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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1925
Page
9
In Waterloo the Roaring Lions from the Ninth District hold their annual convention with a vivid street pageant. Major Gnagy promotes Welcome Lions Help Yourself as the parade ends near K P Hall.
Delegates gather in Columbus as fundamentalists and modernists prepare for a high stakes contest for moderator of the Presbyterian general assembly. William Jennings Bryan travels to Columbus amid plans for a potentially pivotal vote amid disputes over biblical miracles and evolution.
Maryland state penitentiary inmate Pen Burton M. Morgan earned more than 35 900 during the past year through a mail order operation run from his Baltimore cell. Officials say he will leave the prison in June a rich man.
James M. Williamson rejects Bryan's claim that maternists lack a message and decries Tennessee law as the real disgrace. Bryan argues taxpayers fund teachers who must honor God and country. Dudier Field Matone, a New York and Paris lawyer, says Judge Deal accepted Darrow and Malona offers to aid in the Scopes defense.
A special federal court of equity in St. Paul denied the government’s petition for supplemental provisions to the 1918 dissolution decree of International Harvester Co. The court held the decree effective and found no proof of undue monopolization or restraint of interstate commerce. Judge Stone dissented. the government will appeal to the Supreme Court.
Taft Woodward, charged with kidnapping 11 year old Lucile Chatterton in Granville on April 24, was discharged for lack of evidence to hold him for a jury trial in Addison county municipal court.
Westfield Wis May 19 Bellis Conant and WE Herschler died when their airplane went into a tail spin at 2000 feet and crashed. Both men were killed in the crash near Westfield Wisconsin Rapids banker WE Herschler also perished. Fred Bassett Ixing faced a Woodbury county jury on charges of stealing a $106 violin from farmer Fred Parke Correctionville Ia He pleaded not guilty.
Providence reports reveal a divorce mill that separated 409 people and billed about 200000 as 2000 per decree. Attorney General Sisson says 33 indictments were returned against Leonard Horton and Francis P. Dougherty, with seven secret indictments for nonresidents. Hearings are private and by deposition, with both parties often absent.
The jury in the Harry Bell murder trial will visit 839 Cortlandt Street and 841 Cortlandt Street to inspect the Bell home and the Kern residence where Kern was fatally shot. State and defense argue timing as witnesses are recalled for rebuttal. four attorneys are set to argue.
The note cites a court scene where the defense will call witnesses after the state's rebuttal near the close of the retrial. It mentions distances of two to twenty inches and a larger measurement at twelve or fifteen feet, implying evidence or measurement context for the proceeding.
United States Senator B Cummins was under a physician care at his Des Moines home suffering from bronchitis and laryngitis He had been indisposed since returning from Sioux City last week where he spoke on railroad consolidation The home trip was by automobile His condition worsened yesterday and a doctor was summoned Senator Cummins turning seventy five this year.
Gaston Gh. Means, a former Justice Department agent, seeks immediate district attorney action to start a two year sentence in Atlanta prison. The report notes his request amid ongoing conspiracy case proceedings.
The Evening Courier asks residents to fill a 1925 census coupon with names of household members and return it by mail or phone 2115. The prompt seeks prompt participation from families and friends in the community.
Lisbon-American destroyers en route to home forts after days here. Spain hit by heavy rains aiding crops. Tokyo reports nine minute earthquake with no damage. Marquis Rabin Tokuga Wa dies of heart attack amid songeisha romance rumors. Pinedo arrives heading to Melbourne and Tokyo. Forest fires sweep Pomerania with garrisons deployed. Prince of Wales extended South America tour to July 29. French ace Fonny killed in fog crash. Zaca town wiped out by fire with wires down. Paris ministers confer on debt settlement with US and Britain.
Des Moines reports state investigators found Iowa motorists cross the government bridge to Rock Island to buy cheaper gasoline before a tax hike. About 600 cars from Iowa were observed purchasing fuel in Rock Island then returning to Davenport, with an estimated 5 percent bearing Scott county plates.
Delegates from 56 dens arrive at K P Hall Waterloo hosts a two day Lions International session. District Governor Gebuhr outlines aims: promote good citizenship and service by the golden rule. Roy Meeker of Marshalltown is seen as front runner for district governor.
In Heddesdorf Germany a thunderbolt struck during a Catholic church choir anniversary killing four men. In Vinkiort Germany a motorless pilotless model airplane flew 21 miles in a test. In New York three deaths aboard the steamer Manchuria were reported on docking after the voyage from San Francisco.
Des Moines report quotes Congressman C. C. Dowell stating dirt roads caused about 460 million dollars in auto losses last year. He claims 400 dollars yearly per car on dirt roads and 25 percent less on hard roads, estimating Iowa’s 600 000 cars lose 60 million annually due to lacking hard roads. He links opposition to federal aid and road disagreements to Iowa’s slow road program.
Secretary of War Weeks remains unable to resign as he recovers from a stroke with gall bladder complications. Doctors hope he can move to his summer home in Lancaster New Hampshire before heat. Weeks will not return to the War Department and a formal resignation will be announced once a successor is chosen. White House officials denied Weeks resignation is in President Coolidge's hands.
Des Moines dispatch reports the portable bar along lonely rural roads as a new bootlegging method in Polk County. Sheriff Park A. Finchey says stricter prohibition enforcement in Des Moines has forced bootleggers off open land and into mobile vending, calling it extreme and difficult to combat.
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