Iowa News Briefs Roundup of Crimes and Incidents Across Counties
Des Moines reports murder trial for Clarence Campbell in the Harris liquor war, with potential death penalty. Rock Rapids records a train crash killing Frank Shatek and injuring Oscar Tyler near a crossroad. Elma notes a three year old boy fatally struck by a corn binder. Council Bluffs considers a $400 bond issue for a non toll bridge to Omaha. Grant reports Farmers State Bank closed with about $100,000 deposits. Shenandoah cites Malta fever as cause of Keith Burton’s death. Describes September Supreme Court term opening with 21 rehearings and 41 district cases. Council Bluffs hosts police chiefs from about 400 Iowa cities for a three day convention. Cedar Rapids recounts a teen's tale of a Ford car tied to bootleggers. Dubuque reports gunshot injuries to William Riniker. investigation unclear.
Harness Indicted for First Degree Murder in Iowa Case
Keokuk September 17 Charles Harness charged with killing William Carr last May was indicted for first degree murder by the grand jury in district court Harness said Carr had insulted his wife Wave Press Bedford September 17 Howard Towle and Leonard Rine of
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William Carr
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Carr
Wave Press
Bedford
Howard Towle
Leonard Rine
Sky Hawk to Open at Graham Theatre Thursday
Fox Movietone all talking feature Sky Hawk will be shown at the Graham Theatre Thursday. Director John G Blystone announces the search for genuine British wartime planes to stage authentic flying sequences with Captain Sterling Campbell, a noted American flyer and Royal Air Corps ace, aiding the production.
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Fox Movietone
John G. Blystone
Graham Theatre
Sterling Campbell
Royal Corps
Boulder Dam Construction to Begin Today in Nevada
Secretary Ray Wilbur will start Boulder Dam work with a spike ceremony seven miles south of Las Vegas at the Union Pacific line branch. The $165 million project will run eight years with continuous work. governors, senators, and representatives from six basin states will attend. Arizona declines to participate.
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New
Ray Lythen Wilbur
Boulder Dam
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Key Spittman
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Progam
Union Pacific
California
New Mexico
Utah
Colorado
John C. Philips
Arizona
Hiram Johnson
Phil D. Swing
Bodies Arrive of Third Explorer Knut Fraenkel
A ship returning from White Island arrived in Skogvik Norway carrying what is believed to be the remains of Knut Fraenkel the third member of the Andree expedition lost on the 1897 North Pole flight. The vessel also carried the body of Solomon August Andree and notes by Nils Strindberg.
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I Tsbrosrn
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Andi Joon
North Pole
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Fox Studio
John Garrick
Helen Chandler
Gilbert Emery
Lennox Pawle
Lumsden Hare
Billy Bevan
Daphne Pollard
Joyce Compton
Speed at the Pon Brings Hollywood Comedy to Fox
A speedboat caper features John E Brown and Jack Whiting as clerks in a comic tale where Jack is rumored a multimillionaire and race winner. Senator Clare Pernice pursues a yacht contest while a bribe tempts a rival pilot, with Laure Lee and Frank McHugh delivering acclaimed performances at the Fox.
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Bernice Claire
Laura Lee
Frank McHugh
Jack Whiting
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New York Stock Exchange
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Laure Lee
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Atlantic voyage ends after 88 foot boat crosses Ocean
Prof Henry Blay and family arrived after sailing from Mass July 12 aboard the Evalu. The 88 foot boat crossed the Atlantic in 67 days via the Azores. A shark nearly capsized the vessel but was repelled with an iron rod.
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Rarat
Morocco
Henry Blay
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Azores
Blanco
Mass
Evalu
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Daughte
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Grain Stabilization back of loans to fund wheat relief
Washington reports the Grain Stabilization Corporation will repay about 29 million dollars to the Farm Board’s revolving fund. The stabilizer had advanced funds to hold wheat above one dollar a bushel, with 60 to 65.9 million bushels purchased earlier at 1 to 1.15 dollars. The Farm Board holds uncommitted and committed sums and may seek further congressional appropriation next December.
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United States Treasury
Duration Corporation
Federal Farm Board
Farm Board
Grain Stabstition Corporation
Ice
Stone
Grain Stabilization Corpor
Stabilization Corporation
Congress
Wet plank shapes party stand against alcohol sales
Marvel allied with Bayard amidst defeat to back a wet plank. Pierced and Irene Du Pont endorsed Bayard while Col. John P. Lefevre of Dover, a wet, was named for corn areas. The plank calls to return manufacturing and sale of liquor to individual rates and repeal the Blair law restricting physician prescriptions to patients.
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Ater Nis
Bayard
Pierce
Irene du Pont
John P. Lefevre
Dover
Nominate Boyard for Senatership
Dover Del September 17 A split in Delaware Democrats seemed likely after former Senator Thomas F Bayard was nominated for the United States Senate at the state convention on a wet platform Marvel president of the American Tar association opposed the selection casting a shadow over the final ballot
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Delaware
Thomas F. Bayard
United States Senate
Bayard
Marvel
American Tar Association
Oklahoma swimmer continues Mississippi River bid to New Orleans
Fred Newton of Clinton Oklahoma, with brother Byron in a rowboat, swam the Mississippi to Memphis after starting in Minneapolis. The pair aim to raise funds to buy a home for their mother and intend to finish near October.
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Fred Newton
Clinton
Okla
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Minneapolis
Fred
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