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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
8
Washington begins constitutional prohibition at midnight with the Eighteenth Amendment banning the manufacture sale and transport of intoxicating liquors in U S and territories. Congress defines intoxicants as beverages with 0.5 percent or more alcohol as wartime restrictions persist and enforcement is organized by the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
The act declares unlawful the manufacture or sale of beverages with 0.5 percent alcohol or more and bans liquor advertising. It designates places selling liquor as public nuisances and allows search powers for enforcement, with private dwellings safeguarded unless used for unlawful sale. Seized liquor is destroyed, assets sold with proceeds to the U S treasury. Home manufacture for personal use is permitted for non intoxicating ciders, while intoxicating defined as 0.5 percent or more. Sacramental, medicinal, industrial, and scientific uses are permitted under limits. Possession of pre prohibition liquor at home is allowed. physicians may not prescribe alcoholic liquor except in good faith for relief, with monthly limits. Complete sales records by manufacturers and druggists are required. Penalties include up to 2000 dollar fines and two years’ imprisonment.
Rear Admiral Sims told a senate committee that naval awards and decorations were improperly influenced by a policy from Secretary Daniels and the Knight board. He faulted changing officers recommendations and cited the Bagley case where a Navy Cross was downgraded to a Distinguished Service Medal.
Six masked men bound the yardmaster and watchman of the Pennsylvania railroad and moved six trainmen to a shanty as they seized whisky worth between 75 000 and 100 000 dollars from two box cars. In a separate raid another crew held a Coca Cola watchman at gunpoint and rolled four barrels of alcohol from a warehouse to a waiting truck, value about 5 000 dollars.
The Indiana legislature ratified the federal woman’s suffrage amendment today. In the Senate the vote was 43 to 3 and in the House 90 to 6, making Indiana the twenty sixth state to approve the measure.
Reports from Riga dated June 16 describe a Bolshevik offensive along the Reshit Kreutzsburg railway repulsed by Letts. Letts counterattacks took prisoners and occupied villages between Dvyinsk and Antopal, seizing Pytalove station as forces moved east of the Dvinsk river.
In a rare plenary French caucus, Georges Clemenceau lost to supporters of Premier Deschanel as 821 of 924 deputies and senators gathered to choose a candidate for the presidency. Deschanel led Deschanel’s bloc to victory while Clemenceau urged re election for Poincare, prompting mixed reactions and street celebrations.
Thaddeus C. Sweet joins Attorney General Newton and Deputy General Berger to review evidence with the Lusk committee. The suspended Socialist members allege wartime policy debates and prior actions blocked their oath. Seven killed and others injured in a fireworks factory blast nearby.
Report from Melsingfors says radical agitators sent from America aboard the Buford will be examined by Soviet officials before entry. Russia rejects being a dumping ground. Emma Goldman party to be sent toward the Finnish border with U S immigration guards. Finland reportedly hopes to trade detained activists for Soviet prisoners.
The American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico urged immediate relief for victims of the Vera Cruz and Puebla earthquakes and eruptions. A relief committee led by George T. Summerlin will collect money for medicine blankets and clothing for direct aid to the needy.
The first western aero show closed with a historic sale of 1,038 airplanes and one dirigible for 7 443 000. The event marks the greatest commercial aviation sale in U.S. history, reported from Chicago dated January 16. A Courier reminder notes delivery times and a phone number for late copies.
A New York Supreme Court verdict grants $100 000 in damages to visiting Toronto engineer Alexander P Mackaul ey against Fifth Avenue jeweler Theodore Starr for malicious prosecution. Keough the forger was later arrested in Altoona Washington and identified as the principal in the check case, while another suspect serves a term in Joliet.
United States Marines and Haitian gendarmerie repelled an assault on Port au Prince. About 300 bandits attacked the capital with over half killed wounded or captured as they were driven from the city. Two Marines were wounded in the engagement reported to the Navy Department by Col. J. H. Russell.
American operatic composer and conductor Reginald de Koven died in Chicago after a sudden illness at a dinner hosted by Mrs. Jacob Fish. He had directed Rip Van Winkle rehearsals in the city and collapsed from apoplexy, dying within minutes. De Koven’s career included many operas and songs, with Oh Promise Me among his popular works.
Paris January 16 The Duchess De Talleyrand once Miss Anna Gould of New York was released from guardianship over her brother George J. Gould. The court found she and her brother had paid all debts from her first marriage to Count Boni de Castellane and had not incurred new debts.
The League of Nations held its first formal session in Paris with Leon Bourgeois presiding and Sir Eric Drummond confirmed as general secretary. A frontier- tracing commission was named for the Sarre basin while criticisms of the league as an imperial tool were voiced by Irish envoys.
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