C. A. Kalb
Mary Nell LeMaster
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Joseph K. Tanssig
Asistant
Naval Operations
William Bader
Buffalo Chemical
Puffy
KFAU
Baldwin News
Hamar’s Auto Supply
Johns-Manville
Ford
Alpha Chi Omega House
Donald Clark
Ottawa
Smith Leonard
Mr. Leonard
F. J. Baldwin
Burlington
Alvin Rothers
Soldier
Eac
Chicago
Field Museum of Natural History
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