Government Completes Cash Count After 12 Years
A special three member committee with eight accountants and 15 laborers completed a government cash and securities count totaling about 3.5 billion dollars. Vaults were opened for the first time since 1903, with audits of gold, silver, paper money, and large denomination notes using weights and new electric counting machines.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Treasury
William Howard Taft
United States
John Burke
Wilson
Kent
John Bourke
Vrauits Werg
India
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Issue Division
the Treasury
Aureauz
Burke
Guy F. Allen
Treasurs
F. E. Reppert
C.N. McGrosty
John Moon
Secretary of the Treasury
Senate tariff hearing and House fund decisions noted
United Press reports Senate emergency tariff hearings by the inventory committee with likely meetings on a Newberry investigation. The House is expected to vote on reducing army size and authorizing appropriations for the next fiscal year. Agriculture panel weighs packer regulation while Interstate Commerce reviews house regulation. Dawes continues war department testimony as military and naval affairs panel considers general legislation.
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Unitd
Senate
United Manufactures Committee
Walder du Cou
Newberry
HOUSE
Agriculture Committee
Packer
Interstate Commerce Committee
Charles G Dawes
War Department
Legiela
Governor Blaine Blames Speculation For Price Spreads
Gov Blaine told the Get Together market conference that speculation and lack of proper credit facilities widen the gap between consumer prices and producer receipts. He urged state banks to extend credit with cooperative banking to stabilize industry and curb price swings, noting speculators gain power when they control storage and distribution.
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Associated Press
Hadison
Wis
Fed
J. J. Blaine
Braineid
Judge Lindsey May Not Have to Go to Jail After All
Denver officials and friends of Judge Ben B. Lindsey debate potential contempt sentencing after he refused to reveal confidences of a 12 year old involved in a murder case. Officials avoid committing, while public sentiment favors the jurist and a prison sentence seems unlikely despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. The Colorado Supreme Court clerk and District Attorney Phillips Van Cise offer little guidance as decisions unfold in legal channels.
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United Press
Denver
Colo
Ben B. Lindsey
Jai
Lindsey
T Dor
Phillips van Cise
Ake
United States Supreme Court
Colorado Supreme Court
Entertainments for Yankee Fleet Officers at Callao and Valparaiso
In Peru and Chile, officers and crews of the United States Atlantic and Pacific fleets were hosted with receptions aboard Admiral Wilson’s Pennsylvania and on the New Mexico. The day featured shipboard hospitality, sailing events, and a Chilean parade for President Alessandri and fleet officials, followed by dances, excursions, rifle contests, and a luncheon for 600 invited men in Santiago.
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Associated Press
Limo
Peru
Callao
United States Atlantic
Henry B. Wilson
Pennsylvania
United States
Fair Grounds
Wilson
Valparaiso
Alessandri
Chile
Admiral Rodman
United States Pacific Fleet
New Mexico
Four Police Killed By Mine Explosion Under Motor Lorry
Four police officers die after an ambush near Ballinalee Ireland with a lorry mine blast marking a new attack method against crown forces in the country. In Skibbereen a large Sinn Fein group strikes police. police report no casualties. Dublin crowds react to street clashes with soldiers as armored lorries are fired upon. Lord Dunsany to be court martialed in Meath for firearms possession.
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Ballinalee
Ireland
Perty
Skibbereen
County Cork
Sinn
Runaway Boy Feints Orders Malvern Man After Four Day Fast
A 16 year old Henry Coles ran away to Chicago to seek work but starved four days and collapsed near a cafe. He told police he spent two days last week in eating deprivation and would not beg. He planned to return home to Duluth Minnesota after the hunger episode.
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Malvern Man
Associated Press
Chicago
Henry Coles
Duluth
Minn
Chicaze
Schwab Goes Abroad for Rest Recreation
Charles Schwab, Omaha native and Bethlehem Steel executive, sailed from New York aboard the Aquitania to Europe for rest and recreation. Report says he left his west end Omaha residence and noted the trip has no business purpose. A note to a brother explained the voyage is strictly personal and for leisure.
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Associated Press
New York
Charles
Iby
Sehseab
Bethlehem
Eng
Jane
France
Italy
Trip
Schwab
Cate
Wisconsin Farm Bureau elects new president at first meeting
Madieca Feb 2 reports George McKerrow of Waukesha County named president of the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation by the Associated Press. The selection follows a tornado and disaster response theme as the federation convenes and outlines aims to support farmers nationwide.
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Associated Press
Madieca
Mate
George McKerrow
Waukesha County
Yonan
American Red Cross
Wisconsin
Farm Bureau Federation
United States
Stray Trunk Returns After Seven Years Overseas
York, Pa. Feb. 3 A stray trunk belonging to A. B. Farquhar of York, lost in 1914 while he traveled in Bulgaria, is home. A tracer traced its voyage through Europe and a shipwreck in the Black Sea. contents were intact after seven years abroad.
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York
Europe
A. B. Farquhar
Mgr. Farquhar
Bulgaria
Rail Unions Seek More Time to Prepare Case
Reports from Pasadena and Chicago detail railroad labor disputes as leaders argue the industry faces financial strain from alleged mismanagement and excessive staffing. They contend wage cuts are not justified by living costs and urge fair methods under law, citing wage and payroll increases during government control.
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Labor Board
Wilson
Railroad Labor Board
Clarence Rowland Denies Rumor He Is Dying
Chicago February 3. Clarence Rowland former Chicago White Sox manager spent hours denying rumors he was dying after mistaken identity led to reports of a fatal gun car crash. He was not involved in any accident.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Clarence Rowsland
Chicago White Sox
Rowland
Navy Board urges continued battleship build to match top navies
The United States must keep constructing battleships until it holds a navy equal to the strongest, says the Navy General Board in a report to Secretary Daniels. It rejects halting plans or reliance on aircraft and submarines, and notes that upon completing the 1916 program of 16 ships, the U.S. will have a battle fleet power rivaling any nation.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
United States
General Board of the Navy
Daniels
Senate Naval Committee
General Board
Great Britain
Admiralty
Lwe
Employing Printers Meet to Plan Fight on Shortened Week
Delegates from midwest printing houses gathered in St Louis to oppose a 44 hour work week for union printers. The conference, called by the printers league, aims to coordinate master printers across cities from St Paul to Oklahoma to resist the shorter week plan while unions threaten a May 1 strike. George B. Gannett said the masters are unified in their stance.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Middle West
George B. Gannett
Printers’ League of America
St. Paulj Ito Oklahoma
Brookhart urges bill to aid farm market societies
Des Moines reports Senator Brookhart introduced a bill allowing cooperative associations to engage in any lawful business permitted to profit corporations, exempting them from state restraint of trade laws. The measure targets agricultural interests and follows other Senate actions, while highway commission inquiries and finance bills move through committees and House action.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Senate
Brookhart
Washington
Buser
State Highway Commission
Buse
Highway Commission
House
House Military Committee
Gilbert
Calhoun
McGhee
Senate Military Committee
Mayne
Economists urge Britain debt cancellation and US role
United Press reports Sir Neo Money calls for mutual debt cancellation to revive world trade warning that without immediate exchange corrections chaos may follow Britain could wipe out US debts in fourteen years but risks global upheaval. Also Senator Walsh proposes United States receive portion of German indemnity repayments to credit Allied debts as negotiations proceed.
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Webb Miller
United Press
London
United States
Great Britain
Neo Money
Britain
America
Washington
D. C
David I. Walsh
Massachusetts
Geremany
Walsh
Germany
Iewa Teachers to Read Judge Wade's Americanism Book
Iowa text book board adopted three textbooks for 1921 1923 reading circles in Des Moines H C Moeller announced The lead title Elementary Americanism by Wade and Russell is Iowa authored and linked to Americanization Judge Martin J Wade and William F Russell wrote the book with notes by C H Meyerholz of the State Teachers College Cedar Falls Also adopted were Practical Problems of the Schoolroom by Waits and School Administration by Strayer and Englehardt A spirited fight saw 17 publishers yield 1 1/2 thousand textbooks offered
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Des Moines
H. C. Moel-ler
Wade and Russell
Iowa
Martin J. Wade
Towa
William F. Russell
University of Towa
C. H. Meyerholz
State Teachers’ College At
Cedar Falls
Waits
Strayer
Englehardt
Poland in Paris Discusses Polish Plans With France Chiefs
In Paris on February 3 President Pil sudski of Poland led a high delegation to confer with President Mil lerand Marshal Foch and others about a potential Bolshevik push against Poland in early spring. Ignace Paderewski had arrived earlier. The talks expected to last three days aim to correct western misperceptions of Polish aims and emphasize Poland seeks peace and security for its enlarged population and lands.
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Paris
Pilsudski
Poland
Millerand
Marshal Foch
Corey
Prince Sapieh
Somnokowski
Briand
Grillon
Ignace Paderewski
Hies
Prince Sapieha
United States
Polang
Europe
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
Wall Street Slumps as Pessimism Influences Prices
New York reports a pessimistic Wall Street with talk of a possible break in values. The session opened at lower levels and the decline persisted with net losses from fractions to two points. Bonds stayed steady, grains and cotton fell, and foreign exchanges showed slight heaviness.
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Wall Street
Lmarket
Algona Musician Sentenced to 50 Years for Murder
Fort Madison Iowa February 3 United Press L Benjamin of Algona a musician was sentenced to fifty years in the state penitentiary for murder. He spent his first day shoveling coal as penitentiary officials disclosed that his permanent work would be reassessed by a prison physician. He will not touch a musical instrument until he proves himself a model prisoner according to the warden.
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Redross
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Iowa
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Grable
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United Press
Pasadena
Cal
T. de Witt Cuyler
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White House
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Railway Department
American Federation of Labor
Jewell
Chicago
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Benjamin
Air Mail Pilot Dies In Crash South Of Mendota
Air mail pilot M. Stewart of the Minneapolis Chicago service was killed when his plane crashed three miles south of Mendota. Mechanician George Samsor was injured. The Minneapolis Air Mail Service reported the accident to A Hu Shielt, a Dakota county farmer, providing the basic details of the fatal crash.
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Associated Press
Minneapolis
Minn
M. Stewart
Chicago
Minneapolis-Chicago Air Mail Service
Mendota
A. Hu Shielt
Dakota County
George V. Samsor
Mechanician
Clarinda pair held on Mann Act charge in Creston jail
Mack Mc Kibben and John Illingworth of Clarinda were jailed in default of 1000 bonds on Mann Act charges for allegedly transporting two women. They appeared before U S Commissioner Hunt after arraignment yesterday. A Kansas woman opposed consolidating the state boards in the Des Moines meeting of the Iowa Pharmaceutical Association. Des Moines was named for the 1922 convention.
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Creston
Mack McKibben
John Illingworth
Clarinda
U. S
J. C. Hunt
Associated Press
Terday
Des Moines
Kansas
Eagle Grove Man Held as Mailrobber
St. Paul dispatch reports Eagle Grove Iowa man Verlice Christoff arrested near the South St Paul depot after a small pouch was found, police say. The item and details tie to a mailrobbery case as investigators link the incident to an aviator killed in an airplane accident near Riverside California. Mrs. Price and L. J. Price of Des Moines and Sioux City are named in the funeral context.
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Associated Press
St. Paul
Minn
Verlice
Christoff
Eagle Grove
South St Paul
Des Moines
Wal
B. Price
Riverside
Cal
Day
Sutherland
Price
L. J. Price
Sioux City
Five Die in Boston from Sleeping Sickness
Five residents of Boston have died in a month from sleeping sickness with 13 more reported ill. Commissioner Woodward said health authorities cannot explain the spread and are treating the mystery as a growing concern in the city.
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Boston
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Associated Press
Mass
Woodward
Cyclone Club Studies Parliamentary Procedure At West High
West High students forming the Cyclone club, all with eight credits, met last night to study parliamentary theory and practice. Readings and talks preceded debates on parliamentary law as the group conducted its own meetings.
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Cyclone Club
West High
Fort Dodge Murder in Alley Shocks City
Emilio Gusman, a 27 year old Mexican laborer, was shot dead in an alley after a pool hall quarrel in Fort Dodge. Authorities report he escaped the shooter, two Mexicans argued before the fatal incident, occurred last night in the Dead Man's Alley area.
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Associated Press
Emilio Gusman
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