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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1923
Page
9
Senator Borah will remain in Idaho this summer amid debate on direct primaries while Eugene Meyer Jr studies foreign conditions. Secretary Hughes aims to keep capital ready for events as Borah weighs a Europe trip amid growing international attention and domestic pressures.
Notice explains home delivery before 3 30 and to call GIO if missed. If the carrier error or any cause prevents delivery by that time, a copy will be sent. Calls to the office after 6 30 pm may not reach staff.
Nicola Sacco, held in Norfolk county jail for 34 months over the South Braintree murder case, enters his twenty first day of a hunger strike demanding freedom. He argues justice is not for the poor and refuses to be moved or fed by guards, while his wife Rose Sacco endures hardship beside him. The International News Service cites Sacco’s claim that only liberty or death will end his protest.
The Los Angeles Examiner reports Mrs. Vina Cunningham is a great grandmother at 47. Her daughter Mrs. Jessie Meyers is a grandmother at 31, and Meyers’ daughter Mrs. Bertha Pauschilé is a mother at 1a, as the paper pursued a search for the youngest grandmother.
Wall Street circles report a five million merger plan among midwest independent match firms to form the Federal Match company. The new combine would rival Diamond Match, with Union Match Minnesota and Illinois firms among those named in Joliet and Duluth.
An explosion at Narragansett Electric Light plant cut power citywide. Elevators failed, manufacturers idled, and newspaper presses and telegraph wires went dead across Providence.
Secretary of the Navy Denby said the party en route to Panama will skip Port au Prince Haiti due to a 16 hour gale that slowed the Henderson by half. The ship carrying Marines to Haiti and Santo Domingo will now divert to Colon to transfer supplies back to the island, with the Henderson due at Colon on Tuesday March 13.
Mrs. George Haston mother of Tennessee Secretary of State ER N Haston was fatally shot and four others injured as a Black assailant, Lewis Dudley a former convict, went on a rampage in Spencer Tennessee. The secretary's wife sister-in-law and neighbors were among the wounded and Mrs Haston died of fright. The gunman was chased by a posse after the attack.
Heavily armed men guarded the jail in Franklinton Louisiana to protect twelve suspects tied to the brutal murders of deputies Wesley Crain and Wiley Pierce. A frank session of the grand jury was to review alleged confessions by John Murphy and Gideon Bester claiming they killed the two deputies and buried them in mud after a still raid. The suspects allegedly led a posse to the burial site earlier.
Port au Prince Haiti March 8 Lieut Commander J A Fletcher executive officer of the United States fuel ship Orion died today as the result of a fall through an open hatchway of the collier.
Watertown leaders and Mr Kiester plan a 1913 style rail trip to Baltimore, New York and Washington for 125 applicants. The itinerary covers Illinois Central, M&StL, Great Northern and western Canada, with 19 July return. Total cost 215 dollars, including transport, berths, meals and autos.
Chicago March 3 United States spring and summer gasoline use estimated at 23 gallons a second by WW M Welch president of the Anivheay Oil Tankers association. The forecast says two million gallons daily may be needed, with a potential shortage due to reduced production in Moscow.
Brilliant Enrico Caruso stage costumes sold at auction for modest sums. The highest price was $7 for the costume worn as Radames in Aida. A sixteenth century Brescan walnut cabinet used as an altar for the Bantisa of Gloria Caruso brought $42. Mrs Caruso’s share goes to the Caruso foundation to aid needy musicians.
Freight traffic on railroads breaks all season records, reports from the Car Service departments and the American Railway Association show. For the week ending February 24, 830,223 cars carried revenue freight, 191,298 more than the previous year and 171,581 more than the prior week.
Federal court designated receivers to conserve assets of T R Steel enterprises in Buffalo. The suit in equity names National Toy & Tinsel Mfg Co of Montreal as petitioner, with about 322,000 invested by the public. N. R. Steel tied to the board of trade is noted.
Police and firemen comb the ruins of the Shelton Sailing building on Pittsburgh's north side for bodies of missing persons after a fire last night. Gustave Bickel, 40, is identified as deaf, and about 30 others remain in hospitals with injuries from jumping from windows.
St Paul Minn March 3 L Vin Ashbaugh aged 57 publisher of the St Paul Daily News and the Omaha Daily News The Rural Weekly and the Minneapolis Rural American died at his home after an illness of several years
Chicago March 8 Discovery of AL anaesthetic praised by experts as superior to any known anesthesia after 14 years of work by Dr F. Dani Karat and J P Carter at the University of Chicago and colleagues of Dr Luckhardt. The gas based on ethylene is said to spare heart action reduce pneumonia risk and allow quick recovery with oxygen.
Reports from London and Amsterdam describe rising tensions as fierce talk of war spreads across Europe. French troops occupy areas near Dortmund while German unrest and hunger fears surge in Essen Bochum and Cologne. Russia orders millions of arms as rebel movements gain ground. Unconfirmed calls for mobilization hint at potential multi front conflict.
Peoria police and sheriff teams track a band dubbed phantom yeggmen who have cracked more than twenty safes and robbed over twenty Peoria stores in recent weeks. Police report multiple incidents over the past month with several burglaries still under investigation.
Olga Ralph, listed as the plaintiff, claims a contract with John L. Kirby of Houston to be his companion and secretary. Kirby denies the allegations, says no agreement existed, and notes he is pursuing a court summons related to the matter. The girl, daughter of Mrs. Albert Schaeffer of Lowden Iowa, has a history of residence in St. Louis Chicago and New York.
In Tulsa Oklahoma March night a mob of about forty men abducted George Price 17 and Fred San dors 16. They were taken to a spot near the city and whipped severely. The boys say they were beaten because a girl they had been with returned home intoxicated.
In Chicago on March 8 Judge Marcus Kavanagh ordered separate trials for Mrs Tille Klimek and Mrs Nellie Koulik accused of poisoning relatives. Klimek’s trial began for the murder of her third husband Frank Kupczyk, who died in 1921. BRIG FINE IN DALLAS Fire of unknown origin destroyed a four story building in Dallas last night, with estimated losses of 400,000.
G A Anderson of Algonquin was found burned alive in a sedan at Buttermilk Corners Md. Investigators seek whether the fire was accidental or foul play. Constable Henry Gromer saw two men stop beside the wreck before fleeing in a dark car.
The article reports that E Kendall urges state control of water power, proposes transferring power licensing from district courts to the executive council, and notes the broader plan to permit the state to regulate and permit dam construction. It also covers related legislative actions in Iowa, including funding limits, road rights of way, and other bills introduced in the House and Senate.
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