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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1925
Page
8
In the early hours masked men robbed a wealthy Broadway cabaret frequenter of $30,000 worth of jewels after breaking into her Manhattan studio. Police suspect links to other Broadway high-society thefts as investigations continue.
Washington report notes Charles B Warren appears headed for confirmation as attorney general. While some Michigan senators Ferris and Couzens show cautious opposition, Warren's record as a government lawyer and wartime legal posts bolster support. concerns center on his sugar trust connections and a lack of close ties with party leaders. Continues on page two.
Statehouse Des Moines Ta March The house passed Senator Romkey s liquor bill making possession of liquor as much a crime as the sale of it if signed by the governor The vote was 70 to 3 The house committee on intemperance s bill requiring labeling of liquor shipments without regard for its use was adopted with no dissenting vote
In Des Moines the senate and house set April 3 for adjournment while a primary reform bill lifting the 35 percent nomination requirement faces opposition. The debate highlights fears of party machines and taxpayer burdens as a separate pay-raise bill for prison officials is defeated 19 to 79.
International briefs report many events including two workmen killed near Poel Capellé by a shell blast in Belgium, Spain orders Vicente Blasco Ibanez back to Madrid for lese majeste trial, Dublin reports partial destruction of the Royal Hibernian School by fire, and 30 arrested in Leningrad over a crime against the Soviet government. Also noted: a London tug crew drowning, Belfast election expectations on Bible teaching, Berlin notes on Hugo Stinnes’ mother firing, Wagner festival plans for July 22, a railway strike in Athens, King Alfonso dedicating a monument, David Kirkwood's bed rest after heckling, and Mozkowski's death in Paris.
Cairo report says Tarvard University excavators have unearthed a tomb likely belonging to Cheops or Khufu, ruler about 3700 years before Christ. Alan Bowes, assistant director of the Harvard expedition, made the discovery while digging in the pyramids.
Atlanta reports Mrs. Ida Hughes, convicted of slaying her mother in law during a dispute over rummaging a trunk, is resentenced to be hanged Friday April 24. The crime arose from a quarrel about whether the elder Hughes should ransack a trunk belonging to her daughter.
Blanche Altman a 19 year old from Omaha was killed and three companions injured when their car was demolished at a grade crossing by a Des Moines Interurban freight train in Fort Dodge Iowa. Morris Sternberg drove the car. the others escaped serious injury.
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Three masked men broke into Mrs Way Perkins West Fifty eighth Street studio early today beating her and binding her escort Milton Abbott a wealthy cotton broker. They escaped with jewelry valued at 50000 and are suspected of links to a gang tied to previous Broadway area robberies and linked murders. Mrs Perkins frequented Broadway cabarets and is separated from her husband Benjamin Pere King a cafe proprietor.
Chinese city Foo Chow with 700000 population faces rising anti American sentiment. Reports to the American legation from First Secretary Mayer say natives boycott United States merchants and schools. Native families are warned to stop sending children to American schools amid reported violence against defiers.
London dispatch reports Marquess Curzon of Nedlesto rt, lord president of the council, underwent a severe operation described as quite successful. Official notes say his condition is serious and warrants great anxiety for the next few days, with reports of kidney trouble and a grave hemorrhage from the Daily Express.
Washington March 9 testimony before the senate committee alleges the treasury lost over 50 million dollars in erroneous tax deductions to copper interests. Anaconda Copper and Inspiration Copper claims valued property far above Grimes valuations, producing major tax savings. Fay notes similar losses from large oil firms due to depletion and amortization deductions.
Chicago police hunt the Lone Gray Wolf after an art student Archibald Murchie 22 Vancouver was shot dead during a drugstore robbery. The assailant fired three times as Murchie fled across the street and then fled with his weapon.
Former Senator Atlee Pomerene opened the government’s case in the Teapot Dome oil lease dispute. He outlined evidence alleging Fall secretly transferred Wyoming naval oil lands to Sinclair and that Liberty bonds valued at about 320,000 were funneled to Fall from oil interests. The trial centers on bribery and fraud claims, with Finney and Roberts among key witnesses.
Twenty seven fighting cocks seized in a raid near Pittsburgh will be executed by Humane Society agents and turned over to hospitals for chicken soup. State troopers and society agents raided a cock fight early today, arresting 54 men on gambling charges.
Los Angeles March 9 attorneys for Mrs Margaret Willis filed a murder complaint against Harold Willis a 14 year old boy who last week gave a purported confession claiming he shot to protect his mother during a struggle with Dr Benjamin B Baldwin the crime occurred last April in Los Angeles and was reported at noon today
Gen. John J. Pershing and his mission, returning from a South American tour, will be guests at a dinner tonight in Havana with Cuba's secretary of war Gen Armando. Pershing, Admiral John Jr Dayton, and Minister Frederick C. Hicks, with aides, plan to sail on the battleship Utah tomorrow for New York.
Helen Reichert, a 26 year old American music student from Lake Forest, disappeared in Leipzig after extensive study in Stuttgart and Geinzig. Her father W Reichert of Canton, Ohio, offered a reward for her recovery as police fear she may have harmed herself due to overwork and stress from concert preparation.
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