Tax Exempt Bonds Raise Street Fares and Rates
Washington May 10 United Press reports key lawmakers propose tax exempt securities raise utility costs. Gadsen for American Electric Railway and others says bonds sold to high income buyers push up interest and charges for streetcars electric light and gas. Mellon and McLean back reform to curb tax free bonds amid looming revenue bill revisions.
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Phillip B. Gadsen
Philadelphia
Senate Finance Committee
Gadsen
American Electric Railway Association
American Gas Association
National Electric Light Association
Mellon
Secretary of the Treasury
McLean
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Congress
Hero of Air Bombing Raids Found Dead in Back Bay
Capt Paton McGilvary, famed for bombing raids as an American flier with Italian forces in the war, was found dead in the rear of a Back Bay garage. He was shot above the left eye with an automatic pistol nearby. Medical Examiner Leary said self-inflicted death believed, investigation ongoing.
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Associated Press
Boston
Paton McGilvary
Backbay
Leary
Shooting Victims Show No Change in Condition
Little change was noted today in the condition of Miss June Smith and Kruse of La Porte City who are patients at Presbyterian hospital. Kruse shot himself and Miss Smith, who had refused his attentions.
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June Smith
Kruse
la Porte City
Presbyterian Hospital
Miss Smith
Prisoners Escape Smoke After Jail Is Hit by Lightning
Lightning struck the Marion county jail during a thunderstorm causing a fire and panic among inmates. The jailers had vacated for the night. only Sheriff Paul Avery's children were inside. Neighbors alerted the deputy, who helped quiet the prisoners as smoke nearly suffocated them. Damages were about 1000 dollars.
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Associated Press
Marion
Paul Avery
Everybody's Blowing Horns Says Musical Union President
Chicago May 10. The country is blowing its head off with horns and trombones in every parlor. Richard A. Aldcroft, president of the Music Industries Chamber of Commerce, reports music stores struggle to meet demand for instruments and pianos as crowds seek to buy.
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Musical Union
United Press
Chicago
United States
Richard A. Aldcroft
Music Industries Chamber of Commerce
New York
Music Trades
Bern
Conciliation Effort in Marine Strike Fails
Washington May 10 Representatives of marine workers left Washington after Secretary Davis called his mediation efforts unavailing and no further talks would occur now. Marine Engineers Beneficial Association said no concessions beyond those offered yesterday to Mr Davis and Admiral Benson. Davis noted talks could resume later if conditions warranted.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Marine Workers’ Organizations
Washington
Davis
Marine Engineers Benefcial Association
Admiral Benson
Shipping Board
McNamara Leaves San Quentin Prison
John M. McNamara was released from San Quentin after serving nine years and five months for dynamiting the Llewellyn Ironworks in 1910. Once sentenced to 15 years, he earned maximum good conduct reductions. His brother James B. McNamara faced murder charges and received life imprisonment.
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Associated Press
San Quentin
Cal
John M. McNamara
Llewellyn Ironworks
Los Angeles
McNamara
International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
Supreme Court Upholds Bowman Murder Conviction
Des Moines May 10 The Iowa Supreme Court affirmed the life sentence of Brownie Bowman a Negro for the murder of Don J McCarthy city detective on September 3 1919 The ruling upholds the long contested conviction in a high profile case that drew regional attention.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa Supreme Court Today
Brownie Bowman
Don J. McCarthy
Episcopalians Form Committees and Officers in Iowa Diocese
Keokuk May 10. At the sixty-ninth annual convention of the Episcopal diocese of Iowa committees and officers were appointed. George F. Henry of Des Moines named chancellor and Rev. Webster Hakes of Muscatine registrar. Standing committee includes Rev. W. C. Hengen and others with appointments to deaneries in Des Moines Cedar Rapids Dubuque Mount Pleasant Muscatine Council Bluffs and Sioux City.
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United Press
Keokuk
Kenyon Heads Senate Farm Legislation Group
An agriculture block of 15 western and southern senators formed for unified action on farming measures. Senator Kenyon of Iowa was chosen chairman with four committees to study acts including the federal reserve act, warehousing, transportation, and general agricultural policies, reporting back within 10 days.
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Associated Press
Washington
DB. C
Senate
West
South
United Action
Kenyon
Iowa
Smith
South Carolina
Gooding
Idaho
Kendrick
Wyoming
Norris
Nebraska
Ransdell
Louisiana
Rod Copper
Kansas
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Fletcher
Florida
Sheppard
Texas
Ladd
North Dakota
Heflin
Alabama
Woman Slays Self and Man She Feared to Wed
Chicago report details Nathan Miller, a furniture dealer, and Mrs. Mabel Thomas found dead in their apartment. Miller was shot in the back, then gas was turned on as Mrs. Thomas laid beside him to die. Letters reveal she could not marry him due to jealousy and that they had posed as siblings for 18 months.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Nathan Miller
Mabel Thomas
Thomas
Knoxville Editor Capt. Rule Celebrates 82nd Birthday
Capt. Rule, editor of the Journal and Tribune, marked his eighty second birthday and his fiftieth year in editing with a Knoxville appreciation vote. The Rotary club and Board of Commerce honored his service, noting his prior terms as Knoxville mayor in 1873 and 1898 and his role on the Republican national committee from 1876 to 1880.
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Associated Press
Knoxville
Tenn
Capt. Rule
Journal and Tribune
Rotary Club and Board of Commerce
Knoxille
Republican m National Committee
Detectives Discover Lemons Hide Opium Cache in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh detectives investigating citrus trade in the Chinese section report finding opium concealed inside lemons sold to the Orientals. They seized a lemon showing a hollowed interior with raw opium substituted and tied the case to several lemon peddlers moving stock at high prices.
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Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Wallace Advocates Higher Prices and Lower Freight to Stabilize Postwar Economy
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace told the American Agricultural Editors in St. Louis and at the Missouri Botanical Garden that a higher price level and lower freight rates on basic commodities are needed to steady postwar economy. He urged a 60 to 70 percent higher price level, cited farmer incentives, and warned against single cash crops while stressing European markets for grain.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Jamexico
Wallace
American Agricultural Editors’ Association
Missouri Botanical Garden
United Press
Des Moines
Last of Medford Rum Makers Dies at 90
Medford Mass May 10 Daniel W Lawrence aged 90 the last maker of the Medford rum that once gained fame. He and his father Samuel Lawrence ran the distillery from 1851 to 1861 before he joined the Civil War. He served in the legislature and local government and was a thirty third degree Mason.
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Associated Press
Medford
Mass
Daniel W. Lawrence
Samuel Lawrente
Colors
Woman Burned to Death in Chicago Hotel Fire
An unidentified woman died in a fire that destroyed the Queens hotel a second class house in Chicago today. Six others were carried out unconscious as seventy five people were in the hotel when the blaze started.
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United Press
Chicago
Queens Hotel
Weather and road condition bulletin for Iowa towns
Weather Bureau report covers Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Marshalltown Mason City and others in Iowa with cloudy conditions and scattered showers. Light to heavy showers in southern Iowa caused muddy roads while highways in the northern half remain mostly good with forecasts of east Iowa showers tonight.
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Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Charles City
Albert Lea
Minn
Algona
Chariea City
Cedar Rapids
Davenport
Des Moines
Dubuque
Faribault
la Crosse
Wis
Mason City
Marshalltown
New Hampton
Postville
Waterloo
Waverly
Iowa
England Sends Gold to Retire Bonds Here
A May 10 report from New York states a 5 900 600 dollar gold shipment arrived aboard the Stea mpish in Mauretania. The gold is destined for retirement of Great Britain’s 5 12 percent bonds maturing in this market and is consigned to J P Morgan & Co as fiscal agents for the English government. The shipment arrived yesterday with an accompanying letter from the Bank of England.
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Associated Press
New York
Great Britain
J. P. Morgan & Co
Steapish
Mauretania
Bank of England
Liner Arrives With Two Passengers Missing at Sea
The Anchor liner Algeria arrived with two passengers unaccounted for after possibly jumping or falling overboard during the voyage. Missing are Patrick McLangann of Glasgow and Walter Forbes of Detroit.
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United Press
New York
Algeria
Patrick McLangann
Glasgow
Walter Forbes
Detroit
Mich
Forces of Four Nations Clash in Silesian Row
War dispatches report German forces disarmed a French detachment in Koenigshuette Silesia with Polish residents holding half of the city and Germans the other. Italian troops drove Poles back and handed control to the Germans in later clashes. In Upper Silesia insurgent Polish troops crossed the border and captured Kosel as French control officers sought refuge. Casualties and a disappear for a Polish detainee were noted near Krandrzin railway station amid three days of fighting. Italian troops acknowledge heavy losses and rising anger.
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United Press
Copenhagen
Koenigshutte
Silesia
Warsaw
Kanarzim
Associated Press
Oppein
Upper Silesia
Kosel
Interallied Commission
Krandrzin
Ratibor
Oder River
Oder
Ap‘pear
Harding Convention Aide Named to Reorganization Commission
Walter Brown of Toledo has been appointed by President Harding as his personal representative on the commission to reorganize the executive branch. A longtime friend and last year’s Chicago convention floor manager, Brown is expected to become chairman. other members include senators and representatives with Republican ties and a Roosevelt supporter in 1912.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Walter ¥_ Brown
Toledo
Harding
Brown
Reorganization Commission
Theodore Rooselvelt
Ohio
Four Brothers Perish in Attic Fire in Cambridge
Four Trembley brothers Ledger 21 Ernest 19 Warren 14 and Lester Trembley 22 were found dead in attic rooms after a fire started near the front entrance and trapped them. Their parents and a twin brother and sister were rescued as the house burned in Cambridge Massachusetts. The fire’s cause remains unknown.
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Associated Press
Cambridge
Mass
Ledger
Ern
Warren
Lester ‘Trembley
K. Trembley
Enlisted Men Slacker List Exposed by Omission
Washington May 10 United Press Adjutant General Harris rejects claims of erroneous names in the war department draft deserters list. He blames failure of men to notify their draft boards of whereabouts after the end. Harris says the war department has corrected the list, reducing from 489,003 to about 155,900 names.
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United Press
Washington, D. C
War Department
Harris
President Declines Brother Invitation to Kiwanis Meeting
President Harding declines the invitation from his brother Dr George T Harding Jr for a Cleveland Kiwanis meeting in June. The president likely cannot leave Washington for the event.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Harding
George T. Harding, Jr
Columbus
International Association of Kiwanis Clubs
Cleveland
Washington
Methodists Plan for Mission Funds
Springfield O May 16. The annual executive board meeting of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church will consider foreign work fund appropriations select candidates for missions and various appointments.
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Associated Press
Springfield
Women's Foreign Missionary
Evaiety
The
Methodist Episcopal Ichurch
Anil Chief Urges Government to Curb All Highways Traffic
Senate hearing opens on transportation system with Julius Kruttschnitt of Southern Pacific arguing roads misuse public funds. He proposes five remedies including tolls on public highways, self-sustaining inland waterways, keeping government out of coastwise shipping, adequate Panama Canal tolls, and preserving long haul freight options. He rejects rail rates as main cause of business slump, citing deflation and idle shipping despite low ocean rates.
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Associated Press
Washington, D. C
Julius Kruttschnitt
Southern Pacific Railroad
Senate Interstate Commerce Commission
Congressional
Kruttisshnitt
Panama Canal
Service Subject at Yardmasters Meet in St Louis
Plans to raise service to the public and perfect the link between shipper and consignee were discussed at the third annual convention of the Railroad Yardmasters of America in St Louis Missouri. Delegates also planned to examine working conditions on railroads nationwide.
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The
Associated Press
St. Louis
Railroad Yardmasters of America
Sheriff Robb Improves. Might Leave Hospital Soon
Des Moines reports Sheriff W. E. B. Robb of Polk County is winning his battle with pneumonia. Doctors note continued improvement and hope he may be discharged within a week to 16 days from the sickroom update.
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United Press
Des Moines
W. EB
Robb
Polk County
Harding Widens Wilson Order on Postmasterships
President Harding expands the Wilson civil service postmaster selection rule to allow the top three candidates on the qualified list to be chosen. About 13 000 first through third class post offices are affected and the change is to apply immediately. He urged Congress to extend classified civil service to those postmasters as with fourth class.
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Washington, D. C
Wilson
Harding
White House
Congress
Civil Service
Harding Gives $250 for Overseas Graves
President Harding contributed 250 to the American Legion fund for decorating American graves in Europe. The donation was announced by the Legion's national headquarters in Indianapolis on May 10. He called it a small but sincere gesture of sympathy and support for a notable remembrance ceremony.
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Associated Prous
Indianapolis
Ind
Sons of the Republic
Harding
American Legion
Europe
Legion
Sons of Judge Held for Making Whisky
Eugene and Chuck Sellers sons of Judge Sellers were indicted by a Marion county grand jury in Knoxville for liquor production. They and three Des Moines youths were captured on an island in the Des Moines river near Percy, with a still and moonshine seized. The five youths are free on bonds of 1,000 each.
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United Presse
Des Moines
Eugene and
Chuck" Sellers
Sellers
Marion County
Knoxville
Percy
Liberty
Trail Two Suspects Traveling in Wagon
Mahaska county authorities pursue two men seen in a covered wagon near the scene of the murder of 62 year old recluse Bob Middlesworth. Neighbors link the pair to the brutal killing last Friday, the sole clue in the case.
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United Press
Oskaloosa
Mahaska County
Bob Middlesworth
Middlesworth
Cowboy roped eagle after calf encounter near Gregory
A South Dakota cowhand named Thomas Hale on a Gregory ranch lassoed a live eagle that swooped on a calf. He rode up, roped the bird, and brought it home after it had fed, per a Gregory dispatch.
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The
Associated Press
Sioux City
Thomas” Hale
Gregory
S. D
Hale
Reichstag Ready to Accept Entire Allied Ultimatum
Berlin and Paris report growth of support in the Reichstag for yielding to the Allied reparations terms. Germany has two days to respond before possible occupation of the Ruhr. leaders debate disarmament, Bavarian holdout, and alignment with the entente as cabinet changes loom.
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Paris
Berlin
Germany
Ermany
Ruhr
Ebert
Paul Loebe
Reichstag
People's Party
Gustav Stresemann
London
Bavella
Center Party
Wilhelm Mayer
Briand
France
Upper Silesia
United States
England
Count ‘You
Dr. Wolff
Lincoln
Télring
Livy
Delivery time note for Courier service follows 5 30
The notice explains home delivery by 5 30 each day and offers a replacement copy if not received by that time. It instructs callers to phone S330 and to ensure one call reaches the office before 6 30 p m.
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