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When War came in 1917 William Hushka, 22-year-old Lithuanian, sold his St. Louis butcher shop, gave the proceeds to his wife, joined the Army. He was sent to Camp Funston, Kan. where he was naturalized. Honorably discharged in 1919, he drifted to Chicago, worked as a butcher, seemed unable to hold a steady job. His wife divorced him, kept their small daughter. Long jobless, in June he joined a band of veterans marching to Washington to fuse with the Bonus Expeditionary Force. "I might as well starve there as here," he told his brother. At the capital...
Lawrence, Kan...
...last week, Federal detectives picked up three players, identified two of them, Thomas Holden and Francis L. Keating, as mail-train robbers who escaped from Leavenworth two years ago; a third, John Brown, as one of the men who held up the Citizens' National Bank at Fort Scott, Kan. last month. Their wives, idly watching the game from a parked car, had guns in their handbags...
Capt. Walter Newhall Vernou, U. S. N.. new White House aide, is the son of Capt. Charles A. Vernou, 19th Infantry, U. S. A. He was born at Fort Larnard, Kan. Feb. 10, 1878, appointed to the Naval Academy from Michigan in 1897.-ED. Original Ricks Sirs...
When a speaker made an unbearably fatuous remark, Publisher William Allen White of the Emporia (Kan.) Gazette muttered "spinach." Little Publisher Roy Howard and his bearded partner Robert Scripps muttered nothing but laughed a great deal. Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick rarely got to the Convention, busied himself writing scary front-page editorials for his Chicago Tribune. One, titled "Half Bolshevik; Half Free," concluded with: "Unless we have, in Lincoln's phrase, a new birth of freedom, the death of our civilization is near at hand...