Wreck Probe Nears Arrest in fatal Craft Highway Crash
County officers promised an arrest today as their probe into the Saturday night Craft highway wreck neared completion. Janie Bell Hudson died, Arlene Hudson and A G Beverly were injured and later treated at the city hospital. Beverly reported the girls rode with him when another speeding car struck and overturned their vehicle into a ditch. Funeral services for Janie Bell Hudson were held at 4:30 this morning at the Hudson home in Prichard and the body was sent to Fulton Alabama.
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Craft Highway
Janie Bell Hudson
Hudson
Arlene
A. G. Beverly
Arlene Hudson
Beverly
City Hospital
George Riley
T. Hudson
Prichard
Fulton
Ala
W. H. Evans
First Baptist Church of Service
Ben Dismukes
Herrod Dismukes
Elsworth Jones
Mack McDaniels
Richard Swindle
Bernard Williams
Murder Confession Ties Ohio Farm Tragedy to Lover
In MARTHUR Ohio Mrs Inez Palmer 24 is held on a first degree murder charge after confessing she killed William Stout 65 on the Stout farm. She says he made advances to her while keeping house for his son Arthur Stout now awaiting trial March 21 for the stepmother s death. Authorities believe the motive was to help her lover. The elder Stout was to testify in Arthur s trial. The case traces back to over a year ago when Palmer was brought from Moundsville West Virginia to live with the Stout family.
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Stout
Arthur Stout
Young Stout
Palmer
Moundsville
W. Va
Berth Sought for New Coast Guard Boats
Captain H H Wolf seeks a suitable berth for four 100 foot coast guard patrol boats in the gulf division. The Mobile detachment will headquarter this flotilla with Tallapoosa and AB 20, increasing gulf vessels to 48 as rum running drives spring operations.
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Coast Guard
H. H. Wolf
Gulf Division
Tallapoosa
Key West
Curtis Bay
Point Isabel
Rio Grande
Atlantic
Gulf Ofexico
Atlantic Seaboard
Four Arrivals In Port Today At Mobile Harbor
Four steamers arrived in Mobile this morning with one departure noted and another due later. The Baron Semphill, under British flag from New Orleans, loaded at Munson Steamship Sun Gaspeny. United vessel Verons brought a cargo. Lysefjord and Lushberico expect arrivals to load for Pacific Coast and aluminum line respectively. Visna arrived ballast from New Orleans. GC oeaae, a United Gulf Steamship Company boat, departed ballast for Getveme.
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Mobile
Baron Semphill
New Orleans
Munson
Sun Gaspeny
Verons
Tela
lLysefjord
Lushberico
Pacific Coast
Visna
Aluminum Line
Nin
GC Oeaae
United Gulf Steamship Company
Getveme
Special Meeting of Board on Printing and Road Condemnation
A special meeting of the board of revenue and road commissioners is set for Thursday at 2 PM to review new printing bids after recent rejections. Mobile printers have submitted bids to be considered. The board also ordered condemnation of a strip of land near Magazine Point for road and bridge construction, affecting Gus a.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Gus
Magazine Point
Weather outlook for Alabama and Mississippi
The weatherogue notes cool conditions tonight with a fair sky across Alabama and Mississippi. Tuesday brings fair weather with rising temperatures as winds shift from gentle north to east and southeast.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Dies in Smash on Craft Highway Involving A G Beverly
Mrs Hudson dies in a auto crash on the Craft highway Saturday night. A G Beverly driver and Miss Arlene Hudson sister sustained severe cuts in the collision.
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A. G. Beverly
Craft
Miss Hudson
Arlene
Beverly
Gulf, Mobile Declining In Early Trades
New York stocks opened with a bear driven retreat. The downturn hit Gulf, Mobile and Northern and Continental Baking A among others as the broad list showed more soft spots. Call loan renewals stayed at 4 percent amid mixed activity and rubber stocks led losses.
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Gulf, Mobile
New York
Atchison, Pere Marquette
Gulf, Mobile and Northern
Continental Baking A
Warner Pictures A
Porto Rico
Warning Issued On Income Taxes For Local Filers
R S Cartledge head of the local internal revenue office warns taxpayers and businesses to file returns even if showing a loss. Singles must file if earning 1500 yearly. married couples 3500 with 400 per dependent. Firms with gross 5000 plus must file regardless of loss. Final filing date is Tuesday night March 15.
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R.S. Cartledge
Internal Revenue Office
Cartledge
Reductions Proposed for Log Export Freight Rates
Examiner Brennan of the Interstate Commerce Commission recommends lower export freight rates for logs from Alabama Mississippi and Florida to Mobile with a state rate above 225 miles and half a cent per hundredweight under 225 miles. Some cuts could reach fifty percent. The Mobile exporters led by Gulf Trading Company Mobile Log and Lumber Company W K Syson Timber Company W K Taylor Lumber Company plus C W Towsley C Schaefer of New Orleans and George W Howe of Pensacola petitioned. Reparations of about 6000 were denied.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Mobile
Examiner Brennan
Interstate Commerce Commission
R. G. Cobb
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Gulf Trading Company
Mobile Log and Lumber Company
W. K. Sy
Man Injured at Alabama Drydock Dock
G A Rowley 35 of 111 Monroe Street attributed to serious head injuries after a falling piece of iron struck him at Pinto Island Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company. He was transported to City Hospital by Roche's ambulance shortly before noon.
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G. A. Rowley
Monroe Street
Pinto Island
Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Company
Roche
Body of Drowned Man Recovered in Mobile River
The body of Ben Wheeler a 65 year old Black man of 34 Hospital street was recovered after drowning in the Mobile river near Turner terminal yesterday afternoon.
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Ben Wheeler
Hospital Street
Mobile River
Turner Terminal
Coast Guard Aids Stranded Yacht Cristobal Colon Near Pensacola
The coast guard cutter Saukee is aiding a yacht named Cristobal Colon stranded on a sand spit 24 miles east of the Santa Rosa quarantine station near Pensacola. The rescued party, possibly including women, has camped on the beach as rescuers assess conditions and potential medical needs.
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Santa Rosa Quarantine Station
Pensacola
Coast Guard
Saukee
Hope Sherwood
Gulf
Mobile Ranks Fifteenth in U S Foreign Commerce
Mobile climbs to fifteenth among U S ports for foreign trade in the year ending June 30 1925, up from twenty first in 1924. The Shipping Board report notes Mobile handled about 1 090 489 in imports and exports, not counting coastwise traffic, with future gains anticipated.
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Mobile
United States
Research Department
United States Shipping Board
Alleged Hit Run Driver Fined In Local Court
William Howard of Avera Mississippi was fined 101 dollars and costs for failing to stop after an accident. Mrs M Light of Joachim and Conti streets faced 100 dollars or 90 days after police found 50 half pints of whiskey in her home. T E Jordan, accused of having a half pint during a raid, was fined 50 dollars or 50 days. Hattie Bettis cited for city dirty laws 50 dollars or 560 days. P M Best fined 75 dollars or 75 days. Clarence Smith of 560 South Bayou street fined 100 dollars or 9 days for disorderly conduct with his wife. Beatrice Young, a negro woman, sent to jail after evidence she was an escapee from the county poor asylum serving a year and a day on a state charge.
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William Howard
Avera
Miss
Recorder
Hattie Bettis
P. M. Best
Clarence Smith
South Bayou Street
Beatrice Young
Royal
Dauphin
County Poor Asylum
Russian Provisional Leader Slapped at New York Rally
Catherine Bary, 34, a New York dressmaker, slapped Alexander Kerensky three times at a meeting of 5,000 Russians marking the revolution anniversary. She blamed him for the death of her fiancé, an officer killed after Kerensky's order elevating civilians over the armed forces. Kerensky requested she not be held, and police released her.
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New York
Alexander F. Kerensky
Russia
Catherine Bary
Kerensky
Escapee Wheelock Arrested After Selma Flight
A man wanted by Meridian authorities for alleged bad checks was held in Selma after escaping from a hotel room. Detec tives Levine Bauer and Lawrence Arras and private detective John T. Stout pursued him as he leaped from a fifth floor window to the alley and fled toward a Southern train. He was later arrested in Selma.
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Cawthon Hotel
Levine Bauer
Lawrence Arras
Police
John T. Stout
Meridian
Miss
Selma
Warren Burch
Wheelock
Burch
Stout
Joachim Street
Fines Imposed in Local Dry Law Cases
Several fines for violating the dry laws were imposed in the inferior criminal court. Lillie Poned faced 100 dollars plus 60 days, Jim Lewis, W. E. Johnson and Eliza Ascerd 50 dollars plus court costs. Charges stem from raids Saturday night and Sunday for possession of beer and whiskey. Andrew Clarke waived examination to the circuit court on manufacturing prohibited liquors under a 500 dollar bond.
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Inferior Criminal Court
Lillie
Alba Fishing and Hunting Club Meets Tonight
Members of the Alba Fishing and Hunting Club convene at the Chamber of Commerce at eight this evening in an annual session called by president Julius T. Wright. The agenda includes discussion of a new building, election of officers, and other business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alba Fishing and Hunting Club
Chamber of Commerce
Julius T. Wright
Mobile Knights Initiate 45 in Biloxi Class
A number of local council members from the Knights of Columbus attended an initiation in Biloxi Mississippi yesterday. The Biloxi council welcomed a class of 45 new members into the order.
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Knighhs of
Columbus
Biloxi, Miss
Biloxi
Mary G Cabell alias Charlotte Blake vanishes from New York
Mary G Cabell 165 daughter of Hartwell Cabell, wealthy New York lawyer, disappears after posing as Charlotte Blake. A Spence school copy book shows the alias written fifty times. She bought mourning garb and planned to travel to Dallas for a funeral. Her half brother Lt. P F Cabell died in a Galveston crash February 15. Police monitor Cabell summer homes as family awaits word.
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New York
Charlotte Blake
Mary G. Cabell
Hartwell Cabell
Miss Cabell
Spence School
Dallas
Texas
P. F. Cabell
Galveston
Cabells
New Oe Conn
Virginia Beach
Mystery Calls Sparked By Cabell Family Tragedy
A spate of vague telephone inquiries over the past two days to Colonel Lawrence D. Cabell, head of the reserve officers corps, centered on Lieutenant F. Cabell and his widow Mrs. Constance H. Cabell. Reports claimed Mary Cabell, the lieutenant’s sister, flew from New York and retired, though Mrs. Cabell denied knowing her location. The funeral for Lieutenant Cabell was held in Galveston on February 17.
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Lawrence D. Cabell
F. Cabell
Constance H. Cabell
Mary Cabell
Quake Shock Felt Across Southern Norway
A slight earthquake tremor was felt at several places between Arendal and Mandal in southern Norway on March 14. No damage was reported and there were no injuries. Local authorities stated there is no danger to residents.
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Norway
Oslo
Arendal
Mandal
Amateurs Aid Hunt For Bandit Gang In Coal Payroll Theft
An amateur detective traced clues to a bandit gang that blew up an armored car and fled with $104000 from the Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company. Wayne Jones of Monongahela City found an abandoned car at Ginger Hill and alerted authorities. Two suspects, Joseph Glouck of Pittsburgh and Paul Jawoski of Detroit, were in custody. Police sought Joe Weckoski, owner of the farm house where arrests were made.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Terminal Coal Company
Wayne Jones
Monongahela City
Here
Ginger Hill
Jones
Joseph Glouck
Paul Jawoski
Detro Police
Michigan City
Joe Weckoski
Mississippi Capital Agog Over Indecent Show Trial
Crowds packed the Mississippi capital as George Wintz manager of the Music Box Revue and 15 chorus girls faced trial for an alleged indecent performance. The case pits censorship against theatrical freedom with bonds posted and politicians claiming political motives. A court showdown looms over morality laws and future shows in the state.
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Mississippi
Capitol City
George Wintz
Music Box Revue
Issippi
Carrol Kings
Win
R. B. Kennington
Jackson
City Employes Consider $10 Monthly Raise
Mayor Hartwell backs a $10 per month raise for street department workers and others earning under $100 monthly, effective April 1 if a majority vote is secured. A resolution to raise fire and police pay by $10 is to be discussed at tomorrow's weekly session, with action not yet decided.
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Harry T. Hartwell
U S Red Cross Aids Jap Sufferers Relief Donation
Ambassador MacVeagh acting for the American Red Cross presented a $50,000 check to Foreign Minister Shidehara for the Japanese Red Cross relief fund. Shidehara thanked him and said relief work was advancing after weather and damaged lines hindered efforts.
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Tokyo
MacVeagh
American Red Cross
Shidehara
Red Cross
Sinclair Case Heads Toward Crisis by Week’s End
In Washington on March 14 the defense asked a directed verdict of not guilty for Harry F. Sinclair in the contempt case tied to Teapot Dome. Chief counsel George P. Hoover argued Sinclair was not under oath and thus could not have violated the statute. The trial entered its second week with jurors not summoned until the afternoon as attorneys argued admissibility of voluminous evidence and the court debated who should decide on unanswered questions.
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Washington
Harry F. Sinclair
George P. Hoover
Sinclair
Harry F. Sinclear
Teapot Dome
United States Senate
District Supreme Court
Et Oil
Senate
Prisoner escape hunt traced on Tennessee highways
In Greenville Tennessee on March 14 authorities watched the highways to Knoxville for seven federal prisoners who had escaped from the Atlanta federal penitentiary. They awaited removal to Atlanta as federal authorities coordinated the case.
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Greenville
Tenn
Knoxville
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Mexican murder plot alleged in Joliet escapes case
Officials report three Mexican murderers from Will County aided a Joliet escape. Two women and two men held after last night’s arrests tied to letters requesting help to escape. Police say a scheme involved contraband tools and threats of violence to finish the break.
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Chicago
Maren
Will County
Peta
Panionia
Joliet
Grant
Juanita
Nilent
Gonzales
Recelanien A
Duschowski
Etter
Jolietee
Miner Missing After Explosion In Kentucky Coal Mine
In Pineville Kentucky March James Low foreman for tein Coal Company at Kettle Isl was missing after a new explosion during morning inspection. Several men were injured but all except Low rushed to face. Superintendent Nield said a search began for Low, 40, with a wife and several children.
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Pineville
James Low
Tein
Kettle Isl
Low
Co. & Nield
Marine Murdered Near Shanghai in Wha River
The body of Sergeant James Metage United States Marine Corps was found in the Wha river near Shanghai on March 14. Police believe he was murdered. He was a long serving Marine from Virginia and connected to the Chaumont transport from San Diego.
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Shanghai
James Metague
United States Marine Corps
Wha
Montague
Marines
Virginia
San di
Chaumont
Negro in Prison on Murder Charge in Crichton
Frank McLean, a Black man, was arrested Sunday on Warren Street near Crichton and jailed on murder charges in the Crichton district. He is accused of killing O H Hill, another Black man, who was shot with a birdshot load in Center Street Crichton.
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Frank McLean
O. H. Hill
Crichton
Warren Street
The
Hill
Empress of Canada Damaged After Shanghai Collision
Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Canada collided with the Japanese collier Hine in Shanghai. Bow damage left the Empress unable to proceed. all lives were reported safe.
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Shanghai
Canada
Hine
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Amherst
Mass
Wellesley College
Tove Bothe
Ill
Leonardo Russo
Norma Devol
University of North Dakota
Devol
N. Y. Exchange
Alabama Dock
Gutter
Lester Wheelock
Alba Club
Mobile Knights
Bell 3607
R. E. Kennington
U. S. Red Cross
AIDS
Sinclair Case
Shangha
Cumberland
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