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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1925
Page
3
Washington reports that Belgium’s initial settlement proposal was deemed unacceptable by the United States. Negotiations between the two sides moved quickly afterward, with optimism and speed noted after two sessions. Details on the terms, including moratoriums or separate debts, were not disclosed.
Kalamazoo Mich Aug 11 A P pensions totaling 923704 were paid to incapacitated members of the International Typographical Union during the fiscal year 1924 25 John W Hays of Indianapolis secretary reported to the 70th annual convention of the organization here this morning Since the pension law was put into effect in 1908 payments totalled and there still is a surplus of 949000 in the fund Secretary Hays report showed that earnings in the last fiscal year totaled 152850415 an increase of 8502885 over the previous year The increase was explained as due to increased business and increased wage scales The laws committee of the convention is expected to recommend several
The proposal raises annual pension costs for each printer to about $16.50 as more retirees strain the fund. Proponents argue the current system becomes unsafe with rising pensioners and urge reform to sustain the fund.
U S customs agents report the two masted schooner Phainoula was seized as the vessel that landed a party of Portuguese on July 19 in Tampa. The aliens are held pending disposition of their case by federal authorities. The Portuguese confessed they were aliens after saying they came from Massachusetts and were fleeced by men who held them in a Latin quarter house for 12 days without food. They were freed when an interpreter arrived and warrants were issued for their captors who had fled.
John J. Hession of Louisville was re-elected grand president and Altoona was chosen as the 1927 convention city at the Atlantic Jurisdiction Young Men's Institute of the Catholic Church biennial conference closing session. Other officers include McKenzie of Pittsburgh and Hart of Pittsburgh as grand vice-presidents and Alpha J. Smith as honorary grand chaplain.
Paris reports Franco Spanish forces will join at Kaear El Khim northwest of Quezzan to pressure Abd El Krim. Maréchal Petain to oversee reorganized front across three sectors with four regiments each, aiming for a September big push after mass maneuvers.
William Marshall Bullitt, a potential ambassador to Japan named by President Coolidge, is in Vichy with his wife and is expected to return to Louisville by September. A former solicitor general under Taft, he also served as a special attorney for the Shipping Board and is a Princeton and Louisville law graduate.
Briefs note mediation must consider bituminous field conditions. Other items report French Spanish forces in Morocco, Madrid press foreseeing major offensive against rebels, a sixteen-member San Francisco matricide jury, large liquor raids in New Orleans, and other varied items including a US legation protest in Geneva and a notable deaths and confessions.
H C Couch of Pine Bluff and associates completed a deal to gain control of the Southern Ice and Utilities company. The organization serves 26 communities in Texas, Oklahoma, and nearby areas. No management changes are planned. C W Dawley of Dallas will stay as president.
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