Army air officers' testimony stirs House committee action
Washington Feb 5 The House Aircraft Committee plans a one day resolution to back Brig Gen William Mitchell and oppose his transfer, seeking to expose alleged censorship of officers who testified on war time efficiency. Secretary Weeks may decide Mitchell's future after his reply to questions about prior statements. Wilbur denied navy censorship claims about testimony.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Army
Perkins
New Jersey
Mitchell
Weeks
Poe
Drum
Storf
House Military Committee
Representative Perkins
Moffett
Navy Bureau of Aeronautics
Special House Committee
William Mitchell
Army Air Service
Wheat Gambler Miss Ethel Cotstotk Chicago
Miss Ethel Cotstotk of Chicago is pictured after claiming a profit over 20000 from a 150 investment in the Chicago wheat pit. The piece notes that many fortunes have been made there recently amid volatile trading.
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Ethel Cotstotk
Chicago
Algher
Cavern Rescue Tightens As National Guard Rises
Amid ongoing cave rescue at Sand Cave the Kentucky National Guard arrives with Brig. Gen. Denhardt to impose order and coordinate timbering work. Miner Collins remains 195 feet below ground, without food, clinging to life as factions hinder efforts.
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Collins
H. HH. Dennardt
Kentucky National Guard
Sand Cave
Tme
Geo. Denhardt
National Sguard
Fate of Collins in Sand Cave Rescue Standoff Continues
Efforts to reach Collins inside the Sand Cave continue as miners report rock shifting and cave-ins. Officials debate sinking a shaft from the hilltop while rescuers consider tunneling from outside. dangers mount as vibrations threaten the trapped man's chances.
Women on Grand Jury Will Probe Crimes in County
In Iowa, women electors may be included on grand jury lists for county duty. The 12 person panel, with 25 of 60 trial jurors being women, reports March 2. action continues March 9. The jury will hear cases, issue indictments, and visit jails and the county home.
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Shin
Maurice Gill
Big Creek
Thompson
Union
Botih Grand and
Petit
Iowa
Grand Jury
Ventity
Watert Ve
Betana
Krag
Waterlia
Ce Tvs
Garden of Eden Now Relocated in Africa
United Press report from Capetown notes Charles G. Dawes plans to resign numerous business ties before taking office as vice president of the United States. Dawes will not join cabinet meetings, fearing a harmful precedent, and his family plans remain unsettled as he extends duties in Chicago.
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Garden of Eden
Africa
United Press
Chicago
Cgen
Charles G. Dawes
Utd
Hig Offer
Capetown
South Africa
Nawes
Us Bev Pt
Dawes
Central Trust Company of
Tillnois
All Own Bank
Washington
Melville Erickson
Dawes’ Fost
Coolidge
Warm February day caps the week here
Des Marches residents enjoyed a rare February warmth with temperatures reaching 59 degrees yesterday afternoon. Forecasters say today may match the mild conditions before a colder spell returns Friday as the weather bureau notes an unusually warm February trend.
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Hla
Paris Picture Hat Drive Goes on Rocks
Paris, Feb. The spring offensive of the picture hat has failed for the third season and rumors fear that small hats will reign until women allow themselves more hair.
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Paris
State Briefs Council Bluffs Trailing Trial Notes
State Briefs from Council Bluffs report varied items. A 22 year old Atlantic woman Blanch Galvin faced trial for alleged newborn slaying in Sioux City. A $125000 Knights of Columbus clubhouse was announced. Des Moines parole denials involved Des Mai Marty Frase, payroll padder at the women's reformatory. Iowa universities planned spring training trips and other sport notes appear amid miscellany including bus line updates and local discussions of clubs and conventions.
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Blanch Galvin
Atlantic
Sioux City
Knights of Columbus
Des Mai Marty Frase
Women’s Reformatory
Des Moines
Rouse
Town Citys Caps
Congregation Buys House for Parsonage in Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls Feb 5 First Congregational society purchased the residence of Mrs Elizabeth Reed on the street adjacent to the church building for use as a parsonage. Consideration noted as 5200. The move follows the church expanding its housing to serve clergy.
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Cedar Falls
Firat Concregatinnel Society
Elizaben Ried
Elwood Cornish Elwood Funeral Services Held
Funeral services for Mary C. Elwood widow of John B. Elwood were held at 2 30 p m at Hileman Gindt mortuary with Christian Science rites conducted by Arthur Moreton. Pallbearers included Henry W Grant and William Bighmey. Interment in Fairview cemetery. Mrs Elwood died while wintering in Lake Worth Florida January 97. She had lived in Waterloo since 1920 and was active in the Christian Science church. Survived by daughters Mrs Gosselin and Mrs Kindall and others.
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Aia Cornish Elwood
John B. Elwood
Hileman & Gindt
Christian Science Service
Arthur R. Moreton
Nanean Davie
Claude S. Bennet
Henry W . Grant
William Bighmey
Willian A. Stillson
Edgar C. Litchfield
R. Griffin
EB. Peek
Blanche Elder
DeWitt
Fairview
Marty Jane Culver
Genesee County
New York
Deerfield
Chickasaw County
Towa
Robert A. Cornish
Judson Ti. Cornish
Seattle
Wash
Oscar
Cornish
Fort Atkinson
Wis
Clara Gosselin
Waterloo
Cora Kindall
Onawa
Central America
Livingston
Guatemala
Iowa
New Hampton
John B. Elgood
Vine Street
Elwood
Christian Science Church of
Lake Worth
Pla
Gosselin
Kindall
Elia Loveless
Lodi
Cal
Rose Bird
Dora Graham
Billings
Adventists Await End of World in Cloud Chariot Plan
New York February 5. Three Seventh Day Adventists led by Robert Reidt, calling himself the Apostle of Doom, prepare to be taken in a cloud chariot tomorrow from a Patchogue hilltop to a forest near Hollywood to meet the 144,000 brides of the lamb. The group, including a family of four Negro members, has sold possessions and subsists on carrots and water as they await cataclysmic events predicted to begin at midnight and last seven days. Reidt is no longer with the Adventist church and has arranged to buy back his furniture from a used-dealer.
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Long Island
Robert Reidt
Ast Patchogue
Hollywood
Cal
Seventh Day Adventise Organization
Washington
Lttle
Margaret W. Rowan
Reidt
Adventist Church
Iowa Senate pass measures on school treasurers and railways
The Iowa Senate approved bills to elect school board treasurers on the first secular day of July and set bond requirements for county high school treasurers. It also clarifies railway liability for fire damage and adds double damages for destroyed growing crops. The package includes making monthly appropriations for the board of control available on the first of each month and a lost records act legalizing a light and power franchise at Pringhar Indiana.
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Page One
Iowa
Russea
Senate
Board of Control
Light and Power
Pringhar
Rent Regulation Debate Signals Public Interest Battle
The wartime rent controls face scrutiny as peacetime measures await Congress action. Analysts note the Supreme Court narrowly upheld wartime regulation, with a fierce dissent by Justice McKenna. Some conservative lawmakers, influenced by Coolidge era worries, fear rent spikes if controls lapse, while others sympathize with tenants. New York Harold Tribune News Services.
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McKenna
Congress
Coolidge
Washington
N.Y
Church Census Takers Named Sunday
Four hundred workers to take the church census here Sunday afternoon February 22 will be named by pastors and priests. Each church will designate 10 to 30 workers based on size. Meetings for workers are February 15 with general instructions and information cards. The census ends in three hours from 2 to 4 5 p m. A follow up checkup will interview those missed the previous Sunday.
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Earth Church
Thase
New Miners Head Andrew Matti Made Seventh District President
Andrew Matti of Hazelton Pennsylvania, long tied to mining, will replace Thomas J Kennedy as president of the United Mine Workers Seventh district. Kennedy has been elected secretary treasurer of the International Miners union.
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Andrew Matti
Hazelton
Thomas J.kennedy
United Mine Workers
Kennedy
International Miner’s Union
U S Judge Roars Against Bad Price for Worse Whisky
In San Francisco on February 5, Judge George M. Bourquin of Montana harshly criticized the price and enforcement of the Volstead act in federal court. He dismissed alleged bootleggers with light fines, declaring it is hard to obtain a decent drink at a decent price, calling possession of a little alcohol a gross felony. Many accused bootleggers wept as sentences were handed down.
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San Francisco
Cal
Daniel
George M. Bourquin
Montana
Bourquin
Forging Divorcee Goes Back to Prison
Mason City Iowa February five. Mrs Lucille McFadden a Mason City divorcee arrested at Dubuque for the second time on forgery charges has been taken to the women’s reformatory at Rockwell City to complete her sentence after parole violation. She was sentenced to Rockwell several months ago but was paroled to Miss Arcley Marshall city welfare worker and later allowed to go to Dubuque to be near her child.
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Mason City
Lucille McFadden
Dubuque
Rockwell City
Rockwell Institution
State of Washington and its waterpower shown here in film
An illustrated address to Lions Club members in Bleck’s tearooms by Ur F. Fr Nalder of the State Council of Washington touted Washington waterpower, with two reels describing scenery, farms, ranch land and the state’s notable products including champion chicken and dairy cows. Assets of the Harriet M Kendall estate total 68 058 as trustees report delays in honoring the testatrix wishes for a Christian home for spinster and widows. A robbery in Davenport, Iowa, saw a thief grab 30 in cash and checks from a grocery counter while the proprietor’s wife Spoo ate supper. Webster City, Iowa, February 6—W F McNew former steward at Story County poor farm and infirmary was found not guilty on trial for a crime involving an inmate.
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Northwest
Lions Club
Bleck’s
Ur F. Fr. Nalder
State coHere
Washington
Webster City
W. F. McNew
Story County Poor Farm and Infirmary
Watters Suit Seeks Divorce and Custody Details
Karl Watters filed for divorce from Gladys Watters citing cruel treatment. Married December 24, 1917, they have two sons, Stanley and Lester. He offers support for the children and asks for visitation, requesting custody remain with the mother.
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Karl Watters
Gladys Watters
Stanley
Lester
Razor slashing at Gillis home leaves man injured
Police search for James Gillis after a fight at his Douglas street home ends with Joseph Cole stabbed twice with a razor. Cole, 21, was treated by a physician and is expected to recover. Inmates at Lue House report little about the incident sparked by a cards dispute.
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James Gilis
Douglas Street
Joseph Cole
Gillis
Cole
Lue House
Five Fisk Students jailed for campus riot incitement
Five Fisk university students were jailed in Nashville on charges of inciting to riot after a demonstration by about 100 students against university president Dr. F. A. McKenzie. Police restored order as disorder followed his campus conduct rule prohibiting male and female students from walking together.
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Nashville
Tenn
Fisk University
F. A. McKenzie
Mckenzie
Seek Intellectual Maniac as Slayer of Ohio Students
Columbus, Feb. 3. Investigation at Ohio State University narrows to a master criminal. A super intellectual with maniacal intent to broadcast teeth regardless of victims is believed responsible for strychnine adulteration of dispensary drugs. Police investigator John Chester cites 300 grains of poison found on an open shelf in the school of pharmacy, strengthening the theory that a keen twisted intellect lies at the root of the mystery.
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Columbus
Ohio State
University
School of Pharmacy
John Chester
Easter Bonnets Go Up in Fire and Smoke
Fire destroyed the Bradshaw Brothers millinery factory and show rooms in Minneapolis on a February day, wiping out thousands of Easter bonnets. The loss was estimated at $200,000 with the blaze consuming stock and premises.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Bradshaw Brothers
Standard Oil Plans Big Plant At Mason City
Mason City officials say a $150,000 Standard Oil of Indiana plant will be erected here with Spring opening planned. In Knoxville Iowa A B Burnett 65 was killed when struck by a moving van driven by C M Boilimy as parked cars blocked view. accident occurred late yesterday on a street crossing.
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Mason City
Standard Oil Company of Indiana
Knoxville
A. B. Burnett
Burnett
C. M. Boilimy
Wheat futures slip as May contracts dip near $1.92
Chicago Feb 5 May wheat closed at 1.92 6 8 as against the day’s range from 1.97 to 1.95 3 4. The prior close was 1.99 1 4 with a day low of 1.912 5 8. News of plans to probe the sudden rise above the $2 level sparked some selling pressure.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of ‘Trade
Bay State Delegation Vats by White House
Massachusetts delegation members, both Republicans and Democrats, were hosted at breakfast today by President Coolidge in Washington. The meeting at the White House reflected bipartisan engagement with the administration amid ongoing national affairs.
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Bay State
White House
Washington, D. C
Massachusetts
Congress
Coolidge
Danderine Hair Treatment Promises Gleaming Thick Hair
A vintage advertisement touts Danderine as a hair conditioner that makes hair look twice as thick and glossy. It claims the product nourishes each strand, reduces hair loss, and eliminates dandruff, with immediate styling results and a healthy youthful shine.
Free sample offer for Foley remedies in Chicago ad
A vintage ad invites readers to send ten cents to Foley Co. in Chicago for a sample bottle of Foley's Honey and Tar Compound plus sample packages of Foley Pills and Foley Cathartic Tablets. The copy claims these remedies help coughs colds burns and kidney action, noting the products are opiate free and widely sold.
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Moncey
Foley Co
Sheffield Ave
Chicago
FOLEY
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Claim Quick Stomach Relief
An advertisement extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a remedy for stomach distress after meals. It promises relief from sour stomach gas and heartburn, improves digestion, and neutralizes acidity, urging readers to buy a 60 cent box and eat heartily afterward.
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Ike
Bartecklyn
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