Women Plan Active Help In Road Issue
A city committee will arrange ward meetings with several speakers to support the good road bond issue as a county wide effort. Mrs James Hagan heads the league and a mass meeting is planned in the next two to three weeks. The group will push voter registration poll tax payments and campaign in schools while the Mobile County Automobile Club urges a $1 per auto owner contribution.
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Labor Temple
James Hagan
League
N. E. Stallworth
Mobile County Automobile Club
Mobile
Mobile Business Women's Club
Satsuma Tea Room
Business Women's Club
Harry Gill
St. Stephens Road
Catherine Street
Bank President Killed in Maywood Payroll Robbery
In Chicago area on January 5 five bandits attacked the Maywood State Bank targeting a $12000 payroll for the Maywood plant of the American Can Company. John Soffel was shot dead and S Sweeny and Arthur Benson were wounded. Robbers fled toward Chicago within three minutes of the crime.
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Chicago
John Soffel
Maywood State Bank
S. Sweeny
Suburb
Arthur Benson
Maywood
American Can Company
Benson
Russia Faces Mass Famine Horror Across Volga Regions
American relief workers warn famine in Russia could kill millions as typhus spreads. Frozen bodies fill trenches from Tsaritsin to Orenburg and relief efforts press 26 million dollars in aid. 8 thousand cars and 200 locomotives to move supplies daily for 40 days.
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Tsaratsin
Saratoff
Samara
Ufa
Orenburg
Kagan
Russia
Aee
Brll
Reginald Farrar
Ator
Anna Louise
Sam
British
Save the Children Fund
American Relief Administration
United States
Charges Involving Maj Opie Raise Senate Testimony
Witnesses from Virginia allege Maj Opie of Staunton shot a soldier in a dugout during overseas service, with others recalling no action or knowledge. The hearing reveals conflicting statements as figures like O Smith of Dublin and Ben Watson testify about the incident and honors.
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Washington
Senate
Maj
Wa Opie
Staunton
France
Horace Cook
Opie
Ben. Watson
O. Smith
Dublin
Maj. C
Ting
Smith
Assassination of Deputy Brill Near Calvert Sparks Hunt
Sheriff William H. Helcombe vows full pursuit of Brill slayers after Deputy A C Britt is found dead in Calvert swamps with a buckshot wound. Ed Everett and Sullivan were with Brill when gunfire erupted as they approached a whiskey still. The deputy leaves a wife and seven children.
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William H. Hélcombe, Jr
A. C. Britt
Calvert
Brill
Mobile
Griff Holcombe
Kilby
Alabama
Iff
Fortes
Holcombe
Cal- Vert
Ed. Everett
Bullinghe
Sullivan
Ods
Everett
Donaghue
Blackman
Burch
Mobile County
Hold Hearing On M Laughlin Project
The Gulf Ports Terminal and Railroad Company seeks a certificate of public convenience to extend its line from Pensacola to the Eastern Shore of Baldwin county and Mobile. Hearing set in Mobile on February 1 after Mobile Chamber endorsed the project and urged ICC action.
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Gulf Ports Terminal and Railroad Company
Suro
Baldwin County
Mobile
McLaughlin
Pensacola
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
Tailor's Plea for Pawned Garments Ends in Hard Labor
Max Gold of Govern ment and Water streets operated a pressing club and claimed he pawned clothes to pay bills. The court found him embezzling a suit from Carter, a seaman, and ordered four months of hard labor after witnesses testified the suit was pawned and later found at a shop.
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Max Gold
Recorder’s Court
Carter
Gold
Delves Desmond
Adams
Salaries of movie stars called high and need cuts
New York January 5. William Brandt, president of the Theater Owners Chamber of Commerce, declared salaries paid to motion picture stars are disproportionately high and must come down. He said film costs have dropped elsewhere and stars must accept cuts to lower finished product costs. He cited stars receiving as much as $60,000 for a single picture and doing four or five a year.
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New York
William Brandt
Theater Owners’ Chamber of Commerce
Brandt
Alabama Mississippi Weather Update
The forecast calls for fair skies tonight across Alabama and Mississippi with colder temperatures and a developing cold wave setting in.
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Shington
Alabama
Dynamite Used in Search for Missing Martin Body
Rescue teams employ dynamite today to raise the body of Robert Cotton Martin from Mobile Bay. His companion Joseph Harper was recovered last Monday after the skiff swamped near Dog River mouth. Mrs. Martin and relatives assist the riverbank search as a $100 reward stands offering.
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Mobile Bay
Robert
Cotton
Harper
Martin
Dog Riverbridge
Follows Wife to Police Station Cops Hold Him
James F Bunch a mechanic of 179 Conti Street was ordered to post 2500 bond to keep the peace for one year after his wife Miriam Bunch testified he locked her in a room and threatened to kill her if she did not sign checks. Other witnesses corroborated threats and police arrested him at the station. Recorder Edington held him after he was unable to post bond.
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James F. Bunch
Conti Street
Miriam Bunch
Bunch
Edington
Balloting Under Way For Directors Commercial Club
Balloting in the election of ten new directors of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce is under way by mail with many ballots already received. All ballots must be in by January 10 for opening and results to be announced. Fourteen of the present board will hold over. ten new members will be named and a post election meeting will organize and elect officers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Board of ‘Directors
Cold Wave Forecast For Mobile Realigns Local Temps
Weather bureau forecast calls for freezing temperatures near 32 degrees in Mobile by Friday morning as a cold wave sweeps south. Nightly drop expected with clearing skies and departure of rain and clouds.
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Mobile
Weather Bureau
Texas
Arkansas
Torrow
Five Road Projects Approved by County Officials
Leslie E. Prouty, newly elected county engineer, approves five road projects with an estimated total of 80000 dollars. Projects include Conception street from Three Mile creek to the cotton mill, Fulton road from Hall's Mill road to Pine Crest cemetery, Bay Union Church roads, Dog river drive, and Zion church road. The new engineer opposes leasing the Glendon gravel pit, arguing the county should operate it for public benefit.
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Leslie E. Prouty
Pine Crest
Needar Point
Thomas
Dog River
Alba and Gulf
Zion Church Road
Hall's Mill Road
Neshota
Bay Union
Glendon
Ala
Ships From Mobile In Collision At Sea
The British schooner Jean McKay, damaged in a collision with the Japanese steamer Taszthania Maru in the Yucatan channel on the night of December 265, arrived in port yesterday and will require repairs before cargo. The starboard bow was damaged and much rigging torn. Captain Frank Stoddley commands the schooner, with Van Heynigen Brokerage Co. acting as agent for both vessels.
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Jean McKay
Yucatan Channel
Mobile
van Heynigen Brokerage Company
Frank Stoddley
Trusty prevents York County chain gang escape
Two negro trustees on the York County chain gang thwarted an escape attempt by 12 convicts near York. Guard Jim Robertson was knocked unconscious by an axe blow as the convicts attacked while en route to duty. Bob Daniels seized Robertson's gun and, with Jack Johnson, restrained the prisoners until assistance arrived.
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York
York County
Here
Jim Robertson
Robertson
Bob Daniels
Jack Johnson
Carter Acquitted of Murder in Georgia Sheriff Death
Blackshear Georgia January 5 Roy Carter was acquitted by a jury on murder charges tied to the August 3 death of Sheriff Robertson during a raid on a moonshine still. His brother Magee remains under a death sentence for the sheriff killing. Carter had faced additional charges for violating the prohibition law with bond set at $800 after the acquittal.
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Blackshear
Roy Carter
Robertson
Carter
Magee
Four T C I Company Officials Visit City
Carey, Lloyd Noland, H Mill House and E B Maye, officials of the Coal Iron and Railway company, with headquarters in Birmingham, Ala, are in the city today at the Battle House. They formerly worked at Chickasaw with the Chickasaw Shipbuilding and Car company during the shipyard's activity era.
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Carey
Lloyd Noland
H. Millhouse
E.B. Maye
Coal, Iron and Railway Com
Birmingham
Ala
Battle House
Chickasaw
Fifty bodies recovered from wrecked Greek destroyer
Athens January 5 Fifty bodies have been recovered from the torpedo boat destroyer Leon sunk by an explosion in the harbor at Piraeus. The blast wrecked nearby warships and toppled houses ashore while the vessel lay at anchor yesterday.
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Athens
Presa
Leon
Piraeus
Booze Frauds Disclosed To Grand Juries
Grand juries hear evidence of bootleg liquor permit frauds tied to theft and forgery in New York and other states. Indictments expand beyond New York’s 10 million dollar withdrawal conspiracy as revenue agents uncover forged permits and corrupt officials linked to illicit whiskey operations.
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Washington
New York
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Ohio
Haynes
Toda
Knights of Columbus Minstrel Show Delights Lyric Crowd
The Knights of Columbus minstrel troupe gave matinee and evening performances at the Lyric theater despite heavy rain. Rev Father E J Hackett led the trained chorus while Edward Grove hosted as interlocutor. Eloise Adams received a handsome gift after the curtain fell.
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Knights of Columbus
Lyric Theater
E. J. Hackett
Edward Grove
Eloise Adams
First Community Dollar Day Kicks Off New Year in Mobile
The Mobile News Item reports the First Community Dollar Day for the New Year on Friday January sixth. Local merchants join in a carnival of bargains with the slogan We Are Making Your Dollars Grow Bigger offering deep reductions across men’s wear ladies ready to wear shoes hosiery and more. Clerks will be abundant and shoppers are urged to arrive early to ease crowd flow in Mobile’s retail district.
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Mobile
Arms conference treaty to include implied threat of force
Washington dispatch reports the naval arms limitation treaty will carry an implied threat of force to be used if war breaks out among the five treaty powers or with outsiders. The draft section outlines actions for insider outsider war and insider insider conflict, with potential for renewed naval buildup and international meetings under a concerted action framework.
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Washington
Hughes
Alasia
Germany
France
Britain
Arthur J. Bafour
M. Sarraut
East
America
Women's clubs create post war trust fund in Chicago
The General Federation of Women's Clubs decides on a trust fund of 81000 to aid worthy causes, from the remaining wartime relief fund of about 300000. An international relations committee will seek closer ties among women of different nations as the federation expands to 16 foreign branches.
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Chicago
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Federation
Thomas G. Winter
Eight Arrests In Wiley Murder Shock Sebree Kentucky
Eight men were arrested in Sebree Kentucky over the death of L B Wiley a mine superintendent killed in September 1921. Police say the arrests follow a confession by Guy Warren a mill owner alleging a plot by seven white men and one black man to horsewhip Wiley and drive him from town as he resisted an assault. The detained men deny involvement.
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Sebree
L. B. Wiley
Guy Warren
Wiley
Orleans Carnival Begins Tomorrow
New Orleans carnival season starts with the Twelfth Night Revelers ball tomorrow night in New Orleans. Ward Gras day is February 25.
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New Orleans
Pennsylvania Senate Contest Heats Up Amid Power Shifts
Uncertainty over Sen Penrose's successor grows as Sen Wil lam Crow may resign due to illness in Pittsburgh. Gov Sproul's refusal to resign to seek the U S Senate sinks his chances. Ware forces of eastern Pennsylvania and Magee's western machine dominate the scramble with Edwin H Ware seen as crisis leader.
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Philadelphia
Sen
Penrose
Willam FE. Crow
Pittsburgh
Pensylvania
Magee
West
Sproul
United States Senate
Edwin H. Ware
Allegheny County
Supreme Council Opens as Allied Leaders Discuss Reparations
In Cannes the Allied supreme council prepares to convene tomorrow after a preliminary meeting among Sir Robert Horne Sir Laming Worthington Evans Louie Loucheur and Premier Jaspah Theunys of Belgium. They seek to smooth differences before the main council and plan to set the agenda with experts.
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Cannes
France
Dany
Associated Press
Allied Supreme Council
Robert Horne
Laming Worthington- Evans
Louie Loucheur
Jaspah Theunys
Belgium
Elizabeth Tyler of Ku Klux Klan quits Atlanta
Elizabeth Tyler, famed Ku Klux Klan organizer, resigns from Atlanta signaling illness of her daughter Mrs Manning Jett. She says she will collapse per physician and will remain in spirit with the order, though claiming no racial ties. No successor named.
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Atlanta
Jethwazabeth Tyler
EB. Y. Clarke
Ku Klux Klan
Mra
Manning Jett
Henry McGhee
Jett
Plan for Drug Addiction Inquiry In Congress
Washington Jan 5 Two solutions on narcotic drug addiction were introduced by a Republican from New York. One proposal calls for a treasury inquiry into a recent ruling by the internal revenue bureau, arguing it would deprive patients of treatment and advice and push them into penal institutions. The second proposes a formal investigation into drug addiction methods of treatment and the effectiveness of existing laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
New York
Cacegunat Treasury
Internal Revenue Bureau
Volk
Rithe
Tornado Hits Jacksonville Area Causing Damages
A tornado near Jacksonville Arkansas damaged farms, barns, and outbuildings as residents in Little Rock report substantial losses. A 18-year-old, identified as Rumphs son, died during the storm while they sought shelter as the twister moved northeast. The event was accompanied by strong winds and widespread destruction.
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Little Rock
Ark
Jan
Jacksonville
Dences
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Anon
Rede
Bank
Ier
Horace Cooke
Case
Paneed
Sen. Watson
Marion
Benjamin Huger
Ben
M’laughlin
Directors Commercial Club
T. C. I. Company
Internal Revenue Department
Knights
Mina Seneva Nedring
Carl Dgroat
United Presse
Orleans
Supreme Council
Elizabeth Tyler
KU Klux Fame
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