Aviator Schroeder Sets 36020 Ft World Altitude Record
Dayton Ohio February 28 Major R W Schroeder chief test pilot at McCook field yesterday climbed to 36020 feet then plunged five miles as oxygen exhausted he regained control and landed miraculously blind and recovering in army hospital his eyeballs frozen at 67 degrees below zero despite near death he claims the new record beating Roland Rohlf s 30300 feet set July 30 1919 and Adjt Casale s unofficial mark.
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Associated Press
Dayton, O
R. W. Schroeder
McCookfield
Army Hospital
Schroeder
Major Schroeder
Roland Rohlfs
Adjt
Casale
Panama Strikers to Work While Mediator Tries to Make Peace
About 15,000 maintenance of way workers in the Panama canal zone were set to return to work at noon as British Minister Bennett announced he would mediate between the strikers and Gov. Harding and the War Department in Washington. The union leaders had accepted his offer to mediate.
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Associated Presa
Panama
Panama 8Nal
Bennett
Gov. Harding
Canal Zone
War Department
Washington
Assassin’s bid on Serbian leaders denied by Belgrade dispatch
A Trieste report claimed an assassination attempt wounded Prince Regent Alexander of Serbia and Premier Protiteh, but the official Belgrade dispatch denies any attack. The report appeared in the Yugoslav Legation archive via the Giornale d' Italia.
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Associated Trees
Washington
DB. C
Triesté
Alexander
Serbia
Protiteh
Vnv
Belgrade
Jugo-Slav Legation
Trieste
Giornese d' Italia
$1,000,000 War Memorial Proposed by Boston
Boston officials consider a memorial building on an artificial island in the Charles River basin at Harvard Bridge to honor World War veterans. The plan estimates the building cost at 1 million dollars and island development at a similar amount.
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Boston
Associated Press
Mass
Charles River
Harvard Bridge
Peters
Attempt to Start Auto Engine Leads to Wife's Death
Franklin Farr of Bedford near Indianola Iowa attempted to warm gasoline in an open vessel to start his automobile. The gasoline caught fire as he carried it outside and splashed on his wife, who died from burns. Farr was severely burned in the incident, which occurred February 28.
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Associated Press
Indianola
Frank Farr
Bedford
Here
Farr
Fire alarms report roof blaze at 10200 Mulberry
Sparks started a fire on the roof drawing the department to 10200 Mulberry. Damage about $100. Occupant listed as K. J. Stohr. A second run at 100 block Wellington found a small roof blaze with no damage. Insurance ad seeks clients. Also notes an obituary and a naval loss report from Associated Press describing army officers killed in France and ships.
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K. J. Stohr
Wellington
Sion
Des Moines Woman Tries Coffin Bed Stunt to Pay Iowa Uni
Des Moines student Goddon Sylvester offered a coffin bed in a cemetery for a single night in Iowa City to raise tuition funds. Dean Nellie Aurner blocked the plan. She intends to prove women can be fearless, having worked in a dance hall dressing room while studying, with no dates. Her trunk was misrouted to Hong Kong years ago, delaying reunion with the owner.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
Goddon Sylvester
East Twenty-fourth Street
Des Moines
City Cemetery
Nellie S. Aurner
Miss Sylvester
Womlen
Hong Kong
China
trans-Pacific
Althe
Soviet Augoia Not To Get Up Army Sues Bid
A wartime auction notice from Washington reports the Soviet government bureau in a Russian county was the apparently highest bidder on army shoes offered for sale. The error was noted and officials said no awards would go to Soviet representatives as the Soviet government is not recognized by the United States. Items sold at auction are not for export.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
War Department
York
Vie
United States
Department
Cotton Textile Profiteers Labeled Worst Sort
Washington February 28 The House Interstate Commerce Committee advanced a resolution urging an immediate inquiry by the Federal Trade Commission into rising cotton goods prices. Representative Tilson Republican Connecticut stated manufacturers were profiteers of the worst sort with prices up 400 percent since 1914. He noted large profits in both New England and southern mills and doubted swift congressional action, but said the commission’s findings could have a wholesome effect.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Federal Trade Commission
House Interstate Commerce Committee
Titsom
Connecticut
New England
Tilson
Congress
Fifty Thousand Dollar Toll Roads Meet Delay
Springfield reports highway advisory board and Gov. Lowden weighing high costs of trenching and boring bids near fifty thousand dollars per mile. No contracts likely until costs drop. Also notes tax evaders to be paroled, a Greenfield tax case, and a London Telegraph tribute to Sir Auckland Geddes for public service.
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Geddes
London Telegraph
Associated Press
Springfield
Highway Advisory Board
Frank C. Lowden
New Haven Trial of Farm Hampers by Parcel Style System
In Connecticut an agriculture department backed experiment uses street railway express to deliver farm products directly to city households. Eggs poultry potatoes and produce ordered by phone or mail are packed in uniform hampers and delivered within hours, relying on farmers to secure customers for city delivery.
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New Haven
Conn
Connecticut
Department of Agriculture
Parcel
Street
Milford
Bridgeport
Railroads Under Snow Ask Plants to Dig Them Out
Boston Feb 28 railroads spark action as industrial plants are urged to divert workers to clearing rail yards and junction points across New England where thousands of cars are stalled by heavy snow. Transportation experts call it the worst in history as fuel shortages force plant shutdowns and concern over food supplies grows in some areas.
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Associated Press
Boston
New England
Record Potash Output in Germany Reaches 550,000 Tons
Washington February 28 production of potash in Germany last month reached a record 550000 tons. Officials attributed the uplift to better industrial conditions and noted a project to import anthracite coal from the United States to aid the potash industry. The report also notes dry law cuts inquests in Cook County, with coroner cases down 8 percent since prohibition and expected to drop further to 30 percent after wood alcohol deaths are eliminated.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Germany
Dispatch
United States
Chicago
Cook County
Hoffman
Borden Heads South for New York Trip
Halifax report says Premier Sir Robert Borden, briefly relieved due to ill health, arrived from Liverpool on the way to New York where he will meet Lady Borden who will accompany him on a southern trip.
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Bordens
Associated Press
Halifax
Robert Borden
Liverpool
New York
Borden
Jarden and Truck Patches on the Farm
The article describes the garden as the most intensively worked field on the farm by USDA specialists. It notes truck patches near the dwelling for intertilled crops like corn. Potatoes, sweet corn, cabbage, tomatoes, squash, and cucumbers are raised, with vegetables contributing about 11 percent of farm food value and Irish potatoes forming nearly half of vegetable value. In the South, sweet potatoes outpace Irish potatoes by about two to one.
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United States Department of Agriculture
Two Edged Booze Baffles Court Tale From New York
Nagis trate Dale of the Flatbush court recounted a peculiar liquor that knocks a person out when they are in and knocks them in when they are out. Aged woman who slipped on ice was revived after one shot and a drink given by her daughter. William Fink testified he carried the woman home and later was forced to drink to test the effect, waking on the sidewalk in a similar position.
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New York
M. J. Cleveland
Webster City
Howard B. Burr
Waterloo
Cleveland
Susie Horner
Frank Martin
HE. K
Housden
Lafayette
Oscar
Beck
Charles Herman
Berth Avenue
Herman
William Alen
Tre
Webster City News Highlights and Local Advertisements
Local notices report Miss Tressa Berend returning from Chicago and Miss Gladys Klein accepting a banking job there. Ministerial association meets at Motel Russell-Lamson, Rev. Gough to speak on Isaiah. Traffic collisions at Fifth and Bayard with minor damage. Smallpox quarantines listed. Fireman injury update and a court suit against the city for sidewalk snow. Closing-out sale near Washburn as health prompts retirement. Sacred Heart guild to present Kathleen Mavorneen for charity. Revenue stamps required on deeds. notable stamp costs noted. Lecture on What's Wrong With the World by J Adam Bede set for March 5.
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John Schmidt
Almond Street
Walnut Street
E. G. van Duyn
Washburn
van Duyn
J. Coates
Auburn
J. W. Thompson
California
Drama League
Iowa
Ackley
Miss Bea Shares Returns to Good Counsel Academy
Gilbartville Feb 28 A narrative item notes Miss Bea nee Shares returning to Good Counsel Academy Mankato Minn after detention at home following an injury. Also mentioned are Elizabeth Welland and Leonard Welland family details, and routine local notices about belongings relocation and a birthday celebration.
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Gilbertwiler
Gilbartville
Beanee
Good Counsel Academy
Mankato
Minn
Elizabeth
Leonard Welland
St. Francis Hospital
Watchod
Matt Becker
Roman
Tts
Farmers Unite to Labor Aiming for Trust Knockout
Washington February 28 The Farmers National council announces a farmer labor congressional committee to elect a congress answerable to the people and curb the transportation food and money trusts The committee will include leaders from railway employee groups and national and state farmer and labor organizations with headquarters in Washington D C George Fel Hampton serves as chairman and Warren Stone as vice president
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Farmer-Labor Congressional Committee
Congress
Transportation Trust
Food Trust
Money Trust
Genree Fel Hampton
Farmers' National Council
Hampton
Warren §. Stone
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Plane cannon maker claims new automatic air gun
The Manufacturers' Aircraft Association announced acceptance by the army air service of a Wright-Hispano designed airplane motor that when driving a plane fires shells one and a half inches in diameter rapidly. The gun aims to pierce armored planes, tanks, submarines and airships. The motor is a wartime modification.
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Associated Press
New York
Army Air Service
Manufacturers’ Aircraft Association
Hammarskjold to Aid Drummond in World Court Plans
Washington D C Feb 28 Ake Hammarskjold first secretary of the Swedish legation will leave for London next week to join Sir Eric Drummond secretary general of the League of Nations. He will work with the commission drafting plans for a new international tribunal La zerberg will succeed him in Paris
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Ake Hammarskjold
Legation
London
Eric Drummond
League of Nations
Joen Lazerberg
Paris
Hammerskjold
Germans to surrender 120 ships to Allies March 10
Berlin reports that 120 vessels including eight battleships and several cruisers will be handed over to the Entente March 10 under the peace treaty. The German mercantile marine will crew the ships, prompting seaport unease and calls to retain the boats to avert labor market disruption.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Funeral for Mrs. William W. Ming set at Whitson home
Funeral services for Mrs. William W. Ming will be held at the Whitson home at 9 a.m. with Rev. M. J. Lockwood of Grace M. E. church in charge. The body will be taken to Hazleton, Iowa for burial. Rhoda J. McMasters born March 14, 1856 in Pennsylvania and married to William W. King in 1874. Surviving: husband and numerous children, including Sherman, Clayton, Gilbert, Myrl, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Whitson, Mrs. Greenley, Wilson Potlach, and others. several siblings.
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William W. King
William W. Ming
Thomas EB. Whitson
Fowler Street
Whitson
M. J. Lockwood
Grace
M. E. Church
Hazleton
Rhoda J. McMasters
Pennsylvania
Sherman
Clayton
Oelwein
Gilbert B
Frank Wilson
Myrl T
A. W. Greenley
This City
Ida
Sister of local minister dies in California
Word reached H. A. Snyder of the death of his sister-in-law Mrs. J. G. Snyder in Los Angeles California. Deceased was a sister of S. J. Harrison former minister here and had visited Waterloo several times. Her home was in Cedar Rapids before moving to California.
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J. G. Snyder
H. A. Snyder
Los Angeles
Cal
S. J. Harrison
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
California
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