New Taxation Plan Presented to Iowa Assembly
A two year study by eight lawmakers yields a proposed state tax overhaul including county assessors, a state board of assessment, a state budgeting system, and taxation of intangible property. Draft bills call for a 10 percent amusements tax for school funds and a one cent per gallon gasoline tax for county road funds, with no income tax draft included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Legislative Committee
Fortieth
Iowa General Assembly
Board of Assessment
State Board of Assessment
Local Board of Review
Famine and Disease Threaten 100000 Near East Refugees
Constantinople Jan 30 One hundred thousand refugees are seriously ill or dying along the Asia Minor Thrace and Greek coast. Private relief groups are overwhelmed. Famine and disease devastate Anatolia Thrace and the Aegean islands. Mothers abandon children as refugees pour into cities. Typhus smallpox and dysentery rage in refugee areas. Greece faces social catastrophe. relief from foreign governments is lacking.
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Associated
Regs
Constantinople
Asia Minor
Thrace
Greece
Anatolia
Aegean Islands
Samesoun
Black Sea
Piraeus
Salonica
Smyrna
Athens
Angora
Borah renews proposal for international economic conference
Senator Borah resumes in the Senate his proposal for an international economic conference to be called by President Harding. The proposal, already a Senate fight, was submitted as a resolution and laid aside at his request to await the farm credit situation.
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Washington, D. C
Borah
Senate
Harding
Idaho
Fear and peace aims shadow Near East talks
At Lausanne on January 30 the Near East conference eyes the Turkish delegation as allies present the draft treaty. A key clause would cut Turkish European army strength to twenty thousand, including the Constantinople garrison at twelve thousand, with a thirty kilometer frontier zone to limit conflicts.
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Associated Press
Lausanne
Switzerland
Europe
Constantinople
Fire rips Rock Island shops in Valley Junction
Investigators search for the origin of a morning blaze at the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific shops in Valley Junction near Des Moines Iowa. The fire caused extensive damage estimated in the thousands and left eleven locomotives engulfed as Valley Junction firefighters battled with insufficient equipment.
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Rock Island
Associated Press
Des Moines
Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific
Valley Junction
Kansas appeals ruling on grain futures contracts validity
The State of Kansas appeals a Reno county Kansas ruling that grain futures contracts and offset deliveries are valid. The case challenges private wires and futures trading amid debate over bona fide delivery and interstate implications.
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Associated Presse
Chicago
State of Kansas
W. G. Fairchild
Reno County
Hutchinson
Kansas
Fairchild
John R. Mauff
Chicago Board of Trade
Washington
Mauff
J. Rosenbaum Grain Company
Fairchield
Mrs Hattie Lambert Heads to Davenport After Visit
Mrs Hattie Lambert traveled from the Henry Campbell home to Davenport this morning returning home from a visit.
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Hattie Lambert
Davenport
Henry Campbell
Visitors Traveled Through Gotter En Route to Burlington
Mr and Mrs PD R Jones of Gotter passed through this morning heading to Burlington to visit. Mrs Nettle Bain also went to Burlington this morning to visit her daughter Mrs George McClellan.
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Mrs
PD. R. Jones
Gotter
Burlington
Nettle Bain
George McClellan
League council hears Iraq frontier dispute over Mosul oil fields
The council of the League of Nations discussed the Britain Turkey border dispute over the Mosul oil fields today. The council requested a Turkish reply on accepting legal jurisdiction and took no action pending that indication.
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Paris
Great Britain
Turkey
Irak
Mosul
Council of the
League of Nations
Earl of Belfore
Southwell Injured in Arizona Mine Incident
C. W. Southwell formerly of Southwell & Anderson grocers in town, now in Omaha, sustained a broken leg at Douglas Arizona after a mule kick in a mine tunnel during a vacation trip to Arizona and California. He was taken to Douglas for treatment and the return journey caused complications though not considered serious. Mrs. Southwell is remembered here as Miss Helen Anderson.
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C. W. Southwell
Southwell & Anderson Grocery
Omaha
Douglas
Arizona
Southwell
Helen Anderson
Turks and Greeks sign two Lausanne inspired accords
Two conferences emerging from Lausanne peace deliberations were signed between Turkey and Greece. One provides for mutual return of prisoners of war and hostages, the other sets terms for population exchange.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Ventura Visitors Include Mr. Harry Gray and Miss Hilda
Mr. Harry Gray and his daughter Miss Hilda of Ventura California are visiting his sister Mrs. Belle Gray Rice and other relatives. Gray formerly lived in Washington and has not visited in ten years. They plan to return to their California home in a few days.
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R. Harry Gray
Hilda
Ventura
California
Belle Gray Rice
Mr. Gray
Washington
Miss Maude Pennell Returns to Sigourney
Miss Maude Pennell left the home of her sister Mrs Will Dupuis to return to her own home in Sigourney this morning.
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Maude Pennell
Will Dupuis
Sigourney
Will Investigate Liquor Law Violation Ties to Blanford Fight
An investigation into liquor law violations believed linked to the fight that left three men dead and others wounded is expected to begin within a few days in Blanford Indiana. The Associated Press reports the incident occurred yesterday morning and authorities pursue the chain of events and responsible parties.
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Blanford
Associated Press
Blandford
Ind
Weather in Central West and Montana Cold Snap
The report notes normal temperatures in the central west and southern states while Montana sees a deep freeze at six degrees below zero. New Orleans remains warm around eighty degrees as cold conditions extend through the northern states and into the northeast.
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Central West
Montana
Chicago
Mississippi
Missouri
Rocky Mountains
New Orleans
Haver
Turn To The Right Night Of Band Fun At Local Theater
A lively evening combines music and dramatic play with strong sense of community. Performers and organizers invite neighbors to enjoy diverse acts and specialty offerings during a festive program.
Germans Charged With Other Crimes In Occupied Ruhr
In Dusseldorf Jan 30 a reported attempt to wreck the train carrying General Weygand and minister Le Trocquer alarmed occupiers. Other wrecking incidents on Ruhr railways have drawn attention of occupational officers as Weygand and Le Trocquer confer with General Degoutte before continuing to Brussels seeking government approval of their decisions.
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Dusseldorf
Germany
General Weygand
le Trocquer
Paris
Durin
Ruhr
No German casualties in Paris report says French foreign office
Paris reports denial from the French foreign office that twenty Germans were killed at Boppard. No serious trouble occurred, the burgomaster was arrested for resisting French military orders, and there were no riots. German claims of telegraph women being whipped are rejected.
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Paris
French Foreign Office
Boppard
Washington, D. C
Dusseldorf
Degoutte Warns Ruhr Occupation to Intensify
A Düsseldorf dispatch reports General Degoutte has issued a police ban on civil activity in streets from 10 p m to 6 a m and promises a five year prison term or ten million mark fine under French law. Degoutte told reporters the occupation will pursue its plans while aiming to avoid German hardship. He said German leaders push a futile struggle and must be held accountable for their country's misdeeds.
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London
Ruhr
Dusseldorf
Times
Degoutte
Evening News
Germany
Mrs Bun Wilson Returns Home From Fruitland Visit
Mrs Bun Wilson of Fruitland who has been here with Mrs Rose Hancock who is ill returned this morning to her home.
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Bun Wilson
Fruitland
Rose Hancock
Lew Dockstader Stricken After Icy Fall in New Brunswick
Lew Dockstader aged sixty two, veteran of the minstrel stage, is resting in a New Brunswick hotel after a fall on an icy sidewalk. Doctors say he suffered a spinal injury and his condition is serious.
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New Brunswick
N. J
Lew Dockstader
Dockstader
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