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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1927
Page
1
A broken radio message ending with nce signed WU led hope that four plane occupants were alive as Canadian radio and ships hunted in the Atlantic. Signals suggested 80 to 100 miles distance with no confirmed sightings or reports yet.
Mrs Frances Wilson Grayson writes of a still small voice urging her to fly despite grim weather forecasts. Two months later she pilots the Dawn from New York to Harbor Grace N F, carrying a pistol as she faces the peril of the lone Europe voyage while recalling S 4 calamity and its horror.
Afloat Dawn companion plane in a New York to Ibor Grace flight faced a north Atlantic storm hundreds of miles from Newfoundland. An interrupted Canada wireless message from Sable Island reported trouble in stormy Atlantic waters as search efforts halted by winter gale proceed along American and Atlantic coasts.
The smoke and fog that enveloped St Louis blamed for the death of Rev. Pierre Bauscaren S J professor of metaphysics at Saint Louis University. He fell ill with a cold and breathing difficulty and was rushed to the Jesuit retreat at Florissant Missouri where he lapsed into a semi conscious state and died en route.
Charles Lindbergh plans a Wednesday departure from Mexico City for his Central America route to Guatemala aboard the Spirit of St. Louis. He spends Christmas quietly with his mother at the American embassy in Mexico City as engineers ready the aircraft.
Joseph T. Halpin of Dubuque Iowa assistant manager in the Shipping Board sales division died in Washington from a fractured skull after tripping over a Christmas tree on a friend's porch. He had been with the board seven years and is survived by his mother and several siblings.
Chicago reports November railway operating revenues at 14,564,164.34 dollars, down 2,064,378.36 from a year ago. Net income for the month is 1,730,363.16 dollars, down 1,198,283.01. For eleven months ending Nov 30, revenues total 168,544,006.05 dollars, down 2,459,638.97 from 1926. Net income sits at 25,496,791.55, a drop of 2,159,434.69.
State militiamen patrolled South Pittsburgh after a deadly clash at a local plant left five police officers dead and four wounded. City and county officers clashed during a strike dispute prompting National Guard mobilization to restore order in the town of about 2,000.
Charles A. Levine, owner of a factory in Long Island City, announces plans to start airplane production in a 10,000 square foot main building with additional small structures on the same plot available if needed for a future multi motor airliner project.
Chicago observes a centenarian tale as James Odom of Dubuque recalls refusing a two shoe offer for the northeast corner of State and Madison streets sixty years ago. He believed $100 was too much money, a corner now valued in the millions. Born in Ireland, Odom will turn 101 next March and credits three solid meals daily for longevity.
Milwaukee police concluded jealousy led 23 year old Frank Burke Brozovitch of Ahmeek Michigan to shoot himself in a downtown parking station after a quarrel over Christmas gifts. He had told a friend he suffered the Christmas blues and his motive followed his suspicions about a call between his sweetheart Eileen Blau and another man.
In New England North Dakota on December 26 AP reports Wayne Boettcher battles encephalitis that has already claimed his mother a sister and a brother. Doctors have failed to halt the disease as it spread within the family since last Thanksgiving. Emil Boettcher the father remains unaffected.
Edward Blais, 21, was found under three feet of water in Lake Superior near Duluth after, it is believed, he broke the ice and crawled beneath to end his life. Despondency over ill health is cited as the cause. In Des Moines, Edmund C. Chase, 69, head of Chase Brothers Inc., retail grocers, died suddenly of heart trouble.
Iowa mostly fair tonight and Tuesday with no major temperature change. Illinois mostly fair tonight and Tuesday with some cloudiness and little temperature variation.
Fire destroyed the Grand Central hotel in Hopewell on Christmas morning leaving six guests missing. Night clerk L. L. Edwards alerted staff but was overwhelmed by smoke and collapsed. search efforts slowed by falling walls and debris while officials assess losses including an estimated $15,000 in a nearby furniture store.
Salisbury Missouri report states William M. Cooper, founder of the 32 year old Wicomico Building and Loan association, died after more than three weeks of refusing food while facing embezzlement warrants over a $29 000 shortage as the company closed and bankruptcy followed.
Town City Iowa December 26 Mrs J Turnashie wife of a local farmer appeared before the police judge for parking in front of a theater. She was excused from a fine after explaining she did not know what a theater was and had never seen one before nor knew there was a law against blocking a theater entrance.
Paul Sunday son of Billy Sunday wed Elene Herbert in Tijuana Mexico to beat California three day license rules. Brother George Sunday said the Mexican ceremony allowed their immediate departure for Chicago and a later trip with W A Sunday Jr. They plan to sail January seventh on the liner France for a European tour.
Salvage work for the sunken S-4 moves forward as divers prepare to attach cables and pontoons. Two 88,000 pound anchors installed with additional 6,000 pounders to follow. Divers study hulls of sister ship S-6 to aid preparations. Openings under the hull are being widened and a tunnel may be avoided if possible.
Des Moines reports a call for a meeting of district chairmen of the Iowa Lowden-For-President club on December 30. Mayor Frank J. Lund of Webster City, the state chairman, aims to draft a request to Willis Stern of the state Republican committee to call a state convention in January or February to name delegates to the national convention at Kansas City for Frank O. Lowden.
William Edward Hickman was moved from Pendleton to Los Angeles via a guarded Pullman and Cascade Limited train to face murder charges in the Marian Parker case. Officials kept routing secret due to potential violence. D A Asa Keyes and LA Police Chief James E. Davis accompanied the prisoner as he attempted suicide twice in Pendleton and showed moments of regained calm amid intense public scrutiny.
In Davenport Iowa on December 26 police and Coroner J D Cantwell investigated the hanging death of Leroy Larkin 23 a laborer found by a belt to a foot bar outside a box car in railroad yards. A crying girl nearby could not be located for questioning. Relatives said he quarreled with a girl after a dance but motive remains unclear.
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