Close Fight Indicated in Race for County Commissioners
Final county returns show Paul Cazalas leading sheriff race with 3,882 votes while Emory Thomas trails. In revenue commissioner contests Pat Byrne and Dr A G Ward appear secure, but third district winner undecided pending official count. Towle and Green contest for third in First District. Freeland and Cleveland close in Second and Third districts. Official tally to start at noon with boxes opened through 6 or 7 pm.
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Paul Cazalas
Mobile County
Emory Thomas
Boards of Revenue
Pat Byrne
A. G. Ward
Albert
Towle
Charles Green
Prine
Scott
Jack Cleveland
Albert Freeland
CitroneNe, Whistler and
Crichad
Pune
Sokaks
Khwe
Norirmtly
Sncs
Asces
Sean Peak
Cazalas
Thomas
Palmer
McFayden
Edward J. Grove
Three Men Arrested in Mobile Strike Troubles
Police watched railroad shop areas near Mobile to stop weapons in a strike. Three alleged shop workers were fined 50 dollars or 50 days each by Recorder D. H. Edington for violating city law. Officers say the arrests occurred near the G M N shops.
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Mobile
D. H. Edington
Pensacola Man Arrested on Fugitive Charge
John W. DuBose of Pensacola appeared before the recorder on a fugitive from justice charge from Pensacola. The case was continued until Friday as police indicated warrants from Mobile were being pursued and officers were en route.
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John W. DuBose
Pensacola
Fla
Recorder
W. N. LeGear
Prioe City
Mobile
Pris
Southern basketball schedule notes three games only
The listing shows two Southern games at Atlanta vs Little Rock and New Orleans at Memphis plus Birmingham at Nashville with clear weather. National games include Cincinnati at New York, Chicago at Brooklyn, Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, and St. Louis at Boston with various start times, while American league has no games scheduled.
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Southern
Atlanta
Little Rock, Clear
New Orleans
Memphis
Birmingham
Nashvile
Cincinnati
New York
Chicago
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Boston
Weather Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi Fair
The forecast for Alabama and Mississippi calls for fair skies tonight and Friday. Winds light. Highs and lows not specified in the fragment.
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Washingtus Aus
Alabama
Sississippi
Rifles to Leave Saturday for Anniston Camp
The Mobile Rifles will depart Saturday night at midnight for Camp McClellan in Anniston for a fifteen day summer encampment. The 65 man unit, headquarters company of the 9th Infantry division, will mostly be mounted at camp with others on divisional duty. Afternoons will feature athletic drills and contests in baseball tennis basketball and swimming with plans for intercompany games and a Rifles baseball team already formed.
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Mobile Rifles
Camp McClellan
Anniston
9Th Infantry Division
Hartley A. Moon
Rifles
New Orleans Trail Party to Meet Mobilians for Gulf Coast Tour
Mobile boosters for the Gulf Coast Boulevard and the Old Spanish Trail plan an August 22 departure for a gulf coast tour. They will be met at Gulfport by a New Orleans committee including Congressman OConnor. The group will stop along the coast, with Pascagoula the first stop, to spur support for completing the trans continental highway link.
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Mobile
Gulf Coast Boulevard
Gulf Coast
Gulfport
New Orleans
O'Connor
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Pascagoula
Bay St
Gulf Coast Boulevard Association
Vice Commander to be Chosen at Legion Post Meeting
Lamar Y. McLeod post to elect a new vice commander after John P. Bell resigns to leave Mobile. The group will also decide on hotel club room arrangements on the Battle House ground floor and appoint committees to finalize take over details by November 1. Members urged to attend what officers expect to be a large summer meeting with several candidates discussed.
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John P. Bell
Mobile
Lamar Y. McLeod Post
American Legion
Battle House
Jury Trial Sought in Shopmen Cases
A jury trial will likely be requested for Louis Godard Leo Mkeough and Robert Gorman on federal injunction violations tied to the local railroad shop men strike. Hearings are reset for August 15 in U S court per defense request. The defendants were cited after an alleged assault on a shopman at Louisville and Nashville yards.
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Louis Godard
Leo MceKeough
Robert Gorman
United States
Robert E. Cunningham
Louisville & Nashville
Borrowed Funds to Claim Family Legacy in Indiana
Cincinnati waiter Donald Blake aged 43 left the city on borrowed money for Anderson Indiana where a $75,000 legacy from an uncle awaits him. He said he would use the inheritance to relieve his deafness.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Donald Blake
Elm Street
Anderson, Ind
County Road Sentences and Petit Larceny Case
Henry Washington received one year on the county roads and Willie Johnson six months on the county roads, handed by Recorder PD. H. Edington faces charges of petit larceny after testimony that tires were taken from Acree Motor Car Company.
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Henry Washington
Willie Johnson
Recorder PD
H. Edington
Acree Motor Car Company
Lord Northcliffe Near Death In London Trend
Lord Northcliffe, the famed British publisher, remains near death from heart disease as of August 19 in London. His condition has not improved and he lies in a critical state.
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London
Lord Northcliffe
Peace parley opens between United Mine Workers and minority coal operators
Cleveland hosts a late day meeting as President John L. Lewis moves forward without Illinois, Indiana, and Western Pennsylvania operators. Insurgent factions may yet join or submit to the conference as wage talks stir four district coal groups including Indiana Illinois Western Pennsylvania and the Danville district plans to send 6,000,000 tonnage delegates. The UMW policy committee convened at 10 am to assess Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia developments.
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Cleveland
United Mine Workers of America
John L. Lewis
Illinois
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Lewis
Southwest Coal Operators’ Coal Association
Danville
Lil
United Mine Workers
West Virginia
Seamen Claim Due Ticket Back Home
Charges that crews of the US Shipping Board steamers Narcissus and Cockayponset were discharged at New Orleans in violation of promises to transport them back to New York were reported. About forty seamen were paid off as the vessels tied up, with many lacking funds and threatening public charges. The men say they were promised transport to New York if the ships remained tied up.
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Altey
New “Orleans
United States Shipping Board
Narcissus
Cockayponset
New York
Ford's Automobile Stuck in Mud on River Road
Watertown New York August 10 Henry Ford while cruising on his yacht Siala stopped at Slay ton and met dealer George Gillick. They attempted to reach May Irwins farm but heavy rains left the road muddy and the sedan became stuck until a tractor freed it. Ford remained undaunted and continued his visit.
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Watertown
N. Y
Henry Ford
Ford
Slayton
George Gillick
May Irwin
Mr. Ford
Miss Irwin
Church Closed to Settle Dispute in Atlanta
In Atlanta, Judge W D Ellis ordered the Confederate Avenue Baptist church closed to stop services while a dispute is settled. Pastor James B Goodwyn said the trouble began after he barred certain members from holding dances and tacky parties in the church, which serves about 100 in the congregation.
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Atlanta
Confederate Avenue Baptist Church
W. D. Ellis
Superior Court
James 8. Goodwyn
Thompson Smull Will Visit Europe on Board Details
Washington Aug 10 Officials Frederick I Thompson of Mo bile and J Barstow Smull president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation will sail from New York Saturday on the President Harding to transact business for the shipping board in England and France They plan to be away about a month and may visit Germany
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Washington
Associated Press
Shipping Board
Frederick I. Thompson
Mobile
J. Barstow Smull
Emergency Fleet Corporation
New York
Harding
England
France
Germany
Meridian Man Held for Death of Wife
A. N. Riley, proprietor of the state’s largest cleaning and dyeing house, was indicted by the Meridian grand jury for the murder of his wife six months after he shot her. He had been free on bail until his arrest and awaiting trial at the current term in circuit court.
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Meridian
Miss
A. N. Riley
Riley
Liberty
Fire destroys fifteen buildings in Oil City blaze near Texarkana
Texarkana Arkansas reports a fire at Oil City Louisiana fifty miles south of Texarkana destroying fifteen buildings. Firefighters from Shreveport arrived to control the blaze after it started. Loss is estimated at $100,000.
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Texarkana
Ark
Oil City
Ivom Shreveport
Attorney Suspects Trick Has Body Prisoner Exhumed
In Cypress Lawn cemetery San Francisco officials exhumed a casket said to hold Joseph Furey the Texas penitentiary inmate. Los Angeles DA Thomas Lee Woolwine requested identification to verify the body amid past Bunko cases and pending charges.
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San Francisco
Cypress Lawn
San Mateo County
Joseph Furey
International Banco
Texas
William O. Hassler
Thomas Lee Woolwine
Los Angeles
Woolwine
Furey
Fme
Oolwine
Kilby Asked Protect People On Price Coal
Secretary Hoover to seek Alabama Governor Kilbys cooperation to ensure fair coal prices for Alabama consumers as operators break from a voluntary ceiling. Officials consider federal steps to enforce maximum fair price in districts not complying with the federal emergency program.
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Kilby
Washington
Alabama
Federal Control Distribution Committee
Hoover
Federal
Raleigh cruiser grounded and damaged off Labrador coast
Admiral Sir William Pakenham and 4800 crewmen on the Raleigh, flagship of the British North Atlantic squadron, were ashore at Point Amour in fog. Supplies came from the Calcutta while rescue plans to Halifax were arranged. six to eleven sailors feared dead as the Raleigh faced the peril of the Straits of Belle Isle.
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ST. Johns
N. F
William Pakenham
Ralegh
Point Amour
Strait of
Belle Vale
Labrador
Halifax
Calcutta
Raleigh
N. S
Straits of
Belle Isle
Aranmore
Typhoon Swatow Toll Reported At Fifty Thousand
The typhoon and tidal wave that struck Swatow China has left an estimated fifty thousand dead according to a Hong Kong dispatch. Relief subscriptions in Swatow total more than 42006 dollars as aid flows to the affected region.
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London
International News Service
Swatow
China
Hong Kong
Vrera
Chamber of Commerce
Subsidy bill outlook dimmed by rail and coal strikes
The article reports that despite claims by Republican leaders the Harding subsidy bill is likely dead in the current Congress. Strikes and political divisions, especially among midwest and inland lawmakers, hinder movement, with some factions still pressing for action while others prefer to let the bill die.
Amundsen Links Return From Nome Flight Plans
Lieut. E. G. Fullerton arrives from Kotzebue and says Amundsen chose Lieut. Dakar Omdal to pilot a flight from Point Barrow. Amundsen would attempt the voyage with a single pilot to avoid extra risk of a northern aviation base and extra weight.
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Nome
Alaska
E. G. Fullerton
Kotzebue
Amundsen
Lieut
Dakar Omdal
Point Barrow
Maud
Lieut. Fullerton
Omdal
Sun Yat Sen Deposed Leader Arrives in Hong Kong
Sun Yat Sen former president of the southern republic landed at Hong Kong from Canton harbor aboard the Moorheen. He then boarded the Empress of Ruaela for Shanghai signaling a possible temporary abandonment of his bid to lead the Canton government.
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Sun Yat Sen
Hong Kong
Associated
Preas
Southern Republic
Canton
Canton Harbor
Empress of Ruaela
Shanghai
South China
288 Lives Accident Toll in New York
The Safety Institute of America reports 288 lives lost in New York City accidents in July across the five boroughs, up 64 from June. The July toll matches the 1921 figure, with 130 deaths in July and 62 child fatalities in Manhattan, nearly equal to the other four boroughs combined.
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New York
New York City
Safety Institute of America
Manhattan
McKellar Returns to Senate After renomination
Senator McKellar Democrat of Tennessee returns to the senate for the first time since renomination. He is warmly congratulated by colleagues including Senator Reed Democrat of Missouri who led coverage of his victory in the Missouri primaries.
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Washington
McKeller
Tennessee
Senate
Shopmen to reply to peace plan this week
President Harding awaits formal answer from the shop crafts federation on seniority dispute as executive heads draft their reply. Leaders indicate the plan may be rejected. railroad management to respond in New York. The White House eyes a congressional role if mediation fails and Joliet strike actions complicate the dispute.
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Washington
Harding
Rail Shop Crafts Federation
Railroad Labor Board
New York
White House
Congress
House
Joliet
Ill
Apparen
Fierce Battle On Cork Front Between Free State and Irregulars
Dublin dispatches report heavy fighting as Free State troops land at Youghal and push toward Cork from east and west. Irregulars in Cork set fires and retreat via bridges as de Valera and his followers resist. clashes extend to Clonomel with de Valera last sighted in the area.
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Dublin
Free State
Cork
Youghal
Black Water
Eamonn de Valera
Clonomel
de Valera
Tipperary
Debated Flexible Tariff Seen Shifting to President
The McCumber bill's flexible tariff provision prompts a committee amendment allowing the president within sixty days after passage to adjust rates on any article while capping total changes at fifty percent. Senators Frelinghuysen and Jones push commissions to base tariffs on scientific grounds, opposing political influence. The amendments face swift debate under a gag rule, with Democrats warning of unlimited presidential powers.
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Washington
Finance Committee
United States
Frelinghuysen
New Jersey
Jones
New Mexico
Seek to Stave Off Collapse of Economic Meet
In London on August 10 Lloyd George and Raymond Poincare conferred with their cabinets to avert a possible collapse of the German reparations talks. Allied ministers reported no settlement. France demanded guarantees if a moratorium is granted. The allied conference adjourned as leaders planned further cabinet consultations.
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London
Lloyd George
Raymond Poincare
France
Germany
Poincare
Alll
Mistry
Paris
Millerand
Threatened General Strike by Big Four Unions
Cleveland Aug 10 United Press The powerful four transportation brotherhoods threaten a general strike involving over two million men. They cite guards at railroad centers and risks from defective equipment as reasons. Rail yards in Rock Island and Illinois Central operations are affected as leaders urge non essential workers to stay home.
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Cleveland
United Press
Big Four Transportation Brotherhoods
Big Four
Elgin
D. B. Son
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemény
Pottsville Locomotive Engineers Threaten Immediate Strike
Pottsville engineers threaten an immediate strike to aid shopmen as Philadelphia and Reading Railway monitors the move. A four member Cleveland survey team studies railroad working conditions in Louisville while local strike leaders remain reticent about findings, linking to a prior Firemen Enginemen president visit on guard rules.
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Pottsville
Pottsville Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Philadelphia and Reading Railway
Louisville
Cleveland
Robertson
Indifference Toward Bootlegging Cited by Agent
Miss Geor Hopley the only woman federal prohibition agent said indifference of the good people keeps bootlegging profitable. She urged more interest in enforcing the Volstead law noting women can help in drying up the nation. A survey indicated liquor licenses have decreased by 17,500,000 though she did not explain the computation.
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Washington
Geor Hopley
Government to Probe Cancer Causes at Treasury
Washington August 10 The government will start an investigation into the causes of cancer. Dr J W Scherechewsky surgeon general of the public service has been tasked to lead the inquiry and establish headquarters in Boston.
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Washington
Treasury Department
J. W. Scherechewsky
The
Public Service
Boston
Wooley Illness Report From Madison Father Receives Update
Madison on August 10 received word about John G. Wooley, twice a presidential candidate, reported ill in Granada, Spain. The message from his son J Ren Wooley states Mr. Wooley, age years old, is said to be suffering a cerebral attack while abroad.
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Madison, Wis
John G. Wooley
Uni
Granad
Spain
J. Ren Wooley
Mr. Wooley
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