Tariff Vote Dominates House Action This Week
Washington May 24 AP The House scheduled a final vote on the tariff bill for Tuesday afternoon with amendments from the Ways and Means Committee. Republicans led voting for the rule while some Democrats opposed. An amendment cutting cattle duties was adopted. farm relief conferees failed to agree on the debenture plan, with talks likely to continue in coming days.
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Joine
Campbell
Towa
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Dakota
Hull
Lampert
Nelson
Wisconsin
Laguna
New York
Lambertson and
Sproul
Kansas
Senate
Jth
Sheld
Cireint
Eboth
Hoover
Plan Gas Company Move to New Building
Plans discussed for moving the gas company from East Eighth Street to 138 Massachusetts. D Tee D Gor of New York City and Caryl Dodds of the local Rae office led the conference. They reviewed equipment removal and the timing, with a move expected in about a month.
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Corporation Ce
Eighth Street
Massachusetts
Tee D. Gor
New York
Orporation
Caryl Dodds
Rae
Curtis to address first speech after entering office
Washington May 24 AP says Vice President will deliver his first address since taking office at the opening of a new auditorium in Atlantic City on May 31. He has declined other engagements but has under advisement some invitations for the recess period.
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Ashington
Ey Ie
Atlantic City
Arkansas City Pitts Weather and Road Reports
Morning weather update notes cloud cover and road conditions in Pitts, Arkansas City area. Reports mention light fog, damp pavement, and caution for drivers during early hours.
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Wweather
Arkansas
Pitts
Fragmented Note on County Patrols and Population Data
A garbled historical fragment discusses high population counties and police data on highways. It mentions smaller counties, the necessity of patrols, and whether counties believed such measures were needed, amid unclear quotes and wording.
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Oun Ironize Ae
Coties
Necessa
Lawrence forger Horton nabbed after bus stop
A 1d year old alleged forger, George Horton of Independence Missouri, was arrested by Lawrence police after an attempt to pass a worthless check. Horton denied guilt but later confessed to forgery. He was taken from a Victory Junction bus and returned to Lawrence to await charges. Authorities linked Horton to prior forgery arrests in Akron Columbus Kansas City and Pittsburgh.
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Lawrence
Victory “Junction
George Horton
Will Johns
Horton
L. E. Rice
Bice
Fred Vogler
Dr. Bice
Victory
Junction
Neal
Will Arry Frazee
Forton
Akron
Columbis
Ohio
Kansas
City
Mos
Pittsburg
Kan
Johns. A
Lawrence High School to Hold Commencement Tonight
The Lawrence Senior High School plans a commencement program at 8:15 pm in the school auditorium with four senior speakers from the graduating class addressing health, education and self expression. Board president Taving Hill will present diplomas as all seats are reserved for tonight’s exercises.
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Ellis Johnson
Helen Kinney
Lawrence Senior
Arbor
Barks
Helen Heaston
Lawence
Taving Hill
Lawrence Board of Education
Ciplodiss
Plas
New Lawson May 28 Gasoline Tax Doubled
A fragment reports a May 28 action involving a gasoline tax increase tied to a new law by Lawson. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR but indicate a policy shift affecting fuel prices and related duties.
County Board Faces Bank Tax Equalization Dilemma
Douglas County grapples with refund of about $29,500 to national banks after a court ruling on intangible vs ad valorem taxes for 1926 1927, while state banks seek equalization. The board weighs a potential raise over 1 mill to cover refunds and fund city county needs, amid broader statewide pressure to balance tax treatment of banks. The issue hinges on future ad valorem rates and a June court decision likely to shape relief.
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Board of County Commissioners
Supreme Court
Jers
Lawrenee
Lawrence
Chester Jones Wins Low Medalist Honors at Excelsior Springs
Chester Jones, KU sophomore, won medalist honors in the 13th Excelsior Springs golf event after defeating Ed Guettel of Kansas City in a playoff. Jones posted two par 3s on the 16th hole to seal the title, after earlier winning his first-round match over Garey Ballew Jr. of Meadow Lake. Ed Guettel was eliminated by Maurice Smith. Clarence McGuire of Leavenworth also exited in the first round.
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Chester
Jones
University of Kansas
Ed Guettel
Kansas City
Bart
Ich Jones
Oakwood ‘Club
Garey Ballew ‘Jr
Meadow Lake Club
Maurice Smith
Indian Hills Clubs
Kansas’ City
Clarence’ McGuire
Big Ten Track Records Fall at Dyche Stadium Meet
At Evanston May 94, 325 athletes opened the Western Conference track and field championships with big marks. Simpson of Ohio State won the 220 yard dash prelim in 20.90 seconds, eclipsing Wilson's 1923 record by three tenths. Sammy Behr of Wisconsin broke the Big Ten shot put record with 57 feet 7 3/4 inches, surpassing Tiny Lewis's 1927 mark.
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Dyche
Evanston
Simpson
Buckeye
Wilson
Town
Sammy Behr
Wisconsin
Tiny Lewis
Northwestern
Credit to bank system credited for stability
Hays Kansas May 24 AP reports Federal Reserve banking system was given credit for stabilizing the country's banking business today. W C Robinson of Arkansas City spoke before the Kansas Bankers Association convention here.
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Hays
Kan
Federal Reserve
W.c.robinson
Arkansas City
Dinner invitation at Ells No 595 Sunday
A fragment invites readers to Sunday dinner at Ells No 595, asking them to bring themselves and their friends. The garbled OCR hints at a social gathering announcement from a local group or club with a familial tone and dated phrasing.
Multiple May 24 AP dispatches across cities noted licensing, politics, and incidents
On May 24 reports from Washington New York and Tokyo described the FCC renewing a Kansas City station license and criminal proceedings to seize the station activities. Charles E Denney was pledged to Erie presidency succession. Theodore Roosevelt Jr was praised for Puerto Rico governor support. Nye announced a radio talk on immigration quota repeal. Fukushima lists twelve dead after torrential rains. Phoenix’s Phoenix painting and verses presented to Hoover. Mitchell opined the government cannot force private telegram and cable firms to hand over traffic in narcotics. Latzo a 68 coal miner died by self inflicted gunshot in Leavenworth Kansas City. Franklin Moore announced as Fairpeels Company head.
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Radio Commission
Sweeney Automobile
Eaeet
Kansas City
New York
Charles’ E. Denney
Erie
Davila
Porto Rico
Taus- Soto
Porto
House of Representatives
Theodore, Roosevelt, Jr
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aryLthe Rey
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Franklin Moore
Aviation Club
Granges
Fairie Pees Company
Une-I
Robins edge Phillies to open series in tight win
In Brooklyn, the Robins beat the Phillies 3 to 2 as Watson Clark delivered a solid start until an eighth inning injury forced his exit after being struck on the finger by a Peel pitch. Sweetland Davis and McWeeney contributed offensively for Brooklyn while Philadelphia’s lineup battled in a close game.
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N. Yo
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Phillie
Watson Clark
Peel
Philaseeps
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Sweetland
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Clark
Bat ‘Low
McWeeney
Piciiel
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Gonzales
Sherdel
Smith
Ford pressed for stricter prohibition enforcement at Hoover luncheon
Henry Ford, guest of President Hoover, said during a May luncheon that absolute enforcement of prohibition laws is essential and criticized modified enforcement. He denied plans to build Diesel engines for planes or cars, stating power machinery development is not yet sufficient for such a project.
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Washington
Ford
Hoover
Rural eighth graders named as honor students
Lawrence Memorial high school will honor twenty two rural eighth graders as honor students at the June 1 commencement. Edith May Deay of Willow Springs district 51 tops the list with an average 98.24 over two years. Other named honorees include Mildred Goodrich Lecompton Mary Grist Eudora Raymond Harrett Blues Mound Norman Lasswells Lecompton Dorothy Griffin Fairview May Norwood Lecompton Delbert Richardson Pleasant Valley Eunice Brass Jones Leonard C. Flory Union Norman D. Jones Vinland Maxine Schellack Prospect Lois Tucker Hopewell Pearl Brohammer Columbia Lois Fisher Range Line Jean Hockensmith Spring Creek Blanche Votan Hesper Lila Wertz Roscoe Phoebe Johnson Belvoir Minnie Mae Hnight Bismarck Irene Dorothy Schagke Bismarck and Ethel Mae Griffin Wairview.
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Memorial High
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Edith May Deay
Willow Springs
Lane
Mildred Goodrich
Lecompton
Mary ‘Grist
Eudora
Raymond
Harrett
Norman Lasswells
Dorothy Griffin
Fairview
May
Norwood
Delbert “Richardson
Pleasant Valley
Aviation school seeks Lawrence men for Goebel program
Representatives from Artshall School of Flying and Goebel School interview Lawrence men at Eldridge Hotel to join The Flying 50. Col Goebel famed for the Dole Flight, aiding in opening in Kansas City. Lieut Webber and Mr Wengert describe high flying experience and hours. Several Lawrence men interviewed. prospects of local representation noted.
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Thomas B. Webber
Eldridge
Artshall School of Fiving
Goebel
Kansas City
Col. Goeb
United States
U. S
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Lieut Webber
Lawrence
Ero Lawrence
In Hearing On Roll Call Vote On Lenrod Confirmation
Washington Mary, 24, AP reports the senate panel will hold open hearings while questioning the source of a roll call tally carried by the press service and newspapers purporting to show the confirmation vote for Irvine Lenrod as judge of the court of customs appeals.
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Court of Customs Appeals
Kansas student chosen for African fever mission trip
Meredith T. Olinger of Gridley Fane a KU graduate receives confirmation from the Rockefeller Foundation International Health division as a special staff member on a yellow fever commission. He will assist Dr. Marshall A. Barber in Lagos West Africa then travel for 18 months across the continent. Olinger completes his first year in KU School of Medicine and will resume studies after the voyage.
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Gridley
Fane
University of Kansas
International Health Division
Rockefeller Foundation
West Africa
Linger
Marshall A. Barber
Lagos
West’ Africa
Olinger
School of Medicine
Africa
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Convocation Speaker Named for University Address
The final all university convocation of the year will be held at K U on Monday with W T Foster, renowned American economist author and lecturer, delivering an address at 10 o clock in the school auditorium. Foster previously directed the Poltak Foundation for Economic Research in New York and has taught at Harvard and Columbia. He holds Harvard A B and A M and Columbia PhD, and has written notable works including Business Without a Buyer and The Road to Plenty. He is allied with the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Royal Economic Society. Foster recently spoke at a governors conference in New Orleans and is a friend of Chancellor Lindley. The topic at KU remains to be announced.
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W- T. Foster
Poltak Foundation For Economic Research
New York City
Harvard
Columbia
East
Reed College
Portland
Ore
Asits
Pollak Foundation
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Royal Economic Society
American Society of Hygeine
Research Foundation
American Red Cross
New Orleans
E. H.lindley
Lindley
University of Maha
Moscow
SixYearOld Slayer Sentenced to Fifteen Years
Paintsville Kentucky May 24 AP reports six year old Carl Newton Mahan was sentenced to a reform school until he reaches age of majority for manslaughter of eight year old Cecil Van House after a quarrel over a steel iron. Legal motions seek new trial and prohibition writ. ruling expected to move to Lexington.
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Paintsville
Carl Newton Mahan
Greendale
Reformatory
John W. Butcher
Carl
J. F. Bailey
Lexington
Carl Newton ~Mahan
Garl
Cecil van- House
Cecil
Pageant for Service at First Christian Church Sunday
The Questioner pageant by Lyman A. Bayard will headline the union service at First Christian Church Sunday evening. Presented by the church pageantry department under George Foster, it has been staged locally three times and once at a state convention, with twenty four youths taking part. Rev. C. A. Richard said pageantry aids integration and instruction and praised Bayard as a superb writer. The public is invited to attend.
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Christian
Department of Pageantry of the
Church
George ©. Foster
Topeka
C. A. Richard
Richard
Bayard
Marion Talley Plans Farm Near Scott City
Marion Talley the Kansas City opera soprano, after retiring from the operatic stage, returns from New York to inspect a potential farm in the Midwest. She says a future farm would be large enough to “get your breath,” with hints of settling down away from the stage.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Miss Talley
Milk Producers Open Cream Separating Station in Lawrence
More than 1000 gallons of milk were handled at a cream separating station established by the Douglas County Milk Producers Association on Massachusetts Street in Lawrence on its first operation day. The separator ran eight hours and a meeting of milk producers was announced for Saturday evening at the Chamber of Commerce rooms. Lawrence city officials are checking milk sources and may limit purchases to locally produced milk with city permits. There is strong effort among producers to secure 60 cents per pound of butterfat for whole milk, with concerns the move could split the association.
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Douglas County Milk Producers Association
A. G. Banks
Chamber of Commerce Rooms
Lawrence
Producers Association
Producers’ Association
Poppies to be Sold in Lawrence for Veterans Aid
Lawrencians will buy 9000 bright poppies at poppy day sales by Liberty and Dohsey American Legion auxiliaries to aid veterans and their families. Disabled veterans crafted the flowers at a penny each, funds support state relief and local needs, with Girl Scouts assisting and Mrs A M Freark in charge at the bus station. Memorial Day observance urges donations and pennied gifts.
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American Legionn
Liberty
Eli Ferrell Dohsey
Dorsey Auxiliary
Liberty Organization
Selume
Girl Scouts
A. M. Freark
Postal convention opens as postmasters meet in Kansas City
Delegates from Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma postmasters gather in Kansas City on May 24 to discuss postal service issues amid a plan to streamline operations and address service concerns.
Lawrence junior high 9 A class prom extended in high school hall
Prof F E Johnson of the University of Kansas addressed the 9 A promotion exercises held in the senior high school auditorium this afternoon. Principal Hyde announced awards and introduced the class. John R Barnes delivered the response. A large crowd of parents and friends attended as 163 pupils were promoted to the senior high school, including 87 boys and 76 girls.
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F. Ellis Johnson
University of Kansas
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Hyde
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Donald Jalny iNder
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Arthur Ate Morgan Allison
Maurgnee Alford
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Ross Vnrton
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Orsville Carey
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Choose Speaker to Give Annual Alumni Address
Mrs. William T. Berk of Halton, a board member of the alumni association, will deliver the annual alumni address during Commencement week in Fraser Theater at 11 o'clock on June 34. The keynote speaker for the coming year is former Miss Mable McLaughlin, class of 1904, wife of Holton Recorder editor Fred Ellsworth. Mrs Beck has two sons at the University Thornton, a sophomore, and Tom, a graduate student. The address outlines the association's program and work for the next year.
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William T. Berk
Isowner
Holton Recorder
NO COSMETICS FOR POLICE
New Orleans AP report says Superintendent Talive Theodore Ray barred a superior officer after a Patrolman Jules Reisharde witnessed a bartender powdering the officer’s nose. A separate item from St Joseph Missouri notes J E Bondurant, 70, robbed of 1400 and beaten then dumped in a creek near Byfield after being kidnaped by three men.
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Talive
Theodore Ray
New Orleans Ponceron
Jules Reisharde
St. Joseph
J. E. Bondurant
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