Kansas benefit district road law debated at public hearing
Topeka March 26 AP A public hearing before Governor Paulen's road committee examined the Kansas benefit district road law with criticism and defense. Speakers urged higher gasoline taxes and questioned control of highway building by state and local officials. About 75 residents attended the session as committee members outlined travel plans for continuing hearings across the state.
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Topeka
Paulen
V._Stillings
Leavenworth
Emporia
State Highway Commission
J. Higgins
Johnson County
State Highway Commissions
Ty A. A. Adams
Osage City
Kansas
Scott Hears Committee
Charles F. Scott
Doracator
John W Gardner
John A Hall
Pleasanton
Frank I. Merrill
Ellis
Panic
Yorrest
Cimarron
Titanl Stockmant
Lynn R. Brodrick
Narysville
C. Mc Surney
Kingman
Crept Kat
Ounty Commissioners of
Couny
Salina
W. V. Buck
State Board
C. 0. Wolf
Ottawa
State Board of Sebterinary Examiners
Managua Parade Demands American Supervision of Election
In Managua on March 26 American flags dominated a rally for General Moncada Liberal presidential candidate. A banner proclaimed Nicaraguans welcome fair election while the McCoy law, giving American supervision, is in effect by decree after a failed vote. One hundred Marines arrived, with 390 more aboard Roch ester and Denver distributed between Leen and Chinandega for interior deployment.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Moncada
House of Representatives
Rochester
Denver
Leen
Chinandaga
Pope Criticises Party In Pontiff Speech
Rome March 26 AP The Pontiff in Osservatore Romano harshly criticises the Italian national Catholic center party for lukewarm loyalty to the Holy See and surrender to fascist state influence. The pope spoke yesterday to Rome diocesan board members, a “bombshell” in ecclesiastical circles, reading from notes pressed by his hand. Washington March relief bill advances in House committees, McNary-Haugen plan moves forward.
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Rome
Mar
Pont If
Vatican
Osservatore Romano
Osservatore, Romano
Vatican Organ
Kansas Forecast and Weather Update Card
Forecast indicates generally fair conditions with a colder night in eastern and southern sections. Tuesday brings slightly warmer weather in the west and central portions. Ottawa will be cloudy while Arkansas City Coffeyville and Wichita are partly cloudy with good roads except Dodge City where roads are rough. Douglas County roads are good.
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Kansas
Ottawa
Arkansas’ City
Coffeyville
Wichita
Dodge City
Douglas
William Rice Returns Home to Take Kansas Bar Exam
William Ride, son of Mr and Mrs Wil Rice of this city, writes from Washington DC that he will return in a few weeks to prepare for the Kansas bar examination. He holds an A B and LL B from the University law school but did not take the Kansas bar last year. He plans to pursue accounting and auditing work before returning to the capital.
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William Ride
Wil, Rice
Washington, D. C
Bill
Law School
Kansas
May Group Exchanges The New Plan for Building
New York March 26 Grouping several New York commodity exchanges into one building is under discussion not a merger. Under tentative plans rubber produce cocoa and coffee and sugar exchanges would be tenants in a single building with space for a new unlisted securities trading exchange around the current produce area. Senator Jackson Here Smith Jackson of Garnett Kansas announces candidacy for Lieutenant Governor in the Republican primaries. He notes three terms in the state legislature and two as State senator and cites his prior role as chairman of the claims and accounts committee with multiple Lawrence visits.
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New York
Wall Street
Senator Jackson
Smith ZL. Jackson
Garnett
Jackson
Lawrence
Lindbergh urges air mail franking for Congress
Colonel Lindbergh testified before a House committee urging extended franking privileges to the air mail service. He said government use would boost familiarity and adoption nationwide. Lindbergh predicted widespread U S air mail connections and new routes, including a southwest leg, as flying improves.
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Washington
Mar
Lindbergh
House
Congressional
Co x -Haiting
Capitol
Bollingfield
New York
Paris
Congress
Swing
California
Perkins
New Jersey
Birds Plunge Over Horseshoe Falls in Mass Die-off
About 3 000 wild swans crossed ice at Horseshoe Falls last night after the ice bridge broke up. Many wings beat as they plunged over the falls onto rocks and floes below. Groups of eighteen to twenty bodies were seen in the lower river eddies with no precise death toll available. Eds note: other items cover Dr E H S Bailey and his son Austin lecturing to engineers in Detroit Ann Arbor.
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Marit
Falls
Ont
Mar
Horseshoe Falls
E. H. S. Bailey
Austin+Bailey
Detroit-Ann. Arbor
American’ Institute of Radio
Senate Demands S-4 Inquiry Amid Rushed Proposals
Senate stands firm on creating a congressional committee to probe the sinking of the submarine S-4 last December. It rejected a House compromise that proposed a presidential commission with some congressional members to oversee the inquiry. The report notes related tech and industry mentions such as Atwater Kent radio and Hudson automobiles.
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Senate
Washington
Congressional’ Committee
House
Congress
Klan Collects Ten Million in Ohio
In a deposition before Indiana Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliam, J R Ramsey of Gratiot Wisconsin testified that the Ku Klux Klan collected about ten million dollars in Ohio since entering the state. Ramsey, who joined in Springfield Ohio, once led the Night Riders of Ohio and aided a suit to oust the Klan from Indiana.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan
Ohio
J. R. Ramsey
Gratiot
Wis
Arthur L. Gilliam
Indiana
D Ramsey
Klan
Springfield
Night Riders of
Fall to testify in El Paso on Teapot Dome lease details
Washington dispatch reports Albert B. Fall will testify in El Paso Thursday about how he leased the Wyoming Teapot Dome oil reserve to Harry F. Sinclair. The deposition will be read in Sinclair’s April 4 conspiracy trial, as Norris probes other linked figures and profits from the Continental Trading Company case.
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Washington
Senate
Sinclair
Sportsman
Hoth Yall
Fall
Daniel Thew Wright
Coonsel
New York
el Paso
Donic
Hardinng
Norris
Earry
M. i Blackmér
James
O'Neil
Continental
Pe Ee
Department of Justice
Highwaymen Rob Nearby Road in Mexico City Ambush
Scour patrols searched foothills near Mexico City as a gang held up four autos and eleven buses injuring occupants and escaping. Dwight W. Morrow and Genaro Estrada traveled the Puebla to Mexico City route, prompting speculation the robbery aimed to embarrass the government. Witnesses cited slogans of the Catholic insurgents and named leaders The One Eye and The Negro. A pay car was attacked. two were wounded and a gas tank bullet hole noted before the robbers fled. Dora Meistrell, former Lawrence junior high teacher, visited Paola junior high today.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Dwight W. Morrow
Morrow
Puebla
Genaro Estrada
Calies
Nesses
Viva_ Cristo
Rey
Hajing
One
Nepro. i TO
German Aviators Set Atlantic Hop From Ireland
Dublin march 26 AP the Junkers Bremen on the first leg of an east to west Atlantic attempt landed at Baldonnel airdrome after a brief Dublin circuit aboard the Bremen were Captain Hermann Koehl Baron von Huenefeld and mechanic Arthur Spindler. They planned to start for New York at once with secrecy enforced by Irish authorities and expected a 20 to 35 hour hop if winds favor them.
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Dublin
Irish Free State
Bremen
Atlantic
Baldonnel
Templehofer Field
Hermann Koehl
Baron von Huenefeld
Arthur Spindler
Fitzmaurice
Trish Air Force
Baldonnel_ field
New York
Berlin
Junkers
Semplehofer
Ireland
Baron von Hauenefeld
Hermann Koeh
Spindler
Tempichofer
Baldonnet
Baron’ von Huenefeld
Lloyd Steamship Company
Koch
Friedrich Loose
Templehofer
Dessau
Koehl
America
Lufthansa
Fllers
Fastnell Rock
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Baron Ehrenfried
Gunther von Duenefeld
Germany
Europa
Lateer
Jin Ani
New Ulm
Engin ‘Gers
Electrocution narrowly averted in Sterling switch pull
Hutchinson men Fred Camp and Frank Wheley, foremen for United Power, were hospitalized after contacting live wires at a Sterling transformer station. Sidney Hughes shut a switch and likely saved their lives, though both were severely burned.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Fred Camp
Frank Wheley
United Bower
Sterling
Sidney Hughes
Former KU Professor Central To Cotton Market Probe
Former University of Kansas English professor Arthur B. Marsh, ex-president of the New York Cotton Exchange, figures as a focus in senate-house probes into cotton market manipulation. Dispatches from Washington note his prior teaching at KU 1887 to 1889 and later Harvard, with claims that firms on the cotton exchange manipulated May cotton in 1923 using War Finance Corporation funds.
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University of Kansas
Senate-House
Washington
Arthur BR. Marsh
New York Cotten Exchange
Soho Chotees
Cotton Exchange
War Finance Corporation
Marsh
K. U
William Allen
White
Charles
Willis Gleed
George .Peck
Harvard
Lawrence
Contempt Arrest Reported for Philadelphia Sheriff Cunningham
Washington March 26 AP The Senate sent its contempt case against Thomas W Cunningham sheriff of Philadelphia County to the federal district attorney for action A security gag order resulted in his surrender to a Senate deputy sergeant at arms The arrest followed a probe into his 1926 campaign funds and a petition for habeas corpus was filed before Judge Oliver B Dickinson The court set April 5 for argument Bail was fixed at 1000 and Cunningham was released pending the hearing
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Washington
Senate
Thomas W. Cunningham
Philadelphia
Surmingham
United States Senate
Shim
Cai Cunningham
Investi
William S. Ware
Benjamin M. Golder
Cunningham
Oliver B. Dickinson
Federal District Court
Flood waters recede as California rivers danger eases
Flood waters of five rivers in northern and central California and western Nevada were reported receding by 9 a.m. after days of heavy rain. Hope remained that swollen rivers would disgorge before any new rise reaches affected towns. In Sacramento the body of Zachariah Parker, 98, was recovered from the swelling American River. neighbors said he drowned trying to reach high ground from his flooded home, leaving six children.
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San Francisco
California
Nevada
Sierras
Sacramento
Cal
Zachariah Parker
Parker
Cabaret robbery puzzles Kansas City detectives
Four detectives were assigned to catch robbers who held up about 100 patrons at a southside cabaret during a 2:30 a.m. attack. A masked gun battle with police occurred as robbers looted the crowd then fled before capture. Proprietor Sanford escaped and later police noted he had prior liquor charges.
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Kansas City
John CG. Sanford
Ackout
Ae Naat Maten Cid
Sanford
Murder trial defendant jailed for life in Kansas
Alfred K Jella formerly of Lawrence was convicted of first degree murder for the Linwood State Bank robbery and slaying Curtis. Judge Wenderff sentenced Jella to life at hard labor in Lansing penitentiary. George Glenfield testified he fired the fatal shot and helped rob the bank, while Jella’s defense claimed Glenfield acted alone. Authorities tied Jella to the crime through a gun, a car receipt, and witness statements.
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Alfred K.jella
Dge
Lawrence
Ginn
Gurtis
Linwood Posse
Linwood - State ‘Bank
Judea J. H. Wenderff i
Leavenworth
cn _ della
George H. Glenfield
Canada
Jolla
Curtis
Glenfield
Fudge Wendorff
J. B. Kelsey
United States
Kansas City
Mary Prine
Linwood
Prove
Linwdod
Teyshot
Kaw
Kansas
Detroit
Kelsey
Wenderit
Della
Chester
Williamstown
Jella
Heville
Will Johns
George Price
Mary Price
Jellas
Ant x
Emporia
Warren “Heine” Kernes
Wifl l. Monk
Salle
Lin‘wood
Lawrence Aero Club Plans Wednesday Talks On Flight Theory
The Lawrence Aero Club will hold weekly Wednesday meetings at 7 30 PM in the old University Commons building. Dr Lyle Powell of Lawrence will present lectures on Theory of Flight and Aerodynamics, reflecting his aero photography experience and World War I service. The group plans trips to Topeka on April 4 for the All Kansas Air Tour and a Kansas City visit to visit the American Eagle Aircraft factory and other aeronautical sites.
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Lawrence
Topeka
Ceonvoy
Kansas City
American Eagle Aircraft Factory
Explosion in mine cage rocks Missouri mine
Richmond Missouri March 26 AP report says a dynamite explosion damaged the cage and top of Towler Coal Company mine No 2 01. It is believed labor trouble caused the blast. The mine reopened three weeks ago at five dollars per day water scale with 50 to 60 workers after union pickets. A separate item notes Lee McCathy 50 attempted suicide in Goffeyville Kansas but is expected to recover. Classified page advertises voting for U S Automate Fire Alarm Ordinance and Funk's Ambulance phone 119.
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Missouri
Richmond
Towler Coal Company
Thej
United Mine Workers of America
Goffeyville
Kan
Lee
McCathy
U. S
Lindbergh draws diplomats for aviation promo in Washington
Washington March 26 AP Lindbergh resumed flights over the capital to boost interest in aviation. He visited diplomatic embassies drawing passengers including Edgar L Prochnik Austria minister with his daughter Lorinda, Louise daughter of Venezuela minister Grisanti, Dr Santiago Bedoya secretary of Peru's embassy, and Senora Bedoya and Senora De Cesar wife of the Nicaragua minister.
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Washington
Lindbergh
Congress
Edgar L
Prochnik
Austria
Loranda
Sensri Maria
Louise
Grisanti
Venezuela
Santiago
Senora’ Bedoya
Senora, de Cesar
Pull for Lowden at Missouri Republican convention
Republicans of Missouri met in St Joseph to elect seven delegates to the national convention in Kansas City. Supporters of Frank O Lowden led by James My Finch aimed to have the delegation instructed for Lowden or endorse a western agricultural candidate. Debate over instructed delegation caused a shift toward a strong Lowden resolution.
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St. Joseph
Missouri
Larte
Kansas City
Frank O. Lowden
Illinois
Lowden
James My Finch
New Madrid
Treaty Break Urged Over Romania Atrocities
Washington March 26 Representative Berger Socialist Wisconsin introduces a resolution urging the United States to sever treaty relations with Romania. He accuses Romania of atrocities against minorities including Catholics Lutherans Baptists Jews Germans and Makvars and argues U.S. sacrifices in Europe were wasted by supporting such regimes. He notes Romania expanded territorial reach and minority persecution within its borders, demanding action to protect persecuted groups.
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Washington
Rumania
Berger
Wisconsin
Europe
Romania
Omaha Kansas City St Louis air mail line proposed
An Omaha Kansas City and St Louis air mail line is proposed with bids due April 30. The plan notes a connection from Omaha for west bound mail, enabling earlier transcontinental linking via Kansas City and St Louis.
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Omaha-Kansas City-St. Louis
Kansas ‘City
Kansas City
Chicago
Mrs Goodhue Failing Near Death in Northampton
Mrs Lemira Goodhue, mother of Mrs Calvin Coolidge, is failing rapidly at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton as of this afternoon. Dr J E Hayes said her condition worsened since this morning, with uncertainty she will live until her daughter arrives from Washington. John Coolidge will accompany his mother to Northampton.
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Northampton
Mass
Lemira Goodhue
Calvin’ Coolidge
J. EF. Hayes
Cooley Dickinson Hospital
Naselle
Washington
Mar
Post Office Receives Flawless Inspection Report
Pierce, a post inspector, conducted a thorough review of the Kanse Gaye office. He found zero errors in all departments out of 225 possible, praising the postmaster C B Hasford for three years in office and noting the office is in excellent condition with no suggestions for improvement.
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Pier
Daughters of the American Revolution Meet in Wichita
Wichita hosts state conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution with sessions opening at the ban on management and a reception in the Lassen house lounge. Former Kansas governor Harry Allen will speak and a banquet features music. city flags greet visitors as the event runs into Wednesday.
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Wichita
Daughters of the America
Kansas
A. J. Coomps
Lassen
Alfred“. Breese
Onry J. Allen
Thurlow Liemane
Boy Scouts Merit Badges Exam Tomorrow Night
The board of review led by J EB Stonecipher will assess merit badge work and certify Scouts entitled to them. The examining board, headed by Houston, will quiz Scouts for advancement at the Chamber of Commerce rooms at 7:20 PM tomorrow night.
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Ing
Iil
Chamber of Commerce
R. Childs
Court of Honas
Puruier
J. EB. Stonecipher
Themining ‘Board
Houston
Presbyterian
First’ Methodist Church
Stock Trading Sets New Volume Record
New York on March 26 trading on the New York exchange broke the previous volume record with 4,176,200 shares traded. Prices rose, with notable gains of up to 5 dollars, while several stocks reached around 13 dollars a share.
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New York
New York Exchange
Avas
Jacobson
Training School Opens In Lawrence With Evening Classes
The Lawrence Training School opened its session this afternoon at 4 10 o clock with registration and notes on the books all ready for handling. Evening classes begin at 7 10 o clock with Rev Alfred D Grey speaking at 8 o clock. Fire department visitors from Kansas City arrived in a new fire chief and a Chevrole vehicle.
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Lawrence
Fternoai
J.S. Stover
Jinarian
J. E. Stonectoher
Witk
Fox
Alfred D. Grey
Waniego
Kansas City
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Dora Meistrell
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