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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1926
Page
9
A vast crowd estimated between 150000 and 200000 fills Chicago streets for outdoor rituals, highlighting inadequate transportation and the need for modern facilities. The piece also reflects on political missteps, regional incidents, and a cautionary view of governance amid a riotous boom in Florida real estate.
Senate debate centers on farm relief and rivers and harbors bills with adjournment uncertain. Farm relief gains in Senate may embarrass Coolidge administration. tensions rise as House inaction would extend the stalemate into December. Deepening the Illinois river to nine feet sparks opposition from Great Lakes states who fear lowered lake levels.
Federal hearings in Waterloo administered by G O Van Meier and tromer F Wood seek tax and penalties on altered liquor manufacture or sale. Defendants include John Seegers Denver Ia $2200 Ernest Brandt Denver $2900 Charles Mangler Preston Ill $2500 Albert Vander Weile Davenport Tay $1477 total $8710. Hearings under Lipke vs Lederer allow revenue collection with defendant evidence. Hearings not yet completed.
Chicago magistrates report that "Yellow Kid" Weil was sentenced to five years in Leavenworth for possessing stolen government stamps and railway bonds tied to East Chicago and Roundout mail robberies. Weil, famed as a colorful Chicago financier, plans to appeal the sentence.
Adim Karib and James Matz two American college youths were freed after brief imprisonment by the National Army they were seized while crossing lines and released after consular intervention. They are now en route Kalgan to rejoin travel plans.
Chicago reports the Illinois League of Women Voters declares the November 2 vote will be conducted efficiently and honestly. About 130 teachers from the league plan to train women in each section to serve as poll watchers judges and clerks. Mrs. Henry W. Cheney cites election law adherence as vital and says trained women can improve poll conditions and public service opportunities.
In San Antonio a heated executive committee session of Bexar County Republicans erupted in fistfights and a near gun incident as supporters of Harry M. Wurzbach clashed with a Creager faction over patronage. Police presence and multiple ejections followed a disputed report substitute, with Wurzbach adherents rearranging committeemen and no arrests reported.
Details of a severe Sunday night storm sweeping a large country area near Pisgah and Dow City. Destruction of trunk telephone lines delayed May details. Heavy rain and wind caused tornadic damage to houses groves and barns. Soldier River and ditches overflowed wrecking corn fields and flooding Lowa farms including the Bellee farm near Little Sioux.
Des Moines tour 22. Gale Johnson held by police here last night in connection with a Boone filling station robbery yesterday morning. Chief Carl Vonn says Johnson refuses to discuss the case and will be taken to Boone for questioning.
The fortieth annual Iowa Bankers association convention opened at the Shrine auditorium with over 1,269 financiers bankers and trust officers in attendance. George Sinclair of the Sioux City clearing house welcomed visitors and Mayor Stewart Gilman spoke for the city.
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Chicago crowds gathered at Soldier Field for the second public eucharistic ceremony of Women's Day, with an estimated 250000 women attending. A 15000-voice chorus, including 5000 nuns, led the Mass celebrated by Cardinal Piffl and remarks by justice Pierce Butler and other church leaders.
The Senate adopted Kendrick’s amendment removing cattle from the McNary farm bill and approved an immediate equalization fee on corn. Norris proposed the cattle change. Kendrick argued cattle are too perish able. The measure shifts emphasis on surplus handling and alters timing of the fee.
President Coolidge signaled willingness to defer to Congress on adjournment and need for further legislation. He indicated a later Washington visit would not disrupt his schedule.
Returns from yesterday's state primaries show Gov. Ralph Brewster leading Maj. Arthur L. Thayer for the Republican nomination in Maine. Early figures from 22% of 633 precincts report Brewster 13,865 and Thayer 8,160, signaling a comfortable Brewster edge.
George Patrick and A. R. Florence lead state officers arriving for the twenty first annual Eagles state convention. About 195 delegates and many visitors from Dubuque Davenport Mason City Council Bluffs and other towns expected. headquarters at Hotel Russell-Lamson. The opening session at Russell-Lamson tomorrow night will be public with W. J. Murtagh delivering the main address on an old age pensions topic. The day includes delegate registration and entertainment.
A fire at the Francis Aldrich home in Waterford on June 22 destroyed the dwelling and killed Mildred 18 Eleanor 5 Dorothy 3 and William 2. Aldrich and two other children were injured with Aldrich near death. The blaze started when an oil stove exploded as Mrs. Aldrich saved her infant Seth 3 months old.
Washington June IIS reports Justice William Howard Taft, confined at home for weeks, showing some improvement. The Tafts planned to depart today for their summer home at Murray Bar, Canada, but his illness postponed the trip for another week.
Mrs J L Brenneg of 1125 Mulberry street says the Chicago Eucharistic congress showed religion remains a prime factor in world life despite modern materialism. She attended with her family and describes the mass at Soldiers' Field with a 60,000 voice choir, notes traffic stoppage in the loop, and cardinals guarded by policemen. The event left her and others impressed by its scale and significance.
W E F Stoner special agent for the Great Western Railway reports Henry Palmer alias Eugene Baker was captured by police. Baker formerly of Oelsvein identified by Stoner and Wagner at Waterloo as the prisoner now in county jail under a $500 bond awaiting preliminary hearing in municipal court. Stoner will return with Baker’s full records.
Emil Feldman of Davenport will marry Eileen Ida Angich of Rock Island aboard the Rock Island Davenport ferry this evening. A rabbi from Rock Island will conduct a Jewish ceremony in the boat’s ballroom, followed by celebrations as the steamer shuttles between the two cities.
Council Bluffs realtors have formed a committee to prepare petitions in support of a Pottawattamie county highway bond proposal. The aim is to place the measure on the November general election ballot for a vote by the people.
President Coolidge signed the federal good roads bill authorizing $165,000,000 to aid states in highway construction over the next three years. The brief notice notes the return to pre-war funding levels and references a San Felice cigar advertisement.
A push to revive the Prohibition Party will launch with a state convention in New York to field a full state ticket for the fall elections. D. Leigh Colvin, national chairman, says aims include rebuilding party structures across states and backing candidates such as Edward G. Dietrichton in Syracuse for gubernatorial race. Prohibitionists plan organizing efforts in Illinois Missouri Montana Florida Nevada under a dry Republican alliance.
Paris reports Aristide Briand persists in forming a ministry that can win parliamentary confidence as talks with political leaders stretch. Paul Doumer and others survey the plan involving interior debt refunding and tax changes, with Caillaux proposing urgent leftist meeting to steer the crisis.
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