In the Spotlight of TODAY'S News Kidding the General
In a light exchange Vice President Dawes as senate president joked with Senator Harrison of Mississippi about limiting debate. The column wades through social misfortunes and political curiosities including Mrs Neal's plight, Mellie Dusham's fiddling for Ford, a waterways bill, Bellevue college's decline, Premier Kato on disarmament, and a grim murder tally from 1825.
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Dawes
Senate
Pat Harrison
Dem
Mississippi
South
Larrison
Ford Mellie Dusham
Norway
Detroit
Piay
Henry
Ford
Mellie
Mr. Ford
Maine
Perhips
Mellon Predicts Prosperous Years for U.S. and World
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon forecasts upbeat economic years for 1926, citing Dawes plan progress, improving employment and production, and cautious credit conditions. He warns against real estate speculation, notes high wartime costs, and urges debt settlement and prudent government spending while stressing international currency and trade rehabilitation efforts.
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Washington, D. C
INS
America
Secretary of the Treasury
Mellon
Congress
United States
Mollan
Dawes
Metlon
France
Harvester
San Felice
Henry Georgy
Martin Cisars
Courier Delivery Timetable and Help Line
The notice informs readers the Courier should be delivered before 5:80 oclock. If not received by then due to carrier error or other cause, call 5100 for a resend, with calls reaching the office before 6:20 p m.
Forty-Nine Murders and 311 Crisis Reports in Iowa
Des Moines reports show 49 murders and 311 personal crisis deaths in Iowa during the first ten months of 1925. Auto fatalities rose to 209, with personal crisis cases leading unnatural deaths by a wide margin, and infanticide noted once. Overall murders were two more than in 1924.
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Des Moines
Vforty-Ning
Iowa
Don M. Griswoll
Waterloo Reading Cains One Fourth Expansion of Libraries
Waterloo public libraries show growth with a 6,000 rise in November circulation to 28,645 and 295 new borrowers. The library board plans a community center on Shilliam Street and a Cedar Heights branch library station. A. C. Wilfort named president. Reed and Burt resignations noted. resolutions of appreciation planned.
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Charleston
Waterloo
Callie Wieder
Library Board
Shilliam
Grant
Mills
Coeds Heights
Brary
Padlocks on Towns Two Barber Shops
In Osten Utah on December 11 a state inspector padlocked the two barber shops in Plain City for noncompliance with the state sanitary code. The closures reflect enforcement of health standards and local disruption as residents question their access to city services.
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Osten
Utah
Plain City
Brookhart Proposes $2 Million Inland Waterways Bill
Washington D C December AP reports Senator Brookhart of Iowa introduced a senate bill proposing 2 million dollars to complete within five years six inland waterway projects on the Ohio Illinois Missouri and Mississippi rivers. The plan aims to accelerate river improvements and boost transportation and commerce nationwide.
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Brookhart
Ohio
Illinois
Mississippi
Missouri
Congress
Washington, D. C
Mwinois
Senate
Owa
Rebels Besieged as 7 Bandits Die in Damascus Clash
In Heivut, police killed seven bandits during a raid by 260 rebel marauders near the Assad quarter close to the British hospital. The attackers were halted with machine guns. French High Commissioner de Touvenel urged Diebei Druses to stop fighting and suggested a possible French controlled government if cooperation and Syria’s security are assured.
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Heivut
INS
Damascus
Assad
Theity
de Touvenel
Syria
Britain's Rights in Mosul Face Mediation Talks
Reports from Geneva say mediation efforts intensify over Mosul oil district while Britain vows to defend its rights if war is forced. Turkish forces mobilize under Mustafa Kemal and Fevzi Pasha as German-style army systems and new air capabilities emerge.
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London
INS
League of Nations’ Council
Mosul
Trak
Mustapha Kemal
Turkey
Mustapha Kema
Fevzi Pasha
Eski- Chehir
Turkish War Department
Britain
United Press
Geneva
England
L. GC. A M. OS. Amery
United Press Today
League of Nations
Tevfik Bey
Angora
League Council
Irak
Legion Auxiliary at Manchester Has Election
Manchester Ta Dec 11 The auxiliary to Manchester post American Legion elected officers for the coming year at its regular meeting Thursday led by President Mrs May Jones First Vice Mrs May Harrington Second Vice Mrs Ettie Confare Secretary Miss Jessie Maley Treasurer Mrs Emma Burbidge Chaplain Mrs Bra Lyman Historian Mrs Una Altman The group moved meetings to the first and third Tuesday nights and the planned Friday dance at Woodmen hall was held in the armory.
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Manchester
Manchester Post
American Legion
May Jones
May Harrington
Ettie Confare
Jessie Maley
Emma Burbridge
Bra Lyman
Una Altman
Legion Post
Woodmen Hall
Armory
Sofia Revolt Suppressed as Moscow Agents Accused
Sofia reports wide arrests and imprisonments in a new Bulgarian communist bid to topple the government. Agents said to have arrived from Moscow financed and organized the uprising.
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Athens
Sofia
Moscow
West High in Eligibility Dispute Over Sansone Play
Orange Township officials challenge West High Basketball player Joe Sansone claiming he is 21, making him ineligible. West High cites baptismal certificate showing birth Dec 16 1904, making him eligible until Dec 16 this year. Coach Sarff defends and promises to play Sansone amid investigation.
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Orange Township
Ralph Sarif
West High
Fred J. Kluss
George, Brown
Des Moines
Iowa High School Athletic Association
Joe Sansone
Fort Ward
Orange
Sansone
Sarff
West Iligh
Sars
West- High
Brown
State Association
West
Rose
Fred J_ Kluss
Good Fellows aid Waterloo children this Christmas drive
Three hundred ninety six local children rely on charity as the Good Fellows fund project in Waterloo expands. Donations from ISHE FUND and church groups total at least 186.73 with more canvassing today. The Business and Professional Women committee led by Mayme Bean coordinates gifts and provisions and lists several volunteers ready to receive further help.
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Drea
Waterloo
Business & Professional Women’s Club Committee
Mayme Bean
Fanny Hemen- Way
Lillian Hileman
Pauline Bas- Sarear
Wanda Dawm
W. Dives
Ruby Blam
Marie Schmidt
Elizabeth Senney
Myrtle Barr
Alice Wykoff
Margaret Walsh
Miss Egan
Galloway Company
Plainfield theft trio tied to butter theft ring
Morris Rosenbloom proprietor of Green Star grocery on Park road and two Plainfield men were arrested in connection with stealing five tubs and 150 pounds of butter from Nichols Beniley creamery. Rosenbloom allegedly sold the butter to Altstadt Langlas bakery. Ogbin and Gough are jailed.
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Morris Rosenbloom
Green Star
Park’ Road
Kenneth Ogbin
Plainfield
Glen Gough
Florence Street
Nichols & Beniley Creamery
B.A. Leighton
Rosenbloom
Altstadt & Langlas
P. E. Walker
Ogbin
Gough
O. B. Beckwith
Sherif John Hallowell
SC Bremer County
Goueh
Convict Watchman of Girls Murder in Los Angeles
Night watchman C. Stone was found guilty by a jury of two counts of first degree murder in the double slaying of the Martin sisters. The verdict included a recommendation for the death penalty. The girls disappeared August 23, 1924, and their bodies were found February 4 this year. Stone was alleged to have last been seen with them.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Mee
S. C. Stone
Martin Sisters
Ning
Baldwin Tills
Stone
Short Interviews With Home Folks
Iowa mines have no record of such catastrophes as that in Alabama yesterday where 61 miners are reported not killed. The secretary of the Advertising corporation says shallow mines avoid dangerous gas buildup. The Centerville district mines, operating 61 years, have had no fatal rock slides or gas explosions.
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Newl
Polk County
Nebraska City
District Court
Neal
Des Moines
Iowa
Alabama
Harry B. Kiester
The
Advertising Corporation
Centerville
Gibson Rules Against Endless Chain Sales
Nes Moines December 11. The endless chain method of selling merchandise was held void as against public policy in an opinion by Atty. Gen. Ben Gilson at the request of the Retail Merchants bureau.
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Nes Moines
Ben Gilson
Retail Merchans’ Bureau
Wes Moines
Russian Prima Donna Zinaida Jurjewskaya Death Mystery
Berlin reports a New York letter suggesting Zinaida Jurjewskaya, the gifted Russian soprano who died at Andermatt after a fall from Devil's Ridge, might have been lured by a Metropolitan Opera contract. Her lawyer cites the note as a factor in her decline from overwork and ambition.
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Berlin
New York
Satvad
Zinaida Jurlowskaya
Devil's Ridge
Andermatt
Switzerland
Dae
Jurjewskaya
Metropolitan Opera
York
Iowa A highway plan links county seats by surfaced roads
Des Moines reports a three year Iowa highway program totaling about 25 million dollars to connect county seats with a statewide system of graded bridged and surfaced roads. The plan, pending final approval by Gov. Hammill, envisions eight east west routes and five north south routes across the state with funds possibly increased by a 2 cent gas tax.
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Hes Moines
Skate Highway Commission
John Hammill
Highway Commission
Toad
Hammil
General Assembly
Hammin
Elie Ccne
Towa
Iowa
Des Moines
John Hanmill
State Highway Commission
Hammill
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Christian Workers' College
Nebraska
Daniel Webster
Dartmouth
Kato
Japan
U.S
Treasury
Reading Cains
Offer Gauge
Gov't TO Gerge
Vahkey
Legion Auxiliary At
Russia
Cecil Hurst
Luther
Sir Zhusten Chamberlain
M. Briand
Bennes
Czaeho
Slovakia
Count Straynski
Poland
Herr Stresmann
Germany
Chicago
CAS
West High Gager
West Hi
ISHE
First Presbyterian Church
Lotat
Gibson
OPERA
U. S
Road Commission
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