Disaster in the desert and golf shock in 1928 sports scene
Reports conflict on a Transcontinental Air Transport crash near New Mexico with five passengers and three crew believed dead after a lightning strike in a heavy storm. Bobby Jones is eliminated in the national amateur tournament by Johnny Goodman, shocking the sports world and prompting profiles of Goodman's rise from an Omaha family.
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Transport Liter
San Francisco
Mmost
New Mexico
Galip
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Del
Monte Cal
Bobby Jones
Johnny Goodman
Omaha
Neb
Goodman
Bobby
Georgia
Jim" Oshiman
Briand Urges United Europe Amid League of Nations Praise
Paris premier Aristide Briand received the loudest welcome of his career at the League of Nations assembly in Geneva. He praised ten years of league work, urged governments to study a United States of Europe and called for economic disarmament alongside military limits. He appealed to women worldwide to guard children from war propaganda, saying nations must condemn and render war impossible.
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Aristide Briand
France
Europe
League of Nations
United States
Altho
Briand
League
Paris
Iit
Hoover Cancels Weekend Fishing Trip
President Hoover aborted his planned weekend trip to the Rapidan fishing lodge in Virginia to stay in Washington for meetings with Republican national committee members arriving for a Monday session. He stated no more weekend trips would resume until next spring.
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D. C
Hoover
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Virginia Mountains
Altho
Republican National Committee
Hoove
National Committee
White House
Indian Fakir Buried Alive Breaks Coffin Glass
In Buenos Aires on September 5 a traveling circus performer called an Indian fakir was buried six feet underground in a sealed coffin with a glass top. As spectators watched, the coffin was opened and the fakir lay dead hours after the glass window had shattered, indicating a grisly fight for life during the burial.
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Buenos Aires
tIsi
Lfe
Ife
Rains End Forest Fire Drought in Wisconsin and Minnesota
Rains ranging from light to heavy drenched northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, easing forest fire danger. Rangers and volunteers, who had battled blazes since Sunday, rested as relief crews guarded smoldering embers in scattered areas. The heavy rain ends a month of danger and reduces the fire threat across the region. William L. Sheetz, 73, noted composer and instructor, died after brief illness in Burlington.
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Brinn
U.P
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dies
Burlington
William L. Sheetz
Freeport
Delivery by 5 30 PM and rerun by phone
The Courier is to be delivered to homes before 5 30 o clock. If the paper is late due to carrier error or other cause, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls should reach the office before 6 30 PM.
Clarinda Boy Aims to Organize Walton League Chapter
Jack Smith 14, son of Dr and Mrs R D Smith of Clarinda, joins Waterloo chapter as youngest member of Izaak Walton League. A C Willford says Smith plans to organize a Clarinda chapter and will quickly recruit ten members to obtain a charter.
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Walton League
Jack Smith
R. D. Smith
Waterloo
Izaak Walton League
A. C. Willford
State Walton
Wilford
Young Smith
Plane to seek new endurance record after long flight
The "Chier- Bo-We Will" plane, in the air 281 hours 2 minutes, was to fly to Patterson New Jersey for maintenance and a possible Sunday takeoff. Pilots Russell Mossman and A E Steele, after 12 days 3 hours aloft, slept as a bathy magnets ended the flight at 2 33 p m, similar to the earlier St Louis Robin overrun.
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Chicago
Patterson
N. J
Russell Mossman
A. E. Steele
St. Loui
Stock Prices Take Final Hour Tumble
New York September 6 stock prices plunged in the last hour on the New York Stock Exchange after an earlier broad up swing. United States Steel common dropped eight dollars a share while Radio and New York Central fell five dollars or more.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
United States Steel Common
New York Central
Forged Check Swindle Nets $460000 From Banks in New York
A Denver man and a New York associate swindled six New York City banks out of 450000 last Saturday by sending coded telegrams authorizing 75000 transfers to the Chase National Bank for the bank of Telluride. The ruse used unauthorized ABA code and forged signatures, uncovered when banks received the charging slips.
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New York
New York City
Bank of Telluride
Chase! National Bank
American Bankers’ Association
Western Union Telegraph Company
Banco
Chase National Bank
August High Month in History of Paving Town Primary Roads
Ames Iowa reports that August set a record for paving on the state primary roads with 169.84 miles laid, surpassing May 1928’s 157.8 miles. Clayton county added about six miles of hard surfacing, and officials expect 750 to 800 miles total for the season with two months remaining.
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Ames
Iowa
State Highway Commission
Clayton County
High School Boys Held for Robberies
Two 16 year old Des Moines youths William McBride and Robert Parker were held by police on six robberies and three car thefts within the past week. McBride reportedly confessed to the charges at headquarters.
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Des Moines
William McBride
Robert Parker
McBride
Songbirds Die on Flight South in Sudden Cold
Maquoketa Iowa records a brutal cold snap that killed thousands of migrating songbirds. Birds, mostly warblers such as terrullean Penn Cape May autumn and green, were found in doorways and streets. Merchants warmed and released many, but some perished crashing into lamps while fleeing the chill.
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Maquoketa
Paul Bidder Sues To Void GIT Lights Contract
Donovan Construction of St Paul Minnesota and Waterlon Realty notify Mayor Ghinn A Tibbits of Waterloo of suit to stop entering a contract for street light installation in the business district. They seek a mandamus to force a contract with Donovan and allege Sweetman bid was lowest on a specific post type.
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St. Paul, Minn
Waterlon Realty Company
Ghinn A. Tibbitts
City of
Waterloo
A. G. ‘Sweetman Blechtiedt Company
A. C. Sweetman
Streeb
Sweetman
Donovan‘Construction Company
Headford Bigs & Hitchins Foundry Co
Donovan Company
Tibbitts
Headford Bros. & Hitchins Post
Headford
Westinghouse
Wighter
Taxyroyer
Waterlog Realty Company
Fourth Street
W. M Stewart
C. & Pickett
City of Baltimore Refuels at Wichita
The cross country endurance monoplane City of Baltimore received 10 gallons of gasoline in an emergency refueling above Central Avenue Airport in Wichita. It departed at 11 30 a m for Las Vegas New Mexico to take on additional fuel.
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Baltimore
Central Avenue
Las Vegas
N. M
Bureau Director Relieved From Omaha Duties
Washington dispatch reports General Frank T. Hines announced that Dr. J. T. M. Pearson, regional director at Omaha, has been relieved from duty pending investigation of administrative matters in the Omaha district but not involving Omaha city.
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Washington, D. C
U.S
Frank T. Hines
Veterans’ Bureau
Omaha
Omaha City
Autumn chill fades soon say forecasters
Des Moines reports a brief cool spell in Iowa with temperatures dipping to 38 degrees at Inwood and 41 at Charles Grey overnight. Forecasters expect a return to warmer weather by Friday or Saturday after the cold snap, with Burlington reaching 89 degrees before the chill set in.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Inwood
Charles Grey
Rejected Suitor And Girl Sought In Abductions Case
A statewide search for Miss Ruby Ulster aged 17 and Ivile Hewitt aged 19 continued after they vanished Saturday night in Des Moines. Ulster reportedly rode with Hewitt, her mother saying she accepted a ride because the crowded unlit truck left little choice. Hewitt faced a warrant for arrest in a Ford coupe theft connected to the case as the vehicle was found abandoned near Chartton yesterday.
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Des Moines
UPI
Ruby Ulster
Gummings
Ivile Hewitt
Martensdale
Hewitt
Utsler
Ghartton
Pay Nee Hero
Miners Trapped as Cavern Rock Sealed Fate at Copperopotis Mine
Stockton Gall. Sept 4 four miners entombed when a rock slide sealed the cavern 1550 feet underground at the Calaveras Copper Co mine. Eight worked at the 1500 foot level yesterday. two escaped and a Mexican worker is extricated badly crushed. Rescue teams heard groans from another man. number of feet to rescuers unknown. Mine officials say little hope remains for the four. Also noted were road bonds on sale for U S 20 paving from Fort Dodge to Hamilton county line and funeral services for William Kamp 38 who died of heart trouble while driving near Humboldt.
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Stockton
Gal
Copperopotis
Calaveras Copper Company
Onipre Valle
Humboldt
U.A
William Kamp
Fort Dodge
Divorces Granted In Des Moines Court Chronicle
Divorces were granted to multiple Des Moines couples in a session attended by six judges. Decrees include Zelma Hughes after her husband took the last 50 cents for a ball game and Harlan W. Leonard whose wife would not sit on his lap. Several other cases cited bigamy and attempted harm.
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Des Moines
Reno Ffs
Alma Willsox
Search intensifies for Transcontinental Air Transport missing liner
Col Paul Henderson said the company will deploy every available service plane to aid the search and offered a $5 000 reward for locating the City of San Francisco. Conflicting reports from Santa Fe agents and locals cloud the status of the wreck with no definite trace found near the Arizona New Mexico border by Tuesday night.
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Paul Henderson
Trans-Continental Air Transport
Hender- Pon
Los Angeles
Cal
Transcontinental Air Transport
San Francisco
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
Santa
Perea
Black Rock Wash
H. Beck
Western’ Traffic
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Gallup
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Winslow
Carbonwash
Zunt
Early
Gordon
Lindsay Gillis
T.A. T
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N. M
Winslow Dig
T. A.T
Army
Galup
John Collings
John Herilby
M. M
Transecontinental Air Transport
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Arizona-Newa Mexico
Zim Pueblo
GCIL
Kelsey
Indiana
Cedar Breaks
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