Kilpatrick Case Heads to Russia for Papers Handling
Senator France of Maryland plans to enter Russian territory to press for Kilpatrick of Uniontown and Mrs. Margaret Harrison case papers. An Associated Press dispatch says France gathered available materials in Washington and will present them to Soviet leaders for action. He travels to Russia to obtain firsthand information on conditions there.
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Emmett Kilpatrick
Uniontown
Ala
Russia
France
Maryland
Associated Press
Mobile
Washington
England
Kilpatrick
Margaret Harrison
Baltimore
United States
Two robbers target three men on Telegraph road
A daylight robbery report details two armed men who stopped a car on Telegraph road north of Chickasaw at 1 15 Sunday. They took 45 dollars and fled with the vehicle, later abandoned on St mis street near Conception. Victims include Mayberry merchant, R G Hodges, and Carlos. Detectives identified suspects today.
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Telegraph Road
Chickasaw
Mayberry
R.G. Hodges
Carlos
St. Mis Street
Conception Street
LeGear
Clark
Reduced Coastwise Rates Between Interior East and Mobile
New reduced rates from interior eastern points to Mobile via the Mallory line likely go into effect tomorrow or Wednesday after the Interstate Commerce Commission granted permission with five days notice. The rate change, approved by I C C, will save Mobile merchants thousands annually and boost coastwise business New York to Mobile. Local shippers will be urged to use the line over all rails as rates shift to a cheaper water route.
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Mobile
Mallory
Interstate Commerce Commission
Steamship Company
R. G. Cobb
Chamber of Commerce
New York
Morgan Line
New 1
Two Doughboys Coblenz Reported Killed by German
Paris dispatch reports two American soldiers with the occupation army on the Rhine killed by a German civilian at Anderach. The killings occurred as the Americans were mobbed by a quarrelsome crowd. the murderer escaped.
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Coblenz
Paris
Rhine
Anderach
Cobleg
Idleness Rising Across Major U S Cities in May
Washington June 6 Unemployment continued to rise in May with a 5 percent increase over April and 3.8 percent over January based on payrolls from 1,428 large firms in 65 centers. Cities like Denver Seattle Portland and Cincinnati show higher unemployment while steel and automobile sectors weaken and textile mills rise in the South Atlantic.
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Washington
Francis I. Jones
Department of Labor
Steem
Jones
Ude
Denver
Colo
Bayonne
N. J
Seattle
Flint
Mich
Grandids
Indiana
Atlanta
Columbus
Ohio
Portland
Ore
Memphis
Tenn
San Francisco
Peoria
Ills
Patterson
Buffalo
Cincinnati
Cithee
Yton
Tol
South Atlantic
New England
Middle Atlantic
West
Survivor recalls Denver Rio Grande flood catastrophe
Sheriff Frank Ducray of Mesa County describes the night when train No. 8 was hit by rising Arkansas River floodwaters near Pueblo. He details passengers clinging to cars, people swept away, a lumber surge crashing over them, and up to over a hundred believed dead in the river valley disaster involving the Denver and Rio Grande and Missouri Pacific trains.
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Colorado Springs
Col
Frank Ducray
Mesa County
Grand Junction
Denver and Rio Grande
Pueblo
Arkansas River
Union Station
Missouri Pacific
Addy
Nore
Switching charges dispute between Mobile and Ohio and Mobile and Northern
Officials from the Mobile and Ohio railroad and the Mobile and Northern line plan a Friday conference to discuss the Tacón switching dispute. They aim for a mutual agreement to avoid formal proceedings before an examiner of the Interstate Commerce Commission, with a hearing possible in July if no settlement is reached.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tacon
Mobile
Packet Trade Shift to Dauphin Island Seeks Comfort
Leroy Perkins of the Cottage Hotel on Dauphin Island announces the Bon Secour will sail Mobile Saturdays at 1 30 PM and return Sundays. The Secour will also run a second weekly trip Mondays at 1 39 PM from the island, with Friday returns. Perkins notes surf fishing and game saltwater species attract visitors.
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Bue
Cornelia Pauline
Mobile
Dauphin Island
Leroy Perkins
Packet Secour
Bon Secour
Perkins
Pythian Sisters Form Mobile Temple No. 3
Mobile hosts the organization of Mobile Temple No. 3 of the Pythian Sisters with a charter membership of 40. Mrs. Mary Echols of Ensley Ala will arrive soon to install officers including the most excellent chief Mrs. ee ie and excellent so- Helen Stewart with Lovge Coor as manager.
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Mobile Temple No
Pythian Sisters
Mobile
Mary Echols
Ensley
Ala
Weather brief for Alabama on June 6
The report notes generally fair conditions across Alabama tonight with calm to light winds and no precipitation expected. No significant changes anticipated through the overnight hours.
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Alabama
Federal Officers Witness in Graham Second Trial
The second trial of James A Graham for illicit distilling is in federal court this afternoon. The government relies on the surprise exclamation when Graham realized he spoke to Judge Robert T Ervin after officers found a still on Big Creek. Virgil Cy Griffin and others are implicated. Graham says the still was not his and was in the area to feed hogs. The prior term ended in a mistrial.
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James A. Graham
Robert T. Ervin
Big Creek
Coun
Row Over Ability As Boiler Makers Ends In Cutting Row
J J Hurst a 59 Palmetto street iron worker was stabbed three times near Crichton high causing him slight improvement after a general fight near the cotton mills. Kit Collins R E Broadus Oliie Fincher Crichton residents are in jail without bail on assault to murder charges. Eli Collins Chris Collins Sylvester McReed held on affray charges. The trouble stems from a Newell store dispute over who qualifies as a boilermaker.
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J. J. Hurst
Palmetto Street
Crichton
Providence Infirmary
Kit Collins
R.-E. Broadus
Oliie Fincher
W. H. Holcombe, Jr
Eli Collins
Chris Collins
Sylvester McReed
Newell's
Automobile Club Plans Drive To Enlist Members
Several hundred Mobile County Automobile Club members attend a membership meeting at the Cawthon hotel where the group launches a countywide campaign. Speakers urge car owners to join, with soliciting to begin Tuesday and aim to reach nearly every owner in the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile County Automobile Club
Cawthon Hotel
Reed Bound Over in Kinchin Killing
Delma Reed of Eraland Mobile County is bound over for trial on manslaughter after a two hour hearing. Otto Kinchin was killed when a gun discharged after a display while both men drank on the evening of May 18. Reed faces a circuit court arraignment on the charge with a bond set at 2500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delma Reed
Eraland
Sourthern
Mobile County
Chi
Otto Kinchin
Inferior Criminal Court
Kinchin
Kishin
Supreme Court May Give Road Decision
The Supreme Court may rule on whether intrastate rate hikes ordered by the Interstate Commerce Commission are valid. States contend ICC and Congress overstep by regulating all rates within states, while the court could limit regulators to interstate rates. If sustained, intrastate increases like the 50 percent Pullman surcharge and higher baggage, freight, and dairy rates would be nullified.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commission
Congress
Silas A Burgoyne Dies At Home In Mobile
Silas A Burgoyne a jeweler and prominent Mason died this morning at 8 30 oclock at his home 109 South Broad street after a long illness He was born in Wilmington Delaware and leaves his wife two sons Caleb and Radcliffe Burgoyne two daughters Odetta and Antoinette Burgoyne three brothers Caleb Lawrence and Leavens Burgoyne of Pensacola Geo W of Chicago and two sisters Mrs Douglas and Mrs Rivers of Pensacola Funeral set for Tuesday at 5 oclock He belonged to Howard Lodge No 69 Knights Templar No 2 Scottish Rite bodies and Abba Temple Shriners
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Silas A. Burgoyne
Mobile
South Broad Street
Wilmington
Delaware
Caleb
Radcliffé Burgoyne
Odetta
Antoinette Burgoyne
Lawrence
Leavens Burgoyne
Pensacola
Geo W
Chicago
Douglas
Rivers
Burgoyne
Howard Lodge No
Knights Templar
Abba Temple of Shriners
Backyard gardener yields four pound Patty-pan squash
F. C. Hartford, a stereotyper for The News Item, grows a back-yard garden at Cherokee and Dublin streets. He reports a Patty-pan squash weighing four pounds and notes several nearby specimens approaching that size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. C. Hartford
Cherokee
Dublin
Mallory Line Resumes Regular Service at Once
Mallory Line will resume regular sailings between New York Tampa Mobile and New Orleans immediately. The service was previously discontinued due to a marine workers strike.
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Mallory
Tampa
Fila
New York
Mobile
New Orleans
Mallory Line
Young Cousin Shot by Deputy Sheriff in Georgia
Chattanooga Tenn June 6 Deputy Sheriff John Val Moore is jailed in La Fayette Georgia charged with the murder of his 16 year old cousin John Moore. Moore says the boy resisted as he attempted to arrest him on a charge of discharging firearms on Sunday.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
John Val Moore
la Fayette
John Moore
Moore
Inadvisable Bayou La Batre Improvement Plan
Washington June report by Army Engineers transmitted to Congress by Secretary Weeks says improvement of Bayou la Batre Alabama is inadvisable at this time.
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Washington
Bayou la Batre
Ala
Congress
Weeks
World business improves says Hoover in Washington
Secretary of Commerce Hoover states world business is rapidly improving with Europe showing recovery. He notes repeal of consumption restrictions and growing production and distribution of coal outside strike impacts, with hopes of easing rationing and expanded imports and textiles in the near term.
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Washington
Secretary of Commerce
Hoover
Europe
Russia
Omic
Austria
Germany
Italy
Hungary
Coast Veterans to Be Entertained in Mobile
A delegation of veterans from Jefferson Davis Old Soldiers Home Beauvoir Miss will be entertained in Mobile tomorrow. They arrive at 12 30 p m stay until 7 p m with a Tide to Monroe Park and a hot dinner at 3 p m. The Empire Theater show follows between 4 and 5 p m and Lyric manager offers similar courtesy. They depart at 7 o clock on the Mobile and Ohio line.
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Jefferson Davis Old Soldiers
Beauvoir
Miss
Tupelo
Mobile
Electra Semmes
Daughters of the Confederacy
Monroe Park
Empire Theater
Lyric
Ohio
Railroads Press for Uniform Wages at Labor Board Hearing
About 175 railroad lines appeared before the U S railroad labor board in Chicago demanding abolition of extra pay for overtime and uniform wages for the same classes of workers nationwide. They attacked the wage-cutting drive as an effort to reduce labor costs.
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Chicago
United States
Another Delay Sought in Stillman Divorce Case
In New York on June 6, John F. Brennan for Mrs. Anne A. Stillman said he would ask Referee Gleason in Poughkeepsie to grant a further delay in the Stillman divorce hearings. Cornelius J. Sullivan for James A. Stillman said the banker's lawyers would oppose any halt to the case progression.
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New York
Stillman
John F. Brennan
Anne A. Stillman
White Plains
Gleason
Poughkeepsie
Cornelius J. Sullivan
James A. Stillman
Brennan
France Opposing Arbitration Plan
Paris June 6 The reparations commission presented to the council of ambassadors a proposal to refer to neutral arbitration questions on which it cannot agree Critics in French quarters say the plan would have decisions on major reparations matters made by neutral powers.
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Paris
Associated Press
Council of Ambassadors
Careless Smoker Blamed In Two Fatal Gasoline Tank Explosion
In Memphis on June 6 a gasoline tank exploded at a filling station injuring six others. Lois Herrington aged 14 and her six year old brother died after burns. A party member lit a cigarette during fueling triggering the blast.
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Memphis
Tenn
Lois Herrington
Top Court Upholds Western Union Case
Washington June 6 The Supreme Court upheld Contentions that Western Union Telegraph Company cannot be held liable for damages from transmission errors while its lines were under government control. A South Carolina damages award to S. B. Poston was reversed.
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Washington
Western Union Telegraph Company
Supreme Court
South Carolina
B. Poston
Lloyd George Improves After Brief Illness
London June 6 Premier Lloyd George has a slight attack of illness but is judged to be in satisfactory condition. He was laid up after a chill and instructed to rest for a day or two. The strain from domestic and industrial problems is noted as a factor in his health.
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Pueblo
Col
Associated Press
Colorado
West
Red Cross
Red Crows
Teporary
J. B. Moorehead
Geernor Shoup
Fort Lagan
Etary
Shoup
London
Lloyd George
Man in Tulsa Dies After Guard Shot Him
R. L. Osborne died at a Tulsa hospital from wounds after being shot by a guard following a failure to halt from an automobile party. Mrs. Paul Warner, Osborne’s sister, was cut by flying glass and hospitalized.
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Tulsa
Okla
R. L. Osborne
Osborne
Paul Warner
Government to Sell Jacksonville Plant at Auction
The War Department announced the government owned buildings and improvements at Camp Joseph Johnston Jacksonville Florida will be auctioned on June 27. The sale is directed by the director of sales of the War Department.
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Washington
Camp Joseph E. Johnston
Jacksonville
Via
War Department
Nashville Schools Graduation Sets City Record
Nashville graduates total about 2000 as public and private schools and colleges release seniors. Institutions include Vanderbilt 175 Ward Belmont 50 Peabody 50 Girls Preparatory 9 Montgomery Bell 22 Duncan 17 Lipscomb 23 grammar schools 1250 Fisk 40 A and I normal 160 Meharry 102 Roger Williams 41.
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Nashville
Tenn
Athens
South
Vanderbilt
Ward- Belmont
Peabody
Girls Preparatory School
Montgomery Bell Academy
Duncan
David Lipscomb
Grammar
Fisk University
A. & IL. Normal
Meharry
Roger Williams
Conferring British and German Leaders in Silesia
General Hunneker of British troops in Silesia and General von Hoefer of German defense leaders planned a morning meeting in Opplen Silesia amid clashes between Germans and Poles in Upper Silesia. France issued an ultimatum demanding German retreat near Gross Strehlitz or face withdrawal of French forces from plebiscite zone industry.
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Oppeln
Silesia
Hunneker
von Hoefer
Upper Silesia
Gross Strehlitz
Harding Removes Attorney in Kansas
Washington June 6 Hugh R Robertson United States district attorney for the western district of Texas has been removed from office by President Harding announced today at the department of justice No reason was assigned for the removal
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Washington
Hugh R. Robertson
United States
Western District of
Texas
Harding
Department of Justice
Government asks high court to drop appeal in Can Co case
The government petitioned the Supreme Court to dismiss its appeal against the American Can Company and its subsidiaries under the Sherman anti trust laws. Lower courts favored the company and the government based its action on a prior Supreme Court decision. General Frierson stated continuing the case would be useless.
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Washington
Erement
Supreme Ec
Supreme Court
United States Steel Corporation
General Frierson
Guards Increased at Norfolk and Newport News Waterfronts
Guards along the waterfronts of steamers in Norfolk and Newport News have been increased after an attack on the American steamer Mitchell on Saturday by masked men. No further trouble has occurred and the attackers have not been heard from since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport News
Mitchell
Religious dispute ends in murder in Oakdale Tennessee
Oakdale Tenn June Melton 45 was shot and killed Sunday afternoon at the home of Morgan, Mrs Broone's father in law, during a dispute over the Holy Roller sect. Flora Broone is held for a preliminary hearing today.
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Oakdale
Tenn
Melton
Flora Broone
I Morgan
Broone
Holy Roller
Meridian Dispatch Suspends On Sands
Meridian Dispatch suspends publication after a June dispute with the union over wages and expenses. Publisher B. I. Rappel cites a 25 percent wage reduction as the cause and notes the paper cannot meet costs.
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Meridian Dispatch
Sands
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Arkansas
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Gardner
Newrcduceh
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Graham
Automobile Club
Reed
Trinity
Trinity Iscopal Church
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PLAC
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Meridian
Mise
B. I. Rappelisher
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