Muscle Shoals Bill Deadlock in Parleys Reaches Washington
Washington June 7 Conferees from House and Senate on Muscle Shoals bill failed to reconcile differences between leasing to private operators and government operation. Senator Norris Nebraska plans a statement after negotiations. McNary Oregon and Norris voiced opposition to compromise. House members and Senate measure diverge on fertilizer production and private power.
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Washington
House
Senate
Muscle Shoals
Norris
Nebraska
Smith
South Carolina
McNary
Oregon
Ransley
Pennsylvania
Reece
Tennessee
Wurzbach
Texas
Fisher
Quinn
Mississippi
Congress
Pantages Released on Bail After Jail Term
Alexander Pantages, 54, theatre magnate, freed on $100000 bail by the California Supreme Court after seven months in jail while appealing a rape conviction of 17 year old dancer Eunice Pringle. The court cited danger to his life and health due to confinement amid three hearings where no temporary relief was granted.
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Los Angeles
Alexander Pantages
Eunice Pringle
State Supreme Court
Pantages
High Court
Miss Pringle
Candidate deposits fees for first district board race
Edward V. O Connor Jr an accountant qualified Saturday by depositing a fifty dollar fee with Leo F Eldridge chairman of the Democratic executive committee John J Martin district manager of the Southern Hardwood Traffic association also deposited his qualification fee as a candidate for the board from the first district
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Edward V. O'Connor, Jr
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Leo F. Eldridge
Democratic Executive Committee
John J. Martin
Southern Hardwood Traffic Sociation
Weekend Weather Outlook for Alabama and Mississippi
The meteorologist reports partly cloudy conditions across interior Alabama and Mississippi with coastal areas partly cloudy Saturday night and Sunday. Temperatures rise modestly on Sunday as conditions warm inland and along the coast.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Prince Carol Returns to Take Romanian Crown
Paris reports unconfirmed news that former Crown Prince Carol is proclaimed King of Romania by the assembly. Proclamation expected tonight. Carol arrived from exile yesterday. Princess Helen heads to Germany June 11 for Queen Sophie’s birthday event. Dowager Queen Marie to return by mid June. King Michael’s reign ends with a regency setup as he is still a child.
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Paris
Carol
Rumania
Bucharest
Romania
Helen
Castle Kromberg
Frankfurt
Sophie
Greece
Marie
Tschigoski
Michael
Mickey
Nicholas
Chinese Tong Peace Pact Suits End to Tong Wars
Representatives of the Hip Sing and On Leong tongs signed a peace treaty at the Crain office in New York to halt a wave of tong killings across New York Chicago Newark Everett and Boston. The pact follows multiple shootings and deaths involving tong members, including Sing Wong in Everett and Lui Sing in Brooklyn.
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Crain
Chicago
Newark
N. J
Everett
Mass
Mulrooney
Boston
Manhattan
Sing Wong
Hip Sing Tong
Lui Sing
Brooklyn
Cheong Fook
Nesbitt Bank Robbery Netted 3500 in June Raid
Three men with sawed off shotguns seized Cashier Ed North and his wife locking them in the vault at the Bank of Nesbitt Nesbitt Mississippi and escaped with about 3500 dollars in cash. The trio fled in an automobile and faced no resistance as only one customer was present.
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Nesbitt
Miss
Bank of
New York
Richmond Hill National Bank
Jamaica
L. I
New York City
Joseph Whalen
Hoover Heads to Rapidan Fishing Preserve with Party
President Hoover and a 15 member party leave the White House for the Rapidan river fishing preserve in the Blue Ridge. Officials Hurley Mills Lucas Sisson Richardson and Hanford MacNider attend, while Mrs Hoover drives up for rest after a back injury.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Rapidan River
Blue Ridge Mountains
Hurley
Mills
The
Treasury
Lucas
Internal Revenue Bureau
Sisson and
Richardson
Hanford MacNider
Canada
Theodore Roosevelt
Porto Rico
Dauphin Island Bridge Bond Vote Totals Released
The election board completed a tally of last Tuesday's vote on the Dauphin Island bridge bond, showing 7 468 votes cast in total. The measure failed with 4 248 against and 3 220 in favor.
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Dauphin Island
Election Board
Mine cave-in kills four at Climax molybdenum mine
Four men died and six were injured in a lower tunnel collapse at the Climax mine 12 miles northeast of Leadville Colorado. The accident occurred 2,200 feet underground during blasts by superintendent W. J. Coulter. The Climax mine, largest molybdenum producer in the United States, employs about 200 workers.
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Leadville
Colo
James Corbett
Archie Wilson
Mount Massive
Climax
American Metals Company
James Murray
United States
W. J. Coulter
Doctor Kills Two Children Then Self in Georgia Home
Dr For rest P Hudson a Tucker physician shoots his two young children ages six and two at their home then shoots himself. The deaths occurred after the children accompanied him to a barn during milking. Police say the doctor had been considered mentally unbalanced since injuries in a recent car accident.
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Atlanta
Forrest P. Hudson
Hudson
Tucker
Georgia
German Minister Shot in Lisbon Embark Visit
German Minister Albert Von Baligand was shot twice in Lisbon while disembarking a German warship for an official visit. He is in grave condition and taken to a German hospital. A German suspect Franz Piech Cosky was arrested and charged with the crime.
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Lisbon
Portugal
von Baligand
Franz Piechocosky
Albert von Baligand
Pair Sentenced in Marion Junction Bank Burglary
Selma report states W. L. Boyd and Grace Boyd found guilty of burglary in the November 1928 Marion Junction Bank robbery. W. L. Boyd got nine years eleven months in state penitentiary while Grace Boyd received nine to ten years. Lonnie Angelin sentenced to six months for petty larceny after pleading guilty.
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Selma
Ala
W. L. Boyd
Grace Boyd
Marion Junction
State Penitentiary
Kilby
Lonnie Angelin
Shoals Waste Highlighted By Thompson At Rally
Special to The News Item. Athens June 7 Thompson urged the public to note Muscle Shoals waste citing May figures. Alabama Power bought 141,165,700 kWh with 25,149,100 kWh wasted, waste could fund nitrate production saving farmers 4,345,537. He condemned Bankhead’s coal tax stance harming education for farmers’ children.
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Athens
Ala
Frederick J. T
United States Senate
Limestone County
Thompson
Alabama Power Company
Mr. Thompson
Muscle Shoals
John H. Bankhead
University of Alabama
Bankhead
Auburn
Montevallo
Federation of Women's Clubs Adopts Prohibition Resolution
Denver observers report the General Federation of Women's Clubs adopted a resolution reaffirming faith in prohibition by a sweeping vote. An earlier move to strike a reference to sinister influences opposing prohibition failed.
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Denver
Colo
General Federation of Women's Clubs
Falls To Death At City National Bank Building
Mrs. Laura E. J. Hanna aged 55, daughter of late Ellis Jones a Columbus shoe maker, fell to her death from the sixth floor of the City National Bank building around noon today in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
Laura E. J. Hanna
Ellis Jones
City National Bank
Carver Plea for New Trial in Wife Slaying Case
Arguments in the circuit court continued on William B. R. Carver’s bid for a new trial after his conviction for the hatchet slaying of his wife. Defense chief W. D. Bell wrapped up his morning summation and warned of an appeal to the state supreme court if the motion fails. Carver also faces indictments for the slayings of his 2 year old son and a negro houseboy.
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Sebring
Fia
Circuit Court
William BR. Carver
State Supreme Court
Ing
W. D. Bell
Carver
Wire Shock Fatal To Tot of Mobile
Paul Clinton Thublin one year old son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Thublin of 31 Hannon avenue was electrocuted at his home shortly after 10 this morning. He touched a lamp wire causing a short circuit and died on the living room floor while the mother was elsewhere in the house. The baby would have been one year old Sunday.
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Paul Thublin
Hannon Avenue
Paul Clinton Thublin
Ernest Thubln
Thublin
Gas siphoning arrests lead to guilty pleas in Blythe case
In Gad A J Blythe 2351 Springhill avenue reports heavy gasoline loss from his car due to siphon thieves. Ed Nelson and Winfred Mullen were caught in the act, pled guilty in recorder's court, each fined 50 dollars and ordered to 20 days hard labor. Officers Franelich and Olsen seized a partly filled five gallon can and noted the boys were acting as tools for older men being sought.
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A. J. Blythe
Springhill Avenue
Ed Nelson
Winfred Mullen
Recorder's Court
Blythe
Franelich and
Olsen
Blythe Place
Prohibition Raid Seizes Liquor In Mobile Neighborhoods
Federal and state agents raided two Mobile locations on Saturday morning seizing 38 bottles of home brew two gallons of wine at 758 Bay Avenue and three pints of whiskey at 552 Marine Street. Arrests are to be made. Agents McMillan Cannon and Pruitt led the raids.
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Mobile
Bay Avenue
Marine Street
McMillan
State
Cannon and Pruitt
Kingsford Smith Eyes Transatlantic Flight Tomorrow
Dublin reports Captain Charles Kingsford Smith plans to depart at 2 o clock Sunday morning if weather permits. The Southern Cross will test a two mile runway prepared for the take off this afternoon as part of the transatlantic attempt.
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Dublin
Charles Kingsford-Smith
Southern Cross
Bugle Corps Back From Biloxi Parade Ovation
The fire department drum and bugle corps led by Chief Gus Rehm returned by automobile to the city Friday night after participating in the Confederate veterans reunion parade in Biloxi Mississippi. The corps received a big ovation along the march route.
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Fire Department
Gus Rehm
Biloxi
Miss
Confederate Veterans’ Reunion
Potter sustains severe injuries in auto overturn near Grand Bay
Walter Potter, Mobile sanitary department superintendent, was hospitalized after the automobile he rode in overturned three times on the Old Spanish Trail, near Lundburg’s west of Grand Bay. He had attended the United Confederate Veterans reunion at Biloxi and may have a broken leg, chest injuries, and other lacerations. An X-ray was planned to determine full damage.
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Walter Potter
City of Mobile Sanitary Department
City Hospital
Grand Bay
Potter
Lundburg’s
United Confederate Veterans
Biloxi
Mobile
Thieves Steal Chickens Across County Spark Police Action
County police report renewed wholesale chicken thefts with multiple incidents. Oscar Rabby of Bayou La Batre reports 85 fowls stolen from his coop early Saturday and a suspected Ford used in the crime. Wheelerville residents also hit Thursday and Wednesday nights. deputies continue investigations and expect arrests. Chickens are moved to the gulf coast and Mobile for sale per officers.
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Oscar Rabby
Bayou la Batre
Wheelerville
Gulf Coast
Mobile
Cyclist Injured After Collision on Bayfront Road
Edward Bernice of 160 St. Louis Street sustained minor injuries after a Friday afternoon crash with T. A. Gray on Bayfront road. He was taken to City Hospital for treatment as investigators looked into the accident.
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T. A. Gray
Bayfront Road
Edward Bernice
St. Louis Street
City Hospital
Murder mystery linked to Mobile man in Indianapolis case
Former Mobile business man C. C. Ridenhour, now in Freeport Long Island, tells The News Item of irregularities in a transaction tied to a burned body case in Indianapolis. He says a forged $1000 check involved Schroeder and denies losing money, while authorities pursue clues about the victim and the man seen near Fruitdale.
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Indianapolis
Harold H. Schroeder
Inset
Mobile
Ala
Schroeder
Long Island
C. C. Ridenhour
Indiana
Harold Herbert der
Associated Press
Ridenhour
Thomas Riley
Insurance Company
Indy
Indianapolis News
Freeport
Long
Dispatches
Riley
Dispatch
Theo
Pittsburgh
Fruitdale
Paul Scharffin
Local man appeals auto drunkenness fine
J. H. Parham, residing at a local hotel, was fined 101 dollars and 30 days hard labor by Recorder D. H. Edington for operating an automobile while drunk. He appealed the decision, with bond set at 500 dollars, as police arrested him early Saturday on Royal and Madison streets alongside three others in a separate but merged prohibition case.
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J. H. Parham
D. H. Edington
Parham
Recorder
Royal and Madison Streets Company
J. T. Shoemaker
RK. E. Steber
G. C. Foley
Bernstein
Wife shoots husband in Knoxville township killing Bob Hightower
In Knoxville Tennessee in June Bob Hightower 38 was shot to death by his wife at their home. Police say the shooting followed an earlier police visit. Hightower was among several sons arrested yesterday by prohibition officers in liquor raids.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Bob Hightower
Hightower
E Sons
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