Former Seminole official missing amid alleged shortage
Donaldsonville Georgia April 24 Associated Press reports C L Reynolds Seminole superior court clerk said he spoke by phone with I K Horn former Seminole county sheriff who disappeared over a week ago in an alleged plot to dodge a reported shortage in his accounts. Horn claimed he was under arrest in Baton Rouge and said he would return to Donaldsonville to face his acco rds.
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Donaldsonville
C. L. Reynolds
Seminole Superior Court
I. K. Horn
Seminole County
Reynolds
Baton Rouge
Horn
Associated Press
J. K. Horn
Georgia
Seminole
Parish
Seminole County Wires Sheriff Over Horn Release
Seminole County authorities wired Baton Rouge to release Horn amid possible charges. Continued on page 9.
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Evr
Seminole County
Baton Rouge
Horn
Baseball Schedule By Associated Progs
National League games listed with postponements due to cold and clear weather. St Louis at Chicago scheduled 3 p m central. American League Philadelphia at New York and Boston at Washington postponed. Chicago at Cleveland postponed Detroit at St Louis listed with central time.
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National League
Associated Progs
New York
Boston
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Chicago
Washington
Cleveland
Detroit
Prison Wardens Awaiting Spark in Powder Barrel
Dawkins refused to testify before the civil service commission during the Allen trial in Shreveport. Allen ignored the commission and did not attend, claiming suspension by Mayor Thomas. The report continues on page eleven with details from United Press.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
Thomas C. Dawkins
Public Safety
Civil Service Commission
J. Allen
Allen
Dawkins
L. F. Thomas
Bremen Collides With British Tanker Off Dungeness In Fog
The North German Lloyd liner Bremen collided with the tanker British Grenadier in thick fog off Dungeness. The Bremen suffered no damage while the British Grenadier was badly damaged but could proceed to port without aid. The Bremen then continued to Southampton.
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S. S. Bremen
Dungeness
United Press
Portishead
Bremen
Southampton
Leopold Zeigenben
S. Bremen
Subpoenas Issued for Bovay and Engle in Mississippi Probe
Jackson miss April 24 subpoenas issued for Harry Bovay bridge builder of Vicksburg and Memphis and C E Engle Natchez attorney indicate a new senate committee inquiry into an alleged 25000 payment reported by the Constitutional league of Louisiana The secrecy kept even from committee member secretary L G North who announced the investigation Bovay and Engle were to appear this afternoon as the house committee probes the railroad commission affair and district attorney Howie in a separate anti trust move
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Associated Pross
Jackson
Miss
Harry Bovay
Vicksburg
Memphis
C. E. Engle
Natchez
Senate Committee
Constitutional League of Louisiana
Engle
Bovay
Inegard
Matt Gregory
L. G. North
Mississippi
Senate
House Standing Committee
Mississippi Railroad Commission
J. H. Howie
Two Men Rob Taxicab Driver Steal 9 20 in New Orleans
In New Orleans on April 24 two men stopped Morris Herbert in his taxicab and threatened to slit his throat with a knife. They forced him to surrender his collections totaling 9 20 before fleeing in a green car.
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New Orleans
Morris Herbert
Delegates Arrive in Monroe for State Bar Convention
Delegates to the Louisiana State Bar Association converge on Monroe for a two day meeting. Expected attendance surpasses 400 with Walter B. Spencer of New Orleans and Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard among keynote speakers arriving for the Friday morning opening. Judge W. H. Atwell of Dallas will also address attendees.
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Louisiana State Bar Association
Monroe
Walter B. Spencer
New Orleans
Dean Roscoe Pound
Harvard University Law School
New York
O. A. Easterling
Bar Association
W. H. Atwell
United States District Court
Dallas
Tex
Orleans Man Detained Over Family Disturbance on Hood Act
Police arrested August Frank of North Solomon Street after neighbors heard a woman's screams. They found his wife and young daughter in the street and charged Frank with disturbing the peace and violating the Hood act.
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New Orleans
August Frank
North Solomon Street
Frank
Convicts Work On Private Farm. State Constitution Questioned
New Orleans reports allege Louisiana state penitentiary convicts are being used on a private farm near New Roads under a profit sharing lease. John P Burgin, Baton Rouge, confirms a $4 per acre lease and contract with the penitentiary while officials say the site is not designated a convict farm and legality is disputed.
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New Orleans
State Penitentiary
New Roads
Clay Dugas
John P. Burgin
Baton Rouge
New Roads Plantation
Mississippi to Pay Reward for Negro Murderer Ten Years Later
Jackson Miss April 24 The Mississippi House approved a $500 reward to be paid for the return of Val Brook the negro murderer who killed a Grenada county jailer during an escape more than a decade ago Brook was captured in Arkansas under another name and later hanged after conviction. the governor's contingent fund had run out.
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Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Hart Dixon
J. W. Wright
Brook
Arkansas
Grenada County
Wright
Dixon
Suits to Recover Patents on Radio Apparatus
The Justice Department announced it will file suits in New York and Washington DC to compel transfer of patents for an apparatus enabling radio receivers to run on home current. Inventors Percival D. Lowell and Francis W. Dunmore, researchers at the Bureau of Standards, are named, with prior federal actions by Lowell and Dunmore against the Radio Corporation of America referenced as upholding validity.
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Washington
Department of Justice
United States District Courts
New York City
District of Columbia
United States
Department
Percival D. Lowell
Francis W. Dunmore
Bureau of Standards
Lowell and Dunmore
Radio Forportion of America
City Court Judge Fined for Being Late at Circuit Court
In Memphis on April 24 City Court Judge Fitzhugh was fined 31 by Circuit Court Judge Pittman for arriving three minutes late in a case where he served as attorney. The exchange showed Pittman ordering the fine and Fitzhugh replying that he hopes to repay the favor someday.
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Memphis
Tenn
Fitzhugh
Pittman
Flier's mother doubts bottle letter from Coli authenticity
Mme Nungesser, mother of the missing aviator with Franc ois Coli, believes a Bayeux bottle message is genuine. Authorities will have Seine Tribunal examine the handwriting, with experts to study it. The note claimed Coli asks for ransom and said Nungesser was very sick.
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Caen
Calvados
France
Mme. Nungesser
Francois Coli
Beyeux
Coli
Ver-Sur-Mer
Seine Tribunal
Bayeux
the St. Lawrence
Nungesser
Struck Over Head With Baseball Bat Ends York Youth Life
Joseph McAlpin a 20 year old from York Alabama died in a Meridian hospital from head injuries after Sam Davidson 17 struck him with a baseball bat during an argument at York. Davidson was held in York for the death. The victim was the son of Mr and Mrs Ernest McAlpin of York.
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Meridian
Miss
Joseph McAlpin
York
Ala
McAlpin
Sam Davidson
Davidson
Ernest McAlpin
Minden Woman Found Dead Hanging From Partial Partition
Mrs J W Kitchens 48, a prominent Minden resident, was found dead in a residence under construction next to John Garland's home where she had been staying. The coroner ruled death by own action as she fashioned a rope from blanket strips and a small ladder, feet inches from the floor.
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Minden
J. W. Kitchens
John Garland
Hambone's Meditations on a Sociable Night
A column by J P Alley notes a crowd at a sociable last night with tension over money hush money and change among attendees. The piece uses dialect and highlights social friction and gossip in the community.
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Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
Sociable
Skeletons Found Buried Beneath Widow’s House in Blytheville
In Blytheville Arkansas on April 24 two skeletons were found buried beneath the servant house of widow Mrs. Cora Sutton. The remains, a man and a woman believed to be enslaved, were interred less than a year ago in quick lime. Skull fractures suggest homicide but police have no missing persons or slain records. Investigations continued with several suspects questioned.
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Blytheville
Ark
Cora Sutton
Texan Accused of Killing Man Who Wed Ex-Wife
Arthur Green was charged with murder in the slaying of James Wallace a 35 year old farmer from the Gresham area near Tyler Texas Wallace died from a chest wound after a revolver on his body was found unfired Wallace had married Green's former wife two years earlier Green visited the farm hours before the shooting eyewitness M F Whittaker said the killer rose from behind a bridge and called to Wallace as the shot rang out Wallace tried to draw his gun but collapsed
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Tyler
Tex
Arthur Green
James Wallace
Gresham
Green
Wallace
M. F. Whittaker
Whittaker
Confessed Part in Three North Louisiana Burglaries
A jailed confession from an escaped convict reported by Sheriff Milton Coverdale names R. C. Higgins and W. E. Hayes as participants in three recent burglaries in Richland and West Carroll parishes. The incidents targeted East Side Drug in Delhi Barnes Cash in Delhi and Epps Drug in Epps. Higgins and Hayes were seized on a houseboat on the Ouachita river after a tip.
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R. C. Higgins
Louisiana
Parish
Milton Coverdale
W. E. Hayes
East Side
Barnes Cash
Delhi
Richland Parish
Epps
West Carroll Parish
Higgins
Hayes
Senate Votes to Cut European Immigration to 80 000
Washington April 24 the senate voted to cut immigration from Europe from 15 000 to 80 000 annually.
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Washington
The
Senate Today
Europe
DROWNS HIMSELF AFTER TUSSLE WITH WOMAN AT LAKE
In Anaconda Montana on April 24 Michael Joyce, humiliated by a woman named Miss Letty Woods, fought her then drowned himself in a lake near Hafner's dam. Joyce resisted four rescuers and shouted he did not want to be saved after the confrontation.
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Anaconda
Mont
Michael Joyce
Hafner
Letty Woods
Joyce
Miss Woods
Ruston's 1930 population rises to 4392 in census
Census supervisor O G Elliott reports Ruston has 4392 residents in 1930, up from 3589 in 1920, while Homer declines to 2898 from 3305 as the oil boom wanes. Monroe's count aims to finish by Saturday with 16 districts in process and 11 completed.
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Ruston
O. G. Elliott
Louisiana
Homer
Elliott
Monroe
Hartman family deaths under suspicious circumstances
Mrs. Mary Hartman held in technical custody as autopsy reveals poison in Ruth Hartman 14 who died April 14. Coroner orders exhumation of C. B. Hartman 47 who died after a mysterious head injury two years ago and Henry A. Hartman 22 who died last year suspected of ptomaine poisoning.
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Associated Press
Long Beach
Cal
Mary Hartman
Ruth Hartman
Frank Nance
Los Angeles County
C. B. Hartman
Henry A. Hartman
Bucket Bomb Blasts Door Fight Leaves Woman Near Death
Plant City Florida April 24 Associated Press Mrs J L Waller 55 injured perhaps fatally by a bomb that partially wrecked her home Four incendiary machines were found under the house and barn one ignited as Mrs Waller opened a back door The device used a tim bucket a string and a dynamite fuse to trigger the blast Family unharmed in bed. inspectors report multiple bombs and detonation setup at two locations.
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Associated Press
Plant City
Fla
J. L. Waller
H. B. Willaford
Waller
Four Die in Boonville Fire in New York
Four persons were burned to death in a Boonville fire reported today in upstate New York. Authorities described a deadly blaze at a residence with other occupants surviving with injuries.
Frost Threats Spread Across Dixie Amid Cold Wave
A unseasonal cold wave grips the south with frost warnings for Virginia North Carolina Tennessee Kentucky and parts of Georgia and South Carolina. Snow and sleet disrupt major league baseball schedules and lake shipping as ice floes trap freighters on Lake Erie. New Orleans basks in near record warmth despite cold elsewhere. Montreal endures a mid winter storm with heavy snow and sleet.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Weather Bureau
Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Georgia
South Carolina
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Midwest
Lake Erie
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