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Dekalb Daily Chronicle

Location

Dekalb, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Jun 03, 1929

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YRANSDELL NAMED NEW COACH AT DeKALB HIGH

Belvidere athletics head T F Ransdell named DeKalb Township High School football coach replacing the resignation of George Chick Evans. Ransdell, a University of Illinois education graduate, will move to DeKalb with his wife and child this summer to take charge as the school term opens.

Belvidere DeKalb High School T. F. Ransdell Belvidere High School DeKalb Township High School R. G. Beals Ransell Randsdoll DeKalb Illinois Ransdell University of Ilinois School of Education Beal Giorce Chick’ Evans DeKalb Tech Ilinois

Former DeKalb Resident Ann McCarthy Dies in Chicago

Former DeKalb resident Mrs Ann McCarthy Swan aged 88 died last evening in Chicago after five years of paralysis She was born in Clare and lived in the community until recent years She is survived by daughters Mary Duggan and Myra and sons William H McCarthy and George McCarthy Also survived by grandchildren Services will be Wednesday morning at Gertrude's Church Chicago with burial in Sycamore Cemetery expected to reach Sycamore around noon for interment A fuller obituary awaits arrival of family and friends in Sycamore

DeKalb Ann McCarthy Chicago McCarthy Swan McCarthy Clare Community Mary Duggan Myra William MH. McCarthy George McCarthy

London Stock Gains After Election News

London stocks on the London Stock Exchange recovered and opened near last Thursday’s close. Traders attributed the rebound to the Labor Party's failure to win a working majority in the week’s general elections, boosting confidence at market opening.

London London Stock Exchange Labor Party

Raskob Expects To Remain Democratic Chair Through Fall

John J. Raskob expects to stay as chairman of the Democratic National Committee until the next presidential nominee is chosen, despite criticism from city leaders. He says the aim is to erase party deficits and debt and build a war chest for the next campaign.

Raskob New York John J. Traskob Democratic National Committee Tsed

Hoover Receives Honorary Degree At Commencement

Swarmore Pa June 3 Herbert Hoover today received an honorary degree of doctor of letters at the college commencement exercises.

Hoover Swarmore Herbert Hoover Ore College

Weather update fragment with unclear forecast

Partial weather note mentions partly clear conditions and unclear terms. Reading is limited and lacks reliable details such as region, timing, or temperatures. Further readable data needed for a precise, publishable summary card.

Child Found After Three Day Search in Wisconsin Woods

Dorothy Dersehl, four, wandered from her parents at a picnic near Sturgeon Bay. After 72 hours alone in near freezing conditions without food or water, she was found two miles from her disappearance by Michael Sekey and three boys. She was hospitalized with exposure and threatened pneumonia. Five hundred searchers had scoured the area since Thursday. Some had feared she had been carried off by eagles.

Quake Area Still Shaken By Quivers

U P dispatches report Mendoza province rattled by Sunday tremors. Four more dead found in Tas Malvinas and one in Villa Atuel raise toll to 52. Residents endure fourth night outdoors amid cold aftershocks.

Buenos Aires Mendoza Tas Malvinas Villa Atuel

Secrecy Off Tariff Hearings As Senate Opens Doors

Washington reports a tariff clash shifts from secret hearings to open sessions after Sen Simmons leads a move to open the finance committee doors. LaFollette and Democrats back open hearings, signaling a possible Democrat-Independent majority influence on tariff schedules. House-senate conferees press toward agreement by Thursday amid disputes on stabilization provisions affecting grain and cotton markets.

Washington Serich Altarstate Senate Finance Committee Simmons North Carolina Smoot House LaFollette Wisconsin Hoover Administration

Missionary In Manchuria Is Captured In Looted District

A telegraph dispatch from Hongkong reports that Dr. C. H. Holleman a Reformed Church missionary was captured by bandits at Lengyen chow on Manchuria's western border south of Mukden His wife Mrs Poppen and her two children along with a native teacher escaped toward Amoy amid looting of the missionary's residence and hospital

London C. H. Holleman Lengyen Chow Manchuria Mukden Hongkong Amoy Holleman The Reformed Church Poppen

Good Samaritan Act Expensive At St. Louis

Jake Heyer told police he found a cold hungry man and gave him shelter food clothing and a job. The man Booher, 20, former, allegedly stole Heyer’s clothes and $48 in cash after being taken in. The incident occurred in East St. Louis Illinois.

East St. Louis Jake Heyer Booher

End of Assembly Nears on Revenue Amendment

Springfield June 3 4 The fifty sixth general assembly closes with a plan to submit a revenue article amendment to voters and a clean up of the calendar The debate centers on an income tax with proposed distributions 25 to counties in the senate 10 to state 90 to counties in the house Cook County seeks ten percent under pressure from Chicago funds The outcome hinges on Cook County votes for adoption and two thirds majorities required for constitutional changes The Weber O Grady bill to repeal is noted as pending third reading.

Springfield Fifty-Sixth General Assembly Senate House Cook County Louis L. Emmerson Chicago Illinois Weber-O'Grady

Wife’s murder case linked to Hebron swamp death

Valparaiso report says Mrs Catherine Cassler, once condemned in Chicago, is jailed again as prosecutors build circumstantial evidence in the death of Miss Cameela Soutar a 24 year old divorcee whose body was found in a Hebron area swamp. Her husband Truman Cassler accuses her philandering and claims she threatened to harm them both. Three witnesses report seeing Cassler’s wife near the swamp last Tuesday as murder charges loom.

Miss Soutar Mrs. Cassler Chicago Cassler Cammie Caasler

Graduates Hear Address On New Standards For Day

Dr Theodore Soares of the University of Chicago Divinity School spoke at the State Teachers College baccalaureate service. He urged graduates to establish standards suited to modern conditions, criticizing reliance on precedent and outdated norms. The program included selections by the College Treble Clef club and a double quartet, with invocation and benediction.

State Teachers’ College Theodore Soares University of Chicago Divinity School Soares Chicago University Brown Annas J. C. Spencer First Methodist Church

Hold Funeral For Victim Of Lake Decatur

Funeral services were planned at Elwin near Decatur Indiana for Lloyd Jones an 18 year old high school pupil who drowned last Wednesday while on an outing with classmates. The body surfaced Sunday in shallow water close to the place of disappearance after waves driven by a strong wind washed it ashore. The remains were found by Amos Wheeler an uncle of the deceased.

Decatur Elwin Lloyd Jones Lake Decatur Amos Wheeler

Chicago Man Hurt In Auto Mishap Here

Bert Williams, 95, seriously bruised and possibly internally injured after his Studebaker was sideswiped near Cortland corners while east bound on the Lincoln Highway. Williams, a patient at St Marys hospital, may have internal injuries though no bones were broken. The other driver, Paul Williams of Harvard, fled briefly before being identified. Otto Dreher, linked to the Colorado Ford, was later cleared.

Bert Williams Chicago Cortland Corners Williams St. Mary's Hospital Studeer Paul Williams Harvard Ford Rochelle Otto Dreher DeKalb

Business Men Urge Nation To Play Fair

A group of 24 business men including Thomas A Edison and Henry Ford signed a message urging support for President Hoover and a fair trial for Prohibition. They warn that selective law enforcement would crumble self-government and say enforcement protects the home, calling for unity to give the 18th amendment a complete and honest chance.

New York N.p Thomas A. Edison Henry Ford Hoover Mr. Hoover

Wind damages elevator lift at DeKalb theatre project

The DeKalb Theatre Company’s new playhouse suffered wind damage yesterday morning when the upper portion of the contractor’s lift, owned by Guldbeck and Eckstrom, fell onto the stage area. Minor damage to walls occurred and workers began rebuilding while no youths were on site.

DeKalb Theate Company Guldbeck & Eckstrom

Haskell Loses Suit Against Duke Estate

George D. Haskell failed in his $24,000,000 anti trust damage suit against the estate of tobacco magnate James B. Duke. The case, heard in Washington on June 3, ends as the supreme court declined to advance review of lower court rulings.

Haskell Duke Washington U.P George D. Haskell James B. Duke Supreme

Mansfield Is Hit Hard

Three bootleg liquor sellers testified in principal court that Morris Mansfield supplied them with wood alcohol poison linked to six murder indictments. State's evidence shows Mansfield continued selling poison after warnings and police found poison-removing formulas in a car he used after arrest. Sixteen deaths in nearby towns were tied to the liquor. The trial proceeds in Peoria.

Peoria U.P Morris Mansfield Jose Daily Pratt Mansfield Pluf

Cheyenne Floods After Cloudburst Sweep City

Cheyenne Wyoming endures flood after a cloudburst sent Crow Creek over its banks. A woman drowned, motorists nearly died, and several people unaccounted for. Firefighters rescued many from flooded homes as two dams failed adding to danger. Trains and roads crippled, officials patrolled for safety while search efforts continued.

Cheyenne Wyo South Hereford Ranch Here Grober and Sterling Cole Soledad Roderiguez Crow Creek Shady Rest Chicago, Burlington and Quincey

Island Owner Knows Nothing of Lindberghs

Island reports the Lindberghs honeymooning on a yacht at Block Island with Charles A. Lindbergh and his bride aboard the Mouette. Witnesses confirm sightings, fuel, and a bakery purchase as they headed toward Boston, though some deny the claim.

Block Island Charles A. Lindbergh W. R. Clark Clark Jiles Dunn Fish Market Lindbergh New London Hartford Grandpa Bill Burr Movette Colonel Lindbergh Boston Louis Rounds Elisabeth Ann Norfolk Conn Charles A. Lindberghs George B. Case New York City J. P. Morgan Dwight Morrow Mrs. Lindbergh

Governors 10 Name Heads Governor 10 Name Heads

Springfield June 3 4 With adjournment of the general assembly this week end state house gossip centers on Emmerson appointments After sessions conclude the governor may replace many Small appointees Expect clean sweeps in the state tax commission and the Illinois Commerce Commission One commissioner may be retained George Arnold director of the department of labor is backed by Fred Lundin A D Lewis director of mines and minerals may also be replaced Lewis is brother of John L Lewis Rumor says Lewis must please Harry Fishwick to win endorsement Laird chief veterinarian in agriculture resigned effective Saturday Emmerson will fill vacancies as decisions come for confirmation

Springfield General Assembly State House Louis L. Emmerson State Tax Commission Illinois Commerce Commission Fred Lundin Chicago George Arnold Department of Labor Arnold Lundin A. D. Lewis State Department of Mines and Minerals John L. Lewis Mine Mines and Minerals Harry Fishwick Illinois Miners Lewis Fishwick Senate Arnold and Len Small Emmerson Dir F. A. Laird State Department of Agriculture Laird

Wheat Prices Soar Today In Grain Market

Chicago, June 3 UFi Wheat prices rocketed in early trading as Washington signals promised farm relief. July wheat rose to 1.94, September 1.11, December 1.15 5 8 to 8 8 8 cents above Saturday’s close, with later profit-taking but still a record day for the season. Deliveries closed over five cents higher on relief forecasts. July 1.03 1/2, September 1.07 1/2, December 1.12.

Chicago Ufi— Whear Washington

Funeral attendance noted for Buddy Trois Ob Loke Milly Wis

Called to Wisconsin Mr and Mrs R W Trotz and Mr and Mrs Ivan Trotz yesterday afternoon attended funeral services for Buddy Trois Ob Loke Milly Wis

R. W. Trotz Ivan Trotz Buddy Trois Ob Loke

Jury shadowing sentences upheld by supreme court

Washington June 8 The Supreme Court orders six months in jail for Harry F Sinclair for jury shadowing while also upholding a four month term for Henry Mason Day and a $1,000 fine for W Sherman Burns. Burns agents shadowed jurors from early morning to night in the Teapot Dome case.

Washington Harry F. Sinclair Supreme Court Sinclair Senate William J. Burns W. Sherman Burns Henry Mason Day Sinclair Oil McReynolds Day Sherman Burns Burns Supreme’ Court Albert Fall Teapot Dome Committee Frederick L Siddons District of Columbia Supreme Court Siddons Interior Albert B. Fall Teapot Dome Wovel Justice Siddons Reserve U. S Kidwell Baltimore Philadelphia New York Burns Agency Fall

Fresh Labor Troubles At Kenosha Mill

Bullets shattered windows in five workers homes at the Allen-Ahos hosiery plant weekend. Six windows broken. The attacks centered on the home of Mrs. Anna Trancee. No injuries reported.

Kenosha Mill Kenosha, Wis Allen-A Anna Trancee

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