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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1925
Page
1
Chicago August 1 The state completed preparations for a sanity hearing of Russell Scott the man who faced the gallows for the slaying of a Chicago drug clerk in a holdup. The hearing begins Monday with the state hiring several alienists to prove Scott sane against the defense effort to prove insanity.
Washington police seek to define indecent music under a new statute. Sergent Rhoda Milliken of the Women's Bureau says any music played on a saxophone is immoral. Clarence Talley counters that the saxophone can be elevating and respectable when played properly.
London dispatch reports a looming shortage of British architects as World War I decimates the ranks. Schools remain full but practice pools shrink to about a thousand, risking loss of England’s architectural individuality. The College of Architecture offers 25 scholarships to train promising talent at home and abroad.
Markets show cattle at 300 head unchanged in Louisville, hogs at 800 steady, sheep 600 steady with a 50 cent dip for lambs between fourteen and fourteen fifty, ewes and wethers at fifteen. New York roundups note firm stocks, easy bonds, steady foreign exchange, cotton lower, and holiday in sugar and coffee. Chicago shows wheat higher, corn steady, cattle dull, and hogs steady.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and his brother Kermit lead the Central Asia hunting expedition to Yarkand and on toward Tianshan. The party has lost twenty ponies during the journey and travels with all baggage and personnel along the Yarkand river.
Ambassador James R. Sheffield visited President Coolidge for a luncheon in Swampscott Connecticut. The meeting follows a White House conference a month earlier on the Mexico treaty dispute and indicates improved U S Mexican relations.
London August 1 A dinner party by Lady Astor drew two queens archbishop of Canterbury and high nobility to her St James Square home. Guests included Queen Elizabeth of Belgium Queen Marie of Romania Duke of York and Duchess of York with many peers. After dinner dancing featured Princess Marie Jose of Belgium Barroness Moncheur and others.
Dr Michael Hainisch president of Austria owns Bella the champion cow of the country. From May 7 1924 to May 6 1925 Bella produced 2688 gallons averaging over seven gallons daily. The article notes hay fever is unlikely around Brass widows.
Work has begun on a modern three story brick business building on Broad Street between Baylor Furniture and P K Hash jewelry store. Owner Wm Roller aims for September occupancy with 5000 square feet per floor and glass storefronts. J C Penny Company will occupy the adjacent building’s first floor, with 125 foot depth two stories. both projects near completion.
The forecast calls for mostly fair weather with a chance of showers in the latter days. Temperatures start below normal then rise gradually over several days.
Pittsburgh August 1 The Associated Press reports police sergeant Gro Gilleapie, 37, is recovering in a hospital after injuries from an automobile accident two years ago. He has undergone nineteen operations, with eighteen of them being major procedures.
Pleas in abatement and motions to squash indictments against Thomas B. Carroll John M Carroll and W T Cathorne in the failure of Peoples Savings Bank of Jackson were overruled in circuit court and September 25 set for trial. Each defendant pleads not guilty. Carroll is charged with embezzlement the others with irregularities when the bank closed with a shortage over 300000. John M Carroll aided and abetted an embezzlement and Cathorne is charged with forging a bill of acceptance.
London reports scarce supplies of pineapples and grapefruits as fruit dealers blame Germany for high prices. Berlin buyers are snapping up top fruits to make fat folks thin, driving prices beyond local reach. The wartime pattern of German demand resurfaces with postwar effects on London markets.
New York August 1 federal agents battered doors of two Broadway supper clubs with sledge hammers and crow bars seizing liquor worth over $1000 and arresting 12. The crackdown targets 200 clubs to dry Broadway, with related raids and court actions curbing petty liquor cases.
American visitors to England increasingly fly to continental destinations. About one in ten travelers head to Paris, with Croydon airport transporting over 4000 passengers weekly to Paris. Daily demand exceeds supply as fifty British planes operate across the channel, while a French firm also assists travelers avoiding sea crossing. A notable run of sixty Americans used special arrangements for a Paris flight.
A simple wooden marker marks the grave of William Jennings Bryan in Arlington National Cemetery as family and friends gather after his funeral. Mrs. Bryan plans to return to Miami. son William Jennings Bryan Jr. will accompany her. Other relatives head to their homes as mourners consider memorials.
An old manuscript discovered in the Leningrad library archives is claimed by the Academy of Science to be the original Thousand and One Nights. Once believed destroyed by the 9th century, the rare find is now housed at Moscow’s Russian National Museum.
Atlantic City Aug 1 John L Lewis president of the United Mine Workers demanded that the principal anthracite mine operators meet him in conference on Tuesday to negotiate a new working agreement. He warned that if leaders failed to appear workers may end negotiations and face a possible suspension of work September 1.
London officials urge Parliament to pass a bill banning pigeons from the St Pauls precincts due to damage from mortar pecking. The feathered visitors have increased with tourism and local feeding, overrunning streets and threatening the cathedral. A controlled cull aims to preserve a limited number near St Pauls lofts.
Tokyo Aug 1 The warship Mikasa will be converted into a naval museum off Tokosuka after scrap plans. Regulations will render the hulk useless as a warship while it is rebuilt as a floating museum to display relics and papers from the Russo Japanese War honoring its service in the Japan Sea Battle.
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