Washington Braces for March Exodus of Officials
United Press reports a brewing exodus of congressional leaders and lobbyists from Washington as the Sixty-Seventh Congress ends. Presidents, cabinet members, and high officials plan vacations and overseas trips, with Harding and Mrs. Harding to Florida for a month.
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United Pres
Washington
D. C
Congress
Sixty- Seventh
Tromj
Tle
Haris
Florida
Harding
Retary of War
Mrs. Weeks
Sawyer
Seeker Dillett
House
Lusier
Shipping Board
Daugherty
Christian
Frelinghuysen
Frelinghuysen and Others, “Secretary of the Navy
Denby
West Indies
Panama Canal
United States
St. Mikhiel
Seeks
Dhn
Losular
Europe
United States Poal Commission
Senate Forestry Fommission
Leviathan
America
Tohnson
Borah
Moses
Middle
Far West
Alaska
Conferees Narrow Farm Credits Bill Gaps
Washington March 2 conferees on the composite farm credits bill made progress smoothing differences though an agreement was not reached. Key disputes centered on provisions from the upper Senate bill and the version drafted for the conference. Senate conferees pressed for keeping supervision of private agricultural credit corporations under the comptroller of the currency and for allowing these corporations to issue debentures.
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Washington, D. C
Rontict
Senate
Bublic
Ruhr Tax Levies to Fund War Debt Repayment
The German embassy warned in Washington that high tension in the Ruhr could trigger disorder if the population grows desperate. Paris and Berlin dispute occupation actions paralyzing German administration, while Berlin trims fines against Essen police to hasten releases after they refused to salute French and Belgian officers.
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Ruhr
Fran
Washington, D. C
Germian
Berlin
Geran
Wardai
Essen
Bays 2
Vossische Zeitung
Federalinister of the Interior
Harding Signs Army Appropriation Bill
Washington March 2 President Harding today signed the army appropriation bill providing for an army of 225000 men and 12000 officers and adding 336000000 for army establishments The act includes 56100000 for rivers and harbors improvement work and outlines funding for military needs.
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Harding
Washington, D. C
Warding
Fiddlers Contest Capped by Mason City Armory Crowd
James S. Mott, a mayoral candidate, clashed over a closing dance as the old time fiddlers contest reached its climax in Mason City armory. Judges included four G A R members, two Spanish war veterans, and one Legionnaire with six fiddlers competing. El Grant Durro and Edi Douglas won top prizes in the sweepstakes amid a 3000-strong audience. jazz and classical music were barred.
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Mason City
American Legion
James S. Mott
Amiory
J. 3
McGhee
Imsyor
Mote
Mott
Lexionnaire
el Grant Durro
Rudd
Edi Douglas
Armory
Yesteryear
Robb Assailed as McMurray Defense
Des Moines March 2 Brathetred on breaking indictment charges in connection with theft of liquor from Polk county jail on the night of Dec 27 were found guilty by a district court jury after deliberating one hour. The case of Clyde and Jett McMurray charged with high jacking the county of 47 coins of bonded liquor will go to the jury today. County Attorney Seeburger closed for the state this morning. Ex sheriff Robb attacked as incompetent and a minister ready to vent spleen as defense attorney James Parsons urged acquittal for the McMurrays. Parsons denounced Salzman as untrustworthy and accused Robb of threats to secure testimony and of courting bootleggers for convictions.
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Des Moines
Brevett
Clyde McMueray
Duane Ger Tasel
Polk County
Dee
United Peogay
Clyde
Jett McMurray
Seeburger
Bate
Lipost
Bays
Parsons
Sherif
Salzman
Robb
Office of Public Trust
McMurraye
Lacay
Mack
Attorney for Throst May Make Appeal for Commutation
Waukon Iowa March 2 Ten A Davis sheriff of Allamakee county prepares for the trip to Port Madison with witnesses after receipt of the death warrant for Bart Throst from Gov Kendall. An attorney for Throst came to Waukon to gather evidence to seek commutation to life imprisonment and would not disclose progress. Kost was found guilty of murdering Igna Magnussen a young school teacher near Dorchester.
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Waukon
Davis
Allamakes County
Bart Throst
Elgl
Port Madison
Kendall
Thrust
Warkon
Kost
Igna Magnussen
Dorchester
Lucas Republicans Endorse Larner for Towner's Seat
Lucas county Republicans back a movement to endorse H. M. Larner for congress in the Highty district to replace H. M. Towner, nominated by President Harding for governor of Porto Rico. Larner is a longtime businessman who served as fair price commissioner in 1920 and on the county defense council during the war.
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Chiriton
Lucas County
H!m. Larner
Tig Elty
Highty
HH. M. Towner
Harding
Porto Rico
Larimer
Dremihlert
Community Ag
Wison Ag Fair Price
County Coune of Defense
Fort Madison Girl Renounces Chicago After Drink of Gin
A Fort Madison girl of 18 came to Chicago seeking work, met men and sisters, drank gin at a party, and was found unconscious on the street. Municipal official Schutman gave her $5 and urged her to return home, noting she renounced the city’s lure.
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Fort Madison
Chicago
Municipal Fudge Schutman
Yourenel
Hauer
Keyholes Filled Up Classes Abandoned
Morning classes at Morningsite College were abandoned as caretakers students and professors spent hours chiseling plaster from keyholes in classrooms. An investigation was started to determine responsibility for the prank which disrupted more than half of the morning schedule.
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Sioux City
Morningsite College
Deny Clemency for Three Mail Looters in Council Bluffs
Three Council Bluffs men Starr Dubuqueta and L W Bristow along with Arthur Kil gore faced presidential clemency denial for mail thefts. The decision was learned today via the United States marshal, informed by the department of justice.
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Council Bluffs
Anl
Bnalf
Starr
Dubuqueta
L. W. Bristow
Arthur Kilgore
Department of Justice
Educators Back National Education Department Plan
Thousands of educators left Cleveland after a five day NES convention adjourned with unions endorsing the Sterling Towner bill to form a national department of education with a cabinet secretary. Edward A Steiner of Grinnell College spoke on immigrant education criticizing forced Americanization and urging a culture built from diverse elements without partisan interference.
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Cleveland
Department of
Cista
Edward A. Steiner
Grinnet College
Grinnell
American Legion
Iowa State Fair Plans Set At Next Board Meeting
Des Moines March 2 Plans for the Iowa state fair next August will be fixed at a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture on Wednesday and Thursday Premiums will be fixed and the exact arrangement for each department decided Amusements and attractions to be brought to the fair will be considered This will be the last meeting of the board before the fair opens Aug 22 to 31
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Des Moines
State Bond of Agriculture
Fourteenth Cavalry Plans Birthday Celebration
Des Moines reports the Fourteenth Cavalry at Fort Des Moines will celebrate its 22nd birthday with a public parade and games. Col. Cavanaugh notes top riders from across the United States will compete, with cash prizes for winners, highlighting the unit's famed reputation.
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Des Moines
Fourteenth Cavalry
Fort Des Moines
Cavanaugh
United States
Winers
Des Moines Briefs Report Fatal Shooting and Court News
State briefs from Des Moines recount Ira Sucherich’s fatal wounds after a confrontation with a merchant police officer that ended with him dying in a local hospital. Other items note a divorce case in Red Oak, a Legion mass meeting in Ahianth, an oratorical contest winner in North English, and assorted incidents across Iowa towns.
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Ira Sucherich
Melcher
Sucharich
Charles Miler
Po‘liceman
RR. N. Holsaple
The
Initiation League
Red Oak
Nebraska Reformatory
Cleo Westover
Brown
Carl Ilomer Brown
Chester ‘Zimmerman
Hanford MacNides
American Legion
Legion
Town City
Swift
North
Ke J Wil
Minneapolis
Dubuque
William Schro
Meno
Delhi
T. N. Nielson
Monticello
Wit
Father and Son
Titnique
C. B. Robbins
Cedar Fapide
Town Legion
Holden Seeks Western Rail Merger Plan Before ICC
Washington March 9 The Interstate Commerce Commission heard Holden of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy defend a plan to merge western rails into four systems totaling over 30 thousand miles Holden argues shared funds would raise the Denver and Rio Grande Western to par with others The hearing also explored combining Great Northern Northern Pacific and Burlington with Colorado and Southern Fort Worth and Denver City and Spokane Portland and Seattle yielding potential annual savings of about ten million dollars per Budd testified the three lines would consolidate if permitted and have been interlinked for 22 years.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Interstate Commerce Commission
West
Hale Holden
Chicago, Buriington & Quincy
Holden
Lial
Western
Denver & Salt Lake
Santa Fe
Southern Pacific
Denver & Rio Grande Western
Mery VaLeUrou
Great Northern
Northern Pa
Cite
Burlington
Ralph Budd
Interstate Commerce Comission
Budd
Colorado & Southern
Fort Worth
Denver City
Spokane
Portland
Seattle
Drafting Bills for State Bureau Consolidation in Des Moines
March 2 report from Des Moines says members of the Town general assembly now in Yetess are drafting bills to consolidate state bureaus as urged by Gov Kendall and Rep Sampson. Subcommittees are preparing measures to be offered as committee proposals after legislature reconvenes. First bill targets reorganizing the agriculture and morgue bureaus, with a health department reorganization likely following.
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Des Moines
Town General Assembly
Nowi
Yetess
Kendall
Sampson
Audubon County
House
State Department of Agticulture and Morgine
State Health Department
Tg Hkely
Mississippi Flood Control Bill Passed
The Mississippi flood control bill was passed by the House and sent to the Senate. It authorizes spending of 10 million dollars yearly for six years under the Mississippi River Commission, extending the 1917 act and broadening the commission’s powers to prevent floods on tributaries and to extend jurisdiction to Rock Island Indiana.
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Washington, D. C
Mississippi River Commission
House
Senate
Mississippi
Rock Island
Mob in Palatka Storms Jail to Free Prisoner
Eleven mob members were captured in Palatka after attempting to storm the Putnam county jail to free a prisoner. Shots were fired, Sheriff Hogan was wounded in the left hand, and the mob retreated after the sheriff barred the doors. A 50-foot rope was left behind.
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Palatka
Fla
Alachua
Trogan
Putnam County
Hogan
Boy Scouts Search for Missing Official in Chicago
Chicago March 2 Boy Scouts nationwide join in search for Joseph Zeller secretary of Bullard & Gormley Co. Zeller vanished last week after leaving his home for his agee. He had been active in organization work among Scouts.
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Chicago
Joseph Zeller
Wisshng
Bullard & Gormley, Co
Zeller
Public debt reduction in February announced by treasury
The nation's public debt fell by 15,523,644 in February according to the treasury department. Government economies accounted for much of the decrease, shrinking the total public debt to 22,715,228,730.
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Washington, D. C
Treasury Department
Lenglen and Ryan Triumph in Monte Carlo Ladies Match
Suzanne Lenglen and Miss Elizabeth Ryan defeated Mrs. Mark Byurstedt Mallory and Miss Mowatt of England 6-0 6-1 in the Monte Carlo tournament. The American Woman champion pair dominated the court this afternoon.
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Moura
EU Monte Carlo
Suzanne Lenglen
Elizabeth Ryan
Mark Byurstedt Mallory
Miss Mowatt
England
Monte Carlo
Northeastern Iowa Tourney Brings Tight Basketball Scores
In a lively Northeastern Iowa tournament update Cedar Falls and Clarksville battled tough as Clarksville led 12 to 9 early. Shell Rock and Hudson played a close 17 to 16 finish with Fearer and Hollis shining for Hudson. Upcoming games feature East high Cedar Falls scrimmages and Orange forfeit over Nashua, with finals set after semifinals tomorrow morning.
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Shell Rock
Yost
Hudson
Fearer
Verrier
Dewey
Williams
Hollis
Apfel
Ressler
Sergeant
Pearer
Dagner
Traver
Pield Tasketsa
Willams
East High
Cedar Falls
Werel
Orange-Nashnae
Nashua
Orange
West High
Brandon Teachers ‘High
Waverly
Nashua High School
Mt. Pleasant
Burlington
Fort Madison
Salem
Mount Union
Denmark
Donnellson
Muscatine
Iowa City High School
Daven Port High
Towa City
Wapella
Witton
University High of
Rapids
Cedar Rapids
Wheatland
Palo
Stanwood
Shellsburg
Mason City
Ampton
Marble Rock
Clear Lake
Fertile
Geneva
Northwood
Dumont
Burkettsville Distillery Raid Ends With Capture
Robbers raided the old Morse Distillery in Burkettsville Massachusetts driving four oil cars and escaping with $5,000 in bonded liquor. A gunfight with guards followed and one bandit was captured.
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Burkettsvitle
Martel
Property rights in Tut's tomb all vested in Egypt
Chicago March 2 There is no dispute over ownership of Tut Ankh Amun tomb treasures as Egyptian law grants government rights. Lord Carnarvon's expedition and Prof D D Luckenbill noted that the Cairo museum has first claim on unique finds while the government remains owner of all items found in the tomb area under their license and agreement.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Tut-Ankh-Amen
Luxor
Egypt
Lord Carnavon
D. D. Luckenbill
Department of Oriental Languages
University of Chicago
Sald
Put-Ankh- Amen
Cairo Museum
Tellig
Loc Carnavon
Man Who Killed Iowan Is Freed In Custody Case
Los Angeles March 2 The man who admitted he killed Frank Johnson in a fury two weeks ago was freed today while two witnesses were charged with felonies. Anthony Whittley claimed he stabbed Johnson after an attack in his cabin and was exonerated. Mrs Pearl Paden and Seth Donaldson accompanied Johnson to Whittley’s home and were charged with plying both men with liquor and inciting a quarrel. They will be tried for Johnson’s death.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Frank Johnson
Anthony Whittley
Johnson
Pearl Paden
Seth Donaldson
Whittley
John
Kemal Says Peace Hinges On Allied Financial Demands
In Ankara March 2 Mustapha Kemal told the national assembly that peace in the near east rests on allies accepting Turkey’s economic and financial terms. The assembly signaled readiness to accept the Lausanne treaty with definite reservations on the financial and economic clauses.
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Angola
Turkey
Near East
Mustapha Kemal
National Assembly
Jealous Boarder Sought in Slaying at Wildwood Home
Mrs Emma McKeown aged 39 was shot and killed as she nursed her 11 month old baby in Wildwood New Jersey. Frederick Hing er, a jealous boarder who lived in the home, is named as the slayer and fled the scene. Two bullets struck her left temple. Her husband was upstairs when the shooting happened. Police cite jealousy as the motive.
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Wildwood
WN. J
Emma McKeown
Pollea Sly Prederick Ehinger
Holm Island Census Shows Small Populations
London reports Holm in Stromness harbor as the island parish with a total count far below a single couple. Nearby islets Hunda near Kirkwell records three residents and Copensay seven, reflecting sparse habitation across the Orkney group.
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London
Orkney Islands
Holm
Stromness Harbor
Hunda
Kirkwell
Belleau Memorial Bill Advances to President for Approval
The Belleau Woods Memorial Association receives a federal charter via a senate resolution passed by the House and sent to the president. It is authorized to raise funds to buy Delicay Woods in France and erect monuments commemorating the battle fought by American troops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
Belleau Woods Memorial Association
Senate
Delicay Woods
France
Filled Milk Bill Sent to President for Approval
The bill to ban selling filled milk was sent to President Harding in Washington after passing the Senate and House. It defines filled milk as milk or cream to which any fat or oil not from milk has been added.
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Washington, D. C
White House
Harding
House
Senate
Free State Troops Bomb Rebel Forces in Arigna Hills
Belfast dispatch reports Free State troops bombed Republican irregular positions under Commander Boffia in Arigna, with heavy casualties feared. Republicans retaliated by kidnapping civilian officials and burning barracks at Car tingaten. Boffin and followers were said to hide in an abandoned mine shaft. Three Free Staters were wounded at Tipperary in a separate skirmish while an attack on the operary cathedral failed and roundup of irregulars continued in Louth.
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Belfast
Free State
Boffia
Arigna
Tat
Car- Tingaten
Boffin
Free Statera
Tipperary
Operary
Louth
Free
Dope Traffic Resolution Signed by President in Washington
President Harding signed the Porter resolution authorizing negotiations with foreign governments to limit production of habit forming drugs to medical and scientific needs. He gave no comment on timing, though his approval of efforts to curb the drug menace is known.
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Washington, D. C
Harding
Congress
White House
Bridge Figures Explained to Public
Readers along the fourth street bridge puzzled by painted figures on the river dam. The numerals four through nine mark water levels, with five aligned to the top of the flashboards. If water rises to the highest figure, the dam will disappear from view.
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Fourth Street
Tom
Iowa Ventilator Co Moves to New Quarters
The Iowa Ventilator Manufacturing company relocates from the Fowler building to the Knights of Pythias building to accommodate growing business. The Undertwood Typewriter company also shifts its focal agency from Marsh-Place into the Fowler building previously used by the ventilator firm.
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Iowa Ventilator Manufacturing Company
Fowler Building
Knights of Pythias
Undertwood Typewriter Company
Marsh-Place
Ventilator Company
Moe
Record Warmth for March Noted by Government Observer
Government weather readings show March opening with highs around 67 degrees at noon and a 37 degree low, suggesting a warm first day. Federal observer Ralph Slippy notes it as the warmest March 1 in his records, with no frost in sight.
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Ralph Slippy
Death notice for P. Y. Lichty with Washington ties
Mrs. A. Lichty received word from Sunnyside Washington that her brother P. Y. Lichty died Wednesday at 30 a.m. The son of the late J. P. Lichty he was born in 1852 in Pennsylvania. He married Harriet Reber in 1881 and lived on an Orange township farm until 1899 when the family moved to Washington. Survived by widow and four children Harry Spokane Mabel Sunny Side Edward Twin Falls Idaho and Frank at home plus three sisters Mrs. Glenny Mrs. W. H. Miller of Waterloo and Mrs. E. N. Miller California and four brothers.
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A. EB. Glenny
Sunnyside
Wash
P. Y. Lichty
Orange Township
Washington
Harry
Spokane
Mabel
Edward
Twin Falls
Idaho
Frank
Glenny
W. H. Miller
Waterloo
E. N. Miller
California
Ice breakup at Cedar River dam shows unprecedented quiet
The Cedar River ice is nearly absent from Nashua to the dam as Austin Burt of Citizens Gas & Electric Co notes. Warm weather and light precipitation produce an unusually low river stage this March, with no high water expected along the river. Ice near the cofferdam is receding without the dramatic breakup seen in past years.
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Waterloo
Cedar River
Nashua
Austin Burt
Citizens Gas & Electric Co
Burt
Cox predicts Democratic victory in 1924 race
Miami March 2 James M Cox former presidential candidate told a 20 006 crowd that Democrats will return to power in 1924 on a platform of greater American participation in world affairs He criticized the administrations Near East policy and said arms aided Turkey and Europe faced crises.
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International News Wire
Miami
Fla
James M. Cos
Ohio
Gov. Cox
Near East
United States
Europe
Fugitive Bowen Claims Klansmen Forced Escape From Georgia
New York report says James W. Bowen, 52, fled Atlanta after threats and whippings by Ku Klux Klan members following disparaging remarks about the organization. Magistrate McAndrews ordered Bowen held until March 18 on a separate $275 taxicab larceny case, while his counsel vowed to fight extradition to protect his life if returned to Atlanta.
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New York
Morse
Ku Klux Klan
Atlanta
Georgia
James W. Bowen
McAndrews
Bowen
File Protest Against Seating of Sen Fess
A written protest against seating Dr Simeon J Fess Republican senator from Ohio was drafted today by D K Hempstead former Democratic enrolling clerk in the house of representatives and would be filed later this afternoon in the Senate records according to Hempstead the action would be unique in Senate history.
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Washington, D. C
Simeon J. Fess
Repubcan
Ohio
D. K. Hempstead
House of Representatives
Senate
Hempstead
Wisconsin Senate bans defaming founders in school books
The Wisconsin senate voted to bar textbooks that defame or falsify facts about the Revolution or the War of 1812, approving the Cashman bill for abolition of such books. One member dissented as it moved to engrossment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Senate
French Widen Zone Held by Americans
Limburg dispatch reports French forces extending the zone formerly occupied by Americans by seizing Flammersteid Station on the Altenkirchen Limburg railway. The move appears aimed at establishing two customs posts there.
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Wrench
Flammersteid
Altenkirchen-Limburg
Complete Probe of Vet Bureau Assured
Washington March 2 The Senate adopted a resolution to create a three member special committee to conduct a complete investigation of the Veterans Bureau after Congress adjourns. The move ensures a thorough inquiry into the bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vet Bureau
Washington, D. C
Veterana’ Bureau
Cconetess
Senate
Ex head of Owls headed to U S prison
John W. Talbott of South Bend former head of the Order of Owls surrendered to U S Marshal Linus P. Meredith to begin a term at a federal penitentiary for violation of the Mann white Slave act. He will be moved to Leavenworth, Kansas this afternoon.
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Ind
John W. Talbott
South Bend
Order of Owls
United States
Linus P. Meredith
Talbott
Will Leagve
Leavenworth
Kan
Suffrage Bill Defeated in Diet
Tokio March 2 The universal suffrage bill failed in the lower house as Premier Kat indicated plans to extend the franchise are under consideration. A 3000 horsepower airplane engine, claimed the world’s greatest iron motor, was recently used in a successful fight in England.
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Kat
England
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