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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1918
Page
3
Floods from a cloudburst flood Genesee valley inundated one third of Rochester area by morning. Hornell factory district submerged. numerous buildings damaged. residents rescued by boat. No deaths reported. Rain persisted. river stretched 49 miles toward Gorning. Teletype warnings issued to households.
Reported capture of Odessa by German forces raises safety concerns for the American Red Cross mission that Minister Vopicka said left Jassy for Odessa. Earlier, Col. Henry W. Anderson indicated a safe passage through Austria Hungary to Switzerland. Names believed to be in Odessa or en route include Daniel J. McCarthy, Dr. Benjamin B. Lemaster, Dr. William J. Kacera, Dr. George Duro Guca, Dr. Joseph P.H. Gruener, Florence D. M. Patterson, Alice Gilbourne, Alma E. Foerster.
In Cleveland on March 14 a wife sought to pull her husband from the draft by claiming he was not supporting her. An April wartime draft official reported the husband was inducted after the claim of exemption, then the wife confessed it was a mistake. She cried and said they needed him due to an impending baby. The district draft appeals board chief explained the draft law and an appeal followed.
Mason City high school described as a successful three year system with four quarters of 12 weeks, gaining general approval from the national conference of school superintendents in Atlantic City. The resolution backs an all year school plan, with 48 weeks across four quarters, aligning with Chicago's opening model.
City in Brief covers a mix of items including illness typhoid symptoms at 2061-2 Fourth Street East, a return from Los Angeles by Mr and Mrs J F Moyer, navy apprentice seaman enlistment updates, a housing plan for two five room bungalows on Williston Avenue by A C Cole, and a 24 gallon gasoline theft from AL Rosenbloom’s grocery. Also notes visits, hospital training, a nurse’s training move, an office change, a stray misinquiry about enlistment, a smallpox quarantine, church appointment talks, and a Saturday coffee sale at 309 West 4th Street with a Drum prize.
Gen EB H Plummer received formal notice from the war department that he is discharged as a Major General in the national army and relieved from command of the Eighty eighth division at Camp Dodge Iowa. He is reassigned to Fort Sill Oklahoma with Maj Gen M M MacComb retired. Brig Gen R N Getty will act as division commander.
London reports Armenians resisting Turkish troops with official Turk ish statements, claiming British advances toward Palestine on March 9 were repulsed. An attempt to break the Jerusalem Nablus road line failed, with authorities noting prior massacres in reoccupied Turkish Armenia.
Washington March 14 A 1 800 006 000 appropriation for the naval service for the next fiscal year is provided in the annual naval budget bill finalized by the house naval committee. The measure includes lump sum funds for overseas facilities, continues a three year construction program, and expands navy personnel and Marine Corps officers and men.
Five Agnes Ahrens children aged four to fourteen faced dependency proceedings after March 11. Adoption papers were secured in Waverly by the mother with relatives, claiming good homes and funds. the father, Lewis Ahrens, left in 1916. New complaints allege continued neglect.
Washington March 14 The war department began strengthening Atlantic coast defenses with an army board to pick sites for aero squadrons and balloon companies. Major Norman W Peek of the signal corps was named head of the board to study needs in each district.
Washington March 14 The railroad administration plans to consolidate city ticket offices in scores of cities and expects to save several millions by unifying operations. Consolidation is ordered for Washington Atlanta and other cities with investigations ongoing in New York Chicago St Louis Cleveland Pittsburgh and elsewhere. In many cases offices cannot be unified until leases expire possibly delaying union offices by six months or more.
Dr Dorothy Mendenhall, a Wisconsin child welfare worker, told the National Child Welfare conference in Washington that the Midwest faces a milk shortage endangering babies and children. In Wisconsin cities no milk is obtainable, she said.
A Pacific Port witnessed the launching of the steamship Farth the first reinforced concrete ocean going vessel built in the United States. The ship measures 320 feet in length 44.6 feet in width and 30 feet in depth with a cargo capacity of 5 000 tons. Thousands of spectators attended as ceremonies proceeded.
Washington March 14 contracts for ten 3500 ton steel ships were awarded to the McDougal Duluth company of Duluth with delivery of all vessels in 1919. Contracts also were let to Harmant Greiling of Green Bay Wisconsin for two steel tug boats.
Frank M. Puryear, a Cherokee Indian and seaman gunner's class from Villanow Georgia, marries Dorothy Wanton of Newport England aboard a destroyer visit to an English port. The wedding links a full blooded American Indian in United States naval forces to a British bride. Puryear retains a claim to Cherokee funds and property rights from tribal lands.
In Paris the American presence brings levity and lessons as diners bargain with French waiters for English phrases while taxi drivers and aging cars echo a gentler rhythm. A Wyoming rider named Montana Bill polices mistreated horses, wryly noting wartime Paris through humor and grit.
Philo B Brainard longtime Waterloo business man died at his home 915 Sycamore street at 6 pm yesterday after a long illness. Funeral 2:30 pm Saturday at home led by Rev GC R Bair. Born Laf ayette Ohio March 14 1837 he lived in Waterloo since 1856 and helped operate a livery barn before business ventures. Survived by widow a daughter two sons two sisters and a brother. Also notes Ida Jeffries Waterloo resident died at St Francis hospital after brief illness. Burial in Memphis.
Washington March 16 The Navy Department announced Henry Ford's submarine chasers will be named Bagle class boats in a proposal process that drew letters from across the nation. Some suggested naming them after naval homes. others offered other ideas.
A minor machinery incident at the gas plant last night caused weak pressure today in the city. Repairs were completed before noon and pressure returned to normal.
Letters from Waterloo men at Hampton Roads Va express pride in Corporal Lewis E Delts wounded in France. A Waterloo home front note praises the soldiers and shares a poem honoring the missing and their steadfast spirit in a holy war. Other named locals Doctor Fred Smith and Carl Beckley are mentioned.
Plant pathologists from all Great Plains states meet March 19 and 20 at University of Nebraska Lincoln to plan cooperative research and extension work. They will determine practical methods to control diseases in cereals corn sorghum potatoes truck crops and fruits, aiming to protect farms and consumers as 475 million bushels are lost nationally each year to plant diseases.
Delaware House of Representatives today adopted a joint resolution ratifying the federal prohibition amendment by a vote of 37 to 6. The measure now goes to the Senate for consideration.
A plan to base army draft quotas on registration and liability rather than state population or Class 1, framed by Representative Shanenberger of Nebraska, gains support from House Military Committee Chairman Dent and may seek President Wilson's backing. Dent will not delay the quota bill unnecessarily but will stall the army appropriation bill until Baker returns. The proposal credits states for men registered and liable, plus those who have joined U S military service since April 1917.
Washington D C March 14 Some decision seen by the interstate commerce commission on the pending 15 per cent freight rate advance is indicated by recent conferences between Director General McAdoo and members of the commission. The director general thinks taking over of the railroads by the government does not interfere with normal disposition of the case and other rate cases before the commission. Many influential officials of the railroad administration are strongly in favor of increased freight rates and have urged the director general to make a specific request that the commission approve higher tariffs. The railroad administration also is giving careful thought to the question of raising passenger rates but no increase has been favored by the director general.
In Kansas City a silk hose counter clerk, Ruth Johnson, learns she is an heir to a $60 000 estate from her grandfather Henry Johnson of Danville Tennessee. She plans to keep her job and change only her surname to Hibbs, the stepfather's name, as she adjusts to sudden family wealth.
A war era invention called a printing telegraph system claims to transmit 6000 words per minute over a single grounded wire, enough to fill seven and a half magazine pages. The design uses a universal recording instrument, enabling messages in any language or cipher with high speed, to aid signal corps without crippling commercial lines.
Doris asks her mother to read the funnies, hoping the light jokes will ease her throat while a sad story is left unread. The moment captures a child seeking comfort in humor during a quiet domestic scene.
In the advertising columns a quip asks how the boy secured a motorcycle, suggesting he seized the cyclo logical moment to request it, reflecting playful jokey copy within the page’s commercial notices.
FP G HOLDEN urges thorough rat and mice control noting property losses exceed 200 million dollars annually in the United States. The piece cites health risks, structural damage, and widespread breeding, advocating sanitation, rat-proofing, traps, and persistent community efforts. suggests owls, snakes, and dogs as aids.
San Antonio dispatch reports Howard Holaday of Denver Colorado died when his aircraft dropped 4400 feet during a cross country flight. The 2 flying cadet was killed Wednesday afternoon at 4 20 o clock as the plane fell.
Lincoln March 14 a Nebraska draft board member said the most common slacker case after the selective service act took effect was a man who married to avoid service citing a dependent wife. The article notes many sought service while others pushed to enlist despite disqualifications including a Serbian veteran who, after signing up, was discharged at the cantonment.
Congress finalized the railroad control bill as the House approved the conference report adopted by the Senate. The measure now goes to the president for signature.
Chicago Jews from the south and southwest sides form a battalion of 1,000 men to join the British-Canadian recruiting mission for reclaiming Palestine and expelling German and Bolshevik rule. Led by sculptor Alexander Melnikoff, once condemned by czar and Bolsheviki, he left Petrograd prison life for America and now trades his chisel for arms to aid ancient Israelitish restoration.
Chicago march 14 enrollment of men to work on Illinois farms started at the state defense council headquarters. Farmers requests for capable farm laborers flood the office of R A Bishop farm labor administrator. Farm labor administrators have been appointed in every county and farmers may make requests to them.
Weather delays expected to slow operations today as workers hope to reach the $8 060 goal in the Y M C A financial campaign before nightfall. President Wilson visits the shipping board for a half hour of talks with officials. Gen Dum badze, Vladivostok port commandant, reportedly died by his own hand per a Reuters dispatch from Petrograd dated March 14.
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