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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1929
Page
9
Washington dispatch says next session will seek to modify a circuit court Ohio ruling that makes drivers fully liable for railroad grade crossing accidents. The decision urged drivers to stop look and listen and exit, a point critics call impractical as trains cannot always be slowed.
The courier should deliver the newspaper to homes before 6 30 o clock. If the carrier or another cause prevents timely delivery, customers should call S106 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 30 p m.
A nationwide Dollar Fund to honor retiring President Calvin Coolidge is proposed by William E. McCall Jr. The fund would support the Clarke Deaf and Dumb School at Northampton Massachusetts and involve Coolidge’s published bookplate gift to contributors. Washington women plan gifts for Mrs Coolidge as she leaves in March, amid Senate Ladies club tributes.
In Taylorville Illinois on February 16 Charles Law president of the Eaton State Bank collapsed after circling the bases during a business men's exercise team indoor game and died several hours later. The excitement of hitting a home run was blamed for his collapse.
Algona Iowa February 16 Henry and Roy Thilges moved for a new trial in the auto death case brought by F A Nelson, administrator of the estate of H Nelson. Nelson secured a $15 000 judgment plus costs from the suit arising from the fatal accident.
Washington February 16 Speaker Longworth ruled the meeting of the House military affairs committee legal and ordered the Madden bill for leasing Muscle Shoals placed on the House calendar for consideration. Des Moines February 16 Ray Nyemaster president of the American Commercial Savings bank Davenport was named director of the Central Life Assurance Society Des Moines yesterday maintaining his role as president of the Iowa Bankers association.
Des Moines reports a cold wave will hit Iowa tonight after a brief warm spell, with unsettled weather and local snows. Temperatures in the north central part of the state will fall below zero tomorrow, and relief is expected next week, according to weather observer Charles D. Reed.
Washington D C Feb 16 A dawn to dusk flight from the United States to the Panama Canal zone will be attempted March 10 by Capt Ira C Faker chief pilot of the endurance plane Question Mark The flight will cover about 2000 miles in a P 12 aircraft starting from Brownsville Texas with France field Panama at the terminal Five stops are planned with Faker in Seattle where the ship is built Tests will be at Kelley Field with a special gas tank and pumping gear installed
Arthur Middleton, Bush Con servatory of Music faculty member and former Metropolitan Opera baritone, died in Chicago. Born in Logan Illinois, he rose to international fame in both concert and opera, often chosen as leading baritone by major organizations before joining the Metropolitan in New York.
The steamship President Harding wirelessed that she picked up an SOS call from the American freighter Padasay and was proceeding to assist at latitude 41 30 north longitude 49 50 west. Also, Leonard Gomes died from burns received while playing with a stove at his home yesterday.
Thieves broke into Page Pharmacy at 1113 South Street last night taking two books of money orders valued at 1100 dollars and 15 dollars from express funds plus 3 dollars from the cash register. The rear door was pried with a crowbar and two unknown men fit the description given by proprietor Lee F. Page. He noted gray hats and gray overcoats, about 28 years old, tall with dark hair, each about 165 pounds. They left 32 money orders with serials DO475100 to 99475159 missing.
Riverside California February 16 Sanford Clark sixteen began serving a term in the reform school for his role with his uncle Gordon Stewart Northcott in the murders of several boys on the Northcott farm. Clark was the state’s star witness against Northcott who is to be executed at San Quentin on April fifteenth.
Tokio reports eleven persons dead and eight missing after a blaze gutted the Toyama lunatic asylum and nearby artillery and engineering school. At least five lunatics perished. about twenty escaped.
Chicago on February 18 mobilizes five thousand police and agents to raid beer flats soft drink parlors drug stores and bootlegger hubs in a sweeping effort to erase liquor sources in memory of seven gangland victims. Authorities say the drive targets buyers as the key to ending the gangster era.
Washington February 16 In a broadside against current allocations Radio Commissioner O H Caldwell argues for 50 cleared channels to benefit high power stations while admitting many small outlets would lose air time He cites Iowa New York Ohio Indiana as troubled by proposed allocations and notes the need to return regulation to commerce department He warns service to the public outweighs station counts and outlines how 5000 watt and 10000 watt stations cover far larger areas Caldwell is retiring and commissioners have been confirmed or pending further changes to the panel.
Towa will host three Hawkeyes and Noah Nebraska debaters at North High School Des Moines March 1 in a public intercollegiate debate. Edward Carmody Waller Voecks and Lyle Quinn will represent Towa affirming the motion that trial by jury should be replaced by a system of judges.
John Johnson, a Kearney farmer, shot and killed two sisters Alma and Eda at a hospital before turning the pistol on himself. One sister Hulda had been at Hastings hospital for the insane for a year. Nurses found the bodies after the fatal shots in a hospital room. Hospital authorities had expected a friendly visit from Johnson.
Washington February 16 The weather outlook forecasts below normal temperatures in the northern and central portions of the upper Mississippi and lower Missouri Valleys and the northern and central Great Plains with near normal readings in the far south. One or two precipitation periods are expected across the region.
Congress considers a Jones prohibition measure with a late afternoon vote. Subcommittee to hear Rep. Wurzbach on Texas patronage. Interstate Commerce and other panels push forward on Fess railroad consolidation, Copeland flood relief, Shipstead forest bills. House contemplates deportation act and arms embargo on hostile states as Foreign Affairs weighs Porter embargo resolution.
New York reports a frantic scramble as the Federal Reserve’s move to reduce brokers’ borrowings triggers another steep market decline. Many active issues fall 2 to 8 dollars a share with a few high priced stocks sliding 10 to 21. Total sales reach 2,488,700. Radio stock plunges from 410 to 335. Major names like Wright Aeronautical, Montgomery Ward, Johns Manville, and others drop around 2 or more per share.
Linbergh landed 10 miles south of Cape Hatteras after fog disrupted his coastal approach. Earlier reports said he was about three hours overdue at Bolling Field on a Charleston to Washington leg with conditions ranging from good to dangerous.
Washington February 16 The veterans bureau announced that President Coolidge approved the federal board of hospitalization plan for a 150 bed infirmary as an addition to the Knoxville Iowa hospital facilities.
Local resident F. Brown recalls the 1906 opera house fire on Commercial Street and notes Walker Whiteside, famed actor, will perform in Cedar Rapids. The performer recently completed a Broadway Tony run and makes a rare Iowa appearance after years away.
Des Moines, Feb 16. The Iowa General Assembly may add a daily expense allowance of up to five dollars to the existing one thousand dollar per session compensation for lawmakers. Rep James N. Hayes Dubuque files an amendment to allow itemized sworn expense accounts to be filed and paid through the claims committee as a board of audit. Legal experts say the bill aligns with constitutional requirements.
355 miners at Sunnyside mine near Silverton face limited rations after two weeks cut off by heavy snows. effort to deliver mail and provisions via mule train failed as slides bury tracks up to 200 feet deep. an army of shovelers works to clear the blockade, with days more needed to reach them.
The Iowa House moved to set the sterilization bill on the calendar with a special order for next Wednesday. A state board of eugenics would oversee examinations and possible sterilization of inmates deemed likely to pass on feeble mindedness insanity or criminal tendencies. The measure faces a heated floor battle as supporters and opponents align before the vote.
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