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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1925
Page
2
Philadelphia dispatch reports union miners plan for a prolonged fight after their contract expired last August. Officials say workers seek higher wages and a strike fund while operators and financial backers mobilize to defeat the union, with no settlement in sight for 1926 or spring trade.
Dec 18 New York, Walker charged that vice operations flourish in the city and accuse the mayor-elect of tolerating gambling and vice. Olivany defended the administration, while the police commissioner said New York remains morally clean. Enright denied any mayoral report of vice concerns.
Court hears murmured testimony from witnesses not present at the August trial. Both state and defense offer new statements, while jurors, still not chosen, await clearer guidance on the nature of the case.
Prague advices report a new cabinet entering parliament as German nationalists, communists, and Slovakians influence the move. The secret cessation of the wholesaler spills into debates about autonomy and prison releases amid tensions in Czecho-Slovakia.
Dec 18. The idea of a one hundred pound motor car is discussed by Sir Alan Burgoyne. He argues there is potential for a large British car market but high taxes hinder export and domestic sales.
Washington December 18 The $326 million tax reduction bill awaits final passage in the House after fending off about 40 amendments. The measure would cut taxes for federal taxpayers and remove the automobile tax on trucks tires and accessories while the Ways and Means Committee shepherds the legislation toward Senate approval.
World Court ratification foes in the Senate prepare for a long siege with reservations and amendments to protect U S adherence to the court protocol. They may seek a majority for chief reservations while debating the League of Nations issue alongside proposals from Presidents Harding and Coolidge. No final vote timing is forecast as further reservations loom.
Milwaukee investigators pursue John Steinert who confessed to killing eight year old Roy Tottmann and abducting Michael Teaches, then burning a barn near the city limits. The boy’s body was found in the barn ruins as police linked a belt buckle and clothing fragments to the child.
Cambridge Mass December 18 Six years of cooperation between industry and education yields MITs division of industrial cooperation more orders than it can fill The technology plan places technical workers and equipment at factories to solve problems without disrupting existing methods Professors and students stay in close contact with industry while research expands in factories and in MIT labs
Joplin Missouri December 18 consolidation will form a larger mining group effective January 1 The Underwriters Land Company will merge with Consolidated Lead and Mine Company The new entity may gain mines and royalties valued at 2 5 million through options on Tulsa-Quapaw and Bamada mines and Wright royalty interests Final arrangements were made at a directors meeting of the Picher valley group.
The League of Nations decision awarding Mosul to Irak upset Turkey. President Mustapha Kemal Pasha chaired a late cabinet meeting in Angora to study the ruling and its implications amid criticism of the plan.
At the headquarters of the striking special forces in Belfast Ireland the leaders declared they would stand firm until Keane is burned regardless of the consequences.
The Gulf Mobile and Northern basketball team will travel Saturday morning to Laurel to face the local Y M C A squad. The lineup includes captain George Doyle forwards Cummings Storey Lagman McRae guards Hahn Chapman with a PA delegation of routers. The Mobile team plans to return Sunday morning.
An advertisement promotes Creomulsion as a two fold treatment for persistent coughs colds and related respiratory troubles. It claims the emulsion soothes inflamed membranes while creosote acts in the stomach bloodstream to curb germs and reduce irritation. The ad touts safety satisfaction guaranteed and a refund if not relieved.
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