Mellon outlines France debt settlement terms and impact
Secretary Mellon testifies on France debt accord detailing total payments of 6.85 billion dollars over 62 years with initial 30 million rising to 125 million annually. He compares present value to funded debt, notes burden as share of budget around 13 percent, and contrasts with British Belgian Italian settlements.
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Washington
Ia.p
Ko Committee
France
Mellon
England
Sthol
Floyd Bikir
Todas
Nien
Ver ‘Gent
Belgium
Eerly
National marksman Hinton wins rifle title at Kansas City
Hinton of Kansas City narrowly wins the 1926 national R O T C rifle title after a tie with four Minnesota shooters. In a tiebreaker, Hinton fired a perfect 400 while rivals posted 3rd and 205 in the second contest.
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Hinton
Kansas City
Thomas Sophantore
Sas
Univers
Minnesota
Forecast Predicts Fair Weather Across Kansas
The forecast notes generally fair conditions with warmer tonight and Friday and cooler temperatures in the north. Roads are clear with light winds. Temperatures recorded include 54 at noon and 44 as the high yesterday, with 7 pm and 7 am readings present in scattered form across cities such as Emporia Hutchinson Coffeyville Pittsburg Arkansas City Salina Wichita Ottawa Topeka.
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Kansas
Yonds
Kansas Emporia
Hutchinson
Coffeyville
Pittsburg
Arkansas
City
Salina
Wichita
Ottawa
Peka
Kansas bankers optimistic at 39th annual meeting in Wichita
More than 1,400 registered at the Kansas Bankers Association convention in Wichita for the 39th annual gathering. Highlights included committee appointments, remarks by President George Rogers, and optimism about state banking with calls to consolidate banks and reduce overbanking while stressing service and profits.
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Wichita—State
Rogers
Abilene
Wichita
A.P
Kansas Bankers Association
Tiya Men
el L. Myers
Hutchinson
W.C. Robinson
Arkansas City
Kansas
Association
George Rogers
Abi+lene
Red and Black Yearbook At Lawrence High Is Unveiled
The annual 132 page Red and Black was distributed at Lawrence High School with 350 copies. It features faculty and senior class photos, club and team sections, jokes, and snap shots, with a blue leather style cover and a commemorative dedication to Kansas statehood. The staff credits Miss Mildred Newman as adviser and lists editors and contributors.
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Lawrence High School Anfmual
Kansas
Forrest C. Alden, Jr
Clarence A. Bowers
Mildred Newman
Louis Kent
Edna Lemon
Eurgene McFarland
Gladys Baker
Naxothy Horton
Mary Lovise Emley
Joyce Bleck
Dorothy Enlow
Harlowe Hanson
Clarence Hoffman
Harold Standing
Henry Asher
Edward Klein
Ethan Smith
Betty Wood
Irma Casey
Miss Newman
Iva Belle Harper
Ralph Bunn
the World Company
Pittsburg Holds Gold Anniversary Celebration
Pittsburg Kansas marks its gold anniversary with a county wide holiday. Thousands from Crawford County arrived to view the noon history pageant led by an ox team wagon and a stage coach once used over 50 years ago. TL Decker of Joplin delivered the morning address and Philipp F Campbell, a former Pittsburg resident and congressman, speaks tonight. Over 500 Crawford County residents who lived through the war era are registered for events.
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Pittsburg
Kans
Crawford County
Sevice
Philipp F. Campbell
Fittsberg
Robber at Ambassaor Hotel payroll heist in New York
A robber entered the Ambassador Hotel on Park Avenue and assaulted the auditor's assistant before escaping with a satchel containing a $5,000 payroll. In Washington the Senate passed a civil service retirement bill raising maximum annuities to $1,200 from $1,000, backed by the president.
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Rob
New York
Arate
Park Avenue
Senate
Washington
Civil Service
House
Coolidge
Honor Scholars Luncheon for Phi Beta Kappa Members
University senior honors students celebrating Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi election are invited to a luncheon hosted by Lawrence Rotay next Monday May 24 at 1230. Forty five students have invitations as Rotary Kiwanis Chamber of Commerce traditions honor scholars alongside athletics. Chaplain Evan A Edwards rector of the Episcopal church will speak, a longtime friend of the university and students.
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Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Lawrence Rotayy
Chamber of Commerce
Rotary
Kiwanis
Haskell Institute
Evan A. Edwards
Episcopal Church
Yankees and Browns game features Babe Rush homer
Babe Rush hit his first homer of the season off Gaston in the fifth inning as the New York Yankees faced the St. Louis Browns. The day’s National and American League scores show teams like Cleveland, Detroit, Washington, and Philadelphia in action, with multiple pitchers named and a range of run totals across games. Fire destroyed two fertilizer plants in Baltimore, with losses potentially reaching 1.2 million dollars and damage to nearby facilities and dwellings.
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New York
Babe Rush
Gaston
Yankees
St. Louis Browns
Chicago
Boston
Leterette
Crouse
Wingfield Wiefer
Thomas
Lungdren
Ruffing
Bisenoff
St. Louis
Gaston and
Schang
Collins
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Ynle
Karr
Lehr
Myatt
Harris
Cochrane
Detroit
Washington
Gibson
Wells
Bassler
Covdleskie
Ruel
Baltimore
Canton
Griffith & Boyd Company
Summers Fertilizer Company
Baltimore, Copper , Smelting Company
Central Chemical Company
Disarmament talk at Geneva stresses security limits
German delegate Count von Bernstorff presses concrete limits on air, gas, artillery and tanks while urging armament cuts to meet League of Nations aims. Romanian and Finnish representatives warn of Russia’s danger, and American Hugh Gibson argues regional solutions fit Europe best, with security shaping disarmament prospects.
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Geneva
Germany
Count Vor Bernstorf
United States
League F of Nations
League
Count von Bernstof
League of Nations
Rusia
Hugh, Gibson
Europe
Western Hemisphere
Gibson
Joma Va
Four Hutchinson Boys Excluded From Graduation
Four members of Hutchinson High School’s graduating class will not graduate tonight after the school board expelled them for breaking into the building, stealing the high school honor society honor and tossing it into the Arkansas River. The boys, all from prominent families, confessed. one is the son of a city commissioner.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Hutchinson High School
Arkansas River
Plumbers to Meet City Plumbing Board Tomorrow
A meeting of all master, journeymen, and employed plumbers in the city is called for tomorrow evening at 7:30 in the basement of the Chamber of Commerce building. The plumbing board, chaired by De. H. L. Chamber with Carl Graeber and John Edmondson, will explain the citywide examination plumbers must pass, a requirement under state law and city ordinance.
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Chamber of Commerce
Plumbing Board of
I . de. H. L. Chamber
Carl Graeber
John Edmondson
Wheat belt faces car shortage as record wheat harvest nears
Kansas City May 20 AP The southwest wheat belt faces a severe shortage of freight cars for grain transport the worst since 1922. An executive committee of the Trans Missouri Kansas regional shippers advisory board and American Railway Association officials estimate the crop at 360 to 416 million bushels across Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri Nebraska and Colorado. Railroads lack cars on hand now compared with a year ago and must bring more empty cars from the east to move the harvest.
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Kansas City
Southwest
Trans-Missouri - Kansas Regional Shippers’ Advisory Board
American Railway Association
Texas
Oleednta
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Colorado
Clyde M. Teed
Dyer to Deliver KU Commencement Address at Eudora
Dean John R. Dyer of the University of Kansas will give the commencement address at Eudora High School tonight. Graduates listed include Lloyd Miller Claude Smith Ernest Papenhausen Edna Doncan Raymond Disainger Lucile Gabriel Allen Westerhouse Dorothy White Howard Laughtin Jisther Gabriel Dan Sturm Edward Knabe Dalphine Moore Edmund Koerhet Mary Williams Alvin Westerhouse Clara Yotaw Charles Durr Addeline Grown Emer Torrence Merle Davenport.
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John R. Dyer
University of Kansas
Eudora High School
Lloyd Miller
Claude Smith
Ernest Papenhausen
Edna Doncan
Raymond Disainger
Lucile Gabriel
Allen Westerhouse
Dorothy White
Howard Laughtin
Jisther Gabriel
Dan Sturm
Edward Knabe
Dalphine Moore
Edmund Koerhet
Mary Williams
Alvin Westerhouse
Clara Yotaw
Charles Durr
Addeline Grown
Emer‘ Torrence
Merle Davenport
Insurance Fraud Probe Nets Kansas City Official
Kansas City May 20 AP H C West district manager of the National Life Insurance Company was arrested as federal and local authorities press the insurance fraud case. West allegedly wrote many of the fake policies. Six people arrested will be arraigned before a US commissioner. Six others are sought. Ratifications of the schemes have been found elsewhere in the country.
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Kansas City
National Life Insurance Company
Terderal
West
United States
Population counts push county toward city class
The Lawrence area census shows county population near 25 000 with Lawrence at 13 822, risking county officer salaries if the total fails to meet the threshold. County totals include rural areas, while university students may have skewed past counts. A 1925 rise had been debated amid court battles over enumeration accuracy.
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Lawrence
FE. C. Bussing
A. E. Huddieston
Movie Stars Wardrobe Costs Seventy-Five Cents
Los Angeles May 20 UT a doring seventy five cents has been set as the lowest price for a movie stars wardrobe for Bessie Love in Lovely Mary at Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Her entire outfit includes two cheap gingham dresses one hat a ten cent shoe pair and stockings of ribbed cotton though full of holes. Carl Hess sentenced on liquor charges to 30 days in jail and 100 fine for sale and five months plus 200 fine for possession. A large collie dog owned by Henry Gillam injured by a car on Kaw river bridge. Senate postpones action on repeal of Pullman surcharges and interstate bus regulation.
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Los Angeles
Bessie Love
Mary
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Carl Hess
Hugh Means
Farm relief near decisive point in House action
Washington May 20 Farm relief legislation nears a decisive point in the House Final votes on the Haugen price stabilization bill and the Tincher credit measure and Curtis Adwell marketing proposal were expected tomorrow House leaders hoped to complete reading of the Haugen bill today Before it could be brought up consideration of the other two bills as substitutes was needed Plans have run for a week to broker a compromise between Tincher and Asso forces who have united to oppose the Haugen bill
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Washington
A. P
Tineher
Asiso
Haugen
CHANUTE MAN ELECTED AT INDEPENDENCE G A R CONVENTION
At Independence Kansas the Kansas department of the Grand Army of the Republic elected Chanute man Samuel Bauglawan department commander with G A Roof Kansas named first runner up and W A Bosworth Wichita third J E Holmes Hutchinson named senior vice commander ALB Soule Independence junior vice commander Rev George S Smith Delphos chosen chaplain and the 1923 council named. Pittsburg won 1927 convention and two auxiliary groups finished their work. Margaret Grande Pittsburg re elected head of the Ladies of the G A R.
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Independence
A. Psy
Samuel Bauglawan
Cha
Nute
Smander
G. A. Roof
Kansas
C.H. King
Valley Talls
Secon
W. A. Bosworth
Wichita
J. E. Holmes
Hutchinson
Alb. Soule
George S. Smith
Delphos
George Neil
Topeka
Funston
Iola
E.W. Phillips
W. H. Stewart
Salina
J. M .Harvey
Emporia
Fred Jackson
J. W Priddy
Swith
Patrick H. Coney
National Organization
Coney
Pittsburg
Grand Arm of the Republic
Osawatomie
Sons of Veterans and
Sons of Veterans’ Auxiliary
Margaret Grande
Ladies of the
Theories Grow on Aimee McPherson's Disappearance
In Los Angeles police consider a murder theory behind evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson's disappearance rather than drowning. A gang leader who opposed Venice Beach dance ban allegedly threatened her. Potter detectives identify him as a narcotics and bootlegging figure and may question him.
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Los Angeles
4&P
Aimee Sempre McPherson
Underworld
Spader
Venice
Sunday Dancis
Add
Neon Beach City
Potter
Houtterger
Ito
Davenport youth makes fast trip to Lawrence
Pelel Pelzt of Davenport is spending the week with his parents Mr and Mrs Wo Pelzt of Westford Street. He left Davenport Saturday at 2 pm and arrived in Lawrence Sunday at 1 am, claiming a running time of 11 hours with four hours in Des Moines. He recently worked at the W K Kellogg plant in Davenport and plans to return with his brother Clarence who works for the Rock Island railway. Prof Paul B Lawson of the University of Kansas will give the De Soto high school commencement address.
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Pelel
Davenport
Btrs
Wo. Pelzt
Westford Street
Mr. Pelzt
Lawrence
Des Moines
Pelat
Pelz
W. K. Kellogg
Clarence
Rock Island Railway
de Soto
Paul B. Lawson
University of Kensas
Mass Street valuation up modestly says chamber report
A Lawrence chamber of commerce committee found no widespread rise in city real estate valuations. Mass Street saw about a ten percent uptick with some higher cases. residence property showed no general increase. The panel urged any overall rise to lower the local levy and maintain uniform, fair assessments.
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Massachusetts Street
Lawrence
Chamber of Commerce
Hosford
A. B Weaver
C. L. Scott
Laxtevy
Paul Dinsmoor
Bey
Mass Street
Aassine
College Faculty approves new geology course and honors plan
At the University of Kansas College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty meeting yesterday, a five hour summer geology course in Regional Geography was approved for 1926. The committee favored opening it to women if facilities permit and also approved college credit for Modern Prose, Fiction and Exposition in the extension division at Kansas City. A plan to confer honors on outstanding juniors and seniors in their major departments was outlined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
University of Kansas
Kansas City
Einer
Tenors and Basacs Will Mee in Ball Game Tomorrow
Manchester caps the Bass nine announced lineup for the ball game tomorrow afternoon between shasses and tenors as part of the Lawrence Choral Union picnic. Captain Guild of the tenor group refused to announce a lineup, leaving Taft at first base Maghester at second base Downing at third Werner at short Hartfield in left field F B C centerfield Hanver in right field and Brews wd Med ads as catchers. Also notes marriage licenses issued to Clark Butts and Des damona Pee of Popeka, and Walter Cox and Laura Elfen Adair of Lawrence. first ceremony by Probate Judge I. W. Menger. second by Rev. E. A. Federards.
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Lawrence Choral Union
South Park
R. Q. Brewster
The
Choral Union
Manchester
Shasses
Jas
Robert Taft
E. N. Maghester
Cnd
W.B. Downing
Henry Wener
Shortston
1.Titehell
Fight Field
Hi. FB c
Centerfield
K. Hanver
Aude Schee
Clark Butts
Des
Damona Pee
Popeka
Walter 30. Cox
Topeka
Laura Elfen Adair
Lawrence
I. WH. Menger
E. A
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feGraw
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Council of the
Ghevrale
Douglas Radio
Marching Board of City
C. of
Ally Plumbers
Shipping Association
Dyer
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Eudora
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Samoa
Hishop Polynesian Museum
Henry Gillam
Douglas County Court House
Kaw
Interstate Commerce Commission
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Chanute Man
Samuel Bachman
SOA
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