Submarine S-51 Sunk After Collision With City of Rome
Navy reports the S-51 ran without sidelights and was nearly into the steamer City of Rome off Block Island. Captain Diehl said the conning tower was struck, three crewmen were saved, and the Rome’s passengers and crew were unharmed as the ship proceeds to Boston.
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Boston
A. P
City of Rome
Block Island
Diehl
Charleston Navy Yard
A. S
Rome O. K
Rome
Man Shot With Own Revolver In Olla Feud
John W Blake, 45, died after being shot in the head with his own .32 caliber Smith and Wesson revolver during a quarrel at Olla near the Missouri Pacific station. Paul Jenkins, 60, fled after a knife fight and gun grab. Jenkins was arrested in Clarks and jailed in Alexandria. Blake’s son Pleas Jenkins also faced arrest.
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Smith and Wesson
Paul Jenkins
John Blake
Riverside Sanitarium
Olla Station
Missouri Pacific Road
Jenkins
J. R. McDow
Clarks
Rapides Parish
Alexandria
Pleas Jenkins
Yancy Blake
Olla-Jena
Olla
Ujgs
Blake
Young Jenkins
Smith & Wesson
McClannahan
Ib. E. Zengler
Olla State Bank
Monroe
McClanahan
Lone Star Highway
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Mrs Schumaker Survives Narrow Road Crash Near Rayville
Evangelist Mrs D A Schumaker of the Church of God and a companion escaped injury when their car was hit by an unknown driver near Rayville on the Dixie Overland highway. The vehicle overturned into a ditch but both women, though scratched, continued to Mangham for revival services after the crash.
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News-Star
Rayville
D. A. Schumaker
Church of God
Swartz
Presbyterian S S to Hold Annual Rally Day
The Presbyterian Sunday School unveils its annual Rally Day with a special program tomorrow at 9 20 a m. Superintendent Leon Hammond leads arrangements. Rev Wallace Clift delivers morning sermon Resisting the Holy Ghost and evening talks on Righteousness Temperance and Judgement. The following Sunday begins morning services.
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Presbyterian Sunday School
Leon Hammond
Wallace Clift
Pittsburgh Hotels Hold Line on Series Rates
Pittsburgh hotels announce no advance in rates for the World's Series week. Guests pay capacity rate for rooms they occupy with option to share at no extra cost. Leading hotels report all reservations for the week sold. smaller inns have a few rooms left.
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Pittsburgh
A. P
Slate Motorcade To Carry Monroe To Richland Fair
A full motorcade will form on De Siard street Tuesday at 9 30 AM to start for Barville for the Richland parish fair. Monroe Day at the Richland seat will feature displays by the Huff Daland Dusters offering cotton dusting by airplane. Tellis Grotto Band and the Louisiana Training Institute Band will march, with ribbons at DeSiard stores for trip labels.
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de Siard
Barville
Richland Parish
Monroe
West Monroe
Chamber of Commerce
Huff Daland Dusters Corporation
Tellis Grotto
Louisiana Training Institute
DeSiard
Congressmen lose action for divorce in Michigan case
In Alpena Michigan on September 26 Circuit Judge Frank D Emerick denied divorce petitions by Congressman Frank D Scott and his wife Edna James Scott. The congressman faced cruelty and misconduct allegations while Mrs Scott charged gambling and drinking. The couple married in 1914 and have no children. Judge Emerick ordered Scott to pay $150 monthly support until further order.
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Alpena
Mich
A. P
Frank D. Scott
Michigan
Edna James Scott
Frank D. Emerick
Cyott
Wilbur Sumner
Army Air Service
Harry Wyckoff
Washington
Supreme Court
Commander Rodgers Honored on West Coast Flight Heroes
Commander John Rodgers of the PN 9 and three crewmen were guests at the San Francisco press club as Rodgers prepared to appear before President Coolidge's aviation board. Messages from Coolidge AP and United Press praised the historic flight and rescue, with Rodgers presented a bound AP file set. Rodgers and Lt. B J Connell then traveled to Washington, with the three enlisted men to San Diego.
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San Francisco
A. P
Washington
Associated Press
South America
Karl A. Bickell
United Press
Rodgers
Honolulu
B. J. Connell
San Diego
Escaped convict shot during robbery attempt in Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge September 26 George Dally 63 an escaped convict was shot by Sammy Hunt a watchman as Dally tried to force entry to a Garden City residence a suburb of the city. He was badly wounded with poor chances of recovery physicians say Dally was serving 13 to 14 years for robbery sentenced from Caddo parish July 9 1925 and escaped a few days ago
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Baton Rouge
A. P
George Dally
Sammy Hunt
Garden City
Dally
Caddo Parish
Man Faces State Charge After Paying Fine
C. M. Harder, who paid a $100 fine and costs in city court for a Volstead act offense, now faces a state charge. He was arrested last night, his car seized, and after a city court trial today a district attorney filed information for the same offense. Harder recently completed a lengthy jail sentence for prohibition violations.
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C. M. Harder
Harder
Offers Sure Proof That Heat Roasted Yams in Morehouse
BASTROP Sept. 26 A press correspondent at Oak Grove reports that extreme heat weeks ago popped the grain on ears of popcorn in the field. Crossett reports eggs hatching without incubator or hen. A Morehouse parish farmer says he has enjoyed yams ready roasted dug from his own patch. He offers to show the hoe he used to dig them.
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Bastrop
Oak Grove
Crossett
Morehouse Parish
Morehouse
Charles Hailey Killed Instantly in Log Accident
Rayville reports Charles Hailey, 43, a blacksmith for Walter N. Kelly Co., died at work when a log slipped from a derrick, crushing his head and breaking his neck. He left a widow and two young children. his wife remains in critical condition. News notes she has not yet been informed.
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News-Star
Rayville
Charles Hailey
Walter N
Seven Men Indicted Over Immorality in Ouachita Parish
The Ouachita Parish Grand Jury reports deplorable moral conditions among youths 13 to 18 for girls and 18 to 25 for boys blamed on public dance halls and bootleg liquor. Seven men indicted for illicit relations with underage girls. one man charged with attempted rape of a four-year-old. Forty-two true bills returned after sixty suspected violations reviewed. three murder charges against three Black men. The report calls for a state school of correction for delinquent girls and warns that men involved with underage girls will be indicted.
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Percy Sandel
Mann Thompson
Monroe
Louis Long
Lizzie Keyes
Baltimore Wilson
Edith Hudson
Swartz
Harder Fined $1000 and Sentenced to Four Months
Tried in two courts within hours after arrest, C M Harder began serving four months in jail for violating prohibition law. Judge Percy Sandel imposed the sentence and the $1000 fine or eight months extra. Earlier in city court he had been found guilty and fined $100 and costs.
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C. M. Harder
Percy Sandel
Harder
Ouachita Parish Cotton Ginned Total 4406 by Sept 16
Official Ouachita parish record shows 4 406 bales ginned from the 1925 crop before September 16, up 3 000 from the same date last year. Parish farm agent K K Strahan estimates about half the crop harvested, implying a total near 8 800 bales in line with early fall forecasts.
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Ouachita Parish
News-Star
Kk. R. Strahan
Parish
Johnnie James fined and jailed on whiskey charge
Johnnie James was sentenced in district court this morning after pleading guilty to possessing whiskey. He received sixty days in jail and a fine of thirty dollars or the alternative of four months additional imprisonment. He was arrested several days ago by sheriff's deputies.
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Johnnie James
James
Sheriff’s Department
River Stage Readings Across Mississippi River Network
Water levels reported for river gauges show Memphis blank while Vicksburg rises 0.5 to 6.0 and New Orleans up 0.3 to 2.3. Section across Red River from Shreveport to Alexandria via Ouachita notes variations, with Camden and Monroe seeing Cairo 9.0, 15.1 rise 0.4 and 1.2 falls plus an unchanged 2.0 reading. Brise 0 noted.
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Mississippi
Memphis Blank
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Red
Shreve Te Alexandri Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Ohio
Cairo
List of S-51 crew and officers announced by navy
Navy announces the S-51 submarine crew and officers led by Lt. R. H. Dobson. Names and hometowns include Harlow Pine Long Beach California, Kenneth Axtman Cambridge Massachusetts, Peter Duddy Los Angeles California, Terence George New York, John Kelly Wakefield Massachusetts, James Mosher Philipsburg New Jersey, James Ruth San Francisco California, Robert Wills Norfolk Virginia, and McComb Mississippi address for the boatswain's mate.
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Washington
A. P
Navy Department
R. H. Dobson
Brockport
Conn
Harlow M. Pine
Long Beach
Cal
Kenneth A. Axtman
Cambridge
Mass
Austin Baker
Cook
Headline
Ala
Paul D. Berk
Shoemakersville
Wm. J. Brizell
Barre
Vermont
John L. Casey
Gibson
N. M
Gloucester
Otha Lee Eyre
Aulander
N. C
Arthur E. Farley
Toledo
Andy Firm
Klein
Mont
Terence Edward George
New York
Alfred Geier
New Bedford
Valentine Hibtbolt
New Port
R. I
Franklin H. James
Stratford
John Joseph Kelly
Wakefield
Dewey George Kile
Peoria
Walter Edwards Lawton
Waymouth
Brady Domone Lindsay
Pensacola
Fla
Michael S. Lira
St. Louis
William J. Maynard
Buchanan
N. Y
Oscar Joseph Milot
Graniteville
Frank Lester Mims
Augusta
Bernardo Modeilo
Manila
Bertram Francis Mosher
Philippsburg
N. J
James Ruth
San Francisco
Otto Edward Saul
Covington
Frank Archibald Shea
Augustus Alexander Smith
Herbert Eadleman Snyder
Philadelphia
Frederick Peter Teschemacher
Bangor
William Charles Teschemacher
Charlie Carroll Thomas
el Paso
Texas
Stephen Hartley Triffitt
Pawtucket
Robert Holland Wills
Norfolk
Frank Collins Wiseman
South Boston
John Colvin Witherspoon
South Broadway
McComb
Miss
Wilbur questions City of Rome captain over S-51 collision
Secretary Wilbur said the City of Rome should have remained on scene after ramming the submarine S-51 last night. He ordered an inquiry into the captain’s conduct and possible criminal negligence. Survivors were reported injured and the ship’s captain may have acted to shore them at Chelsea Massachusetts.
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Wilbur
Erred
Washington
A. P
City of
Rome
Navy
Naval
Chessea
Mass
Boston
Navy S-51 Sinking Kills 34 Officers and Men
Navy department officers pieced together reports of the S-51 sinking off Block Island last night with the apparent loss of 34 sailors and officers. The disaster marks the heaviest toll for the navy in a single incident this war.
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Washington
A. P
Navy Department
Block Island
Navy
Woman Kills Intruder in Rayville Home Defense
In Rayville a mentally unsettled black boy named Johnny Boy was shot and killed by Bettie Dixon, a Black woman, after he forced entry to her home. She fired from her bed and claimed self defense, a verdict considered justifiable.
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News-Star
Rayville
Johnny Boy
Bettie Dixon
Hastings to Preach at First Baptist Morning Theme Why Tarry the Wheels of His Chariots
At the morning service the new pastor Reverend L. T. Hastings will preach on Why Tarry the Wheels of His Chariots. The evening sermon will focus on The Three Suppers of God with Hastings delivering both addresses.
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First Baptist Church
L. T .Hastings
Survivors Suffer After S-51 Crashed With City of Rome
Thirty four crew members of submarine S-51 remain missing after a collision with the steamer City of Rome off Block Island. Three survivors were rescued as rescue craft from Newport New York City and New London converged on the scene twenty miles east of Block Island. The steamer City of Rome continued toward Boston with Captain Diehl offering no details as news awaited shore updates. The destroyer Putnam and naval forces joined the search for those aboard the sunken vessel.
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Boston
A. P
City of Rome
Ocean Steamship Company
Savannah
Boseton
Newport
R. L
New York City
New London
Putnam
Naval Training Station
Diver Reports S-51 Resting On Keel After Hole In Port
A Camden wireless message picked up in Portsmouth says the diver reports S-51 resting on keel inclined to port. Attempts to communicate with the crew were unsuccessful and a large hole is described in the port side abaft the conning tower.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Camden
Newport Buoy Found From Life Preserver Debris
A Newport wireless alert says a buoy of life preservers may mark the sunken S-51. Navy men hope crew members aboard the City of Rome rescued are alive. The S-51 lies in 23 fathoms after being located by Lt. Hawkins in a seaplane over the disaster area.
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Newport
New Port
City of
Rome
Dewey Kiel
M. S. Lira
A. Gier
Boston Navy Yard
C. I. Hawkins
Leoi D. Causey
Navy
New London
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John W. Blake
Schumaker
Presbyterian S. S
Slate Motorcade
Richland Fair
Frank Scott
B. R
Richland
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