Alfaro Named New Panama President After Short Revolution
Panama reports a brief coup that killed 10 as Dr. Don Ricardo J. Alfaro, already serving in Washington, accepts the post. A provisional government led by Harmodio Arias moves to restore order and arrest top figures of the old regime while the United States weighs recognizing the new administration.
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Panama City
Panama
Don Ricardo J. Alfaro
Washington
Alfaro
Harmodio Arias
Isthmian Republic
Young Bloods
Miss Easterla Named Assistant City Recorder
The city council approved Mae Easterla of Cook Street as assistant city recorder. She has worked at the freight office and will begin duties at City Hall on Monday.
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City Recorder
Mae Easterla
Cook Street
Miss Easterla
Carideo Denies He Will Wed Actress
Frank Carideo Notre Dame star denies plans to marry film actress Nina Quartro. He claims Beverly Hills announcement was a cheap ad ploy and notes they were only acquainted from Mount Vernon New York. He asserts he did visit Quartro briefly during a California trip.
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New Castle
Frank Carideo
Notre Dame
Nina Quartero
Beverly Hills
Calif
Carideo
Mount Vernon
N. Y
California
University of Southern California
City Fire Department Reaches Sixteen Years in Muscatine
Muscatine marks sixteen years of paid fire service since the department was organized on January 3 1916. J J Brown has served as chief since December 16 1916 after moving from the volunteer ranks. The original force included F G Bilkey J P Maurath and firefighters Harry Freeman Charles Vetter John Leysen Louis Faulhaber Ed Priester Herman Raethz Lee Schenkel Charles Opelt Jim Wise and Charles Lemkau.
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Muscatine
J. J. Brown
Brown
F. G. Bilkey
J. P. Maurath
Harry Freeman
Charles Vetter
John Leysen
Louis Faulhaber
Ed _ Priester
Herman Raethz
Lee Schenkel
Charles Opelt
Jim Wise
Charles Lemkau
Faulhaber
P. M. Musser
Maurath
Bilkey
Central Station
Factories Resume Work After Holiday Shutdown
After a routine post holiday inventory and repairs period several local plants plan to return to near normal operations Monday with others expected within two weeks. Heinz, U S Button, C J Jamison, Automatic Pearl Button and Hawkeye Button will all restart, adding workers. Pennant Button and Iowa Pearl Button resume as well. Weber and Sons and McKee plants show partial or upcoming reopenings while Huttig Manufacturing undergoes a 10 day overhaul.
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H. J. Heinz
U. S. Button Company
C. J. Jamison Cutting Plant
Automatic Pearl Button Company
Hawkeye Button Company
Leo H. Hirsch and Company
Pennant Button Company
Iowa Pearl Button Company
McKee
Weber and Sons
Huttig Manufacturing Company
Roach and Musser Mechanics
Passion Play to Be Staged by Freiburg Players
Freiburg players from Germany will perform the Passion play at Augustana College gymnasium Sunday afternoon and evening and Monday and Tuesday nights. Announcements were received locally confirming the event.
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Freiburg
Germany
Augustana College Gymnasium
Kidnaping Warrants Target Abernathys in Busch Orthwein Case
In Clayton Missouri warrants charge Pearl Abernathy his son Charles and niece Frieda Abernathy with complicity in the kidnaping of 13 year old Adolphus Busch Orthwein, heir to the Busch fortune. The warrants cite kidnapping not for ransom, carrying up to 10 years, while the search for Charles W. Abernathy continues as authorities pursue leads.
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St. Louis
Pearl Abernathy
Charles
Frieda Robb Abernathy
Adolphus Busch Orthwein
Clayton
Leach
Charles W. Abernathy
Adolphus Busch
Abernathy
Charles Abernathy
Akerson to quit as Hoover's secretary in January
George Akerson will leave his post as secretary to President Hoover to enter private business likely mid January. Hoover expressed regret at his resignation and said a successor would be chosen in about ten days. Akerson ran the president's public relations while other secretaries had focused duties and had been a longtime Hoover aide since the Commerce Department days.
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Washington
Dalson States
George Akerson
Hoover
Akerson
Walter Newton
Lawrence Richey
Commerce Department
Whit
Alabama Weevils Topples Washington at Pasadena Rose Fest
Alabama crushed Washington 24 to 0 in a Pasadena game noted for red uniforms and a crowd likened to a Madison Square Garden convention. A separate incident involved officers arresting youths for picking roses, later revealed to be tied on bushes.
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Hollywood
Calif
Washington
Pasadena
Madison Square Garden
Alabama
Underwood
Wallace Wade
Einstein
Weather outlook for the upper Mississippi valley
The forecast covers Iowa and Illinois with patterns of clearing to partly cloudy skies. Temperatures remain near or slightly above normal with a chance of light snow in northern areas and possible late rain in southern Illinois. River stages show modest rises in Davenport Muscatine Keokuk and St Louis.
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Iowa
Illinois
Mississippi
Missouri
Great Plains
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
Rise
St. Louis
Calva Girl Is Returned Home
Lois Swan a 21 year old from Galva Illinois left home seeking work and in part to forget a physical ailment. After several days in Galesburg Muscatine and other cities she was located with help from county social service worker Grace Weeks and returned to her father who runs a Galva confectionery store.
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Lois Swan
Galva
Inl
Grace Weeks
Galesburg
Ilinois
Muscatine
Lane
Dixon
Logan
Kewanee
Miss Swan
Cities Seek Share in State Gas Tax Under Iowa Plan
Resolutions passed by the city council call for the next Iowa legislature to let cities in the state receive a portion of the gasoline tax. Copies will go to Senator elect E R Hicklin and Representative elect Theodore Drake. Other Iowa cities are adopting similar measures. The proposed extra receipts would fund street projects.
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Iowa
E. R. Hicklin
Theodore Drake
Widow on Ocean Hop for Paris
A red haired widow Mrs Beryl Hart and Lt William S MacLaren flew the monoplane Tradewind from New York toward Paris. They passed over the Pan American steamship at 9 45 a m CST heading for Bermuda and the Azores with a payload.
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S. S. Panamerica
New York
Paris
Panamerica
Bermuda
Azores
Beryl Hart
William S. MacLaren
Navy
Glenn H. Curtiss
Queens
Tradewind Flies To Paris With Varied Cargo
Aboard the Tradewind departed for Paris with a utilitarian cargo including flashlights cereal coffee dessert chocolate and canned goods. The load consisted mainly of manufacturer consignments to European offices and also carried mail for stamp collectors along the route. The white Bellanca monoplane features pontoons and bears NR166W.
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New York
Paris
Plane escape plan with pilots and entourage described
A plane occupied by W. D. Campbell, E. M. Smith and C. J. Strickland set out with friends intending to accompany the pilots for several hundred miles. Lieut. MacLaren commanded the getaway and Mrs. Hart was to take over soon after departure. Quick passage was anticipated.
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W. D. Campbell
E. M. Smith
C. J. Strickland
Lieut. MacLaren
New Cemetery Plats Ordered
Greenwood cemetery plats will be prepared in the office of city engineer H. H. Fitzgerald after a council meeting led by Raymond Titus of the cemetery board. Worn current plats hinder lot location. new copies will be kept at city hall cemetery chapel and mounted for easy handling at the cemetery.
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Greenwood Cemetery
H. H. Fitzgerald
Raymond Titus
Cemetery Board
Brookhart Made Honorary Colonel of Marine Reserve Unit
Iowa Senator Brookhart, who trained 7,000 Marine officers at Camp Perry in World War I, was named honorary colonel of the 20th Marine Reserve Regiment. The ceremony formalizes his title as an honorary rank in Washington.
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Washington
Brookhart
Iowa
Camp Perry
Ohio
20Th Marine Reserve Regiment
Joffre to be buried in national funeral in Paris
Marshal Joffre will receive a national funeral as elaborate as that for Foch. His body will pass under the Arc de Triomphe to Notre Dame before resting briefly at the unknown soldier tomb. Louis Barthou will deliver the funeral oration for government and the French academy.
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Paris
Marshal Joffre
Marshal Foch
Notre Dame Cathedral
France
Eifel Tower
Marne
the Invalides
Louis Barthou
French Academy
Mrs Hoeksema Wins Third Weekly Hidden Word Contest
Mrs Albert Hoeksema of rural route No 2 finished first in the third weekly hidden word contest of the Play Better Bridge series. Jean Moore of 314 West Fourth Street placed second and Mrs Drew Nagel of 1314 Mulberry Avenue took third. Readable words appeared across ads for Wagner Cigar Company Roth Service Stations Hathaway's Shop The Muscatine Journal Eichenaurer's Cigar Store S G & P Stein Furniture Hoaglin's and J C Penney Company. Names of others submitting correct answers listed include Mrs Marvin Phelps Mrs Mabel C Jensen Byron Hafner Letts Dorothy K Byrne 520 Pine Street Mrs Vinnie Lange 500 Liberty Street Thomas Rogers 917 Colver Street Viola Marten 301 W Fulham Avenue Mrs Elizabeth Troxel 500 Park Avenue Mrs Bernard Kemper 903 Colver Street and Mrs Claude Harris 1016 Orchard Avenue.
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Albert Hoeksema
Jean Moore
West Fourth Street
Drew Nagel
Mulberry Avenue
Wagner Cigar Company
Roth Service
Hathaway’s Shop
The
Muscatine Journal
Eichenauer’s Cigar
Hoaglin’s
J. C. Penney Company
Marvin Phelps
Mabel C. Jensen
Wilton
Byron Hafner
Dorothy K. Byrne
Pine Street
Vinnie Lange
Liberty Street
Thomas Rogers
Colver Street
Viola Marten
Fulham Avenue
Elizabeth Troxel
Park Avenue
Bernard Kemper
Claude Harris
Orchard Avenue
Aims of Moscow Canal Outlined to Aldermen
B Layton president of the Federal Construction company told Muscatine city council that the Moscow canal hydro electric project has no plan to affect the municipal electric plant and will reduce flood risk from Mad Creek. He cited 8000 feet of canal near Salisbury bridge and a further open canal to the Mississippi to generate 90000 horsepower for sale.
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Moscow Canal
Muscatine Municipal
Mad Creek
B. Layton
Federal Construction Company
Layton
D. A. Willis
Muscatine
Mr. Willis
Federal Construction
Salibury Bridge
Mississippi
End of French War Hero Joffre Brings Quiet Peace
Paris AP reports Marshal Joffre, last senior French World War commander, died peacefully after a fortnight of illness requiring amputation of his left leg. He would have turned 79 this Sunday. Present at his death were Mme Joffre, his son in law M Lafile, his brother General Ferdinand, staff officers, doctors, and a few others. He died at 8 23 am after remaining in a coma since noon Thursday. The bulletin from Professors Leriche Boulin and Fontaine listed the time, and Capt Saint Cernin announced the death to reporters. The city swiftly learned of the passing amid local attention and a waiting crowd.
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Paris
Marshal Joffre
Mme. Joffre
M. Lafile
Ferdinand
Issaly
Desmares
Saint Cernin
Leriche
Boulin
Fontaine
Strassbourg
Five Miners Trapped After Midvale Coal Mine Blast
Five miners were trapped in No. 4 mine of the Midvale Coal company near New Philadelphia after a 10 30 a m explosion. About 20 workers were inside. four escaped, five remained missing and were brought out unconscious by rescue crews. doctors say all will recover. Ambulances from surrounding towns aided the rescue. The cause of the blast was not immediately known.
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Midvale Coal Company
New Philadelphia
Here
Dover
Uhrichsville
Dennison
Vanatta Named to Aid Assessor
Lloyd E. Grimm city assessor secured council approval Friday night for Dave Vanatta as assistant and Miss Irene Healey as office clerk to support completing assessor duties and related work.
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Vanatta
Dave Vanatta
Irene Healey
Lloyd E. Grimm
Grimm
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Busch
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Percy J. Orthwein
James Orthwein
Adolphus
August A. Busch
Poor PA
Claude Callan
Daisy
Busch Millions
Yours
Medinaght Syndicate
Laa
Calva
Widow
Mrs. Hart and Maclaren
Mrs. Hart
Joffre
Associated Press
Aunt Het
Robert Quillen
Syndi
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