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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1929
Page
15
The Mississippi broke through near Quincy Illinois inundating 5000 acres of fertile land. River fell before the breach, 7 inches overnight, residents prepared to evacuate with no loss of life reported. Livestock moved to higher ground and homes completed last year suffered heavy damage. onion crops valued at least 300000 dollars were ruined.
Elinor Smith, 17, flying a Bellanca monoplane, set a new world endurance record for women at Roosevelt Field, surpassing Mrs. Thaden by about three hours with an official time of 22 hours 3 minutes 12 seconds. She continued to fly after stabilizer trouble, waved to spectators, and celebrated the feat as officials recognized two classes for sustained flight.
Lincoln Nebraska April 24. The largest potential wheat pool in the Midwest takes shape as the Midwest Market association unites 13 000 farmers in Nebraska and Wyoming. Directors elected by 300 delegates plan a program to access federal aid if bills pass, with work continuing through the week to outline action including borrowing funds to build elevators and storage facilities.
Washington April 24 One occupant of a smoke screen shooting liquor running auto was killed and the other captured after a foot pursuit. Fifteen cases of liquor found in the automobile. Victim Ott mer Herman Fleming 21. Suspect Juck Stevens arrested after the vehicle discharged a shot at officers. Dense smoke from the exhaust impeded vision, bullets punctured tires, and several shots went high. The same car is believed to have evaded capture four prior times by using the smoke screen tactic.
Des Moines reports Arthur A. Turner twenty one, fell ninety feet from a smokestack at the Polk county poor farm while being hoisted to install lightning rods. He died almost instantly. officials suspect a broken neck and internal injuries.
Senator Brookhart of Iowa urged Congress to pass a real farm bill over President Hoover's veto, backing export debenture plans if direct subsidies fall short. He accused Hoover of breaking farmer pledges and pressed reforms to place agriculture on equal footing with industry. report notes debate continued in the Senate as the House was addressed.
A Royal Air Force giant monoplane carrying 1600 gallons of fuel left Granwell Airdrome Eng at 10 45 a m for Bangalore India in a bid to set new world long distance records. Squadron Leader J O C S Williams and Flight Lieutenant N H Jenkins were aboard as wind re-routed the nonstop Cape Town plan due to bad weather over central Africa. The aircraft weighed six and a half tons at takeoff.
Governor Hammill signed the budget bill allocating more than 31 million dollars to state departments and institutions under the board of control and the board of parole. He also signed the levy bill authorizing a millage levy to raise 9.9 million dollars, enacted after passage by the legislature.
Henry Luehring Sr dies in Tripoli Iowa and funeral services are planned for Thursday. Prayer will be at the residence at 30 p.m. and the public rites at St John’s Lutheran Church with Rev E A Hanff in charge.
New York April 24 motion picture financier William Seeman will marry Phyllis Haver with Mayor James J Walker officiating at his brother-in-law Rube Goldberg’s home. After the ceremony they plan to honeymoon aboard the Sherenga ria in Europe. Haver then retires from the screen, shocking fans.
The parrot nicknamed The Old Soak sails from Manila to join Secretary of State Stimson in Washington aboard the President Wilson. Once a pet of Stimson, the bird will receive careful care, with staff instructed to monitor diet, conditions, and spirits from Singapore to Marseilles, avoiding new phrases.
Des Moines reports scarlet fever with 137 cases during the week ending April 17, led contagious diseases per state health commissioner Dr. Henry Albert. Muscatine ranked second with 83 cases. measles 57, smallpox 32, chickenpox 25, whooping cough 26, typhoid 11, tuberculosis 10, diphtheria 4, unidentified fever 3, erysipelas and amebic dysentery each, poliomyelitis 1. total social diseases numbered fifty.
Gedar Rapids Iowa April 24 L and Robinson Glenwood was elected to lead the Iowa State Jewelers association at the closing session of the annual convention. Charles Rowe Chariton was named vice president William T Clark Sioux City was elected secretary treasurer Gafe Major Perry retiring president was placed on the board of directors and Adolph Boyson Cedar Rapids was re elected a director. Location of the next convention rests with directors with Des Moines the principal bidder.
Cedar Rapids, April 24. Dorothy Bell Wamback, held on a charge of passing worthless checks, admitted she is the mother of the three and a half year old found roaming a Rock Island home. Sheriff Manchester said he doubts intent to desert but states she left the boy to pass fraudulent checks. She will be arraigned today.
Washington, April 24. The president will observe traffic rules in the capital. A motorcade previously led the president and halted cross traffic, but now red lights will stop the president's automobile as well as a vegetable truck per White House orders.
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 6 30 p m. If you do not receive your paper by that time due to carrier error, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 30 p m.
In Cleveland Ohio detectives report gang wars erupting between rival bootleg gangs and police. Two men Morris Fuerstman and Isadore Shiller were found slain in a brutal killing tied to gang enmity. Police say dynamite bombs damaged the home of Captain William A. McMasters and Sergeant Patrick Hals tnd, injuring no one but shattering windows. Fuerstman and Shiller had long criminal records and were murdered in a gang-related incident blamed on a Detroit liquor hijacking theory.
Peter Rock, first shift patrolman in the west business section, comments on law violations. He notes some blame foreign-born residents for liquor law issues while observing intoxicated individuals drinking the liquor they condemn.
The M A Glee Club of Des Moines university, hindered by rain and a mud road, gives a concert tonight at 8 o'clock in Walnut Street Baptist Church Eldora. Threelab bused in a large audience at the church last night with no admission charge. Tomorrow the club performs in Cedar Rapids.
William Reed, former Hamburg constable, found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Charles Taylor, shot February 26 after ordering him home. He faces sentencing this week, likely Friday. Reed claimed self defense after Taylor allegedly attacked with a knife. The verdict came after two and a half hours of deliberation and involved three women in the ensuing fury.
William MacKenzie and Noel Marshall, prominent Toronto aviation enthusiasts, died in a moth plane crash at Leaside Airdrome on April 24. The aircraft swerved at 150 feet, exploded gas tanks, and burned, witnessed by field observers. MacKenzie was grandson of Sir William MacKenzie, famed railroad builder. Marshall was grandson of Colonial Noel Marshall, head of Standard Fuel Co. of Toronto.
In Paris on April 24 the reparations experts labored hard to salvage the conference, with provisional steamship bookings by several American delegates and European counterparts planning departures once a definite decision is announced. All agreed Germany must act quickly to avert a failure, as the drafting committee pressed to produce a final report on the conference's proceedings.
200 residents flee as a new breach widens the South Quincy Gardens dike at 7 a.m. Water pours in from the Mississippi, threatening 5,000 acres of fields and 30 homes valued at about 150,000 dollars. Guards patrol, Red Cross tents aid the homeless, and rain threatens further rises while farmers brace for losses.
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