Governors Conference Opens in Harrisburg on Power Debate
Two score governors gather in the Pennsylvania Senate chamber for the twelfth annual conference hosted by Gov. William C. Sproul. Speakers urge decentralization, park legislation, and uniform laws while discussing federal authority and state sovereignty amid wide regional representation.
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Associates Press
Harrisburg
New England
Pacific States
Great Lakes
Rio, Grande
Pennsylvania
Senate
William C. Sproul
Simon Baimberger
Utah
Campbell
Arizona
Sproul
Parker
Louisiana
W. L. Harding
Iowa
Gov. Cooper
South Carolina
Lfe
Washington
National Conference On Uniform
Pes M. Hargest
Prussian Assembly Debates Hohenzollern Salary Transfer
In Berlin disorder erupted in the Prussian Assembly during a debate on transferring Hohenzollern property to the state and funding a family income. Herr Heilmann argued against pensions, warning it could feed pretensions to the German throne while conservatives clashed with Socialists and missiles were hurled.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Herr Heilmann
Germany
Hohenzollerns
German Republic
Herr Kaufmann
Herr Hoffmann
Arkansas Governor Elect Visits Ames College Tour
Arkansas governor elect Thomas Mc Rae and about fifteen legislators toured Iowa State College at Ames. The party, hosted by President Pierson and professors Stevenson and Mc Candlish, toured all departments and the farm, then attended a luncheon where Mc Rae spoke. They planned departure for Des Moines that afternoon.
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Associated Press
Ames
Thomas McRae
Arkansas
Iowa State College Toam
Pierson
Stevenson and
McCandlish
McRae
Des Moines
Coolidge Receives Honor From Scots Charitable Society
Vice President elect Coolidge was made an honorary member of Boston's Scots Charitable Society at its twenty third annual dinner. He praised the strength of Scots in Massachusetts and paid tribute to Scottish home life as part of American society.
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Associated Provs
Boston
Mass
Coolidge
Scots’ Charitable Society of
United States
Massachusetts
Smith Woman Headed for Mexico Is Sought in Hannon Death
Clara Smith, wanted in Ardmore for the death of Jake L. Hannon, Republican national committeeman, is believed moving toward Mexico. County attorney Russell E. Brown said she left Ardmore, passed through Durant and Denison, Dallas and Cisco buying a ticket to El Paso.
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Ardmore
Okla
Clara Smith
Jake L. Hannon
el Paso
Tex
Russell E. Brown
Smith
Durant
Denison
Dallas
Cisco
Partridges From North Carolina Governor Note Visit to White House
Gov Bickett and his son called at the White House to present a supply of partridges they shot on a recent hunting trip. The gift was received by Secretary Tumulty.
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Associated Press
Bickett
North Cerolina
White House
Wilson
Tumuity
Judge Rules Marriage Ban Unlikely to Stand
Kentucky county judge dismisses Walter Thornton and wife from custody as complaint cites a law barring marriage between a son-in-law and his mother-in-law. The case involves an ex-mother-in-law and claims a later trial may test the statute. Independent dispatches note football star George Gipp's pneumonia and fading prospects, with Notre Dame family at his bedside.
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Associated Press
Paducah. Ky
Kentucky
Lang
Walter Thornton
Farmer
Effie Hall
George Gipp
South Bend
Ind
Notre Déeme Football
French Communist Leaders Die in Sea Tragedy
Three French Communist leaders who attended the Moscow congress perished in the wreck of a sailing boat off Mourmansk, a Stockholm dispatch reports. The leaders were part of the French Communist movement and were based in Mourmansk.
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Associated Press
Paris
Moscow
Mourmansk
Stockholm
Weather summary for Iowa and Minnesota region
Weather forecast from the U S Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau lists cities Albert Lea Charles City Cedar Rapids Des Moines Dubuque Mason City Marshalltown New Hampton Postville Waterloo and Owatonna in its coverage area. Three day outlook notes general conditions with temperature patterns and precipitation chances across the listed locales.
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U. S. Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Charies City
Albert Lea
Minn
Alsona
Charles City
Cedar Rapints
Davenport
Des Moines
Dubuque
Paribank
Las Grosse
Wis Masonity
Marshalltown
New Bamieter
Postville
Waterfoo
Waverts
Austria Accepted as League Member by Commission
Geneva December 1 Austria was unanimously voted a member of the League of Nations by the commission for the admission of new states. Bulgaria’s admission is opposed by Serbia Greece and Romania. Budget approval for the league was debated with objections from New Zealand Australia and India over the size of 7 000 000 francs in gold. The league council unanimously approved inviting a U S representative to join the military commission for consultative purposes.
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The
Associates Press
Geneva
Austria
League of Nations
League
Bulgaria
Assembly of the League
Serbia
Greece
Roumania
Esterday
New Zealand
Australia
India
Albert Thomas
France
International Labor Bureau
Eric Drumsmond
Lleague
Economic Commission
Mmore
U.S
League Council Today
Military Commission
United States
Washington
Professor Has New Prune Development Outlined
Wilmington report on Prof L Détien of Delaware College announcing at the Peninsula Horticultural Society convention that the “perfect prune” will be grown in America. He described a superprune evolved from a domestic plum and said it would be the first American variety adapted to prune use, replacing European varieties.
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Associated Press
Wilmington
Del
America
L. Détien
Delaware College
Peninsula Horticultural Society
Detjea
Harding party faces rough passage on homeward voyage
On the steamship Pastores Senator Harding and his vacation party endured rough weather on the return voyage from Port Antonio. A brief stop at Famair occurred earlier, with Harding resting in his stateroom as the storm continued, making travel uncomfortable for most aboard.
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Harding
Pastores
Associated Press
Ue Taslores
Famair
Port Antonio
Tardingecain
LhAr
Noeiods
Good Fellows Plan Christmas Gift Drive in Waterloo
The Good Fellow club launches its annual Christmas distribution for underprivileged children. A fund of about 3000 is needed to cover gifts and related expenses, with 1158.25 carried from 1919. Volunteers from Social Welfare League, Boy Scouts, and local schools will repair and collect toys, with offices at the courthouse and contact through the Courier.
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Santa Claus
Good Fellow
Social Welfare League
League
Fred A. Sporle
Waterloo
Iof
Laura Wilhelmson
iSocial Welfare League
Tthe
The
Good Fellowsesult
Ray L. Short
Waterloo Council
Boy Scouts of Ameica
Good Fellows
Wl White
Mmanual Training
East [High School
Doners
East High Manual Training Training Department
White
George V. Jensen
Fred Frehse
Manual Training
West High School
West
Boy Scouts
S. M. Wallace
West High
Good Fellows Fund
Davenport Car Franchise Fight Ends in Arrests
Davenport officials and Tri-City Rail Car Co. crews were arrested on charges of failing to operate trains under the franchise terms. Ten trainmen and conductors face trial, as the company announces reductions on Fourth Street and related lines amid a tense city dispute. The president is expected to be arrested on his return Thursday.
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Davenport
Tri-City Railcar Company
Screechfield
Hunter
Roderick
B. F
Denman
Fourth Street
Third Street
Scote Street
Warren
Socialist City
Fire Destroys Merchantile Building and Nearby Homes in Jasper
Fire originates in Crawford Mercantile building in Jasper Alabama and rapidly spreads, consuming 20 basins of houses and 10 residences and damaging blocks including the Southern Bell Telephone and Western Union Telegraph properties, First National Bank, and Southern Hotel as winds drive the blaze. total loss estimated around $590,000.
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Jasper
Ala
Crawford Mercantile Company
Warly
Southern Bell Teephone Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
First
Naional Bank
Southern Hotel
Whisky request leads to murder in saloon incident
Two men were shot to death and another wounded in a saloon when a patron asked for whisky and the barkeeper served near beer. Victims named Anthony Green ity and Andrew Barnesky were killed by gunfire, one shot through the heart and the other through the head.
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Associated Press
Anthony Greenity
Andrew Barnesky
Mutinous Chinese Troops Loot I Chang City
Dispatches report troops in I Chang mutinied seized the city set it on fire and looted banks and foreign businesses. The incident affects a city of about 40 060 with roughly 706 foreigners, per messages received by Robert Doar company and British American Tobacco.
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Shanghai
China
1-Chang
Hu-Peh
Robert Doar Company
British-American, Tobacco Company
Scots Snuff Fest Replaces Toasts At Banquet
Boston December 1 The Scottish Charitable Society held its anna banquet reviving an old custom with Scottish snuff passed to guests including Governor Calvin Coolidge. Sneezes filled the room as Prof Charlton Black recalled a Scottish warning about overindulgence.
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Boston
Scots' Charitable Society
Calvin Coolidge
Charlton Black
Boston University
Labor Seeks End to Violence in Ireland via Conferences
Dublin reports of a labor commission proposing immediate talks among the Irish Labor party the Catholic hierarchy and the labor commission to curb violence. Six men detained in Southampton as suspected Sinn Fein agents were released and UK police raid Dublin Sinn Fein offices with no arrests. Killings near Kilmichael Cork and Macroom police incidents are under inquiry.
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London
Southampton
County Louth
Labor
Dublin
Ireland
Labor Commission of Inquiry
Labor Party
Great Britain
Ccomimission
Irish Labor Party
Peace Conference
Cork
Kilmichael
Maecroom
Macroom
Milan
Italy
Trish
Lombardy
Milk Price Cut in Chicago Goes to 14 Cents a Quart
Chicago December 1 Milk Producers association announced December price cut of 24 cents per hundred pounds lowering the price to $2.60. The drop equals 1 cent per quart bringing Chicago consumers to 14 cents a quart. Unsettled conditions lower feed costs and wheat decline cited as reasons for the cut.
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Chicago
Milk Producers’ Association Today
Fall From Wagon Kills Farmer in Centar Town
Associated Press reports 45 year old farmer August Sondermeyer of Centar township died after a fall from a wagon load of corn. He struck his head on a concrete floor while kneeling to unfasten the end gate and later died at a local hospital.
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Conway
Lester’ O'Hapnert
Lester March
Aithe March
Td'happert
Dubaque
August Sondermeyer
Centar Townshin
Ding
Courier delivery deadline and reprint service notice
The Courier will be delivered to your home before 3 30. If you do not receive by that time due to carrier error or other cause, call 33380 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls should reach the office before 6 30 p m.
American Friends in Front Ranks at Obregon Ceremony
Well wishers from Arizona New Mexico and California attended Obregon's inauguration as Mexico's president. Telegrams from border chambers of commerce report a large patriotic demonstration. Obregon pledged to aid American capital and extend the railroad from Kansas City to Chihuahua City. Washington move to resume full diplomatic relations seeks treaty basis via commissioners.
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el Paso
Tex
Mexico
Arizona
New Mexico
California
Qobregon
Chambers of Commerce and Friends
Obregon
Kansas City
Kansas Citico & Orient Railroad
Washington, D. C
Shepas States
Colby
Roberto VW
Pesquiera
Washington
M. Pesquiera
Mexico City
Cummins Backs Former Senator Clapp for I C C Post
Washington reports that Senator Cummins and other Republican leaders back former Senator Moses Clapp of Minnesota for membership on the Interstate Commerce Commission. Clapp and Cummins collaborated on railroad legislation, with support from Senators Norris and Grenna expected to aid the appointment. Clapp actively aided the Iowa Republican campaign, contributing to Cummins’ large Iowa victory margin.
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Washington
Waterloo Evening Courier
D. C
Lator Cummings
Moses &. Clapp
Minnesota
Interstate Commerce Commission
Cummins
Interstate Commerce Committee
The
Senate
Clapp
Norris
Nebraska
Grenna
North Dakota
Waterloo Milk Price Cut Across City
Milk dealers announce a city wide price reduction with quarts dropping from 15 to 14 cents and pints from 9.5 to 8 cents. No change to price of special milk or cream.
Hampton Physician Appointed Captain in Army Medical Corps
Dr. Arthur C. Rhine of the Lutheran hospital in Hampton Iowa receives a captaincy in the Army Medical Corps from the War Department in Washington. The appointment announced December 1 reflects recognition of his service.
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Washington, D. C
Speciak.j
Arthur C. Rhine
Lutheran Hospital
Hampton, Ia
Army Medical Corps
War Department
Shores of Europe Lined by Waiting Emigrants 1000
Fifteen million Europeans seeking passage to the United States, from all classes, are reported by 17 trans Atlantic steamship lines to immigration commissioner Wallis. Seaports abroad are crowded, passport offices besieged, as 5 006 000 Germans and Austrians await sailing upon peace with their governments. Wallis to confer with congressional immigration committees in Washington.
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New York
Dec. L
Europe
United States
trans-Atlantic Steamship Company
Frederick A. Wallis
Ellis Island
Wallis
Washington
House
Gene
Armenia mediation sparks League acceptance of Wilson role
Geneva reports President Wilson has accepted mediation in Armenia. Spain and Brazil offered to join, and the council discussed a possible conference with Mustafa Kemal Pasha. Baker declined comment while Paris and Chicago send mixed responses amid hopeful relief over a humanitarian solution.
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Associated Press
Geneva
Wilson
Armenia
Council of the
League of Nations
Council
Europe
Agay Lhat
A.J. Balfour
Mustapha Kemal
Robert Cecil
United States
Fridtjof Nansen
Spain
Brazil
Constantinople
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Washington
Baker
D. C
Leonard Wood
Armenian Committee
Paris
Wood
Chicago
Sixth Army Corps
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