State Lew Raises Iowa Tax Levy to 46 Mills
After six weeks of hearings the Iowa State Executive Council set the state tax levy for the year ending June 30 at 46 mills, up one mill and two quarters from last year. The council boosted railroads and utility valuations while exempting about 34 million dollars of property under the soldier exemption law, aiming to raise roughly 16 million dollars for the 39th General Assembly’s appropriation.
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Tes Moines
State Executive Council
Fri
Gay
General Assembly
Kendall
Iowa
R. BE. Johnson
Council
Gov
Executive Council
Toye
State
Spanish Army in Morocco Increases Troop Presence
A mixed dispatch reports shifts in North African operations with Spain expanding forces in Melilla and Tetuan to about fifty thousand as conflict looms. Meanwhile urban districts note disorders and personal disputes, including a boxing exhibition incident in Chicago and a distracted court scene over a ring.
Kitchen Helper With 506 Proposals Dies Unmarried
Chicago Aug 13 A kitchen helper Andrew McKnight who received 506 marriage proposals over the years failed to decide which to accept and died a bachelor. Officials found letters and a certificate from a marriage bureau in his trunk after his death in a local hotel.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Andrew McKnight
McKnight
Tariff Debate Shapes Senate On Shipping And Farm Demand
The piece argues tariff policy must align with shipping plans as the nation builds a great mercantile fleet. It notes German reparations spawn unpredictable effects on world trade, pressing senators, especially farmers, to push for a tariff reflecting agricultural needs while seeking flexible trade measures amid looming disarmament talks.
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America
Shipping Board
Germany
Great Britain
France
Hughes
Hoover
Mellon
Weeks
Eugene Merer
War ‘Finance, Corporation
Senate
Jed
Europe
New York Evening Fest Inc
White House Tax Plan Aims to Ease Business Burden
An official White House statement outlines a tax revision plan to raise revenue with certainty, ease collections, and equitably distribute burdens. It argues the rich would pay a larger share but measures claim to avoid harming business, with exemptions for small corporations and a shift from nuisance taxes to manufacturer taxes. The Ways and Means Committee nears completion of levy revisions and expects a draft for Republican conference consideration.
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Elas
House
Flames Threaten Entire City of Pinsk
Fire has wiped out the heart of Pinsk, Poland, described as a conflagration that began Wednesday and threatens to destroy the entire city. Cable advices to the American relief administration warn of starvation among residents. Five of six relief kitchens were destroyed, but the warehouse survived enabling workers to issue double rations.
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Associated Press
New York
Pinsk
Poland
American Relief Administration
Siéi
Accidentally Shoots and Kills His Chum
Sioux City Aug 13 Leland Richards Sloan was with friend Jack Mee Comas 12 years old when a watermelon patch outing ended in tragedy. A stray shot killed the boy and left Richards hysterical, unable to explain how the accident happened.
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Nesociatea
Sioux City
Leland Richards
Sloan
Jack” Mee "Comas
Yesterder
Young Richards
Police Patrol Crash Injures Woman in Des Moines
Three people were injured when a Des Moines police patrol collided with a car today. Mrs. G. Humphrey, occupant of the other vehicle, was seriously hurt and may die, according to physicians.
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Associatee Press
Des Moines
Peace Officers Ordered From County Near Sharples
Two state troopers and two deputy sheriffs were surrounded and disarmed by armed men near Sharples, Logan County, last night. They were ordered out and told not to return, according to advices received by Sheriff Chatin.
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Associated Press
Logan
W. Va
State Police
Sharples
Chatin
Landlady Holds Man’s Children as Security for Rent
Chicago news report states John Horndt swore out a warrant against Mrs. John Gill after his two children were kept by the landlady due to unpaid rent. Horndt hopes to recover his children soon, claiming a large hospital bill for his wife and eviction when rent was overdue.
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Associated Press
Chicago
John Horndt
John Gill
Horndt
Claims Burch Threatened to Get Kennedy
Los Angeles August 13 The district attorney's office produced witness Mrs James C Warren wife of a Santa Barbara banker claiming Arthur C Burch warned he would get Kennedy before the murder She said Burch confided this on a Los Angeles bound train Warren declined to discuss the testimony publicly An additional report ties Ralph Obenchain former husband of Madalynne Obenchain to the Kennedy case and indicates he may influence her statement He is en route from Chicago and expected to assist in her defense with A W Burch father of Arthur C Burch also indicted for the murder in attendance
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Waited Press
Los Angeles
Cal
District Attorney's
Arthur C. Burch
John Belton Kennedy
Kennedy
James C. Warren
Santa Barbara
Chicago
Santa Fe
Obenchain
Hev. A. W. Burch
Evanston
Arthur Courtney Burch
Squawman Avenges Ruin of Daughters
Gus Barr surrendered to the chief of police after shooting and killing Percy Steifer 22 in front of a pool hall. Barr, a squawman, claimed he sought revenge for the ruin of his daughters, graduates of an Indian school at Genoa Nebraska. Steifer left a wife and two children in Niobrara.
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Gus-Barr
Percy Steifer
Barr
Genoa
Neb
Steifer
Nioibrara
World gold reserve proposed to stabilize global finance
Alfred Owen Crozier urged merging the world’s entire gold supply into a single reserve. He predicted the Washington disarmament conference could birth a permanent association of nations and a world bank with self-financing profits. He noted about 8 million ounces of gold remain, a fraction of debt and international assets underpinning the current system.
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United, Press
New York
Alfred Owen Crozier
Crozier
Washington
World Bank
Association of Nations
United States
Allied Council 10 Takes Up Silesian Question Aug 20
Paris reports Viscount Ishii to summon the Allied Council for August 20 to consider a solution to the Upper Silesian dispute. Britain and France face possible majority decisions as Briand may accept a non unanimous verdict while students in Paris rally with posters backing France. Berlin notes only a brief bulletin on the decision and hints at German disappointment. The supreme council deadlocked again over allied evacuation of German territories and Rhine trade barriers as Curzon presses for withdrawal.
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Associated Press
Paris
Viscount Ishi
Council of the
Ejleague of Nations
Council of the League
Briand
Stidénts
Great Britain
I Berlina
Berlin
Supreme Council
Lord Curzon
Germany
Iva
Stealing Food Front Chicago Doorsteps Crime Wave
Chicago police chief Fitzmorris warned of rising thefts of doorstep groceries in poorer districts. He said unemployment may trigger a severe crime wave as families ration meals and cookless districts face shortages. The estimate suggests about 100 such incidents citywide.
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Chicago
Associated Press
Fitzmorris
Middlewests
Twenty One Gates Graduates Receive Diplomas
Waterloo Business College commencement at Westminster Presbyterian Church last night. Total graduates for the year reached 52 with 31 in March. Program featured addresses, music, diploma and certificate presentations by Miss Mary S. Harner and Almon F. Gales. honor graduate Evelyn Decker spoke on education and success. several speakers covered business topics. Names of graduates listed by hometown include Evalyn M. Decker Janeville, Leonard Bundy Cedar Falls, James Forrester Jr. Waterloo, Lucille Gerk Waterlo o, Emma M. Robinson Grandy, and many others.
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Waterloo Business College
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Mary S. Harner
Almon F. Gales
Evelyn Decke
Joseph A. Burnham
Lema P. Eddy
Emma M. Robinson
Sam
George Ellickson
James Forrester
Evalyn M. Decker
Janesville
Léonard Bundy
Cedar Falls
James Forrester, Jr
Tried for Murder 29 Years After Crime
Estevan Tovar went to trial in district court at Eagle Pass Texas on a murder charge twenty nine years after the alleged crime. The case was forgotten until last summer when a quarrel with friends sparked new information from associates leading to his arrest and impending trial.
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Associated Press
Eagle Pass
Tex
Estevan Tovar
District l Cpurt
Victim of Infantile Paralysis Crowned Watseka Queen
EMMA LAUX, a former child victim of infantile paralysis confined to a wheel chair who now walks with crutches, was chosen Watseka Illinois queen. She visited Chicago with other Dixie Highway queens as the town’s representative and telephones operator. A judge called her both beautiful and typical, chosen to let other cities judge Watseka by her.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Emam Laux
Watseka, Ll
Pagean of Progress
Dixie Highway
Laux
Watseka
Emma Laux
Stolen War Stamps Identified By Paw Paw Postmaster
Aug 13 identified 31 000 dollars worth of postal savings stamps found in Worthington’s safe during a federal search of the Paw Paw office and deposit boxes. John Worthington, alleged mastermind of mail robberies, linked to a bank robbery a year earlier. Authorities hailed the stamps as first firm proof Worthington possessed stolen securities.
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United Press
Chicago
W. H. Woods
Paw
IML
John _W. Worthington
Paw Paw
Woods
Worthington
Phone Users Strike for Rate Reduction
Rural telephone subscribers in Anita, Illinois, started a strike against phone use after not receiving a promised rate cut. They served notice on Saunders, the manager, to remove their telephones, but he says no notice has been served.
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Seer
Tie Associated Press
Omaha
Neb
Anita
Ila
Saunders
Warn Farmers with Offer of Explosives
Washington May 13 The department of agriculture has 12 509 000 pounds of salvaged comparatively safe war explosives to give to farmers for land clearing. Farmers are advised to treat it with respect for the records are filled with stories of men who forgot this precaution in handling dynamite and other dangerous things.
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Behessem Press
Washington, D
Department of Agriculture
Ottumwa Man Well Known in State Dies
Ottumwa August 13 Charles A Wellman 49 prominent local business man and well known Iowa and Minnesota real estate figure and district political participant died after a two week illness. Country Club dance featured three costumes at Sunnyside Country club with Miss Louella Treloar of Chicago as guest of Mr and Mrs Francis Simpson about 150 attendees.
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Ottumwa
Save
Charless A. Wellman
Iowa
Minnesota
Louella Treloar
Chicago
Sunnyside Country Club
Relief Pact Talks Begin On Russian Food Aid
Riga August 13 negotiations over a draft treaty to safeguard food supplies sent to Russia for famine relief faced difficulties. Soviet envoy Maxim Litvinoff and American relief chief Walter Lyman Brown led talks as officials prepared for a formal pact. Four more Americans arrived in Reval, including two women, after Hughes instructed Brown to proceed.
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Associated Press
Riga
Letvia
Russia
Maxim Litvinoff
Man Brown
United Press
United States
Walter Lyman Brown
American Relief Administration
Maxim, Litvinos
Brown
Hughes
J Litvinoff
Allied Council
Paris
Allied Supreme Council
Coun‘eil
Belgium
Herbert Hoover
American Relief Commission
International Red Cross
Harvey
Supreme Council
Washington
Eddyville Farmer Killed by Thresher in Iowa
Ottumwa Iowa August 13 Associated Press Samuel Newell a 40 year old farmer living near Eddyville was killed last night after a belt on his threshing machine caught him breaking his neck Mrs Gates sister Mrs Lester of Louisville andMr Gates nephew Joseph Butham will leave Monday by car for Forest Lakes where they will spend a two week vacation
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Associated Press
Ottumwe
Samuell Newell
Eddyville
Mullan Avenue
Gates
Lester
Louisville
Street Car Service Offered Des Moines Franchise
Des Moines Aug 13. J F Coperthwaite secretary of the Retail Merchants' bureau says A W Harris interests will demand a new street car franchise as the first step to restoring street car service. The franchise proposal is being drawn in Chicago by Harris attorneys for the Trust company. M Chambers receiver will return Wednesday to present the franchise to merchants for initial consideration before City Council ratification. Merchants expect 10 days before service resumes.
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Associated Prean
Des Moines
J. F. Coperthwaite
Retail Merchants’ Bureau
A. W. Harris
Coperthwaite
Chicago
Hactis, Trust Company
M. ¥. Chambers
Merchants’ Bureau
New Fines Schedule for Chicago Drunks Announced by Court
Chicago municipal court Judge Charles F. McKinley announced changes to drunkenness fines effective Monday to offset prisoner costs. Plain drunks face 3 dollars, noisy drunks 5, those sleeping on tracks or public places 5, drunk and wanting to fight 10, drunk and fighting 10 to 25 dollars. Additional increases for misdemeanors and disorderly conduct to be announced.
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Uby
Chicago
Charles F. McKinley
Municipal Court
Tar Party Attacks Krieger Over Threats to Wife
Albert Krieger a Glendora Michigan farmer was seized by 18 men and tarred and feathered near the Indiana Michigan state line. Authorities say the assault followed threats Krieger made against his wife though no charges were filed against the attackers.
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United Press
St Joseph
Mich
Albert Krieger
Glendora
Krieger
Sioux City to Raise Hogs Upon Garbage
Sioux City officials voted to start a municipal hog project with a $2300 appropriation. Councilman James Malone bought 170 hogs to fatten on garbage, expecting the city to profit from the venture.
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Sioux City
United Press
James Malone
Extradite Con Man Oscar Jones From Des Moines
Extradition papers were issued by the governor's office for the return from Des Moines Iowa of Oscar Jones alias William Wamsher. He is wanted at Danville on a confidence game charge. Mrs Anna Young, instructor at Waterloo Business College, will spend a short vacation in St Paul during three weeks of the college.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Governor's Office
Des Moines
Oscar Jones
William Wamsher
Danville
Anna Young
Waterloo Business College
St. Paul
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