Zeppelin to Start Flight At Friedrichshafen Tomorrow
Friedrichshafen Germany May 15 The trans Atlantic dirigible Graf Zeppelin planned to depart at 11 p m CST for the United States weather permitting 65 to 70 hours to Lakehurst Commander Hugo Eckener announced to 18 passengers at the Kurgarten hotel The trip may route via Besancon or Cape Finisterre then west of the Azores toward Virginia or DC A mystery passenger Mary Pierce of New York City faces pressure from relatives and officials to cancel the voyage with her promising to refrain but remaining undecided There was delayed departure due to French airspace permits and time constraints
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Friedrichshafen
Germany
United States
Hugo Eckener
Kurgarten
Lakehurst
Besancon
Cape Finistere
Azores
Virginia
District of Columbia
Eckener
France
Mary Pierce
New York City
Kurgarten Hotel
Ernst Lehmann
Graf Zeppelin
Atlantic
Iefi
New York
Moraling
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Police Estimate 91 Dead in Fire and Hospital Blast
Fire and hospital blast in New York killed or injured many as flames engulfed facilities. Rescue efforts crowded Mount Sinai and other hospitals while volunteers aided responders. An elevator shaft incident and bromide gas from x ray film storage contributed to the high death toll. Continuous explosions and oxygen tank shortages hampered relief, with hundreds affected by fumes and burns.
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Moung Sinai
Jack Sutherland
Louis Issabuecca
James P. Flynn
Lois Hillenbrand
Walter Kress
Jel Po
Alata
Mount Small hospital blast toll climbs with many missing
At Mount Small hospital a deadly blast left 13 known dead by 2:00 pm and as many as 200 believed to be in the building. Dr Crile led rescue crews through the four story brick facility built in 1924. Identified dead include H W Spellman and Ruth Walde, among others. the injured list features Dr H J Johns and hospital staff.
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Mount Small Hospital
Orlle
John Phillips
William E. Lower
Frank £. Butts
Charles F. Twiring
Western Reserve University
Bdward
Daoust
Mount Sinai Hospital
Grile
Crile
Cleveland
H. W. Spellman
Forest
Carls Helwig
Miss Roberts
Thomas
Harry Steinberg
Genver
Coto
Adam Tight
Toledo
Ruth Walde
Leora Hallenbeck
Barker Smith
Cleveland Athletic Club
H. J. Johns
Muriel Yanberg
Johns
Stephen Weinzer
Hawkins
Ad Cllnte
Ernest
Stark
Jumes
Jere Pearle
Cory N. Bishop
St. Joseph
G, EB. Lock
Walter Adams
Dr. Dinsmore
Jeanette Horowitz
George W. Beneher
Cherlrs Moore
George Strapp
Susan Brantwiner
Mary Ranaska
Paul Roranem
Waterloo Artist Sends Portrait to President Hoover
Waterloo artist John G Crippen has mailed an air portrait of President Hoover and received a note of appreciation from Lawrence Richey the president's secretary. Crippen also sent a portrait of the vice president in cures. Police freed George Greene after an investigation into a stop and search incident involving Leonard Ruof amid a shooting threat claim. Edmund W Miller, head of Commercial National Bank, shows improved health and expects to return to work soon.
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John G. Cripnen
Commercial Street
Herbert Hoover
Lawrence Richey
Nour Jetter
Priarty
Crippen
W. Miller
Edmund W. Miller
Commercial National Bank
Prospect Avenue
Reopen Probe Into Actor Death During Film Shoot
Los Angeles officials reopen investigation into the 1926 death of seaman Charles Gerald Davis and injuries to four others after a dynamite blast on a dummy frigate used to film Old Ironsides in Santa Catalina Bay. District Attorney Baron Fitts seeks to determine criminal negligence as James Cruze supports reopening.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Ironsides
District Attorney's Office
Charles Gerald Davis
Herry Broyles
Erick ‘Rb. Johnson
Ernest Olson
Charles Carlson
Llwellyn J. Morse
Santa Catalina Bay
Asa Keyes
Fitts
Baron Fitts
United States
8. W. McNabb
James Cruze
Solicitor Charged With Embezzlement In KC Case
Harry Tomlin of 25 Lafayette Street was arrested today on a warrant for larceny by embezzlement of more than $20, alleged by the Neighborhood Periodical Club of Kansas City. Deputy Bailiff George Kreiman stated Tomlin collected funds for magazine subscriptions for the Kansas City firm but did not remit them. He is held in $1,000 bond in the city jail.
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Harry Tomlin
Lafayette Street
Club
Kansas City
George Kreiman
Tomiin
Ambulance Planes Widen Their Scope
Miami May 15 AP reports expansion in international air travel paired with medical flights. An ambulance plane first carried a newspaper correspondent from Santiago Cuba to Miami during San Juan Porto Rico mail and passenger service. A second case sent Howard Scott chief engineer of the yacht Arcadia home with a steel eye splinter injury for treatment.
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Miami
Fla
San Juan
Porto Rico
Santiago
Cuba
Bimimi
Howard Scott
Arcadia
Scott
Iment
City Clerk MacKay Is Confined At Home with Throat Trouble
City Clerk Charles MacKay of 110 Chestnut Street is confined at home today due to throat trouble affecting him for several weeks and possibly leading to a future operation.
Temperatures and forecast details for the week
Maximum Tuesday and minimum Tuesday night are noted. The Wednesday morning readings at 7 AM and 9 AM are listed, with a notable low around 47 degrees. The text records scattered temperature observations for the midweek period.
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Wintmum
Esesevsowens
Dawes Likely Wears Knee Pants in London
Gen Charles G Dawes arrives in Washington for Anglo American talks with Hoover and Stimson. Reported joke about silk breeches leads Dawes to exclaim You go to hell. The ambassador’s calm reply shows no change in style since his St James appointment.
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Washington, D. C
Charles G. Dawes
Court of St. James
Congressional
Hoover
Stimson
George Harvey
Dollar Day Hauls Bring Waterloo Its First Aerial Freight
First Sky Freight Into Waterloo Is Dollar Day Special. Con's auto store at Fifth and Water streets advertised top dressing for sale tomorrow. Cohn's sold out its stock and Repass Automobile Company’s wholesale stock was exhausted. Repass chartered an airplane and brought 100 cans from Des Moines, the first load of freight ever flown into Waterloo.
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Con's
Auto Necessary
Fifth and
Water Streets
Cohn's
Re- Pass Automobile Company
Repass Company
Des Moines
Waterloo
Murphys and Bartholomew Obituaries in Local Notices
Margaret Murphy 69 of 1409 Fourth Street West dies after hospitalization. Born 1859 in DeWitt Is, widow of James Murphy with five sons and two daughters. Funeral arrangements set for Grand Mound Ia. Pearl Bartholomew 3 of 208 Cottage Street dies of spinal meningitis in local hospital. Survived by widow, six children, three brothers and three sisters. Verna Mae Cook, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cook, dies. funeral at Kistner chapel with Elmwood burial.
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Margaret Murphy
Fourth Street
Margaret Wiseman
DeWitt
James Murphy
Clinton County
Blessing
Murphy
Waterloo
Sacred Heart Church
William F. Murphy
Lander
Wyo
James Thomas
Raymond Murphy
Helena
Mont
Daniel A. Murphy
Milwaukee
Pearl Bartholomew
Cottage Street
John Deere Tractor Company
Wisconsia
Thelma
Letha
Marshall
Barnard
Roger
Theron Campbell
Elmer
George
Spooner
James
Minneapolis
Grace Berry
Logan Avenue
Zelma Johnson
Wis
Verna Mae Cook
James E. Cook
Relay Street North
Kistner Chapel
Elmwood
School Boy Lands Four-Pound Cedar River Trout
A school boy fishing Cedar River on opening day reeled in the largest fish of the morning. He bought a Nule tackle at a sporting goods store just before returning with the four-pound trout, thrilling local onlookers.
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Cedar River
Balance and prosperity forecast in Hoover committee report
Washington May 15 the Hoover committee reports that a sustained economic balance between production and consumption, high wages, rapid innovation, and avoidance of speculation can keep living standards rising. It warns insatiable wants, urges balance in policy, and notes automatic machinery raises technological unemployment while higher output creates new job opportunities.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Hoover
Owen 1D. Young
Clarence M. Woolley
DanielWillard
Louis J. Tabor
A. W. Shaw
John J. Raskob
Lewis E. Pierson
Adolph C. Miller
George McFadden
Max Mason
John
Lawrence Julius Klein
William Green
R. W Dunlap
Walter F. Brown
Rockefeller
Carnegie
National Burea of Economic Research
Congress Doings and Debates Across Tariff and Irrigation
The ledger notes Senate action on a census reapportionment proposal and a split in tariff bill debate in the House with Ways and Means committee Republicans hearing proposed schedule changes. Senate irrigation moves to promote southern agricultural development while a Western states investigation is eyed. A Scandinavian Songfeest in Copenhagen draws large crowds with choristers from all nations under one maestro including Icelandic, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish and Danish participants.
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Lesndleferd
Senate
House
House Ways and Means
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Federal Communications Commission
Senate Irrigation Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Frazier
Senate Andian Affairs Committee
Robinson
Arkansas
Senate Hill
Glenna Collett Reaches British Open Quarterfinals
Glenna Collett American national champion advances to the British Ladies Open quarterfinals at St Andrews by defeating F J Mulqueen of Toronto seven up eight to play. She then beats Miss Beryl Brown of Yorkshire four up two to play in an elimination match amid stormy weather and strong putting. Marian Hollins defeats Gertrude Boothby six and six.
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St. Andrews
Fife
Scotland
Glenna.Collett
Marian Hollins
Gertrude Boothby
Rochester
N, Y
Glenna
Miss Brown
Miss Collett
Hahn Stores Reports Over Six Million Earnings in 12 Months
Hahn Department Stores Inc reports 12 months ended Jan 31 1923 earnings at 6 033 489 035 after depreciation and taxes. Lew Hahn says central organization nearly complete and delivering economies, with full benefits not until late 1929. Original units improved, combined cash above 7 500 000, net worth up over 3 500 000 since bankers' circular, Mitton of Jordan Marsh praises progress.
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Courier Special Servicn
New York
May
Hahn Department Stores, Inc
James Black Dry Goods Company
Waterloo
Lew Hahn
Hahn Corporation
George W. Mitton
Jordan Marsh Company
Boston
Wife of Pelegate to Convention Dies
Mrs Lucy Mae Finn wife of Dr William Finn assistant professor of operative dentistry at the University of Pittsburgh died today after a brief illness. She came to Cedar Rapids for the Iowa State Dental Society convention and was a Clinton Iowa native. Burial will be in Cedar Rapids.
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Cedar Rapids
INS
Lucy Mae Finn
William Finn
University of Pittsburgh
Farm Bill Battle Hits House Over Debenture Rule
Washington May 15 The house debates whether to receive the senate farm relief bill or return it over the disputed export debenture section Hoover opposes the debenture as revenue legislation. Senate passed 54 to 33 amid splits with 31 administration supporters voting against the bill. House leaders warn of a constitutional clash delaying enactment. A joint conference likely to adjust differences, with farm board provisions and stabilization measures in both versions.
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Washington, D C
House
Senate
Hoover
Administration
Wagner
New York
Walsh
Massachusetts
Senate Conference
McNary
Agriculture Committee
Capper
Senses
Ransdell
Louisiana
Norris
Nebraska
Smith
South Carolina
Farm Board
Federal Farm Board
Decker's Cafe May Reopen If Bond Is Posted
An attachment against Decker's Cafe Inc. seeks a $5,000 bond by tomorrow evening to lift the restraint and permit reopening. Ernest Moore, claiming wages for 10 workers totaling $649, represents the labor claim against the firm run by M. Decker with partners Potlaris and Potlarides of Mason City. A second attachment by Joest Ing & Schilling Co. of St. Paul for $5,222.78 in cafe equipment is also pending, including 130 items led by 30 booths valued at $2,530. The cafe, closed May B by the bailiff, has faced prior creditor trouble but resumed operations about 11 weeks ago after a past settlement.
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Ernest Moore
Commercial Street
Decker
Cafe Company, Inc
Fourth Street
M. Decker
George Potlaris
Theodore Potlarides
Mason City
Essex
Joest
Ing & Schilling Co
St. Paul
Two Considered for Police Force Appointment Tonight
Mayor Glenn A. Tibbitts considered two men this afternoon for a police force appointment. William P. Matthiesen, former Tama County deputy sheriff, of 9321 Seventh Street East, and Oliver J. Nelson, of 428 Peek Street, employed by Schierbrock Waterloo, were the candidates.
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Glenn A. Tibbitts
William P. Matthiesen
Seventh Street
Oliver J. Nelson
Peek Street
Matthiesen
Tama County
Rath Packing Company
Nelson
Schierbrock-Waterloo Company
Bankruptcy Referee Discusses Credit Issues in Waterloo
Waterloo Credit Men's Association heard J. R. Jordan, federal bankruptcy referee for northeast Iowa, outline applications of the general bankruptcy law. The meeting in Black's hotel room closed with a question box session covering topics of concern to local creditors.
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Waterloo Credit Men's Association
Black
Eggs Break Hunger Strike Ends at Citadel Cadets
In Charleston on May 15 700 Citadel cadets ended a one day hunger strike over breakfast quality. Cadets returned to the dining hall after breakfast with eggs and declared everything’s fine.
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of Charleston Cadets
Charleston
the Citadel
Charleston College
Students Storm Newsstands for Stories on Riot
Des Moines students surge to newsstands before trains arrive to read about the university dispute between Dr. T T Shields and Dr. H G Wayman. Buffalo Toronto and New York papers are sought, with Jewish papers carrying a Saturday night eye throwing episode. A Hebrew student translates the story for groups.
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Des Moines
Des Moines University
T.T. Shields
Board of Trustees
H. G. Wayman
Buffalo
Toronto
New York
Onr
Advertising Declared Life Force of Business by Downs
L. A. Downs of the Illinois Central told the International Association of Newspaper Executives at a luncheon that advertising is the greatest single force in business life. He described advertising as the motive power that drives modern commerce, noting railroads and newspapers both began about a century ago and grew together.
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Chicago
Illa
L. A. Downs
Ilinois Central Railway
International Association of Newspaper Executives
Downs
Touring Car Stolen from City Street Report
J ed Lampert of 905 Jefferson Street reported a light touring car stolen this morning from 181 Fifth Street West. Police are investigating theft in this urban area.
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J. Ed. Lampert
Jefferson Street
Fifth Street West
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George Greene
Fort Dodge
Leonard Ruof
Mulberry Street
Greene
Ruof
Roof
Dawes
London
First Sky
Martuarsy
Business Report
Congress
Copenham
HARN
W. 4Th
Denver St
W. Mullan Ave
W. Mullan
Kingberd TM
AOR Pi Bank
Lester W. Miller
Pioneer
Senate Center of Constitutional Controversy
Decker's
I. C
Express, Inc
Ouc
Narcissa
Wangler
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