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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1921
Page
8
Washington dispatch argues a railroad bill can relieve unemployment by linking federal aid to railroads with indirect stimulus. It claims no new taxes or appropriations are needed, just authority to compensate railroads for past due sums, triggering a cycle of increased demand and lower freight rates if enacted.
N. Feinberg a Hammond grocer bought a new car and while politely bowing a customer Mrs. T F Edmonston he tipped hat stepped on the gas and wrecked the machine. He struck the customer who was severely hurt but expected to recover.
In Havana the Cuban upper chamber approved a measure branding meat profiteering a crime. The bill, aimed at protecting livestock, would let the president work with stockmen and retailers to set prices, with penalties for violations. It also calls for a 10 day quarantine for cattle imported from other countries.
London dispatch reports cholera cases in the Volga districts declined in July to 22,000 from 42,000 in June. Government and trade unions move starving residents to better districts, with free transit of relief materials allowed nationwide.
United Press reports Thomas E. Wilson says meat packing, one of the nation’s largest industries, is rapidly returning to normal with substantial postwar gains and encouraging export trade. He notes low mood periods forced below-cost sales but continued production and supports federal regulation of the industry.
Posses from Monmouth and nearby towns with local authorities scour Galesburg and vicinity for Ethel Patterson a 24 year old who vanished from Metlaw ten miles away in mysterious circumstances early Thursday. She was found in nightclothes with clothing and valuables left behind leading officers to suspect kidnapping rather than self harm.
Lewis Gannett of the Nation says Russian peasants would accept a czar who proclaims peasant land ownership with indifference. He returned from months of study and is the latest American arrival from Russia.
Washington reports the House military committee laid the measure to enable Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood to be governor-general of the Philippines without resigning from the Army, warning of a dangerous precedent. In New York, 200 daily applicants for shelter were turned away as homelessness and unemployment rose fivefold since August 1920, per municipal lodging-house officials.
John S. Drum of the American Bankers Association protests the excess profits tax as harmful to price stability and productive growth, urging its end by 1922 to avoid diverting working capital. A Hudson Iowa obituary notes Kenneth Philp, 16, died after pneumonia and post appendectomy complications, with funeral planned at United Brethren church.
Samuel R. Harris a 20 year old New Yorker confessed to police in Kansas City that he along with four companions was hired to kill Mrs Fifi Potter Stillman. He said he did not know who funded the plot and that he received expense money and a promised share of 25000 dollars. Harris named suspects Henry the Pole Tony the Wop and John Burke as those linked to the scheme and Kansas City police pursued leads while Harris was held for 24 hours for investigation.
Washington Aug 19 Senate and House conferees resume work behind closed doors on the beer regulation bill. Disagreement centers on warrants for searches by prohibition officers and the Stanley amendment. House opposes auto and luggage warrants, while Senate presses for broad search authority.
A new process by Goro Matsu kata and Dr. Azabu Naito converts map magnetic sand into pig iron and steel. Using coke and hot gas, ferrocoke is produced enabling iron extraction. Japan, rich in magnetic sand but short on usable iron, could become self sufficient, reducing dependence on England and the United States.
Three bodies are believed trapped in a sunken automobile at the bottom of a quarry pool of about 100 cars. Diver Jack Blair reports seeing two bodies on a first dive and a third on a subsequent attempt. Police will continue efforts to recover the vehicles and victims.
A Weather Bureau bulletin dated August 19, 1921 covers highways in good motor condition across listed towns including Albert Lea Algona Charles City Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Faribault La Crosse Mason City Marshalltown New Hampton Postville Waterloo Waverly. The report notes general conditions and mentions temperature observations.
Census Bureau report shows 61,859,900,000 cigarettes manufactured in 1920 with 115,834,000,000 exported. Domestic consumption about 46,000,000,000, plus 8,720,756,000 cigars and 13,891,000 pounds of tobacco produced. Leaf crop 1,508,064,000 pounds on 1,894,400 acres. tobacco imports valued at $98,562,000. Revenue from tobacco, cigars, and snuff totaled $294,000,000 with state contributions led by North Carolina and New York.
State board of moving picture censors foresees rusting from disuse as producers begin self editing. Chairman George H. Cobb notes that filmmakers are removing naughty parts during production rather than after review, with many films updated before assembly.
A badly decomposed man about 64 was found in a corn field near Council Bluffs city limits by three youths. Police believe he was robbed and then murdered, with a shirt tied around his throat indicating strangulation and death occurring several weeks prior.
Aug 19 a man resisting a robber in Des Moines was shot through the left leg, slugged, and robbed of 25 dollars. J M Haines, the victim, is in a local hospital while the highwayman escaped.
Hulbert Footner tells of Ambrose Doane a fur trader and Colina Gaviller daughter of Fort Enterprise factor in a Northwest Canada tale. The book portrays mounted police Indians and frontier life with spirited sketches in Waterloo Evening Courier.
London and Dublin report that Lloyd George and Marquis Curzon declare Britain has reached the extreme limit in concessions to Ireland. Sinn Fein delegates prepare counter proposals as IR A guards mansions and Dublin Castle while London awaits official word on Irish negotiations.
The United States railroad board upheld time and a half overtime for shopmen after eight hours and on Sundays and holidays. It also modified seven key rules, limiting some Sunday work and adjusting pay for various shop crews, with exceptions for essential operations.
Freeman A. McCarty, a native of Indianola Iowa and longtime grand secretary of the Grand Lodge for Free and Accepted Masons of Utah, died at age 64 in Salt Lake City after moving to Utah three years ago and holding several Masonic positions.
The Senate approved a federal aid roads bill authorizing 75 million dollars for road construction with one third available immediately and the rest in six months. The bill moves to conference after House passage of 100 million dollars and places federal aid under the agriculture secretary with limits on interstate versus inter county road spending.
Des Moines reports Leonard Smith, a motor bus driver, indicted by the Polk county grand jury on a manslaughter charge in the July 16 bus overturn that killed Ralph Bradford. Bradford died when the bus overturned, authorities said.
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 30. If the carrier error causes you to miss the paper by then, call 3a and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 30 p.m.
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