Hoover Italia in Return Campaign Expense Estimate
An AP report from May 11 shows James W. Gould estimating Hoover for president campaign costs under 250000 dollars for the preconvention phase. Expenditures listed include headquarter costs, postage, salaries, travel, and state readings, with Indiana Ohio New York totals cited and donations from Edsel Ford and Julius Rosenwald noted.
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Hoover
Italia
Washington
Enate Investigution Committee
James W. Gould
Hoover For President
Contree
Indiana
Ohio
New York
S. Dc
Cleveland girl plans transatlantic flight to Paris
Carrie Bellet of Cleveland announced readiness to begin a Cleveland to Le Bourget field Paris crossing. She has spent two years preparing with hundreds of flying hours and aims for an all Cleveland crew, hoping to fly in July or August.
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Carrie Bellet
Cleveland Girl
Paris
Cleveland
Atlantic
le Bourget Field
Miss Bellet
Kansas Forecast Signals unsettled night and cooler Saturday
Unsettled tonight in the south portion with rain likely. Tonight turning cooler in the extreme east, and Saturday rising temperatures after noon. Regions including Salina Dodge City Wichita and Topeka show cloudy or partly cloudy skies with roads varying from good to slippery and muddy in places. Temperatures range from today’s low to maximum yesterday, with rainfall unclear.
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Kansas
Unitoria
Salina
Dodge City
Coffeyville
Arkansas City
Wichita
Pittsburg
Banora
Hutchinson
Topeka
Coolidge May Sign Flood Relief Bill
President Coolidge expects to sign the flood relief bill as passed by CORETERA. The measure is under final consideration by government departments and will be sent to the budget bureau. A favorable report is anticipated.
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Washington
Coolidge
Coretera
Budget Bureau
Smalley Elected President of Midwestern Electric Group
R T Smalley of Lawrence Kansas vicepresident of Kansas Electrics Powers was elected president of the Midwestern division of the National Electric Light Association at the closing session of the annual convention in Omaha. The selection clears Smalley to lead the division into the 2026 convention.
Victorian Wins the Preakness at Pimlico
Victorian won the 450,000 Preakness at Pimlico Race Track in Maryland. To Yo was second and Solace finished third. The winner clocked 2:00 1/5 for the 1 3/16 miles. Three entries were scratched leaving seventeen colts and one filly to contest.
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Pimlico Race Track
May
Toyo
Solace
Reds Beat Boston 3 0 To Strengthen Second Place
Cincinnati Reds defeated Boston 3 to 0 at home as Lucas claimed his sixth win in seven starts. Reds backed by second and third inning hits, while Boston managed scattered baserunners. Other scores and reports from the league include rain postponements in New York and Pittsburgh, with varied results in the American League and other circuits.
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Gineinnati
Reds
Boston Today
Lucas
Boston
Cincinmati
R. Smith
Wertz
Taylor
Aml Margrave
New York
Pittsburgh
Brooklyn
Chicago
Vance
Deberry
Nehe
Gonzales
Philadelphia
St. Louis Q
Sweetland
Sshulte
Wilson
Alexander and
Mancuso
Prince of Wales Hands Open Cup to Walter Hagen
May 11 Sandwich England AP The Prince of Wales presented the British open championship cup to Walter Hagen as thousands watched the American pro win for the third time Hagen shot 292 over 72 holes beating Gene Sarazen by two strokes and Archie Compson’s overseas entry score by three The prince praised overseas golfers and urged continued competition to lift Britain’s game.
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Sandwich
England
Walter Hagen
Hagen
Gene Sarazen
Archie Compson
Prince
America
ASK LOWER TAXES Washington May 11 Convention Resolution
The United States Chamber of Commerce backed officers at its annual gathering by urging a 10 percent corporate income tax rate, repeal of the inheritance tax, and refunds of treasury surpluses. It also called for strict government fiscal reform including tax simplifications, and opposes curbs on federal courts while favoring private vessel sales and merchant marine modernization.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce of the
United States
Lindy Secret Hop Sparks Inquiries Across Fields
New York May 11 AP Colonel Charles A Lindbergh with navigation instructor Lieutenant Commander P B Weems departed Ford Airport Detroit at 6 PM Detroit time en route to an undisclosed destination arriving at Curtiss Field Long Island at 8 30 PM daylight time. Squads of pilots and locals speculated about navigation studies or possible forced landing as mystery lingered past midnight prompting numerous inquiries.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
Marty
BR. Weems
Ford
Detroit
Curtiss Field
Long Island
Farmer
Believe Norton Man May Have Wounded His Neighbor
E. P. Harman, 59, a wealthy farmer living northwest of Norton Kansas, is jailed after shooting neighbor Charles Gregory, 32. Gregory’s wound is non life threatening. The incident stems from long running neighborhood feuds between rival factions.
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Norton
Kan
E. P. Harman
Charles
Gregory
Harman
Dill Charges Giant Radio Monopoly aims to regulate patents
Senator Dill of Washington charges a giant monopoly controls the radio industry and introduces a bill to regulate patent use. Named entities include Radio Corporation and General Electric alongside Westinghouse American Telephone and Telegraph and United Fruit Corporation. Milk Producers meet in Douglas County to discuss concerns and attendance urged. Prohibition agents ordered to end unnecessary shootings after agent Taylor is dismissed for firing at a non stopping car.
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Senator Dill
Washington
Senate
Dill
Radio Corporation
General ,Electric, Westinghouse
American Telephone and Telegraph
ed_ Fruit Corporation
Radio Trust
Robert L. Taylor
West Virginia
Prohibition Service
Prohibition
Nationalist protest to League over Shantung action
The Nanking Nationalist government appeals to the League of Nations denouncing Japan for anti China acts in Shantung and seeks cessation of hostilities and immediate withdrawal. Peking officials weigh the protest while war in Tsiwan and Shanghai intensifies with anti Japanese sentiment and evacuation of foreigners.
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Geneva
Nanking
Japan
League of Nations
Shantung
China
League
Teking
Northern
Cheng Koh
Peking
Att
Cheng Loh
Chang Tso-Lin
Pekings
Cheng
Tok
Council of the League of Nations
Associated Press
Nanjing
Shanghai
Tsiwan
Shangai
Canton
Shameen
Foreign Settlement
Hongkong
Taiwan Bank
Tsinda
Tsinan
Edwin F. Stanton
Ernest B. Price
Shantung Railway
Yellow River
Kotien
Tokio
Ching
Woman Missionary Slain in Taianta Fighting Near Shanghai
Mrs Hobart of the American Methodist mission at Taianta near Tsiwan was killed April 29 by a bullet fired through a bedroom window during fighting between nationalists and northerners. Miss Helen Stumley recounts the event in a May 3 letter from Kintainfu to local mission headquarters.
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Shanghai
Hobart
Taianta
Tsiwan
Kintainfu
Helen' Stumley
Stumley
Peasant Revolt Narrowly Suppressed in Transylvania
Dispatches from Bucharest report an armed peasant uprising in Transylvania thwarted by Romanian government action at a critical moment. A large group seized three railway stations near Alba Iulia while heading toward Bucharest. About 27,000 miners at the Alba Iulia congress were mobilized, though the government suppressed news of the incident.
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Vienna
Austria
Bucharest
Arbeiter . Zeitung
Transylvania
Alba — Julia
Alba Julia
Funeral services for Lieut Royal Thomas in Kansas
Endurance flier Lieut Royal Thomas is killed in a crash in New Jersey while attempting to break the world endurance record. Funeral services will be held Sunday at the home of his parents in McLouth Kansas. He lived in Lawrence previously and is survived by four sisters and three brothers.
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Kansas City
Royal
Thomas
Endurance
New Jersey
Loretta Huston
McLouth
Beatrice West
Velma Simmons
Robert Fuller
Lexington
Harry Thomas
Pueblo
Cole
Frank Thomas, Jr
Los Angeles
Duey Thomas
Denver
Calo
Out for Hamilton Republican club forms in Douglas county
The Douglas county Hamilton for Governor club organized at the Chamber of Commerce rooms to back J D Hamilton of Topeka for the Republican nomination. A B Mitchell was elected chairman David McCreath vice chairman and Paul Friend secretary treasurer. A further meeting is planned for May at the Chamber of Commerce rooms with a dinner next Thursday or Friday when Mr Hamilton will be guest of honor. He will be in Douglas county Thursday and Friday and speak at the Kiwanis club noon meeting Thursday.
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Douglas, County Hamilton
Chamber of Commerce
J.D. Hamilton
Topeka
Utes
A.B. Mitchell
David.'McCreath
Paul
Chamber of ‘Commerce
Hamten
Douglas County
Kiwanis Club
Winners of W C U essay prizes announced
Winners of prizes in the W C U essay contest conducted during February and March are summoned to the Chamber of Commerce rooms Monday at 8 p.m. Readers will have their essays judged and prizes awarded. Miss Mamie Van Landingham will present the prizes, Prof Paul B Lawson will speak on Youth and Prohibition, and the Cosmopolitan elgb troubadours will perform. Winners include Thelma Shuler district 4 first grade Billy Henry district 48 second grade Thea Sperry district 3 Eleanor Hosford district 55 Winifred Jameson Quincy school Ruth Neil Eudora Delbert Richardson district 14 Harold Leslie Leconton Dorothy Hanna Legomotor Mary Smith Lecompton. Amphibian planes bound for Greenly Island. Secretary Davis orders two planes to assist in moving the Bremen. Expedition planned to depart tonight.
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Chamber of Commerce
Mamie van Landingham
Baldwin
Paul B. Lawson
Elgb
Thelma Shuler
Distriet
Billy Henry
Thea Sperry
Eleanor Hosford
Winifred Jameson
Quincy
Mother's Day program at University features reception and banquet
One hundred seventy seven mothers registered for the two day event organized by the second generation club and wives of faculty in cooperation with organized houses. Registration continues and events include an open air band concert at 4:30 pm, visiting hours in several halls, a 6 pm banquet with speakers Flore Searcy Leavenworth and Chancellor Lindley, and an all University dance at Robinson gym. Dinners Sunday highlight the observance followed by a Mu Phi Epsilon musical program at 4 pm in the University auditorium.
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Union
Corbin Halls
Watkins, Hall
Henley House
Union Building
Flore
J. A. Searcy
Leaven- Worth
E. H.lindley
Robinson Gymnasium
Mu Phi Epsilon
EG Ee
Paroles Approved for Sixty Inmates at Hutchinson Reformatory
Governor Paulen approved parole for 60 inmates at the Kansas State Industrial Reformatory in Hutchinson. Judge A S Foulks urged withholding the full list from publication citing reader requests and concerns over notoriety for first offenders.
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Topeka
Paulen
Kansas State Industrial Reformatory
Hutchingon
A. S. Poulksy
Ents
Foulks
New Half Mile Track Planned North of Kansas City
Work begins on a three quarter mile horse race track in Platte county north of Kansas City on the site of the Fairview dog racing track. The facility near Parkville road aims to open for mid-June racing with purses of 1000 dollars per race and attract high class horses. Frank H. McCrory, partner of T. J. Pendergast, owns the project.
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Kansas City
Platte County
Fairview
Parkville Road
ios _ Phil _H. McCrory
T. J.pendergast
View Plant
Dam contract awarded for Ottawa County state park
The state forestry commission let a dam contract near Bennington in Ottawa County to Davis and Hillis of Emporia for 2 557 dollars. The commission announced the low bidder was L W Rexroad of Salina who will construct the dam for 42 831 dollars. The new dam will create a 140 acre lake.
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Topeka
State Forestry, Fish and Yams Commission
Bennington
Ottawa County
Davis and Hillis
Emporia
L. W. Rexroad
Salina
Rexroad
Nye Would Indict Blackmer in New York Case
Nye, chairman of the Senate committee, asks Governor Smith if H M Blackmer, ex chairman of the Midwest Refining Company, can be indicted under New York law for failing to account to his company for profits from Continental Trading of Omaha. Trainmen Endorse Six Hour Day in convention at Cleveland May 11.
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Nye
Blackmer
Washington
APIJ
Senate
Tennet Dome Committee
Governor Smith
New York Today
H. M. Blackmer
Cleveland
Fth
The
Brotherhood of Railroad
Bankers Convention Rooms Seek Host Homes in Lawrence
The Kansas Bankers Association will meet in Lawrence from May 28 to 30 requiring about 1,000 rooms for 1,000 delegates. With most hotel space taken, officials urge homeowners to offer spare rooms as guests, expecting charges for accommodation and meals. Contact the Chamber of Commerce at phone 483 to report available rooms.
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Kansas'Bankers* Association
Lawrence
Mss
Chamber ‘of Commerce
Bankers
Highways money urged for federal road building
Des Moines May 11 AP platform committees of both major parties will be asked to endorse increased appropriations for federal road building and a nationwide highway system by the Good Roads Association which plans its convention May 28 to June 1. Executives named committees head to Kansas City June 12 and Houston June 29 to press for road funds. Republican head Gov Ren S Paulen of Kansas, Democrats led by Gov W W Brandon of Georgia.
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Des Moines
United States -Good- Roads Association
the Association
Kansas City
Houston
Ren.s. Paulen
Kansas
W. W. Brandon
Georgia
Good Roads Assocation
Attorney General aide defends alleged liquor violator in Kansas court
Topeka May 11 AP Tables were turned when assistant attorney general Leon Lundblade appeared in district court to defend Galen Finch charged with operating a still. Lundblade said the office felt morally obligated to defend Finch, an informant, against an unjust charge, marking a historic moment in Kansas prohibition enforcement.
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Topeka
Leon W Lundblade
Galen Finch
Eundblade
Finch
Reid
Jerry Brown
Lundblade
Brown
Still
Kansas
Attorney General’s Office
Rain Dampens Kansas Fields After Heat Wave
Rain covered Kansas last night with light showers to over an inch in spots. Meteorologist S. D. Flora notes moisture is welcome as hot weather dried soils. forecasters predict fair weather tonight and Saturday with a rise to 75 Saturday afternoon. Rain totals so far include Salina 1.12 inches, Clay Center 1.10, Carbondale 1.00, Dodge City 0.66, Manhattan 0.46, Topeka 0.88, Emporia 0.30, Goodland 0.10, Phillipsburg 0.04, Iola 0.02.
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Joneka
Genewal
Kansas
Weather Bureau
S. D. Flora
Mercury
Salina
Clay Center
Carbondale
Dodge City
Kansas City
Manhattan
Toneks
Wamego
Emporia
Goodland
Phillipsburg
Iola
Orient hearing opens on wage dispute in Orient railroad strike
In Wichita on May 11 AP reports President Coolidge’s special commission began session to probe the wage row between Kansas City Mexico Orient railroad and its workers. Insistent accusations of bad faith and authority surfaced as railroad and Big Four Brotherhoods reps argued before the panel delaying a strike set for April 20.
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Wichita
Kan
Coolidge
Kanesas City
Mexico
Orient Railroad
Orient
Ths
William P. Floto
Kansas National Livestock Show Association
C. M. Casey
Frank M. Arnold
Ae Poria
Airplane Crash at Haskell Claims Lives and Injures Pilot
Lawrence officials report pilot John Maxwell seriously injured and A Harwi fatally hurt after a crash near Haskell. Al Harwi dies. Hardman shows improvement after injuries including a compound ankle dislocation. State aviation licensing law under 1921 remains unenforced. board of examiners never appointed. Maxwell's license status unclear. Funeral for Alfred Harwi set for Atchison Episcopal church with Phi Gamma Delta members attending.
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Haskell
al Harwi
A. Hardman
John Maxwell
Trains to Get Curtains for Fireman Safety in North States
Interstate Commerce Commission orders railroads in thirty four states and the District of Columbia to install curtains on engine cabs for fireman and engineer protection. Work must be completed from November to April each year across the covered regions.
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Washington, May N
Interstate Commerce ‘Commission
District
Campbell Makes Report on Campaign Fund Raising
Philip P Campbell former Kansas representative and Curtis-for-President lab head told the Senate campaign fund committee his group raised 590 dollars and 5 dollars for transitery stamps and clerks. The club of former Kansans said letters were written to delegates to aid Senator Curtis. Nevada endorsed Alfred E Smith for the Democratic nomination with six votes to back him if he has a real chance. A notice advertises sold grocery stall at 523 Mass St and a Junior High picnic planned for Monday with a grove gathering and hats for the event.
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Washington
Philip P. Campbell
Kansas
Curtis-for-Predent
District of Columbia
Senate Campaign Fon Committee
Campbell
Cutis
Smith
Demeocra
Névada
del Reno
Nev
Alfred E. Smith
New York
D Acratic
Nevada
Illinois
G. Vance
Grove
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Peters
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Chamber of Commerce of
William Butterworth
Moline
Joseph H. Defrees
Garment Workers
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Ladies” Garment Workers' Union
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Lindy
Hop
Douglas County ‘Milk’ Producers’ Association
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Frank Thomas
Business College
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Hamilton
Greenly- Isle
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Greeny Island
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Fairview Dog Track
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Read
Adjutant Genery
Ana
Maxwell
Llows
Bog
George M
Willistr
A. Smith
Ay -Rence
Wyandotte
John
A. Maxwell
Adjutant G¢Neral’ Office
Adjutant General
Allens County
Eane
Hardman
Lewis A. Hard
Osborne
Dwight Hardman
Alton
Harwi
Alfred Harwi
India School
India Rural‘school
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O. J. Lane
India Scho
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