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Newspaper
Graettinger Times
Location
Graettinger, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1926
Page
5
William Woolfson of Malden Massachusetts is described as the hitch hiker champion who follows college teams to any city where they play. He serves as president of the Garnstormer's Dramatic Club at the College of Business Administration and heads the LO Dety organization noted in the fragment.
Washington noted by President Cobdlinge that major railroads and their employees have formed a comprehensive arbitration agreement to prevent strikes. Fifty railroads approved. about 1,700,000 workers are covered. The plan abolishes the labor board and creates conciliation and arbitration boards on all roads with public representatives. A national conciliation board will handle unresolved disputes, and both sides agree not to strike or lockout during investigations and for 30 days after reports. The national board will arbitrate upon request.
New York Mrs Irving Berlin did not attend the wedding of Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt to Eylin T Smith at the bride's mother's home while the ceremony unfolded before a throng including Clarence Mackay. Ellin Mackay stayed home with her husband as rumors of a family rift and estate changes circulated. no reason given for Berlin's absence.
New York report says conferences have not produced definite conclusions and continue with Alvan Markie, the neutral member, keeping the talks alive. Six miners and six operators may shift positions to reach an agreement ending the strike.
F A Selberling founder and former Goodyear president told the House committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce that America must grow rubber under its own flag as a wartime measure. He called for a sound rubber planting project, emphasizing the Philippines as a key location.
Five sailors aboard the battleship Oklahoma were injured when a defective shell exploded during target practice off Catalina Island near San Pedro California. Seaman first class Brank P Ryan of Chicago suffered burns over the body and eye injuries, while other crewmen sustained lesser wounds.
Wist Roosevelt Grave New, witty men and women who are seuitinted, with Theodora Memorial, cemetery, and laid a wreath on.
Washington reports a definite legislative program to establish a federal farm board to designate an agency for surplus crop disposal. The agency would act as a cooperative society to export surpluses, with farmers bearing losses and borrowing from intermediate credit banks for loans backed by farmer security. Iowa plans a late month conference of corn belt states to harmonize farm relief demands and push for a federal export corporation to handle surplus corn.
Turkey withdrew its most favored nation treatment for the United States and published a new law effective December 30. All non-treaty nations face a 60 percent rise in fine port duties, trapping hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of American goods in bonded warehouses in Constantinople. Consignees refuse arrival costs, potentially letting British French and German merchants undercut American prices by more than half.
New York heiress Barbara Horton Nueen sold 50,000 Woolworth Stores shares privately through Goldman Sachs and Lehman Brothers at about $200 per share, totaling around $10 million. She still holds 14 percent of the inherited stock from her grandmother, widow of Frank W. Woolworth, after the sale.
The north half of the famed Vanderbilt twin houses on Fifth Avenue between Fifty first and Fifty second streets sold for about 3.5 million dollars. The buyer was Len Benjamin Winter, a real estate operator, with the seller Mrs Henry Witte wife of the former ambassador to Myance and daughter of William H. Vanderbilt.
John P Looney was denied a new trial by Judge Willis I. Graham. The murder case of William Gabel, a Rock Island saloon man, led to overruled motions for arrest and judgment. Looney will begin a fourteen year sentence at Toll? pending appeal to the Supreme Court.
A House bill by Representative Busby proposes a nationwide program to appropriate 187 083 000 dollars for the construction of more than 800 new post office buildings in various regions. The plan, discussed in committee, aims to modernize federal facilities across the country.
A violent 12 second earthquake in Tuscany causes casualties and damage while Mount Vesuvius shows renewed activity. Panic spreads across Italy as tremors strike Ab bidin Sungutvatore and other areas. France reports floods and cold weather with official visits to inspect measures and a Paris race track rescue narrative appears amid chaotic scenes.
Evansville miners and local leaders James H. Moore and Harvey Cartwright hold talks aiming to reopen diggings as union organizers push into Princeton territory. The Evansville situation remains stalled since mines closed, with peaceful invasion causing mild disorder amid ongoing conferences.
A proposed love colony in Allentown Philadelphia suburbs faces a setback as a court appointed master refuses to recommend a charter. Charles Garland, backing a $1,000,000 legacy, had directed a Milford township 200 acre farm housing about a dozen adherents including several women, as an experimental social science project. The master labeled the promoters unfit to conduct such an undertaking.
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, once married to Stanford White, is reported out of danger following a medical setback. The dancer was hospitalized after a failed attempt at an illegal act and is now recovering, with doctors optimistic about healing.
Kansas City freight markets report sharply rising grain shipping rates as Calla Grain sector sees surging demand. Officials note increased carload movements and tighter capacity, with exporters eyeing seasonal harvest and export windows.
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