Major oil refiners plan August shutdowns to curb surplus
In a coordinated move, about 25 midcontinent refineries will close for August to reduce an oil and gasoline glut. Kansas City reports 20,000 oil-field workers will be laid off as preparations for the shutdown advance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Chicago
Kansas City
Midcontinent
Toay
Texas
Kansas
Pennsylvania
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Standard Oil
California
EB. W.marland
Marland Oil Company
Sinclair
Cosden
Tulsa
Cosden &Co
Marland Refining Company
Sinclair Refining Company
Shaffer Oil & Refining Co
Standard
Shell
Ventura
Union Oil
Harbor District
Los Angeles
Standard Oil Company
Millionaire Browning seeks divorce over Paris flight with dentist
Edward W. Browning, a New York real estate operator and heir to Browning King & Co., files for divorce from wife Nelia Browning. He accuses her of fleeing to Paris with Dr Charles Wilen, a Bronx dentist. They had no biological children but adopted two, including Margery who is missing. The couple's notable New York home atop an office building features artificial lakes and gardens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Edward W. Browning
Browning, King & Co
Nellia Browning
Paris
Charles Wilen
Bronx
Browning
Margery
Brownlog
North of 53 Alaska's Need Harding Explains
A fog collision near Port Townsend involving the Henderson group prompts praise for Captain Allen Buchanan whose quick actions and leadership are credited with preventing greater loss. The president orders Buchanan to proceed to San Diego with the ship for Panama, while the usual inquiry board will not hear his testimony. The note adds Caroline Dormon of Louisiana as a prominent woman in American forestry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strorer Zelkin
Port Townsend
Alaska
Buchanan
Allen Buchanan
Ihen Gerson
Zeit
Seattle
Henderson
San Diego
Panama
Henderson-Zerlin
Misa Caroline Dormon
Louisiana
United States
Effect of Wheat Cut Exaggerated Says Meredith
Meredith argues the wheat cut impact is overstated and urges farmers to store grain. Dispatches from Nebraska report a farmer near Gibbon threshing but stopping early as current prices won’t cover costs. Senator Dill from Washington calls Harding for a special session to pass farm relief measures amid farm instability. Harrison in Indiana backs emergency legislation to aid agriculture citing high transportation rates and foreign market uncertainty.
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Gibbon
Sen. Dill
Spokane
Wash
Harding
C. C. Dill
Washington
Congress
Smith
W. Brookhart
Iowa
Dill
Harrison
United Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Mississippi
State Officers Plan Tryout of New Iowa Warehousing Law
Des Moines July 28 The new state warehousing law likely gets its first test in Iowa after a conference with Secretary of Agriculture Raymond W. Cassady and other state agriculture officials. They met with the Polk County Farm Bureau to discuss organizing a local board to administer the law, with Cassady hoping Polk County forms the initial board. The measure allows the state to issue certificates on grain stored on farms, enabling owners to borrow against the certificates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Raymond W. Cassady
State Department of Agriculture
Polk County
Fight to Save Mrs Crudelle From Death on Gallows
Open fight to save Signora Sabetta Nitti-Crudelle from execution begins in Chicago as lawyers argue Illinois law does not provide for death of a woman. Leo F. Lankstone, for women's groups and Italian clubs, says he will seek release on grounds that murder statute uses sentence of death if found guilty. Signora Nitti-Crudelle and Peter Crudelle were convicted of killing Frank Nitti to marry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hicago
Signora Sabetta Nitti-Crudella
Hinds
Leo FE. Lankstone
Signora Nitti-Crudelle
Peter C Crudelle
Frank Nitti
Chick Evans Leads in Western Golf for Amateur Title
Chick Evans of Chicago led the first 18 holes of the western amateur championship final at Mayfield, three up on Hamilton Gardiner of Buffalo. Gardner won three holes including a birdie on the seventeenth to trim Evans' lead, and they halved the eighteenth in par.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Chick Evans
Chicago
Mayfield
Hamilton Gardiner
Buffalo
Gardner
Ailbirdie
Evans
Harding Seeks Rome Ambassador Post Says Turin Paper
A Turin paper reports Warren G. Harding wishes to serve as American ambassador to Italy after his presidency. The claim comes via a Central News dispatch from Rome dated July 23.
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Harding
Rome
London
Turin
Warren G. Harding
Italy
Welfare Workers Find Girl Living in Cave on Island
In Topeka Kansas welfare officials T D Williams and Eva Corning uncovered Emma Adams a 15 year old girl living with her father and 17 year old brother in a cave on a Kaw river island near the city. The cave home measured about 10 feet square and housed ducks geese and chickens with the family. Emma wore her first real girl clothes a new frock and red ribbon in her hair displaying pride in her new attire.
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Topeka
Kan
Robinson
Kaw River
Kansas
T. D. Williams
Eva Corning
Emma Adams
Emma
Government may take hand in hard coal parley
Washington July 28 government intervention loomed over the coal crisis as the United States coal commission led by John Hays Hammond convened in Washington to study the serious situation after the collapse of wage talks between anthracite operators and miners at Atlantic City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Atlantic City
United States Coal Commission
John Hays Hammond
State Briefs Y Toledo Ensuing Farm Accidents and Raids
Harold Freet five narrowly escaped serious injury when attacked by an enraged cow near LeMars. Neighbors suspected Elmer Hoffmann and Nash Hauser of Sioux City after crops failed on their 160 acre farm. Deputies raided the place, seized a still and rye whisky, arresting Hoffmann and Hauser. A Minneapolis firm won a 105000 contract to build a high school and grade school here. Dean Ringgenberg fourteen months old fatally trampled by a frightened horse. Freeman R. Conaway of Cedar Rapids died suddenly. funeral services set for Tuesday at 2 p m with burial at Oakhill cemetery. Rev L S Thorne former pastor of Conaway in Brooklyn will preside. Crescent lodge Masons will assist at the grave. Rev H M Lower of Sioux City named superintendent of the Iowa Congregational conference for western Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Harold Freet
LeMars
Elmer Hoffman
Nash Hauser
Sioux City
Hoffman
Hauser
LeMarst
Minneapolis
Astor of Conaway
Brooklyn
A. Wil
Crescent Lodge of Masons
BH. A. Lower
First Congregational Church
Iowa Congregational Conference
Iowa
British cabinet to hear liquor smuggling report
London July 28 report of a committee investigating liquor smuggling into the United States was laid before the British cabinet. Daily Express reveals Lieut. Col. Sir Broderick Hartwell plans to raise funds for a whisky shipping venture with $12.50 subscriptions to send 10,000 cases monthly abroad under sealed orders within four months. Investors promised 20 percent in 60 days amid offshore delivery guarantees and a private ship operation.
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United Press
London
United States
Daily Express Today
Broderick Hartwell
Naptes
High Seas
Hardwell
Sen. Hartwell
The
Daily Express
Hughes Praises World Laws Aimed at War Prevention
National Council for Prevention of War released messages from Secretary Hughes former Supreme Court associate justice John S Clarke and W Bryan praising the goal of a law not war demonstrations held today and tomorrow in 2000 cities across 44 states with support from the secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
National Council For Prevention of War
Hughes
The
Supreme Court
John S. Clarke
W. J. Bryan
Sheriff Holds Man Whose Lookalike Bergdoll In LA
Los Angeles sheriff wires Washington for a full description of Bergdoll after arrests of a man resembling him on a worthless check charge. Count Wilhelm von Mueller laughs when asked if he is the wanted draft evader and says he will be questioned by Justice agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Sherif
William I. Traeger
Washington
Department of Justice
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll
Pennsylvania
Bergdorf
Wilhelm von Mueller
Count von Mueller
von Mueller
Man Dies in Louisiana Fight Over $2 Debt
Perry Louisiana July 28 Homer Davis died in a local hospital from wounds inflicted in a week old fight with Harold Gillespie over a $2 debt. Gillespie was arrested and to be tried for first degree murder. Davis said to have been struck with a monkey wrench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry
Homer Davis
Harold Gillespie
Gillespie
Wen
Davis
Two Months More Work on Iowa Bonus
Des Moines reports that it will take two more months to settle claims for the Iowa bonus. State Auditor Glenn Haynes says more than 30,600 applications are before the bonus and progress is slowed by issues of residence and eligibility to receive the payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Glenn
Haynes
Iowa
Sister of Senator La Follette Dies in State Center
Mrs. Ellen A. Eastman aged 82, half sister of U.S. Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, died at State Center in Marshall County last night.
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la Follette
State Center
Marshalltown
Ellen A. Eastman
United States
Wisconsin
This County
Four Trainmen Killed In Canadian Wreck Near Quebec
Quebec July 28 Edmundson Quebec express No 34 crashed into a way freight at Charny near Picard on the trans continental line. Four trainmen were killed and several persons were injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quebec
Edmundson-Quebec Express
Charny
Picard
Marks Stilt Senking London Exchange Opens
London July 28. The German mark opened at five million to the pound, a level described as no stunt and indicating the currency’s apparent downward drift at the start of trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Wartime Fraud Conviction Upheld for Rumely Kaufman Andheim
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions of Dr. Howard E. Rumely former publisher of the New York Evening Mail and lawyers Walter Kaufman Norma R. Andheim for defrauding the alien property custodian in a wartime report on the Mail’s ownership. They were sentenced to one year and one day in prison.
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Associated Press
New York
United States Circuit Court of Appeals Today
Howard E. Rumely
Bveing
Jmail
Walter’ Kaufman
Norma R. [Andheim
Mail
Avanta
Rumely
States Supreme Court
Gary Announces Progress Toward 12-Hour Day Elimination
Judge Gary said progress is satisfactory in studying elimination of the 12 hour workday in the steel industry as U S Steel subsidiary press agents adjourn a meeting. American Iron and Steel Institute leaders will reconvene in New York next week for further discussions with industry officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Gary
U. S. Steel Corporation
American Tron and Steel Institute
New Kings Queens of Range Crowned at Cheyenne Show
Cheyenne Wyo July 28 tragedy marked Cheyenne Frontier Days with the death of Kenneth Kiehl Denver parachutist during the final act. Eddie Burges Indian roper died busting broncho. two other riders injured. New kings and queens of range announced include Ben Johnson Foraker Okie cow roping Dave V Cheyenne rough riding Nobo Strickland Fort Worth Tex woman rider and relay champion Erich Porter Clayton NM bull fighting.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Kenneth Kiehl
Denver
Eddie Burges
Sein
Ben “Johnson
Foraker
Okie
Dave V Cheyenne
Nobo Strickland
Fort Worth
Tex
Erch Porter
Clayton
N. M
Bullfoes
Veteran Rock Island Conductor Dies in Atlantic
John W. Lemmon 72 longtime Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad conductor died at home after a short illness. He joined Rock Island service August 1 1869 as a helper, became conductor in 1878, pensioned November 1 1921, and operated out of Atlantic for 20 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
John W. Lemmon
Chicago, Rock Island& Pacific Railroad
Lemmon
Rock Island
Stop Coke Rate Increase by Railroad Blocked
Washington July 28 The Interstate Commerce Commission today barred the Pennsylvania railroad from raising coke shipping rates in carloads from Pennsylvania and West Virginia to Moline Rock Island Davenport Ta Omaha Neb including Davenport and Omaha under the decision.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Moline
Rock Island
Iil
Davenport
Omaha
Nab
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bandits Rob Girl of Printers Payroll
Three bandits held up Miss Ela Ellerman the payroll treasurer for a printing company in St. Louis Mo and escaped with 2637 dollars in cash from her office today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Lons
Ela Ellerman
Railroads show improved earnings in June reports
A digest from St Paul notes northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads report nearly five million dollars more in June than the first half of 1922. Other items include food shortages in London with limited shopping hours and crowds, a fatal dog attack on a New Jersey boy, a possible third party movement urged by La Follette, Elsie Verguson’s engagement rumors in New York, and IWW organizing drives in Pennsylvania and Ohio steel centers.
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St. Paul
Mion
Northern Pacific
Great Northern
London
Daily Mail
Joseph Genatt
Washington, D. C
la Follette
Washington
New York
Elsie Verguson
Paris
Frederick Worlerk
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Ohio
William H. Thompson
Metal and Machinists International Union
German Farmers Hold Out As Food Crisis Deepens
London reports from special correspondents that Germany faces a severe food crisis surpassing wartime. Berlin queues grow longer, famine threatens many towns, and civil unrest looms as Ruhr women beg with worthless money. Dollar trading increases, bartering rises, and farmers hoard. a British official’s servant jokes about wages in rye.
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London
Germany
Berlin
Ruhra
Manchester
Guardian
Cologne
Rhineland
Ruhr
Tts
28 Men Entombed by Blast in Maltby Mine
In Sheffield England July 23 twenty eight miners were entombed after a blast at Maltby colliery causing a fire to hinder rescue efforts. One hundred men were in the mine at the time with twenty five near the far end where the explosion collapsed passages and blocked access. Distressed relatives waited at the pit mouth as rescue operations faced heavy debris.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Sheffield
Eng
Women Open Iowa Law Not War Campaign
Des Moines hosts the Law Not War drive by the Iowa League of Women Voters with Harvey Ingham as keynote speaker on the permanent court of international justice. state president I H Tomlinson notes distribution of 6090 posters and calls for ministers to reference the campaign in sermons. other states mark the World War anniversary as the effort expands from Des Moines across Iowa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa League of Women Voters
Harvey Ingham
Des Moines Register and Tribune
Ingham
Permanent Court of International Justice
I. H. Tomlinson
League
Germans Consider Surplus Wheat Deal Amid Ruhr Shortage
Berlin reports Pritz Thyssen met with US ambassador Alanson B. Houghton to discuss food shortage in the Ruhr and US grain surpluses. In Missouri, the St. Louis Lumber Trade Exchange was ruled to have violated antitrust law with 19 member companies fined and licenses forfeited, penalties ranging from 2,500 to 10,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Pritz Thyssen
Ruhr
Alanson B. Houghton
United States
Germany
St. Louis
Japan Reduces Naval Budget in 1923 for Army and Air Forces
Ratification of the Washington naval limitation treaty prompts Tokyo to cut the 1923 naval budget by two million yen while increasing army allocations by 13 060,000 yen. The aerial program will be extended for both the army and navy with additional funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Nurse on Cavalry Horse Injured In Auto Jump
Florence Masters a student nurse from Hileman Iowa and William Hirt of Ta are hospitalized seriously after a horse ridden by Masters leaped over Hirt’s car in the city last night. The horse frightened by lights plunged through the car top as two troopers racing home lent the mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town City
Florence Masters
Hileman
William Hirt
Miss Masters
Hirt
Eight-Year-Old Boy Saves Baby Brother From Drowning
In Clinton Iowa on July 28 eight-year-old Clark Williams Jr.. Sayvanad Illinois. rescued his 3-year-old brother who fell into Sand Slough when frightened by a large fish on a fishing line. The older boy swam with clothes on to reach the child, pulled him to the bank, then returned to his pole and landed a black bass.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Clark Williams,Jr
Sayvanad
Sandslough
Wheat Averages 21 Bushels in Marshall County
First threshing reports from 10 farms in Marshall county indicate an average of 21 bushels per acre of winter wheat with 60 to 65 pounds per bushel. Early oats threshings show an average of 33 bushels per acre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marshalltown
Marshall County
Miss Vera Kniss Secures Worldly Hair Duties in L A Studio
Miss Vera Kniss, daughter of Mrs. Pearl Kniss of 417 City Street, left Mi-Lady Beauty parlor in Waterloo to seek wider opportunities. She has obtained work in the Talmadge sisters' Los Angeles studio, dressing hair for Constance and Norma Talmage, noted motion picture figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera” Kniss
Pearl Kniss
City Street
Talmadge Sisters
Lon Angeles
Waterloo
Kales
Constance
Norma Talmadge
Schumaker Resident Iowa Soldiers' Home
A. H. Wheat commander of Rob ert Anderson post accompanied William Schumaker a Civil War veteran to the soldiers' home at Marshalltown for medical care. Wheat praised the facility noting clean conditions good grounds and happy comrades during an unofficial inspection after Schumaker’s auto accident injury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. H. Wheat
Robert Anderson
Altho
Wheat
Soldiers’ Home Committee
Mrs Brewster Injured In Auto Wreck
Mrs. John Brewster sustained a fractured rib and multiple bruises when the car she rode with her sister Miss Jennie McElhinney skidded on a muddy road and overturned last evening. Miss McElhinney escaped injury. The incident occurred at 216 Franklin.
Miss Maude Dudley Honored by State Music Clubs
The State Federation of Music Clubs names Miss Maude Dudley chairman of the third district in Des Moines. Dudley, a Waterloo Fine Arts department member, also chairs its program committee and recently published the patriotic song America, My Home. The meeting filled three state offices and elected 11 district chairmen including Mildred Gleason of Waterloo and Mrs. Fred Hoffman of Ottumwa. Mrs. J J Dorgan of Davenport became director of the American Music Club division and Maudela Eldridge of Des Moines took the finance post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maude Dudley
State Federation of Music Clubs
Des Moines
John Teed
Dudley
Waterloo Woman’s Club
State Association
America
Home
Mildred Gleason
Waterloo
Fred Hoffman
Ottumwa
Paul G. Clapp
Iowa
Guy
J. J. Dorgan
Davenport
Maudela
Eldridge
Recovery of Ed Grady Seems Doubtful
Little hope is held for the recovery of Edward M. Grady Waterloo jeweler. He has been critically ill, partly conscious the past several days and has taken no nourishment since Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Hone
Edward M. Grady
Waterloo
Mob tears down red flag over New York I W W offices
A July 28 mob in Hoboken storms the I W W headquarters as longshoremen strike. About 60 attackers, plus five clerks, clash at Marine Transport Workers division office with flag torn down and burned. New York I W W cites protest to Governor Silzer. I L A alleged involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preas
New York
Hoboken
Industrial Workers of the World
Police Hold Three for Auto Accessories Theft
Ray Wilson and Stanhope La Prade of Waterloo and Pete Jones of Fort Dodge were arrested in a car with stolen auto parts and three bottles of bootleg whisky. They face larceny charges with a July 31 preliminary trial date. La Prade also faces bootlegging charges with added bail if released before trial. The four men were spotted stripping a car on Parker Street and Burton Avenue. Jones was found in a nearby cornfield. the fourth suspect fled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Wilson
Stanhope LaPride
Waterloo
Pete’ Jones
Fort Dodge
LaPrade
Lberty
C.B. Courtright
Parker Street
Burton Avenue
Wilson
Anthony Parrish
Jones
Skywriting Flight to Display Brand Letters Over Waterloo
American Tobacco sponsors a skywriting demonstration over Waterloo next week. A plane at 100 miles per hour will form letters 0.5 to 1 mile high using 250000 cubic feet of smoke per second, visible for about 10 miles. Date to be announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Tobacco Company
Walter dies after long illness at Prospect Hills home
Lawrence George Walter aged 44 died at 4 30 am today at his Prospect Hills residence after a lingering illness. He was born in Mendota Illinois January 6 1879 and lived near Hud son most of his life. He married Hazel Edna Kurvink July 24 1918 and had two children. He belonged to Trinity American Lutheran church and the Odd Fellows lodge. Surviving are his widow two children his mother five sisters and three brothers. The body lies at Petersen Brothers mortuary for viewing. Burial will be in Hudson cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence George Walter
Prospect Hills
Mendota
Ill
Hudson
Walter
Waterloo
Hazel Edna Kurvink
Lawrence William
Vivian Jeanette
Trinity American Lutheran Church
Odd Fellows Lodge
George Walter
Katie Hetzler
S.C. Mueller
JD. Hill
Fairbank
A.wagner
van Nuys
Cal
First Brethren Church
Herbert Moehlmann
Hudson Cemetery
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SEA Hodge
Bergdoll
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U. S
German Farmers Holding
Produce AG Mark
League of Voters
Missouri
Japan
Brother
Marshall
Schumaker
Mrs
John Brewster Hurt
Miss Maude Dudley
ED Grady
W. W
N.Y
Carl W. Thielman
Henry Mueller
Franklin Street
First Lutheran Church
Pairview
Henry N. Lows
Henry N. Lown
Kistner
J. E. Johnson
Fairview
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