Krupp Trial Opens Before French Court Martial
At Werder in occupied Germany on May 4, the Krupp family and directors faced a French court martial for allegedly instigating orders and hostility against French forces. Gustav Krupp von Bohlen testified he accepted no secret armament pact and read emails as sirens wailed and gunfire echoed around the Krupp plant. Four directors fled to Berlin. the maximum penalty if convicted is death or life imprisonment.
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D. Weyer
Werder
Germany
Herr Gustav Krupp
van Bohlen
Halbach
Krupp Works
Hssen
Herr Krupp von Bohlen
Bertha Krupp
Herr Bruhn
Herr Hartwig
Herr Gesterlein
de Goutte
Army of Occupation
Krupp
Krupps Works
Grimm
Herr Krupp Vor Bohlem
Herr Krupp von Bohtem
Terr Krupp von Johlem
Council of Krupp Workmen
Krupp von Bohlen
Krupp Company
Herr Mueller
Workers’ Council
Herr Gross
Berlin
Delivery Guarantee for Courier Newspaper Service
The Courier will be delivered to your home before 5 39 o clock. If the carrier errs or you do not receive the paper by that time, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 39 p m.
Technicality Blocks N A A Record Confirmation
Washington announces a technicality prevents full recognition of the New York to San Diego nonstop flight by Lieuts Kelly and MacReady. The N A A will amend rules to allow future such feats, while the crew plans further record attempts and a world flight itinerary. The 2625 mile journey covered 26 hours 40 minutes.
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Associated Press
Washington, DC
National Aeronautic Association
Lieuts
Kelly
MacReady
New York
San Diego
Altho
Cal
Rockwall Field
Hempstead
Oakley G. Kelly
John A. MacReady
GOP Convention Bound for Chicago in 1024
Chicago May 4 United Press says the 1024 Republican national convention is virtually assured for Chicago. National treasurer Fred W Upham reports 29 of 53 members have signed pledges to back Chicago. California Republicans pressed San Francisco as an alternative during talks with New York officials.
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United Press
Chicago
Fred W- Upham
National Committee
Altho
Ham
Pacific Coast
California
Gotham
San Francisco
Housemaid Sues for Wages in District Court
Selma Westendorf sues Fred Jacobs in the district court for 304 dollars claiming wages due for housework at a west of here residence near Summer. Jacobs counters with an $86 set off for time lost due to visits by the maid that allegedly absorbed the hired man’s time.
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Oelwein
Selma Westendorf
Fred Jacobs
Izaak Walton Leagues Rally Tuesday in Hardin County
The first big rally of the Izaak Walton league in this part of Iowa will be at the Metropolitan opera house in the city on Tuesday evening May 8. Hardin county chapters host the event titled Towar river rally with Dr Bradley of Chicago as speaker. All riverport men and preservation-minded citizens are urged to attend.
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Iowa
Izaak Watton League
Metropolitan Opera House
Towa River
Hardin County
Bradley
Chicago
Trver Portiman
Five Bandits Rob Buckner Banks in Parallel Heist
Five men in a large automobile robbed two Buckner banks simultaneously. They took about $4,000 in cash and $30,000 in liberty bonds from one bank and $4,000 in cash from the other, escaping together with the loot.
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Buckner, Mo
Buckner Bank
Bonds May Be Sold at Low Rate, Statehouse
Des Moines May 4 Negotiations that may mean the ultimate success of the 2,000,600 soldier bonus bond sale at the present rate of interest were being carried out today, but results likely won t be known until Monday when another session of the adjourned sale will be held. State Treasurer Burbank was not at his office but was seeking a solution to the difficulties blocking the sale.
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Des Moines
Burbank
Packer Merger Antitrust Attack Declared by Judge
Kansas City May 4 Judge B T Hainer chief counsel for Secretary Wallace said the Morris & Co Armour & Co purchase is the biggest attack on antitrust laws. He spoke after Wallace telegram instructed him to leave nothing undone in pursuing the complaint that the deal violates the Packers and Stockyards Act.
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Kansas City, Mo
Morris & Co
Armour& Co
B. T. Hainer
Wallace
Department
Oil Down Because of Overproduction
Denver May 4 reports overproduction blamed for oil price cuts in Wyoming and Montana grade crude. Strong entities include Denver and the western oil states with prices affected by supply imbalance. no specific figures given.
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Denver
Colo
Wyoming
Montana
Harding May Cut Speeches To Take Porto Rico Trip
Washington May 4 President Harding plans a continent Alaska trip next month with a possible extension to Porto Rico by sea via Panama Canal over a month. He wants to see conditions there amid recent adminstration tensions but fears reducing speeches to avoid suggesting a campaign stump.
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Harding
International News Wire
Washington, D.C
Alaska
Porto Rico
Seattle
Panama Canal
White House
Felton Attacks Brookhart Policy on Railways
Samuel M. Felton, Western railway committee chair, criticized Senator Smith W. Brookhart’s proposed railroad legislation before the Fort Dodge Chamber of Commerce. Felton warned that radical regulation could push railways toward government ownership, arguing current facts show limited savings but ongoing transport shortages. He urged avoiding misled farmers and stressing need for adequate service and fair returns.
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Associated Jress
Fort Dodge
Smith W. Brookhart
Iowa
Samuel M. Felton
The
Western Railway
Chamber of Commerce
Felton
Brookhart
Des Moines
Jhhan
Interstate Commerce Commission
New York
Welton
Western Territory
Invalid Woman Is Carried to Safety During House Fire
Greene Massachusetts special report: fire destroyed Mrs Elizabeth Kendall’s home after she was removed from a room where she had been seriously ill for two months. The blaze began in that room. furniture survived. Kendall suffered nervous shock and was transported eighty rods to the Nixt residence for shelter.
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Greene
Mass
Elizabeth Kendall
Gov't Invested 1.9 Million in Shopmen Case in Chicago
The government has spent 1.9 million dollars preparing its case against railroad shopmen, as depositions by Jacob M. Dickinson show. In the hearing on the government's plea for a permanent injunction, the defendants having withdrawn, the court is expected to take the plea under advisement next week.
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Chicago
Jacob M. Dickinson
United States
Maryland forest fire threatens powder sheds
Pottsville Maryland on May 4 state police conscripted citizens to fight raging forest fires along a four mile front north of the city. The flames threaten powder magazine sheds as they burn through the area.
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Pottsville
Garageman Badly Injured Cranking an Unbraked Car
Des Moines May 4. Fremont Hidsall garage owner between life and death in General hospital from injuries while cranking an unbraked car. The brakes on the machine had not been set and the automobile rolled over the garageman when the engine started.
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Des Moines
Fremont Hidsall
Nex Wetween
General Hospital
Bold Hold Up Men Elude Police At Night
Officers chase two armed hold up suspects after a string of crimes from 10:30 p m to 4:30 p m. the fugitives fired five shots but missed. a robbery at eleventh street bridge yielded $12. a.m. residents report two rough dressed men seen near a first street home. description matches earlier reports. police remain on alert as they pursue the pair.
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Berk Pouglass
Douglass
Reo
Pirth Street
Rock Island
May Thiyo
Bluff Street
Poeters
South Street
Eleventh Street
Peters
Ife
Hy Min
Manly
Ile
A. M. Locke
First Street
Northwestern hazing death inquest widens probe
Authorities interrogate about 40 Northwestern undergraduates over the 1921 Leighton Mount case. Coroner plans a lakefront inquest extension and grand jury action as witnesses detail the campus hazing climate and alleged coverups.
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Mount
Lake Michigan
Hicago
Leighton Mount
Northwestern University
Boris Fochs
Northwestern
Criminal Courts
Gyar
James Tomlinson
Williams at Excelsior Springs Enjoys Waters and Baths
W Scott Williams and party visit Excelsior Springs Missouri staying at the springs to partake of the waters baths and recreational features. Williams is listed as general superintendent of a central western lines headquartered at Waterloo.
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W.scott Williams
Excelsior Springs, MO
Excelsior Springs
Scott Wiliams
Sicots
Jines
Waterloo
Birmingham Post editors face contempt trial over Yerby murder coverage
United Press dispatch from Birmingham reports editor E T Levelt managing writer Jack Kethna and reporter Lewey Robinson face contempt of court proceedings after a story on the W O M Yerby murder case led Judge Heflin to rule the Dowling and Daniels connections prejudicial and postpone the trial.
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United Presay
Birmingham
Ala
E. T. Levelt
Jack Kethna
Lewey Robinson
Birmingham Post
W. OM. Yerby
Arline
J.D. Dowling
Ed Herman Daniels
H. P. Heflin
Tom Feflin
Alabama
Dowling
Davenport German Repudiates Vollmer For Tirade Speech
Davenport Iowa May much of the German relief committee repudiated attorney and former congressman Vollmer after a bitter speech blaming the United States for Germany's woes and critiquing Allied policy. County chairman Gril reopened the meeting censoring Vollmer while Count Lerchenfeld urged relief aid to Germany.
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Associated Press
Davenport
Mayde
Dfenry Vollmer
Iowa
United States
Ruhr
Germany
America
Great Britain
France
Nooner
Vollmer
Charles Gril
Hugo von Lerchenfald
Bavaria
Count Lerchenfeld
Piggly Wiggly Head Flooded With Stock Subscriptions
Memphis Tenn May 4 Pledges for stock piled the desk of Clarence Saunders head of the Piggly Wiggly stores when he opened his office today The pledges were made by laboring men employees and wealthy people of New York Buffalo Chicago New Orleans St Louis and Kansas City I could raise money in three days to pay three times the obligations that come due in a month he said I am not pretending to work today Im celebrating It is the greatest holiday for me Ive ever known I feel better than when I whipped Wal street in March
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Memphis
Tenn
Clarence Saunders
Piggly Wiggly
New York
Buffalo
Chicago
New Orleans
St. Louis
Kansas City
Wal Street
Earthquake Shakes Case College Seismograph
The Case College seismograph in Cleveland recorded two tremors at 11:42 and 11:47 a m with Father Odenbach stating the magnitude distance is about 4000 miles away and undetermined direction, announced at noon today.
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Cleveland
Case College
Father Odenbach
Accountant Faults Burbank Office Finances
Des Moines reports expert accountant Quincy A Willis criticizes state treasurer office for incompetence and inefficient accounting. He highlights large depository transfers, counter checks, overdrafts, and mixed entries. Most records sound but some reveal mismanagement. ledgers with banks halted since 1922.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Quincy A. Willis
Ace
State Executive Council
Bec
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Wis
Burbank
Mtentionel
Wilis
Willis
Fane
General Appropriations
State Auditor
Eee
Executive Council
Fortieth General Assembly
State Senate
Legions Ayres Urged Honor Mother's Day Appeal
Des Moines on May 4 Rev I E Watson Argonne post chaplain urges all members to honor their mothers on Mother's Day May 13 by attending church. The post executive committee endorsed the idea naming the day Go-to-Church Sunday. Local legionnaires to attend services in a body.
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Des Moines
I. E. Watson
Argonne Post
Lesion
Post
Legionna
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