Farm bill gains swift passage and potential White House signup
The senate approved the administration’s debentureless farm bill and sent it to President Hoover for signature as soon as possible. The bill eliminates the debenture plan and creates a $500 million revolving fund to oversee federal agricultural policy, with a new eight member farm board to be named.
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Senate
White House
Hoover
U.P
House
Curtis
McNary
Federal Farm Board
Agricultural Supervision
Desperate Guerilla War Near Ali Yakoub In Morocco
Moorish tribesmen continue guerrilla resistance as French forces push to free Ali Yakoub after an ambush. Airstrikes and reinforcements sweep the area while Midelt and surrounding routes prepare for upcoming maneuvers.
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el Bordj
Moroeco
Ali Yakoub
Weather forecast for Illinois hints at mild weekend warmth
Partly cloudy tonight with a milder Saturday expected. Highs and lows not specified, but the outlook signals a gentle temperature rise into the weekend.
Mrs Struthers Elected Senior VP of State W R C
Mrs Alta Struthers of the Merrit Simmonds post was elected senior vice president of the state organization at the G A R encampment in Rockford. DeKalb woman’s honor noted as city attendees included Mrs F E Wagley Mrs Fred Cone and Mrs Struthers with George Gurler present.
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Alta Struthers
Merrit Simmonds
Women's Relief Corps
Rockford
DeKalb
George Gurler
Grand Army of the Republic
Women's Reef Corps
F. E. Wagley
Fred Cone
Struthers
Change In Time Of Homan Service At Methodist Church
Services for Mrs. Henry A. Homan Sr. will be held at 2:00 tomorrow afternoon at the Methodist church instead of the chapel prior to services, per today’s notice. Burial follows at Fairview cemetery. She died yesterday at home after six years of illness and bed confinement since last Easter.
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Henry A. Homan
Fairview
Homan
Mrs. B. Hoyt Passes Away in Chicago Hospital
Mrs. B L Hoyt 67 a resident of DeKalb since youth died in Presbyterian hospital Chicago after two years of declining health Funeral services set for 2 30 Sunday at the Hoyt residence north west of DeKalb Rev G A Rowler and Rev F M Webster will officiate Burial in Fair View cemetery She married B L Hoyt in 1882 and left three daughters a niece a brother and a sister mourn her loss She was active in the Congregational church Regular news item obituary style.
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Hoyt
Roy Camp
City
Bert Griswold
Northwest DeKalb
Jack Wright
Hammond
Ind
Ethel Scott
James Scott
This City
Sam Sharp
DeKalb
Congregational Church
Thirty Day Jail Term for Liquor Sales to Students
Theodore Heppelheimer was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $109 for selling liquor to school boys in Chicago. Judge Francis Allegretti labeled him the most dangerous type of man in modern society.
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Chicago
Theodore Heppelheimer
Francis Allegretti
Heppelheimer
Edison test entrants from Illinois counties
Franklin Graf of Somonauk leads a group of high school graduates from northern Illinois in tomorrow's intelligence exam at the State Teachers College to win a Thomas A. Edison tuition prize. Seven centers statewide will select sectional winners to advance to Springfield for a final test.
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Somonauk
Ilinois
State Teachers College
Springfield
Thomas A. Edison
Dr. Hayes
State College
Thomas Edison
University of Illinois
Cook County Normal School
Nat DeKalb
Normal
Carbondale
Charleston
Macomb
Edison
Mr. Edison
United States
Orange
New Jersey
Louis J. Emmerson
Illinois
Gang War Flare hits Southern Illinois gang clash
East St Louis reports renewed feud between Shelton and Birger gangs as Carl Shelton, a noted gang leader, is arrested on interstate transportation of a stolen auto connected to a Brown Shoe Co hijacking near Troy. Wooten and others linked to the case are also detained as federal investigators pursue the shoe robbery timeline.
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St. Louis
Carl Shelton
Marshall R. C. Shepherd
Shelton
Brown Shoe Company
Troy
Tfl
Freddy Wooten
Detroit
Harold Morris
H. Burnett
East St. Louis
Roy Baker
St. Augustine
Kinkaid
Bernie
Earl
Josephine Wooten
Freddie Wooten
Birger Fang
Frank Fordan
Bus Fire Wrecks Yelloway Bus Near Dixon
A Yelloway bus carrying 35 passengers including many G A R veterans and wives, returning from Rockford to Rock Island area, burned six miles west of Dixon at 9:00 p m. Passengers escaped through windows with only minor injuries. Driver S M Keig of Cedar Rapids Iowa sustained severe burns while John Richards of Freeport aged 64 fractured his right shoulder. They were rushed to Sterling hospital.
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Rockford
Dixon
S.M. Keig
Cedar Rapids
John Richards
Freeport
Richards
Sterling Hospital
Rock Island
Planes Forced Down At DeKalb Airport In Dense Fog
Three pilots including two Boeing mail flyers and a commercial carrier were forced to land at DeKalb County Airport due to heavy fog and engine trouble. It marked the 21st forced landing since the airport opened and the 115th since the county began emergency landings.
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DeKalb County
Airways
Bob Cochran
Franklin Grove
Chicago
Aurora
A. R. Leckscheld
Boeing
Cochran
Leckscheid
Naperville
DeKalb
Waterman
Munson
Thomas C. Crey
Yellow Cab Company
Des Moines
Iowa
J. D. Kaiser
Soe Airways Aviation School
Airport Field
Baptists Debate Modernist and Fundamentalist Views in Denver
Denver June 14. Oratory opened the northern Baptists annual convention as a Modernist Fundamentalist clash loomed in the background. Bishop Francis John McConnell, a keynote speaker whose modern tendencies sparked controversy, prepared a speech kept secret by delegates. Dr Avery A Shaw, a Fundamentalist and president of Dennison University, opened with remarks on humanity's hunger that no standard worship can satisfy.
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Colo
Oratory
Northern Baptists
Francis John McConnell
Depos
Avery A. Shaw
Dennison University
Granville
Ohio
The
Baptista
Dawes Reaches England for Ambassadorship duties
Ambassador Charles G. Dawes arrives in London aboard the Olympic at 3:35 p.m. and proceeds to the American embassy. He will meet King George at Windsor Castle tomorrow with Foreign Secretary Arthur Henderson, then hold talks with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald in Scotland. Dawes greets Mayor Pugh and crowds cheer as reporters await word.
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U.P
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Windsor Castle
George
Arthur Henderson
Southampton
England
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United States
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King George
Ramsay MacDonald
Scotland
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Pugh
Mayor Pugh
Ray Atherton
LaGuardia Warns of Civil War If Prohibition Shootings Continue
In a House speech Representative LaGuardia warns civil war could follow continued prohibition related shootings. The remark comes as Assistant Treasury Secretary Lowman clears border patrolman Emmett White of culpability in Henry Virkula’s fatal incident in Big Falls Minnesota.
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Representative LaGuardia
Reublican
New Yoke
Bentley Will Gave Gift To The Hospital
The will of Mrs. Abraham Bentley, admitted earlier this week for pro ene, did not include a bequest to Mary’s church as reported. The $20,000 donation was for St. Mary’s hospital, and Rev. J A Solon did not receive a $400 gift.
Judge Finds Speeder Was Racing His Daughter in Evanston
Ruth Walgreen nineteen daughter of a drugstore chain owner was reprimanded by Magistrate Charles Franklin for speeding She smirked as the magistrate warned her of levity claiming she had been racing with the magistrate s daughter when arrested The charge was dismissed
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Speeder
Evanston
Ill
Ruth Walgreen
Charles Franklin
Ruth
Tells Why She is Keen For the Old Home Town
Edith Wentworth praises DeKalb in a speech titled My Home Town at a state convention. She defends loyalty to one’s origins, highlights DeKalb’s virtues, schools factories and institutions, and contrasts small town life with city life. The article extols DeKalb as a proud, loyal community with notable local amenities.
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Edith Wentworth
Chronicle
Wentworth
DeKalb
American Steel and Wire Company
Wurlitzer Piano Company
Sycamore
Gas Supply Runs Short Log of the Yellow Bird
United Press reports a long radio log from a Yellow Bird flight, detailing positions from Old Orchard Maine to the Azores and Portuguese coast. Messages tracked plane communications with ships S S Wytheville American Farm King City Niagara and Bordeaux stations.
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United Press
Old Orchard
Maine
S. S. King City
Loiti
Azores
There
S. S. Niagara
Bordeaux
Portugal
Yellow Bird News Update From Atlantic Flight
The Yellow Bird, piloted by Jean Assolant, was about 200 miles off Portugal en route to Paris. Fuel was dwindling and headwinds hindered progress as reports from Bordeaux and a French relay indicated possible landings at Lisbon if Paris was not reachable.
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Atlantic
Paris
le Bourget Field
New
New York
Commercial Cable Co
Portugal
Old Orchard
A.m. E
Bordeaux
Azores
Jean Assolant
Lisbon
Death from lockjaw of local youth in Sandwich
Isaac Raymond Brownfield fifteen year old son of Mr and Mrs Isaac Brownfield of two miles south of Sandwich died at Sandwich hospital from tetanus after a hay mow accident. An inquest by Coroner Dr Culver found death due to tetanus from injuries received in the fall. Funeral services were held at Federated church with burial in Oak Ridge cemetery. The boy slipped while climbing a ladder on June 6 and a sliver entered his back causing tetanus to develop three days later. He was transported to the Sandwich hospital where he died on a Wednesday.
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Isaac Brownfield
Sandwich
Sandwich Hospital
R. P. Culver
Sutherland Undertaking Establishment
Federated Church
Oak Ridge
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