Denby Refused Testimony in Sinclair Teapot Dome Case
Justice Jennings Bailey rejected Edwin Denby former secretary of the navy testimony in the Sinclair conspiracy trial over Teapot Dome moves. Denby had been prepared to say he arranged the Teapot Dome lease under navy defense policy but was barred from answering that point. The ruling marked a setback for the defense as Denby exited the case and cross examination turned to Sinclair associates and related oil deals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jennings Bailey
Edwin Denby
Secretary of Navy
Harry F. Sinclair
Sinclair
Denby
Teapot Dome
Navy
National Defense
Interior
A. B. Fall
E. I. Doheny
United States
Flk Hills
Phil” Ball
St. Louis
Sinclair Oil Companies
Owen J. Roberts
Continental Trading Company
Light discussion illuminates Y's Men meeting
The Y's Men Club heard Dr. Cloyce Kerr discuss light and its therapeutic uses. He demonstrated car bon lights and explained how blue light may offer superior healing effects, noting different rays affect the human body differently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Altho
iMen
Cloyce Kerr
Kerr
Hammill Attacked Over Road Bond Issue by Farm Union Leader
Milo Reno, president of the Iowa Farmers Union, accuses Governor Hammill of exploiting farm relief politics. He cites Washington remarks to curry favor with administration readers and claims Hammill privately hindered farm bill passage while publicly endorsing relief. Reno says Hammill referenced a 22-member committee from a Des Moines conference as an achievement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Hammill
Milo Reno
Iowa Farmers Union
National Capitol
Washington
Reno
Committee of 22
Indomitable Bremen Flight Crosses Atlantic to Safety
The Bremen crew Maj James Fitzmaurice Captain Hermann Koeh and Baron Gunther von Huenefeld completed a 36 hour Atlantic crossing in brutal conditions. After fog sleet and gale damaged the plane they guided a landing on ice near a lighthouse where Greta Ferris aided them and the trio survived on biscuits and milk.
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ST. Johns
N. F
Atlantic
Maj
James Fitzmaurice
Hermann Koeh
Baron Gunther von Huenefeld
North Pole
Greta Ferris
Grenfell
Iowa crops damaged by extreme cold hit oats hard
Des Moines reports say oats, Iowa's second largest crop, faces its worst damage since 1921. Severe rains snows and freezes slowed growth, with northeast counties hardest hit as oats were in early germination. Warmer weather needed to assess losses and allow reseeding while corn plans stall.
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Des Moines
Ilowa
Charles D. Reed
Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau
Reed
Mrs N S Miller Dies at Fairfield
Mrs N S Miller age 86 of Fairfield died at her home yesterday afternoon. She leaves five daughters and three sons including Mrs Geo McDaniel of Washington and E W Miller of Reno Nevada. Funeral services will be held tomorrow at two in Fairfield with burial at Antioch cemetery east of Fairfield.
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N. S. Miller
George McDaniel
Charles Benz
Fairfield
Washington
Dan Tygret
Fred Mather
Nell Smith
Muscatine
E. W. Miller
Reno
Nevada
Ed Miller
Antioch Cemetery
Japanese Homes Destroyed by Fire in Hirosaki
One thousand homes were destroyed by fire in Hirosaki Japan on April 18 as the blaze swept through the city. Esther Hanley and Florence Swartz left last evening for Chicago.
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Hirosaki
Japan
Esther Hanley
Florence Swartz
Chicago
Threaten Boycott In Iowa City Fight to Retain Air Field
Iowa City merchants threaten a virtual boycott of Cedar Rapids wholesalers over a dispute about the trans continental air mail airport. More than 100 merchants attended a Merchants bureau meeting and formed a committee to contact Cedar Rapids businessmen. Some merchants have already ceased purchasing from Cedar Rapids wholesalers.
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Iowa City
Air Field
Cedar Rapids
Merchant’s Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids Whoesalers
Rural school exhibit widens window display plan
The rural school exhibit in Be'ter Washington grows beyond the initial fourteen windows as nearly every store offers space. President J W Enslin and county superintendent Winnie Palmer expect a larger, countywide display across town, to be shown the last four days of next week.
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J. W. Enslin
Be'ter Washington Club
Winnie Palmer
Enslin
Washington
Junior High Student Found Dead In Ames Home
Margaret Bence, 15, a junior high student, was found dead in her Ames home. Her father Lester Bence, 42, is in serious condition from inhaling fumes from a gas heater left burning in the bathroom all night. Books lay scattered as if she had been studying. the door and window were closed.
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Ames
Iia
Margaret Bence
Lester Bence
Lindbergh Returns to St Louis After Flight
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh arrived in St Louis with former backers H M Bixby and H H Knight. He completed the last leg of his San Diego to St Louis trip and parked his new plane in a hangar, declining to discuss future plans.
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ST Louis
Charles A. Lindbergh
H. M. Bixby
H. H. Knight
San Diego
Easter Vacation Pause Ends for Returning Workers
After spending their Easter vacation here, workers prepare to resume their tasks. The return signals a shift back to regular operations and ongoing projects.
Four Children Die in West Virginia House Fire
In Sistersville West Virginia a gas explosion from a faulty stove hose sparked a blaze that killed four Denton Tennant children Brooks 10 Vonda Bell 8 Garnet 7 and Betty Lee 3 and injured Hattie 28 and Dennie 17. The fire started as gas leaked from a defective connection and lit by a lamp.
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Sisterville
W. Va
Denton
Brooks
Vonda Bell
Garnet
Betty Lee
Denton Tennant
Hattie Tennant
Dennie Tennant
Junior College Inspected Again by Iowa Officials
Deputy state superintendent Fred L. Mahannah led a second inspection of the Washington junior college, with Prof. C. S. Corey and Dr. Forest Ensign previously visiting. They will decide on accrediting the state junior colleges and praised the Washington campus in its first year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred L. Mahannah
Washington
C. S. Corey
Iowa State Teachers College
Forest Ensign
State University of Iowa
Mahannah
Junkers Plane Hops Off for New York to Secure New Propeller for the Bremen
CHICANO April 18. Jack McGurn, former Capone lieutenant and north side leader, narrowly escaped a kill squad in a gunfight last night. It was the second assassination attempt in six weeks, with renewed underworld warfare feared by police. McGurn was uninjured though his car was riddled with bullets.
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Junkers
New York
Bremen
Jack McGurn
North Side
al Capone
McGurn
Birger Awaiting Death by Hanging in Illinois
Charlie Birger, southern Illinois gang lord, faces execution after a sanity hearing upheld his death sentence. A jury found him sane, ending last minute pleas to delay the hanging set for 10 a.m. tomorrow. Birger was convicted of hiring henchmen to attack West City Mayor Joe Adams amid a bootlegging war with the Shelton faction.
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Benton
Ill
Charlie Birger
Birger
Maurice McGleason
Charles Miller
Robert BE. Smith
Harry
Elmo Thomasson
Aseassville
Joe Adams
West City
Carl
Karl
Bernie Shelton
Adams
Shelton
Supreme Court
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Mrs. Ferguson Dies at Argyle New York
Funeral services are noted for Mrs. Cather Ferguson in Argyle New York. The clipping references settlement terms with a contractor and city payment of the remaining balance.
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Cather
Tribute to Margaret Sterling in a Flower Imagery Poem
A sentimental tribute portrays Margaret Sterling as a rose whose fragrance and beauty comfort others. The speaker likens her life to a rosebud and describes a spiritual journey led by the Master to a heavenly rest. The poem closes with enduring fragrance and consolation from her memory.
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Margaret
Fires Before Troy Lit by Trojan Camp
Fragmentary verse describes fires along the plain before Troy, the Trojan camp with fires idle, many fires burning as guards and horses stand by chariots, men seated by each blaze in a dawn-lit scene. The passage evokes epic imagery from Iliad Book five.
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Xanthus
Troy
Airship plans drift amid rescue flight chaos across Atlantic
Montreal reports Junkers plane from New York to Greenly Island for German fliers aid. Melchior and Junkers aboard plan propeller change before return. Fitzmaurice and Schiller depart Seven Islands for Murray Bay as ice cutter Montcalm fails to reach Greenly Island.
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Montreal
Junkers
New York
Greenly Island
Hubris Aidrome
Herr Melchior
RB. Junkers
Fraulein Herta Junkers
Murray Bay
Mijor Fitzmaurice
Melchior
Bremen
Canada
New York-Greenly Island
Fitzmaurice
Que
James KE. Fitzmaurice
C. A. Schiller
Montcalm
Straits of
Belle Isle
Sydney
N. S
Quebec
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Sinclair Case
J. K. Robison
Y’s
Albert Gleaves
Farm Union
United Press
North
Mitchel Field
S. 1
Dublin
Col
Paris
Nature
Forest City
Iel and
Mrs. Benz OF
Lindbergh
Washington Junior College
Iowa
Mason City
Burlington
Fort Dodge
Red Oak
Jarinda
Waukon
Estherville
Creston
Sheldon
Webster City
Boone
Britt
Maquoketa
Marshalltown
Tipton
Cresco
Albia
Chariton
Osceola
Pocahontas
Independence
Bloomfield
Farlham
Clarion
Hagle Grove
Town Falls
Washington High School
Mond Rich and
Wilburt Graber
Margaret Sterling
Abe Martin
Cutter
Tlemen
Clarke City
Irish Free State Air Force
Paldonnel
Fitzmanrive
North American
Tie
Duke Schiller
Natashquan
Baldonnel
Hinchlifve
Elsie Mackay
Ocean
Canadian
Labrador
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