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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 06, 1929
Page
10
News briefs report five dead and fifteen seriously burned in a Des Moines Kirkwood hotel fire, with nearby border clashes near Naca Aviz and Naca Sonora sparking U.S. cavalry patrols after explosions blacked out the Mexican towns. Wounded American is listed as one chest injury.
Washington April 6 plans mature for an emergency congress of farmers to craft a farm relief program. Horst of California argues for high tariffs and farm unity, saying two farmer types exist and only a representative congress can yield a true farm opinion. He insists tariffs are essential to curb surplus and put American farmers in control of the market. Continued on page two, column two.
The Courier will be delivered to homes before 5 30. If the paper does not arrive due to carrier error or other cause, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 30 p m.
A sequence of dynamite blasts in Chicago's stockyards district today struck a drug store flower shop and a soft drink parlor owned by the Quinlan family. Police link the attacks to a gang feud tied to the killings of Hugo McGovern Gunner McFadden and Raymond Cassidy and the attempted slaying of Michael Quinlan. The 35 stick charge could have destroyed a city block.
In Shantung, April 6, Liu Chennien's nationalist troops stormed Ninghat chow and killed about 400 soldiers of Marshal Chang Tsung Chang. Civilian escape was allegedly arranged but civilians exited with many soldiers in plain clothes. nationalists surprised Chang's besieging troops.
The Webster county grand jury will meet Monday to investigate charges of excessive expenditures in the city election of March 25. Judge Sherwood A. Clock ordered the inquiry and named D. M. Kelleher as special prosecutor to assist County Attorney John Mulroney.
The French liner Paris ran aground in fog on South Brooklyn mud flats today. About 1,006 passengers were aboard when the steamer left West Fourteenth Street pier a few hours earlier.
Unsettled weather expected through the week with at least two precipitation periods. Frequent temperature changes likely across the region as systems move in from the west and north.
Rebels press new attack on the Naco garrison as American troops clash with Mexican forces along the border. Airplanes, tanks, and cavalry support the rebel advance while U S officials vow decisive action to curb border violence and protect Americans.
A new burglar proof safe at the Macomb postoffice was robbed of $21,000 during the night. Authorities report the safe equipped with tear bombs was entered by a diacetylene torch, with explosion averted by cutting a four inch square around openings on the floor.
A message from Western Australia’s resident magistrate states the missing Southern Cross crew may have ditched southeast of Thurburn Bluff, about 100 miles north of Wyndham. A government launch with a searching party and natives was sent to Thubr n Bluff territory to locate the fliers after their distress radio last Sunday.
Defratis confessed to obtaining a search warrant from a state official and using it to raid a Davenport restaurant in Oxford Iowa where two slot machines were seized. He paid a $200 fine after pleading guilty to impersonating a state officer. Cedar Rapids man Harold W. Schaley faces arraignment on a similar charge.
Richard Strohschein, while chopping wood in Hawkeye, damaged his left thumb so severely that amputation at the first joint was required. Hawkeye glee club and orchestra plan a joint concert in the gymnasium auditorium on Wednesday evening April 17, directed by Mrs. Forrest Allen and A. E. Dungéy.
Pete the 18 year old canary at Mr. and Mrs. J W Miller's Franklin Street residence died yesterday of old age. Miller recalls Pete as a fighter who bathed eagerly and fought when removed from his cage, though he had long been blind. Pete navigated by touch along the cage edge to find food and water, leaving an impression as a long lived pet.
Louisiana house votes 58 to 4 to send Governor Huey P. Long to trial before the state senate on an impeachment charge of intimidation. The action centers on threatening to publish the infirmities of publisher Charles Manship, with dispute and shouting in the chamber as managers were appointed and order restored. The vote begins a process covering 19 charges. additional proceedings set for the afternoon.
A devastating early morning blaze at Des Moines historic Kirkwood hotel killed five people and injured many more, with 15 seriously burned. Fire officials warned more bodies might be found as debris was cleared. the fire started in a fourth floor linen closet and raged through the four to five story building, prompting dramatic rescues and widespread alarms. Names of the dead included Carl Jerrup and Ted Watson among others, all from Des Moines.
President Hoover will require strict firearm rules for federal prohibition agents and insist on respect for civil liberties during raids. He cites guarding against incidents like the Aurora, Illinois death of a mother during a raid as a warning.
Washington April 6.4 Representative Whitmell P. Martin 62 Democrat Louisiana died at Garfield hospital after an operation yesterday. Near ending his eighth term, he served on the ways and means committee and helped shape tariff revisions, notably the sugar levy affecting his home state. His home was Tribodaux near New Orleans.
Miss Gene Doll 24 died after Lysol poisoning at a local hospital in Town City Ia The Riverside refugee had reportedly drained a bottle of poison at the home she lived in and after drinking it re corked the bottle and returned it to a shelf before collapsing in her room per household witnesses
J R Anders attendance officer of the west school district recalls that boys have played hockey for at least five years. He notes fond memories of childhood hockey, church attendance as a routine, and a spring urge to play, with 3,400 pupils and about five truancy calls daily.
A prolonged battle over secondary road legislation in the Iowa assembly ended as the House adopted a conference committee report by 56 to 52. The report receded from a four cent gasoline tax in Bergman’s bill, sending the measure to the governor for approval after hours of often heated debate.
Virtually all departments of the Fisher body plant in Pontiac Michigan were closed today and will stay idle for 10 days as a precaution against the spread of spinal meningitis. The company employs between four thousand and five thousand ninety people.
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