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Newspaper
Canton Daily News
Location
Canton, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1925
Page
1
Police search Chicago for four white robbers who raided S Lazarus and Son in broad daylight. The gang took jewelry worth between 2650,000 and 500,000 after forcing officials and workers to the floor. One woman fainted and an elderly employee was assaulted.
In Cleveland and Columbus on August 21 federal and state officers intensified probes into illegal alcohol enforcement. Ten Ohio justices of the peace and former raiders faced charges of conspiracy and liquor sale protection while State Senator George H. Bender protested a home raid as officials seek to root out crooked prohibition activity in Cuyahoga County.
Reports from Shanghai say nine British missionaries including four women were abducted August 6 near a Chinese summer resort north of Chengtu in Szechuan. The group, members of the Church Missionary Society, included Bishop Mowell and his wife. The incident appears linked to civil conflict and weak authority in the province.
John Butler files in common pleas court against The A. B. Flory Co alleging $10,000 for personal injuries after entering what he believed was the Fish Market entrance at Flory Sanitary Market Dewalt Ave NW and falling into a basement arcway. Attorneys Turner Abe and Abt represent him.
A large general store owned by A Myers in Electra burned to the ground early today. The Myers home and nearby property were damaged. About one hundred residents formed a bucket brigade and saved the village from destruction. Cause of the fire is not yet known.
In Fayetteville West Virginia on a road near Minden the body of Frank Drake a wealthy Black soda stand proprietor was found early today. His skull showed axe trauma and a large sum of money he carried was missing.
A head on crash of two panoramic special trains on the Denver & Rio Grande Western near Salida Colorado killed firemen J W Taughtenbaum and C E Phelan and injured 90 passengers, 15 seriously. Officials blamed a failure to deliver orders for the meeting at Granite and said new orders passed Pine Creek were not forwarded to No 8. Relief crews rushed doctors and nurses as tourists filled the cars.
Washington Aug 21. Discharge of the US public debt totaling about 21 090 000 000 and largely from the war is seen as feasible within 25 years. Treasury officials expect foreign funding efforts to be nearly finished by December and believe the government can be virtually debt free by 1950 barring unforeseen contingencies.
Paris reports finance minister Joseph Caillaux will lead the French debt commission sailing for the United States on September 14 aboard the Paris. The delegation will include seven or eight members with one other member already chosen.
Reports reaching Paris from Barcelona say Enrimo De Rivera head of the Spanish directory and generalissimo of the Spanish army in the Rif is traveling to Algeciras to meet a Rif peace delegation as renewed large scale fighting continues.
A Molly Stark Club coming out party drew more than 1800 attendees with families flocking to the Auditorium from 7:30 onward. The event showcased expert demonstrations and a highly praised program, described by organizers as a very great success.
In New York an unidentified woman dressed in luxury attire and diamonds drank carbolic acid after a midnight show on upper Broadway. She claimed the name Dolores Aubruix, 21, of West 91st Street, but investigators doubt the address as a real identity. She is an actress.
In Columbus on August 21 police said arrests of a woman and seven men late Thursday may solve a year long string of robberies including Kroger store hold ups. Guy Horton 23 confessed to several of the 11 Kroger robberies. Loretta Miller 35 was also arrested.
Authorities trace Mary P. Simpson from Beloit Wisconsin to Akron Ohio after her father George P. Simpson died July 12 leaving her a $10,000 legacy. She was located working in a hotel, reported by Akron hotel proprietor M R Woodhall.
Eli E. Elliott a 55 year old janitor at the Marion steam shovel company was killed by a Pennsylvania passenger train today while on his way to work in Marion Ohio.
Washington August 21 twenty four regional administrators who will direct Americas greatest offensive against the bootleg liquor traffic have been selected by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C Andrews and advised of their appointment. The group largely comes from prohibition directors and will report to Gen Andrews as the big effort to mop up liquor supplies begins immediately with assignments to New York Pittsburgh Columbus and San Francisco among others.
Rain caused a postponement of the double header between the New York Giants and the Pittsburgh Pirates at the Polo Grounds. The five game series would decide temporary NL leadership. A double header tomorrow opens the series with Pittsburgh three games ahead. two more games Sunday and the fifth Monday.
At the Zanesville fair grounds last night an aisle in a grand stand collapsed as crowds left a pageant. About a score of people fell eight feet with injuries including broken legs to Mrs. Sadie Leasure Mrs. Carl Adams and Miss Clara Mull and sprains to Eugenia Roca and Mrs. James Miller.
A Brooklyn fire killed seven year old Martin Kriger on the fourth floor. Four others were injured and six families were rescued as flames swept through the apartment house in New York.
West Virginia Governor Howard Gore, bachelor chief executive, spent last night as the guest of film star Gloria Swanson in New Martinsville. He arrived to find the hotel full, joined Swanson for dinner, and attended a movie with her and her company working on a screenplay.
Federal investigators in Providence interrogated New York steamboat inspectors and ship officers after the Mackinac boiler explosion killed 42. In Newport and Pawtucket hospitals victims lingered. funeral processions filled Pawtucket with mass burials as James McCarthy and his family mourned.
Police in Williamsport say a man matching the description of George Dutch Anderson, a fugitive linked to the murder of Ben Hance and his wife near Muncie Indiana, is detained in railroad yards. He claims the name Hogan and a Texas home. Muncie police to verify details.
President Calvin Coolidge, staying in Northampton after a Vermont stop, signed the Belgium war debt funding pact for 480 million dollars. The document was brought to the Coolidge house by Erwin Geisser and will go to Washington for congressional ratification.
Betty Morgan 21 told police in Cleveland that her 39 year old sweetheart William Price punched her when she refused an engagement ring. She says they are going around together again and asks the charge be withdrawn.
Guy C. Hiner, president of Hiner Structural Steel Co., resigns from the city planning commission and the city building code commission. He cites demand on his time from his firm. Mayor Ball has not appointed replacements.
In Columbus on August 21 Miss Mary Wartobee 35 attempted suicide twice within a year and is now recovering after swallowing poison. Police say despondency from ill health prompted the acts.
The Canton Daily News reports sunflowers rivaling tall sunflowers in Stark County. Hiram Koser notes a twelve feet two inch plant near a telephone pole, near Mrs. Elmer Wilson’s eleven foot entry, as entries contest the Stark County fair.
A 5:46 morning alarm sent Sheriff Coreys and deputies to Bell Zoller mine number one at Zeigler after conservative miners clashed with strikers attempting to resume work. No details were given by the men who reported the fight.
Navy planners ordered four PM-9 planes and two PB-7 ships to fly from San Diego to the San Francisco start point for the August 28 Hawaii flight. An additional B-1 plane was sent from Seattle to join the operation advancing the mission details.
Frank Kelley of 1007 Court Ave SW was arrested for violating the Crabbe act after police found a liquor pitcher in his home. He pleaded guilty in criminal court and was fined $300 plus costs.
Walter Hagerman of 708 Cherry av NE was arrested Thursday evening on a warrant for disturbing the peace and fined $1 plus costs in criminal court Friday.
Victor Fremont Lawson editor and publisher of the Chicago Daily News, dies at 75. He led a push against news monopolies, founded a world wide foreign news service, and was lauded by rivals and officials for fairness and philanthropy. Chicago mourns his loss.
A Commerce Department report declares automatic lighthouse lights fully successful and economical, signaling the end of the era of the traditional lighthouse keeper.
In Toledo on August 21 an unidentified woman about 40 was found on a Dorist residence porch. The head was nearly severed and the body bore multiple stab wounds. Police believe she was murdered and her body was dumped from a passing car.
Paris dispatch reports Paris will send the French reply to the German note on the security pact to Berlin Monday morning. The foreign office announced the plan today.
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