Two Warships in Arctic Hunt for Amundsen Plane
French naval authorities dispatch cruiser Strashours e and the dispatch beat Quentin Roosevelt to Splitbergen to join a search for Roald Amundsen whose stranded party near North East Land faces food shortages. Umberto Nobile and Italia crew are also being aided after air and sea search efforts. Major Maddalena leads theAmundsen relief mission with Italian and Swedish planes aiding the operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tavis
Ministry of Marine
Strashourse
Quentin Roosevelt
Splitbergen
Roald Amundsen
Rete Guilbaud
Copsright
Associated Press
Kings Bay
Spitzvergen
North East Land
Maddalena
Gru
Umberto Nobile
Italia
North Pole
Ciita di Milano
Amundsen
Spitzbergen
Redief
Nobile
Ute Italia
Penzo
Tromsoe
Norway
Mondey
Commandant Guilbaud
Lieut
Dietrichson
Foyn Island
Finn Maimgren
Cape North
Hor netsNest Brigade Reunion Set At Ottumwa
The Old Hor Nets Nest brigade reunion will be held in Ottumwa on June 25 and 26. Lineal relatives and actual survivors of the unit that stormed Shiloh are invited to attend. The brigade included the Second Eighth Twelfth and Thirteenth Town infantry regiments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ottumwa, Jr
INS
Shiloh
Brain Tests in New York Evening Post Readers
Readers are invited to answer a word meanings test with six questions. Each item requires selecting the correct definition from provided choices and then checking answers when finished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chain
Story
Brothers Reunite After 49 Years By Red Bandana Sign
Rochester Ind June 21 A red bandana signaled identity for two brothers Michael Bre men Neb 78 and John Kerler 73 Rochester who had not seen each other for 49 years Their ad in a Chicago paper sparked the reunion The siblings both prosperous farmers had separated after emigrating from Germany to America.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Ind
Michael
Bremen
Neb
John Kerler
Chicago
John
America
Germany
City Play Queen To Be Chosen At Pageant July 12
City wide pageant to crown a city play queen on Friday night in Washington park under the city recreation department. Playgrounds nominate their own queens next Monday. ballots printed July 2 in the Courier for voting. Queen must be 15 or older. parade from Lincoln park to Washington park precedes crowning. Miss Margaret Porter directs the pageant with playground supervisors assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Park
City Recreation Department
Victor A. Read
Courier
Lincoln Park
Fourth Street Bridge
Margaret Porter
Gates Park
Tells Parents to Enlighten Their Children on Sex
Dr. W B Blatz of Toronto urged Iowa parents to explain natural sex impulses to children. He warned against stifling curiosity or overbearing sentimentalism and cautioned that excessive mothering can spoil discipline and hinder proper development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town City
W. BE. Blatz
St. George's School For Child Study
Toronto
Canada
Conference On Child Development and
University of Iowa
Round Table
North Iowa towns endorse intercity bus transportation
Delegations from Decorah Clermont Elgin and Oelwein along with smaller groups from St Paul Minnesota gathered in West Union on June 21 to back Jefferson Highway companys request for authority to sell intermediate stop tickets on its line from Decorah to Cedar Rapids. The hearing before Railway Commissioner Charles Webster began at 10 am and was expected to last through the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Courier
West Union
Decorah
Clermont
Elgin
Oelwein
St. Paul
Iowa Postmasters Meet at Cedar Rapids Today
The Iowa branch of the National League of District Postmasters opens its two day annual convention in Cedar Rapids with 200 delegates and principal speaker BR Ward of Alden Kansas. Speakers include Reps William Ramseyer and Gyrenus Cole and officials Senator Brockhart and G M Higgins with William J Spilman listed for tomorrow. Quarantine notices list several cases and immunity requires districts to monitor Scarlet fever Mumps Chickenpox and Whooping cough for the region. Marriage licenses record George N Lewis and Zel ia G Early Cambridge with Harold J Beckner and Marion E Townsend listed in Waterloo and Watering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
National League of District Postmasters
BR. A. Ward
Alden
Kan
Wiliam Ramseyer
Bloomfield
Gyrenus Cole
Smith W. Brockhart
G. M. Higgins
William J. Spilman
Washington, D. C
Division of Post Office Serving
George N. Lewis
Cambridge
Zelia G. Early
Harold J. Beckner
Waterloo
Marion E. Townsend
Watering
Funeral services for Emil Nissen postponed
Funeral services announced for Emil Nissen have been postponed from today to tomorrow at Trinity American Lutheran Church. The service time is now set for 2:40 p.m. at the same church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil
Newsreel Threat to Block Alfred E. Smith Film
Friends of Governor Alfred E. Smith threaten legal action to block a newsreel in the Fisher and Corridini produced Deliverance film. They claim the excerpt implies Smith signs a prohibition law and harms his image, while Corridini defends the work as a dignified dramatization of history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Alfred E. Smith
Irving Fisher
Fisher
Robert E. Corridini
World Alliance Against Alcohol
Young Men‘s Christian Association
Y. M. CG
George B. Graves
Gov. Smith
Vega
Professor Fisher
Thompson Faces Appeal Over Chicago Conspiracy Ruling
Chicago July 1 Circuit Judge Hugo Friend found Mayor William Hale Thompson guilty of conspiracy to defraud the city in a seven year case tied to a beautification project. Ten city officials and real estate experts named as defendants must repay 1,722,279.23 to the city treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Hugo Friend
Wiliam Hale Thompson
Thompson
Chicago, Tribune
Court protected by extra guards after attack on attorney
Chicago June 21 extra guards were posted for prosecutors witnesses and the special grand jury amid a crime and election fraud probe. Attorney Samuel Epstein was slugged by gangsters near the court building as reports said investigators seized memoranda tied to pre election murder cases and a list of potential indictments was in Epstein’s papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
INSJ
Special Grand Jury
Samuel Epstein
Epstein
Criminal Court
Diamond Joe’ Esposito
Deneen
Bold scheme to collect 50000 by death swindle in California
Isabelle Robertson and her mother Bernice Huffman were arrested in Oakland after a $50,000 suit against the Key System Ferry Co. tied to the Feb. Peralta ferry crash. Police say the girl, once missing after the wreck, used an assumed name while living with her mother who allegedly confessed. The daughter was found employed in Vallejo, denying identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bares
Oakland
Cal
INS
Key System Ferry Company
Isabelle Robertson
Bernice Huffman
Peralta
Bay
Vallejo. Cal
Man Dies in Scaffold Collapse at Osage Silo
Funeral services set for Joe Klapperich after he died when scaffolding on a silo he and his brother Math Klapperich were repairing collapsed. Math Klapperich sustained serious injuries in the incident near Osage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osage
Mnaylfor
Joe Klapperich
Math Klappperich
Math Klapperich
Hebrew University at Jerusalem rises where Titus stood
Aged Scottish planner Prof Patrick Geddes oversees Jerusalem's Hebrew University on Mount Scopus as it nears a decade of existence. The project began in 1918 amid Ottoman and British activity, with Geddes advocating a new education system stressing analysis over rote examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hebrew University AT
Jerusalem
Titus
Hebrew University
Mount Scopus
Kidron
Patrick Geddes
Edinburgh
David
Socrates
Aristotle
Pythagoras
Mount Ephraim
Samaria
Carmel
Geddes
Balfour
Omar
Einstein Institute For Mathematics and Physical
Department of Hebrew Studies
Jewish National Library
Thhose
Hyderabad
Benares
India
Inset
Vilna’s disputed fate highlighted in new Lithuanian constitution
Washington reports Vilna remains a flashpoint between Poland and Lithuania after Lithuania asserted Vilna as the capital in its new constitution. The city, with about 200000 residents, hosts a mix of Poles Lithuanians and multiple churches, mosques, and synagogues, reflecting centuries of contested identity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Vilna
Baltic States
Russia
Germany
Poland
Lithuania
Get. Zeligowski
Korna
Georgraphin Society
Gedymin
Jagiello
Poe
Yuna
St. Stanislaus
Alaska Quake Shakes Cordova, No Damage Reported
A severe earthquake struck Cordova Alaska and surrounding areas at 27 a.m. Pacific coast time lasting about a minute and a half. No damage was reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
Cordova
Bicycle rider bruised after auto collision at Second and Washington
George Gish of 204 Baltimore street sustained slight bruises at 1 30 p m after being struck by a car driven by A W Doyle of 1437 Englewood Avenue at Second and Washington streets. Gish was riding a bicycle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Gish
Baltimore Street
A. W. Doyle
Englewood Arenue
Second
Washington Streets
Gish
Tenor Floyd Jones Leaves Broadway for Sacred Call
Cherokee Indian and Welsh singer Floyd Jones, a former Shubert leading tenor, talks of quitting a decade on Broadway to lead youth at a Christian Endeavor convention in Waterloo. He cites saving souls over pursuit of worldly fun and describes his switch after seeing modern entertainment's harm to youth. Jones clarifies he is half Cherokee and half Welsh, born in Arkansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Crusaders
Toin
Waterloo
Floyd Jones
Christian Endeavor Convention
Shuberts
Jones
Broadway
Amens
the Tabernacle
Edith Rockefeller-McComrick
American Opera Company
Hotel Russell-Lamson
Devi
Arkansas
Christenson Leads Good Will Air Tour on Fort Dodge Leg
Fort Dodge Iowa June 21 pilot Carl Christenson of Des Moines led the Good Will air tour on its Fort Dodge leg on the tour's fourth day. The group flew from Waterloo to Mason City Wesley and Fort Dodge despite yesterday's storms. Christenson clocked 3 hours 39 minutes 20 seconds with Dan Hunter of Cedar Rapids 12 seconds behind. George Powers of Des Moines diverted to Marble Rock after engine trouble then arrived in Fort Dodge at nine last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Dodge
Iowa
Rockwell City
Mason City
Wesley
Waterloo
Carl Christenson
Des Moines
Dan Hunter
Coder Rapids
Christenson
George Powers
Marble Rock
Hammill Wins Republican Gov Nomination In Iowa Primary
In the recent Republican primary Governor John Hammill received 215,592 of 368,974 votes. Opponents M L Bowman 92,310 Lars J Skromme 35,216 Marion L Anderson 25,654. Lt governor candidate Clem F Kimball led with 220,342 votes. Jonas D Buster had 75,747. Scattering votes noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
John Hammill
State Executive Council
Hammill
M. L. Bowman
Lars J. Skromme
Marion L
Anderson
Clem F. Kimball
Council Bilis
Jonas D. Buster
Gonesville
Des Moines Invites Amelia Earhart Visit After Return
Des Moines city council announced that Amelia Earhart will be invited to visit the city, her former home, upon return to the United States. Earhart attended high school here. Companions Wilmer Stuita and Lou Gordon will be included in the invitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
United States
Amelia Earhart
Miss Earhart
Wilmer Stuita
Lou Gordon
Red brown and pearl moth caught near Williston avenue
One of Waterlon's largest moths in recent years was found this morning by Mrs. J. B. Davis near her home at 1115 Williston avenue. The moth measured about seven inches across and about three inches tall, with a red body spotted with pearl and cream wingtips in brown and tan hues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waterlon
J. B. Davis
Williston Avenue
Ankle Broken After Fall at Cedar Bend
Mrs. R. N. Cowin is resting at home in Cedar Bend after a fall on a concrete walk left her left ankle broken and plated in a cast at St. Francis hospital. The incident occurred late yesterday afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. N. Cowin
Cedar Bend
St. Francis Hospital
Catches Two Fish on Same Hook In Iowa River
City, Iowa June 21 Angler Francis W. Brueppel reports a strange catch as a 10 to 12 pound 27 inch flathead catfish had a smaller catfish weighing about three quarters of a pound swallowed inside its throat. The incident suggests the smaller fish may have served as bait for the larger one during the spring season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa. City
Wfowa
W. Brueppel
Sueppel
Democratic convention strife over dry versus wet stance grows
Campaign activity around Hoover and Curtis intensifies as Mack questions Governor Smith's line and Major players dispute liquor policy. Emily Blair aligns with dry views while stressing Mack's statement lacks Smith authorization. Women delegates split over Smith wet leanings amid brewing intra party tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emily Newell Blair
United Press
Smith
Hoover
Mack
Hrim
Kansas City
Iowa State Bar Convention Opens in Cedar Rapids
In Cedar Rapids Iowa on June 31 the thirty fourth annual Iowa State Bar association convention opened with about 300 lawyers welcomed by State Senator C F Clark. Morning speeches preceded committee reports including law reform led by Justice F F Faville. An afternoon tour and the banquet capped the day with visiting women as guests of local attorneys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State Bar Association
C. F. Clark
F. F. Faville
Iowa Supreme Court
Hoover Praised as World’s Greatest Organizer by Lions
George E B Lichty told Black’s Lions Club luncheon that Herbert Hoover was the world’s greatest organizer though not a diplomat. He recalled his Republican convention experiences in Kansas City and his dealings with Hoover. Plans for a Lions picnic at Electric Park with Cedar Falls and Da Porte Guy were discussed. Thirty Lions expect to attend the international convention in Des Moines July 10–14.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herbert Hoover
George EB. Lichty
Lions Club
Black
Lichty
Kansas City
Hoover
Cedar Falls
Electric Park
Des Moinnes
Iowa Radio Stations May Drop From 25 to 13
Des Moines June 21 federal radio commission ultimatum to Iowa stations to consolidate or retire from the field may cut the 25 stations in the state to 13. None of the stations were represented and chairman H A Searle did not attend. Commissioners Pickard and Sykes urged voluntary consolidation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Towa Radio Broadcasting
Federal Radio Commission
Reeves
Iowa
H. A. Searle
Council Bluffs
Sam Pickard
E. O. Sykes
Lindbergh Goes On Secret Stop During Twin Cities Visit
Col Charles A Lindbergh arrived in St Paul with Great Northern officials to discuss a New York to Seattle air and rail passenger service. He left the airport without revealing his destination and may visit Little Falls Minn, his former home, for a brief stay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
Minn
INS
Charles A. Lindbergh
Twin Cities
Great Northern Railroad
New York
Seattle
Lindbergh
Little Falls
Central Gun club hosts Nashua shoot with cash and silver prizes
The sixth annual Central Gun club tournament at Nashua during the Illinois Central picnic offers 75 dollars in cash prizes and many silver trophies. Events include trapshooting, target singles, doubles, and handicaps with top prizes of 10 dollars and trophies for top scores. A parade opens the day, with a civic program and evening festivities ending with fireworks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Gun Club
Illnois Central
Nashua
Harold Miller
Waverly Gun Club
S. C
Dotson
Waterloo
Booths Joseph
Hospital Department
Association
Bim Castle
Harry Shepherd
RL Ingersoll
H. J. Crowell
Alvie Allen
Three Eldora escapees nabbed in Ames Iowa
Three of six youths who fled the Eldora state training school were arrested in Ames Iowa and held for the authorities. They admitted car theft at Eldora and stealing a second car at Zearing before traveling to Nevada on a freight train. They named three other escapees as Paul Yerkey Donald King and Elmer Wright.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldora
Ames
O.R
Nevada
Robert, Keeler
Waterloo
Patesi
iIndependence
William Novak
Tama
Gearing
Zearing
Ila Parte
State Induse
Paul Yerkey
Des Moines
Donald King
Elmer Wright
Council Bluffs
Hoover and allies clash over dress standards in campaign
Washington report notes Herbert Hoover maintains a simple wardrobe buying suits by the half dozen and shoes by the dozen while friends urge him toward more stylish attire. In Des Moines Dr Max Hall Habenicht is named superintendent of the state bureau of child welfare replacing Major E H Sands for a three year term starting July 1. Council Bluffs authorities revoke liquor permits for six local druggists and doctors in Harrison county, names withheld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Herbert Hoover
Major Lands
Des Moines
State Board of Control
Max Hall Habenicht
Council Bluits
Harrison County
Chicago
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N. Y. Evening Post, Inc
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Indorse
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Gordon Green
EK. Myers
Dale Fairbanks
Smiths Pictures
Pagan
Villa
St. Stanislaus Cathedral
St. John’s
St. Annes
St. Bernard's
Sts. Peter and Paul
All Saints Church
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Reval
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Moscow
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Ngsberg
Warsaw
Inskae
Milesk
Crusader
George Heller
Mulberry Street
James Hickert
Heller
Eddie Sprouse
Black Hawk Street
Hoover and
Curtis
Michigan
Ohio
Indiana
Iinois
LIONS
1OWA
Col. Lindbergh
Cudahy Packing Company
Aleck
Illinois Central
Wakte
Frank Finn
H. J. Schwietert
Jesup
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