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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1929
Page
13
Towa division of the Tzank Walton league backs stronger action to save the Cedar River from pollutants. A Waterloo meeting urged creating a special sanitary district for sewage disposal and mobilizing industrial cooperation, with city debt limits cited as a factor.
Col. Robert W. Stewart arrives in New York denying a band wagon campaign and asserts board and organization support in the proxy battle to control the Indiana Standard Oil meeting March 7. He refuses to discuss testimony before a senate committee and denies involvement with Howard Sutherland proxies. The New York Times reports John D Rockefeller Sr joins the fight from Egypt, heightening Wall Street interest.
A severe windstorm and tornadoes across Illinois and Indiana killed six people and injured a father. In Carmi Illinois a farm home was wrecked killing Marjorie Har Graves, 4, and Bud Due, 3. A schoolhouse was demolished in Mannie where three died. Communications failed as the storm advanced westward. At Fort Branch Indiana a windstorm leveled a home killing Mrs. Mary Nolen and injuring her husband and grandchild.
Tony Pipich of Manistique Michigan received a life sentence in the state prison at Jackson from Judge Herbert W. Runnels. The judge ruled the punishment mandatory under habitual criminal code as Pipich had five prior liquor offense convictions. Pipich, a married father of five, sobbed as sentence was pronounced. He was to be transported to Jackson that night to begin serving.
Light snow flurries turned brisk overnight, leaving about an inch on surfaces. Train schedules largely unaltered this morning as streetcar service remained active and rails stayed clear by city sweepers. D. Cutter, 78, longtime livestock agent for Chicago and Northwestern, died in Cedar Rapids yesterday.
Ten charges of impeachment are filed against Gov. Henry S. Johnston by the Oklahoma House Investigating Committee. They accuse interference with the investigation, moral turpitude, neglect of duty, incompetency, and corruption in office. Specific items include pardons, fund diversion, illegal deficiency certificates, and militia interference.
Four boys aged 14 and younger burned to death when a fire destroyed their club rooms in a dairy plant alcove in West Philadelphia. Firemen found the charred remains as they searched the scene. Dairy officials were unaware the space housed a neighborhood club.
Des Moines reports Charles D. Reed forecast more cold weather for Iowa with ongoing snowfall in several areas. A zero degree air mass moving in from the west was expected to affect the state tonight and tomorrow, according to the government meteorologist.
Gretchen Utterback daughter of Hubert Utterback Red Cross chairman and former district judge was awarded 5000 damages against Mr and Mrs George Rudolph for injuries from a 1927 collision when she was a high school student in Des Moines.
In Topeka Kansas Governor Clyde M Reed launches stringent prohibition enforcement with federal and state raiding squads arresting ten. He seeks a $40000 special fund to expand dry work and directs county attorneys to enforce laws. The governor rejects the claim Kansas is a wet state and notes Kansas voted dry in 1851.
Sunbury on Thames England January report says Salvation Army high council in session learned of an injunction against its actions by General Booth London. The aged commander ill in bed had previously blocked moves to remove him from office. The council adjourned until Tuesday morning.
Harry G. Northey of Herrick Refrigerator Company was elected president, succeeding J. E. Johnson who resigns due to ill health. Johnson becomes chairman of the board as Northey, already a director, leads the bank founded in 1909. Other officers and directors are re-elected. no further changes announced. Northey has long been active in manufacturing farming and investments.
Former New York governor Alfred E. Smith has been elected to the board of County Trust Co in New York. Directors include John J. Raskob and William F. Kenny. Smith plans no other business ties until returning from Florida in a month. Kenny, Raskob, and Smith will depart for Florida Sunday. The bank opened in February 1926 with Smith as first depositor.
Wrecking crews cleared debris after a northbound passenger train hit a freight train on a siding outside Aberdeen Maryland. A second collision followed when a southbound passenger train crashed into the wreckage, killing four Pennsylvanian trainmen and seriously scalding two others. Local crews battled steam hazards and rail damage overnight as investigators began work.
Paris report states Marshal Foch shows slight improvement with heart and kidney function stabilizing. He is ordered to avoid excessive talking and not to read newspapers, though promised Sunday editions if his condition improves. solid food is being introduced.
Des Moines woman Mollie Freeburg, manager of a school of beauty culture, faces a fine of 50 or 250 days in jail for discharging an employee who served on a municipal court jury. Edna Carr, the dismissed employee, was summoned for jury service in November.
Hubert Gilley of station 1 says milder weather may bring a break from ten days of furnace chimney and roof fires. He notes driving a big fire truck on icy streets is nerve wracking and praises his crew for a strenuous stretch of alarms.
Carseas Venezuela Jan 18 AP aid ships steam toward Cumana after an earthquake leveled the city. The governor reports widespread destruction and many casualties as hospitals rush nurses and doctors to the ruins. Official death toll cited near two thousand amid collapsed telegraph lines and fragmentary reports.
Copenhagen reports a second attempt by Bert Hassell and Parker D. Cramer to fly from Rockford to Stockholm and back to the United States. Professor William H. Hobbs says the rescue of the pair last year confirms plans and about 300000 is raised for a late May or early June flight using a four tri-motor hydroplane instead of last year’s single engine craft.
Four inmates were executed by electric chair at the Georgia state prison in Milledgeville on January 18. The hymn Swing Low Sweet Chariot echoed in the death chamber as the four men walked to the chair, each joining in the chant.
Washington announces regular air mail between Miami and Panama will start February 4 with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh delivering the first parcel. Two round trips monthly will operate, with mail handled at Miami and Cristobal terminals on the third day.
Washington report outlines a model for state patronage control after a breakfast conference with A. Edmund Machold William H Hilles and Charles D Hilles in charge. The plan creates a tri umpire group with Machold Hilles and a national committeeman, shifting major authority to the state chairman while Senate scrutiny targets Treasury Secretary Mellon and Interior Chief West amid opposition to prohibition enforcement and tax refunds.
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