Numerous law proposals advance in Iowa Senate and House
State House Des Moines Jan 21 numerous measures include a bank deposit guarantee bill modeled after Nebraska a long and short haul bill a constitutional representation amendment and a liquor law enforcement bill. The long and short haul bill appears in both chambers to let the railroad commission set identical rates based on shortest mileage. An anti liquor provision expands proof of intent by sale of intoxicants. A women’s suffrage amendment and a guardianship property discovery bill also appear. The representation amendment to limit a county to one senator awaits second reading and may trigger redistricting. Representative Graham of Wapello introduces the women’s admission proposal in the house.
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Nebraska
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Pocahonta County
Iowa Senate Appointments Mix Causes Resignations
Des Moines Jan 21 Lieutenant Governor Clem F Kimball prepared to yield chairmanships on public utilities and labor after Senators Fulton and Shinn refused their posts. Senate unrest grew as Brookhart and Browne objected to committee assignments, while House Speaker Edson faced general approval of his selections.
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Judiciary Number 2
Woman Sues Western Union For 50000
Iowa City, Jan 21 Mrs Elizabeth Sturm has filed in district court against Western Union Telegraph seeking 50000 damages for injuries when a high tension electric line fell on her while she walked a city street. A lineman stepping on a wire caused the line to break and strike her, burning her left arm and necessitating amputation. She is described as permanently crippled.
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Associated Press
Iowa City
Elizabeth Sturm
Western Union Telegraph Company
Senate seeks Paris reparations terms and negotiations details
The Senate asked Secretary Hughes for the Paris reparations agreement and a report on related negotiations. The Foreign Relations Committee broadened the request with names of U S representatives Kellogg Herrick and Logan. Hughes will publish the text but will not discuss negotiations. Pending this report, no further action is planned.
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Washington
Hughes
Senate
Paris
United States
Germany
State Department
Kellogg
Herrick
John A. Logan
Johnson
Ellingson Hearing To Juvenile Court
Dorothy Ellingson, 16, who confessed to killing her mother, was sent to juvenile court for a hearing after her father testified she was born April 1 1908 in Minneapolis. He also swore to a warrant against cafe musician Emil Krueter for a statutory offense during a jazz party following the shooting.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Dorothy Ellingson
Joseph Ellingson
Dorothy
Minneapolis
Minn
Emil Krueter
Two Women Seek U S Citizenship in Local Court
Two petitions for naturalization will be heard next Monday in district court as Judge Homer A. Fuller opens the January term. Louise Sarris and Agatha Rechtsteiner, wives of naturalized citizens, seek citizenship after birth in the United States and Germany.
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United States
Homer A. Fuller
Mt. Ayr
Louise Marie Bertha Sarris
South el m Street
Agatha Rechtsteiner
Creston
Ernest Safris
Greece
Mrs Rechtsteiner
Martin Rechtsteiner
Germany
Peter Orth
South Elm Street
Garl Christian Hansen
Arspe
Mr. Orth
New York City
Mr. Hansen
Denmark
Leopold W .Eggert
North Division Street
Russia
Eggert
Drake Grid Star Will Attend Banquet Here
Sam Orebaugh Drake University football star and captain of Des Moines 1924 eleven has accepted an invitation to speak at the annual Chamber of Commerce football banquet for Creston high school's gridiron squad to be held at Iowana hotel Friday night. Other stars and coaches have been invited to speak and replies were expected by Thursday noon. Arrangements are being made for at least 30 guests including the high school football squad and coaches.
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Drake University
Des Moines
Chamber of Commerce
Creston High School
County Highways Improve Says Creston Official
A Creston official reports county and Union county roads are improving daily. He notes roads are fairly good except where sun blocked snow remains and melts slowly. Snow covered sections are muddy and spongy but require no chains. patrols and draggers have reduced conditions countywide.
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Union County
Creston
Michigan Drops Suit to Seize House of David Colony
In Benton Harbor judge dismisses the state’s suit for receiver ship against the House of David colony and terminates the injunction against colony officials acting in the absence of King Benjamin Purnell. The state said it will appeal the decision.
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St. Joseph, Mich
Creston News Briefs Include Marriage, Fire, Meetings
Blaine D. Garrett and Fanny B. Priest were issued marriage licenses. A burning flue at Julia Hawks home triggered a fire alarm with no damage. A later meeting planned in Chamber of Commerce rooms aims to form a bigger band for Creston. Kiwanis Education Week featured C. H. Thomas as speaker and Paul Huntington performing clarinet solos. Kent Schmitt dies at 3. Funeral Saturday at Calvary cemetery. Hotel Investment Co. reelects officers at annual meeting. financial statement well received.
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Julia Hawks
North Birch Street
Creston Kiwanis Club
Iowana Hotel
C. H. Thomas
State Board of Education
Paul Huntington
Hotel Investment Company
Lowana
J. W. Reynolds
E. N Dougherty
George E Atkinson
D. Davenport
Atkinson
Harry Trump
Myron Smith
DeMolay Grand Secretary to Attend Creston Chapter Meeting
Grand Secretary Flowers of Kansas City will attend Creston chapter’s regular meeting in the Masonic temple Thursday night. James Leach, chapter advisory board chairman, announced after receiving a telegram from Flowers.
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Order of DeMolay
Flowers
Kansas City
Creston
Masonic ‘Temple
James Leach
Woman Shot By Husband Will Live
Fort Dodge Iowa January 21 physicians said Mrs Edwin Rice who had been in a critical condition after her husband shot her Monday night then killed himself would live An operation to remove a bullet lodged in her side was performed today The tragedy occurred at their home after a quarrel Funeral services for Rice will be held later in the week No coroner inquest was held.
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Associates Press
Fort Dodge
Physicians Today
Edwin Rice
Rice
Jersey booze case goes to jury in Weehawken rum scandal
Ten Weehawken police officers and two civilians face conspiracy charges to violate the prohibition law. Testimony included two Treasury agents accusing U S Senator Edward J Edwards of backing the defendants. Defense argues a frame up as jury retires to decide the fate of the 12 indicted men.
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Jersey City
John Milton
Hudson County
Edward I. Edwards
Associated Press
N. J
Weehawken
Treasury Department
United States
Edward J. Edwards
New Jersey
Edwards
Lionel Wilson
New York
Prohibition
George Chutley
Samuel Wilson
Anti-Labor League of New Jersey
Wilson
Cutley
wen #iven
Shepherd Seeks McClintock Inquest Update in Albuquerque
William S. Shepherd criticizesJudge Olson's postponement of the William N. McClintock inquest. He says there is no new evidence and expresses a wish to proceed with the investigation despite the delay.
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Albuquerque
N. M
William S. Shepherd
William N. McClintock
Olson
Merger Talks May Start Quarrel In Iowa Meeting
Fort Dodge Iowa January 21 A potential clash over cooperative grain marketing looms as J W Coverdale secretary of the Grain Marketing company Chicago and Henry A Wallace of Wallaces Farmer prepare to address the Iowa Farmers Grain Dealers association convention officials said this morning.
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Fort Dodge
J. W. Coverdale
Grain Marketing Company of Chicago
Henry A Wallace
Wallace
Iowa Farmers’ Grain Dealers’ Association
Sun Eclipse Visible Across Iowa and Nation Saturday
Iowa City reports partial solar eclipse reaching maximum at 7 45 a m on Saturday January 24 with viewing tips using smoked glass or developed film. The wider U S will experience total eclipses in some areas and partial eclipse elsewhere along a belt from Minnesota to New England with timing varying by city.
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Donal Menzel
University of Iowa
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Prisoner Morressy Dies After Appendicitis At Reformatory
James Morressy known as Maggie Morressy inmate number 10075 at the Anamosa reformatory died of appendicitis after surgery. He was 35, from New Jersey, a model prisoner and actor in prison plays, buried today from St Patrick's church.
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Anamosa
Reformatory
James Morressy
Maggie” Morressy
Sioux City
New Jrsey
Morressy
St Patrick's Church
Great Colonel Duroc Jersey male leads Creston hog sale
Hog buyers from Iowa and neighboring states attended the Creston sale held by McKee Brothers. 59 purebred Duroc Jersey sows mated to Great Colonel, world champ since 1924, were offered with cholera immunity. Buyers predicted strong demand for stock hogs after the corn crop year ends, while the exhibit of Great Colonel drew extra interest.
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Utah
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Auto Accident Leads to Arrest on Liquor Charge
In Cedar Rapids Iowa on January 21 William Arnold 24 and Verne Syfred 30 both of Iowa City were arrested for transporting liquor into Des Moines with 95 gallons in containers. Their car collided with another near the city west limits spilling liquor, drawing a crowd, with both men escaping serious injury. the vehicle was badly damaged and found to carry two license plates one Iowa and one Illinois.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapide
William Arnold
Verne Syfred
Iowa City
Des Moines
Iowa
Illinois
Railroad rate hike proposed for cattle shipments ruled unreasonable
The Interstate Commerce Commission found railroad proposals to raise carload rates on cattle and calves from New Mexico Oklahoma and Texas to livestock markets at Omaha unreasonable. Current schedules remain in force with proposed increases set to start September 27 as claimed to equalize Kansas City and Omaha marketing rates.
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Washington
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Omaha
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
el Paso and Southwestern
New Mexico Central
Kansas City
Bushman and Bayne Separate After Short Separation
Los Angeles report states Francis X Bushman and Beverly Bayne have separated. The couple, with no divorce action planned, reportedly agreed it would be best for them to live apart.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Francis X Bushman
Beverly Bayne
Los Angeles Times
Miss Payne
Sheridan Oil sells Creston station to Standard Oil Indiana
The Sheridan Oil company has sold its filling station on Adams Street and New York Avenue to Standard Oil Indiana for 30000 dollars. The deal included the corner lot, building valued at 26100 dollars and personal property at 5900 dollars. Leo J. Sheridan presides over the firm which plans to continue operating other stations and enter wholesale.
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New York Avenue
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
County Recorder
Leo Jo Sheridan
Creston
Iowa
Sheridan Company
Standard Oil
Leo J
Edward Sheridan
Sheridan Corporator
Staton
Presbyterian Church
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Standard
Sheridan Oil Company
Leo J. Sheridan
William Hawks
Raph E Hublin
E. W. Sherdan
County Corder
Superintendent of Prisons Resigns
Heber Wotaw superintendent of prisons and brother in law of the late President Harding resigns from government service. He was appointed April 1921 and is in a sanitarium after an appendicitis operation. He asked to retire March 4 due to ill health and is advised to rest for at least six months.
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Washington
Heber Ha Vvotaw
President Harding
Votaw
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Stone
Stone Might Make A Statment. With the Withdrawal of Mr. Wotan
Prohibition
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Atlanta
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