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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1923
Page
8
Washington editor reports Gifford Pinchot arrives at a citizenship conference in the capital and declares the eighteenth amendment betrayed. He faults federal enforcement, urges direct presidential control and removal of politics from Prohibition policing, signaling a sharp clash with administration policy.
Berlin reports that about 40 000 Russians have been booked to travel to the United States once the immigration quota opens. Most are women and children, and bookings come from American and English steamship agents after inspections in Russia.
Santa Fe reports Col. KE Walters to conduct a government sale of more than 25 000 acres of Navajo reservation land for oil exploration. The auction, overseen by ex Governor Hagerman, promises 12 to 25 percent royalties to Indians with stringent drilling obligations and a 25 percent down payment required on the day of sale.
The notice instructs readers the Courier should arrive before 5 30. If not received by that time due to carrier error or other cause call S100. a copy will be sent. Calls to the office must reach before 6 30 p m.
Coroner Fitzgerald announced that Mrs. Gertrude Gorman Webb of New York and Philadelphia died of natural causes. The inquest was canceled though grand jury sessions would continue. Webb had died at the Westchester Biltmore Country Club about three weeks earlier.
Thomas B. Glynn, 20, son of a New Orleans businessman, is freed after a 24 hour jury deliberation on first degree murder charges in Denver. He was charged in the June 20 murder of Fred Lewis, a female impersonator, in a drunken brawl. Glynn pleaded self defense. Only his wife mother and father witnessed the verdict besides court officials. Glynn is a former service man and a University of Colorado vocational student.
Rev B H Reeman Unitarian minister in Des Moines argues that old dogmas still govern religious thinking worldwide despite scientific progress. He says superstition shapes major metaphysical ideas and that science is a recent development while superstition is ancient.
A car carrying nine relatives returning from Sunday school was struck by a Big Four passenger train near Brookfield Indiana. Roy Brinton survived. witness say the auto stalled on the tracks. Another Des Moines area crash left 16 injured. a realtor and his passenger died when a freight train struck their car.
Relatives of Mrs Florence Kling Harding widow of former President Harding report she has canceled winter plans to stay in Washington. She will remain to complete the settlement of Mr Harding s personal affairs in the capital.
Senate committee opens hearings on the McCormick cut to improve the Illinois and Mississippi rivers with a nine foot channel. Iowa's Senator Smith W. Brookhart is among the panel.
Sac City October term docket lists B S Needham charged with fraudulent banking along with 92 law cases 9 equity 44 probate and 14 criminal cases. Judge M F Hutchison instructs the grand jury before session.
In Los Angeles on February 18 Solomon Kay, 8, is accused by police of taking coins from other worshipers during a service and leaving a note claiming repayment. He was booked on suspicion of robbery after the incident.
The Los Angeles area suffered extensive brush fires starting Saturday and continuing Sunday. One 15 mile sweep near Glendale and Eagle Rock killed two people. 12 houses, four industrial plants and an oil well burned. Industrial losses exceed half a million dollars, with several mills and a glass works damaged. In Las Flores canyon 1300 acres burned and three homes were destroyed, while Palos Verdes saw 10000 acres burned near the harbor district. Total losses estimated between two million and more than four million dollars.
Waverly Iowa October 15 special Clare Harden suffered probable fatal injuries and Ralph Bailey Jess severely hurt when a light truck struck a sand pile on the highway south of town. The crash threw them about 25 feet as a party of young men traveling to a Janesville dance encountered a blinding glare from an approaching car. Harden had head injuries from the impact.
Six foreigners including three children of Alades Godossian perish after a lake steamer hits their unlit rowboat near Ecorse Michigan on the Detroit River. One man, Godossian, survived. Canadian pilot identified as likely operator. Police say steamer did not stop.
New York editorial argues the world faces a looming crisis and that a strong American lead is essential. It endorses replacing old war logic with a new world order and weighs joining the league of nations against Harding’s proposed alternative.
A young woman with a delicate face and calm, studious look, Miss Marie Mayer, is shown in New York City public library studying literary research. Mayer has played Mary Magdalene three times in the Oberammergau Passion play, born in Oberammergau to parents long connected with the famous stage tradition.
Governors from more than 20 states convene for the fifteenth annual governors conference at West Baden Indiana hosted by Warren T Mee Cray governor of Indiana. An informal reception at the state capital precedes a caravan to West Baden for luncheon and talks on law enforcement and wheat farmer finances. They plan to return to Washington to meet President Coolidge after the meeting.
Des Moines hosts the 16th annual American life insurance convention with 267 life insurance companies represented and more than 600 underwriters expected to register by week’s end. The legal section and convention program open with speakers including B P Zars, D P Ninde, and William Ross King.
The crest of floodwaters reached Oklahoma City today washing away homes and endangering lives. Seven houses in Walnut Circle were swept by a stream from the North Canadian River while residential areas in Wackingtown and Cypitol Wi were isolated.
The Juvenile Shoe company of California must change its name to continue business. The federal trade commission order was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States in refusing to review the case.
The New York Yankees rallied from a late deficit to defeat the Giants at the Polo Grounds in a rain drenched opening game. Ruth belted a homer for the Yankees as pitchers Pennock and Schang held Giants hitters in check through the later innings. The crowd of about 60,000 to 63,000 braved drizzle and chilly air, with attendance and gate receipts a major topic in the aftermath.
Brainerd Minnesota October 15 H W Bush veteran conductor of the Minnesota and International railway notes that when Joe Bullet Bush Yankee ace is pitching the world series comes alive He recalls knowing the stuff would beat McGraw master mind His mother tears up calling him Lestie and praising his boyhood progress
Omaha Mayor James C. Dahlman suffered bloody bruises after catching his heel and falling on the pavement while trying to alight from a street car. Doctors said he may be out of sight for several days.
Shanghai dispatch reports Gen. Chiang wired Peking that forces defeated the bandit chieftain Yan the terrible and rescued Misses Darroch and Sharp, captured weeks earlier. Also, bandits seized J Stamm of Standard Oil near Tuchow with four oil junks and are holding him for 2000 ransom. Rev. Hick of China Inland Mission was shot in the neck during clashes near Chunwing.
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