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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
SERVICE NOT
AFFECTED BY
COURT Warning
BOndhOders and Directors
in Chicago Meeting
to Consider Sus-
pension. \
NEED FORMAL ORDER
Receiver and Attorney to
Attend Business Con-
claye. Z
NEED FORMAL ORDER
(By The Associated Prcss.)


Des Moines, Iowa Aug. 1.--Street
cars were still operating in Des Moines
today despite Federal Judge Wade's
warning last week that service would
he suspended Aug. 1. 1t is not definite
ly known when the formal order sus-
pending service will be handed down.
1t appeared that any real lease Oh life
for the street car service rested entire
ly with the meeting Of the bond-holders
'tc be held in Chicago today or later in
the week. Both Receiver f. c. Cham
bers, general manager of the car com
pany, and Attorney ]. G: Gamble, coun-
sci for the A. w. Harris interests, are
reported to be in Chicago. presumably
to attend the bond-holders meeting.
Ben Wiley, business agent Of the car
mems union, received no word with re-
spect to the shutdown.
The city council has shown no dis
position to forestall the shutdown Of
the system. Meanwhile street car rid
ers are waiting to know whether they
will be forced to depend on the busses
for transportation.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
K.C CONVENTION
IN CALIFORNIA
OPENED TODAY

San Francisco, Aug. l. Especial y
Special trains continue to file into this
city. bearing delegates and visiting
knights of Clumbus and their families
from all parts of the United States and
ether countries Of North America, to
the coming supreme convention OF the
Knights of Columbus. The formal SUI
preme council commences tomorrow.
with ii monster military parade on the
principal streets of the city including
army. navy. marine, American Legion
and other units of patriotic, civic and
fratcrnal organizations, among the par
ticipalts: the citizens committee OF
tkree hundred prominent professional
and business men of San Francisco hav-
ing charge of tOday's programme. The
supreme officers and directors of the
order will be especially honorcd by the
citizens of San Francisco. and by the
officials of the army and navy. there
being every preparation made to tend
rr suitable hOnorS to the visiting
knights. due to the great war and post
war activities of the Knights of Col
UmbuS.
4 solemn pontificial high mass on the
grounds of the old Mission Dolores
church. where mass was first celebrat-
ed by the Franciscan fathers June %,
1776. will be celebrated tomorrow
lnorning, in the outdoors.
In the afternoon the opening bust
ness session of the 39th annual interna-
tional supreme council of the knights
OF Columbus. will take place in the ST..
Francis Hotel.
Tomorrow evening the grand public
reception and ball. rendered 10y the
citizens committee. will take place in
san Fraucisco's great civic auditorium,
with 10000 people present at the func-
ton. some 10000 outside of the audi
torium to hear band concert and lis
ten to the addresses made inside. hy
the use of IN amplficd voice recorder.
In the Auditorium an elaborate pro-
gram. organ recital. military band con-
cert. song recitals by eminent artists
and dancing will take place.
The city has taken on carnival air.
taking place all over
town. due to open house being main
taincd hy all fraternal aud civic aSso-
CATIONS. In addition the local X. of
&. councils are conducting entertain
mcntS and social functions nightly and
the programme of the general commit
tee is also Il comprehensive one.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
JOHNSON WILLIAM IN,
BuRtESQG, DEFENSE
DECLARES in COURT

Chicago, Aug. 1.-Openins its final
argument in the base ball trial, the de.
Tense today pictured the base ball scan
dal investigation and trial as a. ''tlieat-
rical burlcsque in which Ban johnson,
president Of the American league, was
the villain and Chas. A. COmiskie, own
er of the Chicago club, the goat"
The entire case Is merely another
outbreak of the Comisky-Johnson fued,
said Henry Burger, first Of the nine
defense attorneys to talk during the
day. He defied the jury to find any
thing in Illinois law making the throw
ing of base ball game crime.
There is no proof that the ball
players intended the throwing OF games
in the 1919 worlds series to injure
their club of their league" said Mr..
Burger. ITO intend to do so would have
meant trying to destroy themselves and
that is absurd"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
EXPLORER PLANS
TO SEND RADIO
FROM NORTH POLE
(By The Associated Press.) }

Seattle, WASH, Aug. 1.-From the
remotest, most inaccessible spot on
earth-the North Pole-a wireless mes
sage will be flashed to the civilized
world, If the plans Of Captain Roald
Amundsen, discoverer of the South
Pole and famous Arctic explorer, are
carried out.
Captain Amundsen's schooner Maud,
on which he hoped to drift past the
pole with the ice floes, was disabled
by broken propeller off Cape Serdze,
Siberia, after he had spent two years
in pushing around the eastward Arctic
passage from Norway. The explorer
left his vessel and her crew to await
a break in the ice and proceeded to
Nome, later coming to Seattle ON re-
cent ship.
The Maud has no wireless apparatus,
but Captain Amundsen expects to in
stall one when the craft is brought
here, some time this summer, to be re-
paired and refitted. Captain Amundsen
explained that his party had been cut
off from cOmmunica ton with other hu
man beings for two years, with but one
trip out to Nome last year
two years of ice-bound horizons. of
bitter cold. of almost endless night.
''The war was raging in its most
critical period when we left the world
most of you know" re recalled. "and
for many months we speculated in vain
on the course of events. 1t was in
December, 1919, more than year after
the signing of the armistice, that we
finally met a Russian trader who told
us what had happened. Then de-
termined we would carry wireless
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
IOlua City Officers
tOLedgue Meeting

Sioux City. Iowa. Aug 1.-Two hun
dred or more mayors and officials OF
cities and towns in Iowa are expected
to visit Sioux City when the Iowa
League of Municipalities convenes here
August 16. II and Is.
The general program will open short
lv after 10 o'clock Tuesday morning,
August 16, with an address of welcome
hv Mayor Wallace NJ Short. The re-
sponsc probably will be made by Mayor
j. f. Hall of Cedar Rapids. who is pres
ident of the league. Addresses will be
given by Frank q. Pierce Of Marshall
town and other officials.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
Seek Closer Relation
BY Alphabet Change

Sofia, Aug. 1.-Simplification of the
Bulgarian photography by eliminating
three letters of the alphabet. recently
ordered by the Cabinet Council, has
just been put into effect. The censor
ship, still existing here, will enforce the
new spelling in all publications.
These three letters are remnants of
the old Slav tongue. They do not exist
in the Serbian language and they re
Gently were ordered stricken from the
Russian alphabet by the Soviet Min
istry of Public instruction. Their
principal use was as word termna-
tions. The new spelling is taken in
scme quarters to he an effort toward
closer relations with the Serbs.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
OFFICIAL REPORT
ON SPuRC|N BANK
EXPECTED TODAY

Chicago. August 1.-The first official
report on the condition of the Michi-
gan Avenue Trust Co.. closed after the
fight of its president, Warren c. Spur
gin, will be made today by II. S. Saw
age, state bank examiner, who audited
the books. Estimates of the shortage
placed it at nearly $1,OOO.OOO. Follow
ing the report the first definite action is
expected by the directors and stock
holders. The states attorneys Office
announced that it had been notified
that the directors and stockholders
were prepared to make good whatever
deficit was found to exist.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
PRESIDENT EX.
PRESSES HOPE
Of DISARMAMENT /
Delivers Address at Tercen-
tinary of Landing of the
Pilgrims at Ply
mouth Rock.
HOPE IN CONFERENCE
Thinks Conference of Ma
tions Will Mean Dis
armament.
HOPE IN CONFERENCE
(By The Associated Press.)

Plymouth, Mass, Aug. IA nope
that the disarmament conference call
ed by the United States may bring to
the world new era of peace was freely
expressed by President Harding today
in an address here at the tercentinary
Of the landing of the Pilgrims.
Characterizing the international stu
alton as more than promising" the
president asserted that the "seed OF
common tolerance and understanding
planted by the fathers here is beginning
to bear fruit thousand fold in the re-
lntiOns between nations
A New Hope.
"a new hope looms today" said the
president. I'VE are slowly, but very
surely. recovering from the wastes and
SORROWS and other disarrangements OF
the cataclysm of war. Peace is bring
ing its new assurances and penitent re-
alization and insistent conscience will
preserve that peace. Our faith is firm
that the wars causes may be minimized
and over-burdening armies may be
largely diminished and these two, with
out the surrender of nationality which
inspires, nor the good conscience which
defends.
international prospects are more
than promising and the distress and de-
preston at home is symbolic of an early
recovery. Solvent financially: sound
unrivaled in genius; un-
excelled in industry; resolute i'll de-
unwavering in faith. these
United States will carry on.
Praises Religious Freedom.
In the course of his speech, MIR. Hard
ing paised the part the religious free
dom and other New England traditions
have played in the development OF the
nation. He also took occasion to de-
plore the common tendency toward con-
OF governmental authority
in Washington and to reafiirm his faith
in religion as an essential element OF
rood government.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
WIND and LIGHTNING
KILL SEVEN PERSONS;
CROP DAMAGE SEVERE
(By The Associated Press.)

b New York, Aug. 1-At least seven
persons were killed and many were
seriously injured in severe electrical
and wind storms which swept various
sections of the country yesterday and
Saturday night. Four deaths are at
tributed to lightning. The loss OF
buildings struck by lightning and dam
age to crops, particularly in New Eng
land, is said to amount to thousands
of dollars. Three deaths resulted in
Illinois. Andrew Little. 30, was killed
when tree fell Oh his automobile dur
ing a storm ut Benton, Illinois, and
Mrs. William Belford and her II year
old grandson We're crushed to death
near Golconda, ILL.,, by the fall Of a
wall of their home during a wind
storm.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
st. Louis Safest
CityfOr MOrtOrists

st. Louis. Aug. 1.-St. Louis Is the
safest" large city in the United States
as far as automobile accidents are con-
cerned. according to statistics publish
ed by the Mississippi Valley division of
the National Safety Council.
Based on the number of automobile
accidents per 1.OOO,OOO population, the
local rate was announced as 1872 and
was the lowest of eight cities in which
observations were made
Rates for other cities announced
were: New York 1347, Milwaukee
1870. Pittsburgh 1924, Chicago 164.9.
Detroit 1895. Cincinnati 1909. and Los
Angeles 2GS.G.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
S150,000 fire
SWEEPS ELD0RA
BUSINESS BLOCK
Blaze Started in Basement
of Theatre and Spread
1 Rapidly Through
y Town.
COURT HOUSE IS SAVED
Change in Wind Gives Fire
Fighters Opp0rtun-
ity.
iBy The Associated Press.)

Eldora, Iowa, Aug. 1.-Fire which
started in the basement of the Wind
sor theatre at midnight destroyed Il
business block in the center Of the town
valued at $1JO,OOO and threatened the
court house and Jail until shift in the
wind gave the fire fighters opportunity
to cOntrOl the flames.
The block burned housed, beside the
theatre, a dry goods store, post office,
barber shop b0ttling works and Ameri-
can Legion club rooms. All the post
Office records and mail were saved.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
DEvEL0PMENTSL0OM
IN IRISH PEACE But
LEADERS ARE Silent

London, Aug. Developments in
the peace negotiations between Prime
Minister Lloyd George and EamOnn De
Valera, Irish Republican leader, are im
minent. it was reported here today but
government leaders refused to lift the
veil of secrecy. There were certain
deductions made from the arrival in
Dublin of Art O'Brien. president of
Gaelic League of London, but they
could not be verified
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
MISSISSIPPI GETS
FIRST BURLINGTON
VICTIM OF SEASON
Try The Associated Press. }

: Burlington, Iowa. Aug. 1.-August
Schach, 16 years old Of Burlington, was
drowned under the Citizens bridge
while he was swimming in the Missis-
sippi river Sunday afternoon at l 30.
The water was but waist deep where
he drowned and it is believed that he
was seized with cramps. His younger
brother, Robert, was nearly drowned in
a heroic effort to save August's life.
The boys were on their way to the Ga
Mtte bathing beach which opened Sun
day. August was the first victim to
drown in the river at Burlington this
summer.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
Director of American Re.
lief Administration Or.
dered to Riga to
Prepare.
TO MEET AUTHORITIES
United States Secretary
Sends Official Mes
sage.

Washington, ID. c.. Aug.1.-Sccretary
Hoover today cabled Walter Lyman
Brown, the European director of Amer
lean relief administration in London, to
proceed to Riga and negotiate with Rus
sian soviet authorities preparatory to
food relief work in Russia.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
The Human DO(3O.

American Legion Weekly: Mrs. Jaw
slip-You say Mr.. Jawstrong always
does what you tell him to do and
never talks back: He must be rare
husband.
Mrs. .'awstrong-R He's prac-
tically extinct.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
CARS RUN IN DES MONIES
INCH AND HALF
OF RAIN FALLS
OVER THIS STATE
(By The Associated Press. }

Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. ACCORD.
ing to the weather bureau here, there
has been $50 inches of rainfall during
the last twenty-four hours. A heavy
rain has fallen over the entire western
part of the state and is reported trav-
e1ling eastward. Heavy rains are also
reported in Colorado, Nebraska and
Kansas.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-08-01
WANTED-sccretarial position by ex.

perienced young lady. If so desired,
personal application can be made
during third week in August. Hazel
IngchrilSon n, Ellsworth, Iowa.
S-1f2j2
The Washington herald., 1921-01-12
immortality in England
FOUOIrs World War

English clergy are endeavoring to
stem the tide of free thought" in
sex matters which has arisen in this
country since the war.
An outspoken utterance on GER
tain marriages has been made by
the Rev. E. p. Amphlett. Vicar OF
Powick.
He says that he will decline to of
ficiate in these, though he will bap-
tine children born before wedlock,
in order not to~visit the sins of
the parents on their offspring.
II do not pass lightly over the
charity which would sanction such
a marriage for the sake of the
child, but II should take place at a
register office, where there is no
pretence of religious service.
People must be made to realize
the hideousness of their sin. Nothing
would induce me In the full knowI-
edge of the circumstances to Of
hciate at such marriage"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-12
Marriage Licenses

Joseph Beans, IS, and Hattie Rib
bon, 40, both of this city. The Rev.
L Wright
George L. Swan. "a. and Solomon
S. Stewart, %, both of this city.
The Rev. P. Hayes.
William l. Bush, AZ. and Amy E.
Smith, AZ, both of this city. The
Rev. A. J. Tyler.
Robert Ealy, "a. and Ester Hen
derson, 20, both of this city. The
Rev. U. B. Johnson.
Edward F. McCarron, 3s, and Rose
E. Apple, "a, both Of this city. The
Rev. J. N. Pierce.
Hughie A. shumate. %, and Anna
L. Meyer, 81, both of this city. The
Rev. H F. Downs.
George w. Sheridan, 81, of Da-
vidsonville, Nd, and Mary A. Trice,
46, of st. Georges Island. Nd. The
Rev. H. D. Mitchell.
Thomas D. Moore, SO, of this
city, and Lucille NJ. Larence, IS, of
Newburg, Nd. The Rev. ]. 1. Bar
rett.
Mckinley sorewen, 27. of wau-
meta, Nebr., and Cora l. Banks, 80,
Of this city. The Rev. W. A. Morgan.
Robert Lewis, 81, and Estella
Johnson, Is, both of this city. The
Rev. P. Hayes.
Leonard B. Punch, Is, and A. eau
delle Warren, 19, both of this city.
The Rev. w. A. Jones.
Maury Middleton, Al. and Mabelle
v. Carr, 2S, both of this city. The
Rev. G. W. Van Fossen,
George Mcdowell, 2s, and Daisy
Cherry, %, both of this city. The
Rev. A. Ssyles.
Martin A Buck, 4S, and Emma A.
Deylin, IS, both of this city. The
Rev, J. E. Briggs.
william H. Smith, SO, of Miller's
Tavern, Va. and Mary NJ. Schools
32, of Newton, Va. The Rev. H. T.
Stevenson.
town, Md, and Carrie ]. Redford,
81. of Richmond, Va. The Rev. j.
Z. Briggs.
William T. LeGrande, rs, of Rich
mond, Va, and Roberta R. Cook, 26,
Of this city. The Rev. P. F. Hail.
Thomas ]. Fleming, "a. and Mary
]. Macaulay, SO. both of this city.
The Rev. ]. H. Cassidy.
Robert B. Jenkins. Is, and Natalie
Deskins, 81, both Of this city. The
Rev. J. E. Willis.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-12
American Firms Seek
Factories in Germany

Many American industries have
been inspecting Germany recently
as a possible land fox establishing
branch factories.
The National Cash Register COM
pany has informed the German gov
ernment of it's intention to build q
plant for its European production
Of registers. Henry Ford proposes
to build tractors in connection with
an old established German concern.
The Intertype company recently
looked over the field, but as far as
is known is not now ready to build.
These are a few samples, but ac-
cording to American official infor-
nation, a number of others have
been on the still hunt.
The idea of foreign branches,
which today is recognized by Amer
lea as a sound economic principle,
has sent big industries on this
search. But, their Investigations
have had to consider these factors:
The general internal situation; the
question of taxes; the accessibility
to markets and supplies; the labor
market.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-12
PSYCH0ANALYSIS
MENACES BRITAIN
Quack "Healers" and Doctors
Imported From
Germany.

Physicians, publicists and other
prominent men, including editors
Of the most prominent publications
in England, are waging a deter
mined war against psychoanaIysfs,
latest Importation from Germany,
which they term "the most insidi-
Gus enemy the British nation has
had to face in years, says a recent
dispatch from London.
At present there is no legal re-
striction against psychoanalysis
in England. Anybody can set up as
a psychoanalyst simply by putting
n plate on his door. There are in
London today at least six men who
charge large fees for their services
in prescribing the new mental sug-
Cestion treatment for nervous or
Imaginary disorders. One OF these
men, it is asserted, was a few years
Ego a drygoods clerk in the United
States
THE practice of psychoanalysis
charIatans is a great danger, es-
scially to impressionable young
omen" prominent physician told
Universal Service. The danger may
ne indicated by a concrete case
which has been brought to my at
LenLlOh= ~ gOAA5 6AAA NAAC
of these so-called doctors She was
N a nervous and highly strung dis
nosition and was worried about
certain perfectly natural manifesto
tions. Instead Of getting better as
a result of psychoanalysis she be-
became worse.
In hundreds of cases these
rraudulent men put IDEAS into
Young peoples heads which would
Otherwise never get there, excite
morbid thoughts and awaken de-
sires Of an abnormal character.
According to the German theory.
+be determining factor in awaken
ing the subconscious mind In the
sAx instinct Herein lies the danger,
md this is the phase of the whole
thing that We are lighting as very
s-raye danger to the morals Of the
mole race"
The Washington herald., 1921-01-12
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

lots IA to II, square 1884, lots 81
to "a, Padsworth-Rachel LeFaune
Davis to Benjamin H. Gruver, $40.
1885 J st. NV, square 179, lot IA
Mary L. Penn to Lucie NJ. Pyle, $40.
% Jackson pl. NV, square 167.
lot 27-Matthew H. Taylor and
Charles H. Strong, surviving trus-
tees, and Annie w. Strong to Mary
S. Townsend, $40.
27oS 11th st. NV, square 1858, lot
20, Mount Pleasant and Pleasant
Plains-Harriet A. Mills to Charles
". Roche, $40.
1904 Illinois ave. NV, square 2997,
lot 100, Brightwood Park-Clair
E. Baum ct uX.. Lois F., to Dora
Walkowsky, $40.
Square 1920, lot %, addition to
LeDroit Psrk-Henry w. Sohon'
trustee, to James F. O'Connor ct
ux., Sarah H, $5,050.
The Washington herald., 1921-01-12
REFUGEE TELLS
OF CITY'S DECAY
Buildings in Petrograd Torn
Down for Firewood, She
Declares.

Refugees reaching London from
Russia tell vivid stories of the decay
of Petrograd.
Hundredsaof thousands have left
the once prosperous Russian capital.
Now the remaining population num-
bers only 100000, two-thirds OF
whom are women.
Madame Struve, wife of Baron
Struve, Wrangers foreign minister,
was one of the recent Russian
refugees who passed through Lon
don. She had escaped from the
north of Russia after enduring many
hardships.
She described how the wooden
buildings of Petrograd are all being
torn down for fuel; how the wooden
pavements are fast disappearing,
because the freezing inhabitants
steal the wooden blocks for their
stoves.
Many homes are in darkness be-
cause there are no candles, and the
municipal lighting system runs only
a couple of hours a day.
Mortality has reached a startling
rate. So-called healthy" people
have faces of wax-like color and
suffer from starvation dropsy, which
changes the expression of faces so
that one can scarcely recognize old
acquaintances. Those who are ,classed
as sick" have such maladies as
spotted fever, smallpox, influenza,
abdominal and intermittent typhus
and pneumonia.
People die on operating tables
from severe cold OF the unheated
hospitals and from neglect and from
shortage of hospital essentials un-
procurable in Russia, the refugees
reaching London declare. Houses
are rapidly becoming uninhabitable.
Once the plumbing breaks it is
usually impossible to have 1t re-
paired. The family lives in the house
till it becomes too filthy and then
moves out barring the doors