The Bat Strikes In Fourth City Raid Early Morning
Police report the intruder known as the Bat reached multiple northern areas. He forced entry at Mrs. Riley’s rooming house on North Conception, fled leaving his shoes, and was described as slim, wearing white trousers and shoes. The suspect's race varied in accounts, with detectives Bauer and Arras noting a man then a negro. Jewelry theft at Tisdale Broad and Conti, hospital disturbance, and a further break at 301 St. Louis Street are tied to the spree.
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Megro
M. Riley
Conception Street
Bauer and Arras
Tisdale
Broad and
Conti Streets
City Hospital
St. Louis Street
Crashes on Flight Eye Reports Early Transoceanic Plans
AP notes announced schedules may keep three trans oceanic flights active in two days. weather and delays affect routes from Paris to New York with Ga ready to jump. takeoffs listed for Bluna Columbia and Junker planes from Dessad and York, as Otto Koennecke leads entrants toward the next morning flight.
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Associated Press
Paria
New York
Leon Ga
Junker
Dessad
York
Sean Otto Koennecke Plang
Koster Recaptures Speeding Whiskey Car On St Stephens Road
Officer Koster chased a second speeding car on St Stephens road after letting a first go. He stopped the Master 6 Buick at the intersection and found driver W. H. Bullen at 1351 Old Shell Road with 65 gallons of whiskey. the car was confiscated in the state's name.
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Will Koster
St. Stephens Road
W. H. Bullen
Old Shell Road
Koster
Aberdeen Wade
Strauss to Head L. Hammel Store
Berney Strauss will continue as president of L. Hammel Dry Goods Company after Julius Hammel’s death. Hammel stock was sold under his will to Strauss and his sisters Beulah Strauss Beer and Viola Strauss Eppstein. Strauss has 21 years with the firm in roles from stock boy to general manager. No policy changes are planned.
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Berney Strauss
L. Hammel Dry Goods Company
Julius Hammel
Hammel
Strauss
Beulah Strauss Beer
Viola Strauss Eppstein
Young Slayer Is Given Life Term
Earl Jackson, 16, must spend his natural life in prison for his part in the murder of his stepmother Mary Jackson on October 7. Judge Ferguson imposed the sentence after a jury verdict found him guilty and left the option to the court. The case revealed the boy’s father, Marion Jackson, 48, already serving life for his wife’s murder and bribed the lad to kill for a remarriage.
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Polar Bluff
Earl Jackson
Mary Jackson
Ferguson
Marion Jackson
Store Burglary Probed as Thieves Loot Whistler Shop
County authorities chase leads in the Greer's Store No. 6 burglary at Whistler where a truck backed to the rear door and goods valued at $1,000 were stolen including cigars cigarettes and general merchandise. No arrests have been made but deputies continue to seek clues.
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Greer
Whistler
Buyers Impressed By Port Growth In Year Past
Enthusiastic buyers, visiting for Buyers Week, praise Mobile port growth after inspecting facilities. A Bay Queen charter took guests to the Mobile Bay Bridge span and state docks, then to municipal piers, drydocks, and the quarantine station. Over 700 registered. crowd nears 1,000. attendees also enjoyed a seafood dinner and a Saenger revue in Fairhope.
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Mobile
Chamber of Commerce
Mobile Bay
Fairhope
Saenger
Katie Mae Angell
Toy Notions Company
Mobile House approves six local measures in Mobile Alabama
The Alabama House passed six bills directly affecting Mobile and Mobile County after pre- session agreements. One measure allows Mobile County to operate the Bay Bridge with an Ed J. Grove no vote on the proposal. An amendment blocked county takeover of the span and causeway. The group also approved a Mobile zoning bill, sanitation power for the city commission, a bridge operation bill, a 50 cent court fee for a city pension fund, marsh and tidal land reclamation, and judges and clerk salary increases. An additional bill lets the city levy business licenses in police jurisdiction with an amendment to prevent double licensing.
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Mobile County
House of Representatives
Bay Bridge
Ed J. Grove
Causeway
Mobile City Commission
Mobile Board of Revenue Authority
Mobile Bay
Baldwin Counties
Inferior Criminal Court
House
City Commission of
Dynamite Tossing Joyride Shocks Doylestown Area
Two quarry workers, John Radcliffe and Michael Mc Garrity, were jailed after a 24 hour police search into a new thrill seeking joyride in Buckingham mountain. Four dynamite blasts damaged homes and property along a 10 mile route injuring no one, but waking residents from bed.
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Doylestown
Buckingham Mountain
John Radcliffe
Michael Mce Garrity
John Scarborough
Booker T. Washington Country Club
Vincent Wilson
Frank Hellyer
Orders probe of fatal air crash in San Diego
Vice Admiral Louis R. Destriguer directed Captain Frank R. McCrary to lead a court of inquiry into the deaths of Lieutenants George W. D. Covell and R. S. Waggener in a commercial monoplane crash in San Diego. Military funeral services were held for Covell and Waggener.
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San Diego
Cal
Louis R. Destriguer
Western Battle Fleet
Frank R. McCrary
Fleet Air Force
George W. D. Covell
R.S. Waggener
Covell
Double tragedy near Jackson linked to estranged husband
Ella Taylor aged 20 and her husband, married four months earlier, died by their own actions near a highway in Mississippi. The husband Wade Smith, who used the alias E L Maderis, was found dead in a nearby thicket with guns in his car. A coroner’s verdict cites death by suicide. the couple had separated after a quarrel and threats.
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Jackson
Miss
Ella Taylor
E. L. Maderis
Lexington
Okla
Wade Smi
Noble
Jay
Smith
Oklahoma
Justue W. Sirmon
The
German Flappers Eye Trans Ocean Flight Trial
German flappers Brau Koennecke and Count Solms Laubech plan a trans Atlantic flight from Cologne after leaving Germany. They chase a $25 000 prize for first to Philadelphia, aiming to land anywhere in America and possibly continue to New York if fuel allows.
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Atlantic
Brau Koenmecke
Sam
Koennecke
Count Solms-Laubech
Philadelphia
Portland Woman Is Rail Official
Portland August 12. Mise Avis Lobdell welfare director for a rail transportation company says the welfare of workers is paramount. She notes the employment of women and their problems are railroad responsibilities and that worker efficiency depends on solving personal issues. Her duties include supervising a long camp trip train of 800 miles for a delegates’ convention.
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Portland
Ore
Mise Avis Lobdell
Miss Lobdell
Brg
State Federation of Women’s Clubs
London murderer pays with life
John Robinson a 36 year old clerk was executed for the murder of Mrs Minnie Bonnati wife of an Italian waiter. He was found guilty on July 12 in the Charing Cross railway station case known as the charging cross country mystery where a dismembered body was found in a baggage room.
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London
John Robinson
Minnie Bonnati
Charing Cross
Rob
Gee
Urte
Theatre proposal given approval in New York plan
Theatre owners representing 75 percent of New York's playhouses have approved the McBride plan to sell tickets through agencies at a price not more than 50 cents above box office.
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New York
Death House Gloom Lifted At Sacco-Vanzetti Fate
In Montgomery Alabama reports describe a klan convention in the Klavern hall with Grand Dragon Wedale and other leaders. Resolutions praise and denounce media coverage, noting an unsigned second resolution and a witness-related incident at Oneonta.
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Sacco-Vanzetti
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Blount County
Indorsing Eedale
Journal and Times
Thomas
Realm of Alabama
Tarrant
kKlansmen
Jeff Calloway
Oneonta
Realm of
Growth of Rew Moval From Condemned Cell Stirs Hope
Boston reports that Nicola Bacco and Bartolomeo Yeon felt slight relief as plans for a court review advance. The full New England Supreme Court bench was summoned to hear Tuesday morning arguments by defense counsel on the final lines of state court recourse. Judge Webster Thayer and Justice Turn to Page 11.
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Boston
Nicola Bacco
Bartolomeo
Contete Prsea
Supreme Court
Webster Thayer
General Motors to distribute record melon to stockholders
A $783,000,000 melon profits the General Motors Corporation plans to distribute among stockholders. The plan, the second dividend in a year, will be voted on September 12 with a proposal of a 100 percent stock dividend. The capital readjustment will issue two new $26 par shares for each no par common share, doubling the 8,700,000 shares outstanding.
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New York
Generalators Corporation
Wall
Two Killed in Fast Train Wreck Near Sturtevant
Two men were reported killed and a dozen mail clerks seriously injured when a Chicago bound fast mail train ran off the rails two miles from Sturtevant Wisconsin. The engine coal car and seven coaches derailed into a ditch. Deputy Sheriff Henry Harmon suggested a switch may have been opened and attributed the wreck to radical agitators.
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Sturtevant
Wis
Chicago
Markets Open Higher After Overnight Buying Push
Stocks moved irregularly higher at the opening in New York time today. Atlantic Coast Line rose about 2 1 2 points while American Smelting Houston Oil and Vanadium opened around 1 point higher. General Asphalt gained roughly 1 point.
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New York
Manhattan
Atlantic Coast Line
Houston
Cotton futures open steady in New York and New Orleans
Cotton futures opened steady with October at 19.24, December 19.46, January 19.56, March 19.70, and May 19.82 in the New York and New Orleans market report dated August 12.
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New York
New Orleans
Broun's Opinions Dropped From New York World
Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World announced Broun’s Sacco Vanzetti pieces were canceled after Broun’s articles showed extreme personal opinions. The paper maintained it would publish writers under their own names but refused further Broun submissions.
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New York
Ralph Pulitzer
New York World
Heywood Broun
Broun
Institution of Learning
Camprides
Harvard
Hangman's House
State House
Boston
Pulitzer
Braun
King Ben Purnell Comes to Court on Cot
Benjamin Purnell leader of the House of David colony testified in his defense in a dissolution suit. He arrived by ambulance carried by three bodyguards and appeared reclining on a cot in the witness chair while wearing a cape over his long gray hair.
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Joseph
Mich
Benjamin Purnell
House of David Colony
Purnell
Parnell
Death Wager Ends In Tragic Barroom Fall
In Kolberg Germany on August 12 a village tailor who bet he could drink fifty glasses of Korn, a strong wheat brandy, finished the challenge but collapsed while crossing the room to claim his winnings, ending in a fatal fall.
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Kolberg
Germany
Senate Passes Bill To Assist Secret Probes
Senate debates a measure tied to authorizing actions by the attorney general amid praise for results in Blount county. Senators discuss masking and night stalking by robed figures, with comments suggesting further anti masking actions and procedural moves.
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Senate
Travis Hiams
J. M. Bonner
Fors
McCall
Williams
eCall
Blount
Bonner
Blount County
Paris Furs Wear New Hues in Camouflaged Autumn
Paris reports furriers dye and stripe furs to resemble more expensive mink and ermine. Moleskin, once cheap, is dyed and patterned to mimic mink, while tinted real ermine coats and jackets appear in exclusive fur houses as prices rise for the season.
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Paris
Eiven
France
New Trial Ruling S anticipated in Louisiana murder case
Franklin Louisiana August 11 Judge James Simons will decide on a possible new trial for Ada LeBoeuf and Dr Thomas Dreher after their murder conviction of James LeBoeuf The defense expects denial and an immediate appeal to the state supreme court with potential two year delay before sentencing Also James Beadle the key state witness faces life imprisonment starting soon
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Franklin
James Simons
Ada LeBoeuf
Thomas Bk. Dreher
James LeBoeuf
Simon
State Supreme Court
James Beadle
Wool Market Shows Mixed Activity In Boston Trading
The Commercial Bulletin notes wool markets are hardly active yet firm with foreign wool nearly exhausted and domestic demand down. Manufacturing outlook remains bright. current conditions are healthy as the new season begins but trading has not fully started.
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Boston
Commercial Bulletin
Seattle to Tokyo Flight Prize Ambitions Highlighted
Report notes a $50,000 prize for the first Seattle to Tokyo air lane and observers expect rival groups to match the sum. Ponder endorses acquiring a Bellanca aircraft at about $35,000 as a probable investment.
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Seattle
Tokio
Tokyo
Ponder
Bellanca
Postponed Flight Schedule Alters Doole Mission
A Doile flight plan to Hawaii was postponed amid chaotic scheduling as nine of eleven entries already arranged faced delays. The agreement was reached after midnight, delaying the start date by two weeks before a final back-and-forth moved the mission to next Tuesday noon.
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DOLE
oRae Set
France Lags in War Preparedness Worldwide, Report Says
A World Federation of Education Associations session in Toronto heard that France shows weaker military readiness than other nations in the prewar era. The United States reports a 400 percent rise since 1912 in people undergoing military training, part of a broader effort to promote peace through preparedness. David S. Jordan, former Stanford chancellor, won a prize from Raphael Herman of Washington, D. C.
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Toronto
Ont
France
World Federation of Education Associations
United States
David Sta Jordan
Stanford University
Raphael Herman
Washington, D. C
Whitcombe Leads British Golfers in Tight Round
British golfer Whitcombe led the field after a 70 in the third round with a total 211 as others, including Mehrhorn and Laney, posted 74s. The text shows American entrants Bill Mehrhorn and Laneyees near the bottom in the standings.
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Charles
Bill Meblhorn
Laneyees
Mehrhorn
Weather Outlook for Mobile and Vicinity
Scattered thunder showers are forecast tonight and Saturday for Mobile and nearby areas but won’t lower daytime temperatures. Yesterday’s highs reached 91 in Mobile, 84 in Birmingham, about 90 in Montgomery, with Meridian and New Orleans nearby, while San Antonio hit 100 degrees.
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Nees Point
Birmingham
Meridian
New Orleans
Montgomery
San Antonio
Weather Outlook For Alabama and Mississippi
Local forecasts show thunder showers tonight and Saturday in extreme northwest Florida and northern Alabama. Mississippi expects fair to partly cloudy skies Saturday with thunder possible in the north portion and light variable winds.
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Florida
Werh
Mississippi
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