Prichard Incorporation Petition Heard By Judge
A petition to incorporate Prichard as a separate town was filed with Judge Price Wilk of the probate court. Judge Williams will review legality. if approved an election will be ordered to determine incorporation. The map describes property lines and streets forming the proposed town boundaries.
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Prichard
Mets
Price Wilk
Probate Court
Williams
Nouth
One Shore
Mobile & O
College Street
Mobile &Ohio Railroad
Loraine
John Craft
Toulmin
Goss Leads Alabama Georgia Golf Tourney On Local Course
Dan Goss of Woodlawn Country Club Birmingham still heads a field of 26 in the Alabama Georgia PGA event at Mobile Country Club. He shot 78 bringing his two day total to 234 for 64 holes amid a tight leaderboard that features Charley Hall and Harry Duff.
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Dan Goss
Woodlawn Country Club
Birmingham
Mobile Country Club
Goss
Charley Hall
Hhe
Harry Duff
Atlanta
Spittal
Savannah
Duff
Gray
Hall
Kent
Beckett
Andrews
Lawville
Campbell
Muir
Johnstone
Loss
Crawford
Livingstone
Douglas
Dahlbender
Swithenbank
Courtney
Peck
Culver
Stevens
Kirtland
Graham
Fryckburg
Speer
Walter Hagen
Joe ‘Kirkwood
Spittah
Andy Gray
K. Kent
Montgomery
Howard Beckett
Bob Andrews
Fred Lanville
Tuscaloosa
James Campbell
Mobile
T. M. Stevens
W. S. Kirtland
D. Graham
Harry Frycksburg
R. I. Speer
Fire Station Contracts Awarded by City Commission
In a special session the city commission awarded contracts for two central fire stations and two smaller stations. Jett-Quill Construction Co. to build the headquarters at Scott Springhill San Francis Streets triangle for 87200 dollars. Owens Construction Co. to build the Water and Church Street station for 68059.85 dollars and the two smaller stations for 23298.50 dollars. The deal uses a cost plus basis with 75 percent of savings returned to the city and 25 percent to the contractors.
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City Commission
Triangle of
Scott, Springhil and
San Francis Streets
Jett-Quill Construction Company
Water and
Church Streets
Owens Construction Company
Conception
Maryland Streets
Joachim
Lipscomb and
Beauregard
Amundsen's Cay Not Complete
Roald Amundsen and five companions survived a harrowing Arctic ordeal after their two planes disappeared on May 21. They were found near Spitzbergen after an arduous trek back to a depot and were conveyed by fishing boat to King’s Bay. The party reached North Latitude 80 degrees 39 minutes, about 100 miles from the pole, and awaited rescue.
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London
A.P
Roald Amundsen
Arctic
North Pole
Ics
Spitzbergen
Amundsen
Pole
Sr. Lincsvi’ Wile
Lincoln R
Kings Bay
Spitsbergen
Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen
Leif. Dietrichsen
Pirote
Oskar
Karl. Feucht
The
Mechanicians
Northern Waste
Donald MacMillan
North
Cape Columbia
Greenland
Oslo
Norwa
King’s Bay
Lutzow Holm
Lindsey case on drill check forgery to go to jury
The case of William R. Lindsey a former captain of Troop C 55th Machine Gun Squadron Alabama National Guard Evergreen is expected to go to the jury this afternoon The trial opened yesterday before Judge Robert T Ervin with witnesses Colonel Hartley A Moon Captain T J Baker and Frank Conway among them.
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William R. Lindsey
55Th Machine Gun Squadron
Cavalry
Alabama National Guard
Evergreen
Finance Department
United States Court
Robert T. Ervin
Hartley A. Oon
Montgomery
Alan National
Still Destroyed by County Officers Reported
A 50 gallon still was destroyed last night on Turkey Pen Branch twelve miles from the city on Crab road by deputy sheriffs. The raid, reported today by Deputy Sheriff W. O. Robins, also destroyed 400 gallons of beer mash by Pose of Deputy Sheriffs Burch Nelson and Shreve.
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Turkey Pen Branch
Crab Road
W. O. Robins
Pose
Burch
Nelson
Shreve
Ship chartered to load rails for Orient voyage
The British steamer here to load about 3,500 rails for the Orient. Nor m Lilley and Company, local steam agents, announced the charter this morning. A third steamer will arrive to load Alabama fans at the Soles facility.
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Erp Coe
Orient
Norm Lilley and
Dunkirk
Alabama
Warmer Tonight and Saturday Forecast
Weather forecast shows continued warm conditions into tonight and Saturday. Predicts generally fair skies with high humidity making heat feel oppressive. yesterday’s high reached 88 degrees.
Woman Sues Cab Firm Over Car Collision Injuries
Lincilia Macartney filed a suit in the Sc court against Yellow Cab today alleging injuries from a collision with the company car on a St Francis street. The plaintiff claims the injuries are bad and disabling.
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Lincilia Macartney
Sc Court
Yelloween
St. Francis
Plans for C of C drive underway after Rotary lunch
The Chamber of Commerce drive to raise 75000 dollars to fund next year’s work is nearly complete. Woman’s division plans and men’s team organization finished after a Rotary Club lunch where John T. Cochrane urged 100 percent Rotary support. He cited roads need and North Carolina growth, echoing Ford’s wheels quote.
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Chamber of Commerce
John T. Cochrane
Orday
Rotary Club
Norwegian Mandeville Brings 24000 Banana Stems to Port
The Norwegian steamer Mandeville delivering about 24 000 stems of bananas for the United Fruit Company arrived in port from Puerto Barrios. The Mandeville is among United Fruit’s largest vessels flying the Norwegian flag.
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Mandeville
United Fruit Company
Puerto Barrios
More Coast Guard Boats Are Coming to the Gulf
Extra Coast Guard vessels are to be assigned to the Gulf as part of the war on rum runners. Officials said the dry navy will be strengthened in the South as soon as ships are available. Current Gulf operations include Biloxi as a base with several craft, and additional vessels of three types are planned: destroyers ram chasers and high powered skiffs.
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Coast Guard
Gulf
South
Biloxi
Belgian Declares Winner in Gordon Bennett Cup Balloon Race
The Clut today declared Belgian entrant Veenstra the winner of the Gordon Bennett Cup balloon race. De Muyter placed second while American Wade T. Vanorman was disqualified.
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le Enels
Clut
Oo Veenstra
de Muyter
Wade T. Vanorman
Food prices in Mobile fall as May shows 0.5% rise over April
Retail food costs edged up by half a percent in May from April, with a 75 percent rise for the year through May 15. The report notes varying changes across cities including decreases in Mobile and New Orleans and increases in places like Lake City and Baltimore, detailing scattered shifts in the consumer staple market.
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Washington
Dante
Tantee Lake City
Baltimore
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Portland
Oregon
Boston
Butte
Caishats
Detroit
Fall River
Indianapolis
Los Angeles
Louisville
Manchester
Minneapolis
Newark
Omaha
Pittsburgh
St. Paul
San Francisco
Seattle
Washington, D. C
Bridgeport
Columbus
Kansas City
Little Rock
Milwaukee
New Haven
New York
Peoria
Maine
Providence
St. Louis
Springfield
Ill
Mobile
New Orleans
Atlanta
Buffalo
Charleston
D. C
Dallas
Houston
Norfolk
Birmingham
Chicago
Jacksonville
Memphis
Richmond
Rochester
Savannah
Scrantom
Man Claims Doped Then Robbed Near Downtown
Fate Dickinson of Citronelle told Police Officer McIntyre early this morning he was doped and robbed after drinking soda. He said he woke dazed in a swamp north of One Mile Creek with $40 missing. Detectives investigate the incident.
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Fate Dickinson
Citronelle
McIntyre
Conception
Knox Streets
Dickinson
One Mile Creek
Chattanooga Dreams Up Housing For Needy Rats
Chattanooga needs a pied piper as Read House, a Civil War landmark, reports thousands of rats leaving daily. One worker joked a sign on the building invites people to take in a homeless rat, noting rats of various sizes and colors roam the old hotel.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
International News Service
Read House
Travelers Elect Year's Officials in Birmingham Meeting
Russell E. Kirk of St Paul was elected president of the Travelers' Protective Association at the annual meeting in Birmingham. Elected as vice presidents were George W. Huntley Jonat R G Crown Louis iana Mason Alabama Theo Oregon and William E Maryland T Schuyler Logan Indiana was chosen secretary and treasurer.
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Birmingham
Ala
Russell E. Kirk
St Paul
Travelers’ Protective Association
George W. Huntley
Jonat
R. G. Crown
Louisiana
Mason
Alabama
Theo
Oregon
William E
Maryland
T. Schuyler Logan
Indiana
Anniston Relieved by Heavy Rainfall
Anniston Alabama residents welcomed a heavy rain after the year's hottest day. The storm ended a two month drought, bringing wind and a brief electrical storm that eased farmers' desperate plight following the heat wave yesterday.
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Anniston
Ala
Settlement Likely in Canada Coal Field Dispute
Sydney Nova Scotia June 19 Settlement of the differences between mine operators in the Cape Breton coal fields and their employer can and should be brought about within ten days according to Minister of Labor Murdock.
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Sydney
N. B
Cape Breton Coal Fields
Murdock
Polar party to cross unknown oceans for new continent search
Donald B. Mac Millan leads a mixed team of explorers scientists and aviators from Wiscasset Maine aboard an aerial base at Axel Helberg island to seek a new polar continent under National Geographic Society auspices. Dr Walter Koelz studies Great Lakes fish and breeding sites as part of the planned expeditions.
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Wiscasset
Maine
Northland
Donald B. MacMillan
Polar Sea
Cape Columbia
Amundsen
Spiergen Perder
Cape Thomang Hubbard
Axel Helberg Island
National Geographic Society
Walter Koelz
Ann Arbor
Mich
Great Lakes
United States Department of Fisheries
New England
United States
Keelg
acMillan
Felow
MacMillan
Doctor pleads insanity in gas murder case
In Los Angeles Dr. Thomas W. Young pleads insanity and plans to repudiate his confession in the poison gas murder of his wife Grace Grogan Young. He arrives in Judge Edwin F. Hahn's courtroom asserting he does not recall making the confession and attributes his past to drunkenness.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Thomas W. Young
Grace Grogan ‘Young
Edwin F. Hahn
Young
Chazy
Possible Bride For Prince Engaged To Wed Mafalda of Italy
A Rome dispatch reports Mafalda second daughter of King Vittorio Emanuel III and Queen Elena, 22, engaged to Prince Philip of Hesse, 39. Philip, son of Prince Frederick of Hesse, was once linked to Princess Ida of Wales. Opposition over religion cited earlier but reportedly overcome through Mafalda's sister Yolanda, now married to Count Carioccalvi di Bergola.
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New York
Prince of Wales
Rome
Maffalda
Prince Philip of Hesse
Mafalda
Prince Philip
Frederick Carlof Hesse
Margaret
Kaiser
Ida
Wales
Prince Leopold
Belgium
Giovanni
Yolanda
Able
Carioccalvi di Bergola
King Kaakon Welcomes Amundsen Home to Norway
King Kaakon of Norway and the queen greet Capt Roald Amundsen and his companions on their safe return. The Norwegian parliament at its opening session sent thanks and congratulations for bringing honor to Norway. The telegram expresses gratification at the explorers homecoming.
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Oslo
Norway
Kaakon
Roald Amundsen
Amundsen
Restful Sundays for A E McCall in Miami
In Miami Florida on June 19 Judge Carl Hoffman orders A E McCall to serve a ten day reckless driving sentence on Sundays only from now until August 23. McCall, under liquor influence, must report each Sabbath and will be released in time for his family duties.
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Miami
Flia
A. E. McCall
Carl T. Hoffman
McCall
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