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Newspaper
Corry Evening Journal
Location
Corry, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1924
Page
6
President Coolidge opposes any major changes to the Mellon tax plan and would veto alterations. Congress debates the plan while Democrats and Progressives push for changes, signaling potential tax reductions delayed to a future session. The soldier bonus is expected to pass the House before January ends.
United Press reports Los Angeles authorities opened an investigation into the New Year’s party staged for Mabel Normand and Edna Purviance, after Courtland S. Dines was shot by Horace A. Greer. Detectives seek liquor violations found at Dines' apartment as part of the probe.
Dwight Harrison vice president of the defunct B. L. Dollings Co. is sentenced by Judge Duncan in Common Pleas Court to a minimum of three years in the penitentiary and fined $9,000. Morrison was convicted of misrepresenting nine prospective stockholders in Phoenix Portland Cement Co., a Dollings subsidiary.
Bartholo mew B Coyne personal counsel for Harry Re Thaw plans to file habeas corpus within ten days to declare him sane and secure release from the Pennsylvania hospital for mental diseases. In New York Coyne pursues release as Philadelphia lawyers prep for the Gump Thaw damage suit set for January 22 in common pleas court.
Patterson objects to the chosen site for the new Central Junior High School. A motion to relocate the school to a more central location failed after the chair declared it lost. The record notes that a broad taxpayer complaint prompted the push for a central site.
In 1915 Johnny Sudenberg knocked Jack Dempsey down seven times in Reno a draw resulted. Dempsey later helped Sudenberg find work but Sudenberg is now missing, with Greene unable to locate him. Also brief note on fossil pocket gophers near Los Angeles.
A fragmentary plaster fresco from Knossos on Crete dating to about 1000 B.C. shows the earliest known painting of a rose, fragmentary but identified by scholars as depicting the flower.
Dr Jacob Gould Schurman the American minister to China has landed in Canton aboard the ship Heléna to take up new instructions from Secretary of State. The Canton situation has cooled but deteriorations loom as Sun Yat Sen seeks to seize the customs and foreign ships gather offshore.
The Columbus church lists services for Sunday January 6 led by Rev. L J Eighmey with Sunday School at 12, Christian Endeavor at 6 20 pm and evening service at 7 30 pm The Wednesday choir practice at 7 pm and regular Sunday School Board meeting at 8 90 pm Also the W T A holds a January 8 meeting with Mrs W H Parker and the Columbus Cemetery Association annual meeting is set for January 19 at the library with five directors to be elected French agriculture shows postwar gains in livestock and horses.
Florence Leeds sails for Bermuda amid James A. Stillman’s appeal for a retrial of his sensational divorce from Anne Stillman. Leeds vows to work and support her son Jay, seeking independence away from court scrutiny while potential counter suits hinge on jurisdiction and corespondent status.
The speaker protests censorship saying it is unjust to condemn her before hearing her story. She asserts Greer the chauf feur had no attachment for her, but regrets that this man’s actions led to penalties she must face.
Two Erie sisters Miss Manela Stettiler and Miss Linda Stettiler died when a water main break caused a washout on a canyon edge in the Sierra mountain district near Camp 38 of a Southern California railroad line. Neighbors and relatives in Erie seek details. authorities report meager, scattered accounts reaching Fresno.
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