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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1925
Page
2
A courtroom confrontation over evolution versus Christian faith is framed as a larger war between science and religion. The speaker warns that a ruling favoring evolution could undermine the Bible and revealed religion, portraying the clash as a decisive, public reckoning between light and darkness.
Mr Bryan warned that Christians will fight anti religious evolution claims and defend the Bible as God’s work. He argued the people rule in setting public school policy and emphasized the United States as a power source of government, urging appeals to the public.
Summer trip idea through the East features Niagara Falls St. Lawrence to Montreal and visits to historic Boston New England seashore Adirondacks Green Mountains White Mountains Berkshires Lake Champlain Lake George Maine Hudson River New York theater Washington by steamer to Norfolk with stopovers at many points.
Reports from Algiers to the Department of Commerce say crickets yield a valuable aviation oil that does not congeal at high altitudes. About eighteen tons were sent from Algeria to Holland, with portions fed to poultry and remainder processed for oil.
City authorities act to prevent price gouging as garages store autos and hotels and private homes raise rates after Friday. Citizens rally to keep Dayton stigma-free and use competition to force reasonable prices for visitors while city stands regulate stands built on public property.
Adolph S. Ochs told members of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association in Asheville that the press should stay independent and honest to safeguard liberty. He warned against private interests influencing reading columns, urged restraint in circulation chasing, and favored high quality over sheer numbers in news and advertising.
Two Missouri School of Mines students from Rolla and Tulsa admitted highway robbery in Montana. They robbed resort proprietor George Forsythe of 3170 dollars as he headed to a bank, claiming the funds were for college education. Mills suffered gunshot wounds in the exchange of fire.
Shipping arrivals report multiple steamers docking at New York on July 7 with berths and origin ports. Vessels include Pan-America from Buenos Aires and Ebro from Valparaiso among others with schedule times noted for Caribbean and Central American destinations.
A statewide heat wave in Ohio claimed two deaths as Edward L. Voorhees, 62, died in a Dayton hospital after collapsing near his home, and Geza Erepsonsky, 48, died at work in Cleveland. The Columbus thermometer topped 90 as officials warned of another scorcher tomorrow amid intermittent thunderstorms.
Thunder showers cooled Cleveland after a severe heat wave that claimed three lives and caused one collapse. Geza Epepsonsky 48 died at work as heat forced Henry E Winslow to crash his car after fainting. Howard Abell twenty months old died from convulsions linked to the heat.
A Washington heat wave kills two and harms eight as temperatures reach 97 degrees officially and 105 on Pennsylvania Avenue. Government workers on top floors are dismissed early and departments halt work early while the Weather Bureau promises relief tomorrow.
A series of storms across Eastern Massachusetts brought heat relief and damage. A Medford motorcyclist was killed by lightning while Boston suburbs endured major outages, fires, and washed streets. Portland reported thousands in lightning damage and a water spout near Sebago Lake. Burlington Vermont recorded heavy rainfall, and Pittsfield Massachusetts saw a church steeple struck by lightning. Rhode Island also reported storm damage.
President and Mrs. Coolidge sat in darkness on the porch for half an hour as a thunder storm knocked out electric lights at the summer White House. An electrician was called while the sultry day cooled, and they enjoyed the dimmed view of the storm.
Philadelphia on July 7 logged 95 degrees at 5 p.m., the hottest July 7 in city history, with multiple prostrations reported. In New York the temperature rose to 90 degrees, four people collapsed and Hoboken reported a death in the afternoon heat.
Weather forecast for Ohio West Virginia Indiana Kentucky and Tennessee notes fair conditions Wednesday and Thursday with warmer temperatures and scattered showers or thunderstorms later in the period. A broken leg incident arises after Charles Jones 25 leapt from a third story window to avoid arrest while police planned to bring him to Municipal Court.
Senator Couzens calls for trimming the federal top surtax to 20 percent and favors abolishing income tax levies under 5 000 while restructuring inheritance taxes to share with states. He argues automobile taxes burden transportation and should be repealed before any income tax cuts.
Fire destroyed the Case Fowler Lumber yard at Camp Harris in Macon Georgia, with losses over 1 million dollars. In Eldorado Arkansas a fire swept Imperial Oil and Gas Producing Company facilities and wells causing over 500 thousand dollars in damage. Nearby Ohio Oil and Gas Company property and many leases were also affected as the blaze spread across the area.
Carl Ostberg an advertising solicitor from Rochester New York stowed away on the Pacific liner Essequibo to bid farewell to officials and friends. He awoke at sea and was confined after food irregularities raised suspicion. Ostberg was jailed in Cristobal and later returned to New York aboard the Ebro.
Paris reports police captured sailor Louis Lafuer who confessed to killing American Army Sergeant W. Harvey whose body was found at Mehun Sur Yerre on July 17 1919. Lafuer says he struck Harvey with a boat hook and finished him in a canal struggle.
Thieves removed license tags from a truck owned by William Henry of 829 West Sixth Street and swapped missing tags onto another vehicle. Frank Muchmore of Columbus reported his car tags taken from East ern Avenue, while Elmer Scott at 312 Vine Street lost a $25 billfold on a Dixie Terminal streetcar. John Licht of 2118 Ravine Street was fined $25 for blacking. James Tarlton led a near riot on January 29 at Fourth and Johns Streets and received a $300 fine. James Horton and Pauline Glass were fined $150 and $25 respectively.
An aged man and a boy were injured slightly when struck by automobiles. Thomas Crater, 9, on Ridge avenue near his home at 5709 was knocked down and bruised. Morris Bolser, at 5634 Ridge avenue, aided him to Dr. Perin at 2974 Madison road. Oliver Boyce, 80, crossing at Clark street and Central avenue, was struck by a car driven by Edward Freetsch of 2615 Dennis street and was taken home by the driver.
The Prague government plans to formally acknowledge postwar reconstruction obligations and begin immediate negotiations to settle debts to the United States. Total acknowledged debt is about 80 million dollars plus 11 million dollars for wartime troop transportation costs from Siberia in 1919 1920.
A long list of birth notices from Bellevue Kentucky and surrounding areas, naming parents such as Byrge Emmanand Betty Crowe Danel and Josephine Grote George pea Helstrom Erie and Alice Helmers Lawrence and Stella and many others. The notices record babies including girls and boys born at various addresses like 106 Corwin 323 Pros 2 place and 961 Pavilion street.
Knights Templars and DeMolays assemble at Liberty Lodge Temple on Calhoun Street for Templar Field Day. Uniforms to be worn. rides start at 1 30 sharp and drills begin at 2 00 in front of University Buildings on Clifton Avenue, Frank Zumstein district commander and Frank W. Hendley chief of staff noted.
Frances Beaths Arnold widow of John Arnold died at her home East River Road Colerain Township on July 7 in her eighty first year. Funeral Friday July 9 at 2 p.m from her residence followed by services at Miami M E Church at 2:30 p.m. Friends invited.
The Busse Borgmann Funeral Directors announce a new booklet and services at 1817 Freeman Avenue. They operate three chapels offering sanitary and aesthetic cremation options under the Nes sectarian charges.
Roy A. Haynes remains in his federal post after meetings with Treasury officials about the dismissal of Miss Georgia Hopley. Officials favor enforcing the law rather than public education campaigns, and Haynes will incur travel costs only if he stays. The move reflects internal party and Prohibition Office tensions with General Andrews and Secretary Mellon.
Miss Jennie B. Nesbitt of Columbus inspector for the federal prohibition enforcement office in Ohio has been asked to resign under a new policy to substitute women with men in enforcement work General Andrews verified the reports in Washington tonight communicating the move and policy change
Roscoe H. Canaday Jr., five, vanished for a second time in two months. He had earlier disappeared from his mother in Texas and was found with his father in Forest Hills, Queens, where the father faced kidnapping charges. Today two men and a woman seized the boy from his father’s yard, and witnesses intervened. Canaday and his wife have been separated since 1923. Extradition proceedings are pending on the Texas abduction charge.
The Booster Club of Norwood formed to promote Harry H. Baker as Republican mayoral candidate. Baker spoke to over three hundred attendees after endorsement by the Republican Central Committee. William Hudson named Chairman Julian H. Struver Secretary and George Trout Treasurer.
The Ohio River at Cincinnati was 9.5 feet and stationary at 6 o'clock last night. The Queen City arrived from Louisville at 10 o'clock yesterday. The Tom Green departed for Pomeroy, Ohio at 5 o'clock last night.
Police sought help to locate Mike Flood a 73 year old blind man and Joyce Cullip an 18 year old missing girl. A brother George Flood of Wyoming Ohio said Mike left Chicago years ago and a Cincinnati sighting matched his description. Joyce Cullip has been missing since Sunday prompting Mrs Inez MacBrayer to request aid.
Maxwell Bodenheim a poet and novelist living at the McDowell colony Petersboro New Hampshire was arraigned before Judge McIntyre in General Sessions on an indictment charging publishing an indecent novel Replenishing Jessica He was released on 2500 bail Boni Liveright publishers were held on the same charge a week earlier Bodenheim did not plead.
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