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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1922
Page
1
Irish irregulars evacuate Waterford as Free State forces press southward in a heavy 48 hour bombardment. Limerick sees ongoing artillery action while authorities report captures at Roscrea and casualties from a Waterford mine blast.
Readers follow a Milwaukee style piece on working women amid a shopmen strike. Women discuss hardships, pay cuts, and maintaining households while husbands face layoffs and pending labor action. Local women describe managing meals, rents, and credit as prices rise and unions rally.
Maj. Gen. J. M. Simms former chaplain chief of the British expeditionary forces was elected unopposed to succeed the late Sir Henry Wilson as member of parliament for Newtownards North Down Ireland. Tomorrow a new electrical shop opens in the Terminal building corner store Fourth and Mulberry streets run by A C Sweetman formerly of Cole and Sweetman.
Gov Kendall declined to deploy troops to Oelwein Iowa despite requests from Chicago Great Western rail road attorneys to protect property. Local authorities report no violence or rioting and say the situation is under control with several hundred Great Western shop workers on strike.
Local report says the Milwaukee Road power plant in the Cedar Rapids roundhouse is down. Worn engine bearings must wait for new wearings, forcing engines to be sent to Marton for water. A switch crew could not work 30 minutes due to engine failure, others unable to operate hours. Strike circles report quiet.
Senator Charles A. Rawson reports the Republican state convention will open with Attorney General J. Triton as temporary chairman. The meeting of the state committee in Des Moines will set plans for the August convention and Rawson will attend.
Boone Iowa July 21 The Fort Dodge interurban line has enough coal on hand to operate the service today possibly. Unless coal arrives today, it is announced that service will have to be discontinued.
West Union fire department dispatched from West Union to Clermont last evening carrying two carts on trucks to fight a barn fire. They arrived after 25 minutes and saved the barn and its hay while all stock was saved. A separate brief reports a child named Carl Lentus fractured a forearm after a fall from a haymow near Delwain Indiana.
Choras Jurgens of Shell Rock Ia was electrocuted while working on an automobile in a Buffalo Center garage. He touched a 110 volt lamp and was killed as his feet stood in water, grounding the current. Survived by his wife and son, his mother Mrs Thomas Jurgens Allison, and three brothers Henry Cornelius and George, in Minnesota.
Walford Bank in Benton county is wrecked after robbers cut wires and blew the safe. The building is destroyed but authorities say about $15 was taken. The robbers escaped in an auto.
Council Bluffs Viola Sloan 26 tried poison after quarrel with a friend. Her husband saved her. Newmarket Joseph Clowser harvested 3 500 bushels of wheat from 106 acres about 36 bushels per acre. Council Bluffs Louise Davidson 15 and Lester M. Babcock 15 wed at Blair Neb according to Omaha police. Wilton Junctions David Ayres opened a weekly billiard parlour for women. Des Moines police and neighbors search for Mattie Rules 14 who vanished from Charles Pattl farm yesterday.
Michigan governor proposes two plans for mine output with state operation or municipal use while a national coal strike debate grows. Miners in Iowa pledge support for international officers against Harding proposals. Industry leaders in St Louis advocate resolving via joint bargaining to avoid government force.
More than 600 United Mine Workers members gathered at Richards colliery Mount Carmel and blocked pump men engineers and firemen from returning to work. A mob of about 400 later appeared at Green Ridge operation chasing workers home while state troopers maintained order.
Los Angeles July 21 The trial of Mrs Clara Phillips for the murder of Mrs Alberta Meadows is set for September 18. Authorities say Phillips purchased a pistol two days before the slaying. the weapon remains missing as investigators pursue multiple leads and defense plans loom.
Mrs. C. E. Knapp of Grand Rapids Mich died after a fall while boarding an automobile. She suffered a broken hip and heart complications. Funeral services will be held Tuesday afternoon from Rand Avenue Church of Christ in Grand Rapids.
Cedar Falls July 21 Special plans for a new Western Old People's home are discussed. The building committee will meet Monday to consider a 65000 to 75000 facility with a chapel hospital ward dining room kitchen and rooms for 30 people run by the Evangelical association as a national institution.
The nationwide shopmen strike continues with arrests in Augusta for mail interference and railroad officials denying delays to force troop calls. Some roads consider separate negotiations while others seek a national agreement as service declines in Hannibal with several trains canceled or rerouted.
Mrs. Florence B Fontaine of Kew Gardens Long Island says Evan Burrows Fontaine the Oriental dancer has filed suit against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. She declines to reveal claims but says the action concerns her 18 months old grandson’s rights and welfare, not Whitney money.
Coast guards search for motorboat pirates who attacked the converted auxiliary schooner William H. Albury off Florida. they shot and killed its master Captain Edgecomb and fled. The Albury has operated in the run between the Florida Keys and the British Bahamas.
Pittsburgh July 21 representatives of 2 000 members of the Brotherhoods of Railway Clerks Freight Handlers and Station Agents will cast a strike vote tonight. The Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad faces an all out impact if workers walk out.
The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co will lead Henry Ford in burning powdered coal at a new $6,000,000 municipal electric light and power plant in St. Louis McClellan and unkersfield construction engineers announced today.
Six Kansas City labor readers file suit in Wrangdotte County District Court under the declaratory judgment law challenging the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations authority to assume jurisdiction over the railroad shopmen strike. The action was filed today in Kansas City Missouri.
Dover July 21 The 21 000 ton British liner Remuera collided with an unknown vessel in the English Channel early today. The Remuera sent wireless reports and returned to port with no casualties. Among the passengers on the Temperance advocate Pussyfoot Johnson was en route to New Zealand.
Dallas July 21. Final speeches closed one of Texas' most bitter primary battles dominated by Ku Klux Klan and antiklan lines. Senator Culberson seeks renomination and opposes the Klan, while main rivals include Cullen F Thomas Earl B Mayfield ex Gov James E Ferguson Clarence E B Owsley and Ht L Bob Henry with voting set for tomorrow.
Miss May Walsh known as the tallest woman in the world dies at St. Bernard's hospital. Burial delayed to build an eight foot coffin. Walsh stood seven and a half feet tall and suffered acromeglia according to Dr J N Hurley.
After six days of sessions the thirtieth convention of the International Walther League with over 500 Lutheran Young People societies ended in Omaha. Detroit was invited to host the 1923 convention, and more than 460 delegates departed. Indianapolis and San Francisco had bid for 1924 and 1925 but no action was taken.
Kansas City July 21 Chicago Milwaukee St Paul railroad says it will meet most strike demands but will not restore seniority rights. H J Byram, president, urged workers to return to work in a telegram to J S Adsit, local rep of the company.
Negotiations for the purchase and consolidation of the Detroit Journal with the Detroit News were concluded today. The final issue of The Journal as a separate paper is to be published today and tomorrow, with The News issued as a combination of both newspapers.
Washington July 21 Consul W P Blocker reports a temporary trestle now spans the Rio Grande between Engie Pass Texas and Piedras Negras restoring all railroad traffic after the flood destroyed bridge.
Opera star Geraldina Farrar has filed for divorce from her actor-husband Tou Tellegen and seeks £9,600 she says he borrowed during their four years together. A telegram to Mrs. R. D. Tiffany in Hollywood reported her daughter Beatrice Zook, now Mrs. Tiffany, is ill with pneumonia but not critically. Church notices announce a First Congregational ice cream sociable to fund a radiography outfit and note footwear sales at reasonable prices.
Local residents and visitors are listed with travels and stays including Mrs Ralph Créglon visiting in town, Miss Lilian Huntington at 219 Vine, Mrs Florence McCoy in town from Los Angeles, and Mrs J Gollmvaux bound for Mooroa Michigan. Also noted are a divorce writ dismissal for Estella Dwyer versus Martin Dwyer, and several trips by car to Osage, Yellowstone, and other points. Local lectures by Mary McVicker on labor and government.
Two more so called soft drink parlors were ordered closed and dismantled by district court order. The owners, A C Fritz of Fifth Street east and Charles Calleas of Fourth Street east, faced injunctive action filed by county attorney Waller R French on liquor nuisance convictions.
Paris July 21 The American government would receive its quota of German dues totaling more than 3 000 000 dollars annually for maintaining its army on the Rhine under a reparations plan now being finalized with the commission. Final allied approval expected in weeks. The commission calls the plan a successful solution and the United States government has endorsed it.
Washington July 21 President Harding was invited to become a member of the Flathead Indian tribe of Montana and to consent to naming a Montana peak after him. The invitation came via Senator My erp of Montana for Renan community at the tribal celebration. Examinations to fill a radio inspector and typist vacancy were cancelled after no candidates appeared.
Mrs. Anna M Luthmer age 59 of Waterloo died June 24 in Cincinnati after a long illness. Her husband H J Luthmer took her to Cincinnati for her daughters and she leaves son Arthur J Luthmer of Delaware county and two married daughters Mrs Henrietta Bovid and Mrs Burr A Dean in Cincinnati. Born in Iowa she lived in Delaware county many years and was active with St. Josephs church. Burial was in Cincinnati and Mr Luthmer has returned to Waterloo.
The Knights of Pythias grand lodge of Iowa plans its annual convention July 25 26 and 37 in Mason City and Clear Lake with business sessions in Mason City and lakeside entertainment. FP W Esher a grand lodge member will travel with his wife who is a Pythian Sisters delegate. The uniform rank also meets at the same time and place. Morris Motor Car company employees and families attend a picnic at Morris Isle next Sunday hosted by C A Morris with Charles Palmer as chef serving a chicken dinner.
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