In the Spotlight of Todays News Kellogg Briand Pact Signed
Representatives of 15 countries gathered in Paris to sign the Kellogg Briand pact renouncing war as a national policy. Gustav Stresemann and Secretary Kellogg signed first, with Havre residents presenting a gold pen. The ceremony marked a significant step in international relations despite skepticism about enforcement.
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Paris
Gustav Stresemann
Germany
France
Kellogg
Havre
Stresemann
U. S
Pacific
Briand
River Floods Hit Waterloo Area As Cedar Virden Rises
Torrential rain drenches Waterloo and surrounding territory, 3.6 inches falling overnight. Cedar and Black Hawk creeks surge, flooding Gates Park and streets, while bridges and tracks go under water. Rescue operations public safety concerns rise as crews work to move equipment and prevent further damage.
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Acre
Sherwood Park
Virden
Black Hawk Creeks
Virden Creek
Parker Street
Gates Park
Fourth Street
Logan Avenue
Carhier Points
Jerald Sulky Company al
Webster Street
Allen's
Allen’s Pond
Sunnyside Country Club
Newell, Ricker and
Quincy
Black Hawk Creek
Falls Avenue Bridge
Hudson
Hicks
C. G. W. ‘River Falls
Burglar Apologizes for Clothes Theft in Police Station
Chicago August 27. Paul Adams walked into a police station with clothes in arms and confessed he was a burglar not a peddler. He said he got drunk Saturday night and could not recall where he broke in, asking to be arrested. He was placed in a cell while officers review burglary reports.
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Chicago
INS
Paul Adams
Adams
Federal moves to abate liquor premises in Minneapolis area
Minneapolis Aug 27. Abatement actions to padlock 56 homes in St Paul and Minneapolis for a year were announced by J H S Gifford assistant US attorney. Injunctions to close 16 Minneapolis and 10 St Paul residences with liquor violations filed as part of a broad federal docket. Judges will advance these cases on the calendar due to the heavy volume.
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Twin Cities
Minneapolis
Minn
J. H. S. Gifford
United States District Attorney
St. Paul
Minnegapolis
Gifford
Memphis Man Named U S Prosecutor in Londergan Case
Nugent Dodds, Memphis assistant United States attorney general, is appointed to lead the federal mail fraud prosecution of Ivan G. Londergan, former head of the Medical Life Insurance Co. in Memphis. Dodds will replace Horace L. Dyer of St. Louis, who died after work on state witnesses at Dubuque last spring, prompting a new indictment.
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Memphis
Enn
United States Attorney-General
Ivan G. Londergan
Medical Life Insurance Company
Dubuque
Dodds
Horace L. Dyer
St. Louis
Londer-gan
Wright and Dancer Wed in California
Wright and Olga Milanos were believed to be in seclusion in San Diego after their marriage at Rancho Santa Fe Cal on Saturday night ending a stormy romance that drew wide attention. The former Mrs Wright earlier caused disturbances and was arrested for allegedly destroying furnishings in the couple’s apartment amid repeated attempts to split them up.
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Cal
U.pru
Frank Lioyd Wright
Olga Milanos
Rancho Santa ‘Fe
Abs. Wright
Drake student to receive large estate for study continuation
Des Moines August 27 James M Houston a Black law student at Drake University learned he is bequeathed 890 000 dollars by his uncle Richard Houston Monrovia Liberia The will provides funds to enable Houston to finish his Drake studies and return to Liberia to check the estate plans ahead of resuming his education.
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Des Moines
James M. Houston
Drake University
Richard Houston
Monrovia
Liberia
Houston
Drake
Short Interviews With Home Folks
W E B Manning of 306 Walbut Street notes a clear split in political mood between California and Iowa. He says national politics draw less interest on the coast while local issues like Bachder dam engage readers, reflecting regional differences in attention to national news.
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Far West
W. E B. Manning
Walput Street
California
Towa
Bachder Dam
Des Moines Plane Wedding At State Fair Grounds
A Ford mono plane named Wamblee Ghanke will carry a half ton bridal party for Des Moines first airplane wedding at the state fair grounds. Prospective bride Miss Thresse Brown of Grinnell and groom Myron Milhollin of Newton will wed this afternoon above the grandstand with a best man and a bridesmaid and the bride’s parents aboard.
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Des Moines
Omaha
Exposition Grounds
Newton
U.A
Wamblee Ghanke
Thresse Brown
Grinnell
Myron Milhollin
Fear to drown by flood in East
Middletown, Aug 27. Two men are dead and 17 others feared dead after a cloudburst swept the Rondout valley from Grahamsville to Rosendale about 25 miles. Abe Blatt of Lackawack and Charles Lavery of Paterson are named dead. Lavery was swept away after losing a grip on a rope. The Lackawack Country Club scene shows a washed golf course and golfers marooned on hills.
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Middletown
U.P
Natrow Rondout
Grahamsville
Rosendale
Abe Blatt
Lackawack
Tom
Charles Lavery
Paterson
Lackawack Country Club
Agreement Near on Arms Draft at Geneva
Geneva reports that a draft convention to curb private arms manufacture nears agreement. Baron Sato of Japan signaled acceptance of the American demand for full publicity and government-production control. The move follows the Kellogg pact in Paris, seen as a peace signal.
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Baron Sato
Japan
League of Nations Commission
United States
Sato
Paris
Farmer Blasting Rock Killed in Butler County
A 58 year old man Fred Poppe was killed at noon when dynamite he was using to blast rock on a farm near Clarksville Butler County discharged prematurely. He lit a fuse with a kerosene soaked cob of corn and a smoke obscured his view. He died instantly from injuries to the head and right side. Surviving are his widow and several children. Burial will be in Pleasant Valley cemetery with funeral arrangements to be announced.
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Courier Special Service
Clarksville
Fred Poppe
Gisson
Hugo
Atkinson
Poppe
Derah
Pleasant Valley Cemetery
Helen Wills Wins National Women's Title in Tennis
Helen Wills retained the national women’s championship at Forest Hills defeating Helen Jacobs 6 2 6 1. The Califormian ace claimed the title in 331 minutes, her fifth in this event, adding to her English and French championships won this year.
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Helen Wills
Westside Stadium
Forest Hills
N. Y
Helen ‘Wills
Helen Jacobs
Miss Wills
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Smith Immigration Speech Signals Regional Strategy
Washington dispatch analyzes Gov. Smith's acceptance speech highlighting a campaign strategy targeting New York and eastern states. It outlines immigration law bases, 1890 versus 1910 census quotas, and party contrasts, with Johnson arguing for census revisions to alter future immigration shares.
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Gov. Smith
New York
Albert Johnson
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Congress
New York City
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New Jersey
Mississippi
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Europe
Congressman Johnson
Washington State
Johnson
Minnes
Disappearance of Ford monoplane near Juan de Fuca
Seattle residents search the Juan de Fuca Strait for wreckage of a Ford monoplane that vanished after motor failure while carrying six aboard including Mr and Mrs A M Scott and Harold Walker the chief pilot and Leonard Carson from Victoria to Seattle. Oil slicks and a reported splash are clues as authorities hunt for the missing aircraft and crew.
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Wash
U.R
Victoria
Straits of
Juan de Fuca
Straits
A. M. Scott
Hogland
D. B. Holden
Thomas E. Lake
Harold Walker
Leonard Carson
Nilet
Greenland search for plane continues off western Greenland
WPT motor boats and kayaks patrol the western Greenland coast today as the search for the Greater Rockford aircraft continues. Residents believe the plane with Bert Hassell and Parker D. Cramer likely went down on the ice cap after departing Cochrane Ontario for Greenland. An earlier sighting of a plane over two southern Greenland cities matched the Greater Rockford markings. In Des Moines, the dance marathon persists with 16 hours logged and five couples remaining in the contest.
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W.P
Todey
Greater Rockford
Bert Hassell
Parker D. Cramer
Cochrane
Ont
Rockford
Des Moines
Kellogg Briand Pact Signed to Renounce War
Paris reports the Kellogg Briand renunciation of war treaty signed by 15 nations led by Germany's Gustav Stresemann and U S Secretary of State Kellogg. Briand and Kellogg penned the final signatures as representatives from Belgium France Britain Canada Australia New Zealand South Africa Ireland India Italy Japan Poland Czechoslovakia joined in. The ceremony featured bright lights, rapid signings, and telegraphic dispatches to announce the pact worldwide inviting adherence from 47 states.
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APJ
Gustav Stresemann
Kellogg
Benes
Soviet Russia
U. S
Stresemann
Allemagne
Briand
Dr. Styresemann
Dr. Stresemann
Kelloge
Benjamin Franklin
Executive Council
Commonwealth of Australia
Christopher Parr
New Zealand
Jacobus’ Smith
South Africa
Cosgrave
Irish Free State
Lord Cushendun
India
Count Manzoni
Italy
Count Uchida
Japan
Zaleski
Poland
Czecho-Slovakia
Ficturs Blachines
Berlin
London
European
United States
America
State Department
Washington
Foreign Office
Clockhall
Hyely
M. Giaudel
Sean
Kellogg Briand peace pact renounces war for disputes
Paris reports the Kellogg Briand treaty condemns war as a means to settle international disputes and commits signatories to pacific means. It preserves self defense and aligns with the Locarno agreements, stating violations by one party nullify that state's treaty obligations.
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Paris
Kellogg
League of Nations
West Reports at Cedar Isle Lodge
Secretary of Interior West arrived at the summer White House today for his first conference with President Coolidge since taking office July 21. He will present a comprehensive outline of current departmental work and will be an overnight guest at Cedar Island lodge in Superior Wisconsin on August 27.
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Wis
Interior
West
White House
Coolidge
Cedar Island Lodge
Tests motor of new vertical airplane by Hancock blacksmith
F. W. Lambert of Hancock tested the motor and propeller of his air plane design Saturday afternoon. The test was satisfactory though the wings remain to be perfected. Lambert believes the craft will reach 300 miles per hour and lift off vertically.
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F. W. Lambert
Lambert
Ten Years Ago in the Service Peverill Dieges
A World War I sea disaster off the New Jersey coast on August 27, 1916 claimed Harold Peverill, machinist’s mate on submarine chaser 209. The freighter Felix Taussig fired on the chaser, mistaking it for a German craft, leaving Peverill among the missing after the boat sank.
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New Jersey
Felix Taussig
Peveril
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Ife Oy
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