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Newspaper
Helena Independent
Location
Helena, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1925
Page
1
Heavy rainfall over ten days floods Georgia Alabama and South Carolina. Two killed and several injured when a Southern Railway passenger train derailed near Selma Alabama after striking a flood weakened trestle. A Nashville Chattanooga and St Louis train hit a slide near Cartersville Georgia killing an engineer and injuring a fireman. Savannah and Flint river flooding threaten homes while Hamburg and Augusta report rising waters.
An AP report from Cartersville Georgia dated January 16 states that southbound Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis passenger train struck a slide six miles south of the city. Engineer W. P. Metzel was killed and fireman J. M. Cooper was injured in the crash.
In Albany Georgia on January 18 Associated Press reports Will Tift 21 and Asa Tift 25 former Albany mayoral candidates are believed lost in Flint River flood waters. They went to the river at night to save a boat in danger of being carried away and have been missing since.
Gierald Chapman, a famed bandit sought nationwide, was captured by Muncie police after a pistol battle near a traction station. He carried nitroglycerine, a pistol, and $4,963 in cash, and is to be handed to federal authorities in Indianapolis for formal detention and potential return to Atlanta.
Washington reports a surge in cigarette use as 63 billion cigarettes were consumed in 1920, four times the 15 billion yearly figure in 1913. T. L. Hughes, head of the commerce department tobacco section, cites rising female smoking as a key factor in the decade long rise.
A Southern Railway passenger train fell through a weakened trestle over Mulberry Creek near Burnsville as heavy rains caused high water. Engineer C. Dunhall and Conductor T. F. Posler were killed. several others injured. A fireman escaped after being thrown from the engine and swam to summon help. a special train carried the dead and injured to Selma around 1 PM.
Sixteen year old Dorothy Ellingson known as the jazz murder girl confessed to the police that she shot and killed her mother Tuesday morning after her mother objected to her nocturnal running about. She spent Sunday in jail under watch as the search for several young men tied to city nightlife continues. Three cabaret musicians are in custody awaiting hearings. Frank J. Egan acts as temporary public defender for Ellingson. Her father Joseph Ellingson and her brother Earl are mentioned in the story.
Associated Press reports Roy Patrick aged 27 is jailed in Marion Virginia without bond on charges of being responsible for the Saltville mud dam collapse during Christmas Eve that killed 19 people. Patrick, arrested Saturday in Saltville, denies the charge and seeks an alibi. Authorities say dynamite may have been used to dislodge a mountain of lime muck behind Saltville.
Four persons drowned when an overloaded rowboat capsized in White River a mile below Oakland Saturday. Three others were rescued. The dead are Rush Shew and Tom Shew, Tessie Billing, and G. W. Hawkins. Alya Johnson rescued James Shew and Georgia Dearden. No bodies recovered.
Baltimore January 18 The Johns Hopkins medical school reports the shortest name in the world. A Chinese student from Hangchow named Mr 7 is 24 years old and spells his name as I but pronounces it Ke. Philologists note the name uses a single letter. He is a Johns Hopkins student in the medical school.
Moscow report says Leon Trotzky will not be allowed to remain on the Soviet war council and faces possible expulsion from the political bureau and the Soviet executive committee. A semi official communique says Trotzky must submit to party discipline or risk removal at the next party congress.
Five children aged 1% to 7 years died when their farm home eight miles from Bik River burned this morning. Parents Frank and Mrs Bedach escaped with severe burns after trying to save them. The sisters huddled in a corner as flames spread, a stove pipe collapse feeding the blaze and trapping the youngsters. Neighbors aided in a frantic rescue effort that came too late.
Washington January 18 The National Conference on the Cause and Cure of War opened its six day session with a public rally featuring Judge Florence Allen Lord Thompson and John F O Ryan Speaking on unified peace over population and disarmament they urged new standards and a Geneva protocol as prerequisites to lasting world order Mrs Currie Chapman Catt outlined the group’s plan to isolate war germs and study effective vaccines of war.
In New York on January 18 police halted a disturbance at a Jewish Socialist Alliance gathering. Raphael Abramowitsch faced strong opposition, prompting police to eject several protesters and end the address with about 4000 people in attendance.
Beggs Oklahoma January nineteenth report notes a horse sold for five cents at a local auction after families surrendered livestock due to mortgage stress. A second corsa fetched ten cents and a third fifty cents as farmers aimed to place animals with caretakers able to provide for them.
W D Tichmans dies from gunshot wounds suffered last Friday in Laramie after his wife says she shot in self defense. She remains under guard in a hospital while authorities investigate. Also reports in Mexico City describe a riot near Huichapan in Hidalgo state with 12 killed and many wounded between agrarian rebels and a federal force.
In Orange New Jersey on January 18, Thomas A. Edison, despite warnings about questions on communication with the dead, said he believes it possible to devise a mechanism to receive real communication from those who have died. He warned that his theory views the human body as a machine, with life residing in numerous units that move through it and perish if the machine breaks apart.
Edison rejects mediumship and proposes a rigourously authenticated communication system with the dead. He warns the device must prove solely the message, not mystery, and could revolutionize views on existence and life’s essence. He plans to share more details soon.
Boston masses Jan 18 William Green president of the American Federation of Labor told a commemoration gathering for Samuel Gompers that organized labor would eschew politics and pursue reform through modernization of the Volstead act to permit light wines and beer while upholding immigration laws as the best yet enacted He warned that allowing mass European immigration would threaten prosperity and pledged labor’s patriotic aim to develop citizenship of the highest type.
Scranton reports efforts to avert a threatened general strike by 10 000 miners in district one United Mine Workers. District executive board met to urge settlement and called 90 locals to Wilkes Barre for talks. A Saturday meeting gave three days to avert walkout and propose a special convention. A follow up meeting is set for Wednesday to decide on a general strike order if unresolved.
Four children of Harry Loomis of Middieberry, Conn. perished in their beds as parents and grandparents slept on the lower floor unaware of a blaze that trapped the youngsters on the upper floor.
Geneva January 18 The Japan United States axis prompts mixed signals at the international opium conference. An official Tokyo message to Representative Porter thanks him for efforts to maintain good relations while divergent Anglo American views on Far Eastern opium policy persist. Lord Cecil Chelwood’s arrival sharpens the debate, with continuation indicated on page two.
President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge attended a Boy Scouts ceremony at the White House grounds, stood at attention, saluted the flag, and observed the scout pledge. He and the organization’s honorary president then placed a wreath on the tomb of the Unknown Soldier before departing by Mayflower for a Potomac cruise to Quantico.
A French sailing ship named Ralta foundered off the rocky west coast near Victoria after a heavy gale. The captain mate and 10 crew abandoned to a lifeboat. all are reported safe at Carmanah lighthouse.
Figures from the Bureau of Internal Revenue show total taxable income for 1922 at 28.3 billion dollars, with 6.8 million individuals and 382,883 corporations filing returns. Individual net income taxed reached 21.36 billion, up 1.74 billion from 1921, while total taxes collected stood at about 701.6 million. States and other details follow in the report.
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