Burbank Charges Officials Over Bonus Bond Sale
Iowa State Treasurer W. J. Burbank accuses Governor Kendall Secretary Ramsey and State Auditor Haynes of withholding moral support for an early sale of the 22 million dollar soldier bonus bond issue. He claims bond buyers act as a unit driving up bids and that delays harm taxpayers. He urges unnamed supporters to back his plan while criticizing officials for pressuring higher interest rates.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
W. J. Burbank
Iowa
Executive Council
Wall Street
Toway
Burbank
Girl Judge 23 Wins Death Penalty Record
Anna Gutzman, Moscow district court presiding judge aged twenty three, says she has imposed the death penalty on twenty five persons since February for robbery, including one woman, and has not lost a moment of sleep or conscience over the rulings. She adds that only the state supreme court in Russia can overturn her decisions.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Russ
Anna Gutzman
State Supreme Court 4
Russia
Funds Allotted To River Projects
The Aeoomated Press reports that about four million dollars of the fifty six million five hundred eighty nine thousand dollar appropriation for river and harbor improvements will be openly allocated by Secretary Weeks with the rest distributed to various projects later. Existing allotments include the Mississippi River segment from the Ohio to the Missouri, eight hundred thousand. snags removal below the Missouri mouth, twenty thousand. between the Missouri and Minneapolis, nine hundred thousand. Missouri River from Kansas City to the mouth, one million two hundred thousand. Kansas City to Sioux City, twenty five thousand. Sioux City to Ft. Benton, fifteen thousand.
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Washington, D. C
Congress
Budget Bureau
Weeks
Mississippi
Ohio
Missouri
Missouri River
Minneapolis
Kansas City
Sioux City
Ft. Benton
State bond sale attracts no bids at par
A two million dollar issue of bonds at four and a quarter percent interest was offered at auction at the state house. Despite the par price, buyers say the rate is too low, given the need to sell the issue at par. The twenty two million dollar bond offering remains unsold.
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State House
Two Killed in Boiler Explosion Near Joplin
Two men were killed instantly when a gelatine filler at the General Explosive Company plant eight miles northwest of Joplin exploded this morning. The cause of the blast is not yet known.
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Associated Press
Joplin
Duke of York Buys Pearls for His Bride
London April 25 Lustrous pearls favored by Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon are the bride’s wedding present from the Duke of York a pearl sautoir of several hundred pearls with diamonds set in intervals a larger diamond and a drop pearl mounted on platinum Mrs Dayton McNeil and son are in town on business today.
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London
Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon
Duke of York
Mrs
Dayton McNeil
G A R Veterans Shrinking as 71 106 Remain
Des Moines report shows Grand Army of the Republic veterans dwindling to 71 106 at start of 1925 from 85 618 in 1921. Posts drop from 4 218 to 3 659, signaling rapid decline. Milwaukee encampment planned with up to 20 000 attendees and auxiliary totals possibly 50 000.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Grand Army of the Republic
H. W. Willett
Shiloh
Lookout Mountain
Gettysburg
Chickamauga
G. A. Ft
Milwaukee
Sons and Daughters of Veterans
Have Hearing on Change in Tax Payment
Des Moines April 25 public hearing will be held in Governor Kendall's office Monday afternoon where county officials especially treasurers will oppose a bill extending the tax delinquency date from April 1 to May 3 and from Oct 1 to Nov 1. They will ask the governor to veto the law saying it will bring great confusion. The bill by Senator Schmedika passed both houses shortly before adjournment with farmer support. They say Iowa shifted from wheat to corn and October 1 is too early to pay taxes.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Kendall
Schmedika
Robbins Favors Higher Interest on Bonus Bond Issue
Waterloo April 25 B Robbins commander of the Iowa American Legion here at the twenty third district convention says the twenty two million dollar bonus bond issue can be sold only by readvertising and raising interest to four and three quarters per cent Robbins denies knowledge of a letter to the treasurer from an unnamed major urging an early payment of the bonus
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Associated Press
Waterloo
B. Robbins
Iowa American Legion
Robbins
Texas Community Damaged by Storm
A north central Texas town of about three thousand was wrecked by a sudden storm. Winds of fifty miles per hour shattered every window as hailstones the size of walnuts pounded the village. After the storm a foot of hail and two feet of water in cellars forced residents to seek safety in Wichita Falls twenty miles away. Estimated damage totals seventy five thousand dollars.
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iRyv
Prac
Henria
Texas
Hell
Wichita Falls
Escaped Joliet Convict Captured Near Naperville
Noble Dickenson, one of three Joliet prison escapees, was found in a Naperville barn by police chief Bambrick. He said companions Harry Simm and George Speicher abandoned him after he sprained an ankle jumping from the wall, driving away in a waiting car.
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Napierville
Ill
Noble Dickenson
Joliet
Bambrick
Harry Simm
George Speicher
Dickenson
Executions Reported in Ireland as Three Die Today
In Trales Ireland James Hathaway Richard Hathaway and John Greaney were executed today by the Free State authorities. Hathaway deserted from a British regiment and was captured during a siege in which irregulars held a cave on the Kerry cliffs.
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Associated Press
Trales
Richa d Hathaway
James Meenery
John Greaney
Free State
Hathaway
Kerry
Mexico and the U S May Get Together
A special committee on diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States has been appointed in Mexico City. Members include Ramon Ross, close ally of President Obregon and former undersecretary in Mederos government, now general commissioner for the national railway. Also on the panel is Fernando Gonzalez Roa, an attorney.
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Mexico City
Mexico
United States
Ramon Ross
Obregon
Fernando Gonzalez Roa
Senor Ross
Constituent Assembly
Able
Mederos
Stolen Whiskey Hauls Worth Eighty Thousand Reported
St. Louis April 25 Fifty two barrels of bonded whiskey were stolen from the government store room of an extract company. Officials estimate the value at eighty thousand dollars. The theft was carried out by six or seven men, one wearing a uniform like police.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Keokuk couple killed in North Carolina crash
Mrs J J Chapman of Keokuk Iowa was instantly killed yesterday afternoon at Bullock North Carolina along the national highway ten miles from Oxford when the car she was driving plunged over an embankment. Her husband J J Chapman a prominent western banker was badly injured. They had spent winters in Florida and summers in Keokuk and formerly lived in Minneapolis.
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Durham
N. C
J. J. Chapman
Keokuk
Iowa
Bullock
North Carolina
Oxford
Chapman
Florida
Minneapolis
Heavy Wheat Crops Forecast in England
London April 25 The Assortsred Press reports that Cambridge Professor Giffen asserts England will soon produce its own wheat, challenging the belief that it is exhausted. He notes British farmers can profit from wheat, while global surpluses shrink. He cites England's 32 bushels per acre versus world average about 12.
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Assortsred Press
London
England
Giffen
Cambridge University
Bedfordshire Chamber of Agriculture
America
Prof Biffen
Russia drives air craft development in Soviet program
New York April 25 The Soviet government advances commercial and military aircraft development. Russia is purchasing German French and Dutch planes by the hundreds as part of a broad aeronautics survey released today.
Mr and Mrs Seymour Martin Visit Washington
Mr and Mrs Seymour Martin of Keota were visitors in Washington yesterday.
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Seymour Martin of
Keota
Washington
Confessed to killing rabbi at Gates hotel Phoenix
Richardson, nineteen, confessed to the April 4 slaying of Rabbi Alfred G. Lafee at the Gates hotel in Phoenix. He told assistant district attorney Louis Hart that he beat the rabbi with a cuspidor after an early morning confrontation.
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Phoenix
Grell G. Richardson
Alfred G. Lafee
Francisco
Louis Hart
Ariz
Girl brides testify in state immorality probe
Reports from St Joseph Michigan detail three young brides in the King Benjamin scheme testifying as the state investigates immorality in a cult led by the house of David. Four couples have already appeared before Joe Dingman as free love within the colony is discussed.
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Ageocsted
St. Joseph, Mich
Benjamin
House of David
Joe Dingman
Colony
Improvements on Ohio River Reach Early Results
The Jones and Laughlin Steel Co awards contracts for steamboats barges and landings totaling about 1 million dollars as part of federal river improvements in Pittsburgh. Plans by district steel firms use the river to move steel products toward markets on the lower Ohio and Mississippi with transfers to railroads en route.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio River
Jones & Laughlin Steel Company
Pittsburgh District Steel Companies
Ohio
Mississippi
Pitts
Burgh
Louisiana
Oklahoma
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