Iowa Legislature Games With Gasoline Tax And Shifting Budgets
The article surveys excise tax debates in the forty-ninth general assembly, noting likely failures beyond the gasoline tax, and detailing shifts from property taxes to a 2 cent per gallon gasoline levy aimed at highway funding. It covers amendments, conference plans, and related measures including education foundation gifts, the Mead Carter medical college funding, and various departmental consolidations, with focus on the primary law and public salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fortifieth General Assembly
Senate
House
Conference Committee
County Boards of Supervisors
Lovsien
Board of Supervisors
Buser
State Board of Education
State Board of. Control
State “Highway Commission
State. “Fair Board
Polk County
Prdathot
Alstrict
United States
Rockefeller Foundation
General Education Board
Town City
Perkins Hospital
New University Hospital
University Hospital
Iowa City
Education Board
Pottawattamie County
Dental College
Rockefeller
Kendall
McIntosh
Napier
Iowa
Albert B. Cummins
Department of Agriculture
Departmental Affairs Committee
Thirty-Ninth
General Assembly
Six Herrin Miner Defendants Free in Massacre Verdicts
A Williamson county jury found six Herrin massacre defendants not guilty after six hours five minutes of deliberation. Defendants include Hugh Willig and James Fontanetta among six acquittals, with verdicts delivered to Circuit Judge D T Hartwell after the trial opened Feb 12.
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Marion
Williamson County
Herrin
D. T. Hartwell
John Caughlin
Creal Springs
Hartwell
Hugh Willig
Wills
Illinois Miners’ State Executive Committee
James Fontanetta
Oscar Howard
James Brown
Otis Clark
Bert Grace
Grace
Clark
Howard Hoffman
Antonio Malkavitch
Argonne
Caughtin
MAIL ROBBERS LOOT RUNS BIG IN ST LOUIS HOLDUP
Postal inspectors say nine pouches of registered mail were taken by five bandits in a daring Monday heist in St Louis. The total loot, initially announced at 2 304 100 dollars, is expected to rise as checks continue. Loss consists mainly of non negotiable bonds.
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St. Louis
$2 Bill May Be Dropped In Major Money Revision
Washington officials report a treasury committee nearing completion of a general design overhaul for all paper money. If approved and adopted, the $2 bill would be the first denomination removed, despite its prior disdain by gamblers and superstition.
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Washington
Treasury
Moevion
Farmer to Pay 7 Per Cent Interest Rate
Washington reports that twelve new intermediate banks under the farm credits act will set a 4 1/2 percent rediscount rate, resulting in farmers paying 7 percent interest. Chairman Charler J. Lobdell announced the plan, outlining the federal farm loan board’s move to establish the new lending framework.
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Washington
Charler J. Lobdell
Federal Farm Loan Board
Roads To Add 100000 Cars
New York April 6 reports railroads will enter fall with an estimated 100000 additional freight cars and about 4200 more serviceable locomotives than currently available as part of a nationwide traffic campaign.
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New York
Indiana Road Program Announced by Highway Director
Indiana highway director John P. Wil Maing announced that the Indiana highway commission built 058 miles of hard surface roads at an approximate cost of 27 11,000. In the next three years plans outline further expansion and improvements across the state.
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Indiana Road Program
Indianapolis
John P. Wil Maing
Indiana Highway Commission
Government Drives to Seize Assets From Tax Dodgers
Washington announces a broad drive by the Federal government to collect back taxes, issuing thousands of distraint warrants nationwide. Kansas City leads with 500 warrants as offices push to swell revenues from 200 million to 800 million, despite limitations on actions for 1917 war profits.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue of
Treasury Department
Kansug City
Foster Jury Is Discharged After Deadlock in Syndicalism Case
St. Joseph Michigan April 6 jurors deadlocked after over thirty hours of deliberation in the William Z. Foster Chicago case charging violation of the Michigan criminal syndicalism act. Judge Charles White discharged the jury after 88 ballots with no change. five men and one woman favored acquittal while six men favored conviction.
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St. Joseph
Mich
William Z. Foster
Chicago
Charles White
Foster
Famous Hotel Destroyed at Arlington in Trot Springs
In Trot Springs Arkansas on April 6 a deadly hotel fire at the Arlington hotel left one fireman dead and two others seriously injured when the building collapsed on them as they battled the blaze. More than three hundred guests escaped unharmed. Loss estimated well over a million dollars.
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Trot Springs
Ark
Arlington Hotel
Whch
George Bord
Nowinlon
Priest Shot From Behind in Soviet Execution
London reports a Moscow dispatch stating Father Buatchka was executed last Saturday in a cellar beneath a Cheka connected building. The executioner fired from behind the priest, striking him in the back of the head with a revolver.
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London
Buatchka
Cheka
Moscow
Postal Calidents report March gains across cities
March postal receipts rose 14.77 percent from 1922 in fifty selected clues. Fort Worth Texas led with 48.62 percent growth and Akron Ohio followed with 80.48 percent, reflecting varied regional performance in the postal business during April in Booma Washington.
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Washington
Akron
Adjutant General Shot in Dublin Uprising Context
In Dublin on April 7 Thomas Derrig, a member once linked to Dadl Keany, is reported as adjutant general of the Irregulars and was shot while attempting to escape a custody. The incident is tied to ongoing upheaval and security actions in the city.
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Dublin
Thomas’ Derrig
Dadl Keany
Irregulars
Nigebcape
Astody
Peasants Shot by Reds in Ukrainian Square
Berlin reports urge concern over Soviet actions as 340 peasants die in Jitomir when Red troops fire on a public demonstration against ecclesiastical executions. Antisoviet sentiment spreads from the Bible to the Bosphorus amid Lausanne talks and Moscow demands on Bessarabia.
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Bosphorus
Berlin
Jitomir
Monsignor Butehkaviteh
Moscow
Conneil
Near East
Warsaw
Romania
Bessarabia
Angora
Lausanne
Parkey
Poland
Harding warns against bloc rule in United States
President Harding, speaking at a Augusta Georgia dinner, rejected any vestige of Civil War sectionalism. He warned against class development and bloc organization in a nation with a member of envy and jealousy, urging vigilance to prevent division.
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Harding
United States
Augusta
Republic
Review of Farm Conditions in Washington
The Agricultural department issued a review stating that farmers who manage resources well have a fairly bright outlook this year. It notes that those efficient and well situated with low cost per unit have a chance, while the least efficient may not find salvation even with cheap credit or cooperative measures.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Arabs Slay Scores of Jews in Yemen Warfare
Jerusalem reports indicate Moslem forces in Yemen southwestern Arabia have killed scores of Jews. Many Jews convert to Islam to avoid death and Jewish children are seized, with hundreds driven from town to town in the continuing oppression.
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Yemen
Jerusalem
Arabia
Wreck injures sixteen on Great Western passenger train
Marshalltown Iowa April 6 Chicago Great Western passenger train No. 8 from Minneapolis to Kansas City derailed three miles east of town injuring sixteen passengers among them several women. The train carried delegates from a state convention of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Maccabees.
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Marshalltown
Minneapolis
Onsas City
Here
Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Muccabees
Dynamite Blast Shakes Nashville Area Apr 7
An explosion in Nashville injures several people and damages dozens of homes. Authorities estimate 148 to 800 sticks of dynamite were involved. A separate case in Boone, Ta reports a bear hug causing rib fractures and a $5,000 damage claim involving Opal Thompson and George Upton.
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Nashville
Enn
Weat
Boone
April
Opal Thompson
George Upton
Ogden
Iowa News Roundup From Des Moines to Perry
Readable items note Des Moines to host a permanent air route stupa series, Iowa counties planning May Day events via the Extension division, and a two-headed spring pig near Sheldon. Reports cover Iowa state farming, cattle sales, seed potatoes, wage raises in Cedar Rapids, and a new transregional naval unit quartered at Burlington. agricultural stats, reforestation plans, and education funding advances.
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Des Moines
New York
San Francisco
America
University of Lews
Iowa
Iowa State Teachers College
Sheldon
Central
Dallas
Boone
Greene
Guthrie
Perry
Verdal
James
Ben
Women's Association
Iowa University
Cedar Rapids
Davie Edwards
Hague
Burlington
Mississippi
Iowa Menberg
United Naval Reserve
Jarvis-Johnson
Jasper County
Lynnville
Co. G. Blodgett
Mount Pleasant
Ilena Falls
Hardin County
Farmers Creamery
Randall
Harrison County
Farm Bureau
Sioux City
L. G. Codd
Westfield
Stock Yards
Senate
Towa
Iowa House
Storey
Warren
JH. Sirlef
Board For Control
Davenporthat
Iowa Stata College
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Federal Board
Ponta Delgada
Azores
St. Michael's
Aland
Col
Francis Drake
Paris
Colonel Drake
Memorial Just Fund
American Legion
Dodgers
U. S. Treasury
St. Joseph, Mich
Arlington
Hot Springs
Priest
Butch
Kavitch
Butchkavitch
the Agricultural Department
Chicago Great Western
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