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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1928
Page
2
A ten months wage dispute between Orient Railroad and 519 operating employees ends in a friendly settlement. The agreement sets arbitration on grievances and adds 20 cents more per day for work train crews, following President Coolidge’s fact finding commission’s guidance and a prior sixty day truce.
President Calvin Coolidge arrived in Superior Wisconsin after ten days at Cedar Island Lodge. Crowds lined the lawn as he stepped from his car wearing a light gray suit and straw hat. He greeted newspaper men from Washington and spoke briefly, noting routine duties before returning to the lodge. He had earlier enjoyed a seven pound haul of root beer?
Joe Black of Chicago headlines the Bowersock theater revival after remodeling ends, drawing large audiences with his singing violin. The Varsity will remain dark until about August 15. Richard Barthelmess in Wheel of Chance shows for the final time tonight as new electric fans cool the interior.
The Mid-Kansas Oil Company reports Larson No.1 in McPherson County reaches oil sand at 2 077 feet, east and north of McPherson. Estimated producer 1 700 to 1 000 barrels at current depth, near gas wells, on Charles Larson farm. Prince Humbert of Savoy earns public accountant diploma in Turin. joins Fascist accountants syndicate. eligible to vote on deputies candidates.
War brides club formed from wartime marriages by an AP ad in a Chicago classified section. Eighteen British women linked by birth and marriage to Allied soldiers, with Mars Loy Maloney initiating the idea. Phyllis Sheehan elected president and Gertrude Drager secretary as a state charter was obtained.
City health office urges residents to separate garbage and trash for summer disposal. Garbage containers must be leak proof with close fitting tops and kept in place. Trash goes in open containers for city wagons. do not mix glass, bottles, paper, or wood with garbage.
Probate judge L H Menger says the month of June may set a new record as 62 licenses issued by 11 am today tie the prior monthly mark. Three licenses issued yesterday list Phillips Commons of Lawrence. Mildred Marie Day of Sibley. Ralph Cox and Frances Schieffbrein of Topeka. Jackson Briggs and Ruth Mae Hollister of Topeka.
An explosion at the New England fire works plant in Thompsonville Connecticut today killed four workers and possibly a fifth. Named dead are 14 year olds Joseph Anazallotti and John Anazallotti, 43 year old Rosario Sarno, and 19 year old William Dorenki. A fifth man is suspected among those near the building. An automobile with five people was seen near the blast. The cause of the blast is not yet known.
Applications for renewal of cigarette licenses must be filed at the county clerk office of O. Bowman before July 1. The license fee is $25. Names of renewals received by noon include P. B. Barber drug store Lawrence BPOE lodge 595 Lawrence R F Kirby South End Sandwich Shoppe Lawrence H Pasewark K T lunch Lawrence Eudora department store Eudora August J Pierson cigar store Lawrence Wendell Dungan Georges Lunch Lawrence Ernest H Kasold Navajo filling station Lawrence Hitchcock drug store Baldwin Smoke house pool hall Lawrence Weyermuller Brothers pool hall Lawrence W 5 Hoskinson Vinland Art Haglind Baldwin and N D Messer Pleasant Grove.
J A Richardson economics instructor at the University of Kansas was named secretary of the business placement bureau of the school of business. He succeeds J B blocker who left to teach full time and pursue graduate study. Richardson will run the bureau from West Administration building and urges summer graduates to contact the bureau.
WREN schedules include a morning biscuit and pan rne program from 5:30 to 7 00 a m a cooking school at 10 45 a m and a 6 00 to 7 00 p m session featuring Virginia Arnold piano Bertha Alga Perkins contralto and the Waldorf Astoria orchestra In district court this morning Dow Temple filed for divorce from Myrtle Temple including a formal petition seeking dissolution of marriage
The Democratic convention opens in Houston at Sam Houston Hall under a sunlit, crowded arena with photographers perched above and a 30 foot seal backdrop. Notables including Mrs Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D Roosevelt attend as a ceremonial start precedes party business and a 7:30 p m adjournment.
Arthur Merriman Harris, elected president of the Northern Baptist convention, is a retired New York banker who plans active church work with no compensation. Born in Madison Ohio, educated in Cincinnati and Chicago, he worked for NJ Harris & Company in Chicago before moving to New York in 1890 to establish offices for the firm. He retired in 1921 and has held key roles in Sunday school and church organizations, including World Sunday School Association and YMCA, and has served as treasurer of the Ministers and Missionaries Benefit Hears and chairs the finance committee of the Baptist convention.
Valley Grove reports Sunday school held despite rain with attendees from Lawrence. Wednesday June 27 service planned with an interest in serving. Social at Shenwood church noted, and Children’s Day activities planned at Sunnyside. Local weddings, farm work, and road work updates follow, including Marta Lombard and Virgil Groves wedding and various family visits and travels. Elks bowling scores conclude the item.
The New York team beat Cincinnati 4 to 3 while Brooklyn and Chicago faced mixed results. Washington defeated Philadelphia. Detroit topped Cleveland. St Louis edged St. Louis 7 to 4. American Association games included Kansas City over Minneapolis Indianapolis 5 3 and Milwaukee 7 Toledo.
Wealthy Fukien residents build fort-like houses with ground-floor doors and barred upper windows. Watchtowers with rifle loopholes stand nearby, and signals summon armed defenses. Graves near a rice field mark a bandit encounter as locals defend the area.
The Union Pacific team won 3 to 0 over Box Factory in the opening contest of the Industrial League second session. Coffman homered with a run in the fourth and fifth, while Bowers drove in two on a single after Crow’s out. Price walked four and struck out three as he limited hits. Box Factory blamed a fielding error for the decisive plays. The game halted briefly after a disputed first-base call. Organ Factory vs Tee Company was scheduled for tonight at Shedks baseball diamond.
Al Espinosa of Chicago shot 75 in morning rounds to lead the mid-America open at Lakewood. His 54 hole total reached 217 with rival Archie Compson and Leo Diegel tied for second at 222 after 18 holes. Walter Hagen posted 76 for 231, while Maurice Smith and others trailed with 243 or higher.
Dr and Mrs Frank Odell and daughter Eleanor of Topeka visited Lawrence, with Laban J Miles of Pawhuska Okla an uncle of Herbert Hoover. The University of Kansas will host the annual Schoolmaster's Dinner on July fifth at 6 30 in the cafeteria for teachers administrators and future educators. Vera Brown and Bernice Graeber left for an overland Alaska trip via Vancouver and the Princess Louise, planning two months away, with stops at Skagway Whitehorse Dawson Atlin Lake Yellowstone. Meanwhile Mr and Mrs Brown prepare for work in Indianapolis at Attucks High School, with Mrs Brown a music instructor at Northeast High and a Fisk University graduate. Many attendees from town listed including Mrs Rowena twal Maym Miller and others.
A string of weekend visits and family connections are noted across Kansas towns. Mr and Mrs Hadie and their daughter from Eudora visited Mrs Hadie’s sister Mrs Osgood Armstrong last Friday. Herman Baie and family and Frank Miller groups spent Sunday with Ralph Miller and daughter La Jeane in Lawrence. Effie Banks and daughter Miss Lendia Banks from Lawrence spent Saturday night with Herman Banks and family. Other snippets mention Shipman Carter family dinners, Amrose Bigsby’s, and bond-school notes. A separate United Press item reports a mother in Terre Haute, Ind. aged 18, gave birth to quintuplets, the fifth baby born to Mrs Frank Stevens of Taylorville, marking five children born in 28 months with one prior infant deceased.
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