Heat Wave Rages Across Midwest With Fatal Storms
A midwestern heat wave triggered deadly storms causing multiple deaths and extensive damage. Sioux City saw a violent wind and 75 mph gusts for five minutes, injuring seven and leveling more than a dozen houses. Illinois and Nebraska reported several fatalities, while Chicago accounted for four heat-related deaths.
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Florence
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Heir Iivestin
Iowa City
Waterloo
Dubuque
Oliver Dinkins
British Forces Guard Afghan Frontier Amid Uprising Fears
London reports say British troops move toward the Afghanistan Indian border amid fears of a general uprising in Afghanistan against the emir. Officials attribute unrest to Soviet influence and note historical Soviet attempts to penetrate India via the northwest frontier.
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Russia
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Cook County Revolts and Refuses State Taxes
Cook county in the Chicago area votes to withhold state tax payments in protest of repeated failure to redistrict. The county board calls the move a stand against taxation without representation, until the general assembly fulfills constitutional duties. Governor Len Small dismisses it as a joke while defending Cook county’s status in Illinois.
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Tunney Gibbons World Light Heavyweight Bout Preview
The Tribune will receive round by round returns of the Tinney Gibbons world light heavyweight championship bout in New York Friday night. The match starts at 10 p m Eastern daylight time and 7 p m Mountain time and will be relayed from The Tribune office via the Associated Press Teletype wire. Join The Tribune’s fight crowd Friday evening.
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Poliesse Finds Anti Militarist Pamphlets in Marseilles
Poliesse searched communist centers in Marseilles on June 2 and recovered pamphlets and letters from Toulon claiming to reveal exact information about French men and material sent to Morocco.
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Mrs Coolidge to Unveil Memorial Portrait of Son
Mrs Calvin Coolidge left Washington for Mercersburg Pennsylvania to attend the unveiling of a memorial portrait of Calvin Jr at Mercersburg Academy The event marks a formal tribute by the family to the late president’s son and a connection to the school he attended.
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Mercersburg Academy
Garibaldi Anniversary Observed Across Italy Amid Tension
In Caprera thousands of Garibaldi veterans in red shirts joined present day fascists in memorial services at Garibaldi's tomb marking the anniversary of his 1882 death. The event showcased a contrast between historic patriotism and current fascist participation.
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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Explosion Plot Foiled by Boxes on Tracks
In New York on June 2 AP reports an early thwarted plan to blow up elevated trains after two boxes believed to contain bombs were found projecting over tracks at two stations. Police pushed the boxes into the East River.
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Beautiful Tribute At Mercersburg For Calvin Coolidge Jr
Mercersburg Pa June 2 AP William Mann Irvine head master Mercersburg Academy spoke at a portrait unveiling for the late Calvin Coolidge Jr during commencement week. He praised youth and the boy’s moral values noting he would have graduated tomorrow and describing Coolidge Jr as an ideal, self controlled teen with a strong American home influence.
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Lee Reelected President of Railroad Trainmen
William G Lee was reelected president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen for three years at the triennial session in Cleveland. He defeated A F Whitney 531 to 408 for fifth vice president. general secretary treasurer A E King and other officers were also re elected. Lee pledged to continue current policy and urged harmony among members.
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Baseball scores from today across national games
National games in multiple cities show Brooklyn New York Philadelphia St Louis New York Boston Cleveland Detroit and other matchups with varying final tallies and pitchers listed. Line scores include hitters and substitutions with several double plays and late innings rallies noted.
Disease Rampant Among Indians in California
San Francisco June 2 AP Many of the 18 000 Indians in California lack adequate food and disease is widespread among them. Charles Elkus, chairman of the Commonwealth club Indian section, spoke at a conference with Senator Hiram Johnson and several congressmen. He said Indians in this state receive less from the federal government than those in any other state, averaging about 20 dollars per year per person. He added their lands have been taken and they are placed on soil where living is impossible.
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Roosevelts Safe Arrival in India to Kashgar
Dispatches say Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt of the James Simpson Field Museum expedition have arrived safely at Leh in the Indus valley and will proceed to Kashgar in eastern Turkestan. All members are well.
National Prohibition Enforcement Demanded by Presbyterian Assembly
In Topeka Kansas in June the United Presbyterian assembly pleaded that the federal government use all power to enforce prohibition. They urged Congress to depoliticize enforcement and act decisively to curb rum rebellion nationwide.
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Jardine Arrives in Ogden for Utah visit
Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine arrives in Ogden Utah for a morning breakfast reception and a visit to Logan for Utah Agricultural College commencement exercises and a farmers meeting. He plans a Idaho trip to the Targhee National Forest and will stay with Attorney J H Petersen’s family at Big Springs before continuing west.
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Norwegians to Send Planes to Search Arctic
Oslo reports the Norwegian government will dispatch two seaplanes aboard the Intertre to search the Arctic for the Amundsen Ellsworth expedition that departed Spitzbergen in May. Officials say Amundsen may travel on foot toward Cape Columbia or Spitzbergen if unable to return by air. Canada claims lands north of the dominion between Alaska and Greenland up to the pole, while offering to concede areas directly north of those regions and not claiming Wrangel Island.
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New Continent Dream Aims North Pole Expedition
Lieutenant Commander K F McDonald said the MacMillan expedition would carry American flags to stake a new continent for the United States as it explores lands north of Alaska toward the pole. Ottawa dispatch notes Canada claims the region the party may traverse. The goal includes testing belief in a vast unexplored land potentially about a million square miles in size.
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Robbery Suspected Motive For Train Derailment
In Oklahoma City a Santa Fe train No. 6 derailed on a forty foot embankment with no injuries. Malainen reported robbery as the believed motive but bandits fled as wrecking extent became clear. Three sleeping cars and one chair car left behind on damaged tracks. traffic interrupted.
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Federal trial in Minneapolis probes Lopez-Frazier shell shock testimony
Arthur Lopez-Frazier returns to federal court as his lawyers clash with objections over shell shock testimony by Mrs. Jensen. Prosecutors challenge the witness’s medical basis while Schall presses for veteran casualty claims and government compensation records. The case centers on whether Lopez-Frazier is the real Frazier or a Mexican impostor and features hospital confinement at Knoxville Iowa.
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Steamer St Paul Rescued After 12 Hour Aground
The steamer St Paul carrying 1,000 excursionists reached St Louis safely after aground on a Mississippi sand bar north of the city for over twelve hours. It was refloated with help from the steamer J S and harbor boat Erastus Wells.
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Shanghai Rioters Fire On American Units In Shanghai
Chinese student rioters directed fire from a street to the American volunteer corps in Shanghai injuring an American dentist Corporal Thomas G McMartin and killing his horse. Machine guns were used as American and allied forces exchanged fire guarding streets around Nanking Thibet road and the town hall with Sikh police. Italian American and British marines landed and were quartered ashore as demonstrations continued against workers at Japanese spinning mills.
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Funeral rites planned for Thomas R. Marshall
Washington remarks focused on the late wartime vice president Thomas R. Marshall after his death. A brief local service will precede the body’s return to Indiana where Mrs. Marshall will accompany the casket. Masons and the Scottish Rite will conduct ceremonies before interment at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, with final burial site choices to be made by Mrs. Marshall.
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