Italia Airship Search Fails To Find Missing Crew
News from Spitzbergen details Italian and Norwegian plans in ongoing search for the missing Italia dirigible and her eighteen crew. Sealing ships, icebound seas, and coordinated flights from King Bay to Wilda Fjord aim to locate the craft, with officials weighing relief expeditions and Italy’s response to Norway’s help.
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Alains
Spitzberren
Halian
I Talia
Italia
Spitzbergen
Umberto Nobile
King’s Bay
Citta] di Mirado
Wilda
Fjord
West Spitebergen
Holnz
Norwest
Horton
Tromsoe
Iplane
Spitabergen
Holm Wil c
G2 Ministry of Defense
Riiser- Larsen
Expedition Aad
Kansas Forecast Sees Clouds and Cooler North Regions
Partly cloudy tonight and Thursday with possible local thunderstorms. Cooler conditions expected in northwest and north central portions tonight. Weather and roads report notes clear conditions and good road status. Douglas County roifi observed.
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Kansas
Douglas County Roifi
Yale Students Storm Police Station In New Haven Riot
Five hundred Yale students rioted in New Haven storming the police station to rescue six arrestees. Bricks shattered office windows as police, with fifty officers, contained the crowd for two hours. Police Captain White ordered reserves and warned rioters to disperse or face arrest or hospital.
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Yale
New Haven
Conn
James J. White
Gor ‘Don B. Tweedy
Prof
H. H. Tweedy
Yale Divinity School
Herbert Stanley Connell
New York City
Daniel T. Moore
New Hav
Commencement address and 103 graduates at Haskell
President Guy C. Cutshall of the Witt School of Theology spoke on life and development using an eagle metaphor as 103 graduates received diplomas in a crowded north stadium. The event featured class representative Charles Eliers and remarks on world peace and Christian development. In Washington, Kansas delegates and Republican nomination calculations dominated coverage, with Hoover’s delegate count debated and Lowden’s backers forecasting votes as the convention approached.
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Haskell
Guy C. Cutshall
HN Oet
C. M. Blair
WV primary returns show tight GOP and Dem race
Returns from 656 of 2306 precincts show Republican Goff leading Hoover in West Virginia with 6382 to 36108 for president. Democratic results place Reed ahead of Smith 131929 to 16162 with partial county tallies slow due to long ballots. The state will send 19 GOP delegates to Kansas City and 16 Democratic delegates to Houston.
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Charleston
W. Va
Goff
Hoover
Reed
Smith
United States
Guy Dr.Goff
Secretary of Commerce
West Virginia
Kansas City
Houston
Nationalists Gain Ground In Peking-Hankow Run
Shanghai dispatch reports heavy fighting along the Peking Hankow railway as Nationalist and allied Shansi forces clash to push north. Aims include drawing Mukdenite troops into Shansi and breaking toward Hokienfu near Tientsin, with thousands reported killed in the battle line.
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Shanghai
China
Peking-Hankow
Peking
Paot
Tokyo
Tientsi Utoday
Peking-Hanko
Shanshi
Toops
Shansi
Feng Yu- Hsiang
Hokienfu
Tientein
Lindbergh Probes New Air Route From New York to Los Angeles
Col Charles A Lindbergh arrives Wichita after a 14 hour 12 minute flight from New York in a Ryan monoplane with Col Henry Breckenridge and Maj Thomas Lanphier. He opens a survey of a possible air corridor while chairing the Transcontinental Air Transport technical committee. Lindbergh greets admirers at Lassen Hotel. Local ad notes Chevrolet sale and ice cream company hours.
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Wichita
Charles A. Lindbergh
Henry Breckenridge
Thomas Lanphier
Detroit
Denthn
Denver
Clovis
Lindbergh
New York
Los Angeles
Transcontinental Air Transport
Lassen
Farmers Expected in Large Delegation to Kansas City Meet
Kansas City May 20 AP Proposals to send a large delegation of farmers to the Republican national convention in the interests of farm relief faced three factions. Organizers cite the McNary Haugen bill as a mobilizing basis. many expect 100000 farmers to join in June. Critics warn harvest season in Kansas will curb turnout and frame the move as political demonstration. Local figures split on the impact with some predicting a sizable turnout and others doubting serious participation.
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Washington
Kansas City
Hoover
Commerce Secrathry
Clinch
Reading
Lowden
Ilinois
West Virginia
Curtis
Kansas
Staak
Norris
Nebraska
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Jofeen McNary-Haugen
Indiana
Illnois
Ralph Snyder
Kansas Farm — Bureau Federation
John’ Vesecky
Co-Operative Wheat Marketing Association
Trenry J. Allen
Nichols Topeka
Capners Farm Publications
Gary Williams
Oklahoma Farmer-Stockman
Vesecky
Peers' Death Rate High in 1927 Revealed
AP reports 1927 saw the most British peers and peeresses die since 1878 with 37 peers and 131 peeresses. Debrett 1928 notes 43 baronies called from abeyance since 1604, longest abeyance 547 years for Strabology, shortest 37 days Berners. Over 400 honors granted and seven new peerages created in the year.
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London
Debrett
Strabolgi
J. M
Mugwump Party’s 1884 Roots Spark Voter Registration
A voter in Brockton registered as an adherent of the Mugwump party, a historic group from 1884 that split from the Republicans. Officials perplexed by the term, recalling the backstory of factions claiming superiority. A separate court ruling in Brockton states steering an idling car alone does not constitute driving.
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Condon
United Press
Republican Party
Brockton
Move to Set Aside Oberst Sentence in Family Slaying Case
Omaha Dorads Kansas May 30 Attorneys for Owen Oberst 17 year old family slayer who is serving life in the state penitentiary filed a motion to set aside the sentence Hearing on the motion and a separate bid to remand Oberst case to justice court for preliminary hearing will likely be held next week before Judge George J Benson State district court Sheriff McKnight denied defense access to Oberst at the county jail during first interviews by attorneys John Madden Jr and D C Gabbert of Wichita who said they would seek a court order permitting talks with the prisoner
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Dorads
Kan
Alttémeys
Owen Derat
State Penitentiary
Oberst
Justice Court
George J. Benson
District Court
Obe
John. Madden, Jr
D.C. Gabbert
Wichita
E. FE. McKnight
Qberst
Memorialiday holiday at Katsag University ends exams
Students at the University of Katsag enjoy a Memorialiday break amid final examinations. Most exams finish tomorrow morning with a few in the afternoon. Commencement week begins Friday with Jayhawk baseball versus Kansas Aggies, a fine arts recital, and alumni events including a Shaad residence reception and a golf tournament. Baccalaureate and commencement exercises follow. Many students depart Lawrence for summer, others stay for ceremonies.
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University of Katsag
Kent
Memorialiday
Jayhawk
Kansas
Aggies
School of Fine Arts
School of Architecture and Engineering
George C. Shaad
Country Club
Lawrence
Coolidge Begins Gettysburg Memorial Day Visit
President and Mrs. Coolidge departed Washington by train at 10 40 am for Gettysburg Pennsylvania to deliver a Memorial Day address. The town welcomed thousands of visitors with hotels and homes filled while a civic parade of veterans and schoolchildren preceded the presidential visit to the National Cemetery and an address broadcast by WJZ at 2 pm.
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Coolidge
Gettysburg
Delver
Little Battlefield
Président Coolidge
Governor Fisher
President Coolidge
WJZ
Flying Circus Opens West of Lawrence In Air Show
The D A V flying circus starts at 2 PM two miles west of Lawrence with two parachute jumps alongside aircraft performances. Parachutist Joseph LeBoeuf, a Frenchman, will mark July 4 by reaching 30 years as a parachute jumper, having made nearly 3000 jumps with no accidents. Miss Alice Loring of Topeka also dives. All pilots hold licenses and all planes are licensed. In two and a half years the circus has had no passenger or plane accidents. A Missouri lynching incident near Marshall on May 30 is reported, and a train near Clay Center killed a sleeping man on Rock Island tracks.
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D. A.V
Peka
Anata Serele
Memorial Day Observed in Lawrence with Parades and Services
Memorial Day observances took place in Lawrence with a patriotic parade from the Armory to Massachusetts Street, led by the University band and veterans groups. Public offices closed, flags displayed, and cemetery services featured Star Spangled Banner, taps, and an address by Capt. Roy V. Rickard. A notable event was a D A V flying circus plane dropping mementos over Oak Hill cemetery piloted by Fay D Wade.
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Armory
Massachusetts Street
Thirteenth
University
Haskell Neavaley
Haskell Hand
Walt Panish
Massachusetts
Roy. V. Rickard
D. A. Vi Flying Circus
Oak! Hill Cemetery
Fay D! Wade
Walter Browning
Kansas
Wade
Giants Triumph Over Robins In Holiday Interlude
New York Giants defeated Brooklyn Robins 9 to 1 in the prorenw game. Doak started for the Robins and gave up several runs as Ehrhardt and McWeeney struggled for Brooklyn. Batteries: Faulkner and Hogan for New York. O Farrell Doak McWeeney Ehrhardt and Hargreaves for Brooklyn. Pittsburgh Memorial Day game saw St Louis drop 10 to 1 to the Pirates. St Louis pitching surrendered 18 hits as Sherdel Wilson and Miljus worked for the Pirates. American League report notes Detroit scoring late to beat Cleveland 4 to 3 after trailing.
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New York Giants
Robins
Sta Ing. A
Doak
McWeeney
Ehrhardt
New York
Faulkner
Hogan
O'Farrell
Hargreaves
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Byccageers
Sherdél
Wilson
Miljus
J. Bartholomew
Tauscher
Spencer
Hemsley
Three Boys Aged 18 16 and 13 Arrested for Flower Theft
Deputy sheriff George Reed arrested three youths at Memorial cemetery around 9 this morning for stealing flowers from graves. They uprooted young rose bushes and carried cut flowers. The trio, held at the county jail, faced possible complaints next morning as city flower theft reports increase and police stay watchful.
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George Reed
Memorial Cemetery
Towns Out For Record Italian Cities Hold Over Figures
Census authorities flag a regional tally drama as towns inflate population by reporting births deaths and marriages to boost 1928 growth records. Naples and similar communities in Italy and the United States are accused of exaggerating civic pride to boost their stats.
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Naples
Italy
Not
United States
Central, Statistical Institute
French Farm Women Plan Four Day Rural Meetings
In Chazey d Azegues France tired farmers wives and daughters will gain occasional rest days as leading landowners organize four day meetings for rural women. Demonstrations will cover country cooking farmhouse sanitation and talks on farm life.
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Chazey d’Azegues
France
A. P
White House breakfast with GOP leaders at Coolidge era
Vice President Dawes and fifteen Republican leaders, top lawmakers from both chambers, dined with President Coolidge. Senators Curtis Kansas Borah Idaho Smoot Utah Moses New Hampshire Watson Indiana Warren Wyoming Phipps Colorado Fess Ohio and House leaders Tilson Conn Snell New York Hawley Oregon Wood Indiana Mapes Michigan Johnson South Dakota attended the morning gathering.
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Prewtient Dawes
Conseels
Coolidge
Icongress
Curtis
Kansas
Borah
Idaho
Smoot
Utah
Moses
New Hampshire
Watson
Indiana
Warren
Wyoming
Phipps
Colorado
Fess
Ohio
House
Longworth
Tilson
Conn
Snell
New York
Hawley
Oregon
Wood
Mapes
Michigan
Johnson
South Dakota
Close Affaires In Western Land Mortgage Case
The district court suit filed by Raymond Rice for Mrs. J. Ts. Watkins targets the J. B. Watkins Land Mortgage Company as part of winding up its affairs. The company, once issuing several million dollars in debenture bonds secured by real estate, faced 1894 panics, entered receivership, and was finally paid in full June 30, 1925. Watkins advances totaling $563,143.81 are credited, with $12,591.50 noted as a proper off set, and the plaintiff seeks judgment as the simplest method to complete the company’s closure.
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District Court
Middle West
Raymond, Rice
J. Ts. Watkins
J. B. Watkins Land Mortgage Company
Land Mortgage Company
Watkins ‘Land Mortgage Company
Watkins
Pan- Fie
Aggregate
J. B. Watkins
R. Watkins
Aphith
Carnival draws many at Lachman Carson fair
Last night crowds filled the Lachman Carson carnival in Woodland Park under the Lawrence fire department auspices. Regular prices apply though a Saturday afternoon matinee offers five cent admission to all shows and rides for children from 1 to 6 pm. Firemen remain on the grounds and the bathing beauty and high diving act thrilled spectators with a dive from four and a half feet of water.
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K. Ai
Lachman-Carson
Woodland
Park
Lawrence
Topeka Vegetable Seller Roelofft Arrested in Lawrence
Ralph Roelofft a Topeka vegetable seller was arrested by county officers while selling vegetables from a truck on Massachusetts Street Lawrence. He claims residency in Bibleyville and had been confined in a state hospital at Tapeke. He was ordered to leave town by the city food inspector and will be examined further in Topeka.
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Ralph Roeloffz
Topeka
Massachusetts
Y Roelofft
Bibleyville
Tapeke
Kansas City
C. L’ Burger
Shawnee County
Lawrence
Roelofft
Lime and Legume Tour Planned Friday by Local Ag Groups
About 2,000 farmers from Douglas and nearby counties are set for a Friday Lime and Legume Tour sponsored by the Douglas County Bankers Association and the Douglas County Farm Bureaus. Stops at five farms will showcase demonstration plots with a noon program at Brown's Grove featuring K. S. Butcher C. F. Holcome Dahhus R. T. Throckmatt en Tom McNeal and others. The itinerary includes Kalb Stevens stamp plats wells Colman Reed and a final stop at Reed farm with lectures on fertilizers lime and manure treatments. The event aims to help farmers inspect plots to improve alfalfa production.
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Douglas County
Bankers
K. S. Butcher
Douglas ‘County Farm
Baldwin
K. Stevens
Stainland
Wales
Lawrence
Brown's Grove
Colman
Tence
Stevens Farm
William H
Wells Farm
Asa R. Colman
Craer
Kansas
A. R Reed Farm
Nersa
Reformatory Terms for Three Youths to Hutchinson
Three youths, including Will Jacobs and Oscar Fuller, convicted of stealing Richard Jtkman’s Buick and Oscar Highes, found guilty of stealing chickens from McFaggott farm near Lawrence March 9, are to be taken to Hutchinson this afternoon. Undersheriff Rutherford will escort them to the Boys Industry school where term length depends on future conduct. County records note prior arrests. Gilkison reports Coffey County limes legume tour activity and Farm, Biréan attendance. Dairy firm Lawsoned Sanitary Milk & Cream Co. to close today by 4 D. m.
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Will Jacobs
Oscar Fuller
Richard Jqtkman
Oscar Highes
McFaggett ‘Farm
Lawrence
Hutchinson
R- Rutherford
Coffey County
Gilkison
Argent
Biréan
Douglas County
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