Quest Mark Ends Record Quest To Soar Past Air Endurance
Rockwell Field California January 5 The giant Army endurance plane Quest Mark after more than 98 hours aloft turned north toward Metropolitan Field Los Angeles. The tri motor Fokker aims to eclipse all air endurance records as crews refuse rest and refueling continues through midnight. Maj Carl Spatz commands with Capt Ira Baker and pilots Halverson Quesada and Hooe noted. weather and fuel allow a potential 300 hour flight.
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Rockwell Field
San Diego
Cal
INS
Somime
Feld
Los Angeles
America
Globe
Tio
Carl Spatz
Spatz
Ira ©. Baker
Licuts
Harry A. Halverson
Elwood R. Quesada
R. W. Hooe
Brain Tests and Language Puzzles from Evening Post
A page features an IQ style test with 10 items on word choice and spelling. Instructions urge underlining the correct definition or form and timing of five minutes, with example problems such as angle, vane, canyon, dessert, reign, mark, liar, serf.
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Marc
Mark
Liar
Eyre
Lia
Senate Considers Kellogg Ssansi War Treaty
The Senate weighs the Kellogg Ssansi war pact as Assistant Attorney General Donov an testifies before a public lands committee. The House continues debate on war department appropriation. Foreign affairs panel studies a Kellogg peace pact resolution. Public lands committee holds hearing on Northern Pacific land grants.
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Congress Today
United Press
Senate
Grneral Donovan
Sense Public Lands
HOUSE
War Department
Foreign Affairs Committee
Microscopic Thermocouple Measures Heat From Distant Star
Chicago January 5. Dr Edwin Frost of the University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory notes Betelgeuse is the hottest known object in the universe. A thermocouple micro device measured heat from 124 stars, including Betelgeuse at 200 light years, with readings as small as 0.00001 degree. Experiments by Edison Pettit and Seth Nicholson at Mt Wilson used a microscope to observe the device. Sirius and other bright stars followed in heat radiation among the measured stars.
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Chicago
Edwin Frost
University of Chicago
Yerkes Observatory
The
Astrophysical Journal
Frost
Briergeuse
Edison Pettit
Seth Nicholson
Mt. Wilson Observatory
Betelgeuse
Earth
Sirius
Coroner's Jury Exonerates Driver In Knox Fatality
Coroner's jury clears the driver who struck Knox after he stepped from a streetcar near Independence and Alta Vista in Waterloo. Witnesses Matthews and McCarter testified Knox moved around the car and stepped into the path. driver said his car was traveling slowly and he could not avoid the impact. Knox, head of R. M. Knox & Co., was born in Waterloo April 23, 1878, and his family and a long local history are noted as funeral arrangements await his wife and daughter’s arrival from California.
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Joseph LaTier
Hogle Street
Edwards Street
Knox
Mr. Knox
R. MM. Knox & Co
Lafayette Building
Independence
Alta Vista
Matthews
Francis Mc Carter
Waterloo
Aotions
Evushiney Ab
Chet
Elem
Anunaey Lars - Slant
McMilan
Lfe
Waterloo West
Kemper Hall
Davenpadt
Parthnult
Minn
Sollywood
Janet
Hollywood
Gal
Robnert Knox
John Knox
Sceand
Randolph Streets
Thenos
Munson
O'Keefe & Towne Mortuay
California
King George Gains Strength in Latest Bulletin
Lindos inmates report King George showing improvement after two days of critical condition. Doctors say the monarch has made a full recovery and is resting comfortably at night. Bulletin notes a gradual but steady improvement and a good night.
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King George
Bulletin
Lindos
George
Anced Teiday
Jan
Tiny Blonde Fights Big Purse Snatcher
A fragmentary item describes a purse snatching attempt where a small woman fought back but the thief escaped. The text is garbled and contains unrelated notes about golf officials and a medical operation, with names and dates inconsistently presented.
Leaked figure on smuggling alcohol to U.S. from Canada
A Globe dispatch from Ottawa reports more than 100 million dollars in alcohol smuggled from Canada to the United States since the anti smuggling treaty. Coast guard and prohibition officials plan talks with Ottawa on revising the treaty as exports from Canada show large yearly totals, including re exports of Scotch and French wines.
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Toronto
Ont
Pi—A. Dispatch
Globe Today
Ottawa
Canada
United States
United States Coast Guard
Prohibition
Dispatch
U. 5
Vie
Globe
Ontario Liquor Control Board
State Swept by Storm and Cold Wave Preview
The state faced rain and a muddy street scene as northwest winds ushered in a new cold period. At Omaha the temperature dropped to six above zero, down 19 degrees since midnight, with 5 inches of snow and a 25 mph wind. Railroads reported trains mostly on time. In Minneapolis snow from Friday evening threatened traffic, marking the season’s first storm to disrupt transportation.
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Omaha
Jan
Government Weather Bureau
Minneapolis
Minndan
Twin Cities
Last of Three Bank Bandits Is Captured by Farmer and Son
The last of three bank robbers who looted the First National Bank of Mexico Missouri of 21500 was captured near Fulton by farmer Ell Books and his son. Tom Davis of Chicago was identified as the man and most of the loot was found on his person except 435. Other loot included 12500 in municipal heads of Billings Montana and 777 in currency. The other two bandits, John Bruck of New York and Willie Hightower of Fort Worth died of wounds in Mexico Missouri.
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Fulton
INS
First National Bank of Mexico
Tom Davis
Chicago
Davis
Billings
Mont
John Bruck
New York
Mexico
Wilie Hightower
Fort Worth
Tex
Ell
Books
Jarmers
Filling Station Burglarized Third Time in One Week
Sketly Oil station No. 1 on Rainbow drive was burglarized last night for the third time since December 28. Several valuable tools were stolen. The thief gained entry by breaking a glass in the front door and unlocking it from inside.
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Sketly
Rainbow Drive
Man Ends Life After Shoveling Snow
Atkins Indiana report of a 38 year old railroad worker named Gasser who shoveled snow from his sidewalk this morning then hanged himself in his garage. He was married with two children. Relatives could give no reason for the suicide.
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Atkins
Insi—Waller Gasser
Coust
Mellon Denies Buying Madonna Painting
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon denied a London Daily Mail report that he purchased Raphael's Cowper Madonna for nearly one million dollars. He called the story untrue and stated he did not buy the painting.
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Washington, D. C
INS
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
London
Raphael
Hill Withdraws as Candidate for Speaker
Nora Springs Iowa Jan 5 State Representative Late Hill of Floyd county Republican withdrew as a candidate for speaker of the Town house of representatives saying other work prevented him from giving adequate time to a pre legislative speakership campaign.
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Nora Springs
Late Hill
Floyd County
Repsentatives
Funeral rites for Mrs Charles E Kanode near Dunkerton
Funeral services for Mrs Charles E Kanode, who died yesterday at her farm home near Dunkerton, will be held at 2 30 PM tomorrow at Walnut Street Baptist Church with Rev Warren L Sleeves and Rev John G Alchroeder officiating. The body will be kept in a vault at Kearns mortuary until spring then buried at Memorial Park cemetery.
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Charles E, Kanode
Charles EB. Fanode
Dunkerton
Tomorrcay
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Warren L. Sleeves
John G
Alchroeder
Kearns Mortuary
New Memorial Park Cemetery
Crowded Senate Hears Borad on Kelloge Treaty
Pacifists invade Washington as crowds pack the Senate hearing on the Kellogg Treaty. Dignitaries like Smiddy visit Europe and comment on Anglo American diplomacy while speakers estimate churchgoers and adherents in the millions. Senator Pepper tabulates global support at 285,900,000, prompting a cautious endorsement of the proposal.
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Borad
Washington
World Court
George Wharton Pepper
Pennsylvania
Foreign Relations Committee
Pepper
Pennsylvanian
U.S. A
The
Philadelphian
Gov Long Grants Week's Stay for Accused Slayers
The governor grants a one week stay of execution for the accused slayers. Chief Justice O'Neill issues a writ to stay and commands Judge Simon and Sheriff Pecet to appear before the supreme court next Friday to show cause why a lunacy commission should not be appointed.
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Brunot
O'Neill
Simon
Pecet
Supreme Court
Hoxie Reported Slightly Better After Illness
Wirt Hoxie, vice president of the Waterloo Frit & Commission Co, remains in Allen Memorial hospital after meningitis. He had a severe head cold preceding illness, was moved to hospital Thursday in critical condition, and reportedly slept well overnight. Hoxie, a former Black Hawk county attorney, is well known in the region.
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Wirt Hoxie
Waterloo Frit & Commission Co
Allen Memorial ‘S Hospital
Michingilis
Hoxie
Black Hawk County
Inws
Lindberghs One-time Girl Weds Another
Lenore Longley known as Slim Lindberghs girl marries Haraté Knoot, an air mail pilot, during a New Year's Eve secret romance. Knoot, who replaced Lindbergh on the air route, had been linked to the famed aviator when he lived at her home.
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Chicago
Slim
Lindbergh
Lenore Longley
Haraté Knoot
Air Mil
Knoot
Lindy
Knoat
Blame Racketeers for Cafe Bombings in Chicago
Police attribute two cafe bombings in Chicago to racketeer organizations. A blast damaged a restaurant on North Crawford Avenue and a blast shattered the entrance of a newly established cafe on North Avenue. Authorities believe the owners defied organizers in some phase of the restaurant business.
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Chicago
North Crawford Avenue
North Avenue
Early Day Leading Man of Movies Dies
Glendale California January Marc MacDermott a veteran leading man of the early film era died in a city hospital after a six month illness He had been in hospital four months His mother Annie M MacDermott and sister Mary MacDermott survived him His home was in New York.
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Glendale
Cal
Marc MacDermott
A& Hospital
Annie M. MacDermott
Mary MacDermott
MacDermott
New York
Basketball Divorce Razzed by Judge in Des Moines
In Des Moines Iowa on January 5 grain, a divorce case sprang from a basketball game between Grand Junction and Rippey Is Zelda Marte Young opposed her husband Russell LaVerne Young by cheering for Rippey. The judge urged both to go home to their two children and forget the nonsense.
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Des Moines
INS
Grand Junction
Rippey
Russell LaVerne Young
Zelda Marte
Ripney
Youth Kills Man So Father Could Keep His Pledge
Grand Rapids, Mich. Jan 5 Wh. Determined not to break a pledge made to his mother eight years earlier Orrin Hoover a 17 year old high school junior killed Joseph Skablauckas a 38 year old man and then apparently shot himself The police theory says the act was to stop his father from drinking and to honor a vow The elder Hoover had promised his wife to abstain from liquor since her death and the motive is linked to that pledge
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Orrin Hoover
Joseph Skablauckas
Hoover
Margaret Hoover
Mquor
Orrin
Skablauckas
Skahlauckas
Tex Rickard Says He Has This Fight Licked
Tex Rickard woke in hospital in Miami after a restless night and, despite critical illness, told Jack Dempsey he had the bout locked. Dempsey, moved, shook Rickard’s hand as the physician allowed a brief visit before leaving.
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Tex Rickard
Jack Dempsey
Miami
Fla
Tex
Dempsey
Richard
Mystery in Death of Girl P O Clerk
Miss Carrie Bruns an 18 year old post office clerk was found dead last night near a roadside with no signs of violence. Authorities from Christian and Montgomery counties investigated jurisdiction as she had been carried into Christian county after leaving work in the evening and no theory explains the death or how she was moved.
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Ohhnan
Iil
Miss Bruns
Christian County
Blizzard Crash Mystifies Clinton Doctor
In Clinton Iowa on January 5 Herman P Otten skidded on ice and crashed into a tree and was found unconscious. Doctors puzzled as he appeared dead then resumed breathing en route to a hospital where no external or internal injuries were located.
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Clinton
Herman P. Otten
Check passer gets off by paying half value
In a police court in Omaha Nebraska January merchants recovered from Adeline Knook twenty of Logan Ta who passed bad checks totaling over five hundred dollars. They agreed not to prosecute upon payment of half the face value of the checks.
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Omaha
Nel
Jan
Insi— Ghargea
Adeline Knook
Logan
Saunders Reappointed to State Conservation Board
Des Moines reports Representative W. E. G. Saunders of Emmetsburg has been reappointed to the state board of conservation. The governor also named Mrs. Mabel Wolland of Town City to replace Mrs. E. F. Armstrong of Fort Dodge on the other member seat.
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Tes Moines
Peur Ovate
W. E. G. Saunders
Emmetsburg
State Board of Conservation
Mabel Wolland
Town City
E. F. Armstrong
Fort Dodge
Olber
Diptheria Threat Ends for Fort Vermilion and Little Red River
Canadian dispatch reports an Arctic diphtheria scare eased after antitoxin air delivery by Captain May and Victor Harner. No current cases at Fort Vermilion, one death at Little Red River previously, several suspicions remain. The 650 mile flight reached the posts and returned to Peace River.
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Edmonton
Alta
Ford Vermilion
Little Red River
Captain May
Victor Harner
Fort Vermillion
Hudson's Bay
May
Peace River
Seek 38 Believed Lost in Sea Tragedy
Intensive search was under way for 38 persons missing since the French steamer Malakoff foundered seven minutes after striking rocks off Minorca in fog. Some may be aboard lifeboats or in life belts, but most are believed dead. Forty four survivors, including two women, have reached Olucadela.
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Mahon
Spain
Malakoff
Cape Barthium
Santa Giliana Bay
Isle of Minorca
Olucadela
Whisky Car Kills Innocent Printer
Washington driver chase ends in tragedy as John F. Luitich a 57 year old government printer and former amateur ball player is struck and dragged by a whisky laden car. Over 100 pints of corn whisky found. Suspects Robert Dixon 23 and Alfred Rollins 20 jailed on man slaughter and related charges.
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Washington, D. C
John F. Luitich
Robert Dixon
Alfred Rollins
Ax Man Indicted on Two Assault Charges in Iowa
Jake Bird, described as a negro ax man suspect, was indicted by the Pottawattamie county grand jury on two counts of assault with intent to commit murder. The charges arise from attacks on Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stribling in East Omaha weeks earlier. Bonds set at $10,000 each. Mrs. Stribling identified Bird. he was turned over to town authorities after Omaha officials failed to link him to previous hatchet slayings.
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Council Bluffs
Jake Bird
Pottawattamie County Grand Jury
Harold Stribling
East Omaha
Stribling
Bird
Omaha
Twenty American Republics Sign Arbitration Treaty
Delegates from twenty American republics signed a general treaty of compulsory arbitration and an unlimited protocol of conciliation at the Pan American conference in Washington. Argentina did not participate. The pact allows progressive abandonment of reservations to the arbitration treaty at signing time.
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Washington, D. C
Argentina
Beeson Civil War Veteran Dies at 90 in Des Moines
Gen Byron A. Beeson aged 90, former treasurer of the national soldiers' home at Hampton Virginia, died in Des Moines. He served in the Civil War with Company B Town cavalry and was adjutant of the Town soldiers' home at Marshalltown for several years.
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Des Moines
Byron A. Beeson
National Soldiers' Home
Hampton
Beeson
Marshalltown
New York Life Insurance Expands Iowa Office Space
The New York Life Insurance Co. has seen local business in the northeast Iowa area rise over 70 percent in three years, necessitating more space. The local office will move into additional space in the Pioneer Bank building and occupy it around January 15. Agency director Guy H. French departs for St Petersburg, Florida, for the agency directors' convention.
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New York Life Insurance Company
Iowa
Pioneer Bank
Guy H. French
St. Petersburg
Fix
Aee
TRED ANDERSON HURT IN MOPD CRASH WILL BE BROUGHT HOME
Fred Anderson of Lincoln Street was injured in a motor crash near Clear Lake last Monday and hospitalized at Mercy in Mason City He will be brought home tomorrow with multiple broken ribs a crushed collarbone and other injuries. In Iowa City a university student Edward Knepper of Marengo struck a riderless fox hunting machine injuring Ralph H Barlow later reported as possibly fatal injuries.
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Tred Anderson
Fred Anderson
Lincoln Street
Clear Lake
Mercy Hospital
Mason City
Anderson
Iowa City
Ralph H. Barlow
Edward F. Knepper
Marengo
Allan elected Chamber of Commerce president
Slyde D. Allan, manager of Standard Paint & Glass Co., was named president of the Chamber of Commerce to succeed Herman C. Miller. Ralph J. Hoxie had been elected but declined due to his brother Wirt Hoxie’s illness and business concerns. Allan is in his second year as a director and also leads the YW in CGC.
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Standard Paint & Glass Go
Chamber of Commerce
Herman C. Miller
Ralph J. Hoxie
Watterloo Fruit & Commission Co
Wirt Hoxie
Allan
CGC. AL
Eskimos Face Winter Hunger Foretold By Explorer
Horace Ashton director of the Burden Expedition warns a harsh winter for the Eskimo and Chipewyan tribes after a failed caribou migration. About 200 Innuawea and 3,000 caribou in the Barrens are noted. The party’s Northward trek endured 97 portages, with harsh cold and no wildlife sighted on the return south via The Pas.
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Horace Ashton
American Museum of Natural History
New York
Civyitization
Mr. Ashton
Holston
Leo Tolstoy
William Casel
Ashton
G. W. Jones
Pas
Peter Linklater
Explorers Club of
Buenes Ayres
Tolstoy
Germany
North America
Barrens
Aretia Circle
Woman Hangs Self in Cedar Rapids Home
Mrs. W. T. Palmer aged 63 was found hanged at her residence after returning from work. Police report says she had been ill prior to death. In a separate item, Jolson and Ruby Keeler deny separation claims amid Warner Bros studio speculation.
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W. T. Palmer
Denyes Jolsons
Hallyweed
Gat
Aldolkon
Peter
Warner Bros. Film Studio
Jolson
Ruby Keeler
Tai
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