Burlington Gazette (Newspaper) - January 25, 1933, Burlington, Iowa AII Burlington Open as Offer Unusual at This Time WEATHER Thursday unsettled IOWA'S OLDEST RIVER STAGE feet fall of 21/2 inches since 96th THE BURLINGTON GAZETTE WITH THE 10 4. ESTABLISHED JULY 10, 1837. JANUARY 25, cents NEW LAW WILL ALTER METHODS Filibusters Will Hardly Have Chance Under the JAPAN READY TO QUIT LEAGUE For Sale HY 1:. 1933.) 25.-Uatilicalion of the Twentieth the will I mean new legislative and i perhaps a complete rearrangement j of On the surface the new clause In | Die federal constitution makes siblo the of power in January by those who have been elected to the congress the preceding The gap in in the case of is reduced from the 13-month interval to less than three But there Is something involved which w II ho more than shortening of the transition period from one congress to It Is the fact that the session of an old it must run into the beginning ot a new congress without the Interruption conceivably of a single This means that congress will bo forced into session on definite days rather than await th call of a It for not rest with a president whether or not he will call an extra He will congress in session on Jan. 20, when he is as the day of Jan. now is fixed by the Twentieth unless congress shall choose date by For Two Since congress will bo obliged to meet In for its first adjournment probably will come as a rule in the spring or early The next regular r will come in January with adjournment in five or six months so that in the autumn ot the second when congressional elections are there will have been two regular at which presumably the entire record the will have been It thus gives a representative a chance to point to two years of or at bast two complete An it 1<- today does not take office until 13 months after his has one long and then he is for The short session coming after the November elections give him his second opportunity a president calls an extra Special have become since 1914 when war began to draw tlie 1ei?tslatora for extraordinary Tf under the new a culls an extra session it probably will be in September or October of the purpose was to end sessions as well as are though less under the new constitutional it a president called an ext rn session for November of second of a it is true there would be only two months left but 11 might he sufficient for a president who has bad a in both houses to put through which bis own political party The parly might try to block it by ao thai when its own group came into power In January the proposed legislation could be In the two months between the November election and the meeting of all Ihc who had been defeated in known as would still have a chance to These contingencies would occur only if the November election had gone against the president In power or at the end of a presidential when the people have voted for a change In the legislative as well as the executive branches of the the new does do is to prevent the minority from legislation when one political party really has been by the a working majority in both houses and of the davenport grocer as bureau chief Dea Jan. 25--(A.P.)- Secretary of Agriculture Kay today the of John A Davenport tto chief of the dairy and food of the state of who will begin his duties 1, will succeed R. G. Clark of The Davenport man has been in grocery since 188V. lie ou the food during the war and was formerly treasurer of the Iowa State Grocers Jack 21-year-old football player at Junior college i otters to sell five years of life to the highest or for with which he may take a law Press BASE UID FOR DEBT Roosevelt to Let European Nations Offer Their Several More Farm Relief Measures Are Among Those Introduced in Racketeer Sought Jan. 2.i.-(A.P.)- Preliminary bargaining to test out the ground for war debts and world trade revival may be advanced actively within the next few weeks by European nations before concrete proposals are placed before this When President-elect sits down early in March with representatives of those debtor nations which have met their ho Is expected to ask them to state briefly and simply what they have to offer in exchange for a revision ot their So to this end European governments and statesmen probably wMU put forward suggestions to feel the way toward an accord on what Mr. has in reciprocity and of foreign in return for debts lu some today the Neville British chancellor of the made last night was taken as a In his address said Great Britain would insist that the forthcoming negotiations bo based upon an understanding that their result be linal and that no German reparations payments would bo f o r c i g n observers sought some light on what nations might In for it was said that Premier delegation might take to Washington that country's suggestion for sweeping reductions in The opening of the doors for separate with all debtors which paid their 15 Installments has been taken as a bid to Belgium and other defaulters to pay up and place themselves in a preferred As it stand now Mr. will talk soon after ho takes office with Great then with Czechoslovakia and aud probably with Latvia and Spokesmen for the t have emphasized that cancellation is not Some of his advisers have discussed a possible postponement of future payments until the forthcoming world economic conference has bad an opportunity to propose plans for the world's economic PAYS Jan. 25-(A.P.)-Sydney of Harlan was fined costs following his on of a dental here The line wan DR. WEST EXONERATED Judge John M. Rankin Orders Verdict of in Medic's Fort 26.-(A.P.) K West charged with second degree murder in with the death hut April of Maiy West Point freed today on a ordered by Judge M. Des 25.-(A. After fighting for two hours today on compensation for its the Iowa house adopted the senate reducing virtually all salaries 30 per cent from the amount paid two years The resolution was to permit the to employ A. C. Gustafson as assistant chief clerk at his The measure was fought every inch ot the and several limes appeared entangled in parliamentary After devoting virtually the entire morning session to settling the question of payment of its the house passed a tax reduction which would transfer the issuance ot hunting and fishing licenses from county auditors and county recorders to the county The vote was 67 to 34. Representative of Introduced a which would permit deposit ot public money outside a city or county when such city or county is without banking The fish and game committee sponsored a measure taking all restrictions off the killing of Would Cut Auto Des Jan. 25.-(A.P.)-A slash of 50 per cent in automobile license tees would be made in a introduced today by Rep. James Burgess of Woodbury The would provide a fee ot 20 cents per hundredweight instead of 40 cents and would reduce the penalty for failure to take out a license plate from to 60 cents per the penalty not to be operative until March 1 instead of Jan. 1 as at The measure carries an emergency License fees in Iowa for 1932. totaled figures in the state auditor's office Farm Des Jan. 25.-(.\.P.)- Several bills which would directly affect farm relief legislation appeared in the Iowa house of representatives Two of the measures were sponsored by Gissell of One would give a debtor two years instead of one year to redeem property and would prohibit issuance ot a sheriff's deed until two years from the date of The other would prohibit the appointment of a receiver for two years in foreclosure Rep. C. L. Beswick ot Van Buran Introduced a trio ot measures affecting The first would require that mortgages be assessed as money and credits when the mortgage owner is a non-resident of the The second would prohibit foreclosure of a mortgage on really or personal properly until taxes due on such mortgage have been The third would exempt owners ot mortgaged properly from payment of the amount of tax which the mortgage should pay ou the mortgage it is designed to slop double A was Introduced by Rep. Fabritz of Wapello which would limit liens for rent solely to as set forth in It would eliminate the levying of a lien on personal 1)Hire Des 25.-(A.P.)-Repeal the teachers minimum wage law today was approved by the state senate In passing in an amended form au interim committee 46 to 3, The original would have reduced the minimum salary allowed but a amendment which the senate approved entirely the The committee has that la Its original form the would cut school expenses than a senate earlier defeated an effort of George of to recall the to reduce poor allowances from to per The had passed both The second tax enlarging discretionary powers of courts to excuse waa passed by the senate 41 to 8, after some opposition had MEMBER OF PIONEER FAMILY SUCCUMBS Jan. 25.-A.P.)- George S 71, a member of a pioneer family and one of the founders ot the Ferguson makers of well drilling died last aight ot Dutch alias Arthur New York gang was sought on charges of Income tax Press STORY Forrest Admits Holding Denies Intimacies as testifying this mli he had not been Intimate with Irene Farnian bnt daring a admitted under by Ofelt that he had held Irene's hand while and Wellington had He Irene made He his shortly before 4 Kenneth was not pnt on the nnd the defense rested at The state to call witnesses In IOWA U. STUDENTS CUT UVING COSTS TO LOWEST POINT Iowa Jan. 25.-(A.P.)- Seventy years ago the University ot Iowa announced in its catalogue that price of board varies from to a During the current school year twenty men are receiving three meals a day on the same campus at an average weekly cost of The now in weekly board bills is the accomplishment of Kellogg a dormitory whose occupants claim to have an all-time record for group success in reducing the cost of higher Members ot Kellogg house have learned a dollar eau be made to go a long way in the joker in some cases was the boys did not have Their had an abundance of fowl and as a result the system of barter was Some of the arc paying their board bills in fresh butchered pork and One student has enough credit in provisions alone to pay his board for the em ire Every member of Kellogg house keeping rem down to the nominal price of H a Students tend the sweep and make and wash CAPONE'S BID FOR FREEDOM DENB Federal Underwood Dismisses Petition for Habeas Corpus Dick Wellington of New one ot two defendants on trial on a charge of criminal assault here who admitted intimacies with Miss Irene Farman the night of Oct. 31, completed his testimony at the trial shortly before noon His presented yesterday afternoon and this was similar to that given previously by Walter Totemeier in virtually all essential but he confessed to a faulty memory on cross-examination and proved a hostile witness in the hands ot Assistant Prosecutor Harold M. Girls Knew After testifying late yesterday that he and had been intimate with the prosecuting Wellington said that the girls had known the nature of the trip to the state that Irene had not protested nor had she spoken any word to either Totemeier or himself at the time intimacies were He also testified that neither Forrest Copelin or Kenneth had been intimate with As he resumed his testimony this morning on direct there an argument between counsel and between defense attorneys and the court as to the admissibility information desired in the record by the defense relative to an alleged visit to the jail of Attorney Dailey and of alleged conversations between Dailey and Wellington and Forrest Dailey offered to withdraw objections to that line of questioning if the defense would permit of testimony as to the conversation between him and Mr. Hale of defense No such agreement was Later when the court declined to rule on an offered statement by the an effort was made to get such refusal Into the but it Irene In Court As cross-examination by Ofelt Irene the 17-year-old girl who Is alleged to have been criminally assaulted by the four entered the court She sat facing the witnesses as they were called to the Cow Tests Halted by Murray Des Jan. 25.-(A.P.)-Et- I forts to test cattle for tuberculosis in Plymouth county came to a today upon order ot Secretary of i Agriculture Ray | In view of the fact that a hill is | now pending in the legislature to I make the tests Murray ordered a cessation of activities in j mouth county at once and in the i ot her counties of the state Feb. 1. j At that he announced the of state veterinarians engaged i in cow testing will Plymouth county farmers Monday gathered at a farm to prevent the tests and Murray said his new policy was to avoid any trouble until the legislature was given a chance to act. Legislative hearings on the introduced by Rep. Lamar P. Foster of will be held next Murray said part of the trouble arose out of a misunderstanding over payment of fees for reacting He explained that the cattle were appraised before the tests were a board of appraisal being called if the farmer and the could not agree upon a Upon the basis ot the appraised minus the salvage paid for the carcass after the animal is killed is the farmer The federal government pays one third of the the state or county another and the farmer accepts the other third as The outbreak in Plymouth county was the first since the close of the in southeastern Iowa more than two years Opposition first broke out in Cedar home of Rep. CHARGE Trial Would Idle Gesture and Needless Expense to Judge Succeeds Husband ot whose husband was killed as he attempted to arrest a farmer who barricaded himself after shooting a has succeeded him as sheriff of Lake Ind. Press CABINET PUTS OFF DECISION News From Geneva Creates Sensation in Tokio Gov. emment Jan. 26.-(Thursday)-a.^.) was authoritatively stated today that the decision of the Japanese cabinet concerning withdrawal from the League of Nations had been until the nature of the report being framed in Geneva concerning on the situation NEW UW AIDS 9M0REBA1S Plan Helps Increases Andrew Jan. 25.-(A. - Superior Court Judge J. C. dismissed today a charge of accessory to the crime of murder against John J. Judge sitting as a committing magistrate in a preliminary termed the state's case and said a court would amount to an idle gesture and an expense to the of this Me that his order was not new additional evidence is the county attorney may tile any magistrate In this county identical complaint against the The In the state's 25.-(A. Federal Judge today dismissed for a writ of whereby Al Chicago his release from the Atlanta under the of Capone was ot violating the Income tax of 1927 and was to serve 10 years iu the The ia his bid for alleged tlie clause under tho oi limitations expired before lie indicted ou the charges of was of auto injuries Jan. 25-(A.P.)_ Norman died early today of received When ha wag vuu over by a county truck trailer ho was lie was a quarry lie had been out a order from ttat I Judge arose from the first witness of the j the testimony of the chief state stated on questioning by Ofelt Winnie Ruth condemned that he had no dates with the three who charged that Halloran girls who had testified previously as j her in the disposal of the to Irene's moral He on Page bodies of Hedvig Samuelson and on Page Flashes Life By The Associated like find a Th following yaru is going tlie rounds of the Carnegie Tech An enterprising engineering who spends his idle hours tinkering with a short wave radio received a calculus problem was too ho finally appealed for help over the air trudged to his a truck roared down the highway and killed 014 Pioneer Crane snows mean nothing to the women of this when they go to Crane Lake's home They drive dog teams to Oue of Mrs. Neil drives three to five The rouud trip | from home is 36 ' Mrs. Walter Scott drives one dog aud takes her baby with her in the dictated by a student at the of away down in j sign iu the barber shop or your money The other night a burglar broke into the helped a small amount of and but not until he had taken lime to write the owner of tiie place a It gave uic a bad It's O. K You Kever years 65, a crossing walked to work ou ihc railroad right of About a munih the te Jan. 35.-(A.P.) Cedar Savings Bank and Trust company and the Trust and Savings bank ot Cedar today were operating under the supervision of the state banking under provisions of the new L. A. superintendent of Des Jan. 25.-(A.P.)-Iowa banks which have been closed under waiver holidays and which are now reopened under the supervision of the state banking department as authorized by the new hanking law announced today by L. A. Audi superintendent of Bennett State la. Farmers & Citizens Saving Downey Savings Farmers & Merchants Lone Lone Tree Savings Loae Savings Trust & Savings Savings West Wen Branch Stale West First Trust & Savongs Reorganization plans are being i carried forward for these drew In some Instances banks are lu charge of former and in others representatives of the banking department are directing he Public confidence has been bolstered up considerably under the new Andrew citing two instances where Increased deposits have resulted from the application of the new The law allows new deposits to bo accepted and after the state department has New in the Mt. Ayr State on Page u. s. in hotel plunge Raymond Davis Jumped to Kill Prague Police A is gone and six-year-old daughter of Robert president of the University of Chicago is for two First she liked a great Dane aud in the second place she got ten cents a for caring for Enough S. slogan Tom South Dakota's usad in bis based on in government will use tho axe ' To date the governor has received from voters nine axes of various shapes and not to 0l Jan. 25.-(A. bold Decision Confronting and Danger newspapers reported a special cabinet session today which heard Foreign Minister report on the League of virtual abandonment of efforts to conciliate the Sino-Japanese The foreign minister warned his colleague they must prepare shortly to make a decision of grave It was understood the meeting adjourned without a pending further developments at though it was generally believed the government holds Japan compelled to withdraw from the league it charges arc made against Japan of territorial aggression or violation of the league or nine-power Assail Jan. 25.-(A.P.)-Reporta that blunt questioning of the government's Manchurian policy in the diet Monday caused a sensation in League of Nations circles in Geneva called forth the demand in the diet retract what he skid on retract what he said on the the Seiyukai party's spokesman on foreign to retract his statements but expressed that owing to a to make himself he apparently had been Ashida said Monday gloomy rules relations and that unless were improved they surely would produce renewed armaments competition and possibly a world This he blamed on the and not the of the government's Manchurian asserting lie meant to uphold the policy toward the proceeded to declare today that as the Manchurian problem was to the cabinet ought to with utmost effort to And a But in his Foreign Uchida had to bend his energies to thia Urges to Declaring Count Uchida lacked the necessary Ashida asserted the foreign minister should guide the nation's foreign policy and assist in efforts to the He urged Foreign Minister Uchida to take action Among other Ashida criticized the cabinet's apparent withdrawal ot its reservation regarding application of article 15 of the league on which former Premier strongle AIRPORT DIES IN AFTER OPERATION Jan. 25.-(A-l?.)- Lawrence M. 36, general manager of the Davenport operators of Cram died this morning at a local hospital lowing an operation for appendicitis last He had been Hying since 1925. Pedigo opened the airport in in 1928 and a year later tt became a municipal field and the nawe was to Cram He was also general manager of the Mississippi Valley flying and of the local of National Jan. 25.- continued their today of the death of United States who died last night when he plunged frum a second floor stair to the lobby of the Hotel where be He and DavU had dined at the and were having coffee in the lobby when he went upstairs to attend to some On the way back he fell or the body lauding in the near where Davis sat. Physicians said the spinal column had been broken and that ha died i Police laid tt THE ly In colder in vith I 6
