Mobile Colonel Killed in North Carolina Train Collision
Col James Marks Williams, named to Alabama state harbor commission, along with Mrs Williams and Miss Tabor, died when their car was struck by a Southern Railway passenger train at a Durham Greensboro detour crossing. Williams, a Montgomery resident and coast artillery officer, had recently chaired civic efforts in Mobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Marks Williams
State Harbor Commission
Mobile
Alabama
Southern Railway
Durham
N. C
Williams
Thomas E. Kilby
Clayton Tullis
Montgomery Territory
Greensboro
Col. Williams
Miss Tabor
Coast Artillery
United States Army
South Perry Street
Montgomery
New Baldwin County Committee Members Selected
Judge Charles Hall named the assistant committee members for the Alabama seaport amendment campus committee in Baldwin County. The list includes Foley P J Cooney Ben Secour B F Patterson Blacksher A B Myles Frank E Earle Tensaw J R Till C M Coghlan Stockton George A Robinson Bay Minette Carthus Irwin Perdido Station E R Camp Dyas CF Freeman Stapleton H A Ormsby Bromley Capt N L Durant Muscogee Fla Oscar Williams Gatewood Stanley Watters Daphne Capt Joseph Pose S B White Loxley William H Taube Robertsdale George W Wiley Fairhope J E Gaston Point Clear Otto E Zundell Summerdale W I Clever don D Grove Lillian Charles Barley Josephine L O McPherson Magnolia Springs H Frank Gasque T R Nelson Grange Beach Philo B Chappell
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hall
Baldwin County
Foley
P. J. Cooney
Ben Secour
B. F. Patterson
Blacksher
A. B. Myles
Frank E. Earle
Tensaw
J. R. Till
C. M. Coghlan
Stockton
George A. Robinson
Bay Minette
Carthus Irwin
Perdido Station
E. R. Camp
Dyas
C.F. Freeman
Stapleton
H. A. Ormsby
Bromley
N. L. Durant
Muscogee
Fla
Oscar Williams
Gatewood
Stanley Watters
Daphne
Joseph Pose
White
Loxley
William H. «Taube
Robertsdale
George W. Wiley
Fairhope
J. E. Gaston
Point Clear
Otto £. Zundell
Summerdale
W. I. Cleverdon
D. . Grove
Lillian
Charles Barclay
Josephine
L. O. McPherson
Magnolia Springs
H. Frank
Gasque
T. R. Nelson
Grange Beach
Philo
Chappell
Three Negroes Hurt In Cutting Affray At Dixie Park
Three persons suffered knife wounds in a fight shortly after 1 AM at Dixie park Davis avenue and Lafayette street. William Ruffin 110 O Gwynn alley is in City hospital with throat wound Julia Williams 29 Carlin avenue has two lung wounds Emma Collins 304 Earle street is at the police station with arm wounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dixie Park
Davis Avenue
Lafayette Street
William Ruffin
O’gwynn Alley
Julia Williams
Carlin Avenue
Emma Collins
Earle Street
Arrest Made as Prohibition Officers Raid Home
Federal officers raided a house at 257 South Scott Street and seized a large amount of home brew. Mrs. Frei, resident of the premises, was arrested and later bonded at Commissioner J. S. Burgett’s court. Pint bottles of beer were found concealed in various parts of the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Scott Street
Frei
Weather lightens across leagues with mixed delays
Daytime forecasts show Southern League games in Mobile Atlanta New Orleans Birmingham Memphis Little Rock Chattanooga Nashville with varied clarity and start times. National League matches New York Cincinnati Brooklyn Chicago Pittsburgh Boston St Louis with mixed rain and clear skies. American League crews Cleveland New York Detroit Philadelphia St Louis Boston Chicago Washington mostly clear with a few delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern League Mobile
Atlanta
Oo Orleans
Birmingham
Clear
Memphis
Little Rock
Chattanooga
Nashville
Brooklyn
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Boston
St. Louis
Cleveland
New York
Detroit
Philadelphia
Washington
Weather Synopsis for Gulf States
Partly cloudy tonight with local showers Friday in Alabama West Florida and Mississippi. Temperature changes expected with no significant shift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alabama
Florida
Mississippi
New Rates On Ods To Bring Business Here
The Louisiana and Arkansas and the Frisco railroads will set parity export and coastwise rates on petroleum and products from Oklahoma to Mobile. R G Cobb Mobile Chamber expects lower overall rates to boost shipments through Mobile and restore parity with New Orleans. The routing runs Frisco to western L A terminus, then Natchez via L N and into Mobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
Arkansas
Frisco
Oklahoma
Mobile
New Orleans
R. G. Cobb
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi River
Louisiana & Arkansas Company
Okhamaha
Texas
Shreveport
Cobb
Frisco-L. & A
Louisiana & Arkansas
Natchez
Mississippi Central Railroad
Warns Autoists Of Passing Cars While At Stop
Recorder D. H. Edington fined Charles Ebel 15 dollars or 15 days for reckless driving after a crash with the assistant fire chief’s vehicle at Government and Warren streets near a stopped streetcar. Police campaign nets three more fines for speeding over 20 mph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. H. Edington
Recorder’s Court
Charles Ebel
L. Miller
Ebel
Government
Warren Streets
Miller
Recorder
T. B. Snevely
Jack Gaillard
T. M. Jordan
Port of Mobile To Get Shipments Lumber Cargoes
The Port of Mobile will receive a significant lumber shipment from Memphis territory in September and October totaling 4.5 million feet from 300 carloads. The American Overseas Forwarding Company announced the European-bound cargoes, with savings of five cents per hundred pounds on this booking.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Memphis
American Overseas Forwarding Company
Nowa
Associated Press
Tennessee
Kentucky
Gulf
New Orleans
Fourth vessel brings manganese ore to Mobile
The American steamer Stornest is due September 1 with over 7,000 tons of manganese ore from Rio de Janeiro, increasing Mobile imports to nearly 40,000 tons after earlier arrivals Santa Rosalia Elswick Park and Steel Engineer. Ore is discharged at Blakely Island and re-shipped to Birmingham by Warrior barges. R. V. and J. S. Taylor are local agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Stornestt
Rio de Janeiro
Santa Rosalia
Elswick Park and Steel Engineer
Government
Blakely Island
Tennessee Coal and Railroad Mills
Birmingham
R. V. & J. S. Taylor
Commissioner Plummer Invited to Inspect Mobile Port
Commissioner Edward C. Plummer of the United States Shipping Board is invited to visit Mobile for an inspection during his gulf ports tour. The telegram, sent by City Commissioner Harry T. Hartwell, proposes an entertainment program including stops at the laid up fleet, the government coal terminal, and the fuel oil station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward C. Plummer
United States Shipping Board
Mobile
Plummer
Gulf Ports
Galveston
Texas
New Orleans
Harry T. Hartwell
Shipping Board
Seipel Accepts Verona Invitation
Vienna reports Chancellor Seipel, after Berlin talks and anticipated German aid, has accepted an invitation from Italian foreign minister Signor Schanzer to meet in Verona Friday. He travels with Austrian finance minister Herr Segur. Vienna unrest persists as demonstrations by unemployed volumes raise fears for authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Associated Press
Seipel
Berlin
Austria
Signor Schanzer
Verona
Herr Segur
Plan U S Measure Stop Oil Pollution
Mobile city officials and shipping interests push to pass a federal bill to halt oil pollution of U S waters. Commissioner Hartwell, returning from an Atlantic City seaboard municipalities convention, leads the city docks effort amid complaints from shippers and timber dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Congress
United States
Hartwell
City Docks
Heads of Seaboard
Atlantic City
Toll From Wood Alcohol Is 130
New York August 24 Wood alcohol collected a heavy toll in the United States during the first six months of this year. Deaths from this cause numbered 130 and 22 cases of blindness were reported. Officials say figures are incomplete and total losses are higher due to bootleg whiskey containing wood alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
National Committee For the Prevention
Methodists Name Judge Williams as President
Judge W Erskine Williams of Fort Worth Texas was elected president and Judge T H Tatum of Sumter South Carolina chosen recording secretary of the general board of lay activities of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at its first Lake Junaluska meeting The board created by the general conference at Hot Springs last spring is organizing and will convene for three days
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
W. Erskine Williams
Fort Worth
Texas
T. H. Tatum
Sumter
8. C
General Board
The
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Lake Junaluska
Southern Methodist Assembly
Hot Springs
Wyoming Primary Governor Nomination Uncertain
In Cheyenne on August 24 the Republican race for governor remained unsettled after fluctuating margins. With 541 of 657 precincts reporting, John W. Hay led Robert D. Carey by 219 votes, 16 159 to 15 940, keeping the outcome in doubt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wyo
Robert D. Carey
John W. Hay
Hay
Carey
Bandits Capture Shan Chow in West Henan Province
Bandits seize Shan Chow in West Henan as two foreign engineers from the Long Halil Railroad are taken prisoner and held for ransom. A French man and his wife are robbed and injured, with their infant daughter at risk of death from mistreatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peking
Pbandits
Shan Chow
Henan
Long Halil
Zion leader orders gender segregated Zion beach
Wilbur Glenn Voliva, overseer of Zion, enforces beach segregation at Zion City Illinois. Men and women must stay 500 feet apart with strict swimsuit rules requiring covered bodies and long skirts for women and knee-length swing suits for men. Patrols monitor compliance at the bathing beach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zion City
Wilbur Glenn Voliva
Zion
Hell Holes
Zion Beach
Filibuster Battle Over Muscle Shoals Bid Begins
In Washington on August 24 Representative Garrett of Tennessee started a filibuster to block adjournment until bids for disposing of Muscle Shoals Alabama property are acted on. House Republican leader Mondell moved to adjourn until Monday, Garrett vowed to oppose any adjournment without progress on the Shoals proposals. Other Democrats expected to join the effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Garrett
Tennessee
Mondell
Wyoming
Alabama
Muscle Shoals
Coal dispute ends as miners and operators reach pact
In a supplemental agreement ending a five month idle period, the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators Association and the United Mine Workers of America settle the 1922 strike. Reopening in Missouri Kansas Oklahoma Arkansas fields targets car loadings by next week and full production by September 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators Association
United Mine Workers of America
George L. Peck
Kansas Miners
Cleveland
Davis
Philadelphia
John L. Lewis
Samuel D. Warriner
Laborers Reject Vote for Geneva Labor Delegates
In Tokio Aug 24 a large majority of Japanese workers refused to ballot for labor representatives at the Geneva conference this fall. They protested the government plan that would allot one worker delegate, two government delegates, and one capitalist delegate, arguing authorities pressured workers to favor government-approved candidates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
Associated Press
Japan
Geneva
Mineichiro Adachi
Belgium
Hitoshi Doke
Nervous Major Oser Applies for Travel Papers in Marriage Pact
Major Max Over, Chicago heiress Miss Mathilde McCormick's suitor and Rockefeller kin, filed citizenship papers in Basel as part of a marriage plan. He sought passports to tour major countries while friends note his unusual nerves. The couple's location and plans remain undisclosed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oser
Mobile Seeks Tourist Rail Rates and Seaport Amendment
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce announced an effort to place Mobile on the railroad tourist rate list to offer low excursion rates from Alabama and beyond. It also seeks central and north Alabama connections under Seaport Amendment rates to bring interior travelers to inspect the port of Mobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Alabama
Chamber of Commerce
North
Stewards Plan To Close Meet In St Louis
Delegates of the International Stewards Association gathered in St Louis since Tuesday prepared to close sessions. Election of officers topped the agenda along with a welfare committee recommendation to create a national school of training for hotel cooks and restaurant managers and efforts to eliminate French from American menus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Associated Press
International Stewards Association
Welfare Committee
Famous Nevada Casino Goes Into History
Tonopah Nevada August 24 The Casino once the center for gamblers and treasure seekers in the Tonopah district was destroyed by a fire that swept the tenderloin area yesterday The blaze believed incendiary caused damage estimated at 250000 dollars and left more than 250 people homeless
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tonopah
Nev
Tonopah Tenderloin
Deluded Sculptor Kills Himself at Art Institute
Walter Andaris an unsuccessful sculptor believed himself a reincarnation of the unknown carver of the Winged Victory. He shot himself in an alcove of the Chicago Art Institute as crowds left after viewing a replica of the statue. Police say his act followed personal failure to gain public appreciation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Walter Andaris
Art Institute
Andaris
Bonus Bill Nears Final Passage In Senate
The Fordney McCumber adjusted compensation bill moves toward final Senate passage as opposition wanes amid broad support from veterans groups and telegram and letter campaigns. President Harding's ship subsidy decision eased pressure, boosting hopes for a vote this week. Senator Borah plans to push coal commission discussions as the bill's fate looms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Fordney
Congress
American Legion
Senate
House
Harding
Borah
Coal Commission DL
Dydent
Relief Seen for Plains Drought as Cool Air Approaches
The Weather Bureau reports a high pressure area and cooler air over British Columbia may break the long hot wave sweeping the middle and southern plains. Temperatures above 100 degrees have been logged in Kansas Oklahoma western Arkansas and the Texas interior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Weather Bureau
Plains
British Columbia
Bureau
Canada
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Texas
College youth charged with chloroforming his uncle
R C Fowler aged 20 a Berea College student is jailed in Little Rock charged with chloroforming and robbing his elderly uncle Colonel Asbury Fowler in his office. Police say he confessed to stealing funds for his senior year and investigators recovered a $690 diamond ring and a $500 watch mailed to Fowler from a post office package.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
R. C. Fowler
Berea College
Berea
Asbury
Fowler
An Enna
Moonshiner Arrested After Shooting Owens
Jackson Mississippi Aug 24 Will Adkins alleged moonshiner charged with shooting prohibition enforcement agent Joe Owens near Zama Tuesday captured at Kosciusko last night dressed in women's clothes and armed when arrested two other men taken into custody in connection with the shooting Owens shot four times and hospital physicians say there is little hope for his recovery.
Montgomery to Host Southern Forestry Congress in 1923
Plans were laid in Asheville for the next Southern Forestry Congress to be held in Montgomery Alabama early in 1923. I T Quinn Alabama conservation commissioner will head a special committee to arrange the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asheville
Southern Forestry Congress
Montgomery
Ala
I. T. Quinn
Alabama
Train unions seek settlement talks with rail executives
AP reports in New York representatives of railway executives meet with shopmen to discuss settling strikers on seniority with individual roads. Union Pacific engineers and firemen go on strike at Grand Island Nebraska after a guard allegedly threatens to shoot an engineer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Train Service Brotherhood
New York
Union Pacific
Grand Island
Neb
Rail executives not to blame for failure of rail strike talks
Washington reports state railway boss Thomas Dewitt Cuyler said executives are not to blame for failed negotiations between carriers and shopmen. A Borah telegram urged a settlement to ease losses for farmers from car shortages. In New York the Big Five Brotherhood questioned a proposed settlement, while shop crafts leaders held mixed views and progress continued at 2:30 PM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Raili Way
Thomas Dewitt Cuyler
The
Association of Railway Executives
Borah
Ae Cuyler
New York
Associated Press
Big Five
Brotherhood
Mr. Willard
A. H
New York Central
N. Maher
Norfolk and Western
Hale Holden
Chicago, Bullington
Quincy
Rail executives hold secret talks amid shipmen strike tension
Meetings between rail executives and LA representatives were arranged today to seek partial settlements of the shopmen strike. The talks followed the collapse of earlier national settlement efforts amid the stalled dispute in New York on August railroad developments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Aug
Shipping Board Opens New Bids For 236 Ships
Inadequate bids on 236 ships offered for sale by the United States Shipping Board lead to another bidding round. A private competitive sale of the wooden vessels will be held at headquarters on September 6, with disposal only if satisfactory offers arrive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ate
United States Ship Board
Irregular leaders reported Corked with Free State troops
Dublin August 24 reports say Eamonn Valera Trikine Childers and Ma MacSwiney, leaders of the Republic Irregulars, were founded by Free State troops Cork today. Free Staters make no effort to capture rebel chiefs. The leaders move with a small following.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dublin
Eamonn Valera
Trikine Childers
Ma MacSwiney
Republi
Free State Treopage
Cork
Free
Reds to Establish Inheritance Rights
Moscow authorities moved to set inheritance rights by proposing a decree. Heirs would receive a fixed portion of estates while the remainder would go to the state, marking the first step in reshaping property inheritance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
REDS
Moscow
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State Harbor Board
Tate Guard
Carolina
U.S
National League
Cincinnati
U. S
Judge Williams
Mul
Kan
Oes
Hiladelphia
Phillip Murray
Thomas Kennedy
Hazleton
Murray
Lewis
Drougth
Moonshiner
Owens
Shopmen’s Strike Committee
DE Valera
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