Amateur money talks in Finnish runners scandal noise
In the Spotlight or TODAY'S News the debate over "expense money" for Paavo Nurmi and Willie Ritola surfaces. Hugo Quist allegedly sought 500 for Ritola at Des Moines relay, Chicago officials claim 1 000 for June national meet, while Quist denies and cites regulation by the Amateur Artistic union in New York. The piece questions what defines an amateur. It also blends light items on April weather in Montana, calculus class mishaps, Wheeler trial updates, Bulgarian politics, and a Boston earthquake note, reflecting a wide-paper column vibe.
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Paavo Nur- Mi
Willie Ritola
Tug Wilson
Drake
Hugo Quist
Ritola
Des Moines
University of Chicago
Quist
New York
Amateur Artistic Union
Dawes Rule 22 Clots Debate In Senate Push
Washington dispatch reports vice president Dawes aims to “jazz up” rule 22 to end lengthy debates. Many senators urge energetic action while noting Dawes seeks majority cloture, not two thirds, and highlights past uses showing rule 22 can force decisions like the Isle of Pines treaty. Copeland filibuster attempt and Curtis petition illustrate current tensions.
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Mark Sullivan
Washington, D. C
Washington
Dawes
Senate
Gen. Dawes
Caun
Dreision
Geer
Workids
Twwo
Rhose
Isle of Pines
Copeland
New York
Curtis
Kansas
Courier Home Delivery Cutoff and Reprint Policy
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May Probe Action On Rai tuku Maru Sinking
Captain John Roberts of the Homeric prepares to return to Southampton as doubts over a British admiralty inquiry linger. Passengers and seamen largely support his claim that he did all possible to rescue 35 Japanese sailors who died when the tanker went down near two ocean liners.
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United Press
New York
John Roberts
Southampton
Fay Bainter Party Follows Death and Arrests
Fay Bainter's party celebrating the hundredth presentation of The Dream Girl on tour ended with a death of Carl W. A. Lynn, 48, from a skull fracture after a fall in a hotel. Two Black musical comedy stars were arrested for violating the Ontario temperance act, and manager Barton aided by Lyon assisted the actor to safety.
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Toronto
Fay Bainters
Carl W. A. Lynn
Barton
Lyon
Man and Woman Forgers Sentenced in Iowa Court
Vinton Iowa April 24 Joseph W House a confessed Michigan forger must serve an indeterminate sentence of from to 10 years in Fort Madison penitentiary and Mrs Eleanor Keene his companion must serve seven years in the Rockwell City reformatory Judge B Cummings in district court here late yesterday sentenced the pair for bad check operations at Bele Plaine Mrs Keene is 22 years old and mother of two children who are now in Michigan.
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Vinton
Joseph Iw. House
Michigan
Fort Madison
Eleanor Keene
Rockwell, City Reformatory
B. ®. Cummings
Bele Plaine
Keene
Knights of Columbus Convention in Dubuque May 24
Dubuque Iowa April 24 The annual Iowa State Council Knights of Columbus convention will be held here the week beginning May 24 The Dubuque council will celebrate its silver jubilee in connection with the event
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Dubuque
Iowa State Council of the Knights of Columbus
May test mental condition of boy who shot mother
Des Moines April 24 Mrs A Schoen 45 was seriously wounded at her Grimes area farm home yesterday when her son Emmett 19 fired on her claiming he mistook her for a chicken thief She was reported slowly improving at a local hospital Sheriff Park A Findley had not filed charges Emmett had recently been discharged from a sanitarium where he received treatment for a nervous disease His uncle Harry F Schoen said steps would be taken to determine his mental condition
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Associated Press
Des Moines
A. Schoen
Grimes
Emmett
Park A. Findley
Harry F. Schoen
Premier Zankoff Denies Massacre Claims In Bulgaria
Sofia April 24 Premier Zankt sof denied British MPs claims that hundreds were killed without trial in Bulgaria. He said such statements are calumny and that justice handles those involved in the Sveti Kral cathedral bombing. General Rousseff said arrests nationwide total around 1,500 with martial law and strict measures to curb subversive elements.
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Tresh
Nemier
Bulgaria
SoFa
Associated Press
Sofia
Zankoff
M. P
Belgrade
House of Commons
Josiah C. Wedgwood
W. Mackinder
P. D. Maione
Wace
Sveti Kral
Rousseil
Moscow
Jugo-Slavia
Rousseff
Careff
Fricion
Bul-garita
Four Believed Lost in Lake Erie Storm
Port Stanley Ontario April 24 Four men and a small power boat are believed lost after Sunday's Lake Erie storm. Messages from Cleveland said the body of George Knaggs of Windsor was picked up by a fishing tug. Other crew members are Frank Payne engineer of Port Stanley Bert Butcher owner of the craft and a man from Cleveland.
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Port Stanley
Ont
Lake Erie
Cleveland
George Knaggs
Windsor
Frank Payne
Bert Butcher
Coe College Buys Athletic Field Plot
Coe college authorities announced that the college has acquired land in Cedar Rapids for an athletic field to be built this summer. Plans include two football grids a hockey field and tennis courts with contracts to be let immediately and the facility ready by next fall.
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Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Pays Life for Ride in Antiquated Auto That Hit Five Trees
One man was killed and three probably fatally injured early today when the antiquated automobile in which they were riding struck five trees on Riverside Drive in New York.
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New York
Riverside Drive
Los Angeles Dirigible Arrives From Bermuda
The United States dirigible Los Angeles landed at Lakehurst New Jersey after a Bermuda departure. The craft completed the 0 mile trip in 20 hours and 43 minutes, facing a strong head wind that extended the voyage by six and a half hours compared with the previous February return.
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Lakehurst
N. J
United States
Los Angeles
Bermuda
Patoka
Hamilton
Cedar Rapids to Chicago Lincoln Highway paving discussed
Business leaders and state highways officials met Mechanicsville town council and Cedar County supervisors in Cedar Rapids area to discuss paving the Lincoln highway through the county. They reported possible work this year, potentially creating a paved link from Cedar Rapids to Chicago via Mechanicsville.
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Cedar Rapids
State Highways Commission
Mechanicsville
Cedar County Board of Supervisors
Chicaza
Catholic May Form Belgian Ministry
Brussels dispatch reports King Albert plans to ask a Catholic to form a second cabinet after Emile Vandervelde refuses the premiership amid Catholic and liberal opposition.
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Brussels
Albert
Belgium
Catalec
Emile Vandervelde
Earthquake Shakes Communities Around Buzzards Bay
An apparent short tremor struck early today along the southern Massachusetts coast near Buzzards Bay. Dishes toppled from shelves and sleepers woke as the quake was unofficially recorded at 2:58 a.m. in New Bedford, with reports from Warham North Rochester Carver Marion Martha's Vineyard Falmouth Woodshole Fairhaven East Freetown and Acushnet.
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New Bedford
Mass
Buzzards Bay
Massachusetts
Warham
North Rochester
Carver
Marion
Martha's Vineyard
Falmouth
Woodshole
Fairhaven
East Freetown
Acushnet
Legislator's Son Charged with Embezzlement in Creston
Jacob N. Gripp, son of State Representative Ira Gripp of Afton, pleaded not guilty to embezzling 760.65 while arraigned before a justice of the peace. He was held to the grand jury after a transcript showed he converted loan proceeds from an insurance company through him as agent. Representative Gripp signed his son's $1,500 bond. the son works in insurance and loan business at Afton.
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Creston
Jacob N. Gripp
Afton
Ira Gripp
Gripp
Students Recovering from Plane Mishap Near Dixon
Iowa City Iowa April 24 Winston Tompkins Clarion and Richard Ballard Davenport University of Iowa students were injured when their airplane crashed about 20 feet at Dixon Tav they were convalescing today. nurses described injuries as not serious. The ship bored hit wires during takeoff and was nearly wrecked. The students remained calm and said the mishap did not dampen their desire to fly.
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Iowa City
Winston Tompkins
Clarion
Richard Ballard
Davenport
University of Iowa
Dixon
Plan New Raids on Sioux City Distillers
Bootleggers in Sioux City Iowa doubled precautions after federal raids yielded eight victims yesterday. A new assignment of agents will come here for each sortie to lessen chances of victim identification and intensify assaults on booze law violators.
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Sioux City
Jury to Probe Jail Break Plot In Fort Dodge
Fort Dodge Iowa April 24 The grand jury will meet in special session Monday to consider the case of Mrs Albert Hepperle charged with smuggling a gun to her brother Frank Clayton in the county jail Clayton used the weapon in an escape attempt and was killed by Sheriff John Locnray before reaching the courthouse building Hepperle is at liberty on a 1560 bond
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Fort Dodge
Albert Hepperle
Frank Clayton
Clayton
John Locnray
Court Denies Plea of Young Murderer
Springfield April 4 Russell Scott must hang at the expiration of his stay on July 17 unless Governor Small commutes the sentence. The Illinois supreme court denied Scott's petition for a writ of error and supersedeas. Scott was sentenced to hang in Chicago for the slaying of Joseph Maurer a druggist during an attempted holdup.
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Springfield
Scott
Len Small
Uinols Supreme Court
Chicago
Joseph Maurer
One Dead in Denver Tramcar Crash injures five
Denver authorities report a tramcar collision with a government hospital bus last night. Sergeant Frank Walters died this morning from injuries. Two others suffered probable fatal injuries. Three additional individuals, all women, sustained serious injuries.
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Denver
Colo
Government Hospital
Frank Walters
Heat Prostration Claims Two in Cleveland as City Falls Heat Fury
In Cleveland on April 24 two men died from heat prostration as the stagnant air lingered. Oliver Mason, 4, and William Jarvinsky, 52, perished during a day that saw the temperature reach 91 at 8 p.m., marking a 39 year city record.
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Cleveland
Oliver Mason
William Jarvinsky
Homebrewers Safe in Washington If They Don't Sell It
Washington April 24 Chief Justice McCoy of the DC criminal court ruled that a search warrant may not rely on evidence found later to justify arrests for illegal liquor in a private home. He quashed the warrant used by prohibition agents who seized a still after apricot brandy equipment was found in an automobile outside the residence.
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Washington
D. C
McCoy
District of Columbia Criminal Court
Iowa Woman's Missionary Convention Opens in Cedar Rapids
About two hundred women from eastern Iowa gathered in Cedar Rapids for the sixteenth annual Iowa branch convention of the Woman's Missionary Association of the United Brethren church. Bishop E B Kephart of Kansas City will speak, with three days of sessions and officer elections planned. Mrs EB Tyler of Toledo and others from Waterloo Dayton and Dayton are listed among participants.
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Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Woman's Missionary Association of the United Brethren Church
E.B. Kephart
Kansas City
Tyler
Toledo
C.J. Ness
Waterloo
J. Hal Smith
Gladys Ward
Dayton, C
Appanoose Storm Demolishes Homes and Fells Trees
A ferocious wind and electrical storm swept Appanoose county causing property loss. Outhouses were blown down and trees uprooted while telephone poles were snapped and wires disrupted. Cellars flooded as storm sewers failed amid nearly 1.5 inches of rain in Centerville, Iowa, last night.
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Centerville
Appanoose County
Rain Did Not Hurt Roads Report Says
Des Moines April 24 All Iowa roads were in fair to good condition, the weekly road bulletin from the Des Moines Automobile Club stated today. The rain yesterday did little damage to Iowa roads. Chicago April 24 Thunder showers cooled the city after three days of midsummer heat. the thermometer reached 86 degrees, the hottest April day.
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Des Moines
Des Moines Automobile Club
Iowa
Chicago
Riots Erupt as Communists Attack Nationalists in Paris Subway
International dispatch reports clashes between communists and nationalists in Paris after the previous night’s killings. A bodyguard detail for Deputy Tattinker was attacked in a subway station, with 12 injured as armed communists fired on unarmed youths from a distance of about 20 feet amid a large crowd.
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International
Paris
Tattinker
Rescue Effort Under Way As Mine Fire Traps Fourteen
Burks Ida April 24 Hope grows that fourteen miners trapped two thousand feet down in the Hecla Silver Lead mine near Burke may still be alive as rescue crews work from the 1,600 to 2,000 foot levels. Air pumps and a revolving nozzle combat gas and flames while helmet men and surface teams toil in shifts to reach the entombed men.
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Ohn Associated Brees
Wallace
Ida
Fie
Hecta
Burke
United States Mines Rescue Forces
Star Workings
Hecla
K. T. Starks
Couer d'Alene
Starks
International
Newlyweds in Mason City Auto Collision After Garner Wedding
Mare red Hite and Verde Anderson from Goodell wed in Garner in the afternoon and four hours later their car collided with Bax tley’s on a road three miles west of Mason City, wrecking five machines. Bax tley Co. W. Huntington resigns as Virginian Railway president effective April 30 after sale to Norfolk & Western.
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Mason City
Red Hite
Verde Anderson, Goodell
Garner
Colides
Baxtley
W. Huntington
New York
Huntington
Virginian Railway
Norfolk & Western
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