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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1925
Page
11
Annapolis Md May 28 search parties from the United States Naval Academy dragged the Severn river for the bodies of Lieutenant Gerald Selby and Miss Lucille Merrill missing since Tuesday evening after a canoe trip. Dr and Mrs W T Merrill of West Roxbury Mass arrived and watched the fruitless search. Mrs Selby was reportedly in Washington visiting at the time.
Chicago May 28 Faculty and students of the University of Chicago joined in paying tribute to Dr Ernest D. Witt Burton third resident of the university who died Tuesday Two services marked by simplicity were held on the campus the first a noon chapel service for university members and the second a 2 30 ceremony in Mandel Hall Dr Burton's body remained at his home with a student guard until the public ceremony later moved to Oakwood Cemetery where it will be cremated
Federal Judge McCormick voided Doheny oil leases at Elk Hills California and Pearl Harbor contracts, citing fraud upon the United States involving Edward L Doheny’s $100000 payment to Albert B Falls and Harding’s transfer of authority. Doheny interests to appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals.
Central High School of Oklahoma City Oklahoma won first prize of 100 dollars in the National Tuberculosis Association one act health playlets contest. The winning play Clean-Us will be produced at the association’s annual meeting in Minneapolis on June 19. Second prize went to Central High School of St Paul Minnesota. Additional awards included third prize to Egan High School and honorable mentions to seven other schools.
Springfield Mass May 28 Charles E Brickley former Harvard football star was tonight found not guilty of indictments charging perjury and larceny by a jury in superior criminal court here
O P Van Sweringen testified before the interstate commerce commission about building a rail merger network. He described acquiring Nickel Plate from New York Central, financing through loans and holding companies, and gaining control of multiple lines including Chesapeake and Ohio, Erie, and Pere Marquette. He urged majority stockholders to steward railroads responsibly, denying profits from promotions or stock watering.
Bluefield National Bank announces plans to move its quarters to the corner of Federal and Raleigh streets in the Commerce Building. The Easley Perkins space will be split with haberdashery occupying part and the bank using the rest.
Moundsville West Virginia May 28 Chief of Police Deloe of Glendale a suburb was seriously hurt this morning when his motorcycle overturned while traveling about fifty miles an hour in pursuit of Deputy Sheriff Benton Hazlett who was answering an emergency call in the northern part of the county Hazlett rushed the injured officer to a hospital where three ribs were fractured and possible internal injuries were feared the motorcycle was a total wreck
At the American Mining Congress dinner in Cincinnati on May 28 a panel of industry leaders denounced coal operators for shipping large volumes into an already saturated market. Key speakers included Barry L. Gandy of the National Coal Association and E. W. Parker of the Anthracite Bureau of Information, who blamed abundant bituminous deposits and poor foresight for selling coal below cost.
Former Vice President Thomas R. Marshall continues slow recovery from exhaustion and a cold. Attendants report distinct improvement since bed confinement. Washington friends sent flowers to his sick room at the New Willard Hotel, while Mrs. Marshall has briefly left the hotel for shopping and visits.
The Norwegian Aeronautic Association says no reason to suspect disaster for Amundsen's north polar voyage. It notes plans in case of delayed return, asks Defense to extend use of the Farm ship and to deploy two naval planes to Spitzbergen, and to keep watch around Cape Columbia with Donald B. Macmillan heading Arctic efforts.
Rev W S P Bryan sixty nine longtime Presbyterian pastor of the Cove nant church died in Chicago from a heart ailment. Born in Allegheny City Pa he led congregations in Cincinnati and other cities before moving here He leaves a widow two sons Rev Allison Bryan in India and Rev George Bryan of Germantown Pa and a daughter involved with the YWCA in Pittsburgh.
Pomeroy Ohio May 28. The sixth large mine to restart here recently mine No 7 of the Essex Coal Company opened today after an eighteen month shutdown. Workers are paid on the 60 40 division under the 1917 wage scale.
Twelve men were named in seventeen indictments by a special Mingo county grand jury called over four days to probe the Kermit election clashes on May 19. Charges include two murders, felonious assault, carrying concealed weapons, and false swearing. Ken Chapman and James Munsey face murder counts. Chapman is wounded in Huntington hospital and other defendants await pleas Friday. More than one hundred witnesses testified.
Three men landed from a skiff and tried to plant dynamite at the Richland Marshall Coal Company tipple near Moundsville West Virginia. Mine employees fired warning shots and searchlights drove the attackers away while another boat appeared from the Ohio side. Arch J McElroy the mine superintendent said the intrusion was repulsed.
The Virginian Railway seeks an injunction to block an Interstate Commerce Commission order requiring new western coal rates. The case, argued in Richmond, hinges on through routes and joint rates versus the Norfolk and Western and Chesapeake & Ohio. A decision is expected as soon as possible before the June 25 effective date.
Dr. Marty Emerson Fosdick, a liberal church leader, accepts the Park Avenue Baptist Church pastorate known as the Rockefeller church. He demands inclusive membership and a salary under 5000 dollars, and will preach first at Park Avenue next Sunday. The church will drop the Baptist descriptor from its renamed title.
In Coal Glen coal mine sixteen bodies have been recovered and officials fear the entombed miners, over fifty in all, cannot be saved after gas fumes from explosions. Rescue crews advanced to the 2,200 foot level but debris blocks access. air is being directed down main passages and bodies must be carried over long distances to mine cars slowing progress.
Nashville Tenn May 28 The state education commissioner P L Harned said if Carroll county board of education objects to Hendrik Van Loon’s The Story of Mankind the state board must remove the book from the state library list The book was placed on school library lists two years ago as one of the first twenty five books recommended by the NEA and ALA for rural libraries
In Fort Wayne Indiana on May 28 a shift to an automatic telephone system will reduce operator jobs. Twenty three brides will marry soon as nine announced weddings for Saturday and fourteen more within two weeks.
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