Opposing Groups Shape Harding's Treaty Program
Washington dispatch outlines a tug of war over Harding foreign policy between the irreconcilables led by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Hughes Hoover faction in the cabinet. It notes McCumber Kellogg and changes in positions, with Knox resolution aims vs delayed action. A conference in America is proposed to ease suspicions and advance armament and peace talks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Sullivan
Washington
D. C
Harding
Congress
Senate | Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
League of Nations
Vercailles
Foreign Relations Committee
McCumber
North Dakota
Kellogg
Minnesota
Hughes
Hoover
Hughes-Hoover
Germany
League
Mr. Hoover
Knox
State Department
Westington
U Ghers
Hoover Group
Hughes-Hoover Group
America
a_dispatch
Paris
Mexico to Pay Living Expenses for Yank Students
Mexico will fund transportation and living costs for 29 American students under a new scholarship exchange. Mexican government to provide free tuition and 2000 pesos annually for living expenses. In return, 150 Mexican students will be sent to the United States for free tuition and work opportunities during college. The plan, begun February 1920, has President Harding's sanction to expand to all Latin American nations.
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Mexico City
Hera
St. Louis
American Chamber of Commerce
Mexico
United States
Whra Peaks
Des Moines
Harding
Gov Robertson Blasts Legislature Over Pending Appropriations
Governor Robertson condemned lawmakers for adjournment without signing the appropriations. Speaking to the Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association and the McAlester Rotary Club, he said he trusted more in prisoners than some legislators and likened critics to muckrakers who dragged his name through the mire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McAlester
Okla
Robertson
Oklahoma Pharmaceutical Association
McAlester Rotary Club
Malin
House of Representatives
Representatives
Market Improvement in Building Trade Conditions
Washington, D. C. Attorney General Daugherty announced improvement in building trade conditions after a mod- est but emphatic warning against illegal practices. Other notes include calls for Dominican liberation, a Cambridge comet approaching Earth, a courtroom disturbance in Frederick, and Russian deportation policy affecting 35 scheduled departures from New York.
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Washington, D. C
Daugherty
Dominican Republic
Harding
Carvaja
Cambridge
Mass
Winneck
Frederick
Charles H. Dorsey
Dossie Tweedale
Baltimore
New York
Russia
Will Stage Fight on Iowa Officers at Yeomen Convention
Des Moines April 13 Charges of misadministration and unfitness for office are leveled at Yeomen officers. The quadrennial convention opened with 700 delegates present as a state report criticizes salaries and internal influence. Governor Kendall welcomed attendees and delegates will elect to the national conclave in Denver.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Brotherhood of American
Order
State Insurance Department
Kendall
Denver
Addie Ades Adventures Dear Ma Chapter 33
An excerpt from a minute-a-day serial. Addie writes to her mother about studying stenography in a city trade school advertisement and a plan to enter real estate work through a broker named George Sewers. She mentions writing a letter and waiting for a phone call. The tone is diary like and informal.
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Courier
Bett
Rey Beirne
George Sewers
Addie
Waterlos
Harding Sounding Out Sentiment on Versailles Ratification
Washington, April 13 President Harding weighs reaction to his message to Congress on ratification of the Versailles treaty minus the League covenant He may seek ratification with Lodge reservations if sentiment is favorable but could abandon the move if Senate opposition remains Secretary Hughes backs modification to secure reparations and allies’ settlement while Hoover supports cautious acceptance of the treaty to protect American rights and interests
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Washington, D. C
Harding
Congress
Senate
United States
Hughes
Hoover
Mailbag Bandits Kidnap L C Agent at Independence
Report from Independence describes the abduction of an L C agent during a mailbag robbery. Illinois Central agent E A Eichtung aided the probe, with suspects Vergil and Vernel Pelt of Orange City detained briefly before release as police investigated a Dodge sedan found along the road two miles from town.
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L C
Independence
E. A. Eignton
Ilinois Central
Mr. Dodge
Brown Farm
Sergt
Douglass
Wilson
Vergil and
Vernel Pelt
Orange City
Chicago
Fort Dodge Confessions in Halfpap Murder Case
Fort Dodge Iowa April 13 Berthold Halfpap a pioneer grocer was murdered in his store on March 12 by bandits. Chief Flattery April 2 arrested Bill Glander and Elmer Sweeney charged with murder. Sweeney and Goble confessed they were with Olander during the shooting. Sweeney drove the car while Goble and Olander entered the store. Olander has not confessed. Police hold two other men not believed part of the Halfpap murder but tied to other gang crimes.
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Fort Dodge
Berthold Halfpap
Flattery
Bill Glander
Elmer Sweeney
Otis Goble
Sweeney
Goble
Olander
Halfpap
Qiander
Pars
Unpaved Roads Monitored Across Iowa Minnesota Area
Weather Bureau report notes roads in Albert Lea Algona Charles City Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Faribault La Crosse Mason City Marshalltown New Hampton Postville Waterloo Waverly show unpaved conditions improving. Expect broader paving progress this afternoon tonight and Thursday with southern counties seeing notable advancement.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Charies City
Albert Lea
Mipn
Algona
Cefiar Rapids
Davenport
Dan Moines
Dubuque
Faribault
Minn
la Crosse
Wis
Mason City
Marshalltown
New Hampton
Postville
Waterloo
Waverly
Countion
New Cardinal Dougherty Greeted At New York Pier
Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia returns from Rome after receiving the red hat from the pope. He is greeted by thousands at the New York pier with whistles, banners, and a police escort, then taken to Archbishop Hayes’s home. Monsignor Dineen and Mayor Hylan extend official greetings.
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New York
Dennis
Cardnal Yougherty
Philadelphia
Olympic
Mary
France
Dineen
Hayes
Cardinal Dougherty
Shareh
Hylan
Ardinal
Archbishop Hayes
Widow identifies LaBeau as Daly killer in court
In Dubuque Iowa April 33 widow Elien Daly testified to identify G J LaBeau as the man who killed Matt W Daly during a district court murder trial. The state has called 25 witnesses. defense plans an insanity plea and rests after presenting LaBeau and relatives.
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Dubuque
Elien Daly
Matt Daly
G. J. LaBeau
Matt W. Daly
LaBeau
LaReau
L. G. Lowry
Iowa State Psychopathic Hospital For
Iowa City
State of Iowa
G. D. LaReau
Lea
Opening Day Fever in Baseball Brings Nation Together
The article extols baseball as America’s national pastime and opening day mania. It contrasts US fandom with world sports, mocks geopolitics, and notes the 1921 opening as a major event, with fans eager to follow the two opposing teams and their league’s drama.
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Witmer
Harmon
Busher
Columbus
America
England
Ireland
Sinn Fein
Russia
France
Germany
der Biergarten
League of Nations
Panama Canal
Trouble in Robins Home as Cuckoo Egg Hatches
In New York, April 12 an elderly man in tattered clothes watched a robin nest noisy with a cuckoo egg. He claimed the male wanted to eject it while the female kept it, and he awaited further developments. A patrolman joked at the scene while the man introduced himself as Professor Malcolm Ogilvie of the New York Ornithological Society.
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New York
Two
Malcolm Ogilvie
New York Ornithological Society
Booze blamed for English labor strife, Johnson charges
William Pussyfoot Johnson, American prohibition advocate, pins the English labor strike on the drink question. He says British workers are mostly dry while some ranks are wet and out of control. Johnson, scarred by a London riot, heads to Windsor for a campaign and plans an eight month world tour starting from New York.
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Westerville
William ‘“Pussyfoot" Johnson
England
Johnson
London
Windsor
Canada
New York
Iowa Crops Ahead Thanks to Mild Winter Conditions
Des Moines April 12 The first crop bulletin reports Iowa crops are several weeks ahead due to an unusually mild winter. Oats seeding is about 84 percent complete while corn plowing nears half finished. Winterkill was minimal for wheat and other grasses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Town Weather and Crop Service
Missouri
Treu
Thir ty-ninth Iowa legislature enacts 414 statute changes
Des Moines reports the thirty-ninth general assembly made 414 changes to Iowa statutes. Lawmakers enacted 209 house bills and 205 senate measures. Nearly twice as many bills were killed or withdrawn in the three month session.
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Des Moines
Thirty-ninth General Assembly
State of
Iowa
Statehouse
Representatives
Senate
Women Offer Baby for Sale at Newspaper Office
Oklahoma City police seek a woman who entered a daily newspaper office and offered to advertise selling her 16 month old baby for 500 dollars. The boy at the switchboard refused the ad, citing policy. The woman gave the name Mary Corey and appeared agitated.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
Peelica
Bor
Mary Corey
Hella
Bankmen Change Name and Affiliate With New York Institute
The Waterloo Bankmen's Association voted to rename as Waterloo chapter American Institute of Banking and affiliate with the institute's New York headquarters. Officers stay the same. meeting featured luncheon and study on the Federal Reserve Act. Future plans include legal banking topics and later advanced banking and finance courses.
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Waterloo Bankmen’s Association
Waterloo
American Institute of Banking
Institute of Banking
New York
W. L. Bartling
H. L. Penne
R. A. Schaefer
D. P. Bardine
E. Miller
S.C. Kimm
Speculators Push Wheat Prices Near Dollar Level
Wheat options at the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce fell to five year lows as July wheat traded around $1.0934 a bushel, down from $1.15 the prior day. Dealers attributed the decline to aggressive selling by a bear market, noting similar weakness last seen in June 1926.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Chamber of Commerce
Blind Ox Not Dead on River Quest for Water Guide
Abilene Tex April 13 Greensboro Ala reports say the famous blind ox led to water by a goose is alive and well at Mr Holycroft's logging camp on the Warrior river near Millwood. The ox and goose remain on the job and death rumors are denied.
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Abilene. Tex
Greensboro
Ala
Holycroft
Warrior River
Millwood
United States Invited to Austrian Boundary Conference
Paris reports the French foreign office announced the United States was formally invited to join a conference of allies on settlement of Austrian boundary lines. The April 30 meeting at Porto Rosa, Italy, is arranged by Italy to settle unsettled Austrian and Italian territorial questions. The invitation is seen as a test of U.S. willingness to engage in European affairs.
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Paris
United States
Porto Rosa
Italy
America
Agai
Burglars Leave Card Puzzle Police
Des Moines police seek whether a thief left a personal card after a clothing burglary. In an earlier case an empty hat with a name card was found, and investigators are tracing the thief and the person named on the card.
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Es Moines
Des Moines
Middlemen Levy 21 Per Cent Toll On Food Value
Washington reports that middlemen take a 21 percent toll on the value of foods and staples across the United States. Data from Secretary Davis shows consumers pay about 58 percent above 1913 prices for meats eggs butter coffee tea lard flour milk and cheese while wholesalers run roughly 50 percent higher than 1913. The discrepancy is blamed on reconsignment high freight rates and open price fixing with the railroad system reselling cargo up to 12 times before reaching the wholesaler.
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Washington
D. C
United States
Peases
Davis
Harding
Congress
Federal Trade Commission
The
Trade Commission
Landers Testimony Sealed in Ax Murder Perjury Trial
Judge Gullison barred the proposed testimony of E. H. Landers in the W. B. McCaull perjury case. Landers had said he saw a man he believed to be Alfred Jones enter the Moore home on the night of the Villisca ax murders.
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Council’ Bluffs
Gullison
W. B. McCaull
Red Oak
Villisca
E. H. Landers
Paul W. Richards
Landers
Alfred Jones
Villisea
Moore
Demand on Argentina for Release of Martha Washington
American ambassador Frederic J. Stimson demanded that Argentina release the steamer Martha Washington from the Buenos Aires Port Workers union boycott. The request came as tensions rose over labor action affecting diplomatic and commercial interests in Buenos Aires.
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Argentina
Buenos Aires
Associated Press
Frederic J. Stimson
Martha Washington
Des Moines Sheriff Seizes Carload of Scotch Whisky
Des Moines April 13. Sheriff WE E Robb raided a suburban garage after a Washington trip and seized $7,000 worth of Scotch whisky and the car that carried it. An anonymous phone tip led to the raid where 16 cases were found in the tonneau. Local hooch fans valued the whisky at $40 a quart.
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Des Moines
Washington
WE. E. Robb
Robb
Cuba Secures Large Sugar Loan in New York Talk
Havana reports a potential twenty million dollar loan to Cuba aimed at stabilizing the Spandau crisis through sugar marketing. Shipments to the United States would back the loan with warehouse certificates. In Washington, Senator Borah introduces a naval disarmament proposal seeking negotiations with Britain and Japan to curb future naval construction.
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Havana
Cuba
New York
Ptay
United States
Washington, D. C
Borah
Idane
Great Britain
Japan
Des Moines Citizens Hire Private Detectives
Des Moines April 13. The citizens league of private residents has employed four detectives to investigate crime. Two detectives are assigned to the Stuart Jr bank robbery and murder of the night watchman. The other two tackle liquor cases in the area.
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Des Moines
Citizens’ "League
Stuart, Jr
Injured in Wreck on Q C and KC Road
Eleven passengers were injured seven seriously when three coaches on eastbound train No. 6 of the Quincy Omaha and Kansas City railroad plunged down a 20 foot embankment three miles east of Edina Missouri. Spreading rails caused the wreck.
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Quincy, I
Quincy, Omaha & Kansas, City Railroad
Edina
Quincy
Resolution Would Order Troops Home
Westminister reception plans a 730 p m service for 73 Easter Sunday members. The Westminster orchestra and a male quartet will perform. Martha McCormick will sing and Dorothy Hartsleip will read. Mrs F R Hohl chairs the entertainment committee.
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Weesutimsler Cresuyieman Cuusch
Westminster Orchestra
Martha McCormick
Dorothy Hartsleip
F. R. Hohl
Applicants Denied Full Citizenship in Cass County Naturalization
In Atlantic Iowa nine foreign born residents appeared for naturalization before Judge J B Rockafellow. Carl V Hetteson was denied after accepting a Danish passport. Stephen Davis faced continued review over military exemption. Hans C and John H Clausen were told to study the U S constitution more. Mathias Voggesser was denied for wartime exemption claim.
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Atlantic
Denmark
United States
Carl V. Hetteson
Hetteson
Cass County
J. B. Rocka
Stephen Davis
Davis
War Department
Rockafellow
A. H Bode
Federal
Naturalization Examiner
Hans C
John H. Clausen
Mathias Voggesser
Germany
Farmer Nieman Found Alive After Disappearance Near Avoca
Arthur Nieman a young farmer vanished after an apparent visit to Des Moines seeking help for an invention. Authorities and family searched widely with many sightings reported. the pair say he left home due to family and financial troubles and is now believed to be in Kansas City.
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Atlantic
Arthur Nieman
Avoca
Des Moines
Kansas City
Nieza4
Nieman
Move Eight Story Building Without Bothering Occupants
Engineers moved an eight story steel and brick Pittsburgh building eight feet north of its original foundation as Second Avenue widened to form part of the Boulevard of the Allies. The 490000 ton structure including basement and sidewalks remained in use during the move with no furniture removal and workers at their desks.
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Pittsburgh
Second Avenue
Kids Mulligan Fire Halts Train Service in Iowa Approach
Eight wooden spans of the Iowa approach to the Burlington Missouri River bridge between Pacific Junction and Plattsmouth were destroyed by fire late Monday. Small boys cooking under the bridge started the blaze. officers surprised them and they fled. The flames were fanned by a high wind but rains were expected to dampen the fire today, according to W. F. Thiehoff, Burlington general manager west of the Missouri River.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Neb
Iowa
Burlington Railway
Rock Island Holding Wage Cut Meetings Under Way
Chicago April 13 Employees of the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad began a series of conferences with President Beacom and other system officials. The subject under discussion is wage cuts across all classes of employees, with meetings to continue through tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Beacom
Galliant Flour Advertisement Teases Make Good Offer
An old newspaper ad fragment promotes Galliant Flour with a fade to Make Good appeal. The readable text hints at a product promotion and a customer assurance program, typical of mid century grocery advertising.
Four Players Lead Prospect Park Tennis Tournament
The West High tennis event at Prospect Park has yielded strong players John Banton Bert Simmons Jack Williams and Mirlin Stimson. Elimination rounds are underway with champion matches set for the year future. Doubles have also shown promise with Simmons and Banton first among pairs.
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West High
Prospect Park
John Banton
Bert Simmons
Jack Williams
Mirlin Stimson
Simmons
Banton
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