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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1924
Page
1
Senators debate a Democratic rewritten tax measure with proposed rates across income, inheritance, surtaxes and corporate levies. Key figures include changes to phone and radio taxes, jewelry exemptions, board salaries, and a 25 percent income tax cut for 1923 remaining in the bill.
The Iowa convention fosters women in business with Miss Prichard as speaker. Miss Malmoutse and Miss Mitchell will introduce leaders. Waterloo’s ROP W presides. Banquet at Sunnyside Country Day honors national president and features the Waterrigelah orchestra.
A New York City civil action charges Mrs Madeleing Modlen against Eimanuel Madien of Newark with alienation of affections and related claims. The document references Thawn's sister and counts of divorce, amid a broader gathering notice with program summaries and forthcoming activities.
A jumble of local notes reports Guihrie Center costs, court pleas, and a village arson. Vander Plery Schwab pleaded guilty to assaulting a woman in a public area. A voter incident and a plant erection dispute are noted. A fire destroyed buildings and vehicles injuring Nick Croat. damage exceeds £25,000. George Appleton was robbed. Appleton identified suspects.
Six condemned men faced execution at Independence Louisiana for the Dallas Calmes murder during a bank raid in 1923. The doomed include Roy Leena Andrea Lemantia Joseph Giglio and Natale Deamore. Officials guarded the jail as troops prevented interference from outside groups while family members offered forgiveness.
Reported injuries to Sir Aston Webb and Sir Luke Fildes after a crash near London. A confusing confession by Leona and associates ties to a planned Independence bank robbery, with questions raised over credibility and contradictory evidence. Governor Parker defends decision not to grant reprieve, citing instate accountability.
George Hf Owter of Ewaware sues the U S government to reclaim canties or FHA damages. He says the government should maintain his property after a lease expired in 1827 and accuses shipments of Cavalry infested clothing from France caused the contamination. The case moves through court as Owter seeks redress for damages and property condition.
The court’s final decision found the men guilty of conspiracy and murder. Mor ning Casarez, 89, the oldest California hanged, died on the Ben Queghin prison gallows after the trap sprung at 10 12 and death pronouncement at 10 26. He was executed for the murder of Mike Sornesaro on a peach tree in Imperial county on January 2, 1942.
In Dodge, three skeletons were uncovered in a Mort Dalse backyard while digging a hole. The bones are linked to a 50-year-old missing immigrant trio and a long-past pioneer crime, reviving forgotten local murder theories. Skeletal evidence suggests burial at the site, while old hotel records offer little corroboration.
The forecast calls for colder conditions with rain or snow and lower temperatures than in recent days. Clouds linger, with a chilly weekend ahead as yesterday’s cool spell produced a high near 50 and a low of 39 after a 17 degree drop. Rainfall measured about a tenth of an inch from yesterday to today.
Spencer resident Miss Perkins, a factory worker, died when she jumped from a second floor window to escape a hotel blaze in downtown Chicago. Two hotel employees rushed to the room after smelling smoke. she had been ill for two weeks and planned to depart for home in Iowa.
St Paul Minn May 9 The National Congress of Parents and Teachers closes with business sessions and group conference. Officers to be elected and a convention to be chosen for 1925. The body, formerly the National Congress of Mothers, changed its name yesterday to Parent-Teacher association.
On May 9, three robbers who held up a Cordova mail car and killed two mail clerks were executed by strangulation at sunrise in Spain. Names given as Navarrete Honerie and Piqueras. The rapid sentence marked a swift end to the notorious case.
London May Michael Murtagh, a soldier, suffered stomach ache. Doctors found strange contents in his stomach. Surgeons removed seven horse shoe nails two wires two safety pins two whites penpoints and one trouser button. He is improving and abandons his plan to join the sideshow as an ostrich stomach man.
A Telegraph Brief reports President Coolidge and Sir Esme meeting as the British ambassador reaffirms friendship between the United States and Canada. A Vancouver Sun painting titled President Harding in Canada is presented.
A group of women led by convention chairmen organized the upcoming event. Miss Camle Mell of Des Moines and assistants from Fort Madison Dubuque and Mac Bhalltown prepared the program, arranged speakers, reports, and scheduled business and meals. Subchairs handle drives banquets breakfasts luncheons registration publicity badges printing music and favors under program director Mrs Waterlig McNally.
In Cedar Rapids on May 9 attorney Olive Jonnson filed a lunacy petition for Miller who, with accomplices Sylvester Mer and Roy Lewis, had been taken to court for a hold up at Bishop cafeteria on April 14. Miller and the others are confined at the Anamosa reformatories awaiting sentence.
Edward L. Doheny Jr was ordered by Justice Hitz of the District of Columbia supreme court to appear May 16 to show cause why he cannot be compelled to testify before the special grand jury. He previously refused to testify last Tuesday on grounds it might incriminate him. The grand jury reported the matter with a request for the order.
A California prospector after five decades of search finally struck gold valued at $60 a ton in the Majaya desert. He died instantly yesterday when a Santa Fe train struck him as congratulatory cheers rang from friends.
An old advertisement touts Bisulated Magnesia for stomach indigestion. It advises a teaspoonful of powder or two tablets after meals to neutralize acidity, claiming quick relief and safe, prompt action at low cost from drug stores.
The Mississippi flood area about 80 miles above Keokuk dam, once farm land owned by various parties, has transferred to the government per an attorney general opinion. High water from the dam raised the land floodplain and forced condemnation and compensation a decade ago.
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