Taft and Hughes to keynote American Bar Association meeting
Minneapolis reports Chief Justice Taft and Secretary of State Hughes will deliver principal addresses at the American Bar Association gathering, with discussions on world court, anti discrimination, and a possible codification of international law for peaceful air navigation. Lord Birkenhead and John Davis also attend as speakers.
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United Press
Minneapolis
Minn
William Howard Tatt
Charles Evans Hughes
American Bar Association
Lord Birkenhead
Taft
Hughes
Great Britain
John Davis
England
Armartesa Bar Association
J. Hamilton Lewis
Illnois
American Har Association
Lewis
Europe
American Policy Toward Europe Is Firmly Fixed
Sums up U S stance on postwar Europe with Secretary Hughes backing an international reparations commission. America will act only with broad consent, avoiding actions that fuel European tensions. Discussion covers World Court prospects and Coolidge’s role, noting Republican support and possible Senate action.
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Europe
World Court
Bouloi
Harding
Coolidge
Republican Party
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Lodge
Senate
Woolidge
International Court
Jlarding
International Court of Justice
Hiram Johnson
I- Des - Moines
Iowa
Cameron
Tager
New Yn
Willett
Tama
Gov
Hammill
Governors Back Federal Fuel Control Effort Amid Tense Coal Talks
Washington officials and miners face a high stakes push for federal control of fuel. Governor Pinchot maintains silence as he negotiates with labor and industry leaders including Bishop Hoban and other political figures. The scene highlights a heated, behind the scenes fight to influence Pinchot’s influence and coal policy direction.
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Glate
Pinchot
Michael Fllohan
Scranton
Bishop Hoban
Auto crash near Howardsville claims teen life
Laura Burnett age 16 is dead and seven companions are hospitalized after an automobile skid near Howardsville in Silverton Colorado. The party plunged down a 40 foot embankment while traveling on the highway late last night.
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Silverton
Colo. Anz
Laura Burnett
Howardsville
Denver double slaying shocks Italian Denver
Police hunted a man named doe after a shooting killed Mrs Roy McGlone 28 and Miss Emma Vastovic 14 in Denver. McGlone hurried from a camp to explain, while neighbors found the bodies in an apartment with a pistol and a bloodstained note.
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Associated Press
Denver
Colo
Doe
Roy McGlone
Emma Vastovic
Airs
Tienry Tv
Burtscher
Laura L. Jones
An Lathin
Alfred Calone
McGlone
Calone
Bloodhounds Capture Suspected Dynamiter in Kansas City
Frank Swartz was arrested today after bloodhounds led deputies from J. E. King’s home to Swartz’s residence following a dynamite blast that wrecked King’s cottage. Wing, his wife, and five children were thrown from bed but unharmed. King suspects enemies from wartime feuds over lake-side parties.
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Kansas City
Frank Swartz
J. E. King
Wing
Altho
King
Woman Killed Herself in Bathtub in Nebraska
Lincenin Nebraska August 28 The coroner’s jury ruled the death of Mrs. Clara T Quinn a suicide from forehead wounds and strangulation by a milk bottle blow and a tightly drawn gold braid around her neck.
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Lincenin
Neb
Clara _t. Quinn
Iowa Bank Robber Captured in Omaha
Ray Burgess, wanted for a 1936 Laurel bank robbery, is under arrest in Omaha under the alias H. Ey Lynden. He escaped a Nevada jail in 1920 with Roy Russell Ball after a Des Moines filling station arrest and was convicted in Missouri last year for bank robbery.
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Marshalltown
Ray Burgess
Laurel
Thia County
Omaha
H. Ey. Lynden
Story County
Nevada
Roy Russell Ball
Des Moines
Missouri
Illinois Slow in Selling Bonus Bonds
After three hours without a satisfactory bid for 15 million dollars in bonus bonds the service recognition board adjourned at noon until 1 30 this afternoon. Representatives of the Guaranty Company of New York are contacting their main offices for further instructions.
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Springfield
Afteer
Service Recognition Board
Guaranty Company of New York
Reopened Grave Stirs Death Fear in Iowa
In Buchanan county a coffin exhumation after a missing boy case prompts tears from the Kiddies and Saxtons. Both families dispute if the recovered body is theirs as missing teeth and birthmarks distinguish the youths. Letters from a travelling circus youth say he is alive elsewhere. The dead boy’s identity remains uncertain.
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Cedar Rapids
Ralph Saxton
William Kiddle
Bill
Hving
Buchanan County
Linn
Saxtons
Undertaier
Piu Perfedred
Nee
Fanny
Mra
William Kiddie
Ralph
Saxton
Raady
State Center
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Kansas
Eldora School
Last Hope for Double Slayer Gone in Utah
George Gardiner, convicted double slayer, loses last clemency hope as District Judge Ephraim Hansen signs the death warrant and the Utah Supreme Court refuses to stay the execution. Gardiner faces firing squad at sunrise Friday after killing Deputy Sheriff Gordon Stuart and J. S. Devine at Welby, Utah, 16 and a half months ago.
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Salt Lake
City
Utah
George Gardiner
Ephraim “Hansen
State Supreme Court
Grant & Strey Af
Gardner
Utah State Prison
Supreme Court
Gordon Stuart
J. 8. Devine
Welby
Trial of Four for Killing Looney Opens in Underworld War
The trial of Anthony Billbury George Holsapple George Huckley and Dan Drost for the murder of John Conner Looney son of John Looney fugitive underworld head opens in cook county court. Clarence Darrow defends the defendants while Charles W Hadley assistant attorney general of Illinois prosecutes. Jury selection expected to take two weeks.
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Rock Island
John Conner Looney
John Looney
Ire
Wit Court
Looney
Anthony Billbury
George Holsapple
George Huckley
Dan Drost
Young Looney
Governor Preus Reported Ill in Minnesota
Gov. A. A. O. Preus of Minnesota is said to be seriously ill at Grand Marias, Minn. Three Rochester physicians are at his bedside. The illness is reported as hay fever with heart trouble.
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St. Paul
Ming
A. A. O. Preus
Minnesota
Grand Ma. Tain
Minn
State Capitol
Rochester
Suburb Planned for Council Bluffs Area
Council Bluffs capitalists announce a suburb of 300 homes to be built on the Missouri river Iowa site between Council Bluffs districts. The project aims to meet demand for lower rents and accelerate construction.
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Omaha
Neb
Council Bluffs
Bandits Hold Up Wake-McLaughlin Warehouse Bonded Liquor Theft
Three watchmen at the Wake-McLaughlin warehouse bonded by the government were held up by bandits early today near the Gold Coast in Chicago. The burglars escaped with bonds worth 260000 in Uquors.
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Chicago
Wake-McLaughlin
Gold Coast
Death Notice: Martinack Ww Tuts
William acnuiez aged at 7:30 yesterday at his home 14 South Barclay Street died from complications after two months illness. Funeral arrangements pending with Hileman and Gindt undertaking parlors awaiting details.
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Wiliam Acnuiez
South Barclay Streat
Art Hileman & Gindt
Coolidge Move In Coal Strike Seen As New Policy
Washington Aug 28 The Coolidge Pinchot coal strike step could mark a shift toward decentralized government. By asking Pinchot to handle the anthracite crisis, the administration may sidestep federal seizure and push state or local control, reshaping national policy and power balance.
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Coolidge
U.9
United Press
Washington, D. C
Gov. Pinchot
Pinchot
Congress
Coalidge
Washington
Goolidze
Albanian General Killed by Assassins
Athens reports General Telini head of the frontier commission was assassinated today by unknown gunmen who attacked his motorcar on the Santa Quaranta highway. His chauffeur Sergeant Major Scotti and aide Conatd also died. Officials seek to apprehend the culprits.
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Athens
Telini
Commission For Delimitation of
Santa Quaranta Highway
Scotti
Conatd
One Dead Eight Hurt in Cavern of Earth
A cave in at a Baltimore Maryland excavation for a new high school left one man dead and eight injured. Firemen and police search for a tenth believed buried. The deceased is Melvin G Young 27 a timekeeper of a gang at work in the site. The injured are described as Negro workers.
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Cavern of Earth
Baltimore
jGead
Melvin G. Young
Harvey to Return to London in September
Col. George Harvey the American ambassador to Great Britain will resume his post in London on September 18. He and Mrs. Harvey are guests of the President and Mrs. Coolidge at the executive mansion in Washington before returning.
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Washington, D. C
George Harvey
Great Britain
London
White House
Harvey
Coolidge
Mexican Recognition Nearer But Not Yet Confirmed
The White House said American recognition of Mexico awaits only a full exchange of formal notes. Officials stated Mexico’s reports of U S recognition were premature and that no such recognition has occurred yet.
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Washington, D. C
Mexico
White House
United States
Arizona Supreme Court Allows Three Cent Gasoline Tax
Governor Hunt vetoed the three cent gasoline tax in the Arizona highway financing bill passed in March but the state supreme court today ruled the veto ineffective and the tax collectible in the decision issued in Phoenix.
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Phoenix
Ariz. Atle
George W. P. Hunt
Arizona
State Supreme Court
Endurance Flight Sets Multiple World Records
Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lieut. John P. Richter extended their record run toward dawn as they logged 2 500 kilometers in 17 hours 32 minutes and 444 5 seconds and then 3 000 kilometers in 21 hours 11 minutes, with later 3590 kilometer mark in 24 hours 37 minutes and 8 seconds. The crew maintained an average speed just over 8 miles per hour across 76 laps, after refueling from ground support.
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Associated Press
San Diego
Cal
Lhrge
Lowell H. Smith
John P. Richter
U. S. Army
Smith
Fats Jung
Oakley Kelly
John A. MacReady
Richter
Ruchter
Cosgrave Re-Elected Treland President and Ministers
Dublin reports Liam Cosgrave re-elected as Treland president with a large poll lead. Returns indicate ministers O Higgins home affairs Mulcahy defense and MacNeill education also re-elected with strong counts. A Kilkenny dispatch notes Cosgrave heading the polls by a wide margin.
Attorneys General to Probe Oil Price Investigation
The National Association of Attorneys General adopted a resolution to investigate gasoline prices. Minnesota Attorney General Clifford L. Hilton, association president, named Nebraska Attorney General Co. B. Splilman to call a conference and begin the inquiry in Kansas City or another central city.
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Minneapolis
Minun
National Association of Attorneys General
Clifford L. Hilton
Minnesota
Co. B. Splilman
Nebraska
Kansas City
Embezzling Cashier Sentenced in U S Court
Coney Slaughter ex cashier at Mercantile National Pueblo pled guilty to two counts of embezzlement. He received 11 years in Leavenworth for embezzling $97.56 on the first count and $15,500 on the second, after an eight year manhunt and arrest in Phoenixville Pennsylvania.
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Denver
Colo
Coney Slaughter
Mercantile National Bank
Pueblo
United States Penitentary
Leavenworth
Kan
Phoenixville
Omaha to Probe City Water System Breakdown
Omaha city council orders a full investigation after a heated session. Water analyzed by city bacteriologist Dr. Millard Langfeld shows traces of typhoid germs and colon bacilli, though the water appears clear. It fails to meet government test standards.
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Omaha
Neb
Omaha_city
Millard Langfeld
Altho
Langfeld
Cummins May Get Vice President's Pay
Washington dispatch reports the next president pro tem of the senate will receive the vice president salary, not a senator’s, as ruled by the comptroller general. Senator A. B. Cummins of Iowa holds the current pro tem position.
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Cummins
Washington, D. C
Calvin Coolidge
Senate
Congress
Comptroller
A. B. Cummins
Fowa
Chief Deputy Takes Brewer’s Post in Des Moines
I. H. Hammond, chief deputy U.S. marshal for the Southern District, was named temporary U.S. marshal by Federal Judge O. J. Wade to serve until the president appoints a successor to the late Guy S. Brewer, who was killed in an automobile accident Sunday.
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Des Moines
I. H. Hammond
U. S
O. J. Wade
Guy 8. Brewer
Mrs. McNichol Re-Elected Head of Alumnae Federation
Mrs. Frank J. McNichol was re-elected president of the National Federation of Alumnae Sisters of Charity B W M without opposition at Clinton Iowa. Elisabeth R. King Chicago is organizing plans to raise 106000 dollars to celebrate the order’s centennial with 1600 sisters teaching in 100 schools across twelve states. The convention adjourned to meet in 1925 at St Joseph College Dubuque Iowa.
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Clinton
Frank J. McNichol
Federaion of Alumnae
Sisters of Charity
B. VV. M
Eliabeth R. King
Chicago
Philadelphia
Ireland
Wisconsin
Illinois
Towa
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
California
Oregon
North
South Dakota
Monttana
Montint St. Joseph College
Dubuque
Czech Young People Federation Formed at Iowa Conference
At Hus Memorial Presbyterian church Cedar Rapids the Young People’s Federation was organized during the closing sessions of a three day presbytery conference. It unites seven Czech church youth groups from Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin Nebraska and South Dakota with 235 members. Harry Pipal was elected president and Miss Emily Kliment secretary treasurer. Rev Joseph Tepley will serve as pastor supervisor.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Young People’s Federation
Central West Presbytery and Evangelical Union
Presbytery
Jfts
Hus Memorial Presbyterian Church
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Nebraska
South Dakota
Harry Pipal
Eagle
S. C
Emily Kliment
Manitowac
Wis
Joseph Tepley
District and Municipal Court Jurors Drawn
Sixty trial jurors were drawn for the district court and sixty for the municipal court for the September term. Names of jurors from Waterloo Cedar Falls and surrounding areas are listed with assignment details and reporting times.
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J. W. Thompson
Municipal Court
FP. P. Juel
Mrs. R, P. Short
S. Hildebrandt
Alice Hamiss
Ula Stoops
Lulu A. Stauffacher
Gertrude Lenz
Elizabeth Reed
H. H. Colby
Hugh McGranahan
E. B Prenzel
L. K. Miler
B.C. McConnell
Louisa W. Barnes
Geo. W. Clements
H. Keeler
S. Whipkey
J. Eh’ Hinz
Harry M. Buettner
J. S. ‘Alen
G. FP
Hersh‘berger
Raymond O. Letsch
Chris W. Schmidt
W. C. Mathews
LeRoy Webster
F. E. Meyer
Geo. Highley
Mrs. Ettle Hooker
Vs L. Kiefer
Hilda Repass
Tina Bickley
Kathrine Welstead
Walter E. K. St. Budle
A. Lockham
Mrs. Bianche- Liehty
Lottle B. Headford
J. S. Saunders
Roy Haddeman
Grace Watr
Emma Raub
Lillie Halley
Waterloo
Mabel_ Archer
Elizabeth Arroe
William Geistle
Eugene 3B. Brady
Charles Bird
M. W
Cedar Falle
Kuly Burr
A. EB. Borger
Tom Bishop
Amelia. Clausing
George Jensen
R. Kerr
Ellis Ostrander
J. C. Romme
S Thiemer
CC. F. Wild
Florence _G. Walters
Orange
F. L. Slingaman
Elmer C. Blough
Waterloo Ianship
George Buchan
Cora Burdi
Allister McCormick to Wed Miss Joan Stevens in Paris
Chicago man Allister McCormick is to marry London born Miss Joan Stevens, with a Paris wedding reportedly planned for early October. The prior Chicago engagement to Miss Mary Landon Baker drew wide 1921 and last year’s postponements.
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Paris
Allister McCormick
Chicago
Joan Stevens
London
le Touquet
the Herald
Mary Landon Baker
G W A Directors Resume Sessions
Directors of the Greater Waterloo Association held their first meeting after the summer vacation at the association rooms today. They discussed minor matters and planned Dairy Cattle Congress improvements including a possible addition at the grounds to enclose the poultry exhibit. Action is expected later.
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Greater Waterloo Association
Cattle Congress
Paul Davis Dry Goods Firm Receives Renewal Certificate
Des Moines reports the Paul Davis Dry Goods company of Waterloo was granted a renewal certificate by the secretary of state. The firm carries a capital of 500000 with Paul Davis serving as president and treasurer and Edmund Rausch as vice president. A separate note states a child was struck by an automobile on Lafayette Street, minor injuries reported.
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Des Moines
Paul Davis Dry Goods Company
Waterloo
Paul Davis
Edmund Rausch
Yamamoto Named Japanese Premier in Surprise Ruling
Tokyo reports Count Gombal Yamamoto chosen prime minister succeeding Baron Kato in an abrupt move. The former premier Yamamoto, linked to a 1913 government and 1914 naval scandal, has long held naval influence and once served as minister of the navy. Baron Kato was buried with full naval honors.
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United Press
Tokyo
Gombal Yamamoto
Japan
Baron
Kato
Yamamoto
Admiral Saito
Korea
Shog
Baron Uchida
Katsura
United States
England
Prince Fushimi
Baron Kato
Forttay
Europe Like America But for Prohibition and Streetcar Fares
John C. McGlade west school superintendent spoke to the Kiwanis on his European trip. He noted Brussels streetcar fares at 25 centimes about 12 cents U.S. and observed a Ford on arrival. He described sidewalks crowded with beer stands, few cars at night, and visits to Paris and Verdun, warning that postwar politics mislead casual observers. He attributed Britain’s unemployment to German price competition harming industry.
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John C. McGlade
West School
Kiwanis Club
Globe
Waterloo
McGlade
Brussels
Southampton
Peggy O'Neil
Woolworth
Luncheon Clubs Parade Before Baseball Doubleheader
Members of Y's Men Lions Kiwanis and Rotary clubs paraded through downtown ahead of a doubleheader at League Park. Led by the Greater Waterloo band, each club fielded its ball team as royal fans followed. The games benefit the YWVGA building fund.
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Lions
Kiwanis
Rotary
Y's
League Park
Greater Waterloo Band
Reading
Royal
Y. WV. G. A. Building Fund
Mrs Conn Honored by Castle Hill Friends in Jubilee Party
Mrs. David Conn resigns her Castle Hill school post after six years to become Jubilee Ill principal. About 70 friends held a party at the C. J. Shaw home on Rainbow Drive with an impromptu program. Guests included Paul Hanna Laverne Ia Harold Ewing Waverly Allan Rush Minneapolis and Mrs. Margaret Knowles Sheboygan Wis.
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David Conn
Castle Hill
Jubilee
C. J. Shaw
Rainbow Drive
Conn
Anna Millard
Helen Axtell
Dewey Colton
Naplis
Paul Hanna
Laverne. la
Harold Ewing
Waverly
Allan Rush
Minneapolis
Shaw
Margaret Knowles
Sheboygan
Wis
Hame
J. B. Knowles
Waterloo
Princess Anastasia of Greece Seriously Ill in London
Princess Anastasia wife of Prince Christopher and former Mrs. William Leeds is seriously ill at her London home. No details on the illness were released. The second item notes the War Department allotting $55,000 for Mississippi River and harbor maintenance between Wisconsin and Minneapolis and $130,000 at Southwest Pass Mississippi River.
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London
Anastasia
Greece
Prince Christopher
William B. Leeds
Washington
War Department
Mississippi
Wisconsin River
Minneapolis
Southwest Pass
Mississippi River
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