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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1928
Page
10
The American Legion annual convention opens in San Antonio Texas drawing an estimated 50 000 to 80 000 visitors. Gen John J Pershing requires police protection as crowds cheer and playful mischief spreads through the event.
Special church programs launched the seventy fifth jubilee celebration in Marshalltown and Marshall County with community events marking the anniversary. Local clergy led services as residents gathered for the open ceremony and related festivities.
Dr. G. G. Wu says Nationalist China and Manchuria are virtually at war due to Japanese tactics at Mukden. He argues Japan seeks a protectorate over Manchuria, denounces treaties as excuses, and warns that Tokyo's aim is breaking Chinese unification.
Edward H. Spafford, retiring commander of the American Legion, addressed the national convention in San Antonio Texas and urged legionnaires to back a universal draft law as the first objective of the organization.
Herbert Hoover keeps a grueling schedule on the campaign trail while stressing renewed vigor from crowd contact. After stops in Elizabethon, Johnson City, and nearby towns, he plans a New England swing with talks in Springfield Worcester and Boston before a final Boston visit and a trip to New York as party leaders shape the late October itinerary.
William Edward Hickman of Los Angeles was denied a further appeal to the Supreme Court after a death sentence for the Marian Parker murder was upheld. The ruling was issued by Justice Switherland in San Francisco.
The Courier should be delivered at your home before 5 30 oclock. If you do not receive your paper by that time due to carrier error or other cause, please phone 5109 and a copy will be sent. Phone calls must reach this office before 6 30 P M.
A night fire at a state prison brick plant near Minction City Ohio traps 275 inmates. Seventeen believed burned to death with at least twelve seriously injured. Officials cite defective wiring and barred exits as factors. Heroic actions of prisoner William OMalley noted as efforts to save others unfold.
Waterloo police pursue clues in a hit and run that killed Peter Kress 81 on Westfield avenue while another driver Bernard Hilton 21 of Winthrop ok confessed to injuring Alfred Danker Traer on Hudson road. Danker suffers multiple injuries and Kress death details, including ages and surviving family, are outlined with court notes.
Bayonets machineguns and artillery kept peace at Wiener Neustadt over the weekend as 12,000 soldiers guarded demonstrations by socialists and fascists. About 70,000 people attended on Sunday while hospital forces stood ready for the wounded. Both sides called the event a strength review amid social democratic congress plans.
Four more deaths linked to alcohol poisoning were reported in New York, bringing the weekend total to 17. Two unidentified men were found on east side streets and two lodgers died in Bowery lodging houses. Fifty seven others remain hospitalized in Manhattan and Brooklyn with the same illness. Police called it the largest weekend toll from this cause since New Year’s.
C D Lampert, 70, a janitor at the Elkhart grade school, crawled into a furnace and set fire to his kerosene soaked clothing. He died in the blaze and a note found at his home suggested suicide. Frank Plimmer, a neighbor, discovered his burned body hours later.
The John Deere Tractor Company will adopt a six day weekly schedule with nine hour days starting next week. The change follows several months where weeks averaged about one and a half days more than this new plan.
M K Reilly of Fond du Lac today withdrew as Democratic nominee for United States senator from Wisconsin. With Reilly out the field may have only La Follette as a major party candidate unless Democrats nominate a replacement, while reports say Republicans consider an independent run led by W J Campbell of Oshkosh.
East High coach and athletic director M B Makeover notes nationwide high school football faces modern time challenges. He proposes starting Ernst High games at 1 pm to accommodate radio fans and business schedules while sustaining athletic programs despite small receipts.
Des Moines Oct 8 W F H union coal miners of Town tomorrow will vote to accept or reject the new wage scale negotiated 10 days ago at Des Moines by a joint subcommittee representing the miners and operators. The scale sets a minimum wage of 5.80 a day and a 14 percent reduction of yardage and dead work gates from the old Jacksonville scale. Joe Morris Alblay president of the miners union and other officials expect a favorable vote, though workers in some districts have voiced objections and refused to return to work.
The bodies of Mrs Clyde Ryker 35 and her three children were found in their Berwyn home this morning after the mother apparently killed the children and then ended her own life by turning on the gas authorities report a gas filled house on the west side suburb died in alleged murder suicide case and police are investigating the scene for confirmation of the details
Augusta Ga Oct 8 Ty Cobb confirmed plans to tour Japan this year with a team of major league players for exhibition games against Japanese squads. He said he cannot announce the accompanying players yet.
Edwin H. Collamer of 905 Logan Avenue recalls his World War I service as a medical detachment member with the 109th Engineers Hospital Train. He describes influenza at sea aboard the Cretic in September 1918, twelve days to Liverpool, three 72 hour sickness stretches, and thirteen pneumonia deaths in one ward. He notes action at Mesges and the surprise armistice while French patrols dropped notes overhead.
Brig. Gen. Mitchell leads push to create a separate aviation department as the American Legion opens its tenth annual convention in San Antonio. Delegates and 60 000 veterans await a clash with supporters of a universal draft and officials hostile to air service reforms. Pershing attends as crowds fill the city with drums bugles and street excitement.
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