Parker defense in Senate criticizes Daugherty age claims
Senator Walsh charged Judge Parker lent himself to efforts to stigmatize the Wilson administration by fake war fraud prosecutions. Hebert defended Parker as impartial while noting 450 cases and 84 written opinions supporting liberal procedure. Fess cited UNC’s view of Parker as a top postwar graduate.
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Washington
Parker
Harry Daugherty
Wilson
Senate
Walsh
Montana
Supreme Bench
Hebert
Republican
Rhode Island
Rhode Islander
Fess
Ohio
University of North Carolina
Noecker Charged With Assault In Justice Court
Justice of the Peace W E Barber set tomorrow afternoon for a hearing in justice court for Charles Noecker on an assault charge. The complaining witness is Leen aya Johnson. The hearing stems from an altercation on the northeast corner of the square yesterday afternoon.
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Justice of the Peace
W. E. Barber
Justice Court
Charles Noecker
Leenaya. Johnson
French flyer forced down during Dakar flight attempt
Jean Mermoz, the French aviator intent on a South American crossing, began a seaplane voyage from the African coast toward Dakar at 5:15 a.m. but had to land at Perpignan on the Spanish border at 7:15 a.m. due to a leaky radiator forcing the emergency stop.
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Marseilles
France
Jean Mermoz
South America
Dakar
Senegal
Perpipran
Mermoz
Prison Mutiny Nears End As Guards Seal Ohio Penitentiary
Ohio state penitentiary ends a nine day revolt as National Guard units isolate convicts behind two barbed wire enclosures. An inspection uncovers two escape plots with a drilled hole, damaged walls, and twenty hidden steel lock pins. Warden P. E. Thomas marks 17 years in office amid a quiet, controlled scene.
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Columbus
Ohio State Penitentiary
National
White City
Robert Haubrich
National Guard
Haubrich
P. E Thomas
Children Killed in Iowa Highway Accidents
United Press reports multiple fatal and serious injuries among boys in Iowa traffic incidents last night. Dean Coffman ten Des Moines died after a bus ran him down near his home. Leo Pennington seven near Norwood died after being struck by a school bus. Robert Collenburg thirteen Des Moines critically injured when hit by a Fort Des Moines post car. Philip Darland eight Mason City broken leg after stepping into a turning car.
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United Press
Iowa
Dean M. Coffman
Moines
Leo Pennington
Wood
Norwood
Robert Collenburg
Des Moines
W. D. Striving
Fort Des Moines Army Post
Striving
Mason City
Philip Darland
Sigurd Olson
Olson
County Women Achieve Day Highlights Washington County
Washington county farm bureau women held Achievement Day with six townships exhibiting at city hall. Demonstrations covered pillows marking paper for accessories basket weaving and an accessories lesson. Afternoon talks by county and state leaders followed before judging with Clay and Jackson tied for first.
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Washington County Farm Bureau
City Hall
Pearl Dittmer
John Cherry
Walter S. Brown
Jackson Township
Ira Shafer
Clay Township
Roxie Longer
Franklin Township
English River Township
Washington
Brighton
C. O. Dayton
Dean Johnson
Brighton Township
Walter Talks
Lloyd Walker
Ellsworth Richardson
Albia
Joe H. Howes
Crawfordsville
State Farm Bureau
Harold Montgomery
Farm Bureau
Mary Gregg
Ames
Clay
Franklin
Company D of A to Hold Friday Evening Meeting
The Company D of A schedules a business meeting this Friday at 8 p.m. The notice lists venue details as 65t2 and invites all members to attend.
Radicals Hold Monster May Day Parades
Global May Day events ran without major violence though tensions rose. In London Hyde Park clashes left four fascists injured. New York police mobilized 10 000 as veterans and communists demonstrated at Union Square.
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London
Hyde Park
Europe
United States
Veterans of Foreign Wars
New York
Berlin
Balkans
Timor Sea
Darwin
Australia
Liberty Square
Japan
Paris
Police Department
Union Square
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Detroit
Chicago
Time Limit Near for Filing Papers for County Office
Nomination papers must be filed this week for county offices at the June 2 primary. Papers must reach the county auditor thirty days before the primary. township candidates have until twenty days prior. Sam T. Donahey seeks a Democratic board seat beginning 1932, circulating papers. incumbent R. E. Brown seeks renomination on the Republican ticket.
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Washington County
Sam T. Donahey
Board of Supervisors
Donahey
R. E. Brown
Evangelist Davidson Delivers Sermon at Local Church
Evangelist Davidson spoke at the Christian church urging believers to present their bodies as living sacrifices. Walter Little sang Beautiful Isle of Somewhere while a Kalona ladies quartet performed two numbers amid hopeful notes that the meetings are improving despite rain. Sunday is anticipated as a big day.
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Evangelist Davidson
The
Christian Church
Walter Little
Isle of Somewhere
Kalona
Candidate Hazlett Promotes Secretary of State Bid
John M. Hazlett of Mason City Iowa visited Washington last evening to campaign for the Secretary of State office. The former Lemars newspaper man now runs a printing business in Mason City and spoke informally with many local residents during his trip.
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John M. Hazlett
Mason City
Iowa
Hazlett
Lemars
Washington
Teachers Spend Summer in Travel
Several Washington teachers plan extensive summer travel. Harriett Barrett Amy Christian Leila Anderson will tour a 25 state and 2 Canadian province route by bus spanning about 6000 miles in seven weeks, visiting major sites from the Great Smoky Mountains to Niagara Falls. Althea Montgomery Boneta Larby join June 18 Quebec to tour Europe for about three months with the W A Pratt group via Cedar Rapids.
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Washington
United States
Europe
Harriett Barrett
Amy Christian
Leila Anderson
Atlantic
Canada
Chicago
Great Smoky Mountain
Tennessee
New York
Niargara Falls
Omaha
Althea Montgomery
Boneta Larby
Quebec
New Yorkers Begin to Take Prohibition Efforts Seriously
New York acts show growing seriousness about Prohibition as federal dry agents raid the New York Fraternity club. Campbell’s agents in collegiate disguise arrest five staffers and seize 101 bottles from club lockers, marking the first private club raid since the law took effect.
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New York
U.P
Manhattan
Campbell
Harvard
Ruth Hanna McCormick Denies Campaign Spendings
Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick told a senate inquiry she does not know her total campaign outlay for the Illinois Republican senatorial nomination. She submitted books showing 252 572 30 in town expenses, arguing much may not be campaign spending. The committee heard figures from Senator Deneen’s campaign manager and others amid private letters alleging large expenditures.
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Washington
U.R
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Senate
Ilinois Republian
Deneen
Republian
Tlinois
McCormick
Roy O. West
Illinois
Tllinois
Frans Smith
Samuel Insull
County High School Pupils Guest at Junior College Play
Washington county senior class students will attend a play staged by collegians tonight and tomorrow at the high school. Ainsworth Kalona are guests this evening while Crawfordsville Cotter and Pleasant Plain seniors join Friday. Brighton Wellman may attend Friday. all county seniors were invited.
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Washington County
Collegians
Ainsworth
Kalona
Crawfordsville
Cotter
Pleasant Plain
Brighton and
Wellman
Harland Mead
Hi Y Club Elects Officers for Coming Year
William Shannon was elected president Donald Welch vice president Gene Thomas secretary and Sherm Watson treasurer of the Washington Hi Y club at the annual election held yesterday. Officers to be installed at Mothers Night dinner next Wednesday May 7 serving one year. Luncheon served yesterday by Mrs. Julius Enslin Mrs FE E Stutsman and Mrs Will Jones.
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William Shannon
Donald Welch
Gene Thomas
Sherm Watson
Washington
Extraordinary infant born with four hands and faces
A child born in Olmütz Czecho Slovakia lived only an hour. The infant had four hands four feet two faces on one head and two hearts. The body is preserved in the Olmütz medical museum.
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Olmuetz
Czecho-Slovakia
Olmuetz Medical Museum
Viennese Locksmith’s Suicide Attempt Ends In Injury
Adolph Schuler, a Vienna locksmith, attempted suicide by hanging but the rope broke. He survived the attempt and was found later in a hospital with bandages around an ear. The incident leaves him with a cauliflower ear risk.
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Vienna
Adolph Schuler
Franz
Brooklyn nightclub raid yields first arrest by hip lack toters
A Friday night police raid at a Brooklyn nightclub led to the first arrest by hip lack toters, marking a notable security intervention in the area.
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Brooklyn
Hiplack Toters
Keokuk City Grows as English River Districts Shrink
Des Moines reports the 1930 census shows Keokuk gained over five hundred residents to 15,092, while several Iowa townships and towns in the Third District saw declines from 1920. Other cities listed include Sac City, Grundy Center, and Denison with varying changes. Some townships like Otranto and Kalona show notable decreases, while Madison Township near Fort Madison shows a separate tally.
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Des Moines
U.P
Keokuk
Iowa City
Towa
Sac City
Grinnell
Grundy Center
Denison
Makee Township
Winneshiek County
Pluffton
Volga City
Clayton County
Kensett Town
Worth County
Otranto Township
Mitchell County
Madison Township
Fort Madison
Lee County
English River Township
Kalona
Washington County
State highway to pave No 161 from Ainsworth to Olds this year
C Coykendall administration engineer confirms the state highway commission plans to pave No 161 from Ainsworth south to Olds during the 1930 season with paving to begin in May. The project will be funded partly from the primary road fund as Henry county bonds are exhausted and Washington county bonds are insufficient.
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State Highway Commission
Ainsworth
Olds
Journal Today
C. Coykendall
Commission
No. 161
Washington
Coykendall
Mt. Pleasant
Burlington
Keokuk
Crawfordsville
Riverside
Henry County
Washington County
Fifty Youngsters Get Kodaks Today
Washington county children who turn twelve this year lined up at Phillips & Hebner drug store at 6 30 this morning to receive Kodak cameras. The Eastman Kodak company distributed several thousand Kodaks nationwide for its 50th anniversary with fifty sent to this store. The gifts were exhausted before noon and many hopeful children were turned away.
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Washington County
Phillips & Hebner Drug Store
Eastman Kodak Company
Early Hearing Sought on London Naval Treaty ratification
President Hoover forwards the London naval treaty to the Senate with expectations of rapid ratification. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Borah moves to expedite hearings, privately if needed, while Naval Affairs panels note possible technical discussions.
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Washington
Hoover
Senate
Stimson
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
London
Foreign Relations Committee
Naval Affairs Committee
Naval Committee
Britten
Illinois
House
United States
French Republic
Great Britain
Ireland
India
Italy
Japan
Funeral of Mrs. Louisa Nichols
Funeral services for Mrs. Louisa Nichols were held at 10 30 yesterday morning at L A Jones funeral home with Rev A W Hienke officiating. Burial followed at Elm Grove cemetery. Pallbearers included Harry McCall Fred Bey Lloyd Lytle Charles Blair Dill Boileau and B G Fox. Eastern Star and Women’s Relief Corps members attended and the Eastern Star led the grave service.
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Louisa Nichols
L. A
Washington Masons Open Bids for New Temple
The Washington Masons set May 6 to open bids on a new temple replacing the January 19 fire damaged building. Architect plans are in, with estimated cost around 60 000 dollars. The finance committee led by HK Hammer continues fund raising and will soon start selling interest bearing bonds to cover the rest.
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Building Committee of
Washington Masons
Masonic Temple
J. E. Ream
Finance Com
Mittee
HK. B. Hammer
Order
Hammer
Washington
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Fairfield
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Shanghai
Ahey
Ruth
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English River
Whree
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