Iowa Senate Debates Budget Bill and Continuing Appropriations
The Iowa Senate opens a heated session over a budget reform proposal backed by multiple sponsors from both houses. Senator Buser seeks to end continuing appropriations while Senator Wichman pushes for a concurrent budget bill with a budget system and possible board of review. The debate touches on taxation, code revision, and potential political uses of the budget issue as lawmakers consider the scope and timing of budget legislation.
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State Capitol
Des Moines
Senate
Buser
Muscatine
Wichman
Hancock County
Dutcher
Tor Tritecher
Johnson
Iowa
Code Commission
Smith
Stladison County
Satute
Bowman
Washington
Wee
Board of Review
Thurston
Clark County
Blackhawk
Haskell
Linn
House of Representatives
Carter
Hardin County
Pittsburgh Faces Major Flood Threat on Rivers
The Ohio, Monongahela and Allegheny rivers rose over four feet above normal, with a 26 foot level at daybreak and an expected crest near 29 feet. Lower North Side streets and rail lines flooded, freight halted, and several plants shut down as Pittsburgh eyes the first flood in ten years. In Cincinnati, a cold snap kept the Ohio River at 52 feet, averting a larger flood threat.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio
Mangahela
Ohio Basin
Baltimore and Ohio
Cincinnati
W. C. Devereaux
Lieutenant Wood Maintains Good Standing in Chicago
Jan 4 report states Lt Osborne C Wood's stock trading was centered with Chicago houses and not Wall Street, per Frank H Bevin VP of Bishops Service Inc who said an investigation into Wood's La Salle street trading found nothing suggestive or improper.
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Chicago
Osborne C. Wood
Wall Street
Frank H. Bevin
Bishop’s Service, Inc
Wood
la Salla Street
Bevin
Episcopal bishop drops Heaton heresy trial in Dallas diocese
Bishop Coadjutor Harry T Moore of the Dallas diocese declined to permit the case of Rev. Lee W. Heaton rector of Trinity church Fort Worth to go to trial. The standing committee announced the case is closed for the present.
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Dallas
Texas
Harry T Moore
Episcopal Church
Lee W. Heaton
Trinity Church
Fort Worth
Congress in recess until next Monday
Congress adjourned until Monday as House and Senate committees begin shaping measures ahead of adjournment. The Ways and Means group reviews Mellon tax reduction features while the Rules Committee weighs insurgent GOP proposals for faster action.
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Washington
Senate
House
Ways and Means
Rules
Interior Department
Treasury Secretary
Santa Ana Epidemic Leaves City Silenced
In Santa Ana California about a thousand residents were temporarily incapacitated by an unexplained illness, spreading rapidly and disrupting business and social life. Doctors report nausea as a common symptom and compare it to a mild cholera morbus, but no cause is identified and recovery typically occurs within one or two days.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Santa Ana
Here
Los Angeles Times
The
Times
Des Moines Arraigns Russell Cockburn for City Graft Indictments
Russell Cockburn pleaded not guilty before Judge W G Bonner and faces trial on January 14 on three indictments linked to a city bill graft case. Bond set at 26000 dollars. He arrived with his family, had diabetes concerns, and had been in a veterans hospital in St Louis prior to extradition. Subpoenas issued for state witnesses. county may seek reimbursement of 1000 dollars spent on extradition and bond forfeiture of 17000 if he fails to appear again.
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Des Moines
Russell Cockburn
W. G. Bonner
Cockburn
Veterans Hospital
St. Louis
Seeberger
Iowa
Pekin Explosion Toll Rises as Deaths and Missing Grow
At Pekin Illinois workers fear the death toll will reach 35 or more from yesterday’s Corn Products Company plant blast. Five are known dead, thirty missing, two bodies recovered, and two men believed fatally burned. Government experts plan investigations starting Saturday into the disaster.
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PEKIN
Corn Products Company
Washington
Cedar Rapids
United States
Airship Tender Plans For Arctic Expedition
The Navy announced that designs for two airship tenders with mooring masts have nearly been completed for an Arctic expedition by aircraft next summer. The Ramapo and the Patoks, both currently used as fuel oil ships, are to be altered to support airships like the Shenandoah.
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Washington
Shenandoah
Navy Department
Ramapo
Chicago Defeats Yale in Tight College Basketball Game
The University of Chicago Maroons led early and held on to beat Yale 24 to 21 in Chicago. Yale surged in the second half after subbing, cutting the gap to five before the regulars returned to halt the run.
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Chicago
University of Chicago
Yale
Maroons
Tomb of Tutankhamun Unearthed in Valley of the Kings
In Luxor Egypt on January 4 the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun was revealed after over 3,000 years hidden in the Valley of the Kings fourth casket, described as highly artistically valuable and within a dominant golden shrine. Professor Perry Newberry and Howard Carter led the expedition confirming the pharaoh’s final resting place.
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Luxor
Egypt
Tutenkhamun
Pharoah
Harmahib
Seti 1
Soane Museum
London
Perry E. Newberry
Howard Carter
Kendall Leaving Legislature Alone
Des Moines reports that Governor Kendall of Iowa has not appeared in either chamber since the special session began. He is resting for his health after a Honolulu trip and says he feels stronger at home, with only the Harding Memorial service preventing his attendance.
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Des Moines
General Assembly of
Iowa
N. FE. Kendall
House
Senate
Harding
Honolulu
Big Diking Project Aims to Reclaim Padilla Bay
Seattle, Wash January 4 plans were announced to dike Padilla Bay an arm of Puget Sound sixty miles north of Seattle to reclaim about 9000 acres of rich soil deposited ages ago by the Skagit River and now submerged at high tide engineers call it the Pacific coast’s greatest project of its kind. It will cost about 1 300 000 dollars and take two years to complete.
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Seattle
Wash
Padilla Bay
Puget Sound
Skagit River
Pacific Coast
Britain seeks release ofTomaka crew in NY seizure
The Associated Press reports that Great Britain has asked the United States to release half of the British and Canadian crew members of the schooner Tomaka, seized last November beyond the three mile limit off New York as alleged rum runners.
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London
Great Britain
United States
Tomaka
New York
Garrett Put on Iowa Examiners Board
Des Moines Jan 4 Professor F Garrett superintendent of schools at Fairfield was appointed a member of the state educational board of examiners to fill the vacancy caused by J G McGlade of Waterloo leaving Iowa Governor Kendall made the appointment. The term expires February 1 1927.
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Des Moines
F. Garrett
Pairfield
State
Edulocational Board of Examiners
Iowa
J. G. McGlade
Waterloo
Kendall
Release demanded for Tomaka crew and Tomoka seizure
London reports Britain seeks the Tomaka crew’s release through Henry G. Chilton in Washington at Canada’s request. Britain also probes the seizure beyond the three mile limit off New York, noting Tomoka is Canadian owned and that British rights outside the limit must be protected until the new treaty extends the limit.
Farm Labor Wages Reach Peak Since 1920
Washington reports farm labor wages for the year show higher levels than any year since 1920. Average monthly with board totals 33.18 dollars and 46.91 without board, compared with 21.95 and 29.88 in 1914. Day wages for harvest labor with board averaged 2.45 dollars, up from 1.55 in 1914.
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Associated Press
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Army air squadron to attempt around the world flight
Major Frederick L. Martin will command the Army air squadron that plans an around the world flight next spring. Lt. Lowell H. Smith Lt. Ware and Lt. Erik H. Nelson are assigned as pilots from Rockwell McCook and Chanute Fields respectively.
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Washington
Frederick L. Martin
Air Service Technical School
Chanute Field
Army Air Squadron
Lowell H. Smith
Rockwell Field
San Diego
California
Ware
McCook Field
Dayton
Ohio
Erik H. Nelson
Air Service Siason
Kendall deplores Gen Ball's death in condolence message
Gov. N. E. Kendall sent a message of condolence to associates of General BE Ball who died yesterday in Iowa City. Kendall called Ball a gallant soldier and an excellent citizen whose death is a serious loss to the state and country.
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Des Moines
N. E. Kendall
BE. R. Ball
Iowa City
General Ball
Bandit Kills Man When Latter Tries to Protect Sweetheart
In Pasadena California a bandit shot and killed 28 year old Wm Jacobson after he tried to shield his 18 year old fiancé Miss Ethel Todd from a hold up and robbery. They were in a car planning their wedding next week when the crime occurred.
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Associated Press
Pasadena
Calif
Wm Jacobson
Ethel Todd
University of Iowa professor teaches via long distance line
Quarantined with smallpox fifty miles away Millington Carpenter of the University of Iowa teaches from Iowa City with the aid of a long distance telephone He fell ill while visiting his parents in Monticello during Christmas holidays This remote teaching arrangement highlights early use of telecommunication in medical isolation.
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Iowa City
Millington Carpenter
University of Iowa
Monticello
Iowa
U S Sells Rifles Ammunition and Planes to Obregon
The United States government sells 5000 Enfield rifles model 1917, 1,000,000 rounds of 30 caliber ammunition, and eight airplanes to the Obregon government of Mexico. Terms call for half cash and half in thirty days, with delivery orders to proceed within 24 hours. Officials note questions about credit versus loan and possible need for congressional authorization. Mexico's payment method remains under discussion amid policy concerns. Galveston dispatch says all Mexican oil fields are now in rebel hands per Vera Cruz HQ.
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Washington
United States
Obregon
Mexico
Weeks
Jan
Galveston
Texas
Adolafo Jiminez
de la Huerta
Vera Cruz
Kels Executed At Folsom For Lodi Slaying
Alex A Kels confessed killer of an aged wandering worker near Lodi in September last died on the gallows at Folsom State Prison this morning. The trap opened at 10 06 and he was pronounced dead about ten minutes later.
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Folsom
Cal
Alex
Kels
Lodi
Venizelos Studies Situation in Athens Has Not Much to Say
Former Prime Minister Venizelos reached Athens and declined to issue a detailed statement. He told Colonel Plastiras and others he is carefully studying the internal political situation and will strive to help Greece out of its difficulties.
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Athens
Persoussy
Plastiras
Revolutionary Committee
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