Blizzard Flings Cold Front Through Dixie
Mississippi Valley is hit by a late winter storm with sleet rain and snow. Cold wave to coast through Mississippi Alabama and Louisiana with temperatures near freezing Sunday morning. Frigid winds, general rains, and unsettled conditions linger as spring delays to March 21.
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Mississippi Valley
Mobile
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Dixie
New Orleans
Rocky Mountain
South
Tennessee
United States Weather Bureau
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana
Texas
Florida
Arkansas
Arkansas Red Cross
Kentucky
Fairhope colony seeks permission to abandon boat wharf
The Fairhope Single Tax colony may quit using its boat wharf after E. B. Gaston urged the Alabama Public Service Commission to decide if state approval is required. The commission said a permit to close the wharf is needed and a formal request must be filed.
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Fairhope
Chamber of Commerce
Montgomery
E. B. Gaston
Tax Colony
Alabama Public Service Commission
Fall From Hotel Window Ends in Tragedy at Durham
Mrs. W N Daniels formerly of Richmond Virginia died after falling from a fourth floor hotel window in Durham. Police say her husband found her with a man named C D Calvert of Baltimore Maryland in the room before the fatal plunge. Calvert is held pending coroner’s inquest.
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Durham
N. C
W. N. Daniels
Richmond
C. D. Calvert
Baltimore
Calvert
Weather Synopsis Calls for Fair, Colder Conditions
Local forecast shows fair and colder weather with likely frost Saturday night. Sunday expected to be fair with a minimum around 34 degrees. Alabama region expected colder with possible frost in the south portion and near-freezing temps. coastal areas likely to stay near the coast Saturday and Sunday.
Transfer of State School To Mobile Is Plan of Solon
Mobile legislator George Sossaman proposes moving the State Normal School at Daphne to Mobile when the long session opens March 31. He predicts the transfer would boost enrollment to about 1000 and expand opportunities, with site selection left to trustees.
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Mobile
Plan of
Solon
Sossaman
Daphne Institution
Baldwin
Daphne
George Sossaman
News Item
Capital Bureau
Escambia
Magic City Suspect Is Not Joe Parker
A Birmingham suspect in the 1920 stabbing murder of A. Nash, a Magazine Point street car conductor, is ruled not to be Joe Parker after Mobile officers Walter Blackman, Ollie Lartigue, and George Mills viewed the prisoner. Multiple arrests have occurred with releases following each identification.
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Birmingham
Punch boards struck as sheriff cracks down on gambling
The sheriff orders removal of punch boards and rambling paraphernalia. One man, Manuel Wallis, is jailed on a gambling punch board charge after operating a safe at Dauphin and Royal streets. Arrests to follow as counters are swept and proprietors warned.
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Manuel Wallis
Dauphin
Royal Streets
Prison relief by transferring prisoners to Atmore planned
The Alabama Board of Administration will move more than 300 prisoners to the Atmore prison farm in portable barracks to ease Kilby Prison overcapacity. Kilby houses 1436 inmates, far above its 900 capacity, after a spinal meningitis outbreak. other facilities report 649 Atmore 724 Speigner 395 Wetumpka and 77 No Four with road camps acting as trusties at the capitol.
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Montgomery
Board of Administration
William F. Feagin
Atmore
Kilby
J. N. Baker
Health Department
Speigner
Wetumpka
No. Four
Capitol
Hoover Mountaintop Retreat Prep Nearing Occupancy
The Rapidan river Virginia mountain retreat used by President Hoover for two summers is to be prepared for occupancy. Improvements in stream flow and potable springs prompt the marine corps to test winter coverings as the fishing season opens April 1. The president is expected to begin weekend trips to the mountain retreat soon, continuing his rare rest from office duties.
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Washington
Hoover
Virginia
Rapidan River
Marine Corps
Crichton man charged with decoying away a child
Bennie Dueitt twenty one Crichton youth was docketed at the county jail charged with decoying away Zubie Jordan sixteen from her home. Deputy Sheriff Charles Boykin arrested him and the case will be heard in inferior criminal court early next week. C V Shoub Mobile Heights jailed on three counts of passing worthless checks and forgery tied to grand jury indictments with Florida Fish Company complainant J C Mangledorf alleging a six dollar check.
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Bennie Dueitt
Crichton
Mattie Jordan
Inferior Criminal Court
Dueitt
Zubie Jordan
Charles Boykin
C. V. Shoub
Mobile Heights
J. C. Mangledorf
Florida Fish Company
Shoub
Atlantic Storms Delay Ships and Fleeted Vessels
Wild storms lash the eastern Atlantic disrupting shipping from Iceland to northern Africa. J P Morgans yacht The Corsair carrying the archbishop of Canterbury to Palestine anchors at Gibraltar. The Tre De France and President Harding run hours late to Cherbourg due to gale and propeller trouble. A northeasterly gale floods Romney Marsh while Littestone and Dymchurch endure high tides.
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London
Atlantic
Iceland
Africa
J. P Morgan
Corsair
Canterbury
Palestine
Gibraltar
Tre de France
Harding
Cherbourg
North Sea
England
Romney Marsh
Littestone
Dymchurch
Y M C A to Convene in Birmingham for State Meet
The sixth avenue Presbyterian church will host the annual state convention of the Y M C A in Birmingham Alabama on April 24. Efforts are underway to bring William Francis president of the Chicago Y M C A to deliver the keynote address at the dinner. A Hi Y cabinet meeting and the student officers training conference will run through Saturday of the convention week.
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Birmingham
Ala
Sixth Avenue Presbyterian Church
Young Men's Christian Association
William Francis
Chicago Y. M. C A
Hi-Y
Indiana court to get view of alienists
Indiana court pauses until Monday as sanity commission doctors may testify on Harold Schroeder's mental state in the slaying case. Prosecutor aims to finish the case while Schroeder pleads not guilty insisting the burned man was a hitchhiker and the car wreck led to the blaze.
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Indiana
Indianapolis
Sanity Commission
Harold Herbert Schroeder
Mobile
Ala
Here
Charles Humes
E. Rogers Smith
Frank Baker
Schroeder
St. Martinsville
Marshall
First Offenders Sentenced 30 Days in Federal Prohibition Case
Three first offenders against federal prohibition laws received 30 day sentences after pleading guilty in U S district court Saturday. The defendants were Frank Newton W M Husham and Mrs Martha Mathis. The woman was allowed until Monday to raise money for a fine in lieu of the sentence.
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U.S
Frank Newton
W. M. Husham
Martha Mathis
Alabama Legislature Recesses For Three Weeks
The Alabama legislature recessed at noon for a three week break after clearing bills. Senate passed truck size weight and bus speed measures and pilot licensing bills sent to Governor Miller. A tax relief income tax proposal was introduced in the House. Two joint recess committees were authorized on school funding and substitute bills for carrier trucks franchises.
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Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Senate
B M. Miller
House
Ware
Randolph County
Special Notice The Mobile News Item
The Mobile News Item is the sole Mobile evening edition allowed to publish Associated Press News.
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Mobile News
Associated Press News
AP rights statement preserved in Mobile Register and News Item
The notice asserts exclusive AP rights to reproduce all AP dispatches and local news from The Mobile Register and The News Item. It also states the Supreme Court sustained AP rights against theft of news, safeguarding source material.
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Associated Press
Mobile Register
Register
Supreme Court of the United States
Fight In Democratic Bar Starts Presidential Debate
Washington March 7 The Democratic row stirred by Chairman Raskob of the national committee has spurred 1932 speculation in both parties. A push to block Raskob’s home rule liquor plan rises while Maryland Governor Ritchie gains a presidential boom with Free State endorsement.
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Ritchie
Maryland
Hoover
G. O. P. Heard
Associated Press
Washington
Raskoh
National Committee
Jefferson
Raskob
Free State
11 Convicts Die In Duplin County Jail Fire
In Kenansville North Carolina on March 7 a stockade fire trapped 11 inmates who died. Guards Owen Basden and B B Nicholson found the blaze around 2 a.m. The wooden jail had minimal fire protection and the origin remains undetermined. Coroner Dan H Bridgers opened an inquiry.
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Associated Press
Kenansville
N. C
Duplin County
Owen Basden
Nicholson
Dan’ H. Bridgers
Gambling Ring Linked in Ship Death Mystery
Federal authorities and police probe the death of Henry Sammartino a 51 year old Ohio diamond dealer found hanged aboard the steamship Pennsylvania en route from New York to Los Angeles after leaving Havana. Investigators seek the identity of a gambling ring and possible murder connections as two gamblers who disembarked at Havana came to Havana aboard another boat. The Havana coroner ruled suicide and no violence marks were observed on the body.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Ohio
Henry Sammartino
Pennsylvania
New York
Los Angeles
Havana
San Pedro
Sammartino
Youth Convicted in Murder Case at Cairo Court
Fred Kosterer of Newark New Jersey hitchhiker was found guilty of murdering Rudolph R Behrends a tourist from Frankfort Germany by a Cairo Georgia jury. He received a life sentence and a new trial motion was set for hearing on April 4 after a deadlocked jury.
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Cairo
Fred Kosterer
Newark
N. J
Rudolph R. Behrends
Frankfort
Germany
H. Duckworth
Defense
Bombs explode in Havana injure child amid city damage
Five bombs exploded across Havana injuring a 14 year old child and damaging windows in San Nicolas street and central districts. Police saw a bomber fleeing in a car as explosions drew a large crowd.
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Havana
San Nicolas
Senate votes for joint investigation into Alabama Power power claims
A Senate resolution to probe the Alabama Power Company seeks a joint committee of two house members and three senators to investigate rate making and tax valuations. Lieutenant Governor Merrill and Speaker Tunstall discussed timing. the move aims to uncover alleged power trust influence during the upcoming long session starting March 31.
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Capitol Bureau
Montgomery
Senate of the
Aoe
Alabama
Merrill
Resolu Rules Committee
Comerce
Senate
House
Kelly
Alabama Power
Tax Commission
Tunstall
Centataae
Solons
Power Trust
Capone Tax Appeal Set for April Hearing in Chicago
The appeal of Ralph Capone from a three year sentence and $11 000 fine for income tax violations was set for April 15 before the United States circuit court of appeals in Chicago. Judges Samuel A Alschuler Eval A Evans and Will H Sparks will hear the case. briefs already filed.
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Chicago
Ralph Capone
United States Circuit Court Ofpeals
Samuel A. Alschuler
Eval A. Evans
Will H. Sparks
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