Tax Ferret Bill Passed By House Sent To Hammill
Des Moines February 22 no 7 After brief debate the Iowa House passed the Brookins tax ferret bill to charge discovery costs to funds benefited The vote was 74 to 0 and it goes to Governor Hammill for approval The measure could uncover substantial taxable property annually The dairy and oleomargarine levy appeared with a favorable committee report A companion Senate bill exists and prospects are mixed Elected officials and reporters described other measures including a truth in industries proposal and registration reforms The bovine tuberculosis law was praised by State Secretary of Agriculture Mark G Thormburg as a key step in health and cattle protection It aims to eradicate tuberculosis more economically and may end litigation once signed by the governor
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Des Moines
Towa Jrousa of Representatives
Hammill
Dairy and Food Committee
House
Senate
R. W. Cox
Taylor County
Secretary ‘of Agriculture
Widens
Reyburn L. Rut Jedge
Webster County
Joe E
Ulstad
Wright
Webster City
Committee On
Clark
Mark G.thormburg
Thornburg
Chicago Police Hunt Gang Massacre Leaders
Chicago police trail a gang massacre leader amid a deadly spree linked to a state crime wave. A car used by killers was found burned in a garage near the North Clark Street scene, undermined by an acetylene torched cut and fingerprinted by investigators. Police arrested several men for questioning as they pursue clues to the Moran murders and the broader gang outrage in Chicago.
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Clark Street
Asa
Chicago
Fatie
Tb Ted
Cub
John Siege
Moran
Ileet
Etnes
Willi Cusack
Televox lights Newark airport field for night landings
A watchman keeps city flood lights on at Newark Metropolitan airport to reveal runways. A pilot in darkness uses a siren to trigger ground relays that switch on lights, enabling night landings from multiple compass points. The test proves the Televox instrument can automate field illumination for night operations.
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Newark
Newark Street
Newark, N. J
Gang Kills Foes As Garage Raid Ties To Capone Era
Police report a dismantled touring oar, gray Fedora, and a Lueger pistol found in a garage amid ties to Al Capone era factions. Nearby cafe and Lolordo home linked to gang activity. police also raided a related site two weeks earlier where a machine gun was recovered. In Des Moines, the Senate advances a judiciary pay raise, moving district court judges from 4000 to 5000 dollars, with amendments to 6000 dollars. bill requires house concurrence.
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Sietly
Jopret
Ropar
Rogers
Radio Inquiry Targets Interference From Water Inc
A Des Moines inquiry probes interference affecting radio listeners linked to Water Inc. Officials announce no telephone calls accepted while a questionnaire seeks details on interference nature, times of day, duration, suspected causes, and contact information from respondents.
Mercury Sinks to 18 Below as Cold Spell Hits Waterloo
A fierce cold wave sent temperatures to 18 below in Waterloo, making roads dangerous and delaying trains. A biting wind caused heavy drifting on open highways. Illinois Central train delayed half an hour, Great Western trains late, and buses serving Mason City Cedar Rapids paused due to bad roads. An extra locomotive enveloped in ice highlighted the severity of conditions.
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Washington
Ralph B. Slippy
Illinois Central
Chicago Great Western
Chicago
Rock Island
Red Ball Transportation Company
Mason City
Cedar Rapids
Great Western
Delvelne
Des Moines
Reinbeck
Bennett Furnace Co to Open Tomorrow
Bennett Furnace Co the Lennox furnace distributor for Marshalltown will hold a formal opening tomorrow at 3090 Fourth Street West. EB Bennett manager says the firm will focus on furnace installation and repair, with Bennett bringing years of furnace experience from Wisconsin. His family has moved to 707 Mungdey Avenue to settle here.
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Bennett Furnace Company
Lennox Furnace Company
Marshalltown
Weterloo
Fourth Street
Bennett
Funace
Wiaconsln
Mayors secretary joins Hub Electric firm
Kenneth Wilson, secretary to Mayor Glenna Tidbits, resigns to join Hub Electric on March 1. He will take a junior executive role after completing training in company methods and has served as secretary since September 1, 2003.
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Kenneth Wilson
Washington Itinet
Glenna A. Tidbtts
Hub Electric Company
Hay
Wilson
Temperatures Show Varied Readings Through Week
Readings indicate Thursday high near unknown, with minimum Thursday night around 16 below zero. Friday shows colder conditions with expected morning low around 7 degrees and a high near 11 degrees, following unsettled weather patterns.
Senate debate clears path for cruiser building funds
Washington February 22 Opponents of the cruiser construction program failed to block the naval appropriation bill in the Senate which voted to take up the measure and agreed to limit debate after 3 pm The bill would fund work on five cruisers in the current fiscal year now ready for immediate start despite opposition from Senator Walsh and Senator Glass Hale offered a concession proposing only 200900 for cruiser work in the year The cruiser program totaling 15 ships and one aircraft carrier will begin work on or before June 30 1931 in line with the act approved by both houses and signed by the president
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Washington, D. C
Senate
Naval Pi
Glass
Walsh
Montana
Interior Department
Secretary of the Interior
Virginia
Hale
Maine
Mourners Arrive for Marina Owen Berry Rites
Marina Owen Berry 71 formerly of Waterloo died yesterday at her daughter's Cedar Rapids home from heart disease. Funeral in First Baptist Church. Burial Elmwood. Survived by daughters J C Burns Cedar Heights Nina Berry Albert Lea Ark Charles Berry Little Rock. W T U to attend. Born 1358 near Wabash Ind. Married George Franklin Berry. Moved to Waterloo 1890. Member of First Baptist.
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Marina Owen Berry
Waterloo
Sant Burns
Cedar Rapids
Petersen Bros
First Baptist Church
O. L. ‘Kenagy
Elmwood
Mary Ellen McPherson
Wabash
Ind
Black Hawk County
George Franklin Berry
la Porte City
J. C. Burns
Cedar Heights
Nina Berry
Albert Lea
Minn
Charles Berry
Little Rock
Ark
Alice May Shelton
Earl Shelton
Sleventh Street
Grundy Center
Hawthorne
Free Methodist
Mabel
Vera
Marvin
Robert
J. W. Whiteside
Free Methodist Church
Ramos Stolid as Valle Re-enacts Mexican Murder
West Union Iowa February 22 Pedro Ramos on trial for complicity in the murder of Matilda Renada a fellow Mexican at Oelwein on Thanksgiving evening 1928 ignored Luiz Valle dramatic enactment of the fatal stabbing a feature of the trial Thursday afternoon and remained indifferent today as Manuel Lopez again accused him this morning The hearing was continued through the holiday to clear the docket Valle who according to his own story and that of Lopez also under sentence to 40 years in prison for the crime was the only person to stab Renado but the other men were present and according to testimony encouraged him Ramos is understood to claim an alibi the officers say he at first admitted complicity Renada was stabbed about 30 times examination of the body showed Sheriff A Robertson of Fayette county testified this afternoon Bar Women from Jury Defense and prosecution barred women from the jury segregation of the jury was ordered on request of defense The trial will continue into next week Most witnesses are Mexicans requiring interpretation by c S Williams who acted as interpreter in earlier proceedings for Valle and Lopez both indicted on first degree murder plea guilty hearing determined degree of crime Sentenced for Second Degree The judge found second degree murder noting the killing was justified by Mexican code since Renada had wronged Valle s wife The two men were sentenced to a 40 year term The jury was drawn from Oelwein Eden Union Clermont Tyria Smithfield Fremont and other towns with members named.
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West Union
Pedro Ramos
Mattlla
Renada
Oclwein
Luiz Valle
Manuel Lopez
Valle
Lopez
Renado
Ramos
A. Robertson
Faycetts County
C. S. Williams
Town City
Eichendorf
Charles Shelson
B. J. Walters
Oelwein
Cab Company Seeks Damages Over Tree Obstructing Street
The Yorum Yellow Cab Company and manager A. L. Bradley filed a $500 damage claim against Waterloo city in Charlies C. McKay’s office. The suit alleges a cab driven by M. C. Westcott struck a tree in the middle of Longfellow Avenue at Kern Street on January 3, forcing the front end inward and breaking the motor loose.
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Yorum Yellow Cab Company
Theu A. L. Bradley
City of
Waterloo
Charlies C. McKay
M. C. Westcott
Longfellow Avenue
Kern Street
Uzcudun Gains Minor Edge In Madison Square Garden Bout
New York February 22 Paulino Uzcudun outweighed K Christ by one pound when the Spaniard 108 pounds and the Akron rubber worker 194 stepped onto the scales for a 10 round heavyweight bout at Madison Square Garden. Glass broken reported at Palais Roya as intruder failed to enter.
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New York
Paulino Uzcudun
Christnet
Madison Square Garden
State Athleis Commission
Akron
Girl Slayer Convicted in Carmi Court
Hoyt McMurray, a 11? year old unclear age, was found guilty in the circuit court at Carmi of murdering Miss Anna Preher, a Carmi school teacher, on December 20. Judge Roy Pearce sentenced the convict to life imprisonment.
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Carmi
U.P
Hoyt McMurray
Anna Preher
Roy Pearce
Fire Ruins House on Western Ave in Waterloo
A major fire on Western Avenue in Waterloo destroyed a large residential building and hampered by flames in upper walls and siding. Firefighters battled difficult conditions, protecting nearby homes as hundreds of West High students watched. The house, valued around 10000, was among the area’s finest when built twenty years ago, with crews remaining on site into the afternoon.
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Waterloo
West High School
Juice Used To Remove Ice From Pipes
A town public service squad uses electricity to thaw frozen water pipes. They connect a transformer and pass a strong current through a pipe inside the house to the main, causing needle like crystals to form and dislodge ice when taps open. A Waterloo resident once balked at $20, but paid after the utility threatened to reverse the current.
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Labte
Waterloo
Hoover's Teacher of West Branch Dies in Iowa
Ada Knight Terral, 78, longtime principal of the Attie School at West Branch, who mentored Herbert Hoover during his boyhood, died after plans to ride the Hoover birthplace special to Washington for the inauguration were canceled. Reservations and hopes for the trip ended with her death.
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Stanley
IINS
Ada Knight Terral
Attie School
West Branch
Herbert Hoover
United States
Drath
Washington
Hoover Birthplace
Body of Joseph Weires Returned to Allison
The body of Joseph Weires, brother of Eva Weires, deputy clerk of court, who died of pneumonia in Oakland, California, was sent by train to Allison, Iowa. Funeral plans are listed as probable for Tuesday next. Also today Governor Hammill sent to the Senate for confirmation H. E. Dean of Ocheyedan and T. J. O'Donnell of Dubuque to the state highway commission, with Dean a Republican and O'Donnell a Democrat already serving on the board.
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Joseph Weires
Eva Weires
Oakland
Cab
Allison
Red Cross Home Service
Des Moines
John Hammill
Senate
H. E
Dean
Ocheydan
O'Donnell
Dubuque
State Highway Commission
Lost Doris Virginia Murphy Returns Home Safe
Doris Virginia Murphy, missing for a week, is back with her mother. The reunion drew reporters and police as investigators doubt the dark man with a black moustache and the notes signed K. EK. John A. Williams, a mink employee, was arrested on suspicion after admitting giving candy and popcorn to the girl but denying kidnapping.
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Unicad Presa
San Franciso
Linide
Doris Virginia Murphy
Murphy
United Press
San Francisco
Edward Sharp
Sharp
Vallejo
San Francisco Bay
United Press Office
Doris Virginia
K. EK
John A. Williams
U.S
Mink
Doris
Willems
Head of One Says Value of Small College Proved
Dr. Charles A. Mock president of Western Union College LeMars Iowa says the educational field needs small colleges as they provide more effective work with smaller student units He notes Yale recently endowed to found about 20 eco colleges while emphasizing flexible, personal development lacking in large universities He cites Western Union College enrollment around 200 and growing In divorce court several petitions filed including Bian Collings vs Robert P Collins Hann vs Carrie E Hann Dolan vs T J Dolan Covington vs Rex Covington Murphy vs Grace Murphy Rogers vs Mae Rogers.
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Charles A. Mock
Western Union College
LeMars
First Evangelical Church
Yale
Mock
Siledin
J. W. Thompson
Bian, Collings
Robert P. Collins
Waverly
Clarence Hann
Carrie E. Hann
Doris B. Dolan
T. J. Dolan
Waterloo
Jeanne Covington
Rex Covington
Alonza Murphy
Grace Murphy
Marcus
F. Rogers
Mae Rogers
City plans mass scarlet fever testing for schoolchildren
City officials and school boards meet with Dr. J G Jordan to outline a plan using the Dick test on Waterloo pupils to identify susceptibility to scarlet fever. Letters to parents explain testing and future steps to protect children, with talks of a detention hospital due to overcrowding.
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East Nd
West
J. G. Jordan
Town City
Jordan
East
Binck’s
Waterloo
Glenn A. Tibbitts
Charles MacKay
J. R. Thompson
Black Hawk County
J. W. Steely
Kenneth Bragdon
James Robinson
Poem on Washington Death in 1800 Ulster County Gazette
An old Ulster County Gazette from Kingston New York dated January 4 1800 features a front page poem titled By a Young Lady Contributes paying tribute to George Washington who had died weeks earlier The verse venerates Washington as a noble leader and calls for national mourning with lines praising Columbia s glory Mount Vernon and the heavenly sage The item shows the paper in surprisingly good condition for its age and reflects era sentiment toward the late president
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White
Arb A Stitz
Stitz Cigar Store
Fourth and
Water Streets
Fire Alarms Report Across City With Damages
Thursday evening to Friday morning multiple fire alarm incidents are recorded. Cars and several residences on Walnut Fifth Third Baltimore Western and Cottage streets suffered sparking on shingles and short circuits with damages ranging from ten to ten thousand dollars. A note urges buyers to insure.
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Lester Williams
Third Street
G. M. Jackson
Baltimore
J. B. Hayes
Western Avenue
A. G. Skiles
Cottage Street
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