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Newspaper
Thomasville Times Enterprise
Location
Thomasville, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1925
Page
5
Berlin March 28 The German nation will vote for its head under a new law. Seven candidates split the field and no majority is expected. A second ballot is set for April 26, after which the candidate with the most votes will be declared president, regardless of rivals' totals.
Atlanta March 28 The city and state will appeal to the State Supreme Court for an injunction to stop gas companies from charging more than 27 cents per gallon. The announcement came from the attorney general Napier's office.
Chattanooga Tennessee March 28. The case of W. H. Bennett and Mae Bennett charged with the murder of Augusta Hoffman was given to the Hamilton county jury at noon after a week long trial. Judge Estii announced a two o'clock recess while the jury retired.
Colonel George O Callaghan Weatropp, a leader of the Irish farmers union, warned at a Belfast conference that Clare faced a slaughter of cattle with over 400 head valued at ten pounds each dying in two months, all sheep dead, and no livestock left in two townlands. He warned of dire times for Ireland.
Two more men, S'm Roberts and Hrb Cole of Spalding County, were arrested in Tallapoosa Ga for the November shooting death of the Reverend Robert Stewart's wife. Earlier three suspects were taken into custody and officers seek three more as they push to have all arrests before Sunday.
Paris March 28 The ambassadors council agreed on a text to submit to the allied war commission regarding Germanys violations of Versailles. Marshall Foch head of the war committee will have the document tonight and military experts plan to start the supplementary report next week.
A petition seeking to enjoin the Hocking Valley Railroad from carrying out the proposed merger with the Van Sweringen Nickel Plate system was filed in the common pleas court in Columbus today by a group of minority stockholders.
Six famous horses in winter training at the Orlando track were burned to death when a frame annex to the stables burned. The horses valued at about $100,000. Fire origin unknown and this tragedy occurred early this morning in Prenay Orlando Florida.
In the Baltimore annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South the unification dispute deepens as Bishop Warren Candler rules that a yea and nay vote was parliamentary procedure not law. The appeal to the college of bishops faces a split between unificationists and opponents over its future path.
The Baltimore annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South filed an appeal to the college of bishops seeking episcopal decision on the voting method for unification. W W Millan and Judge E D B Newman presented the appeal, urging ballot voting over yeas and nays.
Memphis report says Charles L. Moore Scotland county prosecutor believes a nationwide bank wreckers ring was uncovered through investigations after the suspension of Missouri finance commissioner Frank C. Millsbaugh. Millsbaugh not connected with the ring. Moore says the group carried out forty nine operations and totaled over one million dollars.
Edward P. Clark, an early witness in the Shepherd murder inquiry, was questioned after officers learned he was offered five thousand dollars to depart Chicago. A detective was dispatched to question the agency head alleged to have made the offer, while Clark had connections to the National University of Sciences and Charles C. Gaiman, indicted with Shepherd over typhoid germ allegations related to William McClintock.
Roy Barnett of Savannah files a lawsuit in Georgia against Central of Georgia railroad seeking 30000 dollars in damages after his wife and child were killed in a November automobile collision.
Jennie Sacco a 17 year old mother shot through a blanket wounding her 40 day old baby and Simon Mercedes as he left a Hillsborough county court after a mistrial. She claimed Mercedes as the father. he denied it. She is jailed with her baby awaiting outcome of his assault with intent to murder case.
In Bessemer Alabama March 28 the trial of Dr George T Edwards charged with wife murder pends toward jury deliberation as Judge J B A Gwin plans to complete the case this week Rebuttal testimony by the state extended the session after defense testimony
Fair tonight with light frost in the extreme south and heavy frost in the central and north regions. Sunday will be fair and warmer in the north portion.
Detroit physicians monitor a scarf pin swallowed by two and a half year old Lawrence George. Using a fluoro scope, doctors track the pin from the stomach toward the lower intestine where it now rests. The boy is out of danger, medical staff reported.
Paris reports an American woman plans to sue Lt Col Ian Dennistoun for breach of promise and defamation. The case ties to a London trial over money lent before Dennistoun’s Paris divorce and mentions his marriage to the Dowager Countess Carnarvon.
The prairie blaze in Western South Dakota and along the South Dakota Nebraska border has burned for two days. An initial inventory shows property losses are smaller due to sparse settlement, while several people suffered severe burns. reports of deaths could not be verified.
Archaeological team from Tulane University reports discovery of a sacred island in Lake Catemaco Vera Cruz containing ruins of an ancient Maya civilization. The find emerged from the Middle American Research expedition, marking a notable breakthrough in pre Columbian studies in Mexico.
In Chicago on March 28 an affidavit charging C C Faiman and citing his confession as principal evidence against William D Shepherd was brought into criminal court by Shepherds counsel The affidavit sworn by W Stewart alleges the woman died after an unlawful act by Faiman and that the body was disposed of by turning it over to a laboratory
Gordon Campbell an oil operator from Great Falls Montana reacts to a Washington indictment with Senator Burton Wheeler and E S Booth on conspiracy charges. He says he is more concerned about a poisoned bird dog than the charges against him.
Jefferson City March 28 the Missouri Senate voted 12 to 11 to defeat the McCawhey bill that would have barred sale of yellow colored butter substitutes made from animal and vegetable fats including cotton seed oil.
Mrs. Margaret Buchanan former secretary to Representative Kendall of Pennsylvania was sentenced by the District of Columbia Supreme Court to three years in prison after being convicted of forgery.
New York March 28 L A Van Patten whose advertising agency is involved in a wrangle with the Democratic national committee over an advertising deal during the presidential campaign of last year promised fireworks will be produced at the trial of suits filed yesterday by both sides The Borah committee which is investigating campaign expenditures will be introduced to more than a little in this suit Van Patten said and added that trial of the cases will shed great light on the reasons why John W Davis and Charles W Bryan offered such a crushing defeat in the election of last fall.
Judge Jamen MecNenny rules the Faith High School board can expel students who leave during Bible reading. Thirteen pupils have been expelled amid the Bible controversy at the Faith district.
The Department of Agriculture reported that land companies in the Great Lakes states use sales methods that approach the border line of fraud. The finding comes from an investigation into land settlement colonization in the lake region.
The Prince of Wales departed from Portsmouth on the royal train this morning to join the battle cruiser Repulse for a journey to South Africa and South America.
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