Sickness prompts immediate discharges in U S Army
The War Department authorizes immediate discharge or furlough for drafted or enlisted soldiers with convincing proof of sickness or family distress. Requests may come from the soldier, a family member, or an interested party, and must show the illness or hardship is critical. Discharges or furloughs are granted only in exceptional cases.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Pershing
War Department
Army
Department
Fershing
Ieller
Aurom
Tisk Insurance
New Berger Trial Plea Before Landis Likely to Take Day
Chicago on February 3 begins arguments on the motion for a new trial for Vic L. Berger Milwaukee coronseman elect and four Socialist readers convicted of espionage act violations. Judge Landis is expected to reserve decision for several days as Henry Cochems leads the first defense plea with Mrs. Berger in court.
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Chicago
Vicy L. Berger
Milwaukee
Ndis
Berger
Stormer Henry Cochems
Elks Benefit Performances Replenish Charity Funds
Three Majestic theater benefit shows yesterday afternoon and evening raised a substantial sum for the Elks charity fund. The event featured five vaudeville acts with the Elks quartet and local lodge members, supporting war work reconstruction hospitals and city charitable efforts. The program included Time and Tile, Love and Peanuts, Who presented Love and Nuts, Tust for a Lark, Married, and a final Elks quartet performance.
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Majestic Theatre
Elks’ Charity Fund
Elks’ Quartet
Messrs
Fish
Felsing
Wagner
Manning
Siks
Miller and Rainey
Merritt and
Bridwell
Tabor
Green
Walter 4. Howe
High Class Concert Artists Here Tonight
Baritone Hedawin Swain harpist Philip Sevasta and Josef Martin present the first UW sponsored concert at First Congregational Church tonight with three song groups and an aria. Swain sings and Martin opens with Chopin Polonaise Op. 63 in A flat before performing three other numbers including his own piece Pourquoi. Sevaste will perform six harp numbers and Sevasta is also billed for three harp pieces.
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Hedawin Swain
Philip Sevasta
Josef Martin
Manist
UW. U
First Congregational Church
Mr. Swain
Cadman
Mr. Martin
Chopin
Pourquoi
Sevaste
Y Day at Rotary Meeting Explains Y M C A Irregularities
At the Waterloo Rotary gathering held at the Hoonut Hotel, Russell Lamson outlined how alleged irregularities in the Y M C A began and were corrected. Houser spoke on the Des Moines meeting and Joan R. Mott’s explanations. Pamphlets on the Y M C A in France were distributed and a chart of accusations was shown alongside noted good works. Harry Fisher shared war-zone Y work experiences and Corp G F Perrott spoke on work with returned soldiers. A M C A quartet provided music and Elmer Rice offered vocal solos.
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Rotary Club
Hoonut
Russell- Lamson
Alent
Waterloo Y. M. G. A
Houser
France
Y. MC. A
Des Moines
Joan R. Mott
Harry Fisher
Corp
G. F. Perrott
Marines
Waterloo
M.C. A
Mice
Perrott
Geist
Skein
Elmer Rice
Branting to Preside at Berne Socialist Opening
Swiss Socialists voted 238 to 147 not to attend the international conference at Berne for a league of nations. Gustave Muller resigns as party leader in protest. Hjalmar Branting will preside at the opening session and speak. The conference runs February 20 to 27 with delegates from neutral peace societies.
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Associated Press
Paris
Berne
Ieaders
Weimar
National Assembly
League of Nations
Hjalmar Branting
Fee
Gustave Muller
Colgate Plant Explosions Fire at Jersey City Facility
A chemical explosion in Colgate & Co. soap plant laboratories sparked a fire that spread to nearby structures and endangered an orphan asylum. Explosions continued as firefighters battled flames, sending ambulances and evacuating about 3,000 workers to safety. Within ninety minutes the blaze was contained to the lab and an adjacent residence.
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Associated Press
Jersey City
Colgate & Co
Oil Leasing Measure Gets Conferees OK to Allow Prospecting
Washington Feb 3 Conferees from the house and senate reached a final agreement on a leasing bill to open more than 50 million acres of public lands for oil gas coal phosphates and sodium prospecting under a leasing and patent system The measure aims to settle disputes over development of California and Wyoming payal oil reserves and marks a major step in western resource policy.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Congress
Alaska
House
Senate
Pittman
California
Wyoming
Palestine fund reaches nearly 1.9 million in US drive
The Associated Press reports the Palestine restoration fund has reached about 1.9 million dollars, roughly half of the national quota. In the last week contributions totaled 762 thousand dollars, led by Cleveland with 50,960 dollars.
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Palestine
Associated Press
New York
Cleveland
Private papers sprung in Packer hearing by Heney
Washington D C Feb 3 Edwi Lasater of the National Livestock Association said before the house interstate commerce committees that the food administration aided the five leading meat packers to gain monopolistic control of the meat industry. Private notations signed L F S about testimony concerning W F P Prieby and Swift Co were admitted to the record by the senate agriculture committee.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C0
Lasater
National Livestock — Association
The
Food Administration
Meat Division
House
Interstate Commerce Committees
Department of Agriculture
Feading Mest
Washington, D. C
W.fp. Prieby
Poultry Division
Prieby & Co
Swift ¢ Co
Senate Agriculture Committee
Francis J. Heney
Federal Trade Commisssion
Packers
Louis F. Swift
Swift & Con
L. F
I. A. GC
L. A. Carton
Swift & Co
L. Talga
Heney
Priehy
Senator Page
Aptes
J. J. Healy
Washington Hearing Attacks Grain Price Guarantee
F Gates of the Chicago Board of Trade challenged the food administration grain price guarantee at House Agriculture Committee hearings in Washington. He urged selling wheat at world prices and said the board favors supply and demand. The bill seeks broad grain corporation powers and a large working capital appropriation.
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Bs Lin Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Food Administration
F. Gates
Chicago Board of Trade
House Agriculture
Chicago Board
Grain Corporation
Washington
Galas
Four Calves Win Milk Testing Contest Prizes
Winners in the Iowa boys and girls milk testing contest are announced. Four purebred calves were awarded as prizes with Holstein, Ayrshire, and Jersey entrants winning top calves from Har grove Arnold Holstein Co, C S Marks, Car Peverill, and Kingsley brothers. Other prize recipients earned cash awards based on test results and records.
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Iowa
Iowa State Dairy Association
Hargrove
Arnold Holstein Company
Norwalk
James Rhyner
Eldera
C. S. Marks
Riceville
Milton Leeton
Lamont
Carf Peverill
Waterloo
Walter Huebech
St. Siebold
Kingsley Brothers
McGregor
Carl Evang
Webster
Fishes' Highballs Plentiful as Whisky Flows in Calumet
Hambland Ind Feb 3 Nearly every fish in the Calumet River got a highball Saturday Whisky and water were free as air Spectators on the bridge watched police and special agents pour x thousand gallons of whisky into the river Five hundred people gathered to see the officers destroy whisky confiscated in arrests of blockade runners the last six months.
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Hambland
Ind
Calumet River
Jumon Peel
Department of Justice
Iowa House Resolves to Reins in Railroads and Wires
The Iowa House of Representatives adopted two resolutions urging the return of railroad and telephone telegraph systems to private operation as soon as possible. The railroad measure passed 78 to imposed opposition from several Democrats and Republicans. The wire resolution carried 52 to with four dissenters.
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Dey Moines
Rusoluona
Lowa
Wapoula
Cortkioy
Kellog
Krause
Mller
Dubuque
Nebiker
O'Donnell
Powers
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Mook
Lorkin
Cortez
Springer
Miller
Pedigree Bill Aims to Curb Secondhand Cars in Iowa
A bill introduced in the Iowa House by Representative Neff of Pottawattamie would require in every sale of a used car a certificate showing license serial and engine numbers and ownership. Buyers and sellers face a 900 penalty for noncompliance and five years for possession of altered numbers.
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Associated Press
Mes Moines
U S Turk Garrison Policy Question Heightens Debate
The military commission of the war council states that using American troops to garrison Turkey is unconstitutional without explicit congressional sanction. A statement by Gen Taxker H Blika is cited, with focus on legality in absence of formal war declarations. The demobilization plan on the western front moves forward as sub committees accelerate work.
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Asociated Press
Military Commission of the War Council
Turkey
Taxker H. Blika
Mittery
United States
Congress
Aurmey
Military Commission
The Life and Image of Nat Goodwin Rises and Falls
A reflective obituary sketches Nat Goodwin as a gifted yet flawed stage star whose life mingled brilliant acting with public excess. It notes his openness, humor, and charm, along with his troubling reliance on pleasure, tumultuous friendships, and the era’s tabloid scrutiny, leaving a complex memory of talent and transience.
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Nat
Beause
Tribune Motion in Ford Case Set for Day’s Argument
Detroit reports a motion by the Chicago Daily Tribune seeking a change of venue in a million-dollar defamation suit by Henry Jord against the newspaper. The trial on statements about Ford’s early-year attitude is slated to begin February 10 in Wayne County Circuit Court with potential influence from Mr. Ward’s prominence.
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Associated Pros
Detroit
Mich
Chicago Daily Tribune
Wayne County
Natrolt
Abel Sult
Henry Jord
Hura
Thal
Ward
Ford
Fighting Officers of Guard Displaced for Regulars
Waterloo woman dies of apoplexy at Clarksville Iowa. Mrs J W Thompson mother of Thomas Hiles dies after stroke at noon yesterday. She had suffered a prior stroke a year ago and had moved from Butler county to Waterloo six years ago. Surviving are husband son and two daughters with other relatives.
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J. G. Wright
France
Waterino Commercial Club
A. R. Odell
Chicago
BE. T. Lawrance
Myrtle Barr
Eleventh Street
Odell
Geneva Club
P.m
Harry Fishter
Norfolk
Burlington
W. D. Burdick
Iowa Dairy Separator Company
Iowa
Associated Frese
Washington
Gulli
Massachusetts
National Guard
J. W. Thompson
Timore Street
Watertoo
Thomas Hiles
Clarksville
Butler County
Hitesville
Women War Workers on Ordnance Given Same Credit as Men
Washington February 3 wartime statement by Rear Admiral Earle commends 35000 civilians in the bureau of ordnance war plants and says credit belongs to women and men with 2000 women employees proven efficient as clerks machine operators inspectors sewing bags or laborers
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Bureau of Ordnance
Earle
Bureau
Woman Russian Battalion Commander Returns in Civilians
Archangel report says Matia Boteb karef, famed leader of the women’s battalion from the 1917 eastern front, returns in civilian clothes by order of Gen Marushewski. The general calls women 25 improper for military duties in the northern region.
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Archangel
Associated Press
Matia Botebkaref
Marushewski
Soldier’s erring wife jailed when husband appears
Mrs Clara Sievers and her partner Roscoe Walker faced $50 fines or 16 days in jail in Municipal court before Judge W W Birdsall. The couple, living at 409 Bluff Street, were arrested after A H Sievers, a Davenport soldier, reported his wife’s disappearance and suspected infidelity. Walker, 21, also pleaded guilty and received the same sentence. writ issued to Sheriff Henderson for jail time.
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Clara Sievers
Roscoe Walker
W. W. Birdsall
Bluff Street
Tharses
A. H. Sievers
Davenport
Rosco Walker
Myrtle Barr
Walker
Weither
Henderson
Commercial clubs to call mass meeting
Officers of the executive committees of the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Club will hold a joint session at the Commercial Club tonight to discuss plans for a mass meeting of business men. A follow up meeting will outline support for the Mississippi Valley Association platform with reports from the New Orleans convention to be given by J. B. Johnson of Waterloo Gas Engine Co and W. B. Byrdick of the Associated Manufacturers Co.
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Menthors
Chamber of Commerce
Commercial Club
Mississippi Valley Association
New Orleans
J. B. Johnson
Waterloo Gas Engine Co
W. B
Speed Demobilization at Camp Dodge Today
Camp Dodge Iowa February 3 Demobilization of the first battalion of the 939th field artillery 88th division arrived Saturday and is being expedited today to clear the way for rapid discharge of other units of the same regiment expected here within a few days
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Associated Press
Camp Dodge
939Th Field Artillery
Senators Oppose Williams Nomination Filibuster Looms
Washington Feb 3 The nomination of John Skelton Williams for another term as Comptroller of the Currency will be considered Thursday by the Senate Banking Committee Republican senators oppose confirmation and privately threaten a filibuster to block action before the session ends March 2.
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Williams
Associated Dress
Washington, D. C
John Skelton Williams
Senate Banking Committee
Bolshevik Patrols Near Archangel Quiet on Fronts
Soviet patrols engaged with American units about 14 miles south of Sredmakrenga. Widespread nairal activity and heavy shelling on the Vologda railway line dominated the day, but other sectors remained comparatively quiet.
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Associated Press
Archangel
Sredmakrenga
Vologda
Chicago egg prices tumble on large arrivals
Chicago February 3 indicates a sharp drop in egg costs as plentiful arrivals lift supply. Wholesale prices slide 41-2 to 51-2 cents a dozen with new quotations from 33-1/2 to 35 cents, reflecting a near doubling from last week.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Polled Hereford Breeders’ Convention Opens in Des Moines
Delegates from 15 states and Canada attend the three day event. John Wallace and B. Corey will speak at the first session. Separately in Philadelphia Major Shoemaker notes US Expeditionary Forces in France largely avoided permanent eye injuries, with few cases of loss of an eye despite many casualties. Gas blinded few and mainly spared essential eye parts. Dried white mulberry listed as a principal food in Afghanistan.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
States
Canada
Hereford Proeers’ Association
John Wallace
B. Corey
Iowa Fair Association
Philadelphia
France
William T. Shoemaker
England
Nat Goodwin Portrait of a Convivial Thespian and Scandal
A portrait of Nat Goodwin highlighting his convivial excesses and public scandals. Observations note his charm and wit, repeated marital rumors, and a late-life pivot to serious acting. The piece praises his artistry and restraint on stage despite private indiscretions.
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Javiah
Lucillua
Herpexan
Prince of Good Fellows
Bonhomie
Prince of Foot Fellows
Hinau
New York
Liverpool
Rector's
Nat
Goodwin
Natty
Conte
Jim Radburn
Mizzouria
Bremen Submits to Army in German City
Bremen's people's commissaries declare readiness to withdraw and the workers' army agrees to hand over arms to the ninth army corps soldiers' council which had to maintain order in the city according to advices received here. Widows outnumber widowers in the United States by three to one.
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Bremen
Associated Press
Ninth Army Corps
The
United States
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