Waterloo Daily Courier (Newspaper) - March 26, 1937, Waterloo, Iowa All AH the Family FIRST WITH NEWS THE WEATHER ESTABLISHED 1854 WATERLOO MARCH 26 1937 PAGES PRICE SOLVES AIR CRASH on Waterloo Postoffice Is Millionaire Industrial Leader Dies in Los Angeles Hospital SERVED IN LEGISLATURE HAD LIVED IN WATERLOO Los Angeles L Maytag manufacturer and Iowa's iest men died early Friday ing at Good Samaritan hospital here Founder of one of the largest machine manufacturing companies in the world at New ton la Maytag had lived in re- at Beverly Hills Cal lor several years He succumbed to a condition to cian Dr William H Leake He had been ill 10 days pioneer Iowa industrialist came to Newton in a covered on from birthplace near Elgin 111 in early He was born July 14 1857 Noted for his gifts to em colleges and charitable Maytag also held public office for several From 1912 member of theClowa He served as mayor of Newton from 1923 was made director -of the Iowa was a gift of to the Newton Y M C A On his distributed f to his employes at Newton The Maytag washing 1 machine factory at workers and valued at An estimated persons are upon em- ployment Funeral Tuesday Funeral services for be held at Newton Tuesday noon at The body was to be sent there Friday In 1926 the Home Appliance Merchants of America presented him in recognition of outstanding services in and electrical home ances Maytag was living in n new home at Beverly Hills purchased up to the time Maytag's parents Daniel and Amelia Maytag were im- migrants from Prussia and many The father was a ter The family first settled in Iowa 30 north -of Newton hear Laurel in county While his father worked at his trade young Fred age 10 started in on his first job as a Experienced Farmer at 16 By the time he was 16 the youth was an experienced farmer and operated a threshing machine He went to rural schools but on- ly far about two years after he was 12 At the age of 23 he left ing to as -a salesman for a Newton implement dealer at a ary of a month Within a few years he had saved and with this and money he had on his father's note he purchased an interest in the business He sold out to his two partners W C and A H Bergman to chase a business of- his own a yard Meanwhile he had married Miss Dena Bergman sister of his for- mer partners She died in 1934 after bearing him four children Markets New Invention In 1893 Maytag with George W Parsons of Newton to market a new invention a self- feeding attachment for threshing machines His familiarity with farming aided him in perfecting the invention The Parsons Self Feeder and Cutter company was the parent of the present Maytag organization Maytag reorganized it in 1909 under his own name From farm machinery Maytag branched the company into the manufacture first of a corn er and shredder In 1911 an tric driven swinging wringer for machines was added In 1914 he began manufacture of an automatic machine powered by a two-cycle gasoline engine The machine great Continued on page 2 column 3 Dies in West Fred L 79 millionaire Iowa manufacturer at Newton died early Friday morning at Los An- Cal after heart News Feature Index Believe It or Not 8 Brady's Health Bridge Lesson Cedar Falls News Ill Church Services 6 City in Brief Classified Ads Cornier 19 r Editorial i Lenten Prayer Mcintyre O O w 4 Menus of the Day g in News M 4 Events 13 Parsons Movie Talk Radio Prog Serial Story w 8 Society Sports Stories 8 Entertainment Uncle Ray's Corner 8 John G Miller Construction Co of Waterloo High with SEVERAL FOUR BIDS YET IN MAIL Bally Courier Washington D C E Ericsson company Chicago was low bidder on new Waterloo postoffice and federal courthouse with bid of the procurement division of the ury department announced ing opening of bids afternoon John G Miller Construction company only Waterloo bidder was highest among 14 bidders with a bid of The Ericsson company's base bid covered construction mite limestone with brick facing Less for Oolitic For construction using oolitic limestone with brick facing the firm bid The also involved alternates as Use of facing on one- story building deduct bid one? For use of marble wainscot deduct from one or bid two Miller Bids Itemized The John G Miller company's bid of was for using dolomite The Waterloo bidder asked using oolitic limestone and submitted the following on one-story portion from bid one or bid for marble instead glass deduct Moline Elevator Bid Low Low of seven bids on tion of elevators was the gomery company line 111 at Views of the People Identify IL But Five Victims of Bus fir ask Fire Telegrams were received from four bids had been mailed which were not oh hand at the time scheduled for opening These late bids if ing by postmark they in time will be considered Salem the 20 professional Droller skaters who in tHe crash ofc a private bus near here Wednesday were identified Friday The unidentified are to be Millie Cooper Villa Park 111 Nick Kelson Tony Marzano Chicago lison and Jerry Hickson The bodies of two of the fied those of Miss Caroline ton of Denver a nurse and Ted Mullen 35 Portland Ore were shipped Friday to their respective homes for burial The condition of the three was reported unchanged Newsprint Prices Hiked a Ton New Canadian companies were listed Friday among the paper firms that have definitely announced an increase of in the price of print for the first half of 1938 The to was announced in New York by the International Paper company parent concern of the Power Paper Co The company said demand was running more than 10 per cent ahead of last year Senate Refuses to Confirm Wendel DCS Nelson G Kraschel Friday withheld comment on the refusal of the Iowa senate to confirm the nomination of S Wendel Bronson la to the state highway commission Wendel's rejection was in executive session late Thursday Both Republicans and Democrats voted against tion it was understood Members hinted that Wendel's recent switch from the Republican to the Democratic party played a part in his rejection Two Bruised as Train Hits Auto and Mrs G H Madole 1117 Magnolia avenue escaped with slight when their auto- mobile was struck by a Chicago Great Western passenger train Thursday on the Mullan avenue crossing They were driving and the train was outbound Madole said the train hit the front end bile badly damaging it The car was pushed aside away from the track and did not upset The train was said to have been going vonly eight miles an hour Investigate Suspect in Mattson Slaying New ting seaman was held Friday on a vagrancy charge while police terest in the abduction and der of Charles Mattson jr in Tacoma Wash When arrested Botting had a newspaper photograph of the Mattson boy in his pocket but said he was only interested in the case and denied he was in Tacoma at the time of the His have been sent to for checking Editor's Son Kills Newspaper Rival Alturas Cal wsi Shot five times Claude L McCracken 50 i ly after noon under an agreement editor of the Modoc Daily Mail i that negotiations on their demands Where Instant Death in Crash of Airliner Thirteen passengers and three members of the to sudden death within eight miles of Pittsburgh In a westbound Transcontinental arid Western liner Euclid living near the scene of the crash said the huge silver transport turned end over end three times down and fell 500 feet mapped from the body of the and motors Jay of the wreckage There was fire A general view of the wreckage is Associated Press r Chrysler arid Lewis to for tBv Associated J ment qn one issue sole bargaining that will enable 000 employes to Walter Chrysler John L: in Gov Murphy's office here in short session but Governor Murphy optimistic since he succeeded in getting the two leaders together asserted that progress was being made It was planned to recess the conferences end resuming probably day Blames Insane Fit for Death of Four Boston A recurrent fit of was blamed for the in which Jeremiah Mackey police officer Thursday took three lives and own Dead of a bulls er's police pistol was Dr Charles E Mackey 43 Boston school com- member shot down as he to investigate the ing of Paul Costa 21 t Alice 19 a niaid in the Mackey home was next to fall then crazed man ended his rampage taking his own Agreement Ends Meredith Strike Des Sit-down ers at the Meredith Publishing company plant ended a five-day siege Friday and returned to work after ah agreement between com- pany and union officials It was learned that the company agreed to give union recognition major objective of the Other details were withheld SITDOWN STRIKE TJES UP CHEVROLET PLANT Bay City than 500 employes of the Chevrolet Motor company's small parts plant here who started a sitdown strike Friday morning left the plant died here Friday McCracken was shot in his home by Harry French 30 son of Bard French editor of the Alturas Plain Dealer according to A deep-seated fued between the two papers was believed sible for the shooting San finest quality cigars Sc Martin Bros would begin Monday John F Lincoln 111 engineer who in an Pittsburgh Thursday Anight was of C Hermann 219 street John r was on his home Barter visiting Waterloo in C c Hermann is expected to re- turn home Saturday and he and Mrs Hermann plan immediately to is survived by his wife and a daughter Jacqueline 10 Iowa Boy Inventor Eight Years Old to Address Convention Chicago An Iowa boy inventor was here day with his mother to prepare for an address to deliver before the national in- ventors congress Tuesday He is David Suddeth of field la who lists among his in- a pleasure boat a for boiled potatoes and an improved potato masher Mrs Suddeth said her son was looking forward to the ing of the congress so he could learn about new gadgets worked out by others Seek Fingerprints on Torch Death Jar Newcastle INS Charles Zornes Friday directed a search for two men believed to be the slayers of Mabel Sutton 28 torch murder victim whose body was found in the woods here In- flammable liquid contained in a lon jar found nearby had been showered on the body Police were examining the container for sible finger prints nni iHouse Immediate -T- The Iowa house concurred the a immediate re- peal of the tax for tial the state's age pension system measure after a hectic passed finally by a vote of 104 it revised to vide for collection 1935 and For the purpose of making taxes another change provides that the state remit collected back to counties for tion BOO Employes of Joliet Wallpaper Mill Strike Out Joliet by three strikes within two months at his Joliet wallpaper mills President John strom Friday signed final pay checks for 300 workers locked the doors of his plant and tossed away the keys He wrote to his You are thru working for me forever it is impossible to operate on a profitable The latest strike at the mills involved 45 women who eted the protest over an anticipated seasonal off The first strike was a sitdown which lasted a and the second came two weeks later j v Courier Frank was in the city jail Friday charged with refusal to support his wife and nine children He fwas ar- rested family was ing to be evicted from its home Hawk street Story and picture on paire HO Orphanage Nun Again Bleeding from Her Forehead IOWA CITY FIRE CAUSES DAMAGE OF Iowa City ered in Munn's cafe here day night caused damage ed as upwards of to stock and fixtures of the cafe operated by Robert Munn and an al smoke and water age to the stock of Fred J j mann operator of a furniture store adjoining the cafe Cosenza said Elena Aiello a huh at the Cosenza orphanage bled from her forehead Friday as she had done on 12 previous Good Fridays Religious and civic leaders went to the orphanage where the nun lay on her iron bed A crowd of shippers knelt in prayer outside the humble stone building Only a few officials were mitted to enter the room in which the nun lay On previous occasions ties said bleeding has continued each Good Friday until about mid- night and has left the nun's face chalk white Roman Catholics show awe of the reported manifestation saying that most of the blood flows from the nun's forehead somewhat as it did from Christ's when a crown of thorns was pressed on his brow NEBRASKA KILLS CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT Lincoln Nebraska unicameral legislature killed Friday a to ratify the proposed federal child labor amendment Five other states have also rejected the posal this year Twenty-eight states i a hospital here from injuries LOSE A MINUTE AND SAVE A LIFE UNIVERSITY CHEMIST WINS MEDAL FALL RESULTS FATALLY Harlan Boken 69 retired Walnut farmer died at Auto roll in City ot Waterloo This Year and Last Jan I 1937 Number of accidents Number have approved the amendment in a fall downstairs injured killed 28 0 81 28 New American Chemical society announced that Dr Harold Saft Olcott old research associate at the State University of Iowa had been chosen to receive the Eli Lilly company award in biological chemistry at the society's third meeting at the University of North Carolina April 12 The 1 i award carries a cash prize u VOUR Cat HIT AM vou i and bronze medal Ten Passengers and Crew of Three Die in of Wreckage COMPANION SHIP PILOT WITNESSES AIR TRAGEDY Pittsburgh CAP of the Transcontinental Western Airlines declared Friday that ice forming on the control equipment caused the Of its airliner near Pittsburgh with the loss of 13 lives The company issued this ment following an investigation of the crash in the five miles from the airport where the plane was preparing to The crash -of the plane last night near Pittsburgh was due to the plane passing but very severe icing while descending toward burgh where a ceiling of feet and visibility miles prevailed A heavy deposit of ice formed oh the leading ons control lateral and caused the plane go com- out of Find fee After Crash All this within the of a very a pre- fact planes flying onto Pittsburgh approximately T accident encountered f substantiates Pilot F L Bonnet exceptionally conditions iThe crash of the failed to dislodge the ice formed ailerons and gave -us clue on which we were able struct the accident Nosedives was clear feet there was a cruising a few hundred yards above and hp numbered 320 V Capt A M home the his head avoid doomed liners final drop Made Two r He estimated tlie began about Pilot an of io years service wo complete left turns witti his plane's nose pointed All the victims the ty blonde hostess Doris C mons of Okla battered almost beyond tion They were catapulted to front of the ship whose nose plowed a hillside fringe of Mt f abler suburb Edward J Fleming dent Standard Oii emr ploye Kansas City C R 22 student Standard Oil company employe Kansas City Basan Albanian of Diamond company John F Hermann 45 engineer and inventor Lincoln HI Frederick Lehman 25 Life Insurance company Harrisburg Pa Miss Pauline Trask 37 school Germantown Pa Edgar E 36 stove sales manager Elmhurst Mary Black 32 employe Of Standard Brands Inc New York Miss Frances Reed 23 ment store employe and New York university student of Wheeling W Va E G 37 CurUs Publishing company Minneapolis Minn Capti F L Larry Bohnet Newark chief pilot Howard E Warwick East Orange N J co-pilot Doris C Hammons hostess JEIk City Okla Investigations by Coroner W J McGregor of Allegheny county the airline and state and federal inspectors began immediately Dr J J McLean manager of the airport said some inspectors told him they believed tee formed on the wings Saw Ice on Ship They said they saw ice on of the ship and thought u might have formed while the de- from feet or to below the clouds while heading r the airport said Dr The 320 left Newark
