Balloonists Still Unreported In Bennett Race
Chicago officials await further reports on two balloonists Warn Van Orman and Franciszek Hynek after their takeoff last Saturday. If not found tonight, a search will be ordered. they could have logged nearly 100 hours aloft, far surpassing the previous 52 hour record.
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Chicago
James Gordon Bennett
Warn van Orman
Franciszek Hynek
Poland
Cliff Henderson
Henderson
T. G. W. Settle
Charles W. Kendall
Navy
van Orman
Hynek
Iowans R F C Loans Cancelled
The July report of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation shows Iowa banks and credit institutions withdrew or cancelled more loans than were authorized. Authorized July loans include City Trust and Savings Bank Boone 50200 and several receiverships. Total regional Agricultural Credit Corporation authorizations reach 1896257 with 960202 undisbursed. Multiple banks and trusts cancelled or withdrawn large sums including Des Moines Mortgage Company 2710550 and Burlington Joint Stock Bank 168066.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Iowa
City Trust and Savings Bank
Boone
First National Bank of Indianola
Second National Bank of New Hampton
Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation
Sioux City
Russell State Bank and Trust Company
Des Moines Mortgage Company
First National Bank of Ackley
Itizens National Bank and Trust Company of Knoxville
80th Birthday Sparks First Cigaret and Plane Ride
Loren Morrison of Council Bluffs Iowa aged 80 marked his birthday by smoking his first cigarette and taking his first airplane ride. He accepted a smoke from a stewardess aboard a flight from Omaha to Chicago and continued on to New York.
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Chicago
Loren Morrison
Council Bluffs, In
Omaha
New York
Roosevelt Juniors Meet Aboard The Manhattan
Theodore Roosevelt Jr and Franklin D Roosevelt Jr arrive on the Manhattan and meet for the first time aboard the ship. The elder remarks on his cousin while the president’s son calls him a nice man. Franklin Roosevelt Jr returns from Europe while Theodore Roosevelt Jr comes from the Philippines where he served as governor general until March. Karl Cermy proposes a rocket auto using a liquid gas mix to propel the vehicle at high speed.
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New York
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Manhattan
Roosevelt
Philippine Islands
Franklin Roosevelt, Jr
Europe
Tama-Patrick Hanreatty captured after escape from Fort Madison
Tama-Patrick Hanreatty, 35, who escaped from Fort Madison penitentiary Sunday, was captured at the farm home of Miss Elsie Bartling. The brief notes other Iowa items: Lennan infant funeral plans after electrocution. Stephenson couple in serious injuries. unemployment relief in July lower than June. New London suit for 10381 over injuries from a sidewalk slip.
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Associated Press
Tama
Patrick J. Hanreatty
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Elsie Bartling
Washington
Iowa
New London
City of
Maggie Shaffer
U S Pigs Flood Packers Pens Amid Government Buy
Mounting receipts of pigs shipped for government purchase far exceed packer capacity. Pens held 38,000 pigs with arrivals still arriving, including 75,000 Tuesday and 65,000 Wednesday. Slaughter outpaced schedules, with 232,205 pigs 25 to 80 pounds and 43,855 heavier pigs processed in 14 days, over 2,000,000 of the 4,000,000 slated.
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Chicago
Department of Agriculture
Government limits on pig shipments amid packing plant backlog
Government authorities issued warnings to shippers to hold back offerings while packing plants work at full capacity. Permits to keep plants operating were extended for the week, with no additional shipment permits to be issued.
Driver in hit and run charged in Missouri Valley boy death
The state links Vernon McQueen of Modale and Mc Ferrin to a fatal April 6 auto accident near Missouri Valley involving a nine year old Missouri negro boy. Mc Ferrin testified he drove there and believes another car struck his bumper as he passed the scene.
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Satterfield
Missouri
Vernon McQueen
Modale
McFerrin
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