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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1925
Page
3
An essayish column reflects on dawn to noon heat and changing visions of statuary and picnic life. It laments the heat wave, notes weather reports usefulness to stores and farmers, and muses on the value of earned respect and a simple life as average city and country families report about $1000 annual cash income.
Munice readers learn that George Dutch Anderson remains at large after the Hance murder. Ben Hance and wife were killed while investigators connect Anderson and accomplice Wolfe to the crime. Wolfe, jailed on bond, claims innocence as officers tighten the Stark County and Muncie case net. Police link Ohio robberies to the Chapman gang and the two suspects.
A new concrete street will open to the public this morning linking Union to Bland Street at Park. The drive provides a shorter route to the Norfolk and Western passenger terminal from Union, offering a scenic view as motorists use the new street today.
Oswald West, former Oregon governor, issues a challenge to Governor Walter M. Pierce and State Penitentiary Warden Dalrymple to enter Drift Creek Canyon seeking three escaped convicts. He proposes a patrol with armed escorts and supplies, warning that shots may be fired.
Washington reports station WGY in Schenectady will broadcast Aug 22 24 and 25 at 60 000 watts, ten times previous US power, testing effects on wave transmission. Hoover asks official listeners to note interference range modulation fading and blanket effects while observers measure signals. Regular listeners will hear both 60 kilowatts and 2 kilowatts for comparison.
In Paris a pocketbook with 25,000 dollars was lost by Cuban Armeando Cartajo. Juliette Simonet found the purse intact and returned it to the owner who paid a 60,000 franc reward, about 2500 dollars, as thanks.
Raymond Costello, about twenty, was found guilty of the murder of Madeline White, a nineteen year old, in Chicago. The jury gave him death by hanging after a brief deliberation. The victim’s body was found under a southside porch, and a polka dot handkerchief linked to Costello was central to the case. Costello claimed another man killed White and pointed to alibi witnesses, while defense witnesses denied ownership of the cloth.
A mass of communications read to Governor Peay includes praise for the Butler bill barring teaching evolution in schools. Notable senders include W. Douthat of Huntington and Rev. J. C. Coggins of South Norwalk. Messages mock the evolution theory and defend legislative action as protecting morality and faith.
Forty thousand members of the Bricklayers Masons and Plasterers International Union and affiliated groups in Greater New York prepare to strike in solidarity with bricklayers already walkouts in Washington Miami Chicago Newark and New York. John Gill of the union executive committee said the action aims to extend a nine hour day and maintain solidarity across locals.
In Sedalia Missouri Mr and Mrs Henry Adams the youth Everett Adams father of the slain Professor A R Clawson of Lodi New York left for Wilmington Delaware with their son still in jail awaiting further action The parents spoke little of the tragedy and Everett said it all seems like a dream Chief Ben South of Wilmington accompanied them as they prepared to travel home to await Sunday morning arrival.
In Camden New Jersey on August 15 Mrs Catharine Andia and her four year old son John were beaten to death with a wooden mallet in their cellar. Mrs Andia was dead on discovery by cousin Joseph Gentile. The boy died shortly after. Police seek Joseph Audia the husband and son Frank Audia twenty for clues in the case.
Berlin reports Edmund Stinnes announces a gift of 2,000,000 marks in Aga Motor Works shares to employees. The move follows a dispute with banks over credit and signals an effort to keep the plant running while bankers withhold support. A workmen’s council will meet to decide disposition of the stock representing one third of the company’s capital.
George R. Zercher, a well known railroad man, died after a several day illness at the Chesa and Ohio hospital in Huntington W V Born in Williamsport Pa he had lived in Huntington eight years after moving from New York He was a member of multiple Masonic orders and Shriners He is survived by his wife a son and several siblings Funeral services are planned for Sunday in Huntington and interment will be in Williamsport Pa
Mutapeah Kemal Pasha president of the Turkish republic has divorced Latife Hanoum, a noted feminist leader. Reports say he does not plan another marriage and has granted 6,000 pounds sterling as compensation for the repudiation of their union.
In Sing Sing’s mess hall a riot centered on Vincent Gaffney, rival James Cleary, and alleged political pull. Two convicts hospitalized and eight placed in solitary as guards struggled to restore order. Cleary allegedly had part of his nose severed and John McIntire stabbed.
President Calvin Coolidge rested at his father’s home in Plymouth after a restless night. He visited Woodstock to see Dr. J. R. Jewett who fixed a filling, then returned to the yard with Mrs Coolidge. Tourists watched from the dead line as he slept in a hammock.
In Parkersburg West Virginia on August 15 William M A 62 a carpenter was killed Clifford Riggs son suffered a head injury when their car was struck by a trolley at a crossing around 4 10 PM Riggs died later at a local hospital and the trolley and automobile collided in the northern city section damaging the vehicle and injuring its occupants.
Wheeling West Virginia August 15 state prohibition officers state police and Campbell Henderson sheriff conducted a vice crusade seizing whiskey at the Moose club where two poker games were in operation a slot machine was taken and a dozen arrests made five disorderly houses raided with liquor found in most.
In San Franees on August 14 a seventeen year old girl, Dorothy Ellingson, is on trial before a jury of seven women and five men. The court adjourned until Monday as the defense adds temporary insanity, and her father asks the juvenile court to take custody if she is acquitted.
A six story G H Hammond Company building in Chicago stockyards burned severely with losses over 1 million dollars. More than 260 cattle and 360 sheep perished and 650 hogs were saved by routing to a creamery runway. Fire officials expected total damage to rise, with hundreds of firefighters in action and the blaze under control after nine o'clock.
Glen Cove New York August 16 funeral plans for Mrs J P Morgan widow of the international er will be simple with only family present. The service at St Johns Church Lattington Lo cust Valley will be conducted by Rev Charles W Hinton and interment will follow in the Lo lust Valley cemetery. The Morgan estate remained closed while a steady flow of condolence cards arrived and the city hall flag was half mast in her honor.
Clarkeburg West Virginia business leader F G Bish will join the governing board of the International Petroleum Exposition to be held October 1 10 in Tulsa Oklahoma. Bish is general manager of a local oil firm and president of the West Virginia State Oil Marketers Association. He announced his appointment today.
Eight sleeping children locked inside the Labelle resort hotel by Gull Lake near Battle Creek were rescued through flames using a improvised wire cable. James Milne a 70 year old blind man from Grand Rapids was lowered to safety. Fire officials believe the blaze started from a gas leak in heating equipment.
Heirs of Walter M. Sanders farm sell over a thousand acres west of Bluefield to a Bluefield Virginia group for more than a million dollars. The plan includes home sites factory locations and parks with an eighteen hole golf course and a resort to form a new Virginia Side city near East River Mountain. The Sanders residence is reserved. Heirs include Mrs. Vicie Burgess and five Sanders children.
Washington reports the third week of the Iowa senatorial recount shows Daniel F. Steck Democrat gaining 806 votes over incumbent Republican Brookhart as 61 counties are tallied. Contested ballots and last county additions are noted with Steck at 211,286 and 199,118 uncontested votes. 1,117 Steck and 3,648 Brookhart ballots are challenged.
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