Experts Split On Origin Of Midwest Quake Felt Coast To Coast
A mass quake rattled from Canada to Florida near the Great Lakes region and New England coast. Scientists offer competing origins from Saguenay fault to New England coastlines, with varied theories about deep rock shifts and tectonic activity.
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America
Canada
Florida
Mississippi River
Saguenay
Quebec
Great Lakes
New England
W. Johnson
Ccorsity
Cressy. Morrison
Bay of Fundy
Ards
Massachusetts
FMW
Yiot
Congress Farm Policy Debate Foreshadows Policy Split
Washington discussions reveal two major farm policy visions. One side backs home market protection and state-led surplus handling, while the other favors overseas sales and tariff adjustments to enable imports. Observers contend an emergency farm bill may be delayed to resolve the principle clash.
Notable Figures in Day’s News and Courtroom Outcomes
Charles A Stoneham, a millionaire stock broker and large NY Giants stakeholder, was acquitted by a New York jury on conspiracy and mail fraud charges. Actress Bella Burke, née Florenz Ziegfeld’s wife, severely injured in a private car crash in Florida. Ex Gov Charles Deneen of Illinois named to fill the late Medill McCormick’s five day term by Gov Small. Mrs John Francis Amherst Cecil, Cornelia Vanderbilt Cecil, has given birth to a son, George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil, at Biltmore House near Asheville, N C.
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Charles A. Stoneham
New York Giants
New York
Bijiie Burke
Florenz Zieg
Fulm Beach
Fis
Charles
Deneen
Illinois
Law
United States
Medill
McCormick
John
Francis Amherst
Cecil
Cornelia Vanderbilt
Washington
George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil
Biltmore House
George Vanderiill
Asheville
N.C
Flier Defends Air Power Articles in Letter to Committee
The document recounts a 1924 exchange where General Mitchell sought permission to write aviation articles. President Coolidge reportedly approved, while Weeks’ testimony in 1925 questioned alleged order violations. The letter asserts no disobedience and notes periodic publication could have been halted by the War Department.
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Air, Service
Mitchell
Italy
Cat Coolidge
Weeks
War Department
Barton Accepts National Legion Adjutancy in Des Moines
James F. Barton of Des Moines accepts the post of national adjutant of the American Legion offered by National Commander James A. Crain, succeeding Russell G. Creviston. Barton, former Iowa adjutant, will move to Indianapolis to assume duties about April 1, serving first as assistant for four to five months as an understudy.
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Des Moines
James F. Barton
Buncaneon
The
Amerian Legion
Barton
James A. Crain
Russell G. Creviston
Indiana
Legion
Fort Dodor
Iowa
Indianapolis
Ind
March Fe
American Legion
Russell Crevision
Crevision
Samuel Bowles
National Assiutant
Te Legi
Pilal
Jail Breakers Freeze From Escape With Frozen Feet
Five horsemen escaped Jones county jail by blasting a wall with dynamite and fled into sub zero weather. Sheriff Higovered connected to Davenport radio, two strangers sought shelter near Martelle Iowa, aiding a farmer who notified Bodenhofer. Prisoners were recaptured and may have feet amputations due to severe frostbite.
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Angotosi
George ,Lauber
Wic Adams
Jones County
John’ Bacenhorér
Abner
Davenport
Martelle
Bodenhofer
Marshal at Madrid Shot by Yeggs at Jail Door
Three bandits shot City Marshal Charles Sharper in Madrid Iowa while he guided them into the dark city jail. He was wounded in the hip and intestines, taken to Lutheran hospital Des Moines, and is not expected to survive. He was 60, married, and unable to identify the assailants.
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Madrid
Charles Sharp
Des Moines
Sharp
State Briefs Counciluffs Em Posse Over Pay Increase
Nearly 300 postal workers and families rejoining amid pay rise plans. The city government reports an annual distribution of about 229000 dollars in additional pay. A separate fire incident is noted at the Wadlie School building with unknown origin and continued training. James Coburn Rerbank obituary mentions a death after years of practice in Freeport.
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Freeport
Wil
Mirenetti
Woanais Olewigs
Exsey
Hughes Presents Pan American Union Plan To Code World Laws
Secretary Hughes, as chairman of the Pan American Union, outlined 31 drafts by the American Institute of International Law for codifying international law in the Western Hemisphere. He urged transmission to governments, saying the proposals advance peace, reduce war risk, and move civilization forward.
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PAL
Associated Press
Washington, D.C
Pan American Union
American Institute of International Law
International Congress of Jurists
Rio de Janeiro
Secretaary
Bandits Rob Three of Theatre Receipts
In Casper Wyoming on March 2 bandits robbed a moving picture theatre at gunpoint the owner the manager and the assistant manager were bound and gouged of two days receipts totaling several thousand dollars. The robbers also took money and jewelry from Ra Schultz the owner before fleeing.
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Casper, Wyo
Moving Picture Theatre
Ra Schultz
Undertaker ads banished from parish magazine in Derbyshire
In Littleover Derby Rev Cyril R Brown vicar bans undertakers’ adverts from the parish magazine. He says the firms are excellent but three adverts would doom the journal to gloom, and he would rather readers focus on brighter topics. He suggests undertakers join doctors and dentists in abstaining from ads.
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Tondon
Cyril R. Brown
Littleover
Derby
Dr. Brown
Widow Dies After Illness in Independent
Wheeler Mrs J Wheeler 32 wife of an assistant to the city engineer Washington street died after an illness of long duration. She was born July 27, 1883 in Independence. Survived by two sons Bernard 10 and Raymond 7 and her parents Mr and Mrs John Downs of Independence. Services Wednesday at 9 in the Gold Wil chapel conducted by Hileman & Gini at 2230 a.m.
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J. Wheeler
Washington Street
Atim
Tafay
Alten Me
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Cheliwshansd
Bernard
Rasmond
Ands
John Downs
Wasik
Rowley
Henry Bb
Gold Wil
Hileman & Gini
Yale senior D Ashburn tops class in praise at Yale
D. Ashburn of West Point New York has been voted the most admired, most scholarly and hardest working among Yale University seniors in New Haven Conn. He chaired the 1925 board of editors of the Yale News and pitched for the baseball team. Ashburn recently won a Rhodes scholarship.
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West, Point
Yale University
New Haven
Conn
Yale, News
Ashburn
Cable Briefs From European D लौ
Cable briefs report a Belgian queen’s hair styled amid royal protests in London, Maginot criticizing socialist governance in Evreux, police preventing rioting in Marseilles with few reinforcements needed, Mussolini possibly resting in Tormenia after influenza, Cas tinat hailed by Catholics in France, and a 50,000 mourners procession for Branting in Stockholm with King Gustav and foreign diplomats attending the funeral.
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London
Belgium
Sunday Express
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Arden
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Marseilles
Republican National League
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Tormenia
Vavis
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Castinat
Mauntes
France
Stockholm
Gustav
Branting
Committee Seeks Political Amnesty
An organized international committee for political prisoners announced a movement to aid released prisoners from all countries. Temporary chairman Rogers N. Baldwin said those who participated in political violence would not receive assistance. The committee estimates about 40,000 prisoners are eligible for aid.
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New York
International Committee For
Rogers N. Baldwin
S U S Head Forced to Take Trip South
Iowa City March 2 President W A Jessup of the State University of Iowa was en route to New Orleans seeking health on doctors orders. He fell ill December 10 with a severe cold later diagnosed as typhoid fever and spent five weeks in the university hospital before returning home. The duration of his absence is unknown and no replacement has been appointed.
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City
W. A. Jessup
State University of Iowa
New Orleans
Jessup
University Hospital
South
Founder of Rapids Hospital Dies After Long Service
Cedar Rapids, March 2. Mother Agatha, a Sister of Mercy and founder of Mercy Hospital, dies at age 72. She led Mercy work for 60 years, taught at Immaculate Conception School for over four decades, and founded a hospital in Kalispell, Montana. Born Ottawa Illinois in 1851. Burial today.
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Mother Agatha
Sisters of Mercy
Mercy! Hospite Bere
Agathas
Immaculate Conception
Ottawa
Jil
Kalispel
Mont
Two Killed by Blast in Refining Plant
In Barnesdall Oklahoma on March 2 two men died in a refinery explosion at Barnesdall Refining Company. Victims were Jack McMasters, 30, and Sj Trank, 45. Windows shattered as the blast caused property damage citywide. Firefighters and investigators worked to determine the cause amid a night of chaos.
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Oklo
Barnesdall Refining Company
Jack McMasters
Sj Trank
Ebert's Body Lies In State In Study Where He Worked
Berlin reports the body of Friedrich Ebert rests in state in the study of the executive mansion where his sudden death ended his presidency. The room is draped in black with minimal floral honors and a lone Rembrandt painting nearby. Four soldiers guard the remains as funeral arrangements proceed for Wednesday. London coverage notes no clear successor to the late president and questions about a potential Crown Prince successor.
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Germany
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Dri Stresemann
London
Ebert of
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Daily News
Frederick William
Last-Minute Jam in Congress Swings to Crest in Senate
The last 45 hours of the session see fevered activity in the Senate as members press for unanimous consent on pet measures. President Cummings halted proceedings to restore decorum amid loud objections and a possible filibuster scare eased by a conference agreement on the interior appropriation and a $60,009,000 deficiency bill. ASTOR GOES EAST Ray H. W. Cross, pastor and Grinnell College trustee, has received a call to Union Congregational church in New York City, with resignation to be voted Thursday night.
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Spanish Springs
House Conferces
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Grinnell
Ray
H. W. Cross
First Congregational Church
Grinnell College
Iowa
Union Congregational Church
New York City
Richmond Hill
Longatts
Supreme Court to Decide On Liquor Prescription Limit
Dr Samuel W Lambert of New York City filed an appeal challenging the government’s power to restrict physicians prescriptions for liquor for patients. The case traces to the Volstead act and follows a district court win but circuit court loss on the prescription limit issue.
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Washington, D.C
Supreme Court
Samuel W. Lambert
New York City
Lambert
Interstate Commerce Committee Sets Butter Freight Rates
The interstate commerce commission ruled that carload butter freight rates from Oklahoma City Denver Sioux City Kansas City Omaha St Louis Cincinnati Chicago Minneapolis to Fort Worth Houston and San Antonio were reasonable. It prescribed more reasonable rates and ordered railroads to implement them by May 19.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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Denver
Sioux City
Kansas Points
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Kansas City
Omaha
Louisville
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Chicago
Minneapolis
Fort . Worth
Houston
San Antonio
Tex
Young People at Church Conference in Des Moines
More than 300 delegates attend the fourth annual Presbyterian Church Young People’s Conference at Central Presbyterian Church Des Moines with Ray Gerrit Verhuyl of Chicago serving as dean of the session.
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Dés Moines
Presbyterian
Cetral Presbyterian Church
Ray
Gerrit Verhuyl
Chicago
Man Rescues Family From Blaze In Council Bluffs
March 3 William Patterson, in scanty garments, risked flames and smoke to pull family members from a house fire that consumed the home and its contents. Several children in an inner room nearly suffocated, fire damage estimated at $1,000,000. In Brooklyn a separate Queens fires damaged an electrical repairs shop, costing about $1,000,000 and leaving 500 workers unemployed.
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Council Bluffs
William Patterson
Grooklyn
Queens
Bank Bandit Killed in River View Bank Heist
A bandit was shot to death during a hold up at the River View bank in Kansas City Kansas today. Police reported the suspect died at the scene. No further details on identities or accomplices were released.
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Kan
River View
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