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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1925
Page
9
New York stocks moved irregularly higher at the opening as oil and motor shares advanced. Food and merchandising led buying with Sears Roebuck in demand, while Electric Power and Havana Electric posted solid gains.
Berlin news reports the French answer to Germanys security pact proposals will be published Thursday. Foreign Minister Fresemann received the note from the French ambassador today and the German foreign office promptly started a translation.
The advisory body of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers met in Cleveland to select a successor to Warren Stone as president. Niam Prenter, who acted as president after Stone’s death, was named the likely choice. Jean Safety Razor, Houston Oil, and Midcontinent Petroleum are also noted among contenders. Foreign exchange opened easier except for sterling, which rose to 4.87758 dollars.
Major General Omar Bundy, World War I hero and former Fifth Corps commander based in Columbus Ohio, reaches retirement age and is placed on the retired list. Despite pivotal leadership at the Marne Chautéeau Thierry defense, he lacks any American decoration, with the War Department refusing to discuss the matter and the Distinguished Service Cross deadline having expired.
Paris June 16 Camille Flammarion the noted astronomer left his heart to his birthplace Montigny le Roi in his will along with twenty thousand francs a bust and a portrait.
Obituary notices detail services for Berry Creel at the family home and Theodore Baptist church with burial in Magnolia cemetery. John Francis Krebs, 67, of Moss Point formerly a merchant, dies at Healing Springs and will be buried in Mobile. Flora Williams Lining funeral held at Roche mortuary with burial in Magnolia cemetery. Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Edgar DuBose buried in Pine Crest cemetery.
Fragmentary text from The Mobile News Item mentions rates per word for insertion and accountability for errors. No clear event, person, or place is readable to form a full local-news card.
Jackson Tennessee June 16 bank examiner Blake Oliver challenged Judge J W Ross defense in a case over a 4750 bad check drawn on the Exchange Bank of Memphis Ross says an undated note for the same amount was intended to cover the check but the note was not acted upon and the Exchange Bank returned the check Oliver reports no such note in bank files The three day grace period under state law ends 5 30 pm today and no action will be taken until the grand jury convenes July 6
A severe electrical storm with strong winds and rain caused a train wreck resulting in six deaths and major damage in New York and nearby. A bolt struck the Equitable building showering stones into lower Manhattan, and another hit a Jersey City water main flooding a basement and prompting rescues. The day began cooler after yesterday's heat claimed three lives and left nine others prostrated.
The Farm left Green Harbor at 2 a.m. to take Prof Adolph Hoels Arctic expedition to Spitzbergen. Hoel hopes to secure another ship for the Amundsen-Ellsworthy search while optimistic about Amundsen's safety as the relief effort continues with the Heimdall replacing the Farm in the search.
Washington June 16. International News Service reports justice investigators are probing charges that post office and other federal positions in Georgia and southeastern states were sold to the highest bidder. No concrete details or evidence have been produced as the inquiry is still in early stages.
Paris June 16 The chamber of deputies voted confidence in the Painleve government by 436 to 34 in a decisive signature of support for the ministry.
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