Today in the Spotlight of National News
A brief recap covers farm relief conference moves and tariff debates in Congress, with a note on sugar duties and a new data release. Frederic Wise recounts Orville Wright’s fame episode. Graf Zeppelin makes a cautious landing after motor failures amid strong winds. Scarface Capone era arrests yield guilty pleas and four years in jail. Prince Boris of Bulgaria’s engagement collapses due to church opposition. A Des Moines hit and run driver gets two years at Fort Madison. Drake undergraduates face shoe free debates as a sanity ruling is announced.
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House of Representatives
Senate Representatives
Capitol
House
Senate
Tariff Commission
Solons
Nob
Des Moines
Fort Madison
Herman Zetich
Capone Sentenced to Year in Prison
Alphonse Capone, the Chicago gangster known as Scarface, was sentenced to one year in county prison on a concealed weapons charge in Philadelphia after a rapid hearing. His associate Frank Cline also received a similar sentence. Capone entered a not guilty plea, fledgling bail set at 35000, and said nothing after the sentencing, while police noted no prior records for him in Chicago.
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Scarface
Chicago
Gapone
Philadelphia
Law and Order
Scar
Face
Pal
al” Capone
Schofield
Public Safety
Capone
William Connelly
Mills
Theodore F. Wond
4& Mensee
Monaghan
Walsh
Cornelius Haggerty, Jr
Bernard L. Lemisch
Cline
John Creedon
James Matone
Canone
Fiss
Lemuel B. Schofield
Rogues’ Gallery
Detective Bureau
Andrew Emanuel
Emanuel
Joliet
Aptain Emanuel
New York
Olean
N. Y
Grocer lynched by mob after police shooting in Florida
In Lake Gily Florida May 17 a grocer Remey was taken from jail by a mob and lynched two miles south of town. He had been arrested after an altercation in which Chief John F. Baker was wounded and Mrs Romey fatally wounded. Sheriff Babe Douglas said the mob entered the jail, broke locks, and spirited Remey away. his body was later found in a ditch.
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Lake Gily
Fla
iPj
N.a
Remey
Here
No Nee
John F. Baker
Romey
Babe Douglas
Hunt
Fomey
Two Boys Burn to Death in Mason City Playhouse
In Mason City Iowa May 74 Warren Hittleson and Edwin Manner both five years old perished when matches used by them inside a flimsy playhouse at the Kittleson home set the structure ablaze. Their mother Mrs Clarence Kittleson attempted a rescue but the clothing tore from her hands as she reached the flames. In Des Moines Iowa May 18 G C Woodward of Cedar Rapids was elected a trustee of Western Union College LeMars at the Iowa Evangelical churches conference.
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Kling Boris
Bulgaria
Giovanna
Italy
Mussolini
Boris
Mason City
Warren Hittleson
Edwin Manner
Kittleson
Clarence Kittleson
Warren
Des Moines
Pi— Gc. S. Woodward
Cedar Rapids
Western Union College
LeMars
Conference of Iowa Evangelical Churches
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Old Iowa Custom of Rain on Picnic Likely To Hold
Lincoln township residents planned the annival school picnic near roads 59 and 96 with County Superintendent A. E. Jewett expected to speak. A basket dinner at noon and athletic events were planned while the weather forecast warned scattered showers in the east central area.
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Lincoln Township
Voorhies
A. E. Jewett
East Central
Dickinson Asking Duty on Gypsum Contained in Tariff Talk
Washington May 17 Supplemental hearings by the Ways and Means Committee sought to reconcile Republican differences on the tariff bill. Leaders expected conclusions tomorrow and anticipated reduced opposition to a special rule guiding amendments. Representative Dickinson of Iowa urged a $3 per ton duty on crude gypsum, which the bill leaves on the free list.
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Washington, D. C
Ways and Means Committee
Dickinson
Towa
Voltear Draws Rail for Derby Run Tomorrow
Voltear drew the rail for the Kentucky Derby run tomorrow at Louisville as Paraphrase took second and Chieatic third. The favorite entries fared poorly with Blue Larkspur and Bay Beauty ranked mid to late, Windy City twenty fourth, Clyde Van Dusen twenty fifth in the field of 26, the largest in Derby history.
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Louisviltle
Voltear
Paraphrase
Chieatic
Blue Larkspur
R. Bradley
Bay Beauty
Dynamite Wrecks Mill and Auto in Tenn Strike
Dynamiting of a small grist mill owned by Joseph Grindstaff and the burning of another striker’s car marked the Tennessee strike situation at Elizabethton on May 17. National Guardsmen continued efforts to disperse strikers along highways to Bomberg Gladzstoff rayon plants.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
National
Bomberg-Gladzstoff Rayon
Tennessee
Joseph Grindstaff
United Textle Workers’ Union
Sam Hall
Water Mains At Cost 55000 Voted By Board
City waterworks trustees approved a 55000 expansion plan to lay nearly 10000 feet of 12 inch main loops across the city. The work aims to assure water supply and fire protection with future extensions planned to cross the river and serve the factory district and western areas. Start date immediate per manager Shoemaker.
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City Waterworks Trustees
Black Hawk Creek
Westfield
Black Hawk
Cedar River
Sans Souci
Mobile
Willow
Albany Street
Linden Avenue
Independence Avenue
Williston Avenue
George E. Shoemaker
Ayalon Avenue
Menges
Ballot Street
Ayalon
Rainbow Drive
Menges Street
Gates Street
Third Avenue
Commercial
Jefferson
Park
Mullan Avenues
Oliver Street
Manson
Harslay
Barclay Street
Oliver
Newell
Barclay
Beech
Shilliam
Shoemaker
Wave Washes Two Sailors Overboard
Two crew members of the steamer William B. Dayock drowned near Passage Light after a {storm on Lake Superior} Wednesday night. Lars Johnson watchman and Jeromi Mackin wheelman, both from Du-Tuth, were swept from the boat when a huge wave toppled the pilot house.
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Saul Ste Marie
Mich
William B. Dayock
Gleveland
Passage Light
Lake Superior
Lars Johnson
Watchman
Jeromi Mackin
Wheeleman
du- Tuth
House Agrees To Send Farm Relief Bill To Conference
The House voted 249 to 119 to send the $500,000,000 farm relief bill to conference with the Senate, hoping to eliminate the debenture plan. Republicans led the move amid Democratic opposition, and conferees from both chambers were named to smooth differences and push final action.
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Washington, D. C
House
Senate
Longworth
Hrugen
Parnell
Indiana
Williams
Illinois
Aswell
Louisiana
Kinchéloe
Kentucky
House Agriculture Committee
McNary
Norris
Nebraska
Capper
Kansas
Smith
South Carolina
Ransdell
Agriculture Committee
Rep. Garner
Texas
Hoover Administration
House Conference
Corls
House Rules Committee
Druggists Facing Terms in Prison in Des Moines
Neal Brady a downtown druggist and his brother William Brady along with James Kinney were convicted in federal court on prohibition law violations. Sentencing set for May 28 with a motion for a new trial due by May 25. Neal faced three liquor sale counts one liquor nuisance count and liquor possession. Kinney and William each convicted on three liquor sales and liquor nuisance counts.
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Des Moines
e.Neal Brady
William Brady
James Kinnay
Fle
Neal Brady
Kinney
Neal
Hoover to name law enforcement inquiry commission
President Hoover has completed selection of a commission to inquire into law enforcement and will announce the personnel early next week. Newton D Baker of Ohio is expected to serve, with George W. Wickersham likely chairing the group and other names including James R. Garfield and George Wharton Pepper mentioned.
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Washington, D
U.A
Hoover
White House
Altho
Newton D. Baker
Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
George W. Wickersham
New York
James R. Garfield
Interior
George Wharton Pepper
Pennsylvania
Victims of Cleveland gas disaster feared to die
Cleveland May 17. City health commissioner Harry L Rockwood and doctors fear about 80 percent of the survivors from the Cleveland chemical disaster will die within days from poison gas exposure. While exact numbers are unknown, doctors estimate at least 100 inhaled fumes from burning x ray films and other chemicals, adding to a death toll already at 125.
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Cleveland, O
iPi
Cleveland
Harry L. Rockwood
Rockwood
100 Perish and 4,000 Lose Homes in Poland Fire
A Telegraph dispatch from Warsaw reports more than 100 people burned to death in a large blaze that swept almost the entire town near the eastern frontier of Poland. Over 4,000 are homeless and destitute, with scenes surrounding the President Hotel Cigar and News Stand and other local establishments.
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London
Exchange Telegraph Company
Warsaw
Iwie
Poland
Graf Zeppelin limps into southern France amid storm danger
The Graf Zeppelin, with 40 crew and 18 passengers including Mrs. Mary Pierce, battled violent winds over the Rhone valley. After engines failed and attempts to reach Valence and Montelimar, troops from Toulon and nearby garrisons aided a safe descent at Cuers near Toulon, grounding the crippled airship in the Cuers hangar at 8:55 p.m. aboard. The dirigible’s fate hung on mercy of wind and ground support.
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Toulon
France
Cuers
Here
Hugo Eckener
Mediterranean
Mary Pierce
New York
Gibraltar
Saltlans
Montelimar
Rhone
Salllans
Montelimer
Graf Zeppelin
Trois Bec
Valence
Alps
le Bourget
Rhone Valley
French Alps
Saillans
United States
Department of Drome
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Pennsylvania Avenue
Orville Wright
Wilbur
Eckener
Friedrichshafen
Drake
Ted Shawn
Polk County
Fort Dodge
John Acher
Northwestern _university
Phi Delta Theta Fraternity
Acher
Chief
Playhouse
Sofia
Miles
Vatican
Victor Emanuel
Helen
Iowa
Od Gypoum Quty
Rep
Haugerr
Baker
Noover Day
Wilson
President Hotel
Cyers Air Field
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