Attack on Attorney General prompts Senate salvo
Senator Caraway of Arkansas charged Attorney General Daugherty with using secret service operatives to shadow members of Congress. He said Daugherty did not deny the Morse case claims and accused him of misusing the term titular attorney general. Caraway demanded explanations on connections to Feld and Morse and warned of corruption if not clarified.
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Washington
Daugherty
Caraway
Dem
Ark
Senate
Secret Service
Congress
Arkansas
H. L. ‘Scaffe
Department, of Justice
House
Carlaway
GB. Felder
New York
Has. W. Morse
Atlantic Penitentiary
Morse
Tait
Wickersham
Fowler
Foowler
Gataway
Wodding
Bosch Magneto
Feldex
Officers Shoot Girl in Fort Scott Standoff
Garbed as a man Mabel Niles aged 16 was shot three times by Officers Bloomfield and Porter last night when her sweetheart Archie Prior, sought for banditry, fired on them at the door. The wounded girl is in a local hospital with non dangerous injuries as Prior escaped through a window and remains at large.
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Fort Scott
Mabel Niles
Bloomfield
Porter
Archie Prior
Prior
Pay Up Week Boosts Memorial Campaign Pledges
Memorial headquarters at the University reports strong early results from Pay Up Week. Sixteen pledges received include ten of 100 dollars each, five of 50 dollars and one of 20 dollars, totaling 1 270. Pledges come from eight states as Lawrence and University supporters back the drive and urge timely payments. The campaign aims to reach about 850000 by June 1, with roughly 500000 pledged from friends outside Lawrence.
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E. U
University
Lawrence
Alfred G. Hill
Memorial’ Corporation
Hill
Lawrence High School Cancels Senior Day Exercises
Rainy weather leads faculty advisors and students to cancel the planned pageant in Central Park. A final farewell assembly is set for Thursday at 10 in the First Methodist church to close the 1922 high school year, following a senior breakfast at the Baptist church despite heavy downpour.
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Lawrence High School
High Schol
Central Park
First Methodist
Baptist Church
Fire damages Helmer furniture plant as crews battle smoke
Kansas City May 24 firemen fought dense smoke when lightning struck the Helmer furniture manufacturing building. A large stock of excelsior and varnish caught fire on multiple floors and several firefighters were overcome. All plant workers reportedly escaped unharmed. The West bottom factory near the intercity viaduct is valued around 70 000 dollars. Rope hoisting tackle was reported stolen from a Harper barn Monday night. Two young men who slept in the barn were cleared of involvement.
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Kansas City
Helmer Furniture Manufacturing Company
Excelsior
W. T. Gibson
Helmer
Harper Barn
Harper Hay Barn
Johns
County Board Extends Time to Hear Property Valuation Complaints
Douglas county commissioners plan extended hearings over ten days to address overvaluation complaints from Lawrence property owners. Nearly seven hundred complaints have been filed, with four hundred on the first day, as rain slowed proceedings. Final three day session will consider all Douglas county objections.
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Lawrence
Court House
Otlock
j@ board of equalization
Douglas County
Rotary Club Honors Better Lawrence Essay Winners
The Rotary Club hosted a luncheon to celebrate winners across three divisions in the Better Lawrence essay contest. Prizes totaled eight per division with numerous names listed for High School Junior High and Grade School categories including Nora Eberhart Alice Blair Elizabeth Cain Frances Hopper Ferne Moore Helen Walton Myra Jordan Margaret Jenkins Mary Allen Maude Wait Jeano Wheeler Helen Hungerford Marian Swank Doris Mason Alice Caskill Gladys Baker Howard Lee Josephine denre Pinckney Maurine Bruner Robert McCurdy Mary Storm Helen Stockwell Edward Van Camp Nancy Wilcox and others.
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Nora M. Eberhart
Alice J. Blair
Elizabeth Cain
Frances Hopper
Ferne Moore
Helen Walton
Myra Jordan
Lawrence
Margaret
Jenkins
Howard Lee
McAllaster
eJosephine
Pinckney
Maurine’ Bruner
Robert McCurdy
Irish Conference to be Held in London Tomorrow Night
Representatives of the Irish provincial government will meet British cabinet members in London tomorrow night to discuss the agreement reached last Saturday between the two Irish political factions. Austen Chamberlain announced the plan in the House of Commons this afternoon.
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London
House of Commons
Austen Chamberlain
Intercity Freight Rates Cut by Interstate Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered nationwide freight rate reductions averaging 10.4 percent with 14 percent in the East, 13.4 in the West, and 12.14 in the South and Pacific regions, effective July 1. Agricultural products are exempt, and only two commissioners dissented, arguing against commodity-based changes.
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Washington
Associaters
Interstate Commerce Commission
Eastern Territory
Western Territory
Southern
Pacific Territory
Syas
Commission
Lewis and
Cox
Confession twists delay in Peters murder in New Jersey
Coroner Edward Fitzgerald postponed the inquest into Clarence Peters' killing as investigators probe Walter S. Ward's confession amid blackmail allegations. Details include a single gunshot wound after opening Peters' clothing, limited shell evidence, conflicting timelines, and questions about Ward's alibi and weapons.
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White Plains
N. J
Edward Fitzgerald
Clarence Peters
Walter S. Ward
Baking Company
Fitzgerald
W. C. Eckhart
Peters
Charles Short
Ward
Fivo
Jack
Ross
New Rochelle
General Wood Safe After Missing Thirty Six Hours
Leonard Wood governor general of the Philippines is reported safe after being missing for thirty six hours in the yacht Apo near Mindoro Island. He traveled with his wife and daughter during a Sunday inspection trip as a typhoon lashed vessels in the area. Rescue efforts then succeeded in locating the vessel and confirming their safety.
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Manila
Leonard Wood
the Philippines
Apo
Mindoro
General Wood
Nal Avail
London the Seat of Many Leagues
London boasts a vast network of more than 3,000 associations, missions, and societies catalogued in the Post Office Directory. The list spans benevolent, reform, protective, and prohibitive groups from child welfare to burial safeguards, revealing a city deeply organized around social causes and public interest.
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London
Harlings
New Post Office
Priss
Society For the ‘Prevention
Provident
Mothercvabt
British Rainfall “Association
London Fish Friers’ Association
Order of the
National
Foot Misa
Jaws
Crutch and Kindness League
Society For
Guild of Aid For Gentle People
National ‘Adoption Society
The
Decimal Association
Association For the Providing
Council of Justice To Animals
Society For the Prevention
Association of Certified
League Tor
Society For the Promotion of Employment of Women
National Council For
Homecoming Restores Twenty Seven Missing Library Volumes
Constant and Jifiar ian oversee a homecoming week that yielded twenty seven returned books. Fines were waived during the period and one patron returned four books overdue by one month. Six items were misplaced in homes, and two high school texts were left at the city library. Librarians urge continued search for missing volumes, noting many recently disappeared technical and mechanical titles.
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Jifiarian
World Flight Start Aboard 30000 Mile Globe Tour
Major von Blake with Captain McMillan and Lt. Col. Broome launched from Croydon at 3 PM in a 49 BONE D airplane on a 30000 mile world circumnavigation. Blake expects completion within ninety days though weather and route unknown.
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Croydon
England
von Blake
Airdome
Blake
Gaptate Penn McMillan
Col
Broome
Kane granted new trial in cherry extract case
Harry Kane, convicted in May term on charges tied to selling cherry extract alleged as an alcoholic beverage, was granted a new trial by Judge Hugh Means after a defense motion. The case may return in November with juror instruction issues and potential continued proceedings on related counts.
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Harry Kane
Hugh Means
Kane
Means
Ed Tiling
Rane
Concert Planning For Open Air Shows In June
The Fraternal Air Union band will perform open air concerts in city parks on Thursday evenings in June under director Walter Rigdon. The band will number about twenty five pieces and some junior high school members may join during the summer. Ten German sailors died in Berlin reports say.
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Fraternal Air Union
Cnn Eerts
Walter Rigdon
Soviet Russia and Titian Sign Commercial Treaty
A commercial treaty was signed in the royal palace this afternoon by Soviet Russia and Titian, marking a formal agreement between the two states on trade terms and economic cooperation.
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Associated Press
Soviet
Russia
Wheat Price Slump Hits Chicago May Delivery
Wheat prices fell sharply in Chicago on May 24 with May delivery quotas dropping as much as 6 cents per bushel from the prior day. Reports circulated that the May deal, which had kept the market active for a week, was nearly finished early. In Kansas City, May wheat deliveries slid 3 to 4 cents from yesterday’s close, ending around 1.82 1/2.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Douglas County ex service men's club hears five candidates
Five candidates for governor register of deeds district clerk probate judge and county clerk spoke at the Douglas County ex service men's political club meeting last night. Lambertson outlined a program including a state department of public welfare and consolidation of boards. Fink, a club member, planned to file after the school term ends.
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Douglas County
Ex-Service Men’s Political Club
W. DP. Lambertson
Isa Wellman
Mise Maude Smith
Register of Deeds
Oren J. [Sunes
Wat Jouis Fink
J. Kinser
Lambertson
Department of Public Welfare
Stateny
Reais
Club
Louis Fink
Vies Men’s Politics
Fire racks three story building in downtown Houston
May 24 investigation by the city fire marshal into the cause of a spectacular downtown fire destroying the three story Dodge hotel sporting goods and photograph supply buildings. Damage estimated at 250000 to 300000 dollars.
Student Tickets Do Not Admit To Valley Track Meet
Athletic officials announced that student admission tickets will not admit holders to the Missouri Valley Conference track meet at the stadium this Saturday. Season tickets cover Kansas athletic events, while the Valley meet is a conference affair held on the Kansas campus.
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Missouri Valley Conference
Stadium Fries
University
Kansas
Two Additions Named for Graduation Diplomas
High school officials announced two more graduates to receive diplomas Friday evening Leo Piper and Katherine Conley were added to the roll after yesterday’s published list A fire alarm reported at 5 00 am from the H Gibson residence 237 Michigan Street outside city limits the dwelling was almost totally destroyed by fire cause undetermined owner W Griesa
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Leo Piper
Katherine Conley
H. Gibson
Michigan Street
W. Griesa
Dynamite Caps Incident In High School Sparks Inquiry
A one year old high school boy admitted to Principal Olney that he sold two dynamite caps to Carl Eriksen junior high student after finding seven caps in a backyard. Eriksen was wounded at band practice and is hospitalized. Authorities investigate possession and distribution of the caps and the accident's cause. Chandler family updates report Carl Eriksen resting and George Chandler being treated for injuries.
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F. H. Olney
Carl Eriksen
Memorial Hospital
High Schoor Box
Olney
Krikven
Kerulf Eriksen
Uself
Chandler Boy
Lawrence Memorial Hospital
George Chandler
Léarnard Avenue
TL O H. Chandlér
Hey
Won Music Contest At Junius High School
About 200 music students competed in a music scenery contest. Lydian Harris and Gertrude Ways won the final to identify musical numbers on a victrola with a perfect score by Harris. Preliminary scores included six perfects among Milrren Schindler Elizabeth Maddox Mary Louise Emley Jem Casey and Flor eee Edmonds.
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Junius High School
Lydian Harris
Gertrude Ways
Milrren Schindler
Elizabeth Maddox
Mary Louise
Emley
Jem Casey
Floreee Edmonds
Gertrude Way
Bombing Strikes Shipyard Workers in Evening Return
Bombs were hurled at a tram car carrying workers at a shipyard as large groups returned home after work. Sharp shooting followed, causing several casualties among the riders and bystanders.
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Associated Press
Ley
Satisfied Patron Praises The Best Advertisement
A Baldwin resident Donald F. Clark sends in $3 cash for the urly advertising service. He notes the May 5 paper carried the work and praises it as satisfactory, expressing gladness to pay the price.
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Donald F. Clark
Baldwin
Journal-World
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