Fourth Partner in Oil Deal Identified in Senate Testimony
Robert W. Stewart of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana was named the unseen fourth partner in the Continental Trading Company deal central to oil investigations. He testified he received about 750000 in liberty bond profits via a trust fund for Indiana Standard and Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing, while keeping the funds in name for others. He expressed surprise at the payment and agreed to track obligations and clip coupons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert, W. Stewart
Standard Oi Company
Indiana
Continental Trading Company
Teo
Senate Committee
Stewart
Indiana Standard Company
Sinclair Crude Ol
Bremen and Relief Planes Snowbound in Quebec
In Quebec on April 24 the Bremen and Ford relief planes remained snowbound on Greenly Island after a forced landing ten days earlier. Lindbergh flew anti pneumonia serum to Floyd Bennett in Quebec. Bennett was gravely ill with lobar pneumonia and is hospitalized in Murray Bay. General Sanding advances in a remote expeditionary theater. Mrs Helen McDonald Steinfeld, Cal, challenges Pasteur era beliefs with bacteria experiments.
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Atlantic
Floyd Bennett
Byrd
North Pole
Quebec
Detroit
Bremen
Murray Bay
Curtiss Field
N. Y
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lindbergh
North Pele
Greenly Island
Helen McDonald Steinfeld
Berkeley
Cal
Pasteur
Steinfeld
Lake Ste. Agnes
Canadian Transcontinental Airways
Ford
Greenlysland
Robert Catinon
Sno
New York
Mit
Ocean
Major Filamaurice
Bernt Balchen
Ford reHef
Clarence Chamberlin
Germany
Edward Kelly
Major Walker
Hartford
Conn
Baron von, Huenefeld
Koch
Pitzmaurice
Mitchelfield
Greenly
Junkers
Luis Cnisinter
Duke Schiller
Bennett
Que
Jeffery Hale Hospital
Richard E. Byrd
Woman Dies After Gall Stone Operation at 99
Mary Crotty, aged 99, died after gallstone surgery at a focal hospital. Born in Chicago in 1828, she moved with her family to McHenry County, married Motiel Crotty in 1848, lived in Floyd and Webster counties, and settled in Waterloo in 1926. Survived by three of eight children and one granddaughter. Funeral planned in Nashua Iowa.
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Mary Crotty
Chicago
Nashua
Richard O'Brien
America
Mary
McHenry County
Government Land
Mi Toel Crotty
Towa
Altha
Crotty
Tynan
Waterloo
S. J. Nash
Glendale
Cal
Edward Crotty
Dorothy Loomis
St. Paul
Minn
O'Keefe & Towne Funeral Home
Marines Take Up Chase of Nicaragua Rebel Forces
Rainy season hinders U S forces as marines breach toward Pis Pis river in Nicaragua to recover two gold mines reportedly seized by rebel Sandino. Escalating risk, river travel in pitpans and overland treks threaten patrols during a dangerous operation with possible additional troop deployments.
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Sanding
Baue
Nicara- Bunh
Washington, D. C
U.P
U. S
Nicaragua
State Department
Prinzapolka Mountain
Managua
Augustino Sandino
W. J. Crampton
Puerto Cabezas
Pis Pis
Maine
Legation
la Luz Y Los Angeles
New York
Pis Pis River
Sandino
Sangsang
Coca River
Pis Fis
Prinzapolka
United States
Diaz
Philadelphia
Benjamin C. Warnick
Warnick
Bluefields
George A. Napoleon
Columbus
Cal
A. H. Head
Denver
Colo
Franklin Springer
New Orleans
Commissariat
Communists Rise in French Election Results
Paris reports show Communists gaining about 25 percent in the national vote compared with 1924, totaling roughly 1,064,000 votes this year versus 875,000 in 1924. Socialist vote remains near 1,599,000, similar to 1919. In Washington, President Coolidge signs a migratory Bird Refuge bill for Bear River Utah.
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Paris
Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Bear River
Utah
Fourth Partner In Oil Deal Admits Hidden Profits
Bett W. Stewart chairman of Indiana Standard Oil disclosed before the Senate Teapot Dome committee that he was the fourth participant in the Continental Trading Company deal alongside Harry Sinclair H M Blackmer and J E O Neil. He said he received 759500 dollars in bond profits but kept none, forwarding them in secret trust to Ray J Barnett a tax expert at Standard Oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bett W. Stewart
Indiana Standard Oil Company
Senate
Harry Sinclair
H. M. Blackmer
J. E. O'Neil
Stewart
Ray J. Barnett
Standard Oil Company
Londergan argues motion to quash stock fraud indictment
Robert Healy defense attorney for Ivan G. Londergan, former president of Medical Life Insurance Co. and Insurance Loans & Investment Co., asked Judge George C. Scott in Dubuque federal court to quash the December 1926 indictment charging use of mail to defraud. Healy contended the Waterloo letter campaign was a bona fide stock sale offering $10 value per dollar invested, with no fraud intent.
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fCaluster
Seevice
Londergan
Federal
Dubuque
United States
H. L. Dyer
Washington, D. C
B. E. Rinehart
Anamosa
Don G. Mullan
Sioux City
Healy
Waterloo
Soldier to Face Auto Theft Charge
Private Roy C. Buckner of the Third Infantry Fort Snelling Minn must stand trial in Oskaloosa on auto mobile theft charges after release to civil authorities. Buckner, from Springfield Missouri, was arrested at Ottumwa and handed to Fort Des Moines officers before being surrendered to Mahaska county prosecutors.
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Oskaloosa
U.R
Roy C. Buckner
Third Infantry
Fort Snelling
Minn
Buckner
Springfield
Ottumwa
Fort Des Moines
Mahaska B
Fashionable dogs mirror changing fashions in apparel
Charles G. MacKay City Clerk notes dog license trends shift yearly. Small breeds like poodles and toy terriers were common, but now large dogs dominate licenses, with German police dogs and bulldogs popular. Bird and hounding dogs have become scarce.
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Charles G. MacKay
Bird
National League of Women Voters Holds Eighth Convention
Chicago hosts the National League of Women Voters convention with about 3000 attendees. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, honorary president, contrasts past scorn for suffrage with current political status of women, noting ministers opposed and politicians ridiculed suffrage in earlier days. Exhibits of feminine finery and displays of league aims draw crowds at Palmer House.
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Chicago
Carrie Chapman Catt
National League of Women Voters
Catt
League
Palmer House
Woman Plans Flight Berlin to New York Seaplane Route
Mildred Johnson of Philadelphia announced plans to fly from Berlin to New York next August in a seaplane. The proposed route would pass Paris, Lisbon, the Azores, and Bermuda, reflecting a pioneering transatlantic journey.
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Berlin
New York
U.P
Mildred Johnson
Philadelphia
Paris
Lisbon
Azores
Bermuda
Courier delivery guarantee and late receipt remedy
The Courier will be delivered to homes before 5 30. If you fail to receive your paper by that time due to carrier error or other cause, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 36 p m.
Indiana man gains 389500 in oil slush fund deal
A Senate inquiry reveals Robert W. Stewart of Standard Oil of Indiana received 759,500 from the Continental Trading company’s so called slush fund tied to a 3.08 million bond scheme. He set up a trust to channel profits to Standard Oil Indiana and Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing, later turning bonds over to the two oil firms. He described prior reluctance to accept profits and detailed bond handling, with two coupon cashes and transfers through Roy Barnett.
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Stewart
First Fund
Continental
Barnett
Texas
A. E. Humphreys
Standard Oil
Indiana
Humphreys
Sinclair Crude Ol
Tham
Senate
Upper Iowa board ponders merger plan in meeting
Trustees of Upper Iowa University met in Fayette on a call to consider merging with Cornell College Mt Vernon. They tabled both resolutions for and against the proposal to allow full consideration before deciding. Most members attended while students demonstrated support for the school’s continuance with placards and window signs.
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Jourier Sponal
Fayette
Upper Iowa University
Cornell College
Mt. Vernon
Lindy May to greet Bremen fliers in New York
New York reports Col. Charles A. Lindbergh may attend the official reception for the Bremen fliers on their arrival from Greenly Island. He flew from Washington to Curtiss field and said he will likely be present, timing dependent on events as the parade and dinner shift to Thursday.
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New York
Charles A. Lindbergh
New York City
Greenly Island
America
Curtiss Field
Washington
United States
Woman slain as husband ends life under train
Chicago reports the slaying of Mrs. James Daege, 38, of Lyons suburb, found with an ax wound. Her husband, suspected, killed himself by leaping in front of a Chicago Burlington & Quincy train at Brookfield, a suburb, after the body was discovered.
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Chicago
James Daege
Lyons
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad
Brookfield
Muddy Highways Warn Drivers Amid Bad Road Conditions
The Waterloo Automobile club reports numerous mud holes on main highways. No. 218 between Waverly and Plainfield and No. 20 east of Winthrop are worst. Route to Charles City uses No. 218 from Waverly then county roads to Horton and Plainfield before returning to No. 218. Some routes to Dubuque and other towns are variably passable with sections impassable or open.
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Waterloo Automobile Club
Waverly
Plainfield
Winthrop
Charles City
Horton
Dubuque
Althe
la Porte City
Vinton
Mount Auburn
Independence
Oblwelo
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Gene Tunney
Yeates
William Lyon Phelps
Gene
France
Tunney
Esther Gaukin
Iowa
American Association of University Women
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Des Moines
Gustav of Sweden
Ellen D. Swanson
Sweden
San Peirce
Harvester
Beck Seate
Henry George Cigars
Avertionnanth
University Women
John N. Hughes
G. W. Darling
Marshalltown
King Gustav
Eskil Carlson
W. G. Bonner
Josef Daniel Syverson
Albin Ferdinane Svenson
Miss Swanseon
Duto
Webster City
T. S. Stonebraker
J. N. Stonebraker
The
Freeman- Journal
Pairfield
Keokuk, Ta
Charles Harrman
Prinzapolka River
Pitpans
Robert W. Stewart
Volo Uo
Alo Ohare
Georgia
Cecil B. Kendrick
Upton Screet
Kendrick
Two Hundred Ninth Engineers
Camp Forrest
Sinclair
Washington, DE
Vof
Standard Oil of
Senate of Inquiry
Sinclair Crude Oil Purchasing Company
Henry Smith Osler
Roy J. Barnett
Harry F. Sinclair
Standard Ali
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Walsh
Oster
Osler
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