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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
9
Three stills used to produce illegal liquor were destroyed yesterday afternoon by county state and federal prohibition agents. The devices were found operating along Mud Creek north of the Moffat road within a likely rural site, as authorities removed evidence of unlawful alcohol production.
W L Hingon, of the organization committee, announced yesterday a plan to organize a church. The statement signals steps toward formal assembly under Baptist authority.
Report states eight machinists, three boilermakers and two blacksmiths will remain employed after indefinite suspensions. no car department details. Board to open printing bids today at Corey, with specifications in hands of local concerns and Clerk T. Allman.
Reports from railroad offices show heavier Christmas travel than last year. The Louisville and Nashville runs two through passenger trains between Cincinnati and New Orleans in two sections and adds an extra diner between Montgomery and St Louis. The Mobile and Ohio adds several extra coaches.
The Tien Tsin situation remains vague as reports conflict over whether National troops entered the city last Wednesday night. Severe fighting between Feng Yu-hsiang and Li Ching-ling forces continues, with hundreds of prisoners arriving and wounded cared for by American surgeons.
Moscow reports Foreign Minister Litvinov denied any supplementary or secret clause in the Turkish treaty. He cited Russia’s openness to broader pacts and said the accord grew from talks with Turkey months earlier, not from Locarno. He blamed Anglo American press reports for alleging a Russia Italy alliance against Turkey.
Col. William Mitchell, five year army suspension by court martial, received an offer from the Aerial League of America to become its air director and supervise plans for airway development. The letter from Henry Woodhouse cites establishing thirty continental trans Pacific routes and building two air cities in San Marcial Sonora Mexico and Arizona land purchases. Mitchell is expected to decline.
Mrs Charles Sibley 40 living at a ranch south of San Francisco was bound to a chair by a masked man who stripped her to the waist and burned her back and shoulders with a hot poker to extract a letter she had received. Her five year old child released her. The husband returned to find her faint and she was said to recover as police pursue the suspect.
A clash between Hammond and Cavender supporters erupts as two raiding parties target druggists in Des Moines. Six stores checked. liquor found in one case, with an injunction blocking further access at one warehouse. Libel charges flare between ex police chief Hammond and incumbent Cavender over liquor permits.
Stanford historians publish translated minutes of a 1924 Russian ministry meeting that claim Russia urged Serbia to delay and avoid armed resistance, sought broad European mediation, and prepared mobilization and financial moves. The notes argue France bore no part in a Russian plot and widen the narrative of prewar actions.
Three city banks issued staff bonuses yesterday. First National Bank distributed 6000 dollars, Merchants Bank granted 10 372.54 dollars to officers and employees, and Peoples Bank announced annual bonuses plus a 2 percent dividend to holders at a board meeting on Tuesday.
New Orleans December 24 report shows a profit of 1,888,804.69 for the Wesson Oil and Snowdrift Company and subsidiaries in the four months ended November 980. Current assets stood at 19,558,660.02 with current liabilities of 941.22. The company formed recently by southern capitalists Z and D Geoghegan and Rudolph B Mecht after acquiring stock in the old Southern Cotton Oil Company.
The note states that it is not believed any other copies are to be found in Russia, though availability elsewhere is not known.
Chicago report details John V. Weidemeir, famed bigamist known as Arthur Brooks Engles and other aliases, who allegedly married more than twenty women across several states. He recently faced judge Lewin after Bath er Worcester-Brooks or Miss Wexter testified she wed him while he used the name Arthur Brooks.
Officials delay opening of the new Mobile high school beyond January 4 as plans remain unsettled. No exact move-in date has been set for the main building, with local authorities indicating students may transfer in once the facility is ready.
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