Delegates Join Hull In Effort To Make Choice
New York July 5 delegates gathered in Cordell Hull's rooms as candidates named to the Democratic convention sought a compromise nominee after 77 ballots. Tom Taggart urged a conference of representatives to select a candidate, with Ralston withdrawing and McAdoo and Smith locked in a deadlock. The scene featured clashes over the unit rule and factional fights as leaders urged a week-end pattern toward a conference.
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EL Frazer Edwards
United Press
Waldorf Hotel
New York
Cordell Hull
Democratic Naional Committee
William G. McAdoo
Smith
Taggart
Tom Taggart
Indiana
National Committee
Hull
Thomes T. Walsh
Gov. Smith
Swenson
Pat Harrison
Caraway
Deadlock in Democratic Convention Ends After Conflicting Schemes
Ballots show Smith and McAdoo leading with several candidates splitting votes as 1,097 total cast. After hours of debate and failed moves to adjourn or drop candidates, Taggart mediates a peace, McAdoo and Smith bloc to meet, and a resolution is adopted to end the religious war with a close party vote.
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Taggart
Kansas City
McAdoo
Smith
Tom ‘Taggart
World Demands Smith and McAdoo Quit
New York July 5 The New York Morning World urges the Democratic party to end the presidential deadlock by withdrawing both Smith and McAdoo. It proposes selecting a leader from a list that includes Newton D Baker Carter Glass John W Davis Joseph T Robinson Albert C Young Thomas J Walsh David F Houston James M Cox and Franklin D Roosevelt.
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New York
New York Morning World
Gov. Smith
W. G. McAdoo
Smith
Newton D. Baker
Carter Glass
John W. Davis
Joseph T. Robinson
Albert C. Young
Thomas J. Walsh
David F. Houston
James M. Cox
Franklin
D. Roosevelt
Passengers Hurt As Train Jumps Track in Kenosha
In Kenosha Wisconsin five cars of the Chicago Milwaukee and South Shore Electric line left the track in the city around 10 pm due to a split rail. The wreck injured Frederick Meichelz of Beverely New Jersey and left a score of passengers bruised and shaken though the cars did not overturn.
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Kenosha
Wis
Frederick Meichelz
Beverely
N. J
Chicago, Milwaukee and
South Shore Electric We
Extension of Car Line Plan Shaped City Transit Proposal
The Sioux City General Service company submitted a proposal for a street car line extension from West Third to West Seventh along Turner street. Mayor Gilman expects council approval next Wednesday with little opposition. A 25 year franchise talks will occur in a late day conference, while the company showed a favorable view toward extending service to East Greenville along Correctionville road after discussions with local residents and committee chair Charles OShonessy.
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Turner Street
West Third
West Seventh Street
Stewart Guman
Sioux City General Service Company
Gilman
Service Company
W. J. Bertke
J. Bertke
O'Shonessy
Three Mankato Men Die In Motor Crash
Three Mankato men died in a highway crash ten miles northeast of Mankato on the St Peter road. The driver failed to negotiate a curve, the car hit a ditch and rolled. William Pannon was killed at once. J Walsh and A J Iden died of injuries after reaching a local hospital. W T Brown will recover. Pannon was a Northwestern conductor from Mankato. Liden, a railroad policeman in St. Paul, was known to Sioux City railroad men.
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Mankato
Minn
Here
St Peter Road
William Pannon
J. Walsh
A. J. Iden
St. Paul
Army Worm Devastates Wake County Farmland Near Clear Lake
Mason City Iowa July 5 an army worm invasion has damaged farms around Clear Lake with rye oats alfalfa and corn wiped out in several fields. Ten acres of oats were destroyed plus 49 acres in another field and numerous acres of corn rye and timothy lost in Franklin county and reportedly in several other townships including Scott.
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Mason City
Clear Lake
Franklin County
Scott
Grandmother Seeks Guardianship In Custody Case
In Shellsburg Iowa on July 5 Mrs Ella Pisel petitions for divorce from William Pisel and asks for custody of their 6 year old daughter Lois Virginia. The grandmother Mrs Jack Lint files to be appointed guardian and receive permanent custody. The Lints say the mother has no means of support and have cared for the child since infancy. The father’s whereabouts are unknown.
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Shellsburg
Ella Pisel
William Pisel
Lois Virginia
Jack Lint
Fireman Fatally Hurt as Richmond Mill Burns
A deadly blaze at the Certainteed Products mill in Richmond California caused about 200000 in damage to the mill and its oil taps. Fireman W. P. Pfensig died after falling 40 feet through a skylight during two hours of strenuous fighting by multiple fire companies. Spontaneous combustion is suspected as the cause.
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Richmond
Cal
1 Certainteed Products Corporation
W. P. Pfensig
La Follette Platform Planks Highlight Progressive Aims
An abstract of La Follette platform planks calls for public ownership of natural resources and railroads, abolition of railroad labor board, tax reform, farm relief, end to injunctions in labor, child labor amendments, wealth taxation with adjusted benefits, direct presidential election, and strong arbitration in international affairs while opposing private debt enforcement. The document also seeks water power development, a national water power system, and public control of coal, iron, oil, timber, lands, and railroads.
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Muscle Shoals
Four Injured in Britt Area Auto Crash
Mrs Olle Slagle suffered serious injuries when her vehicle collided with a westbound car driven by a traveling salesman near Britt on July 5. Three other women and a small boy sustained bruises as both cars left the road and rolled into a ditch. The salesman escaped with a minor scratch.
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Britt, Ta
Olle Slagle
Mother and Son Escape Car Wreck in Ditch Near Nashua
In Nashua Iowa July 5 Mrs H W Mc Masters wife of a Waterloo salesman and her 15-year-old son were in a coupe en route to Mason City when the vehicle ran into a ditch and overturned after striking rocks. They escaped with minor bruises crawling from a broken window. running gear wrecked.
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Nashua
H.W. McMasters
Waterloo
Mason City
Barn Blown Away by Local Twister Near Shenandoah
Shenandoah July 15 A local farmer on the John Hiser farm awoke to find the barn completely demolished by a twister from last Saturday's storm. No livestock were inside and lumber lay scattered across the yard. only half the barn stood by dawn. Rain was light with the dipper.
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Shenandoah
John Hiser
Hiser
Threats to Kidnap Medil McCormick's Son
A Chicago postal inspector and Winnebago County officials questioned suspects tied to a July plot to kidnap eight year old John Medill McCormick and extort $50,000. Clarence Peek and a farm worker were arrested near Rockford after a decoy package was planted near the McCormick summer home in Byron, Illinois. Mrs. McCormick helped arrange the capture and the men denied involvement, claiming curiosity about the package contents. Separate dispatches note widespread movement on 10 cent fares, with many cities charging 6 to 10 cents.
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Chicaj
Unit 1
Seiad
McCormick
John Medill
Chicago
Winnebago County
Rockford
Clarence Peek
McCormick Summer Home
Byron
Ill
Chicco
Topford
Chleago
Mrc
Hanna
M. Cormick
Methodist Union by Ratification Sought
Chattanooga Tennessee July 5 One more step ratification by members of general conference remained today before final unification of the Methodist Episcopal church divided into northern and southern branches by the Civil War The annual conference of the ay branch will be held next year and the southern church has been requested to hold a general ratification conference to speed the union The special general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South after a hectic three day session ratified the proposed reunion plan by an overwhelming vote last night and passed the issue along to the southern general conference
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Chattanooga
Tenn
General Conference
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Twenty Five Injured As Bridge Collapses On Monongahela
Brownsville July 5 An improvised pedestrian bridge along the Monongahela river collapsed injuring about 25 people. The wooden structure gave way sending pedestrians onto brick pavement below as about 150 spectators watched an auto being hauled from the water. Hospital reports indicated several serious injuries and possible fatalities. some victims were treated for head and leg injuries.
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Brownsville
Peters Pep Iselnie Eer
Monongahela
Two Dead and Six Missing in Chesapeake Bay Steamer Fire
Baltimore July 8 Two men are dead and six others reported missing after the steamer Three Rivers burned in Chesapeake Bay off the Patuxent River last midnight. One death resulted from exhaustion after immersion in a lifeboat and a Virginia boarded woman drowned. The fire is blamed on a discarded cigarette. Five missing are members of the Evening Sun newspaper band and the other a deck hand.
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Baltimore
Three Rivers
Chesapeake Bay
Patuxent River
Virginia Point
Evening Sun
Japanese Police Reprimanded Over Flag Theft Incident
Tokto July 6 Japanese police officers guarding the American embassy were severely reprimanded by city and federal authorities for laxness that allowed the theft of an American flag from the embassy lawn. The punishment for the thief and accomplices, already arrested, has not yet been decided.
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Tokto
Amercan
Legation
New York Experts Study Drug Effects
New York researchers at New York University led by Prof R. R Kenhaw investigate how drugs like nicotine strychnine and morphine target specific nerves. The study aims to prove selective action on nerve pathways, a breakthrough that could advance treatment of nervous system diseases.
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New York
New York University
R. R Kenhaw
American Chemical Society
Renshaw
Ohio prodigy Harold Finley wows Ohio professors
A nine year old automatic memory prodigy, Harold Finley of Connellsville, Ohio, studied at Ohio State University. He has memorized phone numbers, writes quickly with the touch system, and can name all U.S. states with capitals. Parents say growth is restrained by family doctors. Harold plans to enter eighth grade in autumn.
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Harold Finley
Ohio State Univ
Harold
Mont
Lunion
Unr
Conneleville
Finley
Bureau of Educational Rest
Girl Forger Killed Escaping Jail Near Hutchinson
Ruby Vlampitt a 16 year old girl forger was killed near Hutchinson Kansas when she jerked away from Barton county sheriff and leaped from a speeding train while being returned to Great Bend after an escape from the Barton county jail ten days earlier. She had been captured in Kansas City Kansas yesterday.
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Hutchinson
Kan
Ruby Vlampitt
Barton County
Kansas City
Great Bend
Street car fare in 13 of 285 big cities found
Philadelphia July 5. A Pennsylvania public service information committee bulletin reports that only 13 of 285 cities with populations over 25,000 still retain streetcar fare. Of 27 cities remaining, figures are given.
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Baten
Philadelphia
Pennsyltvania’ Public Service Information ‘Committee
United States
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