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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1921
Page
7
The notice warns that if the Courier is not delivered by 5 30, readers should call 240 and ary, or the paper will be sent. Call the office before 6 0 p m to report failure or arrange delivery corrections.
Suggestions from the public press warn against outside criticism of the Washington arms conference. Admiral Bradley Fisk defends the four delegates as capable, backed by advisers. He notes many lack deep understanding, and he argues armament includes municipal police protecting citizens from robbers and lawlessness.
Former secretary of the navy Joy Sophius Daniels spoke in Lawton Oklahoma praising the unknown soldier at Arlington. He said the body represents the 5,006,000 men who served in the army and navy and that he was most thrilled by Associated Press stories about the unknown soldier.
Secretary Hughes urges stopping armament competition as nine powers gather at the Daughters of the American Revolution hall for the armaments and Far East conference. Briand and Tokugawa receive applause. Harding welcomes delegates to a historic meeting aimed at removing causes of war.
Amos Gibson, president of the First National Bank of Joplin Missouri, was found dead in a Mexico City hotel room with a pistol. He left a note saying he was worn out and lonely. A dispatch says he requested transfers totaling over 35 thousand dollars to banks in Kansas City and to cover hotel damages, and to embalm his body before shipment. The Joplin bank remains solvent, and directors stated the institution is secure.
Denver stock yards will refuse government control until constitutional basis is proven. Chester Merrill of the agriculture department faced opposition from A. & Prey representing the Denver Livestock Exchange as stockmen voiced disfavor and offered no concrete proposals. Prey cited legal advice that the plan is not constitutional.
Topeka Kansas officials say Alexander Howat, suspended president of District 14 United Mine Workers, will organize a national labor political union when released from jail. A preliminary form is already under way in Illinois Kansas and California modeled after Great Britain’s Labor party.
Houston November suit filed in district court seeks appointment of a receiver for General Oil company capitalized at 20 million dollars. Plaintiffs Lincoln State Bank State Bank of West Pullman and six Chicago individuals claim eight million dollars in notes past due and allege insolvency. Hearing scheduled for next Friday.
Delegates registered for the disarmament convocation of universities and colleges to be held here tomorrow and Monday. A notable early group of women delegates attended, including representatives from Trinity College Washington DC and the Catholic University of America's women's department.
Six men held up the Illinois State Bank at East Alton today severed the cashier and his assistant, escaping with 12000. Directors report only six dollars remained in the institution as the robbers fled in an automobile.
Weather bulletin from the Agriculture Weather Bureau notes frozen and rough highway conditions across multiple Iowa cities including Albert Lez Minn Algona Civi City Cedar Rapids Davenport Des Moines Dubuque Mason City Marshalltown New Hampton Waterford and Waterloo with snow rain and freezing pavement expected tonight and Sunday.
Secretary Hughes opens disarmament talks with a plan to scrap all capital ships under construction and impose a 10 year halt on new capital ship lays. The proposal sets tonnage caps for the United States Great Britain and Japan and includes limits on replacements and auxiliary fleets. The outline calls for scrapping 15 US capital ships and similar reductions for Britain and Japan.
In Lubuque Iowa on November 14 Rutugio Peres died in hospital from knife wounds after a knife duel with Pedro Ramirez. Ramirez is held on murder charges. Both men were found unconscious in a railroad yard by police after the fight.
Elmer Swedney serving a life term for murder likely saved Sheriff George Bassett by rushing to aid him when six inmates battered the sheriff and opened the jail cage. Swedney wrested the keys, recaptured the cage, and halted the breakout as the six escapees fled. Bassett lay injured, a physician summoned, deputies alerted, and authorities hunted the fugitives.
New York November 12 The strike involving more than 50 000 garment workers appeared near collapse as Secretary of Labor Davis met with an employers committee in Washington. Workers showed conciliation to U S senators, while manufacturers proposed next week to adopt piecework and raise hours from 41 to 49. The New York union workers voted almost unanimously to strike next Monday. hope to avert a walkout lingered.
New York November 12 David Lford George British premier saved from attack by writer's cramp remains in England at bedside. The steamship Adquilania docked with mail bags containing 3600 Godspeed postcards from British women wishing him well. Postcards will be returned to Downing Street for replies at his leisure.
Milk distributing companies pushed to restore New York's normal supply as wagon driver strikes continued. They claimed distributions reached 80 percent of daily needs, while union representatives said most wagons still carried empty cans.
Chicago records a 15 degree drop with icy streets and slush after two days of snow. A southerly wind brings rising temperatures forecast for tomorrow, signaling an end to the spell of winter weather.
President Harding opens the arms limitation conference with a frank welcome to delegates in Washington. He portrays the gathering as a worldwide awakening conscience and urges nations to apply better humanity to reduce armament and move from war to peace. The speech highlights debt, destruction, and the need for real arms limits as leaders seek constructive change.
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