Fourth of July Celebrations At Mobile Fair Grounds
Public holiday closes Mobile shops and offices as residents seek leisure. American Legion events at the Fair Grounds include horse and mule races, athletic contests for youth, a bathing beauty contest, dancing, and fireworks. A bay regatta with Mobile Biloxi New Orleans and Pensacola clubs is planned on Mobile Bay.
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Gulf Coast
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American Legion Post
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Biloxi
New Orleans
Pensacola
Buc
Nashville Woman Freed on Bond in Mosely Killings
Mrs. Wes Ingram was released on 7500 bond as police investigated the murder of 22 year old Richard Acklen in Nashville. Authorities blamed jealousy amid conflicting statements and a private investigation by Vaughan as the case moved toward trial.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
Vaughan
Washington
Mary Mosley
Ricard Atkien
Hadley Mosely
Lightory
Ackien
Hedey
Joseph H. Acklen
Daughters of the
Reg Tion
Eh Es
Acklen
Mosely
Morning Games Southern Relate Scoreboard Notes
Baseball score snippet shows Birmingham and Boston games with pitchers and batters listed. Includes line scores and inning breakdowns for Birmingham vs Owens and Philadelphia vs Morris. Also shows St. Louis at Pittsburgh with players Johnson Haines Kaufmann Mancuso French Grace Osborn.
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St. Louis
Bittsburgh
Johnson, Haines
Kaufmann and
Mancuso
French
Grace and
Osborn
Duke of Aosta Dies in Turin At 62
The Duke of Aosta died at 1 30 this afternoon in Turin after years of illness. A cousin to the king of Italy he was repeatedly named as a potential throne candidate and may have been king of Greece. He lived in retirement in recent years and his death follows a chronic illness that grew critical.
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Italy
Duke of
Aosta
Maly
Greece
Ee Ee Ree
Alternative Seawall Plan Backed by Mobile City Officials
The house committee on civil affairs endorsed an alternative seawall construction method along Mobile Bay's western shore. Drafted by Mobile City Attorney Vincent F. Kilborn, the plan accompanies six seawall measures aiming to fund flood protection via a three member seawall commission and property assessments, with four bills applying automatically and one requiring voter approval.
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House Committee On Civil Affairs
Sossaman
Mobile Bay
Tete
Vincent F. Kilborn
Mobile
House
Senate
John Craft
State Senate
Police hunt fence in Mobile burglary wave
Police say they are hunting a fence suspected of buying stolen goods from a three week burglary wave in Mobile. They report another break in at Bell Grocery Co at Cedar and New Jersey with cartons of cigarettes and money stolen.
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Mobile
Bell Grocery Company
Cedar and
New Jersey
Special Thursday Round Trip Rate Approved for Mobile Bay Bridge
The Alabama public service commission has approved a petition by Mobile Bay Bridge Company to grant a Thursday round trip fare over the bridge at the price of a one way ticket. The rate, filed June 30, aims to accommodate Baldwin county towns that close half days on Thursdays, allowing residents to travel to Mobile for the rest of the day. The new rate takes effect July 9.
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Mobile Bay Bridge Company
Alabama Public Service Commission
Fairhope
Baldwin County
Mobile
National Church Convention Ends in Seattle
The National Council of Congregational and Christian Churches closed after nine days of sessions. The union of the two bodies was consummated and a commission to study fair ministerial compensation was recommended. A report urged legislation banning block booking of moving pictures.
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Seattle
National Council of Congregational and Christian Churches
Ase
Release Is Sought Chicago July 4 Economy of jail plan
Rev. Phillip Yarrow remains jailed under an installment arrangement while Walter Shaver a bookseller paid 3.50 to extend Yarrow’s confinement for a week. Shaver had won a 5000 judgment against Yarrow for malicious prosecution tied to an obscene book sale. Yarrow failed to pay and was jailed. Shaver must pay 50 cents daily for the minister's imprisonment.
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Chicago
Phillip Yarrow
Walter Shaver
Yarrow
Shaver
Thousands Attend News Item Matinee in Mobile
Three thousand fight fans in Mobile packed the News Item and Register matinee to follow the Stribling Schmeling heavyweight bout from ringside via a live round by round description. The scene at the News Item building buzzed with rapid updates as Nelson’s Radios broadcast to overflow crowds and an extra edition hit the streets.
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Mobile
George
Nelson
St. Michael Street
News-Item
Register
St. J and
Nation Takes Holiday as Independence Day Celebrations Spread
The nation observes a double holiday with beaches camps and rural retreats full. Radio broadcasts mark patriotic events as President Hoover and cabinet members participate in programs across the country. Foreign celebrations include speakers in Poznan and Monroe anniversary events at Charlottesville. Firecrackers and bootleg fireworks appear despite prohibitions in big cities.
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Associated Press
Hoover
Rapidan
Hurley
Philadelphia
Independence Hall
Wilson
Poznan
Poland
Woodrow Wilson
Gutzon Borglum
Bodyguard Omar Hooper Found Dead After Personal Crisis
Omar L. Hooper, a 47 year old bodyguard for Thomas W. Lamont of J. P. Morgan and Co, killed himself with a pistol yesterday. Hooper, a Simpson Texas native, had recently divorced and had reportedly brooded since being made a lieutenant of private police at the Morgan bank.
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New York
Omar L. Hooper
Thomas W. Lamont
J. P. Morgan and Company
Hooper
Simpson
Texas
The
Morgan Bank
Markets Close Nationwide For Fourth of July Pause
Markets were closed across the nation including the New York Stock Exchange New York Cotton and the Chicago Board of Trade as the country observed Independence Day.
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New York Stock Exchange
New York Cotton
Chicago Board of Trade
Moratorium Talks Near as Paris Edges France US
American officials, hopeful for a moratorium, awaited Paris talks to resolve remaining points with France. Hoover stayed in Washington after discussing with Mellon in Paris and Castle by telephone, delaying his Rapidan trip while officials eyed details needed to implement a suspension of war debts and reparations.
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Associated Press
Washington
Paris
France
United States
White House
Castle
Hoover
Mellon
State Department
Rapidan
Banks Convicted In Insolvent Bank Case At Little Rock
A. B. Banks, once a leading Arkansas financier and president of the closed American Exchange Trust Company, was found guilty of accepting a deposit in an insolvent bank. The jury set a one year prison term after a trial that ended just before dawn.
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Ark
A. B. Banks
American Exchange Trust Company
Abner McGehee
Banks
Lillie Hothschild
American Exchange
Brannan Returned on Mortgage Property Charge
Winston Brannan, 54, brought to Mobile by deputy sheriff after being extradited from Liano Texas, faces a county jail docket for concealing mortgaged property. Evidence alleges he took near still partial property of a refinery company and drove it to Texas.
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Winston Brannan
Liano
Tex
Mobile
Brannan
Texas
Musgrove, Noted Alabama Politician, Dies at 74
L. B. Musgrove of Jasper Alabama, 74, mining operator and publisher, was found dead in his home from a heart attack. A former U S senate candidate in 1920 and 1926, he led Deepwater Coal and Iron Co and published Mountain Eagle. He was unmarried and known as a prohibitionist.
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Associated Press
Jasper
Ala
By Musgrove
Alabama
Musgrove
United States Senate
Oscar W Underwood
Hugo Black
John Bankhead
Deepwater Coal and Iron Company
Geane Est Coal and Iron Companies
Ent Mountain Eagle
Underwood
Five Die as Severe Thunderstorms Sweep State
In Laurel Mississippi Will Entrekin, 65, of Ellisville, was struck by lightning while in a cotton field. The bolt tore his hat and clothing but caused only minor head burns. his rifle remained undamaged. In Knoxville Tennessee Eula Berrier, 40, a farmer, was killed.
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Laurel
Miss
Will Entrekin
Ellisville
Knoxville
Tenn
Eula Berrier
Farmers repay drought loans to replant cotton corn and potatoes
Farmers suffering crop losses due to drought are repaying government loans used to replant fields. Checks from 75 cents to nearly 500 dollars have been received by the agriculture department as proceeds from the sale of crops and farm products.
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Washington
Agriculture Seem
Pope Pius XI Attacks Fascist Party in Encyclical
The Vatican releases an encyclical letter denouncing the Fascist Party for its stance toward the church and defending Catholic Action. The document outlines the church state clash over closing youth organizations linked to Catholic Action, without naming Mussolini or the party directly.
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Pope
Action Fascist Party
Associated Press
Vatican City
Fascist Party
Catholic Action Society
Pope Pius XI
Lettter
Church
Catholic Action
Mussolini
Delegation Heads to Virginia for Centennial of James Death
L. 8. Rowe, director general of the Pan American Union, led a delegation including ministers and first secretaries from Latin American legations with a war department escort, to attend a centennial commemorating the death of James. The group aims to promote Western Hemisphere unity and growth of independent republics.
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Ppose
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L. 8. Rowe
Pdn-American Union
Sies
Legations
War Department
Weather forecast excerpts for Alabama and Mississippi
Readable text shows a partly cloudy pattern with possible showers. Saturday night through Sunday is likely, with scattered or local showers mentioned in Mississippi and thundershowers in Alabama.
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Mississippi
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