Iowa House Debates Medical School Aid and Audit Bills
At Des Moines the senate approved a 42 000 two year federal aid appropriation linked to the Sheppard maternity welfare act and a 2 225,000 medical school appropriation for Iowa City. Debate centered on a planned state audit of the state fair board, board of education, and highway commission with a sitting committee to review bills starting April 5. The house also passed a long term pay cap for county officers with specific pay increases for assistants in Woodbury Linn and Scott counties.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Senate
House
Iowa City
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Chiildren
Pottswattamis
Rockefeller Foundation
General Education Board
Steindler
Buser
State Fair Board
Board of Education
Highway Commission
Fair Board
Fis
Fairgrounds
Bill Wee
State Executive Council
Bolong
Woodbury
Linn
Scott
Dubuque County
Chicago Banker Edmund B D. Dies After Illness
Edmund B D Albert president of the Naois Merchant's Bank in Chicago died after several weeks of influenza. He was one of the citys most widely known bankers.
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Chicago
Dees
Edmund
Albert
Naois Merchant's Bank
Court orders man to avoid home and wife in restraining decree
In San Francisco on March 30 Solomon Ades, an importer, is banned from eating at home or speaking to his wife. He may contact his three children but must consult his wife if asked about their welfare. Judge Morgan issued the unique order amid a counter divorce claim and alleged obnoxious conduct since the filing.
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San Francisco
Solomon N. Ades
Jace
Hfe
Theio
Morgan
Ades
U S Cancels Lansing Ishii Pact With Japan
The United States announces the cancellation of the LansingISHIBI pact with Japan. President Harding states the nine power treaty settles issues and clarifies US open door policy in China, asserting special interests do not override Chinese sovereignty.
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China
Cina
Harding
3Eaale
Lansing-Isleis
Washington
United States
Japan
Lansing
Cooperation and Religion in the League Vision
Dr John R Mott urged cooperation among nations and support for a league of nations as Des Moines church and YMCA leaders voiced hopes for universal membership. Public notices include a divorce suit in progress in Shel Gahl Reynolds contesting, while H H Kinghorn seeks the senatorial seat and two other races unfold in Iowa. Damages awarded in Sioux City against Bell Telephone for injuries. bids on Fayette county courthouse work rejected. Christian association convention in Perry and district activities noted.
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John R. Mott
International VY. Mf. C. A
Des Moines Church
League of Nations
Des Moines
I. W. Reynolds
Shel- Gahl
Reynolds
Dows
H. H. Kinghorn
D.C. Chese
Rube McFerran
Webster City
William Schmedhka
Radcliffle
Sioux City
Howard F. Baddinging
Bell Telephone Company
Eddinging
Oan
West Enron
Fayette County
Board of Supervisors
Z Des Moince
Sristan and
Perry
Iowa Ostenpath Association
Germans Invest In Postage Stamps In Germany
Berlin reports stamp collecting as a popular investment as Germans seek to guard against the depreciating mark. Large sums are spent, and a government dispatching department supplies stamps to subscribers, aiming to revive old issues for sale.
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Berlin
Weil Tole
Germany
Certian
Indict Three for Flogging of Doctor
Indictments returned against William Yerby G Jacks and P N Newman over the flogging of Dr J W Dowling city and county health officer who was lured from Roebuck Springs and beaten May 17 1922 authorities say more men known to have taken part are expected to be arrested soon independent grand jury actions anticipated
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Birmingham
Ala
William Yerby
G. Jacks
P. N. Newman
J. W. Dowling
Roebuck Springs
Dawes Selection for Comptroller Step to Aid Farm
President Harding favors swift appointment of Dawes as comptroller, signaling drive to aid agriculture and livestock. War Finance Corp will continue advancing funds to farmers and cattle growers under Copper-Lenroot-Andamon Act provisions while new credit institutions form.
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Hovestock Ren
Sett
Dawes
Charles G. Dawas
Inter
Ha Warnance Corporation
Finance Corporation
Fred Slarek
Congress
Agretofore
Enade
Fugis
War Finance Corporation
Chicago Barn Shop Fire Sparks Kidnap Plot in Price War
Fred Web of Homa Cleaning Works proprietor and Fred Butrick a watchman were kidnapped as rivals set their Chicago barn shop ablaze. About $25 000 damage reported. Weiner said five men bound them poured acids and fled after lighting the fire. Police quoted an association pressuring price alignment. Weiner had earlier been assaulted in a separate Namie dispute.
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Chicago
Fred Web 27
Homa Cleaning Works
Fred Butrick
Weiner
Batrick
Tivais
Japan to Expend Large Sum on Empire Roads
The Japanese government plans to invest 300,000,000 yen about 150,000,000 dollars over 30 years to improve roads. New Yokohama Tokio and Osaka Kaiabe routes under construction will join Tokyo Yokohama Nagoya Kyoto Osaka and Koho, widening to 26 feet near cities and 30 feet countryside. Motor traffic currently hindered by narrow roads through densely populated villages.
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Tokio
Yokohama-Tokio
Osaka-Kaabe
Yokohama
Nagoya
Kyoto
Osaka
Koho
Japan
Cummins Warns Against Constitutional Amendment
Des Moines March 80 United States Senator A B Cummins spoke to the Polk County Bar Association opposing a senate amendment by Senator La Follette. He warned the measure would strip the Supreme Court of power to declare acts unconstitutional and threaten the union by centralizing legislative power in Congress.
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United Press
Des Moines
State Board of Educational Examiners
Scott
Fremont
Diltz
Polk
Association of Colleges
North Central Association of Colleges
United States
A. B. Cummins
Polk County
Senate
LaFollette
United States Supreme Court
Cummins
Congress
Tombstone warns drivers on Pottsville Pike to hospital
A roadside tombstone near Hughes' hill on the Pottsville Pike near Hamburg warns reckless driving. The stone bears the word Dangerous with a skull and crossbones and reads 14 miles to the nearest hospital, urging caution on the highway.
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Reading
Hughes’ Bil
Pottsville Pike
Hamburg
Egger t outlines plan to ingrate local business growth
Postmaster Ray C. Eggert tells Waterloo Retail Merchants Association that Waterloo can capture more trade from outlying communities by using mailing list box numbers on rural routes. He shows county maps and plans to list all farm and township box counts to speed delivery and boost advertising reach. Receipts in March 1923 rose 5,000 over 1922, signaling mail growth and faster service benefits.
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Waterton
Wll
Ray C. Eggert
Waterloo Retail Merchants’ Association
Greater Waterloo Association
Waterloo Trading District
Eggert
Waterloo
Black Hawk
Foster outlines plan to overturn government in court
William Z. Foster told a jury on a Syndicalism charge that the present government should be overthrown to empower workers. He said a dictatorship of the workers would not necessarily follow Lenin and urged workers and farmers to take charge to run industries for the broad masses. He showed a quiet, diffident manner throughout the cross examination.
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St. Joseph
Mich
William Z. Foster
Foster
Lenine
United States
Mrs Owen Deitz Dies in California After Illness
News arrives of Mrs Owen Deitz nee Grete la Richey from Cesar Rapids who died in Ontario California March 12 after gallstone surgery. She married Owen Deitz in California. he sent word to his brother W W Deitz in this city.
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Owen Deitz
Ontario
Cal
Deitz
W. W.deitz
California
Waterloo
Western Wheat Marketing Bodies Plan Merger
United Press reports conferences in Kansas City on a proposed nationwide merger of western farm marketing agencies joining United States Grain Growers Inc and American Wheat Growers Association Inc. pooling wheat handling to remove competition and secure farmer prices. Leaders from Northwest and National Wheat Growers participate, with state pools already aligning with the plan.
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United Press
Kansas City
Cers
United States Grain Growers’, Inc
American Farm Bureau
American Wheat Growers’ Association, Inc
Sisoalation, Inc
Alabama
Texas
United States
National Pool
George C. Jewett
Spokane
Northwest Wheat Pool
William M. McGreevey
Oklahoma
National Wheat Growers
H. UL. Keefe
Watthill
Ned
United States Grain Growers
BE. BH
Cunningham
Iowa
George ¥. Duls
North Dakota Wheat Growers
W.F. McMichael
L. Gall Wy
Hidey
James Thompson
Nebraska Wheat Growers
Dwight R. Cresap
Montana Wheat Growers
Magnates in Ruhr Refuse Coal Tax
The Ruhr industrial magnates refuse payment of the March coal tax due to the French authorities. The Rhineland commission order demands tax payment to French and Belgian authorities, with penalties for noncompliance and potential arrests anticipated. Hugo Stinnes visits Rome fail to attract officials, Mussolini not seen, and Stinnes reportedly spoke with Fred I Rent. French troops seize railway stations at Luehringhausen Hoerde and Alperbeck taking 150 cars, some carrying beer.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Ruhr
Berliner Tageblatt
Inter-Allied
Rhineland Commission
Stinnes
Rome
Hugo Stinnes
Cnet
Mussolini
Herr Stinnes
Elbert H. Gary
Fred I. Rent
Bankers Trust Company
New York
International News Wired
Dortmund
Sues rich woman for taking husband in Chicago case
Mrs Harriet Capper Milner is charged with using family wealth to win Edwin Milner. Mrs Helen Milner, Milner's divorced wife, sues for 100000 dollars. Helen says Milner was a barber when Capper met him and that he married Capper a year after their divorce.
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Chicago
Harriet Capper Milner
Edwin Milner
Helen Milner
Milner
Miss Capper
Clairvoyant Found Dead in West Madison Flat
Authorities report Mrs. May Clausen, 35, a clairvoyant, found dead in her West Madison Street flat. Coroner’s physician Dr. Al Send Springer says death occurred about two weeks ago and a bottle of moonshine was found nearby.
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Chicago
May Clausen
West Madison' Street
Alasend Springer
Lenine's Condition Unchanged In Latest Bulletin
Moscow March 30 The latest bulletin on Premier Lenine's condition states general condition unchanged with a temperature of 37.8 Celsius and pulse of 104. The report confirms no deterioration in his health.
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Moscow
Lenine
Jack Pickford and Five Bootleggers to Be Questioned Today
Los Angeles March 30 Jack Pickford motion picture actor and five alleged bootleggers are to be questioned today in a grand jury inquiry into Hollywood and the movie colony. Federal agents previously seized a bootlegger bluebook listing patrons and names linked to Pickford and other prominent film figures. The hearing may be delayed as eight men were arrested at Long Beach in the probe.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Jack Pickford
Vedera
Jay E
Jourdan
Met
Mim
Lworld
United States
Jos Burke
Long Beach
Fire destroys Madison Square Wet Wash Laundry in New York
A $1,000,000 blaze at Madison Square Wet Wash Laundry near Bellsque hospital injures six firemen and 14 others as a wall collapses. The blaze endangers about 200 patients at the hospital while nurses calm patients amid smoke filling the wards. Adjacent buildings suffer heavy damage and many are evacuated.
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New York
Madison Square
Bellsque “Hospital
Smuggling Route Draws 58,000 Aliens in Cuba
Washington March 30. Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Heuntog will tour southern ports to survey alien smuggling. Reports say about 30,600 Europeans and 26,000 Chinese are in Cuba awaiting entry into the United States.
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Washington
D. C
Edward J. Heuntog
United States
Henning
Department
Guba
Fear 4 Army Fliers May Be in Trouble
San Diego March 39 concern for the safety of four army aviators who left to make pictorial maps of the Washington coast. Rockwell field officers say no word has come since their two De Haviland planes departed. One plane reportedly landed at Vancouver to mend a tank leak. Lieut W D Goldsborough and Private H C Fatt are the pilots with Sergeants K S Klutz and G C Carlo aboard.
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San Diego
Cal
Army
Washington
Rockwell
de Haviland
Vancouver
W. D. Goldsborough
H.C. Fatt
K. S. Klutz Roda
Goldsborough
G. ¢. Carlo
Roof collapses in New York building disaster
One person died and many were injured when a four to five story structure near the criminal courts building collapsed this afternoon. The roof toppled onto an adjacent building. four injured were taken to hospital while firemen searched the debris for additional victims.
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New York
Feralone
Criminal Courts
Pella Firebug Tries to Burn Old Hall
Fire officials hunt a supposed demented man who five times attempted to burn Catton hall, an old dormitory building at Central College. The attacker soaked the structure with kerosene but fled when seen. The hall is scheduled for auction tomorrow.
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Pella
Catton Hall
Central College
Cotton Mills in East Boost Wages
Providence Rhode Island March 30 early every cotton mill in Rhode Island followed the action by other New England manufacturers and announced wage increases of 12 1 2 percent to their employers. Forty thousand operatives are affected by the increase.
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Providence
R. L
Rhode Island
New England
Carpenter, Butt of Jokers, Dies by Suicide in Chicago
Charles Johnson, 43, a carpenter, killed himself in Chicago after his wife Ellen told police his coworkers played practical jokes on him. The mistreatment led to despondency and the act occurred on March 20.
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Chicago
Charles Johnson
Ellen
Miners’ children die in Rosebud fire burst
Two young siblings, George Ridneck four and Mary Ridneck two, perished in a blaze that swept three houses at Rosebud mining village near Altoona Pennsylvania. Their father August Ridneck works as a miner and survived.
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Altoona
Georgeidneck
Mary
Wera
Rosebud
August Ridneck
Modern dress trends among Ohio University coeds
A secret letter canvass among 252 Ohio University women in Athens finds 217 preferring bobbed hair and most liking short dresses. Several respondents say they do not mind girls smoking, reflecting the era’s changing standards.
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Athens
Ohio University
Conger Denies Abusing Randle in Military Suit
A. L. Conger, commander of the Twentieth Infantry at Fort Sam Houston, testifies in a $100,000 defamation suit by Capt. B. H. and Mrs. Randle. He denies speaking ill of Mrs. Randle or persecuting the Randles, and disputes many allegations about remarks and orders during a March 9 deposition.
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Associated Press
San Antonio
Tex
Cpl
A. L. Conger
Twentieth Infantry
Fort Sam Houston
B. H. Randle
Randle
Col. Conger
Randles
Harry
Jonelle
Capt
Conger
Randletal
Charge of Perjury by Gov't Witnesses in Gary Trial
In Indianapolis on March 30 attorneys for Clyde Hunter and a co defendant argued that government witnesses committed perjury in the Gary booze conspiracy trial. Charles McCabe contended there was perjury in the case, though not by the government itself.
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Gov’t
Gary
Indianapolis
Ind
Gary Booze
Charles McCabe
Clyde Hunter
Ake County
Fliers to Again Try Coast-to-Coast Trip
Lieuts. Orkluy Kelly and John A. MacHeady prepared for another nonstop transcontinental flight from New York to San Diego aboard the monoplane THR. Their earlier attempt from San Diego to New York City ended in landing at Indianapolis due to a cracked water jacket.
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Washington, T. C
Army Service
Lieuts
Orkluy Kelly
John A. MacHeady
New York
San Diego
I Sal
Kelly
MacReady
New York City
Indiandports
Lincoln's Sword Among New York Estate Bequests
The will of the late John W. Boothby filed in White Plains New York leaves an old cavalry sword once owned by President Lincoln to George Boothby, brother. The estate is valued around $200000 with most to two brothers.
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White
N. Y
John W. Boothby
New York
President Lincoln
George Boothby
Leeper to Be Tried at Iowa City May 14
Robert Leeper, charged with the murder of his father in law Roy Wertz on December 27, will face trial in Johnson county district court on May 14, according to County Attorney Edward L. O Conner. The case rises in Iowa City, Iowa, with official district proceedings set for the spring session.
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Leeper
Iowa City
Robert Leeper
Roy Wertz
Johnson County
Edward L. O'Conner
Ancient Tomb Reveals Easter Lesson, Says Seminary Teacher
St Louis clippings report Dr George Robinson of McCormick Theological Seminary Chicago sees Tut Ankh Amon burial as Easter lesson proving immortality Ancient Egyptians sought it before Christ he argues and the Bible is not man made He warns that tomb robbers and Arab guards pose danger to the excavations and warns what readers would do to tomb raiders.
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St. Louis
George Robinson
McCormick bemi+ dary
Chicago
Robinson
Yat-Ankh
Egypt
Surprise in Sugar Gambling Probe Stuns Washington
Washington March 30 The department of justice plans a spring surprise in its investigation into the alleged sugar conspiracy that caused sharp price jumps A high government official said the inquiry continues and is progressing satisfactorily Despite denials that the probe would be abandoned officials indicated drastic action may be forthcoming but secrecy surrounds the proceedings
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Washington, D. C
Department of Jnsties Am
Mitchell to be questioned again in Dorothy King case
Mitchell, linked as a friend of Dorothy Keenan King, a model found dead in her apartment, will be questioned again. District Attorney's office disclosed plans to question Albert B. Guimaras, a Puerto Rican man said to be involved, as Mitchell’s attorney arranged the meeting. Family members expected to be questioned this afternoon.
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New York
Kearsley
Mitchell
Rich Phian
Stotenbury
J.P. Morgan
Dorothy Keenan King
District Attorney’s Office
Neilson Olcott
Albert B. Guimaras
Miss King
Lenine Dying and Dictatorship Soon Planned
London reports Premier Lenine is dying with his right arm paralysis spreading. A confidential Moscow message to Helsinki cites a military dictatorship headed by War Minister Trotzky after Lenine's death, with four or five associates.
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Associated Press
London
Lenine
Exchange Telegraph Company
Stockholm
Helsingfors
Svenska Dagbladtt
Moscow
Tharlis- Patch
Trotzky
Weeks Will Probe Col Conger Charges
Washington March 20 Secretary of War Weeks will order an inquiry into charges by Louis K Karns Indianapolis that his brother in law Capt Edwin Randle Fort Sam Houston Texas has been mistreated by Col A T Conger War department announced Karns has asked for an appointment tomorrow when the charges will be presented for normal consideration.
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Washington, D. C
Weeks
Order & Thero
Louis K. Karns
Indianapolis
Edwin Randle
Fort Sam Houston
Texas
A. T. Conger
War Department
Karns
Prisoners Sawing Way Out At County Jail
Deputy Sheriff Ashworth reported loud singing at the county jail during a bar room style disturbance. He investigated and found five prisoners attempting an escape by sawing. only one door remained intact. A curious note mentions various bird species and fishing rates unrelated to the event.
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Pomeros O
Ashworth
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