Controversy Over WHO Radio Restrictions Angers Waterloo Listeners
Waterloo radio fans rally around Bankers Life head Gerard Nollen as he fights an FCC order restricting WHO Des Moines. The plan would cut WHO’s wave length, limit broadcast hours to daytime, and force sharing time with another town, harming rural Midwest service.
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Waterloo
Federal Radio’ Commission
Bankers Life
Des” Moines
Ite
Des Moines
Radio Commission
Gerard 5. Nollen
Bankers' Life
Chicago
Nollen
Middlewest
Iowa
Iowan
Towa
Commission
Hollywood
Cal
WHO
Grace A. Fendler Wins $700000 Judgment Over Play Authors
After years of litigation, Grace A. Fendler of Los Angeles wins a $700,000 judgment against producers Oliver Morosco and Richard Walton Tully over authorship of The Bird of Paradise. The court upholds her claim.
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Grace A. Fendler
Los Angeles
Oliver Morosco
Richard Walton Tully
Theatres Tonight at Palace Riviera Strand Waterloo
The Palace showcases Wallflowers with Trevor and Arthur plus Patent Medicine Kid and The Mark of the Frog. The Wizard stars Lowe and Hyams with news reel. Riviera presents The Tempest with Barrymore and Camilla Horn, plus Casey Jones and Eva Mondell acts. Waterlooo features Flaming Youth with Generro and Ripley. matinees today and tomorrow.
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Palace
Hugh Trevor
Jean Arthur
Mark of the Frog
PLAZA
the Wizard
Edmund Lowe
Leila Hyams
Yoles
Riviera
John Barrymore
Camilla Horn
Gugel
Waterloo—Boyd
Trousdale Players
Flaming Youth
Josephine Generro
Robert Ripley
Strand Theatre Week Peak Vitaphone Show Features Old San Francisco
The Strand offers a Vitaphone program starting Sunday headlined by Old San Francisco from Warner Bros. with four Vitaphone acts and a sync score by Hugo Riesenfeld. Cast includes Dolores Costello and Warner Oland with Josef Swickard and others. Pathe News and Strand Orchestra close the bill.
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Strand Theatre
Vitaphone
San Francisco
Warner Bros. Vitaphone
Chinatown
Barbary Coast
Frisco
Dolores Crestello
Underworld
Hell
Warner Oland
Miss Costello
J. Zure
Hugo Riesenfield
Josef Swickard
John A Miljan
William Demarést
Walter McGrail
Tom Sanish
Marlon (Henderson
Eddy
Waterloo
Eddie Conrad
Ruth Glanville
Ruth Glenville
Miss Glanville
Day Mills
Jimmy
Conlin
Myrtle
Pathe News
Strand Theatre Orchestra
Five Hurt in Des Moines Sunporch Auction Collapse
Five persons were injured when a sun porch collapsed at an auction in Des Moines. One woman, 61 year old Mrs. W. A. Carlson, sustained possible internal injuries and severe bruising. About 35 women were present as the crowd moved toward the sun porch, causing the collapse and a 10 foot drop. The injured were taken to hospital or treated on site.
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Des Moines
W. A. Carlson
Negro Convicted of Second Degree Murder in Des Moines
Des Moines report confirms Jesse Harvey, a Black man, was convicted of second degree murder in the slaying case. The verdict follows a jury phase that concluded the defendant was responsible for the fatal act, with sentencing to be determined by the court in line with state law.
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Des Moines
U.P
Jesse Harvey
Recalling Aurora's 1854 Republican Beginnings in a Barn
In Aurora Illinois a candlelit 1854 meeting in a barnlike church birthed the Republican party's anti slavery agenda. Delegates from a dissident Whig faction gathered to form a new party, nominating James H. Woodworth for Congress as they pledged unity and abolitionist aims.
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Aurora
Ill
National Republican Party
Lutz “White
Fox River Valley
Wrre
Isabell Laundry
Abraham Lincoln
White
Talinats
Republican Party
Josepyn
Tam
James H. Woodworth
Chicago
Congress
Isabell Landry
Luther Arritt to be sentenced for second degree murder
Luther Arritt was found guilty of second degree murder by a jury of nine women and three men after a nearly 24 hour deliberation. Judge Frank S. Shankland of the district court will sentence Arritt in September 17. The jury requested leniency for Harvey.
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Luther Arritt
Frank 5. Shankland
District Court
Harvey
Ferocious Skeeter Sinks His Bill in Human Flesh and Drinks His Fill
Mosquito swarms flood TowA region with unprecedented numbers and ferocity. Children, farmers, and gardeners suffer welts and bites as pests attack swiftly when vegetation is disturbed.
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Skeeter
Towa
Fragmented Crime Description From OCR Text
The readable fragments describe improvised defenses with gloves and mosquito netting used to protect the head and face. Foes are depicted drilling through coats and thrusting bills through stockings and trousers amid frequent heavy rains.
Florida arrests overbird crimes and frost humor in season
Two game law offenders who killed snowy herons and obtained 21 gigrette plumes were arrested in Florida. The editor notes little relief from pests until Jack Frost chills them away.
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Jack Frost
Florida
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Keen
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Geraldine
Hugh Johnson
Alberta Haynes
Ralph Jones
Talk of the Town” Musical Comedy Revue Company of Sixteen
Kane and Conklin
Beauty
Jack Reynolds
Eugene Brussard
Jean Hersholt
Jazz Mad
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Marion Nixon
George Lewis
Comb
Wizard
Ike and Mike
Paden
Vitaphone: Symphony Orchestra of
Dolores Costello
Warner. Oland Wm, Demarest
America
Francisco
Conlin & Glass
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