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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1923
Page
7
Washington columnist Mark Sullivan surveys urging closer US Canada cooperation led by tariff reciprocity and warns that renewed normal relations with Mexico offer stability. He notes Canada’s favorable stance on tariffs and Mexico’s promising leadership while cautioning against overreaction to the Italian-Greek episode.
President Coolidge has surveyed the nation’s major domestic questions and lines up with Harding on key policies. He supports strict Prohibition enforcement with state cooperation, favors adjusted compensation for soldiers, endorses indirect government operation of the Merchant Marine, and backs Ford’s Muscle Shoals offer. He aims for tax relief via spending cuts, opposes tariff tinkering, considers railroad consolidation delayed, will back ratification of the World Court, and aligns with Hughes on Russia until communism ends.
Peking reports the deposed Manchu emperor has given 5000 dollars and a collection valued at 190000 dollars for Japan earthquake relief. The donation includes the famed pearl beads of the empress dowager.
Ames Iowa September 10 President R A Pearson of Iowa State College said a complete probe found no evidence that state college students were involved in Des Moines booze arrests. He noted one student was expelled last year for liquor. Des Moines police cited raids suggesting shipments to Ames fraternities, while fraternity committee head R E Buchanan doubted student drinking here.
Twenty one battleships and battle cruisers of the United States Navy are to be sold for scrap in a series of sales beginning next month. They must be scrapped within 18 months from the August 17 ratification under the disarmament treaty.
Ray C. Eggert postmaster received plans for a one story addition to the Waterloo post office. Bids to be sought in Washington on Oct 9. The project expands the workroom to 41 by 32 feet and adds a 9 by 28 foot mailing vestibule with a concrete platform. The drive will be widened and relocated, eliminating the present rear drive. Receipts this year exceed prior records by about 20000, August receipts setting a new high. Postal workers welcome the project after months of talks to handle rising business.
Chicago officials of the Foodstuffs Workers Industrial Union launch an effort to unionize employees in 17 large plants here. Workers now are represented by a company union under representation. James B. Carroll, secretary, says the current system is unacceptable and cites extreme overcrowding and low wages.
Newton Sept 19 At a Methodist Episcopal church conference major ministerial postings were announced. Burlington First church William H. Spence Grace church K A W Stedghill West Burlington T McPherson Muscatine First church George Bragg North church C W Cochran South church Sydney Bloomauist Ottumwa First church L A Swisser Marin church A A Heath
London dispatch reports that occupied Germany has ordered passive resistance to French and Belgian authorities halted. Central News in Berlin says German capitalists will send a representative to Paris to gauge France’s willingness to concede. Direct negotiations between Germany and France are believed imminent.
Tokyo residents face fever and typhoid fears as officials urge Americans to depart the city. Red Cross pledges $1,000,000 for relief, with Admiral Anderson chairing a relief committee to speed medical supplies and food. Tokyo water slowly returns to normal amid ongoing aftershocks.
Raymond Moremen a young Pomona Cal Near East Relief worker stood under an American flag and drew two revolvers to confront Mustafa Kemal Pasha at the former palace of the Greek premier Venezelos in Boudin Smyrna. He managed to deter the Turkish nationalist from entering where 400 Greek orphans were housed by American relief workers.
Bay City clinched the Michigan Ontario Baseball League title in a tight finish with Saginaw as the season closed in Flint Michigan yesterday. The final standings show Bay City edging Saginaw by two games to four with the pennant decided in a close race.
Washington reports three Americans missing in Japan including Jennie Kuyper of Pella and Jean Gratton of San Francisco. A second message confirms a Boone woman, Marie Hinman, safe in Illinois and bouncing between Tokyo and Yokohama assignments. Catherine Elder from Iowa survived Yokohama quake injuries in a car derailment and canal escape, aided by Captain Swain.
Gotlolb Nashua died Saturday at Mere Hospital in Waverly after an operation for relief of appendicitis and gallstones. The widow and several children survive.
Secretary Work announces a fact finding commission to review government irrigation administration in arid and semi arid projects. The inquiry follows rising unpaid charges and long delays in settlements, noting $134 million spent with $14 million repaid and $6 million still due as of 1922 year end.
The article analyses France’s seizure of Germany’s Ruhr and its impact on Warren G. Harding, arguing the event propelled a push for a new world order and international regulation. It notes Harding’s response shaped by memoranda on Ruhr relations and hints at his successors.
The Courier delivery is guaranteed before 5 30. If you do not receive by then call 5100 and a copy will be sent. Calls should reach the office before 6 30 p m.
Des Moines police report arrests of five alleged thieves linked to a band. One suspect titled queen of the band, Tilio Beam, is tied to robberies as officers scramble for evidence. A gun battle left a merchant policeman and a bandit shot, with two wounded.
A Pacific coast tragedy leaves seven destroyers wrecked near Pedernales point Santa Barbara county as fog and radio misdirection helped steer ships onto jagged rocks. Rescue operations salvage bodies and aid survivors with a special train en route to San Diego.
An issue of 150000 dollars 5 percent county road bonds sold at par today to White Phillips Co of Davenport, at 10 p.m. Ed Madigan, county treasurer, reported no bids until the hour despite five bond-house representatives being present in the forenoon. Half bonds mature in 1931 and half in 1922. Buyers said longer maturity would have been more attractive. earlier road bonds sold for a good premium.
Mason City Iowa Sept. 10 His first conviction for murder set aside because the Supreme court held bloodhounds were not infallible Nick Grba sentenced to life imprisonment three years late began his second fight for liberty in District court here today Mike Baldazar whose slaying Grba was found guilty was blown to pieces by a time bomb while he was putting his automobile away for the night Evidence firm is held by bloodhounds was the main factor in Grba's conviction The state contends Grba's affection for Anna Baldazar's wife was the motive for the crime She has since married another man.
Two 14 year olds, Hell Smith and Martin Dahlquist, confessed to police that they robbed an ice station in Des Moines for 61 dollars last Saturday. They said they had broken into a Davenport candy firm's office and fled while trying to catch a freight train to a western city. Juvenile officers held them with parental and Bargenport police communication continuing.
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