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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1925
Page
25
Ed Rommel of the Athletics dazzles with his machine like delivery and a devastating knuckle ball. The 1922 star seeks at least twenty wins as Connie Mack predicts twenty five or more with a front running club in 1925.
In a 3 to 2 ten inning thriller the N. W. Shop club defeated Eckman 3 to 2 at the local park. Drinkard started for Bluefield, Sammons pitched well for Eckman until the eighth, and Dyer held Eckman scoreless in the ninth and tenth to earn the win. Gammage drove in the decisive run in the tenth after Page scored earlier. The Shops next face Electrification of Bluestone at Glenwood Park, opening the new diamond with C. C. Montgomery leasing the park for five years.
Bluestone defeated Bluestone Bluestone 8 to 0 over Norfolk and Western offices in a one sided game. Cowan allowed few hits while Sturgis led at the plate with a double and a triple. Bluestone moves to five wins in seven and sits tied for second in the Norfolk and Western League, with a 3 PM game against the league leading Norfolk and Western shops team at Glenwood Park.
New York June 13 Black Pill, Cuban flyweight, earned his 105th ring victory by decision over Sammy Bienfeld of New York in a fast twelve round bout. Pill has only one loss in his career.
Clark's Famous Cruises advertises sailings aboard the SS Summer Cruise to Norway and other segments. The Mediterranean and South America itineraries run 60 to 128 days with rates from $550 to $3,000. Services include guided tours and fees. F. C. Clark advertises 30 years in cruise management from Times Building in New York.
Baltimore Maryland officials announced the Baltimore Washington speedway near Laurel will be dedicated July 11 with a 260 mile automobile race. The mile and eighth track, built of long leaf pine, is heavily banked at forty eight degrees and sits on eighty acres with space for 10,000 cars and a grandstand for 25,000 spectators.
In a lively Saturday junior game on Oakhurst Avenue the Brown Eyes beat the Yellowjackets 11 to 2. The seven inning contest featured local players from the area.
Little Rock announces Arkansas will not appoint a new official executioner despite a surge of applications. The current keeper is jailed for liquor violations and may be furloughed for the June 26 sunrise execution of Jack Buster and Fox Flowers. warden Evans offers to perform the act if Beck cannot.
Washington dispatch says the navy asks radio amateurs to monitor final tests of the forty metre short wave radio set aboard navy planes with the MacMillan expedition. Tests run from 1 a.m. to 1 p.m. EST at Squantum Mass with call letters NADE. Reports go to the bureau of engineering and to Lieutenant Commander Richard Byrd at Squantum naval air station.
Salvatore Scuila an eleven year old boy died after breaking through a glass door and ceiling at Bowery Savings Bank in New York. He had climbed from a adjoining building roof with other children. Police responded to a false robbery call after the fall.
Bluefield Gun Club members logged heavy wind challenges during Saturday’s target practice with over a thousand rounds fired. New member John J. Lincoln of Elkhorn and other recruits posted mixed scores as the club anticipates plans for competitive events to boost interest.
Looting by strikers resumed in the Cape Breton district affecting coal mines and stores. Three shops near Glace Bay and the Sydney mines were looted, with Dominion No 2 razed, No 3 burning at midnight, and No 6 raided for stock. Fire brigades aided nearby homes as company police stood by and militia remained. Troops from Toronto were expected.
Albany reports 177 killed and 11,129 injured in New York state traffic crashes in the first four months of 1926. Of the fatalities 127 were pedestrians and 74 of them under fifteen. 7,325 of the injured were pedestrians and 45 percent were under fifteen. Intersections accounted for 44 percent of collisions and 338 cars were hit while parked.
Police recover a handbag containing diamonds valued between 11 000 and 29 000 dollars in a lumber yard at New Castle Pennsylvania. Jewelry salesman H Lieberman of Youngstown Ohio reported the loss after leaving the bag momentarily with a man who disappeared when he returned from a store.
Trustees of Pennsylvania State College accepted the resignation of President John M. Thomas who will become president of Rutgers University. Judge H Walton Mitchell stated the board regrets the move and praises Thomas for his four years of service and accomplishments at Penn State.
Experiments by several New York banks test telegraphing checks using an instrument that photographs the check in one town and reduces it in another. The system, if successful, aims to greatly facilitate banking business.
A dramatic Shanghai dispatch reports revolting scenes as Kwangtung forces take Canton. Looting, executions, and brutal beatings follow the surrender of Yunnan troops. Civilians and foreigners witness violence as troops advance, with Russian officers cited as key leaders.
New York June 13. Supreme Court Justice Russell Benedict withheld approval of a proposed progressive society's certificate of incorporation because the name Werchnedneprowsker was deemed un American. He voiced that no evidence showed the incorporators hailed from the foreign place the name suggested.
Stephen B Mooney known as Irish Mooney aged 65 died tonight at 10 in Wheeling Hospital after a lengthy illness. He was a prominent outdoor showman connected with Pittsburg and Cleveland, former resident of several years, and friend of Buffalo Bill and P T Barnum. Funeral services are set for Tuesday morning in Wheeling with interment at Mt Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland.
Four men attempt robbery at Central Savings Bank branch in Detroit. Patrolman Casimir Kaliszewski, 24, is shot and dies. a 12-year-old boy is wounded by stray fire. $27,000 taken, later recovered. Suspects Machus, Wykowski, Podulski brothers, all arrested. Machus reportedly confesses.
Elbert H. Gary, chairman of United States Steel, said in Birmingham that most people eat too much and dieting would be a good thing for business men generally. He and Mrs. Gary will go to New York after two weeks of medical consultation and study.
Herreford Pennsylvania June 12 Charles C Zellers graduates from Harreford College in absentia after disguising himself as a girl to attend the ceremony He sat unrecognized in the audience and was hailed as a brilliant student and prize winner He plans to enter Harvard next fall for study in history
Harold Heinan a 25 year old electrician at the Weirton Steel plant in Weirton West Virginia was electrocuted when he touched a live wire this evening Heinan leaves a widow and one child.
Commander Donald B. Macmillan announced find Amundsen First as the expedition slogan at the Ingram Club in the Charleston navy yard. He described crew recruitment, ship equipment including electric refrigerators, and emergency measures for the Bowdoin and Peary as they prepare to follow the old route north toward Labrador.
Miss Catherine Hartley from Maben visits Mrs. J. T. Sutherland on Juniper Street. R Wheeler, longtime patient at St Luke s Hospital, shows steady improvement and plans to return home midweek. Mrs Wheeler and son Jim Park stay with her sister during the illness. James Martin, WVU student in Morgantown, returns home for summer. Louise and Van Dilger spend weekend in Roanoke. Mrs Cabell N Payne, previously ill on Union Street, improves. Mrs S E Payne injures shoulder in a fall on Franklin Street and is listed as comfortable. F E Taylor from Wilcoe visits home on Union Street for weekend.
Berlin reports RCA and the German government have concluded plans for a regular exchange of radio programs. Germany will expand its equipment to allow American and German broadcasts, with Nauen or Koenigswusterhausen in Berlin’s outskirts as the German relay sites and RCA’s New Jersey plant to air German programs.
Wendover Utah June 13 The forty mile gap blocking traffic to the Pacific is closed with the Wendover cut off of the Victory Highway. Secretary of Agriculture William M Jardine Governor J G Shrugham and George H Dern shovel a salt barrier during the opening ceremony. The route crosses old Bonneville lake bed with salt stretches and clay core roadbed. Jardine gives principal dedicatory remarks.
Paris dispatch reports a large iceberg spotted on June 8 in the Atlantic, at about 42 10 N, 60 48 W, described as over 4,000 feet long and 3,650 feet wide, encountered by the liner Paris near Havre landing. Passengers describe the iceberg's vast size and location amid steamer lanes.
Governor Howard M. Gore arrived at Moundsville on June 13 to be the guest over Sunday of Warden and Mrs. 8. P. Smith at their residence on the prison grounds. He was shown around the prison by the warden.
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