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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1928
Page
10
A Washington conference pushes dry platform demands on both parties for president and vice president. Prohibition groups threaten to oppose nominees if targets aren’t met. The piece also surveys crime policing claims by Frank Lowden, Iowa farm funding talks, boxing critiques, Waterloo mayoral bid, a Centerville smearing suit, and a Chicago applicant seeking a killing license.
Waterloo Mayor Glenn A. Tibbitts announces his candidacy for re-election in the March 26 city vote. He touts a thrift, businesslike administration with improved finances, citing a $300,000 drop in bonded debt, $50,000 cut in warrants, and $75,000 more cash on hand.
Mrs. Raoul Garneat, 35, and her four children aged one to five were burned to death at Great Pine, Quebec. Six other children escaped, one in critical condition at hospital. Cause of the blaze remains unknown.
Washington reports Rear Admiral Frank Brumby, previously blamed in the navy board’s S-4 disaster inquiry, has been acquitted by a supplementary investigation ordered by Secretary Wilbur. The reconvened court reaffirmed that both S-4 and coast guard destroyer Paulding s were equally responsible, while the navy bureau’s navigation view places major responsibility on the S-4 due to visibility conditions.
Report from Bidorata on February 28 notes slight improvement in Representative L. V. Carter, speaker at the Townhouse. He regained consciousness for the first time since Saturday afternoon when stricken with apoplexy at Hardie county Republican convention. Carter asked for food and ate for the first time since the illness. Doctors caution the danger is not yet past.
Trenton February 28. The New Jersey senate passed the Altman bill permitting 15 round decision bouts. Governor Moore is expected to sign the measure, allowing boxing matches to proceed in the state pending final approvals.
Centerville Pennsylvania February 28 remarks attributed to Tony Karloto alleging that George Damyancich and his family are "unfit" and "dirty" damage the miner's social standing and prompt a $25,000 defamation suit. The petition charges the statements have harmed the Damyancich family by implying they are not worthy of Croatian Fraternal Union membership and lowering their social position.
Short Interviews With Home Folks notes a beam of real estate growth for the Hutchinson area as irrigation dams near completion will expand desert land into productive use. It cites 4700 carloads of lettuce and thousands of cars of cantaloupe and grapefruit shipped from the valley. The Crowells and Hutchinson Ice Cream Company plant are mentioned with Californians wintering in Phoenix and a 6500 mile car trip.
Los Angeles Feb 28. The joint murder trial of William Edward Hickman and Wesby Hunt over Ivy Thoms, a Los Angeles druggist, was nearing verdict as cross examination and closing arguments were to finish. Hickman defense planned evidence for not guilty and reserved for the next phase addressing insanity.
LeMars Iowa February 23 a Plymouth County farmer Lloyd Keough was sentenced to 90 days in the county jail for contempt of court after failing to appear as a state's witness in the bootlegging trial of Bert Bol linger. The witness who had planned to testify disappeared the day he was to take the stand.
Los Angeles February 28 Charles M McMillan convicted slayer of Amelia Appleby wealthy widow whose business interests he managed was sentenced to life imprisonment at Folsom penitentiary with the court recommending he be ineligible for parole. Winnipeg murder case: Lottie Adams 30 wife of a department store private detective found murdered. private chauffeur held for questioning by provincial police.
Representatives of over 30 national temperance organizations press for prohibition planks in Republican and Democratic platforms and for fixed election days for president and vice president. They threaten to mobilize prohibition supporters to oppose noncompliant nominees in November, aiming for actions at Kansas City and Houston conventions with Senator Borah backing a dry enforcement plank.
Walter Parkhill, 23, of Sigourney, died in a hospital after being trapped in his Harrington apartments unit during the early Saturday blaze. He was knocked unconscious when a beam struck him as he clung to a window ledge and firemen pried his fingers from the ledge. Parkhill had worked at a local store. The fire, reported near Des Moines, also listed smoke and advertised brands in the bulletin.
The Courier should be delivered at your home before :30 o'clock. If you fail to receive your paper by that time due to carrier error or other cause, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Calls to the office should reach by 6 30 p.m.
Ruth Elder is confined to her apartment with a severe cold from a party for her and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh Sunday night. The gathering ended at Mary Eaton's home with New York’s entertainers. Elder had planned to travel to Albany to receive a Spanish royal air legion medal but has canceled the trip for now.
Pekin report: Yellow River overflow cuts a wide swath in Litsing, Shantung, inundating eighty villages and leaving 20000 people homeless. The dispatch to the International Famine Relief Commission notes widespread hardship as four million Shantungese starve amid recent droughts and famines.
St Louis on February 28 a promise of a 25 000 strong Ku Klux Klan parade was made by two unidentified men who opened a downtown office for the Klan headquarters They claim credit for last year in Washington and say the Klan is growing stronger and more involved in politics.
Nancy Ann Miller of Seattle and Tukoji Rao, former maharajah of Indore, arrived in Calcutta from Madras for their betrothal. They moved discreetly to a hotel, dodging reporters, as headline coverage noted a dramatic backdrop to their marriage event.
Camp Cody and France memories surface as Ray L. Golin Veaux, chief clerk in the treasurer's office of the railway, recalls wartime service. He describes a mining camp practice march and ambulance duty behind the lines, noting how regulatory steps are urged for the coal strike zone.
Ottawa judges hear defense efforts to exclude Hiram Reed’s alleged confession that he dynamited Mount Pleasant Schoolhouse to kill his sweetheart teacher, Iaa Bradford. State's Attorney Hansen and Sheriff Floyd Clarke describe the confession as voluntary with no threats or promised immunity.
Geneva February 26 Argentine delegate Cantilo objected to language in the League of Nations covenant. He argued the Monroe doctrine is an American policy, not a regional understanding, and noted the disputed article was inserted after the Versailles conference. The contention centers on whether it affects international engagements such as treaties of arbitration.
At a crossing nine miles west of Rochester Indiana a school bus collided with an Erie freight train. Eleven people aboard the bus were injured including the driver and ten pupils, with one girl reportedly unhurt among thirteen occupants. Initial reports overstated occupants.
Washington, Feb 26 A Red Cross report says about 71 000 Mississippi valley flood sufferers are being fed as the disaster’s anniversary nears. Damage to replanted crops by freezes and high waters account for the ongoing relief effort and continued Red Cross care.
Washington officials warn widening mine wage clashes in Pennsylvania threaten national business. Senate subcommittee urges immediate regulation to curb labor strife, fearing spread to railroads and 27 states as social conditions in western and central Pennsylvania are described as horrible and terrible.
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