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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1930
Page
5
Graf Zeppelin completes a historic voyage visiting South and North American cities, noting a 31 minute anchor and take-off in Seville. The pause was shortened by storms, yet the display underscored efforts to pioneer inter‑continental airways for lighter‑than‑air ships and demonstrated docking and provisioning speeds for the giant craft.
In Cambridge on June 6 a judge revoked a month sentence for James Delacey, a bookstore proprietor, after a drastic denunciation of the Watch and Ward Society by District Attorney Robert T. Bushnell who charged the society procured the sale of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. The $500 fine remains. Delacey was convicted before Judge Fosdick last December and the supreme court overruled an appeal.
St Paul man Frank Walton alleges his wife threatened to have him killed for 25 dollars. He says she attacked him with knives and fists and strapped a knife claiming she would kill him when the blade was sharp enough. Walton declares the acts constitute cruel and inhuman treatment.
Harry Rourke of Utica was killed when his tractor was struck by a Delaware Lackawanna and Western train at Washington Mills. Seven train passengers were injured or shocked as two coaches and a baggage car were derailed.
Angora advices report that the Turkey cabinet approved an offer from an American and European match company to provide a $10,000,000 advance to the Turkish government for 25 years of control over the Turkish match monopoly. Lee Higginson & Company of New York will arrange the financing.
Firefighters and volunteers battled a blaze in Isleton California gutting the Central hotel a garage with autos and two houses. Loss was put at about 125000.
Two gunmen robbed the State Bank of Niles on June 6 taking about 4000 dollars. One carried a shotgun and the president cashier and village treasurer were forced to lie on the floor in the bank vault during the heist.
Washington reports Assistant Secretary Jahncke announced one of the new 10,000 ton cruisers will be named the New Orleans to honor the Crescent City as Louisiana loses fleet representation. Jahncke resides in New Orleans.
Erskine Bailey 26 of Causeyville died at a local hospital. Funeral services were held at Buccatuna Baptist church in Clarke county with Rev. Blanding Vaughan officiating. Surviving relatives include his father Yancey Phe of Causeyville and siblings in Clarke and Lauderdale counties.
Detroit police report Peggy Mahon a 22 year old former hat checker boasted she is a bandit queen behind as many as 100 robberies. She and Joseph OConnor 23 and four others were arrested during a saloon rendezvous with pistols in hand. OConnor cited 35 proven robberies while Garner Grabill 22 confessed involvement in two holdups.
Senator Caraway spoke to summer school students at Jonesboro A M College and planned a Democratic rally in Dexter Missouri before traveling to Washington. He cancelled the Fort Smith engagement to address lobby Cannon dispute.
In Washington awaiting Chairman Caraway to return from Arkansas, senate lobby investigators weighed action against Bishop Jame Cannon Jr. for refusing to answer questions and walking out. Acting chairman Senator Walsh said no move until Caraway arrives. Cannon had refused on 1928 anti Smith activities and left the committee room, described as contempt of the senate.
French delegates propose building Rotary buildings at major university centers worldwide. C Jourdan-Gassin, Nice Rotary Club president, will present the project at Rotary International’s silver jubilee in Chicago on June 22. European leaders at Nice approved the idea to spread Rotary friendship.
Members of the Sabine party depart Mobile by special car for the Toronto gathering. The list includes Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Eberlein, Miss Bettie Ellie, Dr. J. C. Smith, J. R. Crosby, Sam Kelly, Elizabeth Cato, Estelle Ryan, Nan Lott, Louise Butchee, Mrs. Walter May, and I. H. McArthur and Meridian family, among others from Mississippi and Columbus.
Washington June 6. Assistant U S attorney David A Hart urged District of Columbia police to cease using informers to obtain evidence in liquor cases. With over 350 liquor cases on the docket and about 90 percent based on informer evidence, Hart pressed District Attorney Roover for action noting prior efforts to end informer use had been reversed recently.
Federal Judge Ackerman of Tampa has been appointed by Chief Justice Hughes to preside in Brooklyn New York federal district during August. He recently completed a term of court in Atlanta. The deepest oil well drilled is 9 557 feet at Santa Fe Springs near Los Angeles.
Rochester June 6 Dr James M Doran federal prohibition commissioner says rum drinking is down from a year ago and will fall further next year He praises Americas hard line on liquor while noting Canadas export ban and coast guard efforts reduce sea imports The coast guard with 12000 to 15000 men helps curb illegal liquor movement
General L. W. Stephens of Coushatta La named commander in chief for the coming year as veterans of the Confederacy reject a northern joint reunion. Alabama’s Montgomery chosen for 1931 meeting with no 1932 plans. Leaders named include Homer Atkinson R D Chapman C A Dessausure. Adjutant General Harry Rene Lee reappointed. General Sneed elected life past commander.
Henry Ford speaks on a world economic scheme with new plants abroad. He notes plans for a factory in China and a plant in South America and hints at a preliminary study for a German facility. He emphasizes prosperity for all and global industrial cooperation. He also highlights the importance of his Ireland plant to the southern Free State.
M L Winfrey, 44, of Concord Tennessee, fell from an eleventh floor scaffold in a 17 story downtown Atlanta building under construction. His father and four brothers, all stone setters, watched in horror as a guard rail gave way. Winfrey died at the scene and his body was to be sent to Tennessee for burial tomorrow.
A sudden high wind storm in Chicago driven by thunder showers damaged several buildings in Midlothian and the metropolitan area. Two boys, Joseph La Fond and Peter Rudder, were hurt when a garage roof collapsed during sheltering. Police estimated total damage at 25000 dollars.
A fragment presents tension over gambling and political alignments. It questions why Bishop Cannon and Claudius Huston gamble in Wall Street while Joe cannot, alleging a Sun day school led by Oe supported Hoover. It hints at penitentiary issues and party loyalties.
A Colonial Air Transport plane with 15 aboard made a forced landing in shallow water near Boston after the right motor failed. Pilot Owen O'Connor steered to water to avoid mudflats. Pearl S. Thorsen, 50, Brookline, died after swimming ashore and collapsing. Eleven others were hospitalized with immersion shock and minor injuries. None in serious condition.
Washington reports President Hoover has not named a new ambassador to Japan, with W Cameron Forbes as a leading candidate. The decision may wait for a special senate session on the naval treaty, while other posts to Liberia Siam and Haiti also await selection. A separate note mentions a greenish paint found in England used to render airplanes harder to detect against clouds. The piece ends with a light aside about laughter as a head bump tonic.
The federal farm board announced the incorporation of a cotton stabilization corporation. Articles filed in Delaware set up a body to buy store and market cotton, with operations subject to board approval. The group plans reserves from profits and uses board loans if reserves fall short.
Philip T. Carling has been granted an annulment of his marriage to Nora Carling known as Nora White, alleging the ceremony was conducted by a clerk not a Mexican judge in Tijuana Baja California. Mexican lawyer Antonio Castellanos identified the clerk as the person who read the ceremony.
In New York at 51 Fifth Avenue two women clashed in a fashionable building. Mrs. Wilhelm Cohen was stabbed in the cheek while Mrs. Daniel Sunderland, who had come for an explanation, was cut on the hand. Sunderland was charged with felonious assault.
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