Aged Woman and Servant Die in Canton Fire
Mrs. Annie Harter 60 and her 90 year old servant Martha Cheatham perished in a fire that destroyed the Boggs mercantile building and the Trolio Hotel in Canton Mississippi. The loss neared 100000 dollars. Firemen from Jackson and Yazoo City aided to quell the blaze. All hotel guests escaped unharmed.
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Jackson
Yazoo City
Mercantile
Canton
Miss
Annie Harter
Martha Cheatham
Boges Mercantile
Trolio
Harter
Boggs
Bach & Baldwin, Jewelers
Borsig
Seabee
Tuned
English Catholics hold high mass in Rome churches
Services varied for the feast of St Gregory Nantea his Gatent during Pontifical mass at his church on the Coelian Hill attended by English theology faculty and students. A similar service was held at Santa Maria in Vallicella and St Silverstro in Capite with a delegation visiting St Peter’s tomb.
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Gregnid DaNeiahy
Woman free on bond after life for liquor crimes in Michigan
Mrs Etta Mae Miler a 50 year old Michigan mother and housewife was released on $2 500 bond pending a new trial after fourteen months in the house of correction She had been sentenced December 31 1928 to life for a fourth liquor felony her sentence later commuted under new law and a Supreme Court ruling allows a retrial.
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Lansing
Mich
Etta Mae Miler
Ee House of Correction
Supreme Court
Michi
Lonses
Return to Work After Kansas City Building Trades Strike
The building trades strike in Kansas City and nearby ends with 8,000 to 9,000 union craftsmen returning to work today. An agreed five day week and wage raises take effect July 1 with a further identical increase six months later.
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Fkansas City
Building Trades
Conambeeey Genset
Kansas City
Nenworth
Kans
Doheny Case Opens as Justice Rules on Double Jeopardy
The Doheny trial began with Justice Hitz denying a double jeopardy plea after Doheny and Albert Fall faced bribery and conspiracy charges. The government seeks conviction over 100000 allegedly given to Fall in 1921, tied to Elk Hills oil reserve dealings.
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Edward L. Doheny
Washington
Albert 8
Pull
Interior
Fall
Albert B. Fall
Harding
Justice Hitz
Doheny
Elk Hills Oil Naval Reserve
Maintay
Fire at Valence Street Cotton Warehouse Charbonnet Wharf Fire Suspected Arson
In New Orleans 400 to 500 bales of cotton burned in a Valence Street dock warehouse fire. Firemen confined flames to one section of the steel structure using partition doors. Police opened an inquiry into possible incendiary origins amid three nearby riverfront fires in recent weeks. The Charbonnet wharf fire earlier destroyed the wharf and damaged the steamship Scantic with six deaths. The Mandeville wharf fire also spread quickly from an undetermined cause, damaging the steamship Munaires and another vessel tied nearby. Explosions were reported as casks burst during the conflagration. officials assess the overall loss.
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New Orleans
Dock Board
Valence Street
Charbonnet Wharf
Scantic
Mandeville Wharf
Munaires
Munson Line
Pacific
Mandeville
Genet Stiven
Paige i Boros Marshal
Walker linked to Marked Tree case in murder trial
In Harrisburg Arkansas on March 12 the state presented testimony linking Willis Walker of Wynne to a Marked Tree murder case. Roy Bromwell testified Walker arrived in Greenville December 12 seeking a Mississippi car license and produced a newspaper story about the Marked Tree affair, claiming to be involved.
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Harrisburg
Ark
Willis Walker
Debonair Wynne
Lena Waugh Gambell Walsh
Greenville
Miss
Walsh
Walker
Roy Bromwell
Mississippi
Bromwell
Huston Fages Caraway Def In Shoals Quiz
Witness Claude Huston chairman of the Republican national committee testified before the senate lobby committee that he knew nothing of missing records of the Tennessee River Improvement Association. He said J W Worthington was probably the executive who could explain the association's Muscle Shoals activities and noted the group had raised between 000 and 500000 dollars since its creation.
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Washington
Claude H. Huston
Republican National Committee
Senate Lobby Committee
Tennessee River Improvement Association
Improvement Association
Huston
J. W
Worthington
Caraway
P Ly
Detroit
Senate
Minnesota Delegation Seeks Nine Foot Mississippi Channel
Washington reports Minnesota's six foot channel plan in danger of inadequacy for upper river commerce. Delegation urged President Hoover to back a nine foot depth at a projected cost of about 98 million dollars. Army Engineers report pending after hearings.
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Washington
Mississippi
Cairo
Ill
Napolis
Minnesota
House
Hoover
Army Board of Engineers
Abandonment Proposal Heard For Railway Line
Washington March 12 recommendations that the Railway Omne Company abandon a Winnfield to Alpha track line in Grant Winn parishes Louisiana were presented to the Interstate Commerce Commission today by Thomas F Sullivan the publisher who conducted hearings Abandonment had been opposed by the Louisiana Public Service Commission on behalf of residents of Winnfield Examiner Sullivan held there was not traffic or a prospect in the area to justify continued operation.
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Washington
Railway Omne Company
Winnfield
Alpha
Grant
Winn Parishes
Louisiana
Interstate Commerce Commission
Thomas F. Sullivan
Pukather
Louisiana Public Service Commie
Winchfiel
Sullivan
Rebuilds Store Permit Issued for 8000 Dollars
A. Kahalaiha received a permit worth eight thousand dollars to rebuild a store. The approval details the scope of work and the contractor responsible for modifications to the storefront. The action advances local commerce and construction activity.
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A. Kahaliay
Fruit Fly Eradication Efforts Face Criticism in Florida
Chairman Wood of the House Appropriations Committee told President Gover that millions in Florida fruit fly eradication work were destroyed and about six million more spent. He urged accountability, suggested mismanagement by bagging teams caused damage, and criticized broad advertising of the campaign. He called for indictments if government actions harmed the citrus industry.
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Washington
Wood
House
Gover
Florida
Bre
Ee Ven
Department of Pie
Department of Agriculture
Mrs Bryan Rites Ashington Service for William Jennings Bryan
Mrs. Bryan funeral honors her late husband at Arlington Cemetery with a grave service to be led by Dr. J R Sizoo. Jennings Bryan Jr will attend as ashes arrive from Hollywood California where Mrs Bryan died after a long illness. Funeral rites were held in Los Angeles.
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Ashington
William Jennings Bryan
Arlington Cemetery
J. R. Sizoo
New York Avenue
Wit Jennings Bryan, Jr
Hollywood
California
Bryan
Grace R. Hargreaves
Gia
Owen
Los Angeles
Suit Filed for 2500 Damages Over Fall at Country Club Estates
Walls sues J F Pate in circuit court for 2500 damages claiming injuries from October 14 when a defective scaffold collapsed at a building site in Country Club Estates. He alleges three fractured ribs and bruises.
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MM. Z. Walls
Circuit Court
J. F. Pate
Walls
Country Club Estates
Three Assessed Arraigned For Prohibition Violations
Fields and Nettie Smith appeared in the recorder's court on Wednesday for violating the prohibition law. Each was fined 100 dollars with costs, or 90 days in jail, after being found in possession of prohibited liquors.
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Fields
Nettie Smith
Recorder’s Court
Recorder of
Greece Finances Road and Drainage Loan Issued
Athens reports a government loan of 40 million dollars announced by the finance minister for roads and drainage works. The bonds will bear six percent interest.
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Minister of Finance
Athens
Greece
Jury Completes. Fate Pending for Trigger Woman
In Newcastle Pennsylvania courtroom the trial jury finished selecting at 11:40 a m as the case of the so called Trigger Woman proceeds. The proceedings continue with testimony and deliberation to determine the defendant Fullerton’s involvement and potential verdict in Lawrence county court.
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Newcastle
Lawrence County Court
Fullerton
Clemency Refused Jarvis By Pardon Board Member
John Brandon secretary of state and a pardon board member urged Governor Bibb Graves to deny clemency for Jack Jarvis Mobile youth to be hanged at Kilby Prison Thursday midnight for the slaying of Citronelle bank president Claude Hurt A petition with 65 names urging commutation to life imprisonment was also received from J C Jarvis Mobile merchant father of the condemned youth.
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John Brandon
Archie
State’ Pardons Board
Bibb Graves
Jack Jarvis
Mobil
Kilby
Claude Hurt
Citronelle Bank
Montgomery
H. Blan
Charlie.c. McCall
Brandon
The
Pardons Board
J. C. Jarvis
Mobile
Jarvis
Citronelie
Vicinity
Conin
Edward
Alabama Tax Case Over Harsher Retail Levy
The Drug CompanyMont ery fought a state excise tax billed as a privilege tax. The Alabama Supreme Court ruled the levy exceeded constitutional limits. The U S Supreme Court declined to review the decision, citing jurisdiction and lack of merit.
Candidates Visit Mobil County as Campaigns Accelerate
Aspirants for state district and county offices tour Mobile and nearby, meeting voters at public gatherings and court sessions. Former aide attorney general Thomas E Knight of Greensboro and candidate for state attorney general visited the city midweek, while W B Allgood state treasurer and candidate for auditor spoke here earlier. County candidates begin early campaigning across rural areas as campus openings start sooner than usual.
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Mobile
Thomas E. Knight
Greensboro
W. B. Allgood
Pickets dispersed at Amerian Bemberg plant in Elizabethton
In Elizabethton Tennessee sheriff's deputies dispersed United Textile Workers of America pickets at the gates of the American Bemberg rayon plant. Acting Sheriff John Townsend would not confirm arrests saying nobody is in jail now. Magistrate K R T Johnston noted no warrants were sworn but arrested pickets left deputies on the street when brought into town.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
United Textile Workers of America
John Townsend
Kr” T. Johnston
Gas tax debate stalls as lawmakers weigh restoration plan
Washington lawmakers face a stalled session as Democrats and Republicans clash over a proposed gas tax restoration. The plan seeks to reverse recent cuts seen in state revenue measures, with momentum uncertain amid party tensions and inde pendents.
County funds pave Cedar Street road project
County engineers report a five million dollar bond financed program to replace the old road with a new paved route from the Bay Club area to Cedar Street. When the old road closes, gravel from the existing road will be moved to the new bed after fill settles, reclaiming valuable material for reuse.
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Jess Nee Sing & Baw Seamere
Bay Club
Peavy
Farm Board Fund Approved by Senate
Washington March 12 The Senate approved without opposition an additional 100 million dollars for the federal farm board. The fund was added to the first deficiency bill after debate over board policies with Senator Brookhart urging cooperation with the Canadian wheat pool against England France and Italy.
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Washington
Federal Farm Board
Ao Board
Senate
Durin
Brookhart
Reobesias
Iowa
Canadian Wheat Pool
England
France
Italy
Fire losses total $38,617 in Mobile last month
Fire Chief Gus Rhem reported to Commissioner Leon Schwarz that Mobile area losses reached 38 617 in property damage last month. Buildings and contents involved totaled 702 561 in value with 68 fires causing the losses. 32 were due to careless handling and false. Firemen cited defective flues and chimneys as a factor.
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Mobile
Gus Rhem
Leon Schwarz
Ana
Msparka
Gas Price Lower Reported for All Mobile Gasoline Firms
On Wednesday fuel prices eased across all Mobile gasoline companies with both straight and high test grades affected. Details indicate a uniform trend toward cheaper fuel options at multiple stations.
Boggs Story of Robbery Outlined to Jury
Chief state witness testifies Boggs tied the victim and escaped. The officer also recounts Beach accosting him on the road as details of the robbery are presented to the jury.
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Boggs
Beach
Offic
Beach wagee case details on automobile inspection and witness testimony
Disjointed testimony describes Beach and a witness entering a car on a highway near city limits. Judge How objected to questions, and Chamberlain withdrew them. Boggs testified about a map and tires on Beach’s car. The prosecutor pressed links to a prior crime while the court urged jurors not to be prejudiced. more on page 12.
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Jackson
Beach
Hamilton
Alex T
Chamberlain
Boggs
Jackson Engins
Ae Wee
Mobile
Weather Outlook With Warmer Temperatures Across Regions
The bulletin notes fair conditions Wednesday night and Thursday with warming on Thursday across Alabama interior west, and Mississippi regions show similar patterns. Observations recorded at 7 a m EST on March 12.
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Alabama
West Portion
Mississippi
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