Tornado Rips Through Dike Area Killing Farmer and Wrecking Barns
A June storm destroyed farms across the Dike area. Dick Pabst, 60, was killed as a tornado wrecked his barn and damaged nearby buildings. The Schar farm, DeBerg poultry, and Bonn farm also suffered severe losses. power lines down, telephones out, and horses frightened. Repair crews narrowly escaped as a cement block garage collapsed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dike
Dick Pabst
Dika
Theodore Schar
Mr.Schur
Prurzon
Chris
Charles DeBerg
John Bonn
Nels Johnson
Rain Storm Damage Offsets Benefits Across City
A Monday storm caused widespread damage including downed maple trees near 227 Franklin Street in the G. A. Martin home area and a strong wind that knocked down power lines. Railroads operated through the night as crews repaired telegraph and telephone lines. a fire at 206 Park Road caused minor damage from insulation fires. A large barn at the Waterloo Heights farm was blown four feet off its foundation. Rev Mueller stayed in Waverly reporting muddy highways and continued weather impact favors recovery.
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Lutheranteh
Weaver
Sterday
Betheen Fa
Waverly
Atrea
Mueller
G. A. Martin
Franklin Street
Sunnyside Country Club
Utp
George Wood
Park Road
Sara
Foundation
Waterloo Heights
Storm toll rises with 22 dead and wide damage
The storm swept six Massachusetts towns plunging areas into darkness and halting trolley and telephone service. Reports from Gloversville and surrounding Adirondack towns described heavy damage but no loss of life, while Ontario Canada suffered over 100000 dollars in damage to stables, greenhouses, and buildings. A Windsor Devonshire track wreck and Brampton hail losses added to the destruction. no fatalities reported. In Des Moines area, a lightning strike caused over 100000 dollars in damages to a department store sprinkler system, flooding five floors and wrecking drapery and carpet stock. Mrs. Frank Haschter, 48, was killed by lightning in Muscatine County as her husband found her dead in their ripped, burned home following the storm.
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Massachusetts
Northville
N. Y
Lowns
Adirondaks
Glovers
Ontario
Canada
Devonshire
Windsorm
Brampton
Ont
Fife
Cellar Rapids
Da.m
Denetke
Bolt
Wowan
Muscatine
Frank Haschter
Here
Louisa County
Hascher
Machine Guns in Action in Shanghai Contain Fragments
In Shanghai reports describe machine guns in action as American forces engaged. The text mentions relief to parched fields and meadows and references weather events in Davenport and nearby counties. A lightning fire damaged a barn near Oxford, with dam-related losses noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shanghai
Notables Hit by News Spotlight on Pekin and Chekiang
Notables face mixed attention as a latest outbreak lands at Pekin and Chekiang roads intersection, a busy urban crossroad in the settlement. Officials vow swift action to curb the incident and restore normal business flow.
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King Road
Pekin and
Chekiang Roads
Heat waves and storms sweep across major cities
Heat and storms hit Pittsburgh Washington and Kaas area reports show temperatures near 105 in some parts with deadly heat death toll rising. Tornado injures four near Pittsburg Kansas as heavy rain and wind lash the region. Shanghai fears radical agitation as rate payers meet under guard amid labor strike tension and potential foreign outrage risk.
Bread returns to Cincinnati after ten year absence
Telegraph briefs report a five-cent pound loaf of bread returning to Cincinnati after a decade away. In Washington, Secretary Wilbur expresses belief that Elk Hills naval oil reserve lease status will be clarified by year end to allow Navy to assume control. Lucien Guitry, the French actor, has died.
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Cincinnati
Washington, D. C
Wilbur
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Navy
Yaris
Lucien Guitry
Peverill Injunction in TB Eradication Case Sets June 16 Hearing
Des Moines reports that H G Peverill seeks to block Black Hawk county officials from enforcing bovine tuberculosis eradication stables under the accredited area plan. The suit, argued in Black Hawk county court, had enjoined publication of the notice declaring the area accredited on March 6, 1925. The state Attorney General will contest, arguing health protection and police power, with legislature’s laws validated.
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Des Moines
H. G. Peverill
Black Hawk County
Iowa Supreme Court
Gibson
BE. B. Stiles
Attorney General's
Corn Prices Tumble as Rains Help Crop
Chicago June 2. Corn prices fell over five cents with December delivery dropping to 93 cents from 98 45 yesterday due to rains aiding crops. Weather conditions across the region provided much needed moisture, boosting outlooks for harvest.
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Chicago
Assessment Boost Protests Up June 9
An alphabetical list of properties with assessed increases over the original survey was posted today in the city clerk’s office. Objections will be heard at an adjourned Board of Review meeting on June a.
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Board of Review
Charles MacKay
Woman Leads Chicago Tax Protest Aiming for City Secession
Chicago residents rallied to oppose state tax policy with a bold claim of taxation without representation. Mrs Bemis of Cook County urged withholdings from the state treasury, insisting Illinois taxes must reflect local governance. The move follows Cook County’s push for redistricting and heightened calls to regard Chicago as a separate regional entity within a proposed forty-ninth state union.
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Rey
Chicago
Ares
Ninis
Mia
Bemis
Cok
Direniie
Pate Viele J. Carr
Unoty
Cook
Should
State Assembly
Cook Coun
Qook
Union
Funeral services for Marshall at Capital City today
Washington June 7 United Press funeral services for Thomas R. Marshall former vice president who died here yesterday will be held at 4 p m today and the body will leave for Indianapolis afterwards President and Mrs Coolidge will attend the rites The funeral party will reach Indianapolis at 11 32 a m tomorrow Masonic Services will be held at the Marshall home in Indianapolis at 10 a m Thursday then the body will be placed in the receiving vault at Crown Hill cemetery pending final interment at Marion Ind The body will be accompanied to Indianapolis tonight by Mrs Marshall Mrs Thomas F Walsh widow of the former senator from Colorado Mark Kis te lwaite former secretary to Marshall and probably Jory fi Cowles head of the Scottish rite Masons here List of Pallbearers includes Postmaster General New former Senator Willard Salisbury Delaware C McChord interstate commerce commissioner John Hays Hammond Associate Justice McReynolds of the United States supreme court Secretary of Labor Davis Senator Swanson Virginia Frank S Hight hotel manager Judge George W Downey of the United States court of claims J Fred Essary president for the Gridiron club James Hornaday correspondent of the Indianapolis News and James M Baker secretary of the senate during the Wilson administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington, D. C
Thomas R. Marshall
Indianapollis
Coolidge
Indianapolis
Marshall
Crown Hill Cemetery
Marion
Ind
Thomas F. Walsh
Colorado
Mark Kistelwaite
Jory Fi. Cowles
New
Willard Sauisbury
Delaware
Waukon Attorney Challenges Murphy Insanity Claim
Cresco Iowa June 2 The state led by county attorney Elpieper of Allamalee county pressed district court to prove D J Murphy of Waukon a lawyer and financier with 14 indictments is feigning insanity to avoid trial Judge Cooney presiding The state plans to call nearly 80 witnesses after W S Hart a Waukon lawyer testified he saw no mental deficiency in Murphy in over 100 cases over ten years citing recent hearings as well as cases from last September
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Cresco
EL. F. Pieper
Allamalee County
Cooney
D. J. Murphy
Waukan
Murphy
W. S. Hart
Waukon
Hart
Sephy
New Cedar Rapids School Board Member Levels Bombshell
Cedar Rapids, Ia June 2 E R Moore former lieutenant governor and now school board member accused the system of Prussianizing schools by overemphasizing art and music over fundamentals. He alleged resignations of eight kindergartners and two art instructors, biased American history, unsanitary buildings, wasted money, and forced studies. He pledged to put the Cedar Rapids schools on a business basis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
E. R. Moore
Town
Focal Board of Education
Moore
Train Derailed Near Oklahoma City After Suspected Holdup
Oklahoma City June 2. The engine and six baggage and mail cars of Santa Fe passenger train No. 4 northbound were derailed on a 40 foot embankment at the edge of the city. No one was injured. Police and railroad agents found a disconnected rail. Trainmen believe robbery was the motive, but the bandits were frightened away by the wreck’s extent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Okla
Santa Fe
Carroad
Fred Ford's Funeral at Cedar Falls
June 2 Special report states Fred Ford died last midnight and funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Christian Church with Reverend Gillette officiating. Burial will follow in Wood Cemetery. Ford was 47 and a lifelong Cedar Falls resident. His widow, a daughter, and two stepchildren survive.
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Cedar Walls
Fred Ford
First Christian Church
UL Gillette
Ford
Bank Collector Shot and Robbed by Bandits in Kansas City
Kansas City police report three robbers shot a bank collector from the First National Bank and killed a woman as they fled with 3060 dollars. The incident occurred in Kansas City Missouri on June 2. Fireman Ho les in One. Fort Dodge golfer John Doyle, a Fort Dodge Fire Department member, joined a local golf club and achieved a long one on Exposition Park course.
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Kansas City, Mo
First National Bank
Fort Dodge
Badunn
Tohn Doyle
Local Conopians Attend Canopus Clinic Gathering
A Waterloo group left by motor for the international Canopus clinics in Minneapolis today and tomorrow. Attending from Waterloo are Harry Jaeger George Harris Russell Hopley Elmer Zimmerman and Guy Dorman. Rev R B Williamson of First Baptist spoke on Why Am I Here using the Canopus triangle to illustrate duties to self fellow man and God.
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Waterloo
Conopians
Canopus
Minneapolis
Minn
Harry Jaeger
George Harris
Russell Hopley
Elmer Zimmerman
Guy Dorman
R. BE. Williamson
First Baptist Church
Canopus Club
Black
Mr. Williamson
God
Man
President Declines to Be Movie Actor at Naval Academy
President Coolidge refused to participate as a movie actor at Annapolis. A studio planned to film him handing a diploma to an actor simulating a midshipman graduation. After a White House conference, officials said photographs would be taken at long range to avoid identifying individuals and that only actual naval academy graduates would receive diplomas.
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Naval Academy
Washington, D
Coolidge
Annapolis
United States Naval Academy
Wilbur
White House
Beauty Queens of Rio Strive for Odd Prizes
Rio de Janeiro reports a local newspaper beauty contest with unusual prizes offered by firms. Along with talcum powder and perfume are items like a repeating rifle, bicycle, air stove, ice chest, typewriter, razor blades, a lottery ticket, and love stamps. The motive appears unclear, with implications about bobbed hair and shaving.
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Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
Former Kansas governor Hoch dies at 76 in Marion
Marion Kansas June 2 E W Hoch former Kansas governor from 1905 to 1909 died at his home last night after a heart attack Finch aged 76 had been in ill health for several years and death ends a long career in state politics
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Marion
Kan
E. W.hoch
Kansas
Finch
Boys of Creston Seek Reform School After Shoplifting
Creston Indiana June 2 Raymond Culver 11 and Ray W Way 9, both Creston boys, told officers they wished to attend reform school after breaking into a department store last night. They were caught taking candy and gum.
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SCHOO
Creston
Raymond Culver
Ray W. Way
Reform School
Quiet Bank Robbery Baffles Police in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis on June 2 a man and a woman robbed the Mercantile State Bank of 33,700 dollars. They exited quietly as a teller answered a fake telephone call, making this one of the calmest bank robberies on record in the city.
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RORS
Minneapolis
Minn
Mercantile State Bank
Bank Hold-Up in Tetrait Michigan Steals Over Eight Thousand
Five men robbed the Brightmoor State Savings Bank in Tetrait Michigan today securing more than 8000 dollars. Three employees and ten patrons were forced to lie on the floor as the robbers emptied the teller’s cage in a brief heist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
HOU Mn Bank
Mich
Mmen
Brightmoor State Savings Bank
Gov't to Drop Cases Against Thousands of Draft Dodgers
The federal government plans to drop indictments of several thousand alleged draft dodgers returned during and after the war. Cases with little chance of conviction will be dismissed this month to ease court congestion, while remaining prosecutions will be pursued promptly.
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Gov
Washington, D. C
Justice Department
June Brides Rush Across New York and Syracuse Weddings
The June marriage surge continues with a record 444 licenses in greater New York. In Pittsburgh a juror was excused when she said she would marry next week. In Syracuse Miss Margaret N Miller wed Irving L Ingalls, university athlete, in a ceremony with three pairs of twins attending and serving as attendants and flower girls.
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Pittsburgh
Jossiah Cohen
Josephine MicCormick
Syracuse
Jane
Hera Lloday
Margaret N. Miller
Irving L. Ingalls
Syracuse University
Miller
Edward Keith McCord
Mildred N. Parker
Mabel G. Parker
Ingalls
Ruth
Rachel Ingalls
Shriners Capture Los Angeles For Conclave Night Invasion
Los Angeles woke to a Shrine invasion as 200000 visitors led by Ararat temple from Kansas City seized the city during the fifty first annual Shrine conclave. Imperial Potentate James J Chandler proclaimed the session at the Coliseum with Mayor Cryer welcoming dignitaries.
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United Press
Los Angeles
Cal
Oasis
Karhella Templa
Louisville
Cinema Citadel
Mecca
Parada
Ararat Temple
Kansas City
Coliseum
James J. Chandler
Shrine
Cryer
California
Imperix
Potentate
Court Refuses to Retry Stillman Case
Albany June 2 The New York court of appeals refused to grant a new trial in the famous Stillman divorce case. The court also declined to rule on the baby's legitimacy, stating the question cannot be settled in a divorce action without a definite outcome. The divorce and legitimacy statuses remain unchanged.
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Albany
New York Court of Appeals
Stillman
Guy Stillman
Bryan Withdraws From Politics Talks On Evolution
Springfield reports William Jennings Bryan, in a June address at U1, states he is veering away from politics to discuss The Fundamentals of Evolution. He emphasizes the speech will focus on evolution and not on the 1928 presidential race, indicating he is distancing himself from political debate for now.
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Springfield
William Jennings Bryan
Arraign Rum Runner and Pal at Ottumwa
Frank Voudre of Omaha and his companion Miss Helen Reesa were taken to Ottumwa Iowa for arraignment before U S Commissioner Mitchell on illegal liquor transportation charges. They demanded a hearing and were moved to the nearest southern district jurisdiction since the commissioner was unavailable. They were arrested at Clinton Illinois for transporting 75 gallons of alcohol across the Mississippi River bridge.
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Davenport
Frank Voudre
Omaha
Neb
Helen Reesa
Ottumwa
U. S
Mitchell
A. G. Bush
Towa
Clinton
Mississippi River
Scandinavian Sailors to Race on Long Island
Viking sailors from Sweden Denmark Norway and Finland will race off Long Island next September. The Seawanaka Corinthian Yacht Club of Oyster Bay will host as four Nordic boats take on four top Seawanaka racers in the six meter class. Sweden plans to field a new six meter, awaiting proof against all challengers before carrying its flag in American waters.
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Gothenbourg
Sweden
Viking
Long Island
Ivar Lignell
Scandinavian Sailing Association
United States
Seawanbaka-Corinthian Yacht Club
Oyster Bay
Gothenburg
Lebeda Couple Dig $1000 Cash From Jar for Bait
Cedar Rapids police say Mr and Mrs Paul Lebeda are suspected of bootlegging fortunes. After a prior arrest they recovered $2000 in cash bonds and were rearrested last night. Lebeda produced $1000 in cash he claimed came from a fruit jar.
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Cedar Rapids. la. Jones
Paul Lebeda
Lebedas
Liberty
Lebeda
Beverly Bayne Granted Divorce
Beverly Bayne Bushman, known on screen as Beverly Bayne, was granted an interlocutory decree of divorce from actor Frances X. Bushman in Los Angeles. The couple, married in New York on May 29, 1918, separated in Los Angeles on February 9, 1922, citing desertion.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Beverly Bayne Bushman
Beverly Bayne
Frances X. Bushman
Bushmans
New York
Des Moines Negro Captured in Scranton Pa
Scranton Pa June 2 Police hold Sylvester Brown alias Harris 28 a Des Moines man on a charge of shooting a woman there Brown admits the shooting claiming self defense and offers to return to Iowa without standard procedure according to officers
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Scranton
Sylvester Brown
Harris
Des Moines
Brown
Jowa
Business methods in charities of society
London reports a sharp slump in receipts from charity events prompting calls for proper organization. Mrs. Frank Braham leads reforms aiming for royal patronage and trusted committees of women to ensure profits benefit designated charities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charities OF Society
London
Frank Braham
Vets Erect Cabin of Logs in Day for Boy Scouts
Mason City Iowa June 2 25 members of the American Legion built a log cabin in one day for the Boy Scout camp. The ex service men worked under several carpenters and the cabin will serve the Scouts during their summer camp starting June 23 at the camp.
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Boy Scouts
Mason City
American Legion
Huilt
Lopez-Frazier Case Near End Goes To Jury Tomorrow
In Minneapolis a federal lawsuit over government compensation and recognition of Arthur Lopez-Frazier as Arthur Frazier nears close. Three fingerprint experts from the War Department Navy Department and Justice Bureau testified that the prints of Arthur Frazier bore no resemblance to Lopez-Frazier, with closing arguments underway and a jury expected Wednesday night.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Arthur Lopez-Frazier
Lopez-Frazier
Arthur Frazier
Walter B. Karu
James Herbert Taylor
A.J. Renea
War Department
Navy Department
Department of Justice
France
Lopez-Fragier
Coolidge Opens Door to Debt Conference Location
Washington reports that the Coolidge administration did not rule out a London debt conference despite a debt funding commission favoring Washington for funding rules. The White House said the president would follow the commission’s advice but acknowledged the decision is not final.
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White House
Altho
Debt Funding Commission
Washington
Coolidge
George Harvey
Washington Post
Liquor Injunction Suit Starts Today
Hearing on a liquor injunction case against J J Muldoon owner of a building on Water Street began at 2 30 p m before Judge G W Woot Muldoon is a defendant in the state v O J McManus Dave Fairweather and J T Muldoon suit Information by County Attorney W A Cook alleges illegal liquor sales in the building Sullivan and Sullivan represent Ma doon Officers have not served notice of injunction on Mc Manus
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Muldoon
Water Street
G. W. Woot
Muldoon
O. J McManus
Dave Fairweather
J.T. Muldoon
W. A. Cook
Sullivan & Sullivan
Madoon
McManus
Doctors Say Burns Killed Deo Parsons In Chicago
Doctors concluded Deo R. Parsons wealthy broker died from burns in his extensively burned apartment, not a bullet wound. An autopsy followed a pistol cartridge found beside the body and initial reports of a gunshot were ruled out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Deo R. Parsons
Parsons
Fatal Elevator Crash in Warron Mich Claims Two
Gustas Edlund aged 806 was killed and Henry Trignol aged 24 is expected to die after an elevator crash at a building under construction in Warron Mich Witness says the elevator operator may have caused the crash amid alleged conflict and union tensions The incident occurred June 2 with workers on site at the lodge under construction
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