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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1925
Page
1
Secretary Hoover urged better farmer organization through cooperative marketing at Penn College Osceola Iowa graduation address. He argued cooperation can lift agricultural leadership to meet economic realities and welcomed farming as a noble calling linked to virtue and community.
John T Scopes and his counsel prepare for the Dayton Tennessee trial by studying evolution resources at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Clarence Darrow Bainbridge Colby and Dudley Field Malone seek scientific witnesses while Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn offers aid. The defense faces internal debate over dramatic tactics versus early courtroom strategy.
Secretary Kellogg states the United States will back Mexico only while it protects American lives and rights and upholds its obligations. He asserts Mexico must restore property taken and indemnify Americans and cautions against another revolutionary movement.
Greene Iowa reports a cyclone and cloudburst that hit near Greene between 5 and 6 PM causing extensive farm damages. Fred Fisher’s farm lost buildings and his family hid in a cellar while he is gravely ill, and a Ahart family boy was seriously injured after being swept from a dairy doorway. The storm also caused heavy flooding north of town, threatening several farms with buried water.
A heavy dawn downpour washed away the Northeastern Iowa Boy Scout encampment in Dubuque causing flood damage throughout the area. Authorities report substantial early morning impact with surrounding facilities affected.
French Premier Paul Painleve left Fez at 6 30 this morning for the French Rif front after a night of talks on military plans with Marshal Lyautey governor general of French Morocco.
United States Senator Smith W. Brookhart told the Iowa State Federation of Labor that farmers face rising production costs while consumer prices erode savings. He cited 1924 to 1928 farm value increases and Davenport bankruptcy figures suggesting widespread farmer distress.
In Chicago on June 12 Reichmann, co guardian with Julie Shepherd of William McClintock, is accused on cross examination of profiting from the McClintock estate and of ulterior motives in the William Nelson McClintock murder case. Prosecutors defend his wealth as lawful attorney fees as witness Robert White reappears in court.
Washington hums with vacant offices as politicians escape the summer heat and social duty. Officials defer to assistants while elites chase Bar Harbor, Newport, and Atlantic City, creating a season of minimal cabinet presence. The piece also critiques university honorary degrees offered to President Coolidge pending his in-person appearance. Hoover’s call for reorganization and simplification of government is contrasted with the entrenched bureaucracy and political risk of reform.
Police chiefs and city attorneys from nearly a dozen Iowa cities were ordered to appear in federal court in Des Moines over the slot machine injunction case of C. A. Lemaster versus Attorney General Gibson. Officials from Muscatine Davenport Clinton Burlington Fort Madison Keokuk Council Bluffs Ottumwa and Des Moines were slated to appear or be represented. The suit grew from a state wide campaign against slot machines.
A speaker warned hundreds of farmers in Pennsylvania are leaving farms for city jobs and cited New Hampshire farmer plans to quit. He praised a cooperative marketing system with credit to relieve farm economic distress and criticized the world war era competitive system. He pledged allegiance to the flag and urged spreading the message.
The Incertre bearing Lieut Lutzow Holm and his flyers sails the Greenland Sea en route to Spitzbergen to rejoin the Amundsen polar expedition party. Officials note a possible change of destination to King's Bay and plan a coastal approach toward Danes Island.
Fighting around Canton continues with rival factions, foreign steamers fired on while moving near battle lines. Defending Yunamese army holds ground as refugees flood toward Hongkong. Missions in Hu Peh ordered home to Hankow amid serious conditions.
Articles of incorporation filed for the Burlington Muscatine and Northwestern railroad. EK L Tobie of Monmouth Illinois is purchaser of the defunct Muscatine Burlington and Southern and will serve as president. FP A Collins of Chicago is vice president and J M Kemble of Muscatine secretary treasurer, with Finley P Dunne and Robert J Riley of Chicago on the board.
A severe storm system in northern Iowa caused injuries to at least a dozen people and extensive property loss. Alexander in Franklin county suffered sweeping damage with trains blown from tracks and two churches demolished. Other towns such as Emmetsburg, New Hampton, Charles City and Alta Vista reported farm destruction, ruined crops, washed-out tracks, and collapsed buildings.
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