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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1925
Page
1
Smoot urges tax relief to cut the annual bill by hundreds of millions and notes likely congressional rejection of comprehensive reform. discussion shifts to executive powers over ship sales and the Emergency Fleet Corporation while Europe debates Morocco and French sovereignty.
Grow vanished after telling his wife he would visit Blairsville and East Pittsburgh for a car repair and to meet a stranger. His wife and father-in-law sought him, checking trains and calling officials, while insurance agents and police traced a list of Westinghouse foremen but found no Houston listing.
A theft of jewelry valued at $20,000 occurred while being sent from Youngstown Ohio to Newcastle Pennsylvania. Disappearing man Delos Grow, a 26 year old Indiana resident, is sought. police, state police, and hospitals are alerted. Investigators trace tickets to East Pittsburgh, but no confirmation of Grow. A second item reports three main and 30 branch sewers to be built at a cost of $500,000.
President Calles and Secretary Kellogg expose sharp Mexican American rifts as open diplomacy tests limits. Calles defends sovereignty against indemnity demands for lands seized 1917 while urging calm, warning against foreign intervention and misreadings of U S aims.
A plan to press corporation counsel Bush for action on 1 o'clock closing laws for Chicago cabarets and amusements not focused on food. It includes potential ordinances prohibiting music after closing, license revocation, or close police surveillance. Directions to captains urged bringing in known criminals and gang leaders, with a warning to be cautious in arrests.
The readable fragments describe a local event with officials and dates unclear. A single action is hinted but details are obscured, leaving the core outcome unstated.
District Attorney Keyes details a sensational case where a man killed his wife after a quarrel using a diminoform vial and a rubber cone, then had a dentist seal the body in a cistern. Two nights later the step-son, Charles Patrick Grogan, 18, heir to the Grogan fortune, aided by the same man, helped conceal the corpse with hot concrete outside the cabin.
Reports say Bassi and Pezzi attempted a jail break at dawn with Bassi allegedly sawing bars and entering the corridor before the warden discovered him. Sheriff and local officials offered no official confirmation, while Governor Pinchot had reprieved the pair pending Supreme Court action set for June 26.
Visitors day at the Willard Home is set for Wednesday, June 17 from 2 to 9 PM. A Boy Scout band concert will accompany tours of the recently repapered and repainted facilities, inviting all interested residents and neighbors to attend.
A May Day service was held at Elks Hall by Indiana Lodge No. 981 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. Hon J. Elder Peelon delivered the address while Mr and Mrs Samuel Moore and Miss Caroline Geasler contributed vocal and piano numbers. Forty members attended.
Three boys whose names emerged today join the list of drowning fatalities in Pittsburgh area waters this season. John Gatlick, 17, of McKees Rocks, drowned while swimming in the Ohio River yesterday afternoon. William McDowell, 30, of Carnegie, was found dead after cramping while wading in a pond. Con Gore also reported among the victims, details incomplete due to damaged copy.
Morning departures to Cadiz and Erie for conventions and visits are reported alongside local social calls. Residents including Misa Prantes Snyder, Hill, and Hetrick family members are mentioned visiting, hosting, or traveling to towns such as Windber, Punxsutawney, McKeesport, and Pittsburgh.
He paid 93 dollars for taxi rides and 170 dollars for two airplane trips between Latrobe and Punxsutawney, then back to the landing field. He ended the day by dismissing the taxi at eight o'clock Monday night, saying he enjoyed the day but hoped for cooler weather.
An advertisement touts Lavoptik eye wash with camphor hydrastis witch hazel and claims it quickly soothes weak or strained eyes. A free aluminum eye cup accompanies each small bottle, promoted by Daugherty's Drug Store.
Bearish traders pressed the market with heavy selling on vulnerable oil shares and steel leaders. United States Steel rose, Gulf States and Crucible gained, Pan American slid, and oil stocks recovered losses as grains and foreign exchange showed mixed moves.
Banns of marriage for Misa Eleanor Scanlan daughter of Mr and Mrs W A Scanlan of Walnut street and Philip J Hoffman of the First ward were announced yesterday morning in St John Gualbert's Catholic church where the marriage will be solemnized later this month Scanlan a local figure and Hoffman a Bethlehem Steel engineer from New York state.
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