Notorious cashier tied to church funds scandal flares
Clinton S. Carnes, custodian for a decade of the home mission funds of the Southern Baptist convention, is held by Winnipeg authorities for extradition after allegedly diverting about 1,000,000 dollars. Indictments were returned in Atlanta as the chase stretched to Manitoba. The tale blends church finance intrigue with sensational melodrama. A separate note reviews political and sports items, including Hoover's stance on religious prejudice and a Yankees vs Cardinals World Series outlook. The day also reports a coal tieup ending and a shipboard pirate attack.
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Clinton S. Carnes
Home Mission Board
Southern “Baptist ‘Convention
Snaid
Georgia
Winnipeg
United States
Atlanta
Manitoba
Whispering campaign colors 1928 election
Washington report notes the 1928 whispering campaign shapes voter interest and turnout. Prohibition emerges as the biggest issue amid a broader debate on prosperity tariffs and foreign policy, with analysts predicting a high but uneven turnout around November 6.
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Dy Prederic
William Wue
Washington
D. C
Yale
Simon Michelet
Michelet
Gelling Qué
National Chile Federation
The
American Legion
League of Women Voters
Work
Raskob
Ffoover- Smith
Farm Reef
Hoover
Smith
Courier Delivery Time Notice with Contact Number
The Courier should be delivered to your home before 6:30. If the carrier boy or another cause prevents delivery, call 1160 and a copy will be sent. Calls should reach the office before 6:30 p.m.
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Garrier Boy
Goolidge Seeks Present Policies for Nation and Commonwealth
President Coolidge urged continuation of Republican public affairs policy at a state convention in Boston. He named Frank G Allen and Benjamin Loring Young as Commonwealth leaders and Merbert Hoover with Charles Curtis for the nation. Allen is the lieutenant governor and had just been chosen Republican candidate for governor. Young for U.S. senator.
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Boston
Coolidge
Frank G. Allen
Benjamin Loring Young
Commonwealth
Merbert Hoover
Charles Curtis
Allen
Young
United States
Washington, D. C
Herbert Hoover
Page Lwe
Dolayne Coury
Cubs Clinch Flag for Cardinals by Win Over Giants
In New York on September 29 1928 the Cardinals clinched the National League pennant after the Cubs beat the Giants at the Polo Grounds. St Louis needed one more win, and the decisive results from Boston later that day confirmed McKechnie's club as NL champions.
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New York Yankees
St. Louis Cardinals
Yanks
Giants
Yankee Stadium
St Louis
New York
Cardinals
Cubs
Polo Grounds
St. Louisans
Boston Braves
McKechnie
Wee Willie Sherdel
Art Delaney
Braves
Odout Thit
Hornsby
Frisch
Daouthlt Bottomley
Bottomley
Hafey
Ely
West High Extends Lead With Early TD Over Iowa Falls
West High Wahawks led 7 0 in the first quarter after Abe Town Pass from Watson to Miller completed near the end of the period at Sloane Wallace field. Makinster kicked the extra point. In the second quarter Miller broke for 60 yards for a TD, though the extra point kick failed.
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West High
Wahawks
Abe Town Pass High School
Sloane Wallace Field
Watson
Miller
Makinster
West
Makinter
Wes High
Independence
Winnipeg holds missionary fund embezzler for Atlanta trial
Clinton Carnes former treasurer of the Southern Baptist home mission board is jailed in Winnipeg awaiting extradition to Atlanta. He faces two Atlanta indictments for embezzlement and misappropriation with estimates up to 1,000,000. Auditors uncovered unpaid salaries and a chart of peculations via note floating. He admitted identity and planned a plant in Winnipeg while financing two would be movie stars Lois Griffin and Sonia Nordi e. He had prior prison terms for mail fraud and was married to his wife with two sons. He will be tried immediately on arrival.
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Winnipeg
Man
Clinton & Carnes
Home Mission Board
Southern Baptist Convention
Atlanta
Clinton
St Paul, Minn
F. G. Lewis
Whinipeg
Carnes
Mission Board
Avanta
Raleigh
MN. C
Bwa
Lois Griffin
Hapeville
Sonia Nordiie
Hollywood
Gal
Carters Ville
U.P
Gunton S. Carnes
Cliffeard Walker
Druid Hills
Damnea
Sonia Novida
Clinton S.garnes
Inset
Baptist Home Mission Board
Winniper
Can
Steck Seeks Carefree President in Smith Backing
United States Senator Daniel P. Steck plans to meet President hopeful Alfred E. Smith and says he supports Smith to bring warmth to the White House. Steck describes Smith as a warm-hearted Democrat, not a cold calculating machine.
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Drs Moines
United States
White House
Guy
Alfred E. Smith
Weather Outlook for Week in Washington DC Area
Weather forecast for the period from early Ort to end of week across upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Little precipitation expected and temperatures unlikely to show marked changes.
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Washington, D. C
Mississippi
Missouri
Lanphier and Lindbergh Survive Aircraft Crash in Milwaukee Takeoff
Major T G Lanphier and Col Charles A Lindbergh escaped serious injury when a plane taking off at Milwaukee airport struck a stationary truck on the runway as the all clear signal was given. The new plane, built for Lanphier, crashed nose first but both pilots and H C Ferguson survived. Lanphier criticized city officials for the truck being on the runway during clearance. The pair planned to continue to St Louis later today.
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Chicago
INS
T. G. Lanphier
Selfridge Field
Detroit
Charles A. Lindbergh
Marrowly
Col. Lindbergh
Lanphier
Lindy
St. Louis
Linphier
H. C. Ferguson
New York
Lindbergh
Son Gone Eight Years Finds Parents Dead
Hamburg Illinois September 29. Charles Racobs, 29, returns home to discover his father William Racobs dead in the driveway of the family home near Honey Creek and his mother died days later from injuries in the runaway accident that killed his father. Racobs had left home in 1921 and was not heard from since. The son had no knowledge of the tragedy until yesterday.
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Hamburg
U.A
Charles Racobs
Racobs
William Racobs
Honey Creek
Back to Hospital Same Leg Broken Des Moines
Des Moines Sept 29 War rington Russell 14 was in a hospital today with a fractured leg in a plaster cast. He has had three ambulance rides to hospital and previously injured his hand in a wringer two years ago and his leg last year. Yesterday afternoon while playing football the same leg was broken again.
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Fay
Warrington Russell
Des Moines
Warrington
Russell
Ris
Agahy
Fear for Safety of California Official
Seattle dispatch reports officials of the Northwest Ninety First Division Association fearing for the safety of Lieut. Gov. Burns Fells of California, overdue while flying to Seattle for the division's annual convention. Fells departed Eugene, Oregon, yesterday afternoon and had not arrived hours later.
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Seattle
Wash
INS
Northwest Ninetyfirst Division Association
Buran Fills
Californa
Fitts
Eugene
Ore
Nafternoan
Plaintiff Quits in Suit Against C F Power Plant
Cedar Falls report states Louis J. Zack filed suit in Waterloo district court to test Cedar Falls municipal light and power plant extending service to rural patrons. He plans withdrawal with city clerk Hi E. Oldrich. no withdrawal documents filed with district court clerk J W Thompson. Reasons for withdrawal not known.
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Courier
Cedar Falls
Waterloo
Louis J. Zack
Zack
Hi. E. Oldrich
J. W. Thompson
September Corn Prices Plunge In Sensational Smash
Chicago September corn prices collapsed amid eleventh hour selling by owners. Some trades fell five cents a bushel overnight, with the market closing at the lowest level of the session.
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Chicago
Dairy Cattle Congress Opens Busy Week with Allied Shows
Frank Muller a former air service mechanic recalls scenes from Langley and Kelly fields after World War I. He describes a near crash during Langley flight tests and the armistice celebration when Liberty motors were mounted on auto trucks and driven, causing widespread debris as hats and papers flew.
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Frank Muller
Sumner Street
Air Service
Chanulefield
Langley Field
Tiler
Ekelly Field
San Antonio
Tex
Kelly Field
Tunney Tired of Red Tape in Rome
Rome dispatch reports Gene Tunney frustrated by bureaucratic hurdles in arranging his marriage in Italy. At the Hotel de Russie he faced delays as he sought to set a religious ceremony within two weeks in Naples with Monsignor Bresini, his former New York parish priest.
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Rome
Hotel de Russie
Italy
Naples
Joseph A. Bresini
American College
Tunney
New York
Pirates in China Rob British Ship
Pirates hijacked the British steamer Anking near Hongkong, killing Chief Officer Jones and Chief Engineer Thompson and wounding Captain Plunkett Cole. Disguised as passengers, they seized control, then fled to Honghai Bay with $45,100 and seven kidnapped Chinese passengers.
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Kidd
Decatur
Bob
Anking
Hongkong
Singapore
Hang- Yong
U.R
Oficer Jones
Engineer Thompson
Plunkett Cole
Thompson
Jones
Cole
Honghai Bay
Alleged Minister Held as Swindler
Donald Rogers, 66, posing as a Quaker minister, is held awaiting grand jury action in Davenport after a warrant charging him with swindling merchants in Cedar Rapids Iowa City Davenport and Hannibal Missouri. Authorities say he obtained money under false pretenses for a book titled Scriptures As Revealed to Me.
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Davenport
INS
Donald Rogers
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Hannibal
John McSwiggins
Rogers
Short Interviews With Home Folks on Potatoes
Minnesota farmers face a bumper potato crop with low shipper prices. Lee Smith, a police patrol driver, reports many will leave potatoes undug as fine spuds fetch about 25 cents per hundred pounds. Early fall demand remains decent, but the fishing trip noted limited catches mostly bluegills.
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Minnesota
Lee Smith
Poice
Brainerd
Purebred Holstein Assembly 7 Largest Ever at Congress
The nineteenth annual Dairy Cattle Congress gathers nearly one hundred top cattle from across the nation in Waterloo Iowa with Holsteins the highlight. Jerseys Guernseys Brown Swiss Ayrshires and other breeds fill the 40 acre grounds alongside Belgian Horse and Poultry shows as officials announce prize money totaling 26000 and expect record attendance.
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Waterloo
Versailles
Paris
Iowa
Congress
Tessure
Cattla Gongress
Othe
Exposition
Belgium
Waterloo Poultry
United States
A.W. Brown
Cattle Congress
A. W. Brown
TL. D. Miller
F.E. Stewart
E. S. Estel
G. W. Huntley
HB. Lichty
Altstadt
L. D. Miller
H. B. Plumb
Stewart
Hy A. Northey
J. J. Miller
RT. Crowell
H. E. Elester
W. S. Moscrip
Lake Elmo
Minn
Jerseys
J. B. Fitch
Manhattan
Kan
Guernseys
H. H. Kildee
Ames
Jae
Ayrshires
E. A
Trowbridge
Columbia
R. M. Hamer
McLean
A. B. Caine
Horse Department
Don Merrill
M. D. Benshall
Poultry
Frank Conway
Cary Station
Oscar Grow
Harry Atkins
Davenport
Joseph P. Schuy
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Goolidge
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Iowa Falls
William MM. Smith
Cinton Paper Company
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Missionary Fund
Baptist Board
Steck
Milwaukee
Harold Oliver
Associated Press
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