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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1919
Page
9
J Boyer of Evansville abducted Grace and another child from the Extine home to Evansville. He claimed reconciliation efforts failed and threatened drastic action. He aimed to keep the children while seeking wife’s return. mediation and hotel visits followed. Grace is three. a younger sister is about one.
Colfax Iowa 17 year old George White is jailed awaiting investigation for allegedly forging checks. He attempted to pass a 26 dollar check at a clothing store and left without paying. Police meanwhile believe he may be wanted in Mason City and Marshalltown.
Electric workers strike across the southeast in sympathy with Western Union. In New Orleans crews refused to report for 179 employees, while Cumberland Tele phones and Western Union branches reported reduced staffing. Atlanta orders for union operators were rescinded. postal inspectors found no clear violations of the anti dismissals rule. Winnipeg telegraph operators plan a Monday return to work en bloc, with other unions debating continued action.
Employees of the Iowa Telephone company form a baseball team and will play their first game against the Moose team tomorrow afternoon at Cedar River ark. Three city teams exist with plans for a local league. The Moose club played Cedar Rapids last Sunday. Iowa Telephone lineup includes Hoke Moeller Little Barth Hileman Dunlap Schroeder Heath Kintsley Brockus.
Chicago telephone users will face annual rate increases totaling between 2,000,000 and 2,500,000 dollars under a new schedule effective June 16. The changes were announced by the Chicago Ferrat company under Postmaster General Burleson. Corporation Counsel Eitelson and Frank A. Righeimer plan to oppose, but government control of wire systems remains.
The American Game Protective Association reports a tip that Frank McAllister, Missouri attorney general, is recommended for a federal judgeship in the eastern district. It protests to President Wilson and Attorney General Palmer, citing McAllister’s alleged violation of the federal migratory bird treaty act by shooting ducks on Stultz Lake, Missouri, on March 6 while awaiting trial.
Jamaica ginger was declared an intoxicant by the supreme court and its sale is unlawful. Rollo Mercena de Kol, the Holstein cow, sold for $26,000. Director General Hines estimated April railroad deficit at $58,000,000, totaling $250,000,000 for the first four months. American shipyards delivered 136 ships in May and launched 137. Part of the Bulgarian army marches toward the Serbian frontier per Balkan News Agency.
Fort Dodge Iowa June 7 Mrs B R Campbell wife of a Fort Dodge banker traveled with her husband and two others to Minneapolis for dinner. While others ordered fish she opted for chicken and now has a small chicken bone lodged in her throat. Nine physicians failed to remove the bone but can move it aside to allow liquid foods. She must wait for dissolution and cannot eat solids though no serious injury is expected despite the nervous strain.
Waterloo bank clearings for the week ending June 7, 1973, reported by the Waterloo Clearing House Association, show daily totals and a weekly sum. instruments and mortgages data follow with week endings in 1918, 1933, and 1979, plus a note on a year-to-year comparison and a France sugar import decree published in Paris.
The article explains how garden ants tenderly farm aphids such as corn root aphids by carrying eggs to nests and transporting aphids to roots. Ants protect the aphids, harvest honeydew, and overwinter eggs deep underground, enabling aphid populations to persist and spread to cornfields east of the Rockies.
The United States war department announced the return of national guard and national army divisions from France. May totals show 833,303 embarked. demobilization returned 291,639 officers and men to civilian life. By June 3 American forces in Europe numbered under 706,000 as demobilization sped up. Some soldiers were moving so quickly through camps that finance and quartermaster records could not be checked.
Waterloo residents Frank Mr Stull and R. J. Snodgrass were elected secretary treasurer and division council chairman of the Hons of Veterans Iowa division at Cedar Rapids. H L Crowell of Waterloo was chosen a national encampment delegate, with L W Emery Spencer Don Donnan and others named to key posts. Lieut. Fred Taylor’s Cedar Rapids air flights drew crowds and free rides were offered with prizes. The Currie Simpson Co. won the contract to build the Morris Plan bank on Bridge Street, replacing the old Hamilton Camera Shop site.
Nearly 6,000 overseas troops arrived in Boston aboard the battleship New Jersey and the transport Mongolia. The New Jersey carried 1,354 officers and men, with units from the 313th and 314th machine gun battalions, plus other infantry companies. The Mongolia’s total nears 4,547, including Maj. Gen Charles H. Martin and Brig. Gen va G. McAlexander with key regiments. Newport News hosts over 5,000 from the 90th Division aboard transit ports Huron and Wilhelmina on June 7.
Philadelphia reporters note Surgeon General Merritt Ireland praised a company of soldiers who endured cooties to study trench fever during World War I. The volunteers allowed themselves to be bitten to prove transmission by the fever-carrying insect, guiding delousing plant development and protecting the American army in France.
German recruiting agents are active in Austria offering pay and inducements as they seek men for the army and to gather ammunition. Reports from Die Freiheit in Berlin and other wires note German bureaus appealing for enlistment with wages of nine marks a day as the effort intensifies.
Berlin authorities report a 24 hour general strike by the Greater Berlin soviet dominated by radical proletariat elements in protest against the Munich execution of Legine Nissen Bavarian Communist leader. Many large shops closed this afternoon and surface and subway lines likely out of operation Saturday.
The Polish government formed a military commission in Eastern Galicia to safeguard allied interests in the oil field. German Austrian and Hungarian owned properties have been seized as guarantee for war damages. Work has resumed at all wells.
Washington June 7 Comptroller of the Treasury War wick warned Secretary Baker that if the War Department allows contractors to procure material without any price agreement it must be corrected. The War Department sought a ruling on payment of 100000 demurrage claimed by dealers who supplied sand and gravel in New York last year to contractors with blanket orders. The price was later fixed by the War Industries Board price committee.
Mrs Elizabeth George died at the county home this morning after long illness. She was about 60 and survived by two sisters, nephews and nieces. Remains moved to Tileman Gindt mortuary for funeral arrangements. G S Budget Plan Boost on flood of budget report ordered by senate rules committee.
A jumble of old Waterloo area ads lists houses for sale and rent, farm land, used appliances, and vehicles. Items include a 44x34 straight wall shed, a Majestic refrigerator, a bicycle, a gas tank, and multiple modern houses with varying prices. Local contact lives at Grey Courier and 1123 Sycamore with several phone numbers.
An alleged conspiracy to defraud the government of 30 million dollars in munitions supplies was uncovered. Indictments charge Capt Solarios Nicholson of Washington, Grant Hugh Browne, Fred C. Colns, and a U.S. army officer in France, per Arthur L. Darkey of Detroit DOJ.
The transport Kentuckian arrived from St Nazaire with 1180 troops. The detachment includes units from the 345th field artillery 90th division and the 25th sanitary train 7th division field hospitals 10 and 359 ambulance company 259 and one officer plus 47 men of the 623rd motor transport company. They head to Camps Devens Upton Dix Lee Sherman Taylor Jack man Taylor Jackson Bowie Travis Grant Dodge Presidio and Lewis.
Mrs. Floyd McRae of Kansas City and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. Green, visit the area. Mrs. Irene Griffith, 112 Togan venue, has been homebound by illness for two weeks. J. S. Tuthill to deliver Memorial address for Odd Fellows at Central City and Coggon tomorrow. Mr. and Mrs. W. Williams return from Franch Lick Springs, three weeks away. Dr. J. M. Tracy of St. Joseph visits his cousin W. H. Marquis. Tracy is a retired physician. RE. F. Kistner back from Des Moines after Iowa association of undertakers convention. Ralph Alexander arrives in New York from overseas.
A collage of brief items includes Judd Tunis gaining a divorce from Marie Tunis with custody of a child and alimony awarded, local traffic offenders processed, James Loonan seeking gravel paving on a five mile stretch, and school superintendent A T Hakill addressing the Rotary Club. Also noted are veterans Herbert Nelson and Arthur Nelson with DC actions, board additions for the Black Hawk County Motor Trades bureau, and new sales staff at Overland Hanson.
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