Charles City Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1930, Charles City, Iowa THE Part cloudy and day with cold lowest night about 20 rr FULL TELEGRAPHIC SERVICE and Evening Established in 1896 CHARLES CITY IOWA TUESDAY MARCH 25 1930 ONLY PAPER IN CITY Volume 16 THE PRESS IS THE ONLY LEGITIMATE ADVERTISING MEDIUM IN CHARLES CITY HEAVY BLIZ Passing Show A Column a Day Cyclone Thompson Auto the Meet HENRY The national democratic is still in the red while the republicans have Thompson known as Cy or Cyclone in recognition of at Minn Tut embezzled from the sacking plant and was to penitentiary la 1921 id expiate his has been paroled after eight and a half years service out of a 15 years and win walk from his prison as soon as his i can find him a tion or employment And it fs eaid that his friends numbered by entire population of his home town which he had done so much io advance as a progressive leader for his career was something ott order of Hood who from the rich that ho might to Of a smoother proposition and personality was such that re- of his offense retained friends who were willing to overlook his faults because of his wilns an industrial leader Thia may not appear Jast tne thing but yet it fs lew than to turn against a wan of such because ot the RIPPLES CHICAGO Liner for Crossing Atlantic of people of Austin wilt no a warm reception of his truancy Among home activities erected a palatial residence and a fine hotel improved two model and to travel to out some parka and playgrounds for children a dormitory his were provided with fans his hog were heated and the animate groomed vacuum cleaners Thin money he he had all been spent locally The government speeding a program for 132 million in federal construction In the effort to late business A total of persons were motor accidents In 1929 or one in every minutes cording to president of the New York club These alarming an increase hi fatalities over previous years Who will fce the next victim in Charles Brookhart that he is out of the 1930 senatorial fight But he already spoken his The Doheny jury acquitted him of giving a bribe to Secretary Fall of who regarded it only as a friendly loan but the FaM jury him of having accepted as a bribe on the same testimony Bat the people will continue to entertain their own concerning the verdicts It was same but a ferent jury and different meats Miner has Wn found guilty of poisoning her husband and faces a life term in the pen Her paramour will hung A fifth meat the States Is raised Iowa aad much of the revenue for this from Wall street arid the east my lord of and It li monster which doth nock Tad It on lhat cuckold In bliss ot his fate loves not tifs wronger But O whaf minutes tells o'er Wsw yet doubts suspects strongly Moor Europa Greeted in Y By Shrieking rens and Whistles DAVID P SENTNER International News Service Correspondent New York March With the blue ribbon of the At- antic flying from her masthead he 50 ton North German Lloyd liner Europa new mistress of ie seas docked in New York larbor for the first time shortly before 11 o'clock this morning To the accompaniment ot shrieking sirens and the new i liner was warped into her Brooklyn pier by a fleet ot fifteen puffing tugs after ting a new ing record of four days hours and six minutes from Cherbourg breakwater to brose channel lightship By this remarkable achievement she ped 18 off the former record established last October her sister ship the Bremen Captain a us Johns en per of the Europa and dore of the North German Lloyd line declared he that the had set a new record and that he had not attempted to lower the Bremen's mark She Is a Tery good and staunch the grizzled merchant rine Mid perfect in i IN MISSISSIPPI POLITICAL EOW Carl Marshal above Bay St Louis Miss attorney is the tral figure in one of the hottest fights in Mississippi's history For his refusal to answer questions in regard to certain state road building contracts the legislature sentenced him to jail tor contempt and two minutes later Governor Bilbo Issued a pardon present record wide open r A crowd of approximately persons at pier when the ocean arch pushed her bulbous nose through the blanket mist which had overhung the harbor from morning Bands were playing and whistles shrieking as the triumphant vessel came to the end of her maiden Aboard the in the sacred was a distinguished committee by Dr helm Von Gaffron German ambassador to the ed States and sel director-general the North line They had boarde d Eu ropa at qu tine arid broadcast from the ship messages to the people of the States and Germany I have every reason to be with the performance ot the Europa on her Dr declared I do that the speed which is such a part of both the Bremen and the a will symbol cementing Germany and the United Agreement Approved Berlin March working agreement between the North German Lloyd and Hamburg American lines tors of both concerns at a ing here today The agreement will be In force for fifty years While an out-and-out the ment provides for pooling of the two and ces The at omy and the reduction ot useless building THREE HELD FOR STEALING SIXTEEN CARS Muscatine Ia March Held in connection with the theft of sixteen within the two months three youths day faced charges of robbery in court The boys Charles Schrieber 18 Benny Sharer 17 and Marion hy 16 confessed to teen of the cars to go according to police SURPRISE The Young Men's class of the Central M E church held a prise party Monday evening in the church parlors for their Sunday school teacher Merten Klaus A two course dinner was served at o'clock be- present After dinner a short business meeting was held after which group singing was enjoyed by all NEW YORK STOCKS Oliver Firm Equipment Oliver common opened at two o'clock price convert opened at two o'clock price Service two o'clock price 38 Vi OCEAN ZEP New York March Zeppelin service was a step nearer today following announcement that German and American financial and industrial concerns cad signed an i- ment for National City bank and Dr Hugo Eckener commander of the Graf Zeppelin agreement by the National City bank German Zeppelin com- pany the aircraft and Transport corporation tional Zeppelin Transport cor- and other banking and Industrial Signing of the agreement marks the first important cooperation between heavier-than-air and craft in ing regular passenger and mail service Airships be la the it was will be built in this country and abroad At the outset the ship trips will be tie North Atlantic No definite date for the start of the airship service has been set but actual preparation will be started in 1331 or possibly sooner FIND FOUR London March covery of four which reveals lhat the solar system is fifty times greater than fore conceived was announced today by Professor Rafael danl former cabinet maker of Rome according to an exchange telegraph dispatch from Rome 1 His announcement ot the dis- covery of four new planets lowed the recent discovery of a similar planet at Flagstaff Ariz The fourth of tho newly dis- overed planets Is seven times more distant from the sun than neptune Prof claimed My method of studying astral bodies is different from the calculations but I have proved by discovery by astro- and mathematical ods This discovery means that the solar system is at least fifty times greater than said Rome newspapers today re- mained skeptical of claims They did not in fact publish any news whatever con- his reported discovery THREE SAILORS ARE KILLED IN AN EXPLOSION Rib De March Three sailors killed and 12 others probably fatally scalded ia an explosion of boiler tubes on the Brazilian battle cruiser MInas according to official dis- patches today from Santos The Slinas was on a tice cruises None of the American naval mission was aboard cruiser R FLORY International News Correspondent March of a full tha London naval disarmament conference loomed as the delegates met to discuss the posal of Foreign of Italy that the adjourn for six months to permit France and Italy to settle differences British officials were outspoken in their belief that it i posed adjournment It would least a fore the five powers could convoked into conference again For reason it is as highly probable that ial efforts made to reach some sort of a tentative ment as speedily as possible Once scattered it is the conference would be almost possible to call together Prime Minister J Bamsay Donald called a meeting the heads of the five delegations lor this afternoon following an hour and a conversation wita Secretary ot State Henry Ii Stimson It was the adjournment proposal was In J V Should the adjournment dure be- adopted it is British American arid Japanese delegates would agreement lately This however would iot until it bad been feared the chances of getting France and Italy into it would be nil Latest reports from Tokio in- the office has overruled the ment's insistence proposals be made to the compromise It now appears the reply will accept compromise practically as it stands Dumesnil French navy minister today gave the can delegation assurance that France is anxious to complete a pact humanly sible Briand Gives Tiens Paris March tions of the world cannot expect France to sacrifice own safety the altar of inter- national Foreign ister Aristide Briand told the senate today Announcing his intention to return to the disarmament conference at the earliest Briand told his hearers that the parley could not be expected to achieve anything more than results I am returning to London in the sincere hope ot the possibility of satisfying a neighbor and a friendly Briand said referring to Italy's demand for parity But we must not create theoretical equalities which in reality will prove dangerous inequalities We have not yet obtained what we want for France but open have not yet ed We hope fpr a factory solution for all con- cerned TO TESTIFY IN PLAY PROBE New York March Terance Harvey of the police department will ba called as a witness by the prosecution today at trial West and 57 other defendants charged with giving an indecent ance in The Pleasure Man The prosecutor plans to have Harvey interpret the terms used In the play which are alleged to double and even triple meanings C Defense counsel will object to flic testimony of Harvey on the grounds that he Is not a fied expert Prosecutor James G Wallace that Harvey has no cal degree but maintains that his veteran on the New force Is sufficient tion POWERFUL WING IK ITS RENEW By W S COUSINS News Service Financial Editor New York March powerful buying wave swept over the stock market this morning slowing the ticker service thirty minutes and forcing prices of the speculative aristocrats to the highest levels of the United States steel Standard Oit of New Jersey Bethlehem Paramount and American can led speculative shooting stars as broad as in anv of the active sessions of the year Vanadium Steel shot upward 4 points to new high for the move and a gain of close to 60 points in the last three weeks United States Steel sold above 193 and Oil of New sey which dropped from 83 to 50 crash has now returned to 73 having gained nearly 3 points today Bethlehem Steel topped 306 for the first time in 1930 and Paramount sold above 75 Washington March of particulars against was served on the houso today by Rep O'Connell D of as the wets renewed their assault on the 18th ment The law Is unsound and said nell Prohibition as HOW tered has never solved nor will it solve the problem ot ance for the following Its enforcement lacks the support of a majority of thV people and is costing millions of dollars In increased taxation It is Increasingly corrupting the morals of the American ple making them lawbreakers and has resulted In widespread corruption and bribery ot officials It is an infringement upon the liberty and freedom of the American people It Is teaching young girls and boys to secretly indulge in holic stimulants It forbids pure and harmless beer and wine and substitutes dangerous poisons and is the cause of increasing deaths from drinking poisonous bootleg con- coctions NASHUA BOY BOUND OVER TO GRAND JURY New Hampton la March Cook 16 of shua Iowa was bound over to the grand jury ot the ty district court hero Monday afternoon by 3 justice of the Cook through his attorney waived the preliminary on tile charge of breaking and en- tering tho filling station at Nashua on tho night March Sth Cook was picked up by the Aurora 111 police and returned here to face the which lie has admitted His bond was set at which he is unable to furnish The May term ot court starts here May 12th with Judge Carl W Reed of on bench ENGAGEMENT TO SCREEN STAR IS CONFIRMED London March a Joyful radio message to Inter- national News Service today from the Michael Farmer wealthy young man ot Dublin con- firmed announcement ot his en- gagement to wed Marilyn Miller star of stage and screen I'm terribly happy to confirm that glorious said the messagei Miss Miller announced the news Sunday night as she pre- pared for a trip to Hollywood for the making of a new talkie v She failed to state a date had been set for wedding Michael will be back soon NEW SCHOOL IS VOTED AT WATERLOO Waterloo March Sale ot the Lowell school grounds and construction ot a new 000 grammar school In the Lowell district stood approved here day by a Tote of to 207 a checkup revealed today An election on the proposition of building school held yesterday SENATE PUSSES RELIEF Washington March The senate passed the agricultural relief today without a ing vote and with only a score senators present The had few amendments offered most important being to be made immediately available for the fight to eradicate the fruit fly offered by Senator CD of Florida The carries 1 total of SEN BERGMAN HAS STROKE IS BETTER Newton la March State Senator A H Bergman who was taken hospital here last night after suffering a sudden stroke of paralysis which caused loss of speech and inability to move the left side ot his body for a time today was reported ia ter condition Bergman until recently a date for the republican nomination for governor was stricken as he sat in the office of a local doctor awaiting a treatment ACTRESS DIVORCE Angeles Cal March cruelty and non- support Helen Twelvetrees stage actress was to seek a divorce from her husband Twelvetrees hero today The couple was married in York on Feb 27 1927 TO SUBSCRIBERS Papers should be delivered by If not received by that time call 93 the Press office up to 6 o'clock and No 849 the home of the special carrier up to No compla can be taken care of after and do not call other phone numbers MOTION OF IS RESISTED KITH BED Chicago March Frank McErlane big time ter and so-called terror of the southwest was reported ing today in the German ness hospital here McErlane went to the tal on January 28 under the alias of Charles Miller with a bullet wound In his leg but his tity was revealed on February 24 three gunmen Invaded bis hospital room and shot him three times as he In bed McErlane flat on his back and with his wounded leg in a ter cast drew a pistol from un- der his pillow and fired five shots at his assailants who without being identified The wounded man predicted that would ba found a first round of his tight io stave off trial of civil when Judge Join T Moffit overruled plea of his attorneys to quash service on their client It was moved to quash the service on the ground that Huckins was a resident of Excelsior Springs Mo when he was served Judge gave Huckins five days -in which to file further pleadings Several civil suits are on file It is believed they may go to trial next Monday Cedar Rapids Ia March John T Moffit today had under advisement a resistance filed by attorneys for William Speas and Elwood Royster against a motion of George Ev get rich quick promoter to dis- miss pending against him and totaling Huckins motion was made on the grounds that he was a non- resident of Iowa and a resident of Excelsior Springs Mo when vice In the resistance the plaintiffs had no intention ot making a permanent home in Missouri and that he had made no affidavit concerning change ot legal residence The Speas and Royster suits were to recover on funds invested in Huckins mysterious operation ot which the promoter last week was con- ot obtaining money under false pretenses SEVEN MORE CITIES FOR DRY LAW REPEAL New York March Seven of nine additional cities from which incomplete returns have bten received favor a repeal of the Eighteenth amendment ing to the latest report of the Literary Digest in its prohibition poll Tulsa Okla and Oklahoma City Okla polled a plurality in favor of enforcement However in both cities the combined vote for and repeal was greater than tho vote for enforcement alone The cities favoring repeal in the latest incomplete returns were New Haven Conn Peoria 111 Richmond Va Wheeling W Va Louisville Ky and Wilmington Del WOMAN TAKES STRYCHNINE BY MISTAKE Oskaloosa Ia March Xo inquest held Coroner E B Wilcox announced today ia connection with the death day ot Mrs Carrie H McEwen who ended her life by taking poison Mrs McEwen swallowed some tablets which it Is be- sho mistook for medicine She ran from the house to the barn to summon her husband who administered an antidote but to save her AIR IS Blizzard Continues All Day Storm Is Moving Eastward Chicago March men were dead many persons were injured and all traffic wag demoralized today as a violent March blizzard blown in from tho northwest by a sixty mile gale held Chicago and vicinity ill its grip The storm threatened to con- until noon tomorrow cording to C A Donnel forecaster Many of the injured were lurt in two rear-end be- tween elevated trains creeping at slow speed through the blinding storm Derailments and minor dents virtually paralyzed surface car lines The worst storm in point qf wrecks in officials of the surface lines at noon Forty wreck are out and are be- kind By noon the snowfall had ex- seven inches in the town district and ten Inches was recorded at the municipal port The spring storm in the tory on March 30 and 31 1928 was 12.6 Electric and surprised hospital attendants rallying but on Sunday his con- dition drew worse and Big Joe Saltis submitted to a blood trans- fusion in a desperate effort to save his life Callers at the hospital told today that had lapsed Into unconsciousness ter twenty four hours of violent delirium MEET Cedar Rapids la March virtually every county in the state represented the tenth annual convention the Iowa League of Women voters began its tenth annual convention here today The sessions will end State committee chairman ned to finish today the mapping of a program for which will be presented to the tion for ratification It includes a demand for a state tion to continue maternity and infancy work support of lation requiring a five day inter- val between the application and the granting of a marriage license and support of the direct mary The program also include indorsement of a in congress approved by the national league for government operation of Muscle Shoals and various peace measures such as international cooperation to prevent war the pan-American treaty the Root world court plan and tional reduction ot armaments The league leaders also have indicated it would support the proposed lame to the constitution providing for inauguration of the president and seating of ho new congress on Jan 1 instead of March 4 The eon will be held at noon row when Mrs Effie McCulIom of Webster City suffrage worker and Mrs W W Ramsey of Chicago vice dent will speak PLAN SIX HOUR AIR SERVICE CHICAGO TO N Y Chicago March new air passenger service between cago and New York requiring six hours for the trip was in tho offing today with the announcement of national air transport that plans for service arc complete Col Paul Henderson in ing details of the schedule announced there will bo an eight hour service connecting Dallas Tex with Chicago The new Chicago to New York segment will cut 13 hours from the present train time and will follow the present mail route from cago to Cleveland Toledo and New York werir reported by tie principal roads entering and leaving cago and air transport was at a standstill Chicago March unseasonal blizzard lashed the Chicago today crippling automobile tying up train schedules Driven before a- northwest gale several Inches of snow had len today Shortly after midnight a steady rain turned to snow and a heavy fall all night blanketed the southern Lake Michigan area In many places the wind hatf drifted piles ot snow to of eighteen inches Air mail schedules here were temporarily abandoned due to the severity of the storm One man was burned to death another was unaccounted for and a third was seriously when fire damaged a three-story apartment ing at Gary Ind to the estimated extent of One- hundred tenants fled building many jumping from third story windows into life nets The snow and wind the fire fighters One death was attributed to the terrific spring blizzard gar 42 a post office employee was found dead oa the sidewalk near his home with his neck broken Apparently slipped and fell C A Donnel weather er said the blizzard threatened lo continue unabated throughout tlie day and night and possibly tomorrow morning The official snowfall at 7 a m was 2.1 inches The worst spring blizzard in Chicago's history was on March 30 and 31 1926 when 12.6 in- ches of snow fell Chicago surface lines iad 95 sweepers out but ice packed switches caused several ments surface cars also were de- layed by stalled motor trucks oa the tracks County highway police ed wires down in many sections Trees were blown down at eral points blocking highway traffic It was reported here that tha storm covered the entire central west from the Mississippi river eastward to Pa with the storm center over polis and moving eastward Scores of passengers were ken up in a rear end collision between elevated trains at slow speed through the blinding snow Traffic on UID line was tied up Inability of suburban railroad lines to send out feeder buses left of commuters out transportation A second rear end collision curred on tho elevated here shortly after the first but the damage was A delay ot fifteen minutes resulted Leland Mich March Four men in a mail boat and six others in a coast guard boat today are stranded in the ice four milca off North Manitou island Since yesterday all efforts lo rescue tha in men have proved futile They are without provisions op
