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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1925
Page
4
Terre Haute August 26 Indiana coal operators led by Phil Penna blame high production costs for 40 to 50 percent higher coal prices than rival fields. They will honor the Jacksonville agreement through its life while noting reduced demand and new methods cutting weekly output.
Chicago reports say motorists in Kansas Illinois South Dakota and Missouri are paying as low as 6 to 10 cents a gallon after a Standard Oil cut. L V Nicholas of the National Petroleum Marketers Association expects further reductions due to higher crude output and refining gains with California exports undercutting midcontinent prices.
In San Francisco on August 26, Dorothy E Kiingson a seven year old who killed her mother was sentenced to ten years in state prison.
In a defiant statement, executives claim mines will keep operating under the Jacksonville agreement until it ends, while reacting to efforts aimed at destabilizing the industry. Penna cites communities built around the mines and seeks to preserve livelihoods and wage scales amid broader industry tension.
A young woman and two men were arrested in an uptown apartment in connection with the theft of 28,7000 in negotiable securities from a Wall Street Messenger on August 17. The girl identified herself as Winifred Stewart 22 an artist's model. The men gave names Irving Adler 30 son of a famous actor and Albert G McDonald 29 a salesman.
A gang of 10 to 15 bandits in a large car cut telephone wires, took several prisoners, patrolled the town, and blew open the State bank safe in Heyworth. They escaped with about $4,000 in cash and negotiable securities.
Official recognition of Ty Cobb's value to Detroit came when the common council approved a $1,000 testimonial. Cobb marks 20 years with the Tigers with a large dinner at the Book-Cadillac hotel, noting Henry Ford and Cobb as symbols of achievement.
In Roma on August 26, two members of a ten tourist party are believed dead after an underground cascade in the Pin guante caves of the Istrian district. Eight others were found alive three days locked in, using magnesium fires to guide rescuers through the caverns as work to open barriers continued.
Public Service Commission orders depreciation funds for Indiana bus firms to replace worn equipment. Monthly contributions equal 4 4 percent of original cost, building to about 90 percent in three years. Commission cites heavy use, weather, and speed limits as reasons to secure safe, prompt service and deter fly by night financing.
United Press Dispatch reports a turret explosion aboard the USS Oklahoma en route from New Zealand to Samoa killed one sailor and seriously injured another during a turret drill. Details are sparse as the Navy Department confirms only the incident and casualties.
Relatives plan a double funeral for August Sleaney 50 and his wife Elizabeth 43 in Hammond Indiana. Sleaney found dead in his jail cell after a guard informed him his wife was stabbed to death during a quarrel. Police could not obtain details from either spouse before death.
Indianapolis dispatch reports hundreds of Indiana teachers will be surplus to needs and seek work in other states. About 1,400 applications remain on file as vacancies are filled. Factors cited include weak business, long idle periods, and over specialization limiting teachers to single subjects.
United Press Dispatch reports grain prices fell on the Chicago board of trade as crop conditions were seen as better than expected. September wheat closed at 1.56 1/2 dollars, down about 2 1/2 cents.
Two year old Jerry Myers fell into a farm water trough on his father’s property in Brookville Indiana and drowned. His mother discovered the body in the trough.
In Crawfordsville Indiana on August 26 a man named Jake Hendricks made a heroic dive into Sugar Creek to save a drowning woman and baby. Hendricks told police he tried to rescue them. The officers noted his condition was worsened by excessive canned heat alcohol.
Blood soaked clothes found near the St Bernice bank robbery site point to amateur bandits who seized 11 000 dollars from Floyd Reed bank messenger. An abandoned auto in Edgar county Illinois linked to the fugitives had been stolen in Terre Haute the night before. Detectives from the Indiana Bankers Association and private agencies pursue the five gunmen across Indiana and Illinois.
City officials in Gary Indiana tentatively approve a new city hall costing half a million dollars. Construction set to begin November first as the first unit of a proposed $25 million municipal center.
Deser ting film distributors and movie theatres begin packing up as Connecticut enacts a new tax on film shows. Theatre owners urge Governor to call a special session to repeal the film tax law or face mass closures and loss of out of state distributors. The measure imposes 10 dollars on the first thousand feet and 50 cents on each extra hundred feet.
Hartfort City Indiana Aug 26 two prisoners Aarpn Walters and Ernest Miller escaped Blackford county jail last night by sawing bars with smuggled saws and walking to the front door. Two other inmates refused to join. Escape discovered this morning.
Virg Short, 30, of North Judson, seriously wounded when shot by officers while escaping, was operated on in an effort to save his life in Logansport Indiana. Short had been hunted for a year for robbery and officers surrounded his house when they learned he was there.
In Wilkes-Barre on August 26 miners and anthracite operators faced a likely new deadlock after the business men's no strike conference at Hazleton failed to produce results. The meeting's collapse signals renewed tensions and potential stoppages in the industry.
At the Logan chamber of commerce request four officials from the United Mine Workers left Logan West Virginia guarded by armed men. The officials arrived by helicopter and departed the city amid tension on August 26.
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