Mine Disaster and Royal Wedding Headlines
A Pennsylvania coal mine explosion traps hundreds after a 7 45 blast with rescue delays and later escapes from another shaft. In Oslo the Crown Prince Olaf weds Princess Martha, with grand public spectacle and a royal luncheon. Canada faces a fatal Dorcourt rail crash amid questions of rule compliance. A Chicago man returns with 450000 in bonds after a deadly shooting over a spite wall dispute.
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Pennsylvania
Parnassus
I Alroyad
Olaf
Norway
Oslo
Marth
Duke of York
Drovn
Royal
Haakon
Europe
Courier delivery instruction notice
The notice requests readers to report late newspaper delivery by 6 30 to receive a correction. Call the provided number before 6 20 p m to obtain a copy. The message specifies delivery issues due to carrier, bay, or other causes and directs readers to contact the office.
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Tina
Iowa House Passes Airport Bill in Push for Airfields
Des Moines dispatch reports the Iowa House approved by 81 to 6 the airport acquisition and maintenance bill and a companion licensing measure for aircraft and airmen. The bill lets cities acquire airports by purchase lease or gift and authorize bonds and taxes to finance projects. The House also debated a telephone rate regulation bill and legalized certain emergency tax levies after a Supreme Court ruling.
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Des Moines
Igwa
House of Representatives
F& Companion
House
Allen Senate
Iowa Supreme
Senate
Torset
Reyburn L. Rutledge
Webster
Thompson
Muscatine
O. F. Clark
Linn County
Clark
State Railroad Commission Centrol
Towa
Public’ Utilities Committee
Marion
Supreme Court
J. O. Shaft
Clinton
Wilson
Page
Keokuk
Perry
Cedar Fells
Ames
Ceive
Shenandoah
Shaft
Reports 100 Killed in Chinese Uprising
Peking March 21. The American legation received a telegram from a missionary stating a great communist uprising occurred in southern Klangsi province. The missionary said 100 persons were believed killed. Several American missions were burned but all missionaries escaped.
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Peking
China
Klangsi
Police Dog Flees After Man Bites It
Denver report describes a dog attack by a police dog on Dorothy Hamm. Francis Eckhart, 26, bit the dog's ear. the dog fled. Hamm was not injured.
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Denver
Dorothy Hamm
Francis M. Eckhart
Conscience Brings Confession Of Spite Wall Killing
John MacKenzie 45, missing since the shooting of Arthur Glanke last Oct 24, confesses to killing him after wrangling over a spite wall. He reveals bonds and mortgages worth 450000 and a tattered telescope, showing wealth police deemed unlikely from his real estate work. Authorities had blamed him in the coroner’s inquest but he vanished before trial.
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John ' Mackenzie
Chicago
Mackenzie
Arthur Glanke
Glanke
John MacKenzie
Levee Floods Hit 20000 Acres Near Quincy Al
Quincy Alabama March 21 150 families homeless as Indian grave drainage district levee five miles east gave way flooding about 20000 acres. Water over Lima lake levee threatens 75 more families and 15000 more acres. Weather bureau notes river fall but rising again to 20.7 feet, with the Skunk and Iowa rivers rising rapidly.
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Quincy
Indian Grave
Mississippi
Lima Lake
U. S. Weather Bureau
Hannibal
Towa
Tots Lives Added To Water's Toll In Floods
In flood swept Alabama, Georgia and Florida the death toll rose to 25 with Grace Taylor nine and Carl six drowned near York Alabama. Apalachee Florida and lower Flint Georgia flood waters surged while the Chattahoochee moved southward. The tri state area began drying as typhoid inoculations exceeded five hundred in Caryville Florida.
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Montgomery
Ala
U.P
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
Grace Taylor
Carl
York
Apalachicola
Flint
Chattahoochee
Tri-State
Caryville
Fla
Latham Talks at Teacher Parley in Oskaloosa
Oskaloosa Iowa March 21 Public school teachers from 19 south Western Iowa counties gathered for the two day division conference of the State Teachers Association Early registration suggested attendance would exceed a thousand. Dr B H Hode of Ohio State spoke on The Next Step in Education and Dr O R Latham president of the State Teachers College Cedar Falls delivered Education and Democracy outlining how free public instruction has progressed with national expansion.
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Oskaloosa
Iowa
State Teachers Association
B. H. Hode
Ohio State University
O. R. Latham
State’ Teachers College
Cedar Falls
Latham
Deputy slain in mystery assault in Spencer
Special deputy sheriff Pi c Plummer died from wounds received when attacked around midnight by two unidentified men. A deep gash under the chin and behind one ear suggested brass knuckles. Plummer, who roomed at Jensen home, could not name his assailants and had also served as an undercover man for Sheriff Dellinger of Calhoun county. He had possible relatives in Williamsburg.
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Spencer
C. L. Plummer
Plummer
Tobyie Jensen
Dellinger
Calhoun County
Wilamsburg
Northern Pacific Gives Wage Boost to 6500 Workers
The Northern Pacific railway granted wage increases of 2 to 5 cents an hour to 6,500 shop and roundhouse workers across the system. The raises take effect April 1 and run through December 31, 1930, boosting annual payroll by about $500,000. Similar settlements have been reported by Santa Fe Union Pacific Rock Island and Burlington systems.
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St. Paul, Minn
W.P
Northern Pacific Railway
Santa Fe
Union Pacific
Rock Island
Burlington Systems
Short Interviews With Home Folks Tribute for Joe Currie
Sam Buyers praises Joe Currie the bustling contractor for untiring efforts in combating the food menace in Cedar River. Keamed to be everywhere, working like a beaver, highlighting Currie’s active community role.
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Joe E. Currie
Bulsting
Cedar River
Sam Buyers
Jos Keamed
Mazatlan Attack Opens as Iturbe Rebels Press Coast
Rebels led by Gen Ramon Iturbe launch an assault on Mazatlan at 7 pm local time after demanding surrender from Gen Jaime Carillo. The battle involves about 2000 federal troops defending the five mile front as rebels aim for the port and the Southern Pacific Railway, with broader plans toward Guadalajara and Mexico City. Gen Jesus Aguirre faced a firing squad in Vera Cruz after a swift court martial, dying as a soldier.
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Chihuahua
Mexico City
Marstlan
Sinaloa
Mexico
U Pi
Ramon Iturbe
Jaime Carrillo
Jimenez
Jose Gonzalo’ Escobar
Pueblo
Guanajuato
Michoacan
Nayarit
Guanajusto
Zacatecas
Jalisco
Escobar
Chhuahua City
Marcelo Caraveo
Aguirre
Aguacatilla
Vera Cruz
Lato
Manuel Aleman
Porles Gili
Calles
Miguel A
Portes Gil
Ramon Tturbe
Magallan
Turbe
Jaime Carillo
Mazatiqa
Cartilo
Titurbe
Thurbe
Mazatlan
Southern Pacific Railway
Guadalajara
Bible Marathon Observed For Good Friday at Des Moines
In Des Moines on March 31 the First Friends church plans a Good Friday Bible marathon with 68 congregants reading the entire New Testament. Each reader will take 19 minutes starting at 3 a.m., finishing after 17 hours, led by Rev Percy Thomas.
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Des . Moines
First Friends Church
Percy Thomas
Requisitions for Red Cross Relief Issued Amid Flood Help
Requisitions for relief funds are being issued through the American Red Cross Waterloo chapter to aid Cedar river flood victims. Etta Worthen and Herman Miller announced the effort at the office, with Miss Mary Stanton and Miss Thora Ingebritsen joining the response. Registrations are private and only for internal use to identify those in need.
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Tellet
St. Lois
Mid- Western
Thora. Ingebritsen
Borah Attacks World Court Advisory Jurisdiction
Senator Borah criticizes the world court’s advisory opinions, calling it an attorney general’s department of the League of Nations. He comments as the final Root plan for American adherence reaches the State Department, likely to be reviewed by his committee in December.
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Washington, D. C
World Court
Borah
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
League of Nations
Iowa Taxpayers Face Higher Local Taxes This Year
Des Moines reports Iowa taxpayers will pay about 1.5 million dollars more in taxes this year. State auditor J. W. Long announced the 1939 total taxes levied at 103,667,566.39, up from 102,139,679.49. Town land and lots show valuations above two and one billion dollars and nearly one billion respectively, with district school expenses absorbing over 45 percent of the 103.0963 mil levy.
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Des Moines
U.—lowa
J. W. Long
Long
Iowa
Paris Debt Offer and Berlin Talks On Reparations
On March 21 Paris, Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, plans to travel to Berlin with the reparations experts who propose 750 million marks annually. The allies press conditions. Berlin has not signaled acceptance. Schacht telegraphed Finance Minister Hilferding to convene provincial industrialists and German institutions to explain the negotiations.
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Paris
Hjalmar Schacht
Reichsbank
Berlin
Schacht
Rudolf Hilferding
Anance
Hoover Favours Elastic Plan For Farm Relief
Washington March 21 President Hoover is said to lean away from fixed formulas for farm aid in the coming special session of Congress. He is believed to prefer broad authority for a federal farm board to deal with crises as they arise, enabling faster action than possible under rigid measures.
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Washington, D
Hoover
Seventy-first Congress
Federal Farm Board
Congress
Lindy and Anne to Have June Wedding
Miss Anne Morrow and Col. Charles A Lindbergh will wed in June. Lindbergh may fly to Mexico City before the ceremony to fix the date and place. Morrow trousseau prepares for a May finish. Cuernavaca favored as wedding locale.
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America
Mexico City
Anne Morrow
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Phates
Lindbergh
Mexico
Cuernaysaca
United States
Cuernavaca
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Cannada
Dorcourt
Ont
Canadian National R Railways
Air
Bill Ae
Beals
Kinloch
Valley Coal Company
O.f.faylor
Valley Camp
Tiple
New Kensington ‘General Hospital
Beri
Aylor
New
Kensington
Willian Trye
Spreckes
Maine
Stanley Palowski
Goa
William Birbin
Parnassis
H.W. Boyd
Bureau. of Mines
Lou Foote
Jett
Sea J
Newark
N. J
INS
Lou Iroote
Colonia] Airways
Phillip Sebold
Foote
Teachers College
Northern Pacific
AEBL
Iturbe
Calles Federals
Jesus Aguirre
Courtmartial
United Press
Gan Felice
Henry
George
Ularventer
Martin Cigars
RED Cross
ROD Cross Relief Fund
Previoung
Dotson Clothing Company
Steely Clothing Company
Waterloo Clearing House Association
Chapman Lumber Company
IL Loomis
E. la Jolincon
Laura W. Ghokon
Ames C. Stewart I
Y. E. Stewart
Bid Downing
Pickett, Swisher & Farwell Ho
Seldenboecker
L. C." Hayes
E. Crowther
Hildebrand
Leone
U .S
ANTE
Lowa
Rio
Lindy
Anne
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