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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1929
Page
15
Spot news report describes a prison riot at Canon City Colorado where more than a dozen guards and mutineers were killed. Dany Daniels and Red Riley led the uprising, killed four hostages, and were found dead in the cell block after demanding safe passage. Weapons included a gun or two smuggled in and improvised knives.
Four guards killed and twelve inmates dead or wounded as National Guard and police stormed the Colorado state penitentiary. Warden Crawford justified resisting mutiny to protect guards, while dynamite attempts and massed gunfire marked a half day and night of fighting led by ringleaders who later died by their own hand.
Special correspondent reports Ishbel MacDonald accompanying Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin on a goodwill visit to the United States. Ishbel, dressed in a black felt hat and coat, faced reporters with calm hazel eyes and discussed career, feminism, marriage, and views on peace, duties to country, and American women's interest in her father’s mission.
A relief expedition led by Roy Brown and Bill Spence set out from Bathurst to Beverley Lake in clear weather to locate MacAlpine and his five aerial explorers. The party, including Capt G S Blanchette and two observers, traveled about 300 miles round trip but found no trace and had not been heard from for 62 hours.
New York stock prices tumbled on the New York and Curb exchanges with leading shares dropping from five to twenty five dollars per share in the wildest session since March. Midday support briefly steadied the market and sparked a rally, but renewed heavy selling pushed prices to near session lows by close.
Seattle Oct 4 A request to send planes and coast guard cutters was made today to search for Russian fliers missing since leaving Sitka at 6 42 a m Thursday en route Moscow to New York. No word has been heard since.
Twenty five members of the former Des Moines university faculty were granted judgments in their favor after a court hearing. Three cases remain unsettled as the Baptist institution's spring scramble continues, with disputes over back pay and salaries.
Governor John Hammill will arrive in Waterloo at 5 p m to attend the Dairy Cattle Congress grounds show as 16 000 spectators packed the Hippodrome for the days events. Holstein aged cow class winner Johanna Pieterti Artis Crreamelie owned by Jefferson county asylum was named senior and grand champion. Wisconsin entries dominated the big cow class with Elmwood Farms Huesily Fobes Homestead placing second and Marathon Burke Ormsby Wayne third.
Arrangements move rapidly for a state tribute to the late Dr. Gustav Stresemann who died of a heart attack. He will be buried in Luisenstadt cemetery in Berlin with his will's wishes observed. His casket will be placed in the Reichstag plenary hall and Chancellor Mueller will speak before the body is carried to the burial site.
Washington Oct 4 The senate agriculture committee completed examination of federal farm board members in preparation for a confirmation vote. Chairman McNary said next week executive session will likely decide recommendations to the senate. William F P Schilling Minnesota dairying representative testified that cooperative marketing would be the farmer’s best wedge to prosperity.
Learn a method to halve weekend shopping time by using the paper's inside pages. It claims all stores are listed in one spot on pages 8 19 20 2 and 22, allowing price checks and bargain hunting without leaving home.
Des Moines reports Governor Hammill, en route from Chariton to Sioux City, forced to land after engine trouble near Lucas. No damage to plane or cargo. trip canceled as repairs could not be completed before dark. In Athens Ohio, Fred W. Bush, publisher of the Athens Messenger, died of a paralytic stroke.
The notice states papers should arrive before 6:30 PM. If delayed by carrier error, call 6100 for a replacement copy. calls should reach the office before 6:20 PM.
Washington reports that former interior secretary Albert B. Fall may have his bribery trial delayed again due to bronchial illness. His personal physician, Dr. H. T. Safford, says Fall 48, frail and weak, and cannot yet say if he can appear in court on the Monday trial date.
Paris says the France air ministry confirms a sighting of the Question Mark, a distance record attempt plane, near the village Beklamishee west of Chita in Siberia. Soviet searchers began a hunt as the craft possibly neared landing after leaving here last week.
Des Moines reporting that three 16 year old Michigan youths named Howard Devine Leo Wright and Alex Alexander confessed to stealing two automobiles and robbing an Iowa filling station. They were picked up in Adair Iowa after admitting thefts in Detroit and Des Moines and a robbery when short of supplies. The youths said they had served terms in a Michigan reform school.
Des Moines report notes that Grinnell college co editors may smoke with limited restraint, while Drake university bans cigaret smoking in the university play The Silver Cord. James J. Fiderlick, head of dramatics, says performers must drop Lady Nicotine and abandon smoking scenes.
British Prime Minister J Ramsay MacDonald arrived in New York en route to Washington to confer with President Hoover. He was welcomed by Secretary of State Stimson, local officials, and a huge crowd in City Hall Park. The scene featured gun salutes, bands, and a scroll presented by Mayor James J Walker, signaling a new era in Anglo American naval talks.
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