Star Fish and Oyster to Build Large Gulf Fish Warehouse
The Star Fish and Oyster Company of Mobile plans a major $100000 Gulf fish warehouse and storage plant on the industrial canal at the state docks here. A three acre tract is leased for a reinforced concrete facility with refrigeration and freezing rooms, wharf, and new equipment from York Ice Machine Company.
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Gulf
New State Docks
Star Fish and Oyster Company
Mobile
State Docks Commission
Faulkner Pipe Company
Doullut
Ewing
Armstrong Cork Company
York Ice Machine Company
Eslava Street
Faulkner Ie My
Halleturing Company
Structural work begins on Pier 1 storage shed system
Doullut and Ewing will start the $250000 storage shed work at Pier 1 next week after completing pile driving for the foundation. Shed construction may begin Monday and is planned to finish in six months. Pier 3 foundation pours started. pile driving to begin Oct 1 with Pier 3 to be finished by March 1 in a $700000 effort. Fender system install on Piers 1 and 2 nears completion in a $100000 project. Transit shed system on Pier 1, a $260000 effort, will be ready in about 30 days.
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Pier 1
New State Docks
Doullut and Ewing
Trains and Truck Fire Kill Five In Ohio Collision
A Baltimore and Ohio train struck a heavy oil truck near Lima Ohio causing a fire. Baggage man Calvin Hanh am Cincinnati set brakes and saved passengers. Fireman Anthony F Lorte and messenger Howard Davis died. Engineer B J Libner and truck driver L N Smeary were not expected to live. All passengers escaped unharmed.
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Lima
Here
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Calvin Hanham
Cincinnati
Howard Davis
Dayton
Anthony F., Lorte
B. J. Libner
L. N. Smeary
Libner
Four Men Rob Jewelers In Downtown Chicago Heist
Bauer and Goldstein jewelers, 14th floor Stevens building, report an $85,000 robbery of diamonds, platinum and jewelry this afternoon. Four men held up the firm and a clerk. stock checked shows $25,000 unset diamonds, $50,000 platinum settings, and $10,000 white gold settings missing.
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Chicago
Bauer and
Goldstein
Stevens Building
Bauer
Playground World Series Dates Set
The playground world series will be played at Hartwell Field on August 22 and 23. In the Midget League Crawford Park meets Choctaw, and in the Junior League Choctaw plays Galvez. Games start at 9 and 10:30, with a double header in the two out of three series. On Tuesday the 23rd, all playground youths are invited to attend free as guests of the recreation and Mobile baseball club.
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Hartwell Field
Crawford Park
Choctaw
Galvez
Mobile
Lindbergh Arrives in Chicago Amid Wild Welcome
Chicago greeted Charles A. Lindbergh with a massive outpouring as he crossed the city at 1:85 p.m. after the Atlantic flight. Whistles and bells rang, crowds packed rooftops and streets, and officials had earlier imposed a six year ordinance to curb such landings following a past disaster.
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Chicago
Charles A. Lindburgh
Lake Michigan
Linbergh
Radio Station WIJBB to Move from St Petersburg to Tampa
The Financial Journal of Tampa was authorized by the Federal Radio Commission to relocate broadcasting station WIJBB from St. Petersburg to Tampa. A license for operation of station WBT of Charlotte, N.C. was transferred or trans-ferred.
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Washington
the Financial Journal
Tampa
Fla
Federal Radio Commission
WIJBB
St. Petersburg
Fila
WBT
Charlotte
Seaboard Seeks I C C Approval to Acquire 181 Mile Line
Seaboard Air Line asks the I C C for permission to take over the 181 mile line of the Georgia Florida and Alabama railroad. Seaboard will pay 1,000 dollars for common stock and guarantees interest and dividends on bonds totaling 1,750,000 dollars and on preferred stock of 1,500,000.
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Washington
Seaboard Air Line
Georgia, Florida & Alabama Railroad
Seaboard Fin
Weather forecast for Mississippi and Alabama
Fair tonight in Mississippi with Sunday partly cloudy skies and possible thunderstorms in the north. In south Alabama showers likely with gentle south winds and light to moderate gusts.
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Mississippi
Alabama
Widow recalls plane crash that killed Captain Rogers
In Los Angeles on August 18, Captain Arthur V. Rogers died when his plane crashed. His widow, holding their eight month old baby, said she prayed she would not faint as she rushed to the scene two miles away. She recounted the death plunge and noted trouble with obtaining a proper gasoline mixture for the motors.
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Los Angeles
Arthur V. Rogers
Inman Johnson
Bat Night Prowler Captured After Citywide Terror
Police say they have one suspect in custody and believe they stopped the nocturnal depredations of The Bat who terrorized the northern city for three nights. A Black man is held as a peeping suspect while investigators pursue identification. The Bat entered a St Louis Street rooming house waking a woman, left his shoes, and earlier attempted a nursing department breakin at the city hospital before escaping through a window.
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St. Louis Street
North Broad
City Hospital Nurses Department
Local man arrested after peeping accusation on Short Camp
Jesse Fields was arrested at 2 am on Short Camp street near Ann after several women identified him as a peeping Tom who attempted to enter homes. The neighborhood was awakened by his behavior, and Deputy Sheriff Dewey Barber was dispatched to the scene to take Fields into custody.
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Jesse Fields
Short Camp Street
Ann
Fields
Wade
Dewey Barber
Wholesale Fraud in Vote Charged in Kentucky Primary
In Harlan Kentucky on August 13 a suit filed in Harlan circuit court by defeated candidate J G Leabow alleges wholesale fraud in the Republican primary for circuit judge of the 26th district. The suit targets Circuit Judge J G Forester who won the nomination by a narrow margin and cites alleged sums of 15000 for Forester and 50000 for Jones as part of the irregularities.
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Harlan, Ky
26Th Judicial District
Harlan
Bell
Harlan Circuit Court
J. G. Leabow
Middlesboro
J. G. Forester
D. C. Jones
Forester
Jones
Leabow
Mayor Bayliss Flies From Pensacola to Mobile
Pensacola mayor Harvey Bayliss visited Mobile as guest of Mayor T Hartwell and commissioners Cecil Bates and Leon Sch. He flew with Lt. Donald Beatty of the 106th observation squadron to inspect Mobile’s recent improvements and praised the city’s paved streets docks and bay bridge.
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Harvey Bayliss
Pensacola
Fila
Mobile
T. Hartwell
Cecil F. Bates
Leon Sch
Donald Beatty
106Th Observation Squadron
Alabama National Guard
South America
Mobile Bay Bridge
Bayliss
Gulf City
Roosevelt fund aids Texas infantile paralysis victims
New York August 13 through a 75000 dollar foundation gift from Franklin D Roosevelt ten Texas victims of infantile paralysis will be treated at a Warm Springs Georgia sanitarium. Two restoration methods will be tested as Roosevelt notes his own past illness and the 150000 national victims.
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New York
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Navy
Texas
Warm Springs
Salesman Kills Self After Frightful Frenzy in Louisville
Henry W. Crawford a 46 year old real estate salesman slit his wife with a razor and fatally struck his 11 year old son Edgar with a hatchet. He then wounded his wife before retreating to an outhouse and fatally shooting himself. Both the wife and boy were reported near death at a local hospital.
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Louisville
Henry W. Crawford
Clue Unearthed in Disappearance Case
Police and an insurance investigator found a woman's overnight bag with clothing and toiletries and two telegrams reading Helen in an apartment rented by Jack M. Patterson the missing Union Neb bank cashier.
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Cleveland, CO
Helen
Cleveland
Jack M. Patterson
Union, Neb
Germans Hops From Berlin To Cologne
Lieutenant Otto Koennecke and Count Solms Laubach left Berlin at 4 30 this afternoon aiming to refuel their Caspar bi plane in Cologne before continuing their flight to an indicated destination.
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Berlin
Otto Koennecke
Count Solms‘Laubach
Cologne
Birmingham Navy Reserve achieves perfect target score aboard Mahan
The Birmingham naval reserve corps of 41 men and five officers completed a two week training cruise aboard the U S Mahan ending in port at 8 o clock. They scored eight hits in eight shots at target practice in Havana harbor with no misses, surpassing the Houston corpsmen. The Mahan sailed to Annapolis with a crew of 89 and seven officers, with Birmingham's group discharged to return home.
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Birmingham Naval Reserve Corps
U. S. &. Mahan
Com. Schuerrman
Annapolis
Birmingham
Magic City
Florida
Havana
Cuba
Birmingham Group
Houston, Tex
Houston
Pensacola
Key West
Mahan
Arne
Mobile
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf
Rain Delays National Park Tennis Championship Semifinals
Heavy rain in St. Louis postponed the semi final rounds of the national public park tennis championship. Planned schedule included both doubles and singles semifinals and finals set for tomorrow.
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ST. Louis
VOLS Lead Bears As Fuhr Sidelined Stockmen Start
Nashville uses Oscar Fuhr on the mound to halt Stockmen after Bears tag the Vols early. Inning by inning recap shows Brooks scoring on Welch error and Stock silencing the Vols with key outs. No further scoring through two innings as Pierce, Haley and Schreiber retire batters.
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Mobile
Nashville
D. Williams
Brooks
If. Welch
McLarry
Stook
Kern
Rf. Walker
Taitt
Schreiber
Ss. Mackey
C. Price
Rf. Haley
Knode
Fowler
Query
C. Black
Pierce
P. Fuhr
Nashville Vols
Bears
Oscar Fuhr
Bruin
Milt Stock
Ray Pierce
Rick Campbell
Weaver
Vols
Welch
Stock
Tait
Mackey
Bearsa
Williams
Haley
Fragmentary Baseball Notes with Player Mentions and Scores
Fragmentary OCR text references multiple players and teams including Caldwell Ainsmith Rogers and Kohlbecker Griffin Cousineau Cooper Morrell Philadelphia Ulrich Wilson Genewich Wert Urban Teens Jonnard Edwards Hogan Brooklyn New York Doak Clark Deberry Grimes Henry Taylor Pittsburgh St Louis Meadows Gooch Rhem O'Farrell May Pietnich Blake Gonzales Washington Moore Bengough Hadley Ruel Goslin Ruffing Hoffman Walberg CGephrane Lyons Crouse Hudlin L ee. Contains scattered score lines and team mentions suggesting a summary of game results and player names from baseball coverage.
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National Philadelphia
Ulrich
Wilson
Genewich
Wert
Rand Urban
Paenions
Jonnard
Edwards
Hogan
Courtney to commence transatlantic flight Monday
Southampton, Aug 13. Captain Frank T. Courtney plans a 6 am Monday start on the first stage of his transatlantic flight weather permitting weather reports from Washington and London indicate improved mid Atlantic conditions with a favorable wind. The British air ministry warns of stormy conditions 700 miles west of Valencia Ireland for 24 hours ahead from Southampton.
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Southampton
Eng
Frank T. Courtney
Wshington
London
Washington Bulletin
Newfoundland
British
Air Ministry
Courney
Valentia
Ireland
Fresh setback delays Bellanca mono plane Columbia
Paris reports a new misfortune for the Bellanca mono plane Columbia as French pilot Maurice Croughin inspected the craft. A propeller blade was found twisted and would require delicate straightening to ensure true surfacing before any intended flight tomorrow depending on Atlantic weather.
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Paris
Columbia
Tomorow
Atlantic
Maurice Croughin
Charles A. Levine
Quarrel Over Girl Sparks Old Killing Arrests in Florida
In Welch West Virginia on Easter morning 25 years ago a dispute between two youths over a girl led to a murder of George Sizemore. Seymour Griffith has been arrested in Florida though neither Sizemore nor Griffith was directly involved in the affair.
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Welch
W. Va
George Sizemore
Seymour Griffith
Florida
Sizemore
Grifith
Afair
Wills Beats Godfree as U S Takes Lead in Wightman Cup
In Forest Hills on August 13 Helen Wills dominated Kitty McKane Godfree to win 6-1 6-1 and give the United States a 3-2 lead over England in the Wightman Cup series. Betty Nuthall defeated Helen Jacob in three sets 6-3 2-6 6-1, keeping the U S position precarious with one more match needed to clinch the trophy.
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Forest Hills
N. Y
Helen Wills
Kitty McKane Godfree
America
England
Mise Wille
Mise
Betty Athall
Helen Jacob
California
Kenton County Court Hears Truesdell Manslaughter Charge
Bernard F. Davis and family testified in Kenton county court about the fatal crash in which Emma Jane Stephens, 10, was killed when the auto of State Senator Charles B. Truesdell struck her. Truesdell faces technical manslaughter charges.
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Covington
Bernard F. Davis
Miami
Fla
Deshler
Charles B. Truesdell
Fort Thomas
Emma Jane Stephens
Ira W. Stephens
Nicholson
Kenton
Truesdell
Ike the famous White House ram dies in Maryland farm
Ike, the tobacco-chewing ram that tended the White House flock during the Wilson era, has died at the Maryland farm of L. C. Probert, former AP superintendent. The sheep were sent there when Wilson left office.
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Washington
Ike
White House
Wilson
Maryland
L. C. Probert
Associated Press
Louisiana couple faces appeal for murder in Lake Palourde case
Ada Bonner Lebouef and lover Dr. Thomas E. Dreher were sentenced to death by hanging after being found guilty of murdering James J. Lebouef. James Beadle received life imprisonment. All appeal to the Louisiana supreme court, with claims of new evidence and jury bias cited by defense.
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Beadle
Lake Palourde
Lebouef
Twelve Women Enter Five Mile Swim in Mississippi River
Twelve swimmers entered the eighth annual five mile marathon for women on the Mississippi River at Memphis. The course runs five miles upriver from Hatchie Light. Defending champion Virginia Bell of Jacksonville, Florida did not defend her title due to illness. Entered: Sophia Duffild Edna Cilvin Francs Schneider Celeste Btiling Mrs. Marguerite Morris Smith Mrs. Cecilia Finlay Nelson Mrs. Ethel Hughes Brig Mrs. J. C. Harbin Dorothy Calvin Evelyn Poat.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi River
Hatchbie Light
Virginia Bell
Jacksonville
Fla
Sophia Duffild
Edna Cilvin
Francs Schneider
Celeste Bytiling
Marguerite
Golf courses for big sport building in New York
August 13 two eighteen hole golf courses will be laid out in Madison Square Garden this spring with putting greens sand traps and water hazards. Indoor golf events may be held.
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New York
Madison Square Garden
Two Unmasked Robbers Hold Up Nashville Plant
In Nashville on August 13 two unidentified robbers held up the J W Carter and Company shed factory office and escaped in a car with about $3900 in shoe boxes. One suspect was identified by Henry Conatser of the company as Walter Meadows, an employee later sought by police.
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Nashville, Tenn
J. W. Carter and Company
Henry Cona
Er Ville
Accercne Po Cae
Conatser
Walter Meadows
Chinese Unrest Slows U S Exports Abroad
The Chinese unrest hurts American trade with a sharp drop in exports for one month, falling by 789000 dollars from 1926. Goat skins declined to 170454 dollars while wood oil jumped to 171005 dollars, reflecting uneven shifts in commodity flows amid port shipping difficulties and rising prices.
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United States
Shanghai
China
Community Sings Schedule Announced for City Parks
The city releases a complete community sings program with instrumental, vocal music and dancing in parks next week. Lyons Park Monday night Washington Park Thursday night and Galvez Park Friday night host folk and popular songs, with novelty numbers filling gaps after rain postponed work.
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Sion
Ee Cnecity Ment
Lyons Park
Washington
Galvez
J C C Orders Out In Fruit Rate
Washington August 18 The commission ordered a reduction of 18 cents per 100 pounds on California fresh fruit moving to the eastern half of the cenes effective December 10. The same decision cut the rate to Denver and the Rocky Mountain territory by 12 cents.
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Washington
California
Comanases Commission
Commsion
Denver
Rocky Mourrtory
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George Fulford, Jr
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