Forty third Iowa assembly ends after record long deadlock
Des Moines reports the forty third Iowa general assembly closed after an extended stalemate. The senate and house reconciled on a tax levy bill and a legislative taxation system investigation committee was formed. Key figures include Myron G. Allen Francis Johnson and Lieutenant Governor Are Me Farlane with members named from both chambers. The session set new records for both quality and quantity of bills, surpassing the fortieth assembly with 204 senate-originated measures.
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Forty-Third General Assembly
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Senate
Myron G. Allen
Francis Johnson
Dill
Legislative Committee
Servernor
Tax Commission
F. Clark
Cedar Rapids
Joint Legis Committee
MeFarlane
Charles L. Rigby
Wood
Tierson
Burt
Fred ©. Lovrien
Humbolt John
F. Kline
Bloomfield
Marty Greene
Avoéa
Kline
C. A. Benson
Elkader
Iowa
Forty-Fourth General Assembly
Commission
Hiroki
Fortiethern
Thief Thanks Radio For Timely Warning Note
Chicago April story details a burglar alarm triggered by a resident near Prairie Avenue. The detective bureau used WGN to broadcast a message directing auto squads to the scene. A note left on the radio thanked the station and announcer for the timely tip.
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Walter Storm
WGN
Tam
Eastwood Heads to National Red Cross Meeting
Dr. F. W. Eastwood departs for Washington to attend the national convention of the American Red Cross as a delegate from Washington county. Judge John Barton Payne will preside, with speeches by distinguished leaders. A White House reception, Army Air Corps demonstration, naval hospital visit, and round table discussions are planned.
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Washington, D. C
American Red Cross Society
Eastwood
Washington County
John Barton Payne
National Society
Red Cross
White House
Hoover
United States Army Air Corps
Naval Hospital
State Session Records Major Tax and Law Reforms
The session produced wide ranging legislation including road law updates, a uniform sky law, aeronautic code addition, revocation of the speed limit, and public welfare measures. Taxation actions were debated with votes on income tax, cigarette and gasoline taxes, sales taxes, and luxury taxes.
Germans Insist On Demands In Paris Talks
Paris reports a final effort to salvage the conference under way as delegates from principal powers gather. The plenary session was postponed to Monday due to the sudden death of Lord Revelstoke of England, delaying negotiations on reparations.
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Delegat
Lord Revelstoke
England
Dr. Schacht
Germany
Schacht
Reich
Burlington Men Aid K C Initiation
Delegates convened in Wy to discuss Owen D Young’s death and the Reich conference. About 100 Knights of Columbus members gathered in Burlington with leaders from Iowa City Cedar Rapids and Vietor for a first degree ceremony.
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Owen D. Young
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Washington
Eellman
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Burling
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Mark Smit
Peter L. Me Men
Peter J. Anderson
Lawrence Dehner
C. E. Ries
Iowa City
Joe McCormick
Cedar Rapids
Clem Royle
Dr. Banter
Father J. Courtney
Vietor
Order
Richmond
Pleasent Plain
Burlington
Knights of Columns
Iowa's Largest Breakfast Food Plant Claim Questioned
The text claims a giant breakfast food plant exists in Iowa at Code Rapids with a reported output of 210,000 units. No verifiable details or sources are provided, and the wording is garbled.
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Iowa
Code Rapids
Towa
Prohibition Agent Identified as Louis J. Dayton
SPENCER, IA April 19 A former local man and undercover agent known as Plummer, Louis J. Dayton, who was slain here on March 20, was identified by his family as the deceased. His ex-wife Mary F. Dayton, a Washington resident, and daughter Elsie Clappol, son C.K. Dayton, and other sheriffs who knew him confirmed the death and the alleged bootlegger suspects who remain uncaught.
Debt settlement halt stalls reparations talks
Allies rejected the German offer of about 293.9 million dollars a year as too small for reparations. Lord Revelstoke Committee urged Schacht to raise his figure by six million, but he refused. Official France position to reparations to be announced Monday as Raymond Poincare prepares a Bar Le Duc keynote.
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Lord Revelstoke
Schacht
Germs
France
Raymond Poinea
Bar le Duc
Open Way to Disarm in the Air in Geneva
Geneva report says fresh disarmament talks between England France and the United States may begin in 1930. Lord Cushendun pushes a preparatory League commission to focus on military and aerial disarmament at the current session, signaling willingness to accept an aerial disarmament basis.
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France
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Geneva
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League of Nations
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Winners Named in High School Tests at Washington
Corrected papers reveal first and second place in multiple subjects. Washington high school will send ten students to district contest at the state university on Friday, April 26, with winners including Lucille Davison, Wayne Brown, Martha Jones, Alberta Farring, Verna Palmer, Mildred Rare, and more, as scores determined by the College of Education.
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College of Education
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Washingtons new sewage disposal plant tested in trial run
Report describes a limited afternoon test of the Washington sewage disposal plant before full commissioning. Details cover Imhoff tanks, granite chip beds, tile supports, and automatic operation. Engineer Howard R Green notes water clarity improves but may still be unsafe for drinking. site location near Elm Grove cemetery and nine acre tract described. local officials anticipate full operation next week.
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Imhoff
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Howard R. Green
Cedar Rapids
Joe Wright
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Mississippi Flood Threat Strikes Knowlton’s Landing
Helena Arkansas April 1 The muddy Mississippi river waters today threatened the last break in its bound the river bank had fed away and was eating into the main levee at Knowlton’s landing fifty miles south of Helena Five hundred men with bags lumber and stone labored to shore up the levee while water washed over the town for about 150 feet overnight
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Cabinet Officers Press Farm Relief Fight in Senate
Washington April 19. President Hoover's bid for a venture farm relief plan sparks a public clash as three cabinet members dispatch reports to the Senate Agriculture Committee. Farm bloc members plan to press the plan in the farm bill, setting a full public contest on the Senate floor with McNary warned at the White House by Walter Newton. Reports from Mellon Lament and Hyde challenge the plan’s economic feasibility.
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Senate Agriculture [Committee
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White House
Walter Newton
Newton
County Boys Conference Canceled Due to Rain
Secretary L. W. Soule of M. CA. announced that the county elder boys conference planned for tomorrow is canceled because heavy rains last night and this morning rendered many dirt roads impassable. A possible substitute banquet may be held in about two weeks, marking the second consecutive year the event was scrubbed for weather.
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L. W. Soule
M. CA
Soule
Allen Body Returned Home to Anamosa
Charles A. Allen died suddenly of apoplexy in his room at the Congress hotel. His body was taken to Anamosa for funeral services. A longtime bank employee and prominent citizen, he was a Mason and an Eastern Star member. He had business ties to a Sheffield brick and tile plant owned by his son Inslaw. Supt. J H Peet and Karl Brown, both from Washington, spoke highly of him.
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Congress Hotel
Amnamosa
Mr. Allen
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Eastern Star
Sheffield
Iowa
Inslaw
Anamosa
Tuesda
Supt
J. H. Peet
Washington Schools
Washington
Karl Brown
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