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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1925
Page
1
A terrapin once cared for by a crippled girl returns after thirty years, scarred by fire and tied to a memory of the child who died long ago. The piece shifts to Fire Prevention Week urging cleaner homes, careful use of matches, and watchdog habits to reduce losses.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on October 8 an incident left a six year old boy dead. William Sutton a teamster stopped his wagon after a pedestrian shouted alarms. The boy had apparently tried to hop the wagon and was fatally struck. Sutton found his son lying on the road and carried him to safety.
The Norfolk and Western Railway reports September set a new high for coal shipments in its four fields with 75,579 cars and an estimated 3,968,950 tons. Pocahontas division contributed heavily, and daily averages remained strong into October with no drop in shipments.
Richmond Virginia October 3 A second cave in occurred at the Church Hill tunnel of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad as laborers removed debris from yesterday's slide burying three men. No injuries were reported but clearing work was greatly retarded.
In New York on October 3 a robber held up the foreman at the Madison Beoware Garden project and took a payroll of $5,000. The robber fled in a car after the heist as workers faced a laborless weekend. Boxing promoter George L. Tex Rickard aided the company during the incident despite the robbery.
Washington reports the twenty third conference of the inter parliamentary union endorsed league of nations and Pan American union efforts to codify international laws. It adopted three resolutions proposing a general plan for codification, a declaration of rights and duties of nations, and a study to prevent wars of aggression with a permanent sub committee to draft an international code.
Cla LeClare, Clarence Saunders planned million dollar pink palace estate near Memphis, passes over the auction block to a local syndicate. The bankrupt property, valued over 800000, was bid in at 343000 to satisfy creditor claims. Saunders built the plans while leading Piggly-Wiggly.
At U S Submarine Base New London CT Rear Admiral Christy halted the rescue flotilla after a week of work on the 851 sinking. Only one body Paul D Berk engineman from Shoe makersville PA recovered. Memorial service planned. Divers praised for bravery including William Reed and William Lilja. Weather will decide when diving resumes.
Washington October 3. Marry Wardman owner of the building occupied by the department of justice announced he has given the department thirty days notice to vacate his property. Wardman says 75000 a year rent is not sufficient while others say he was offered 165000. Lease expired over a year ago and no legal action was begun. If the department does not vacate Wardman will take the case to court. Company officials say they would permit the department to stay if a fair rental is paid.
The Holston conference faces decisions on assignments for Knoxville and Bluefield district pastors. Rev J M Carter or Presiding Elder Baylor are favored for Broad Street Central Church with a new half million dollar building. Dr Sam T Senter may remain in Virginia, while others like Rev Frank Y Jackson and Rev Roy Warly are slated to return to Grace and Morton Avenue respectively. Appointments to be read Monday.
San Francisco reports a secret file warrant against Evans Burrows Fontaine, dancer, for contempt of court. The warrant, sworn in federal court, travels to Chicago for service amid prior breach of promise suits against Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney. Fontaine, now in Chicago, says she is unaware of the warrant and its San Francisco origin.
An unidentified man about sixty five was killed at a grade crossing near Interstate when the Richwood Clarksburg passenger train of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad struck him this evening. He was fairly well dressed and appeared to be a working man.
President and Mrs. Coolidge mark twenty years of marriage with a quiet day at the White House They will attend church in the morning and stay in seclusion before traveling to Omaha for the American Legion convention The president’s train will pass Cincinnati and St Louis on both legs of the trip and return by Thursday morning
Chicago reports Terry Druggan the noted bootlegger will petition the U S Supreme Court for bail as his attorney Michael J Ahern says the court will be asked to grant immediate release. Druggan and partner Frank Lake face contempt scrutiny as deputies face suspension over failed transport to De Kalb jail.
Washington and Jefferson crushed Marietta College 72 to 0 in a afternoon game. The Presidents dominated with a powerful line attack, not punting or being stopped on downs. Bill Amos made his 1925 debut at fullback briefly before a substitute took over.
Florence Oct 3 Caval Luprini a member of the Fascist party directory of Florence was assassinated here tonight. His assailant Giovanni Renciolini was pursued captured and wounded. The attack caused great excitement in Fascist circles as Benetiolini tried to flee and was chased by a crowd firing revolvers.
New York Oct 8 Mr and Mrs John D Rockefeller Jr depart for a six weeks journey to Europe. He will study municipal and governmental housing projects with aim to apply methods to improve housing in the congested Lower East Side. After a successful low price house venture completed this week he may extend building activities on return.
Clarion and Bellefonte reporters, along with 11 airplanes, scoured the Allegheny region from Clarion to Bellefonte for Charles H. Ames, missing mail plane pilot bound from New York to Chicago. Despite a wide area search by army planes and air mail craft, no trace of Ames or his aircraft was found.
Early reports claimed fourteen entombed in the Lake Superior Coal Company No 2 mine at Su McDowell county after a local gas explosion. Eight miners were in the shaft area. rescue teams and a U S Bureau of Mines car joined the effort as officials reported little damage and ongoing rescue operations.
The 27 606 ton aircraft carrier Lexington was launched at Bethlehem Shipyard Fore River yards in Quincy Massachusetts with Secretary of the Navy Wilbur and Mrs Theodore Douglas present. The ship faced a halt near the ways before entering the water as crowds watched. Wilbur hailed air power as essential to national defense and criticized opposition to aircraft in naval strategy.
Chicago authorities rely on theories to locate the slayings of nurse Emma Bacon thirty who was found in a vacant lot in Dalton Ile Chicago about thirty miles from the city. The report notes investigators pursue leads as they review possible suspects and motives amid a tense search.
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