Iowa Lawmakers Debate Gasoline Tax And School Funding
The Iowa legislature considers excise proposals including a 2 cent per gallon gasoline tax to support secondary roads, replacing county and township road levies. debates coal tonnage, tobacco, and bus taxes. the fuel tax faces conference if Senate rejects House changes. Iowa also moves toward a large Rockefeller funded medical college expansion in Iowa City and a consolidated agriculture department with a new agriculture commissioner.
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Fortieth General Assembly
Senate
House
Conference Committee
County Boards of Supervisors
Buser
State Board of Education
State Board of Control
State Highway Commission
State Fair. Board
Polk
Jett
Iowa
United States
Rarkefeller Foundation
General Education Board
Mead-Carter
Iowa City
Perkins Hospital
University Hospital
Education Board
Rockefeller Foundation
Children
Pottawattamie County
Dental College
Rockefeller
Kendall
McIntosh
Napier
Albert B. Cummins
Department of Agriculture
Departmental Affairs Committee
Six Herrin Miner Defendants Free After Not Guilty Verdict
A Williamson county jury acquitted six Herrin massacre defendants, including Hugh Willis, James Fontanetta, Oscar Howard, James Brown, Otis Clark, and Bert Grace, in the murder of Antonio Mulkavitch. The panel of seven farmers one student one nylon painter one merchant and two union miners deliberated six hours fifty five minutes after a trial opening February 12.
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Marion
Ill
Williamson County
Herrin
D. T. Hartwell
John Caughlin
Creal Springs
Hartwell
Hugh Willis
Willis
Illinois Miners’ State Executive Committee
James Fontanetta
Oscar Howard
James Brown
Otis Clark
Bert Grace
Grace
Clark
Howard Hoffman
Antonio Mulkavitch
Argonne
Caughiin
Mail Robbers Loot Believed To Rise After Hold Up
Postal inspectors say the nine registered mail pouches stolen by five bandits in St Louis Monday likely contain more than the early announced 2 million dollars. Most of the loss is non negotiable bonds, and investigators expect the total to increase as checks continue.
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St. Louis
$2 Bill May Be Dropped
Washington notes that a treasury committee has almost completed a general redesign of all paper money and will soon hand its recommendations to Secretary Mellon. If adopted, the $2 bill long shunned by gamblers and mutilated by superstition may be the first to be dropped.
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Washington
Treasury
Mellon
Farmer to Pay 7 Percent Interest on New Farm Loans
Washington reports Charles J. Lobdell, chairman of the federal farm loan board, announced twelve new intermediate banks set a rediscount rate of 4 1/4 percent, leading farmers to pay 7 percent interest on the recent farm credits net.
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Lobdell
Federal Board
Washington
Charles J. Lobdell
Federal Farm Loan Board
Indiana Road Program Announced
Indianapolis announces that John P Williams, state highway director, outlines the Indiana Lightway program to build 058 miles of hard surface roads costing about 27 811 000 in the next three years. The news notes a national rail campaign expecting 100 000 extra freight cars and 4 200 additional locomotives entering the fall trade period.
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New York
Indiana Road Program
Indianapolis
John P. Willams
Ndiana ‘Lightway
Earthquakes Felt Across Azores Over Two Days
Seventeen or more tremors were recorded in the Azores over the last two days with the strongest shocks centered around St. Michael's Inland near Ponta Delgada in the western part of the island.
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Ponta Delgada
Azores
St. Michael's
Government Moves to Seize Back Taxes Nationwide
Washington reports a federal drive against tax dodgers with thousands of distraint warrants to seize and sell delinquent taxpayers property. Kansas City led with five hundred warrants as other cities prepare similar actions to boost government revenues from 200 to 300 million dollars. The bureau seeks a record back-tax collection though the 1917 wartime year is exempt by statute of limitations.
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Washington
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Treasury Department
Kansas City
Internal Revenue Bureau
Foster Jury Is Discharged After Deadlocked Deliberation
In St Joseph Michigan a jury in the William Foster case against criminal syndicalism law remained 6 to 6 from the start. After 31 hours 15 minutes of deliberation 88 ballots produced no change. Judge Charles White discharged the panel. five men and one woman voted for acquittal and six for conviction.
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St. Joseph
Mich
William
Foster
Chicago
Charles White
Arlington Hotel Destroyed In Fire Tragedy At Hot Springs
Worded in a period tone, a Hot Springs blaze at the Arlington Hotel collapsed walls as firefighters labored, killing George Ford and injuring two others. Over 300 guests escaped unharmed. property loss estimated above one million dollars.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Arlington Hotel
Trostelry
George Ford
Peasants shot by Reds in Jitomir square uprising
Berlin dispatch reports three hundred forty Ukrainian peasants gunned down by Red troops in Jitomir public square during a protest against the execution of an ecclesiastic. The incident sparks intense anti Soviet sentiment across the region from the Baltic to the Bosphorus as tensions rise over Moscow's actions in Bessarabia and Lausanne Allied concerns.
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Bosphorus
Berlin
Jitomir
Monsignor Butehkaviteh
Moscow Council
Near East
Wiranw
Harding Warns Against Bloc Rule in Augusta Address
President Harding, speaking at a Augusta dinner, warned there is a menace to the nation in the development of classes and the organization of blocs. He said there is danger in envy and jealousy and urged vigilance against sectionalism and class-based groups.
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Augusta
United States
Harding
Bloes
Republic
Review of Farm Conditions in Washington Outlook for Farmers
The Agricultural department issued a review of the general agricultural situation noting that farmers who manage resources well face a fairly bright year. It says well situated partners who produce efficiently at low cost per unit have a chance, while those with low efficiency will struggle despite cheap credit, transportation, cooperative marketing, and price fixing among possible aids.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
Arabs Slay Scores of Jews in Yemen Conflict
Jerusalem reports that Muslims in Yemen, southwestern Arabia, have killed scores of Jews amid ongoing clashes. Dispatches say many Jews have nominally converted to Islam to avoid death, with Jewish children seized and offered death or conversion. Hundreds are said to be fleeing town to town in the effort to escape oppressors.
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Yemen
Mohammedanlam
Jerusalem
Arabia
Priest Shot From Behind in Soviet Execution Cellar
London dispatch reports Pather Batchk vitch executed Saturday in a cellar beneath a building used by the Cheka. The executioner fired from the back of the head, per the Moscow source. Postal revenues for March show gains. Fort Worth, Akron top gains among cities.
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Batchkavitch
London
Pather Batchkavitch
Cheka
Moscow
Yireat
Washington
Fort Worth
Pex
Akron
Wreck injures sixteen on Great Western passenger train
Marshalltown Iowa April 6 Sixteen people were injured when Chicago Great Western passenger train No 8 from Minneapolis to Kansas City wrecked three miles east of town. Several women among the injured but none seriously. Many delegates returning from a state convention of the Tables' Auxiliary of the mayd
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Marshalltown
Chicago Great Western
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Here
Mavendees
Adjutant General Shot in Dublin Escape Attempt
Adjutant General Thomas Derry, a member of the original Dall Mireann and said to be the adjutant general of the Irregulars, was shot while attempting a bold escape from custody in Dublin on April 7.
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Dublin
Thomas Derry
Dall Mireann
Bear Hug Alleged Injury Case Involving George Upton
Woman alleges assault by George Upton of Oxden caused two rib fractures and $5,000 in damages. case linked to Miss Opal Thompson. Proceedings describe alleged incident and pursuit by authorities.
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Boone
Opal Thompson
George Upton
Oxden
Des Moines to host permanent stop on New York to San Francisco route
Iowa news notes show Des Moines selected as a permanent stop on an all small route from New York to San Francisco. Reports cover University of Iowa scout executive training, May day events, cattle sales, farm co-ops, wage increases in Cedar Rapids trades, and farm bureau activities across the state.
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Des Moines
New York
San Francisco
America
University of Iowa
Lews Counties
Lowa State Teachers College
Sheldon
Central Iowa
Dallas
Boone
Greene
Perry
Verda J. James
Iowa University
Cedar Rapids
David l Edwards
Ardeat
Hague and
Irton
Fairfield
Minnesota
Benton County
Benton Farm Bureau
Senate
Railroad Commissioner
Newberry
Iowa
Year Book of Agriculture
Burlington
Mississippi River
United Naval Reserve
Jarvis-Johnson
Jasper County
Lynnville
C. G. Blodgett
Whoa Iives
Mount Viensant
Town Falls
Hardin County
Randall
Harrison County
Farm Bureau
Sioux City
Wosse
Codd
Towe
Iowa House
Storey
Warren
Busking Me
J. W H. Strief
Board of Control
Davenport
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