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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1929
Page
1
A Kansas flood devastates Hutchinson from two directions with the region inundated, damage likely over a quarter of a million dollars. The national guard is mobilized to protect people and property as Cow Creek roars through downtown and Dry Creek floods nearby residential areas.
Washington DC July reports show the Senate Finance Committee fast tracking tariff hearings to craft a bill ready for Senate reconvening on August 19. Chairman Smoot splits free list hearings among subcommittees to save time as Republicans push for faster drafting and possible House bill rate revisions.
Seven hundred more arrests were made in Harbin Manchuria alongside 200 Soviet officials and workers of the Chinese eastern railway as authorities move to halt sovietization. Harbin officials say the seizures, which included the railway, aim to curb Russian influence on the district while Moscow reports Manchurian troops advancing on the frontier.
Flood waters inundated Hutchinson from two directions causing damage estimated at 250000 dollars. Kansas National Guard units were deployed to protect lives and property as Cow Creek became a torrent. Salina faced new flooding near union station while Dry Creek flooded tracks. In Des Moines a divorce was granted to Joseph and Mary Music after years of discord.
The Courier should arrive at your home before 3 30. If delivery is late due to carrier error or other cause, call 51nd and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach the office before 14 p m.
Art Bartlett, Cedar Rapids amateur golf champion, defeated Carroll Stuart of Waterloo 3 and 2 in a final 36 hole match at Cedar Rapids Country Club. Bartlett led with three birdies late, finishing morning 4 up and closing out after a sequence of par, birdie, and halved holes to claim the title. Stuart staged a late rally but could not overcome Bartlett’s strong front and back nines.
Brussels reports that after talks ending the long marks dispute, an agreement binds Germany to pay Belgium 37 annuities starting March 31, 1930. The first annuity is 138,769,280 Belgian francs about 3.885 million dollars, followed by three consecutive annuities of 184,169,000 francs about 5.166 million dollars.
July 13. Twenty automobiles were damaged downtown in Dallas when whisky spilled into a gutter became flammable after liquor raided and poured into the street. Deputy sheriffs and prohibition officers reported the blaze started from a dropped match or cigarette, with firemen confirming the cause.
In Rome on July 13 Captain Lewis A. Yancey and Roger Williams woke to a crowd of about a hundred American students singing the Star Spangled Banner and shouting their names. The fliers signed autographs and posed for pictures before traveling to Centocelle air field with Major George E. Lovell Jr to inspect planes, including the Savoie 64 used by Ferrarin and Delorette on a Brazil flight.
William G. Irving, former Wyoming state law enforcement commissioner, appeared before U.S. commissioner Dr W Gil in Cheyenne and posted $3,000 bond for a district court appearance on August 1. Irving, indicted last May with 27 others on charges of conspiracy to violate national prohibition law, had been sought by federal authorities and was in Los Angeles.
Van Nuys California July 13 Herbert J Fahy is to take off at one minute after midnight in the Black Hornet monoplane bound for Mitchell Field New York and back within 32 hours, aiming to set a record.
Weather forecast for July 15 to July 21 shows unsettled, showery start in upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Temperatures rise above normal early week, then cool midweek and warm again toward the end.
Coroner jury at the courthouse returned that Theodore P Anthony a Gamble Robinson salesman was killed by violent means. The verdict said the shooting was at the hands of parties unknown with witnesses citing sightings near Fourth street east and Franklin between 1 10 and 1 25 a m last Thursday. Sheriff Wagner said the inquest established facts and did not assign guilt.
Le Bourget July 13 Dieudonne Coste and Jacques Bellonte fly toward the United States with a motion picture of their departure. A rival pilot Doret pursues at 124 miles per hour, catching up near Tours. He picks up a sealed film can carried by a cord behind the other plane and Bellonte recovers the film using a special rig.
San Francisco July 13 The Chinese vice consul Ying Kao his wife and Suen Foon chancellor of the Chinese consulate are charged with conspiracy to smuggle opium. Federal authorities plan to arrest eight more prominent Chinatown figures on warrants. Interpreter trouble hindered letters. preliminary hearing set for next Wednesday.
Hongkong report says 1000 people were killed or injured in an explosion at Yunnan province ammunition stores on Thursday. The blast wrecked the French consulate at Yunnanfu and damaged the British consulate and Protestant mission. No foreigners were killed, but the British consul was slightly wounded. The French consulate had no noon news.
Reports from Paris and New York describe impending arrival of the French Question Mark and the Polish Marszalek Pilsudski in the first trans Atlantic race. Preparations at Roosevelt and Mitchel Fields are under way as officials anticipate thousands of spectators and state troop support.
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