Ask Bids for Shoals Power Developments
Washington reports bids for the purchase of hydro electric power from the Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals Alabama. Army engineers estimate daily output at 100000 horsepower beginning July 1 to supply power users pending congressional decision. Contracts would be for thirty days native with private power firms offering best government return.
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Washington
Musele Shoals
Ala
Weks
Army Engineers
Wilson
Congress
Muscle Shoals
Alabama
Wilson Dam
Army
Eeks
Amundsen Ellsworth Polar Flight Arrives in Oslo
Lincoln Ellsworth, American engineer and aviator, arrives in Oslo to join Captain Roald Amundsen on a North Pole air expedition. Ellsworth expects the flight to take seven hours if landing is possible, with a 24 hour pole stay for observation before heading to Tromsoe. The naval transport Farm is provided by Norway and sails soon.
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Olso
Norway
Lincoln Ellsworth
Roald Amundsen
North Pole
Revenue Bureau Seeks McGarrens In Tax Fraud Case
Washington reports Internal Revenue seeks James J McGarren Clifford McGarren and John F McGarren held in New Haven Conn on tax fraud charges. They waived preliminary hearings and are under $5000 bonds. They will be transported to Washington for arraignment before Commissioner MacDonald Wednesday.
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Washington
Internal Revenue
James J.,clifford
John F. McGarren
New Haven
Conn
MacDonald
Miners Trapped by Flood at Montague Colliery
Eight miners were trapped by a flood at Montague colliery near Seob wood New Castle England this afternoon. About two hundred workers were in the pit when the inrush of water occurred. all but eight escaped. One survivor reported water reached his neck before he made it out.
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New Castle
England
Mne
Montague
Seobwood
Here
Ater
Kansas Forecast Notes Cloudiness and Showers Ahead
Weather bulletin reports increasing cloudiness with probable showers in the western portion tonight and Tuesday. In the east, showers possible by Tuesday night. Temperatures are not expected to change significantly.
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Kansas
Selling Orders Force Wheat Down in Kansas City
Wheat futures dropped here today amid selling pressure. May delivery fell ten cents at the close, July declined about 41.2 cents, and September was nearly four cents lower. From January highs, May wheat slid 57 to 61 cents, while new crop deliveries dropped 29 to die.
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Kansas City
Aunt Nancy Smith Hurt In Ceiling Collapse At Home
A chimney flue collapsed at 1308 Pennsylvania Street this morning around 9 o'clock, tearing the first floor ceiling and sending Aunt Nancy Smith through to the cellar. The fire department aided in rescue and prevention of fire. She was taken to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. she is said to be near ninety.
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Nancy” Smith
Pennsylvania
Nanicy
Fire Department
Nancy
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
Lawrence
Narwhal barkentine to be turned into film ship
The Narwhal, a San Francisco built barkentine from 1883 famed in Pacific whaling and South Seas trade, will be converted into a motion picture ship. After a dramatic career and a 16 month disappearance, the vessel was sold at auction to a film concern and will head to San Pedro for movie use.
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Los Angeles
Associated Press
San Francisco
South Seas
San Fran‘isco
Barkentine
South Sea
San Pedro
Kansas to Debate USC Team on Supreme Court Question
The University of Kansas schedules two debates on April 8 and April 9. On April 8 in the central administration building auditorium Kansas will debate the University of Southern California on the Supreme Court topic, with Masten White and William Kahrs affirming. April 9 Kansas travels to Kansas City to meet Indiana at Westport High School, with Walker Means and Martin Dickinson arguing the negative.
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University of Kansas
University of Southern California
Central Administration Building
Supreme Court
Kansas
California
Masten White
William Kahrs
Kansas City
University of Indiana
Westport High School of Kansas City
Walker Means
Martin Dickinson
Ministers Resignations Placed Before President Coolidge
Washington reports the resignation of American minister at Budapest Kingery has been received by President Coolidge and may be accepted. Albert H Washburn minister to Austria has also resigned and is being considered for retention at his post.
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Washington
Budapest
Kingery
Coolidge
Albert H. Washburn
Austria
State Department
Sisson Elected President of Northeast Kansas Medical Society
Dr Eugene P Sisson was elected president at the Northeast Kansas Medical Society annual meeting in Leavenworth He will lead the society next year with Dr Horner of Atchison as vice president and Dr Earl Brown of Topeka as secretary treasurer Plans for next year favored sessions in Lawrence or Topeka with Atchison initially chosen for the convention but road conditions risked attendance Dr N P Sherwood spoke during the program in Leavenworth
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Eugene P. Sisson
Notheast Kansas
Medical Society
Leavenworth
Sisson
Horner
Atchison
Earl, Brown
Topeka
Lawrence
N. P. Sherwood
Pecabecneabart Ts Dal
Typewriting contest to be held May 2 in 20 events
Coffeyville Kansas March 30 typewriting students from Kansas high schools will compete May 2 in twenty sectional events. Sectional sites were chosen at a Hutchinson meeting and prizes will be awarded after grading in Salina. Also notes an injury case and grain export figures.
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Coffeyville
Kan
Kansas
S. C. McMillin
Coffeyville High School
Kansas State High School Typewriting Association
Hutchinson
Kansas City
Atchison
Ottawa
Pittsburg
Iola
Independence
Sabetha
Salina
Beloit
Marysville
Manhattan
Cummins Defends Dawes Address Before Iowa Senate
Des Moines reports Senator Cummins says the senate did not resent Vice President Dawes inaugural address defending rule against flibuster. He states nine-tenths of members concurred and notes possible effects on executive legislative balance. Also mentions upcoming Masonic lodge meeting in Lawrence and a violin concert by Professor Waldemar Geltch in Newton with Mrs. Geltch.
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Des Moines
Contary
United States Senate
Dawes
Flibuster
Cummins
Towa
Towa Senate
Senate
Congress
United States
Newton
Waldemar’ Geltch
The
Univerity of Kansas
Geltth
Geltch
Would Get Land Near North Pole Says Arctic Explorer
President Coolidge heard from Donald MacMillan that the United States should press to claim additional Arctic land as Denmark holds Greenland. He urged sending airships Los Angeles or Shenandoah to explore the north for potential American territory and said he plans a June expedition to plant the U.S. flag on new land near the pole.
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Washington
Coolidge
Donald MacMillan
North Pole
Denmark
Greenland
United States
Mr. MacMillan
Los Angeles
Shenandoah
Arctic
MacMillan
Pole
Broadcast Plans For Music Supervisors Meeting
Kansas City program schedule announced for the eighteenth annual music supervisors conference. WDAF will broadcast a grade school choir concert at 3:30 pm tomorrow and a children's vocal concert at 2:30 pm Wednesday with a Jerome Swiftord song recital at 4 pm and a hotel lobby performance at 10:30 pm. WDAF also to air part of the Midwest high school chorus contest Friday afternoon at 3:30, WHB to cover the Friday night section at 8.
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Kansas City
Music Supervisors’ Conference
WDAF
Ellis de Long
Jerome Swiford
Midwest High School
Four men loot Sobel and Kaleko diamonds in New York
Four masked robbers seized Sobel and Kaleko at 45 Maiden Lane opposite the Federal Bank. They bound the jeweler Tevel Kaleko and two customers Frankie Wheeler and another while escaping with unset diamonds valued at 50 000 to 100 000 dollars.
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New York
Sobel and
Kaleko
Maiden Lane
New Federal Bank
Tevel Kaleko
Frankie
Frank Wheeler
Hartford Shifts Witness Links Chapman to Murder
New Britain officer Alfred E. Atwater testified he saw Gerald Chapman shoot Patrolman James Skelly in a New Britain department store on October 12. Chapman remained seated and unfazed as the witness identified him with a pointed gesture.
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Hartford
Conn
Alfred E. Atwater
New Britain
Gerald Chapman
James Skelly
Washington Secretaries Meet Ahead of Geneva Conference
In Washington on March 30 Secretary Kellogg conferred with Weeks Wilbur and Hoover to prepare for the Geneva traffic conference where the United States will be officially represented. The cabinet discussed the American delegation’s attitude for the talks. In New York traffic on the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe shows improvement this year with March 22 loadings totaling 401,692 cars vs 391,126 a year ago.
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Washington
Kellogg
Weeks
Wilbur
Hoover
Geneva
United States
Kelloge
Santa Fe
New York
Atchison, Topeka
Friendly duel with butcher knives ends in death
Sioux City Iowa March 30 a so called friendly duel in a butcher shop left Harold Bates 20 dead in a Sioux City hospital from a knife wound. Bates said he picked up knives and brandished them as swords. Marlow Nichols allegedly misjudged distance and the blade sank into Bates abdomen.
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Sioux City
Harold Bates
Marlow Nichols
Bates
Nichols
Trip Was a Success for Lawrence Boy Scouts in Kansas City
A Lawrence delegation of over sixty boy scouts attended the annual scout round-up in Convention Hall Kansas City. They traveled in cars from local businessmen and visited Swope Park Zoo before supper at Swope Park Presbyterian church. Dan Beard national scout commissioner was honored guest at the evening program which ended around 10 30 p m with most scouts home by 12 30 a m.
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Kansas City
Lawrence
Convention Hall
Kansas’ City
Swope Park
Swope Park Presbyterian Church
Dan Beard
Nagar Holds
Man AS
Faker
Connor Sought in Wellington Eye Treatment Case
Wellington Kansas March 30 Officers believe J D Connor arrested in Kansas City Missouri last week on a charge of giving fake eye treatments to a Oak Grove woman is the Dr Newell sought for defrauding Wellington farmer Frank Hitt of 525 dollars in cash December 3 after a sister received so called radium eye treatments. Authorities traced the description to the Springfield Missouri sheriff and connected the case.
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Wellington
Kas
J. D. Connor
Baltimore
Kansas City
Oak Grove
Newell
Frank Hitt
Conner
Springfield
Restores Employees to Office Washington Post Master General
Post Master General orders restoration to duty of six postal supervisory officials suspended January 2 for alleged influence on the postal pay raise bill. The action follows reconsideration amid ongoing legislative discussions.
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Washington
Postmaster-General New Today
German Election Shifts toward Republic Coalition Runoff
In Germany the first popular presidential election produced seven-main candidates led by Nationalist Karl Jarres with 11.02 million votes and Socialist Otto Braun with 8.2 million. Centrist Wilhelm Marx 4.3 million and others trailed. Jarres fell short of a majority by about 4 million votes, while Braun and Jarres together captured nearly two thirds of ballots. A runoff is set for April 26 to decide the president. The Socialists gained at the Communists’ expense, signaling a potential coalition outcome if a Republican candidate heads the ticket.
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Berlin
Germany
Karl Jarres
Otto Braun
Wilhelm Marx
Ernst Thaelmann
Professor Hellpach
Heinrich Held
People’s Party
Erich von
Ludendorff
Jarres
Braun
Marx
Edwards acquitted in slaying. seeks to reclaim children
Bessemer Alabama March 30 Dr George T Edwards acquitted yesterday of killing his wife amid circumstantial evidence. His first thought after release was to reclaim two children sent December 2 to the home of Mrs Julia Dudley, the wife’s mother, following the tragedy.
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Bessemer
Ala
George T. Edwards
Julia Dudley
de Ataa Se Gps
Refuses Change of Venue in Widow’s Bank Robbery Trial
New Orleans March 30 the state supreme court refused to grant a change of venue for the trial of Nell Wright 17 year old widow of bank robber William Wright killed by police in Mobile Wright is accused of aiding in a local bank robbery totaling 10707 dollars and faces trial on the charge.
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New Orleans
State Supreme Court
Nell Wright
William Wright
Wright
Mobile
Rate hearing on corn fed cattle freight rates
At a Chicago Inter state Commerce Commission hearing Professor John A Hopkins of Iowa State University said the proportion of freight costs in corn fed cattle has risen from 8 to 20 percent since 1923. The session began an investigation started in Ft Worth and continued in Kansas City over a Western territory rate issue. Hopkins argued that cattle prices did not keep pace with rising freight costs. Since 1917 the fat cattle market has shown large fluctuations, more so since 1921 than the stocker and feeder markets. Also reported Bank Looters Secure $15,000. Four robbers, one armed with a sawed off shotgun, held up seven Ashland State Bank officials and escaped with an estimated $10,000 to $15,000.
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Chicago
John A. Hopkins
Iowa State Agriculture College
Ames
Interstate’ Commerce ‘ Commission
Ft. Worth
Tex
Kansas City
National Livestock Association
Prof
Hopkins
Corn
Ashland Sixty Third Street State Bank
Annenone
Riots Close Paris Law School Over Appointment
Paris March 30 Royalist and conservative republican law students at the University of Paris protested the appointment of Prof Georges Scene to the chair of international law. The university council decided to close the school until further notice after clashes with police and a long list of casualties.
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Paris
Associated Press
Law School
University of Paris
Georges
University Council
Scelle
Prowler Shot At West Fourth Street Fraternity Incident
Merle Price fired a twelve gauge shotgun at a prowler near the Alpha Tau Omega house on West Fourth Street around 2 am. Three shots were exchanged but no hits. the prowler fled after a brief pursuit despite Price’s attempts. No police notification was reported.
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Alpha Tau Omega
West Fourth Street
Merle Price
Price
Promick
Fourth Street
Pre Easter Services At Haskell Institute Begin
The third annual pre Easter services at Haskell Institute opened yesterday with B. V. Edworthy addressing the student body on Every day Idealism. He will speak nightly at 7 o'clock in Haskell chapel as the public attends the series of addresses. Schedule lists daily topics from March 30 to April 5 including Every-day Facts and Every-day Hunger.
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Haskell Institute
B. V. Edworthy
The
Kansas Yourm
Edworthy
Haskell Chapel
Haskell
Mystery Candle Winners at Kansas Electric Power Co
The candle contest at the Kansas Electric Power Co office drew about 1500 guesses. Benton Harmer won first prize a Silver coffee set with 85 hours 45 minutes 50 seconds, Ralph Shields placed second, Orill Henover third. Other winners include Mrs H J Vetter John Lenton Karl Erwin and many more across multiple streets. A Notre Dame Cathedral jumper was reported in Paris at 225 feet, body crushed on pavement. Listen in with Hanna.
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Kansas Electric Power Co
Benton Harmer
Tennessee Street
Ralph Shields
Kentucky Street
Orill Henover
Mississippi
Arkansas
K. L. Paulson
Se Sang
Rotarians urged to foster international goodwill
Dr Herbert J. Rossington of Belfast spoke at Wiedemann's Rotary luncheon urging Rotarians to advance international friendship and peace. He cited wartime memories, Emerson Hawthorne and Lowell influence, and called on Rotarians to act to foster world peace while noting Anglo American friendship and Unitarian centenary celebrations. Stock prices declined.
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Herbert J. Rossington
Belfast
Ireland
Rotary
Wiedemann
Rossington
Thenia
Americas
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Russell Lowell
England
America
Rossingtom
United States
American Unitarian Association
H. B. Ober
W.C. Simons
Cosmopolitan Club
Fifty Issues Hit New Low For Year Decline Deepens
New York. March 20. A broad stock market selloff sent fifty issues to new low levels for the year. Losses ranged from 1 to 10 percent with no clear external trigger. Traders attributed the drop to a correction of weak technicals after speculative excesses last month and the liquidation of weak marginal accounts.
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New York
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James Simonds
Northwestern University
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