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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1925
Page
9
In Mason City the Grand Army of the Republic holds its state encampment with auxiliary organizations. Fewer veterans gather for comradeship as the city extends a welcome of honor and gratitude, recalling sacrifices and needs of the survivors.
The Courier will be delivered before 5 30. If the paper is late due to carrier error or other causes, call 5100 for a replacement copy. The call must reach the office before 6 30 p.m.
Washington dispatch analyzes rival Republican camps over tariffs as 1925 prosperity shapes policy. High protectionists fear influx of steel and textiles despite a broad prosperity, while others oppose tariff battles, warning a fight could disrupt markets. The piece links tariff views to auto industry and road-building plans, including Latin American road financing.
A Chinese civil war near Canton endangers foreigners as four Americans are wounded aboard a launch. U S officials urge all Americans to leave the battle zone while authorities protest to the Japanese commander. The scene includes mobs, gunfire on ships, and foreign ships at risk as tensions rise.
In Lockridge Indiana on June 9 two unusual checks were issued by the bank examiner closing the receiver ship of Lockridge Savings Bank. The two small payments to depositors Gloyd Butcher for 4 cents and C H Sherman for 2 cents were drawn to avoid legal entanglements and the reorganized bank has funds to honor them.
Makoqueta Pennsylvania June 9. Residents protested trustees of Mount Hope cemetery over selling a memorial marking the graves of Jennie and Winnie Davis sisters who taught in the county for years. The monument, originally 3300, was sold for 100 to a local man who removed the inscription and relocated the stone to his family plot. The Davis sisters left 400, used for the tombstone and burial costs. ongoing grave maintenance faded from memory.
Prominent social workers from across Iowa will speak at the Iowa state council of the American Red Cross in Des Moines on June 9. Gov. John Hammill Dr A L Murphy Cedar Rapids Dr Frank L Williams regional director of the U S veterans bureau and others are on the program.
Twenty American boys from thirteen states will tour eight countries under YMCA auspices to promote world brotherhood. They will visit Germany Poland and Czecho Slovakia and meet leaders including President von Hindenburg. The trip sails from New York June 27 and returns September 7 via Austria Hungary France Switzerland Germany Poland England.
Des Moines June 9 John Hammill will attend the seventeenth annual conference of the nation s governors at Poland Springs House Maine from June 28 to July 4 A tentative program includes a sea trip from New York to Portland a trip to Bar Harbor and possibly a sky ride in the Shenandoah A Bar Harbor yacht will be turned over to each governor to command during a contest
Sioux City June 9 thieves entered the home of Mrs A Johnson while she was shopping stealing false teeth silk stockings jewelry valued at 509 dollars and several pairs of stockings. The report notes the theft occurred during a shopping excursion and lists the recovered items.
Newspaper reports say two Lincoln highway patrolmen were shot near De Witt Iowa, one fatally. The assailants fled in a large eight cylinder car with Nebraska plates, after stopping for gas near Tipton. Patrols and posses across Clinton and surrounding counties were mobilized, with authorities warning of a dangerous bandit event.
A June Der Abend report describes a plot to assassinate Czecho Slovak Foreign Minister Benes if he visits Vienna. Plausible conspirators are said to be members of the Awakened Hungarians in Budapest collaborating with the Austrian nationalist Maken Keurezler faction.
Kenneth Heckroth six year old son of William Heckroth of Dysart Iowa died at Alén Memorial hospital at nine this morning from injuries after a cow kicked him yesterday while he cared for the animal at his sister’s home near Dysart. X ray showed rupture of the spleen. The body was taken to Traer Iowa for burial.
Cedar Falls hosts the fourth annual Bible conference with a large outdoor park venue. Dr Gly Campbell Morgan heads the program, focusing on Genesis in the morning and an evening topic to be announced. W M Danner, S BD Gordon, Marvin Elliott, George T B Davis and H Wilson are officials, with Mr and Mrs Burr Montgomery directing the music.
American entrants face elimination from the Golden Bennett coup as pilots Vie for the prize near Brussels. S-14 with Lieuta Flood and McCormickh landed near Dieppe yesterday. Goodyear ITI, commanded by Wade T. Van Orman, disqualified after a sea landing incident. Remaining balloons Grand Charles French Belgica and Prince Leopold Belgium remain unaccounted for while Belgians claim the Belgica pilot Ne Muy ter was not killed. Picardie landed at Anneville, France, per reports.
A triple funeral was held in Cedar Rapids today for David Winslow and William Rittner. The boys died when their truck with grandparents was struck by a Northwestern train near Bertram last Friday. They were buried side by side in Lisbon cemetery.
The Franco British reply to Germany’s security pact proposal, announced at Geneva, is described as a broad mutual assistance entente. Britain pledges to protect both sides of the Rhine, aligning with France to deter aggression and support a Versailles framework, with Germany urged to join the League of Nations and accept western frontier guarantees.
Dogs from Fort Madison kennels, trained at Correctionville, are aiding deputies to pursue a Sioux City criminal. Deputy AL Af Mead leads the training team with Beardsley supervising the sheriff staff in a bid to track the suspect.
Waterloo was awarded the 1926 state trapshoot at a meeting of the Iowa trapshooting association held in Fort Dodge Ia. last night. H M Cooper Marsludltown was elected president of the association and Al Verneus Magie Grove was re elected secretary treasurer.
Sturgis Kentucky June 9 The Borier of miners victims of an explosion in the West Kentucky Coal Mining Company mine were found today and surface along with three others found last night. The victims seven white men and 19 grots were located at the 400 foot level more than a mile and a quarter back of the shaft mouth. Nearly 130 other miners were in the mine at the time but escaped reaching gaiety before fumes and dust overtook them.
Gen. William Chamberlain, chief of railway artillery in the AEF, died in a taxi accident in Paris. The American embassy arranged passage for his body to the United States aboard the first outgoing steamer, possibly the New Amsterdam. He was awarded the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Cherie and commanded the Second Division during May and June of 1915.
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