Receiver Named for Major Packing Firm in New Jersey
Trenton witnesses the appointment of a receiver for Wilson and Company Inc a leading Chicago packing house Maurice I Klein of Newark filed the insolvency complaint Judge Backer as acting vice chancellor named Edward Maxson state Banking Commissioner as temporary receiver The firm reportedly owes nearly 30 million to banks with a funded debt around 47 million Chicago firm Wilwaem pany Inc in Chicago also heard of the action though details were not confirmed.
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New Jersey
Trenton
N. J
Wilson and Company, Inc
Maurice I. Klein
Newark
John H. Backer
Edward Maxson
Kiecin
Chicago
Wilwaempany, Inc
Thomas E. Wilson
New York City
Plans by La Follette Wheeler leaders
Washington notices that leading supporters of the La Follette Wheeler ticket prepared to implement the national executive committee's decisions. The southern campaign program was outlined for Senator Wheeler, but not announced. The committee agreed to leave endorsement of congressional or state candidacies to the candidates themselves and divested itself of local intervention power.
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Washington
la Follette - Wheeler
National Executive Committee
Southern Territory
Wheeler
Farm rally AFB chief casts doubt on big price windfall
O E Bradfute of the American Farm Federation told a state fair rally that estimates of a two billion dollar gain from higher agricultural prices are greatly exaggerated. He said farmers may net about a quarter billion with most income likely to pay debts and back taxes.
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Associated Press
Moiids
O. E. Bradfute
American Farm Federation
Farm Bureau
Bureau
Bradfute
Additional Dope On Mars Lacking Says Scientist
CHICAGO August 25 Scientists report no new discoveries about Mars from current observations. Prof Edwin B Frost of the University of Chicago and director of Yerkes Observatory says light water and vapor findings confirm earlier results. No evidence of life beyond a possible fungal growth is found and no new information about Mars or its satellites is obtained.
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Chicago
Mars
Edwin B. Frost
University of Chicago
Yerkes Observatory
University At Williams Bay
Wisconsin
Frost
Peace prize plans pour in as Herman award may go to winner
In Augusta Maine on August 25 1927 over 5000 essays were submitted for Raphael Hermans 25000 education peace prize. The commission met at Castine this week to choose a winner with Dr R T Milliken Nobel Prize winner in Physics among attendees.
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Augusta
Raphael Herman
Washington
D. C
Los Angeles
Commission of Awards
Castine
R. T. Milliken
Institute of Technology
Pasadena
Dawes to Confer With Mr Coolidge in Plymouth
Charles G Dawes Republican candidate for vice president left Boston for Plymouth Vermont to confer with President Coolidge on an invitation. It was not known whether the Ku Klux Klan would be discussed. Dawes and his party said his decision yesterday did not relate to his Augusta Klan address. He is due in Ludlow Vermont at 1 pm and will lunch with President and Mrs Coolidge.
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Associated Press
Boston
Mass
Coolidge
Charles G. Dawes
Plymouth
Vermont
Dawes
Augusta
Ludlow
Children Drowned Before Parents Eyes
In Tacoma Washington Billy Jones eight and Frank Jones fifteen sons of Mr and Mrs Charles Jones drowned yesterday when their canoe overturned on a lake before their parents. C W Startsman arrived Saturday from Philadelphia and is a popular figure in town. His daughter Betty has been away from him for a month and the Hull girls had not seen him for a year.
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Tacoma
Wash
Billy Jones
Frank Jones
Charles Jones
C. W. Startsman
Philadelphia
Betty
Montoa
Hull
Farm income expected to fall nationwide says Bradfute
Mr Bradfute laments decreased farm income this year noting the middle west will see lower earnings than last year. He criticizes Congress for not passing McNary Haugen while arguing reforms are only beginning. He says higher prices will do little for Iowa farmers despite a bureau estimate of about one percent income gain.
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Bradfute
Middle-West
Congress
Iowa
Towa
Bureau of the
Town Farm Bureau Federation
Agriculture on Trial for Life at Iowa State Fair
George N. Peek president of the American Council of Agriculture warned that American agriculture is on trial for its life after the McNary Haugen farm relief bill defeat. He urged organized action to secure farm relief and equal standing with industry and labor, outlining two paths: repeal protections for others or organize agriculture to export surpluses at world prices.
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The
Associated Press
Les
George N. Peek
American Council of Agriculture
McNary- Haugen
Farm Bureau Day Assembly
Iowa State Fair
Peek
Congress
Davis Will Speak Extemporaneously in Columbus Ohio
LOCUST VALLEY N Y Aug 25 John W Davis will deliver the first extemporaneous speech of his campaign at the Democratic state convention in Columbus Ohio He will not pre prepare his address and will speak to outline the principal issues separating his party from the Republicans He departs for Columbus this afternoon and returns Wednesday before heading west on a first extended speaking tour Also New York Aug 25 Edmund H Moore Ohio Democratic national committeeman says Dawes has not clearly opposed the Ku Klux Klan despite partial criticism
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Locust Valley
N. Y
John W. Davis
Columbus
Ohio
Davis
West
New York
Edmund H. Moore
Charles G. Dawes
Maine
General Dawes
Grinnell honors Washington boy as scholar
Eugene Breitenbach of Washington is named a Grinnell scholar by Grinnell college for last year. The award honors scholastic achievement based on a point system where A hours earn five points B hours three points and C hours two points. A minimum of 135 points in a year qualifies.
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Grinnell
Eugene Breitenbach
Washington
Grinnell College
Iowa Man Killed by Oil Truck Near Mount Carroll
Cedar Rapids Aug 25. Robert C. Lary of Cedar Rapids was killed late Saturday near Mount Carroll Illinois when struck by an oil truck. Lary, driving a truck, dropped a tool and while bending to retrieve it did not see the truck behind him. He was crushed as the wheels passed over his head.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert C. Lary
Mount Carroll
Lil
Lary
Council Seeks Extraordinary Commission On Agriculture
A city council urged President Coolidge to appoint an extraordinary commission to study agricultural needs and propose concrete remedial measures. The request underscores ongoing concerns in farming policy and rural relief.
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Peek
Coolidge
State Legion Convention Opens in Ottumwa Amid Preparations
Ottumwa hosts the fifth annual Iowa American Legion convention as delegates from across the state arrive. Judge Landis attends and plans to throw the first ball at the Waterloo Ottumwa Mississippi Valley league game and later speaks at a country club banquet. Delegates from Des Moines Ames Cedar Rapids and other towns bring post bands and local cavalry music to the event.
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Department of Iown
Landis
Kenesaw M. Landis
Ottumwa Country Club
Legion
Des Moines
Polk
Argonne Post
Col. H. H. Polk
Glenn Haynes
Legion Home
Ames
Chamber of Commerce
Hanford
Cedar Rapids
Bloomfield
Darrow Pleads For Youths In Leopold Loeb Case
Clarence Darrow, chief counsel for Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, concludes a three day mercy plea before Chief Justice John R. Caverly. He argues heredity and environment shaped the youths and urges saving them from hanging. He cites St Paul and notes limits of human knowledge.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Clarence
Darrow
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
John R. Caverly
The
Criminal Court
Hlinde
Drag the River for Drowned Boy's Body
Iowa City searchers resumed dragging the Iowa River after a boy, Clifford Wortman aged 14, drowned yesterday afternoon while riding with a companion near Lover's Leap. Officials fear his body may have been swept over Coralville dam mile below the cliff.
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Iowa City
Clifford Wortman
Iowa River
Coralville
Lover's Leap
John Henderson
Wortman
Admiral Stark Leads Russian Refugees to France
Admiral Stark who arrived in Manila in 1923 led a unit of about 6,000 refugees fleeing czarist rule from Vladivostok. He departed for France via the Suez Canal, while a dozen companions headed to Shanghai. Forty refugees remain near the U S naval station at Olongapo with aid from Red Cross.
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Manila
Admiral Stark
Vladivostok
France
Suez Canal
Shanghai
United States Naval Station
Olongapo
Red Cross
United States
San Francisco
United States Army
Merritt
Four Clinton county youths accused in 1922 store murder
Haod Dannatt 18 confessed to a county jail arrest for the Low Moor store killings of Homer and wife Brownfield on November 3 1922. He said he recruited Arnold and Clarence Dierks and Harold Scoop Smith to plan a robbery. Dannatt claimed $300 to $400 was taken and burned in a backyard. The Dierks brothers and Smith deny the accusations.
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Clinton
Clinton County
Homer Brownfield
Low Moor Cross Roads
Lincoln Highway
Haod Dannatt
Floyd Dannatt
Brownfield
Arnold Dierks
John Dierks
Clarence Dieeks
Arnold
Harold
Scoop Smith
Low Moor Corners
Dannatt
Smith
Dierks
Workman Hurts Foot At Y.M.C.A. Building
Mel Loven of Decorah Iowa a carpenter on the new Y M C A building sustained a serious foot injury when an I beam slipped crushing his foot Two small foot bones were broken and the underside flesh was burst open The physician says the injury is painful but unlikely to cause lasting effects
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Mel Loven
Decorah
Iowa
Cotton Prices Fall 107 Points on Opening Call
By The Associated Press New York August 25 Cotton prices dropped sharply at the opening as Traders reacted to a bearish government report and a Liverpool market drop. October futures fell to 24.45 at the low.
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Associated Press
New York
Liverpool
Young to Lead Dawes Plan Three Months in Paris
Paris Aug 25 Owen D Young of New York will serve temporarily as agent general under the Dawes reparation plan to organize staff and groom a permanent successor Seymour Parker Gilbert Jr is mentioned for the post but not yet decided The Dawes plan remains operative only in initial form pending ratification by France and Germany and signatures by negotiators The French senate vote is expected soon while the Reichstag session may run into next week Berlin Hergt German National Party leader condemned the agreement and pledged to oppose all bills to implement it
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Associated Pi
Paris
Owen D. Young
New York
Dawes
Rufus CC. Dawes
Henry M. Robertson
Young
Seymour Parker Gilbert Jr
the Treasury
Logan
Reparation Commission
James A. Logan, Jr
Rufus Dawes
Robingson
Germany
Berlin
Hergt
Reichstag
Woman Wins Fight for Texas Governor Nomination
Mrs. Miram A. Ferguson of Temple won the Democratic nomination for Texas governor after Saturdays run off with a margin above 80,000 votes over Felix Robertson of Dallas who was backed by the Ku Klux Klan. Election bureau counts from 230 of 252 counties showed Ferguson with 403 060 to 24 297 for Robertson as of complete counties. Ferguson received a congratulatory telegram from Robertson.
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Associated Press
Dallas
Texas
Miram A. Ferguson
Temple
James E. Ferguson
Felix D. Robertson
Texas Election Bureau
Ferguson
Robertson
France Hit by Severe Thunderstorms and Hail
Paris reports a sequence of violent thunderstorms with hail across France during a record summer week. Vineyards endured significant damage as weather records note the meteorological impact. Mrs. Ethel Mormeester departed Chicago-bound after a four week visit home.
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Paris
France
Ethel, Mormeester
Chicago
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