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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1929
Page
9
An editorial section notes Waterloo faces a untidy winter scene and urges a new Union depot to match a 40,000 population. It highlights Iowa labor data showing a 2.2 percent February employment rise, factory shifts, and strong confectionery gains while job applications stay high.
President Hoover moves to keep the federal workforce intact, signaling few changes. He faces pressure from business to hire seasoned officials, with Gen. Herbert Lord urged to stay as budget director. Dr Julius Klein, a close ally, is eyed for a White House liaison post, potentially $10,000 annually, as private firms offer higher pay.
El Paso report states a telegraph message from Erie, Pennsylvania, offers 5,000 old Knights Pythias uniforms for sale to rebel generals in the Mexican revolution. The El Paso Post instructs reporters to inform the generals of the bargain in uniforms.
Major H. C. D. Segrave, driving the Golden Arrow, set a new world automobile speed record at 231.36 mph in Daytona Beach. He reached 231.51 mph on a second run, with a 13.15 second northward leg and a necessary southward run to establish the average. His pace far exceeded the standing two-way record of 307 mph and the one-way 214 mph mark by Malcolm Campbell.
Canton, March 11. Mrs. Mary Guerriert, 27, pleaded not guilty to first degree murder for the fatal shooting of Rev. Pather Joseph Riccardi, pastor of St. Anthony's Catholic Church. The shooting occurred in the church vestibule after mass. A written confession said the priest mistreated her daughter Palmena, though a physician found no support for the claim.
Frank Reilly, 80, was arrested on murder charges in Chicago after allegedly crashing a party, being expelled by Adolph Richter and a man named Mousseau, then returning with a pistol and killing Richter. Reilly claimed he was drinking and cannot remember.
Nebraska reports show the Platte River flooding land 15 miles west of Omaha after banks broke during warm weather. Thousands of acres are submerged while farmers work through the night to break ice jams. Five Army planes dropped dynamite to aid the effort.
The Cedar Falls township constable, Harry P. Mason, resigns and becomes road patrolman while two men are arrested after 100 gallons of grain alcohol are seized from a Studebaker coupe on First Street. Louis Schwanke assists. G. A. Shearon of Sioux City is cited as owner, with T. W. Moore driving. County Attorney Gwynne issues an opinion on the non dual status of road patrolman and constable, noting legislative intent and lack of court interpretation.
Washington March 11 President Hoover keeps an open mind on using the Volstead act to enforce prohibition. His comments show no endorsement of it while stressing the eighteenth amendment as the legal anchor. An engineer’s view guides his approach as he aims to fix enforcement abuses through a proposed commission and potential act modification.
In a city of over 40 thousand, only 24 votes were cast this afternoon in the Alt-DM school election. West district at Sloan Wallace Junior High reported 10 votes, nine men and one worn. east district at East Junior High reported 14 votes, 11 men and three women. All five offices to be filled have incumbents: Fred D. Adams and A. A. Lohner on the east board, Dr E. L. Rohlf and W. E. Ogie on the west board, and Fred Stewart as west treasurer. Polls will stay open until 8 p.m.
Camden Arkansas March 71 Thousands of visitors and oil field workers packed the new state oil field twelve miles west of Camden today as the well blew in with the largest flow since the 1921 Bussey discovery near Eldorado. Highways to the field were crowded with sightseers from across the state while tanks for pumping oil were under construction.
Reports of Milton Sills illness were said to have brought Doris Kenyon his wife to New York from the West Coast film colony. Friends of the reportedly stricken actor refused to divulge where, or details of his condition.
Fifteen persons were seriously injured and many more bruised when a west side elevated train crashed into another today. The rear car telescoped as downtown office workers filled one train. Ambulances and fire apparatus rushed to the scene as witnesses said one train was stationary at a station when the other struck it at speed.
In Dubuque Iowa on Sunday a car crash at Preston Bridge left Bode Lovt without his nose and Helen Glew possibly losing an eye. Glew was thrown through the windshield and taken to Clinton hospital.
This is the first time in memory that the school elections in both Waterloo districts have been uncontested. J. R. Howard, president of each district school board, says he expects the lightest vote in history as incumbents seek re-election. He notes that elections no longer hold city election interest.
A devastating Hong Kong hotel blaze killed 12 people including an American sailor believed to be Seaman Hish from the U S S Memphis. The King Edward hotel was gutted and flames spread to the Gayoy hotel, with hundreds forced into the streets and many injured. Other victims included British and French residents. several American seamen escaped.
Paris March 11 AP Experts at today's plenary session of the international committees on reparations began discussion of the proposed international bank to handle reparations payments. They weighed its relation to state banks capitalization and potential use for extending credit to world trade. Lord Revelstoke was asked to study capitalization. Sir Josiah Stamp heads a drafting committee to formalize prior points.
A 21 year old youth in Milwaukee, Marek Tupi, was arrested for the murder of his father Harry Fischer after a domestic quarrel escalated. Neighbors heard shouting as the two men fought, the lights were out, and Fischer died from strangulation in a headlock while his wife hid the scene.
Miss Elsie Janis famed American actress, called the sweetheart of the AEF for entertaining troops in France, was moved today from the Hotel Crillon to the American hospital at Nouilly near Paris in a serious condition from illness.
Geneva opens the 2 jurists committee to revise the world court statutes with Elihu Root and Kellogg proposals on U S accession. The talks explore U S withdrawal rights and Senate reservations while Hoover and Coolidge era officials weigh prospects of U S entry ahead of an April congressional session.
Washington March 11 The three judge court of appeals denied the petition of the Federal Radio Commission for a rehearing in the case of regional WGY Schenectady owned by General Electric. WGY was denied full time on the 790 kilocycle channel last fall and appealed to the court which recently ordered the commission to grant the station's demand. Paris March 11 The condition of Marshal Foch today was described as less satisfactory by doctors Degenties and Helte Boyer though they emphasized no relapse had occurred.
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