Hughes Denies U S Involvement in Paris Reparations
Secretary Hughes issues a formal statement declaring the Paris reparations agreement allocates Dawes payments and imposes no legal or moral obligation on the United States. President Coolidge supports the White House position amid senatorial calls for a copy of the accord and further debate.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hughes
United States
Paria
Johnson Republican
California
Paris
Jan
Mr Hughes
White House
Coolidge
Johnson
Senate
State Department
Kellogg
Schooner Raita Wrecked Off Vancouver Island
The French schooner Raita was driven onto the south shore of Vancouver Island with its lumber cargo adrift. Ten crew members reached Carmanah Lighthouse exhausted after steering an open boat through a storm from the wreck to safety yesterday. The vessel had been loaded at Winslow Wash and bound for Papeete, Tahiti.
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Victoria
B. C
Vancouver Island
Carmanah
Winslow Wash
Papeete
Tahiti
Jewelry Salesman Held On Defraud Charge
Cedar Rapids Jan 19 Frank B Sweet a local jewelry salesman is jailed on a charge of defrauding Mrs Mary Horrice of 1000 dollars with a promise of marriage He was arrested as he returned from Chicago Police quoted Sweet this morning saying he would marry Mrs Horrice if she would drop the case Mrs Horrice demands marriage or jail for him
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Cedar Rapids
Frank B. Sweet
Mary Horrice
Chicago
Farmers Fined For Using Fish Seine
Ernest Scropp Wesley and Tony Barsh of Iowa county were arrested by deputy game warden Samuel O Brine and fined $10 each on 34 counts totaling $340. The fine is the largest in the region. Wardens learned of the practice when they stopped at Scropp’s home while lost and found a fish seine in his car.
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Pry
Associated Press
Homestead
Iowa
Ernest Scropp
Wesley
Tony Barsh
Samuel O’ Brine
Justice Moerschel
O'Brine
Scropp
Five Arrested After Des Moines Road Crash
Five people were jailed in Des Moines on manslaughter charges tied to a mad morning drive that killed Chanel Christiansen of Story City and seriously injured Anders Jorgensen of Des Moines. The group, including Ralph Switzer and four Story City companions, were believed intoxicated.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Des Moies
Chanel Christiansen
Story Pty
Ralph Switzer
Story City
Anders Jorgensen
Audubon County
Arthur Restvedt
Blanche Jackson
Fred Maywell
Mabel Weaver
Switzer
Senate blocks gun elevation for battleships vote
The Senate rejected by 45 to 22 a move to elevate guns on 13 American battleships to match British range, citing foreign protests. Senator McKellar pressed for a record vote on a 6.5 million dollar appropriation for the elevation. The judiciary committee also favored Stone for associate justice of the U S Supreme Court.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Hale
Navy Committee
Senator McKellar
Tennessee
Stone
United States Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senator Walsh Sets Oil Inquiry Vote for Tomorrow
Washington January 19 Senator Walsh a Democrat from Montana announced he would call up in the senate tomorrow the majority report on the oil investigation.
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Washington
Walsh
Montana
Senate
Indicted Ten Years Ago Finally Arrested in Polk Case
Des Moines reports G. W. McAtee arrested on a long‑standing Polk county grand jury indictment from ten years earlier. He faces charges of bigamy and desertion after surrendering to Seattle authorities. He had moved from Des Moines to Seattle after leaving his first wife and child.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Seattle
Flooded Rivers of the South Take Several Lives
Macon Georgia reports record Ocmulgee water at 271 feet as three people die and two possibly lost. Train crews killed near Selma Alabama and a rail wreck near Cartersville Georgia. Floods disrupt transport. Alabama power plants out. Albany Flint River reaches 32.8 feet. widespread damage across Georgia Alabama and Florida.
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Associated Press
Macon
Ocmulgee
Selma
Ala
Cartersville
Hope
Albany
Asa
Will Tift
Flint River
Georgia
Alabama
Othe
Montgomery
Coosa
Talapoosa
Wetumpka
Georgia ‘Alabama Power Company
Columbia
Police Frustrate Plans To Blow Up British Ships
Two men, W T O Leary and J D McGough, were brought before Bow Street court on an alleged plot to blow up British battleships and submarines. They were remanded for a week with bail refused. Officials cited offense under the official secrets act and Scotland Yard seized documents. The arrestees, including Irish suspects and an Irish woman, were linked to the Irish republican movement.
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Associated Press
London
W T. O'Leary
J. D. McGough
Bow Street
Scotland Yard
London Daily Mail
Portsmouth
Mail
Irish Republican Movement
Escaped Convict Gerald Chapman Arrested in Indiana
Indianapolis. Jan. 19. Gerald Chapman, linked to robberies and murder, was arrested at Muncie Ind and will be held for the Atlanta Georgia prison warden. District Attorney Alexander G Cavins said Chapman escaped from the Atlanta institution in March 1923 after a 25 year sentence for the $2,400,000 mail truck robbery in New York in 1921.
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Ind
Gerald Chapman
Muncie
Atlarrtta Ga
Alexander G. Cavins
United States
Chapman
Atlanta
New York
Creston Couples Wed In Union County Marriage Licenses
Marriage licenses issued Saturday by the Union county district court clerk name Ernest J. Pettinger 25 and Wanda V. Abell 19 both of Creston who married Carl Baker and Nina Brigg in Creston. Creston high school begins second semester with exams concluded Friday and report cards to be distributed Wednesday noon. Father Flanagan’s Omaha band arrived for a 4 pm high school program and an 8 pm concert at the high school with free admission.
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Union County District Court
Ernest J. Pettinger
Wanda V. Abell
Mad
Carl Baker
Nina Brigg
Creston
Creston High School
Father Flanagan
Omaha
Strand Theater
Lowana Hote Ag
Complete Senate and House Committees
Des Moines reports that Lieutenant Governor Kimball and Speaker Edson completed their lists of senate and house committees. No public announcement before the assembly reconvenes after the weekend recess. The highways panel in the senate is expected to go to a good roads advocate. judiciary and appropriations see no changes. Members planned to arrive Wednesday for the legislative session start and the first flood of new bills.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Kimball
Senate
House
Generil Assembly
Assembly
Edson
Shaff Likely Chairman of Senate Highways Committee
Lieutenant Governor Kimball informs Clinton officials that Senator J. O. Shaff of Clinton county, a good roads advocate, will be glad to acquiesce to a chairmanship of the estate senate highways committee following pressure from the Clinton chamber of commerce and the Clinton Kiwanis club.
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Clinton
J. O. Shaff
Clinton County
Good Roads Advocate
Senate Highways Committee
Kimball
Clinton Chamber of Commerce
Clinton Kiwanis Club
Shaff
Merckins Elected Secretary Of Iowa Executive Council
Des Moines Iowa January nineteenth C W Merckins of Fairfield was elected secretary of the state executive council at the first meeting presided by Governor Hammill. Merckins had served as assistant secretary until Ray Johnsons resignation at year start and has since acted as secretary.
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Des Moines
C. W Merckins
Fairfield
State Executive Council
Hammill
Merckins
Ray Johnson
Jury Deadlocks in Flower Destruction Case
In Harlan Iowa on January 19 a jury hearing Oliver Sorenson for breaking into Roy Gregory's plant amid Easter blooms reported being hopelessly divided after 28 hours of deliberation. Sorenson, Gregory's competitor, faced circumstantial evidence and the case hinged on flower losses totaling about 19000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Harlan, Ia
Roy Gregory
Harlan
Oliver Sorenson
Gregory
W. G. Ratcliff
Sorenson
City Subscribers Report Delivery Failures
City subscribers are urged to report every failure to deliver papers and any incivility to the Advertiser office promptly by telephone 42.
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Advertiser
First National Bank of Creston Reorganization Dependent on Depositors
J W Richardson vice president says opening date hinges on depositors interest and stock subscriptions for a new home owned bank. The drive aims to raise 200000 but 100000 secured. plan seeks to protect 100 cents on dollar and resume fund drive with broader depositor participation.
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Reorganized First National Bank of Creston
J. W. Richardson
First National
First National Bank
H. S. Clarke
Omaha
Gerald Bradlock
National Bank Examiner
Board Increases Pay Of Railroad Clerks
The United States railroad labor board granted an annual wage increase of about 3.74 million dollars to clerical workers on 43 railways nationwide The hike ranged from one to two cents per hour and stems from a breakdown in bargaining with the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks and related unions Principal railways affected include New York Central Pennsylvania Illinois Central Chicago and Northwestern Chicago Great Western Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Kansas City Southern Minneapolis St Paul and Saulte Ste Marie Missouri Pacific and Union Pacific systems.
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Associated Press
Chicago
United States Railroad Labor Board
Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Northwestern
Chicago Great Western
Milwaukee
St. Paul
Kansas City Southern
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Towner Denies Rumors of Resignation
Washington January 19 Governor Towner of Porto Rico denied rumors of his resignation after a conference with President Coolidge.
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Washington
Towner
Porto Rico
Coolidge
Prominent and Aged Iowa Physician Dead
Dr. H. H. Clark aged 82, Iowa s oldest practicing physician, died Sunday at his McGregor home after six weeks of heart disease. Born October 12, 1842 in Pennsylvania he served in the Civil War with the ninety second Illinois Mounted Infantry. A Northwestern Medical College graduate he ran a private hospital in McGregor and helped form Iowa s first board of health serving 13 years and as president of the first state board of medical examiners. Funeral set for Tuesday afternoon.
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Associated Press
McGregor
H. H. Clark
Iowa
Pennsylvania
Illinois
Ninety-Second Illinois Mounted Infantry
Northwestern Medical College
Chicago
Iowa Board of Health
Clark
State Board of Medical Examiners
Trouble Brews in Chinese City
Manila reports six United States destroyers from division 45 sail to Shanghai to bolster forces in the contested city. Shanghai notes cut telegraph wires and halted messages as 12 thousand troops under Chang Yuen-Ming move toward Tsing Tao, amid fears of renewed clashes with Chi-Hsieh-Yuan and the pacification commissioner Lu Yung-Hsiang, with Russians nearby adding to tensions.
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Associated Press
Manila
United States
Shanghai
Chang Yuen-Ming
Chang
Chi-Hsieh-Yuan
Tsing Tao
Peking
Lu Yung-Hsiang
Lu Yung-Heung
Creston Teams Defeat Orient In Local Basketball Showdown
Creston high school boys win 23 to 13 and girls win 25 to 12 over Orient Friday night, extending both teams’ records to four and three victories respectively. George Reddick leads the boys with 13 points, while Ruth Wilson stars for the Creston girls with strong floor work and baskets. Cumberland’s teams visit next Wednesday.
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Creaton High School
Orent
Orient
Creston
Orient Basketeers
Reddick
George Reddick
Creston Boys
Joe Strance
Lawrence Cook
Gerald Cox
Donald Goodwill
Robert Plowman
Ruth Wilson
Cumberland
Klan Assault Case Is Continued
Judge J. S Dowell granted a continuance in the Klan assault case set to open in district court at Logan Iowa. Report says county attorney and defense counsel are negotiating a possible compromise offering a light fine if the four accused plead guilty. The indictments name three Missouri Valley men and one Denison man for assaulting two Klan organizers last summer.
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Logan
J. S Dowell
Missouri Valley
Denison
Pierson to Face Trial in January Court Term
W E F Pierson cashier of the Insolvent State Savings bank of Afton will be tried in the January term of district court on charges of embezzlement and fraudulent banking. Four indictments were returned, including embezzlement as town treasurer and three counts of fraudulent banking. Pierson, in jail late last year, bonded, with his father C A Pierson also indicted. Grand jury to convene January 27 before Judge Homer A Fuller. multiple cases and appeals to district court outlined.
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Afton Bank
W. EF. Pierson
State Savings Bank of Afton
St. Louis
Pierson
Afton
Elder Pierson
C. A. Pierson
Bond
Henry Schoon
Homer A. Fuller
Mt. Ayr
Alfred Madison
Harry Rowland
Heim
EL. Carroll
Madison-Rowland
Submarine Aids Rum Runners Off New Jersey Coast
Reports claim a Gere man crewed submarine has been delivering 1000 to 3000 cases nightly for two weeks, using a tramp steamer off Asbury Park to unload about 75000 cases to small craft near Atlantic City. Coast Guard commander Ridgely denies the claim and warns of depth charge use if repeated.
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Associatedress
New York
Gereman
Asbury Park
N. J
Atlantic City
Randolph Ridgely
Comemaader
Coast Guard
Anthracite Miners Strike Averted Efforts Press On
Scranton Pa Jan 19 business men labor leaders and agencies continued efforts to avert a general strike of 60000 anthracite miners. An appeal for intervention to Governor Pinchot was among actions taken to prevent the walkout.
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Associated Press
Scraton
Pinchot
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