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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1924
Page
11
Washington dispatch notes the McNary Haugen wheat relief bill may not pass, but will spark a Democratic push to make tariff cuts a campaign issue. Supporters seek to set wheat prices near 1.50 per dollar while critics warn of inflation and a price spiral.
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Senator Clarence C. Dill of Washington told Chicago reporters the oil lease scandal may implicate Theodore Roosevelt and Edwin Denby, suggesting public fraud could be revealed. He warned the scandal “kept hidden” by politics and planned to detail charges at the Iroquois Club appearance.
Frank Halsey a New Mexico cattleman was shot dead near his home as he returned from a town. His widow Nellie Halsey Luther Foster and William Archer are jailed in Carlsbad for questioning. District Attorney Wyatt said murder charges were filed against Archer based on sworn statements alleging Mrs. Halsey offered money to instigate the killing.
London on April 3 reports that fifty percent of the striking workers who walked out at the British Empire Exhibition returned to work today under strong police protection. Several thousand others attended an open air mass meeting near Wembley despite bitter cold.
In Columbus City Iowa the Regime of the Amazons wins control of local government. Mayor Eva Bretz, 18 years a school teacher, vows to curb lawbreaking as women occupy all offices. Treasurer and assessor posts go to Miss Mary Moore and Miss Nellie Moore. five married women join the city council.
Los Angeles reports say Dr Pierson W. Banning confessed the Benjamin Franklin fund was a publicity stunt for a self published book on mental and spiritual healing. He claimed no such fund existed and no prizes were real though 1000 and 500 pound awards were attributed to Steinmetz and a Japanese scientist.
Salvation Army has amassed golf clubs and cannot dispose of them at 25 cents each. Women use shafts to stir clothes in wash boilers. John Daniels, a young gorilla, arrives on the Deutschland in cabin de luxe. A glass house awaits him at Madison Square Garden where the circus is held. A radio is installed in the county jail and Bridewell.
In Belleville HI on April 3 Dr FB L Messinger of the U S Weather Bureau and Lt NJ A Lawson U S A spent 40 hours aloft in a free balloon to study air currents. They failed to communicate with Scott flying field at 8 am and, despite nerves, were not yet feared to be in danger. They carried food and carrier pigeons with weighted return cards, which had not appeared.
Fire gutted the Great Western Manufacturing plant in Leavenworth Kansas late at night causing an estimated loss of 250000 dollars. Firefighters faced a severe blaze and called for aid from nearby cities as flames threatened to spread. About 250 workers were employed by the company. The two story building occupied an entire city block.
Gen. John J. Pershing arrived on the George Washington and said conditions in Europe look better than when he was there earlier. He expressed optimism that the Dawes commission will produce a constructive and beneficial outcome for the situation.
Elbert A. Gordon a farmer was instantly killed while operating a circular saw. Witnesses say he fell onto the moving blade causing decapitation. The accident occurred in Jsceola Ta on April 3 according to coworkers.
Mrs. C. R. Stone, 92, longtime Tujunga resident near Hollywood studios, saw her first motion picture last night, recalling mudthrowing origins of early cinema as she watched the film in Los Angeles.
Blue Springs Missouri April 3 Arthur Portwood 23 elected city collector claims to be the smallest public officeholder in the world. He stands 29 inches tall and weighs 35 pounds.
Washington reports Thomas F. Lang, former legal adviser to the army air service chief, testifying before the Daugherty committee that he was ordered to stay away from the panel. He says he was dismissed after refusing and claims papers from his files were taken by Capt. Volandt. Lang urged reopening cases against Standard Aircraft and other war material contractors amid alleged ulterior motives and corrupt settlements. He detailed contacts with Secretary Weeks and Attorney General Daugherty over Lincoln Motor, settling for far less than government claims.
A general strike of railway workers began in Germany with several thousand men ceasing work in Hiberfeld Magburg Mannheim and other key industrial centers. Strikes were expected to spread to Hemburg and Bremen the next day according to a Berlin dispatch.
The Daily Herald reports a pact between Germany and Russia not to join the league of nations unless admitted together, a constraint disclosed by a league of nations source.
The British steamship Frangestan was abandoned burning in the Red Sea. About 1,200 pilgrims aboard were transferred to the Clan Maclvor as the Frangestan burned, according to a Bloy d agency message from Alexandria dated April 3.
Sioux City Iowa report states a 60 year old woman sues a 30 year old man claiming he forcibly kissed her twice. She seeks 5000 dollars in damages while another woman, 60, says there were no grounds for criminal action and awaits the jury decision. The case notes the man is Jos Rosenthal. trial expected to proceed with a 40 year old prospective witness.
London report says the house rejected the capital levy policy, the key labor plank from the last election, by 425 to 160 after a full night session. Government leader John Robert Clinca conceded Labour could not pass the measure this parliament, while noting the debt burden remains a pressure. Miss Margaret Bonffield, Miss Dorothy Jewson, and Lady Terrington remained at their posts through the session.
Indianapolis April 3. Garland W. Powell director of the Legion Americanization commission warns that bolshevism and radicalism grow in the United States through pacifist organizations of women and children. He cautions legionnaires against a national antiwar campaign led by the Women’s Peace Society and other groups sowing un American propaganda among women and children.
Lenoir North Carolina April 3 bodies of a man and a woman have been removed from the north wing ruins of the Broad Oaks sanitarium near Morgantown after an early morning fire. Firemen and others digging in debris expected to find additional bodies. A patient checkup is incomplete and officials cannot say if any are missing. Damage to the building is estimated at 90000 dollars.
Nine hundred candidates from Dubuque and nearby towns will be initiated by the Modern Woodmen of America tonight, ending a three month drive. National officers attend including Francis Korns from Des Moines, H E Wheeler from Madison, and A R Talbot from Lincoln.
Des Moines hosts meetings of the Town State Teachers district division the State Music Teachers and Central Commercial Teachers associations. About 1500 educators attend with speakers including Gov. A. M. Hyde of Missouri Prof. Frank Almy and Prof. Irving Fisher scheduled for sessions.
Washington and London announce settlement of a year long controversy over the U S consulate in Newcastle upon Tyne. British charges against Consul Fred C Slater and Vice Consul Russell Brooks are dropped and Charles Roy Nash Smith, formerly in Ghent Belgium, is named to lead the post. Slater and Brooks will be reassigned to other ports in Britain.
A string of state primaries across Maine Connecticut and Wisconsin signals Republican and Democratic moves toward Coolidge and Davis. Wisconsin shows strong McAdoo support countered by Coolidge delegates while Kansas Missouri and New York tilt to Davis and Smith amid party factionalism and prohibition debates.
Davenport April 3 delegates in Iowa Democratic convention appear to favor William G. McAdoo for president as nine of eleven district caucuses back Herring for national committeeman while Marsh loses the race in the Ninth district and Herring leads in eight districts amid statewide momentum for McAdoo.
About 1500 teachers registered for the thirtieth annual northeastern division convention in Cedar Rapids. Delegates from towns across the eastern part of the state attend and expect over 2000 by night. Speakers include Olive M. Jones of New York president of the National Education Association, Chancellor H. Lindley of the University of Kansas, and Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson. The convention runs through tomorrow.
A party of scientists sails from New York on April 3 to the Amazon Valley to find the hoatzin, a bird that breaks rocks with its bill, swims, and resembles a bat. Photographer George Coudert joins the expedition with specialized gear. A good specimen is valued at $50,000.
The speaker of the house J T Anderson and candidate for governor urged Kenyon as the logical choice for next president. He argued Kenyon alone can hold the United States together in tense times in a March address at the Congregational church Mens club.
Fairfield Ta April 3 Harold Bellamy a 14 year old schoolboy confessed to passing nearly a score of bad checks over several months in a local case.
James Carter, 55, of Toledo, died at the county jail while held as a federal witness as prosecutors plan second degree murder indictments against a druggist and two clerks tied to a spate of canned heat poisonings. Police report six died at a hotel party and twelve more perished from denatured alcohol across separate incidents.
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