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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1925
Page
1
Texas Governor Miriam Ferguson announces she will not convene a special session despite requests by Satterwhite and about 45 legislators. She cites current highway law, budget limits, and the need for mature deliberation before any new funding or measures, including tick eradication efforts.
Mobile officials plan an election on issuing bonds for a public library after a Mobile Public Library Association committee urged action and pledged 30 000. Commissioner Taylor warned of the city’s strained finances and said voters should be informed before any vote. The city attorney was instructed to draft the ordinance for next Tuesday’s meeting.
Residents of the first ward petition city commissioners to address odors and drainage at the dump and reduction plant. Mayor George Crawford to study the cost of two incinerators and consider including the item in the next bond issue. Commissioner Harry Hartwell urged cost review before proposing funding.
Lester S. Tohmas faces circuit court after claiming his name is Leslie Thomas and entering a misnomer plea. Police say he confessed to robbing an employee of the Jordan Driverless Auto Company and stealing 129 dollars. The $129, recovered from a taxi, factors into the case as it moves toward trial.
Junior Smith was intoxicated and fined 101 dollars with 50 days hard labor and a year long driving suspension. Evidence showed reckless driving on Davis avenue near the Pike Theatre.
A Hudson super six seized after being abandoned by an unidentified man was sold at public auction today to State Law Enforcement Officer Rufus Cannon. The car brought $125 and was purchased for the use of the state department.
A local forecaster says look for more sunshine and continued moderate temperatures. No temperature change is expected tonight or Wednesday, the official said.
Paul Danner 43 and Theodore Findley 16 were docketed today on reckless driving charges under state law. The offense is alleged to have occurred on highways and involves speeding.
The diamond jubilee of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Mobile opened with Archbishop MSManeat presiding. Mass by Archbishop Shaw started the day, with a sermon by Very Rev Joseph Walsh and messages from Vatican officials read. Attending dignitaries included Bishops Morris Van de Ven Jeanmard Barry, Abbot Menges Schacurble and Monsignors Prim Cavanaugh, highlighting Mobile’s historic church milestone.
A state warrant against H E Skeets Mayher former motion operator charged with giving a gas bomb to a boy at the Empire theatre was arraigned. The state aims to prove the device caused the disturbance at the Mobile venue. Mayher denies the complaints as the case enters December 12 for further action amid theatre gas scare at Mobile venues.
Armistead Williams and Monroe Harris were convicted in the inferior criminal court of trapping for bearing animals and fined 65 dollars plus court costs. They went to jail for nonpayment. District Game Warden A Z Oberhaus, Sr prosecuted. Oberhaus warned that violators of trapping laws or possessing skins without a state license will be prosecuted. Gregg Tanner, ex county prohibition officer, faces a pistol carrying case with hearing set for December 14, deputy sheriff I S Simmons the complainant.
Two miles northwest of Mount Vignon police raided a whiskey operation. Pat Taylor, alleged operator, was arrested on manufacturing prohibited liquors charges. A second man fled into the woods as officers seized eight barrels of beer mash after the still was destroyed. Officers included Chief Deputy W C Robbins Jr and deputies Lee Pelton Scaff along with state and federal agents.
W F Drulard alias W F Donald son held in city prison after police found jail breaking steel saws and an attempted escape from bullring. Reports say he is a world veteran with an excellent Windsor reputation and that he cannot be held responsible for his actions. deportation to Canada ordered.
R. G. Cobb traffic manager of Mobile Chamber of Commerce attends a hearing in Atlanta on the pending banana freight rate issue. He focuses on preserving Mobile's differential advantage as rates from gulf ports to the interior are discussed.
Jack Busby, 23, of Seven Hills, Mo bile county, faces murder and prohibition charges tied to the death of Robert King after admitting he was the driver in a wreck on Old Shell road. The state will reduce murder to manslaughter and add prohibited driving offenses.
The Junior Chamber of Commerce hosts a dinner and gathering at Adams Motor Company sales room tonight to honor the winning team led by Shelton Lord. Dr. H L Smoke’s losing division will attend as hosts, with a program of stunts and entertainment promised.
The committee in charge of the hundredth anniversary celebration for Alabama schools postpones today’s meeting to Wednesday. It will meet at 4 PM in Parlor C at the Battle House to discuss the tentative March celebration. Committees from patriotic organizations and women’s clubs will oversee the entertainment.
The appeal of William H. Holcombe and Frank W. Boykin, convicted in a liquor ring case, seeks to overturn two year federal prison terms and $500 fines. They gave notice of appeal after sentencing in Birmingham, with Judge Grubb presiding. The United States Court of Appeals in New Orleans would hear the case next day.
Mrs. Martin Holbrook of Mobile learns her brother Thomas J. McGeoy has died in Chicago Monday night. He was general western manager of the Lukenbach Steamship Company and often visited Mobile in the steamboat business circle.
The heating department of the county courthouse installed insulation on boilers and heaters to save costs. The project, led by A. S Miller Engineering Company, improved efficiency by an estimated ten percent.
The murder charge against Harry G. French was nolle pressed in federal court on motion by County Solicitor Bart B. Chamberlain. Behan, a seaman, died after French shot him during a raid. French claimed self defense. A related false accusation case was also removed from state court and nolle pressed.
The League of Nations council in Geneva debated who should control the Mosul area, a British oil region, between Turkey and England. Three sub commissioners failed to reach an understanding, likely delaying the session's progress on the Mosul question.
James Gray 65 of Theodore Alabama will face recorder court Friday on charges from cotton buyers and junk dealers that he forged railroad agent names on bills of lading and took sums from six to one. He confessed to police that he forged the names to obtain money for liquor and said another man was the mastermind from whom he received a small share.
At the Radiological Society of North America session Dr Jacques Forestier showed iodized oil injections can render lung cavities opaque for X ray photographs aiding tuberculosis diagnosis. Dr Evarts A. Graham described a precise gall bladder disease diagnosis method. Dr Howard E. Ruggles will present first X ray heart and lung images.
Harry M. Waugh, a railroad contractor based in Bluefield, has been advised by the Norfolk Railroad Company that he won a major excavation bid for the Norfolk & Western expansion at Williamson West Virginia. The project moves over a million cubic yards of earth and shifts Tug River to widen the railroad yards as part of an $8,900,000 upgrade plan.
Jack Jones, a Black man recently released from the county prison farm, was shot near the foot of the farm and wounded in the leg as an officer fired at him, the report states.
President Coolidge urged Congress to push a program of aviation facilities, broader authority for regulation, and enforcement of prohibition. The House prepared to take up a $325 million tax bill after the message, while the Senate admitted and debated insurgent Republicans and seating Nye in a contentious committee inquiry.
Athens Tennessee December 8 J F Mercer twenty was shot and killed by Dennis Kile twenty three after a quarrel Kile in jail claiming self defense Mercer fired a shot grazing his wrist No other witnesses found Kile later placed is on a table at a restaurant then wrested by mn Wade Kile was a watchman for the L World store here
Coast guard units search the Gulf for the Altama towing crew of 18 from the Gwalia after reports the tug sank Friday night near the Florida coast. The Altama drifts with 17 men aboard as mystery surrounds the Gwalia’s fate and a rescue is awaited. Nearby ships Santa Rosa and Cotopaxi report distress from last week’s tropical storm, with Cotopaxi crew of 30 missing.
In New York United States Attorney Buckner seeks more than sixty indictments from the special grand jury probes into the William Dwyer rum gang. The group is alleged to have built a large liquor conspiracy with 18 to 20 ocean ships and may have included coast guardsmen and prohibition agents on its payroll. The grand jury met briefly with two witnesses called, as sessions run 2 to 4 30 daily this week.
Leo J. Farrell, a Mercantile Bank of Baltimore teller, confessed to embezzling $55,000. Bank directors estimate total defalcations between $190,000 and $200,000 and say arrests of accomplices are expected as the bank’s financial structure appears compromised. Farrell is under arrest.
Congressman John W. Langley of Pikeville Kentucky won a stay of his two year sentence in Atlanta Penitentiary after the federal appeals court, and today he prepared an appeal to the United States Supreme Court. The stay was granted by the circuit court late yesterday.
Henry Horn, a large Black man accused of posing as a painted prowler, testified in criminal court denying he was in North Nashville the night of an assault on Mrs. Morten Smithson and denying being approached by two police officers who claimed a girl testified he was with her. The case caps a two week terror spree that ended with his arrest.
Agricultural leaders in Chicago report a split view on the president's speech. Some call it generally satisfactory while others fault it for not addressing key surplus farm problems. Former leaders urge aid without government overreach.
The News Gazette reports that Lyman De Wolf, a salesman and Grange confidant, will be added as Grange’s adviser and seer. De Wolf will join Grange in Chicago on Sunday to help steer him from undesirables, a move urged by Grange’s father and close friends.
New Orleans December 8 government final estimate places cotton at 15 653 000 bales with December 1 total reported at 13 867 684. Trading resumed after a 15 minute interval and the first December trade opened with a drop of 1056 points, about 85 cents a bale. January fell 83 points while October declined 42. lint cotton total estimated at 17 000 000 bales.
In Nashville at First Baptist Church a Bible read in honor of William Tyndale’s 400th birth anniversary lasted one hour. The text was divided into 100 sections with division cards given to members, and the reading was uninterrupted except for page turns.
President Coolidge forgot his overcoat in a Chicago hotel yesterday. He rarely wears it and did not miss it until leaving the premises.
Washington data show cotton production totaling 15 603 000 bales for the period ended December 1, with 12 237 659 bales counted for the year to date. Figures exclude linters and round bales, and reflect November 1 conditions as reported by the Census Bureau.
Atlanta city employees vote for 700000 to 3,000 workers in finary raises in steps set by the city council. Pending final approval by a metropolitan board the raises would take effect January 1. A new minimum monthly salary for semi skilled workers is set with increases from 10 to 15 percent for those already above the minimum. The move follows a recent election in which residents backed a substantial measure for city firemen.
Mella a 22 year old student of the University of Havana has been jailed for several days over involvement with bomb incidents last September. He began a hunger strike while denying any connection to the blasts.
In Washington, President to send the full Muscle Shoals report to Congress. special signings noted. Edward L. Edwards introduces a bill for a national prohibition act. General New Air operation in Chicago area to open at 4 30 p m.
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