Rum Launch Seized By Customs Men In Mobile Bay Area
Federal, state, and local officers hunt Willie F Mastin Jr owner of the motor launch Margaret G seized near One Mile creek Mobile river 65 cases of prohibited liquor on board Shipping records show Mastin Jr owns the launch and faces warrants for transporting and smuggling liquor Officials unloaded the alcohol at the customs house while hearings on liquor ring begin in the Northern Alabama district jail and court proceedings continue with Judge Grubb government witnesses from Mobile state and federal agencies testify in the probe
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Willie F. Mastin, Jr
Margaret G
One Mile Creek
Mobile River
United States
Mastin
J. W. van Heuvel
Custom House
Puerto Cortez
Umit
Mississippi
Mobile
F. L. Harper
W. T. Smith
W. F. Mastin, Jr
Margaret, G
Burch
Magazine Point
William Pryor
Hercules
Plum
Pryor
Henry Thomas
Recorder
Hugo Black
Birmingham
William S. Grubb
Federal Building
Grubb
Federal Court
Frank W. Boykin
Jewett M. Scott
Robert
L. Holcombe
William H. Holcombe
J. B. Connaughton
Felipe A. Nistal
Charlie Boykin
Atlanta
Benjamin Cody
Daniel L. Jemison
Geronimo Perez
James F. Daves
Harry B. O'Connor
Shinny Everywhere Officers Declare Shinny Case
Albert Robinson and Mary Boden, Black residents, were fined $50 each for violating prohibition. Police found 40 half-pints of white whiskey hidden in multiple places including a Victrola, a raincoat behind a door, and bottles on ice in a refrigerator.
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Albert Robinson
Mary Boden
Recorder
Tunstall and Brown
Fruit Steamer Honduras Unloading at Port Today
Fifteen thousand stems of bananas aboard the steamer Honduras were unloaded at the fruit wharf after arriving at port last night. The Honduras is one of several steamers in port this week which included the Antinous and Dio. The San Jose, Senator Batley, and Bolama sailed, and Honduras is scheduled to sail February 12 for Puerto Barrios.
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Honduras
United Fruit Company
Antinous
Dio
San Jose
Senator Batley
Bolama
Puerto Barrios
Tallapoosa Sails for Gulf Mission Amid Rum Row Focus
The United States Coast Guard cutter Tallapoosa sailed on a weekend Gulf mission while sister cutter Comanche remained at sea. The cutters are giving special attention Rum Row off the Mississippi coast.
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United States Coast Guard
Gulf
Commanche
Missis
Fair And Slightly Cooler Weather Forecast
The Weather Bureau issues a forecast signaling fair and slightly cooler conditions. Tonight will be cool with a low near 48. Tuesday brings increasing cloudiness and a chance of showers.
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the Weather Bureau
Weather Outlook With Showers Likely Tonight
The forecast calls for cooler and mostly cloudy conditions tonight with increasing clouds and a chance of showers. Tuesday remains cooler in the southeast with continued cloudiness and likely showers later in the day.
Recorder Asked to Recuse Self in Joker Case
Engineer H W Brown detained after arrest by Police Olsen and Rabby on charges connected to the MacMahon joker case. He sought the recorder D H Edington's recusal claiming bias as warrants totaling 23 were requested against Brown Cassidy and Hazel Clemmons. Bonds set. Brown $1300 Cassidy $2200 Clemmons $900.
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H. W. Brown
St. Andrew
Olsen
Rabby
W. Otis MacMahon
D. H. Edington
Brown
Recorder
Cassidy
Clemmons
Mobile party tours Florida during Gasparilla celebrations
The Mobile party riding a special train arrived in Pensacola to be welcomed by Mayor Harvey Bayliss and JCC members. They toured Tampa today enjoying Gasparilla events and planned an afternoon visit to St Petersburg while highlighting the Gandy Bridge. The train then headed toward Fort Barrancas and other Florida sights after breakfast at the San Carlos Hotel.
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Mobile Party
Florida
Tampa
Mobile
S&st. Petersburg
Tampa Bay
St. Petersburg
Pensacola
Harvey Bayliss
Tom Kennedy
Junior Chamber of Commerce
San Carlos Hotel
Junior Chamber
Fort Barrancas
Luckenbach Pays Visit to Mobile Harbor Taday
Edgar F. Luckenbach president of the Luckenbach Line visits Mobile for the first time in 29 years. He arrived from New Orleans and plans to depart tomorrow for Los Angeles. In Mobile he is hosted by Stewart LeBlanc of Mobile Sixers Inc. A harbor tour is planned this afternoon. The Luckenbach Line runs Gulf to Pacific and Atlantic to Pacific services with some of the largest American freight steamers.
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Edgar F. Luckenbach
Luckenbach
Ine
Mobile
New Orleans
Los Angeles
Stewart LeBlanc
Mobile Sixers, Inc
Luckenbach Line
Gulf and Pacific
Pacific
Heavy Punishment In Prohi Case In Inferior Court
Judge N R Clarke sentenced Alvis Connor to six months hard labor and a $10 fine plus 30 days costs for possession of prohibited liquor. Richard Whittaker paid $150 and costs or 0 days. William Washington and Jennie Edwards faced $75 and $50 fines with costs or 20 and 30 days. Busby and Tully bonds forfeited with alias writ. Ora Humphreys and Maggie Dodd, white, charged with vagrancy for alleged orderly house operation, demanded jury trial. bonds set at $500 each.
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Alvis Connor
N. R. Clarke
Inferior Criminal Court
Richard Whittaker
William Washington
Jennie Edwards
Jack Busby
Marian Tully
Ora Humphreys
Maggie Dodd
Crichton
Arrang
Negro Arrested Under School Law in Creola Case
Tom Hall, a negro resident near Creola, was docketed today by Deputy Sheriff Moses Bernstein on charges of violating the compulsory school law. Mrs. Harriet E. Adams, school attendance officer and complainant, alleges the defendant failed to send his son to school as required.
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Tom Hall
Creola
Moses Bernstein
Harriet BE. Adams
Conference on Mobile Baldwin bridge plans set this week
A conference on Mobile Baldwin bridge proposals will take place Friday with City Commissioner R V Taylor Major General W L Sibert state docks chief J L Coleman city engineer expert. Coleman will present seven proposed routes for the bridge and the routes will be inspected during the meeting. Mrs Strauss arrives Friday and stays through Sunday for the proceedings.
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R. V. Taylor
State Docks Commission
J.L. Coleman
City of
Mobile
Coleman
J. B. Strauss
Chicago
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
R. W. Taylor
Mobile-Baldwin
Board seeks itemized tick eradication budget
The Mobile county revenue board today requested an itemized statement from Dr. W E Ward federal veterinarian in charge of tick eradication. Ward asks for 17500 for the year, about half of last year. Adoption of the year's budget was postponed to resolve this before budgeting.
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Mobile County
W. E. Ward
Board of Revenue
Disorderly cases postponed after Oakdale disturbance
In Oakdale, the recorder's court postponed the cases of Sam Hyland charged with drunk and disorderly conduct and Dennis Lavelle charged with disorderly conduct after a knife incident. Willie King was fined 60 dollars or 60 days for discharging firearms and concealing a pistol, claiming he was just testing the weapon.
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Sam Hyland
Dennis Lavelle
Recorder’s Court
Oakdale
Willie King
Recorder
King
Auto Left on Bay Boat Stolen From Panama City
Chief of Police Warren F. Burch was notified that an auto abandoned on an eastern shore ten days ago by two boys from Florida who could not pay the ferry charge had been stolen from Panama City. The car owner is expected to come to Mobile to claim it, per Sheriff C. E. Hobbs.
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Warren F. Burch
Florida
Panama City
Fla
Mobile
C. E. Hobbs
Christ Church Holds Special Services and New Rector
Two services were held at Christ Episcopal Church with Rev. William G. McDowell presiding. He installed Rev. R. A. Kireschoffer as the parish rector during the 11 o'clock service. A union service involving all city rectors was conducted the previous night.
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Christ Episcopal Church
William G. McDowell
Diocese of
Alabama
Heroic sled dog Balto not dead says Nome check
Reports that Balto the leader of Gunnar Kasson’s Siberian dogs died were false. The Nome inquiry found Balto and his team unharmed, though four dogs from the Yukon section were slightly frozen in the thighs and raced today, but not as Kasson’s team.
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Nome
Alaska
Associated Press
Balto
Gunnar Kassen
Kasson
Fairbanks
Yukon River
Barges From New Orleans Reach City Port
Four barges of the Mississippi Warrior service arrived yesterday from New Orleans with cargoes. The cargoes were being unloaded today at the foot of St. Francis Street.
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Mississippi Warrior Service
New Orleans
St. Francis Street
Trial set in graft case against Atlanta federal warden
Federal prosecutors move toward trial of Sartain Fletcher and Laurence Rhett on charges of conspiracy bribery and corruption at the Atlanta federal penitentiary. The trio allegedly conspired to reap ten thousand dollars from Savannah bootleggers by giving convicts easy tasks and social favors. Father Hayden, the prison chaplain, is named in the indictment for receiving part of the money. The grand jury investigation continues with interest in whether Hayden testifies.
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Atlanta
Associated Press
Sartain Ans d. Fletcher
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
United States District Court
Letcher
Laurence Rhett
Columbus
Savannah
Khelil
Sartain
Fletcher
Thomas P. Hayden
Federal Grand Jury
Federal
President Coolidge to name new Secretary of Agriculture
President Coolidge is expected to announce his choice for secretary of agriculture within the week. Leading candidates include John Fields of Oklahoma and W. W. Jardine of Kansas, with others such as Robert T. Carey Louis F. Taber and Ralph T. Merritt still under consideration. The president seeks a secretary skilled in agricultural marketing.
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Warington
Coolidge
John Fields
Oklahoma
W. W. Jardine
Kansas
Fields
Jardine
Curtis
Senate
Nome Prefers Dog Sleds Over Planes for Diphtheria Antitoxin
Nome residents, via a United Press survey, favor dog teams to airplanes for delivering diphtheria antitoxin. The public believes flying would be a unnecessary risk, preferring sleds as safer transport. Balto remains a local favorite, set to return to leasing a team for a regional golf fields company.
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Nome
Alaska
Hammon Consolidated Golf Fields Co
Thirty Seven Men Landed From Shipwrecked Vessels
Thirty seven crew members from three vessels were landed at Aberdeen by the Iceland mail steamer Galfgre. The ships involved were the trawlers Viscount Allenby Wilhelm and Jurgens as heavy gales affected cargo ships off the coast.
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Aberdeen
Scotland
International News Service
Galfgre
Viscount Allenby
Wilhelm
Jurgens
Picture comedian ends legal tangle with ex wife
Dee Chaplin and his 16 year old wife Lita Gray cut all lawyered ties. Mrs Spicer says the pair "decided not to have anything more to do with lawyers." Edwin McMurray, uncle of the bride, visited Beverly Hills amid reports involving Chaplin.
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Los Angeles
Edwin McMurray
San Francisco
Beverly Hills
McMurray
Evidence Produced In Stokes Trial In Chicago
In Chicago on February 9 W F D Stokes a New York millionaire faced claims he forged evidence to prove Helen Elwood Stokes and Helen Underwood were the same person. Prosecutors plan to call underworld witnesses to show he bribed others to swear affidavits regarding Mrs. Stokes. Four jurors have been seated and four more awaited as selection continues.
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Chicago
W. FE. D. Stokes
New York
Helen Underwood
Everleigh Club
Helen Elwood Stokes
W C. Dannenberg
Dannenberg
Underworld
Stokes
Diana of the Dunes dies in Michigan City dunes years after vow
Mrs. Alice Wilson known as Diana of the Dunes died Sunday after nine years in a shack by Lake Michigan between Michigan City and Gary. A University of Chicago graduate and Phi Beta Kappa, she was a mathematician and editor of the Astro-Physical journal. She refused hospital care to avoid bills and asked her husband Paul Wilson to cremated her body.
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Chicago
Aliee Wilson
Diana of
Michigan City
Gary
Ind
Lake Michigan
Wilson
University of Chicago
Astro-Physical Journal
Alice Gray
Tourists Leave Record $40 Million in British Columbia
Vancouver reports that more than 40 million dollars was spent by tourists in 1924. About 10 million came from summer motoring, with nearly 90 percent from the United States. Most travelers arrived by auto from California, Washington, Oregon and other western states. General U S tourist traffic to Canada set records, says John B Harkin, Dominion Commissioner of National Parks.
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Vancouver
B. C
British Columbia
Vancouver Tourist Bureau
United States
California
Washington
Oregon
Canada
John B Harkin
Dominion
National Parks
Professors Questioned in Ohio State Strychnine Murders
Professors at Ohio State University were recalled for further questioning as authorities press on with the strychnine poisonings. Police prosecutor John Chester visited the campus to review how strychnine could have contaminated quinine in the dispensary and how the two deaths occurred.
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Columbur
Ohio
Ohio Stat University
John Chester
Den
Chester
Chesters
Po Wat
Nomination of Charles B. Warren Postponed by Committee
Washington reports a bitter Democratic-Insurgent clash as the Judiciary Committee delayed final action on Charles B. Warren of Detroit for the attorney general post. The panel adjourned without a decision in secret session to show the administration may not receive a committee recommendation.
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Washington
Judiciary Committee
Eral Etaoin
Charles B. Warren
Detroit
Former premier Ramsay MacDonald returns to London
Landon Feb Former Premier Ramsay MacDonald and J H Thomas former secretary for the colonies from Central America and the British West Indies arrived in London ready for Parliament reopening. They appeared improved but said they are out of politics and expect to pursue a plan to settle inter allied debts involving the United States.
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Landon
Premer Ramsay MacDonald
MacDonald
London
Central America
British West Indies
United States
New Debt Agreement Planned Between Britain and France
Paris reports that Britain has formally offered a substantial reduction of the French debt. Premier Herriot and Finance Minister Clérance plan to discuss a London agreement. Experts will study the exchequer note as Churchill and authorities consider negotiations.
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Paris
Britain
Herriot
London
Churchill
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