Machine Gun Slays Sheriff's Aid in Chicago Park
CHICAGO Deputy Jack A. Werner, a political worker and sheriff's aide, was killed by a machine gun squad Friday night while sitting in his parked car with a cousin. Police link the murder to the recent trial of gangsters Alterie and Brown and consider underworld enmity and Werner’s gambling racket investigations as possible factors. Werner had previously served time for manslaughter and was paroled in 1917.
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Pontiac
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U S Commerce Seeks Ottawa Parley On Trade Preferences
Ottawa report says South Africa joined Canada and Australia in urging preference for foodstuffs in the British home market in return for greater favors to British manufactured goods in dominion markets.
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Government orders evacuation of bonus army encampment
The Treasury Department served an evacuation order Saturday to members of the bonus army encamped along Pennsylvania Avenue and near the Agriculture Building. The notice declared trespass on federal property if they did not move by Monday midnight. Persistent efforts to oust the group had not previously been enforced.
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Detroit
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Roy W. Robertson
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Pelham D. Glassford
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Kraschel and Storms Nominated For Iowa Tickets
The Democratic state convention selected N. G. Kraschel of Harlan for lieutenant governor and C. W. Storms of Fort Madison for auditor of state. After a two-ballot contest, Storms won the auditor nomination amid defections and then made unanimous.
Father In Law Sought in Slain Farm Youth Case
Bedford Iowa police issued a bench warrant for Elza Jones the father in law of Thomas Allen the 26 year old farmer found buried in a shallow grave on the Jones farm. County Attorney Meikle charged Jones with murder and authorities said he could not be located despite attending Allen's funeral. Developments were expected but officials provided no new details.
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MakKibben Named Head Of Welfare Bureau Of Chamber
E. L. MaKibben, president of MaKibben Motor Company, was elected chairman of the public welfare bureau of the Chamber of Commerce at a Friday meeting. He fills the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Richard Lord, whose term would have ended October 31.
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Irish tariff bill against England takes effect
Dublin reports the emergency tariff bill aimed at Great Britain becomes effective as Ireland prepares to impose new duties in reprisal for high UK import tariffs. The act signals the start of an Anglo Irish economic conflict with orders imminent to enforce the measures.
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Youngstown Tube Plant To Reopen After Production Increase
Youngstown Sheet and Tube will call back several hundred workers next week as ingot production doubles. The restart includes resumption at more than one third of open hearths and boosts in rolling mills and welding furnaces.
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Death takes inventor of radio devices
Newton Mass AP Prof Reginald A Fessenden physicist and engineer died Friday in Hamilton Bermuda. He helped establish what is claimed as the first broadcasting station at Brant Rock sending voices to Scotland and improved wireless receivers and the Fessenden oscillator enabling deep sea and surface ship communication. He fought patent lawsuits successfully, receiving 2 1/2 million dollars in 1928 from major firms including RCA AT&T Western Electric and more. Born October 6 1866 in Milton Quebec he worked with Edison and taught at Purdue and Pittsburgh before leading submarine signaling efforts. He received the 1929 American Scientific American gold medal for safety at sea.
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Man Found Dead In Box Car Identified By Divorce Papers
Coroner identifies the man as E. Middaugh formerly of Des Moines and Sigourney, found in an empty Rock Island box car. Death due to heart trouble worsened by heat. body marked by a divorce document and letters from Sigourney where he worked as a leather worker. The body was discovered by a car tester and taken to Turner's mortuary for funeral arrangements. He was about 65, 5'7" tall, 165 pounds, with an artificial right leg, using two crutches, and carrying clothing wrapped in a Gazette.
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Three Youths Captured in Harvey Slaying of Policeman
Chicago dispatch reports three youths Tony Pikles age 18 Peter Pikles 19 and Frank Puneti 22 were jailed in suburban Harvey after being accused of fatally shooting Police Officer Harold Koehncke as he attempted to detain them for a traffic violation A fourth suspect Morris Puneti was at large police say the youths used a stolen car and opened fire when Koehncke approached to escort them to the station.
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Two Men Held To Grand Jury In Coin Death
Davenport bootlegger Nick Coin was killed and Louis Spridgen and Charles Elder were bound over for the grand jury on murder charges after a preliminary hearing. Ballistics expert Harold Gesell linked shells from the scene to a shotgun seized at the Spridgen home.
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Charles Elder
Muscatine
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Justice Wells
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Des Moines
Harold Gesell
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Ax handle breaks cut five tendons in man's hand
Frank Klinger son of Wendl Klinger of 1801 J street SW suffered a deep gash on the back of his right hand Friday when the ax handle broke while splitting wood. The blade struck his hand and five tendons were severed. He received first aid at Mercy hospital.
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Lina Basquette Injured In Fall At Oakland Stage
Hollywood actress Lina Basquette is injured after a fall from an Oakland stage into the theater orchestra pit. The accident occurs on Saturday and delays her vaudeville appearance with Jack Dempsey.
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Boy On Bicycle Injured Hooking Ride In Cedar Rapids
Sydney G. Smith Jr., 15, of 2301 Mount Vernon Ave SE, injured when his bicycle skidded while hanging onto a truck on Second Ave SE between Eighth and Tenth Sts. The truck was driven by G F Hopper of 132 Thirty sixth St SE. Smith was improving Saturday with x-rays planned. Grace Ackerman, 14, of 925 Eleventh St NE, bruised after colliding with a car driven by Myrne Miller on First Ave at Tenth St SE. she was taken home.
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Largest Mississippi sturgeon caught near McGregor
Special to The Gazette. McGREGOR The largest fish caught in the Mississippi river here in years was hooked Saturday morning by Frank Hill. It is a rock sturgeon five feet nine inches long, weighing 80 pounds. The giant fish has been placed in the Elwell aquarium, McGregor, where it is swimming about in a pool in the sand cliffs. Elwell says sturgeon live to a great age and he believes this one may have been in the Mississippi over fifty years.
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Thirteen Cops Indicted in Third Degree Death Case
In Mineola New York thirteen policemen were indicted in connection with Hyman Stark's Staten Island death. The grand jury rejected second degree murder counts but charged various degrees of assault manslaughter and related offenses. Exhumation of Stark’s body was ordered amid secrecy. The report notes presidential electors chosen and Iowa Democratic platform focusing on relief tax cuts and economy with no direct prohibition mention.
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Rainey urges U S to seek friendship with Soviet Russia
Washington reports Democratic Leader Henry T. Rainey, slated for speaker, urges recognizing Soviet Russia as a friendly trading partner amid Lausanne Ottawa tariff tensions. He cites his 10 000 mile Russia tour and says Russia wants to trade and will be the world’s largest market for 25 years. Continued on page 5.
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Huston Named Democratic State Chairman In Iowa
Former Cedar Rapids mayor Charles D. Huston was elected Democratic state central committee chairman at Des Moines Friday night, defeating L. S. Hill of Des Moines 11 to 6. Huston, with forty years in party work, was backed at the district caucus earlier. Mrs. Mabel Fickel was named vice chairman, Mrs. Mary Kelleher secretary, and T. R. Osborne treasurer.
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Fort Dodge
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New Sharon
Heat Wave Eases After Cool Night in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids records show a 61 degree low on Saturday morning after a 95 high Friday with 2:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. peak. Temperature fell to 66 by midnight then rose to 89 at 1:30 p.m. Saturday as heat waned. The first local heat related death, that of E. Middaugh, formerly of Des Moines and Sigourney, was attributed to a heart attack aggravated by the heat, found beside a Rock Island box car. coroner cited heat as factor.
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Will Rogers Letter Attacks Antiques Sale Slump
A Will Rogers letter from Beverly Hills mocks a New York antiques sale that grossed only 400 dollars for a William and Mary mirror. He jokes about misers and mocks Democrats as he claims to manipulate a mirror with his daughter Mary and jokes about the Rogers William and Mary lot at 1.80.
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Stage World Mourns Florenz Ziegfeld Death and Finances
New York AP reports Broadway laments Florenz Ziegfeld's death amid talk he died broke. Despite liners like Follies Rio Rita Showboat and recent Hot-Cha he endured criticism and misfortune. He defended sophistication, revived Showboat and vowed another grand Follies with Maurice Chevalier.
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Notables of Stage Shaped by Florenz Ziegfeld
The New York AP report catalogs stage figures introduced or developed by Florenz Ziegfeld, naming Will Rogers Marilyn Miller Bert Williams Jack Donahue W C Fields Marion Davies Lilyan Tashman Ann Pennington Ina Claire Peggy Hopkins Joyce Justine Johnstone Lillian Lorraine Marie Dressler Eddie Cantor Helen Morgan Mae Murray Ruth Etting Olive Thomas.
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Jack Donahue
W. C. Fields
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Justine Johnstone
Lillian Lorraine
Marie Dressler
Eddie Cantor
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Ruth Etting
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Von Gronau Misses Capital of Iceland in Arctic Flight
Captain Wolfgang von Gronau and a three man crew completed the first leg of their Arctic flight to the United States. They landed at Sedisfjord Iceland after 9 hours 50 minutes of flight, despite fog and fuel limits. Florenz Ziegfeld dies of a heart attack in Hollywood at 64 after pneumonia and a lung condition. He planned Follies to Los Angeles for the Olympics and may have pursued film projects. Billie Burke at his bedside two minutes after death.
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Heart Attack Ends Career of Producer at 64
Florenz Ziegefeld dies at 64 after a fatal heart attack ending a long career in show business. His mother Florenz Ziegfeld Sr. lies in a coma at 83, unaware of her son's passing and unlikely to recover, according to physicians.
Ziegfeld’s Body May Rest in Vaults as Burke Mourns
Will Rogers, friend of Florenz Ziegfeld, said Billie Burke faces two tentative funeral plans after Ziegfeld’s sudden death. The body may stay in a Los Angeles vault until Burke finishes her motion picture contract or be moved to New York until she can travel east. Burke and her daughter Patricia cope with the bereavement at Cedar of Lebanon hospital. Final decisions hinge on Ziegfeld’s sister Mrs. Willis Buhl and brother Carl Ziegfeld in the East.
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