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...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...
...Wichita, Kan., Don Preston appeared in court, arraigned for the second time on a liquor charge. Penniless, he had hitchhiked over 1,100 miles from San Diesro, Calif...
After a stormy trip from Wichita, Kansas, the new airplane bought recently by the Flying Club arrived on Saturday, at the flying field of the Eastcoast Aircraft Company. The plane is a Travelair trainer, and is powered by a 90 horsepower Curtis Wright Gypsy motor...
...Pacemaker, after an early forced landing in Canada, fought its way up to fifth place ahead of the Curtiss Kingbird. Flying across Kansas, Pilot Haldeman tried the cross-country tactics of Lindbergh and Hawks, climbed above 15,000 ft., there found a strong west wind to whisk him into Wichita ahead of his rival. Most telling test of the week occurred between Wyoming and Colorado, when the heavily loaded ships had to take off from high-altitude fields, clear a 9,400 ft. range into Denver...
...birds out of 100, for the country's most important trapshooting championship - the Grand American Handicap. The men, taut-faced, middleaged, were J. L. Scott and Dan Casey of Toledo and Lawrence Crampton of Dayton. The boy, least nervous of the four, was Alfred Rufus King Jr. of Wichita Falls, son of famed Marksman Rufus A. King, 1921 winner of the Governor's cup. Short and slender for his 14 years, he looked out of place beside his competitors as they went out to shoot 25 birds to decide the tie. A handicap in trapshooting is sometimes given...