Torrid heat wave toll tops 200 deaths nationwide
Heat wave enters its second week with record highs across the U S. Chicago and Pierre, S D report extreme temps as dozens die from prostration and drowning. Indiana and Missouri tally multiple fatalities while New York and Boston see cold comfort. Water use restrict and relief remains distant as animals and crops suffer losses.
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International News Service
Inoue Merable
Federal Weather Bureau
Pierre
S. D
Chicago
St. Louis
Pacific Coast
Springfield
Atlantic
Pacific County
New York
Boston
Pacific
Needles
Cal
Michigan
Mercury
Kansas City
Ivan
Vdelayed
Atlantic Boy Drowns In Lake Michigan
A news item fragment reports a drowning on Lake Michigan and notes ongoing search efforts and weather conditions. The text also includes updates on Wiley Post and Harold Gatty’s round the world flight, their planned approach to Nome, and radio contact with Otchishi station in northern Japan.
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Lake Michigan
Tokio
Wiley Post
Harold F. Gatty
Jimbu Naku
Kamchatks River
Khaerbarovsk
Siberia
Nome
Alaska
Otchishi
Japan
Winnie Mae
Kharbarovak
Okotsk Sea
Flape
Kamchatka Peninsula
Nomse
L. Nig S
Harald Gatty
Winnie Mac
Svard
Blagoveschensk
Khabarovak
American
Aloaka Airways
Northern Air
Coast Guard
Bering Sea
Car in Lewis Wreck Believed Stolen, Youths Escape
An auto wreck yesterday near the Lewis school in Guthrie county involved a believed stolen car that left the road and overturned on a curve. The two youths inside fled the scene after the crash, taking the car’s motors and tires with them as they escaped, authorities said.
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Lewis
Guthrie County Cary
Republiс's First Envoy Arrives in New York for Washington Duties
Don Salvador de Madariaga arrives in New York on the eighth to take up official duties in Washington DC marking a historic greeting from the newest sister republic. Mauretania to transport the envoy to Washington. He is welcomed as the first ambassador to the United States from the republic.
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United States
Don Salvador de Madariaga
New York
Mauretania
Washington
Bank cashier defies bandits during Chicago robbery
Chicago on June 20. Frankfort State Bank of Frankfort, Illinois, reports cashier J. H. Luhring, aged 64, defended the bank against five armed bandits. Bulletproof glass shielded him as three men entered. one shot fired but the bullet barely nicked the glass. Luhring fired back through the glass enclosure, driving the robbers off before loot was taken.
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Chicago
Biller Proof Glass
J. H. Luhring
Frankfort State “Bank
Frankfort
Ill
Luhring
Gina
Rocket Propelled Plane Crashes Off Coast Pilot Hurt
Richard Devine, attempting a rocket powered flight from Palos Verdes, reached the oceanfront before forced landing on rocks. He was knocked unconscious but revived by nearby Japanese fishermen. Devine sustained minor scratches as the craft wrecked off the coast.
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Los Angeles
Cal
T. N
Richard Devine
Palos Verdes
Devine
Iowa truck line operators ordered to appear before railroad board
Des Moines, June 29. The Iowa State Board of Railroad Commissioners ordered fifteen Iowa truck line operators to appear before the board on charges of failing to use rates and schedules as tracks operators in accordance with state rates and schedules. Operators who fail to appear or do not show at cries may have licenses revoked.
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Des Moines
Iowa State Board of Railroad Commissioners
Iowa
Drowned Navy Recruit Ross Brown 18
Ross Brown 18 son of Mr and Mrs George A Brown of 1206 Cedar Street drowned at the Great Lakes naval training station on Lake Michigan at 11 20 yesterday morning. A Cumberland High School graduate he enlisted last Thanksgiving and would have joined the U S Naval Academy at Annapolis in nine months. He had just graduated from the naval flying school at Great Lakes and would soon be transferred to San Pedro California. Born in Cumberland May 20 1913 he is survived by his parents a brother Maurice and grandmother Mrs M A Beckler of Aberdeen South Dakota. Funeral arrangements await word from naval officials.
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Ross Brown
George A. Brown
Cedar Street
Great Lakes
Lake Michigan
Ie Brown
Cumberland High School
Navy
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Naval Flying School
Naval Base
San Pedro
Cal
Cumberland
San Diego
Naval Trainil Station
Atlantic
Young Brown
Maurice Brown
M. A. Beckler
Aberdeen
Naval
Great Lakes Station
Attempts to signal Mars by radio from Sunnyvale station
Ormsby P. Taylor, a noted radio experimenter, began efforts to signal Mars by radio from his WBAC station in Sunnyvale California. He plans regular transmissions over the next twenty months as Mars recedes from and then nears Earth, with distances cited as 157 million miles now and about 98.7 million miles in December 1982.
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Sunnyvale
Cal
Jana
W. N
Honduran Rebel Leader Gregorio Ferrara Killed
Washington reports that Honduran rebel leader Gregorio Ferrara was killed by government troops in Honduras yesterday. American Minister Julius G. Lay at Tegucigalpa notified officials, signaling the likely end of the Honduran revolt.
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Washington
Gap
Gregorio Ferrara
Honduras
State Department
Julius G. Lay
Tegucigalpa
Casie
No clear headline from fragmented sports note
Fragmentary text mentions players Shofner Vand Myatt Ruffing McEvoy Wein Waevindsand Berkina and Cochrane with references to Detroit and third place or third in a list. Unable to determine full event, team, or outcome from the garbled OCR fragment.
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Nal
Shofner Vand Myatt
Ruffing
McEvoy
Wein- Waevindsand
Berkina
Etroit
Cochrane
Ate
Jones
Dreiser Attacks AFL Calling It a Closed Corporation
Theodore Dreiser, noted American novelist, urged disbandment of the AFL as a closed corporation. William Green, AFL president, calls the attack unjustified and says Dreiser shows a striking lack of knowledge about the federation’s activities.
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Avixi
Theodore Dreiser
American Federation of Labor
Dreiser
Wiliam Green
Labor Federation
A. F. of L
Breda Man Drowns in Gravel Pit Near Carroll
Carroll Iowa June 29 Herman Tennewike 26 Breda man drowns in a sand pit four miles east of Carroll Sunday afternoon. His body recovered two hours later. Johnnewind and two companions were at the farm pit owned by Math Laphe when the incident occurred. One man seized with cramps, companions attempted rescues, panic spread, others saved themselves. Ambulance and doctor summoned body found near 7 p m. Tennewine survived by one child.
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Carroll
Herman Tennewike
Breda
Jonmewind
Math Laphe
Jennewine
Tennewine
Four Hurt in Auto Crash Near Cedar Falls Iowa
Four persons were hospitalized after a late Saturday night road collision near Cedar Falls. Hog truck driver Mike Bowman, 25, Eldora, suffered a severe skull fracture with doubtful recovery. Lucille Krauss, 20, and E. J. Krauss, age , of Klemme, were seriously injured when their sedan crashed into a truck. Others, Krale Grimer 23 and Arlene Krauss of Klemme, and George Snovel of Hubbard Iowa, sustained minor injuries.
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Cedar Fells
N. S
Whatieinfurts Uea
Mike Bowman
Eldora
E. J. Krauss
Lucille Krauss
Kiemme
Kral Grimer
Arlene Krauss
Klemme
George Snovel
Hubbard
Bowman
Krausa
Turey
Spencer plans speedy rebuild after devastating Spencer fire
Spencer Indiana June 29 plan to rebuild in four months after a blaze leveled 23 buildings and damaged 16 more. Fire started at A Bjornstad drug store sparked by sparkler in fireworks display. Fire destroyed telephone exchange and hindered communications. dynamite briefly used for control. Two injured but recovering. town forms patrols and plans a unified fireproof business district.
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Spencer
Ane
Iowa
Tie
Madson Eley
Mason ‘City
Pittsburgh Mayor Kline Indicted on Malfeasance Counts
Mayor Charles H. Kline faces forty eight counts of malfeasance in office related to city food purchasing. The grand jury indictment risks removal from office if convicted, amid the mayoral stresses and mounting legal troubles.
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Pittsburgh
Charles H. Kline
Bee
Kline
Spain Moves Toward Federal Republic As Elections Run
Madrid reports indicate a push toward a federal republic similar to the United States. Moderate Republicans and socialists gain in the Cortes while regionalists sweep Catalonia and Andalucia. widespread violence is noted and Provisional President Zamora is said defeated in the vote.
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Madrid
Spain
United States
Cortes
Catalonia
Andalucia
Alfonso XIII
Count de Romanones
Alfonso
Niveto Alcala Zamora
Man and Woman Accuse Each Other of Brutal Murder
Effingham England June 29. Earl Smith and Celia Homan wife of the slain man face coroner's inquest into the death of William H Homan a 38 year old farmer and World War veteran missing since March 27 Authorities found Homan s body with a shotgun wound in a four foot grave on a farm driveway leased by Smith two miles west of Effingham The two accuse each other of the brutal murder as the inquiry proceeds
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Effingham
William H. Homan
Earl Smith
Celia Homan
Haminn
Smith
Here
Infant Daughter of Skipton Dies at Birth
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil M Skipton of 704 Elm Street died at birth last evening at Atlantic hospital. Short services were held today at 2 p.m. at the Osborne-Tomingon funeral home, with Rev. Pyl M. McDermott officiating, and burial followed at Atlantic Catholic Cemetery.
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Skipton
Cecil M
Elm Street
Atlantic Hospital
Osborne-Tomingon “Funeral
M. McDermott
Atlantic
Youth Drowns as Heat Wave Sweeps Hamlin Area
Alfred Christensen, 20, son of Hans Christensen, drowned in the Nishnabotna River south of Hamlin while swimming with brothers Sidney and LaVerne during a heat spell. G. M. Cuppy of Avoca died of heat prostration in Council Bluffs last week. The region reports record heat with 98 statewide and 108 in Inwood and Waterloo. Livestock losses, especially horses, mount as workers suffer heat stress.
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Inet
Alfred Christensen
Hans Christensen
Hamlin
Christensen
Sidney
LaVerne Christensen
Nishnabotna
G. M. Cuppy
Avoca
Sit
Christeizen
William
Cordergaan
Ila
Ceault
Fred Geiger
The
Atlantic ™ Rendering Works
Geiger
W. A. Hopley
Atllantic
Reading
Mercury
Roy L. Fancolly
Inwood
Waterloo
Nouthwestern
Pioneer Iowan Dies at Grinnel
An elderly pioneer woman from Grinnell, Iowa, dies at home at age 88. She was among the first women to receive a notable award in her town, and her life reflected early local efforts by women on the Mississippi River corridor.
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Grinnel
Ploneee Town
Heraay
Mipsiaaippi
Dedi
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Gatty
Republic
Mars
Cedar Falls
Otto Bjorstiul, Jr
O. B. Scott
Neronatricki
Federal Republic
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