Prohibition Urged to Rely on Local Enforcement
Amid Chicago talks at the Antisaloon League convention, officials warned the federal government cannot bear the prohibition burden alone. Lincoln Andrews urged communities to enforce laws, while Sen. Morris Sheppard warned against compromise and emphasized church and school roles in backing prohibition. Coast Guard and Volstead officials detailed enforcement, and a Bryan memorial address honored temperance leaders.
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Chicago
Lincoln
Andrews
Gov't
Jose
Department of Justice
United States
Morris Sheppard
Texas
Senate
Alcohal
Sheppard
F. Cgc. Billard
United States Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Funeral services for William Bruner in O'Keefe Towns chapel
Funeral services for William Bruner who died yesterday of pneumonia after loss of two legs under a train will be Sunday at 2 a.m. in the O'Keefe and Towns chapel with Rev E W Main officiating. Burial in Porter township cemetery with the Order of Earles attending in a body.
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C. William Bruner
William Bruner
O'Keefe & Towns
E. W. Main
Graves! Memorial United Brethren Church
Order of Earles
Porner Township
Sylvia Clark
John Street
First Presbyterian Church
Independence
Ralph V. Gilbert
Independence Cemetery
Fined for Keeping Battery in Municipal Court
J C Marsh pleaded guilty to illegally retaining a storage battery from Standard Battery and Electric Co. in municipal court. He was fined 50 dollars and costs by Judge J W Gwynne, with the fine suspended pending payment of the costs.
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Ilegally
J. C. Marsh
Standard Battery & Electric Co
Judeo J. Ww. Gwynne
Eight Drowned When Barge Sunk Near Lake Superior
Sault Ste. Marie Minn Nov 7 Eight persons and one woman are believed drowned when the barge J L Crane in tow of the steamer Herman Nettler broke away and foundered in a Thurs gale off Lake Superior. The wreck reached here this morning minus its tow and coast guards were asked to aid in searching for possible survivors with life preservers.
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Sault Ste. Marie, Minn
Lake Superior
J. L. Crane
Herman Nettler
Hetter
Hettler
Coast Guards
Beauty Shop Owner Slain With Hammer in Ogden
The body of Mrs. Hens C. Jensen, 43, a beauty parlor proprietor, was found in a city thicket. Near her remains lay a broken hammer and a sharp knife, suggesting she was struck on the head and then wounded with the knife. Her husband is a meat cutter in Ogden.
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Ogden, Gian
Nov
Hens C. Jensen
Orden
Eikenberry Sells Florida Contract for $1000 Profit
Chariton Iowa November 7 W A Eikenberry of Chariton who held contracts for abatements expected to occupy Miami Florida beginning November 7 has sold the contract for a profit of $1000 and will stay in Chariton this winter.
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Chariton
Recount On Paralytic Strans and Local Resident Move
A garbled notice describes a recount of Nicholas Kovatfertiz’s condition and notes his brother’s involvement. It states water resident B. Rachtertig moved from Water to Minnethelis years ago and that his wife died two years earlier. Paragraph references a September visit and a left side paralysis affecting speech with partial recovery efforts.
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Ertig
Misseapolis
Nicholas
Kovatfertiz
PLJ
Trial of Dr Harold Blazer in Mazel Blazer murder case
In Littleton Colorado on November 7 1931 the Blazer murder trial moved into its fourth day with experts debating insanity theories. Prosecutors led by Stone questioned Dr Blazer’s son in law Roy Bishop about the fathers burden caring for Mazel Blazer the imbecile daughter. Defense lawyer L D Mowry gathered letters from psychologists supporting introversion and environmental stress as motive. The state prepared rebuttal with alienists while the jury was sworn and the record indicated several witnesses remain for direct examination.
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Michael PL Bacey
International News
Correznondene Littleton
Colo
Ray E. Bishop
Brazer
Dr. Blazer
Stone
Sam Nikkel
Roy O. Samson
L. D. Mowry
Mowry
Ila
Mazel Blazer
Denver
Blazer
Roy E. Bishop
J. J. Mackin
Arapahoe County
W. S. Dennis
H. T. Alltledge
Roy Bishop
Blazey
Whisky Car Driver Held in Fatal Crash
James Minnesota reports say FR Stein of Sioux City Iowa is held during an auto collision near here that killed Mrs. Pant Klein. Stein’s car, with visor, was en route to the Twin Cities when it collided with the vehicle carrying Mrs. Klein during a risky Canada trip context.
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James
Minn
Stein
Sioux Cit
Pant Klein
Twin Cities
Canada
Mes. Ricin
Fine Ebert Kin Fined Over Hindenberg Remark
Berlins Nev reports that Wil lem Jaenicke, son in law of the late President Ebert, and a former royal haaimaker, was fined 100 marks or a third of his foreign office salary for discourteous remarks on the election of the panarchist general Von Hin Centberez to the presidency.
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Berlins
Bus Queen Feud Sparks Verbal Fight Ended in Mayhem
A long standing dispute between C. C. Richardson and Miss Telen Schultz boiled over in a Des Moines station incident. Schultz alleges Richardson struck her after a heated argument over a ticket issue.
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City
C. C. Richardson
Telen Schultz
Mason
Miss Schulz
Des Moines
Adrienne Deere Miss Los Angeles Seeks Fame After East Tour
Beauty winner Adrienne Deere aka Miss Los Angeles returns from the east with prizes she won on tour. She placed second in the national beauty contest and adds the awards to her tally.
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Adrienne Deere
Los Angeles
Defense Fights Oberholtzer Case At Indiana Trial
Noblesville Ind Nov 7 UP defense argues the beating of the Oberholtzer story in the Stephenson key death trial. James Lambert testifies seeing Oberholtzer alone in a large automobile near the Washington hotel in Indianapolis March 16. He says she spoke briefly and appeared on friendly terms with defendant for months. Judge Sparks warns spectators of courtroom disruption and threatens to clear room if anti Stephenson demonstrations continue. Dentist Walter Isartholumnen county field agent for the RussIan in Isartholumnen county says he saw Oberholtzer with Stephenson in Columbus in early January.
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Noblesville
Ind
Madge Oberholtzer
D. C. Stephenson
Parl Klenck
Earl Gentry
James Lambert
Washington
Indianapolis
Miss Oberholtzer
Miss
Sparks
CG. Stephenson
Earl Klenck
Marl Gentry
Walter Wailstock
Ralph Kane
Stephenson
Eph Inman
Kane
Mntist
Ailstock
Columbus
D. C
Jan Jary
Plan for new University Heights town in Iowa City suburbs
A petition for incorporation was filed today to form a new town named University Heights on the outskirts of Iowa City. The 190 acre site includes water and lighting facilities and lies in Johnson County.
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Iowa City
Town
INS
University Heights
Lown
St Mark's Vestry Plans Banquets and Budget Census
At St Mark's Episcopal vestry meeting last night the annual event budget canvass and a father and son banquet were scheduled for Friday November 12 with George Pike chosen as speaker for the banquet. Howard Seyidler, a 50 year old West Union hotel clerk, was found dead in a hotel bed. an inquest will not be held.
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St. Mark’s Eipiscopal Church
George Pike
Anguus
Howard Seyidler
West Union
Sneal
Hoe
Francis rejects bid to bar people from school control
Des Moines Nov 7 Iowa state superintendent May E Francis told the annual Iowa State Teachers association that appointing the state school head would remove popular control of schools. She argued that local voters and taxpayers should oversee public education, opposing partisan politics and urging professional leadership in education. She emphasized rural schools and teacher standards, and hinted at her own bid for reelection while noting Miss Agnes Samuelson’s potential candidacy.
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Des Moines
Nov
UNS
Francis
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
Iowa State ‘Teachers’ Association
Resolutions Committee
State Board of Eduction
Harmak
House Committee On Judiciary
Miss Francis
Agnes, Samuelson
Seerley
Cedar Falls
Tillaibers
Offee
Miss Samuelson
Burton
APJ
A. J. Burton
East High School
State Teachers Association
W. FE. Herman
Toledo
Clay D. Slinker
Grace Shields
Cedar Rapids
P. A. Lauterbach
Sac City
T. T. Cranny
Grinnell
Central Athiet
A. L. Spooner
Rockwell City
North Central
E. M. Brooks
Chi- Caza
Thief Spares Life of Grocer Over His Six Children
Des Moines dispatch reports a grocer H Price avoided harm from a negro robber after Price revealed he had six children. The robber nonetheless stole $62 in cash and fled. The incident underscores the thief’s recognition of paternal responsibility.
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Des Moines
INS
H. Price
Price
Lxtter
Mussolini's Word May Decide Italian War Debt Deal
Washington Nov 7 The voice of Benito Mussolini could deliver the deciding word in terms for funding Italy's 2.138 billion dollar debt to the United States. Negotiations between American and Italian funding commissions near completion, with a decision expected soon possibly Monday or Tuesday. If Mussolini speaks unfavorably, talks would resume next week. Count Volpi had pushed terms further than Rome would commit. Meanwhile Romania, owing about 46 million dollars, awaited its treasury window as discussions continued.
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Washington, D. C
INS
Benito Mussolini
Italy
United States
Mussolini
American Commission
International
Count Volpi
Rome
Perley
Roumania
Journalist Pete Marcels His Cows in Waterloo Yards
Pete Marcels, a reporter for the Sioux City Tribune, tends thirty eight cattle in Illinois Central yards as part of a trek from Sioux City to Chicago. He recounts giving the cows perfumes and packing for the journey while noting a forgery arrest linked to a Milwaukee murder victim.
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Pete Marcels
Waterloo Yards
Sioux City
Chicago
Illinois
William Peterson
Sioux
Milwaukee
Pete
Tribune
Soviet Treaty Declared Forgery by Soviet Officials
London dispatches report Soviet officials denounce a alleged Italo Russo treaty as forgery, citing New York publications and refuting the accord as a hoax. The claim frames the agreement as counterfeit and politically suspect.
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London
New York
Porgery
Bennett the conservation lecturer visits Waterloo
Rev George Bennett of Iowa City, lecturer in fish and game, founder of the American School of Wildlife Protection at McGregor, visited Waterloo. He plans to speak December 15 in New York City to the Federation of Women’s Clubs and will meet Dr William Hornaday during his trip following a New York Times letter in his defense. Building permits issued today include a residence on Reber avenue for $2,300, a garage on Logan avenue, an addition on Falls avenue, and a garage on Block sheet for $200.
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George Bennett
Towa City
Fish and Game Department of
Iowa
American School of Wild Life Protection
McGregor
Waterloo
Bennett
New York Times
William Hornaday
Conservation
New York City
T Federation of Women's Clubs
Hornaday
New York
Charles Watson
Thde Reber Avenue
William Letsch
Logan Avenue
John Borold
Falls Avenue
J. G. Parent
Nick Phillips
Weather outlook for week in Washington D C
Weather outlook for the week beginning Monday covers the Upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys with snow and rain in the first half and again later. Temperatures start moderately cool then near normal later in the week.
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Washington, D. C
Mississippi
Lower
Missouri
Plot for Republic Bank of Italy Ill Mussolini
News dispatches from Rome and London report an alleged anti fascist plot to kill Premier Mussolini during armistice day celebrations and overthrow the monarchy. Arrests were made in Genoa Naples and other cities as police pursue members of the Unitarian Socialist and Masonic groups. The Daily Herald in London calls the plot a fabrication intended to justify government crackdowns. Tito Zaniboni of the Unitarian Socialist Party confessed to involvement.
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Rome
Italy
Mussolini
Rusula
L'Epocca
Chigi Palace
Free Masons
Unitarian Socialist Party
Pius
Genoa
Capello
Naples
London
Insi
Mustolini
Chiasso
Daily Herald
Suv Zaniboni
Tito @aniboni
Ihe
Alleged Mussolini Plot Tied to Zamboni Arrests Across Cities
Under questioning since capture, Zamboni claimed sole responsibility for the alleged plot linking Mussolini to Armis tice day crowds near a hotel balcony. Police report fifteen arrests amid widespread inquiries with Genoa reporting two detained figures, Giovanni Anseldo editor and Commander Acquirone, as military seizes the newspaper premises.
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Alallan
Mussolini
Zamboni
Genoa
Giovanni Anseldo
Legoro
Acquirone
Ett Can Old Folks Tell He Aint Gonna Set No Ems
Mr and Mrs John McTunes visit Calgary and meet their son Elmer A Me Inn es at 221 Moir Street who has a broken arm from cranking a cold car He works as a Monotype operator at Kimball Co Earlier remark about setting ems is noted Ellmer quips about not setting any ems due to his injury Then the Melaneses plan to return home via California
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John Mc-Tunes
Calgary
Alberta
Elmer A. Me
California
DeMolay District 10 Elects New Officers
About 3250 DeMolay members gathered at the Masonic temple in Ottumwa for the first semi annual convention of the tenth Iowa district. Officers elected include district advisory board chairman W Fr Hokamp Ottumwa, secretary Ross Wiegand Ottumwa, district toaster councilor Wayne Scott Fairfield, district senior councilor Eugene Putnam Bloomfield, junior master tallweiler Gerald Pate rton Chariton, district treasurer Blood Johnson Ottumwa, and district serthe.
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Ottumwa
Masonic Temple
Order
Iowa
Fr. Hokamp
Ross Wiegand
Neve Eaton
Ottumba
Wayne Scott
Fairfield
Eugene Putnam
Bloomfield
Tallweiler
Gerald Paterton
Chariton
Blood Johnson
Serthe
Think Woman May Be Murder Witness in Washta Case
Sioux City dear report says Sheriff Sangwin and Cherokee county officers explore a theory that a woman may have witnessed the murder of Momms Hardy. Investigators suggest two persons may have been involved, noting a folded shawl under the victim’s head and a bloodstained woman’s handkerchief found on a stretch of road north of Washta.
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Sioux City
Momms Hardy
Wasitta
Sherff Sangwin
Cherokee County
Bol
Washta
Nebraska Harriers Defeat Drake in Snow Storm Meet
In Des Moines a blinding snow storm did not stop the Nebraska cross country team from defeating Drake 25 to 20. Drake’s Wahl and Wright finished first and second, but Nebraska secured the win with strong overall performance.
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Nebraska Harriers
DRAKE
Des Moines
University of Nebraska
Wahl
Wright
Secon
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