Houston Dresses Up for Democratic Convention Five Days Away
Houston Tex June 21 AP citywide preparations for the democratic convention race as bunting Stars and Stripes and Lone Star flags decorate storefronts and the new Coliseum is readied for 15 000 delegates. Governor Smiths backers Gary Reed and Hull set up headquarters while James Walker absent with grippe is named floor leader. Edmond Van Namee predicts harmony among states.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
George R. van Namee
Alfred FE. Smith
Smith
James A. Reed
Reed
Cordell Hull
Senator Reed
Governor Smith
van Namee
Kansas City
Bill and His Wife Stand Out in Crowd
A fragment notes Bill, older than his wife, drawing attention in crowds as he stands apart like a stray dot. The line suggests social awkwardness and self-awareness in a concise, observational mood.
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Bill
Voung
Earhart Shopping in London Crowds Greet Wait to Catch Glimpse
Miss Amelia Earhart shopped with Mrs. Frederick Guest in London as crowds gathered in drizzle hoping for a glimpse of the aviatrix The escort pilots Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon inspected British airliners at Croydon Airdrome as letters and poems pour in praising the American flyer after her transatlantic voyage.
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London
Amelia Earhart
Frederick Guest
Friendship
Louis Gordon
Croydon Airdrome
Gordon
Miss Earhart
Southampton
Iowa Bar Association Opens Its Thirty Fourth Convention
Cedar Rapids Iowa June 21 AP opening the thirty fourth annual convention of the Iowa State Bar association about 599 lawyers welcomed here by State Senator C F Clark after morning speeches the afternoon saw committee reports led by Justice F F Faville on law reform a sight seeing tour and the annual banquet completed the day visiting women were guests of local attorneys wives
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Bar Association
C. F. Clark
Committee On
F. F. Faville
Iowa Supreme Court
Endeavorers meet at Waterloo to begin Crusaders convention
Waterloo Iowa June 21 More than 1060 delegates are expected at the Iowa Christian Endeavor Union Crusaders convention registration has passed the 90 pound mark The keynote address will be delivered tonight by Dr Daniel A Poling president of the National Christian Endeavor association and editor of the Christian Herald
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Waterloo
Iowa Christian Endeavor Union Crusaders
Daniel A. Poling
National Christian Endeavor Association
The
Christian Herald
Radio Men Ignore Commission Order In Iowa
Des Moines AP June 21. Failure of 25 Iowa radio stations to meet for possible compliance with the federal radio commission ultimatum may trigger action to cut stations from 25 to 13. None attended. chairman H. A. Searle of Council Bluffs did not appear. Commissioners Pickard and Sykes urged voluntary consolidation or other reductions.
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Des Moines
Faiure
Iowa Radio Broadcasting
Federal Radio Commission
Iowa
H. A Searle
Council Bluffs
Sam Pickard
E. 0. Sykes
Rasche flight halted by temporary injunction in New York
A temporary injunction bars German flyer Thea Rasche from using the plane backed by Harold W. Hartwell and Hollis Corp or from flights from North America or Europe. Mrs. Stillman, owner of the plane, claims control and says insurance is in her name. Miss Rasche’s backers accused her of breaking relations to seek better terms. Meanwhile Miss Mabel Bell began a transatlantic flight from Harbor Grace to Curtissfield, delayed after Amelia Earhart's England flight.
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Thea Rasche
James A. Stillman
North Star
Aviatrix
New York
Europe
Harold W. Hartwell
Hollis Corporation
Miss Rasche
North America
A. R. Martine
Mrs. Stillman
Calvin Harris
Harry Heckheimer
Martine
Mabel Bell
Columbia
Curtissfield
N. F
Oliver le Boutillier
Arthur Argles
Andrew Surini
Charles A. Levine
Amelia Earhart
England
Iowa News Notes and Legal Developments Across Cities
In Cedar Rapids a man called Joe Binka 40 ended his life at home by firing a shotgun into his chest after tripping the trigger with his toe. In Ames Harland Gibbons 39 identified as the long missing son of a Claremont Minnesota veterinarian died in a hospital from injuries after attempting to hop a moving freight train. In Des Moines the state board of control named Dr May Habenicht to head the bureau of child welfare for a three year term starting July 1.
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Cedar Rapids
Joe Binka
Ames—Harland Gibbons
Claremont
Minn
Des Moines
State Board of Control
May Hal! Habenicht
Actress Nat alia Kingston and George Anderson wed in Mexico
Los Angeles report that film actress Nat alia Kingston and LA broker George Anderson married in Tijuana Mexico and announced the wedding on their return. They plan to begin a honeymoon trip to Honolulu soon.
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Los Angeles
Natalia Kingston
George Anderson
Tijuana
Lower California
Mexico
Honolulu
Two Jugos Slav Deputies Die in Belgrade Parliament Shooting
Radical deputy opened fire during a session in Belgrade wounding several and killing two, heightening fears of crisis as talks on the Nettuno convention and Little Entente prospects falter. Wounded include Paul Raditch and Dr Basariteck. King Alexander visited the injured.
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Jugo-Slavia
Balkans
Dalmatian
Jugo- Slavia
Romania
Czecho Slovakia
Bucharest
Italy
Albania
Hungary
Trianon
Punica Ratchitch
Stefan Raditch
Stefan
Paul Raditch
Croa
Basaritchek
Pernar
Grandja
Jelasitch
Alexander
99 Year Separation Ends
In Rochester Indiana two brothers, Michael Kerler 78 of Bremen Nebraska and John Kerler 73 of Rochester, were reunited after a 59 year separation. A red bandana as identification prompted the meeting, but the younger brother said he would have recognized him anyway. An ad in a Chicago paper helped trigger the reunion. Both men are well to do farmers who emigrated from Germany.
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Rochester
Ind
Michael
Bremen
Neb
John Kerler
Chicago
Hr John
America
Germany
Weather Outlook for Iowa and Illinois
Oats Reef Iowa reports cloudy tonight and Friday with little temperature change. Illinois sees mostly cloudy skies with possible thunderstorms in the north this afternoon or tonight and in the south tonight and Friday with cooler air in the extreme north portion.
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Iowa
Illinois
Weather Celsius readings for Midwest cities
St. Paul shows 0.8 with no change for La Crosse at 2.3. Dubuque records 3.9 down 0.1. Davenport 3.4 up 6. Muscatine 4.4 up 0.6. Keokuk 2.3 up 9.1. St. Louis 24.1 up 7.8.
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St. Paul
la Crosse
Dubuque
Davenport
Muscatine
Keokuk
St. Louis
Tornado and flood strike Wisconsin Missouri regions
A tornado between Prescott and Ellsworth Wisconsin caused livestock deaths and property damage while a Missouri cloudburst at Hollister flooded districts, washed out railroad tracks from Branson to Melva and toppled two houses.
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Ellsworth
Wis
Prescott
Cloudhurst
Missouri
Springfield
Hollister
Ozard Mountain
Lake Taynecomo
Missouri Pacific
Branson
Mel
Princess Helen Divorces Carol in Romanian Divorce Case
The Bucharest appellate court granted Princess Helen a divorce from Prince Carol amid claims of profound affronts and desertion. The petition, supported by regents and noting Michael’s sole sovereignty, showed Carol in exile and reportedly ready to contest, though he chose not to oppose.
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Helen
Carol
Bucharest
Athens
Michael
Funeral planned for Dr. F. E. Gibbs in Council Bluffs
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Dr. F. E. Gibbs 39 local dentist fatally injured in an airplane crash near Gothenburg Nebraska Monday. He was born at Ft. Dodge and survived by a widow and two children. Dr. M. E. O Keefe the other passenger remains seriously injured with multiple facial fractures a broken leg and chest injuries.
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Council Bluffs
F. E. Gibbs
Gothenburg
Neb
Ft. Dodge
M. E. O'Keefe
O'Keefe
San Francisco
New Ambassador to Chile Is Chosen
Washington June 21 AP Secretary of State Kellogg announced the appointment of William S. Culbertson of Kansas as ambassador to Chile to succeed William M. Collier of New York who resigned.
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Washington
William S. Culberson
Kansas
Chile
William M. Collier
New York
Kellogg
Smith Fights Use of Photo in Film About Prohibition
New York June 21 AP Friends of Gov Alfred E Smith threaten legal action to block use of a newsreel of the governor in a Yale professor's film Deliverance a dramatization of two prohibition books The film is booked by the YMCA for showings in YMCAs and churches George E Graves secretary to the governor warns newsreel companies against improper use and says no film can be used for commercial purposes without the governor's permission Corridini says any unfair portrayal will be removed if representatives prove error The story is a dignified historical dramatization not propaganda one scene showing the governor with the arc unhlerged champion of the anti prohibition forces was deleted.
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New York
Friends of
Alfred E. Smith
Irving Fisher
Yale
Fisher
Robert E Corridini
World Alliance Against Alcohol
Young Men's Christian Association
George E
Smith
Corridini
Democrats Asked to Back Dry Law by Baptist Body
The North ernee convention adopted resolutions urging the Democratic National Convention in Houston to include a clear pledge for prohibition enforcement. The resolutions call for active cooperation with the Anti Saloon League and the W C T U and reaffirm church support for outlawry of war. Denver was chosen for the 1929 convention.
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Perriit
Houston
Tex
Anti-Saloon League
Denver
Colo
Ex-preacher again meets up with law in Iowa
Davenport Iowa June 21 AP E W Voespel an ex preacher from Clinton under sentence for manslaughter in Clinton county tied to a death in a car wreck near Low Moor a year ago and free on 15000 bond on appeal was arrested last night on intoxication charge Miss Viola Ladehoff also of Clinton who drove Voespel s car was arrested for drunken driving
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Davenport
E. W. Voespel
Clinton
Clinton County
Low Moor
Liberty
Viola Ladehoff
Voespel
Dying Man Names Brother-in-Law in Fatal Shooting
Carl Olson died in a Moline hospital after being shot June 12 while asleep. He told prosecutors shortly before death that his brother-in-law Peter Collins, an escaped patient from the state hospital for the insane, did the shooting. Collins is sought on murder charges. Collins' wife was also shot and in critical condition.
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Moline
Carl Olson
Peter Collins
Collins
State Hospital
President Denies Clemency for Three Executed Murderers
President Coolidge rejects clemency for Nicholas Lee Eagles John Proctor and Samuel Moreno sentenced to die by electrocution next Friday in Washington for first degree murder.
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Superior
Wis
Coolidge
Nicholas Lee Eagles
John Proctor
Samuel Moreno
Washington
Playwright's Wife Seeks Divorce plans trip to Reno or Sonora
Mrs. Eugene O'Neill announced she has engaged counsel and plans to travel to Reno or Sonora, Mexico to obtain a divorce from the playwright.
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New York
Eugene O'Neill
Reno
Sonora
Mexico
Mutiny Reported Aboard Australian Liner Jervis Bay
The Australian Commonwealth liner Jervis Bay reported mutiny by wireless to Colombo with threats to set the ship afire. Armed marines and an Enterprise officer set to embark at Trincomalee to take charge.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Jervis Bar
Enterprise
Jervis Bay
Trincomall
France Orders Two Vessels To Help In Arctic Search
France dispatches cruiser Strasbourg and the Quentin Roosevelt to Spitzbergen to join in the effort to locate Roald Amundsen and other missing explorers. Reports note Nobile and companions provisioned. Amundsen and Dietrichsen underway in a French seaplane with limited radio.
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Paris
French Ministry of Marine
Strasbourg
Quentin Roosevelt
Spitzbergen
Roald Amundsen
Gene Guilbaud
Kines Bay
Umberto Nobile
Arctic
Norway
Nobile
Amundsen
Lieut
Lief Dietrichsen
Tromsoe
Rene Guilbaud
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