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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1925
Page
2
In Overton Alabama the No 2 mine explosion at Alabama Fuel and Iron Company killed 58 workers, nine white and forty four Black. Two bodies remain entombed as officials plan recovery and relief efforts for families under Red Cross guidance.
Mellie Durham, Maine’s champion fiddler, toured Detroit clubs with Henry Jearned and performed his waltz Rippling Waves for an old-time dancing class. Ford praised the musician and invited Mrs. Dunham to dance as Mellie played, marking a proud moment.
In Memphis on December 12 upstanding craps players and police cooperated to aid the Day Nursery of Calvary Episcopal Church. The latest collection reached 98.84 dollars with a mystery donor pledging to match police seizure proceeds for the nursery that cares for children and workday mothers near the central police station.
A water main break near the West Park reservoir floods streets and inundates tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad New York division causing eastbound traffic to halt for over an hour. Cars and homes are affected while Borad Street Station and north Philadelphia service slow. An unrelated note details Australia’s voting attendance rule and a dog named Coffin Nail.
French scholars debated the Hoggar desert tomb claimed to be Tin Hanan, ancestress of Tuareg kings, with dates ranging from 500 B.C. to medieval Christian era. Reinach hailed the find as historic while Sell argued pre Islamic dating, noting Libyan Venus and Carthaginian style artifacts.
Paris reports that Louis Loucheur’s seven bills for a financial rehabilitation plan are not gaining favor in the chamber of deputies. Finance committee members, factions within the government, and counter plans signal protracted sessions as the budget is prepared for early votes to stabilize the franc.
Princeton dispatch reports Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin predicting the Senate will approve American entry into the World Court next February with a favorable vote around 70 to.
In Parib Dec 12, M Louch eur takes charge of the finance ministry amid growing parliamentary resistance to his fiscal measures. He spent the afternoon defending the bills before the chamber finance committee, but experts fear his political standing may falter when the measures go to the full assembly. The piece also notes the ongoing National Collegiate World Court Conference at Princeton, with Senator Lenroot and Clarence Darrow debating U S entry and its costs and implications for world peace.
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