Death policy case clears Mrs Gunn in city court
Mrs Annie Lavender was acquitted of manslaughter after testimony failed to show negligence by the driver of the car that struck railroad switchman F nea Moran on Joachim and St. Louis streets. Moran died shortly after. Witnesses say Lavender was driving 15 to 18 mph. Other court actions included fines for J A Woollard, drug charges, and pending cases for driving drunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Lavender
Moran
Nea Moran
Joachim
St. Louis
Recorder’s Court
Joseph W. John
Corgan
J. L. Stewart
Joseph Mitchell
Walter Jones
Amos Jackson
Turner Supply Company
Menry Cathey
Roos Visits Atlanta Club Official Eyes Night Baseball Move
Frank H. Chick Roos secretary of the Atlanta club of the Southern Association visits the city on business and to back night baseball. He argues for two or three weekly night games and notes hot weather in New Orleans left players exhausted and with water-filled shoes after a game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank H. “Chick” Roos
Atlanta
Southern Association
Roos
New Orleans
Young Man Held for Grand Jury Bond in Shooting Case
Ernest Robertson 19 was held to the grand jury under $1,000 bond after a hearing before Acting Recorder W F Richards in Prichard Tuesday. He is charged with shooting Andy Goodwin and is jailed in Mobile jail after failing to post bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Robertson
W. F. Richards
Weather outlook for Alabama Mississippi with scattered showers
Partly cloudy to unsettled conditions continue Tuesday night and Wednesday with scattered showers mainly Tuesday afternoon or night. Alabama towns such as Montgomery and Selma show little temperature change and slight river level changes expected. Mississippi notes similar unsettled pattern in extreme north. Albert Archenberger, Meteorologist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama
Mississippi
Tombibhee
Montgomery
Selma
Albert Archenberger
Five Whiskey Buyers Freed In Mobile Conspiracy Case
In Mobile federal court Judge Robert T. Ervin ruled that Walter Russell Arthur Kellogg Horace Pharez Willie Spates and William Ivey were not guilty of conspiracy after trial testimony. The decision followed a Supreme Court ruling requiring proof of a community of interest or agreement. Spates pleaded guilty to selling and was fined. Kellogg also pled guilty and fined. Ivey pled guilty and fined. Willie Bester and Richard Broadus pled guilty and received jail terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
United States Supreme Court
Robert T. Ervin
Walter Russell
Arthur Kellogg
Horace Pharez
Willie Spates
William Ivey
Jere Austill
Robert Ervin, Jr
Ervin
Ivey
Spates
Kellogg and Russell
Pinto Pass
Pharez
Kellogg
Atlanta
Willie Bester
Richard Broadus
Mexican Officers And Cadets Feted In Mobile Event
The Mexican cruiser Anahuac arrived after engine trouble in Mobile bay and was welcomed by Mobile Chamber of Commerce and a citizens committee. A reception aboard the Blakely preceded a city tour and a dance at the country club for 50 officers 50 cadets and 150 seamen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile Bay
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Citizens’ Committee
Alabama Drydocks and Shipbuilding Company
United States Engineer's Department
Blakely
A. L. Staples
R. E. Ros
A. D. Spottswood
W. K. Wilson, Jr
Dorothy
J. M. White
R. E
William Alford
Mobilian Schroeder to stand trial for fatal car blaze
Harold Herbert Schroeder of Mobile is en route to Indianapolis to face trial over a May 31 car blaze that left a charred body outside the city. He was captured by Sheriff George Winkler, Deputy Fred Fox, and Detective Jack Stump. The transfer was approved by Governor Bibb Graves after Schroeder agreed to return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Herbert Schroeder
Mobile
Indianapolis
Ind
George L. Winkler
Fred P. Fox
Jack L. Stump
Schroeter
Winkler
Bibb Graves
Schroeder
Complaint Filed Over Poisoning in Mobile Creeks Near Paper Mill
District game warden August Z. Oberhaus files with IT Quinn alleging fishing creeks near the paper mill are being poisoned by chemicals or other poisonous substances. The complaint alleges substances are being emptied into the creeks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
August Z. Oberhaus
Mobile
I. T. Quinn
Brief Parley Leads City Commissioners Meeting
Routine business occupied the city commissioners in a brief Tuesday session. Mayor Hartwell returned from a Birmingham convention to preside, with Commissioners Bates and Schwarz present. Hartwell heads the Junior Chamber goodwill tour to the Mississippi coast, while a return visit to the Mexican gunboat Anahuac is planned for Wednesday morning. A Mobile goodwill delegation will be escorted by two motorcycle policemen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of City Commissioners
Harry T. Hartwell
Alabama Automobile Association
Birmingham
Bates and
Schwarz
Hartwell
Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi
Bates
Roberto Laurencio
Mobile
New Orleans
City
Mississippi Coast
Snell Resolution Passes to Probe 1930 Campaign Expenditures
The House adopted the Snell resolution to authorize a special committee to investigate campaign expenditures of candidates for the House in the 1930 elections, approved today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Snell
House
Mobile Motorcade Sets Gulf Coast Trip With 30 Cars
Mobile junior chamber of commerce plans a 30 car motorcade to the Mississippi coast. The tour starts in Mobile at 6 30 Wednesday, stops at Moss Point Pascagoula Ocean Springs Biloxi and Gulfport with a breakfast meeting in Pascagoula and a luncheon at the Markham hotel. The group aims to foster good will and cooperation between Mobile and the coast communities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast
Coad
Mississippi
Mobile Junior Chamber of Commerce
Mobile
Moss Point
Pascagoula
Mobile Party
Markham Hotel
Mississippi Coast
Statewide heatwave pushes temperatures toward century mark
City and county residents endured scorching heat as thermometers neared 100 degrees. At 1 15 p m the official reading in Mobilians reached 99 2 with earlier signs of a record set the day before as temperatures climbed from the upper 80s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Aschenberger
Alabama Heat Records Hit 106 Across State
Near all time heat records were set in Alabama with Goodwater Evergreen and Greenville reaching 106 degrees and Wetumpka Thomasville at 105. Montgomery reported 102 as scattered thundershowers offered brief relief. Columbus Mississippi also sweltered at 106 amid the ongoing heat wave that matched peak records from 1926.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Mercury
Goodwater
Evergreen
Greenville
Wetumpka
Thomasville
Air mail pilots skim southern sky report
Atlanta June 24 Air mail pilots skimming across the southern sky are noted in a brief dispatch directing readers to page 12 column 3 for full coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dexhe
Woman Arrested in Federal White Slavery Case
Mary Brock, co defendant with John Wesley Calloway in a federal white slavery case, struck and wounded Mamie Calloway on government property after the trial. Brock signed her own bond and was released. The incident occurred in the hall of the federal building where Mrs Calloway was struck with a pocketbook and both parties fell to the floor before separation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Brock
John Wesley Calloway
Mamie Calloway
Calloway
Federal Building
City agrees to pay 236.35 in tree dispute settlement
Mobile commissioners authorize 236.35 to settle damages suit filed by M. S. McClure over a tree on Catherine Street. McClure will receive 100 in actual damages, with the remainder covering prior court costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Mobile
Board of Commissioners
M.S. McClure
McClure
Catherine Street
De Luxe Restaurant Incorporation in Probate Court
The De Luxe Restaurant Incorporated filed incorporation papers in probate court Tuesday to operate a restaurant at 11 North Royal Street, formerly Elite cafe. Capital is $3,000 with incorporators G Pappas A Pichilos and Tessie Pappas. Margaret Perry, a governor appointed notary, filed bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Luxe Restaurant, Inc
North Royal Street
Elite Cafe
G. Pappas
A. Pichilos
Tessie Pappas
Margaret Perry
Bibb Graves
Playground Dance and Baby Contest at Galvez Park
A baby contest followed by a dance is planned at Galvez Park Tuesday night starting at 6 30. Mrs Carl A Klinge of the municipal recreation department notes handsome prizes for the healthiest prettiest and cutest babies and the playground department music wagon will provide dance selections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Galvez Park
Carl A. Klinge
Municipal Recreation Department
Playground Department
Naff Is Renamed Portland Man Re elected President
H. M. Naff of Portland Arkansas was re elected president of the Mid South Cotton Growers Association by the new board at a Memphis meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Mid-South Cotton Growers Ass‘n
Memphis
Tenn
H. M. Naff
Ark
Mid-South Cotton Growers Association
Southern Cross crosses Atlantic in brisk return flight
The Southern Cross, a tri motor rumored to be flying from Ireland toward New York, logged 800 miles from Port Marnock with speeds near 105 mph as Captain Charles Kingford-Smith and crew sent cheerful radio messages. The voyage follows a Pacific crossing and shows the aircraft advancing into rough Atlantic air.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldonnel Airdrome
Irish Free State
Southern Cross
North Atlantic
Ireland
New York
Ie Credit
Cape Race
Newfoundland
Port Marnock
Charles Kingford-Smith
J. W. Stannage
M. E. van Dyk
J. T. Saul
Baldonne
London
Byrd to Receive New York Distinguished Service Medal
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd departed from the Bainbridge at 5:25 a.m. to Albany to receive New York's distinguished service medal from Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt. En route they planned a stop in Poughkeepsie and an arrival in Albany by 3:30 p.m. Byrd traveled with Mrs. Byrd, his mother Eleanor Byrd, his brother Thomas Byrd, and Paul Siple, plus several newspaper reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Richard E. Byrd
Bainbridge
Albany
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hudson
Poughkeepsie
Admiral Byrd
Byrd
Eleanor Bolling Byrd
Thomas Byrd
Paul Siple
Bankhead Hoyt Daughter Renounces Reno Annulment
Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt daughter of Congressman William B. Bankhead of Alabama cannot attend the Reno annulment hearing due to a broken leg. She telephoned from Hollywood to her attorney that she cannot return to Reno for some time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reno
Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt
William B. Bankhead
Alabama
Wilfred Lawson Butt
University of Nevada
Hollywood
Foundria Freed After Grounding Near Fort Morgan
The United States Shipping Board steamship Afoundria bound for Mobile from Gulfport was freed by tugboats and the coast guard cutter Pontchartrain and due to arrive in Mobile Tuesday morning. The Waterman Steamship Company of Mobile operates the vessel. The Pontchartrain returned to port Tuesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Shipping Board
Afoundria
Fort Morgan
Mobile
Coast Guard
Pontchartrain
Gulfport
Waterman Steamship Company
Mississippi Senator Harrison to discuss tariff on radio
Senator Harrison of Mississippi will discuss the new tariff act tonight at 9 20 p m eastern time. The address will be broadcast over the Columbia network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Washington
Harrison
It Girl Clara Bow Threatens Quit Screenland Over Persecution
Clara Bow declares she may leave the screen if harassment continues as photographers and reporters pressure her. She says she plans to marry Harry Richman “positively” late next August and explains she is unwell and exhausted by recent events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Screenland
New York
Clara Bow
Harry Richman
Clara
Harry
England
London
Dallas
Texas
Doctor
Beechhurst
Long Island
Six Feared Killed By Liquor Pirates
Six crew members of the mystery yacht Daisy T are feared dead after a suspected pirate raid in Delaware Bay. The drifting 45 foot speedboat showed a large hole in its hull and liquor valued at about 10000 dollars was found aboard, with the rest of the cargo stolen. Coast guardsmen from Base No 8 Cape May recovered the vessel near the Delaware side below the Mispillion river mouth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware Bay
Philadelphia
Coast
Delaware
Mispillion River
Defense maps story 10 jury for Sanhuber
Otto Sanhuber, called attic man, tells defense lawyers he will testify and seek to strike his grand jury confession from record as trial begins for the 1922 Milwaukee and Los Angeles murder of Fred Oesterreich. The prosecution rests after presenting the confession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Otto Sanhuber
Fred Oesterreich
Earl Wakeman
Sanhuber
Otto
Wakeman
Oeesterreich
Milwaukee
Wis
Bear market drags stocks down across rail issues
Bear drive against rail stocks depresses overall market near last November levels. Many major issues fall $2 to $5, with Southern Railway down over $5 to its lowest since 1925 and St Louis San Francisco near 1926 lows. Several others drop $2 to $4, while some gains early in the day are erased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Stock Exchange
Southern Railway
St Louis
San Francisco
Rock Island
New York Central
New Haven
Missouri Pacific
Reading
Delaware and Hudson
Atchison
Mobile Trade Day Opens With Local Merchants
Baldwin County residents and others are urged to attend the inaugural Mobile Trade Day in Mobile. Merchants will feature special sales and a toll reduction on the Mobile Bay Bridge to the regular one way charge to encourage participation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Mobile
Mobile Bay Bridge
Baldwin County
Widow Claims Husband Slain Elsewhere In Bridge Holdup Case
Talladega Alabama June 4 A state witness testified that Mrs Maude Gunn told him Billie was not killed at the bridge but back toward Sycamore The bridge over Choccolocco Creek near Oxford is where the alleged holdup occurred Gunn held life insurance with herself and Catherine as beneficiaries and agents testified about payments and coverage
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talladega
Ala
Maude Gunn
Billie
Sycamore
C. H. Abrahams
Coosa County
Abrahams
Gunns
Choccolocco Creek
Oxford
Gunn
Worth
Catherine
Bell
Ee Hooke Sawiny
Gunn Wadia
Ee Ene
Shorts debut at Marshall College campus
Shorts appear on the Marshall college campus with female students wearing dark blue silk shorts and slow necked shirts. Officials did not comment. authorities were not expected to intervene while male students’ reaction remains unclear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Huntington
W. Va
Marshall College
First Bicycle Confiscated For Transporting Liquor In Mobile
Judge Robert T. Ervin ordered confiscation of a bicycle used to transport liquor. Walter Lee Rivers a 17 year old black youth pleaded guilty to transporting liquor on the wheel and was fined 100 dollars or 30 days in jail for the offense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Robert T. Ervin
Walter Lee Rivers
Air Mail From Sao Paulo To United States Planned
June 24 report notes the first direct air mail flight from Sao Paulo to the United States. Pan American official Cesar Pereira Desousa says the Pan American plane will join existing service and depart tomorrow afternoon. The mail expected to reach New York in about six days, with a return to Sao Paulo 12 hours later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sao Paulo
Brazil
United States
Cesar Pereira Desousa
Entive
Mim Fia
Sao
New York
Police Officer Suspended for Riverfront Club Incident
Police Officer William St. Clair was suspended five days by Chief Warren Burch after a dispute with John Reid on the riverfront. Reid, described as a Negro, was not arrested. Citizens filed the complaint against the officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William St. Clair
Warren Burch
John Reid
Youths Held for Investigation After Roadster Stop
Three youths were taken into custody around 3 pm on Fulton road near Gargas by Patrolmen Stout and a Martin. They were turned over to juvenile court attendants for investigation after officers found a shotgun in the roadster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juvenile Court
Fulton Road
Gargas
Stout
Mrtin
Warren Burch
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Farco
Atlanta Club
Prichard
Renee
Anahuac
Sherife
H. H. Schroeder
Ocean Springs, Biloxi, and
Ailk
Columbus
Miss
U. S. Building
NAFF
Kingford-Smith
Atlantic Ocean
8. S. Voldenham
Voldenham
Volendam
Voldendam
Ingoma
Distinguished Service
Roosevelt
Butt
Daisy Devoe
BEAR
Fair Young
U. S
Chief Burch
St. Clair
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