French drive to suppress Bolshevists and foreign agitators
Paris reports a wide crackdown as police raid the Soviet agency in Robigny and seize documents. Premier Herriot vows to curb communist violence, expel foreign agitators, and tighten immigration while suspending a communist mayor and tightening visitor controls. In Romania, authorities plan to expel or confined 100000 undesirables under new powers.
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Paris
Communists Party
Soviet Agencs
Hewlquarterm
Robigny
Goverment Secret Service
Herriot
France
Chamber of Deputies
Sesson
Chamberlain
Douarenese
Bucharest
Yale Bootlegger Arrested On Campus With Whiskey Seizure
New Haven police charged Howard Hovey known as the university bootlegger with possession of liquor for sale and trespass on Yale property after his arrest on campus. He carried six quarts of whiskey in a suitcase.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
Howard Hovey
University
Former Des Moines Bank Official Arrested in Memphis
Des Moines police report Isadore Lucchesi former vice president of the United State Bank now state seized, arrested in Memphis charged with misappropriation of funds. He admitted misappropriation but said total will not exceed seven to eight thousand dollars. He claimed gambling losses drove the crime and offered no resistance to extradition.
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Des Moines
Polk County
Memphis
Tenn
Isadore Lucchesi
United State Bank
State Banking Department
Tennessee City
Lucchesi
Memphis Y. M. Cga
United States Bank
Wisconsin to Play at Iowa and Minnesota in 1929 Schedule
Illinois meets Nebraska October 3 as Notre Dame coach Rockne confirms a 1929 schedule with Notre Dame at South Bend November 21. Wisconsin faces Iowa November 7 and Minnesota October 31 with Chicago as the away game closing the season.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Illinois
Notre Dame
Kaute Rockne
Robert Zuppke
Minois
Ilinois
Nebraska
Rockne
Northwestern Notre Dame
South Bend
Indiana
Northwestern
Madison
Iowa murderer to get a life sentence in Fort Madison
Carl Hough was convicted of murder in Bedford Iowa for the death of his sweetheart Lillian McKenney an 18 year old Herick South Dakota girl. The jury urged a life term and sentencing by Judge Fuller was pending. McKenney's body was found under a highway bridge last August after a elopement from South Dakota.
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Bedford
Carl Hough
Lillian McKenney
Herrick
Fort Madison
Fuller
Miss McKenney
Hough
South Dakota
Sioux City
Iowa Agricultural Meet Opens With State and Fair Talks
Des Moines officials announced the annual state agriculture convention opens December 10 and the Iowa Fair Association meeting runs December 5 and 9. A. R. Corey outlines topics on farming prosperity, livestock premiums, fair grounds ownership, and tax exemptions. Notables include C. E. Cameron and speakers from Iowa and beyond.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Fair Association
A. R. Corey
State Board of Agriculture
Don V. Moore
Sioux City
Stanberry
Fort Dodge
Dr. Bryan
Vinton
Estel
Waterloo
Fred Terry
Indianapolis
Ind
National Association of County Fairs
State Agricultural Convention
Cameron
Thieves Steal Millions in Federal Warehouse Liquor Heist
A band of hijackers raided a Chicago federal warehouse, taking more than twenty truckloads of liquor valued around 3 million dollars. Fifteen steel doors were cut, padlocks mashed, and several hundred cases of bourbon and rare vintages were seized, with soldiers and other workers investigated.
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Associated Press
Chicago
United States
Robert Ro Lewy
Quatermester’s Department of the Army
Commission aims to win miners back to work in Pa
A coal industry commission meeting in Scranton plans to persuade 12,000 Pennsylvan ia Coal miners to return after an unauthorized walkout. The panel led by John L. Lewis will attend a Pennsylvania workers grievance committee meeting and has decided not to pursue a strike order at this time.
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Associated Prose
Scranton
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvans Coal Company
Pennsylvania Workove
High Commission
New Secretary of Agriculture Is Ill
Chicago Dec 6 Howard M Core secretary of agriculture and governor elect of West Virginia is in a hospital here with an attack of tronchitis from a heavy cold His condition is not serious.
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Tle Amepaietead
Chicago
Howard M. Core
West Virginia
Future of Our State: Agriculture Leaders to Address Convention
Charles D. Reed of the Iowa Weather and Crop Bureau, Mark G. Thornburg, state secretary of agriculture, W. J. Breakenrides, Rodman, and Harvey Ingham, editor of The Des Moines Register, will speak at the afternoon session on The Future of Our State. Officers for the coming year will be elected at both conventions.
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Charles D. Reed
Oowa Weather and Crop Bureau
Mark G. Thornburg
Department of Agriculture
W. J. Breakenrides
Rodman
Agriculture Organizations
Harvey Ingham
Des Moines Heckter
Stock Show Ends With Greatest Exhibit in History
Chicago December 6 An International Livestock Exposition finale hailed as the greatest show, with prize stock valued over 2 million dollars. Illinois loses its 16th carload title in 25 years while Iowa emerges as top swine producer. Angus winners dominate beef prizes with Hall and Ames noted for major holdings.
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Teaaed
Chicago
Illinois
Ilinois Shippers
Iowa
Escher
Etan
Otto
Homer F. Waters
Lvaneon
Waters’ Berkshires
Ames
Asatock
Iowa State College
Iowa to seek 8.10 million appropriation for state institutions
Des Moines reports E. L. Hogue, director of the budget, will ask the legislature for a 8,095,172 appropriation to support fifteen institutions under the board of control for the 1925 27 biennium. The sum, down nearly 900,000 from the 1923 25 level, reflects a shift from per capita to itemized expenditure figures after control board conferences.
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Des Moines
E. L. Hogue
Board of Control
Murderer Haarmann Seeks Death Before Christmas Trial Opens
Fritz Haarmann the Hanover butcher on trial for the deaths of 27 young men since 1918 begged to be dead before Christmas and boasted of the killings yet claimed insanity. He confessed to fourteen murders and to dismembering bodies while denying selling flesh. His alleged accomplice Hants Gran denies all charges.
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Hanover
Germany
Fritz Haarmann
Haarmann
Slaarmann
Hants Gran
President Coolidge Refused Extra Fares for Train Travel
A White House attache recounts President Coolidge chose an ordinary Pullman car over a special train. Railroad officials proposed 90 dollars daily for a private car plus twenty five extra fares, but only ten could be accommodated. Coolidge refused payment for fifteen extra fares, noting the car could not house fifteen additional people.
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Chicago
Coolidge
White House
Nineteenth Century Pension Bureau Reports Large Claims Volume
The pension bureau prepared and mailed 6 577 271 checks totaling 239 604 814 dollars. The roll lists 525 559 beneficiaries including Civil War veterans and widows, Spanish War veterans and widows, with 31 Mexican War veterans and 32 War of 1812 widows remaining. Deaths reduced rolls by 21 808 Civil War veterans and 11 444 widows, while Spanish War gains offset losses. A bureau reorganization sped claim settlements and pension payments, saving about 246 000 dollars annually by eliminating 150 positions.
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Washington
Pension Bureau
Bureau
Workman Killed at Jefferson Iowa
Jefferson Iowa December 6 How ard Jones a workman on a new store building here fell from the roof this morning and was killed instantly.
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Workman
Jefferson
Iowa
Jefferson, Is
Howard Jones
Underwood Bill Favored by Administration in Senate
Washington December 6 administration leaders in the senate expect President Coolidge to endorse the Underwood Muscle Shoals bill with amendments after senator Underwood agrees to reasonable changes. Weeks reports to the president and war department differences seem bridgeable. Several Republican senators including Smoot McKinley Pennald and Brookhart back the proposal. Senate set to act next week once key measures are cleared.
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Washington
Senate
Coolidge
Underwood Muscle Shoals
Underwood
Weeks
War Department
Smoot
Utah
McKinley
Minnots
Pernald
Maine
Brookhart
Iowa
House
Longworth
School Row Over Instructor Certificate Delayed
Des Moines IA December hearing on Marie Midtgaard case ends without evidence from both sides as state official May Be Francis takes the matter under advisement. The Kimballton school controversy centers on language proficiency for a gym instructor.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Kimballton, Ia
Marie Midtgaard
May BE. Francis
Supe Dent
Public Instruction
Ottumwa Boy Wins Declamation Meet in Iowa
Ottumwa high school student E-Cline Greer won the annual Iowa nine high school declamatory contest here last night. George Severs of Oskaloosa finished second, Kenneth Jones of Clinton third, and Richard Boyles of Iowa City placed fourth.
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Iowa City
Dee e-Cline Greer
Ottumwa
Iowa Nine
George Severs
Oskaloosa
Kenneth Jones
Clinton
Richard Boyles
Made Deputy Treasurer Named In Muscatine Journal
Arthur Nicholson selected by County Treasurer Frances B. Rosenbaum for deputy treasurer after three years at the office. Hazel Phillipa II and Margaret Fiester remain as clerks of the automobile department. G. C. Parks keeps Ida Grimm as deputy in the County Recorder’s office. Earl Erwin retains Earl Horst as deputy and Pearl Werner as second deputy in the District Court clerk's office.
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J. M. Nicholson
Land Township
Muscatine Journal
Arthur Nicholson
Washington
Frances B. Rosenibaum
Wew
Mise Hazel Phillipa
Margaret Fiiester
Automobile Department
G. C. Parks
Ida Grimm
Earl Erwin
Earl D. Horst
Miss Pearl Werner
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Krassin
Moscow
Herglot
Austin Chamberlain
Rome
League of Nations Council Receivine
Pinch
Des Moines Bank
Wisconsin
Orn
H. G Wells
Chesham House
London
Kilaang
Frank Coffey
Fort Worth
Tex
Miriam A. Ferguson
Texas
Coffey
Federal Warehouse
J. Frank Norris
Great First Baptist Church
General Conference of Texas Baptists
Norris’ Church
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