Hoover weighs candidates for law enforcement commission
President Hoover moves cautiously in selecting the law enforcement commission to study prohibition enforcement and related treasury to justice transfers. Names are many but few confirmed with Elihu Root or Charles Evans Hughes discussed as potential chairs.
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Washington
Mar
Hoover
Law
Iran
Treasury
Justice Departments
Congress
Law Enforcement ‘Commission
Elihu Root
World Court
Charles Evans Hughes
First Day of Spring Temperatures Forecast Across Kansas
Weather bureau predicts fair weather tonight and tomorrow with little temperature change. Temperatures today and tomorrow afternoon around 55 degrees. tonight lows near 30 in north central and northwest Kansas and 35 to 40 elsewhere. Yesterday marked the warmest day of the season for much of the state with Dodge City and Concordia at 70 degrees. light showers noted statewide except the southwest.
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Topeka
Weather Bureau
Kansas
Ph.d. Flota
Mercury
Dodge City
Concordia
Atlanta
Warden
Warden Snook Resigns Over Planting Probe at Atlanta Prison
Warden John W. Snook resigns effective April after protest against what the Justice Department calls planting of agents in the Atlanta federal penitentiary. A department disclosure followed a Saturday order giving him 30 days to resign for alleged utter lack of administrative ability amid two reported infiltrations.
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Atlanta, Gai
John W. Snook
Department of Justices
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Department of Justice
Justice Department
Atlanta
Slavens Bound Over In Car Theft Case Arraignment
Howard Slavens of Kansas City was bound over to the U S district court after arraignment in Phoenix on a Dyer Act violation. Bail set at 2000 was not posted. He and William Clemens are accused of transporting a stolen automobile from Pittsburg Kansas to Arizona. Clemens fled and was later captured in Kansas City.
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Slavens
Kansas City
Phoenix
Ariz
Mar
United States
Howard Slavens
United States District Court
William
Clemens
Pittsburg
Kan
Arizona
Trembley Auditorium Dedicated in Kansas City
William B Trembley postmaster and Medal of Honor recipient from the Spanish American War was honored in Kansas City with naming of the William S Trembley auditorium on the third floor of the Memorial auditorium. Trembley and Edward White reportedly swam the Rio Grande de Pampanga under heavy fire to rescue a boat tied to a raft and helped others cross to safety in the Philippines.
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Kansas City
Kansas’ City
Kan
William B. Trembley
Kansas
Kansas City Memorial
William
Trembly
Edward White
Rio Grande de Pampanga
Philippine Islands
Ohio Man Reunites With Father After 37 Years
Kansas City, March 19. A 37 year search ends as F. H. Bixler of Kent Ohio, believed son of A. A. Wilhite, returns to his father. Wilhite identified him in Kansas City after Bixler, long known as Bixler, sought his lineage and agreed to adopt the Wilhite name. The case follows a mother’s death and a boy left with his grandmother in Emporia Kansas decades ago. Or PRODUCTION DROPS!
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Ohio
A. A. Wilhite
Kansas City
Kan
F. H. Bixler
Kent
Atte
Emporia
Wilhite
Oklahoma
Bixler
Kansas
Proration Cuts Ink in Seminole and California Oil Fields
Proration again reduced output in the Seminole area of Oklahoma and in California fields. The Oil and Gas Journal reports a weekly decline of 32 043 barrels in the estimated daily average production of light and heavy gravity oils in the United States for the week ending March 16 versus March 9. Light oils fell by 36 017 barrels, while a nominal rise in heavy oils tempered the overall drop. Two boys escaped from the Kansas State Industrial School for Boys at Topeka, with a report filed to the Lawrence police.
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Tulsa
Okla
Seminole
Oklahoma
California
Santa Fe Springs
United States
Oil and Gas Journal
Kansas State Industrial School For Boys
Topeka
Lawrence
The Little Clodhopper play at Big Springs schoolhouse
A community production titled The Little Clodhopper will be staged Saturday March 23 at 8 p.m. in the Big Springs schoolhouse. The cast includes Mabel Ruth Day and Miss Julietta Bean with Agnes Whites, Trude Henry Septimus Green, Lea Fritton, and Kenneth Milliken among others. The action shifts from Miss Bean’s country boarding house to Mrs. Chigrson Boggs’ city home with a pie and box supper to follow. admission for those bringing boxes.
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Mabel
Ruth Day
Julietta Bean
Agnes
Charmain Garter
Henry
Septimus‘ Green
Lea Fritton
Ocey Gump
Kenneth Milliken
George Chigger
Russell
Milliken
Chiggerson- Boggs
Mary Milliken
Miss. Bean
Cis
Chigrson-Boggs
Will Graul
Joe Graul
Marcella
Charles Custard
T. J. Custard
R. F. Buck
Charles Oldham
G. W. Cashman
Fairview
Robert Oldham
Wallace County
Berne
Slaughter
Topeka
Harold
John’ Bahnmaier
Cyril Bahnmaier
John D. Henry
Sixth
Madison Streets
Hell
Will Lavin
Topella
Mr. Henry
Lavin
Hen
Local social notes from Big Springs and nearby towns
Sunday gatherings mark visits among Perry, Wise, Johnson, Bahnmaier, and Slaughter families. Notable travel includes Mrs. Clare Waymire from Marysville visiting Harold Slaughter’s home. Farm Bureau plans a regular meeting at the Big Springs president's residence as neighbors share meals and hospitality across Topeka, Lawrence, Tecumseh, and Watson locales.
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Santa Fe’ Hospital
Christ's Hospital
Perry
Chain and Sons
Erhntis
Russell
S. Wise
Clare. Waymire
Marysville
Harold Slaughter
Grant-Johnson
Cecil
Lucille
Anna
Lawrence
Johnson
M. B. Duncan
John Bahnmaier
Topeka
Big Springs
William Bahnmaier
M. O. Christian
Omaha
Herbert Wymer
John Aan
Gigate ‘Bahnmaier
Rand
Ray Cree Ar
RC. ‘Conn
Peka
J. McElvain
Kansa
Nelson Thompson
O. J. Thompson
Big Springs Farm Bureau Group
Garden leader Amelia Hartman to begin work Wednesday afternoon
Amelia Hartman will start the garden project on Wednesday afternoon March 20, joining Papiect Sno YerEe Webber and Henry Hull for a business trip planning in Kansas City.
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Amelia Hartman
Sno yerEe Webber
Henry Hull
Kansas City
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