Relief funds debated as drought loans advance
The House appropriations subcommittee approved 45 million dollars for drought relief loans after testimony by Secretary Hyde. Hyde urged rapid distribution within a week of approval, rejecting loans for human food while noting federal funds exist for drought relief.
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Washington
House
Full
Appropriations Committee
Secretary of Agriculture
Hyde
Ane
Wood
Congress
Committee
Fede
Big Gem Robbery Shocks New York Police
Jewelry worth about 170 000 to 200 000 dollars vanished from a Pullman compartment a night club and a theatre in New York. Miss Marie De Carie of Park Avenue society reported losses of 16 500 dollars in jewels on a nightlife tour. Texas Guinan reported a 3 500 dollar mash bag missing at the Ethel Parrymore theatre. Mrs Luckenbach boarded a Pennsylvania Terminal train December 19 amid suspected surveillance. A string of pearls and a pearl necklace were among the loot.
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New York
S. Edgar F. Luckenbach
Palm Beach
Fle
Marie de Carie
Park Avenue Society
Push to Secure Funds for Mobile Improvement Projects
A Mobile Chamber special committee led by Palmer Pillans pressed to obtain funds for two projects. The group will focus on purchasing a site for a new federal building and doubling the capacity of the Marine hospital in Mobile following Surgeon General Hugh Cummings recommendation.
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Mobile
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Med
Hugh Cummings
Marine Hospital
Palmer Pillans
Secretary Stimson Begins Daily Walk To Work
Secretary Stimson joins Washington workers in a daily walk to the State Department. Because Woodley is too far, a chauffeur drives him part way and he completes the distance on foot. He has given up horseback riding due to his workload.
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Washington
Stimson
Woodley
State Department
Weather official Albert Ashenberger Improves at Providence
Albert Ashenberger head of the local weather bureau is reported to be improving at Providence infirmary after several days of illness. He was noted as improving Monday and is under care for his condition.
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Ement
Albert Ashenberger
Conto Providence Infirmary
Joffre in Grave Condition as Death Looms
Paris report says Marshal Joffre, Bloated by defeat, sinks toward death. Five doctors warn prognosis is hopeless with the hero of the Marne showing extreme weakness. General Isaac visits as bulletin notes patient remains feeble yet lucid with pulse 90 and temperature 99.5 F.
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Paris
Marshal Joffre
Isaic
Marne
Fontaine
Leriche
Texas University Student Bound Over On Murder Charge
Robert L. Williams an 18 year old Texas University student was bound over to the grand jury on a $10000 bond at a preliminary hearing for the murder of his 16 year old sweetheart Elizabeth Johnson. Williams bound himself immediately and was represented by his brother Paul Williams. Father Rev S W Williams presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal Church South sat nearby. A murder charge was filed Saturday by B T McWhorter assistant.
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Port Arthur
Tex
Robert L. Williams
Texas University
Elizabeth Johnson
Williams
Paul Williams
Dallas
Woman Held in Shooting of Mailboy Near Knox and Hamilton
Carrie Collins of 250 Knox Street is jailed without bond after allegedly shooting Alex Young, 27, the city mail carrier, Sunday night near Knox and Hamilton. Detectives Holmes and Green and Officer McKay arrested Collins, who faces charging by police.
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Carrie Collins
Knox Street
Alex
Mailboy) Young
Collins
Knox
Hamilton Streets
Holmes and Green
McKay
Slayings Near Tonkawa Prompt Release Hint
Kay County Sheriff says Lyman Constant from Enid likely to be released after questioning in the Tonkawa area slayings of Jessie and Jexie Griffith two school teachers. No other clues. Fingerprints on a car tied to the suspected crime.
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Blackwell
Okla
Joe Cooper
Kay County
Lyman Constant
Haid
Enid
Tonkawa
Jessie
Jexie Griffith
Constant
Cooper
Students Return After Christmas Break in Mobile Schools
More than 20,000 public school students in Mobile city and county resumed classes Monday after a Christmas break that began December 19. They will have Thursday off for New Year’s Day observance.
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Mobile City
Police Hunt Identity Of Hotel Strangler Victim In Cincinnati
Cincinnati police seek to identify a young woman found strangled in a hotel room after a weekend stay by a Columbus couple. Autopsy shows fatal injuries including skull fracture neck break and bruising. A Columbus search found no link to the couple or the room address. A company official recalled a Mrs W H Miller from a Christmas card but could not identify her.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Columbus
W. H. Miller
Steel merger denied by Ohio court in 1.0 billion deal
In Youngstown Ohio Judge David G Jenkins granted an injunction stopping the Bethlehem Steel and Youngstown Sheet and Tube merger. He found merger negotiations illegal and faulted the Sheet and Tube board for inadequate stockholder information and accounting advice in the exchange ratio dispute.
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Bethlehem Steel Corporation
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company
Common Pleas
David G. Jenkins
Sheet and Tube
Jenkins
Cyrus S. Eaton
Cleveland
Wat
Sheet and Tube Board of Directors
Bethlehem
Consid
Unidentified man found in top floor of Ponce de Leon hotel blaze
Fire crews recovered a body on the top floor of the Ponce de Leon hotel in Roanoke. W. S. Trace, a 70 year old former railway official and hotel resident, remained missing after guests fled into the cold. Seven others were treated for shock and minor injuries as damage totaled about half a million dollars.
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Roanoke
Ponce de Leon
W. S. Trace
Norfolk and Western Railway
Youths Sentenced After Crichton Cigars Theft
Woodrow Roberson and William Chambless were given 60 day jail terms by Acting Judge T J Touart for stealing a box of cigars from Brown White Drug in Crichton. Chambless was identified as an escapee from East Lake reform school and will be returned after serving. Ed Nelson sought a jury trial. cigars were recovered. Cora Cox was fined 20 dollars or 90 days for violating the prohibition law, Maude Collins 0 fine or 20 days, and Lawrence Collins faced 250 dollar fine plus 90 days hard labor for knife assault on Alex Tucker.
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Woodrow Roberson
William Chambless
T. J. Touart
Inferior Criminal Court
Crichton
Chambress
State Reform School
East Lake
Ala
Ed Nelson
Charles Cogburn
Cora Cox
Maude Collins
Lawrence Collins
Lipscombe Street
Alex Tucker
Two Birmingham Women Held After City Fight
Misses FR Johnson and Baltic Davenport were charged with drunkenness and resisting arrest after a Monday altercation near Government and Royal streets. Officer Price Porter and Special Officer John Lynch chased and caught them. one prisoner bit Porter during transport to the station.
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FR. D. Johnson
Baltic Davenport
Birmingham
Government
Royal Streets
Price Porter
John Lynch
Porter
Seaman Uses Alias to Escape from Jail
A San Francisco seaman named Joe McInnis posed as J Pierce after being detained for drunken driving. He paid a nine dollar fine to secure his release while an officer held the real Pierce, 1257 Springhill Avenue, in custody. Police continued to search for McInnis.
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Joe McInnis
San Francisco
McInnis
Eslava
Water Streets
Mason
J. Pierce
Springhill Avenue
Pierce
Californian
Study proposal on Mobile government buildings expansion
An inter-departmental committee on public buildings studies expanding Mobile facilities. SY Lowman notes the matter is under review for a possible congress report. Chairman Davis urged post office and government space enlargement, with a definite action to come after careful consideration.
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Inter-Departmental Committee On Public
Congress
Bute Sant
Board of Revenue
SY Lowman
Washington, D. C
Davis
Lowman
Inter-Departmental Committee On Public Buildings
Rates Reduced for Mobile Freight to Southwest and West
Announcement from Mobile Chamber of Commerce Thursday states plans to grant lower freight rates on locally manufactured pipe line fittings to southwest points. The A T and N line will also reduce shipboard rates from Mobile to western destinations.
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Mobile
Chamber of Commerce
Taxes Paid Save Property Owners on Tax Day
Scores of property owners paid personal and real estate taxes to Joseph B. Crow, collector, on Monday to avoid penalties. Wednesday was the deadline and Crow and Tom King, assessor, kept busy all day collecting levies and assessing property for the new year.
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Joseph B. Crow
Tom King
Hearing date set for Missouri Pacific bid in Louisiana
The Interstate Commerce Commission set January 26 at Baton Rouge for a hearing on Missouri Pacific Railroad authority to operate over and acquire a half interest in the Louisville Line between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Examiner Sullivan to preside.
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Washington
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Louisville Railway and Navigation
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Interstate Commerce Commission
Examiner Sullivan
Prince Antoine of Bourbon Orleans Interred in Spanish Mausoleum
Antoine of Bourbon Orleans, who became Infante of Spain after marrying Infanta Eulalia, was buried today in the royal mausoleum of the Infantas at El Escorial. He was the first French Bourbon laid to rest in this royal crypt, following his death last week.
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Antoine of Bourbon
Orleans
Infantas
Escorial
Spain
Prince Antoine of Bourbon
Eulalia
City to seek purchase of Washington Square for Azalea Park
Mobile plans to offer 12 000 to buy Washington Square from the Smith estate for Azalea Park. Sam Lackland leads the proposal endorsed by the Mobile Garden Club and others to display every azalea and japonica species grown in Mobile. If approved, the square becomes Mobile's Azalea Park with donations from local azalea owners and a new city garden under club supervision.
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Washington Square
Mobile City Commission
Smith
Sam H. Kland
Mobile
Mobile Garden Club
Lackland
City Commission
Garden Club
Southall to Waive At Hearing Tuesday in Murder Case
Cecil Southall, 28, a railroad brakeman and confessed slayer of John Rip O Rorke, will waive preliminary hearing and go before the grand jury. He is to be arraigned Tuesday in recorder's court on a murder charge. The case is set for grand jury review when it assembles January 5. Southall’s family planned a Monday conference to decide next steps.
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John
Rip) O'Rorke
Southall
Recorder’s Court
Bart B. Chamberlain
Warren Burch
Q'Rorke
Mobile
Moblilung Deek Position On Road Board
Two Mobillana county officials near retirement seek state highway commissioner. J. C. Prine of Citronelle, retiring, circulated petitions to Governor-elect B. M. Miller. Victor K. Wagner, aide to John R. Peavy on 100 miles of paved roads, is also said to be pursuing the post.
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Mobillana
J. C. Prine
Citronelle
B.M. Miller
Camden
Victor K. Wagner
John R. Peavy
Dr Thomas J Barrett Dies at 66 in Worcester
Dr Thomas J Barrett 66 president of the National Association of Dental Examiners died at home in Worcester Mass from a cerebral hemorrhage suffered yesterday Father of two and prominent in dental education and ethics The death announced today marks a loss to the national dental profession in Massachusetts.
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Worcester
Mass
Thomas J. Barrett
National Association of Dental Examiners
Death at State Docks Triggers $50,000 Suit
Neff C. Van Devander, father of Neff C. Jr., sues William L. Sibert Frank G. Blair and Charles Henderson as members of the state docks commission. The minor was fatally struck by a commission train at Pier A while moving a tractor delivering cotton on September 13, 1929. Attorneys Harry T. Smith and Caffey filed the suit in circuit court.
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State Docks Commission
Neff C. van Devander
Neff C. Jr
State Docks
William L. Sibert
Frank G. Blair
Charles Henderson
Henderson
Commission
Pier A
Harry T. Smith
Caffey
Church of Little Flower Leads In Voting Contest
The Church of the Little Flower holds a commanding lead in a $1,000 voting contest at week’s end with 850,054 votes, ahead of the Junior Charity League at 781,377. Murphy High Welfare is third with 729,022, followed by the Jewish Community Center at 132,141, the Mobile Association for the Blind at 5,157, and the Salvation Army with 600 votes.
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Junior Charity League
Mobile Register-News
Murphy High Welfare
Echoo
Jewish Community’ Center
Mobile Association For the Blind
Salvation Army
Church of Liti
Flower
Murphy Hi Welfare
Jewish Community Center
Blind Association
Prize seizure: Deauville cargo of liquor near Mobile bar
The British auxiliary schooner Deauville, loaded with about 1000 cases of contraband liquor, was seized by the coast guard patrol boat Dallas near Mobile bar. The master and five crew members are detained as officials from New Orleans and Mobile customs and other agencies investigate aboard. The vessel, bound from Nassau, was tied at the state docks after seizure and revenue officials pursue details of the 50 000 dollar cargo.
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Mobile Bar
Coast Guard
Dallas
New Orleans
Mobile
Customs Department
Seow
Pascagoula, Miss
Danville
Nassau
Walter L. Cohen Dies in New Orleans at 70
Walter L. Cohen longtime comptroller of customs for the New Orleans district and prominent Black politician died early today after a weeklong illness. He had been unconscious for two days and succumbed at 2 30 a m at his home in New Orleans after a battle with liver disease.
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Walter L. Cohen
New Orleans
United States
Farmer Defeats Tiger Attack in India
Khrishna Bhama of Daigad was hospitalized after a tiger attacked him while he rode behind oxen. He drove the animal off with a sharp stick, but the tiger inflicted deep scratches. Neighbors with axes ended the fight after about half an hour.
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Bombay
Khrishna Bhama
Daigad
Bhama
Accident Injures 7 Year Old in Accidental Shooting
Melvin Robinson age 7 of 202 street was wounded in the left eye in a Monday morning accident. The 22 rifle discharged accidentally by Marion King age 7 of Chinquepin and Fisher's alley.
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Melvin Robinson
Marion King
Chinquepin and
Fisher's Alley
Weather and River Forecast for Alabama and Mississippi
The daily river bulletin notes frost expected Monday night with interior and coastal areas affected. River observations from December 29 1830 show station readings at Aberdeen Columbia Demopolis Tuscaloosa Montgomery Selma with forecasted rises on the Tombigbee and fall on the Alabama River as waters rise tonight and Tuesday.
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Mississippi
Daily River Bulletin
Aberdeen
Columbia Ie
Demopolis
Tuscalooza
Montgomery
Rat Selma
Damenaia
Alabama River
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