Old Florence Burns. Two Die in Birmingham Hotel Fire
A blaze tore through the 40 year old Florence Hotel in downtown Birmingham last night. Firemen recovered a body identified as J L Parker from a third floor room and another victim, William Decker of Jacksonville Florida, who died after leaping from a fifth floor room. About twenty guests fled in terror. five persons were injured and damages are estimated at 250000. State fire marshal investigators began work as the city fire department fought the flames.
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Florence
Birmingham
J.L. Parker
William Decker
Jacksonville
Fla
Florence Hotel Fire Leaves Five Injured In Birmingham
The Florence Hotel blaze trapped two women on the fourth floor who leapt to safety four stories below, while others escaped with burns and cuts. C A Fletcher 45 a salesman sustained facial and body burns. Miss Billie Weaver of Memphis bruised and cut. Mrs Martha Purdin 20 of Arizona bruised and cut. Miss Ann Croswell 17 of Cullman burns on arms legs and back. Thomas R Young of Birmingham slightly burned. Mrs Purdin was rescued after a leg snagged a third floor window. The hotel, once Birmingham’s social hub, has shifted to a resident base with transient guests.
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Billie Weaver
Memphis
Tenn
Martha Purdin
Arizona
Ann Croswell
Thomas R. Young
Birmingham
Miss Weaver
Fletcher
Florence
Broadway
Mayors Reid Named Executive Secretary of Alabama League
Ed Reid of Flomaton Alabama is named executive secretary of the Alabama League of Municipalities and will open an office in Monts Somery. The League decided a full time executive secretary was needed in the capital to inform mayors and expand membership.
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Ed Reid
Flomaton
Ala
Alabama League of Municipalities
Monts Somery
Havana Kidnapping Case Sees Victim’s Lawyer Detained
In Havana on June 7, Pedro Herrera Sotolongo, attorney for 78 year old Antonio San Miguel, was detained by police amid the abduction case. The lawyer said he could not contact the abductors yet hoped to do so. ransom negotiations stalled as authorities clash with associates urging action.
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Edmund A. Chester
Associated Press
Havana
Pedro Herrera Sotolongo
Antonio San Miguel
San Miguel
Sotolongo
Vaughn Wins Pat Miller Prize for First Home Grown Tomatoes
John W. Vaughan of Decatur Route 4 won the Pat A. Miller prize for the first home grown tomatoes produced by a reservoir clearance division member. Tomatoes are on display in TVA building office windows at Bank and Vine streets. Vaughan is in unit 23.
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John W. Vaughan
Decatur
Pat A. Miller
TVA
Bank and Vine Streets
Vaughn
Unit 23
Cotton Exports On Upgrade Amid Market Signs
Washington dispatch reports encouraging signals in the cotton export situation as Cully A. Cobb AAA cotton chief notes foreign buyers responsive again due to dwindling stocks domestic price stabilization and production outside the United States. Roosevelt opponents had used alleged foreign demand destruction to attack the AAA amid the Supreme Court NRA decision.
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Washington
Farm Administration
Supreme Court
NRA
New Deal
Rooseveltgn
AAA
Cully A. Cobb
United
Revival for Young People at Hartselle
A young people's revival will begin at the Methodist church in Hartselle with Rev. Ted Hightower preaching. Services are set for 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. daily all next week, with an emphasis on inviting youth to attend each message.
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Hartselle
Ted Hightower
Srevices
Foreign buyers wary as cotton prices loom in 1929 context
A New York report notes Russia bought its heaviest American cotton in two months since 1929. Cobb says foreign consumers stayed away, stockpiling 6 cent cotton in expectation of a price rise and doubting the success of the cotton adjustment program.
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New York
Russia
Cobb
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