Senate Tax Debate Turns On Inheritance Fight
In Des Moines today the Senate tax bill debate centers on restoring the estate tax. Former Gov. Lowden of Illinois emerges as Midwest advocate while partisan lines form between progressives and conservatives. The fight spans delays, court issues, and political strategy ahead of upcoming campaigns.
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Prince of Wales Breaks Collarbone After Horsefall
Prince of Wales suffers a fractured collar bone after being thrown from his horse while hunting with Fern hounds at Little Shelton. He returns to London for medical attention. This is his second fall in two days and his fifteenth riding accident since autumn 1920.
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Former Resident Honored at Party By Sister's Guests
Miss Vernon Weller, a former Waterloo girl and Avalon worker, visited at her sister Mrs. Frank Watkins 1865 Fourth Street West. After two weeks she plans to go to Shreveport to be with her parents Mr and Mrs J J Weller. She was honored at a dinner in Black's Tearoom hosted by Miss Ida Copley and Flora Miner with bridge at Miss Miner's home.
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Courier Delivery Deadline Notice
The Courier should be delivered to your home before 3:30. If you do not receive your paper by that time, please call the office and report the missing copy. Phone numbers are provided for inquiries and requests for a replacement.
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Methodists Meet at Des Moines Conference Today
Methodist leaders from the Omaha conference gather in Des Moines for a regional meeting of ministers and laymen. More than 71,000 are expected to discuss introducing religion into northern city sections, with rural pastors and Epworth League members planning country church work in sectional sessions.
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Phone Murder Case Advances to Second Trial in Fulton
Morrison, Al Jan 2 Taking of testimony in the second murder trial of John Cominsky, Fulton farmer, was to start this afternoon. The first trial ended with a hung jury. The state says Cominsky killed Marie Lorenzen McKee, a telephone exchange operator, last September after she spurned his advances and kept company with younger men in Fulton.
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Trial Bride May Go to Mitchellville
Papers filed in district court seek to send Constanzo Russo, 17, an Italian maid, to the Mitchellville home for delinquent girls after she failed to find harmony as the probation bride of her sister’s divorced husband. Russo remains a voluntary guest in the county jail, her family having disowned her.
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Jury Finds Farmhand Accidentally Killed Near Marcus Iowa
A coroner's inquest near Marcus Iowa ruled Herman Febers a 24 year old farm hand died accidentally from gunshot wounds found beside his car on a rural road. Initial fears suggested murder.
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Royalty and Cardinal Mercier Honored in Belgian Funeral
In Brussels today, royalty and the Belgian people paid homage at Cardinal Mercier's funeral. Mourning figures, civilians and workers, gathered as his casket was carried past. The chimes tolled at St. Gudule as proclamations once defying German masters were read, and his body lay in state among mourners.
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Winter Blizzard Grips Midwest with Subzero Cold
Waterloo area endures bitter cold and drifting snow as twelve below zero is reported. highways blocked and rail service hampered across the region. A traveling salesman, Thomas C. Swith, suffers severe frostbite on ears and feet after sliding into a ditch while detouring from a car crash. he recovers with no permanent injuries. Rail and interurban lines face delays, with crews shoveling and snowplows clearing routes. buses and local lines run with limited disruption as weather worsens.
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Lowden backs federal farm board to curb crop surplus
Former Illinois governor Frank O. Lowden urged Congress to empower a federal farm board under the Dickinson bill. He argued cooperation with cooperative commodity associations is essential to organize producers of major farm products, coordinate production with consumption, and prevent ruinous overproduction amid rising costs and market imbalances. He cited potato and corn figures to show price disparities and warned against prolonging surplus without organized action.
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Six Witnesses Say Sunde Bank Bandit Trial
Six witnesses testified in the trial of Alford Sunde, 19, Sioux City, for the murder of Marshal John Armstrong during an attempted holdup at a telephone office on December 18. Witnesses identified Sunde as one of two men who forced entry and cut wires as a preliminary move. The case could conclude this week in Logan, Iowa.
Bank robbery trial splits focus on mother and daughter
In Sioux Falls South Dakota on January 28 the sanity of Mrs Catherine Rogers and her 19 year old daughter Vera was debated as they faced bank robbery charges. Defense witness Dr G Q Charles Erickson testified the mother displayed childlike behavior and the girl had the mentality of a seven to nine year old.
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Trotsky Quits as Electric Trust Head
Moscow January 28 Leon Trotsky resigns as head of the state electrical trust and as head of the concessions committee, a leading role in Russia's economic development.
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Japanese cabinet resigns after death of Premier Kato
Tokyo reports the diet prorogued for five days after Premier Kato died of pneumonia. Home Affairs Minister Wakarsuks, leader of the Kensikat party, is expected to name an interim premier and reappoint ministers. The cabinet position dissolved following the premier’s death. Bolivian conditions described as chaotic with expected dissolution of the dice.
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First Waterloo Robin Performs Charleston In Cold
A lone robin in Waterloo was observed hopping about and performing a Charleston dance to keep warm amid below zero cold. Mrs F J Richards of the Guallowa farm near Cedar Falls reported the bird’s festive activity today, marking the first sighting in the community.
Short Interviews With Home Folks
W L Belt an attorney states after a decade in municipal election campaigns that party tickets backed by county central committees would best serve Waterloo. He praises stability and greater citizen voice, noting other cities use the plan successfully.
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Ten Pairs Silver Foxes Arrive for Waterloo Fox Farm
Ten pairs of silver foxes valued at twenty thousand dollars were delivered today by express for the John Simpson Silver Fox Company in Waterloo. Frank Gefforek, an experienced caretaker, arrived to supervise the fox ranch newly established there as it develops into an industry of importance. Paul A. Simpson I will succeed his father, the late John Francis Simpson, founder of the fox farm, who died Monday.
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Fire Start Ends in Tragic Bloomfield House Blaze
Centerville, Ta., Jan 28 The exchange bank cashier Herbert King was badly burned and died from the fire started while attempting to light a furnace at his Bloomfield home. King and his wife were injured as they rushed to extinguish flames, with no hope for King's recovery.
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Auto fumes claim life of Fort Madison man
Fort Madison Iowa January 28 John Peterson 52 died after weeks of illness from inhaling poisonous auto exhaust fumes. He was found in his garage where he had been working on a car with the engine running. He never recovered from the critical condition.
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Socialists Dodge Vote of Confidence in Luther Regime
Berlin dispatch says Socialists will abstain from the vote of confidence in the Luther government in the Reichstag. The cabinet regards the abstention as a confidence vote. Luther would ask President Hindenburg to dissolve the Reichstag if the vote fails. A decree authorizing this action is reported ready for use.
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Des Moines Meeting to Favor Export Plan
Des Moines voices push for Dickinson bill and Strong bill in a corn area conference. Governors Hammill Gunderson Paulen and others urged congressional relief, seeking a federal bureau to market surpluses and an equalization fee while stressing an economic not political move.
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