Tragic Vestris Disaster Outlines Loss and Survives
The Vestris wreck near Virginia Cape claimed 214 rescued and 114 presumed dead with 27 women and 13 children among the missing. Survivors recount a chaotic sinking, lifeboats lowered improperly, and captain Carey last seen at the ship’s tail as it foundered.
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Brest
Coast Guard
Tucker
Acushnet
Shaw
Berlin
Rers
Passen- Myriam
Cen Tetal
Wromimz
Wraming
Norfolk
New York
Taniker Myriam
Brooklyn
Wyoming
Hampton Roads
David Gook
Sanderson & Sons, Inc
Lamport & Holt Line
Bank Robbery Fails in Marietta Shootout Kills Bandit
At Marietta Oklahoma two men attempted a First National Bank hold up. A gunfight ensued with one robber killed and the other fatally wounded. Nearby officials and clerks from Kansas City and Douglas County noted the incident as local police investigated. In Paris France the Chamber of Deputies backed the new Poincare government 33 to 147.
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Bank
Marietta
Okla
First National Bank of
New & Cabinet
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
Poincare
Kansas Forecast Shows Rain Likely Tonight and Friday
The forecast calls for rain probable tonight and Friday with cooler temperatures. Road conditions vary by city: clear in Arkansas City and Ottawa, Pittsburg. Coffeyville cloudy with good roads. Wichita Ottawa Topeka rough Salina Dodge City muddy. Arkansas City Coffeyville fair to rough Hutchinson Pittsburg. Temperatures show a drop since yesterday with notable readings across the state.
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Kansas
Arkansas City
Ottawa
Pittsburg
Coffeyville
Wichita
Topeka
Salina
Dodge City
Hutchinson
Douglas
Dad's day dinner reservations urged at Memorial union
Plans for the Dad's day dinner at the Memorial union building in Lawrence include Chancellor Lindsey and invited leaders. Dean John R. Dyer asks attendees to reserve by phone to KU 28 Prday with cancellations welcome if plans change. Governor Paulen and Clyde Reed party expected to attend.
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Memorial Union
University
John R. Dyer
K. U
Dean Dyer
Paulen
Clyde Reed
Lawrence
FE. H. Lindsey
Adrian Lindsey
Oklahoma Grid
H. W. Harriss
Kansas
Omas E.’ Wagstaff
Independence
Kans
University Law School
Elevator Girl Heroine in Kansas City Fire
Kansas City fire on the top floor of the Myron Green Building at 1118 15 Walnut Street disrupted traffic for blocks. Fifteen hose lines poured water as about $30,000 in damage occurred before noon. Elevator operator Beulah Nelabe refused to leave her post until roughly 20 occupants escaped.
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Kansas City
Myron Green
Walnut Street
Miss. Beulah Nelabe
Tornadoes strike northwestern Iowa causing deaths and damage
Tornadoes swept through three northwestern Iowa localities near Vinton Silver Creek and Chester injuring at least six and killing Mrs Alpha Hawkins son 30. Farmsteads and stock were destroyed with damage estimated above 75000 dollars. A second funnel hit a 250 resident town damaging a parsonage creamery and a residence with two injured.
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Vinta
Iowa
Vinton
Benton County
Silver Creek
William Herman
Herman
Chester
Minnesota Line
Auskin
Minn
Gee
Tax conference in Topeka proposes income tax plan
In Topeka on November 15 AP reports Kansas 1929 legislators economists bankers and farmers gathered for a pre legislative tax conference called by governor elect Clyde M Reed. Reed urged reducing overall taxes by shifting burden from real estate to indirect sources while outlining plans for future sessions and highway issues. Eric Englund of the USDA proposed a graduated personal income tax with exemptions and rates that could raise about 3.7 million yearly. Several hundred attendees heard proposals as Reed presided and appointed officers.
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Topeka
Kansas
Glyde M. Reed
Reed
Parsons
Kansas City
Excelsior Springs
Republican Party
Fred’m. Harris
Ottawa
John H- Myers
Johnson County
Eric Englund
United States Department of Agriculture
Lifeboat Crew Drowns in Sea Rescue Tragedy
Seventeen crew members die when the Rye lifeboat capsizes off Jury’s Gap during a rescue from a distressed steamer near Dungeness. The event occurs in a southwest gale as relatives watch in sorrow and the bodies drift to Jury’s Gap shores.
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London
the Press Association
Rye
Sussex
Jury's Gap
Smyrna
Theo
Roye
Alice
Riga
Dungeness
Lloyd’s
Jury’s Vun
Introvert Won El N Say Scientists
Evanston Illinois November 15 AP three Northwestern University faculty members offered employers a scientific method for picking employees. The Neumann Kohlstedt test uses fifty questions to classify applicants as introverts or extroverts. Examples of extroverts include Roosevelt Mussolini Taft and Alfred E. Smith. introverts include Lindbergh Coolidge Hoover and Woodrow Wilson.
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Evanston
Northwestern University
Caus
C. A. Neumann
John J. Morgan
K. D. Kohlstedt
Neumann-Kohlstedt
Theodore Roosevelt
Mussolini
William Howard Taft
Alfred E. Smith
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
President Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Dinner Ends Meet: Building Loan Groups Host Banquet
Representatives from northern Kansas building and loan associations wrapped up a one day program with a banquet at Haskell Institute in Lawrence. The gathering drew about 100 attendees from Douglas County and Lawrence, with out-of-town guests entertained as part of the event. Charles S. Finch delivered the main address reflecting on home ownership and the role of building and loan groups in expanding access to housing.
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Kansas
Haskell Institute
Chamber of Commerce
Douglas County
Lawrence Building and Loan Associations
Haskell Domestic Science Department
Hankel‘ Orchestra
Haskell Women's Glee Club
George O. Foster
University of Kansas
Lawrence Building and Loan Association
Taylor
School of Business
University
Frank Stockton
Business
Charles S. Finch
Swarthout to attend Iowa convention of musical executives
Dean D M Swarthout of the University of Kansas School of Fine Arts leaves Lawrence for Iowa City to attend a two day convention of the Association of Musical Executives of 14 state universities. Subjects include fine arts activities and related programs. Musicians will visit C E Seashore laboratories and attend a Town Wisconsin game and a Royalties play at Vesuvius Show.
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D. M. Swarthout
School of Fine Arts
University
Lawrence
Iowa City
Iowa
Association of Musical Executives
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
Psychology Laboratories
C. E. Seashore
John Galsworthy
Vesuvius
Etna lava flow lessens as Vesuvius erupts anew
Naples dispatch reports Etna’s molten lava output continuing to diminish while Mount Vesuvius becomes active. Incandescent material spouted from a cliff at the base of the central cone, near the railway station serving the summit, marking renewed eruptive activity on the northwest flank.
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Naples
Mount Etna
Mount Vesuvius
Conera
Summi
Cars Washed For One Fifty, Called For And Delivered
Hudson Goff offers car wash service at $1.50 with pickup and delivery. Service advertises prompt cleaning and doorstep drop off for local customers.
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Hudson-Goff
Whitewash stain shocks Topeka high and Lawrence clash
Topeka high school students smeared whitewash and paint on the Memorial building and sidewalks, drawing reactions from Lawrence authorities. Officials fear cancellations of the Saturday football game amid intensified rivalry dating to 1897, with calls for orderly conduct and punishment for guilty parties.
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Lawrence
Topeka High School
Topeks
Topeka
Massachusetts Street
W. W. Curfman
John R. Barnes
Melvin Griffin
Elmer Schaake
Topekt
Curfman
W. N. van Slyck
Committee to Texas aims at campaign fund probes in 15th district
Washington reports a house campaign funds committee will depart Friday to probe campaign expenditures in southern Texas, focusing on the 15th congressional district long represented by John Garner. The investigation seeks to scrutinize financial practices and political spending in the region.
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Washington
House Campaign Funds
Texas
A New Eruptive Mouth Opens On Mount Etna
A dispatch from Alfio Sicily reports a new eruptive mouth opening today on Mount Etna. Lava from the new front advanced rapidly destroying vineyards that had not yet been damaged, while overall volcanic activity along the main front slowed to about 3.2 feet per hour.
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Rome
Giornale D'Italia
Alfio
Sicily
Mount Etna
Union Nears Goal for Lawrence Choral Union
The Lawrence Choral Union aims for 500 voices this year under director Dean D. M. Swarthout. A drive ended with 492 enrolled singers including 358 women and 184 men, with 213 sopranos, 145 altos, 60 tenors, and 74 basses. Some couldn't attend practice but may join later, and Miss Marvel Legg was introduced as secretary. The group practiced Verdi's Requiem for Music Week next spring.
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Lawrence Choral Union
Dean D. M. Swarthout
Lawrence Memorial‘ High School
Dean Swarthout
Pring. Ee
Lawrence Shares in Road Fete Next Tuesday
Lawrence and Douglas county plan to participate in the Out of the Mud road fete with Ottawa Franklin county. The event on Tuesday features a 1 day program from 11 am to midnight with Mac's 100 piece KU band, a 30 piece Haskell Indian school band, and a Pottawatomie group to perform a war dance. The Haskell costumes from Roy O. Lyon will be used in Minneapolis and Des Moines before Ottawa. Haskell midget football players and cavalry will also participate in events around the courthouse square and Oklahoma-Kansas game weekend.
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Chamber of Commerce
Lawrence
Douglas County
Franklin County
Ottawa
iOttawa
Mac
Haskell Indian School
Pottawatomie Indiana
Minneapolis
Claude Scott
Roy 0. Lyon
Clinton
Nebraska
Lyon
Des Moines
Haskell
Courthouse Square
Haskell Cavalry
Rate Tok U M A Game Round Trip Fare Special Train
The Santa Fe railroad offers a special rate of 35 dollars for fans traveling to Columbia Missouri for the Kansas Missouri football game to be held Saturday November 2. A serial train is expected to depart Lawrence at 5 40 AM arriving in Columbia at 12 30 PM. The return trip leaves Columbia at 6 PM arriving in Lawrence at 12 45 AM. Also included is a 5 dollar fare to Topeka for the same event. Detective Pen dleton wounded in running gun battle in Topeka as two suspects held up a grocery last night. One suspect captured. another at large.
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Santa: Fe Railroad
Columbia
Lawrence
Topeka
Bob Pendleton
Atwater-Kent Radio
Hanna—Ady
Official county vote tally alters unofficial totals
Official tabulation by County Clerk C C Bowman updates most unofficial figures but leaves results unchanged. The closest race between E J Hill and D Burton for county commissioner third district widens Hill’s lead by ten votes. amendments to highway control and gasoline tax pass strongly.
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Douglas County
E. J. Hill
D. +. Burton
Hill
State Highway Commission
Atate
Hoover
Smith
Thomas
Guyler
Het
Supreme Court
Hopkins
Huxman
Harvey
Rutchison
Reed
Little
Peterson
Graybill
Kimmel
Malone
Cornell
Kemper
Hambley
Make Yacht Ready for Specimen Hunt
Miami reports preparations aboard the 218 foot yacht Ava for an eight month global expedition in search of unknown sea specimens. Mr. Vanderbilt serves as captain pilot and navigator while the Vanderbilts and party prepare to depart from Fisher's Island aboard the Vanderbilt car to board the Ava for a voyage to Panama and then the Pacific.
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Miami
Fla
W. K. Vanderailt
Vanderbilts
Fisher's Island
Vanderbilt
Ava
Panama
Pacific
Secretary Mellon predicts benefits from Hoover Latin trip
Secretary Mellon says President-elect Hoover's visit to Central and South America will improve understanding and boost trade. He notes continued good business conditions with no expected changes in federal policy. Two army air school privates die in Brooks Field crash after plane broke up midair.
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Mellon
Washington
Hoover
Central
South America
United States
Rover
San Antonio
Tex
Army Air-School
Brooks Field
Cal
Daniels
Ady
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