Mobile Seeks Cotton Trade Rise With Four Barges Added
Four self propelled barges will enter the Warrior river trade from north Alabama, Mississippi and western Georgia to boost Mobile port shipments. New Orleans also bids for river cotton exports, but Mobile may gain on rates. Tariffs show cotton rates 20 percent below railroad rates, with insurance included while in barge service.
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Warrior River
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
Mobile
New Orleans
Crescent City
J. W. Mooney
Barge-Line
Orleans
Postpone Hearing in Drowning Case of Seaman
Fred Sorek a Mobile seaman, arrested in connection with the death of William Fabricus, was reset for the hearing. Police say the department has not completed its investigation. Coroner Dr. Hale and County Solicitor Chamberlain plan an inquest after witnesses are summoned. Fabricus drowned in the Mobile river while bathing with Telson.
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Fred Sorek
W. O. Searcy
Cing
Rove
William Fabricus
Mobile River
Ler’s
Lrt
8. F. Hale
Bart B. Chamberlain
Fabricus
Telson
Sorelson
Chauffeur and Clerk Held on Disorderly Conduct Bond
Roy Schaffer taxi chauffeur and Bert Williams clerk were arrested late last night on disorderly conduct. They failed to appear in court today. Acting Recorder E J Grove ordered forfeiture of the previous bond and fixed a new bond of $1,000. they were rearrested and the case continued.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Schaffer
Bert Williams
Recorder Grove
Two Persons Fined Under Health Law
Ed Morgan and E Steiner were fined ten dollars each after city health officials testified milk samples showed high bacteria counts. Morgan admitted no knowledge of violations while Steiner claimed ignorance and accepted the penalty.
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Ed Morgan
Fth
A. E. Bayer
Morgan
E. Steiner
Hey
Pensacola Youth Sought in Mobile
John Porter Landren, 19, missing from Pensacola for six years, sought by his mother Irene Landgren of 109 Aragon Street Pensacola. Letter to police says he was last seen in Mobile working.
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John Porter Landren
Pensacola
Fla
Irene Landgren
Aragon Street
Mobilé
Seven Charges in Cattle Dipping Case
T J Roberts of the county north surrendered at the county jail on seven charges for violating the stock sanitary law by failing to dip his cattle. Roberts posted bond and awaits appearance in the inferior criminal court Wednesday.
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Roberts
Pearance
Weather forecast for Alabama and Mississippi
The brief notes a fair night and a sunny to partly cloudy Sunday with possible coastal showers. Temperatures to remain largely unchanged with light winds across the region.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Await Report In Rate Case of Gas Firm
The Alabama Public Service Commission awaits an accountant’s report on Mobile Gas Co. financials after a hearing in Montgomery. Public Service Board member Gaillard says the statement is being transcribed and analyzed. A decision will follow the responsible review of the report.
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Alabama Public Service Commission
Mobile Gas Company
Montgomery
Gaillard
Commission
Ask' Railroad For 90000 Damages In Suit Filed Here
Suits for damages aggregating 90000 were filed in the circuit court today against the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company and the Pullman Palace Car Company for personal injuries. Plaintiffs Davis M. Brower and wife Mrs Lou W. Brower and daughter Edith Brower seek 15000 from each defendant. Miss Brower says she was forced to leave a Pullman car during a rain storm near Citronelle on August 26, and Mrs Brower, an invalid, and relatives waiting at the regular stop had to hire a wagon care.
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Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
Pullman Palace Car Company
Davis M. Brower
Lou W. Brower
Edith Brower
Miss Brower
Pullman
Mobile and Ohio
Citronelle
Brower
Picnic crowds spark sheriff visit in Spring Hill dispute
A Spring Hill delegation led by S P Gaillard N A Stallworth A C Tonsmeire and William E Mickle asked the sheriff for protection against disorderly Negroes at weekly picnics near the Spring Hill car line. The county officers pledged support to protect families from past disturbances.
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Spring Hill
Sheriff's Office
S. P. Gaillard
N. A. Stallworth
A. C. Tonsmeire
William E. Mickle
Libel Suit Sustained by Federal Decree
Judge Robert T. Smith in federal district court sustained a libel suit brought by William J. Woolsey Jr. against the United States Shipping Board for 1900 dollars. The case arose from a burst hot water pipe aboard the Shipping Board steamer East S Sun while Woolsey served as a crew member in December.
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William J. Woolsey, Jr
United States Shipping Board
Robert T.in
District Federal Court
Shipping Board
Easts Sun
Woolsey
Reiker Arrested as Warrant Sworn for Embezzlement
Louis Reiker also known as Reiken residing near St Charles Avenue was jailed today on a charge of embezzlement. The warrant sworn by R Diamond of Ross and Baltiomeres alleges the theft of a crate and casing valued at 34 dollars.
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Louis Reiker
Reiken
Davis Avenue
St. Charles Avenue
R. Diamond
Ross
Court Fines George for Killing Bull Bat
Judge Robert T. Ervin in the district federal court fined Werner George five dollars for killing a bull bat, a migratory bird. All migratory birds are protected by federal law.
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Robert T. Ervin
Werner George
Thieves Break Into Monroe Ball Park Office
Thieves forced an entrance into the Mobile Baseball Association office at Monroe Park last night and carried away various articles. Loss amount pending President John D. Logan’s return to the city.
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Mobile Baseball Association
Monroe Park
John D. Logan
Erzberger Assassination Probed Near Offenburg
Detectives and six police dogs comb the Black Forest near Offenburg Baden at dawn seeking clues to the Erzberger assassination. The prominent German centrist leader Mathias Erzberger is dead and his body was moved to Bad Griesbach.
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Berlin
Black Forest
Offenburg
Baden
Mathias Erzberger
Herr Erzberger
Bad Griesbach
German Leader Denounces Erzberger Murder as Political
London reports President Lorebe of the Reichstag told party leaders the Erzberger assassination was politically motivated. He warned of grave dangers to peace and incalculable consequences for Germany.
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Reichstag
London
Lorebe
Reichsta
Mathias Erzberger
Berlin
London Times
Assassination of Erzberger Intensifies German Crisis
Berlin reports the murder of Dr Mathias Erzberger near Offenburg as a sign of rising royalist and militarist activity in Germany. The former vice chancellor and finance minister, a republican stalwart, was shot by two youths while walking in the Black Forest. Demonstrations by veterans and royalist supporters followed, with the ex Kaiser signaling sympathy from Holland. The government plans funeral precautions amid turmoil.
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Berlin
Mathias Erzberger
Offenburg
Baden
Germany
Erzberger
Versatl
Pers
Wirth
Frau Erzberger
Eitel Frederick
Ludendorff
Holland
Black Forest
Urges Quick Action on Grain Rate Cut
A telegram from R G Cobb of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce urges immediate acceptance of a 51.2 cent grain rate cut for export. The proposed rates would drop to 18 cents per hundred pounds to gulf ports, affecting Kansas City, Cairo, St. Louis, and other northern centers. The Mobile and Ohio Railroad supports issuing the new rates promptly.
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Mobile
Interstate Commerce Commission
R. G. Cobb
Traffic Bureau
The
Chamber of Commerce
Kansas
Illinois
Iowa
Cairo
Ill
City
St. Louis
Mobile and Onfo
Bowen Impeachment Case Set for Merits Trial
Judge Berney denied motions to quash the Bowen impeachment, paving the way for a merits trial in the circuit court Monday. Bowen, a justice of the peace, is charged with issuing blank search warrants to state officers for liquor raids in Mobile. The judge upheld two demurrer counts but overruled the bid to dismiss.
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Bowen
Safford Berney
Circuit Court
State Law Enforcement Department
Mobile
Berney
Scout Outing Final Plans Set for Monday Departure
Scout executive J. E. Meredith arrived from Point Clear to finalize arrangements for the camp. He will accompany the main body of scouts, who depart Monday afternoon at 3 on the motor boat Daphne.
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J. E. Meredith
Point Clear
Daphne
Judge Orders 9 Ships Returned to Shipping Board
Federal Judge Manton ordered the receivers for United States Mail Steamship Company to return nine chartered ships to the Shipping Board immediately. The injunction aims to reallocate the vessels after nonpayment of rental and to restore them to the board for reassignment.
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U.S
Shipping Board
New York
Manton
United States Mail Steamship Company
Albert D. Lasker
Japanese Team Wins Way Into Tennis Finals
Ichiya Kumagae of Japan defeated Australian J O Anderson in the final prelim round to push Japan toward challenging the United States for the Davis Cup. Kumagae won 4-6 5 2-6 6-3 and 1, with his consistent running game exploiting Anderson’s errors. The fifth match of the round was set for the following moon.
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Newport
R. I
Japan
America
Ichiya Kumagae
J. O. Anderson
Kumagae
Shimidzu
Anderson
Fine Resolved After Speeding Charge In Police Court
R B Key a mechanic was fined 25 dollars on a speeding charge and held on a 30 day bond on a dangerous and suspicious charge. Charlie Lee a mechanic faced the same bond after a trial before Acting Recorder E J Grove. Traffic officer McCauley testified Key drove a truck with Lee on Washington avenue Oakdale at 25 30 mph with a Texas license. He said Lee drew a revolver on Buck McDonald and forced him to leave. McDonald left the city for two months. Key admitted speeding and denied a gun was drawn on McDonald who left the truck before reaching the police station.
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R. BE. Key
Charlie Lee
Recorder’s Court
E. J. Grove
William McCauley
Key
Washington Avenue
Oakdale
Lee
Buck McDonald
McDonald
McCauley
Bandits Rob Payroll Team Near Morgantown West Virginia
Four masked robbers held up the paymaster of the New England Fuel and Transportation Company at Lawsville near Morgantown. They escaped with about $28,000 as Superintendent Mc Coy and Paymaster Davis Richardson traveled from Fairmont toward the mines. Deputies and state constabulary are en route to the scene.
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Morgantown
W. Va
New England Fuel and Transportation Company
Lawsville
Groll
McCoy
Davis Richardson
Coal Company
Fairmont
Yost
Yost, A Party of Deputies and Detachments of the State Constabulary
Murder Suspect Moon Foiled in Jail Escape Attempt
Memphis police report J B Moon awaiting trial for wife murder had bars in his jail cell sawed half through five saws found on him. He leaped from a bridge into the Mississippi River Wednesday and was rescued by fishermen. his wife’s body was found in his abandoned car on the bridge.
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Memphis
Tenn
Moon
Mississippi River
Moscow in Flames Reported For Three Days
London dispatch says Moscow has been burning for three days but American relief workers report no confirmation.
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Moscow
London
Malabar Declared Military Area Amid Moplah Rioting
In Malabar, England the Malabar district is proclaimed a military area as riots by Moplah extremists continue in southern India. A bungalow at Pullengode estate was attacked, a European named Eaton beheaded, his bungalow burned, and an inspector of special reserve police murdered and body cast into a river.
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Madras
India
Associated Press
Malabar
British India
Bombay
Calicut
Pullengode
Eaton
Special Reserve Police
British Move to Quell Moplah Disturbances in Malabar
The Moplah unrest in Malabar district north of Calicut prompts Britain to consider strong action aided by the Indian government. Gandhi leads the non-cooperation faction while officials report gravity of conditions and possible measures against those blamed for the riots.
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London
Malabar
British India
Dailyelegraph Today
India
Edward Spencer
Motagan
O le
Mahatma Gandhi
Gandhi
Calicut
India Office
Atterbury Explains Pennsylvanias Labor Board Stance
Philadelphia August 27 W W Atterbury vice president in charge of operation outlined the Pennsylvania Railroad position on the labor board arbitration. He said the board should arbitrate disputes over working conditions or wages but not interfere in administrative or executive company functions. He expressed hope for a hearing on new elections of employee representatives and noted the majority of employees including some union members support the company's stance.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
United States Ralk Labor Board
W. W. Atterbury
Labor Board
Atterbury
Peewee
Wekerle of Hungary Dies in Budapest at 77
Dr. Alexander Wekerle, five times Hungary’s premier, died in Budapest at age 71 or 77. Born in 1848, he served as finance minister in 1886, led cabinets in 1906 1909, 1917 and several times until the armistice, was arrested in 1919 on revolutionary plot charges but released due to age, thereafter fading from public view.
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Budapest
Alexander Wekerle
Hungary
Wekerle
University of
Wekerley
Bunt
Munich uprising leaves one dead and one wounded
Munich demonstrations against high prices and Bavarian authorities attracted about 40 000 people. Dispersal by police and troops killed one man and wounded another without serious trouble. The protest targeted Premier Kahr and Police Chief Poenn er.
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Berlin
Aus
Associated Press
Munich
Kahr
Poenner
Incendiary Fires Strike Long Branch West End
Six fires of incendiary origin hit Long Branch New Jersey on August 27 destroying two schools a railroad station an automobile plant and two homes in the west end district with losses totaling 60000. Burlap soaked with kerosene was found at each blaze.
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Long Beach
N. J
West End
Postmaster Al Rudy and Wife Murdered in Rudy Arizona
Armed posses chase seven Mexican bandits suspected in the killings of Frank J. Pearson United States postmaster at Rudy Arizona and his wife. Mrs Purcell seriously wounded, their five year old daughter unharmed. Bandits may have fled across the border three miles away. Sheriff George White led the search from Ruby toward the border.
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Tucson
Arizona
Frank J. Pearson
United States
Rudy
Alexander Frazer
Ruby
Y. Lara
George, White
Santa Cruz County
Poe
Pearson
Federal Officials Pleased With Turn In W. Virginia War
Federal officials monitoring West Virginia coal fields report hopeful signs as conditions improve and workers consider returning home. Senator Sutherland notes progress but lacks overnight details. President Harding has yet to decide on a meeting with mine operators and miners unless conditions worsen.
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Washington
West Virginia
War Departments
Berane
Sutherland
Lewis
United Mine Workers Ai~ing
Harding Calse
One Man Held in Case of Man Killed in Cabin
Knox County dispatch reports one suspect jailed at Jacksboro with more arrests expected as a large posse hunts for assailants of Glen B. Mayes of Knoxville president of Campbell County Coal Camp. Mayes was found murdered in a burned cabin near Titus after a brutal beating and looting suspected to involve moonshiners opposing liquor traffic.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Jacksboro
Glen B. ‘Mayes
Campbell County
Titus
Mayes
French and Eight Associates Taken Into Court Today
Charles W. French and eight associates face arraignment on charges of using the mails to defraud and conspiring to defraud in a reported 500 million dollar sceme. Co-defendants include Rudolph E. Kohn and others from Cleveland Milwaukee Akron and Ohio. federal officers also seized cocaine and morphine from a Macon box following the arrest of J W Ellis a suspected drug addict.
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Chicao
Charles W. French
United States
James R. Glass
French
Rudolph E. Kohn
American Rubber Company
Charlies W Hawkins
Clevelad
A. L. Streiz
Macon
J. W. Ellis
Ellis
ZR-2 Disaster Details From August Inquiry
The ZR-2 disaster report from Howden details that structural weakness caused the collapse. American crew fatalities are confirmed with three bodies recovered. An inquiry led by Air Marshal Salmon weighs weather, design flaws, and navigation doubts, while Otto Heinle casts the craft as a flimsy airship.
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Associated Press
Nog
Howden
Lowe Aed
Charles M.ann
Unite Press Stat Correspo
Eng
British Air Service
Salmon
Léeat
Atlantic
Bah Air Service
Sucre
America
Incidi
Otto Heinle
Germany
Zeppelin
Ing
Carson Urged as Navigation Chief Appointment
The article reports a proposed appointment of D. B. Carson of Tennessee as commissioner of navigation. A bureau of navigation is urged to President Harding with Eugene Chamberlain named on the staff. Carson, longtime official with the Nashville, Chattanooga and Louisville railroad, would bring rail experience.
Man Given 13 Year Sentence in Plantation Owner Murder
In Chattanooga Tennessee J M Windom was convicted of murder and sentenced to 13 years in prison for killing Geor Black a plantation owner. The shooting followed a dispute at the property.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
J. M. Windom
Fone
Geor Black
Black
Dom
U. S. Rubber Reports First Loss of the Year
New York Aug 27. United States Rubber Company reports a first half deficit of 4,875,228 dollars after charges. Plant operations at the plant operated at a loss, with results issued by the company.
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U. S. Rubber
New York
United Ape
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Clarence Agee
River Front
Agee
Foster
Munson Steamship Line
Reiker
George
Monroe Ball Park
Erzbergla
Kunagae
Newport Casino
W. Virginia Coal Company
England
HANG
Pennsy
Long
al Rudy
Little Net Hope Station
Lara
Hal, Eng
Pitak
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