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Newspaper
Riverdale Pointer
Location
Riverdale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1925
Page
3
New portrait shows Brig. Gen Campbell King of the U S Army recently named to the general staff as assistant chief of staff in charge of personnel.
New York reports the death of Reginald Vanderbilt at his summer home Sandy Point Farm in Portsmouth. Born 1880 in New York, he inherited much of the Vanderbilt railroad fortune and married twice, with children from both unions. A renowned horseman, he led the National Horse Show Association and the American Hackney Horse Society.
New York reports the death of E R Stettinius a partner in J P Morgan Co at his Locust Valley home after a brief illness. He was born in 1865 in St Louis and served as purchasing agent for the French and British governments during the war coordinating what was described as the largest single business transaction.
Detroit address by William Green president of the American Federation of Labor denounces autocracy in industry and communism as allies in undermining labor. He argues employer dictatorship accelerates the organized labor movement, with emphasis on Detroit as a hotspot.
At the capitol Governor Trapp and Pittsburg county officials discussed a request for martial law in Hartshorne as nonunion workers fear for their lives amid a renewed strike crisis in the coal mine district with many armed laborers.
James J. Davis secretary of labor spoke at Mooseheart Ill urging changes to authorize industrial combinations to stabilize production and assure continuous employment. He cited the Tri Mines coal situation, arguing redundancies waste capital and keep workers idle, and urged legal changes if current laws hamper steady mining and fair wages.
In Montclair New Jersey investigators examine a string of crimes linked to Harrison Noel a twenty year old killer who abducted and killed Mary Daly aged six as officials weigh negligence by asylum officials and alienists who released him Dix W Noel a New York lawyer faces potential co responsibility after an affidavit claiming responsibility for his son’s actions led to Noel’s release from Bellevue hospital in July
Col. William Mitchell proposes a U S aeronautics bureau under a secretary of air. He calls for unified national defense under one head while Congress would divide the department into army navy and air with three subsecretaries.
E C Yellowley named permanent prohibition administrator for the Chicago district succeeding Rev R C Ewing. He has led general prohibition agents and is known as a terror to bootleggers. Yellowley has 26 years in the revenue service.
The United States plans a nearly two mile long dam across the Ohio River at Louisville Kentucky. The project is part of a national power program and will raise water levels from Pittsburgh to Cairo to at least nine feet.
Washington reports a drought driven drop of 68 million bushels in the last month leaving profitable corn at 2.885 billion bushels. Illinois oats and Nebraska gains appear, with state estimates rising and overall grain totals up by 473 million bushels from 1924.
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur issues a formal statement clarifying Shenandoah collapse and Hawaiian flight losses. Representative Butler, chair of the House Naval Affairs Committee, vows a thorough congressional probe into the Shenandoah disaster and the loss of the PNC No. 1 in Pacific waters. Wilbur says the full inquiry will proceed once the court of inquiry personnel are chosen.
Army officials at Fort Bliss Texas have War Department sanction to lead a Chihuahua Mexico expedition to recover the bodies of six Pershing expedition soldiers who died in 1916. At relatives’ request two others will remain buried at Parral where Thirteenth cavalry clashed with Mexican bandits.
A riot in Detroit ends with Michel Leon Briener killed and Erle Hougberg seriously wounded when a mob of several thousand gathers near a white neighborhood home. Witnesses say armed black residents opened fire as white onlookers gathered after a black family moved into the area.
Edgar A Bancroft former ambassador to Japan died leaving an estate valued at 1 750 000 with no will located yet A petition filed in Probate court by Eldridge Bancroft Pierce nephew and attorney seeks administration The search of personal effects continues to locate any will or further heirs
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