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...Wichita, Kans., Viola McFeeters, 13, was sued for divorce by Raymond McFeeters who married her a year ago when she escaped from a girls' industrial school...
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...repetition and embroidery. Invading Nominee Landon's home-ground, he reminded cheering Kansans of the rise in wheat prices since 1932, observed that during his previous campaign tour there had been a lot of tourists passing through on freight cars while now they were riding in Pullmans. At Wichita he rapped tactfully at Governor Landon's balanced budget by declaring: "I do not believe that Kansas, any more than any other state, would have pulled through the difficult problems of the past four years as it has, had it not been for Federal cooperation and Federal assistance...
Last week Radiopriest Charles E. Coughlin was addressing a state rally of his National Union for Social Justice at Detroit's Fair Grounds. One listener not a member of the National Union was Frank ("Woody") Hockaday, onetime Wichita, Kans. automobile accessories dealer, now chiefly interested in promoting peace by means of sudden dramatic appearances with a bag of feathers. This punchinello of the 1936 political campaign first received public notice and fell into the hands of the police in June when, attired in red shorts and an Indian war bonnet, he strewed his feathers all over Philadelphia...
Meantime, Favorite Howard took off from Wichita, was speeding over a Navajo reservation in New Mexico when Mister Mulligan's gas line broke. Out of control, the little white plane plummeted to the ground. Drawn by the crash, a number of Navajos ran up, edged uneasily about, not daring to approach the crumpled wreck-for superstitious reasons. After four hours one of them went for white rescuers. They found Maxine Howard with both legs broken, her husband with fractures of both legs, an arm and a brain concussion. Hospitalized, she soon gained strength while he lay close to death...