Bremen Plane Still Missing Over Atlantic Sighting Fails
Reports and sightings from Nova Scotia to New York failed to confirm the Bremen trans Atlantic monoplane’s fate as authorities and crowds watch the coast of Maine and Boston area. Officials fear the Bremen is lost while hopeful crews and families await a landing until further word arrives.
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Annapolis
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Canadian National Telegraph
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Mitchel Field
Herta Junkers
International News Service
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Germany
Reichsrundfunk Gesellschaft
Berlin
Costello
Galway
Ireland
Atlantic
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Baldonnel
Dublin
Mitchelfeld
Irish Free State
Junkers
In the Spotlight and Town News Across Iowa
A mix of early 20th century brief items: lack of confirmed Bremen sighting and rumor spread. Iowa artist Tisa Niemack’s return concert in Charles City lauded. Arbor Day proclaimed in Town with forest education and outdoor manners urged. Also notes on Kellogg Briand antiwar talks, McNary Haugen bill vote, tuberculosis education drive, and Charlie Birger insanity hearing with French aviators reaching Athens.
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Iowa
Tisa Niemack
Charles City
Yowa
Leopold Auer
Floyd County
Mason City
Civic Department
Waterloo Woman's Day
Valero
National Tuberculosis Association
U S Invites Major Powers To World War Renunciation Pact
Washington April 13 Secretary Kellogg invited Great Britain Germany Italy and Japan to join France and the United States in negotiating a worldwide multilateral treaty renouncing war. He submitted a draft and urged prompt consideration while noting Briand’s equal interest in abolishing war.
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D. C
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Landat
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Tokio
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Locarno
Memorial Union payments steady for Iowa State project
Secretary H E Pride said pledges for the million dollar Memorial Union building at Iowa State College have been paid steadily over the past ten days. The executive committee hopes construction continues with interior furnishings being considered. If funds hold, the initial two thirds of the building could be ready for occupancy in September.
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Ames
Memorial Union
Towa State College
H. E. Pride
Totay
Men Who Are Making Waterloo By Bruce E Griggs
A Waterloo fire in 1891 destroyed the Rath plant but led to The Rath Packing companys rise. D W Rath and E F Rath guided growth from a $25 startup to a major employer with about 1900 workers, most in Waterloo, supporting local merchants and a broader Iowa corn belt network.
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Bruce E. Griggs
Dubuque
George Rath & Son
Rath
Waterloo
Iowa Corn Belt
D. W. Rath
E. F. Rath
Chamber proposes prewar tax base reduction plan
Felix M. McWhirter of the United States Chamber of Commerce urged the Senate Finance Committee to cut corporate tax to 10 percent, repeal remaining war excise taxes and repeal the federal inheritance tax. He said the revenue bill passed by the House on December 14 remains on the committee as of April.
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Washington, D
U.P
Felix M. McWhirter
Indianapolis
United States Chamber of Commerce
Senate Finance Committee
McWhirter
House
Senate
Chamber of Commerce
Reed Claims Mellon Planted by Bankers in Debt Deals
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri charged in South Bend Indiana that Will Hays Harry F Sinclair used the cabinet as a fence to unload liberty bonds to pay Republican debts. He called Andrew W Mellon in the treasury criminal and blamed Morgan bankers for pushing debt relief ideas abroad.
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Will Hays
Harry F. Sinclair
Coolidge
James A. Reed
Missouri
Reed
Treasury
Andrew W. Mellon
Mellon
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England
France
Italy
Courier delivery by 5 30 possible deadline notice
Notice informs subscribers the Courier will be delivered before 5 30 each day. If an error delays it the carrier will send a copy and readers should call the office before 6 18 pm to arrange replacement.
Friday the Thirteenth Tales From Local Residents
In a series of brief recollections William A. Cook and E D Potter describe buying land in Lawton Oklahoma and creating Mountain View addition with no profit in five years. John W Gwynne recalls never fearing the date and an Ireland Belfast wartime hostel stay with the number 13.
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Jay Moncrief
Winfield, Kan
E. D. Potter
Denver
Cole
Ind
Lawton
Okla
William A. Cook
Mountain View
John W. Gwynne
Belfast
Ireland
Tne
Authorities fail to find bombers in Milan blast
Milan Italy April 13 authorities report 16 dead and at least 10 of 40 injured from yesterday's bomb explosion that narrowly missed King Victor Emmanuel. Despite many arrests no clear suspects emerged and officials suspect anti fascist leaders in France and Switzerland. A funeral will be funded and a victims families' relief fund has reached a million.
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Milan
Italy
Victor Emmanuel
France
Switserland
Heflin accuses Smith fund of corruption in campaign speech
Washington April 13. Senator Heflin charges in a senate speech that the Al Smith campaign fund is corrupt and used secretly and insidiously in Oklahoma and Texas. He also accuses the Smith crowd of evading campaign expenditures while noting support from the Iowa primary.
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D. C
Senator Heflin
Alabama
al Smith
Oklahoma
Heltin
Smith
Jimmy Walker
Steck
Iowa
Heflin
Denial of Murder Charges Patchwork Injunction Case Ends
In Pittsburgh federal court on April 13, Hiram W. Evans denied most charges against him and the Ku Klux Klan in a bid to restrain five former members. Judge Thomson dismissed the injunction with costs to the plaintiff. Barrickman hurled courtroom accusations, calling Evans the human gorilla of America dripping with murder blood.
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Thomson
Niram W. Evans
Imperial Wine Aid
Klan
U.R
Ku Kins Klan
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Imperial Wield
Evans
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R. L. Dadisman
Dayton, O
W. G. Stemnley
Philadelphia
van A. Barrickman
Barrickman
Sam D. Rich
Pennsylvania Klan
Rich
Blizzard Wrecks Emmetsburg Snowstorm Deluge
A heavy April blizzard drenches Emmetsburg with two inches of snow since morning. The storm shows no sign of abating as people brace for continued wintry weather.
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Emmetsburg
American Tourists Injured In Mount Errigal Landslide
Numerous American tourists were hurt when tons of rubbish and boulders slid down Mount Errigal in County Donegal as they approached the summit. The incident occurred near Dublin, Irish Free State, on April 13 as the party neared the top.
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Irish Free State
Mount Errigal
County
Donegal
Politicians Named in Kentucky Graft Indictments
Franklin county grand jury returns indictments charging W. H. Shanks former state auditor J T Embry former fire prevention official and Robert T Crowe Democratic governor candidate with fraud. Maurice Galvin Covington Republican and Red Roberts Centre College football star among 20 indicted lobbyists from the 1928 session. Felony penalties apply to all counts.
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W. H. Shanks
J. T. Embry
Robert T. Crowe
Maurice Galvin
Covington
Red Roberts
Centre College
Franklin County
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Embry
Crowe
Galvin
Roberts
Grand Jury
Guthrie Center Man Nominated in W R Green Special Election
Guthrie Center county attorney Earl W. Vincent won the Republican nomination for the Ninth district congressional seat in the June 4 special election to succeed Willam R. Green now a federal judge. Vincent beat Harry B. Swan 70 to 36 with 193 ballots cast after two days of balloting. The same session also named Vincent unanimously after a long deadlock in which Ed White of Harlan had votes. In Ames Carl L. Little was elected president of the Ames Chamber of Commerce succeeding J. G. Tilden.
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Counciluffs
i/Pj
Earl W. Vincent
Guthrie Center
William J. Burke
Missouri Valley
Atlantic
Burke
Vincent
Guthrie County
Harry B. Swan
Swan
White
Harlan
Ten Years Ago in the Service
Ten years ago today B F Waterfield of 260 Baltimore Street recalled service in the medical detachment of the Twenty third Engineers in the First Army. He described landing in France and building a railroad from Nevers to the front before moving to front lines to construct roads and tend injuries from work and shellfire.
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B. F. Waterfield
Baltimore Street
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