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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1929
Page
1
A convention segment in New London Conn. stalls as governors discuss the prohibition issue amid debates on enforcement duties between states and federal government. Also reports include a Cedar Rapids judge fining a woman for pushing a rival and word of fashionable role reversals for women in the cotton trade.
Dispatches from Harbin and Mukden report 20,000 Chinese troops moving northward and a disrupted railway between Siberia and Manchuria after two divisions of Soviet troops arrived at the Sino Russian frontier. Nanking and Moscow react with diplomatic notes as protests flare in Shanghai and at the Chinese embassy in Moscow.
Valparaiso July 17 A Chilean transport Abtao sank off the port in one of the fiercest storms in years. Forty one officers and crew were lost with only two saved. The ship sent a distress call answered by three boats Flora Antarctico and Imperial. Two destroyers later recovered several bodies amid wreckage as heavy seas hampered rescue efforts.
Nassau county coroner Wilmot Hallork ruled Wilmer Stultz was not drunk at the time of the Roosevelt Field crash that killed the aviator and passengers. The report, made public yesterday, cited jammed controls as the cause and dismissed Dr Alexander O Gettler’s intoxication theory.
Cedar Rapids Iowa July 17 Mrs Eden DeWold was fined 25 for pushing Blanche Hobel in justice court Judge G S Lightner ruled a push is an assault The defendant described how hard she pushed and the court announced the fine
A United States destroyer rescued 40 passengers from the north German Lloyd steamship Derflinger after it became stranded on a rocky reef near Challen Tao, China. The passengers were landed at Taungtao.
The notice states home delivery by 4 30 p m and if late due to carrier error or other cause, call 5100 for a copy. Phone calls must reach the office before 6 40 p m.
Tampa Florida July 7 Four teen state banks in southwest Florida closed their doors today. Capittal and surplus of the institutions totaled 3 595 000. Deposits aggregated 22 263 961.47 and assets 29 211 075.22. Deposits of the eight banks which failed in the two weeks prior were estimated at 10 800 000, bringing total deposits tied up in failures to date to 33 083 963.61.
In Cleveland, Louis Seltzer and Carlton Matson received a stay of execution from Appellate Judge Willis Victory after being held in contempt of court by Judge Frederick Walther for a 30 day jail term and $500 fines. Former secretary of war Newton D. Baker and the chief attorney for the newspapermen appealed to the court of appeals.
A Senate subcommittee on Indian affairs reports that Dakota Indians on South Dakota reservations are poverty stricken and disease ridden and may become public charges unless unemployment improves. The panel notes alcohol flows on at least one reservation and tuberculosis affects about 25 percent of the Indian population with rising social diseases.
Chicago July 17 Clark Griffith president of the Washington American league baseball team underwent an operation for appendicitis at Mercy hospital. He was reported resting well a few minutes after leaving the operating room.
National baseball roundup from Boston notes the Braves beating Pittsburgh 7 to 4 in a long header day game. Boston tallied five runs in the sixth inning while Pittsburgh scored a run in the seventh. Batters include Hargreaves Relbold and Bpahrere.
William Fox motor crash near Long Island leaves chauffeur dead and Fox severely injured. Miss Mildred Kane, driver of the other car, escaped unhurt. Fox and companion were rushed to hospital. Rubinstein injured but not seriously. Fox transfusion ordered as doctors monitor possible brain hemorrhage.
Des Moines July 17 Milo Hilton Iowa s first aerial bootlegger remains in Polk county jail awaiting habeas corpus relief. If released Sheriff Wicklund plans arrest and transfer to Marshalltown. Federal Judge Wade will rule on release by July 24.
Paris July 17 Premire Poincare, confined to bed with exhaustion from debt accords work, receives second confidence vote in the Chamber of Deputies 350 to 238. Socialist Blum sought to subordinate Young plan adoption to Rhineland evaluation amid Bartholus reminder of government victories.
Agreement to settle the three week old New Orleans street car strike was reached with union officials accepting Secretary of Labor James J. Davis as sole arbitrator. The action follows word from Washington that W. D. Mahon submitted the case to the labor department and Davis consented to arbitrate. Officials from the Public Service company did not issue a formal statement, but unofficially the company was said to accept, potentially ending a strike that caused riots, two deaths, over a hundred injuries, and heavy property damage.
Los Angeles July 17 reports say 17 year old actress Virginia Lee Corbin is missing from her home. A telegram to authorities says she was aboard a Santa Fe train headed for Chicago after being admonished by her guardian for staying out late Saturday.
More rain was predicted for Iowa today by Charles D. Reed, with cooler air sweeping in from the northwest tonight and spreading to the east and south by Thursday. Fair weather was forecast for tomorrow, while Decorah logged the day’s hottest reading at 68 and the low near 59 at Atlantic and Boone.
Kansas Governor Clyde M Reed endorses former crime commission head William Wickersham’s idea to shift wholesale enforcement of prohibition to the federal government while keeping retail enforcement to the states. He notes Kansas already bears about 90 percent of enforcement burden and that federal action would change the balance.
In San Francisco on July 17 a broken oil line forced pilots Bartlett Stephens and Fred McKinley to land the California built San Franciscan after 35 hours 49 minutes aloft. They announced plans to attempt the world refueling endurance record again once the aircraft is reconditioned.
Gus Himmer 88 of Austin Minnesota died when a Caterpillar tractor ran over him while he worked as a farm setter for Larson Construction paving road No 149 near Ottumwa. The body was sent to Austin. Des Moines reports state license required to sell soft drinks outside towns under the road house act.
Funeral services are being arranged for Eldon Couch a 13 year old from Marathon Iowa who drowned yesterday while fishing in a gravel pit near town. He fell from a dock into about 10 feet of water.
New York woman sues her 28 year old husband, a New York Stock Exchange member weighing 332 pounds, seeking separation after he allegedly promised to reduce before their marriage but failed. She says he skipped breakfasts to go eat out and kept up the deception.
Washington July 17 The federal farm board announced it is not in a position to give definite consideration to loan applications. It will deal with cooperative officials for lending to co op marketing associations and urges patience while agricultural reforms proceed. The board plans regional meetings and urges direct farmer group cooperation to improve distribution and prices. Chairman Legge credits weather for wheat price rises, not board actions.
Miss Lenora Hartin of Des Moines was badly injured when a tire blew on the car she rode with fiancé Ross Wright and Mr and Mrs Roy Jenkins near Casey. The vehicle left the road, sending Hartin to Mercy Hospital with a fractured skull while the others, all Des Moines residents, escaped with minor injuries as they were bound for Omaha for the planned wedding.
Kenneth Parkinson, 20, who took his first solo about three weeks ago, was injured when his second-hand Jenny plane crashed at 1,800 feet. He was receiving treatment for a lag broken yesterday. Parkinson and his brother had bought the plane after the solo and the aircraft wrecked, but Parkinson will recover.
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