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Inland reports describe a missing monoplane Greater Rockford with Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer en route from Cochrane Ontario toward Mt. Evans Greenland after leaving Rockford. Radio alerts urge lookout for the craft as crews anticipate a sea landing if needed and note a five to six hour maximum over-water leg.
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Rockford
Bert Hassell
Parker Cramer
Cochrane
Ont
Mt. Evans
Greenland
Stockholm
Fiers
West Side Bracket Sees Hoover Likely on Prohibition Test
Chicago dispatch analyzes splits in 1930 campaign as Gov. Smith weighs prohibition versus prosperity. Business leaders and Republicans favor moderation, fearing prolonged dry laws, while a broad referndum view could unite discontent voters against current prohibition.
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Mark Sullivan
Chicago
Gov. Smith
Central West
Central
West
Smith
Congress
White House
Smiddiewest
Hoover
New York Herald-Tribune
Chinese Flood Kills 1800 and Displaces 40000
American investigators report that floods from Yellow River tributaries drowned about 1800 people and left 40000 homeless across 200 villages in central Shandong. A separate item notes a Stinson-Detroiter monoplane flight setting a new altitude record of 14250 feet piloted by George Lowers in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Campbell
Art Goebel
New York
Los Angeles
MacReady
Kelly
Peking
U.A
Yellow River
Shaniung
INSI
George Lowers
Courier delivery deadline notice for home delivery
The notice informs readers the Courier will be delivered before 6 30 p m if the carrier is late or a similar cause. If you do not receive the paper by then call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 30 p m.
Rescue after Spirit Lake launch overturns near Templar Park
About 35 people rode the launch Dorothy when it struck a rock and overturned in Spirit Lake near Templar park. Some 15 were rescued in time as the boat sank. Cecil Nelson, pilot and part owner, was badly burned. Local residents and Des Moines man H. H. Polk helped recover victims and guide others to shore.
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Spirit Lake
Spirit ‘Lake
Templar Park
Cecil Nelson
Miss Dorothy
H. H. Polk
Des Moines
Margaret Coneeny
Cedar Rapids
Wilbur Wiegand
William Brooks
Polk
Mussenl Palmer
Hawkeye
Guard Duty Fiasco During World War I
Floyd Ransom recalls a mid 1918 incident with the Three Hundred Thirty seventh motor machine gun division at Gondercourt France. He woke fellow soldiers by firing a rifle at the floor after they would not rise for guard duties.
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Floyd Ransom
Adams Street
Gondercourt
France
Set Grade Mark for Fraternities
New scholastic regulations at the University of Towa require all fraternities and sororities to maintain a grade point average of 1.9 or lose social privileges. Organizations dropping below 1.7 face immediate loss of privileges with a year of probation.
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University of Iowa
Towa City
University of
Towa
Hoover aims to energize Kansas trip in West Branch tour
Herbert Hoover’s Kansas train tour features five stops from Dodge City to Topeka as he lays out platform talks and campaign plans. He visits his birthplace West Branch Iowa tomorrow, greets supporters, tours boyhood haunts, and attends a major rally under a big tent in West Branch.
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Topeka
Special
Kansas City
West Branen High School
Hoover
James W. Good
Western
Charles A. Rawson
Town National
State Central Committee
James L. West
Associated Press
Siail
Arizona
New Mexico
Herbert Hoover
Kansas
West Branch
Dodge City
Hutchinson
Newton
Emporia
Charles Curtis
David Mulvane
Arthur Capper
Ed. N. Tincher
Curtis
Kansas Cities
Albert Beach
Rock Island
Bronson Cutting
R. G. Dillon
Senator Cutting
Cone
Dane tHo
Colum
Tom Mix In Talkies Fight Report At Hollywood Party
Hollywood dispatch reports a punchup at a housewarming party for actor George Beban with Will Morrissey and wife Midgie Miller alleging Tom Mix knocked Morrissey. Morrissey says Mix bragged about his horse Tony’s future in talkies amid night of alleged abuse and a police report lists bail set at $20 each for Morrissey and wife.
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Hollywood
Cal
Tom Mix
Will Morrissey
Colony
Morrissey
Midgie Miller
Venice
George Beban
Tom
Tony
Mix
Thut
Cowboy
Morrisseys
Toombs Faces Probe Over Missing Insurance Assets
Roy C. Toombs head of International Life Insurance and Toombs & Dailey testified in Chicago before a Federal Referee in Chancery about missing assets. He proposed turning over 4,000 shares of International Life stock worth about 4 million dollars if located, as federal agents plan investigations into Toombs & Dailey branches in Rockford and Freeport, Illinois.
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Chicago
INS
Roy C. Toombs
International Life Insurance Company of
St. Louis
Toombs & Dailey
Garfield Charles
Toombs
International Life Holding Company
Rockford
Freeport
Oelwein Boy In Critical Condition From Accidental Shot
Ten year old Walter French of Oelwein lies in critical condition after being accidentally shot by his sister Anna age 13 who found a loaded revolver in a cupboard and fired. The bullet pierced a lung and lodged in the shoulder near the heart. Doctors say he has a fair chance of recovery. The children were visiting Mrs. Harold Talmadge at the home of her sister Mrs. Manly Bryan with their mother.
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Harold Talmadge
Des Moines Youth 16 Missing After Weekend Disappearance
Des Moines authorities seek Ravert Skinner a 16 year old who vanished from his home last Thursday. A boy matching his description was seen in Greenfield on Friday, but no further information has been reported. He is five feet seven inches, 123 pounds with black hair and brown eyes.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Ravert Skinner
Greenfield
Robert
Royalists Defeated in Athens Elections
Athens election returns indicate the royalist party suffered a decisive defeat. Eleftherios Venizelos is expected to control at least 175 of 240 parliamentary seats. The turnout passed without serious disturbances amid the debate over restoring the monarchy.
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Athens
INS
Eleutherios ‘Venizelos
Usrone
Short Interviews With Home Folks
Fire captain Frank C. Lindsey discusses changes in firefighting. He notes increased use of technique and science, emphasizes ventilation as essential, and explains that ventilating quickly helps drive the fire out. He warns against pushing flames from outside toward the interior.
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Frank C. Lindsey
Moir Street
Good Samaritan Motorist Killed in Iowa Accident
Hartley Iowa August 20 Edgar Drobricks 4 was killed and Edwin Krebaum of Gerard Massachusetts was seriously injured when they stopped to help occupants of a car in a ditch and were struck by a passing truck on a country road.
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Hartley
Edgar Drobricks
Edwin Krebaum
Gerard
Brookhart Speaks At Veterans Picnic
Senator Brookhart spoke at a Spanish American War veterans picnic yesterday. He did not touch on politics in a brief high profile address that highlighted veterans' heroism.
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Mat Sama Mwal
Smith W .Brookhart
Bus Crash Fire Kills Four in Red Wing Minnesota
A passenger bus traveling from Chicago to the Twin Cities collided with a track on highway No 3 five miles north of Red Wing causing the bus to plunge into a ditch and burst into flames. Four men died and four were injured in the blaze with most bodies badly burned and identification difficult. The driver was saved by a passenger who pulled him from the burning vehicle. About 10 people were aboard.
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Red Wing
Minn
Chicago
Twin Cities
Highway No. 3
Berkeley scientists wield death dealing sound waves
In Berkeley California on August 20 1930 University of California researchers demonstrated lethal high frequency sound waves from a crystal vibrating at 1 000?000 times a second kill large protozoa instantly. The gill filaments were torn from their bodies, opening strange new fields for future science with no predictions of applications.
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Berkeley
Cal
University of California
Rockford Daily Papers Merge Under New Company
Rockford announces a merger of its two oldest dailies The Register-Gazette founded 1855 and The Morning Star in its forty first year. Effective Sept. 1 publication will continue under the new corporation Rockford Newspapers Inc.
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Rockford
Register-Gazette
Morning Star
Rockford Newspapers, Inc
American Mining Engineer Killed in Mexico
Consul William S. Jackson at Torreon reported to the state department that Henry C. Schmitt, an American mining engineer, was attacked and killed 40 miles southwest of Torreon in Trinidad, Durango. The death was relayed in a telegram dated August 20.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
Henry C. Schmitt
Trinidad
Col George D Harvey Fatally Stricken
Dublin New Hampshire August 20 Col George D Harvey former ambassador to Great Britain died suddenly at his home this afternoon of a heart attack after a period of ill health.
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Dublin
N. H
iPi
George D. Harvey
Great Britain
Two Aviators Forced Down at Sea Near Labrador
Coast Guard ordered search for Bert Hassell and Parker Cramer after the monoplane Greater Rockford went missing on a goodwill flight from Rockford Illinois toward Stockholm Sweden. Reports from amateur radio stations and officials in Denmark and Greenland indicate no contact since Sunday morning with the aviators as search efforts extend into the Greenland area.
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Greater Rockford
Stockholm
Sweden
Cochrane
Greenland
Bert Haseell
Parker Cramer
Washington,d. C
W.P
Coast, Guard
Marien
Labrador
Bert
Hassell
Rockford
Esate
Cochrine
Canada
Jane
Dlae
Mount Evans
Bert’ Hesse
Aiterivan
Stockh
Atlantic
North Atlantic
Copenhagen
Insy. Daugaard
Jensen
State Department
Bert Hassell
Gassell
Hobbs
Julianehaab
Ireykjavik
Chicago
Ont
Mount
Evans
al Madison
Wis
Cape Chideley
Davis Straits
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