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Federal grand jury to investigate bank ring
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Columbus attorney Paul Armstrong, president of the U.S. 69 Highway Association, and long-time supporter of the plan to run a four-lane highway along the U.S. 69 corridor, presided at the Kansas Highway Department hearing at Pittsburg’s Lincoln Center. A total of 300 persons listened as 33 area residents told highway department officials the proposed corridor would protect motorists and spark industrial development. - photo by File Photo
Excerpted stories in Crawford County newspaper archives 100 Years Ago May 10, 1924 Federal grand juries in Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma will review operations of an alleged swindle ring responsible, officials declare, for nearly 30 bank failures in the last three years. Action of the United States grand jury in Fort Scott this week in indicting six men in connection with failure of a bank in Vernon, Kas., are a preliminary in the investigation, officials in charge of fraud investigations in the Kansas City district said yesterday. Mine No.