Federal Bonds Alias on Tap Treasury Plan
Washington talks on a Treasury plan to keep federal bonds on sale nationwide without new drives. Bonds would be issued as notes, 25 dollar minimum, bearing about 4.5 percent interest and maturing in one to five years, sold via post offices and similar outlets. Treasury officials warn the plan may require new legislation. current thrift stamps show limited postwar appeal and growing redemptions.
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Washington News
Burest
Waterloo Evening Courier
Washington, D. C
Secretary of the Treasury
Glass
Congress
Treasury Department
Treasury
Department of Labor
Nine Men Fined for Illegal Seining in Winneger Lake
A Brandon party of nine men and a boy were fined for illegal seining on Winneger Lake in Iowa. State deputy game warden E J Chapman seized the 360 foot seine and the group paid $215.10 in fines plus $3.90 costs per man. the boy escaped prosecution. Names of fined men include L Cottrell and W Heaper among others.
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Seining
Iowa Lakes and Rivers Ia
Brandon
Winneger Lake
E. J. Chapman
L. Cottrell
Four Power Council Meets in Paris for Reparations Talks
The Big Four council met in Paris this forenoon with experts on territorial questions and reparations present. It is understood the Austrian peace treaty reparations clauses have now been compiled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BIG Four
Paris
Council of Four
Supreme Justice Brandeis Plans Palestine Mission Feasibility
Justice Louis D Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court plans a trip to Europe and Palestine to assess the feasibility of a separate Jewish state in Palestine and to verify equal rights for Jews in Poland Galicia Roumania and other nations where pogroms have been reported He may also be considered as a potential first governor of the new Jewish state.
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Louis D. Brandeis
United States Supreme Court
Palestine
Europe
Paris
Poland
Galicia
Roumania
Brandeis
Waterloo City Briefs Highlight Local News And Visits
Multiple items report visitors to Waterloo area including Mrs. J F Spayde in Sioux City and Miss Asther Anton from Bismarck. Local incidents include a smallpox concern for Frank Klinoff and a car crash on Fifth Street with no injuries. May include service updates for Ben H. Lewis and William Barclay overseas notices. Y M C A life conferences invite boys seeking vocation with first session on The Ministry of the Law.
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Buchanan's
G. R. Burnett
Othello
Wash
Matt, McDermott
J. F. Spayde
Sioux City
Phebe H. Akio
Eleventh Street
Frank Klinoff
Thurman _ Dickerson
341St Geld Artillery
America
E. L. Arthur
Colorado
G. W. Orr
W. A. Bryant & Sons
Fifth Street
Ben H. Lewis
C. A. Lewis
Waterloo
Fort Worth
Tex
R. B. Bennett
C. R. Barclay
Hammond Avenue
William W. Barclay
Newport
Eighty-eighth
United States Army
Army Recruitice
Fourth Street
Albert
Beebe
Rockford
Infantry Air Service
Wilard Newton
Powersville
Leo H. Ricks
Boscobel
Wic
Motor Transport Corps
Ronald HK. Short
Hazleton
Air Service
J. T. Howser
Hine
Ministry of the Law
Miss Martha Cooper Dies After Illness at 47
Miss Martha Cooper aged 47 died at Presbyterian hospital from heart trouble and influenza complications. She lived in Waterloo about 18 years and taught at Washington school for 12 years. Survived by father W. F. Cooper Quasqueton two brothers E W Cooper Parkersburg Archie Cooper Oakland sister Mrs Lucia Petersen Seattle. Member Grace M E church. Remains to O Kaele Towne mortuary and then Quanqueton for burial.
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Martha Cooper
Presbyterian Hospital
Trench bomb explodes in Chicago post office parcel
The post office distributing room was rocked by a trench bomb inside a parcel post sack tossed by a clerk. No one injured. the bomb sat with a damaged gimballed stick, traced to a French origin. General Stuart warned of a $1000 fine and up to two years in prison for mailing explosives.
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Chicago
James E. Stuart
HB. Vanderwilt
Who's Your Butcher Now Common in Merry England
London May 6 Nearly everyone in England changed butchers in recent weeks after rationing forced registration with a single supplier. Consumers eager for change queued for meat and faced shortages and price tensions. Since yesterday coupons for meat butter and sugar are no longer required though rationing remains. Grocers and butchers still receive limited supplies and the food ministry promises the coupon system will end soon.
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London
Associated Press
England
Food Ministry
Winnipeg Strike Vets Parade With City OK
Winnipeg veterans plan a parade under city sanction after leaders split over the general strike. Some factions threaten separate marches while mediators report cancellations from both sides in the metal workers dispute. Most unions responded to the strike call in Vancouver, with postal and street railway workers staying at work.
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Associated Press
Winnipeg
Man
Veterans’ Associations
Railroad Brotherhood
Vancouver
Toronto
Five War Bill Probes Planned by House in as Many Committees
Washington June Five separate investigations of war department expenditures are to be made by house committees, each with two Republicans and one Democrat, plans disclosed before the house rules committee by Republican leaders. Inquiries would center on aviation ordnance camps cantonments quarter masters corps and expenditures in foreign countries. The rules committee decided to enlarge the standing committee on war department expenditures to 13 members and make it an order of special business.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
War Department
House
House Rules Committee
Conmittes
Standing Committee
36th Division Arrives in New York From Patricia
Maj. Gen. William R. Smith and 2,846 officers and men of the 36th division arrive on the transport Patricia, with the cruiser St. Louis. They include the 131st, 132nd and 133rd machine gun battalions and other units. They head to camps Bowie Upton Sherman Grant Dodge Travis Dix and Lee. Additional 88th division units arrive on Konigen der Nederlander, including ambulance, hospitals, engineers, MPs, veterinary and medical detachments.
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Associated Press
New York
William R. Smith
36Th
Patricia
Texas
Oklahoma
132Nd
133Rd
Jess
Aeers
111Th Field
6Th Division
Fist
Pegram Whitworth
St. Louis
Bowie
Upton
Sherman
Grant
Dodge
Travis
Dix
Lee
S8th
Newport News
213Th Engineers
510Th Engineers
Royal Neighbors Consider Higher Monthly Assessments
The Royal Neighbors of America debating six tables of figures in Chicago on June 4 to raise monthly assessments after influenza epidemic losses in 1918. A majority favored a rate tied to the experience table, with plans from 40 to 75 cents per rise to 75 cents to 1.50 per $1,000 of insurance, but no decision was expected until the next day.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Supreme Camp of
Royal Neighbors of America
Suffragists Confident as Senate Takes Up Amendment
Washington June 4 advocates of the equal suffrage constitutional amendment resolution, recently passed in the house, were confident it would be adopted before adjournment. In the senate it was taken up as unfinished business. Opponents of nationwide enfranchisement were expected to oppose adoption to the end as obstructionist tactics were anticipated.
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Associated Press
Washington, D.C
House
Senate
Navy Reduction Call Sets 250000 Maximum by July 1
Boston June 4 An order from the Navy department calls for a reduction of the entire enlist ed force to not more than 256000 men on July 1 Most reductions will come from shore stations first to safeguard fleet efficiency.
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Associated Press
Boston
Paves Department
World Day League Planned by Prohibition Advocates
At the national Anti Saloon League of America convention a plan to form an international prohibition league was announced. Representatives of foreign prohibition groups attended to join in the effort as the convention opened.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
International Prohibition League
Anti-Saloon League of America
Hewe
International League
Paris Strikes Paralyze City as Trike Grips Garg
Paris faced a wide strike with 450000 workers in the district and expected 600000 by night. Public transit halted as cars and taxis stood idle. electrical workers joined the stoppage, then military authorities took control. Workers demand full enforcement of the eight hour day and living wage aligned with rising costs.
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Riaporty
Parla
Vetry
Versailles
Direct US Brazil cable and South America steamship links
Plans laid before the Pan American conference call for direct US to Brazil Argentina and Chile cable service and direct steamship lines from New York to Brazil Argentina and Chile New Orleans or Mobile to western South America and Seattle to western ports on the Pacific coast with South and Central America connections.
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Associated Press
New York
United States
Brazil
South Ameria
Western Union Telegraps Company
Western Telegraph Company of
Great
Britain
Washington, D. C
South
Central America
Hurley
The
Shipping Board
Argentina
Chile
New Orleans
Mobile
South America
Seattle
Pacific
Atlanta Telegraphers Strike Widening National Move Seen
Atlanta telegraphers striking in sympathy with local telephone workers could push a nationwide disruption of telegraph and telephone services. Union chief J Konenkamp warned the stoppage might spread beyond Atlanta, criticizing Postmaster Burleson and the wire control policy amid reports the strike remains limited to a few individuals.
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Atlanta
Associated Prose
Atanta
Union
Western Union Telegraph Company
Southern Bell
Atlanta Telephone Companies
Toonencamp
Washington, D. C
J. Konenkamp
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of America
Atlantta
Konenkamp
Burleson
Wilson
Post Ofice Department
Wire Control Board
Treaty Copies Reach Capital by Courier
Washington June 4 copies of the peace treaty with Germany arrived in the capital by courier supplementing the cabled text at the State department. The Japanese embassy has received copies and forwarded them to Tokio. Officials said the text had been supplied to other embassies and to the alien property custodian and other government bureaus for guidance.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Germany
Washington
State Department
Tave
Tokio
Gay
Department
Objections to Palmer as Attorney General Heard by Senators
Senate judiciary subcommittee in executive session considered Senator Frelinghuysen’s objections to confirmation of Attorney General Palmer. Chairman Dillingham said no action was taken and another meeting is planned for Friday. An open hearing was unlikely despite Palmer’s suggestion.
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Associated Press
Washington
F. C
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Palmer
Senate Judiciary Sub-Committee
Dillingham
Treaty debate on Belgian neutrality revisited by ministers
The council of foreign ministers met again to consider the reign of the 1839 treaty on Belgian neutrality. The gathering aimed to clarify the implications of Belgium's status under the treaty and potential actions by signatory powers.
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Associated Press
Maredina
Council of Foreign Ministers
German Magistrates Appeal To U S People On Terms
Berlin reports that magistrates from 200 German municipalities representing 30 million residents signed an appeal to the American people protesting against peace terms. The appeal demands a fair measure of justice based on Wilsonian principles and notes American-born women now German subjects join in urging U S women to oppose the blockade continuation.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Wilson
America
Towns Along Air Bomber Route Across Iowa
Seventeen towns line the planned transcontinental flight by Army aviation service. A Martin bomber led by Capt Francis and Lieut Clune will pass in the afternoon on the first day, listing town-by-town arrival times from Davenport at 1 39 to Council Bluffs at 5 08.
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Washington, D. C
Tawa
Army Aviation Service
New York City
Martin
Francis
Clune
Towa
War Department
Davenport
Muscatine
Nichols
Iowa’Junction
Webster
Thornburg
Montezuma
Lynnville Junction
Monroe
Newton
Prairie Otty
Des Moines
van Meter
Menlo
Atlantic
Oakland
Council Bulls
Ford's Investigator of Yank's Families Libel Suit
Clemens Michigan June 4 T Reardon an investigator for Ford Motor company testified in the Ford Chicago Tribune $1,000,000 libel suit. He described visits to Ford employes homes after the householder left for border service and his records showing recommendations for financial relief were introduced as evidence.
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Associated Press
Moun
Clemens, Mich
T. Reardon
Educational Department
Ford Motor Company
Ford-Chicago Tribune
Ford
Wisconsin Guernseys at Fond du Lac Sale Report
Fifty-two pure bred Guernseys sold at Fond du Lac yesterday in a joint sale by the Fond du Lac County Guernsey Breeders association and Winehaga County association. The average per head was 451 dollars. six bulls averaged 322 dollars and 46 cows brought 17,470 dollars total, averaging 379 dollars each.
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Fond du Lac, Ae
Fond du Lac
Only English in Schools Advised by Maj General Wood
Albany dispatch reports Maj Gen Leonard Wood urged that the Declaration of Independence be the sole language in all public schools up to high school to defend democracy. He backed a wartime teacher salary push, stressing teachers as the most carefully chosen public servants for youth education.
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Albany, W
Leonard Wood
Educational Congress
Allied Occupation Armies Monitor Rhenish Republic Plots
Berlin dispatch reports that American British and Belgian occupation forces view French intrigue as pushing toward a Rhenish republic. The forces maintain a strictly neutral stance while forwarding details to the Lokal Anzeiger correspondent in Eberfeld.
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TEUTS
Berlin
Rhenish Republic
Eberfeld
Lokal Anzeiger
Austrian government accepts peace terms from Saint Germain
Vienna reports the Austrian government has unanimously decided that the peace terms presented at Saint Germain on Monday are acceptable, according to the Neuste Abendblatt.
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Associated Press
Vienna
Germain
Neuse Abendblatt
Simmons Told Liquor Man Dry Law'd Take Care of Self
Washington June 4 Ap pealing to the house judiciary committee for repeal of wartime prohibition Neu rad, head of Family Wine and Liquor Dealers' assoc, said Senator Simmons told him last November the law would take care of itself by July 1 and that he should return to New York. He testified the talk occurred in Simmons' office while protesting a floor tax. Goldberg said Wilson wanted to pass the buck to congress on repeal. It is too serious a matter to shift.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
House Judiciary Committee
Jan Adolph Neurad
Family Wine and Liquor Dealers’ Association
Senator Simmons
Senate
New York
Reavis
Nebraska
Neurad
Mark Goldberg
Association
Wilson
Congress
Utah Rolls Roads Plan To Spend Millions Statewide
Utah plans to spend about 8 million dollars on roads over two years with 2 million this year. Funds come from state and federal sources to develop the Arrowhead trail and connect Utah to Nevada, Arizona, and southern California. Arizona has earmarked funds for a bridge north of Kingsman and a road opening to St George. Semenoff proclaims Mongolian autonomy in a Moscow dispatch.
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Utah
Rome
California
San Diego
Imperial Valley
Fresno
San Luis Obispo
Arizona
Nevada
Cedar City
Buckburn
Western
Colorado
Kingsman
St. George
Bolsheviks launch counter offensive amid Baltic front
A Russian Wireless message from London reports Bolsheviks have mounted a counter offensive against Estonians and North Russian forces near the Gatchina railway. In Los Angeles Snyder leads mayoral race with 26 779 votes to Woodman 15 578 after 462 of 766 precincts reported.
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RED Counter Galys
London
Gatchina Railway
Federal Employment Fund Sought in Sundry Bill
In Washington on June 4 the sundry civil bill was amended to include 4,690,000 dollars for the realignment of the federal employment service in the next fiscal year. Col Arthur Gods urged the measure in letters to Senate Appropriations Chairman Warren and Ways and Means Chairman Good.
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Washington, D. C
Federal Employment Service
Arthur Gods
Secretary of War
Warren
Senate Appropriations Committee
Good
House
Garland brothers honored at Tripoli welcome home
Miss Lydia Garland and Miss Adella Garland hosted a welcome home party for their brother Albert Garland in Tripoli. About 20 guests at Fred Garland’s home greeted Albert, who served in France for over a year. Local news notes also cover school picnic at Penn School Leroy, Mrs. Louise Martens’ death, and graduation exercises in Tripoli with eight boys and five girls earning diplomas.
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Tripoli
Lydia
Adella Garland
Albert Garland
Fred Garland
France
Vari
Henry
Aarmaan Bunger
Herman Keding
Wren
Lempke
Waverly
Chas
Keding
Waterloo
E. Steeh
Tripoli Opera House
A. W. Henke
I. Lt. Moyers
Ernest and
Rose Rodermeyer
Fred Rodermeyer
Douglan Township
Otta Huls
Fret Schwemn
F. C. Hackbarth
Sumner and Floyd Area Notices and Obituaries
Obituaries and social notes from Sumner and Floyd report Mrs E G Stevenson of Finnell chapel, memorials for Civil War veterans, and the Moore and Wuttke families mourning. Also listed are a church memorial, a May 39 birth, marriages of Virgie Liewellyn and Etta Measerer, Cass funeral in Fayette, and local veterans’ returnees from overseas along with several local visits and minor happenings in Floyd township and surrounding areas.
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Sumner
E G. Stevenson
Finnell ¢Chapel
Finnell Lehurch
Dell Austin
Near Randalia
Virgie Liewellyn
Mise Etta Measerer
Felix Mort
Mesaster
James Noor
HiramsLense
K Ror
Stra
Frank Rachfore
Bilan’ Thomas Moore
Earl Moore
I. B
Opera Hovee
Fd Wuttke
Garden “Grove
E. M. Cass
Fayetta
Hamieton
Portland
Lloyd Walker
Elste Owler
la Porte City
Horton Family Visits and Local Travel News
Horton, Jan Ed Clark and Jamie visited relatives at Clarksville Lun as Mr and Mrs Floyd Hamilton and children Charles City spent several days last week with Mr and Mrs Wilcox. Harry Cortright and family spent Friday with relatives at Waterloo. Mr and Mrs Johnson and children are here from Grundy Center visiting her parents Mr and Mrs Ed Hil. Hlans Tiggerman returned home Friday from Camp Dodge after discharge following overseas service. Orlo Potter and family drove from Eaneely and spent Sunday at Joe Tos Be
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Fred Volbrecht
George Waddell
Floyd Township
Charles City
Floyd
al Simms
Henry Anderson
Wisconsin
Mra al Stone
Clarion
Worden
George Lapham
Nashua
Stanley Noah
S8th
Floyd Hamilton
Airs
Oa Wilcox
Harry Cortright
Waterloo
Johnson
Grundy Center
Ed Hil
Hlans Tiggerman
Camp Dodge
Ey Orlo Potter
Foam Eaneely
Joe Tos
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A- M. Robertson
M. W. Hotcond
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Oskaloosa
Tunis V
Stuart
Gimbel Brothers
Landis
Merry England
O. K
Salvation Army
Evangeline Booth
Eigen
N. Y
Trike
Garg
Byenjog
Reche Associated Press
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Taxi Drusan
Opsrabon
Ship Lines
Japan
Albert Reed Reife
Albert Cushing Read
Lisbon
Continents
FOE
U. S
Yank
Wood
Austria
Semenofy
Mongolia
Semenoff
Feader
Siberia
Moscow
Semenovt Grand Duke
Woods
FLOYD_ Floré
Lou Beattie
Ruth Turner
Bess Wilbur
Clarence Lambert
J. W. Healey
Elgin
Herman Langman
M. EL
Oakwood Cemetery
W. EB. Hayes
Tueseee
Polo
Horton
Ed Clark
Jamie
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