Jury declares deadlocked in Murphy sinking trial
The Mobile jury in Captain John G Murphy second trial for plotting to sink the Rose Murphy could not reach a verdict. Judge Kennamer granted a mistrial after each member said further deliberation was useless. Murphy faced a prior conviction that was set aside. testimonies tied to a $70 000 insurance payout were presented.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles B. Kennamer
John G. Murphy
France
Federal Building
Kennamer
Murphy
Salvador Martinez
James A. Fulford
George Wonson
Orice Roddy
Rose Murphy
Offea
Roddy
Wonson
Martinez
Fulford
A. F. Bell
Bia
W. H. Yearger
Rawson Robinson
Esbia
Druggist in Crichton Foils Bunco Plot and Catches Suspect
Dr C L Brown of the Brown and White drug store in Crichton fired on and chased Harold H Gray of Savannah after recognizing a bunco scheme. Gray was detained at police headquarters on a general charge as authorities said the capture ends a months long search. A delivery boy had identified Gray as the man who duped the firm on a Saturday drugs and change for $20 request. The same ruse had targeted Mobile drug stores previously.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold H. Gray
Savannah
Bancoist
Gray
C. L. Brown
Brown & White
Crich
Springhill Avenue
Brown
Mobile
Tragedy Strikes Youths Boarding Freight in Mobile
Two brothers Troy and Wilson Dees of Cedar Creek were attempting to board a Louisville and Nashville freight train in Mobile when Troy was killed and Wilson, devastated, slashed his own throat. Troy died within hours. Wilson was hospitalized and expected to recover. Observers at Water and Halava streets and witnesses from nearby vessels reported the collapse and attempted intervention.
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Wilson Dees
Jackson County
Miss
Troy
City Hospital
Roche Mortuary
Cedar Creek
Troy Dees
Mobile
Louisville and Nashville
Water and
Halava
Wilson
H. S. J. Walker
M. J. Bozeman
Georgia
Lawrence Prim
Pittsburgh
Montgomery
Dees
Flomaton
Alabama Passes Four Key Measures After Last-Minute Accord
Alabama's sixty-seventh legislature reached a late settlement to approve an income tax replacing ad valorem, a new $25 million highway bond issue, a debt retirement plan, and a one-cent gas tax increase. The plan, supported by the Senate majority, faces a November vote while the gas tax faces possible extra sessions for constitutionality questions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubert Baughn
News-Item Capital Bureau
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Hopelee
Senate
Miller
Highway Department
Conna Garrett
Lapacy
Lapsley
Dallas
Burglars Reported In Multiple Local Break-ins
Miss Alice McKee reports room entered and clothes stolen at 159 St Anthony. St Patrick's convent at Franklin Sand Bloodgood streets burglarized with an electric stove taken. Tug James Daugherty pilot house broken into and a ship's compass stolen. Miss E R Brown’s home at 1457 Monroe Street entered and $45 in cash stolen, later recovered from a small boy per Detective Burton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice McKee
St. Anthony Et
St. Patrick's Convent
Franklin Sand Bloodgood Streets
Allen Bishop
James Daugherty
E. R. Brown
Monroe Sreet
Charles Burton
Weather Forecast For Alabama And Mississippi Regions
Partly cloudy and unsettled Monday night into Tuesday with scattered thundershowers Tuesday across Alabama and Mississippi. Observations note changes in river levels along the streams, including the nearby DAIES RIVER area with potential minor rises. Local towns such as Montgomery Selma and surrounding areas may see light gusts and variable clouds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Mississippi
Girls' School Rioter Held Here As Escape
Willie Mae Piper, 16, one of the participants in an uprising at the State Training School for Girls in Birmingham weeks earlier leading to the superintendent's resignation, was arrested on an escape charge. She and her husband, R. B. Price, 17, were taken by detectives Holmes and Crivalleri. Piper to be returned to the state institution after discharge from probation. She said she married at Pascagoula, Mississippi on July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Mae Piper
State Training School For Girls
Birmingham
Ira Champion
R. B. Price
Tennisee ‘Street
Holmes and Crivalleri
Piper
Alma Benson
Alabama Lumber Rodeo Yields Two Tarpon Win at Fort Gaines
Members and guests of the Alabama Lumber and Building Material association returned Sunday from the fourth annual fishing rodeo at Fort Gaines. They fished two days, caught two tarpon and many other game fish. J. W. Johnston of Lone Star Cement Company Birmingham won the largest tarpon and the association’s loving cup as first prize. The party left Mobile Saturday after a lengthy session at the Battle House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama Lumber and Building Material Association
Fort Gaines
J. W. Johnston
Lone Star Cement Company
Birmingham
Mobile
Battle House
Inspects Mobile District Projects Biloxi Dredging Plans
Captain Cecil R. Moore of the Office of the Chief of Engineers completed a Mobile district inspection Sunday and traveled to Galveston for a similar review. He explored active projects in Mobile Pascagoula Biloxi and Gulfport with Captain Edward H. Dignowity and noted Biloxi dredging to start soon before returning to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil R. Moore
Washington
Chief of Engineers
Mobile
Galveston
Pascagoula
Biloxi
Gulfport
Jacksonville
Moore
Edward H. Dignowity
Guardsmen Return from Fort McClellan Training Camp
The Mobile battalion of national guard troops totaling 250 men arrived in Mobile Sunday afternoon after a 15 day training period at Fort McClellan Alabama near Anniston. Guardsmen from the Rifles Cadets Bienville Blues and Murray Wheeler units were cited for special mention. General John Persons praised the units for exemplary conduct with no disciplinary actions or sickness during training. Colonel H C Van Deever noted high division leadership at a conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Battalion
National Guard
Mobile
Fort McClellan
Ala
Anniston
Louisville and Nashville
Rifles
Cadets
Bienville Blues
Murray Wheeler
John Persons
Alabama
Free showers for city kids from firemen
The fire department started free after noon baths for children, announced by Chief Gus Rehm. Bath sessions run daily at Optimist Park Beauregard and St. Joseph 1 to 2 pm, Galvez Park 3 to 4 pm, and Choctaw Park 4 to 5 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gus Rehm
Optimist
Inferior Civil Court Legality Is Attacked
Gerald H. Krumpel files bill in equity division of Mobile circuit court challenging the 1911 act creating the inferior civil court. He seeks to set aside levies under $100 on his property, arguing ex officio clerk Ed J. Huet lacked authority to issue executions and the court is unconstitutional and void.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Equity Division
Circuit Court
Gerald H. Krumpel
William H. Holcombe
Ed J. Huet
Mobile County
Inferior Civil Court of
Mobile
Ala
Prohibition agents seize car and liquor in arrests
John B. Francis and Claude E. Farnell were arrested by federal agents for transporting liquor. A Ford car and a five gallon keg with liquor were seized. Three defendants, Annie Robinson, Willie Morgan, and Ulysses Lewis, pleaded guilty and were sentenced to 90 days in jail by Judge Charles B. Kennamer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Francis
Claude E. Farnell
Charles B. Kennamer
Annie Robinson
Willie Morgan
Ulysses Lewis
Woman shoots husband to quell jail riot in Okemah
Mrs. Olin Derrick fired at her husband Wayne Derrick a jailer during a melee of about twenty prisoners at the Okemah county jail. The jailer urged his wife to shoot and was struck in both legs as prisoners were subdued. Wayne Dongers, a car theft suspect held for Colorado officers, attacked Derrick during the disturbance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okemah
Okla
Olin Derrick
Wayne Dongers
Colorado
Derrick
Boy injured in collision between autos at Michigan and Virginia
A small son of B. Roberts of Chickasaw was hurt but not seriously when his father's car collided with a truck driven by N. Harrington of 205 Charleston street at the corner of Michigan avenue and Virginia street. Police officers Smith and Schreier filed the report.
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B. Roberts
Chickasaw
Mr. Roberts
N. Harrington
Charleston Street
Michigan Avenue
Virginia Street
Smith and Schreiber
Lose Lives in Southland Over Week End
Twenty two people died in the southern states over the weekend from lightning drownings automobile and train accidents and firearms. Victims included Clark Snapp and Ronnie Lonag in Virginia, J Alien Cdhady fatally injured near Greenville, East Tennessee saw two firearm deaths, and a shooting in Bull's Gap left Lloyd Long dead with Dolly Sutherland charged in his slaying.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
South
Clark Snapp
Winchester
Ronnie Lonag
J. Alien Cdhady
Chick
Greenville
Tennessee
Jack Morris
Oneida
Ora Lee Thompson
Morris
Heat Death Toll Rises Across Southwest States
Extreme heat blamed for three more deaths in California's Imperial Valley and Arizona, raising four day toll. Louis A. Julp, 45, died in Fresno with others hospitalized from prostration. Phoenix reported a 72 hour period of eight deaths as temperatures topped 111 at the scene. Needles saw 116 and Hoover Dam area reported 120 to 130 degrees with workers collapsing daily.
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Los Angeles
United States
California
Imperial Valley
Arizona
Louis A. Julp
Fresno
Cal
Phoenix
Ariz
Needles
Las Vegas
Nevada
Hoover Dam
Colorado River
Texans Trail Slayer Of Two In Gun Fight
A suspected bootlegger, refusing to halt for officers, killed Constable W. F. Raygood and Deputy Francisco Cisneros and wounded jailer Cusman. Officers across the Rio Grande valley hunted the shooter as three officers investigated a Mexican district patrol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Raymondville
Texas
Rio Grande Valley
W. F. Raygood
Fran
Cisco Cisneros
Raygood
Cisneros
Cusman
Union officer in death plot shoots attacker at rally
Patrick T. Fagan, president of district No. 5 UMWA, wrestled a pistol from an attacker who claimed to be sent to kill him. He shot the man dead on the Fagan front lawn as a companion was captured after threatening a taxi driver. The slain man's identity was not released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Patrick T. Fagan
Slayer
Fagan
Edward Snyder
Fleming
Governor Extends Martial Law Over Free Bridge Access
Oklahoma Governor William H. Murray expands martial law to cover the Denison Durant free bridge over the Red River after a federal injunction bars state interference with bridge users and highway information. The move follows earlier surveillance of the toll bridge and comes as Murray returns from the martial law camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Denison-Durant
Red River
Murray
Okla
William H
Road to happiness contract ends in deadly Chicago row
In Chicago on July 27 Dell F Harbaugh 43 an inventor was killed yesterday afternoon in a struggle over a pistol during a family dispute ending a six month estrangement. His wife Elizabeth 22 was at a police station after the incident. The couple had signed a March contract promising forgiveness and renewed affection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Chicago
Dell F. Harbaugh
Elizabeth
Harbaugh
Texas Man Paroled by Justice Department
Washington July 27 The justice department announced that J L Noones of Texas had been granted parole effective August 5 Noones was until October of this year had been serving a sentence in federal custody for an unspecified offense and was released on parole to complete supervision
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Black Warrior
Warerior
Tombigbee
Alabama
Department
Coose River
Georgia
Justice Department
J. L. Noones
Texas
Noones
Freeman appeals after car crash fined and suspended license
H A Freeman was arrested Friday after a car he drove overturned, then fined 250 dollars plus costs and given 90 days with driving privileges suspended for six months after a hearing in inferior criminal court. Freeman said the car was loaned by W R Steber who stated the vehicle had been stolen shortly before the incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. A. Freeman
Conception
Inferior Criminal Court
Freeman
W. R. Steber
Venire Drawn for October Grand Jury Session
A venire of names was drawn in circuit court on Monday for the October grand jury. The panel will meet at noon, with 18 men to be chosen for the grand jury and the remainder set for petit jury duty.
Retailers Meet To Discuss Trade Stimulus Plan
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce retail committee will meet Tuesday at 10 AM to review a proposed plan to boost local retail trade. Roy Albright serves as committee chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Roy Albright
Lawyers to Meet Judge Edington on Domestic Bills
Lawyers to meet Judge David H. Edington at 4 o'clock noon to discuss action concerning domestic bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David H. Edington
Dent
Mobile
Duke Slightly Ill Melton Mowbray Flight Delay
The Duke of Kent, third son of King George, caught a chill while flying from Aintree on Friday and will rest for a few days. A local doctor reported the patient’s condition is not serious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melton Mowbray
Duke of Ae
George
Aintree
Fr Walsh Hurt at Spring Hill Infirmary Expected Recovery
Father Joseph M. Walsh, president of Spring Hill, was reported to suffer five toe bruises and be confined to the infirmary for several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph M. Walsh
Spring Hill
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H. H. Gray
C. ‘L. Brown
Albright & Woodelivery
Brother
House of Representatives
Daies River
Sime
Sy Af
Sea Ghandar
Selma
Montgomery Se Cacae
Johnston
H. C. van Deveer
Regular Army
Ram
U. S
Southland
Dixie
Lloyd Long
Bull's Gap
Tenn
Dolly Sutherland
Long
Sutherland
Mary Frances Gardner
Albany
Unadilla
Henry Gehrmann
Joseph
William Coates
Biloxi Bay
Knoxville
James Dykes
Holston River
Sam Casper
G. Bowlin
Fitz
Oklahoma
Defi
The
Coats
Venire
Bar Association
Duke
FR. Walsh Hurt
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