Blame laid for TWA crash near Macon Missouri
Washington reports the commerce department blamed bad weather and faulty forecasts by both government and company meteorologists, plus ground crew errors, for the May 6 TWA crash near Macon Missouri that killed Senator Bronson Cutting and four others. The 907 page report cited five violations of air service regulations and noted pilots Bolton and Greeson tried to land through fog and darkness. It urged enforcement actions against TWA and outlined safety steps including instrument landing aids and radio compass installations.
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Washington
Department of Commerce
TWA
Macon
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
Roper
Tam
Bolton
Greeson
United States Weather Bureau
Sky
Albuquerque
Kansas City
Bureau of Air Commerce
Commerce Department
Bipot Bolton
Sky Chief
Keneas City
Wichita
Amarillo
Tex
Kan
Accident Board of the
Minneapolis Star Sold to Des Moines Interests
Des Moines Register and Tribune associates acquire the Minneapolis Star. John Cowles will be Star Co. president, Gardner Cowles Jr. vice president, both remaining in Des Moines. Davis Merwin named vice president and publisher, all Star staff keep current posts.
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Minneapolis, Minn
Minneapolis Star
Des Moines Register and
Tribune
John Cowles
Associated
The
Register and Tribune
Star Co
Gardner Cowles, Jr
Des Moines Papers
Des Moines
Davis Merwin
Bloomington
Paragraph
the Star
Local notes from Clinton Belvoir community events
Clinton Belvoir notes report guests and visits among Johnson Hade Hume Rice Shellhorn Cayler and Gibler families. Graduation at Lawrence June 1 includes Hall Baldwin Woodward. Church services Nazarene and Presbyterian activities. Baseball games Clinton vs Lecompton with Minton and Men and Midgets teams. Personnel moves include teaching staff changes and new birth Margene. Memorials funeral for M A Anderson. Community birthdays marriages Kennison recovery and Goff wedding in Kansas City June 1.
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Harry Johnson
Colorado
Vitus Hade
Harriet Hume
Manhattan
Francis Rice
Topeka
Richard Shellhorn
Lawrence
Charles Hook
Shellhorn
Fork Lawrence
al Holingworth
Ruby
Carter Anderson
W. S. McKee
Bruce
McKee
Belvoir
Nazarine Church
Charles Nemec
Ivan Gibler
Gibler
Clinton
Mollie
United Presbyterian College
Ward
Samuel
Harold
Alice
Lecompton
Minton
Cletus Lehmann
Mackey
M. J. Murphy
Howard Woodward
Linwood
Torneden
Walter Kampschroeder
Vitus Hadl
Twin Mound
Thomas Kampschroeder
Margene
Howard Petefish
Serval, Jr
Petefish
Charles Kampschroeder
Ebon Anderson
Faye
Edith
Jack
Doris
Mr. Anderson
M. A. Anderson
Big Springs
Airs
Willis Dunn
Valley Chapel
Baldwin Home
Otie Heine
Lucy Heine
Anna
Henry
Louis
Katharine Gibler
Donald Woodward
Garden City
Kennison
Ph Goff
Kansas City
Goff
Dorothy Belles
Managin
Charles Belles
Weather drift brighter as rivers recede in Kansas
Topeka reports a stretch of normal early summer weather with rivers receding and flood conditions easing. Expect partly cloudy skies through tomorrow with possible thunderstorms in eastern and southeastern Kansas, while western Kansas should stay dry. Highs will range from 85 to 90 degrees, lows around 65 to 70, and light showers were mostly confined to the east yesterday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Kansas
Mercury
S. D. Flora
START BAND PRACTICE AT MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL
Junior high band members heading to high school summer band. First practice 8 am Monday in Memorial high school auditorium. Grade school band rehearsal Monday 9 am in Memorial auditorium. Violins and cellos rehearsal Thursday 8 am in the auditorium. C J Vermilion to answer inquiries.
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Memorial High School
C. J. Vermilion
Pioneer Prohibitionist Host at Annual Picnic
Burlingame Kansas June 14 194? Frank M Stahl elder statesman of prohibition hosts his 57th annual Stahl picnic at his home long a Kansas anti liquor fixture. The 94 year old veteran and Civil War and Indian Wars veteran acts as master of ceremonies and predicts a return to nationwide prohibition as Kansas upholds its prohibition amendment.
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Burlingame
Kan
Cp— Kaneas
Frank M. Stahl
Kansas
Carry Nation
Lawrence News Snippets Include Tax Receipt and Remodeling
Will Johns Jr on vacation stays near home amid rain fears. A. M. Gardner reports $274.37 county share of state cigarette tax. The old Graeber building on Massachusetts street undergoing a remodeling with a new front. A Lawrence man shocked by a BO odor realizes it was onions.
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Will Johns, Jr
John
Charles
Banning
Lawrence
A. M. Gardner
Douglas County
Graeber
Massachusetts Street
Security Under Fire in Senate Over Youth Discrimination
Washington reports the administration's social security bill, pushed by Finance Committee Chair Harrison, aims to curb insecurity with a permanent old age annuity. Republican Senator Hastings argues it favors the elderly and harms youth, citing cases of imbalanced benefits. Harrison contends the plan reduces looming costs from $2 billion yearly and is a step toward long term security.
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Washington
Senate
Harrison
Finance Committee
Hastings
Del
Arrison
Fatal tourist cabin fire kills two central Texans
In Waco Texas on June 14 a blaze in a tourist camp cabin killed Guy Anderson 45 cotton buyer of Calvert and Dorothy Buchanan 25 a local teacher. Police started an investigation and planned an inquest to determine the cause as the pair were found amid the fire the woman in a bathroom and the man dying soon after at a hospital.
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Waco
Texas
Guy Anderson
Calvert
Dorothy Buchanan
Buchanan
Anderson
Personal notes on travel and visits across states
Mrs W E Bowersock and Miss Jeannette Bowersock travel to Los Angeles for summer at University of California. Mrs C Y Thomas and three children of Pittsburg visit Prof E F npel rs. Anna Clark departs Byron Oklahoma after four weeks with sister Miss Stella Batterson. CLOSE P D APPLICATIONS
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W. E. Bowersock
Jeannette Bowersock
Los Angeles
University of California
C. Y. Thomas
Pittsburg
E. F. Npelrs
Anna Clark
Byron
Okla
Stella Batterson
Close P. D
Examination to Fill Lecompton Vacancy in Va
Today is the closing date for applications for the Lecompton postmaster vacancy after Miss Agnes Laptad resigned. Applicants send papers to the district manager in St. Louis. The examination date has not been announced but is expected within weeks.
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Lecompton
Agnes Laptad
St. Louis
Test Your Knowledge Seven Classified Puzzles
Test Your Knowledge asks seven trivia questions from a classified page. It includes luck charm terms, cabinet counts, wrens congress, rivers, Bunyan works, mercy quotation source, jus belli, Fond du Lac state, Heeter Prynne, and Nevil Maskelyne with brief prompts.
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Wrens Congress
India
Himala
John Bunyan
Fond du Lac
Heeter Prynne
Nevil Maskelyne
Vinland Drama at First Methodist Sunday Evening
Vinland Players present the religious drama For He Had Great Possessions at First Methodist Church Sunday at 7 45 PM. Miss Vernell Hagerman plays Asenath and Miss Edith Gimbler portrays Miriam under director Mrs Deal Six with a cast including Ben Azel Johanan Zaccheus Bar Timac and others, with Miss Ida Clawson Hunt and George Trovillo providing musical support.
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Vernell Hagerman
Asenath
Edith Gimbler
Miriam
First Methodist Church
Vinland Presbyterian
William Stone Nagon
Ben Azel
Leo Hagerman Bar Timaeus
Larence Hubbard Asenath
Wes Hadassah
Bar Timac Leah
Asnath
Azer
Jericho
Howard Jameson
Lovia Deay
Ida Clawson Hunt
Winfield, Kon
George Trovillo
Doran Deay
Woodstock News Highlights Local Families and Farm Woes
Eskridge couples greet new daughter and KC clinic visit. Richmond principals return, Kansas wheat referendum passes, and community events fill Woodstock area. Flooded Kaw river widens crop losses, celebrations for Children’s Day planned, and 4 H club members enjoy a week of recreation.
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W. Trivett
Eskridge
Kansas City
Olen
Kaw
Woodstock School House
W. W. Wellman
Gene Keers
Caroline June
Tulsa
Okla
Keers
Wellman
Dorothy Rogter
Velma Johnson
Gladys Smeltser
St. Louis
Anna Boydston
J. W. Brittian
Brittian
Oskaloose
Kansas
AAA
Jefferson County
C. T. Hall
D. A. Wellman
Chester Grange Picnic Highlighted By Local Events
June 3 marked Chester Grange annual picnic with community attendance at Woodstock hall. Reports mention visitors Herbert Champion and family, Albert Duree’s R.O.T.C. camp plans in Washington, electrical engineer Bonnie Black’s return home, and alfalfa cutting hampered by rain. Memorial Day Bible verse roll call noted, with next meeting at Mrs. Champion’s.
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Wellman Road
Martin Zook
Ella
Ruth
Earl Zook
Harry Zook
Will Smarr
Will Wellman
Chester Zook
McLouth
Harry
Lawrence
Jim Lobb
John Winfrey
Fall City
J. M. Brittian
J. W. Brittian
Winchester
Kansas 4-H Club
Chester Grange
Jefferson County
Herbert Champion
Omnia
Duree
Albert Duree
K.S.C
Albert
State of Washington
T.C
George Steed
Lila Brady
Chicago
Thomas Boyd
Little Donnie
Robert Graham
Reno
Jesse Graham
Graham
George Welliver
Christian Endeavor
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League of Kansas Municipalities
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A. W. Berger
E. E. Alexander
A. E. Woestemeyer
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Baer
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Max Baer
Associated Press
Des Moines Register
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Dern
Benjamin D. Foulois
House Military Committee
Army Air Corps
War Department
Inspector General
Air Corps
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Carl Hamilton
Mishawaka
CPI
Wiley Post
West Point
Ira Bashein
District of Columbia
White House
Berlin
Germany
Australia
Europe
Midway
Honolulu
Alameda
Calif
Hawaii
Midway Island
New York
Postal Telegraph & Cable Co
Pleasant Grove
Watson Bros. Transfer
China
Japan
Ho Ying-Ching
Mass
Vinland
Woodstock
Audrey Davison
Beulah
Irena Hehn
Elsie Marie Moses
Robert Davison
Clifford Kincaid
Orin Dodd
Octave Ford
Russell Stewart
Oskaloosa
Wellman Chapel
D. C. Russell
Carl Moses
Friends Church
Standwood
Funk's
Funk's Mortuary Ambulance Service
Kans
Estes, Payne & Company
Secrets of the
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Uncle Sam
Lionel Barrymore
Jean Arthur
Chester Morris
Lewis Stone
Mary Myers and Company
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Granada
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T. G. Fitch
Arie
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