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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1925
Page
9
Waterloo residents welcome United States Senator Albert B. Cummins for a nonpartisan dinner and reception. Speeches to follow the principal address by Cummins, promising a strong local interest from the third district.
Scores of farmers drag Cedar Creek twelve miles southeast of Fairfield in a bid to recover Clarence Standley a 17 year old who vanished after entering the raging creek on a dare yesterday afternoon. The swift current may have carried the body downstream.
An old newspaper ad fragment promotes Henry George 6c cigars and San Felice 2 for 15c. It notes delivery by 5 80 o'clock and asks readers to call 5100 if the paper isn’t received by that time. The text shows mime-like errors and a carrier message.
Senator Albert G. Cummins declined to slow campaign pace despite naming Mrs. Emma K. Blaise as private secretary. Crummins arrived from Des Moines by auto to attend a 6:40 p.m. banquet at Hotel Russell Lamson hosted by Third district Democrats and Republicans.
Robert E. Olds of St. Paul Minn a former law partner of Kellogg will be appointed assistant secretary of state by President Coolidge. He will succeed John V A MacMurray who was named minister to China and the announcement came from the White House spokesman in Washington.
Shenandoah Iowa June 16 Miss Ruth Starr daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Starr Council Bluffs to Joe Lindell to be broadcast from the Christian church over KFNF at 1 30 p m Wednesday Lindell formerly lived at Waterloo Des Moines and Ottumwa
Sioux City health officials reported a new smallpox case on June 16, widening concern after previous patients were moved to a northeastern neighborhood. The latest infection marks renewed activity amid the ongoing epidemic in the city.
In June 16 feed ing of hogs at the municipal yards proved profitable as Street Commissioner Wesley displayed a $2,260 check for the profit on 167 hogs sold. The hogs were purchased by the city on February 17.
Paris reports that French and Spanish naval forces prepare joint action against Rif tribes in Morocco. Two French destroyers patrol the Rif coast blocking incoming shipments as Louis Malvy heads to Madrid for Franco-Spanish talks opening Wednesday to finalize plans at the conference.
A Delaware, Lackawanna & Western emigrant train wreck near Rockport New Jersey claims 29 lives with 21 dying later in hospitals. A storm and lightning caused the earthslide that toppled coaches and released scalding steam. Eyewitness Miss Mabel White described scorched passengers and the frantic rescue as doctors and nurses arrived.
Manchester faces ruin as the Monday flood devastates the business district and farm land in Delaware county, with up to 4 million dollars in county losses. Civil War veteran Alfred Wells dies after slipping on mud, while a bridge crew among the workers from Minnesota division suffers injuries. The Hawkeye Limited passenger train derailed on a Maquoketa river bridge washout, stranding passengers until rescue crews reach the scene.
John W Worthington a Glendale sanitarium patient from La Salle street fled a California hospital after being granted health travel by federal authorities while serving a three year embezzlement sentence. He was recently charged with grand larceny and tied to a 1923 St Louis mail robbery. Federal and county officers hunted him as a suspect in the disappearance.
Eldon Wingfield eight died when earth slid from a ravine ledge burying him near Carman TiL. His brothers, Lloyd 11, were nearby. Lloyd escaped and ran for help after a section caved in. Police later reported Wray car damage in a Lafayette Fourth Street collision at 10:55 p.m. on Monday.
In Chicago a federal drive targets the middlewest alcohol trade. Officials call Chicago the world's largest alcohol clearing center, with bootleggers profiting an estimated 12 million dollars over two years. Charles M. Vurcell places federal agents at production and denaturing plants to track shipments and recipients, aiming to cut illicit alcohol flow and reduce time.
Danny Bowser, 16, drowned when a motorboat carrying 14 YMCA campers from Morris Isle sank in the Cedar River at dawn. Ralph Minkler, swimming instructor, saved five boys and helped two others reach shore after the vessel capsized. Bowser, weighed down by a 30 pound knapsack, was pulled under and did not survive. 18 others escaped. Camp officials say the menacing current and recent floods made the river unusually deep and dangerous.
Des Moines forecast indicates Iowa may see more thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow. Some rain fell last night mainly in the southern section, but overall amounts were light.
Clifford Hallowell, state director of the Izaak Walton League, spoke to Kiwanis members at Hotel Russell Lamson luncheon urging immediate conservation. He described efforts to preserve land and wildlife, noting starvation harms more than hunters and highlighting the Roosevelt era vision.
Des Moines reports the state board closed contracts for winter coal, purchasing about 90,000 tons at 4.40 dollars per ton for institutions. The $374,000 deal favors Iowa mines, aiding five thousand miners idle in the state and supporting local mining towns.
In arguments before the Iowa supreme court in Des Moines on July 16, plaintiff counsel charge fraud in adding signatures to make Black Hawk county eligible for the accredited area without consent. Attorney General Gibson argues for the state to overrule the lower court injunction blocking county supervisors from enforcing the statute.
Associated Press dispatch from Newark notes that prohibition, religion, and United States Senator Walter Edge’s leadership of the New Jersey Republican organization are central in the June primaries. Edge backs former Attorney General Thomas F P McCran for governor, while State Senator Arthur Whitney Mendham leads the anti prohibition faction with Cornelius Dermis as a rival. Whitney accuses Mage of drafting Dermis as a dummy to split the drys and aid McCran’s bid.
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