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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1929
Page
9
Des Moines dispatch notes the forty third Iowa general assembly begins with preliminary business and a capital push for favored bills. Gov. Hammill to deliver biennial and inaugural messages as lawmakers jockey for priority amid expected adjournment pressures.
Geneva rejects Pan American victory claim. The League of Nations asserts it helped prevent war between Bolivia and Paraguay and highlights behind the scenes negotiations with the United States. Briand and Drummond led talks in Paris and Lugano to push pacific settlement as Kellogg coordinated Pan American efforts.
William Kroner, attorney for Grace Wood, 39, says he expects her release soon from county jail where she is held on an assault with intent to kill related to a death plot against her husband Ralph, 33. Wood proclaims innocence while supporters gather outside her cell and reporters are kept away. She was briefly freed on $50 000 bail before being returned to custody after a search of her office found insufficient collateral.
A knox-knocking safecracker struck Walnut Street Baptist Church and East High School seeking cash and checks. Police report the church loot included about 400 dollars and Sunday receipts. the East High box held 150 dollars. Two truck drivers were jailed as possible suspects, while entrance was gained through windows at both sites. Detec tive Emil Steffen noted the crime was not by a professional. The vault near the secretary’s office was robbed. The church pastor urged stop payments on stolen checks.
Prince George, youngest son of the king, has a slight cold and stays in his room at Buckingham Palace. King George’s condition is described as stationary but making progress, while Queen Mary recovers from a cold and remains in her rooms for precaution.
The Supreme Court held Chicago's water diversion from Lake Michigan authorized by the secretary of war but criticized the Chicago sanitary district for lowering lake levels. It ordered a decree to reduce the diversion to restore navigation and lake levels, noting the long dispute dating to 1900 and directing further proceedings to craft the remedy.
In Iowa City on January 14 Grand Duke Alexander Michaelovich of Russia declared Russians are slaves and morally degraded, predicting Bolshevism will be overthrown and Russia will regain world power. The note mentions smoking products and an advertisement for Martha Cigars.
The notice states paper delivery expected before 6 30. If the carrier or any error prevents receipt, call A100 before 6 30 p m to arrange a copy be sent.
Boston officers reveal a fatal house fire hid the true identity of a woman found dead. a policeman’s memory and a quick recognition of photographs linked the victim to Babe Ruth’s wife, Mrs Ruth, changing the presumed identity from Mrs Edward H Kinder.
Watertown Massachusetts January 14 The District Attorney ordered an autopsy and review of Mrs Babe Ruth s death after a fire at Boston dentist Edward H Kinder s home. Ruth arrived from Scranton to mourn as police questioned Kinder about property in Mrs Ruth s apartment.
Walter Wilson driving west on Parker Street collided with an eastbound streetcar at Columbia and Parker. Sisters Katherine 4 Rose Marie 9 Roxie 16 were taken to Allen Memorial hospital in critical or severe condition with head, facial and internal injuries. Motorman Cecil Blaister reported the streetcar had stopped and the rear seat passengers were thrown forward.
President Coolidge invites 19 senators to a White House breakfast in Washington D C. Republicans Ciuzens Deneen Edge Johnson Metcalf Oddie Thomas Frazier Jones Norbeck Phipps attend alongside Democrats Black Bratton Harris Kendrick Sheppard Robinson Broussard Wheeler at a weekend and weekday sessions.
La Porte Indiana January 14 Charles Kramer 22 of Eastman Wisconsin was killed yesterday when an eastbound bus struck him as he climbed from a wrecked automobile on State Road 20 north of La Porte. The car containing Kramer and four companions crashed into a stalled truck on a slippery hill. None of the five youths was injured. Kramer died instantly as he stepped from the wrecked machine. Kramer was a student in a Chicago school.
Des Moines Iowa January 14 The three Clarks in the senate C F of Linn E W of Cerro Gorda and W A of Marlon were named as a committee to notify the House the senate was organized and ready to transact business as the Forty third session of the town legislature met today
Henry Errichson secretary of the Carpenters Union says carpentry wages look good but work depends on weather. He notes two weeks of cold and heavy snow have paused local building, cutting pay and forcing idle days. When milder days return, builders will push to regain lost time.
Paris reports Marshal Ferdinand Foch 70 and allied commander in chief during World War I is gravely ill at home after a heart attack. Attendants say his life is in peril. A severe crisis marked the illness which has lasted a month and halted a planned England trip.
Funeral services for William J. Stevenson vice president of James Black Dry Goods died suddenly last Thursday in Phoenix Arizona of pulmonary hemorrhage will be Thursday afternoon at First Presbyterian Church Waterloo. The body arrives Wednesday at 12 am and will be taken from the train to 220 Independence Avenue. Dr. Thomas R. Niven pastor will conduct the services with Mrs Ben Schuneman singing Stevenson served on the board of trustees and had been a Waterloo resident for 35 years.
Moscow reports that 24 year old Russian Kolenberg confessed to killing Gen Jacob Alexandrovitch Salschoff, a Soviet war commissary officer, to avenge his brother executed by the general in 1920 at Nickalniev. The motive cited is revenge for the brother's death.
George Efchorn of Dubuque Iowa was awarded a heroism certificate by the national court of honor of the Boy Scouts of America. The awards announced yesterday recognize the use of scout training in life saving.
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