Iowa Senate Actions and Personnel Change Report
Des Moines Feb 15 The senate insurance investigating committee loses member Frank Shane as he resigns after election to a directorate of an Iowa insurance concern. President Hammill to fill the vacancy and hearings on Browne issues may begin next week. Also adopted a gas price investigation resolution and passed a child labor bill restricting under 16 work in cafes and shops with exceptions for part time factory work.
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Associated Press
State Capitol
Des Moines
Senate Insurance
Frank Shane
Wapello County
Shane
Hammill
Senate
Browne
Jackson County
Capitol
Harrison
Pottawattamie County
Coolidge
Iowa
Labor Commissioner
Labor Commissioners
Laura Smith Day
House
Edson
Buena Vista
Campaign to Clean Up St. Louis Arrests 1600
The police campaign in St. Louis resulted in over 1,600 arrests and detentions. A new record 670 apprehensions occurred in a 15 hour stretch. Seventy six saloons pool rooms dives and resorts were raided. Saloons and other criminal hubs were reported practically deserted with many doors closed.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
Iowa House Concur s Eugenics Clause in Marriage Law
After a long session the Iowa House voted 556 to 47 to concur with the Senate eugenics provisions added to the marriage law. The measure requires every marriage license applicant to pass a medical exam within ten days with doctors listing tests performed for both men and women.
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Iowa
House
Sociated Press
Pes Moines
Iowa House of Representatives
Aenate
Senate
Woman Draws Knife on Chicago & Northwestern Train
Mrs. Vic tor Sterni of Wisconsin drew a large butcher knife from her dress on a westbound Chicago & Northwestern train at 6 30 am. She suffered a temporary mental lapse and was taken to police headquarters where she calmed. Her six children, traveling with her, were placed in a home as social welfare funds cover their westward trip.
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Associated Press
Cedar Rapids
Chicago & Northwestern
Victor Sterni
Saspian
Wis
California
Sterni
Social Welfare League
Farm Corporation for Credit Relief formed in Chicago
On February 15 a relief effort to ease credit in the northwestern wheat belt emerged with the organization of the Agricultural Finance Corporation in Chicago. The group aims to mobilize up to 100 million dollars through a war finance corporation loan capacity, with headquarters to be set in Minneapolis and operations to begin once a service body is formed. John McHugh of the Mechanics and Metals National Bank of New York outlined the plan as endorsed by President Coolidge’s Washington conference.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Northwestern
Wheat Belt
Agricultural Finance Corporation
War Finance Corporation
Service Corporation
John McHugh
Mechanics and Metals National Bank of New York
Coolidge
Washington
Minneapolis
Two Killed Nine Missing In Vermont Fire At Main Street Building
In Montpelier Vermont a fire at the Lawrence building on Main Street early today left two dead and nine missing believed killed. Several were seriously injured and the damage is about 300000 dollars. The identified dead are Walter Washburn and Mrs J F Waterman who died after leaping from windows missing the life net.
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Associated Press
Montpelier
Main Street
Walter Washburn
J. F. Waterman
County Clerk Holds Five Day License Filing Period
The bill requires applicants to file with the county clerk for five days before license issuance. It then returns to the Senate for further action.
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Senate
Opposition to Japanese Exclusion Provisions in Johnson Bill
Washington Feb 15 The house immigration committee discussed Secretary Hughes objections to the Johnson bill provisions that single out Japanese immigrants for exclusion and other restrictive measures. Hughes said the Japanese clauses violate the 1911 treaty with Japan and could undo gains from the Washington naval conference.
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Associated Press
Washington
House Immigration Committee
Hughes
Johnson
United States
Japan
North Dakota G O P Express Confidence in Pres Coolidge
The Republican state convention of North Dakota adopted resolutions voicing confidence in President Coolidge. The document discusses U S immigration policy including Japan Italy and the 1890 census as a quota basis and calls for cooperation in restrictive measures with the Japanese government. Secretary Hughes notes Italian concerns over the census basis.
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North Dakota
Pres. Coolidge
Bismark
N. D
Coolidge
Tokio
Hughes
Italy
Federal Army Beats Rebels In Guadalajara Advance
Mexico City February 15 The war department reports federal troops under General Obregon occupy Guadalajara, a rebel stronghold, amid a shower of flowers. General Escobar wounded orders an advance on Morelia where Estrada and Diegues rebel forces concentrate. Railway HQ says Tampico occupied by federal forces.
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Mexico City
Fort Worth
Vanderlip Testimony On Marion Star Rumor Inquiry
Washington hearings probe Vanderlip remarks on the Marion Star sale rumor and a $550000 price tag with $10000 yearly editor payoff. He says rumors circulated in New York and Washington and that he broadcast the issue to seek truth while denying confirmed facts.
General Butler to Use Tear Gas Bombs in His War on Crooks
Philadelphia report states Director of Public Safety Butler will test tear gas chamber batons for police use against vice and crime. The baton designed with reloadable chemical chambers, perfected by Brigadier General Amos Pries, aims to subdue multiple suspects per officer.
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General Butler
Crooks
Associated Press
Public Safety
Butler
Amos Pries
Army Chemical Warfare Service
Vanderlip Admits No Facts Behind Hard ing Link
Frank A. Vanderlip testified before the senate oil committee that he had no facts to back his claim connecting President Harding to the Marion Star sale. He said his Ossining speech was a public duty to address rumors, not to accuse. He denied knowledge of any slush fund and said he did not know who spread rumors to him.
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Walsh
Democrat
Montana
Lenroot
New York
Vanderlip
Ossining
Marion
Washington
Harding
Marion Star
Senator Lenroot
Adams
Colorado
Mr. Vanderlip
Bursum
New Mexico
New York Tribune
Tribune
United States
Fall
Sennator Pittman
Nevada
Vodpey
Btar
Associated Press
Frank A. Vanderlip
Senate Oil Committee
President Harding
Star
Seorch
Albert B. Fall Vanderlip
Senator Johnson Calls Government Responsible For High Prices
Senator Hiram Johnson of California, campaigning in Charleston Illinois, said the government is responsible for farmer distress and must remedy part of its wrong. He urged farmers to plant more Wheat but also to diversify farming and help themselves as low prices and high costs throttle agriculture citing the McNary Haugen bill in Congress.
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Charleston
Ill
Hiram Johnson
California
Johnson
Congress
Imper tinent remark ends Vanderlip testimony
The record notes Vanderlip's cross examination concluded after one hour and forty two minutes with a remark on the propriety of his speech, signaling tension over the remarks as part of the proceedings.
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Vanderlip
Roberts Named to Oil Case Post Replacing Strawn
President Coolidge selects Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia as Republican member of the special council in the oil land lease prosecutions. He succeeds Silas H. Strawn of Chicago after Strawn’s nomination was withdrawn. The cabinet and Senate face further nominations and votes as controversy over the oil cases continues.
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Washington
Owen J. Roberts
Philadelphia
Coolidge
Silas H. Strawn
Chicago
Senate
Roberts
Pepper
Pennsylvania
Atlee Pomerene
Ohio
Sherman Whipple
Boston
Frank K. Nebiker
Salt Lake City
Public Lands
Wilson
Vanderlip
President Harding
Senate Oil Committee
Harding
Star
Frank A. Vanderlip
New York
Marion
Louis H. Brush
Marion Star
Oil Committee
Associated Press
Brush
Roy L. Moore
The
Shaffer
Denver
Colo
Karl C. Schuyler
J. Leo Stack
Stack
Teapot Dome
John C. Shaffer
Schuyler
Fall
Thomas Johnson
Albert B. Fall
New Mexico
Denby
John E. Ballaine
Matahuska
Alaska
Navy Department
Bal
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Teran
Neuvo Leon
America Larralde
Encarnacion Moates
Doroteo Solis
Eduardo Arellano
Francisco Coss
Secretary of State
Migration Committee
Federal
Escobar
Morelia
Rank Vanderlip
Chairman Lenroot
Philadelphian
Silas Strawn
Naval Oil
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