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Newspaper
Cedar Valley Daily Times
Location
Vinton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1925
Page
3
President Coolidge praises the Morrow aircraft board report from the White House for providing clearer understanding of the problems involved. The statement emphasizes there is no dispute that the science and members of the air craft crew have completed work shaping the findings and addressing earlier understandings.
Two brothers from Muscatine reunite after 40 years in Des Moines as the Salvation Army launches its Christmas kettle drive. Santa Claus is set to appear in Iowa City and other state locations while the kettle campaign funds aid the needy across Iowa through Christmas Eve distributions.
A Atlantic storm devastates coast from Florida to Maine with gales crippling shipping. Vessels driven, trips delayed, Orion forced to Norfolk yard with buckled hull while Azua limps waterlogged off Savannah lightship. Three fatalities in New Jersey and many injuries reported. Property damage widespread as traffic slowed by rain and darkness.
Francis Merges, 55, a prominent Bronx insurance broker, was struck and killed by a taxi believed stolen as he walked home in the rain. The cab occupants fled, and no witnesses were found.
The most expensive chair in existence, belonging to the pope, is a modern piece likened to an American banker’s style. It is solid silver, carefully chased, weighs about a half ton, and is said to have cost around $00,000.
Wilford Ferguson of Des Moines faced Justice Carpenter on a criminal assault charge involving Blanche Oliphant a 14 year old former Toledo juvenile home inmate. He pleaded not guilty and was bound over to the grand jury on 1600 bond as the third Northwestern rail employee linked to the Toledo home girls runaway case.
Davenport Iowa reports a violent incident at Aledo involving Terry 68 and Lena White 33. Wilson hacked Lena with an axe then cut his own throat. Lena and her sister Mrs Weinworther had recently left the uncle after an argument. Mrs Weinworther escaped through a window during the attack.
Omaha reports Fred L. Day, sought in Seattle for forgery, swallowed poison when surrounded by police in a rooming house. He died thirty minutes after ingestion. In Quincy Illinois, R. D. Burchard of St. Louis uncovers evidence of an ancient Missouri civilization with 43 underground rooms and seven passageways during a buried treasure dig.
Des Moines reports the Iowa Good Roads association wrapped up its annual convention with John F. D. Aue elected president and H. B. Allfree retiring. Officers include Mrs. H. C. Taylor as vice president and D. G. Goodell as treasurer. The group backed an $85 million road bond issue to fund state construction, to be submitted to the 1927 legislature and voted on in 1928, while keeping the pay-as-you-go policy in effect until then.
Mary M. Wallace aged 86 died after a long illness at 5 10 am in Mt. Auburn at the home of her son J A Wallace. She came from Oklahoma a year ago to live here and will be buried in Ezbomb Kansas after a Saturday afternoon service. Survived by three children J A Wallace Will Wallace and Mrs Fannie Roberts.
Pierre South Dakota December 4 United Press says Justice Faley of the state supreme court signed an order permanently enjoining this state from further engaging in the retail gasoline business.
Seymour reports a new semi-anthracite coal vein beneath the Cleo Donald farm southwest of town. Drillers financed by local citizens struck a six foot eight inch vein with a twenty six foot cup rock and twelve inches of slate at 498 feet, just 20 feet from an oil-well shaft. Geologists call it the largest coal vein in southern Iowa and the only deposit of its size outside the southern states.
Four bandits entered the Roselle State bank today, locked five employees in a room, and escaped with eight thousand dollars. Police search for suspects.
Manila December 4 Governor General Leonard Wood reportedly vetoed a Philippine legislature approved plebiscite on independence. No official statement yet from the governor's office. The veto is believed to rest on the view that a Cleheseite would accomplish nothing and waste funds.
The Interstate Commerce Commission nominee Charles W. Hunt of Iowa draws resistance as independents claim the FTC personnel are purged and the nomination, already twice defeated, may be opposed again despite Sen Cummins efforts to gather support.
A Waterloo hardware company store and apartment building burned, forcing residents to flee in their night clothes. The $50,000 loss was covered by insurance, with gunpowder in the basement causing explosions. Fireman Ray Garbrant was slightly hurt after a fall through the floor. officials called it the worst blaze since 1914.
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