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Monday, November 7, 2016
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Clinton cleared (again) By ERIC TUCKER The Associated Press
THANK YOU Scores turn out for Iola’s Veterans Day Parade
Saturday’s Veterans Day event and parade were liberally soaked with patriotism. Clockwise from upper left, Karsyn Kaufman, 7, was dressed for his role in a parade entry; speaker National Guard Maj. Chris Broadwick recalled sacrifices made by military members over the years; 891st Engineer Battalion soldiers were the honor guard for the parade and carried a huge U.S. flag that has become a standard in local parades; among veterans on the VFW float was Walt Regher Jr., a former fighter pilot. REGISTER/BOB JOHNSON
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director James Comey told Congress in a letter sent Sunday that a review of newly discovered Hillary Clinton emails has “not changed our conclusions” from earlier this year that she should not face charges. Sent just two days before Election Day, the letter appeared to resolve any lingering ambiguity over the prospect Hillary Clinton that the Democratic presidential nominee could yet face a criminal indictment over her use of a private email sever as secretary of state. “Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton,” Comey wrote to congressional leaders, less than two weeks after first telling them about a cache of newly found emails that investigators thought might be pertinent to their investigation. But the letter left unresolved other questions, including the content and number of new emails, and how many of the messages investigators reviewed were duplicates of emails they had already seen. “The growing number of unanswered questions demand explanations,” Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa, the Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. A senior law enforcement See CLINTON | Page A4
Quake Piazza delivers a hardboiled treat shakes Plains By RICK DANLEY The Iola Register
CUSHING, Okla. (AP) — A sharp earthquake centered near one of the world’s key oil hubs Sunday night triggered fears that the magnitude 5.0 temblor might have damaged key infrastructure in addition to causing what police described as “quite a bit of damage” in the Oklahoma prairie town of Cushing. City Manager Steve Spears said a few minor injuries were reported and questioned whether some of the community’s century-old buildings might be unsafe. Police cordoned off older parts of the town to keep away gawkers. Emergency officials evacuated an assisted living center catering to the elderly in Cushing. Assistant City Manager Jeremy Frazier said that while damage was reported See QUAKE | Page A4
Saturday. A chill fall morning. A blanket of light fog lay over Iola. The tiny burg was quiet, as usual, slow to rouse. Except for one place. Across town, a drab family of brick buildings clung to the city’s north side like carbuncles on the back of a monkey’s ankle. Inside, a festival was taking place. A reading festival. Unsuspecting families mingled cheerfully in the sun-raked hallways of Allen Community College. Children played and laughed. Neighbors high-fived. No one keeled over, not really. A good fest overall. A swell fest. Meanwhile, in the library, a man, Tony Piazza, fiddled with his laptop and a campus-issue video projector. He kept one eye on the door, where a few festival-goers entered and quietly took their seats; the other one he sort of just rolled around. At 11 a.m., the crowd of about 20 grew hushed as Piazza took to the lectern where he delivered a thrilling and richly informative lecture on the history of crime fiction and its evolution from books to movies — the keynote speech at this year’s Iola Family Reading
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Left to right, Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in “The Maltese Falcon,” based on Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 novel of the same name; Tony Piazza delivers the keynote address on mystery fiction at the Iola Family Reading Festival on Saturday; Basil Rathbone looks rakish as Sherlock Holmes. Festival. IT WAS an auspicious time for a talk on detectives. According to the Turner Classic Movie channel, we’re in the midst of “Noirvember” — an entire month devoted to the art of Film Noir. For participants in this parochial celebration it means a steady diet of hard-boiled cinema or country-house murder mysteries. Right now, in fact,
in dimly lit corners of Twitter (#noirvember), people are posting favorite GIFs from “The Lady of Shanghai,” “Double Indemnity,” “The Maltese Falcon,” “Laura,” “The Third Man.” And, of course, “The Big Sleep.” “How many of you have seen this movie?” Piazza asked, cueing up a clip of Howard Hawks’ 1946 classic. Based on the Raymond Chandler novel of the same
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name, “The Big Sleep” stars Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, whose steamy real-life love affair injected a carnal allure into a film whose advertised subject is crime but whose palpable subtext is sex. “The chemistry between these two,” said Piazza, clicking play. “Just watch.” The famous scene ends with the smoky-voiced Bacall lookSee MYSTERY | Page A4
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