Geneva Conference Delays Session After Irish Minister O Higgins Death
Geneva July 11 British and American officials indicate a postponement of today's naval reduction plenary. The delay follows the assassination of Kevin O Higgins in Dublin. Analysts say the pause avoids public confrontation and may spare the conference a rupture while Britain and the United States reassess cruiser tonnage limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Switzerland
Great Britain
United States
Hugh S. Gibson
Dublin
Kevin O'Higgins
Legation
Gibson
Irish Civil War Spectre at O Higgins Bier
The article recalls the 1922 execution of Rory O Connor by O Higgins after a prior alliance at O Higgins wedding. It notes O Connor left his money to O Higgins and his friends’ anger. It links O Higgins assassination to a recent Republican election. Cosgrave vows resilience as O Higgins lies in state until Wednesday, with funeral at Glasnevin.
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Spectre
O’higgins
Rory O'Connor
O'Connor
O'Higgins
O’connor
Cosgrave
George V
England
Free State
Griffith
Collins
Glasnevin
Local Mortuary Services for Mrs. Graham Held
Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. Saturday in the O Keefe and Towne chapel for Mrs Roy Graham 27 who died Saturday in a local hospital. Rev W O Chisholm officiated. The body was taken to Monmouth Ill for burial today. She was born Feb 11 1900 in Henderson county Illinois and had come here three weeks ago to visit her parents in law Mr and Mrs Wilson Graham 927 Western avenue. Elia Rich Doty widow of the late James F Doty died July 3 at home in Oakland California aged 41. Burial was July 5 in Oakland. She is survived by two children Mrs R E Coovert Oakland and H N Doty Sacramento and a sister Mrs B F Blockinger Dubuque. Funeral services for Mrs SV E Payne 410 Leland avenue who died Saturday in a local hospital will be at 2 30 p m Tuesday from First Baptist church Rev C L Kenagy officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood. The body will remain at Petersen Bros mortuary until time of services.
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Roy Graham
O'Keefe & Towne
W. O. Chisholm
United Presbyterian Church
Monmouth
Henderson County
Illinois
Wilson Graham
Western Avenue
James F. Doty
Elia Rich Doty
W. F. Brown
Black Hawk County
Oakland
Cal
R. E. Coovert
H. N. Doty
Sacramento
B. F. Blockinger
Dubuque
W. E. Payne
SV. E. Payne
Leland Avenue
First Baptist Church
C. L. Kenagy
Elmwood
Petersen Bros
Farmer Ends Life Near Conway In Iowa Farmhouse
Bedford Iowa July 14 H R Polsiey 38 a farmer near Conway was found dead today hanging in a small outbuilding on his farm by family members after a period of nervous condition following an illness.
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Bedford
H. R. Polsiey
Conway
Bootleg Gunmen's Chief Courts Meek in Murder Trial
In Benton on July 11, Charles Birger Art Newman and Ray Hyland face murder charges in the West City mayor case. As jurors are chosen, Birger and Newman clash, with Birger taunting Newman and vowing retaliation. The pair, once allied gang leaders, remain under tight jail conditions with Hyde strategically housed separate from Newman.
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Benton, Fl
Charles Birger
Art Newman
Ray “Igzy” Hyland
Joe Adams
West City
Little Egypt
Franklin County
Herrin
Benton
Millie Birger
Birger
Charline Birger
Trail of severed leg parts ties two murders in Brooklyn
In New York two women were slain, with dismembered remains found from Battery Park to a Brooklyn house. A suspect, Ludwig Lee, 38, a janitor, is held on a homicide charge as investigators link the cases to a missing 20 year old Evelyn Martino and a 60 year old seamstress. Police also uncover a separate discovery of dismembered male remains in a Willett Street cellar and detain witnesses linked to the case.
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New York
Brooklyn
Evelyn Martino
Battery Park
Manhattan
Sarah Elizabeth Brownell
Alfred Bennett
Ludwig Lee
Miss Brownell
Christian Jensen
Lee
Otto Neilson
Sullivan
Fred Schmidt
Airport field purchase sparks meeting and management change
A Waterloo airport plan hinges on a $04,000 funding before tomorrow's general meeting. If built east of the river, John W. Cable, currently running the Hudson road field, would lead the airport. Government inspectors stay to test planes from across the state, grounding those not meeting aviation division standards, with HQ at the Cable Scid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cable
John W. Cable
Hudson Road
Waterloo
Aviation Division
Cable Scid
Sleeping Beauty Still Unconscious in Fresno Case
Mrs. Clara Drummond, 21, from Fresno, entered her hundredth day of mental stupor in Los Angeles after inhaling gas fumes. She was not killed, but her brain was deadened and has remained unconscious since the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Clara Drummond
Fresno
Drummond
Roushia Fined 500 for Liquor Transport
Ray Roushia of Mason City pleaded guilty in district court to illegal transport of intoxicating liquor. Judge George W. Wood fined him 500 dollars plus costs and he stated he would pay the fine.
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Ray Roushia
Mason City
George W. Wood
Temperature Readings and Time Slots Noted
The fragment lists Saturday and Sunday temperature highs and lows plus Monday times. It includes entries such as maximum Saturday and minimum Saturday night, maximum Sunday and minimum Sunday night, and Monday morning slots. The text is garbled with incomplete words and dates.
Highway Holdup Ends in Death Near Ottumwa
Ed ward Huddleston, Ottumwa, a former convict, was shot and killed by T. E. Hampton during a highway holdup near Ottumwa. Hampton and a Bloomfield woman were robbed and fled. Hampton fired two shotgun blasts from his car, killing Huddleston. the second thief fled, with officers tracing blood stains over a mile from the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskaloosa
Edward Huddleston
Ottumwa
T. E. Hampton
Hampton
Bloomfield
Huddleston
Believe Slugging by Thieves Cause of Motorists Daze
Cedar Rapids July 11 The finding of an empty purse near Milwaukee station is believed to explain an attack on Herman E. Smith a Ypsilanti Michigan business man causing a week of memory loss. Smith was picked up at Mason July 2 in a dazed condition after driving an expensive sport touring car. His identity was later established and he was sent home to Ypsilanti. The pocketbook contained papers bearing his name.
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Cedar Rapids
INS
Milwaukee
Herman E. Smith
Ypsilanti
Mich
Smith
Mason
Altho
Ypsilant
Greta Nissen to Wed Screen Actor in Riverside Chapel
Friends of Greta Nissen Swedish film star and Charles Farrel screen actor announce their marriage will take place in Riverside California tonight. The ceremony will be held in the old Spanish chapel at the famous Riverside Inn with only a small gathering of friends and relatives.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Greta Nissen
Charles Farrel
Riverside
Riverside Inn
Hamilton Heads Board of Control
Pi-Ernest C. Hamilton of Winterset was elected chairman of the state board of parole at the organization meeting in Des Moines. He succeeds L. A. Jensen who resigned July 1. Hiram K. Evans of Corydon was sworn in as new member of the board.
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Des Moines
Ernest C. Hamilton
Winterset
State Board of Parole
L. A. Jensen
Hiram K. Evans
Corydon
Worth County Voters to Decide $80,000 Road Bond Issue
Northwood Iowa residents will vote tomorrow on issuing eighty thousand dollars in bonds to pave primary roads in Worth County. The county’s highways are currently gravel surfaced.
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Northwood
Worth County
Fire alarms report scattered grass fires and a home blaze
Saturday at 3:00 am a grass fire at 806 Williston caused sparks on wooden shingles with $25 damage. Sunday 10:11 am a house fire at 200 Western. Sunday 12:25 pm a grass fire in the 2200 block Westfield. Sunday 5:00 pm a grass fire in the 200 Vaughan block. A note warns to be insured. Name Herman Miler at 2404 Gtd Certikementy.
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Williston
Western
Westfield
Vaughan
World Wide Air Mail Plans At Hague Conference
Washington July 11 4 Plans for international air mail will be formulated at the Universal Postal Union conference at The Hague September 1 Postmaster General New announced today Irvin W Glover second assistant postmaster general and Eugene R White superintendent of foreign mail will represent the United States Officials from 25 nations will attend and airplane company representatives have been asked to advise on international air mail service plans New foresees temporary agreements will be reached at this conclave and remain in effect until the union meets in London in 1929 He envisions eventually a globe encircling main service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D. C
Universal Post Union
Hague
New
Irvin W. Glover
Eugene R. White
United States
London
Globe
Last Survivor of P E O Founders Dies in Muscatine
Mary Allen Stafford, last survivor of the seven girls who founded the P E O sisterhood at Iowa Wesleyan College in 1869, died at her Muscatine home after illness. Born 1848 in Mount Pleasant, she was active in church work and helped lay the corner-stone of the P E O memorial library last April. She was married to Dr. C L Stafford, former college president, and is survived by two sons, two grandchildren, and her husband.
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Muscatine
Mary Allen Stafford
P. H. D. Sisterhood
Iowa Wesleyan College
Mount Pleasant
Iowa Wesleyan
C. L. Stafford
Triple Guard Placed Over Three Slayers Next Friday
Joliet Illinois July 11 A triple guard was posted in Will county jail over the three men condemned to die next Friday for the murder of Deputy Warden Peter Klein during a prison break last year. The doomed are Charles Duchowski Walter Stalesky and Robert Terrez. Seven were to hang originally. two were killed in jail breaks and two escaped.
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Joliet, II
INS
Will County
Peter Klein
Albert Markgraf
Charles Duchowski
Walter Stalesky
Robert Terrez
Woman dies from car crash near Grand Mound Iowa
Mrs. Jay Martin, 51, died at her home south of Grand Mound after a car struck a tree felled by a storm. The accident occurred about one mile and a half south of the Martins' home. She suffered a fractured skull.
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Clinton
Jay Martin
Grand Mound
Here
Red Cross Sends Cable of Sympathy to German Red Cross
Washington July 11 The American Red Cross dispatched a cable of sympathy to the German Red Cross and asked how it could aid the Saxony flood relief effort.
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Washington, D. C
American Red Cross Today
Red Cross
Saxony
Oldtime Pony Express Riders Revisit Trail for Wyoming Invitation
Rapid City S D July 11 INS The Pony Express era returns as 27 riders relays a single invitation to President Coolidge from Wyoming. Butch Bell starts at Cheyenne and Gov Emerson leads a caravan toward the Black Hills with Calvin Coolidge to be delivered at the summer White House amid doubts he will leave South Dakota.
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Rapid City
S. D
Omaha
Frisco
Deadwood
President Coolidge
Wyoming
Frank Emerson
Yellowstone Park
Buich” Bell
Butch” Bell
Cheyenne
White House
Black Hills
Dakota Clyde Jones
Francis&. Warren
Oldtimers
Pony Express
Gov. Emerson
Jones
Calvin Coolidge
Coolidge
South Dakota
Byrd Aborts Cherbourg Farewell Ovation Plans
Commander Byrd, recovering from illness, asks Cherbourg officials to cancel a farewell reception. He says he cannot endure a public ovation. Acosta Balchen and Neville will travel to Cherbourg for embarka tion and will pause at Ver Sur Mer to bid residents farewell. Byrd will travel by train to Cherbourg.
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le Touquet
France
INS
Byrd
Paris
Cherbourg
Lieut
Bush Howard
Annapolis
Acosta
Balchen
Neville
Ver- Sur-Mer
Pretty Teacher Sets Flight From Flint to Honolulu
Auggy Pedlar accompanied by Miss Mildred Doran a pretty school teacher and Honolulu blue Great Dane pup left Flint airport in the Miss Doran on a proposed Flint to Honolulu flight. Pedlar plans stops at Oklahoma Port Arthur Texas Long Beach California and Hawaii with takeoff from Selfridge field after instrument checks and loading of 400 gallon gasoline tank. The trip aims for a California Honolulu hop with the California leg to follow. We shall leave Selfridge field Wednesday.
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Flint, Mich
INS
Mildred Doran
Honolulu
Auggy
Miss Doran
California
Selfridge Field
Chicago
Oklahoma
Port Arthur
Tex
Long Beach
Cal
Hawaii
Daughter to Take John Drew's Ashes to Philadelphia
Louise Devereaux will travel from San Francisco to Philadelphia with the ashes of John Drew. In Philadelphia the ashes will join those of his wife and her mother. Ethel Barrymore is said to be arranging Drew's funeral services in Philadelphia and a memorial in New York. John Barrymore plans several days of rest in Hollywood before resuming film work.
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San Francisco
Cal
Louise Devereaux
Philadelphia
John Drew
Drew
Ethel Barrymore
New York City
John Barrymore
Hollywood
Farm Girl Tortured by Thieves Near Strahan
Mr and Mrs Don White report a murderous attack on their daughter Mabel 15 by two masked men who tortured her to reveal the family purse hiding place. She was left unconscious in a cornfield and found by her mother. she was choked and her legs and body cut and bruised. The attackers did not obtain any cash or valuables.
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Hastings
Don White
Strahan
Mabel
Tire theft suspect held after arrest near La Porte City
Ralph Tharp of La Porte City was jailed by Sheriff H. T. Wagner on a charge of stealing automobile tires from the car of J. L. Nation, a farmer living south of La Porte City. Nation says Tharp came to the farm a week ago and took the tires from the parked car in the garage.
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Ralph Tharp
la Porte City
H. T. Wagner
J. L. Nation
Hying
Nation
Tharp
First Parachute Jump Terrifying at Lakehurst NJ
Alva F Starr, professor of higher education at the navy parachute school, led a class of eight new parachutists who completed their training without injuries beyond a couple of broken ribs. Starr recalls his own first leap as terrifying yet illuminating, noting 100 jumps without serious harm due to improved parachute design and effective instruction.
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Lakehurst
N. J
Alva F. Starr
Starr
Navy
William Cohen
Girls Who Fled Reinbeck Beatings Are Linn Charges
Irene and Rosgean McCally, Reinbeck girls who ran away after an alleged beating by their father, may be returned to him or placed with their mother in Cedar Rapids. Linn county courts will decide. Probation officer Myrtle Dollmire said the girls are under Linn county jurisdiction and will remain here while the case, and both parents, are investigated. Cedar Rapids officials also weighed keeping them locally during inquiry.
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Irene
Rosgean McCally
Reinbeck
Cedar Rapids
Linn Coiunty
Myrtle Dollmire
Linn County
Kidnaping Papa Hit Her in Face in Court Case
Mrs Flossier testifies that Howard Grapes came to Eli Renslow’s home on the Fourth of July and knocked her unconscious while attempting to kidnap their daughter Juanita. She seeks citation for contempt of court for violation of an injunction. Hearing set for July 13 at 2 p m.
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Howard Grapes
Eli Renslow
Juanita
Flossier
Grapes
Fires Gun When Pay Demanded for Fowl
Charles Robinson, 22, from Washington, was jailed for 30 days by Mayor L. G. Ruhl after pleading guilty to firing several shots near Cedar Rapids official C. J. Oldfield. Robinson, en route to California with H. F. Robinson of Los Angeles, allegedly fired after Oldfield demanded $5 for a chicken beaten to death near Charles Zimmer’s home.
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Vinton
Charles Robinson
State of Washington
L. G. Ruhl
Belle Plaine
C. J. Oldfield
Cedar Rapids
Robinson
California
H. F. Robinson
Los Angeles
Oldfield
Charles Zimmer
Reliability Planes Fly from Omaha
The Hamilton No 2 plane piloted by R G Page left Omaha at 9 this morning for Moline as part of the Ford reliability trophy tour. Twelve other planes followed, all taking off successfully from the municipal airfield.
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Omaha
Neb
R. G. Page
Moline
Old Club House Burns at Sans Souci Golf Course
The upper dwelling at Sans Souci, Waterlog the first golf club house, burned to the ground early this afternoon. Fire crews battled the blaze but the structure was destroyed with no immediate report of injuries.
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Sans Souci
Dry enforcement outlook bright nationwide says Lowman
Prohibition administrators reported to Seymour Lowman acting assistant secretary of the treasury that enforcement conditions across the United States are generally satisfactory. After a morning conference of national field chiefs Lowman and Dr. J. M. Doran prohibition commissioner said each administrator reported that except for a few spots the prohibition outlook is bright.
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Washington, D.C
Prohibition
Seymour Lowman
Kimes Sentenced to Life for Deputy Sheriff Slaying
Matthew Kimes, a young Oklahoma outlaw, was sentenced to life imprisonment in McAlester for last summer’s killing of Perry Chiichulate, deputy sheriff. He had escaped Sequoyah county jail after conviction and prior to formal sentence, and was later recaptured in Arizona after being linked to numerous bank robberies.
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Kimes
Sallisaw
Okla
Matthew Kimes
Oklahoma
Perry Chiichulate
State Penitentiary
McAlester
Sequoyah
Arizona
Two Waterloo Planes Fly to Moline for Reliability Tour
Two Waterloo planes owned by John Cable carried government inspectors Richard H. Lees G. G. Budwig and local pilot W F Marshall to Moline Illinois for a reliability tour stop. The planes piloted by Cable and Hub McCain were to depart at noon and return to Waterloo promptly after the visit.
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Waterloo
Moline
Ill
John Cable
Cable Field
Richard H. Lees
G. G. Budwig
W. F. Marshall
Cable
McCain
New Heat Records For July Predicted In Des Moines
Des Moines forecasts call for a high near 100 degrees before evening based on expert prediction. Charles D. Reed, head of the weather bureau, notes temperatures rose rapidly from 74 at 6 am to 37 at 1 pm. Reed says July will likely set new heat records this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Charles D. Reed
Government Weather Bureau
Mercury
Reed
Marriage Licenses Recorded in Waterloo
George Shepherd and Helen Buller, both of Waterloo, obtained marriage licenses. The brief notice confirms the couple's intent to wed in Waterloo with official filing details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Shepherd
Waterloo
Helen Buller
Grain Production Forecast Issued Shows Corn At 69.9 Percent
Washington July 11. The corn crop was 69.9 percent of normal on July 1, yielding 2.274 billion bushels, vs 2.645 billion last year. There were 97.638 million acres in corn cultivation. Winter wheat at 175 percent of normal produced 579.416 million bushels, down from 627 million last year. Spring wheat was 89.7 percent of normal, producing 274.214 million bushels, with 20.313 million acres planted.
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Washington, D. C
Agriculture Department
Bank Institute Opens in Detroit with 3000 Delegates
The twenty fourth annual convention of the American institute of banking opened in Detroit today with nearly three thousand delegates in attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
INS
American Institute of Banking
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Hyland
Millard Loven
N. Y
Roushia
Hamilton
Board of Control
Herman Miler
World Wide Air Mal Lines
P.E.O. Founders
Iowa
Associated Press
State Historical Society of
Towa
Simpson College
Horace Greeley
Davenport
State
Ovation
Flint
Shenandoah
Linn
Papa
Mama
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