Engineer Blamed For Train Wreck With 87 Died
United Press report from St Louis details the Sulphur Springs disaster on the Missouri Pacific train No 4. Engineer Paco Glenn, 57, killed leaping from the cab. officials blame him after witnesses testified. The fast express telescoped four coaches, sending passengers tumbling down a 10 foot embankment. About 140 injured, many unidentified at the morgue. Names of victims span Missouri and other states. rescue work and grim aftermath described with witness accounts.
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United Press
St. Louis
Missouri Pacific
Chine ST Ves
Uegun
Anon O
George
Glenn
Fast Express
Jocal
DeSoto
Mable Steingritbey
Florence
No. 4
Alste
John Grafton
Grafton
Pearl Goff
Benlab
Cadet
Pearl
Beulah
Sulphur Springs
Missouri
Arkansas
Fort Worth
Riverside
Locel
Al-most
Lida Palmer
Detroit Birs
Della Campbell
McCammon
Ida
Sam Campbell
Mares Campbell
McCamsmoan
Darius Massen
Coatesville
Ind
James McKeever
Winchester
Allen Dynan
Bethlehem
Kijles
Missour
Mystery of Hello Switchboard Demonstrated to Rotarians
Rotarians at Hotel Russell-Laniton heard a detailed demonstration of how early telephone switchboards worked. Miss Dorothy Boyd displayed an explanatory miniature board and acted as operator while A J Weigle Miss Ethel Keppey F E Quling and C H Stewart operated connected telephones to illustrate why lines are cut off wrong numbers are used and how a subscriber removes the receiverFrom the hook in a connection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hotel
Russell-Laniton
Dorothy Boyd
A. J. Weigle
Ethel Keppey
F. E. Quling
C. H. Stewart
Blood value suit filed for two quarts of blood
Arcuro Casteleni of Seattle claims Dominic Bozzello owes 3000 dollars for two quarts of blood he supplied to save Bozzello’s life. Casteleni filed the suit today seeking the amount.
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Seattle
Ang
Arcuro Casteleni
Dominic Bozzello
Strikers Not Guilty in Great Western Raid Case
Des Moines August 7 George W Glayk leader of striking shopmen at the Chicago Great Western shops here found not guilty of contempt of court charges in federal court Judge Martin J Wade presiding The riot at Great Western shops Wednesday night involved about 80 sympathizers three men including J T Nolan and Hilda Clancy to be tried after witnesses are summoned Union officials say no union men took part in the riot One man N Edglend badly beaten and in hospital hopes to return home soon
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Des Moines
George W. Glayk
Chicago
Martin J. Wade Day
Clark
Great Western
Snali
Wade
Clark Sulity
J.T. Nolan
Ana Ilirdla Clancy
Riid
C. M. Young
Shipman’s Union
N. Edglend
Aia
Alaboma
Atlanta
Montgomery
McLana
Hnols
Central
Birmingham
Ala
Woods
Cariff
Burlingtor
Havelock
Neb
Tennessee
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Knoxville
Missouri Pacific
Sulphur Springs
Ilinois National Guard
Chicago & Alton
Bloomington
Plot to Dynamite Delwein Shops Under Federal Investigation
Cedar Rapids March 7. United States District Attorney idnvUle told Rotary Club members the government has evidence of a well planned plot by strikers and sympathizers to dynamite Rock Island shops in the city and said federal action blocked the plot. He also cited a plot against Chicago Great Western shops at Oelwein and said investigators are active there. If the strike persists, marshal control may be used at Calwell and new workers brought in for protection.
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Cedar Rapids
United States
Oelwein
Marshery
Calweill
Kiven
Nude Moron Attacks Two Young Girls in Cornfield
Mary McCarty, 12, and a companion were terrorized in a cornfield near Southeast Twenty-fourth and Raccoon streets after a naked man attacked them as they returned from Brooks Lake. Police responded but the assailant fled. He is described as either Black or Mexican, wearing no clothes and with a ferocious appearance.
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Desines
Ave
Mary McCarty
Twenty-fourth
Raccoon Streets
Hea
Brooks’ Lake
McCarty
Workingmen's Club Raid Nets 75 Negroes
Des Moines police raided the Workingmen's club last night and arrested 75 Black patrons. Charles Saunders, stabbed during a dispute over money, was found in an alley and taken to hospital. Law Thompson, accused by Saunders, was also detained.
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Des Moines
Charles Saunders
Nes Moines
Workingmen’s Club
Law Thompson
Saunders
Town Brotherhoods Debate Bad Orders Tonight
Des Moines meeting of railroad brotherhoods to discuss alleged bad orders after charges by Ketl Sherman, secretary of the switchmen's union. He claims brake crews on some cars are unsafe and being forced to operate without proper maintenance.
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Des Moines
Aug
Railroad Brotherhoods
Ketl Sherman
Switchmen's Union
Sheraran
Spanish War Vet Duncan Mee Dies in Sioux City
Spanish war veteran Duncan I Mee, a prominent local business figure, dies Sunday in Sioux City Ta. from a circulatory heart disease. Mee, formerly in Spokane real estate, had been active in the community and business here.
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Sioux City
Duncan I. Mee
Donald
Mclonald
Spokane
Wash
Mayo Son Prefers S U S Medical School for San
Joseph Mayo of Rochester Minnesota son of Charles Mayo and member of the Mayo brothers family is studying premedical work at the University of Iowa and plans to continue next year. He previously studied at Princeton and is now in his second year of premedical work. The Mayo leadership sending him to Iowa is viewed as a high tribute to the school. The Mayo Clinic is renowned worldwide with patients from Europe and Asia and physicians visiting from across the globe.
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Tona City
Josseph Mayo
Rochester
Minn
Charles Mayo
Mayo Brothers
St. Mary's Hospital
University of Iowa
Mayo
Princeton
Mayo Corporation
Iowa
Mayo Clinic
Europe
Asia
Boy Wounded Watching Gun Cleaning Near Cedar Falls
Lloyd Baker, 13, son of Laurence Baker, near Cedar Falls Iowa, was accidentally shot Sunday afternoon while watching a rifle being cleaned. The bullet passed through both legs and lodged in the right leg. it was removed this morning. He is reported comfortable at Sartori Hospital.
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Cedar Falls
Lloyd Baker
Laurence Baker
Sartori Hospital
Nestor of Methodism in Iowa Near Death
Dr. Rennel Mitchell, aged 99 and a founder of Morningside College, is critically ill at the Methodist Hospital in Sioux City. He has been active in Methodist Episcopal work in Iowa for 70 years and is described as the Nestor of Northwest Iowa Methodism with little hope for recovery.
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Sioux City
Rennel Mitchell
Methodist Episcopal
Iowa
Morningside Colleges
Methodist Hospital
Mitchell
Northwestern
Tew
Mason City Thieves Work Hard for $2 251
Mason City men stole last night using nitroglycerin and sludge hammers to wreck a vault at Independent Dak ing company office. The robbers reportedly earned $2.25 in coins, while a second raid on John Neera company branch yielded nothing. The vault was blown to fragments.
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Mason City
Daking Company
John Neera Company
Funeral for Gen James Rush Linehaln held Thursday
OWA brief notes a military funeral in Ames for Gen. James Rush Linehaln Confederate War veteran and longtime commandant at Towa State college who died Friday. Also: The Selon News merges with Selon Economist in Towa City with editor P. J. Scheedler. In Dubuque county women Democrats organize for political activity. In Ottumwa a brick wall collapse as firefighters battle a $20,040 fire at Ottumwa Mattress & Spring Co destroying the plant.
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Ames
James Rush Linehaln
Towa State College
Towa City
Selon News
Selon Economist
P. J. Scheedler
Dibtaie
Women Democrats
Tatbuque County
Dubuque County
Otuniya
Uves
Ottum Wa Mattress & Spring Co
Boys Injured When Rails Shift On Freight Car
Three Chicago youths riding a flat car were seriously injured in Fairfield Indiana when steel rails shifted, pinioning their legs. Carl Strangeman 17 suffered a four place fracture, Andrew Fitch 18 fractured below the knee, Carl Spoer 15 had both legs crushed. William Burchard 18 escaped injury as train crew freed the victims after unloading much of the rail pile.
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Fairfeld
Chicago
Vra
Carl Strangeman
Andrew Fitch
Carl Spoer
William Burchard
Iowa to Get 60 Carloads of Coal Daily Pending Payment Guarantee
Des Moines Aug 7 Towen will receive 60 carloads of coal a day from Secretary Hoover's new committee for use by public utilities and municipal light and water works as soon as a guarantee of remnant and responsibility is put up. Fuel Administrator Charles Webster announced today after a conference with the national fuel commission led by Senator Charles Rawson. Webster said plans are being made whereby individual applicants may have their hometown banks guarantee payment to avoid collapse should shipments be underwritten by a single individual.
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Des Moines
Towen
Hoover
Municipal Light and Water Works
Charles Webster
National Fuel Commission
Charles Rawson
Webster
Olanders Appeal Not Yet Perfected in High Court
Des Moines Aug 7 The writ of error filed in the Iowa Supreme Court by Attorneys Healy and Breen seeks a U S Supreme Court appeal in the William Olander case. It lacks Chief Justice Truman S Stevens signature. Olander was sentenced to hang Aug 11 for the murder of Berthold Halfpap. If perfected, the hanging may be postponed pending final disposition.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court Oy
Healy and Breen
Fort Dodge
United States Supreme Court
William Olander
Truman S$. Stevens
Olander
Berthold Halfpap
United States Court
Road from Clinton to Lyons Completed
Chicago announces completion of a new road between Lyons a Clinton suburb and Clinton Ia to form a chain of service stations from Clinton to Chicago. The American Automobile Association cooperates with the meter club to establish the route and will enforce strict speed laws along the highway.
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Chicago
Chicago Motor Club
Lyons
Clinton
American Automobile Association
Meter Club
Heat Trouble Kills Traveling Salesman in Nebr
Sioux City report says John Troy a traveling salesman for the G. J. Moore Grocery company died at a hotel in Lynch Nebraska on Sunday before a physician could reach him. Heart trouble caused his death. Troy formerly lived in Dubuque.
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Sioux City
John Troy
G. J. Moore Grocery Company
Luynch
Neb
Troy
Dubuque
Sioux City Labor Day Speaker Named
Siou x City Aug 7 A P Whitner Chicago vice president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen will speak at the Labor day celebration in Sioux City announced today Injured in Hayfield Marengo Aug 7 John Kost seriously hurt Saturday when a load of timothy hay fell on him doctors hope for recovery
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B. T
Sioux City
Marengo
John
Kost
Timothy Hay
Spanish Balloon First to Land in Bennett Cup Race
Geneva August 7 The Spanish balloon piloted by Signor Magdalen a was the first of 19 entries in the James Gordon Bennett cup race to land. It descended after traveling under 10 miles due to a gas leak. The Swiss Hero club announced the result. three American balloons remained aloft.
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Geneva
Signor Magdalena
Union chiefs on job tour seek audience with Harding
Chicago Aug 7 E F Grable head of maintenance of way men leaves for Washington to join union leaders not on strike. They plan a noon meeting to press for a White House audience and to protest conditions of locomotives and equipment amid alleged assaults by armed guards at railway shops.
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Associated Press
Chicago
E. F. Grable
Maintenance of Way
Washington
Harding
Grable
Grabie
Bfo
Hardne
Coal Conference Adjourns Two Days for Other Operators
Cleveland Aug. 7 Coal operators and union leaders meeting for a wage conference to end the soft coal strike agreed to adjourn until Wednesday. Illinois and Indiana operators were expected to attend then a definite program for ending the strike nationally would be proposed.
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Cleveland
Illinois
Indiana
Bose
Four Hundred Telegraphers Vote Strike Ballot in Indianapolis
In Indianapolis on August 7, four hundred employees of the Cleveland Cincinnati Chicago and St. Louis railroad including telegraph operators and station agents prepared to strike after failing to reach agreement on working conditions with railroad officials. The ballot was announced by a committee of the workers.
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Fndionapolis
Ind
Cleveland, Cincinnati
Einstein Warned by Police Not Fleeing Germany
Berlin report claims incorrect that Dr Albert Einstein fled Germany fearing assassination. Police warned the famed scientist that he might be attacked by anti semitic groups. Einstein has ignored the warning and remained in Germany.
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Berlin
Albert Binstein
Germany
Einstein
Dynamite Blast Damages House in Uniontown
Dynamite placed at the home of Burgesa Gabriel Sullivan in Masons Town, Uniontown, exploded early today, wrecking the dwelling and injuring three of the five family members slightly while two escaped unharmed.
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Uniontown
Burgesa Gabriel Sullivan
Masontown
Coal Strike Efforts Grow With Cleveland Talks
Miners and some operators from the central competitive field opened conferences in Cleveland seeking an agreement to end the strike. Northern West Virginia operators requested entry into the central field. Federal plans call for moving coal to the northwest via the Great Lakes. Two Indiana mines under troop protection began operations with 30 imported workers.
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Cleveland
Northern West Virgin
Northwest
Great Lakes
Indiana
Mrs Horton Dies Suddenly at 84 in Waterloo Home
Mrs Relief Horton age 84 died Saturday night at 7 oclock at her home 909 Independence avenue from apoplexy. Born in Chautauqua county NY she moved west in 1872 and married Truman Aldrich in 1878 at Waterloo later marrying William Horton in 1878. She had a son Truman Jr now in Waterloo. Services Tuesday at 2:30 pm at Hileman Ginde chapel Rev Otto Raspe officiating. Interment Fairview.
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Relief
Horton
Independence Avenue
Chautauqua County
Truman Aldrich
Waterloo
Aldrich
Au-Farm
Waterloo Township
Mr. Aldrich
Truman, Jr
Wiliam Horton
Altho
Universalist Church
W. J .Hotchkiss
Hileman & Ginde
Otto S. Raspe
Pairview
Harding Proposes Rail Labor Board Settle Seniority
President Harding urges a return to work and asks unions and carriers to take the seniority dispute to the railroad labor board for rehearing and decision. He notes both sides pledged to honor board decisions and calls for compliance with any ruling.
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Harding
Rail Labor Board
Railroad Labor Board
Railroad Label Board
Warren G, Harding
Bejewelled Olive Oil Man Robbed in Chicago
Chicago notes an olive oil dealer James Jesta was held in his hallway today and robbed of 11000 dollars in jewelry and 1000 dollars in cash. The assailants beat him, leaving him nearly unconscious, and fled the scene.
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Chicago
James Jesta
Jeste
Telegraph Briefs From Paris and Peking Nightly World Summary
Telegraph briefs report the reparations commission refusing a year end moratorium for Germany and rejecting a 500,000 pound monthly balance offer. In Peking the city of Kinkiang was looted and burned as troops sacked 200 shops, with damages estimated at 3.6 million. Li Yuanhong sought a second cabinet reshuffle and offered the premiership to a Sun Yat Sen ally.
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Paris
Germany
Peking
Kinkiang
Li Yuang Hung
Sun Yat Sen
South China
Prosecution chief cites crime rise and need for faster trials
Attorney General Clifford L. Tithton told the National Association of Attorneys General that crime is bolder and widespread. He urged closer police cooperation, speedier trials, and a shift from vengeance to prevention including proper training and home discipline.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Gal
Clifford L. Tithton
Minnesota
Non Stop Coast to Coast Flight Ends When Start Is Made
Aviation officers said orders sending Lieut. James H. Doolittle to Dayton would be amended to allow a repair and a second try at a coast to coast one stop flight. His first attempt ended when his plane swerved into surf at Pablo Beach Florida after hitting sand, turning over. the pilot was uninjured.
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San Antonio
Tex
Eighth Corps
James H. Doolittle
McCookfield
Dayton
Jacksonville
Pablo Beach
Cow Attacks Man. Baby in Custody After Broadway Incident
A cow in Riverside, New Jersey fatally wounded Peter Johnson with its horn while shaking off flies. In Chicago, Freddie Gardiner, 13 months old, is in protective custody after police intervened at a Broadway incident following parents leaving him asleep in a car.
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Riverside
N. J
Peter Johnson
Chicago
Freddie Gardiner
Hoe
Broadway
Freddie
President Harding Urges Strikers to Return to Work
President Harding asked strikers to return to work and urged railroad executives to accept them, submitting seniority disputes to the railroad labor board. Telegr ams were sent to R M Jewell and T Dewitt Cuyler. Riots in Joliet yards killed two and wounded a sheriff as strike leaders travel to Washington. Minor disorders reported nationwide.
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BG. OM
Jewell
American Federation of Labor
Washington
Harding
Ben. W. Hooper
U. S Railroad Labor Board
Michieran City
Ind
Railroad Labor Board
R. M. Jewell
T. Dewitt Cuyler
Association of Raiway
Joliet
el. Grable
Maintenance of Way
Allies Meet to Discuss Europe's Fate and German Debt
The thirteenth interallied conference opened in London amid talk of Europe’s fate and a possible indemnity moratorium for Germany. Lloyd George urged a pause on German debts, backed by Italy and Belgium, as Poincaré pressed for strict conditions. A deadlock risk loomed as France sought independent action to enforce demands.
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International News Wired
London
Europe
Lloyd George
Germany
Poimeare
France
Gér
Poincare
Paris
Maintenance of Way Men in Conference on Strike
Heads of the maintenance of way forces of the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul railroad conferred with the St Paul system executive board in Madison Wisconsin to avert a strike by 9000 workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.m.&slt
Madison
Wis
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
St. Pal System
St. Paul Road
Sun Yat Sens Army Defeated in Northern China Retreat Begun
The northern army of Sun Yat Sen, formerly president of south China, suffers a sharp defeat near Shiu chow in northern Kwangtung. Chen Chiung-Ming's troops drive them toward Kiang province as dispatches confirm the retreat begun days ago.
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Sun Yat Sen
Canton
China
South China
Chen Chiung-Ming
Shiuchow
Kwangtung Province
Kiangs
Brotherly Love Key Note Brightens Fraternal Convention
St Paul Minnesota August 7 Fraternal Order of Bagias opens weeklong session with a poverty reduction pledge. Keynote speaker emphasizes ending the poorhouse and putting real help into the idea of brotherhood.
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St. Paul,Winn
Bagias
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OWA
Big Four
Sualmary
R. C. Horton
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Britain
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Italy
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