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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1927
Page
11
Reports describe renewed fire near a bridge linking Anglo American positions as Cantonese and northern sympathizers clash in Shanghai. Marines and British guardsmen bolster defenses while sporadic shelling and house fires continue in the foreign quarter.
Washington report says abrogating the smuggling treaty with Mexico could enable lifting the arms embargo without notice. Observers split whether the move signals a new commercial pact or simply frees policy, with no guaranteed immediate embargo change.
Washington reports John Lewis president of the United Mine Workers has convened the miners policy committee in Indianapolis for March 28. The extraordinary session will map a strike campaign during a wage contract suspension. Lewis signals likely end of joint wage talks with operators in the central field including Illinois Indiana Ohio and western Pennsylvania.
Des Moines March 23. The Forty-second general assembly plans to appropriate about $100 to pay for daily prayers opening each house. A bill from the senate appropriations committee would pay $5 to each minister who has served as chaplain. If adjournment comes after April 1, 135 ministers will have served.
The army transport Chateau Thierry, with about three dozen flu cases aboard and four deaths among its 900 passengers, pushed toward San Francisco as doctors on board fight the outbreak. Radio assurances from army officers and Rep. Currey, leader of a California congressional delegation, attested to progress. The ship was off Lower California, aiming to dock possibly late today ahead of schedule.
London report states Priory Dark won the Lincoln handicap in so so fashion with Orbindoes a close second and Asterus and Melon contesting for third after a brisk heat.
Leonard Hemmings aged 51 an undercover liquor law agent was jailed on a perjury charge with $1000 bond. He faced possible county jail confinement while a jailhouse crowd of liquor nuisance defendants awaited adjudication. Hemmings admitted past jail terms and displayed a nervous, combative demeanor as authorities booked him and seized a razor.
Three children of Mrs. Myrtle Hester living near Missouri Valley Ta. were convicted of chicken stealing and faced possible jail or penitentiary sentences. Darrell Hester 20 Edith Hester 16 and Mrs A W McKay 24 were named in the case.
Reverend J W Lacrone of the Methodist Episcopal church proposes uniting the Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian and Congregational congregations in Hawarden Iowa into a single church body offering a shared future. The plan was discussed in Hawarden on March 23.
Clarence Young, chief of the air regulation division of the commerce department, heads to Des Moines to arrange with city authorities for an airmail landing field. Mention of San Felice, Henry George, Thotita, Martin, Havana Ribbon, 5c cigars appears in an advertisement.
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New York reports Henry Judd Gray and Mrs Ruth Snyder plotting murder of Albert Snyder. District Attorney Newcombe prepared to seek indictments for both, arguing Gray mental irresponsibility and Mrs Snyder’s coercive influence. Funeral services held. police guard at residence. Gray’s wife remains loyal amid revelations of affair and murder plot.
In Tonopah Nevada Weepah and Tonopah residents react to reports that the Nevada gold rush was a monumental hoax. San Francisco attorney Derham says Weepah is the bank while Horton defends his strike and opens the mine to inspectors and engineers, rejecting claims of concealment.
Faris March 23 A dispersal of tension in the Italo Jugoslav dispute over Albania is reported as European powers press for a peaceful settlement. Italy and Jugoslavia are said to be negotiating directly while France Britain and Germany defer mediation to allow Rome and Belgrade to settle the issue with normal diplomacy. Briand in the French chamber of deputies claimed there is no cause for alarm and that events have been steered toward a pacific channel.
Gov Hammill reappointed Currie of Webster City to the municipal branch of the state board of engineering examiners. Martin of Atlantic was named to the highway division. Both four-year terms start July 1.
President Coolidge was offered two summer White House sites in Minnesota by Rep Newton and Rep Knutson. The Mrs Walter Douglas estate on Lake Minnetonka near Minneapolis and Breeze Point Lodge at Pequot Lake were proposed as potential retreats.
After a woman's body was found in the Potomac River, Washington police telegraphed Madison authorities to detain Dr. Knute Houck former St. Elizabeth's Hospital physician whose wife had disappeared months ago for investigation.
Chicago March 23 The federal circuit court of appeals today upheld the legality of eye sight evidence against prohibition law violators. The motion of attorneys for the Manlin Rouge Frair's Inn and AT Tearney's Town club to dissolve a padlock injunction was denied.
In a spring sermon Rev. GC. L. McKenagy of First Baptist Church notes preachers, like other men, enjoy baseball, golf, and gardening but insists spring renews the spiritual duty of interpreting life. He says the season urges reflection on time, seasons, and living beyond the present. He cites the line The world is too much with us and calls to pursue timeless, deathless values.
Ex governor Warren McCray of Indiana, now serving a long sentence in Atlanta, will not receive executive clemency in the near future. Attorney General reports do not seriously anticipate action. Friends have pressed for release on parole, including a petition to President Coolidge signed by Indiana's governor, lieutenant governor, most of the state legislature, and the state's congressional delegation.
Iowa faces a flood of anti prohibition literature as mail pouches reach towns statewide. Antisaloon League official P. McNaught reports material largely originates from the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. He notes increasing boldness in distribution of lists of prominent anti amendment members.
Five hundred members of the Six Nations met Dr. Atkins on arrival to gather Indians for a day long meeting and a pow wow aimed at refuting charges that Indians are immoral. Runners were sent across the reservation to mobilize support as Atkins sought affidavits from Harvard Yale and Oxford graduates to back his statements.
In Redford Ind March 23 John Carlisle alias John McCay 31 was shot and killed and Chester Wier his companion seriously wounded by Deputy Sheriff Bhner Webb Monroe county near Clear Creek 20 miles north of here as they were being taken to Bloomington in a county automobile. The two men suddenly attacked him and he drew his gun during the scuffle.
Statehouse action leaves library project funded at 250000 after Campbell amendment to budget bill is defeated on reconsideration. Debate touches on university morals and economy, with Senators McLeland Thompson Benson Shaft and Cavanaurd weighing education vs tax levy effects.
Funeral services for James H. Trewin former state senator who died early Monday were held at his Cedar Rapids home and conducted by the Crescent Lodge of Masons. Knights Templar and Consistory members escorted the body to a special Illinois Central train bound for Earlville for burial as district court judges and lawyers attended. Active and honorary pallbearers were close friends of Mr. Trewin.
San Jose March 23. Having pleaded guilty to the so called netting party murder of Harry Morgan, a 20 year old college student, Joss Moss and Joseph Gross were sentenced to life imprisonment in San Quentin penitentiary.
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