Garrison Banker Nabbed in $20,000 Embezzlement Charge
H J Rozema 40 assistant cashier of the closed Garrison Savings bank is in custody in White Cloud Michigan on embezzlement charges. Sheriff Nile Mozena pursued the fugitive after a $20,000 shortage surfaced when the bank closed and directors decided to end operations. Rozema has a long banking and public service background and was last seen in Fremont Michigan after leaving for a family funeral.
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Vinton
H. J. Rozema
Garrison Savings Bank
Garrison
White Cloud
Mich
Nile Mozena
Rozema
Fremont
Victor Visquain
A. J. Donald
Cedar Rapids
William Coburn
Carl Adams
Jacobsen
Donald
Vilquain
Harry C. White
Garrison Bank
Morena
Vifquain
White
Keystone
Merchants National Bank
Peoples Savings Bank
Farmers’ Savings Bank
Brookhart And Lytle Exceed Expense Limit
Des Moines report shows two candidates for the June primary exceeded the legal expense limit. Sen. Smith W. Brookhart and F. Lytle each filed expenses above $5,000, while neither secured the nomination. Law limits spending to half a senator’s yearly salary. questions remain about applying the rule to congressional candidates.
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Des Moines
LLP
G. C. Greenwalt
Smith W. Brookhart
F. Lytle
U. S
Brookhart
Lytle
Iowa
Supreme Court
Secretary of State
Dry divided on Hoover stand in prohibition policy clash
The national prohibition board of strategy urges drys to back candidates who favor keeping prohibition law. The group cites Hoover and Roosevelt positions while noting a split stance and a push for a third party as Borah contemplates a presidential bid.
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Drys
Hoover
Washington
National Prohibition Board of Strategy
Roosevelt
D. Leigh Colvin
Prohibition Party
Colvin
Borah
Idaho
Irish tariff war escalates as parley fails
Dublin passes tariff bill by 68 to 57 and plans immediate implementation. De Valera leaves for Dublin amid talks with MacDonald failing to avert a trade clash. Norton warns that retaliatory measures may follow and De Valera risks losing labor party support and his political life.
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London
INL
England
Norton
de Valera
Dublin
Dail Eireann
Senate
Irish Labor Party
Heat Wave Deaths Near Thirty Across Nation
The Associated Press reports a severe heat wave with highs near 105 in Texas and Illinois drought fears nationwide. Nine heat deaths in Chicago plus other fatalities across Wisconsin Kansas City Minnesota Indiana North Dakota and several drownings mark the toll. A dynamite explosion killed a contractor in St. Louis amid the heat linked toll.
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St. Louis
J. E. Sargent
Wisconsin
Kansas City
Minnesota
Indiana
North Dakota
Iowa
Relief Funds Depleted Threatens Chicago Welfare
Chicago faces a relief crisis as 158000 families could lose sustenance and shelter unless the federal government assists Illinois. Ed ward L Ryerson, chair of the Illinois emergency relief commission, warned that every cent of Chicago and Cook county relief funds will be spent in five efforts.
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Chicago
INS
Illinois
Edward L. Ryerson
Illinois Emergency Relief Commission
Cook County
Ryerson
Col Judah Elected Rainbow Vets Head
The Rainbow division reunion of the A. E. F. ended with Lieut. Col. Nobile C. Judah of Chicago chosen as president. Vice-presidents named were Miles Simpson of Alabama Hiram Plowers of Minnesota Jack Smith of New York and Victor M. White of Mississippi.
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INS
Rainbow Division
Nobile C. Judah
Chicago
Cuba
Miles Simpson
Alabama
Hiram Plowers
Minnesota
Jack Smith
New York
Victor M. White
Collicott Murder Suspect Returns From Los Angeles
Norman C. Luce, held in Los Angeles, is returned to Davenport as a suspect in the Ethel Collicott murder. The slaying occurred in Davenport with robbery believed as motive. Luce’s trial is set for the September term of the Scott County court.
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Cedar Rapids
Norman C. Luce
Los Angeles
Byg
Ethel Collicott
Davenport
Associated Press
Collicott
Elmer Collicott
Eighth Street
Luce
California
John Weir
Peter Dittmer
Scott County
Roe Op Court
Associated Press Sa
Three Women Accuse Dr Worm of Confidence Game
Three women waited in Chicago for Dr. W. J. Worm of Portland Oregon to appear as they charged him with running a confidence game. The women named Mrs Della Rademacker Margaret Young and Mrs Margaret Ackers.
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Chicago
W. J. Worm
Portland
Ore
Della Rademacker
Margaret Young
Margaret Ackers
Aimee McPherson Hutton Eyes Suit Over Book Exposé
Los Angeles AP report states Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton’s lawyers will hold former Angelus Temple assistant pastor John Goben responsible for selling a book titled Aimee Gospel Gold Digger. They plan civil action while consulting the district attorney over the alleged scurrilous attack on Hutton’s reputation.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson
Hutton
John Goben
Angelus Temple
Temple
Roy Stewart
Keaton Awaits Verdict On Marriage To Natalie Talmadge
Buster Keaton faces a court day in Hollywood as a judge weighs whether he remains married to Natalie Talmadge. Keaton says the separation was Natalie’s idea despite his claim it was not his.
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Hollywood
Calif
Buster Keaton
Natalie Talmadge
Natalie
Keaton
WCTU to Decide Hoover Endorsement at Seattle Meet
Mrs. Ella Boole, national president, said the Women's Christian Temperance Union will back Hoover if his acceptance speech confirms no shift from his dry stance. A national convention in Seattle in August will settle Hoover's endorsement status.
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New York
INS
Hoover
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Ella Boole
Seattle
Wholesale prices dip slightly in May to June decline
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports a 0.75 percent drop in the wholesale price index from May to June. Of 784 commodities tracked, 296 fell, 77 rose, and 411 remained unchanged, reflecting an overall modest easing with a 12 month decline of 11 percent.
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Washington
INS
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau
Police Quiets Capitol Rush Of Bonus Army
Washington police restrained a march by veterans demanding the bonus as Congress met for its last session. Leader Walter Waters was briefly arrested then allowed to address the crowd from a bandstand and urged peaceful dispersal.
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Washington
Capitol
Congress
Walter W. Waters
Pelham D. Glassford
Capitol Plaza
Glassford
Waters
Senate
Rotunda
Roosevelt urges reforms in Philippine governance
Governor General Theodore Roosevelt calls for drastic changes in the Philippine administration after reporting a shrinking government income and mounting expenditures. He cites a 7.2 million peso deficit last year and a projected 17.5 million peso deficit this year, urging balanced budgets, tax overhaul, department reorganization, tax equalization, new taxes, and expansion of local industries including agriculture and crop diversification.
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Washington
INS
Philippine
Theodore Roosevelt
War Department
Roosevelt
Islands
Oil Station Thief Declines To Take Cash and Tickets
In Cedar Rapids two burglars hit the Triangle filling station on Fifth Avenue and Fourth Street SE early Saturday. $10 cash was taken from the register while about 100 baseball and unemployed relief tickets and $4 in cash remained. A second break-in at Maydwell’s cafe on First Avenue SE showed a rear window pried and 50 cents missing. A knife and fork were used in the attempted break-in at both sites.
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Cedar Rapids
Triangle
Fifth Avenue
Fourth Street
William Prochaska
Davis
Maydwell
First Avenue SE
Mae
Pies Become Campaign Fund Raising Items in Oklahoma
Expense filings with the Oklahoma state election board show pie related spending in campaigns. Odes Harwood spent 177 dollars in the Bryan county legislative race with 21.50 for pie suppers and 20.80 for ice cream suppers.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
State Election Board
Odes Harwood
Bryan County
American aviator survives 17 days in jungle after crash
Clarence McElroy, an American aviator, was rescued in Mexico after 17 days wandering the jungle following a crash in which companion Roy Gordon was killed. McElroy, missing since June 27 after departing Vera Cruz for Honduras, crawled about four miles through hostile terrain, fighting snakes, insects, and disease with a badly injured leg and no food or water.
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Mexico City
Clarence McElroy
eSa
Mey
San Geronimo
Vera Cruz
Honduras
Roy Gordon
Tegucigalpa
McElroy
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
This brief reports on Cedar Rapids traffic tolls for the year including counts of accidents and resulting injuries and fatalities. It highlights rising or declining trends and names any agencies collecting the data. It notes the total numbers and compares them to prior periods.
Heat Prostration Fatal To Kin Of Bishop Nicholson
Miss Ida Riley 50 sister in law of former Bishop Thomas Nicholson of the Methodist church died in Mount Vernon from heat prostration and a double hemorrhage suffered while traveling from Detroit Friday. The Nicholsons were moving to Mount Vernon after the bishop’s retirement. Funeral services set for Sunday morning at the Nicholas Knight home, with burial in Greencastle Monday. Riley held a 1912 Cornell master’s degree and was a DePauw alumna.
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Ida Riley
Thomas Nicholson
Methodist Church
Detroit
Bishop
Miss Riley
Clinton
Nicholas Knight
Nicholsons
Cornell Collge
DePauw University
Greencastle
Ind
Police Seek Writer Of Threats Against Florida Jury Head
Police in Jacksonville seek the writer of threats against Al F. Gorman foreman of the Duval county grand jury that indicted two prison guards in the torture murder case of Arthur Maillefert a 22 year old from New Jersey. Messages were received by mail and phone over the past 48 hours. The final threat named an unidentified individual.
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Jacksonville
Pla
Ins
al F. Gorman
Duval County
Grand Jury
Arthur Maillefert
New Jersey
Gorman
Sy Joe
Will Rogers on Prohibition Politics in the Senate
Will Rogers argues that prohibition shifted from moral to economic to racketeering, but now he says politics dominate the issue. He claims senators care about party gains rather than morals or economy as beer aligns with political credit.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Senate
Will
Sweltering Cedar Rapids Sees Mercury Dip Briefly
Cedar Rapids endured a hot spell with the thermometer dropping only slightly from 93 at 1 p.m. to 92 by 1 40 p.m. The noon reading was 92 and the cool spell brought clouds hinting rain though no relief seemed lasting. Heat prostration reported for a 20 year old man at a drug store, later recovering.
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Cedar Rapids
Harold Schneider
First Street
Schneider
Mercury
Collins Mortgage Company sues Equitable Life for over one million
Collins Mortgage company of Cedar Rapids files cross petition in Winnebago county court seeking 1 562 637 78 with interest and costs against Equitable Life Assurance company of New York alleging fees commissions and expenses owed under a long term agency contract. The case also targets Collins Farms and J J Busely for foreclosure and rent damages totaling about 2 000.
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Cedar Rapids
Collins Mortgage Company of
Winnebago County
Equitable Life Assurance Company of
New York
H. M. Havner
Havner, Flick, Huebner, and
Powers
Des Moines
Collins Company
Equitable Company
Equitable Life Assurance Company
Havner
Henning and Baker
Chicago
M. H. Collins
Equitable
Equitable Life Assurance
Collins Mortgage Company
Collins Farms Company
J. J. Busely
Barnes, Chamberlain, Hanzlik, and Thompson
Burt Thompson
Forest City
M Ge
Amicus Das
To Become Due
Unemployment Relief Bill Passes Congress to Hoover
The 1.122 billion unemployment relief measure cleared Congress with its Reconstruction Finance Corp provisions intact and was sent to President Hoover for signature. The Senate approved the conference report without a recorded vote, signaling imminent summer adjournment.
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Washington
Congress
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Senate
Hoover
Congress Closes Session with Relief Bill Near Victory
Washington lawmakers pushed through last minute work to adjourn as they sought final approval of a 2.122 billion dollar general relief program. The House rejected the Goldsborough dollar stabilization tweak while the Senate pressed for the Glass currency rider.
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Washington
Hoover
Congress
Senate
Home Loan Bank
House
Norbeck
Aged Recluse Slain in Barn Robbery Case at Fergus Falls
Neighbors found Mons Jacobson 70 torturously slain and burned in his barn near Fergus Falls Minnesota. He resisted attackers who tied and gagged him. authorities suspect robbery linked to rumored hidden money. The farmhouse showed extensive ransacking and evidence of a fierce struggle. Jacobson was last seen Monday with the attack dated Friday.
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Fergus Falls
Minn
Mons Jacobson
Jacobson
Belgian Coal Strike Ends as Wage Scale Maintained
The Walloon district coal strike ended after owners pledged to keep the current wage scale through November despite the crisis. Syndicates posted return-to-work notices for Monday and the government released 200 prisoners from strike disturbances while keeping 40 communists in custody.
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Brussels
INS
Walloon
Senate Votes Cash For Relief Wheat
Washington action approved a joint resolution to reimburse the Federal Farm Board 40 million dollars for 45 million bushels of wheat and 500000 bales of cotton donated to the Red Cross for relief work. The measure goes to the House for approval.
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Washington
Federal Farm Board
Red Cross
Yale Sanskrit professor Edward W. Hopkins dies at 74
Edward W. Hopkins, 74, professor emeritus of Sanskrit at Yale, died Saturday at his summer home in Madison, New Haven. He had returned a week earlier after spending a year in Europe.
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New Haven, Conn
Edward W. Hopkins
Yale
Madison
Europe
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