National Guard Drills Increased in Nationwide Push
Washington report shows Adjutant Generals backing a plan to scale drills to 36 with $24 million in federal funds for 36 armory drills and 15 days field training. The National Guard seeks 48 drills for current efficiency and hopes to add 12 unpaid drills later, while Budget Director Lewis Douglas is briefed by Adjutant General Grahl of Iowa.
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Journal Washington Bureau
Washington
Adjutants General Association
National Guards
Assa
Ralph Immell
Wisconsin
Grahl
Iowa
Lewis Douglas
National Guard
Association
Douglas
Kidnappings Net Duos Across Nation in Ongoing Search
Federal agents pursue missing Chicago speculator John Factor with Newport News leads as Albany kidnappers demand 250000 for Young John O Connell. Illinois banker Alton victim August Luer seized by a decoy visitor and a second ransom case adds to the nationwide abduction wave.
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Newport News
Virginia
John Factor
Chicago
Great Britain
Factor
England
Albany
N. Y
John” O'Connell
Dan
Ed O'Connell
Dan O’connell
O'Connell
O’connells
Albany Times Union
Walter V. Johnson
Rensselaer
Hudson River
O’connell
Lehman
New York National Guard
John J. Jr
John J
Albany County
Daniel
Knickerbocker Press
Manlius
Hedrick Brewery
Patrick
Packey
Alton
August Luwer
Luer
Henry Busse
Carl
Papa
Illinois
Melvin Purvis
United States Bureau of Investigation
Department of Justice
Purvis
Bread Price Probe Moves to Check Unjust Increases
The U S bread price inquiry targets Rolfe and Des Moines Iowa with officials like Frederick Clemson Howe warning profiteers amid calls to restore fair living standards. Prices for a pound loaf are rising by up to four cents while processing taxes should add at most half a cent. In related news Helen Behrens 16 and Vernita Alderson 15 drowned after swimming soon after eating in the Volga river near Mederville Elkader.
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Rolfe
Des Moines
Iowa
Frederick Clemson Howe
Farm Administration
Howe
Wallace
Elkader
Helen Behrens
Vernita Alderson
Volga River
Mederville
Small Crop Won't Stop U. S. Action
Des Moines reports a July 1 outlook from the United States Department of Agriculture showing reduced yields across corn oats barley rye flaxseed and potatoes. Corn at 412 250 000 bushels down 19 percent from last year and 3 percent from the 1926 30 average.
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Des Moines
United States Department of Agriculture
Department
Leslie M. Card
Ley
U S Council for Recovery Organized
Roosevelt directs a reorganization drive with a new United States Council for Recovery to coordinate inter agency problems. Frank C Walker named executive secretary to lead the council as cabinet meetings shift to council sessions. Professors James H Rogers of Yale and George Warren of Cornell begin a comprehensive survey of the nation fiscal system and discuss a managed currency to stabilize the dollar.
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Frank C. Walker
James H. Rogers
Yale
George Warren
Cornell
Roosevelt
United States
Repeal Meet Votes For 18th Amendment Repeal
The Iowa convention opened with Governor Herring urging temperance and supporting Ida B. Wise Smith. By 3 48 p m the body cast its vote for repeal of the 18th amendment and adjourned, sending the resolution to Washington.
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Tes
Hunthe
Robert J. Shaw
Keokuk
T. E. Dismond
O’brien
Otis P. Morganthaler
Carroll County
Adams
W. E. Humbert
Benton
J. C. Snitkay
Clinton
J. A. Lubbers
Crawford
L. W. Powers
Davis
O. D. Wray
Delaware
E. E. Anis
Dickinson
Ira F. Peacock
Hardin
Gilman H. Wisner
Louisa
John G. Keck
Herring
Washington
Ida B. Wise Smith
Farmers Plead Guilty in Iowa Farm Disturbances
Fifteen farmers in Primghar and nearby towns entered guilty pleas after a farm foreclosure sale clash in O'Brien county last April. Five were given suspended 30 day jail terms for unlawful assembly, while the rest received one year terms for resisting an process and were paroled. Names include Mike Herzog Hespers Frank Ludwig LeMars Mathias Schmidt LeMars Thomas Bunt Hartley and John Link Primghar among others.
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Primghar
Earl Peters
Orange City
O’brien
C. C. Bradley
LeMars
Mike Herzog
Hespers
Frank Ludwig
Mathias Schmidt
Thomas Bunt
Hartley
John Link
Simon Trossem
James Sears
Lawrence Gasper
Granville
Ben Niewkendorp
Sanborn
Jack Kamp
John Herzog
Hospers
A. C. Larson
Frank Fulton
Geo. Popken
R. C. Appledorn
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Samuel Aronowitz
Edward J
Eddie
Aronowitz
David Smurt
Putnam Street
Pearl Street
Lux
U. S. Council For Recovery
Fiscal Survey
Luc Strint
I A
Mae Aaart
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