Fort Worth Men End Endurance Flight After Propeller Break
Reg Robbins and Jim Kelly set a new world endurance record in a Fort Worth refueling flight, totaling 172 hours 31 minutes since May 19. A propeller crack forced an end to the historic mission at Meacham field. Crowds cheered as the pair and their crew were fêted with planned banquets and honors. The Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce raised funds and offered incentives, with some $12,200 to be shared among the crew and support staff.
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Fort Worth
Tex
O.R
Reg Robbins
Jim Kelly
Fort, Worth
Meacham Field
Robbins
Kelly
Feld
Lady Mary
Mary Heath
Robbing
Fork
K. K. Hoffman
H.8
United Press
Kell
Alumni divide over blame as Iowa City faces Big Ten ban
Local alumni debate who caused the latest athletic department turmoil at Iowa City as expulsion from the conference looms. Officials including A. G. Reid expressed surprise while Waterlon students back home discuss the crisis amid talks of a possible meeting to review the inside story. The four year conflict began with Howard Jones leaving, continued through Ingwersen’s tenure, and led to Belting's resignation and the Jan. 3 tournament ban consideration.
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FAGE
Towa City
Iowa City
Town City
Alumi
Reid
A. G. Reid
Waterlon
Iowa
Howard Jones
Burton Ingwersen
Robert Zuppke
Minois
Ingwersen
Belting
Walter A. Jessup
Hawkeyes
Prisoner Escapes County Jail By Chimney
Town City, Te May 27. 3 F pon Robertson, 16, a negro, escaped from the county jail by climbing inside a 30 foot chimney to the roof and dropping to the ground. Robertson, arrested for car theft, hammered a chimney hole, removed his shoes and socks, and wriggled up the passage to liberty as other prisoners watched his rooftop drop and flee.
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Town City
Pon Robertson
Robertson
Liberty
Drake University Band to Tour Europe in 1930
Drake University band plans a European tour in 1930 with a program featuring 895 pieces. The route will include France Switzerland Holland Belgium and England, announced by Drake officials. Lieutenant Governor Clarence E Coyne, 48, a prominent South Dakota Republican, died at 6 25 am after a monthlong illness from an acute inflammatory heart condition.
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Bes Moines
Drake University
Europe
Drake
France
Switzerland
Holland
Belgium
England
Gov. Coyne
Pierre
Clarence E. Coyne
South Dakota
Weather Summary From The Weekend And Next Day
Temperature readings show a Saturday maximum around 81 with a low near 56 below midnight. Sunday night and Monday forecasts are unclear with scattered rain noted yesterday totaling 0.17 inches.
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Ieee
Griffiths to Meet on Athletic Expulsion Controversy
Reports detail Belting’s dismissal from the University of Town athletics amid a Western Conference crisis. Lauer seeks Big Ten Commissioner Griffith to clarify status, while thousands march on Jessup’s home and police guard Belting. Faculty and alumni debate governance during the purge and funds inquiry.
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Belting
Jessup
Walter A. Jessup
Western Conference
University of Town
Lauer
George T.bresnahan
Griffith
John L. Griffith
Big Ten
Bresnahan
Athletic Council
Louis Pelzer
Iowa
Hawkeye
Orin Pape
Dubuque
Deys Plankitt
Mike Farrah
Farrah
St. John
Columbus
Iowa City
Ohio Bate
Northwestern
L. W. St. John
Ohio State
Rob Shoe Company Burglary Smashes Safe In Big Heist
Rob Shoe Company in Cetar Rapids Iowa reports burglars broke into the building Saturday night, blew open the safe, and escaped with about 82000. The robbery was discovered Sunday by company workers and authorities began investigations.
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ROB Shoe Company
Cetar Rapids
U.P
Were
Ane Robery
Hoover Names Sisson Assistant U.S. Attorney General
President Hoover nominated Charles P. Sisson Rhode Island attorney general to serve as assistant United States attorney general succeeding John Marshall. The announcement comes from Washington, D.C. with Sisson set to assume duties after confirmation.
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Hoover
Sisson
Washington, D. C
Charles P. Sisson
Rhode Island
United States
John Marshall
Funeral services for Jac queline Zook girl dies at six
Private funeral services were held Saturday for Jacqueline Zook six year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Zook of 121 Hopeart Hur. Interment followed at Fairview Cemetery with Rev T F Niven of First Presbyterian Church officiating at 11 a m yesterday.
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Jacqueline Zook
Jacqueline
Jack Zook
Hope Arthur
Fairview Cemetery
T. FR. Niven
Firat’ Presbyterian Church
Tire theft ring busted as two men held and loot recovered
Police captured Ray Wheeler after a high speed chase ending at Fifth and South streets. Wheeler confessed to stealing 35 tire casings 27 tubes and 9 dozen rims over weeks and implicated Vance Lishik owner of Davies Tire shop. Tires and other stolen items were found in Wheeler's sedan.
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Ray Wheeler
Commercial Street
Fort Madison Penitentiary
Vance Lishik
Davies Tire
Lafayette Street
Lishik
Aity
Wheeler
Emil Steffen
Burr Towne
Chase
Willam Urie
Fort Madison
Bremer County
Urle
Fifth Street
Grant Avenue
Fatal Crash On Grinnell Road Claims 84-Year-Old Passenger
Grinnell Iowa May 27 Mrs David Wolfe 84 of Ottawa Illinois burned to death when her car struck another vehicle rolled over and ignited. Her son and daughter in law Elmer Wolfe of La Salle Illinois escaped unharmed. Fire crews arrived and could not free the woman from the burning tonneau.
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Grinnell
U.rb
David Wolfe
Ottawa
Wolfe
Elmer Wolfe
la Salle
Ill
Waterloo
Board of Review Raises Waterloo Property Assessments
The Waterloo board of review, consisting of city council members, increased the total assessments by 5892 dollars. The panel issued 93 changes, with 49 increases totaling 74040 dollars offset by 44 reductions totaling 69048 dollars. Public hearing on revised rolls set for 8 p.m. Monday June 2 in the municipal courtroom.
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Waterloo
Board of Review
Alleged Play Theft Suit Demands 1.25 Million
New York May 27. Georges Levy files suit in U S district court against Eugene O Neill for 1 250 000 claiming he stole plot from her privately printed novel The Temple of Pallas Athene The suit also seeks an injunction and accounting naming The Theatre Guild BonI & Liveright and Horace Liveright as defendants including related marriage licenses and residents Newell Linn Grove Manchester Waterloo Iowa detours.
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New York
Eugene O'Neill
Georges Levys
United States District Court
The
Theatre Guild
Bon! & Liveright
Horace Liveright
Shields Bask for Battle Quiz in Des Moines May 1947
Dr T T Shields, president of the Des Moines university board of trustees, returned with a trustee committee to review the egg bombardment against him and Miss Edith M Redman, after the school closed and reopened by court injunction. Dr Harry G C Wayman denied knowledge of trustees plans and meetings.
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Des Moines
T. T. Shields
Boar of Trustees
Des Moines University
Edith M. Redman
Shields
Harry GC. Wayman
Dr. Shields
Two Men in Jail Think of Peggy a Lou Sort of Gal
W M Riley of Chicago and Ed Hansen of Milwaukee two traveling men were held in the city jail for investigation after a taxicab dispute. They allegedly argued with driver Walter Yookey at Fourth and Commercial, with Peggy the center of the episode. Riley claimed Hansen took the cab to avoid a scene after Peggy allegedly obtained 270 dollars from Riley.
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Peggy
Lou
W. M. Riley
Chicago
Ed Hansen
Milwaukee
Walter QO. Yookey
Franklin Street
Fourth
Commercial Streets
R. A Michaels
Saunders System
Sycamora Street
Riley
Hansen
Pegey
Placard Bearer Guilty of Libel in Massachusetts
Boston May 27 U P Harry J Canter Hast Boston was found guilty of criminally wheling former Gov Alvan T Fuller of Massachusetts in a sealed verdict opened in Suffolk superior court He faces sentencing Wednesday Canter was arrested last November while parading at the state house with a placard reading Fuller Murderer of Sacco and Vanzetti The sign referred to Fuller's denial of the final appeal for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti who were executed in 1927 for a double murder
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Boston
U.P
Harry J. Canter
Alvan T. Fuller
Massachusetts
Suffolk Superior Court
Canter
State House
Puller
Sacco
Vanzetti
Fuller
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
State's
Supreme Court to review Iowa ten mile privilege act
The U S Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge from the Iowa Motor Vehicle association and other Iowa truck and bus operators against a state law requiring a ten mile privilege on intra state operations by non common carrier concerns. Iowa's high court had upheld the law, which operators say discriminates against them.
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Washington, D. C
U.P
Supreme Court
Iowa Motor Vehicle Association
Iowa
Lax
State Supreme Court
Miss Clara Hunt Victim of Second Stroke
Miss Clara Hunt a 69 year old public school teacher for 30 years until retirement two years ago lies unconscious at the Clinton Shockley home 623 Third Avenue West after suffering a second paralytic stroke yesterday. Her last teaching assignment was in the first grade at Central School.
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Clara Hunt
Poppy Day Sales Rise Across Three Cities
Three Black Hawk county American Legion posts report 1524.85 from Poppy day efforts, Waterloos totals 1257.85 beating last year by 223.78. About 12 000 flowers sold in Waterloos and 14 000 cap on sale stations including federal building. Cedar Falls raises 225 with 2200 flowers sold. La Porte City 430 poppies and receipts 42. Dunkerton plans sale next Wednesday.
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Black Hawk County
American Legion
Waterloos
L. S. Treganza
American Legion and Auxiliary
Federal Building
Ross Morrison
Treganza
J. B. Becker
Cedar Falls
la Porte City
Legion Auxiliary
Dunkerton
Two Men Rob Parthenon Theatre For $4000 Weekend Receipts
Hammond Indiana police sought two men after they entered the Parthenon theatre, held up the cashier, and escaped with 4000 in weekend receipts in a car heading toward Chicago. Separate local notices record building permits for single projects and a missing person case in Sioux City involving a drowned man in the Missouri River.
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Hammond
Ind
Parthenon Theatre
Indiana
Ilinois
Chicago
Fewer Than 100 Newly Registered for May 31 Vote
A preliminary check shows fewer than 100 new voters registered for the May 31 special bond election. Precinct trends include the Fourth ward First precinct with no registrations and the First ward Second precinct with one in three days. Most voters registered last fall.
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Fond Issu
Bareé
Rotary Convention Opens in Dallas Texas
Dallas May 27 delegates from across the globe attend Rotary International annual convention in Dallas. Leaders discuss international goodwill and emity between nations while Mayor J Waddy Tate and Governor Dan Moody welcome attendees. President I B Sutton of Rotary to respond as a pageant “The Procession of Flags” follows.
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Dallas
Tex
Ufa
Rotary International
J. Waddy Tate
Dan Moody
I. B. Sutton
Rotary
Iowa Construction for April Contracts Let for New Work
Des Moines May 27 Iowa construction for April contracts let for new building and engineering work in Iowa totaled 4 644 100 dollars according to F W Dodge. The amount was 63 percent ahead of March 1929 but 4 percent below April last year. Since the first of the year new construction in Iowa reached 15 895 700 dollars, down 15 percent from the same period in 1928.
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Des Moines
Iowa
F. W. Dodge Corporation
King Victor Signs Lateran Treaty Conciliates Church and State
King Victor Emmanuel of Italy signed the Lateran Treaty, to take effect tomorrow, uniting the Catholic church and Italian state and resolving the long standing conflict dating from 1870. The accord was reported by Exchange Telegraph from Rome.
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Victor
London
Victor Emmanuel
Italy
Rome
Drowning at Dearborn Pond Near Red Oak
In Red Oak Iowa May 27 24 year old U P Ruswait England drowned while swimming in the Dearborn ice pond with other boys. He stepped into a hole sank and his body was recovered about two hours later.
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Red Oak
U.p.russell England
Dearborn
Here
England
Seven Hurt In Four Weekend Auto Accidents
Seven people were injured in four weekend vehicle crashes in Clinton area. A sedan overturned on Oak Lawn Avenue between Cedar Rapids and Mount Vernon injuring Mrs. Glen Noble and her mother Mrs. George Burnette and others. all escaped serious harm as bystanders freed them. A separate West Held Avenue collision left an unidentified man bruised after being struck by Frank Ellis who reported a companion moved the injured man. On La Porte road William Koenecke reported his and O O Thomas’s autos collided. Koenecke suffered arm bruises. Raymond Halstead ran into I L Breculer’s car while playing near home, receiving body bruises. The cars were damaged. no long-term injuries reported.
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Rand
Glen Noble
Ion
Glen
Jr-1
Oak Lawn Avenue
Noble
George Burnette
Jesup
Cedar, Rapids
Mount Vernon
Clinton
Frank Ellis
Walnut Street
Bilis
Willam G. Koenecke
Burton Avenue
O. O. Thomas
Mitchell Avenue
la Porte Road
Koenecke
I. L. Breculer
Independence Avenue
Raymond Halstead
Sycamore Street
Robinson Undergoes Operation Believed Out of Danger
Deputy sheriff Frank A. Robinson underwent an emergency operation for strangulated hernia after a critical period. He was taken to Allen Memorial hospital from the courthouse after going to work Saturday, then sent home before his condition worsened. The physician reports he is now out of danger.
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Frank A. Robinson
Hemia
Robinson
Allen Memorial Hospital
Five Highballs at Dubuque Cost $150 in Waterloo
Police report from Waterloo describes Mayor Glenn A. Tibbitts and Constable Sharp arresting a drunken driver on the highway east of the city. The man, Kearney S. Wade of Des Moines, pleaded guilty and was fined 150 dollars plus costs. Wade claimed five highballs in Dubuque influenced his conduct. A second arrest followed for Fred Fagen driving as Fred Frazier, 803 Franklin Street, on charges of driving while intoxicated. Deputy Sheriff Harry Allen detained him four miles from Waterloo. Reports also cite a drunken man striking a car near 427 Hammong Avenue and a separate assault charge against Jack Ellis in municipal court. In Washington, the Senate manufacturers committee voted to investigate the textile industry itself.
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Waterloo
Glenn A. ‘Tibbitts
FR. Sharp
Cedar Falla
Kearney S. Wade
Des Moines
Manchester
Wade
H. B. Botes
Dubuque
Fred Fagen
Fred Frazier
Franklin ‘Street
Harry Allen
la Porta City
Polica
WY. A. Wenks
Hammong Avenue
la Porte Road
R. HH. Wildee
Kern Street
Wenke
Fagan
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Sixth
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Elmer Moore
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W. W. West
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Viola B. Bhick
Linn Grove
Henry Owens
Dorothy Fondren
Dorothy Newcomb
Woonsocket
Minn
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Floyd Hershberger
Fourth West
Dawson
Sherwood Park
Harmon T. Smith
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Knoll
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Union County
Richard Quigbee
Glen Noble Family
Ed Clark
Jack Ellis
Clark
Ellis
Hebrew Cemetery
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Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation
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