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...Wichita, Kan. is famed for stockyards, broom factories, oil refineries, Quakers. Lately it has been calling itself "aviation capital of the U. S." having forty-seven aeronautical enterprises in or near it. In the past fortnight Wichita has become indebted for further prominence to Max and Louis Levand, co-publishers (with their brother John as circulation manager) of the Wichita Beacon, formerly owned by Senator Henry Justin Allen...
...Kansas as the largest U. S. wheat producing State, declared: "The biggest hog will always lie in the trough. Kansas is now in its trough." By the time he had reached Amarillo, Tex., Kansas was up in arms at his epithet. Max and Louis Levand, publishers of the Wichita Beacon, wired President Hoover that his Farm Board Chairman had "insulted 1.850.000 people," demanded Mr. Legge's resignation. To Chairman Legge they telegraphed...
Harvard Club of Wichita. President: Marc C. Clapp '07, First Trust Company, Wichita. Secretary-Treasurer; Monroe E. Garrison Jr., Grad. Bus. '24-26, First National Bank Bldg., Wichita...
...Moines, Iowa, baseball team of the Western League: the opening game of its home season; at night, on a field lighted by huge projectors from 90-ft. towers; beating Wichita, 13 to 6. Des Moines made four errors, Wichita none. Said Hugrie Nielsen, Des Moines shortstop: "It's easier to hit a curve by electric light." Said Lee Keyser, president of the Des Moines club, who thought up night-baseball to draw the fans who could not get away in the afternoons: "It was splendid . . . glorious...
...stunt flyer is Charles Augustus Lindbergh. It was for "pure experiment" last week that he and his small wife flew the 2,700 mi. from Glendale, Calif., to Roosevelt Field, L. I., with a 22 min. stop at Wichita, Kan. It took them only 14 hr.. 45 min., 32 sec., nearly three hours faster than any previous crossing of the U. S., but Col. Lindbergh deprecated efforts to credit him with breaking the record of Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks which, he pointed out, was a nonstop flight with a heavy fuel load. The Lindberghs held to levels between...