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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1925
Page
4
Refugees rush into Ventura with early word of the disaster as Santa Barbara townsfolk flee and relief work begins. San Francisco reports sixty five dead, with fires, broken water mains, and dense destruction battering the city.
Following afternoon dispatches on the San Francisco earthquakes residents of Linton report anxious inquiries to the Citizen office as relatives are believed to be in the district. Mary Butler mentions her brother James Inman in Santa Barbara and Charles G. Allen, once of Linton, runs a barber shop in a major hotel there. No casualty list has been issued.
A major earthquake struck Los Angeles and surrounding areas at 6 44 a m with tremors lasting about 30 seconds. Reports say the quake was widely felt from Pasadena to Ventura and caused frightened residents to rush into the streets. The center was likely near Los Angeles with strong shaking and lingering rumblings.
Residents fled homes seeking desert camps and public parks as rumors spread of ideal earthquake weather. Unofficial forecasters warned of more tremors amid rising heat, prompting mass movement and concern across the community.
Montana tremors centered near Three Forks and Manhattan, with a main fault shift under the Rocky mountains in the Big Belt district blamed by Prof. R C Clapp for the statewide shocks. After an initial Saturday night quake, diminishing aftershocks continued Sunday and into Sunday night across Wyoming, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.
Auditors for the state board of accounts filed an audit charging a $30,000 shortage in the books of Harry B. Smith former adjutant general of the Indiana national guard. The report cites $10,000 shortages in state funds and equal discrepancies in federal funds during Governor Warren McCray’s era. Smith refused comment. A government auditor helped verify federal accounts with the War Department.
United Press dispatch reports fourteen laborers were injured when an elevator lowering them into Chicago’s sewer system broke loose from its cables and dropped forty feet. Workers were panicked but rescued and hospitalized. none believed fatally hurt.
Governor Jackson announced parole for five inmates and commutation for ten others from Indiana correctional centers. The clemency pleas of 86 applicants were denied after the state pardons board June review. No Greene county cases were involved in the action.
In Indianapolis on June 29 the number of permits issued under the gun toting law is high. The report notes many dangerous occupations in the city require or are connected with gun carrying under the new regulation.
New York June 29. Five year old Thomas J Daily Jr rushed to his mother when her cotton dress caught fire and tried to beat out the flames with his bare hands. Though badly burned he died in hospital, the mother was saved as flames from a gas stove ignited her clothing. The boy’s courage echoes his father a World War II flight sergeant who later joined the police.
The schooner Rex was rammed by the Cunard Anchor liner Tuscania off Querro Bank in thick fog. Captain Downey of Lowell reported 138 crew lost and a 10 year old boy among the dead, with nine survivors. The Tuscania, carrying Glasgow passengers, heads for New York.
The president's father, Col. Coolidge, has shown much improvement and is nearly past the dangerous phase of illness. Doctors say he may sit up today and could leave the bed within two or three days. He plans to remain in Flymouth for several days and hopes to deliver an address in Cambridge on July 8 for the 150th anniversary of Washington's command.
The Rushville city council installed an electric signal meter and found the signal consuming about $50 in electricity per month. A second type of signal will be tested for comparison, with adoption of the cheaper permanent option planned.
Indiana and Illinois state motor cops test a method by driving at 35 mph on main arteries to deter speeding. Drivers who pass are not stopped, while those who hold behind are cited. A Virginia Vincennes watch group reports a woman driver was arrested after speeding past the patrol. The program aims to prevent violations rather than punish offenders.
Eighteen state governors and 26 executives sail on the Calvin Austin to Portland Maine for the annual gubernatorial conference beginning in Portland Springs. Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana joins the party with families and friends for the event.
Ralph Holliday, 35, of Elkville, despondent over poor health and a denied mine injury compensation, shot himself in the head after a court defeat. Holliday, married, was south of Duquoin at the time of the death.
Samuel E. Piety and son William N. Piety were shot to death on a Stafford area farm in Arkansas by William Stepp a half breed Indian. Stepp surrendered to the sheriff and was moved to Little Rock for safety. The victims had resided in Vincennes and Oaktown before moving to Arkansas fourteen years ago.
Hollywood on June 25 United Press reports Charlie Chaplin is father to a baby boy born to his 17 year old wife Liza Grey Chaplin. He plans a European tour and denies divorce plans in Paris. The infant weighed 65 pounds at birth.
Jacob Gould Schurman, the new U S ambassador to Germany, presented his credentials to President Von Hindenburg in Berlin. He urged renewed cordial ties and mutual friendship to foster peace, while noting U S neutrality on European policy and Germany’s push for goodwill.
United Press dispatch reports Indianapolis faced a high auto death toll in 1924. Seventy people were killed by automobiles and trucks, a rate of 19.9 per 100 000, compared with New York’s 16.8. Deaths in Indianapolis nearly doubled since 1920.
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