Connie Mack's pitching miscue in series opener at Wrigley
Baseball fans blame Connie Mack for starting a slow hurler versus the Cubs at Wrigley Field as Howard Ehmke matches a World Series strikeout record in a 3 to 1 win by Philadelphia. The same report notes Al Capone's brother Ralph Bottles in a Chicago jail on income tax fraud charges and other city dispatches on politics, crime, and sensational local matters.
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Howard Ehmke
Ehmke
Philadelphia
Hornsby
MacDonald to Speak On Coast Radio Dinner Tonight
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald will address a coast to coast radio audience tonight. He will be introduced by Elihu Rock and the dinner is hosted by the council of foreign relations in Washington. President Hoover may attend the stag affair, with NBC reserving two hours for the speech.
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Great Britain
Council of Foreign Relations
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Illness May Halt Fall Bribe Trial
Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall faces a temporary halt in his bribery trial as he is reported ill by his physician. Justice Hitz assigns Dr. Ruffin to examine Fall, with a court reconvening tomorrow to hear Dr. Austin’s report and decide on potential postponement if his condition worsens.
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Paroled Convict Pleads for Bank Robber's Freedom
Springfield, Oct 8. W H De Long former president of the Sadorus bank on parole from Chester penitentiary appeared before the state board of pardons and paroles in behalf of Ben Ingram, serving for a $10,000 Freeburg bank robbery. De Long emphasized restitution efforts and a new window sash invention as factors in support of clemency.
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Chester
Ben Ingram
Freeburg Bank
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Sadorus Bank
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Pardon Board
Funeral for Judge Herman Zeich Held in Des Moines
Funeral services for District Judge Herman Zeich will be held this afternoon in Des Moines. State officials judges of the supreme court district and county courts and prominent members of the bar were to attend, following his death Monday afternoon from a canopy fall during a city parade.
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Des Moines
Herman Zeich
State Supreme Court
Courier Delivery Window and Reprint Policy Notice
The Courier will be delivered before 4 30 p m. If the carrier day or error prevents delivery by that time, Phony $100 and a copy of the paper will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 30 p m.
Folandogue May Halt Tariff Bill
Washington Oct 9 The tariff bill faced indefinite delay as Senate debate shifted to Philippine independence. Senator King Utah proposed an independence proclamation and a constitutional convention to govern the islands. Chairman Borah warned against rushing the issue while Senator Borah urged caution and Senator Bingham Connecticut said a decision would take days or weeks.
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Search Fails to Find Lost Flier
Anchorage Alaska October 9 despite an intensive search no trace found today of Russell Merrill from Des Moines who disappeared 22 days ago while flying to the West Kuskokwim river district with parts for dredge machinery With fog lifting another airplane search will be started for the missing pilot The area where Merrill is believed to have gone down is almost inaccessible and would take months to explore
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Russell Merrill
Des Moines
West Kuskokwim River
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Dr. Shumaker Near Death with Tumor
Indianapolis Oct 3 Tod Dr Edward S Shumaker superintendent of the Indiana Anti Saloon league weakened by a malignant tumor physicians say there is little hope of recovery He has been ill since serving 60 days at the state penal farm for contempt of the state supreme court
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Tod
Edward S. Shumaker
Indiana
Anti-Saloon League
Charles R Sowder
Shumaker
State Penal Farm
State Supreme Court
Truckmen's Strike in New York Ends
New York Oct 9 UPI Fresh fruit and vegetable shortages were averted as millions of dollars of produce stranded by a three day market truckmen strike moved from terminals to distribution points after the strike was terminated late yesterday.
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New York
UPI
Woman 86 Spanks Son 56 in Court Over Drinking
In Seattle on October 9, Mrs. Ellen Brightman age 86 pleaded for leniency for her son aged 52 after he was caught intoxicated. She volunteered to thrash him in court and the judge suspended a 10 day sentence, remarking that a spanking might do him good.
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Wash
U.ri
Ellen Brightman
Lindbergh Party Radioed From Belize Return Flight Start
Lindbergh and Mrs Lindbergh begin northward from Belize to resume the Caribbean circuit ending a three day aerial exploration of Maya ruins in British Honduras Guatemala and the Yucatan coast. Dr Kidder and Oliver H. Ricketson accompany them with plans for Kidder to join the return flight north.
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United States
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Carnegie Institution
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Rickelson
Climate Damp Des Moines Date Conflicts Highlighted
Des Moines reports show temperatures in Iowa expected to stay below normal with showers across the state. Council Bluffs Des Moines and Keokuk tied for the highest rainfall as weather observer Charles Reed notes damp conditions likely to persist. In Webster City a tractor accident killed Fred House when the machine rolled backward onto him after he jumped clear. In Moscow officials begin a campaign to curb kissing by labeling letters with Think before you kiss to promote sanitation.
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Webster City
Fred House
Fox Hits Four-Base Homer in Athletic Rally
Homer No. 2 Fox drives four-bagger home as Athletics bolster GCub pennant bid with strong scoring burst.
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Athletics
Borger Vice War Shifted 10 Court
Borger Texas October 9 military authorities push toward a court date to extend martial law in an effort to smash a criminal ring. Fourteen prisoners held without bond under General Order No G face hearings on habeas corpus in Sinnets district court.
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Texas
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Livingston Leads Air Tour on Points at Camden
Camden N J Oct 9 Flying at one minute intervals 29 airplanes of the fifth National Reliability Air Tour droned into Central airport for an overnight stop and then departed toward Baltimore for luncheon before Richmond Va and a night halt. Jenn Livingston piloting a Waco leads the field with 11 40 points. Art Davis in a Waco follows with 10 114 points.
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Washington Writer Appendicitis Victim Dies at Georgetown
Lynn Haines, a Washington writer on governmental subjects born in 1876 at Wauseca Minnesota, died at Georgetown University Hospital from a ruptured appendix after two days of illness. He moved to Washington in 1931 to lead the National Voters League after creating the Minnesota Voters’ League and writing two books on Minnesota legislature. Chicago bandits learn manners, rob seven em ployees of a cleaning and dyeing establishment, steal $3,000 and two rings from Evelyn Riordan. the reader forced them to return the rings.
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Georgetown University Hospital
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Wauseca
Minnesota
Minnesota Voters’ League
National Voters’ League
Polite
Chicago
U.P
Evelyn Riordan
Thirty Young Women Respond to Plea for Pint of Blood
Cedar Rapids doctors urged a pint of blood for a critically ill young mother. Thirty young women volunteered today and will undergo testing before the transfusion operation proceeds, as physicians seek to save her life.
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Cedar Rapids
Sam Array Of Cubs Pitchers All Over For 11 Hits
Chicago October report on the World Series game where Philadelphia Athletics defeated the Cubs 9 to 8. Earnshaw pitched for Philadelphia with Foxx and Simmons delivering key hits. Cubs fielding miscues and timely hits from Foxx and Simmons led to a high scoring contest at Wrigley Field.
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George Earnshaw
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Gary City Government Heads Toward Jail Indicted Officials
U S Deputy Marshal Harold Miner and Hammond officers led a raid to serve warrants on 39 Gary officials and associates charged in indictments from South Bend. Prohibition violations, alleged wholesale vote frauds, and graft are cited, with bribes alleged as local police allowed truck cargo routes from Detroit to Chicago.
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Hera
U. 8
Harold Miner
Hammond
South Bend
Detroit
Chicago
Town Widow Fools Chicago Salesman
Bert Bloomberg, a Chicago salesman, visited federal officials to learn why his planned bride left him waiting at a church in Burlington. He had been corresponding with a woman from Burlington via the Fireside Matrimonial club who claimed to be a widow and asked for $15 for travel to Chicago. She never arrived and reportedly married another man instead. Bloomberg was told she was on her honeymoon. Meanwhile Mrs Jane Gibson, famed “piz woman” from a notorious murder case, is reported near death from cancer and kidney trouble.
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Bert Bloomberg
Bloomberg
United States
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Burlington
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Jane Gibson
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