TORNADO KILLS SEVENTEEN IN ALABAMA STORM SUNDAY
Reporting from Troy Alabama confirms seventeen deaths and at least thirty injuries from a Sunday tornado. Counties Barbour Pike and Crenshaw suffered the hardest hit with estimated $250000 in property loss. Partial lists name Ralph Knight and others among the dead with several injured reported.
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Troy
Ala
Barbour
Pike
Crenshaw
Pike County
Alabama
Ralph Knight
Ruby Knight
Frances Knight
Mary Ellen Knight
Eliza Davis
Tom Long
Peacock
Beatrice Tillis
Babay
Ella Lee Blue
Walter Knight
Herman Mt. Ray Knight
Frank Davis
Bob Ordan
J. P. Davis
Pat Swanson
Mystery Plane Crash During Schneider Cup Trial in Baltimore
British Mystery Plane enters the Schneider Cup sea plane race in Baltimore. During a trial test it crashed into the water. Captain Henry C. Baird was rescued with no serious injuries. Photos show wreckage towed and Baird assisted after the rescue.
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Great Britain
Baltimore
U. S
Napier
Henry C. Baird
Baird
French Cabinet Crisis Delayed Yet Again In Paris
Paris Oct 26 The French cabinet crisis was postponed again as Premier Painleve and colleagues adjourned without a final decision on the financial situation. Caillaux spoke in Chateaux du Loire denouncing a capital levy and defending his policies while signaling possible removal from the finance post. He opposed the socialist program and the levy, warning of inflation and national bankruptcy.
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Paris
Painleve
Coucnil
Chateau DU Loir
France
Joseph Caillaux
Sarthe
Caillaux
United States
Washington
Lone bandit robs White Bluff bank in mask
The Peoples Bank at White Bluff Tennessee was robbed by a lone bandit who entered with a red handkerchief mask, covered the cashier with a pistol, and took all the cash. Initial reports estimated the haul at about four thousand dollars.
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Tenn
Peoples Bank
White Bluff
Britain loses second entry in Schneider Cup challenge
Britain’s Schneider cup hopefuls dwindled to one as Bert Hinkler, piloting Gloster Napier 3, damaged pontoons on landing at Baltimore’s Bay Shore Park Chesapeake. The aircraft was towed to hangar with under-rigging torn loose. the Pilot unharmed.
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Bay Shore Park
Baltimore
Great Britain
Bert Hinkkler
Britain
Gloster
Sheriff Fires Speeding Man in Mississippi Killing
Lew Houston 35 of Charleston was shot and killed by Tate County Sheriff W G Cocke as his party sped through Senatobia after a collision near Sardis. Three bullets hit the car tires and head. one struck the radiator. Whiskey found in the auto. Houston survived by a wife and three children.
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Senatoria
Miss
Lew Houston
Charleston
W. G. Cocke
Tate County
Senatobbia
Houston
Memphis
Sardis
Como
Senatobia
Cooke
Righway
London Weather Notes Sudden Change In One Day
London on October 26 recorded a dramatic weather swing with hail sleet rain lightning and thunder within ten minutes in the hotel and shopping district. American visitors were told fogs occur only in winter, a local quip amid the unsettled day.
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London
Plains Hosts Sumter County Singers in School Auditorium
Plains welcomed the Sumter County singers for a late afternoon program in the new School Auditorium. A smaller crowd due to weather filled about half the seats by 2 30 with visitors arriving from Americus and nearby counties. Attendees praised Plains for its hospitality and the singing was described as good.
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Plains
Sumter County
Americus
Gloria Swanson Arrest Ordered on Contempt Charge
New York October 26 A sheriff arrest order for Gloria Swanson moving picture actress for contempt has been signed by Supreme Court referee Robert M Marshall. She is to be held at Ludlow Street jail until paying a 250 dollar fine after missing a witness appearance and going to Europe instead.
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New York
Gloria Swanson
Robert M. Marshall
Supreme Court
Ludlow Street
Europe
Reverend Howard performs 2016th marriage in Columbus
The 2016th wedding under Rev J W Howard took place last night at his home 640 Twenty first street Columbus with Miss Mary Kelly and Boyd Cook of the Girard section among the attendees.
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Columbus
Mary Kelly
Boyd Cook
Girard
J. W. Howard
Twentyfirst
Memories from Mrs E W Horne of Americus Georgia
The poem recalls the wish to weave memories across aging years and endure toil and tears with hopeful reflections. It envisions looking back from life’s twilight to cherished recollections. The speaker seeks peace on the bridge between time and eternity, and the fragrance of memories as renewal.
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E. W. Horne
Americus
Its Polygamy the Next Step For Moderns
The article reports Dr. John B. Watson of Johns Hopkins arguing that monogamy is failing in modern society. He says society is unfettered, promiscuous, and that a new form of control is needed as monogamy is “passing.” The piece notes his view reflects behaviorist psychology and hints at continuation on Page Five.
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Hortense Saunders
New York
John B. Watson
John Hopkins University
Balkan War Halted Says Late Reports
London reports the Bulgarians and Greeks will withdraw behind frontiers at Romania’s urging. Paris notes fighting on the Bulgarian front as League Council members rush to Paris for an extraordinary meeting. Reports claim Bulgarian towns Piperinitza and Petrove bombarded by Greek troops while Greek officials deny withdrawal. Serbian and Romanian neutrality cited as unsettled, with Belgrade ordering territorial protection. Irregular bands and troop movements from Sofia and Zaribrod add to the tension.
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London
Exchange Telegraph
Athens
Rumania
Paris
League of Ations Council
Sofia
Piperinitza
Petrove
Demirkanour
Demirkaou
Hadjikirakos
Secretariat
The
League
Belgrade
Georgia Grand Lodge Opens 139th Session in Macon
More than 1,000 Master Masons from lodges across Georgia gathered in Macon for the 139th annual Grand Lodge communication at City Hall Auditorium. Grand Master James D. Hamrick presided as special degree and ritualistic work took place with a visiting team from Atlanta to confer the Master’s degree. The Board of Trustees of the Masonic Orphans Home met prior to the opening.
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Grand Lodge of Georgia
Macon
Georgia Grand Lodge
City Hall
Grand Lodge
Frank F. Baker
Masonic Orphans Home
Frank A. Miller
Fort Valley
Macon Lodge No. 5
Atlanta
James D. Hamrick
Carrollton
Chinese Province Gets First Motor Road
Kingchow, Kansu Province, October 26. The central province, previously without railways or navigable rivers, begins motor traffic with a new road linking toward Tibet and Turkestan. Governor Lu Yungt’ao ordered troops to build seven miles per regiment, farmers drafted, and a road over 100 miles for motor use completed.
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Kingchow
Kansu
China
Tibet
Turkestan
Lu Yungt'ao
Last Estimate Cotton Crop Shows Increase
Washington reports the Department of Agriculture indicates a probable cotton production of 15,226,000 bales as of October 18, up from 14,759,000 bales two weeks earlier. Ginnings before October 18 total 9,519,784 running bales, with Georgia, Tennessee, and South Carolina contributing major portions amid acreage abandonments.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Census Bureau
Georgia
Tennessee
South Carolina
Cotton market quotes and the New York opening
Washington report on cotton production keeps the local market firm at 18 5 8 cents for strict middling. New York opened at 21 10 for December and 20 40 for January, with late session around 20 35 and 19 40 respectively. December closed at 20 20 and January at 19 48, down from yesterday by 104 and 101 points. An estimate of 15 226 000 bales surprised local dealers.
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Washington
New York
Lone Wolf dies Sunday in Chicago undercover probe
James Asher known as the Lone Wolf of the prohibition enforcement service died Sunday amid a suspected poisoning prompted by threats from bootleggers he had harassed for three years. Prohibition Administrator Edward C. Yellowley aids the coroner as a necropsy is planned to test for poison traces.
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Chicago
James Asher
Lone Wolf
Prohibition Enforcement Service
Edward C. Yellowley
Prohibition
Asher Sveral
Asher
Wife awarded verdict in alienation case
Mrs. Katherine Frey of Louisville Kentucky won a jury verdict of thirty seven thousand five hundred dollars against Wilda Bennett a musical comedy actress for alienation of affections of her husband Charles Frey a sportsman in Mineola New York on October twenty sixth.
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Mineola
N. Y
Katherine Frey
Louisville
Wilda Bennett
Charles Frey
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Hinkle
Speeder
Plains’ New School
Howard
Watson
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