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Newspaper
Linton Daily Citizen
Location
Linton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1925
Page
5
The Linton city council approved closing Main Street from A to B, Vincennes to First, and A Street north to the city hall alley for Halloween pedestrian use. Officials named for the November 8 election were listed, with party-affiliated inspectors, judges, clerks, and sheriffs for three wards.
Uptown streets to become a country scene for Hallowe en frolic as seven central blocks are blocked from traffic. Frolickers will have streets and sidewalks for dancing and display with fodder shocks pumpkins frost tinted foliage and maybe rabbits and goblins to heighten realism. A week from Saturday night will draw many adults and children to the event following city council approval.
John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers, challenged the anthracite operators to sue him for libel after two speeches. He accused operators of extorting 16 to 20 million dollars annually and claimed the industry had butchered 1,210,000 of his people since 1870.
Nell Finly serves as bailiff in the circuit court at Noblesville where D. C. Stephenson, formerly a Klan figure, is on trial over the death of Madge Oberholtzer.
President Coolidge rejects using enforcement criticism as a political weapon and urges national moral support. He told Congregational leaders that police power alone cannot guarantee law obedience without willing citizen cooperation. He cited postwar crime and violence as complicating factors in enforcement.
United States destroyers were ordered to proceed at once to eastern Mediterranean waters to safeguard American lives amid the uprisings of Druze tribesmen in Syria against the French. Damascus faces possible bombardment, with about 150 Americans living there, as refugees may be moved from the threatened area.
Houston dispatch reports former Texas league manager Marvin Goodwin died of injuries from a crash when his airplane fell 200 feet Sunday. He was a standout pitcher in the Texas league and recently sold to the Cincinnati Reds for 10 000 dollars. Goodwin also served as a reserve officer in the National Guard.
In Noblesville Indiana Oct 21 the jury panel for D C Stephenson Earl Klennk and Earl Gentry over Madge Oberholtzer murder faced fresh postponements as two jurors were dismissed and another removed for bias. Judge Cox to open for the state with potential death penalty considerations pending defense timing.
Colonel Billy Mitchell, a proponent of expanding air power, views his court martial set to begin October 28 as a step toward national defense reform. He predicts public pressure will push Congress to reorganize defense and elevate aviation.
Commander Mary Blanch Stanford of the Salvation Army notes the high cost of having babies has dampened birth rates among the great middle class. Frederick Steey of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor. W A Rowan lays the cornerstone of the Level Club and $3,000,000 Masonic hotel in Manhattan. Lady Innes Ker, once Ann Parsons Breese, visits New York for the first time since marriage.
Chicago Oct 21 The Pirates after winning the world baseball championship cannot agree on a personal emblem. Commissioner Landis announced a $100 reward for each player. First a ring was proposed then a watch charm was preferred, now they remain undecided on the emblem.
Greece has sent Bulgaria a note demanding satisfaction for the Demirhisar incident. It seeks punishment for those responsible and indemnity for the killed, with Greek forces crossing into Bulgaria to occupy Petritas to enforce demands and dissolve the comitedsis conspiracy.
Evansville residents face an unusual soot issue after tests by Dr. O Hovda of Evansville College show 25.7 tons of soot per square mile on average, with summer averaging 20 tons. He suggests smouldering fires in spring and fall contribute, though the higher summer totals remain unexplained.
Arthur O Keefe rapidly obtained a divorce from his first wife and immediately sought a marriage license in Goshen Indiana. The bride, also a divorcee, attended O Keefe's divorce trial as the new union was set to move forward.
Deam Smith of Delphi Ind a Department of Justice representative killed himself in a Frankfort Indiana hotel the body found by a chambermaid this morning A note said he could not do work satisfactorily and felt like a failure
Investigators determine if a baby was cremated in a school heater in Corning Ohio as ashes are analyzed at Ohio State University chemistry department. Corning officials delivered the furnace ashes to Columbus for tests today.
A safety conference of United States Bureau of Mines officials from Pittsburg and Vincennes with Indiana bituminous operators will be held in Indianapolis on October 21. The meeting aims to discuss mine safety practices and regulatory concerns affecting the industry.
Paris reports the French foreign office states the cabinet will not accept the American debt funding offers. Finance Minister Caillaux is to present counter proposals within eight to ten days. The move follows semi official cabinet deliberations.
London reports renewed anxiety over Balkan relations amid Locarno hopes as Bulgarian and Greek forces clash near Demirhisar. Observers note past summer strains were brief but warn of ongoing volatility in the powder keg of the Near East.
Western New York reports the heaviest October snowfall with Eden Center in Erie county blanketed by nine inches overnight. The district around Eden Center measured nine inches of snow early today.
Announcement from London states United States Senator Peter G. Gerry of Rhode Island will marry Mrs Edith Vanderbilt in London shortly. The news is reported by United Press Dispatch.
Indianapolis Oct 21 Arthur R Robinson Indianapolis attorney was named United States Senator to fill the vacancy caused by Senator Ralstons death He will serve until December 1926 with a full term race for the remainder of Ralstons term to be decided at the 1926 state election Robinsons prior career included law practice in Indianapolis and a term in the state senate backed by Governor Jackson and Marion county Coffin faction
Indiana township overseers distributed relief totaling 618901 to the temporarily poor in the last fiscal year the state board of charities reported. The prior year disbursements reached 04604.
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