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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 30, 1912
Page
7
A report notes a filed alleged political out against the International Harvester Co as remarks or actions by Cormick are reported. The item reflects controversy and potential political dispute surrounding the company and its leadership.
St Paul April 30 government files suit against International Harvester alleging restraint of trade and monopoly in harvesting machinery. Petition seeks receiver and subpoenas for nonresidents. trial likely in next term. McCormick defends, saying company grew efficiency, raised foreign trade, and followed ethical practices.
In Chicago on April 30 a mob of about 50 Cook Electrical Company workers attacked a Zion City prayer gathering of 200 followers led by Elder F. M. Royal. Bricks, clubs, and fists flew as the crowd chased worshippers from a fenced platform, leaving wounded in the streets and a wrecked prayer site.
Miss Lorena Cruce, daughter of the governor, asks Oklahomans to observe Mothar a Day on May 12. The proclamation urges tribute to mothers and wearing white carnations nationwide. Cruce, age sixteen, attends Central University, Edmond, and commutes daily by trolley.
The government and the company have held frank talks to avoid protracted litigation. The company has cooperated fully for over six years, offering access to books and records, with no government demand for changes in methods. No practical reorganization was proposed, and the filing of the bill is not to disrupt the export business.
Reports from the flooded Torras region describe hundreds of homeless families as farms and plantations, especially in Catahoula parish, remain underwater. Only about ten percent of the parish is above water with thirty families marooned and destitute near Melville as relief efforts prepare to bring supplies today.
Washington April 30 The House approved a national good roads plan by adding to the post office appropriation bill a subsidy for highways used in rural free delivery. Roads would be classified into three subsidy levels of 24 20 and 15 dollars per mile costing an estimated 16 to 18 million dollars in the first year.
Democratic voters in Florida today choose between Woodrow Wilson and Oscar Underwood for the presidential nomination with other statewide officers on the ballot. The report notes a focus on the primary and mentions Smoke Martin's Standard cigar brand in the surrounding text.
The steamer Texas belonging to Archipelago American Steamship company struck a mine at the entrance of the Gulf of Smyrna and sank while carrying mail from Constantinople to the Levant. Ninety of the 156 aboard were rescued, several injured. crew details not reported. The disaster is blamed on deviation from the pilot boat’s course through mine fields.
Ottumwa Iowa April 30 The Post masters Association of Iowa begins its annual convention here May 1 for a three day session. W B R Law of Waterloo will preside with F M Jiveye as secretary.
A Sunday convert in Taro North Dakota buried his whisky bottle collection in a grave after confessing a history of heavy drinking. He performed a simple ceremony with no flowers as he vowed to stay on the water wagon, joining 22 converts and 1,582 total converts in three weeks of the campaign.
Benton April 36 Orleans near Cape Cod voted Roosevelt 65 Taft 26 La Follette 1 Clark 7 Wilson 1. Weat Trebury Martha's Vineyard reported Taft 7 Roosevelt 6 La Pollette 1.
In Washington a ch D court summoned J Bruce Ismay managing director of the International Mercantile Marine to testify in a suit by Mrs Louie Robbins of New York over her husband George Robbins who perished in the Titanic disaster. Subpoenas also issued for surviving Titanic officers Second Officer Charles L Lightoller Fourth Officer J G Ballhall Quartermaster Frederick Fleet and Wireless Operator Harold F Bride. Commissioner Ralph D Quinter to record testimony this afternoon.
Washington April 30 The senate inquiry into the Titanic wreck neared its end as J Bruce Ismay managing director of International Mercantile Marine was recalled for final questioning. He denied attempts to reinsure the liner and said a Carpathia wireless message to VP Franklin did not reach him until April 17.
MorningSide College in Sioux City suffered the loss of its main building last night due to a water pressure failure. Dean Chandler blamed the fire on lack of water, noting hoses failed to deliver any water and the fire originated with no saved assets except a few books by students forming chain gangs. The 1910 structure, valued at 60000, is a total loss with rebuilding plans abandoned and the campus closed indefinitely pending insurance coverage.
A historical temperature note records the day’s low and high temperatures with markings from Buchanan Optical Co. The entry recalls conditions from a year ago when the minimum was 49 degrees and the maximum 70 degrees, noting April 30 measurements and related figures.
Samuel Untermyer of New York City and Edgar I Warrar of New Orleans former American Car Association president chosen as counsel for the Stoley Trust investigation by the House Committee on Banking and Currency. They will start immediately and oversee the preliminary inquiry into private affairs of major financial institutions.
President Taft returns to Washington from Massachusetts trip just before 10. He will brief stay then depart for Savannah Georgia late this afternoon. He will visit Augusta to attend memorial exercises for Major Archibald W Butt. Col Roosevelt returns to New York after Massachusetts primaries and will head to Oyster Bay later today.
Fire swept the twelve story exchange building on West Thirty second street causing four floors to burn out. D Appleton & Co publishers offices were destroyed and a dozen printing and mercantile firms suffered heavy damage in the blaze.
In Hawarden Iowa April 30 a high school field trip car traveling at high speed went off a 14 foot embankment and flipped over twice injuring Amanda Tritz Ruth Vale and Helen Smith who were not believed to be seriously hurt. The driver tried to turn onto a bridge over the Sioux river when the car skidded.
Ottumwa Iowa April 30 Hila Latham a St Joseph Missouri girl who is a witness against Clarence W Green charged with white slave trafficking in federal court has been placed in jail here for two weeks by Judge Smith McPherson The court took this action to shield her from her so called friends whose kindnesses would place her under obligation to them Green is charged with bringing the girl from St Joseph to Des Moines for immoral purposes She twice escaped from St Moniers home in Des Moines and United States officers eager to have her for a witness against Green placed her in jail here Green is to be tried in Des Moines in two weeks.
April 30. Charles J Began of Indianapolis a civil engineer and brother of El M Began of the Commercial Exchange was killed this morning by a steel beam in Indianapolis. The deceased was a graduate of Ames College. For gentlemen, San Irelleo, te cigar.
Halifax April 30 as the Mackay Bennett arrived with bodies from the Titanic wreck 190 it was revealed that 216 bodies had been buried at sea while 190 remained aboard the ship. Among the recovered are two women and Col John Jacob Astor whose body was identified with $2500 found in his pockets.
Gilbert Louisiana April 30 a cyclone destroyed a family home killing Sydney Ross age 1 and seriously injuring Ada Ross 12 while Geo Ross father was fatally hurt. Another man was seriously injured and several houses were destroyed by the storm over Bocuff Prairie Sunday night.
Chicago suffragists in a No Vote No Tax meeting vow a 13 000 strong parade through downtown and Coliseum streets during the Republican National Convention in June. Belle Squire denounces Taft and Roosevelt while criticizing party betrayal of women amid heated debate.
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