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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1925
Page
9
Mrs Mallory six time national champion backs comeback in Englewood event dominating rivals with only two games lost. She plans to reclaim title from Helen Wills and seek Lenglen rematch as she trains for the American season.
England shows active opposition to the Geneva announced Franco British security accord. Daily Express under Lord Beaverbrook calls No to the Pact and vows vigorous campaign against the treaty. Observers note potential political fallout and possible party ambitions by Beaverbrook.
At a United Spanish War Veterans meeting in the armory Troop No. 2 Boy Scouts of America was adopted as proteges of the Fitzhugh Lee Post No. 2. Sheriff Leon Schwarz welcomed the Scouts as guests and post commanders received service medals from T. J. O Connor the honorary member. The veterans urged attendance at the September encampment in St. Petersburg Florida.
About 75 Catholic clergy from Mobile Diocese including parts of Alabama and Florida attend a multi day retreat at Spring Hill College. Rev Father John O Rourke S J of New York leads the sessions with attendees such as Bishop Edward P Allen and Monsignor William A Kerrigan, former McGill Institute principal.
Major John B. Cohen presented Confederate memorial half dollars to every member of Washington and Lee University 1925 graduates and the board of trustees in a gesture honoring Stone Mountain and Robert E Lee. The coins feature Lee on Traveler and Jackson, with Cohen’s letter praising the tribute.
The board of stewards of Broad Street Methodist church last night adopted a resolution condemning Commissioner R W Taylor and Congressman John McDuffie for supporting parole efforts for John H McEvoy and criticizing The Mobile Register and News Item for exposing the activities.
The Mobile Traffic and Transportation Club postponed its regular meeting scheduled for tomorrow night. A committee led by secretary T. C. Schley with President Charles H. Armstrong and Burton Butler was appointed to arrange an outing and select a location.
Berlin reports the foreign office expects within days the Franco British reply to Germanys western European pact proposals. Until then Berlin will not comment on Geneva talks between Chamberlain and Briand regarding the agreement.
London June 10 A P Laborites oppose the Geneva security pact negotiated with France by Foreign Secretary Chamberlain. They are uncompromisingly hostile, arguing the agreement drags Britain into potential embroilments beyond the nation’s interests.
Election of delegates to the annual state meeting of the American Legion will take place tonight at Lamar Y M C A post chamber of commerce. The state meeting will be held at Dothan July 6, 7 and 8.
Seventeen year old Mau reen Orcutt won the eastern women’s golf championship at the Greenwich Country Club with two rounds of 83, five strokes ahead of runner up Mrs Dorothy Campbell Hurd. She must return to Englewood New Jersey for exams, succeeding Miss Glenna Collett as champion.
Postmaster Henry G. Reiser solicits bids for terra cotta and marble repointing at the Mobile post office. Proposals due noon Saturday June 20, duplicate and ink signed, sent to the supervising architect US Treasury, with detailed labor and material specs including white Atlas cement mix and marble surface preservation.
Local internal revenue office urges payment of the next installment at once to avoid a final day rush. If the installment lapses, the two remaining installments become due and interest at one percent per month will be added. Also notes then and now anniversaries of early baseball games in Boston and Philadelphia.
An advertisement claims a simple safe method to remove blackheads using calonite powder mixed with water. Rub on a hot wet cloth to dissolve and wash away the debris, leaving pores clean and natural.
An old style advertisement touts a corn treatment saying a small amount soothes an aching corn instantly. It promises quick relief for hard and soft corns, toe corn and foot calluses with minimal cost.
The Mobile city commission moved to retain Surgeon Major Carl Michel at the quarantine station until the new facility opens. Resolutions were approved and copies sent to Surgeon General H. S. Cummings. Protests were filed against Garnet Avenue assessments and Semmes Avenue paving, while a new ordinance on electric street signs was introduced and held.
The Trinity Lutheran Church in New Orleans marks its fiftieth anniversary with Rev. W. M. Hafner of Grace Lutheran Church in Mobile delivering the sermon on Sunday, June 28. Hafner previously led the Orleans church for six years and will discuss the Fifth and Sixth Commandments tonight.Grace Lutheran holds its annual Sunday School picnic at Monroe Park tomorrow.
William Salter, 34, arrested on a minor charge, told police he is an escaped life prisoner from Florida and that he also escaped a Mexican penitentiary after a murder sentence. He claimed to have killed Walter Clark in Panuca, Mexico following his flight from Rayford prison farm.
Brussels June 10 A P Belgian pilot Veenstra flying the balloon Prince Leopold was the last of 18 starters in the Gordon Bennett race to be heard from this morning. He trailed leader Ernest de Mueller in the Belgica who had landed at Quimper Brittany 422 miles from the start.
County Engineer James B. Shelton will begin extending the Dawes road to meet Cottage Hill road using sand and clay. The bay front road from the tourist camp south will be improved with gravel donated by a private company. The beach road before the Rolston hotel and three miles of the Lott road will be repaired and veled. The projects aim to keep county crews busy for three months.
A Sharel Dairy Association gathering is set for tomorrow afternoon at the Scottish Rite cathedral. Dr Roe will speak on Child Health, Mrs Southall and Mrs Wingfield will sing, Ruth Roe will read, and Mrs Frank Leslie will perform a piano number.
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