Coroner to Hear Witnesses in Elfrieda Knaak Death
Waukegan Tl November 9 A coroner's jury will hear more than twenty witnesses about Elfrieda Knaak a pretty Lake Bluff book agent who died from burns in the Lake Bluff police station furnace Her last words raised questions of self immolation versus assault Hitchcock the girl s drama instructor and former actor will testify along with Bar ney Rosenhagen chief of police George Hargraves private detective and Knaak family members Also noted her University of Chicago and Michigan normal school background and Deerfield church work
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waukegan
Lfe
Elfrieda Knaak
Miss Knaak
Aliss Knaak
Lake Bluff
Charles Hitchcock
Lake Blut
Elfrieda
Deerfield
Hitchcock
Barney Rosenhagen
George Hargraves
University of Chicago
Michigan
Burst of New Eruptive Crater Widens Lava Flow
The eruption region between Mescali and the sea shows intensities waning and surging lava. Three casualties named Pistorio family perished retreating to protect home goods as lava surrounded their dwelling. Engineers seek to divert flow with trenches while rail service continues near Mascali station as observers from Sicily and Calabria watch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mescali
Tor
Catania
Pistorio
Mascali Altho
Sicily
Calabria
Giovanni Giuratti
W G Y Injunction Up For Hearing
The General Electric company seeks to restrain the federal radio commission from enforcing an order requiring WGY to share time after November 11 and broadcast EXGO station programs only one hour nightly. The matter was set for hearing this afternoon in the District of Columbia court of appeals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
General Electric Company
Schenectady
Federal Radio Comission
WGY
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Quarantines Listed for Several Diseases in City
Names and addresses of individuals ordered quarantined for chickenpox mumps diphtheria and scarlet fever appear for example Robert Roedel 1317 Hawthorne Margaret Crane 1136 Hammond Robert Osgood 1710 Bluff Dorothy Smith 415 Bluff Clayton Goff 635 Park West.
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Robert Roedel
Hawthorne
Margaret Crane
Hammond
Robert Osgood
Dorothy Smith
Clayton
Goff
Park West
Five-Year-Old Boy Speaks Two Words and Mother Goes to Jail
New York November 9. Mrs Anna Friedman is jailed on perjury and conspiracy charges after her mute five year old son spoke during a trial. She had sued P H Macy Co for 50000 alleging a department store truck injured the boy and caused speech loss. The judge and court officials questioned the child and could not elicit speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Anna Friedman
P. H. Macy & Co
Hyman Friedman
Hyman
Hoover to the White House Free of Pledges
A 1928-style column recalls John Hay’s remark on presidential duty and notes Herbert Hoover’s planned effort to build a merit based administration in Washington. It discusses patronage, politics, and the need to balance professional politicians with merit in governing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
White House
John Hay
Hay
Washington
Herbert Hoover
Committees Named to Nominate Waterloo Chamber Directors
Waterloo Chamber of Commerce set six vacancies for directors with three east district and three west district nominees. W A Lane Fred Adams W F Parrott nominated for east. Harry G Northey J A Young Ira Rodamar for west. Terms of nine current directors expire. Ballots before Dec 6. Clarence A Hanson re-elected secretary and traffic manager.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Directorate of Waterloo Chamber of Commerce
Russell-Lamson
W. A. Lane
Fred Adams
W. F. Parrott
Harry G. Northey
J.A. Young
Ira’ Rodamar
James M. Graham
George W. Huntley
W. H. Langlas
Waterloo East
C. A. Clark
Harry A. Limbert
Fred Wray
Waterloo West
United States Chamber of Commerce
United States
Clarence A. Hanson
Tipton Man 92 Named Hat Holder for Hoover
John W. Reeder of Tipton Iowa aged 92 was chosen as official hat holder for Herbert Hoover at the inauguration. Reeder, who knew Hoover as a boy, requested the privilege after Hoover accepted his offer to hold the president elects hat if Hoover wins and attends the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tipton
John W. Reeder
Herbert Hoover
Reeder
Hoover
Two Senators Report Free Campaigns in Senate Race
Washington November 9 Two senators told the clerk of the house their campaigns for re election cost nothing They were Senators Lafollette Republican of Wisconsin and Green Republican of Vermont Sam Platt Republican of Nevada who was defeated for the senate reported he collected ge for his campaign but spent 290 of his own money
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
U.P
House of Representatives
Lafollette
Wisconsin
Green
Vermont
Sam Platt
Nevada
Senate
Probe of Aimee's Old Case Opens in Los Angeles
Los Angeles county grand jury began a sweeping probe into the dismissal of criminal conspiracy charges against evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. It summoned McPherson and others involved in her famous kidnapping story, issuing a subpoena while she remained abroad likely in London.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Aimee Semple McPherson
Chicago Saloon Shooting Tied to Beer War
Charles Rice, 40, mortally wounded in a saloon pistol duel, died after telling police he was shot by Michael McGovern, owner of a soft drink parlor. McGovern is brother of gangster Hughie McGovern. Pellée attributes the shooting to a beer war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
INS
Charles Rice
Michael McGovern
McGovern
Hughie McGovern
Sallis
Pellée
Result in Texas Will Grow Beard on Sioux City Man
Al Wisser of Sioux City, an advertising man, loses a bet on Texas voting Democratic. He agreed with W. C. Hutchins not to shave or get a haircut for five years if Texas did not. Wisser, bald anyway, plans to sell his shaving tools while friends predict a waist-length beard by the time he pays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux City
U.P
al Wisser
Wisser
Texas
W. C. Hutchins
Democrats win four of 46 precincts in Black Hawk County
In Black Hawk County the Democratic precincts Cedar, Eagle, Fox and Poyner hold a majority. President votes there show Hoover and Smith splitting modestly in Cedar and Eagle, with Poyner tallies strong. Voters rejected road bonds, the constitutional amendment, and the T B test. several local justices of the peace were elected in Cedar Falls Bennington Big Creek Lester and Washington townships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Black Hawk County
Cedar
Eagle
Fox and Poyner
Hoover Smith Cedar
Fagle
Poymer
Eagle, Fox
Poyner
R. E. Murray
W. H. Whitford
Cedar Falls
T. J. Mason
Art Diercks
Bennington
W. H. Bickel
Big Creek
S. Trumbauer
Charles Smith
Lester
John Briden
Washington
Roosevelt Brothers Sail at Midnight on New Expedition
New York November 9. Col Theodore Roosevelt and his brother Kermit will sail tonight on the White Star liner Homeric with their wives for a second Field Museum zoological expedition. They head to India to organize the venture and explore jungles of southeast Asia for rare animals, then proceed toward Indo China regions, surveying the Mekong river gorges and advancing toward Burma Siam and Yunnan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
W.P
Theodore Rooosevelt
Kermit
White Star
Homeric
Field Museum of Natural History
Roosevelts
India
Asia
Indo-China
Meking River
Burma
Siam
Yunnan
McNider Estate All Goes to Widow
Mason City Iowa November 9 The will of C H McNider a Mason City banker who died recently leaves the entire estate to his widow and his son Hanford MacNider with the income from a $10000 trust fund to Mrs Lois M Johnson sister of Mrs McNider of Minneapolis The executors are Mrs McNider and Hanford MacNider The estate is described as one of the largest in the state
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mason City
U.P
C. H. McNider
Hanford MacNider
McNider
Lois M. Johnson
Minneapolis
Exploring Student Back in Iowa City
Max J. Kane, a former University of Iowa student, returned to Iowa City after a five months Arctic expedition. Kane was one of four UI students who attempted to reach the Arctic circle in a canoe last summer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
U.P
Max J. Kane
University of Iowa
Canada
Kane
Artic Circle
Mortuary Notice for Fannie Huffman 46
Mrs. Fannie Huffman 46 of 418 Locust street died at Presbyterian hospital at 1 p m. from complications after an operation. Born January 24 1882 at Walker Iowa she was widow of O L Huffman who died January 13 1925. Survived by daughter Edna 13 three sisters Luli Stankard James Booth Anna Reiterman all of Walker and two brothers H E Hopkins Kingfisher Oklahoma and C V Hopkins Independence. Body at Petersen Bros mortuary pending funeral arrangements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie Huffman
Locust Street
Presbyterian Hospital
Fannie Hopkins
Walker
O. L. Huffman
Edna
Luli Stankard
James Booth
Anna Reiterman
Woodburys Attend Funeral in Fonda Wa
Cc M Woodbury and J M Woodbury travel to Fonda Iowa to attend the funeral of GC M Woodbury former Waterloo resident who died there on Wednesday November 7 Glen Woodbury is a son and nieces are Mrs W T Cox and Mrs J D Simpson Fred P Murphy Waterloo grocery merchant once ran a store at Fifth and Water streets dies at Hudson Colorado
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cc. M. Woodbury
J. M. Woodbury
Nevada Street
Fonda
GC. M. Woodbury
Waterloo
Glen Woodbury
Logan Avenue
W. T. Cox
Eleventh Street
J. D. Simpson
Lafayette Street
Fred PL Murphy
Walter Hall
Tenth Street
Fred P. Murphy
Hudson, Colo
Murphy
Fifth and
Water Streets
Hoover's Iowa vote nears six hundred thousand
Des Moines reports Herbert Hoover leading Iowa with about 600000 votes as ballots counted show Hoover 593390 and Smith 364506. major parties near record total while 82 precincts remain unreported. Bond issue for road projects faced statewide opposition across 28 counties led by northwest Iowa.
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Des Moines
Herbert Hoover
Iowa
Hoover
Smith
Associated Press
Coolidge
Government crisis ends in Portugal as new cabinet forms
Lisbon reports Premier Jose Vincente De Frietas formed a new cabinet with Salazar staying as finance minister. In France, pilots Boulmaire and Marie, en route to Madagascar, were stranded after their plane needed a new fuselage. Also noted, Mabel Clarkson named England's first female sheriff, and Britain discusses allowing Canadian immigrants without farm-worker stipulations. Vienna signals a referendum plan for popular election of the president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Lisbon
Portugal
U.P
Jose Vincente de Frietas
Oliviera Salazar
Paris
Lieuts. Boulmaire
Marie
France
Madagascar
Africa
Lulabourg
Congo
Villacoublay
Norwich
England
Mabel Clarkson
London
Canada
Arthur Steel Maitland
House of Commons
Vienna
Agrarian Party
Word-building brain test from jumbled names
The page presents an employ ment psychology puzzle asking readers to rearrange letter groups into no man’s name. Examples show ARYAH forming HARRY and list puzzles numbered 1 to 12 with letter sets like suoli racidrh georgry fsruu and others, inviting solutions on a society page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aryah
Harry
Suoli
Racidrh
Georgry & Fsruu
Rynhe
Rehacls
Lynn fire toll climbs with 24 dead in blast horror
The Lynn Massachusetts blaze left four teens dead at once and four more dying in hospitals, with dismembered remains found in the street. Two men were missing and 12 injured, as workers cleared debris from the former Preble Eaton Box Toe company plant after an explosion blamed on a lit cigarette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn
Mass
Preble Eaton Box Toe Company
GughErni Blaze Endangers Lives Near Whittier
In Whittier California on November 9 a Texaco oil well Bellevue No. 1 in the Santa Fe Springs field blew with a thunderous uproar and sparked a massive fire. Flames rose fast and were visible for miles as hundreds of workers and families fled their homes nearby. The blaze fanned by the wind allegedly spread to several nearby wells and several derricks were seen ablaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whittier
Cal
Texaco
Leggers Lindsey Smith and P W Town Arrested for Liquor Sales
Benton county grand jury to act next week on Lind sey Smith of La Porte City and P W Town of Brandon after their arrest at Van Horne by Marshal A H Brandt. Officers found three quart bottles of corn whisky in their car. Smith claimed to sell poultry supplies and had Town drive a route from Waterloo.
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Courier Special Service
van Horne
Benton County
Lindsey Smith
la Porte City
P. W. Town
Brandon
A. H. Brandt
Town
Smith
Waterloo
Al Smith Returns Home to rousing Albany Welcome
Albany N Y November 9 Al Smith back in the executive mansion after a campaigning loss he arrives amid cheering crowds of more than 10 000Albanians. He walks through the crowd with police surprised then leads a procession to the mansion with Mayor Thacher and party leaders. Tears mark his thanks as he vows to remember Albany. He plans a three week southern vacation after handling state business at the capitol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
INS
al Smith
Union Station
Smith
Atta Boy
State Street Hill
Eagle Street
John Boyd Thacher
Democratic Party
Albany County
New York
Capitol
South
Gambling Ring to Be Investigated by Chicago Grand Jury
Chicago will hear a special grand jury examine syndicated gambling next Tuesday. Five prior juries probed election frauds and violence. the sixth will target a gambling ring run by two ex politicians and a former Halsted street saloonkeeper. Chief Justice Sullivan authorized the panel, with Assistant Attorney General Loesch noting syndicate control of gambling and slot machines and links to politicians.
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Chicago
Halsted Street
John J. Sullivan
Criminal Court
Frank J. Loesch
Loesch
Attorney Fights to Save Child Slayer in Toledo
Eldon H. Young, Hoppe’s defense attorney, mounted a last minute appeal to save Stanley Hoppe from the electric chair as a board of alienists ruled Hoppe neither insane nor feeble minded, ending most of the avenues for clemency on the eve of his execution in Toledo Ohio.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbus
INS
Stanley Hoppe
Toledo
Eldon H. Young
Hoppe
Left Foot Shoe Robbery Reported In St Louis
A shoe salesman told police 150 left foot shoes worth about 400 dollars were stolen from his car in St Louis. Officials noted a Memphis thief had taken 100 right foot shoes recently and wondered if the two thefts were connected or whimsical.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
U.P
Memphis
Tenn
Chicago officials plan crackdown on underworld alliance
Chicago leaders say they will unite the police chief, sheriff elect, and state's attorney elect to form a threefold enforcement team to wipe out gang activity. Mayor Thompson may back the drive, using executive power to remove corrupt officials as the political crime link unsettles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Thompson
Crowe
John A. Swanson
John E. Traeger
William A. Russell
Tripoli Woman Dies at Waverly Funeral Sunday
Mrs F H Robinson of Tripoli died at Mercy hospital in Waverly on Wednesday. Funeral services will be at Kaiser's Funeral Home at 2 30 p m Sunday with burial in Harlington Cemetery. She was admitted to the hospital on November 2 for surgical treatment.
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Courier
Waverly
Sai
F. H. Robinson
Tripoli
Mercy Hospital
Kaiser’s
Harlington
McAdoo's Daughter Weds His Partner
Miss Sarah L. McAdoo daughter of William G. McAdoo former secretary of the treasury will marry Brice Clagett a law partner in McAdoo's Washington office today. Clagett a former Washington newspaper man became associated with McAdoo when he was railroad administrator and has led McAdoo's Washington office since retirement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
The
Washington Post Today
Sarah L. McAdoo
William G. McAdoo
Secretary of the Treasury
Brice Clagett
McAdoo
Clagett
lJaw
Full Gospel Mission Special Meetings Start Tonight
The Full Gospel Mission at 626 Water Street announces a series of special services beginning this evening at 8 o clock. Rev Carl Johnson of Minneapolis will be here for these services with a Sunday afternoon session at 3 o clock and nightly meetings all next week except Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Full Gospel Mission
Water Street
Carl Johnson
Minneapolis
Minn
Divorce Granted to Mrs Bisdorf in Cruel Treatment Case
Leo G Bisdorf obtained a divorce from Margaret E Bisdorf after a hearing before Judge R W Hasner on cruelty grounds. The settlement places household goods with Mrs Bisdorf at 856 Parker Street and grants her sole ownership of Jet 13 block 1 Christies addition. Custody of two minor children Leo George Jr and John P awarded to the plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leo G. Bisdorf
Margaret. E. Bisdorf
R. W. Hasner
Two Men Hurt In Dual Motor Car Collisions
Edward A Karns on 715 Grant Avenue suffered a probable skull fracture when his bicycle collided with a car driven by C Wolfe on Fourth Street at First and Washington at 12 05 pm He was taken to Presbyterian Hospital unconscious by Officers Lee Smith and Walter Sipe Wolfe said Karns rode into the car Karns a machinist at the Iowa Dairy Separator Co Joseph Koerner of 1102 Hawthorne Avenue received a punctured knee cap and thigh injuries when his car collided with one driven by G H Ryan of 724 Wellington Street Last evening at Ninth Street and Grant Avenue A woman passenger in Ryans car had a slight finger injury Koerner’s sedan rolled over with broken glass and badly damaged fenders and top The rear of Ryans car was damaged Koerner had been returning home from the John Deere Tractor Co plant where he is employed He was taken to a physician for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward A. Karns
Grant Avenue
C. ©. Wolfe
Fourth Street
First
Washington Streets
Karns
Presbyterian Hospital
Lee Smith
Walter Sipe
Wolfe
Iowa Dairy Separator
Joseph Koerner
Hawthorne Avenue
G. H. Ryan
Wellington Strete
Ninth Street
Ryan
Koerner
Korner
John Deere Tractor Company
Temperatures Ahead With Mixed Thursday Night Chill
Readings show a maximum of 42 on Thursday and a minimum of 31 Thursday night. Friday morning at 7 indicates around 34 degrees with unsettled conditions across the period.
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Mascali
Giarre
Riposto
Prof
Ponte
Volcano Institute
W. G. Y. Injunction
C. of C
Tipton Man
Aimee
Roosevelt Brothers
San
Boone
Buena Vista
Calhoun
Carroll
Cherokee
Clay
Dickinson
Emmet
Greene
Hamilton
Hancock
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Ida
Kossuth
Lyon
Madison
Mitchell
O'Brien
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Plymouth
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Ringgold
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Sioux
Winnebago
Worth
Wright
Woodbury County
Minnesota
Websser
Fort Dodge
Missouri
Iowa General Assembly
Dallas
Tex
Hany M. Wurzbach
Augustus McCloskey
Texas Election Bureau
Wurzbach
McCloskey
Close
Nebraska
Omaha
Charles H. Sloan
Geneva
J. N. Norton
Polk
Sloan
Norton
Hatfield
W. Va
Charleston
Henry D. Hatfield
Matthew ‘Neely
Neely
Cable Briefs
N. Y. Evening Post, Inc
Frank Crane
Nice
City
Ghigkgo Gambler Ring Faces Grill
Dunkelberg, Leeper & Cropper, Inc
Alliance
General P.o-Box
Union Tobacco Co
P. O. Box
N.Y. Cc
Rogers Broswerplate
Credit Jewelers
East Fourth St
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