Southeast Kansas Floods Roar Across Rivers
Severe flooding across the Neosho Cottonwood and Verdigris rivers reaches Emporia and Iola. Homes evacuated and rescues by boat noted as Neosho Falls nearly submerged and rainfall records broken in multiple towns. Casualties reported with hundreds displaced as waters rise rapidly across a broad flood plain.
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Emporia
Kas
Neosho
Cottonwood
Verdigris
Kansas
Madison
Neosho Falls
Here
Wichita
Iola
Leroy
Florence
Burlington
Cottonwood Falls
Junction City
Ica
Bur
Postal workers ordered to shoot to kill
Postoffice employees including railway mail clerks were ordered to shoot to kill to protect mail funds after a large Illinois robbery, with the United States Marine Corps possibly called in if needed.
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Washington, D. C
Postoffice Department
New
United States Marine Corps
Weather outlook across Iowa and Illinois
Unsettled conditions persist in Iowa tonight and Tuesday with possible showers and a slight warmup. Illinois outlook calls for mostly cloudy skies in the south and partly cloudy north with a chance of rain and cooler air in the far south, rising temperatures Tuesday in northern areas. River stages include St Paul 14, La Crosse 5.3, Dubuque 5.6 up 0.5, Davenport 4.4 down 0.2, Keokuk 8.5, St. Louis 22.8.
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Iowa
Illinois
St. Paul
la Crosse
Dubuque
Davenport
Keokuk
St. Louis
German Witness Center of Trial Conflicts Over Fee Split
German copper magnate Richard Merton testifies in the Daugherty Miller trial denying knowledge of a $411000 fee split with John T. King. The government and defense debate the extent of King’s involvement and the ownership of a Swiss holding company tied to German interests. The case centers on alleged bribes paid to claimants and the fate of assets seized during the war.
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New York
Richard Merton
H. Y W. Raucherty
Thomas {. Willer
John T. King
Connectment National
Harry M. Daugherty
Thomas W. Miller
Merton
Connecticut
King
Societe E Suisse Pour Valeures de Mataux
William S. Rand
Miller
Metallbank
Metallseselschaft
Convicts Escape From Tennessee Tuberculosis Hospital
Eight convicts at the Tennessee penitentiary tuberculosis hospital overpowered two guards with two guns and fled just before midnight Sunday. Charlie Archer, one of the prisoners, was captured early this morning.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee Penitentiary
Charlie Archer
Col Brookhart Improves. No Operation Planned
Col S W Brookhart shows marked recovery from a serious illness and will not undergo surgery. He will not resume Iowa speeches until next week when he will fulfill engagements for the state Republican committee.
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Col. Brookhart
Washington
Col. S. W. Brookhart
Iowa
State
Republican Committee
Mexicans Hold Yankee Captive Near Mexico City
Bandits attacked an automobile party 40 miles from Mexico City and abducted Jacob Rosenthal, a retired New York businessman. Also in the group were Jack Zahler, his wife, and Jose Ruff. Zahler believed the assailants aimed to kidnap Arthur Lane, the American embassy under secretary, but seized the wrong car.
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Mexico City
Mex
Jacob Rosenthal
New York City
Mexico
Jack J. Zahler
Jose Ruff
Rosenthal
Cuernavaca
Zahler
Arthur Lane
Commonwealth Land Party Joins November Ballot Field
Des Moines Sept 13 The Commonwealth Land Party becomes the third party on the November ballot after Secretary Ramsay approved petitions. The ticket includes a full state slate with E L Eichelberg of Waterloo listed as senatorial candidate.
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Des Moines
Commonwealth Land Party
Ramsay Today
E. L. Eichelberg
Waterloo
Italy ties Mussolini plot to foreign influence arrests
Rome reports a wide foreign involvement behind the attempt on Premier Mussolini. Enrico Malatasta, a notorious anarchist who recently settled in Rome, is among those arrested as authorities pursue a broader conspiracy with self exiles and foreign hosts.
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Rome
Mussolini
Ermete Giovannini
France
Enrico Malatasta
Eyes of Politics Watching Maine's Biennial Election
Portland Maine AP reports Maine votes in its biennial election as a political barometer. Ralph C Brewster seeks re election against Democratic nominee Mayor Ernest L McLean of Augusta. Republicans predict Brewster wins by about 20000 with races for governor auditor four congressmen legislature and county offices on the ballot.
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Portland
Maine
Ralph C. Brewster
Ernest L. McLean
Augusta
Brewster
French Flier Plans Nonstop New York to Paris Flight
Capt. Rene Fonck, the French airman, will take off from Roosevelt Field for a nonstop New York to Paris flight as soon after Thursday as weather allows. His three motor Sikorsky S-35 is in final test.
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Mineola
N. Y
Rene Fonck
Roosevelt Field
New York
Paris
Cool Iowa Weather Not Unusual Says Weather Bureau
Des Moines reports a temperature of 38 at Estherville with the weather bureau noting that current cool weather in Iowa is not unusual since frosts have occurred in September before this date in some years. So far this year there has been no general frost.
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Des Moines
Estherville
Iowa
Murder in Herrin Sharply Raises Illinois Liquor War Toll
In Herrin Illinois unidentified gunmen opened fire on a car killing William Holland 29 and wounding Mack Pulliam Mildred Pulliam. Pulliam and his wife hospitalized with arm and leg injuries as two Shelton gang members linked to a recent road house gun battle are suspected. In a separate incident a robber wounded a 16 year old girl Pauline Burk and a 7 year old boy Randall during a north Herrin confectionery and restaurant robbery.
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Herrin
Ill
William Holland
Mack Pulliam
Mildred
Pulliam
Shelton
Everett Smith
Harry Walker
Holland
Back to the Desk for Coolidge Leaves Camp
President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge plan to break camp at the Adirondacks this week and return to Washington on the same special train that brought them in July. A day trip to New York state cities is under consideration to allow thousands to greet him.
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Paul Smith
N. Y
White House
New York State
Seamstress Admits Faking Aimee Case Story
In Los Angeles on September 13, the Examiner reports seamstress Lorraine Wiseman McDonald Seileff confessed to fabricating a tale of sharing a Carmel cottage with an anonymous Miss X and Kenneth G. Ormiston. She said the story aimed to net $5000 from evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson and stored in a sworn statement.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Examiner
Lorraine Wiseman McDonald Seileff
Carmel
Miss X
Kenneth G. Ormiston
Angelus Temple
Aimee Semple McPherson
Woman admits killing Atlanta grocer in failed hold up
Ruby Ray, inmate at the Georgia prison farm, says she fired the shot that killed William H. Cheek during an attempted Christmas Eve holdup. Authorities say the confession might be to save accomplice E. Mel Gore from the electric chair. Gore is to die tomorrow, Theodore Berry is jailed for life, and Jack Wilson is still sought.
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Milledgeville
Ruby Ray
William H. Cheek
Atlanta
Miss Rar
B. H. Dunnaway
Jack Wilson
E. Mel Gore
Theodore Berry
Wilson
Boykin
Gore
Ray
Cheek
Miss Ray
Norma Dean Stage Actress Drowns Near Winslow
Lorena Shipley thirty was known on the legitimate stage as Norma Dean when an auto carrying her and three others plunged from a bridge into a swollen stream six miles from Winslow Arizona. Her mother survived two others escaped, and her body had not been recovered by late last night.
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Winslow
Ariz
Lorena Shipley
Norma Dean
Miss Shipley
Primaries in Nine States Focus on Prohibition Issues
Voters in nine states head to primaries with prohibition a leading factor. Massachusetts weighs Cook versus Butler over Volstead act changes. Louisiana faces Broussard and Saunders in a senate race amid wet dry tensions. Colorado sees Klan factional battles shaping renomination. Washington, New York, Vermont, Maryland, Michigan, and South Carolina also stage key contests.
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Washington
D. C
Massachusetts
Coolidge
William M. Butler
Republican National Committee
Washington Cook
Governor
Cook
David Walsh
Louisiana
Edwin S. Broussard
Jared Y. Saunders
Senate
Broussard
Saunders
Colorado
L. C. Phipps
Rice W. Means
Ku Klux Klan
Hamlin
Wesley L. Jones
Senate Commerce Committee
Frank E. Hammond
Jones
New York
Porter H. Dale
Vermont
Maryland
C. E. Weller
John Phillip Hill
Hill
South Carolina
Michigan
Ellison D. Smith
Col
Edgar A. Brown
House of Representatives
Miss Ehrlich Fatally Hurt In Collision
Miss Dorothy Ehrlich an 18 year old resident of Muscatine died from internal injuries after a collision on Front and Linn streets caused by a blinded driver. Robert Coyner and Verle Schmidt were hospitalized with broken hips, while Flora Diercks and Bernice Dietrich were treated and released. remaining passengers unharmed. Coyner testified he was blinded by a approaching lights and could not avoid the street car impact. Funeral arrangements set for Miss Ehrlich with services at Zion Lutheran Church.
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Front
Linn
Dorothy Ehrlich
Hershey Avenue
Robert Coyner
Lake Township
Ehrlich
Bellevue Hospital
Verle Schmidt
Smalley Avenue
Flora Diercks
Wisconsin Street
Bernice Deitrich
Grandview
Hershey Hospital
Miss Ehrlich
Coyner
Linn Street
A. W. Gabrilson
Schmidt
Muscatine
Franklin and Lutheran
McKee
Zion Lutheran Church
Lutheran League
Emma Ehrlich
Ralph
Clarence
Harry Stange
Harvey Long
Clinton
John Haefner
Greenwood Cemetery
W. S. Norton
Wittich Funeral Home
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Mail Gleaks
Blaine
Victor
Underwood and Underwood
James J. Blaine
Irvine L. Lenroot
Wisconsin
Daugherty and Miller
Kinz
NEW Yorker
Lieve Thmes
Enrico Malatesta
Jin Lucetti
Avenza
Tuscany
Lucetti
Italy
Robert Quillen
Publishers Syndicate
Herrin, Ill
Aimee
OF Georgia Prison
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