Prize fighting condemned as moral issue at Methodist Conference
Resolutions from the temperance committee denounce gambling modern dance suggestive films and immodest dress and call prize fighting a perversion of sport. Another set asks Congress to enable uniform U S divorce laws as proposed by Rev George Elliot of Detroit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Springfield
Mass
Methodist General Conference
Committee On Temperance and Public Morals
Ernest H. Charrington
Westville
Ohio
United States
Committee On State of the Church
Oneral Conference
Eorge Elliot
Detroit
Mich
Committee On
State of the Church
Congress
County Seized Cars To Be Sold In Rum Runner Case
District Attorney R L Hildebrand asked Judge Emery to set June 14 for a hearing on selling three seized vehicles. The cars include a Ford coupe owned by A E Rosenberg Overland touring car owned by Louis Leporia and John Thomas and a Ford owned by Steve Kraver.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. L. Hildebrand
Emery
A. E. Rosenberg
Louis Leporia
John Thomas
Steve Kraver
Hearng
Euclid Avenue Sewer Project Approved by Council
The council passed an ordinance authorizing a sanitary sewer on Euclid Avenue between Blaine and Mercer. Construction costs will be borne by J C Gillillan. Upon completion the sewer will be Euclid Avenue Sewer Number Two and join the city public sewer system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euclid Avenue
Blaine
Mercer Streets
J. C. Gilfillan
Home Town Ties In A Warm Sixty Three Degree Day
Arthur Mometer describes the village as a place where many friends are known and the desire to leave is resisted. He muses on seeking a fortune in a larger city like New York but decides to stay for familiar faces, community, and the comfort of home. The narrator notes warm weather at sixty three degrees and a strong sense of belonging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Vice Presidency And Platform Under Review
Work on shaping the political platform faces delays as friction between the president and advisors complicates the process. Officials say harmony is lacking and the vice presidency role remains unsettled as consultations continue.
Coolidge Eyes Platform and Nomination Team for Cleveland
President Coolidge and advisers face three hard tasks before the convention. Platform building may prove toughest as late disputes arise with Republicans in Congress. The nominator is expected to be chosen this week with Senator Borah a leading candidate though he may skip Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George E. Duano
White House
Capitol
Coolidge
Borah
Idaho
Cleveland
Advertisers Urged to Submit Copy for Friday Memorial Day
The News announces its noon Friday May 30 issue will advance work. Advertisers desiring space must submit copy by 3 p m Wednesday May 28 to guarantee insertion. Cooperation is requested to ensure publication and available space.
World Flight Leader to Report on Alaska Crash
Major Frederick L. Martin and Sergeant Alva L. Harvey, crew of the Seattle, wrecked April 30 in the Alaskan mountains, plan to leave for Washington to report to Major General Mason Patrick. Martin, back from Port Moller, said a conference will decide if he rejoins the globe circling flight amid a Washington promise to resume leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Moller
San Diego
Patrick
Washington
Suicide attempt ends in failure by Follies girl
New York report states 21-year-old Imogene Wilson, once with Zeigfeld Follies, consumed four sugar coated pills she claimed contained morphine. An ambulance surgeon deemed them for indigestion and harmless. A photo remained nearby as she reportedly wrote a note to a famed comedian expressing love and despair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
New York
Imogene Wilson
Tax Reduction Bill Clears House In Congress
The 1924 tax reduction bill passed the House today after adopting the conference report. It ignores the Mellon plan and follows the Simmons Longworth income tax rates, sending the measure to President Coolidge for signature or veto.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bulletin
International News
Bud Wiks
Washington
Congress
Mellon
Simmons-Longworth
House
White House
Coolidge
Mob Kills Two Men After Assault Confession in Fort Meyers
In Fort Meyers Florida a mob shot dead two Black men who confessed to assaulting two white girls aged 13 and 16. The victims identified the defendants as Milton Williams and Bubber Wilson before mobs seized, executed, and dragged their bodies through the streets as the city ferried crowds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Meyers
Fla
Ulletin
International News Service
Fort Meyders
Milton Williams
J. E. Albritten
Begin Action To Secure Release Of Phillip Grossman
An application to file a petition with the U S Supreme Court seeks release from the Chicago house of correction for Phillip Grossman a Chicago saloonkeeper sentenced to one year for contempt of court in a prohibition case. The petition states President Coolidge pardoned him on paying $1000 fine, a pardon judges Carpenter and Wilkinson ruled illegal, and the Department of Justice said it would appeal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Chicago House of Correction
Phillip Grossman
Chicago
Grossman
President Coolidge
Carpenter
Wilkinson
Department of Justice
Resignation of Chancellor Marx Expected Tonight
Berlin dispatch reports Chancellor Marx's cabinet likely to resign before the Reichstag session on the Dawes reparations report. President Ebert may ask Herr Hergt to form a new government or keep Marx aboard to push a new program. The Dawes plan could trigger constitutional amendments and a new Reichstag lineup.
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Ww. Oo
Dietzel
International
Berlin
Marx
Reichstag
Dawes
Ebert
Herr Hergt
Social Democrats
Inter-Allied
Paris
Murdered Franks Boy At Harvard School
Three hundred pupils at Harvard School for Boys questioned by detectives about the slaying of 13 year old Robert Franks son of millionaire Jacob Franks. Investigators search classrooms for clues while a floral wreath appears at his funeral. Three men in a ghost gray Winton car were questioned after the boy vanished nearby.
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International News Service
Chicago
Harvard School For Boys
Robert Franks
Jacob Franks
Summit
Ill
Harvard
New Immigration Law Provisions Signed by President
The new immigration law signed by President Coolidge preserves the 1917 framework and the 1921 numerical limits. It shifts the quota base from 1910 to 1890 and exempts wives and children under 18 as well as parents over 55 of American citizens. The burden of proof rests on aliens, and the act includes sections to ease immigrant hardships and address those ineligible for citizenship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Washington
Coolidge
United States
Union whispers hit Presbyterian factions in Grand Rapids
In Grand Rapids on May 26 a moderator hinted the Southern and Northern Presbyterian Churches might unite. The Philadelphia 1861 schism sparked by the spring resolution looms as the core issue. The Fosdick case at First Presbyterian New York also prompts assembly consideration amid fundamentalist pressure.
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International News Service
Grand Rapids
Mich
Clarence E. Macartney
Presbyterian Church
United States
Southern Presbyterian Church
Presbyterian Church of the
U.S. A
General Assembly
Northern Presbyterian Church
Thornton Whaling
Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Louisville
Macartney
Philadelphia
Union
Lincoln
Harry Emerson Fosdick
First Presbyterian Church of
New York City
Bethany Lutheran Calls Rev. Charles O. Frank
Bethany Lutheran church extended a call to Rev. Charles O. Frank of Punxsutawney Pa after a congregational meeting. Frank has led services there previously and members hope he accepts. The church has been without a pastor since Rev W A Zundel resigned to take a charge in Derry Pa.
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Bethany Lutheran Church
Charles O. Frank
Punxsutawney
Frank
Bethany Church
W. A. Zundel
Derry
Deaths: John Reymer and James Gross in Wampum
Obituary notices report John Reymer aged 53 and James Gross aged 88, both residents of Wampum, with brief death records and locations.
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John Reymer
Wampum
James Gross
Memorial Sunday Night Service for Veterans on Neshannock Creek
Crowds in rain gathered Sunday evening May 25 for the veterans memorial along Neshannock Creek. Formations began at 6 30 p m with the Croton Drum Corps leading from East Street to East Washington Street. The Ladies of the G A R oversaw the ceremony as Rev F E Reese delivered a prayer and tribute to those who died at sea.
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Neshannock Creek
Legion Home
City Hall
Croton
Asa Hoffmaster
East Street
Washington
Croton Avenue
East Washington Street
F. E. Reese
Central Presbyterian Church
Engagement Of Mrs Lydig And Dr Grant Broken
New York May 26 society friends blame church versus divorce for the end of the engagement between Rita Deacosta Lydig and Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant. Bishop Manning refused consent to a marriage in the Protestant Episcopal church citing the church ban on remarriage of divorced persons. Mrs Lydig has prior divorces and is 42. Dr Grant, rector of the Church of the Ascension, is 61.
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International News Service
New York
Rita Deacosta Lydig
Percy Stickney Grant
Lydig
W. E. D. Stokes
Major Lydig
Paris
Grant
Church of the Ascension
New Restrictions On Immigration To Be Effective
President Coolidge signed a new immigration restriction bill excluding Japanese and other Orientals after July 1. He said the act is not aimed at Japan, which protested the exclusion provision. Congress refused to delay the ban to pursue a treaty with Japan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
International News Service
Washington
Coolidge
Japan
Hughes
Congress
State Department
Masanoa Hanihara
United States
Man Killed Walking On Tracks At Wampum
James Gross a 38 year old Negro was killed by a passenger train on the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad tracks at Wampum. He worked on a section gang near Wampum and boarded at a camp north of the station. He was returning home when struck despite the engineer blowing the whistle. Gross was reportedly from Washington DC and the body was sent to Kelly's morgue as authorities sought his friends.
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James Gross
Pittsburgh and Lake Erie
Wampum
Gross
Mike Pozzuto
Pittsburgh and
Lake Erie
Washington, D. C
Kelly’s
Friends
Drowning Death and Narrow Escape Near Dover
Snapshots at News report a nine year old boy George Dale Yackey drowned as a boat sank in Sugar Creek near Dover Ohio, with three companions narrowly escaping.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Dale Yackey
Sugar Creek
Dover
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Joseph Must
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Franksie
Boyestioned
Southern Presbyterians
Tures
Fosdick
Bethany Lutheran
Rev
Memorial For Veterans
Epworth
G. A. R. Ladies In Charge
Manning
William Campbell
Tarentum
Yeggs
R. H. Johns and Company
Ravenna
Ira Knauer
Norristown
Charles Fox
Robin Shaw
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