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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1929
Page
9
An effective demonstration of musical education in Waterloo East High School last night featured orchestra, band, and vocal soloists. Critics deem the youths to have performed difficult works well, with music education praised as a public instruction achievement.
Four year old Georgia Niedert daughter of Ervin W Niedert is returned to Waterloo after being kidnapped by her mother on Tuesday. The chase spanned Chicago and Cincinnati before father Niedert recovered the child and brought her home to Hawthorne kindergarten. Georgia, eager to tell her story, will attend class Monday with her schoolmates and recount the adventure to her friends.
Fire gutted the First Baptist Church in Fort Worth driven by gasoline found in containers inside. Adjacent four story Sunday school building and gymnasium were destroyed while another church-owned four story structure was saved after two hours of firefighting. Dr J Frank Norris, pastor, was in Austin and later left for Fort Worth. Norris had previously faced charges of arson but was acquitted in a landmark trial.
Waterloo public libraries are popular places in wintry days. Miss Callie Wieder, librarian, notes reading rooms stay busy from morning to evening and winter book checkouts roughly double summer. The modern generation reads more at home with growing demand for late novels and non fiction. long waiting lists for the best sellers.
In Bacatycze Poland clashes erupted as peasants demanding higher lumber haulage rates attacked police protecting strikebreakers. Six peasants were killed and about 30 seriously injured while armed with sticks and stones. the police remained to guard the strikebreakers amid the violence. NERRICK SAILS. New York Myron T Herrick ambassador to France, convalescing, sailed today on the Ile de France for Cherbourg.
Waterloo residents will attend a charm school conducted by Mme Janette Serrec at Plaza theatre January 29 to February 2. The program emphasizes health intelligence poise and personal charm as keys to success with lectures on exercise diet and confidence.
Des Moines leaders report Republican caucuses naming J H Johnson of Marian County as speaker nominee with 46 votes to 36 for Francis Johnson Dickinson. Howard Mathews chosen speaker pro tem after 47 to 34 against John M Bixler. Derek Gustafson named chief clerk as party lines form. In Pocahontas Walter Hawkins jailed for practicing medicine without a license paroled after guilty plea.
Weather for the week beginning January 7 covers upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Mostly fair in the southwest with two or three periods of precipitation in the east and north portions. Frequent temperature changes but generally below normal in the northeast portions.
Washington D C Jan 12 The anti cruiser drive shows unity among pacifist groups led by Dr Edward T Devine and Bishop Francis J McConnell. Senator Hale presides over naval affairs debate while opponents plan filibuster to block action and force a vote. Brookhart Wheeler Frawier Nye lead four anti bloc senators as talks continue into the short session.
The Courier will be delivered to homes before 5 30. If the paper is not received by that time due to carrier delay or other cause, call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Please address Thane calle must reach offices before 6 20 am.
New York Jan 12 thirty seven stations will carry the nationwide radio dedication of the Cascade Mountain tunnel. President Elect Herbert Hoover will speak from Washington with J B Campbell Interstate Commerce chairman and W W Atterbury Pennsylvania railway president among speakers. Ralph Budd Great Northern president and Ernestine Schumann Heink will perform with a dance orchestra from New York. The program airs 9 to 10 p m eastern time.
Des Moines, January 12. George Jones, a ton sorial artist, is ordered to give up his barbering for a year and serve 60 days in jail as the law deems him morally unfit. He is the first barber to face the full moral and professional conduct penalties under the statute.
Irish tenor Fiske O'Hara says he will make Mason City Iowa his future home and that he and Arthur Mason City plan to form a Midwest stock company circuit.
In Cedar Rapids Iowa on January 12 an inmate, A M Guerrard a 41 year old blind man, reported the deuce of spades missing from his deck hindering a cribbage game. He identifies cards by pin marks and is noted as skilled at poker. His attorney says he was duped into a minor forgery.
Washington January 12 Twenty members of the senate including Republicans Democrats and one Farmer-Labor member were guests at breakfast in the White House. Delegates named include Fess McMaster Watson Moses Reed Bingham Brookhart Copper Nye Vandenberg Pine Smoot Ashurst Barkley Fletcher McKellar George Ransdell Gerry Shipstead.
In Washington January 12 President-elect Hoover signaled support for American adherence to the world court. Elihu Root reported Hoover’s favorable stance after breakfast with Hoover, who invited Root to join League of Nations efforts to revise the 1920 world court protocol and subsequent international law.
Former promoter Ivan G. Londergan, once head of Medical Life Insurance and linked to Waterloo ventures, has alimony reduced from 50 to 25 dollars monthly as he undertakes farm labor near his father’s northwestern Town home. A federal parole condition required him to farm for 18 months, with Judge George Scott and local attorneys overseeing the settlement. The order stems from a 1926 alimony decree of 500 dollars monthly, with his first wife Blanche previously pursuing claims and a later payout cited at 11,000 dollars in arrears.
Washington reports President-elect Hoover plans to return from Florida by mid February for conferences shaping his administration and the April 15 extra session focus on farm relief and tariff revision. McNary signals no farm relief this session, awaiting the extra session to pursue measures including an enlarged farm board and perishable products clearing house. Other discussions involve Mellon retention opposition from Couzens and Nye, plus potential favor for Agriculture Secretary Jardine.
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