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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1927
Page
9
A chaotic column of items reports Frederick A. Giles completing a San Francisco air hop to Honolulu with a fuel dump to ease water landing risk. Wilhelm II ridiculed a Bonn wedding and a critique of a rustic paper need follows. A New Jersey governor’s talk moves youths away from the electric chair as divorce, trial and organization racket notes appear with quick, varied vignettes.
Lawmakers clash over where to tax estates with arguments that a federal estate tax avoids race to Florida and shields affluent wealth from state levies. Proponents view the tax as a social tool, while opponents fear erosion of state taxing power and capital flight. The dispute centers on whether taxation should be federal or left to states.
Vera Countess Cathcart, 31, is gravely ill in London with angina pectoris. Physicians fear she may not recover after a serious relapse. She had been detained at Ellis Island last year but admitted temporarily on entry to the United States.
Washington reports the government seized $100000 in Liberty bonds in the name of H M Blackmer under a Supreme Court order. The bonds were deposited with National Savings Trust Co. as part of an agreement with government counsel. Blackmer faces contempt charges for refusing to testify in the Fall Sinclair case.
Des Moines November 19 Justice Truman S. Stevens of the Iowa supreme court granted a writ of certiorari freeing J H Morris president of district 13 United Mine Workers of America and four other mine union officials from Appanoose county jail They had been sentenced to one day in jail and fined 50 for contempt of court related to alleged violations of an injunction preventing interference with nonunion miners The judge ordered a transcript of all evidence be provided by February 28 to the supreme court
Rome November 19 Cardinal Bonzano former papal delegate at Washington and papal legate at the Chicago Eucharistic Congress was operated on today for a stomach tumor The operation lasted two hours and 30 minutes and was decided after a conference of surgeons who warned the tumor could hinder food passage if not removed
Pittsburgh, Pa November 19 Frederick F. Witts was held on a plot to extort $5000 from Mrs. William Thaw a wealthy relative of Harry K. Thaw. He was captured after driving the Thaw car and a second automobile to a location named in a threatening letter to Mrs. Thaw. The letter ordered her chauffeur to seize $5000 from the car when a man would shout D-30.
Waterloo citizens eye a new Indian Hills golf club and a California addition to Castle Hill with about 130 bungalow homes. The plan by William Galloway & Associates includes a $50 yearly membership and a large dinner event on November 21 at the Russell-Lamson hotel. Tinsley of Indianapolis will speak as part of the expansion push that spreads the Galloway name citywide.
Des Moines reports the Iowa state federation of labor urges unions to rally to aid destitute miners families in Appanoose and Monroe counties. The call, signed by president John C. Lewis, cites relief from various groups and notes interference thwarted Red Cross help by coal operators.
Four men were held by federal authorities today in Des Moines and Chicago charged with distributing bogus ten dollar bills. Manual Black confessed that he and Lloyd Shepard John Maiden and William Bresley raised one dollar bills to ten dollar notes and passed them in towns between Indianapolis and St. Joseph Missouri. Shepard Maiden and Bresley were arrested in Sterling Missouri.
The electors of Roland will vote December 16 to decide if electric light service should be purchased wholesale from the Iowa Railway and Light corporation. This marks the fourth election in two months on the service issue.
World heavyweight champion Gene Tunney was presented to President Calvin Coolidge in the White House by Major General John A. Lejeune. After a five minute talk Tunney said the president was keen and had sound powers of reason. He noted Coolidge looked like a movie actor and that the president asked about his boxing career and Marine service. Tunney plans to fight again next June.
Fez Morocco November 19 Sultan Mouley Mahammed at age 14 confronts the fate of the harem left by his father Mouley Yousef. Only he may enter the private apartments to decide the disposition of hundreds of wives and concubines. French Gov. Gen. Steeg paid his respects as the sultan prepared for installation.
William Caley of New Hartford sustained minor injuries when a special train carrying Northfield college students to Mt. Vernon struck his cream route truck near Winslow on the Washington Union bridge road. The truck was heavily damaged and its cargo scattered. Caley was taken to Sartori Memorial hospital in Cedar Falls and expected to discharge in a few days.
Mrs. Frank Johnson was wounded by a rifle fired accidentally by her 12 year old son Marvin after returning from a hunting trip. The boy was loading the rifle when the trigger was pulled.
Weather for the week beginning November 20 forecasts periods of precipitation across the upper Mississippi lower Missouri valleys and the northern central Great Plains. Temperatures rise early then fall by Tuesday and Wednesday with temperatures generally below normal thereafter.
Captain Frederick Giles attempted a Pacific flight from Mills Field San Francisco in a bid to reach Honolulu. Fog over the coast forced him to dump gasoline and return, with plans to try again once weather improves. He left with 390 gallons, no radio or life raft, and aimed for a 26 hour voyage.
The Sardeson-Hovland company leases the two story 622-524 Commercial street building from Louis Johnson of Bethlehem for a long term. Remodeling costing about 25000 dollars will begin immediately to create a premier retail space with a new front and elevator. The store will occupy both floors after openings and operates 24 stores nationwide with headquarters in Chicago.
Des Moines Nov 19 The Iowa State Sheriffs Association yesterday rejected a plan to establish a daily radio police hour on WHO Des Moines to broadcast crime information. The project may be revisited next year when sheriffs offices have facilities. In the interim sheriffs will exchange a bulletin service mailed to each officer.
Charles D. Wilcox describes skidding around a corner as he traveled from 1986 Columbia circle to Janesville. Police report six automobile collisions this morning including one with a street car, underscoring slippery pavement conditions.
Lars Bladine of Dubuque assumes the Clinton Advertiser publisher role succeeding Paul H. Eames who resigned. Bladine, a former internal revenue collector, has published the Cedar Falls Record and was tied to Webster City Freeman-Journal and papers in Alta and Marathon. He served 12 years on the Republican state central committee.
Report from Stevens Point shows a deadly event after a man shot himself following a serious incident affecting two children. Authorities believe the man was responsible for the harm, with conditions described as critical or dying.
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