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Newspaper
Kingsport Times
Location
Kingsport, Tennessee, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1925
Page
1
French troops seized the principal objective at Djeb Amessef and retook Dahat, routing the enemy as French tanks arrived. Four American aviators volunteered to serve with the Sultan of Morocco and join the front, with four more to follow once an American escadrille is formed.
A special to the Times reports Louisville residents en route to Chicago were halted near Lafayette Indiana by three automobiles. The robbers took the cars but did not search the victims and fled into the night. Police have no trace of the assailants.
Thomas Poole died at Riverview hospital at 2:00 this morning from injuries suffered when he fell or was thrown under a freight train on the Clinchfield railroad near the Southern trucks crossing. His body awaits relatives from Asheville, N C, and will likely be shipped there. Poole had said he boarded a freight train after attempting to flag a passenger train to reach the Clinchfield line.
Two men and a girl drowned when their boat capsized in a heavy sea on Lake Ontario near Rochester New York. One man swam to safety as rescuers recovered the others and the body of the girl. The incident occurred today with stormy conditions and a missing life jacket.
On cross examination in Maryville William D. Sheffey admitted a few episodes with young women and denied others. His sister testified she saw him at her home the night of Luther Wells murder, corroborating earlier testimony from the Dora Davis case. He also recalled writing a letter to be opened only after death.
Dr. Thomas W. Young, charged with murdering his wife and burying her in a cistern, hanged himself in his county jail cell using wire. He was found dead after a fellow prisoner reported no response to an early wake up call. The trial ends with his death before verdict.
James Whetzell, a Nashville life prisoner, faces a second murder charge for killing fellow convict C. W. Maynard in a penitentiary clothing shop. Maynard, 28, from Hamilton County, died after Whetzell stabbed him during an argument. guards interrupted the incident as Whetzell rearmed. Maynard had earlier died of injuries from the 1919 Kingport Laundry shooting.
Major General Taylor, chief of the army engineers, said he would accept the board's report on the steamship Norman disaster which put responsibility on many officers and men involved. He added it is too late to act on the case, but urged measures to prevent similar accidents.
Tokyo reports floods subside after engulfing over forty thousand houses in Tokyo and Yokohama. Two people killed when landslides toppled a passenger train amid the disaster.
Mercedes Gleitzer a 24 year old London typist began her Channel crossing at Folkestone at 2 am but abandoned the swim eight miles from shore because of a cramp. She had no prior training and no special preparations. Her longest previous swim was eleven hours in the Thames.
Keokuk Iowa plans a memorial room in a new insurance building next to the old print shop where Mark Twain worked in 1856. The room will house Clemens records including a printer's case photographs autographs and possibly a copy of the city directory.
Thomas Bebaes wicz of 585 East Fifteenth Street was sent to the workhouse for six months after an incident near 128th Street and Kew Gardens Road. He claimed rheumatism and that a friend advised sunbaths leading to his arrest by a policeman in Richmond Hill May 3.
Tokyo authorities announce a plan to reclaim several hundred acres yearly by using earth from subway sewer and water main projects. Estimated cost 30 million yen, delays due to funding. Government support expected to aid the floodplain reclamation effort.
Clarence Darrow, amid the Dayton evolution trial, calls Judge Raulston’s charges a publicity stunt and says evolution strengthens civilization. He rejects claims it destroys religion, noting many believers accept evolution and that civilization predates Christianity.
A Pittsburgh to Buffalo flyer derailed near the city injuring its engineer and fireman while several passengers were shaken up. The locomotive turned over and the cars derailed on the switch, with coaches and others thrown from the track.
Report from Wilkes Barre and Lansford outlines a stalemate as 800 miners strike over yardage pay despite a midnight appeal to resume scale negotiations. Operators say they are willing to reopen talks September 1 only if the union meeting is arranged and opposed demands like the checkoff and wage increases remain unresolved.
The Associated Press notes steady cattle and sheep quotes in Louisville with hog prices up by 25 to 50 cents. Lambs listed at 13.25, ewes and wethers steady. hogs set between 0.625 and 1.350 per hundredweight amid unchanged other items.
Seven men, one white and six negroes, were reported killed today when a boiler exploded at a gunnery near Uniontown in Als. The blast occurred August 27 and resulted in seven fatalities.
English brewers urge cheaper beer as a remedy for unemployment that has troubled governments since the war ending. The proposal appears in the context of relief measures discussed by The Associates in Provo Brighton.
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