Massena Explosion Kills Seven Aboard French Battleship
Toulon France January seven sailors were killed when a boiler pipe burst in the Massena s stoke hold as she moved toward Bizerte with two cruisers. Fire crews and medics recovered eight scalded bodies and the port admiral ordered an inquiry into the accident. Commander Bernard kept calm as crews evacuated the area and transferred the wounded to deck on gratings.
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Pang Hyeres Island
St Mandrier Navel Hospital
Bernard
Brief Decisions From Judge In Folly And Hospitality
An old judge notes that folly breeds medicine and bribery. A man who can be bought is seed. Hospitality cost fame, reputations rise and fall by publicity. A handsome man seldom makes a wife. The heart’s sympathy costs nothing, but it offers only comfort.
Quick Jump Stops Runaway Auto At Grand Matinee
A rapidly moving electric car with two women aboard ran away on a downtown slope yesterday. A. L. D. Moore of Decatur intervened, opened the door, and shut off the power, halting the vehicle after it brushed two bags and nearly struck a cab. An elderly woman and a sixteen year old were among those who mistook the car for entry. The owner went to a drug store and returned to stop it.
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Decatur
Mr. Moore
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Buckshot Stops Two Convicts at Inuin Prison
Nashville January report says Charles Burch and Charles Swofford tried to escape using improvised steel breastplates and cut top wall wire. Guard shot lightly wounded Burch, Swofford’s later plan to slit his throat was thwarted by discovery. Burch earlier escaped last December, recaptured. Swofford serves life for murder.
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Tenn
Charles Burch
Charles Swofford
Inuin
T. W. Long
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Swofford
Warden Rimmer
Bureh
Lfe
Governor-elect Halston selects larger chair for Indiana
Indianapolis January 6 Governor elect Samuel M Halston decries the current Indiana governor chair as too small and orders a substantially built replacement to fit his 275 pound frame. The Marshall chair may serve as relief for the next vice president at 140 pounds.
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Ind
Samuel M. Halston
Indiana
Marshall
Receiver Sought for Union Cotton Bagging Co in Norfolk
Four minority stockholders of Union Cotton Bagging Corp a 232000 concern of Norfolk ask Judge Edmund Waddill in the eastern district of Virginia to appoint a receiver alleging misrepresentation of the companys finances under prior management and broken agreements Suit lists Eugene Holt Burlington NC W O A Erwin J Harper Erwin and H J H Mullen of Durham NC as petitioners and Raphael Margolius Isaac Margolius Isaac Hirsh Mattie R Margolius wife of Isaac Margolius and W Dorsey Ponder as defendants Ponder is named as defendant as he is company president allegedly misled by statements to investors made about two years ago.
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Union Cotton Bagging Corporation
Edmund Waddill
United State Court, Eastern District of Virginia
Eugene Holt
Burlington
N.C. W
Ponder
Stern Warning To Mexico On Border Hospitality
Officials accredited to this government criticized Mexican hospitality as not wholly appropriate for consular service. The note said Americans living on the border had been strained, with expectations of improved conditions unlikely soon. Senator Smith will open hearings in New Orleans on the Meslon situation, expected to last over a week.
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New Orleans
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