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...known to his father-in-law as Richard F. White but in Mapleton, Kan., a Thomas H. Camp was last reported there when his mother passed away and he was a pallbearer. He was 22 years old then...
Charles Gleason Jr., 12, of Newton, Kan., who is as inquisitive as a young fox terrier, never gets lost. As soon as he opens his eyes a morning, he automatically recognizes compass points. All day long thereafter he knows exactly where he is. He is as clever and undeliberating as any bird or animal when it comes to homing...
...Wichita, Kan., 102-year-old Mrs. Lucy Hatch pleaded with county commissioners that she might enter the poor farm, find refuge from the "mischievous ways" of her 70-year-old son, Harry. She told officials that he spent her money in "bacchanalian festivals and midnight parties...
...were heard last week. But there was no final answer to the question: What caused the Transcontinental & Western Air plane crash in which Nation-famed Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others were killed? (TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only the twisted steel and fabric-or what was left of it by souvenir-hunters-could give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect...
...farmers, advertisements in the rural Press, harangues over the radio. Last week James Clifton Stone, new chairman of the Federal Farm Board, made his first excursion to the midWest to continue the "Legge shows," shout again the gospel of crop reduction. He addressed wheat co-operatives in Hutchinson, Kan. and Enid, Okla. As best he could he reiterated Mr. Legge's arguments, used the same threats, the same prayers...