US to supervise Nicaragua election despite setback
Washington reports that the United States will proceed with plans to supervise Nicaragua’s October presidential election under the Stimson agreement, despite the Nicaraguan legislature’s refusal to authorize action. Liberal and conservative factions debated session calls as President Diez set a budget focus and a bill on a national guard to be formed by Marines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
United States
State Department
Diez
Stimson
Jose Moncada
Henry S. Stimson
Caylidge
Diaz
Burton Defends Hoover In Congressional Address
The speech defends Hoover against farmer-foe charges and exposes quotes from Brand. Burton reads Johnson letters dated 1925 praising Hoover and urges his appointment as secretary of agriculture. Brand is revealed as the letter signer, prompting an awkward hush in the house.
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Burton
Hoover
Wilson
League of Wetsons
Brand
Buirton
Jayo
Alsho
Agricultne
Madden
Tillnois
Carlos Brand
New York
Fear Hinchliffe and Elsie MacKay Lost in Sea Flight
Flight fear and missing aviators dominate a Grantham scene as Captain Hinchliffe and Miss Elsie MacKay, both connected with aviation, vanish during a sea crossing attempt. Reports say MacKay held a pilot certificate and aided Hinchliffe, who sent word about the craft as distress grew.
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Fear Hinchliffe
Elsie MacKay
Plane sighting signals Atlantic flight by Hinchliffe crew
Report notes Hinchliffe was off on an Atlantic flight aboard Endeavour with a gasoline load for about 3000 miles. Observers in southern Ireland saw an aircraft in a snow storm speeding toward the Atlantic, believed to be the America-bound Miers. The British Press Association later said Hinchliffe’s plane was sighted about 170 miles off Ireland’s west coast yesterday afternoon. this was the last progress report.
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Hinchliffe
Atlantic
Ireland
British Press Association
Flood Dead List Grows From Dam Break Losses Soar
Authorities say flood deaths are rising as destruction from a breached dam stretches along a 63 mile flood path to the sea. Estimated losses reach 10 million to 30 million pounds and dollars with Los Angeles suffering 3 million in the destroyed dam complex.
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Los Angeles
Partial List of Disaster Victims
A Los Angeles dispatch provides a partial roster of individuals identified among the St Francis dam disaster dead. Readable names include children and adults such as Nora, Eddie Garete, Minick, Holton, and Anderson among others in the stricken area.
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Los Angeles
Cal
St. Francis Dam
Solomon of
Brerate Price
Ray Rising
Halova
Rose Baus
Nora Father
Dee Cartoa
Nilton
Oid
Tarati Riis
Eddie Garete
Minick
Inan
Chile
Hewes
Harley - To
Hid Holton
Ieee
Berta Tana
Frazer Mis
Lows Burnet
Garon
Enardy
Edward Locke
E Wrowky
Awian Anderson
Kennedy Oncar
Beeei Cagurit
Mann
J Mathows
Two airdalers missing in flood stricken Saugus section
Two aviators CW Emelish and Jh D Haugh from Clover Fields Santa Monica California left Clover to survey the power installation in San Pranesquite canyon and failed to return. Officials said they departed yesterday and were reported missing in the flood struck Saugus area.
Dam Flood Catastrophe Sidelights and Rescue Tales
Airplanes skimmed low over the stricken area guiding rescuers to bodies as a girl clung to a plank to escape the flood and later refused to emerge until clothed by rescuers. A rancher lost his three children when his car was swept away after warning a neighbor. Improvised morgues formed around central points where grieving mothers sat with children, seeking missing fathers and brothers. Understaffed hospitals reported few injuries and doctors said undertakers would bear the brunt. Newhall appealed for aid as trucks delivered food and clothing. county officials urged a cautious, engineering-led inquiry before judgment. The San Francisquito gorge ravaged about 400 houses, with Santa Paula, Fillmore, and Piru enduring further destruction as concrete blocks from the dam were scattered widely.
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San Francisquito Canyon
Santa Paula
Fillmere
Pira
Santa Clara
Fire Alarm Advertisements and Notices Summary
Fire alarms listed with prices and contact notes. Names include Bushness Muldine Sibert Jaundry at Sixth Street. An awning incident noted on Tre Gamage. Advertisement suggests insurance and purchasing options through Herman C. Miller with local phone 2404.
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Bushness Muldine
Sibert Jaundry
Sixth Street
Tre
Gamage
Salty Weather Fragments Hint At Tuesday Tenacity
Fragmented OCR shows temperatures with shaky phrasing for Tuesday and Wednesday. It mentions a high around 72 or 73 and a low near 29, with odd annotations and time hints scattered through the lines.
Union Men to Take Discrimination Case Before Gov Hammill
Des Moines reports Iowa labor leaders will present charges of union labor discrimination in the Iowa City university hospital construction to Governor Hammill. J M Fisk university supervisor faced allegations of using state laborers on a private contract. Electricians petitioned in support. Shaff of the electricians union stated his group backs Fisk. Unions allege about 51000 in state work was done without contract and nonunion workers hired on the new 2 million state hospital project.
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Des Moines
University Hospital
Iowa City
Des Moines Woman Seeks Separate Maintenance
In Des Moines on March 14 a case filed in esti court alleges Victoria Scetieane seeks maintenance from Dr Leo Swainson. She claims Swainson jumped on her with both feet and threatened to break a mirror over her head.
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Des Moines
Leo Swainson
Victoria Scetieane
Mournful notices note Hummel Rites and kin
Mrs George Hummel 73 of Iowa dies after brief illness at daughter’s home 312 Saxon St. Born Mary Ectermacht 1852 in Pennsylvania married George Hummel 57 years ago. he died 1913. Survived by children Frank A Lester Charles Leroy Mrs A Knapp Mrs John Harten and Mrs Humphrey. Funeral at Beaver Methodist Episcopal Church with burial in Beaver Cemetery. Also funeral notices for Mrs Fred Kahn and Casey Ketly with limited biographical details.
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George Hummel
Iowa
H. Q. Humphry
Saxon Street
Mary Ectermacht
Pennsylvania
Beaver
Boone County
Frank A
Magnolia Street
Lester
Wellington Street
Charles
Cedar Heights
Leroy
Greeler
Cole
A. &, Knapp
Anamosa
John Harten
Grand Junction
Humphrey
Methodist Episcopal Church
Hileman &Gindt Mortuary
Fred Rain
Fred Kahn
al Rinegar
Irving
Atrrel
Imma Krueser
Berlin
Germany
United States
Milwaukee
Freeport
Gilmore Cry
Waorl
Episcopal Church
Fred
Dysart
Bertha Dodge
Trying Street
Otto
William
Howard
Edward
Emmettsburg
Iowa Governor Hammill signs $100,060 bond bill
Des Moines March 14 Gov John Hammill signed the $100,060 bond bill for state road construction. The legislature adjourns later with minor bills pending. Senate and House actions include resolutions for farm relief measures and continued fight against the corn borer. A separate Patterson-Salinders measure to condemn or acquire manufacturing facilities for road construction was rejected by the Senate.
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Des Maines
John Hammill
Iowa
Des Moines
Hammill
Senate
McNary-Haugen
House
Congress
Agricultural Committee
22 I
Corn Belt Federation
State Highway Commission
Howard A. Mathews
Patterson-Salinders
Screen Comedian Is Broke Owes $300000
Los Angeles March 14. Larry Semon, a screen comedian often in trouble on screen, filed for voluntary bankruptcy claiming he owes nearly 500000 dollars and has only 300 to pay. He seeks to keep half of the 300. the rest would go to creditors.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Larry Semon
Semon
Sukkūr barrage gates contract to Ransome & Rapier
London March 14 The India office awards the contract for the Sukkur barrage sluice gates to Ransome & Rapier Ipswich England The 60 ft wide 18 ft 6 in deep gates will fit 66 spans weighing about 40 tons each The barrage irrigation will serve 6 000 000 acres in Sind Seven canals will branch from the barrage including the 200 mile Rohri canal
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London
INS
Sukkor
Indus
India Office
Ransome & Rapier
Ipswich
England
Sukkur
Sind
Rohri
Brain Tests from the Evening Post offers practice items
The piece presents intelligence test examples asking readers to identify the one word that is essentially different in each group. It explains the method, gives sample items such as breakfast dinner pie, and invites readers to try them and compare with later answers.
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Farrest
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Boston
Detroit
Gogert
Fox
Washington
Jackson
Taylor
Grant
Harding
Ocean
Gulf
Lake
New Hampshire Picks Delegates
Concord New Hampshire March 14 P This state will send solid Hoover and Smith delegations at large to the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Returns from yesterday's primaries show seven Republican delegates-at-large elected all favoring Hoover. Fred A Barker Nashua the only one pledged to Hoover trails. Everett R Rutter Derby seeking renomination of Coolidge is far down the list. Democratic results defeat of Robert Jackson Concord party chairman and elimination of anti saloon league indorsed candidates.
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Concord
N. H
Smith
Secretary of Commerce
Fred A. Barker
Nashua
Hoover
Everett R. Rutter
Derby
Coolidge
Apa
Alfred E. Smith
Robert Jackson
Anti Saloon League
League
New Hampshire
Merbert Hoover
al Smith
Democratic State Committee
George H. Moses
Huntley N. Spaulding
Jessie Doe
Beulah Annan Chicago’s Beautiful Slayer Dies of Tuberculosis
Beulah Annan, famed as Chicago’s “most beautiful slayer” whose life inspired the play and film Chicago, dies in a Chicago hospital at 32 from tuberculosis. The former trial figure, Maurine Watkins later used her experiences for a sensational plot, and Annan’s funeral plans include her father, mother, Perry Stevens, Albert Annan, and Edward Harlib among friends and associates.
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Chicago
Beulah Annan
Cook County
Dorothy Stevens
Chicago Fresh Air Hospital
Maurine Watkins
Chicago Times
Ghiraga
Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Glennville
Kentucky
Green River Valley
Mary Neel
Perry Stevens
Owensboro
Albert Annen
Girl's companionate marriage ends with prison sentence
In Cedar Rapids on March 14 1929 D M Evans 21 and Ethel Lindstrom 17 faced prison terms after their companionate marriage. Evans drew 15 years at Anamosa reform school and Lindstrom received a similar sentence at Rockwell City reform school. She was paroled to her parents in Boone pending good behavior. They had lived at a hotel here, Evans forged checks when money ran out, she cashed them. Evans was arrested during her hospital stay for appendicitis and she was freed after hospital discharge. She remarked this was a poor honeymoon and left the courtroom.
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Cedar Rapids. Ja
D. M. Evans
Ethel Lindstrom
Evans
Anamosa
Rockwell City
St Boone
Coturt
Paris Druggists Fight Legislation on Closed Sunday
Paris March 15 druggists clash with a Sunday closing law. Jean Castille leads protests by keeping his store open and drawing crowds to mock the ban. He has been convicted of violating the law 130 Sundays, fined 40 000 francs, with appeals pending.
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Paris
Bellige
Jean Castille
Blnck
Tess Essential
Castille
Leader
Po-Icemen
Furniture Taken In Delwein Leads To Arrest Here
J. H. Whitford was arrested after attempting to sell a full set of household furniture stolen from Mr. and Mrs. Vern Crawford of Oelwein. The couple reported $2,200 in losses including cowhides. Whitford claimed a postdated check scheme and hired transport to move the items to 1016 Wellington in Waterloo. Crawford, anxious to recover a piano, phonograph, bedroom suite, and other goods, identified a $120 check as his signature, though the amount was altered.
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J. H. Whitford
Vern Crawford
Oelwein
Wellington Street
Waterloo
Crawfords
Cedar Rapids
Crawford
N. L. Watt
Delwelh
Whitford
Oslwvin
Basketball Letters Given 9 at West High
West High today awarded nine letters to basketball team members during the assembly period. Named were captain Sletzel and players Pixley, Moore, Graham, Gnagy, Wetson, Tarpy, Brown, and Waite for the season just closed.
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Ab West High School
Sletzel
Pixley
Moore
Graham
Gnagy
Wetson
Tarpy
Brown
Waite
WIFE ASKS POLICE TO TAKE AUTO AWAY FROM HUSBAND
Mrs. C. E. Kelly of 725 Washington reports her auto stolen then says her husband has it and asks police to seize the car. Police decline to judge ownership. Vergie Taylor, 24, of 92 Barclay Street North, arrested at Rath Packing plant for possession of intoxicating liquor.
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C. E. Kelly
Washington Street
Vergie Taylor
Negro
Barclay Street North
Rath Packing Company
Captain Morris III Absent Illness At Police HQ
Captain Morris III, the first shift captain at police headquarters, was missing from his desk today due to illness after suffering a bilious attack at his home on 1124 Kern Street.
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Morris III
Thomas J. Morris
Becaus
Kern Street
Homes For Sale In Hagerman Area Prompt Quick Sale
"You ll Like These Homes" describes several Hagerman Addition properties near West 4th Denver Street with prices ranging from 3000 to 8500. Listings note solid oak finish six room houses, a Highland area home, a nearly new residence and a ground value cited at 3000, all offered for prompt purchase.
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West 4Th
Denver Street
Eighland
Water meter reader promotes Nu-Tone tonic endorsement
A Marshalltown water meter reader, Bert E. Ferrin, endorses Stock's Nu-Tone as a body builder and purifier after personal success. He credits improved appetite, weight gain, and vitality to the tonic and urges others to try it, listing local stores and pricing.
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Bert E. Ferrin
South Seventh Street
Marshalltown
Walter Meteor
Stock
Miller and
J. Robert Drug Company
Nu-Tone Co
Quincy, T
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