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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1925
Page
5
Berlin June 6 President Schacht of the Reichsbank warns nerves have reached the breaking point under allied disarmament pressure. He urges abandoning political heckling and cautions the German boiler may blow up if policy continues.
The Maharajah of Gwalior, one of India's richest princes, died yesterday and was cremated today in Paris in modern style after attempts to burn the body on a traditional open funeral pyre failed. He wore purple robes and jewels as his body was interred.
U S officials warn of imminent large scale fighting in China as Chang Tao Lin and Feng Yu Hsiang amass forces with Japanese and Soviet backing. Shanghai sees 250000 on strike with 1500 U S sailors and marines in position for protection. Prime action targets foreign rights and American lives as Washington defers involvement pending necessity.
Solo mon Boyd a negro, detained on suspicion in the death of J. W. Lancaster whose body was found beneath a stalled car on a lonely road near the new country club. Miss Hattie Stewart, 18, who was with Lancaster, lies injured in hospital from wounds to face and hands after an alleged attack by negroes. Boyd denies guilt.
Associated Press report from Atlanta dated June 6 states Cecil Moncourt I G Culver and J Q Frazier all twenty years old desecrated the American flag by ripping it from its staff and dragging it along Peach Tree Street. F C Robertson a Spanish American War veteran said he would press federal charges.
R. J. Wiggs Lumber Company announced purchase of 110000000 feet of hardwood from Thorn Reed Lumber Company for over 500000 dollars. The timber property lies near Apalachicola Florida.
Mrs. Mattie F. Marshall aged 80, widow of the man who designed the Confederate flag and uniform, died at her daughter's home in Louisville after two weeks of illness. She passed away today, with funeral arrangements not yet announced.
Berlin dispatches report a group of major German banks led by Reichsbank will rescue the Hugo Stinnes enterprise with a loan of forty million marks. The move follows fears over the economic impact of the industrial magnate’s collapse on the country’s economy.
The sixth day of extreme heat adds sixty nine deaths in the East, lifting the regional toll to one hundred forty and the nation to two hundred thirty eight. Temperatures reach record June highs from the Rockies to the Atlantic with continued heat through Sunday and reports of fires, school dismissals, and prostrations.
Nearly 20 000 homing pigeons were released this morning in the annual race sponsored by the homing pigeon concourse of New York. Birds are owned by clubs in New York New Jersey and Brooklyn.
A bull pup tested by the Department of Agriculture resisted fleas. Experts using dogs to fatten fleas found no flea would live on the pup. Fleas hopped off as soon as placed on the dog and researchers seek to learn why.
Anna Simmons and Joseph Rodchin of Brooklyn were arrested in New York on charges of manufacturing large quantities of counterfeit ten dollar bills. Investigators traced the trail from Newark, New Jersey to Simmons’s Brooklyn home where copper and zinc plates and silk fiber used to imitate genuine currency were found.
Richard Loeb, convicted with Nathan Leopold for the murder of Bobby Franks, has suffered a mental collapse in prison. Medical staff say his condition could improve or end fatally within forty eight hours.
Oslo June 6 The Amundsen auxiliary committee in New York is to co operate with Donald B McMillan in reconnoitering West Greenland for traces of the Amundsen polar flying party. Air chiefs and arctic explorers decided at a meeting here.
The body of Colonel Thomas F. Winn 86 a former congressman of Georgia's ninth district and Civil War veteran was sent to Greensboro for funeral services and interment after dying yesterday at the Confederate home in Atlanta.
Thirty firemen were temporarily overcome by heat while fighting five alarms of a Brooklyn blaze that destroyed the Standard Wood Working Company plant, with an estimated loss of 250000 dollars.
President Coolidge prepared for a busy morning as he plans a journey to Minnesota to address the Norse American Centennial on Monday. He is expected to return to his desk on Wednesday and will travel in a special railroad car parts with his party amid rail officials' suggestion.
From London and New York June 6 reports say the British press finds the allied disarmament note to Germany largely just. The Times pledges Cologne will be evacuated once the moderate demands are met faithfully. Berlin officials react with disgust at the note as an indictment of Germany’s goodwill.
The American Automobile Association reported that about eleven million dollars, one seventh of motorists gas tax payments in the last year, was diverted from road building in seven states. The states named include Georgia, South Texas, North Dakota and Montana.
Two Louisville and Nashville freight trains collided head on at Looney's Hill two miles south of Paris. Three men died, four were injured. Responsibility for the crash is not yet determined.
Ike Joselove star guard of the University of Georgia football team died in a hospital after injuries from an early morning automobile accident. He was returning from a dance at the Georgia Tech campus when a swimming companion and he were jolted by a collision with a telephone pole, throwing him from the car.
Partly cloudy skies prevail tonight across Georgia with Sunday turning sunny in most areas. Localized thunder showers are possible in the southern portion.
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