Traffic violators swept up on Cedar Point area by county sheriff
Sheriff Paul G. Cazalas led a campaign against traffic violations on county roads resulting in several docketed defendants at the county jail. The crackdown focused on Cedar Point road Old Shell road and the Craft highway with arrests for speeding running without lights and unlicensed operation. Fines for speeding were imposed by Acting Recorder E J Grove including Joe Hendrick H org and R Ay Te each fined $15 or three days. L Zarter and B H Huxford were discharged after reckless driving charges were dismissed in the Congress and Jackson streets crash at which occupants were shaken but no recklessness shown. A P Hagler was cited for crossing Dauphin Joachim streets without a signal amid a parked auto.
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Paul G. Cazalas
Cedar Point Road
Old Shell Road
Craft Highway
Bercy Collins
Israel Pickens
James Dson
Ed Sullivan
Fred S. Huggins
William Reegan
Bernstein and Rogers
E. J. Grove
Joe Hendrick
H. Org
R. Ay Te
Dolor
L. Zarter
B. H. Huxford
Congress
Jackson
Recorder
Zarter
Huxford
A. P. Hagler
Dauphin _Joachim
petition asks ICC to reopen graft railroad sale case
Mississippi Central Railroad petitions the Interstate Commerce Commission to reopen the sale of the Hattiesburg branch of the G M N railroad to the Bonhomie Hattiesburg Southern. Central argues the sale conditions are impractical without further ICC intervention and cites jurisdictional and factual inconsistencies in the prior report.
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Hattiesburg
Bonhomie & Hattiesburg Southern Railroad
Alabama Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mississippi Central Railroad
Mississippi Central
Baumont
Miss
Central
Federal Prohibition Case Docket Opens With Key Testimony
Federal agents led by A.R. Buttler and M. T. Gonzal las arrive to testify as Percy H. Kearns faces bribery charges. The August term opens with new jurors sworn and Willie Lee's obstruction case under way. Police raid squad remains active as liquor law violations continue to be pursued.
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A.R. Buttler
Treasury Department
William R. Harvey
Cumberland
M. T. Gonsaulles
Gonzaullas
Percy H. Kearns
Willie Lee
William Thomas Lee
Lee
Plans Complete To Entertain Out Town Buyers
A Chamber of Commerce meeting of traveling salesmen set the stage for 500 out of town guests at the third buyers week. J H Ford of Coffeeville led the registration as merchants prepared an entertainment program with rail and river excursions and a sea coast bathing season a feature for visitors tomorrow.
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Chamber of Commerce
J. H. ‘Ford
Coffeeville
Ala
Mobile
Beittle
Endocrine Glands Weigh In On Emotional Life in Leopold-Loeb Case
Chicago August 18 The cross examination of Dr H Douglas Singer in the Franks hearing features a lively exchange over whether endocrine glands affect emotional life The attorney and witness spar over terms like concentration psychology and insanity while bailiffs calm spectators and the court notes signs of mental disease in the defendants including Loeb's imagined self as a master criminal
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Chicago
Associated Press
Clarence
Darrow
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
H. Douglas Singer
Crosa
Franks
Phanta
Loeb
President Coolidge Starts Vacation as Dirt Farmer
President Calvin Coolidge begins a quiet vacation in Vermont, tending a hay field with homemade wooden rakes as his father Colonel John Coolidge presents the rakes. The Dawes plan acceptance brings talk of ending the war and resuming reparations negotiations, while the Coolidges attend a sermon and enjoy rest on the farm in Plymouth.
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John Coolidge
Calvin
Representative Treadway
Massachusetts
Plymouth
Marshall W. Steadham
Lyring i
Mass
Varmont Hills
Calvin, Jr
Dawes
London
Coolidge
United States
France
Italy
Belgium
Great Britain
Germany
John White
McCoy in Jail as Police Seek Two New Leads
Los Angeles Aug 18 The Deange family murder case widens as Norman Selby Kid McCoy is jailed after a suspected confession to a woman friend. Police pursue two new leads including a motion picture actor and James F Lawney husband of the deceased. Grand jury testimony expected tomorrow.
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Norman Selby
Kid McCoy
Theresa Mars
Los Angeles
Mrs. More
Pyke
William Deangne
Sie Civentor
McCoy
Mors
James ‘F.' Lawne
Keyes
Holly Wood
Nottingham
Lawney
Lawsney
Jennie Thomas
Girl Celia Bowling Held Pending Kin Instructions
The body of Celia Bowling also known as Ruth Taylor 20 a former Carrabelle Florida resident who died from mercury poisoning Tuesday is held at Roche funeral home awaiting relatives guidance. She reportedly told hospital staff she took six tablets mixed with water and swallowed the potion. Survived by her mother Mrs J C Melley of Carrabelle and other relatives.
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Celia Bowling
Ruth Taylor
Carrabelle
Fla
Roche Funeral
Mobile
J. C. Melley
Final Rehearsals For Epworth League Play
Final rehearsals are under way for a three act comedy titled A Poor Married Man by the Epworth League of the Prichard Methodist church. The play, about married life, features a mother in law and mistaken identity and will benefit the church piano fund. Proceeds go to the church piano fund and incidental numbers are played between acts. The performance starts at 8 o clock next Friday at Palace theater Prichard and the public is invited.
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Epworth League
Prichard Methodist Church
Palace Theater
Prichard
Theublic
Storekeepers Fined For Sunday Open Businesses
John Cassimus of 461 North Hampton Street and A. Robinson of 364 Pole were fined five dollars each for keeping shops open on Sunday. Acting Recorder E J Grove imposed the penalties today. W E Reil of 67 South Conception Street faced a similar charge and his case was set for a hearing tomorrow morning.
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John Cassimus
North Hamton Street
A. Robinson
Pole
E. J. Grove
W. E. Reil
South Conception Street
Knights of Columbus defeat Brainalgine 4 to 2
Knights of Columbus beat Brainalgine 4 to 2 Sunday afternoon at Kelly Park diamond. LeGros and Shaw Headache pitched well for the Knights and the KC club scored in a key inning on clutch hits off Shaw. A running catch by Smith in left field stood as the defining moment for the victors with several hundred spectators watching.
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Knights of Columbus
Brainalgine
Menoon
LeGros
Knights
Shaw
Shaw H
Smith
K. C
Kelly Park
Negro Peddler Billy Buried After Delayed Discovery
A 70 to 75 year old black man known as Billy, found dead behind municipal equipment at the south end of the oaks, was buried without identification after coroner S F Hale ruled he had likely been dead for about a week. Amos Martin, a black dock worker, was identified as the deceased.
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Municipal Oaks
S. F. Hale
Billy
Amos Martin
Weather Forecast for Mississippi Tonight and Tuesday
The forecast covers Mississippi with cloudy skies and showers likely tonight. Tuesday brings cooler temperatures and the chance of scattered rain across regions.
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A and
Mississippi
Gener
Wind disturbance reported at sea advisory issued
A weather warning from Washington to the local weather bureau notes a disturbance of flight in the central Atlantic between Dominica and St Kitts with slight to moderate intensity. The center is about 1,800 miles southeast of Mobile and expected to move northwest at about 300 miles daily, with Mobile weather forecaster predicting six days to reach the area.
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Dominica
St. Kitts
Washington
Pominica-and
Mobile
Turn Down Plea For Sheriff Car
The board of revenue and road commissioners rejected Sheriff Cazalas request to buy an automobile to curb reckless driving on county highways. They also declined funding for motorcycle patrols and heard a proposal to seawall 2,000 feet of the bay front road, with local property owners agreeing to cover half the cost. A four member committee was authorized to meet with the owners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Cazalas
Seawall
Bay Front
George Fearn, Jr
Women’s League Plans Bond Issue Campaign in Mobile
Members of the Mobile County League of Women Voters were urged to attend a hotel meeting Wednesday morning where committees will report on plans for the September 8 city bond election. Final details for ongoing hospital and civic projects will be arranged and an information bureau to inform physicians and the public will be set up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile County League of Women
Protest on Coke Freight Rates From Tennessee and Georgia
The traffic department of the Chamber of Commerce filed a protest with the Interstate Commerce Commission against the freight rates recently published and effective August 28 on export coke from Tennessee and Georgia to Mobile. The petition claims the rates are unjustly discriminatory against Mobile and unduly preferential to South Atlantic coast ports and requests a suspension of the rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Traffic Department of the
Chamber of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tennessee
Georgia
Mobile
Atlantic
Big Still Destroyed by Deputy Near Semmes Alabama
A 50 gallon illicit still was destroyed Sunday afternoon on Collins' Creek near Semmes Alabama. Deputy Sheriff John Morris seized the apparatus and took it to the swamp area near the scene as evidence for Sheriff Paul G Caza.
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Collins’ Creek
Semmes
Ala
John Morris
Paul G
City to adopt new audit system at regular session
The city will adopt a new audit and bookkeeping system after a conference in Mayor R. V. Taylor’s office. Rosson & Smith auditors proposed the change following a shortage found in Clerk F. Howell’s police department accounts. George T. Rosson outlined the system and the city would pay 3000 dollars to audit books to October 1 1925.
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Comitaton
R. V. Taylor
Crawford and
Hartwell
Rosson & Smith
Trooper Requests Detention After Absence From Post
Charles Jones, a member of Battery B 179th Field Artillery Fort Bragg, walked into the sheriff's office and asked to be held in jail until army officers sent for him. He said he had a 15 day furlough and visited relatives in New York and Atlanta, running out of funds since leaving April 27 without leave.
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Charles Jones
Ies
179Th Field Artillery
Fort Bragg
N.C
Hobson Gibson
Jones
Army
New Ork
Atlanta
Argentine flyer arrives in Hanoi on world tour
Hanoi reports Major Pedro Zanni, famed Argentine round‑the‑world flier, landing at 9 o'clock as part of the global voyage. The aviator plans to depart for Canton tomorrow evening.
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Hanoi
French Indies
Associated Press
Pedro Zanni
Nofr- Ing
Canton
Diver and wife reunite after yearlong search in New Orleans
Mrs Charles Walter Edward of Brooklyn New York found her diver husband in New Orleans after a long hunt. He had returned to Brooklyn then disappeared again before she learned his whereabouts. They had married in 1923 and separated during his absence.
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Orleans
Charles’ Walter Edward
Brooklyn
New York
Edwards
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Davis and Roper Lead Strategic Board Talk for Campaign
A conference at the Democratic party center brought together John W. Davis as standard bearer and Daniel C. Roper ex-Internal Revenue head, with Robert Wooley ex-Interstate Commerce and Senator Pittman of Nevada. The advisory panel to Chairman Shaver could include Borman, Mace, White, Homer, Vance, and Cordell Hull, forming a new national committee leadership group.
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John W. Davis
Daniel C. Roper
Robert Wooley
Inter & Commerce
Pittman
Nevada
Shaver
Borman Aggart
Tadienaake Mace
New York
White
Ohio
Homer
Patriotic Address by Mrs Leila Bell Amid Senate Collapse
Regalia attended a patriotic address delivered by Mrs Leila Bell as an eight foot drop collapsed into the Senate basement. Several hundred people fled or were injured with injuries varying in severity.
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Regalia
Mra.fLeila Bell
Senate
Light shock felt as British naval defeat in the Mediterranean feared
An earthquake tremor described as light was felt today amid reports of a British naval defeat in the Mediterranean. No further details are provided on casualties or exact location.
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Mediterranean Sea
Trial of Leopold and Loeb Enters Fifth Week
Chicago observers report growing strain in the Leopold and Loeb case as the fifth week of the murder trial unfolds. State's Attorney Crowe prepares for a final plea to seek the death penalty, while Darrow's cross examination challenges the last state alienist. Guards are tightened as rumors of suicide surface and courtroom tension rises ahead of closing arguments.
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Chicago
John R. Caverly
Nathan Leopold, Jr
Richard Loeb
Robert E. Crowe
Bobby Franks
Dicky
Babe
Jall
Wm. O. Krohn
Clarence Darrow
Darrow
H. Douglas Singer
Krohn
Judge Caverly
Collaewe
Maryland Virginia fish poaching clash escalates at Chesapeake Bay
Maryland and Virginia face off as the Maryland conservation fleet on the Somerset fires a cannon to deter alleged menhaden poachers. Conservation Commissioner Stephen Earle says armed ships will enforce measures and will fire if necessary to protect Maryland waters.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Virginia
Somerset
Chesapeake Bay
Stephen Earie
McLane
KLAN ROW ACTORS ORDERED TO JAIL
Eight Ku Klux Klan members and five anti Klan opponents were sentenced to thirty days in jail for disturbing the peace at a Grove meeting July 31. All appealed and were held on bonds in Haverhill Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haverhill
Mass
International News Service
Ku Klux Klan
Grove
Parley Concludes Coolidge Praises London Conference
Plymouth Vermont August 18 President Coolidge praised the London conference on the Dawes plan and said its outcome ranks with the armistice as a major achievement. He commended Ambassador Kellogg and Col James A Logan for representing the United States and sent Kellogg a congratulatory message. The president planned a quiet rest period after returning from Washington with a longer vacation ahead.
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Plymouth
Coolidge
London
Ambassad Kellogg
James A. Logan
Washington
Kellogg x
Missing Automobile Recovery Report Sparks Local Inquiry
A damaged fragment notes a missing automobile recovery effort reported to headquarters. A vehicle described as belonging to Wilcox was last seen Saturday night in the Western Market area, with authorities examining the scene.
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Wilcox
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Thompson
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Rer
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O. Robbins
P. T. Graves
Prohibition
Cc. O. Hartley
Hartley
Aryland
Deeer
Lawrence
Tom Reeves
Wheelerville
Burch
Ingfellow
Reeves Iseen
Willie King
F. Cc
Robert Bailey
Ed. Chadwell
Lee Harris
Willie Woods
A. Puckett
South Water Street
Leopold
Pres. Coolidge
George E. Durno
Alger
MceCoy- Mors
By Copeland Burg
Tr Tadee
Ioto News Service
CITY
Women’s League
COKE
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Randler
Diver
Wife
Strategic” Board
George R. Holmes
Klan Row
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