Flooded towns see widespread looting and relief efforts
In southern Alabama floods looting prompts martial law in Elba and Geneva under Col. W. E. Persons. Relief plans seek funds and refugee evacuation while 15,000 homeless across seven counties face pneumonia risks and sanitary crises as National Guard works with medical teams and bread drops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elba
Geneva
Alabama
W. E. Persons
Alabama National Guard
Persons
Bibb Graves
Ile
Pluntgunnay
Ala
Pin Graves
Milter Stone
Graves
Stone
Brewton
Escambia
National Guard
May Rally for Cook County Judges to Focus on Crime
A plan to suspend civil hearings in Cook County so all 44 judges hear criminal cases until 1,800 pending cases are cleared was welcomed at a joint executive meeting of Cir cuit and Superior courts. The move would create one large criminal court division and startled Chicago’s legal world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Cook County
Circuit
Superior Courts
United States
George FE. Q. Johnson
John A. Swanson
William Russell
FE. C. Yellowley
Nation Plans Aviation Country Clubs Nationwide
A nationwide chain of aviation country clubs is planned by the Aviation Country Club association. The clubs would encourage flying and advance national air preparedness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flying Country Clubs
New York
Aviation Country Clubs
The
Aviation Country Club Association
Conversation as monologue and town notice in Riverdale
A discussion on the nature of conversation contrasts two house guests and a habitual monologue artist. The Riverdale notice informs of a final hearing on April 8 1929 in Cook County for a special assessment on Atlantic Street grading curbing paving and draining.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory
Iis
United States
Western Newspaper Union
Riverdale
Atlantic Street
West 138Th Street
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Cook County
Illinois
Board of Local Improvements
County of
Cook
State of
Board of Local Improvements of
Village of
John C. Zornow
Oil Prospecting and Anticlines
The Geological Survey notes that an anticline is an upfold in rocks. Buried folds beneath younger layers go undetected at the surface. Anticlines are favorable for oil accumulation, guiding prospectors in locating such structures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geological Survey
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Atlanta
Flomaton
Castleberry
Garland
Marianna
Fla
Newton
Flint
Memphis
Tenn
E. W. Brist
Cairo
Walker
Whalen
Mrs. Allen
Bath
Catherine Moreland
Hoiday
Mrs. Thorpe
Miss Austin
East 154Th Street
Harvey
Rahn
Hhdome
Rahn Construction Co
International
Dick Vogel
Pens Park Arenas
South Holland
First National
Bank
First National Bank
Dolton, Ill
Chas. E. Waterman
Horace Holmes
M. R. Weidner
W. H. Baker
Russel P. Blake
William Staat
Federal Reserve System
Vander Giessen Bros
159Th and
Halsted Street
Harvey, It
Motorists Association OF Illinois
Goodyear
FISE
Twin City Garage
H. W. Monk
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