In the Spotlight of Today News Highlights
The article surveys early air travel history with mail routes and mixed transport plans, noting United Aircraft and Transportation surveys for an expedited New York to San Francisco service. It covers pilots landing in Rome and Mussolini’s reception, highway funding votes in Iowa, a bank security incident, romantic celebrity gossip, a record-breaking flight, and an opium baggage case involving Suzie Ying Kao.
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San Francisco
Waterloo
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Rocky Mountain
Man Shot After Leaving Coleman's Lunch Room
Theodore P. Anthony was found dead in his car with a bullet wound to the left breast near 2 a.m. after an earlier inquiry by a mysterious man. An inquest is set for 10 a.m. Friday. Anthony, 28, a Gamble-Robinson salesman, lived with a fireman and had spent the Fourth with friends. Authorities noted a man asked if Anthony had been in the med room about 1 a.m. and a running-board shooter may have fired from outside the car. Police searched for the stranger as details emerged of Anthony’s life and death in Des Moines.
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Fourth Street
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E. G. McMillan
Sumner
Fourth Streets
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F. J. Andrews
Lafayette Street
New Hampton
Gamble-Robinson Company
Frank Denniston
William Urie
Bert Douglass
Illinois Central
Urie
E. C. McMillan
O'Keefe & Towne Mortuary
John Billings
Riverside Drive
Ilinois Central
Denniston
Donald Alberts
Webster Street
Summer Street
Alberts
Ethel Anthony
Rex
Duane
Des Moines
Rontin
Swede Seaplane Flies To Ivigtut Greenland Stop
The Swedish monoplane Sverige bound for New York has arrived at Ivigtut Greenland completing the third leg of its flight. Captain Albin Ahrenberg and two companions lag behind schedule but plan to continue to Anticosti Island and then New York.
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Sverige
Stockholmt
New York
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Greenland
Juttenhaab
Reykjavik
Tceland
Albin Ahrenberg
Ivigtut
Anticosti Island
St Lawrence River
Anne Livingston Seeks More From Old Suitor
Chicago July 11 A Tulsa stenographer Anne Livingston who won 25000 from Franklin S Hardinge seeks 200000 more from her 62 year old former suitor alleging breach of promise. She accuses him of calling her a gold digger and says he told reporters she should be hissed if she took the stage.
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WUP
Anne Livingston
Tulsa
Okla
Franklin
Hardinge
Valentino's Nephew Aims to Be Engineer in California
John Guglielmi 14, nephew of Rudolph Valentino, left Chicago for California seeking to become an American engineer. He had tarried a day with opera star Tito Schipa, arriving from Europe with Schipa.
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John Guglielmi
Rudolph Valentino
Tito Schipa
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Sehipa
Europe
Courier Delivery Time Notice for The Courier
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5:30 o'clock. If you fail to receive your paper by then due to carrier error or other cause, please phone 5140 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 0:30 p.m.
New Orleans Street Car Strike Talks Reach Peace Bid
In New Orleans today directors of Public Service Inc and a citizens committee formed by the city commission met at noon to craft a settlement proposal for the street car strike. Charles Englebrecht, 51, became the first person sentenced for violating the federal injunction against strikers, receiving 30 days in half by Judge Wayne G. Borah.
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City Commission
Charles Englebrecht
District Federal Court
Wayne G. Borah
Detectives Seek Boy Who Was Too Good to Be True
Onslow Iowa residents stunned as Otto Hunswarden 25, a bank bookkeeper lauded as a model youth, is accused of embezzling 5600 from Onslow Savings. He vanished after June 10 claiming a better job while detectives hunt for him. His Chicago girlfriend says she has not seen him in months.
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Ott
Chicago
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Iowa
Otto Hunswarden
Onslow Savings Bank
Bainbridge Colby Faces Divorce Suit In Reno
Mrs Natalie Sedgwick Colby wife of Bainbridge Colby secretary of state and Woodrow Wilson cabinet member was in Reno establishing residence as her daughter reports a probable divorce. The couple married in 1895 and Paris efforts failed in 1928. Colby also served on the shipping board and emergency fleet corporation and worked with WHsen in government law after the war president's retirement.
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Natalie Sedgwick Colby
Bainbridge Colby
Woodrow Wilson
Robert Cameron Rogers
Paris
Colby
United States Shipping Board
Emergency Fleet Corporation
Lightning Strikes Across Cape Cod. Woman Killed
A severe mid-summer electric storm from Williamstown to Provincetown caused extensive property damage and left nearly twenty people temporarily paralyzed by lightning. Della MacDonald, 52, of Reading, was fatally struck while closing a window in a Cape Cod house.
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Wiliamstown
Berkshire Hills
Provincetown
Cape Cod
Della MacDonald
Reading
Cape God
Edsel Ford backs free trade on autos amid tariff debate
Washington July 11 U P Edsel Ford favors free trade in automobiles while Packard head Alvan Macauley and GM chief Alfred Sloan push 10 percent minimum tariff. Roberge testifies Ford stance noted as Edsel not Henry. Macauley warns against full removal and foreign invasion of US auto market.
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U.P
Edsel Ford
R. Ed Roberge
Ford Motor Company
Senate Finance Committee
Roberge
Alvan Macauley
Packard Motor Company
Macauley
Alfred P. Sloan
General Motors
Ford
Henry Ford
Congress
Moorer
Hoover
Watson
David A. Reed
Pennsylvania
White House
Middlewest Lawyers Sail on Megantic Megantic voyage to Europe with 140 leaders
A group of 140 middlewest lawyers headed by Chief Justices Stevens of Iowa and Good of Nebraska arrived in Montreal by Canadian Pacific for Europe aboard the Megantic. The party includes the Shenandoah group of 75 from Shenandoah Iowa. They will land at Havre in about a week.
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Middlewest
Chicago
Detroit
Megantic
Europe
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Iowa
E. EB. Good
Nebraska
Great Britain
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Shenandoah
Havre
Drunken Drivers Jailed in Mason City Court
Mason City reports three intoxicated driving defendants sentenced. John Stevens, 18, received one year in the penitentiary. Robert Nasheim and Joe Beck Jorden were fined 200 dollars plus costs and given suspended sentences of one year in the state reformatory.
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John Stevens
Robert Nasheim
Joe Beck
Jorden
Stata Reformatory
Weatherman Foresees Thunderstorms Across Iowa State
Des Moines report by Charles D. Reed, U.S. weather observer, forecasts rain in western and northern Iowa tonight or Friday with thunderstorms likely in southeastern Iowa tomorrow. Warmer conditions expected statewide, especially in the east, as several cities report highs around 84 and Carrall records 52 for cool.
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Towa
Charles D. Reed
United States
Stuart Finishes Early In Eighteen With Even
Carroll Stuart of Waterloo, lone entry in the championship flight, was even at the turn in his 36 hole quarterfinal with G. H. Wisner of Eldora. Both finished in 76 strokes after a rough start, with Stuart rallying on the back nine to close the gap.
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Dubuque
Bartlett
Herron
Cedar Rapids
Art. Bartlett
Ottumwa
Lee Herron
Sioux City
Birdie
Injunction Halts Ames Magnetic Healer Hughey
F. Hughey a self styled magnetic healer in Ames Iowa was barred from practicing medicine without a license by a temporary injunction issued by Judge T G Garfield in Nevada district court. A permanent injunction hearing is set for September as Hughey's lawyers challenge the law's constitutionality while asserting benefits to patients. He was previously fined 750 dollars in December for practicing surgery without a license.
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W. F. Hughey
Iowa
T.G. Garfield
Nevada
John Fletcher
Hughey
Anita Stewart to Be Married Soon in Los Angeles
Film actress Anita Stewart and George Peabody Converse moved ahead with wedding plans in Los Angeles as Stewart received her final divorce decree from Rudolph Cameron Brennan. Converse, grandson of a former president of the United States Steel Corp, was divorced in Nevada by his wife last year.
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Anita Stewart
George Peabody Converse
United States Steel Corporation
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Rudolph Cameron Brennan
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Nevada
Rotary district conference opens with two day talks
Boone, 38, July 11 conference of executives from Rotary clubs Eleventh district begins two days of discussions on community services and boys' work. President A. Z. Les delivered the welcome address last night.
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Rotary Clubs
A. Z. Les
Five Die in Erie Train Wreck East of Corning
Five men were killed and another fatally injured in a passing freight and passenger train collision one mile east of Corning. The dead include engineer F E Blake of Hornell and fireman W J Batonik of Susquehanna, plus passengers Swan Berger of Moline and two mail clerks identified as Hurlbert and Slavin. Vaughn Rose of New York City was dying in a Corning hospital. scores of other passengers were injured.
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W. J. Batonik
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Swan Berger
Moline
Hurlbert
Arkport
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Salamanca
Vaughn Rose
New York City
Admiralty Abandons Salvage Of Sunken Sub H-47
London July 11 Admiralty ends salvage attempts for sunken submarine H 47 after evaluating location and salvage risks. Casualties corrected to 1st KOS with three saved and 20 missing. Petty Officer Hicks previously listed survived. The L 12 involved in the collision berthed at Milford Haven and carried chlorine gas. tugs pumped fresh air.
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Admiralty
Identify St Louisan as Colorado Bandit
Bt Lous Mo July it si Wil fred A Oliver real estate dealer at Richmond Heights a suburb to day was under arrest and has been identified as an member of a bandit gang which a year BRO robbed the Lamar Corp bank of 200000 and killed four persons Oliver an ex convict according to police was recognized by employe of the Lamar bank who came here with Chief of Police W D Flarper Colorado Springs Oliver denied the charge bi waived extradition He was taken into custody when a St Louis bank oMoint visited Lamar and exhibited photographs of criminals from the lo cal police gallery
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Richmond Heights
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Lamar Bank
W. D. Flarper
Colorado Springs
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Lamar
Hoover to personally open relief drive Monday
Washington July 11 Hoover planned to open the new federal farm board relief effort Monday amid a wheat surplus crisis. presidents and lawmakers discussed emergency powers to curb the grain glut as shipments, storage limits, and railcar shortages strain Gulf ports and southern elevators.
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White House
Gulf Ports
Hoover
Federal Farm Board
G. Briggs
Texas
Briggs
Shenandoah National
Farm’ Board
Alexander ‘Legge
J.C. Stone
Earl Williams
Piekenseshaven
Monda Ttt
Law Enforcement Commission
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T. V.connor
Aft
Shipping Board
Annally
Biba Briggs
Galveston
New Orleans
Mobile
O'Connor
Suetel
Hyde
Kansas
St. Joseph
Arthur. M. Hyde
Secretary of Agriculture
A. Ns. Hartshorn
Ford
Kan
Hartshorn
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