Immoral House Raids Target Oakdale vice in Mobile
Police led by Lt. Cliff Adams arrested one man and five women at 325 12 North Royal Street in a raid tied to alleged immoral activity and vagrancy. M Mack and Lillian Pardus charged with operating an immoral house, others docked on vagrancy. Cases set for next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Z. H. Lasseter
G. R. Nurse
City Commission
Royal Street
Cliff Adams
M. Mack
Lillian Pardus
Essie Dyus
Billie May Bre
Margaret Brown
Allie May Brown
Recorder’s Court
Oakdale
Bas‘combe
George BE. Crawford
O'Shaughnessy
Mobile Fair Names Mort Bixler Secretary Again
Mort A. Bixler is selected to serve as secretary of the Gulf Coast Livestock and Agricultural Fair in 1923. President J. C. Wilkins announces plans to engage surrounding counties and encourage local fairs to cooperate with Mobile to boost regional development through organized exhibits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mort A. Bixler
Bixler
Chamber of Commerce
J. C. Wilkins
Wilkins
Mobile
War talk abroad as Europe braces for spring clash
Reports from London Athens and Nashville describe a broad European crisis with fear of war. Turkey, England, Russia and Germany are cited for potential action while Hungary seeks territory and Mecca plans unfold. A Nashville shooting spree leaves multiple wounded as authorities hunt a parolee.
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New York
Mar
Europe
United States
Turkey
England
Jy Hamilton Lewis
Illinois
Majestic
Russia
Germany
Hungary
Austria
Trieste
Czecho-Slovakia
Lewis
Geneva
Lausanne
Young Woman Fined on Speeding Charge
Miss Helen Marshall of 1909 Government Street pleaded guilty in recorder's court to speeding after being clocked at 42 miles per hour on Government Street. Traffic Officer Harry L. Minto testified she had previously refused to obey notices to go to headquarters. The case followed a city commission meeting dispute between City Commissioner Hartwell and the police chief over telephone conduct.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Marshall
Government Street
Iim Recorder's Court
Harry L. Minto
Daniels To Face Court On Monday In Child Death Case
L D Daniglis of 18 Catherine Street faces second degree manslaughter charges over the death of Doris Serena aged years after a Wednesday night Ford collision. He was jailed after noon with Detective Robert Holmes noting Daniglis said his car side swiped the child’s vehicle and then rolled into a ditch. He aided injured riders and later reported the crash. The child’s funeral was held at 10 o clock this morning from 1807 Old Shell Road and burial followed in the Catholic cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. D.daniglis
Catherine Street
Texas Il Company
Doris
Rena
Sen
Beard
Seltieros Criminal Cour
Daniels
Robert Holmes
Daniells
Chield
Old Shell Road
Temp of Evelyn Lyons Holds at 114 Degrees
Escanaba Michigan March 8 Miss Evelyn Lyons 30 remains feverish at 114 degrees but rests better and shows a calmer pulse. She thanks nationwide well wishers via telegrams letters and postcards while trusting doctors about confinement.
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Escanaba
Mich
Evelyn Lyons
Harry
Associated Press
Miss Lyons
School Board Moves To Ratify New High School Site
The board will ratify the Brick Lawn site for the new high school after the advisory council recommended it as the preferred option over Carlin. The vote was ten for Brick Lawn and four for Carlin. Dwight Perkins of Chicago named architect. local architect George B. Rogers supported Perkins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of School Commissioners
Brick Lawn
Black Lawn
Carlin
Dwight Perkins
Chicago
Minnie D. Black
Stewart Brooks
James T. Donigan
James T. Dugan
Harry A. McPhillips
McPhillips-Fidington
George B. Rogers
Mr. Perkins
William RB. Ittner
Ittner
Roach
Heyman Gabriel
5S. B. Murphy
National Commander Alin M Owsley to Visit Mobile
The Elks Post plans elaborate events for National Commander Alin M Owsley during his Mobile visit. He arrives March 16 and will speaker publicly, with the legion and a citizens committee hosting him at a 7:30 p.m. meeting at the Battle House.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alin M. Owsley
Uamar Y. McLeod
Battle House
Owsley
Legion
Mobile
All Mohammedans Called to Colors in Constantinople
All Mohammedans in Constantinople aged 23 to 39 must report to recruiting stations by Sunday, per an Exchange Telegraph dispatch. Amid extremist Turkish efforts to trigger a holy war against Britain by the new caliph Abdul Medjid, the summons extended to Ottomans and all Muslims has caused wide alarm at Constantinople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Old World
Leisdon
Syria
Gouraud
France
Waresaw
Poland
al. Tiers
Progran
Ruhr
Bavaria
Rhine
Bulgaria
Italy
Lithuania
Soviet Russia
Greece
Mar
Constantinonple
Abdul Medjid
Great Britain
Constantinople
Fair Warmer Friday Forecast for Mobile Area
The forecast predicts fair and slightly warmer weather tonight and Friday for Mobile and vicinity. Temperatures should rise to about 50 degrees tonight, with a low of 45 degrees recorded last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Weather forecast for Alabama and Mississippi
In March, fair conditions continue for Alabama and Mississippi with a slight warm up tonight. The outlook calls for fair weather tonight and Friday with modest temperatures.
Mobile Harbor Proves Advantage for Ship Layups
The tanker Durango was moved from Pensacola to Mobile to have barnacles and oysters removed from its hull. Operators say Mobile’s fresh water harbor allows ships to lie idle without bottom fouling, keeping hulls clean during long layups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Durango
Pensacola
Pensacola Bay
Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding Company
Mobile Harbor
Occupied House Fire Destroyed Incendiary Origin
Fire officials report an incendiary origin destroyed a one story framed dwelling at Live Oak and Tennessee last night at 10 30. The house was unoccupied and fully ablaze when the department arrived. Police investigate. Early morning calls included Gayle and Delaware, Adams and Gaston, 759 Springhill, St Emanuel and Selma, 112 South Dearborn, and 403 St Anthony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Live Oak
Tennessee
Gayle
Delaware
Adams and Gaston
Springhill Avenue
St. Emanuel
Selma
South Dearborn Street
St. Anthony Street
Mobile Man Named Head Of Insurance Class
Eugene S. Smith of Mobile returned from Boston where he attended a school for agents by New England Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was elected president of the class, a group of 45 agents from across the country. The company’s head offices are in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugene S. Smith
Mobile
Boston
New England Mutual Life Insurance Company
Irwin Jackson Heads Mobile Canvas Dealers Association
Irwin Jackson of Irwin and Jackson was named president of the Mobile Canvas Manufacturers Association at a recent meeting. Other officers include Albert Richard vice president E W McKean secretary and treasurer. Members listed include Alabama Tent and Awning Company Hammel Dry Goods Company Dixie Tent and Awning Company and Adam Glase and Company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irwin Jackson
Irwin & Jackson
Mobile Canvas Manufacturers’ Association
Albert Richard
Adam Glase and Company
E. W. McKean
Hammel Dry Goods Company
Alabama Tent and Awning Company
H. Kietrom
Dixie Tent and Awning Company
Two 17-Year-Olds Flogged Over Drunk Girl Allegations
Tulsa reports recount two unidentified youths George Price and Fred Sanders seized outside the city and whipped by masked men claiming to be officers. A mob of about twenty men gathered at the grove as the boys were questioned about a party and alleged intoxication of a 17-year-old girl. Sanders was abducted near a drug store. Price was lured from home and both were released near their houses after the floggings. Mrs Cunningham injured during the incident as intervention occurred.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
Okla
George Price
Fred Sanders
Sanders
Price Lad
Price
G. ©. Cunningham
Handling Charge Practice Fixed by Railroads
A new tariff correcting alleged discrimination against Mobile in favor of New Orleans on handling charges for import and export freight in storage has been issued. A copy of the tariff was received. prior complaints claimed Mobile’s port charges were higher. The Louisville & Nashville railroad will adjust the rate on self rising flour between Mobile and certain Alabama points, ending higher commodity charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
New Orleans
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Alabama
Plan Speedy Justice For Two Slayers
In Franklin County Louisiana an extraordinary session of the Washington parish grand jury is expected to indict two men, John Murphy and Gideon Bester, for the killings of deputies Crain and Pierce. Murphy reportedly confessed to the slayings as investigators pursue indictments and swift trials. The deputies were buried after death in Betsy Creek swamps, with Judge Carter vowing no delay in rendering justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklinton
Mar
Washington, Peerly Grand Jury
Wiley Pierce
Betsy Creek
Hers
John Murphy
Gideon Bester
Sraven
Prentiss B. Carter
J. E. Bateman
Murphy
Carter
Crain
Pierce
Seaman Fined for Liquor on Steamer Lysef jord
Andrew Olsen arrested aboard the Lysef jord charged with possessing 24 quarts of whiskey was fined 350 dollars and costs by Judge N R Clarke in the inferior court Goumond Feak inson faces the same charge but was discharged A J Etringfellow found not guilty on cattle dipping law violation Mrs Harriett Ward faces a hearing on March 15 for illicit liquor possession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Olsen
Lysefjord
N. R. Clarke
Goumond Feakinson
Olsen
A. J. Etringfellow
Clark
Harriett Ward
Shreveport Sarah Case On Trial Today
The case of Sarah Wilson known as Shreveport Sarah with co defendant Charles Medicus was called in circuit court this morning and occupied all the morning and part of the afternoon. A decision is expected this afternoon. League of Women Voters members attended the trial. Two further vagrancy charges against the woman are pending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah
Wilson
Shreveport
Charles Medicus
League of Women Voters
Truck Driver Held After Auto Smash
John Leatherwood an auto truck driver was fined $50 and costs of 20 days hard labor for reckless driving in inferior criminal court. The collision occurred on Moffat road about five miles from the city when his car struck another vehicle. Leatherwood appealed to the circuit court, bond set at $100, which he posted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Leatherwood
Moffat Road
Leatherwood
Rum Runner Queen Arrested After Border Gun Battle
Mrs. C. O. Carruthers dubbed queen of the border rum runners is jailed in Del Rio after a gun fight that killed customs inspector James A. Wallen. Her son-in-law John Baker and other band members flee as posses scour the Rio Grande region for remaining fugitives. Carruthers names the shooter, while her captured car bears bullet damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
C. O. Carruthers
del’ Rio
Rio Grande
John Baker
James A. Wallen
Photos Identified in Darville Hold-Up Case
William Noll and Mrs. Frank D. Keck named photos of Riviere Hor ner and Lloyd Feltz as the two men who robbed Noll at his home in Darville and later tried to rob the Keck family. Horner was killed by the Kecks’ son during the second attempt. Feltz fled with Hor ner’s body, later dumping it in Oklahoma City before vanishing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
George Haston
Secretar State
N. Haston
Srouaite
Ah Tally
Sam Haston
Haston
Sam Maston
Sha- Piro
Frank Starkman
Sam Hastén
Darville
William Noll
Frank _D. Keck
Champaign
Riviere Horner
Lloyd Feltz
St. Joseph
Oklahoma City
Noll
Keck
Feltz
Horner
County Board Inspects Roads Across North County
County board members Jack Cleveland A G Ward C Prine and Albert S Towle visited the north and northwest areas for a roadway inspection. They traveled Telegraph road to Calvert then to Citronelle, dined with Commissioner Prine, and in the afternoon checked St Stephens road and nearby routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cae
Jack Cleveland
A. G. Ward
C. Prine
Albert S. Towle
Board of Revenue and Road Commission
Telégraph
Calvert
Citronelle
Prine
St. Stephens
Ballou Withdraws Appeal After Two Year Sentence
L. G. Ballou, convicted of assault to murder in the case of pharmacist Roy Boyette, was resentenced to two years in the penitentiary by Judge Berney and has withdrawn his appeal to the supreme court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. G. Ballou
Roy Boyette
Supreme Court
Ballou
Berney
Bondsman Returns Turner to Prison in Prohibition Violations
C. L. Turner, whose bond for three prohition violations and one concealed weapons case was forfeited, was sent back to Mobile last night by Bondsman Fred Johnson and confined in the county jail. He is to be arraigned at the next circuit court setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. L. Turner
Mobile
Fred Johnson
Turner
Fear Woman Will Again Attempt Life
Mrs Paulette Saludes the French widow convicted of second degree murder in New York City remained in a grave condition after swallowing poison in her Tombs cell She made multiple suicide attempts after the verdict and during the night police hurried to guard her. Her fate now rests on appeals and a possible stay of sentence with a verdict likely next Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paulette Saludes
Oscar Martelliere
James A. Turley
Saludes
New York City
Anna Balton
Saludea
Mrs. Saludes
Anita Stewart and Spouse Agree to Live Apart
Los Angeles March 8 Anita Stewart motion picture actress and her husband Rudolph Cameron director have agreed to disagree for a while and live apart. She says she is not contemplating divorce and that there is no co respondent as far as she knows. If a divorce occurs she will make details public for patrons to know the truth about their entertainers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Anita Stewart
Rudolph Cameron
Escaped Marine Re captured After Hospital Breakout in Atlanta
Alex Carter, 74, an ex marine inmate at Augusta Government Hospital, escaped yesterday and was found at his sister home in Atlanta. Special officers and local police battled him as he resisted return before surrendering to officers. He is under treatment for shell shock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Alex Carter
Government Hospital
Augusta
Carter
Wizard Denies Klan To Enter Politics
New Orleans March 5 The Wizard W H Evans head of the Ku Klux Klan and several officials left for western points. He reiterated the organization is not in politics and has no plan to oppose Governor John M Parker or any opponent. Evans said his group has about fifteen thousand members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
W. H. Evans
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Evans
Klan
John M. Parker
Louisiana
Evan
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Mort Bixler
Mobile Fair
Athens
Near East
International Chamber of Commerce
Rome
Mediterranean
Ol Sands
Recreational Bank of
Richmond
United State
York
Atderson
Thtorneys
Pecora
Anderson
Ues
Gurl
Washington
Mississippi
Jackson
Bondsman
N. Y
Wizard
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