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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1925
Page
2
Local Bluefield notices announce coal prices from Ger Vice Coal, Florida oranges arrival, barbecued meats at Barbecue Shop, and a public auction. Jewelers open evenings for Christmas gifts, West Virginia Co. handles auto trimmings, and a Stolen Automobile found report accompanies town notices and church announcements.
Pulaski resident Hojl Metcalf visits Bluefield with Captain Clarence Seagle to search lodging houses for fourteen year old Vir cinta Metcalf who left Pulaski last Tuesday for Princeton to visit her sister. No trace found.
Battle Creek Mich Dec 11 Assistant Attorney General C L Smith will assist Prosecutor C C Courtright in the second trial of Arthur Rich the wealthy Battle Creek youth charged with attacking Miss Lowise King of Washington The move follows a deadlocked jury in the first trial and Smith’s appointment to oversee the case as state representative in related matters Miss King daughter of a former federal district attorney’s widow testified against Rich last May Chewing gum factories ought to give all the stenographers Christmas presents.
President Coolidge backs a comprehensive development program for inland waterways and public buildings but urges the treasury to determine spending levels. He favors project merits over bundling, notes a fiscal year deficiency need for the rivers and harbors work, and says Congress should act on taxation and treaties.
London dispatch notes Sir Broderick Hartwell, dubbed the rum running baronet, among heavy losers in contraband liquor finances. Despite $15,000,000 losses, he sought new backing via circulars to stockholders of his former enterprise and announced a partnership with Mahama's International Trading Company to attempt liquor landings in the United States.
In federal court five men were tied to the Chelsea Liquor Manufacturers Union. Four defendants George Weinstein Ernest Henry Louis Siegel and Samuel Zetzel were found guilty of conspiracy to sell and transport liquor. Withrow was acquitted. The ring allegedly monopolized liquor sales in Boston with fixed prices and designated agents.
Grandpa Mellie Dunham Maine’s premier fiddler appeared as honored guest at an old-time dancing party hosted by Henry Ford. The Ford Orchestra accompanied Dunham as executives and friends joined in Virginia reel and heel and toe polka, highlighting a call for neighborliness and friendship through traditional dance.
Geneva December 11 surveillance of the Mosul dispute left the status unresolved as mediation continued in League of Nations council quarters. There is a growing hope the council may reopen direct talks between Turkey and Great Britain after frustration with the world court ruling on the Mosul disposition regarding Turkish territory versus Iraqi kingdom under British mandate.
The Very Rev Dr John F Fenlon superior of the Sulpician Seminary Washington is named provincial of the Society of St Sulpice in the United States succeeding Very Rev Dr R Dyer who led the order here for twenty three years Dyer died November 3 and the appointment will be announced in the Baltimore Catholic Review
Maynard Wood of Moline Illinois was elected captain of next year’s Waynesburg College football team in Waynesburg Pennsylvania. Wood played guard on this year’s squad.
Major and minor league gatherings in New York see managers and owners press for deals yet only Red Sox skipper Lee Fohl makes notable moves acquiring infielder McCann from Athemey and catcher Gaston from Miller Huggins. Rumors link Hoyt Ehmke Hartnett and other stars, while several teams stand firm on pennant lineups.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, in a Ferguson Forum article, accuses political thugs and character assassins of leading an impeachment drive. She says after eleven months in office no charges have been personally leveled at her and criticizes relentless attack while denying direct misconduct.
New York reports that the federal reserve banks will provide financial support for Belgium's stabilization program aimed at returning to the gold standard. Credit resources will be directed to the National Bank of Belgium via purchasing prime commercial bills, supplementing private credits from J P Morgan and Company and the Guaranty Trust Company and European banks totaling about 60 million dollars.
An Arthur Hammerstein production suffered a stage collapse injuring about a dozen chorus members and damaging property estimated at $60,000. The disaster sent debris onto the stage as more than sixty performers occupied the area. Dorothy Mackaye helped calm the audience before the show was halted and the performance could not continue.
Maryland border patrols from Cape Charles to the Delaware line began active operations to counter a reported shift of the Atlantic rum fleet from the Jersey coast to a new anchorage near City Ma Ten rum chasers off 7 a are crushing the bay as agents operate from Ocean City with motor cars and vessels.
Bangor Maine faces a water famine and higher fire risk as a coast guard cutter is sent to Penobscot River to break ice. Officials warn the crisis is unmatched since 1901 with pumping station wheels stalled by back pressure and steam pumps pushed to emergency status.
Washington reports a new all time freight car handling speed with an average daily movement of 32.2 miles in October. The bureau of railway economics notes this beats the prior 30.7 mile record set in the two preceding Octobers and in September 1926. The item ends with a stray sentence about an Arab introduction of a short story to Europe.
Cincinnati detective reports say marital troubles led to the death by self harm of Lt. Samuel W. McPwan thirty a U S naval recruiting officer whose body was found in a hotel with his throat cut He is identified as a brother of Corinne McCloskey McEwan of Cincinnati who recently divorced him.
New York December 11 Dr Charles H Herty president of the Synthetic Organization said tear gas as protection against criminals is daily more common and more effective at the annual meeting where he was reelected president.
Chicago December 11 Marshall Field & Co reports current wholesale distribution of dry goods is ahead of last week and above the corresponding week a year ago. Road sales show a pool increase over the figures of both prior periods.
London dispatch says General Feng Yu-Helang leads Kouminchun forces to occupy Yangtsun near Tientsin. Rival generals are reported to be fighting on at least five fronts across the country.
Asheville North Carolina December 11 Governor Moores decision is reversed by an unsigned message from the woman whom Alvin Mansel the condemned Negro attacker was said to have attacked requesting commutation of the death sentence to life imprisonment.
Washington December 1 report that representative Woodyard of West Virginia introduced a bill to allow Midland and Atlantic Bridge Company to construct a bridge across the Big Sandy river between Catlettsburg Kentucky and Kenova West Virginia. The action aims to facilitate cross river transportation and commerce.
Moundsville was awarded the spring meeting of the Wheeling Presbytery of the United Presbyterian Church during the winter sessions held today in St Clairsville Ohio and Moundsville West Virginia.
Princeton December gathering at Alexandria Hall drew 245 institutions with a heated debate between Senator Irvine Lenroot and Clarence Darrow on United States entry into the Permanent Court of International Justice. Lenroot urged joining. Darrow dismissed the court as ineffective and linked it to the League of Nations.
The speaker warned that while the League of Nations might end war if effective, it would crush freedom and the individuality of man at heart, suggesting caution about its real-world impact.
Bridgeport Connecticut December 11. An unsuccessful attack by the stabber who had slashed several Bridgeport women was thwarted by the mother of a sixteen year old girl and the girl herself. Mrs Sarah Driscoll and Alice warded off the assailant as they walked along South avenue last night.
Washington reports that Congress will decide whether the United States participates in arms limitation discussions at Geneva. If the administration accepts the invitation as acceptable, Congress must act on the possible U S participation in the talks.
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