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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1925
Page
11
In a legislative day, two bills were introduced to bring public office closer to voters. One would elect county superintendents of schools at general elections, the other would have state central committeemen chosen at primaries rather than district caucuses.
Reports from Louisville on February 6 said rescue workers drilled a new shaft toward Lloyd Collins in Sand Cave. A 20 foot hole was dug as crews hoped to reach a natural passage behind Collins 55 feet below the surface. The time to finish the shaft ranged from 24 to 72 hours with life still uncertain. A separate note from Cave City told of Alma Clark awaiting a wedding that would not come as she watched the rescue from a hilltop campfire.
Brig Gen Mitchell assistant chief of the army air service tells Secretary Weeks the War Department lacks capacity to create handle or administer air power efficiently. He says the system impedes aviation capability and could undermine national defense in an emergency. The letter was presented to the House Aircraft Committee alongside Gen Drum. He and Gen Patrick favor a united air force despite opposition from Weeks and Weeks.
George Weenestra, 25, of Langing, Texas, turned himself in to Harvey police claiming to have killed Dean O'Banion. He told State's Attorney Robert Crowe he sought his wife’s sympathy, as she had not lived with him for months. Crowe ordered a sanity examination.
Bristow schools reopened after a brief smallpox scare and fumigation of the schoolhouse. Janitor Henry Fink’s quarantine prompted Tuesday and Wednesday closures, with nearly normal attendance as students had vaccination records. A declamatory contest features 12 pupils at tonight’s opera house, while two town residents and a nearby person recover from the illness.
Judge James Glenn instructed a Coshocton jury to find 65 year old Clara McCurdy not guilty of first degree murder in the alleged killing of her husband. Prosecutors pressed for the electric chair but the verdict was acquittal.
Police in Chicago Chinatown guard against further tong war outbreaks after a restaurant worker named Larry was found slain with a butcher knife in his room. The murder is tied to the ongoing feud, though no other violence occurred in weeks.
Chicago doctor Dr WD McNally warned residents that drinking liquor could lead to fatal poisonings. He cited drugstores diluting spirits with wood alcohol or formaldehyde and warned that such tainted liquor has already caused deaths. The warning followed the death of an unidentified man whose stomach showed kerosene and fusel oil effects.
Des Moines reports Ida B. Wise-Smith, veteran WLSTU worker and Iowa ratification committee chair, will not push the child labor amendment to a vote in the Iowa legislature. She says adverse sentiment is likely to defeat it now and vows to seek a hearing for an intelligent presentation before letting the matter rest.
Judge Harry Olson urged Coroner Oscar Wolff to subpoena William Shepherd and his wife, and Stelle Gehling, in the inquest into William Nelson McClintock's death. McClintock, a millionaire orphan, died of typhoid fever. Shepherd and Gehling were his guardian and foster relations with a signed will leaving most of the fortune to Shepherd, excluding an $8,000 annuity to Isabelle Pope. Miss Gehling alleges receiving love letters from Shepherd.
Police held a 13 year old girl identified as Eleanor Cania for writing about six death notes to Charles Reid and a manufacturer. She admitted taking a package from Reid’s mailbox and said she wanted clothes and money for a life of movies.
Des Moines banks formed a new clearing house association yesterday afternoon modeled after the major centers. Presidents of the citys principal downtown banks met to establish the organization and set its aims and structure.
A British seaplane planned for the Schneider Cup race will achieve about five miles per minute. The streamlined craft has a built in engine and is under construction for trials soon, with an emphasis on speed and integrated fuselage engineering.
Washington Du Peb Ren T J B Robinson today recommended Samuel A McCreery for postmaster at Clarion. He has served as acting postmaster there for 25 years.
The American delegation led by Porter withdraws from the Geneva opium conference citing failure to meet its purpose. Porter states the United States will resume effort to suppress illicit opium traffic while international work continues. Despite the withdrawal, delegates emphasize pushing ahead toward practical results.
In San Francisco Judge Harold Louderback ordered a continuance of pleading until February 11 for Dorothy Filingson a 16 year old arraigned in superior court on charges of murdering her mother. Dorothy appeared pale and thin in prison leaning on her father as her attorneys requested the delay.
John G. Miller of Watertoo was named general contractor for Rath Packing Co to build a three story office building at a bid of 78,496 dollars. Seven other bidders submitted estimates up to 100,000 dollars for the fireproof structure 79 by 12 feet with brick facing and full employee amenities across three floors including dining facilities, offices, and restrooms.
Prematurely born infant found wrapped in newspapers near the east part of Reinbeck by William Johns’ residence. Peter Jorgstorf reported the package to the town marshal who summoned a physician as officials investigate the natural death mystery.
Mrs. Catherine Bowlker 66 sister of Harvard President A Lawrence Lowell died after falling from a fifth floor window at the Hotel Vendome in Boston. Police rule death an accident. she led the Boston Women's Municipal League.
Disciples of a Hollywood Cal seeress in Hollywood Neb Lincoln and Ohio wait in best clothes with fasting and prayer for a midnight end of the world. A Michigan farmer shot his wife and killed himself amid apocalyptic fear.
In Cave City Kentucky on February, Floyd Collins rescue squad members paused at the cave mouth to change before entering. A reporter’s ensemble notes that a pocketbook went missing from a rescuer’s trousers, prompting newspaper men to raise a fund to cover his travel home.
West High student George Wickley son of G E Bickley plant chief at Northwestern Hell Telephone Company donated almost a pint of blood at St Francis Hospital for Mrs Mary Carey of 1304 Forest Avenue. Both donor and recipient reported satisfactory after the operation. It was Mrs Carey’s second transfusion after a prior one less than a week earlier. Two other West High boys were examined before Wickley was chosen.
Ta jama groups in this section plan opposition to a proposed Iowa legislature bill prohibiting peyote use. They argue peyote is a medicine and is used in religious rites by Indians. They intend to ask the legislature not to pass the measure.
Investigators narrowed the Ohio State University poison pill case when Dr. William A. Keyser of the pharmacy department identified a strychnine bottle found in the dispensary as one he issued 40 unostudent albinos a year ago. The deadly toxin linked to two student deaths earlier this week and believed taken from this bottle.
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