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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1923
Page
4
Judge BD Courtright of the municipal court declares selling canned heat for beverage use a law violation similar to Jamaica ginger cases. Eight intoxication arrests reported. one youth 19 weeps over mother, others jailed. Speeders fined per mile over limit. parking bonds forfeited. driving without proper rights dismissed.
Dr Guiltard Sumner who headed the Iowa state board of health and died in Des Moines last week left a will filed for probate. The trust provides Adelbert DewWhite Sumner with 300 dollars yearly, with increases if the beneficiary becomes ill, and directs one fourth of net proceeds to the Iowa State Baptist convention for educating ministers, with similar bequests after the son’s death. Trustees are John H Blair and Waterloo Savings Bank. cemetery care for Manchester inclosed.
Walter Krasser, 19, convicted of the murder of Policeman Saucers on December 15, was moved to the death cell in Cook County. Fifteen to eighteen men and others awaiting execution are held in the same facility.
Wilbur W. Marsh of Waterloo, dairyman and Democratic treasurer, is profiled by Chicago Herald Examiner editor Charles N. Wheeler. The piece explains how shipping gas engines and cream separators via rail to Baltimore or via a rail and water route through the Panama Canal to San Francisco cuts costs, with a carload saving of about 4.5 cents per hundred pounds. The article notes freight rate issues as a major political problem and discusses farmer constraints like perishables and lack of financing for long routes.
The writer travels the middle west noting freight rate as the major issue for the next presidential campaign. He asserts farmers refuse platitudes and want concrete data, especially about Iowa, which he calls the garden spot of the universe.
In Cedar Rapids on May 14 Mrs Mabel Valentine 49 daughter of state oil inspector E M Garrison attempted suicide by leaping from the north avenue bridge into the Cedar River. Fireman Joseph Mall nearby heard cries and rescued her as bystanders watched. The water shallow with no serious injuries reported. She said a previous return from a Milwaukee sanitarium prompted the act.
May 14 Eldora Tama county crowd saw Mrs Gertrude Walker, a 596 pound woman from Chelsea, make her first public exhibition. She toured the state with the circus and required a five ton truck and special railroad compartment for transport.
Uncle Harry and Jimmy discuss rapid aviation progress with remarkable feats by Lieutenants Kelly and Macready flying 2700 miles New York to San Diego in a day. European glider flights using minimal fuel and small motors highlight the trend toward world-spanning air travel.
A weekend felt more like late winter than spring with cool conditions. Saturday and Sunday brought a cool spell and the high reached about 68 degrees yesterday.
Four Waterloo librarians Miss Marla Brace Mrs Ruth Fressit Miss Ruth Gruener and Miss Bessie Gavis will attend the district library convention at Independence on Thursday. Brace will speak on Broadcasting the Library as part of a state series of meetings this month.
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