Lewis Unopposed for President of Iowa Labor Federation
Des Moines June 10 J C Lewis was re elected president of the Iowa State Federation of Labor with no opposition in the primary Mason City won the 1926 convention Nominations for other offices followed including vice president secretary treasurer and executive committee members The convention featured an address on the Iowa income tax bill by G W Patterson and an anticipated main address by United States Senator Smith W Brookhart with his arrival expected Wednesday evening The gathering heard calls for unity and cautions against sectarian issues among labor groups and farmers spokesmen urged closer cooperation under shared goals
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Associated Press
Trbuque
J. C. Lewis
Des Maines
Iowa State Federation of Labor
Mason City
Vicw
Thomas —P. Menton
Boone
Charles Tithering
Marshalltown
George WW. Dunlap
Davenport
J. G. Wiley
Bes Meines
Dave Morrison
Cedar Rapids
M. E. Sherman
Vallay Junctison
Executive Bank
Lebel
John T. Foster
Des Moines
Archie Kitte
George C. Thornton
John J. Brown
Dubuque
Charles Herearthy
Daverport
Sioux City
Halphip Menaiace
Burlington
G. W. Patterson
Kossuth County
Iowa
United States
Smith W. Brookhart
J.C. Lewis
Brookhart
United Press
J. B. Wiley
Lewis
John AL Dun-ningham
Dubudue
Congressman Langley jailed on contempt of court charges
Kentucky representative Langley was imprisoned for 10 hours after being found in contempt of court amid ongoing federal indictments over illegal liquor withdrawal. Arrested by Mrs. Henriettie, Langley was partly clothed at a downtown building and faces further legal action in Washington and Atlanta federal prison terms.
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Laneley
Langley
Kentucky
W. J. Henriettie
Pn : Eye
Ile
Atlanta
Washington
Lim
Gray-Haired Housewife to Line Up With Flapper Co-Eds
Northwestern University seniors prepare for commencement as Mrs. A. R. McDonald, a 50 year old mother of five, earns an M A in theology. She credits a strict system balancing study and household chores for managing five jobs at once while attending classes and doing weekly laundry.
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Uredled Press
Evanston
Northwestern University
A. R. McDonald
Evolution debated at Scopes trial Stark standoff in press
Officials of the Civil Liberties Union announce plans to frame the Scopes trial as a public education issue. They state aims to educate about evolution, show science and religion are compatible, and argue against restrictive legislation. Proceedings will involve Darrow and Colby as unpaid prosecutors at the first trial.
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Poetio
MuUnion
William Jenkings Bryan
Darrow
Colby
Civil Liberties Union
Ich
Scopes
Txley
Wis
Che
Pragey
New York
S4vil Liverties Union
Prohibition Board Names Historical Drunks Noah Nero and Alexander
The Methodist Episcopal board of temperance in Washington declares prohibition defending it by naming Noah Nero and Alexander as the era's conspicuous drunks. It argues whisky was not in their day and rejects partial prohibition leaving beer and wine.
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Washington, D. C
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals
The
Methodist Episcopal Church Today
Prohibition
Noah
Nero
Alexander
Europe witnesses relieved by U S debt suggestion
European leaders respond to a U S debt proposal as Belgium sells steel rails to Detroit with Henry Ford as chief buyer. The clash between tariff and money abroad followers stirs U S Republican party tensions while Theunis is praised as a capable Russian envoy and Belgium gains early German wartime reparations to fund allies.
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America
Belgium
Detroit
Henry Ford
Washington
Coolidge
Semling
Kansas Pastor Falls Dead at Charles City
A Kansas pastor, Rev Hutchinson, was found dead of heart failure at the Baptist church in Charles City. The faithful lay leader’s death was confirmed after calls to notify his husband’s family and a funeral is planned in Lawrence.
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Kansas
Charles City
Char City
Revell
Hutchinson
Baptist
Lawrence
Eastonuy
Taco
Hutchinsen
Husband
Local youths offered path to service via government training camps
Col Powers promotes citizens military training camps as an affordable way for young men to gain military training and recreation without enlisting. Iowa's state tour aims to fill the camp quota and boost county enrollments in Black Hawk. Plans for National Defense Day July 4 were discussed with reserve officers.
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U.S
Cal
Powers
Omaha
Mason City
Lla
Ulag
Col. Powers
Towa
Army Reserve
Hotel Russell-Lamson
RR. G. Taylor
Black Hawk County
R. G. ‘Taylor
F. CG. Sage
Tl. & Greenup
U. S. Army
Stuart Bank Case Rehearing Set for June 16
The Town supreme court announced a rehearing for the Stuart bank case on June 16 in Des Moines. The move follows Attorney General Gibson’s motion to expedite the case. The court previously found Iowa law giving preference to public funds deposited in banks under receivership unconstitutional.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Stuart Bank
Gibson
Iowa
President Coolidge Returns From Minnesota Journey
President Coolidge arrived back at the White House at 8:00 a.m. from Minnesota where he spoke at a Norse American celebration. The trip covered about 2400 miles. The President and Mrs. Coolidge had breakfast on the train and will stay in Washington for two weeks before departing to Swampscott Massachusetts for the rest of the summer.
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Washington,d. C
Coolidge
S A. m
Minnesota
White House
Washington
Swampscott
Mass
County Attorney Suspended by Judge in Guthrie County
Judge J. H. Applegate suspends Guthrie County Attorney S. L. Hunt on unethical practice and misconduct charges filed in district court. Suspension takes effect July 1. Hunt denies the accusations and plans likely appeal. report notes he has been accused of misusing a seal and deceiving the court.
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Creston
J. H. Applegate
Guthrie Enter
L. Hunt
Flint
Hunt
Applegate
Dry Officers Guilty on Liquor Charges
In Toledo Ohio on June 10 3 E Rus sell former Ohio prohibition director M B R Copeland and Warren E Barnett Columbus attorney were found guilty in federal court of conspiracy to violate federal prohibition law. They aided a bootlegger gang to withdraw 22 000 gallons of whisky from the tayner distillery at Troy Ohio three years ago.
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Toledo
E. Russell
Ohio
M. BR. Copeland
Warren E. Barnett
Columbus
Tayner
Troy
Western Union College LeMars Diploma May Ceremony
Fourteen students at Western Union College in LeMars received diplomas during a commencement in the Valley Auditorium. Prof. Fo C Steinbrenner of Morningside College spoke, and Dr. C A Mack, president of Western Union College, attended the exercises.
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eMars
Western Union College
Valleys
Fo C. Steinbrenner
Morningside Gate Lege
Sioux City
Cl AL Mack
Western Inion
Pee
Mexican Queen Miss Maria Luisa Malda Crowned by Students
In Mexico City the scholastic queen for 1925 was chosen by student peers. Miss Maria Luisa Malda, a schoolgirl, was selected as the year’s scholastic queen amid schoolwide festivities.
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Maria Luisa Malda
Mexico City
Invalid Finishes College Gets B A Degree Over Radio
Iowa City Iowa June 10 Clif ford Lideen an invalid in Burlington Iowa has been awarded the first B A degree by the University of Iowa for work taken through radio correspondence courses Though unable to attend commencement the university radio station carried Dean Kay s words of praise to the boy in Burlington listening in Lideen a student here years ago intended to enter law but ill health forced him to leave school He enrolled for enough work to secure a B A degree when radio correspondence courses began last winter and the university honored his heroic struggles today
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Iowa City
Clitford Lideen
Burlington
University of Iowa
Altho
Dean Kay
Lideon
Pussyfoot Johnson Admits Liberty To Drink For All
Kansas City report says reformer William Pussyfoot Johnson claims individuals have equal right to drink liquor as to eat, asserting after years of battles, men and women will do as they please. He urged letting people live their own lives.
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Kansas City
William
Pussyfoot) Johnson
Johnson
Train Crash Damages Elevator and Tracks
A mixup between a tractor grader and a Milwaukee Road car yesterday left the locomotive out of service. The grain elevator was wrecked and a fire burned ties on the railroad, with damage pegged at 1000 dollars. Ralph Holmes of Oxford Junction drove the tractor. a quick jolt likely saved his life.
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Olin
Fune
Milwaukee Pacific
Ralph Holmes
Oxford Junction
First Woman Joins Coe College Trustees Board
Cedar Rapids June 10 The first woman member of Coe College board of trustees is Mrs. George B. Douglas, a wealthy Cedar Rapids woman, honored at the annual meeting yesterday. W. A. Dexter of Toledo was also added to the board. George Booth of Chicago was elected president of the alumni association.
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Cedar Rapids
Coe College Board of Trustees
George B. Douglas
W. A. Dexter
Toledo
George Booth
Chicago
Three Denominations Merged in Canada Officially Instituted
Toronto Ont June 10 The United Church of Canada formed by the Methodist Presbyterian and Congregational denominations is officially instituted and dedicated before about 3000 people. By act of parliament the three bodies ceased to exist as separate churches.
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Toronto
Ont
United Church of Canada
Dominion
Windy cold wave grips Chicago and Cedar Falls obituary notice
Chicago endures a windy cold spell with a 56 degree high and worsening conditions. Almon Milton Cleveland longtime state worker at Cedar Falls Teachers College dies of heart disease at Sartori Memorial hospital after 30 years in the community. He leaves two sons and a widow. funeral plans pending sisters in Rockford and Three Rivers. Mae tilda Caward seeks a new trial and alimony in a custody case against Walter B. Caward with a $20,000 award upheld in the decree.
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Cedar Falls
Almon Milton Cleveland
Teachers College
Sartori Memorial Hospital
George
Alfred
Glenwood
Rockford
Three Rivers
Mich
Caward
Maetilda Caward
Walter B. Caward
Ate. Caward
Prison Labor Abolition Campaign Led by Davis Plan
In Washington June 10 Secretary of Labor James J. Davis launched a push to end prison labor as unfair competition to free workers. He cites 84,761 convicts with under 19 percent outdoors on public works and condemns prison contractors who underprice labor while crowding out legitimate workers. He urges moving prisons out of cities and directs focus to rehabilitating and training convicts for useful trades. He also links reform to addressing neglected children before crime takes hold.
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Washington
DE. C
James J. Davis
Beyun
Avis
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Davis
C Onvict
Mass riot arrests in Worcester county court clash
Thirty six men were brought into district court after the worst riot in Worcester county between Ku Klux Klan members and antiklansmen. Automobiles clashed with pedestrians, state troops dispersed the melee, and most arrests were Klansmen or sympathizers.
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Clinton
Mass
Worcester County
Graduates at Ames in Scramble When Coins Shower Down
A group of Iowa State college graduates received their degrees as coins showered from a rotunda balcony. The scene drew hundreds of students and professors while the seniors scrambled to gather the coins in the lobby below.
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Ames
Iowa State College
Premier Painleve Seeks Peace Pact in Morocco Visit
Premier Painleve flies toward the Moor battlefield to press a peace accord between France and Spain. He reiterates no territorial aims and plans talks with Marshal Lyautey on current and future Moroccan conditions, troop status, and supplies.
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Premier Painleve
Moor Battlefield
Africa
Spain
Paris
France
Morocco
Marshal Lyautey
Primo le Rivera
Tetuan
American Women and Children Flee from Danger Zones
The text reports civilians including women and children fleeing danger as a Canton Christian college staff is moved to safety by an American gunboat. Chinese students demand troop departure while unrest and a general strike in Foo Chow create a tense, quiet scene.
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Page One
Legation
College
Hongkong
The
Christian College At
Canton
Foo Chow
Associated Press
Hardships Endured at Rimaucourt France by Iowa Unit
In the Story of the One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry, John H. Taber recalls Iowa’s unit arriving in France in late winter 1917 and training at Rimaucourt. Soldiers faced bitter cold, frostbitten gear, tanned beef and hardtack, freezing meals, snow-filled barns, and improvised warmth while coping with scarce clothing and supplies.
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One Hundred Sixty-eighth Infantry
State Historical Society of Iowa
Iowa City
John H. Taber
Iowa
France
Rimaucourt
Camp Mills
Reberail Convention Representatives Gather in Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls hosts delegates from Butler Bremer and Black Hawk counties for the annual Rebekah convention with about 200 attendees in session today. In Des Moines Paul Trohnson Davenport elected president of the Iowa State Association of Optometrists at closing session.
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Cedar Falls
vThree
Butler
Bremer
Black Hawk
Rebekan
Tony
Johnson
Des Moines
Paul Trohnson
Davenport
Towa State Association of Optometrists
Mary L. Jackson Widow of Civil War Veteran Dies
Mrs Mary L Jackson widow of John L Jackson a Waterloo resident for years died in Pasadena California on June. A New York native she lived in Pasadena 19 years and was 5 years likely widowed Her husband died four years ago Survived by two daughters Mrs Frank Mareadant and Mrs Frank Kutler and two grandchildren Mildred and Harold Mareadant She belonged to the Order of Eastern Star and the Woman's Relief Corps The funeral Friday was conducted by Rev Richard Aberle y pastor of Central Christian Church and burial was in Mountain View cemetery
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Mary 1
Jackson
Mary L. Jackson
John L. Jackson
Waterloo
Pasadena
Cal
New New York State
Frank G. Mareadant
Frank A. Kutler
Mildred
Harold Mareadant
Order of Eastern Star
Woman's Telief Corps
Richard Abberley
Central Christian Chorei
Wrs
Mountain View Cemetery
Parade of G. A. R. at Mason City Five-Block Route
Mason City Iowa June 10 Veterans of the G A R will march for the fifty first time in a parade covering five blocks from the Hanford hotel to the Congregational church with Boy Scouts and National Guardsmen. The Mason City municipal band leads one division while the American Legion and G A R drum and bugle corps head the other. The G A R convention business session opened with committee reports and officer elections due this afternoon. Frank Dagle of Des Moines and J R Witter of Cornell Blatts are leading commander candidates as Keokuk and Des Moines vie for the 1926 convention.
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Mason City
Hanford Hotel
Federal Avenue
Congregational Church
Boy Scouts
National
G.A. RR
Frank Dagle
Des Moines
J. R. Witter
Cornell Blatts
Keokuk
Cullen Landis Divorce Granted to Wife Mignon Labrun Landis
Judge Albert L Stephens announced he would grant a divorce to Mignon Labrun Landis from film star Cullen Landis in Los Angeles. Elimony settlement pending. Mrs Labrun Landis withdrew charges of cruelty and alleged desertion only.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Albert L. Stephens
Mignon” Labrun Landis
Cullen Landis
Arms Conference Bans Poison Gas Use
Geneva reports the international conference on arms traffic adopted a protocol from the American delegation prohibiting the use of chemical and bacterial weapons. The move marks a major step in outlawing poison gas in warfare.
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Associated Press
Geneva
International Conference For the Control of
Woodring Wins Radio Contest Prize
A. T. Woodring of 7233 Wellington Street West is one of five men awarded a five dollar gold piece for receiving a program broadcast from Brownsville Texas by the Weslaco Chamber of Commerce on May 26. The 50 watt station IOWWe operates on 278 meters and airs Tuesday Thursday and Saturday nights. Prizes go to listeners reporting heard broadcasts from distant points.
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A. T. Woodring
Wellington Street
Iis
Brownsville
Tex
Weslaco Chamber of Commerce
Iowwe
Four Waterloo druggists face booze count denials in court
Four Waterloo druggists appeared in district court as defend ants io suits by the Black Hawk County Civic league alleging illegal liquor sales under permits. County attorney W A Gook said the cases would be set for trial this afternoon before Judge G W Wood. The prosecutor emphasized the state’s right to a speedy trial.
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Waterloo
Ali
Black Hawk County Civic League
W. A. Gook
G. W. Wood
Masons Approve Purchase of Old Bettendorf Home
The grand lodge of Iowa approved buying the W B Bettendorf home in Bettendorf for a state sanitarium at a price of 50 090 as reported by Grand Master Ernest R Moore. City officials will inspect Waterloo elevators for interlocking doors per a new safety code amendment. Attorney General Gibson released a positive opinion. A son was born Monday to Mr and Mrs Charles Stewart of San Francisco according to news received by George Lichty.
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Waterloo
Forty First Assembly
Gibson
Des Moines
G. KF. Lichty Grantidad
Charles Stewart
San Francisco
Cal
George BE. Lichty
Stewart
Florence Lichty
Miller obtains permit for repairs at Westfield factory
George B. Miller secured a permit from Charles Wasson building commissioner to repair his Westfield factory for up to $1000. Miller Products Company manufactures livestock mineral feeds.
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George B. Miller
Charles Wasson
Westfieid
Miller Products Company
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