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Last week in NR 211 No. 3 the Lindberghs left St. Louis for a jaunt west. At Wichita, Kans. the Colonel ground-looped on landing, cracked a wing-spar. From the factory in St. Louis was rushed another Monocoupe. In it the Lindberghs took off again. Over western Oklahoma the motor quit. The Lindberghs landed in a cornfield. Forced to "lay over" pending repairs, they went to a nearby farm house where Anne Lindbergh donned an apron, helped Mrs. Homer Aitkens cook roast beef & mashed potatoes. Said Farmer Aitkens afterward: "That fellow didn't talk much, but he sure...
Health, wealth and wisdom encompassed the 966 osteopaths who attended the American Osteopathic Association's convention in Wichita, Kans. last week. Wichita's temperature went as high as 102° but failed to diminish the vigor of the osteopaths as they bustled between lectures, shows, dances, banquets. They crowded Wichita's three good hotels, dressed mostly in white, doffed their coats...
...Walker (Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner). Norman Case (onetime Governor of Rhode Island), Irvin Stuart (State Department radio expert). George Henry Payne (journalist). Hampson Gary (Wilson's Minister to Switzerland). The President also appointed the Securities & Exchange Commission, three labor boards and picked William Augustus Ayres, longtime Democratic Representative from Wichita, Kans. to succeed James M. Landis on the Federal Trade Commission...
...Wichita, Kans. last week the Eagle screamed with delight. Its owners, the brothers Victor & Marcellus Murdock, had the supreme joy of seeing their despised rival, the Beacon, convicted of fraudulent advertising. The Beacon and its publishers Max & Louis Levand were tried for labeling certain merchants' advertisements in their Beacon with a "Seal of Quality" bearing the signature of Dr. Russell Eugene Hobbs, until lately city physician. Dr. Hobbs had told the grand jury he had not consented to the use of his signature (TIME...
Elmore Louis Martin, 1G, of Pratt, Kans., to be Assistant in Chemistry, A.B. Univ. of Wichita, Kans., 1933; S.M. ibid...