Senator 19 Mixed Up in Yet Bureau Graft Sale Story
Washington Nov. investigations into the veterans bureau focus on political influence in awarding government contracts and possible blocking of probes. Controversy centers on a $70,944 flour polish contract to Continental Chemical Co or Kansas Indiana, with payments to Indiana political leader John Owens and a senator named in connection to the deal. Missing papers reveal Matthew OBrien offered to settle a government claim for 13600. Col. Charles R. Porkes will testify Monday on graft and mismanagement.
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International News Wire
Washington, D.C
Burdau
Continental Chemical Company
Walseka
Ind
John Owens
Indiana
United States
Veterans’ Bureau
Matthew O'Brien
O’brien
Frank T. Hines
Charles R. Porkes
Coolidge Plans Early Draft of Broad Congressional Message
The Transcript reports 14 envelopes each covering a subject for President Coolidge to address before Congress. He is said to finish his address in the next two weeks and then meet with members of the incoming Congress. The aim is to allow ample time for digestion and adjustments before the session begins.
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Congress
Coolidge
New York Tribune
Des Moines State Briefs and Local Notices
Supreme court offices close Friday for late Justice Weaver funeral in Iowa Falls. Ida Grove reports a 7 year old killed getting onto a wagon loaded with corn on way home from school. Oskaloosa married ride in Ralph Pareaut’s airplane. Mrs McDonough seeks second flight during stunt show. Manly man found burned to death in cabin kitchen amid cornstalks and hay. Town curfew impacts University of Iowa freshmen in residence by 9 p.m. Mason City National Commander Hanford MacNider to speak at Topeka Victory Memorial Highway dedication. Iowa chiropractors defend current statutes during code revision talks. Marriage licenses: Henry Holzeptet and Katherine Manselman.
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Des Moines
Supreme Court
Justice Weaver
Iowa Falls
Ida Grove
Ora
P. L. Pueger
Ralph Pareaut
Ottumwa
Manly
Jacob Reinch
Li & In
Cabin
Hs Kitchen
University of Iowa
Mason City
American Legion
Hanford MacNider
Topeka
Iowa
General Assembly
Iowa Chiropractors’ Association
Judge Odom Overrules Motion in Klan Case at Bastrop
Bastrop Louisiana judge Fred Odom refused to recuse himself from pending misdemeanor cases involving Ku Klux Klan members and others. An appeal to the Louisiana Supreme Court followed, as defense counsel attacked his impartiality and moved for retrial in related indictments.
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United Press
Bastrop
Vets Ask Coolidge to Stop Bootlegging Near Hospitals
Washington, Nov. 8. Disabled American Veterans chapter No. 3, with all members patients at hospital No. 37 in Waukesha, Wis., appeals to President Coolidge and law enforcers to end what it calls unbearable bootlegging around veterans hospitals and the surrounding area.
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Coolidge
Washington, D. C
Veterans’ Hospitals
Waukesha
Wis
Coolidgs
Urges Developing of Boy Scouts Among Jews and Catholics
Des Moines reports Ray Wyland assistant director of the national Boy Scouts council urges expansion of scouting in Catholic and Jewish churches alongside Protestant groups. Regional district executives hear remarks from Gov Kendall Hanford MacNider and other leaders at Hotel Fort Des Moines. Elections for executives are scheduled for today.
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Boy Scout Movement
Ray Wyland
Department of Education
National Council of Boy Scouts
New York
Hotel
Fort Des Moines
Kendall
Hanford Macnnder
The
American Legion
Robert D. Carey
Wyoming
L. L. McDonald
S. R. Mc
Idealism preacher forecasts labor party rise in England
Rev. Vivian Pomeroy of Bradford told Des Moines listeners that organized idealism is sweeping the laboring classes into power in England and soon the common people will shape the world’s ideals. He and his wife are touring the country to spread the gospel of this labor movement.
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Des Moines
England
Vivian Pome- Foy
Bradford
Pomeroy
America
Labor Party
Labor
Ogden Bank Robbery by Autoists Nets 12000
The Ogden State Bank was robbed early today by four or five bandits who escaped in an automobile with 2000 in currency and 3000 in bonds. They damaged vaults with nitro and cut all telephone wires after forcing entry with a crowbar. One shot was fired at the town marshal who led the alarm.
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Ogden
Kan
Navy
State Bank of
Town Sportsmen at Des Moines Plan Hunt and Banquet
Des Moines outdoor sportsmen at a meeting last night arranged an outdoor hunt on November 25 and a banquet on December 4 in Des Moines Indiana. Members discussed event logistics and anticipated strong turnout for both activities.
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Des Moines
Ewn
Community Chest chairmen plan unified fund drive teams
Chest campaign leaders meet at Greater Waterloo to shape a five team eight man effort. Alfred C Booth attends as director to select prospective captains while Simmons announces mailed booklets detailing participating organizations and reasons for uniting budgets. Danish Lutheran church hosts annual bazaar and musical program at Moose hall tomorrow evening.
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C.D. Cass
Ralph Hoxie
Clyde Allan
W. P. Kerwin
Glenn Beers
Community Chest Fund
Greater Waterloo Association
Alfred C. Booth
Citewlars
Simmons
St. Ansgar
Moose Hall
Corn Crop 1923 Surpasses 1924 U S Yield Estimates
Preliminary estimates from the Department of Agriculture place the 1924 corn crop at 3,290,192,000 bushels, exceeding the 1923 harvest and above the earlier forecast of 3,021,454,000 bushels. Other crops listed include wheat 781,737,000 bushels and oats 1,302,483,000 bushels.
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Washington, D. C
Department of Agriculture
Tollawa
Dermoid Cyst With 24 Teeth Found in Horse
A Liscomb veterinary surgeon identified a supposed fistula on a four year old gelding owned by Frank Black as a dermoid cyst containing a fully formed lower jaw with 24 teeth. The two jaw sections, each 12 teeth, extended under the shoulder blade. The cyst arose from misplaced embryonic cells and the horse is expected to recover.
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Marshalltown
Frank Black
Liscomb
Mahlon Russell
Iowa Glove Company Files Bankruptcy Petition
Davenport Nov 8 The Iowa Glove company Iowa City filed a bankruptcy petition in federal court listing liabilities of 58937 and assets of 1182 Most debts are small notes with Johnson County Savings Bank Iowa City as the largest creditor holding notes of 12745
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Davenport
Iowa Glove Company
Iowa City
Johnson County Savings Bank
Iowa Cry
Advocates Abolishment of U S Shipping Board
New York on November 8 the American Marine congress adopted a resolution advocating abolition of the United States Shipping Board and the emergency fleet corporation to permit private operation of American mercantile marine.
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New York
United States Shipping Board
Feet Corporsation
American Mercantile
Marine
American Marine Congress
Man Hurt by Switch Engine Seeks Lost Still
George Caldwell, colored, was struck by a Northwestern switch engine in the yards and suffered a broken leg and other injuries. He asked the engine crew to deliver a still to a specified address. police recovered the item after a search of a house found empty.
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Cedar Rapids
George Caldwell
Northwestern
Caldwell
Mussolini Savior of Italy Declared by Woman Visitor
Syracuse based Mary Andrews, known as Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, declares Mussolini a savior of Italy after a European trip. She praises his power for good, notes his private life, and recounts meetings with the pope and Miss Muriel McCormick.
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Italy
Chester
Bahn
Syracuse
N. Y
Reds
William Shankland Andrews
Mary Raymond Shipman Andrewe
Europe
Mussolin
Victor Emanuel
Mrs. Andrews
Cupid Outdistanced in Des Moines Court
In Des Moines Polk county the district court faces 216 divorce cases on the docket for the new term starting Monday. The article notes a strained court calendar as the divorce proceedings proceed amid the usual pressures of the court system.
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Des Moines
Polk County
District Court
Noryebter
Monay
Preacher Testified Before Polk County Grand Jury
Des Moines officials Roscon C. Saunders former police chief and Rev. N C Carpenter Capitol Hill Church of Christ were summoned to testify before the Polk county grand jury about vice conditions in the city today.
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Des Moines
Roscon C. Saunders
N. C. Carpenter
Capitol Hill Church of Christ
Polk County
Harmony Parleys On Day Law Nears Break Up Fight
Iowa peace officers return from the statehouse conference with calls to reorganize enforcement to reduce overlaps. Proposals include a central board and specialized liquor courts. A dispute between Jefferson and Carroll mayors briefly flared before urging harmony in enforcement was urged.
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Harmony Parleys
Law
William Graham 93 Friend of Grant to Be Buried Friday
Funeral services will be held in Dubuque for Hon William Graham aged 98 who died at his daughter’s Forsythe Montana home. A former circuit court judge and mayor of Bellevue he was a longtime Iowa political figure and a close friend of President Grant. He studied at Union College and was admitted to the bar in 1865. He is survived by two sons.
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Iie
Gantlemaar
Misa M'Cormick
Muriel McCormick
Harold F. McCormick
John D. Rockefeller
Tassin
Miss McCormick
Petrograd
Moscow
Bubuque
William Graham
Forsythe
Mont
United States
Graham
Iowa
Dubuque
Ballevue
Grant
New York
Union College
Brooklyn
Town
Coolidge Presses Budget Alignment With Harding Estimate
President Coolidge maintains that reductions ordered by President Harding must stand despite cabinet protests. The 1927–budget is to follow Harding’s cap of 1.7 billion dollars excluding postal operations and public debt transactions, while the current year totals 1.26 billion.
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Washington, D. C
Coolidge
Harding
Budget Bureau
Trial Halts As Editor Juror Drawn In Des Moines Case
Des Moines November 8 For the first time in his career Harvey Ingham editor of the Register Tribune has been drawn for jury service He sat in the municipal courtroom for hours then was finally drawn with five other men to listen to a case Court was adjourned for an hour while Ingham rushed to the statehouse to speak at a prohibition conference
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Nig Fe
Harvey Ingham
Register-Tribune
Ingham
Nnally
Thestatehouse
IOWA SUPREME COURT RECESSES FOR WEAVER RITES
Des Moines reports the Iowa Supreme Court will close all day and the court clerk's office in the afternoon as Justice Silas M. Weaver, a 22 year member of the court, dies. The funeral for Weaver will be held at Town Falls at 2:30 p.m. with 35 justices and many officials attending.
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Towa Supreme Court
Silas M. Weaver
High Court
Town Falls
Watson Rejects Acquittal After Honda Disaster Court-Martial
Capt. Edward H. Watson declared he does not want an acquittal saying it would be bad for the naval service. In Los Angeles the naval board later found him guilty of culpable inefficiency in the Point Honda wreck that killed 23 and wrecked the destroyer squadron.
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Diego
Cal
Edward H. Watson
Navy
Honda
Naval Service
United Press
Los Angeles
Point Honda
Naval Board
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Washington
Cedar Rapids Bride Refuses Wedding Help
Nov. 8 Cedar Rapids Iowa police deny a caller as a man named Frank Kiwasick begs for police help. He says his intended bride refuses to marry after he bought the ring and made arrangements. Morrison explains the case is outside police jurisdiction.
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Cedar Rapids
Morrison
Frank Kiwasick
Frank
Army Goods Stolen at Camp Devens Worth $100000
Theft of $100000 in Army clothing and blankets from the warehouse at Camp Devens Ayer Massachusetts was revealed today. War Department intelligence officers in Washington are investigating. The warehouse is guarded. The hoarded items include about 7000 blankets 6000 olive drab shirts and 200 pairs of echoes.
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Ayer
Mass
War Departments
Washington
Phony $62,000 heir jailed for vagrancy
J P Cominskey self styled heir to $62 000 was arrested Saturday and sentenced by Police Judge Carlos W Goltz to one year in county jail for vagrancy He admitted to police that he was not the heir and had advertised he must marry by Armistice day to receive the bequest in Sioux City Iowa November 8
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Sioux City
J. P. Cominskey
Carlos W. Goltz
Cominskey
Cominskey J
Cedar Rapids Youths Held for Auto Thefts
Godffrey To man age 16 and Frank Vopolka age 18 of Cedar Rapids Ir were arrested in River Forest Illinois after authorities say they traveled from Cedar Rapids to Elgin in three stolen cars and abandoned each when it ran out of gas. They were captured an hour after taking a fourth car in Elgin and found with that vehicle.
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Elgin
Godffrey Toman
Frank Vopolka
Cedar Rapids
River Forest
Ill
Scottish days lose one district in elections
Edinburgh reports that out of 43 Scottish districts voting on local option one district changed from dry to wet, three stayed dry, and the rest supported wets according to official returns.
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Edinburgh
Mrs Clara Jane Stevens obituary notices Waterloo resident
Mrs. Clara Jane Stevens 62 wife of H S Stevens died at 9 45 am today at 328 Allen Street after months of illness. Born Aug 28 1861 in Sterling NJ she married H S Stevens Aug 10 1877 in Harrisburg PA until relocating to Waterloo 18 years ago. Survived by husband four daughters foster son sister two brothers and eight grandchildren. Body viewable at Kistner's mortuary pending funeral arrangements.
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H. S. Stevens
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Decedent
Sterling
Harrisburg
Waterloo
Peara
William Nichols
Staples
Minn
M. V. West
W. V. Allbright
Jefferson
O. D. Freemire
Davenport
Frank T. Brush
Greenwich
Tit
Andrew Huber
Sterling, Ill
Loren FE. Birdsall
Harry Birdsall
St. Paul
Kistner
First Iowa warehousing certificates sold in O'Brien County
O'Brien county banks bought the first Iowa warehousing certificates issued under the Fortier act. Farmers pay one tenth of a cent per bushel for grain stored and may borrow against the certificates. The sale occurred without rediscount, reducing needed state financing plans. Secretary Cassady noted no rate was disclosed.
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Associated Press
Des Moines
Iowa
O'Brien County
Primghar
R. Ww
Cassady
Fortierh General Assembly
Department of Agriculture
Reparations Parley with France Edges Toward Agreement
Washington reports continued talks with Paris on reparations scope. officials say direct discussions are ongoing and a detailed French position has been presented. Secretary Hughes offered no comment on progress while the French ambassador confirmed the conversations continue. Hope remains for reconciling American and French positions.
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Washington, D
Washington
Paris
Mother Must Win Love of Daughter in Four Weeks
Chicago judge orders Miss Marie Calnan an unwed mother to spend four weeks with Kathleen Weightman now 31 years old. Calnan said she gave Kathleen to Mr and Mrs Weightman as an infant intending the girl to be a boarder. The Weightmans claim foster parent status by time. The court told Calnan to take the child for four weeks and have Kathleen choose her future home.
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Chicago
Marie Calnan
Hugo Pam
Kathleen
Charles Weightman
Weightmans
Greatest War Hero to Attend Des Moines Event
Sergeant Alvin York, famed Argonne forest hero, will speak at a banquet for Argonne post American Legion and attend the Drake-Coe football game at Drake Stadium. York is celebrated for single handedly capturing about 180 German soldiers, 25 machine guns, and killing a German squad in close combat.
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Des _ Moines
Alvin York
Argonne Forest
Argonne Post
American Legion
York
Drake-Coe
Drake Stadium
Townsley Home Burns In Noon Blaze At Wellington Court
Fire destroys the large double house at 614 616 Wellington court owned by J A Townsley city assessor and his father William Townsley. Roof and attic severely damaged many trunks and belongings saved by water and smoke. Insurance coverage cited.
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Wellington Court
J. A. Townsley
William Townsley
Weaver Funeral to Be Held at Methodist Church Tomorrow
Iowa Falls notes the funeral of Judge M Weaver will be at 2:30 PM tomorrow at the Methodist church with service by Rev Young. The body lies in state 10 AM to noon. Masons and Town Supreme court will honorarily and actively participate. interment at Union Cemetery with Masonic rites. local businesses will close during the service.
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Iowa Falls
M. Weaver
Mathodiat
Young
Methodist Church
Weaver
Evans
Supreme Court
Masons Home Lodge No
ALF & A.M
J. H. Stooksberry
Union Cemetery
Walton Goes to Trial Before Impeachment Court
Oklahoma Governor J. Walton, suspended, faced impeachment proceedings in Oklahoma City as the Senate prepared to convene and the court of impeachment began at 1 40 p.m. An earlier federal bid to halt action failed when Judge Cotterall refused interference citing no federal question involved.
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Gov. Walton
Oklahoma City
Okla
Lawton
John H. Catterall
Walton
Cotterall
Senate
Family Near Death From Lye Fumes During Washing
Des Moines report states William Dewitt and his wife and two young daughters Lucille and Leona nearly died from gas fumes released by a can of lye used in laundry. Dewitt revived them with a neighbor's help and was hospitalized, expected to recover.
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Des Moines
Wiliam Dewitt
Dewitt
Lucille
Leona
Bulgarians Fear Kemal Plots To Become Sultan
Bulgarian observers in Sofia view Angora moves as a bid to abolish monarchy and crown Mustafa Kemal as sultan. They warn a republic would be a cover for one man rule, with Kemal steering Turkey while retaining absolute authority. Christians face increased persecution in Turkey, Greeks and Armenians driven from their homes as refugees flood into Bulgaria.
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