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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1927
Page
8
Art Goebel wins the Dole air race finishing across 2400 miles in just over a day aboard the Woolaroc earning 25000. Martin Jensen in Alpha lands two hours later at Wheeler field to claim 10000. Missing pilots Auggie Pedlar and Jack Frost were feared lost after Oakland departure. Navy and ships scour the Pacific while rescue efforts race to locate the missing planes.
Washington reporter Mark Sullivan describes Borah's elusive role in GOP politics. A San Diego driven pledge drive aims to boost Borah as a primary influence rather than a declared candidate. The piece notes Borah's history of avoiding candidacy and his potential sway as a primary kingmaker against leaders like Lowden.
Investigators traced Ivan G. Londergan from Columbus to Fargo where federal indictments accuse him of using the mails to defraud in a $925,000 stock sale tied to the Medical Insurance Company and the Insurance Loan and Investment Co of Waterloo Iowa. Eight salesmen with him were indicted.
Crissy Field San Francisco Aug 18 UP Pacific Air Transport will dispatch two planes from this field to search for missing fliers. Grover Tyler and Jess Hart will pilot. Navy in Washington reports forty two vessels, destroyers and aircraft carriers, are hunting for the Golden Eagle and Miss Doran. Langley and Aroostook will send planes into the search as they reach the great circle course. The Woolaroo and Aloha finished the Dole race in Hawaii. Goebel and Jensen won 25 000 and 10 000 dollars, while Miss Doran and her crew face danger at sea aboard a drifting vessel.
Fragmentary OCR item lists names and brands including Gant Felice Henry George Tholite Mar tin Havana Probdon Sc cigars and adreri-waw, offering no clear event or context. The readable text suggests a cigarette or cigar trade item list or vendor notes without full details.
Denison Iowa August 18. As the 9 o clock passenger train rolled in ten airplanes circled overhead dropping welcome messages for Clarence Chamberlin famed aviator crowds cheered wildly only to learn chamberlin was not aboard He and his party arrived sixty minutes later in a special car. Railroad officials had attached the car to a mail train instead of the regular passenger.
Chicago reports indicate J Ogden Armour died with liabilities around 20 million dollars not covered by assets. Estimates place unpaid debts between 17.5 and 22.5 million from lands grains and stocks losses postwar deflation. Major assets include 3 million Mellody Farm and 56 000 acres Sutler Basin land. will to be probated in Chicago after family arrival from London.
The Courier will be delivered to your home before 5 30. If the carrier err or home delivery is late call 5100. a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 30 p m.
Chicago police raided a lavish Gold Coast mansion locating a large gambling den. They seek Big Tim Murphy and Nicky Arnstein, noted ex convicts linked to the place. The property held roulette wheels blackjack tables and other gambling gear worth over six thousand dollars. Patrons included social elites, and Arnstein and Murphy were said to have become pals during Fort Leavenworth imprisonment.
San Francisco Aug 18 Captain William P Edwin of Dallas Texas failed to start in the 35000 Dole race from here to Honolulu. He will depart for Hawaii and follow a zigzag course to sight missing planes the Miss Doran and the Golden Eagle. Edwin installed a radio in the Dallas Spirit and will start late today. He aims to broadcast any sighting and continue toward Hongkong China after receiving a 25000 purse offer from Col William Easterwood Dallas. He plans a 36 hour fuel reserve to search for the missing planes.
Boston reports that the Massachusetts supreme court will publish tomorrow morning its decision on exceptions and a writ of error in the Sacco Vanzetti case. Four judges who heard arguments Tuesday have completed the writing, but officials decided not to release the decision today.
Washington Aug. 18. Clarence M. Young, aviation director of the commerce department, congratulated the Dole prize winners but urged future sea race contests be restructured. He said longer time is needed to select and inspect properly equipped planes and to examine pilots and navigators after reviewing the Dole event.
Anxiety gripped Flint as residents awaited news of Miss Mildred Doran the flying school marm presumed lost after a Dole flight from California to Honolulu. She was aboard the Miss Doran plane with Auggy Pedlar the pilot and Lieut Vilas Knope navigator. Crowds gathered around telegraph offices as relatives clung to hope the overdue craft would land safely.
Across the Atlantic effort faced delays as pilots Otto Koennecke and others could not launch. In New York rain swamped Roosevelt Field, halting the mono plane Old Glory on its nonstop Rome flight plan. London and Paris reports note prevailing poor weather stopped multiple trans Atlantic starts, while new Junkers Europa replaces a damaged ship and English pilots head toward Dublin for a north Atlantic try.
John Boeller recounts how every veteran of the Forty-ninth Iowa regiment recalls Joe Ries, former drum major of the regimental band. Ries now serves as military officer at Eldora boys training school where 486 cadets practice a dress parade with wooden guns under his command.
KOIL in Council Bluffs Iowa asks the Federal Radio Commission to authorize broadcasting on 394.5 meters. The station now uses 1080 kilometers with 4000 watts daytime and 2000 watts at night. William Jamieson for KMA proposes sharing the 394.5 wave with WSUI if the Iowa City station bid succeeds. The commission reserved ruling.
Charles W. Parkhurst of Lomax Illinois will pilot the biplane Air King with navigator Ralph Lowes from Peoria Illinois. They will fly a zigzag course far over the Pacific in hopes of locating the missing Cole flight planes Miss Doran and Golden Eagle. They expect to return to Oakland at sunset.
London reports Northern Chinese troops have occupied Wuhu and several Yangtze cities including Pukow. Nanking, under heavy bombardment by Russian forces, has seen near-total foreign evacuation. Dispatch notes 55,000 flee Chingkiang toward Shanghai aiming for Scochow.
Des Moines, Aug 18. Les le S Durgin is under a restraining order by Judge Thompson preventing him from seeing his wife Avis Durgin, who sues for divorce. Mrs Durgin says he threatened harm and once knocked her to the dining room floor and threw hot coffee on her while she was prostrate.
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