Oelwein Daily Register (Newspaper) - September 7, 1920, Oelwein, Iowa Wire Reports of TODAYS Important of the World VOL 32 OELWEIN COUNTY IOWA TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 71920 50 CENTS PEB MONTH SUITS INSTITUTED AGAINST HARVESTER CO LABOR DAY CELEBRATION IN THE HOB CITY WAS A MOST SUCCESSFUL EVENT The Procession in the Morning Demonstrated That Labor Is Very Much Program at the Oelwein City Park Including the Addresses by Mayor Jepson and Editor Mar tin of Journal of the International Order of Black OELWEIN WON TWO FROM IN LAST SLEEP Both Victories Were Scores Being 12 to 6 and 14 to 1 By Joe R Burns f With a revised lineup the Oelwein smiths Drop Forgers and Helpers were to the team easily defeated Tripoli in Games Etc Were Interesting Ander almost cloudless skies the temperature just correct the Labor Day celebration in the Hub City under the direction of the Central Labor Union and was a start to finish Beginning in the morning with the parade and concluding with the big picnic with speeches arid games at Oelwein City Park in the afternoon and the band concert and dance at night it was an ideal first September in every way As the speaker of the day Editor M W Martin of the Blacksmiths Journal remarked it was a peaceful celebration in on hit Red Learn was far removed from the stress and strife of the steel nicked for thirteen blows but had an cities two fast games Sunday and Monday The first game was featured by the heavy hitting of Risk Mattern and Happe Two runs were scored in the third on Risks single and Finchs hit accounted for another a moment later In the sixth with Deal on base Risk slammed the ball to the right field fence for a homerun With the bases full in the eighth Mattern hit one on a line to for three bases and scored a minute la Order of the Procession The procession was one of the best ever seen in the City There were two bands that assisted the boys to keep in step Heading the first division was Marshal Chas FKai ser and a large American flag carried by member of the Cen tral Labor Union Following were the the Central Labor Un ion officers and delegates first band speaker and mayor car men and machinists and their helpers and help ers Next the Waterloo band followed by railway clerks switchmen sheet workers molders carpenters electri cal workers blacksmiths and helpers There were elaborate floats representing the carmen ma sheet metalworkers and blacksmiths and the active business of the crafts was represented in ac tion on some of the floats They were given applause by the large crowds the streets through which the proces ended at the Rock Island park where a kiddy pie eating contest was staged on theband stand where also the Waterloo baud a fine concert The picnic dinner at the City Park from 1130 a m till 1 p 1m was an enjoyable feature of the dayand the groups at lunch in various parts of the park under the had a good time trees evidently The platform speaking was presid ed over by George Wright as chair man who acted in that capacity most happily He introduced Mayor Jep son who gave the address of wel come which was most hearty He referred to some things which must be changed emphasizing the evils of profiteering where the raw product is selling for way and the fin ished product way up referring to wheat and flour hides and shoes wool and clothing and glaring in stances Editor M W of the Inter national Brotherhood of Blacksmiths Drop Forgers and Helpers Journal was introduced by Chairman Wright and spoke for an hour holding the close attention of the large crowd and making telling hits on the steel trust as exemplified ty the contests and various industrial cen ters He said we know of the stress and strain of the industrial war in Oelwein He complimented the Hub City for its clean streets pretty lawns neat and attractive homes the civic pride that pre vails also the labor unions on the splendid the encouraging showing each organization made He in The Register in an early issue as it is not possible t0 put it into type today He made a very favorable impression as a man qualified to speak for labor Following the address there was a wrestling match between Casey McCarron and Mitchell with Art Miller as referee This ended in a victory for McCarron as follows The first session was won by McCarron in nine minutes with hold the second was Mitchells the fall coming in five minutes with a head and bar arm the third was taken by McCarron in four minutes with a full head scissors and bar arm The horseshoe pitching event was won by Fred R Ross and J W Saun dry who put it over the other con The horseshoe club has wired for Jackson the world horse shoe champ to play in Oelwein at the Fall Farm Festival September 2930 The other were pulled off according to schedule and afforded an interesting diversion for the crowd The ball game played at the ball park was won easily by Oelwein over Tripoli and the story is told in another column The band concert in the evening by the Waterloo band Zwanziger 4Jb easy time of at that only six runs being scored off him In Mondays game Happe set the Tripoli toys downi with one run and that iwas nothing more than a gift The game was featured iby the heavy hitting of Trotter Crabb Risk Learn and Kuney and by the brilliant field ing of Learn Kuney and Risk Score of Sundays game TRIPOLI Beilke If c ss Carroll cf Hesner rf c Zwanziger 2b F ss 3b Knief Bennett 3b rf A1 p Plaster p OELWEIN Durfey rf Trotter c Deal If 2b Happe ss Finch 3b Kuney cf Mattern Ib AB R H PO A E 5 5 5 4 4 4 4 3 0 4 38 6 13 24 11 Born May 6 1888 in Passed Away iu Oelwein Sept 3 1920 R McKenna was born in Minneapolis Minn May 6 1888 the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Mc Kenna The family moved to Oelwein in March 1898 She graduated from the Oelwein school in the class of 1906 iShe taught In the schools of Fay ette and Buchanan counties for sev eral and June 16 1909 she was united in marriage to August A Gehrke To this union six children were born two dying in infancy Following an of three weeks Mrs Gehrke passed away at the home of her parents September 3 1920 services were held from the Sacred Heart church Mon day forenoon and interment followed in thecity cemetery She leaves to mourn their loss her husband and four en Marie 8 years John Joseph 7 years James Francis 4 years and Paul Albert seven weeks also her father mother and two B of Los Angeles Calif and Harry F of this city She was a kind Christian wife and mother and many friends in this city which has been her home for years express condolence to the bereaved family AB R H PO A E 1 9 0 1 4 2 0 10 0 Learn p Total 44 12 15 Score by innings Tripoli 02100 2 6 Oelwein 01310214 Summary Two base hits Durfey Plaster Hesner hits Happe Mattern Risk Stolen bases Trotter Finch Kuney Mattern Hesner Zwanziger Double play E Schroeder to Kneif Hit by pitcher by Plaster Deal Happe by A Schroeder Ku ney Bases on balls Plaster 2 Struck out Learn 8 Plaster 7 Um pires Fitzgerald and Bethel Time 2 hours 6 minutes Score of Mondays game CUT POWER COST IN HALF CLAIM Canadian Engineer Says Will Save Coal and Lower Prices TRIPOLI Beilke ss c Carroll cf Hesner If rf was well attended and was of high merit And of course the young peo Schroeder Kneif Ib 3b pie enjoyed the dance at Ridlers Scriptur If rf Hall with Tylers orchestra Carson rf ing the music The end si a perfect day came with everyone happy The Jones p Total labor committee having in charge freely and heartily applauded at j the Oelwein Later Day program Durfey rf various points in his address An j receiving hearty congratulations for Trotter c outline of his address will appear i their it 13 due them Crabb 3b AB R H PO A E 402530 401520 400000 401000 410311 500121 3 0 3 10 3 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 000001 3 0 0 5 0 34 1 7 24 16 4 AB R H PO A E 6 1 il 0 0 0 6 1 4 5 1 0 523120 WILSON SENDS NOTE TO MEXICO Protesting Against the Continuance of Policy Toward American Oil Properties By United Press Washington Sept United States has sent a noto vigorously protesting to the new Mexican gov against continuation of the policy toward American oil properties in Mexico it was learned today The note is understood to load to inference that American tion of the new Mexican government will be found impossible if the con policy of Mexico toward oil interests is continued HARDING SPEAKS AT TWIN CITIES Will Deliver Address at Minnesota Slate Fair at Minneapolis j Wednesday j By United Press By Clapper aboard Senator Har dings train Sept his front porch in Marion Warren G I took to the stump for the i first time since his nomination and i is speeding across Ohio and Indiana j to open the republican defensive in j the northwest with a speech at the I Minnesota State Fair tomorrow Al though the speech nt the Twin Cities was the only set address it is ex will be called upon to make many platform en route 2b 523430 ss 42 320 i Learn If i Mattern Ib 321700 Kuney cf 312200 p r 1 1 1 4 0 I Total 42 14 20 27 12 0 j Score by innings Tripoli 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Oelwein 30201017 Summary Two base hits Trotter Kuney Crabb 2 Sacrifice hits Crabb Kuney Stolen bases Finch Learn Double plays Kneif to Fergeman Happe to Finch to Mat tern Hit by pitcher by Jones Mat tern Puses on balls off 3 Struck ot by J rres I by Happe f Wild Jones Kragen and Doty Time 1 hour and Miin i lie i I to handle nl Printing on notice Work called for nnd By United Press Winnipeg Man Sept W Dorsey of the University of Mani toba has announced after an ex survey of the water power resources of Winnipeg river says he has discovered a new method of transmitting electric power which will reduce the cost onehalf He has to lay his discovery be fore the United States Bureau of Standards at Washington Long before the coal fields of the world are exhausted electricity will have supplanted coal as the univer sal fuei in homes and the motive power in Prof Dor eey By the development of water power it is possible to do away with the necessity for If the poten tial water power of Winnipeg river were developed it would be sufficient to turn every factory wheel in Can ada and heat every home and office in Winnipeg even if the temperature remained at 40 degrees below zero all the year round It would be vast ly cheaper for Winnipeg to obtain its electric heat and power from Winni peg river eighty miles away than to haul coal 1400 miles from vania It is from Winnipeg river that the municipally owned hydroelectric system derives its power which is sold to industrial plants at a lower rate than in any other city in the world In addition to the citys power plant another which will cost 000000 is being erected on Winnipeg river at Du Bonnet Falls HARDING FRONT PORCH NOTES MAINE IN MIDST BALLOT FIGHT By United Press Staff Correspondent The Hardings have opened a lodg ing house at Marion They have more guests dropping in than they can take care of at their own home and local hotel facilities are inadequate so a private house near the Harding home has been leased for the cam where arriving celebrities can be put up for the night Senator Harding has been riding around in a little four cylinder auto mobile lately His big car had to be sent to the shop for repairs A presidential candidate gets a lot of knocks but he also gets many oth er things Every mail brings a box of cigars a big carton of cigarettes a watermelon or a chicken for Mrs Hardings table Hardings stenographers are get ting lots of candy out of it More comes than Mrs Harding can eat so she sends the rest to the girls Entertaining a wellknown Demo crat as a personal guest recently took occasion to tell an old mule story used toy stump speakers in the days wnen politics not so ladylike as now The Democratic party this ora tor declared is like the mule It has of ancestry nor hope Harding does not like to discuss his golf scores If he wins he feels unsportsmanlike in boasting and if he loses he waits for someone else to tell it But newspapermen have discovered how to find out Harding makes it a rule on the to smoke a cigarette only when he wins a hole Senator how many cigarettes did you smoke is the favorite question as he comers in from the eighteenth hole SUIT AGAINST HARVESTER CO Recommended In the Report of Fed eral Trade Commission Because of Prices By United Press Washington Sept Depart ment of Justice today considered starting antitrust suits farm implement dealers ers and reopening of the govern ment suit against the International Harvester Company Both steps were charges that implement dealers and Federal Trade Commission which charges that dealers and manufacturers combined into asso I and by concerted action ad i prices faster than warranted by advancing costs WON EASILY IN THE PROBE ON BALL GAMES Bv United Press Sent 7 of alleged gambling on ball games here was ordered by the states attorneys office by Chief McDonald of the criminal court in instructing the September grand jury toady The in was ordered following al legations last week that large am were bet on the phia game here last Tuesday and claims that the game WHS fixed Me instructions demanded a general wide sweeping probe into betting on base ball games When He Scored a on It Was OutSided From the Start Bent on Harbor Mich Sept Jacu Dempsey worlds heavyweight champion retained his title and up liis sensational record of quick knockouts when he dropped Billy of St Paul the challenger in third rourd of their scheduled fight here yesterday Dempsey floored Miske in the second round for the count of live then dropped him for a nine count in the third When Miske rose Dempsey shot a right to the jaw that ended the tight Republicans And Democrats Strive Fon Vote In State to Determine Trend of F S Opinion By United Press Augusta Me Sept is now in the throes of a warm politic al campaign which is being watched with interest by the entire country as it is the only state in the union which elects a governor state audit or members of Congress county of and members of the legislature in advance of the national election many years the September vote in Maine has been considered as a barometer throughout the country as to how the people feel towards na tional affairs Maine is generally conceded to be a Republican state but leading Dem are confident that their candi dates will make a good showing per haps winning The Republicans claim of course that they will be successful pointing to the fact that if the votes gets out they will clean up the state The how ever are preparing a strenuous campaign in order to win or keep the Republican majority as low as possible Col Frederic H Parkhurst is the Republican candidate for governor having defeated Gov Carl E MilH ken who was seeking a third term in the primaries The Democratic nominee is Bertrand G of Norway a business man and former sheriff of Oxford county and for six years chairman of the of state He was the candidate against Governor two years ago The present state auditor Roy L of thia city is a candidate for reelection while his Democratic opponent is former representative James J of Biddeford Carroll L Beedy of Portland is the Republican candidate for reelection in the first district while Congress man H Jr of Lewis ton John A Peters of Ellsworth Ira G Hersey of all licans are candidates for reelection in the second third and fourth dist cts The Democratic candidates for Congress are Frank H Haskell of Portland in the first district Wal lace N Price Richmond Archie Towle of Oakland in the thira district and Leou GC Brown of Milo in the fourth district The Republican list of speakers in cludes United States Senators Henry Cabot Lodge of Mass George H Moses of New Hampshire Win M Calder of New York and Joseph Frp of New Jersey aiso Col Theodore Roosevelt besides many other prominent men from other of the country On the Demo cratic side speakers include Secre tary of State Bainbridge Colby Sec of the Navy Josephus Daniels Secretary of Agriculture E T Mere dith Homer S Cummings of Connec former chairman of the Demo cratic national Governor Chas H Brough of Arkansas Gover Alfred Smith of New York and j United States Senator David I of Massachusetts i Democratic leaders will during the j campaign vrge the election of a le j pledged to provide means j by which liquor for medicinal pur poses may be obtained in Maine through registered druggists At the I present time there is no legal way i by which liquor may be secured in state nor has there been since i the abolition ot the agency system the legislature in 1911 j The vote of the women will be j watched with interest this year but i according to political observers It will make little change in the gen era result CONFESS PLOT TO WRECK TRAIN KILL Obtained From 11 of the 2ft ists Arrested in Connection With Plot By United Press Springfield 111 Sept confessions of a plot to wreck the Diamond Special of the Illinois Cen to kill survivors and murder farmers and others attempt ing to give an alarm have been ob from 11 of the 20 alleged com arrested here Sunday night in connection with the alleged plot officers claimed today The alleged confessions implicate of other communist groups C H Pan Chicago inspector of the immigration department claimed Evidence against those under ar rest will be submitted to a federal and state grand jury md copies of the alleged confessions will be for to Secretary of State Colby officials said today FAILURE TO TAKE SIDING CAUSED DEATH FOR 11 By United Press Denver Sept Failure of the crew on a special outbound Inter urban train to take a regular inbound train was given to day as the cause of yesterdays col between the two trains Just outside Denver in which 11 were killed and 122 injured Bight ot the injured were expected to die ft was stated today All of those lulled live in Denver or Color ado cities a CHICAGO MARKET LATE QUOTATIONS HOGS Estimated receipts today 32000 hold over 2589 market stea dy to 10 cents higher top bulk of sales to i weight medium good and choice GO to medium weight me I dium good and choice to i 3J1620 light weight common med j ium good and to Heavy packing sows smooth to packing sows rough to pigs medium good and choice to CATTLE Estimated receipts today j 25000 choice steers steady to j stronger others steady to strong others and butcher cattle slow to 25 cents lower steers medium and heavy weight choice and prime to medium and prime 25 to common aufl med ium to feeder steers common medium good and choice to 1225 stocker steers com mon medium good and choice 50 to Western Range cattle beef steers medium good and choice to Estimated receipts today 25000 sheep steady lambs mostly 23 cents higher HUB CITY MARKET The for the Sept 2 as shown by the Oelwein Hens 222H 28 OH Roosters 12 20 12 Turkeys 2227 Eggs 45 Cream Saturday evening at p in i Miss daughter of I Mr and Mrs Thomas Carrels of La Iowa Karl It Alton son of Mr and Mrs George Alton of Oelwein were married at the Luth eran Parsonage Rev E J j The impressive double ring service was used The people attended by and Clarence Alton Sun day morning they left for the Twin Cities on n trip and return will inako their horns in wein whom Mr Alton is employed hy the C CT W They a highly wor thy young couple and mutual i friends wish prosperity
