Jones Under Fire for Moore Murder Case Probe
Red Oak Iowa December 14 grand jury may pursue Villisca ax murder ties stemming from Jones Wilkerson slander verdict. County attorney elect Oscar Wenstrand notes possible further probe query questioned if denial of damages could imply murder indictment. Attorneys say appeal possible if higher court review occurs. special prosecutor may be used before grand jury.
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Red Oak
Villisca
Joe Moore
Jones- Wilkerson
Oscar Wenstrand
Montgomery County
Weinstrand
Jones
Jones-Wilkerson
Council Bluffs
Eee
Good Fellows Urge Early Donations For Christmas Cheer
Good Fellows push to enroll as active members and gather large contributions as Christmas nears to fund Good Cheer for needy families orphans and those without homes. Women on the investigation committee will meet tomorrow at 3 p.m. at 617 Lafayette Street to study cases and advise on gifts.
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Neady
Committee of Investigation
Good Fellows
Lafayette Street
Good Fellows Need Aid For Waterloo Children In Winter
An informal group titled Good Fellows aims to aid Waterloo children facing disappointment at Christmas by providing useful gifts for winter. The Outlook circle of Grace M. E. church contributed 48 cents by error to a different fund. the Courier and Reporter acts as treasurer, ensuring every cent funds the intended relief.
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Waterloo
Outlook Circle
Grace M. E. Church
Nounter
Courier
Altho
Quaker Oats Plant Explosion Kills and Injures
In Paterboro Ontario an explosion in the Quaker Oats plant engine room collapsed walls and started a fire. Twelve workers were rescued and rushed to hospital with severe injuries as crews worked to reach others still trapped.
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Paterboro
Ont
Quaker Oats
Back Broken Ten Years Dies in Chicago
Oscar Samuelson, who lived with a broken back for over a decade, died in Chicago. The question of whether the government should pay for his injury is pending in Congress. Samuelson was hurt while working for the federal reclamation service near Cody, Wyoming, and was brought to a North Side hospital for treatment after losing funds. Congressman Fred Britton introduced a bill to bear the expenses.
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Chicago
Oscar Samuelson
Northside
Congress
Samuelson
Federal Reclamation Service
Cody
Wyo
Fred Britton
Germany tells Swiss to mind own business
Paris Dec 11 Germany replies to the Swiss note on the Belgian deportations. The dispatches say the reply is politely worded yet makes clear Switzerland has no ground to interfere unless its own interests are affected.
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Paris
Germany
Belgium
Berne
Switzerland
Waterloo Birds Win State Poultry Show Champions
George W. Marsh of Waterloo was high in the White Wyandotte class at the state poultry show in Des Moines coliseum. The Waterloo entries won the championship on cocks and first prize on hens. Marsh previously won first prize at the Panama exposition in San Francisco with Iowa Wyandottes.
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Des Moines
Der
George W. Marsh
Waterloo
Coliseum
Marsh
Iowa Wyandottes
San Francisco
Supreme Court to Hear Adamson Law Arguments January 8
Washington reports that arguments on the constitutionality of the Adamson eight hour law were set for January 8 by the Supreme Court. The notice appears in the daily recap of federal and interstate communications matters with other rulings noted from New Haven and Pennsylvanian cases. The Dec. 11 items include dismissal of appeals for immunity in the New Haven railroad prosecution and a ruling limiting the ICC on tank car access.
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Washington, D. C
Supreme Court
New Haven
New York
John L. Billard
William Skinner
James S. Elton
Department of Justice
Interstate Commerce Commission
William Rockefeller
Davis
Elliard
Skinner
Elton
New York Court
Pennsylvania Railroad
Long Salt Development Company
St. Lawrence River
Will or Pet Case Young Man Held in Des Moines
Des Moines Chief of Police Charles Jackson announced the arrest at Sparta Illinois of Kimmage Widener, 23, of Des Moines, on murder charges linked to an Op death case. Widener is to be extradited to Des Moines for trial as investigators probe poison sources and a claim of impropriety from the deceased.
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Des Maines
Sparta
Ill
Kimmage Widener
Charles Jackson
Orpet
Waukegan
Widener
Des Moines
Self
Elizabeth Watts
Jackson
Paper Delivery Contact and Redelivery Instructions
If the newspaper is not delivered by 6 o clock caller should phone 3330 for a copy. After 6 30 tele phone No 2.
Offer Compromise on Oil Land Grab
Washington D C Dec 11 California oil prospectors whose claims would be legalized by the Phelan amendment to the oil land leasing bill, opposed by the navy department as it threatens the naval fuel reserve, propose a compromise. They would urge Standard Oil and associates to relinquish center section one of California oil tracts, leaving 28 000 acres entirely for the government naval reserve, prompting the navy to drop opposition to releases for claimants to section two.
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Washington, D. C
California
Phelan
Congress
Navy Department
Naval Fuel Reserve
Standard Oil and Associated Companies
Naval Reserve
Teutons Press On Against Roumanians In Wallachia Front
German and Bulgarian forces push through rain to pursue retreating Roumanians, taking prisoners as the Russians hammer Austro-German lines in Moldavia. Roumanian defense shifts along the Buzeu river, while new Bulgarian troops threaten eastern Wallachia. In Macedonia and the Franco-Belgian front, artillery activity persists with limited gains. Petrograd reports Roumanians briefly regain positions east of Ploedhti after a Teutonic push.
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Berlin
Sayville
von Mackensen
Bucharest
Buzeu
Moldavia
Petrograd
Ploechti
Buzau
Danube
Makh Spfand
Wallachia
Tephernavotia
Silistria
Tchernavoda
Hungary
Roumania
Macedonia
Monastir
Somme
London
Ploedhti
War Office
Small Nations in Appeal to America Conference in Washington
Foreign-born leaders gather in Washington for a conference of oppressed or dependent nationalities called by Miss Jane Addams and other women peace advocates. Representatives outline hopes for independence and seek U S participation in the peace conference after the war. The conference closes with a dinner tonight.
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Washington, D. C
Dee
United States
Jane Adams
German Pledge Seen Broken in Marina Case
Washington reports that Germany’s pledges to the United States appear violated after the torpedoing of the British cruiser Marlin with six American casualties. Awaited full details on the Arabia case to determine next steps and a possible new note to clarify interpretations of armed ship protections.
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Washington, D. C
Marlin
Germany
United States
Arabia
Mae
Sussex
Big baseball leagues to hold annual meetings
New York December 11. The International league opened its annual session today and the National league session follows tomorrow with the league magnates meeting in Chicago after. The International league plans a 112 game schedule ending August 5 and a 48 game series with the American association. Minor leaguers threaten a strike over travelling expenses and the disability clause. A new minor league board of arbitration is to be discussed by leaders Barrow Hickey Caldwing and is to travel to Chicago for talks with the American league.
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New York
International League
National League
League
Magipates
Chicago
Fultz
Players’ Fraternity
Board of Arbitration
American League
French Destroyer Yatagan Reported Sunk in Collision
Berlin reports via overseas news that the French destroyer Yatagan was sunk in a collision with a British transport. The vessel, 187 feet long and 107 tons displacement, built in 1900, carried nine 9 pound guns, six 2 pounders, and two torpedo tubes.
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Berlin
Sayville
L. 1
Say
Yatagan
Immigration Debate Shifts to Closed Senate Session
Washington December 11. Senator Works of California attacked a senate committee amendment to the immigration bill that would remove any reference to the gentlemen's passport agreement between the United States and Japan. The issue prompted a closed door session due to treaty rights involved.
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Washington, D. C
Works
California
Senate
United States
Japan
Federal Council of Churches Holds Final Sessions
In St Louis Missouri final sessions of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America begin today with the executive committee to meet Tuesday morning to elect a chairman and a general secretary.
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St. Louis
Convention of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America
Grandson of Sam Houston Dies in Austin Texas
Captain J. H. Morrow of the Texas national Board and a grandson of General Sam Houston died in Austin on December 11. He served in the United States army with postings in the Philippines and Hawaii. BI Vergo promotes 16¢ Clear.
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Sam Houston
MES
Austin, Tex
Capain J. H. Morrow
Texas National Board
United States Army
Philippines
Hawaii
Federal probes into high cost of food and coal
Three investigations into rising food prices and coal costs begin in Chicago with grand jury actions planned across New York, Chicago, Detroit, Toledo and Cincinnati. Officials say no coal shortage just price gouging. hearings on cold storage and food speculation also under way. President Wilson monitoring the data ahead of federal actions.
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New York
Sim- Mar
Chicage
Detroit
Toledo
Cincimnati
Frank Swackar
Speolal
Department of Justice
Thia
Swackher Wald
Chicago
Retail Grocers’ Association
Frank B Connolly
San Francissco
Federal Grand Jury
State Public Utilities' Commission
Grand Jules
Washington, D. C
United States
Anderson
Boston
Department
Wilson Spudtes
White House
Wilsner
Mr. Anderson
State Hotel Men Convene Tomorrow
The annual Iowa State Hotel Men's association convention opens tomorrow at the Irving hotel for a two day session with large and small hotels represented. Expected attendance exceeds 100. Wives join a box party at a local theatre. delegates register in the morning and attend a luncheon hosted by Jacob Levingston of Hotel Russell-Lamson. Mayor Law gives the welcome, and city tours will follow. Headquarters will be at Russell-Lamson.
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Iowa State Hotel Men's Association
Irving Hotel
Jacob Levingston
Hotel Russseh-Lamson
W. R. Law
The
Russell-Lamson
Boy Tries to Loan Gun by Force Ends in Death
Fort Dodge dec 11 Verna Inter mit a boy about to pound a 22 calibre shell into an old ate erm when the cartridge exploded causing a fatal wound at his home late Sunday afternoon.
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Fort Dodge
Verna
Mit
Verdun Hero to Succeed Joffre as Army Chief
Private Paris advices report the Verdun defense hero, General Petain, to take command from General Joffre. The French chamber of deputies reportedly approved radical wartime reforms, centralizing management under a small war council. Petain, once a colonel at the war’s start, rises to supreme command of western Allied forces.
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Verdun
Joffre
Washington
Paris
Vrench
Chamber of Deputies
Petain
Concentra Con
Amall Council
Ngvarnd
Constantine Demands Create Greece Demobilization Crisis
London reports entente note to Greece near presentation outlining drastic demands. Aimed to restore entente control over mobilization telegraphs and railways and release imprisoned Venizelist leaders. Athens dispatches describe calm conditions as allied fleets move away and revolts arise in Cyclades. The Hydra battleship reportedly intercepts King Constantine messages to Berlin.
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London
Athens
Greece
Veniaeliste
Islands
Cyclades
Aegean Sea
Hydra
Constantine
Berlin
Two Die When Train Hits Auto Near Eagle Grove
Eagle Grove, Dec 11. Dark K. Keith, a jeweler, and Miss Kate Ballard were killed instantly when the automobile they rode in was struck by a Chicago Great Western train two miles west of town. Both victims were prominent in this section.
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Eagle Grove
Dark K. Keith
Kate Ballard
Chicago Great Western
Red Cross Seals On Sale Thursday in Waterloo
Red Cross Christmas seals will be sold Thursday in Waterloo despite an unfinished committee order. About 6 000 seals from the first shipment were returned, now to be offered in department stores, post office, and other holiday centers. Chairman Marion Chapman hopes the remaining seals arrive soon but the sale proceeds with on hand stock.
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Red Cross
Waterloo
Misa Marion Chapman
Waterloo Streets Bare of Yuletide Coloring
Waterloo and Cedar Falls report little street decoration efforts this year though shop windows gleam with festive displays. Merchants show no coordinated campaign to decorate main streets, yet downtowns feature holly, mistletoe, greenery, and brighter colors in storefronts and public areas.
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Waterloo
Cedar Falls
Main Street
Three Men to Have Charge of War's Conduct
London sources reveal a new war cabinet composition as Lloyd George forms a government. Bonar Law Henderson Curzon Milner and Andrew Bonar Law named for leadership. dictator-like powers discussed. premier ill with a severe chill.
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London
Lloyd- George
House of Commons
Hoves
Bonar Law
WAR Council
Mr. Lloyd-George
Lora Bilmner
Earl Car 702
Andrew Bonar Law
Arthur Henderson
White
Lloyd-George
Asquith
Althate
War Cabinet
Mes Lloyd-George
Lord Milner
Henderson
Hous of Commons
House of Lords
Earl Curzon
Admiralty
Buckingham Palace
King George
Wife Won't Sell Price Is Too Low
In a suit for specific performance John T Muldoon seeks court orders directing Mary Lyons to join her husband William Lyons in signing a deed to the north easterly 20 feet of the southwesterly 50 feet of lot 7 DuBois addition or, failing that, naming the clerk of the courts as commissioner to sign for her. If neither option, he seeks 10000 pounds damages. Muldoon states an agreement of sale in 1912 and that he built a house at 7500 dollars with 2500 dollars in improvements and taxes paid. Lyons signed the deed December 7 1922 but refuses to sign, claiming the property was bought too cheaply.
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John T. Muldoon
Mary Lyons
William Lyons
Muldoon
Mra Lyons
Lyons
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Zimmerman
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Tovar
Qupreme Court
Adamson Law
Witneses
Teutons
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International
Federal Church Council
New York City
State Hotel
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Curzon
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