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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1918
Page
6
Waterloo imposes half ton coal limit for households and uniform business hours from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. except certain venues. No weekday matinees, Sunday hours restricted, hotels cafes exempt. The fuel board warns of possible coal taken from bins if industrial needs rise, aiming to avoid a wider crisis amid a cold wave and potential blizzard.
Waterloo faced a severe fuel shortage with new Sunday exemptions. Rules require stores open by 8 a m and close by 6 p m, except shine parlors, drug stores, newsstands and cigar shops. Drug stores 8 a m to 10 p m. billiard halls 1 p m to 2 p m. Sunday hours 11 a m to 1 p m for certain shops. no off hours after 6 p m for drugs or cigars. Theatres closed except evening showings. Saturdays exempt.
Cedar Rapids and nearby towns report tightening coal supplies with scarcities and use of green wood and corn cobs for fuel. Vinton Independence Anamosa Central City and Manchester each report one to two days of coal on hand with no beyond supply. no actual suffering yet.
Des Moines and south central Iowa face the coldest weather of the season with lows 20 to 25 degrees below zero. Snow lingered around Des Moines as temperatures dropped, and officials warned the colder spell would deepen later today.
In New York on January 36 a group of vellboys organized a six week course to distinguish admiral from army lieutenant. An army officer leads instruction and fines of one dollar may be issued after two weeks for errors.
Cincinnati reports an ice gorge moving downstream at 10:10 this morning snapping the City of Louisville from its moorings. The Ottawa held, but the Louisville sank amid extensive damage feared at over a million dollars with 40 coal barges swept away and Hattie Brown torn free. Wreckage fills the river as more boats and dockhouses risk destruction.
Secretary Baker and Senate military committee Chairman Chamberlain, key figures in the army appropriations dispute, lunched together at Washington today. The meeting was seen as a sign of renewed efforts to build understanding and ease tensions.
The Italians retained Col del Rosso and Monte di val Bella on the Asiago front after renewed attacks with strong forces. Monte Sisemol remained contested with heavy losses as Austrian defenders held. Italian forces gained in Brenta valley fighting near Bassano and captured 1,500 enemy troops with 60 officers.
Washington D C is reporting that the issue of 490 million dollars of certificates of indebtedness closed last night and was heavily oversubscribed. Allotments will be made as subscriptions are reported. The certificates are payable April 22.
London reports a violent night as German raids fail to pierce central London defenses. Three killed and ten injured in Kent and Essex outskirts, with several aircraft engaged and most British planes returning safely. A minister died sheltering civilians during the attack.
Two American Red Cross workers, William Platt and Richard Cutts Fairfield, were killed at Mestre, Italy, when German bombs struck a Red Cross hospital. They had gone to aid victims despite the danger. Fairfield, 18, lived in New York City. Platt, 26, from Baltimore area. Funeral rites were held as coffins were carried through Mestre streets.
Reinbeck Iowa Jan 30 The remains of George Wlehen who died at Camp Cody arrived yesterday at the family home northeast of Reinbeck. A short prayer service will be at the home tomorrow morning and at noon the funeral will be at the Congregational church in charge of Hon A W Sinden. Burial will be in West Union cemetery between Traer and Dysart.
The British torpedo gunboat Hazard was sunk in the English channel on January 28 after a collision. Three sailors were lost. Built in 1894, the vessel displaced 1,070 tons, was 259 feet long, and carried a normal crew of 114 men.
Two robbers on the West Side of Chicago terrorized a block, firing with a revolver and holding up seven anteon and two drag stores within a radius of ly blocks. A wounded bystander and two others resisted as the robbers fled through the dense area, description of the assailants incomplete due to damaged text.
Des Moines January 30. Governor Harding appeals to federal rail authorities to provide cars to move live stock and corn to markets. He says millions of bushels will waste unless ships are sent immediately and cites hogs ready for market and state grain interests backing the effort.
A committee including H. E. Kiester J. O. Trumbauer and J. C. Hartman proposed the name Service League for the new organization coordinating war finance and campaigns. The choice, to be ratified at tonight’s meeting by affected clubs, follows a thrift stamp slogan contest offering a $5 prize to the best line.
Announcement from Paris via American Army in France dated Jan 31 states about 690000 tons of former German steamships are ready for the high seas and many are bringing troops and materials to France. Ships listed include Leviathan ex Vaterland Covington ex Cincinnati America ex Amerika and others, used to aid Entente against German submarines.
Berlin workers join a broad strike wave amid unrest over Prussian reform and annexationist policy. Independent Socialist leaders are under arrest as Kiel dockyards and Rhine Westphalia plants halt production. Meetings banned and calls for war aims and voting reforms accompany demands.
A Chicago barber testified at the federal building that he had not kept books on tips but estimated tips at 250 dollars for the year. The report notes tips as income for tax purposes for the first time in this context.
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