Disaster Toll Climbs After Devastating Storm Near Lower Peach Tree
Medical officers from Fort Oglethorpe dispatched to Morristown and nearby towns after a deadly Friday storm in Lower Peach Tree and surroundings. Reports indicate upwards of thirty dead and about five dozen injured with lists naming multiple victims and injured, as Red Cross and U S Army medical personnel mobilize to aid the stricken district.
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Lower
Peach Tree
Pine Hill
Little River
Ashington
States Army Medical Corps
Fort Ogelthorpe
Ison
American Red Cross
Alabama
Birmingham
Weather Bureau Chief Hints at Resignation
Washington March 22 Associated Press reports Prof L Moore head of the weather bureau is pondering resigning his post and turning the work over to President Wilson. A House statement noted Moore had been informed the chief was about to quit but Moore declined to discuss details.
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Associated Press
Washington
L. Moore
Aeparea
Wilson
Moore
Auto Bandits Landed After Crash in East Side Robbery
A taxi gang robs an East Side bar, then flees in a car. Police chase ends as the car crashes into a building amid gunfire. a uniformed policeman is wounded and two of six bandits escape while four are captured.
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Associated Press
New York
East Side
Merchants of Mobile Move To Relieve Suffering After Disaster
Mobile merchants dispatch relief via Captain Robert Morrissette as agent of commission houses and wholesalers. He travels by Southern Railway to assess needs in food clothing and medicines and to wire updates to Baker Lyons Co. and Mobile merchants. A relief train carries families and supplies, with Mobile merchants pledging full assistance.
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Baker, Lyons & Co
Morrissette
Southern Railway
Mobile
Relief Relief committee seeks thousand dollars at once
From Thomasville Alabama March 22 a mobile item report says residents of Lower Peachtree are in dire need of aid. J J W Gibson, chairman of the relief committee, appeals for immediate support totaling one thousand dollars to relieve suffering.
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Mobile
Ala
Thomasville
Lower Peachtree
J. J. W. Gibson
Relief Committee
Deceased Eye Dick Fatally Shot by Would-Be Reformer
Chicago report details the death of Dick Lane known as Deceased Eye Dick a lifelong criminal turned evangelist who invited a pickpocket into his home. days later four assailants robbed him of more than 2000 dollars in a fatal attack tied to his attempt at reform.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Dick” Lane
Dead Eye Dick
Nationalize the Campaign Against Vice
Illinois vice crusaders led by Lieutenant-Governor Barratt O'Hara traveled to Washington to seek federal support and the creation of similar state commissions to study wage issues and vice conditions. They discussed federal action with President Wilson and a possible federal minimum wage law, and held a hearing with welfare workers and prominent society members in attendance. Notable attendees included Mrs Edgan Bradley Mrs Hennen Jennings Mrs Christine Hemmick Madame Havenith Senora Riano Mrs Huntington Wilson and Mrs W Murray Crane.
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Associated Press
Washington
Illinois
Barratt O'Hara
Wilson
Waite House
Gir
Young
Doubtion
Illnois
White House
Department of Justice
Illinois Comission
O'Hara
Edgan Bradley
Hennen Jennings
Christine Hemmick
Havenith
Sen
Wasserleben murder trial heads to appeal stay
Theresa Wasserleben was convicted Friday night of murdering her husband Police Officer Fred Wasserleben and sentenced to life. An appeal to the state supreme court will be filed with a stay of execution, delaying any action into May.
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Semmes
State Supreme Court
Wasserleben
Mary T. Godal
Lafield
Leld
Y M C A Plans Six Day Membership Canvass
Mobile Y M C A launches a six day canvass starting March 29 to boost membership to 1 260 and compete for a silver trophy cup from the Charleston Southern association. Ten teams of ten members will work through April 6 with Harry T Hartwell as general chairman. Over 100 volunteers and nine hundred plus current members aim to reach 1 500 to win. Competing clubs include Memphis Nashville Jacksonville Savannah Augusta Columbus Ga Winston Salem Charlotte Columbia Charleston Greenville and Tampa. Daily canvass results will be telegraphed between associations.
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Mobile Y. M. C. A
Thn
Southern Association
Charleston
Jacksonville
Fla
Mobile
Harry T. Hartwell
Memphis
Nashville
Savannah
Augusta
Columbus
Winston-Salem
Charlotte
Columbia
Greenville
Tampa
Turks to Make Final Effort for Adriano Ple Surrender
London dispatch reports the army, after Izzet Pasha offered to resign, ordered by the government to advance by sea and land before surrender. The Times correspondent notes 500 sick or wounded men have arrived from the front recently.
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Associated Press
London
Izzet Pasha
Committee of Union and Progress
Adrianople
Constantinople
The
Times
Democratic Leaders Weigh Income Tax Plan
Representatives Underwood Hull Peters and Palmer met to study the income tax provisions of the new tariff bills. Democrats on the ways and means committee expected to agree on a tax from one to one and a half percent on incomes above five thousand dollars, possibly extending to three thousand five hundred. They also examined the British system with a low charge just over one percent.
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Associated Press
Washington
Underwood
Hull
Peters
Palmer
Ways and Means Committee
Honduran Consul Receives Bonilla Death Confirmation
Drew Linard, consul at Mobile for the Honduran Republic, said Saturday he had official word from Washington confirming the death of President Manuel Bonilla of Honduras, ending days of uncertain reports about the Honduran leader.
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Bonilla
Drew Linard
Mobile
Honduran Republic
Washington
Manuel Bonilla
Honduras
Anpa
Canadians Flood New York For Easter Pilgrimage
Twelve special trains from Montreal brought over 3,000 Canadians to New York for Easter, a record surpassing last year. Visitors describe spring fever and compare New York to Simla as a spring destination. Churches plan lavish decorations with flowers costing up to 1,000 dollars each, while lilies and bulbs imported into the country total about 2.265 million dollars annually.
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Associated Press
New York
Montreal
Ottawa
Simla
India
Court Rejects Writ to Review Hillsville Killings Death Sentence
Chief Justice White declined to grant a writ of error to review Claude Swanson Allen’s death sentence in the Hillsville courthouse murders. He did grant Allen permission to lay the request before any other justice. Claude and his father face execution on March 28.
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Associated Press
Washington
White
Supreme Court
Claude Swanson Allen
Hillsville
Allen
Claude
Weather Outlook Summary for Sunday and Tonight
Fair and cooler tonight with increasing winds. Sunday should be warmer with moderate east and northeast winds. Weather unsettled tonight into Sunday with rising temperatures and a cold wave risk. Mississippi region shows showers tonight in west. warmer conditions in the north portion.
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Mobile
Mississippi
West Portion
North Portion
French Troops Annihilated in Desert Fight Near Timbuktu
Dispatches report a French column in the Aderar region of Western Sahara overwhelmed by 1000 Awellemid Berbers. Lieutenant Martyn and four sergeants were killed along with fifty-three native troopers after a daylong battle. remaining French troopers fled to Tirbucktu with news of heavy Arab casualties.
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Associated Press
Paris
Aderar
Western Sahara
Timbucktu
Martyn
Tirbucktu
Pensacola Line Reopens After Cloudburst Disrupts Service
Superintendent John Rose of the Louisville and Nashville announced the Pensacola line, damaged by a cloudburst at McDavid Florida, was reopened around midnight. Through traffic to Montgomery remains delayed but work crews continue on the new road bed with improvements expected by Sunday.
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John Rose
Louisville and Nashville
Pensacola
McDavid
Fla
Montgomery
President Wilson Skips Princeton Georgetown Baseball
Washington March 22 President Wilson declines the afternoon Princeton Georgetown baseball game due to a busy schedule. He will host Princeton team members Monday and attend a White House gathering with relatives and Princeton connections.
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Associated Press
Washington
Wilson
Princeton
Reid
Thomas
Hughes
Bacon
Hoke Smith
Culberson
Johnson
Maine
Tennesseans Lynch Slayer of Aged Man
A Union City Tenn report says Johnston Gretgon a negro shot and killed Samuel Mc Clure a white man aged 70 after an intruder entered his home demanding $5. Gretgon was lynched yesterday afternoon on a prominent street in front of about a thousand people. another man is being sought after a confessed implication.
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Associated Press
Nashvill
McClure
Selma Relief Mobilizes After Destructive Cyclone
Selma residents rush aid for Wilcox county storm victims after a Friday cyclone. Miss Mary Watson, a young music teacher, died from injuries in Lower Beith Tree. Five others killed near Thomasville as relief from the steamer City of Mobile assists scattered survivors.
Red Cross Offers Help for Peach Tree Flood Victims
A Red Cross representative may be sent from Birmingham to Wilcox to aid victims of Friday floods that devastated Lower Peach and nearby areas. Governor O’Neal received a telegram from Ernest G. Bicknell, national director, offering Birmingham Associated Charities as field workers in Alabama. The governor accepted Red Cross services as needed to assess damage and coordinate aid.
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Montgomery
Ala
National Cross Society
Eemingham
Wilcox
Peach
O'Neal
Ernest G. Bicknell
Washington, D. C
Red
Red Cross
Alabama
Associated Charities of
Birmingham
Peach ‘Tree
Birmingham Society
Tornado Kills Seven Near Macon Mississippi
A small tornado struck four miles north of Macon Mississippi near the residence of M O Bryne killing seven Black residents and injuring none. A negro woman and her four children died in a nearby joining place with a child blown from arms. The body was found hours later as damage spread through Macon.
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Associated Press
Macon
Miss
M. O'Bryne
Here
German steamer Irmingard seized by Greek warships
Bremen dispatch reports Greek warships captured the German steamer Irmingard off Lemnos in the Aegean Sea. The vessel sailed from Barry, Wales, with details of the seizure and the reported reasons to follow in telegrams from the owners.
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Associated Press
Bremen
Germany
Irmingard
Lemnos
Aegean Sea
Barry
Wales
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No More
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