Iowa Senate considers gun control and Berry bill clash
Reports from Des Moines detail a Price gun control bill requiring registration of home weapons, district court approval for possession, and penalties up to a year in jail. Separately the House fights over the Berry bill to elect county superintendents, with party and procedural tensions amid broader code revisions and highway committee actions.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Ira
Senator Price
oMrroe
Iowa
Iowa House of Representatives
Scott
Appanoose County
Hauge
Polk
Clark
House
Mason City
Ontges
Board of Control
Lake
Woodbury
Senate
State Highway Commission
Senate Committee On
Caldwell and Mead
Cooperative marketing drives Iowa farmers elevator and shipping scale
Professor E G Nourse of Iowa State College told Farmers Week attendees in Columbus that the farmers elevator business in towns tops 160.6 million dollars annually and cooperative livestock shipping runs near that amount. He urged strong organized representation, improved services, and efficiency as keys to lasting success in cooperative marketing.
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Associated Press
Columbus
Ohio
E. G. Nourse
Iowa State College
Ohio State University
Nourse
Ien
Nourse West
Black Wins Honors at Iowa Short Course
Ames February 1 Clyde Black of Dallas Center topped Iowa corn and small grain association county contest with an average yield above eighty bushels per acre. He entered Black yellow dent corn, a development of Reed yellow dent, earning the highest honors for acre yield.
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Associated Press
Ames
Clyde Black
Dallas Center
Iowa Corn and Small Grain Association
Black
Refugee Vessels Arrive in Manila Quarantine
The last three refugee ships reached Manila today bringing the total at the quarantine station to eleven ships. Admiral Stark and his staff have been invited to attend a ball honoring Governor General Wood tomorrow night.
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Manilla
P. F
Admiral Stark
Wood
Girl Claims She Was Kidnapped Near Creston
Creston Feb 1. Alice Atkins sixteen year old daughter of Geo E Atkins says she was kidnapped by a man in an automobile last night but escaped when the car stalled eight miles from town. The motive of the act is not known.
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Associated Press
Creston
Alice Atkins
Geo E. Atkins
Eight Hour Day for Signal Men Takes Effect
Chicago Feb 1 The eight hour working day with time and a half for overtime went into effect for the railroad signal men's organization per a United States Labor Board order. The eight hour day and overtime were granted, while the union’s wage increase request was denied.
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Chicago, Ill
United States Labor Board
Sixty Bodies Recovered From Beuthen Mine Disaster
Beuthen in Polish Silesia reports sixty bodies recovered after a blast entombed six hundred miners. The bound volume notes three hundred still trapped as rescue teams work. Berlin dispatch lists one hundred fifty dead and fifty missing.
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Berlin
Beuthen
Polish Silesia
London
Whisky hidden in bales found at New York port
New York February 1. Custom authorities report an investigation into Cuban rope imports reveals whisky concealed in bales. Four bales were opened after unloading from a steamer and found to contain several bottles.
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Associated Press
New York
Alaska businessmen urge settlement of Russian refugees
Anchorage on February 1 reports a broad favoring of moving the eight to nine hundred Russian refugees from the Philippine Islands to Alaska. E M Spalding of the chamber of commerce and three bank presidents back settling the refugees between here and Fairbanks.
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Associated Press
Anchorage
Alaska
Philippine Islands
E.M. Spalding
Chamber of Commerce
Bank
Here
Fairbanks
Police Sergeants Accused by Autobody Theorist
Three Chicago police sergeants faced expulsions after Edmund Fitch an organ ist charged they and a fourth officer held him in the detective bureau gold fish room beat him to force a confession that he knowingly bought a stolen automobile Fitch identified the unnamed fourth officer as to be named later in the day
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Associated Ress
Chicago
Ill
Edmund Fitch
Russia declines signing control agreement on straits
Premier Thictherin speaking for Russia rejects the control accord on the Dardanelles and Bosphorus. He notes the Russian proposal for opening the straits has not been considered and the commission has not yet discussed it. The Lausanne conference is cited as the context for the statement.
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Switzerland
Traits Commission
Dardene
Bosphorus
Thigtherin
Russia
Lausanne
Debt Commission Meeting In Washington On Debt Agreement
Secretary Mellon chairs the American debt funding commission as it meets in the afternoon to finalize plans for presenting to Congress the London backed American British debt agreement. British cabinet action is reported as accepting the funding in principle with details to continue negotiations.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Mellon
American Debt Funding Commission
Congress
London
Washington
Government safeguards American mussels and pearls
The piece confirms U S Bureau of Fisheries denial that freshwater shell supplies are near depletion. It notes extensive mussel protection plans, 139 173 780 fish rescued in the Mississippi basin, and mussel infection programs. highlights Ozark Missouri Arkansas streams as major pearl sources with notable finds and a thriving industry worth about 9 million dollars employing roughly 30 000 people.
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New York
Henry O'Malley
U. S Bureau of Fisheries
America
United States
Mississippi River
O'Malley
Ozark
Missouri
Arkansas
Peel
Mississippi Valley
Fairport
Iowa
United States Bureau of Fisheries
Funeral of Henry Clews Held Saturday
Funeral services for financier Henry Clews who died yesterday at age eighty three will be held in New York Saturday morning according to Associated Press dispatch.
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The
Associated Press
New York
Henry Clews
Man Found Dead From Poisoned Liquor in Cedar Rapids
Joe Haveliech a 45 year old foreman at J. G. Cherry company was found dead in his bed last night. Authorities believe he died from alcohol poisoning after drinking liquor from several bottles found in his room.
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Cedar Rapids, Peb
Joe Joseph Haveliech
J. G. Cherry Company
Irish Railway Chief Kidnaped Is Freed
Dublin Feb 1 John Bagwell general manager of the Great Northern railway was kidnapped Tuesday night and is again a free man. It was announced semi officially this afternoon. Whether he was released or escaped is not known.
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Dublin
John Bagwell
Great Northern Railway
Self-Denial Quote Emphasis in Historical Patronage
Aristotle John Sterling quote about self denial as superior to education that lacks that virtue appears as a moral instruction or editorial sidebar in a periodical. The line critiques education focused on abundance without discipline and reflects a value system common in earlier civic or religious publications.
Thought for the Day on Neighborhood and Kinship
A concise meditation notes that neighborhood is formed by mind and heart, not by distance. It frames community as emotional proximity, urging empathy and connectedness beyond physical location.
Lundin to face indictment in Chicago chaos
Fred Lundin former congressman and longtime Thompson aide will appear in Chicago tomorrow afternoon on charges with 23 others of defrauding the Chicago school board of a million dollars.
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Associated Tress
Chicago
Fred Lundin
Thompson
Prominent Banker Dies Suddenly in Barbershop
Onawa Iowa February 1 George O Holbrook 55 vice president of the Peoples Trust and Savings Bank dropped dead in a barber shop last night. The sudden death stunned local merchants and bank staff as details emerge.
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Associated Press
Onawa
George O. Holbrook
The
Peoples Trust and Savings Bank
Coal Embargo Against Ruhr Enforced With No German Resistance
Dusseldorf reports the coal and coke embargo from the Ruhr to unoccupied Germany has been enforced since midnight and there has been no resistance by Germans. If resistance occurs France will halt steel and other goods. Rail disruption continues, Mayence sees patrols and an arrest of the railroad superintendent. Curfew set at eleven.
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Prous
Dusseldorf
Germany
Ruhr
Mayence
Washington, D. C
French Orders Four German Mines to Resume Coal Deliveries
The French authorities in Germany demand immediate resumption of coal shipments from four mines at Dortmund and Gelefu Kuteh as part of reparations. Two mines refuse, with written replies expected from the other two. French troops threaten confiscation and seizure of mines and arrest of directors if noncompliance continues.
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Associated Press
Germany
Dortmund
Gelefu Kuteh
France
Fire destroys Maryland home killing three
Mrs. William Phillips and her two daughters Elizabeth twelve and Esther ten were suffocated when their house burned. Live coals dropped on the kitchen floor are believed to have caused the blaze.
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Associated Press
Baltimore
William Phillips
Elizabeth
Esther
Forty Injured As Storage Tank Blows
Springfield mass February 1 explosion of a storage tank at the Springfield gas and light company injured forty persons and caused widespread commotion in the business district with debris raining down on workers though no one died.
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Springfield
Mass
Springfield Gas and Light Company
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