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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1928
Page
11
Oxford England March 6 21 Oxford university reports 6053 undergraduates for 1928 with 1603 matriculations. Women total 927 or 18 percent of students, a share that has declined prompting authorities to regulate the female percentage.
March 6 reports a border dispute between Berlin and Leipzig over train times. Leipzig complains the Federated Railways favor Berlin by delaying the Berlin to Leipzig train to 7 40 PM, two hours after Leipzig’s early express. Berlin counters the longer travel for Leipzig riders makes the schedule fair.
A disillusioned sculptor, Georges Bateau, sues the Chamber of Deputies for 2000 alleging he won the design contest for a deputies statue but was not awarded the contract. Lawyers say the chamber cannot be sued, yet the case sets a record of political broken promises amid satire.
The 1926 report shows Evangelical Lutheran synod membership in Iowa rising from 26 781 in 1916 to 42 114 in 1926. Nationally the church body grew from 130 783 to 216 726 members. Town churches fell from 163 to 154, country churches from 977 to 370. Iowa towns reported 1926 expenditures of 428 362 and churches valued at 1 714 100.
Des Moines report says Ethel Creswell and Rosie Besaw were charged with stealing a car but were freed after appearing before Judge Joseph Meyer. They explained misgivings about the trip and said the boys who picked them up left after a brief stop for snacks. No prosecution appeared, charges dropped.
Representatives from six Iowa farm marketing organizations met with Dr. RP Hughes of Iowa State College to discuss marketing problems and methods to improve marketing work. Attendees included the Farmers Grain Dealers association and the Iowa Farm Bureau. Also noted were visitors Mr and Mrs Ernest Kretz from Minneapolis visiting Waterloo friends.
Mrs John G Richards wife of South Carolina governor asserts her nine daughters are athletic musicians. She notes they swim ride horses mostly on side saddles, avoid cosmetics dancing and bridge playing. Richards orchestra includes all daughters while she rides with her husband on fox hunts.
Waterloo firemen led by James A. Pett Howard M. Wilt and A G Holden are erecting a three story 52 family Martin House on the west side of the city. The project includes 12 end apartments 30 side compartments and 10 upstairs studios with dormers. The unit sits behind the fire station and features dormers balconies porches and a white and green exterior. Occupancy expected about May 1 with residents relocating from the south.
Two 17 year olds Maurice Mahan and George Bliss pleaded guilty in circuit court to the September slaying of Floyd Stotler during a gas station hold up. Henry Olson, already sentenced for the same crime, attended the proceedings. The youths’ confessions clear Olson for release. he and his wife returned home after learning of the confession. Olson was a fugitive under bond pending appeal.
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