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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1928
Page
11
The period from January to July 1998 shows Waterloo’s rapid growth with citizens demanding 169 news telephones 301 electric meters 267 gas meters and 297 water meters. Other items include international treaty talks Kellogg's plan with 13 nations and updates on agriculture and public health.
East Moline on July 20 reports Raymond Minjouw, 80, was killed last night while crossing the tracks. He was struck by a Rock Island passenger train, the same line involved in a prior collision that killed three persons.
Herbert Hoover reaches Stanford after a 4000 mile cross country journey to receive formal nomination notices. Mrs Hoover mourns her father C D Henry and avoids photographers at arrival. They return to Palo Alto for funeral services as Nevada leaders report favorable views on Hoover’s candidacy.
Beatrice Albert 19 once dubbed the Auction Girl withdraws an offer to marry for 8000 to support her estranged parents in Milwaukee. Her father demands marriage to W. W. Goynes while her mother opposes the match. She says happiness cannot be bought and plans to stay with her family in Siren.
Two aviators were hurt when three planes tried to land at Trumbull field during national guard maneuvers. Lieut Col James W Gilson and Private William Sahotka were treated. Gov John H Trumbull was unharmed and visited Law rence Memorial hospital later.
Widow Mrs Iva Plager and Paul Reed tied to Vernon Piager murder as Bombing case unfolds. Reed claims guilt denial. Heed with alibi. Plager asserts innocence amid inquiry. Marilyn Jean Kuehl, 4, killed by car driven by Marvin Kuppinger 17. bond set at 2000 pending inquest.
Livingston arrives at Waterloo airport at 6:30 p m in the new Ryan brougham monoplane for passenger service. He left Chicago at 3:10 p m with a 40 minute Dubuque stop. total time two hours forty minutes. Ruth Elder traveled with him on the return trip as a fellow passenger and was described as attractive and unpretentious. A new field is planned at Aurora Texas on August 10. Also reported, a fur coat theft in Cornell Bluffs, Iowa, with Mrs. Albert Krasner noting a $600 loss from her car.
National vice commander J. A. Henry of Minnesota will address the Town department convention in Cedar Rapids from September 10 to 13. Also on the tentative program are C. B. Robbins Cedar Rapids assistant secretary of war and Col. Banford MacNider Mason City.
Courier delivery instruction states home delivery before 5 30. If the paper is late due to carrier error or other cause, readers should phone Alan for a copy. Calls must reach Alice by 39 p m for prompt resend.
Chicago July 20. Knights of Ku Klux Klan leaders announce no public parades will be held until after the November election. The decision came during the four day secret session of the national biennial convention, with minor bylaw changes and a 10-year ritual plan among the main actions. Imperial Wizard Aizam W. Evans says political issues were avoided at the klavivocation. The Klan will oppose Gov. Alfred E. Smith's candidacy.
Dominic Aiello a 55 year old Italian grocer is fatally shot at Death Corner scene of gang activity. Police accuse blackhand extortionists after an argument with two shooters who fled. Aiello’s 23 year old granddaughter, present, escaped unharmed. Relatives say Aiello was not related to the AiHo Mquor gang.
Chicago July 20 A R The wedding of Louis Gordon mechanic of the airplane Friendship on its trans Atlantic flight and Miss Ann Bruce tonight closes the second day of the Friendship crew celebration Amelia Earhart and Wilmer Stultz will be honored at the wedding The ceremony is at the Trianon ballroom and Boston officials of Chicago attend a Hyde Park High reception earlier Earhart met classmates and phone congratulations poured in The trio rode in a triumphal parade from Union Station to city hall and will attend a street carnival before the wedding night ceremony
Frank J. Loesch president of the Chicago Crime Commission tells Kiwanis members that murders in Chicago cost 46 dollars each. He says the city is under a rule of gunmen and a gunman can be hired for 60 dollars, with no punishment for killings.
A bicycle repairman notes the strong bond between boys and bicycles and reports rising adult use. He cites more bicycles in the city today, estimating over 2,200 bicycles ridden currently.
Five men were jailed or awaiting trial on conspiracy charges connected to an assault on farmer Sam Bupterschmidt of Oakville. Official names include William Heinold Lester Dearman Ari Goble Glen Heinold and Samuel Dearman. Bail was posted for some defendants while others remained in custody.
Northwestern Bell announces construction of a new downtown telephone building in Iowa City at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars. The structure will be completed this year and will house a trans continental repeater station.
Waterloo reports a six month rise in utilities with water meters up from 7825 to 8122 and 287 more on duty. Electric meters increased 301 and gas meters 357, while telephones rose by 189 in use for the first half of 1928, marking a new high despite seasonal disconnects.
President Coolidge discussed the lakes to sea waterway with Washburn Mayor Harry Robinson and W A Robinson editor as they presented the St Lawrence project benefits to midwestern agriculture and Panama Canal impact. The briefing occurred during Coolidge’s semi weekly news conference on July 20 in Superior Wisconsin.
Roger Dooley 24 of 227 Independence Mac and Arna Marc Putram of Elgin Minnesota will marry on the Riviera Theatre stage tonight. Dooley is noted as an athlete at Upper Iowa University.
A pleasure yacht named Arbustus owned by Fred Bell, M2 Gregor, Ta, capsized in a fierce Mississippi River storm near Wanpoton, Ta, twenty miles north of Dubuque. Fourteen men were rescued from possible drowning as the vessel overturned during the tempest.
An Alsace Lorraine frontline account recalls a night dive to seize German troops with 18 wounded and seven prisoners. The same edition reports freak weather in Chicago causing seven deaths from electrocution and a Wabash train wreck near Council Bluffs with multiple fatalities and extensive damage.
The federal radio commission plans allotting special high fidelity frequency channels for aviation police experimental and other stations with stations in each service sharing channels. Police nationwide may get one channel 2068 kilocycles to prevent interference. Other classes would receive three to twenty frequencies. Six frequencies are set for long freight train communications between engines and cabooses.
Stockholm reports Sergeant V Nilsson, pilot of the Uppland, declares belief that six men who fled with the Italia envelope and Roald Amundsen expedition members perished. He returns from the ice floe off Foyn Island and says the envelope party likely never reached land and burned with the envelope.
In New York on July 20 32 year old Londoner Chapman assistant steward aboard the Leviathan was charged with stealing registered mail from June 16 to June 22 while at sea. He was held on 7500 dollars bail for an August hearing before United States Commissioner O Neill. The Leviathan had docked yesterday and officials noted losses may range up to 4000 dollars higher or more, with conflicting initial estimates.
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