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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1921
Page
8
Washington notes President Harding has gained steady support from both parties as leaders in the House and Senate, with his presidency delivering successes while Congress struggles with discipline. Public opinion increasingly treats him as the party’s de facto chief, shaping future governance.
The Courier should be delivered to your home before 5 30. If you fail to receive your paper by that time due to cartier boy error or other causes, call 3330 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 30 p.m.
The Michigan Avenue Trust directors offered a $10,000 reward for Warren C. Spurgin the missing president. Lloyds of London may add funds and a worldwide hunt is launched. State examiners work on the bank’s $1.5 million shortage while a separate forgeries probe reports $1/2 million in forged notes and a missing surplus.
George Barrett 33 died at Sarori hospital at 11 am from injuries suffered two hours earlier when struck by a car driven by RC Whitney of Janville. His widow is reported in critical condition. Barrett was assisting his son in law L H Pashby with farm work when talking with a friend from Minneapolis named Gorman and stepped into the road before Whitney’s auto. Surviving are two sons A P and Louis and three daughters Mrs Pashby Lois and Victirine.
The War Department announced a surplus wool sale to be held at Ford Hall in Boston on August 4. About 5,000 pounds of low grade wool from South America and the West Coast will be offered.
Arthur Burrage Farwell of the Chicago Law and Order league demanded investigations into reports that cabaret proprietors pay large sums for operation. The open letter cites the Jeffrey Tavern raid with liquor seized and a witness claim that big money is paid to run there. Farwell sent copies to President Harding, cabinet members, Congress, and state officials.
Casey Jones white man condemned for the murder of Mrs J Mosely and sentenced to hang July 18 was taken from the county jail by a mob in Hattiesburg Mississippi early this morning. He was overpowered and killed in the courthouse yard after a desperate struggle. Rev Dy Harmon previously thwarted a lynching attempt.
Kansas City veteran delegates to the American Legion convention October 31 to November 2 will be married free of charge by Rev. John W Interna i, regional chaplain. The committee will pay for the marriage license, the groom only needing to supply the bride. The chaplain says marriage gives purpose and steadies wandering veterans.
The Associated Press reports St Louis, July 23. T F Taylor, 24, a Kansas City pharmacist, and his bride were detained. He confessed to police that he last Tuesday night attempted to rob an oil filling station in the northern section of the city but failed.
The All-Russian trades union council decided to appeal to the world proletariat for famine relief to Russia's hunger-stricken regions. The dispatch from Daily Herald in Moscow reports the appeal as a formal call for international aid.
Highways bulletin from the Weather Bureau dated July 2 1921 lists towns including Albert Lea Algona Charles City Mason City and Des Moines within the area. It reports scattered showers in Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin causing local problems with tonight and sunny conditions expected later. Temperature figures are incomplete in the fragment.
President Harding joined the camping party of Harvey Firestone Henry Ford and Thomas Edison at Licking Creek near Pecktonville Maryland. He wore shirt sleeves and chopped wood for lunch his party included Bishop William Anderson and his wife. Brig Gen Sawyer stayed in Washington to aid Mrs Harding who was indisposed.
A pageant of nearly 5,000 people staged last Saturday in Dubuque, Louisiana, was sent to Senator Burton E. Sweer and the Third Iowa district congressman. The letter argues the district favors changing the Volstead Act amid strong celebration and public support for repeal.
Washington July 23 Extensive plans by the United States Shipping Board contemplate dotting the Atlantic coast with floating saloons. A New York liquor syndicate considers buying wooden vessels from the board to load with liquor and anchor beyond the three mile limit. The scheme would create a chain of floating saloons from Bath Maine to Tampa Florida.
The new shipping board liner American Legion sails from New York on its maiden voyage to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. Crew largely from the American Legion. the 35 foot long ship with 18,900 tonnage, originally built for army transport, now a first class passenger liner.
Deputy Sheriff George Ruprecht and Leslie Farrell, 18, wife of a county jail prisoner, are held without bail after a downtown joyride ended in a spectacular wreck. The damaged auto crashed into a telegraph pole and a cigar store, with repairs claimed to have been caused by intoxication.
Jefferson City Mo July 23 The house committee passed the road bill in the house at noon by 47 to 21. The measure creates a system of about 7700 miles of roads statewide using clay and gravel as the minimum construction standard.
William Campbell father of Major Bruce Campbell expected to testify before the Bergdoll committee in defense of charges against his son. The Interstate Commerce Committee continues hearings on maternity issues as the Senate remains not in session.
U S Shipping Board agents seized four major steamers in harbor raids and added them to five already seized for rental arrears of about 400 000 and alleged contract laxity. The ships include the George Washington America Susquehanna President Grant and Agamemnon, with George Washington slated to sail July 20 to Europe. Custodians were placed aboard all vessels.
New York reports June price shifts from the national industrial conference board showing clothing up slightly by nine tenths of 1 percent while food falls by three tenths of 1 percent. Wages decrease slightly, and overall living costs as of July 1 remain 61 percent higher than July 2 1914.
Paris HL July 23 A warrant charges Robert Gobin a Champaign county farmer with selling a tubercular cow to James F Reily near Paris Five members of the Kelly family are said to have contracted tuberculosis from the cow's milk.
An auxiliary schooner laden with Scotch whisky was boarded at Lighthouse Point early today. The crew was seized and 256 cases of whisky were confiscated as police link the ship to the shore liquor operation.
The Des Moines municipal water plant shows a net profit of $102,816 for the first five months of the year, per the accountants' report filed today.
The AP reports a week starting Monday with generally fair weather in the Great Lakes upper Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys. Temperatures will run near or above normal with a probability of local thundershowers at the start of the week.
Washington July 23 Bergdoll inquiry ends abruptly after Charles A Braun calls Rep Johnson a liar and is led from the room toward a train. Braun, brother of Grover Bergdoll, says he first heard of alleged payments to Maj Bruce R Campbell from newspapers as other witnesses are examined.
Mrs J C Thompson of Marshalltown Iowa traveling to Buell Iowa with her husband was robbed of 250 dollars by two highwaymen on a Nebraska road near Ashland. The couple stopped at Minden, called for aid, and the robbers escaped.
In Sarzana violence erupts as Fascisti and Communists clash leaving twenty dead and thirty wounded. Reports describe hospital knife killings as the chamber debates government action. Senator Lupi denounces the violence and questions peace.
Gov Leu Smail, facing an indictment for embezzlement of state funds, told thousands of Republicans at a Chicago picnic that powerful interests seek to defeat the people. He claimed Sangamon county grand jury actions aim to pressure him from calling a winter special session of the legislature.
Des Moines July 23. Mrs Kendall wife of the governor was operated on for acute appendicitis at a local hospital. Doctors report her condition as favorable.
London July 23 Gen Jan Smuts expected to fly to Dublin next week to offer his services to Eamon De Valera and Sir James Craig in Ireland peace talks. British plan for dominion home rule under Lloyd George faces republican scrutiny as Sinn Fein leaders in Dublin oppose the proposal.
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