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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1925
Page
4
Entries for a one day Independence Day program at the new half mile Linton track are finalized with purses totaling $1,000. Eleven drivers and horses from Indiana Kentucky and Illinois will compete in nine entries across the 2 30 pace 2 18 pace 2 25 trot and half mile dash with a large crowd expected.
Five brightest planets Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter and Saturn will be above the horizon most of July. On July 10 Mercury Venus and Mars will appear very close together in the evening sky, with distances from Earth of 105 million 146 million and 239 million miles respectively. Mars recedes as it moves toward the sun while Mercury and Venus approach Earth.
United Press dispatch from London reports France will rush troops from the Ruhr to Morocco to combat Riffian tribesmen. The shift comes as diplomatic quarters confirm the redeployment to the North African theater.
W. J. Hamilton, a noted merchant banker and farmer, had his supper from his own wheat as the first load of new grain arrived at the Linton mill. The flour was sold immediately, and a sack bought by Mrs. Terhune came from Hamilton’s wheat. The 59 pounds per bushel quality marks a quick turnaround for mills. The earliest receipt date was June 17, 1915, and the latest first-load marketing date last year was July 7.
Arm ed deputy sheriffs and state police block routes across a wide area to capture Vance Hardy Eddie Wiseman Isadore Londe and Tony De Flora after they fled a Marquette branch prison. They hijacked a car rammed a bridge near Ishpeming and later fled toward Nestoria amid a manhunt expecting a gun battle.
United Press Dispatch Indianapolis July 2 speakers at the National Education Association convention voiced concern over youth morals and discipline. Indiana state superintendent Dr Henry N Sherwood cited lack of religious training as a primary cause for young people running wild and blamed parents for weak discipline.
Irvin Grice of Bluffton adopted a stray bird dog for his child. The dog killed five young chickens, brought them to the house, and pointed before dying.
Linton gears up for a large Fourth celebration with a commercial parade led by the Bloomfield band at 10 am. The Haseman grove will host exercises, music, speeches, a noon basket dinner, and children’s amusements. Prof. Skiver of Indianapolis will perform two balloon ascensions with three parachute leaps each at 11 am and 5 pm.
Delegates at the anthracite wage conference in Scranton prepared to back the scale committee’s recommendations. Miners seek a 10 percent raise, a $1 daily wage for day workers, check off, free air and jack hammers, quicker grievance settlements, and a two year contract. The union will continue aid to West Virginia, with about $160,000 monthly sent, while legal aid money is also being spent amid injunctions.
Paris announces that France will send a commission to Washington in September to negotiate a settlement of its debt to the United States, according to instructions given to Ambassador Daeschner in Washington.
Washington officials call Ef L Doheny’s claim that the naval oil reserve lease was kept secret a smoke screen amid discussions of a Pacific war scare. The July report notes government positions and responses to the oil deal disclosure.
Mrs. Julia Stewart of Atwood was fishing at Goose Lake when a four pound bass leaped into her boat and she brought it ashore to prove the tale.
Chicago wage dispute between L employees and officials escalates as workers refuse renewal of the contract by a 1,856 to 1,581 vote. Union and company reps say strike talk is limited but employees set a July 11 meeting to decide next steps.
Van A. Bittner organizer for the United Mine Workers warns Secretary Davis that a nation-wide coal strike is imminent unless operators meet wage agreements. A telegram urged Davis to intervene in the miners versus operators industrial war in West Virginia as operators failed to live up to agreements.
Little Jack Scherer son of Mr and Mrs Lawrence Scherer suffered a night of acute appendicitis symptoms and now rests better today according to family report.
In Indianapolis on July 2 the government rested its case in the Morton Hawkins mail fraud trial. Hawkins testified that he headed the Morton company at $25 weekly and denied taking funds from subsidiary loan societies while prosecutors argued those societies were drained for the Hawkins firm.
Noblesville Indiana July 2 state attorneys pressed Judge Hines to revoke a separate trial order for Earl Klenk and consolidate the cases with D C Stephenson and Earl Gentry in a Monday start for the Oberholtzer murder trial. Defense says only Klenck is ready for trial while three defendants had agreed to a joint date.
Moscow July 2 Foreign Minister Chitcherin accuses the British press of an anti Russian campaign and links Lord Birkenheads speech to a possible rupture in Anglo Russian relations The minister warns that a rupture could lead only to war and calls for restraint.
The federal jury in Atlanta is hung in the trial of two high officials of the Atlanta penitentiary accused of accepting bribes from wealthy prisoners.
A 15 year old girl and two youths under 20 confess to multiple robberies as a gunfire incident ends a failed hold up in a taxi pursuit. Helen O Rourke and accomplices terrorized the eastern district while policeman Sullivan pursued the fleeing cab. Josephine Finch admits seven burglaries over three weeks stealing cash watches and gold dental work.
The first overnight air mail plane from New York to Chicago landed at Maywood field at 6 18 a m central standard time. It was piloted by W B Williams of Cleveland.
E. L. Tresize former publisher of the Medarysville Herald vanished after finalizing talks to sell the paper. Neighbors and authorities mounted a search as the town awaited word on his whereabouts.
A Chinese mob attacked foreign hotels at Swa tow. An armed party from a British warship landed and restored order. The incident occurred in Hong Kong on July 2 as authorities responded to the unrest.
Santa Barbara forces led by Major Frank E Evans replace weary locals with four crack marine companies. Marines patrol tents, rebuild the street scene, and resume normal life as engineers survey ruin and estimate damages near 10 million dollars. Fortunes and jewelry are removed under marine guard with no pillaging reported.
Indianapolis report shows a June 1925 increase of 314 684.87 in state gasoline tax compared with June 1924. Total tax paid reached 765 714.13, driven by a 3 cent per gallon rate and higher auto usage. For the first quarter, 1925 collections totaled 1 812 026.97.
Under-Secretary Winston said the new surplus for the coming fiscal year will exceed the estimated 290 million dollars. The larger-than-expected surplus, accumulated in the just-ended fiscal year, provides the basis for greater tax reductions.
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