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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1925
Page
1
Robert M La Follette Jr returns to Madison to receive last rites as Wisconsin officials form a guard of honor. His body lies in state in the capitol rotunda before Monday funeral services, with processions and floral tributes amid memorial crowds.
Special correspondence recounts Roald Amundsen and the Ayers expedition as they fly from Amsterdam Island toward the pole aboard N-24 and N-26. The first installment covers fog, halo phenomena, instrument guidance, drift observations, and the view of polar ice as they reach 82 to 89 latitudes and begin encountering polar pack ice.
In Chicago on June 24 the defense in the William Darling Shepherd murder trial moved to reconsolidate grounds after an afternoon session. Witnesses Walter Smith and Charles C. Faiman contradicted key points while Dr. Frederietks O. Tenney offered direct testimony opposing Faiman. The prosecutor cross examined, and Peter Byrne challenged Faiman’s confession as false. The defense aimed to finish its case next Monday with Shepherd likely to testify.
Work in Madison will be suspended and business houses closed during the funeral hour. The state legislature will recess Monday morning and capital offices will close throughout the day. Funeral services will be simple in the capitol rotunda conducted by Rev A E B Hayden of Chicago with lifelong friends as pallbearers.
In Bopia on June 20 the Sofia cathedral bombing weakened communists in the Balkans and sparked public anti Bolshevik sentiment. Reports claim a Belgrade police plot to kill leaders and trigger bombings, while earlier defections rose as fear of rebellion grew. A later item notes two aviators burned to death near Pontiac, Michigan, in a crash.
June 20 death of Neater McComes and injuries to Bowles and A McComas when their car left a embankment on the Huntington Logen road. Bowles drove the touring car. steering wheel failure cited. Nester survived by widow and three children. Viola Dana married Maurice Flynn in Los Angeles.
Governor calls for bids on six million dollars of state road bonds at interest not above four and a quarter percent. Bonds to be sold at the lowest rate and highest price offered, with up to two rates allowed. Serial payments of 500000 yearly from 1939 to 1950. Remaining bond issuances and Good Roads amendment referenced as context.
A Cape May New Jersey city dock collapsed during a Reading Railroad excursion crowding 1700 travelers from central Pennsylvania. More than twenty were seriously hurt and about twenty more lightly hurt as a 30 foot by 30 foot section gave way sending many into shallow water. Six doctors treated victims at the scene and volunteers aided the emergency response.
Clarksburg today welcomed John W. Davis back to his hometown with his wife Mrs. Davis. He was formally notified of his Democratic presidential nomination last summer. The pair stayed at Mrs. Davis sister Cornella Baasel’s home. Davis golfed with longtime friends this afternoon.
Boston women adopt matching cigarette tips as a fashion. Milady shop on Tremont Street offers vivid blue green and scarlet tips with a smoking room, while Back Bay dealers feature mauve pale yellow and rose shades alongside gold and silver tips.
Elkland Fire Brick company formed by Charleston investors with $156,000 incorporation. N F Conner W E R Byrne Bra W W Price Dr W K Price and B Hates named as directors. Plant to be built on old John MacDonald farm near Baltimore and Ohio railroad with first unit producing 20,000 bricks daily and about 60 workers. Works to begin tomorrow with full capacity planned within a year.
Lieutenant Commander MacMillan leads Bowdoin and Peary from Wiscasset amid a large farewell. Governor Brewster and navy officials attend. Geographically diverse supporters wave toys and balloons as the ships depart toward Sydney for fuel, then Monhegan welcomes the crew with fireworks and a shore visit.
Pretty Mary Harris Grima, screen actress, screamed as a man slapped her on a Hollywood street and drew a knife, a crowd drove off the assailant. Chief of State and U Dry Forces in Huntington District killed in pitched gun battle. both sides mistook the other for a Moonshinara party. One more wounded. another held on murder charges. third released on bond awaiting hearing.
Walter Kreiner charged with murder stabbed Bernard Grant five times during a visitors' meeting in the county jail. Both men were condemned for the murder of Policeman Ralph Soutera. Grant already under a death sentence, with Krauser awaiting retrial after the Supreme Court ruling. Grant has received multiple clemency delays. no date set for Krauser’s retrial.
Chicago Reed bodies of 39 victims from the Delaware Lackawanna wreck at Hackettstown New Jersey are brought home for burial amid grief and confusion as relatives inspect wooden caskets. In New York Dorothy Perkins 17 will appeal a manslaughter conviction for the death of Thames Templeton the former suitor. She faces sentencing next Monday and requests a one week deferral.
Tokyo reports merging two parties into one coalition leaves Japan with two major political groups. The Konserxat and Setyukal dominate as Kato leads the government and coalition realigns. A new balance emerges as coalition members absorb minor clubs and traffic road work progresses ahead of planned openings.
Chicago lawyer Clarence Darrow and Dr Charles Hill-Tout of Vancouver defended evolution in letters and speeches. Darrow argued evolution does not contradict scripture or creation stories and urged public schools to teach inquiry. Hill-Tout cited fossil records and early man with ape-like traits but not to deny human intellect, noting man existed long before advanced tools.
In Havre France June 190 French steamer La Savote was to sail for New York at night but over 200 crew members refused to depart. A composite crew later deserted, the ship’s tug and captain vanished, raising fears the vessel would depart the next day. Seamen’s agitation grows amid talk of a month’s imprisonment for a sailors union secretary accused of arousing the desertion.
Washington June 20 slight improvement reported in the condition of Senator Luda of North Dakota,病 kidney trouble in a Baltimore hospital. Attending physicians said not alarmed, but condition remains serious and danger point not passed.
In a clash near Camp Creek five miles south of Huntington West Virginia two federal and two state prohibition agents were killed and two more wounded. The dead are William F Forter 40 chief of the federal agents for the southern district and George Ball 46 chief of state agents in Milton. Wounded were Workman and Poe. Arrests followed as authorities pledged a full investigation into the daylight ambush during efforts to seize moonshiners.
The West Virginia Taxpayers' Association will present a list of election commissioners and clerks to the county court for the July 7 bridge bond vote. The move comes after recent opposition from the taxpayers’ union, which praises the county court’s plan to appoint a set of neutral officials.
Gibraltar June 20 The offensive at Albucemec Bay appears postponed and unlikely before early July according to informed quarters. Abd-el-Khiin's supporters may seize the Micatlos in the interim as reports indicate concentration of forces around Melilin Tetuan front.
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