13 Jun 1925
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Newspaper
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1925
Page
1
The Kellogg administration signals possible formal steps in response to Mexico City policies. Washington pressures curtailment of expansion and seeks fewer United States citizens in Mexico as diplomats assess next moves.
Secretary Kellogg issued a blunt formal statement urging Mexico to restore seized properties and indemnify American citizens. He declared U S relations with Mexico friendly yet not fully satisfactory and said Washington will back Mexico only while it protects American lives and rights under international commitments. Ambassador Sheffield and White House talks framed the move as a necessary, grave step.
Dorothy Perkins aged 17 collapses in court during testimony about the murder of Thomas Templeton. The judge rules questions about Michael Conners may not incriminate him. Trial adjourned until Monday after the fainting spell and revival.
A Cincinnati housewife lauds the Commercial Tribune Classified Ad service calling it a gold mine in the attic. She praises placing ads to sell discarded furniture and urges readers to call Canal 6300 for ad creation assistance.
John T. Scopes, en route to Dayton Tenn for the evolution trial, refused all offers totaling about 150000. A motion picture company offered 50000 for trial rights and appearance in a production, while other syndicate rights offers raised the potential total beyond 150000.
Indianapolis June 12. The Protective Committee of the Indiana Bankers Association will organize a 4000 strong force with deputy sheriff powers to patrol communities starting Monday. A shoot to kill policy will guide operations and a $1000 reward is set for each bandit captured and convicted.
The second man in the Carrsville Kentucky bank raid was captured near Golconda Illinois. Charles J. Abbott of American Express named him Kid McGown of Kansas City Missouri. The accomplice Stone was jailed at Smithland Illinois and loot was recovered.
Two possemen J A Mosiers and Elmer Johnson were fired on by five bank robbers five miles west of Sulphur Springs Arkansas as the bandits fled after yesterday’s bank robbery. L M Stout bank president died after wounding two robbers. two bandits John Burchfield and Boyd Jewell were captured and sent to Bentonville. The loot did not exceed 2000 dollars officials said.
Paris audiences welcomed the American stage debut of Joan of Arc with Mercedes de Acosta as the heroine Eva Le Gallienne played a modest plain title role The play traces Joan from voices in the fields to her trial and execution using lighting to transform the public square into a cathedral The production drew thunderous applause for its novel staging and human portrayal noted by critics and spectators alike.
Butte Montana, June 12. G A Lauzier head of the Lauzier Wolcott Brokerage Company was found dead at his home today. The firm became insolvent last week.
In London today Viscount Gort’s society divorce filing named Luis de Silva of the Spanish Embassy as co-respondent but he claims diplomatic immunity and was not made a party. The Viscountess’s diary is central, detailing visits, letters, and dinners with de Silva.
Dr. C A L Reed, University of Cincinnati emeritus and former AMA president, denounces William Jennings Bryan for calling colleges Godless at a Medical College of Cincinnati commencement banquet. He labels Bryan’s charge gratuitous and libelous, praising a modern college God of truth reason and aspiration.
At Music Hall last night 881 Cincinnati pupils graduated across Hughes Woodward and Walnut Hills High Schools. Edward W Merkel rebuked adults for shaping youth culture while noting youths use roadhouses cars and even question religion. Victor Rosensweig and Roger B Baxter spoke on education and forests as the audience heard class numbers and ages including several graduates under 17.
New York World News Service reports that Blackie the White House cat has been banished after preying on song birds rabbits and squirrels around the south grounds. The decree followed reports to the President and an attaché offered to house him elsewhere.
Storms across Southern Minnesota and Iowa injure several people and damage property. A tornado wrecks or damages more than twenty five homes in Alexanderia and blows a Minneapolis St. Louis train from the tracks. Conger Minn hosts injuries and damages along with five inches of rain in parts of the region. The Zumbro River overflows at Rochesters flooding homes while Mazeppa Pine Island and Rochester see isolated houses. An eighty mile wind tears off the roof of a hotel annex at Winnebago.
A Des Moines report states one woman drowned and fifteen people injured as storms lashed Northern Iowa last night. Torrential rains damaged crops and wiped out farmsteads, with total property loss reaching about 150000 dollars. A woman was swept from a bridge near Protovia, two churches were destroyed, and Alexander suffered the greatest damage.
A southern Minnesota storm killed 19 year old Mike Winters in Ivanhoe and injured twenty others. Damage reached about 500000, with crop and farm losses, rail and road washouts, and flooding at Mayo Park Rochester and along the Zumbro River.
Special Dispatch reports that Mrs. F M Heck and family fled Chin Wang Tao amid civil war and rioting in China. They boarded a steamer to the United States and expect to reach Vancouver June 15 before heading to Hamilton. The Ross family, tied to Standard Oil, also left China abruptly.
Yale junior Thomas Sweeney Jr of Washington DC was fined 25 dollars and costs for a technical aviation violation in New Haven Connecticut. He admitted flying below 2000 feet near the Yale field during the May 23 Yale Princeton freshman baseball game but denied flying over the field while the game was in progress.
Police report a collision at Hyde Park crossing where a train struck an automobile killing two people and injuring others. Investigators are sorting details as the accident scene is processed.
Chicago prosecutors win right to present murder case against William Darling Shepherd linked to typhoid germs used to kill his foster son William Nelson McClintock. Defense challenges corpus delicti while nurses and witnesses give testimony. later at Hyde Park a car train crash kills Mildred Porter and Mrs. Ada Miller, injuring Charles Porter.
Born 1860 on a farm in Iowa Stone chose locomotives over law or medicine. He rose from engineer to Grand Chief of the International Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in 1903 and helped finance a cooperative bank in Cleveland in 1920. He pushed life insurance for engineers and grew membership from 38,000 to about 90,000. He died after shaping labor's early financial and insurance infrastructure.
Washington dispatch reports Paulina Longworth daughter of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth arrives in Cincinnati with her mother for a debut. Mrs. Longworth will settle Paulina at the Longworth home before returning to Washington to oversee the family’s new Massachusetts Avenue residence.
An earthquake shock was felt in Los Angeles and nearby towns at 2 18 this afternoon. Officials reported no major damage or injuries as tremors were recorded across the region.
Two Navy nurses, Katheryn Glancy and Ruth M. Anderson, were ordered court-martialed for alleged liquor importation. They were aboard a navy transport and carried liquor in small sealed packages from the West Indies to the Washington area.
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