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Show NEWSPAPER PLANT DESTROYED BY FIRE DES MOINES, Iowa, May 9. Fire of unknown origin, starting in the paper pa-per storage room of the Das Moines News, shortly before 3 o'clock this morning, wrecked the newspaper plant and gutted tho entire News Arcade Ar-cade hulldln;T Loss to the News' plant is estimated at K'oo.ooo. W. E. Baltenfield, business manager manag-er of the News, estimates the loss at 176.000 to the building and $li'5,00u to presses, linotype machines, types and oLiier equipment. The News will publish Its newspaper at the offices of I oni Of the other newspapers here until un-til temporary quarters are established elsewhere, it was said this morning. oo Every Russian between the ages of three and 100 must learn to read and write according to a decree of the Bolshevist Bol-shevist government. |