Iowa News Roundup Brisk With Accidents and Army Plans
A Iowa news digest reports a fatal crash near Pomeroy as a Fort Dodge doctor and a boy die, and a mother is gravely injured. Gen Chamberlain praises Black troops at Ft Des Moines, while colleges plan cantonment education for five states. Damages sought over dam construction threaten ice fields at Fort Madison Keokuk Dam.
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Illinois Central
Pomeroy
F. B. Olney
Fort Dodge
Robert Haley
Gertrude Haley
Ft. Des Moines
J. 8. Chamberlain
Army
Washington
Camp Imdge
Minnesota
North Dakota
South Dakota
Nebraska
Iowa
Fort Madison Ice Company
Mississippi River Power Company
Keokuk
Francis M. Bradley
Creston
Burlington Railroad
James Bradley
Burlington
Camp Dodge
War Department
Perry Interurban
Beaver Avenue
Des Moines
J. T. Kirby
Marshalltown
Kirby
Earl Caddock
Elks’ Club
Cedar Falls
Caddock
West
First Army
William Kniffin
Cherokee
Edith Langwin
Davenport
J. D. Waltemeyer & Gon
Melbourne
Chariton
Conway
Dows
Waterloo
Will Sheldon
Josephus Daniels
the Navy
Woman's Club
Red Cross
LeRoy Burns
Boy Scout Organization
Hyperion Club
Jefferson County
United States
Marshal Moore
Cedar Rapids
London
Lowden
John Berg
Belmand
Denison
Red Cross Fund
France
Allentown
University of Iowa
J. H. Crafton
O. S. Larson
Logan
L. C. Price
Albion
Fifth
Board of Supervisors
Black Hawk County
Muscatine
Gertzner
Eatherville
Goldfield
Iowa City
Kansan
The
Chieta of Police
Home Guard plans stalled by strict federal rules
Des Moines reports that Iowa cannot readily form a state home guard under a federal law due to tight equipment and service requirements. Governor Harding and Adjutant General Logan see no immediate militia expansion, though a small force remains available for emergencies as 360 guardsmen wait under enlistment terms.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Harding
Logan
United States
Hoover Named Food Administrator in World War I Drive
President Wilson signed food control and food survey bills into law and appointed Herbert Hoover as food administrator. Hoover vowed to stabilize prices and curb abuses, while urging cooperation of businesses to meet global shortages and feed allies amid wartime demands.
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Washington
Administration
Wilson
Herbert Hoover
White House
Clark
House
Saulsbury
Senate
Hoover
Ford
Congress
France
Italy
England
Ireland
Germany
Lowden Wins Cheaper Coal for Illinois
At the Blackstone Hotel Gov. Frank O. Lowden secured a sweeping agreement with coal mine operators and Chief Justice Orrin N. Carter as director of coal. The pact sets price controls, requires immediate retail price cuts, and assigns a three member committee to hear production and distribution questions. The move promises state wide savings on coal and limits prices to federal bounds.
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Chicago
Illinois
Orrin N. Carter
State Supreme Court
Iinois
Frank O. Lowden
Blackstone Hotel
Carter
State Council of Defense
Miners’ Union
Alrector
Lowden
Aske O F. C. Honnold
Samuel Insull
Levy Mayer
Council
Harvest of Gold in U S
Washington reports a rich harvest of gold for neutrals and the United States, noting neutral nations have increased gold holdings while the U S stock grows to about 2 billion dollars. Since entering the war the flow continues as the nation sustains large exports of supplies.
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Washington
United States
Gary Arms Plant Fire at Aetna Explosives Plant
Fire at the Aetna Explosives plant near Gary Indiana destroyed about half the facility. Incendiary origin suspected. Two employees Holt and Choisse were injured. The plant, under government contract, claimed capacity of 46 000 pounds of powder daily. Restoration estimated at sixty days. Investigators scrutinize Holt and Choisse backgrounds.
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Gary
Ind
Beloves
Aetna Explosives Company
Here
Holt and Choisse
Holt
One
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State Penitentiary
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Thirty-seventh
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Linn County
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Iowa State College
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