The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-28
TOPEKANS IN new YORK
Notes of Activity of kansans in
the Empire City.

Lieut. Jack Erickson was among
those who arrived from France on the
transport Agamemnon Saturday aft
ernoon. He was with the 541st field
artillery.
Lieut. BeryI johnson. of the sani-
tary corps, who arrived from Europe
on the Imperator. second largest ship
afIoat, on Thursday. after a race
across the Atlantic with the Levta-
than, largest ship afloat, was dis
charged from the army Saturday at
Camp Dix and left Saturday night for
Topeka
Willis r. Lusby and Mrs Lusby
(both washburn '13l are parents of a
son born April Is, named Richard
Vest Lusby They live in YonkerS.
as assistant cashier in the foreign de-
partment-
Miss Hazel Jane Bullock, formerly
of the French department at Wash
burn who has been studying in CO.
Iumbia university the past semester,
will stay in New York this summer
and attend the summer session at the
university.
Henry r. O'Brien, Washburn ia,
who received his NJ D. degree from
the University Of Michigan in Feb
ruary, 10 low an intern in the Brook
lyn hospital at Brooklyn.
Glenn D. Hussey, who received his
commission as ensign in the navy Sat-
urday, May "a, leaves Monday for To-
peka-
James Lindsay and Kenneth Hobbs,
both Alpha Delta men at Washburn.
leave the first of the week for To-
peka- They got their commissions as
ensigns Saturday. They plan to stop
day or two in Chicago en- route to
visit friends.
GLADDEN. w Baker, Washburn '1e,
now with the state board of health at
Albany. n. Y, was a visitor in New
York the first of May. He came down
here on u business trip.
| DR.. Karl A. Menninger. who for the
/ past month has been in Boston, where
/ his classes in neuropsychiatry at Har-
ward university and Tufts are in ses-
sion, will complete his work there
about June 1 and come to New York
| City to undertake work at the Wander
| bilt clinic and the Neurological ipsti-
/ tute. On June S DR.. c. F. Menninger
/ Will arrive in New York for visit,
and on June 9 both KAN and CFM
1 will go to Atlantic City to attend the
annual meeting of the American Med
/ icaI association. Thereafter they will
/ return to Topeka, arriving about
/ June Is.
Edwin A Menninger. son of DR.. and
Mrs. c. +. Menninger, who was recent
/ ly promoted to the position of tele-
/ graph editor of the New York Tribune,
was cited last week by the mana ing
editor of that newspaper for unusual
| work in connection with the trans
/ atlantic flight of Hawker and the L,
S. naval planes of the NC-type- While
| interest in the flights was at its
| height, Mr.. Menninger was specially
assigned as flight editor with a corps
| of four assistants. chief of whom was
| Wireless jack Binns. who earned
| international fame as the radio opera
tor who by MS calls for help saved the
| lives of hundreds Of passe gers on the
I Great Northern steamship when she
sank at sea ten or twelve years ago
The incident was remarkable as the
first use of wireless BY a ship in dis
| tress. The citation of Mr. Binns anc
Mr. MenninSer. signed by Garet Gar.
rett, and posted in the Tribune office
read: Mr.. Binns and Mr.. Menningei
helped materially to give the Tribune
its excellent showing on the Name,
and Hawker flights, Mr. Binns by hi
intelligent Interpretation and Mr. Men
ninger by his apt handling of tn
stories" In covering the flight story
the Tribune printed from ten to TWEEN
ty columns of news daily. beside
maps and pictures. spending hundred!
Of dollars for special cable servic
from Newfoundland and London