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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1929
Page
12
In a swift House session the administration secured a 250 to 113 division to keep the debenture plan out of the farm relief bill. The debate ended as Representatives Haugen and Tilson urged excluding the debenture scheme, prompting a rapid, party line close.
Washington awaits Hoover decision on rival Jadwin and Mississippi river flood control plans. Army engineers push Bonnet Carre spillway and Bird Point New Madrid projects while calls for a nonpartisan engineering board grow. A comprehensive basin study is urged to guide national flood policy.
Donnan D. Donnan of Independence has been named supervisor of the government census for the district with Waterloo as headquarters. He previously chaired the Republican county central committee in Buchanan County and served as sergeant-at-arms in the state senate. The Third district will be divided into two divisions, with supervisors in Dubuque and Waterloo. Scheer of Dubuque is named for the eastern division. Waterloo will count Black Hawk, Bremer, Grundy, Hardin, Franklin and Wright counties. The census plan follows a 1920 precedent, with one enumerator per 200 people and headquarters details still to be decided in Waterloo.
State board of railroad commissioners approved a Des Moines to Cedar Rapids bus route today. The grant hinges on Cedar Rapids company purchasing the Des Moines and Central Iowa Motor Transportation line between Newton and Des Moines for 20 000. Fort Dodge settlement: Bertha Fischer of Peoria sues Henry Herrn for 25 000 breach of promise in federal court.
The Courier will be delivered to your home before 5 30. If you fail to receive your paper by that time due to carrier error or other cause, please call 5100 for a replacement copy. Phone calls should reach the office before 530 p. m.
The Rock Island SVaterlon series second game at the Mississippi Valley league park was called off at 2 p m due to soaked fields. A makeup doubleheader will be played tomorrow with bargain prices. the first game starts at 1 30.
Mrs. Oscar De Priest, wife of the Illinois congressman, was hosted at a White House tea in Washington on June 13. Guests included Mrs. Hoover, Mrs. Crood, Mrs. Mitchell, Mrs. Pree, Mrs. Clyde Kelly, and Miss Grace Burton, among others.
Des Moines reports the four day training seminar for officers of the National Guard to close at Camp Dodge tonight. Maj. Gen. M. A. Tinley, commander of the Thirty fourth division and the school overseeing the event announced the finale. The sessions drew 85 officers including division heads and leaders from Infantry cavalry artillery and medical units and their staffs.
The Senate approved the econets-reapportionment bill by 48 to 37 and sent the conference report to the White House, marking the first major proposal of the extra session after House action.
Captain Albin Annenberg, Swedish flyer, says he will attempt another takeoff from Reykjavik tomorrow if Greenland's weather remains good. Repairs on the plane were completed earlier than expected despite aviation experts urging caution.
In seven minutes the House eliminated the debenture plan from the administration's farm bill and sent the measure back to conference with the Senate by 250 to 113. Republican leaders shut off debate to suppress expressions of opinion on the controversial feature, a move opposed by President Hoover and opposed by Senate action.
In Fort Dodge on June 13 the Town department of the Grand Army of the Republic elected J W Ewing as commander after voting to meet at Ottumwa next year. He succeeds J W Stratton. Joseph Pratt was chosen senior vice commander with L B Devendarf as junior vice commander. Dr Lerch is medical director and L G Wilson chaptety. A G Stone Ottumwa and J T Lucas Marshalltown head the council of administration with Eugene Allen Cedar Rapids as alternate to the national encampment in Portland Missouri. District delegates named include J T Smith Burlington and A Stone Obiumwa among others.
Authorities launched a search for Roald A. Rothrock attorney reported missing after leaving an Omaha hotel Saturday. The Georgetown graduate had faced liquor case participation in this region and Cedar County. A U S marshal sought him with no trace at report time. Freight derailment in Des Moines halted nine inches of track, eight cars off, no injuries.
City Assessor J A Townsley reports Waterloo property valued at 60.6 million real value as of January 1 1929 up from 58.3 million the year before. This gain reflects new buildings and expansions at President Hotel John Deere Tractor Co Rath Packing Co and James Black Dry Goods Co plus an estimated two and a quarter million dollars in real value. Poll tax lists indicate population up more than 1 000 in past year with 289 in polls in east and west districts.
Secretary of War Geod urged the West Point graduating class to emulate Zebulon Pike Walter Reed and Nathan Hale rather than pursuing Napoleon like self aggrandizement. He told new lieutenants not to be discouraged starting at the bottom and called Napoleon history’s worst example of personal ambition.
Des Moines June 10. A plane piloted by Tom Miller with passenger Tom Taylor crashed about a mile northwest of the municipal airport. Both men were seriously injured, Taylor in critical condition. They were taken to Town Lutheran Hospital unconscious with head wounds. The privately owned aircraft landed in a field owned by James Newell. Coroner Dr. William Carpenter labeled the incident a forced landing with damaged landing gear and propeller.
Mrs H M Brucher formerly of Winthrop and Burnits Worman and a Coe college alumna was killed in a crossing crash at Gallup New Mexico. Her stepson was killed and her husband injured. The family was traveling from Chicago to Los Angeles and will have bodies returned for burial in Winthrop and Oshkosh. She was noted as Lydia Roberts scholarship winner and a Coe beauty contest winner.
New York reports that Lieut. Commander George R. Pond piloted a Fairchild cabin plane to the liner Leviathan thirty miles beyond Ambrose Island. He dropped two mail bags and retrieved one, completing the round trip in under ninety minutes and saving about eight hours of mail delivery time.
Charles L. Dahlberg, 79, died five hours after being struck by a car driven by Bernard Hibbs, 20, as he walked into a supply company office. Dahlberg suffered a fractured skull. Hibbs reported the accident to police and was not held. In other notes, Charles A. Dewey elected grand master of the Grand Lodge A F and A M. Lloyd George named Liberal party chairman at the National Liberal Club.
The Yellow Bird, a large French monoplane, began its trans Atlantic journey from Old Orchard Beach headed for France while a second plane, the Green Flash, crashed on the runway. Crews included Amtona Lotti Jr and Rene Lefevre, with a passenger bride Pauline Parker. The Yellow Bird's route options ran via Cape Sable, Fayal or Azores toward Paris, with fuel and fuel mix adjustments noted.
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