Borah Urges World Parley On War Debts And Peace
Senator Borah of Idaho calls for an immediate world conference to revise or cancel war debts in a broad program addressing reparations, disarmament, gold standard, and other postwar issues. He lauds Lausanne as a hopeful step and says debt cancellation should be pursued with wide reforms, not tied solely to reparations. He envisions the conference empowered to reshape the Versailles treaty in light of justice and conscience.
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Washington
Borah
Idaho
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Lausanne
United States
Democrats Plan Broad Campaign Across Republican States
New York AP reports Democratic National Chairman James Farley vows aggressive nationwide campaigning in states long considered hopelessly Republican including Pennsylvania Ohio Vermont Michigan and New Hampshire. He predicts a Roosevelt landslide yet says no state is conceded and plans will be outlined in August with leaders invited to headquarters in New York.
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New York
Democracy
Hoover-Curtis
James A. Farley
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Vermont
Michigan
New Hampshire
Roosevelt
Union
Demand Prosecution in Prison Camp Case in Florida
The Florida board of state institutions urged full prosecution of two prison camp officials over the alleged torture murder of Arthur Maillefert a 19 year old New Jersey convict. An exhaustive inquiry at Sunbeam road camp near Jacksonville found many convicts testified to brutal beatings and mistreatment while others denied such acts. Captain George Courson and guard Solomon Higginbotham were indicted for first degree murder after Maillefert was found strangled in a sweat box with chains and stocks.
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Raiford, Fla
Florida
Arthur Maillefert
New Jersey
Board of State Institutions
Sunbeam Road
Jacksonville
Maillefert
Hoover Silent On His Stand On Prohibition
Washington AP report notes Herbert Hoover weighing prohibition Options while Franklin D Roosevelt gathers economic advice. Expectation centers on Hoover's August 11 renomination speech import and how party factions may influence repeal planks and federal control. Roosevelt works to unify party ahead of campaign pace and conventions.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
Alleged Slayer Of Farm Youth Awaits Hearing
James R. Locke, attorney for Elza Jones, says Jones will attend a hearing on the charges at any time, though he remains missing and sick in bed. Jones disappeared after attending the victim Thomas Jen's funeral. authorities issued a warrant as a coroner's inquest probes the case. Keny details tied to Hartzler and a search of Jones' Bedford area home are noted as officials intensify the probe into the slaying of 26 year old Thomas Jen.
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James R. Locke
Elza Jones
Thomas Jen
Jones
J R. Locke
Harry Hartzler
Hartzler
Bedford
Allen
William Meikle
Richard Campbell
George Apson
Meikle
O. J. Kirketey
Jones Farm
Private funeral planned for Florenz Ziegfeld in Los Angeles
Secret services for Florenz Ziegfeld likely set for noon Sunday after his sudden death in Los Angeles. Billie Burke, widow and actress, hopes to avoid public spectacle. body held in a local mortuary before being moved to New York after Burke finishes her current film. Will Rogers coordinates arrangements at Pierce Brothers Mortuary.
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Los Angeles
Florenz Ziegfeld
Billie Burke
Ziegfeld
Miss Burke
Rudolph Valentino
Wallace Reid
Lon Chaney
Patricia Ziegfeld
Will Rogers
Screen Star
Pierce Brothers Mortuary
R. E. ©. Studios
New York
Von Gronau Plans Greenland Hop En Route to Chicago
Captain von Gronau and three companions arrived in Reykjavik on a Dornier Wal flying boat during their third Atlantic crossing. They halted after a weather and fuel setback at Seydisfjord, Iceland, and will push to Greenland and then Labrador before aiming for Chicago.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Kites
Ng von Gronau
Atlantic
Rpenenen
Germany
North America
Seydisfjord
von Gronau
Greenland
Labrador
Newfoundland
Chicago
Salt Island
Teachers War On Chicago's City Government
Chicago unpaid teachers declared war on the city after 15 months with only five and a half months' pay. The city owes them 28 million dollars while other workers were paid 1.9 million last week. Miss Agnes Clohesy led the union urging action and criticizing the city leadership and the summer cabinet. Mayor Cermak planned to press bankers for payroll funds.
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Chicago
Agnes Clohesy
Elementary Teachers Union
Szymczak
Public Works
Sprague
Sexton
Thomas A. Marshall
Henry Sonnenschein
Board of Education
US Senator Borah backs world conference to curb war debts
Unofficial Whitehall opinion notes Borah proposals for a world conference to revise or cancel war debts as evidence of awakening American public opinion. The piece links the idea to Mussolini’s notion of "the tragic bookkeeping" in relation to the war’s costs.
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London
Whitehall
William E. Borah
Mussolini
Torture Death Trial Set For August 15
New York AP report states seven Nassau County policemen, charged with various degrees of assault and manslaughter related to a torture death, have indictments returned by the grand jury. Trial date set for August 15 with some defendants free on bail. Stark’s body was exhumed for closer examination of beating marks.
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New York
Nassau County
Stark
Shaame Tea
Weather Outlook for Chicago and Nearby Valleys This Week
AP reports a weekly forecast for the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Temperatures mostly high with a possible dip toward week’s end. Expect local showers and thunderstorms with otherwise mostly fair conditions.
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Chicago
Mississippi i
Missouri
Mild Heat Returns to Iowa After Cool Start Saturday
Cedar Rapids weather report notes a chilly early morning with highs near 91 at 4 30 p m and lows around 61. The day saw upper eighties before nightfall and a 68 degree reading at 9 p m with one heat related fatality in Cedar Rapids and unsettled conditions forecast for the week.
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Cedar Rapids
Ma Ferguson Leads In Vote In Texas Primary Returns
At 8 30 p m incomplete Texas election totals from twenty four counties show Miriam A Ferguson leading with 9618 votes to 9446 for opponent Ross Sterl Sterl is incumbent and prohibition submission shows 15096 for and 5226 against
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Dallas
Tex
Miriam A
Ferguson
Ross Sterl
Bmission
Prohibition
Oil Firms Reach World Agreement To Limit Output
Paris reports leaders of major oil firms signed a global production restriction pact after weeks of talks. Roumanian interests balked awaiting Russia's participation, while American delegates hailed the move as easing harsh European market competition and mending relations between Socony Vacuum and Royal Dutch.
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Paris
Russia
Train wreck destroys small Wabash station
A derailed freight train left 22 cars off the rails and one car plowed into a little Wabash station, destroying the building and removing the stop from service as officials planned to close it. The wreck created piles of debris and extensive damage, ending the station's usefulness.
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton Improves in Health
Aimee Semple McPherson Hutton, noted evangelist, is improving steadily in health at her Moorish castle in Lake Elsinore. The update came Saturday from Angelus Temple.
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Los Angeles
Aimee Semple McPherson-Hutton
Lake Elsinore
Angelus Temple
Cedar Rapids Auto Toll This Year
Report summarizes Cedar Rapids traffic tolls for the year with counts of accidents, injuries, and fatalities. Data highlight totals across incidents and the impact on roadway safety.
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Cedar Rapids
Camp Good Health Raft Adventure For Children
A fund dated Mount Vernon lists contributions and acknowledgments for Camp Good Health. Donations include $1 87962 from an unnamed friend and smaller gifts to or from groups such as Auxiliary to the Fraternal Order of Police Daughters of Isabella Ladies and Loyal Order of Moose. A Mount Vernon benefit play supports the cause.
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Camp Good Health Fund
Order of Police
Daughters of Isabella
The
Loyal Order of Moose
Mount Vernon
Adventure at Camp Good Health Ends in Raft Sinker
Camp Good Health reports lively week with a raft building accident as boys overbalanced a makeshift raft. John S. Ely provided planks and supervision while girls and boys from Mount Vernon raised funds with a Beauty and the Beast benefit, bag popcorn included.
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Cedar Rapids
Camp Good Health
John 8S
Ely
Mount Vernon
Camp Good Health Grounds
Hansel and Gretel
Nursing Bureau
Order of Moose
Vera Murray
Janitor Finds $16,000 Hidden in Strong Box
Wakefield Massachusetts police report a penniless janitor discovered a strong-box containing $16,000. The alert finder turned the money over to authorities and awaits custody arrangements and possible rewards or investigation into ownership.
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Wakefield
Mass
Poly
Edith McCormick Seeks Advice From Ex Husband Amid Ill Health
Edith Rockefeller McCormick, 59, heiress and former Chicago social leader, lies ill at the Drake Hotel while sending emissaries to her ex-husband Harold McCormick for counsel on health and finances. She faces a depleted fortune once valued around 50 million dollars and relies on aide Edwin Krenn as adviser and companion.
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Chicago
Michigan Boulevard
Drake Hotel
Lake Michigan
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
John D. Rockefeller
Gold Coast
Orice
Harold McCormick
McCormick
Rush Street
Drake
Lake Shore Drive
Edwin Krenn
Krenn
Mrs. McCormick
Marks Climax In Long Battle Of Co-Operatives
The article traces decades of tension between Iowa grain co operatives and the Chicago Board of Trade. It covers Roosevelt era boycotts, the National Farmers Elevator Grain Company and Rural Grain ventures, and subsequent firings of mismanagement. It notes involvement by S J Cottington of Stanhope and C E Huff among others in Cedar Rapids and state cooperatives.
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Ray Anderson
Gazette Farm
Iowa Grain Co-Operatives
Chicago Board of Trade
Theodore Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Chicago
Iowa
National Farmers Elevator Grain Company Co-operative
Illinois
S. J. Cottington
Stanhope
Grain Exchange
Rural Grain Company
National Co-Operative
Cedar Rapids
Farmers National Grain Corporation
Federal Farm Board
C. E. Huff
Borah Defends Aid Graft Charge Amid Protest
Senator Borah of Idaho reiterates that aid graft charges are justified after Crump demanded an apology for letters from Memphis Loyal Order of Americans chapters alleging relief funds were traded for votes. Borah says the facts justify the charges and denounces the alleged injustice to hungry people. A Red Cross investigator denies the charges.
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Borah
Idaho
Crump
Memphis
Loyal Order of Americans
Red Cross
Bluffing grocer nets profit from attempted holdup
Harold Woodworth, manager of a suburban grocery in San Francisco, tricked two would be robbers by claiming a cop with a shotgun was in the back room. The men dropped eggs and fled, leaving the cash register untouched and the store without loss.
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San Francisco
Harold Woodworth
Woodworth
Textile Workers Reject Compromise in High Point Strike
In High Point North Carolina 3000 textile workers on strike voted down a compromise proposal from their executive committee demanding a $2.25 basic pay instead of $1.50. The committee had backed $2.12. Fourteen mills are idle with one mill operating as the strike widens. No national union officially linked to the action.
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High Point
N. C
Four Liquor Ring Sentences Upheld
The U S Court upheld two year penitentiary terms and $10,000 fines for four Rockford liquor ring leaders Sam Capriola Louis Dodaro John Walsh and William D Agostin. Thirty six other defendants were convicted. the four appealed their sentences.
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Chicago
Rockford
United States
Sam Capriola
Louis Dodaro
John Walsh
William D’agostin
Chicago Board to Fight Ruling of Commission
Chicago Board of Trade president Peter B. Carey said the group would not accept Farmers National Gain for clearing house privileges and would appeal to the highest court. The board faces a 60 day suspension for denying access, with 15 days to file an appeal to the U.S. circuit court. George Milner of Grain Stabilization and Farmers National Grain voiced satisfaction with the suspension.
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Chicago
Peter B. Carey
Chicago Board of Trade
Farmers’ National Gain Corporation
Carey
Washington
Grain Corporation
United States
George Milner
Grain Stabilization Corporation
Farmers National Grain Corporation
Federal order suspends Chicago Board of Trade sixty days
The Federal Grain Futures Commission orders the Chicago Board of Trade to suspend operations for sixty days starting August 7. The action aims to force equal membership privileges for the Farmers National Grain Corporation, challenging alleged discriminatory clearing rules under the Grain Futures Act.
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Washington
Federal Grain Futures Commission
Chicago Board of Trade
Board of Trade
Farmers National Grain Corporation
Farm Board
Erery
National
Federal Commission
Hyde
Commerce Lamont
Mitchell
Co-Operative
Farmers National
Clearing Corporation
Clear-Ing Corporation
Charles Warren Hunt Engineer Dies at 74
New York AP Charles Warren Hunt secretary emeritus of the American Society of Civil Engineers died Saturday at age 74. He served in government on river and harbor projects across several states. He is survived by his widow a daughter Alice Riggs Hunt and a son Charles Warren.
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New York
Charles Warren Hunt
American Society of Civil
Hunt
Alice Riggs Hunt
Charles Warren
Parrot Halts Traffic in Berlin Jam and Flees
A parrot perched in a chestnut tree near a busy Berlin cine artery created a heavy traffic jam by shouting Stop and Go in German. Firefighters climbed the tree to reach the bird, which then vanished crying Lora can fly.
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Berlin
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