American Legion visit to Mobile under rain plans
National commander Alvin M. Owsley leads seven hour Mobile program amid showers. The visit includes breakfast at the Battle House, hospital tour, harbor boat ride, and a mayoral luncheon with 500 reservations. Delegates from several regions attend, as does Alabama officials.
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Mobile
Alvin M. Owsley
American Legion
Legionnaires
Owsley
Louisville & Nashville
R. E. Steiner
Alabama
Matt Murphy
Lamar Y. McLeod
Battle House
Southern Infirmary
Arrow and Messenger
South
Nivelippi
Alaama
Ladies’ Auxiliary
New Orleans
Paris
Prénch Metropolis
Leon Schwarz
Woolsey Finnell
Tuscaloosa
F. Taylor Peck
Testimony Begins in Slayer's Texas Trial
Waco witnesses prepare to testify in Roy Mitchells murder case after a jury was chosen. A confession allegedly links Mitchell to Holt and Mrs. Denecamp slayings and a mutilation trampling behind a car. Mitchell pleads not guilty. defense questions the confession.
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Waco
Texas
Roy Mitchell
Holt
Ethel Denecamp
Denecamp
Mitchell
Irregularity Noted In Stock Market Across Early Trading
In New York on March 16 market irregularities shaped early trading with pressure in oil issues. Pan American A and B fell while California Petroleum and several minors eased. Cosden and Sinclair rose. Jones Brothers’ Tea hit a new peak. Southern Railway and New Haven remained firm.
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New York
Pan-American A
California Petroleum
Standard "Oil of California
Royal Patch
Mimor
Cosden
Sinclair
Jones Brothers
Lewisville
Nashville
Southern Railway
New Haven
Pan-American
Stromberg
Studebaker
White Motors
Atlantic Coast Line
Union Pacific
American Woolen
American Smelting and
Marine Ptd
Sloss Sheffield
Reynolds Tobacco
American Tobacco
British steamship Rance sunk off Malay peninsula
The British steamship Rance was sunk off the Malay peninsula today with the loss of thirty-one lives. The incident occurred near Singapore and is being reported by Inter-Rational News Service.
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Singapore
Inter- Rational News Service
Rance
Malay Peninsula
Weather Report from Washington March 16 Alabama and Mississippi outlook
The weather bulletin notes Alabama will be generally fair and colder tonight with frost reaching the coast. Saturday shows rising temperatures in the western areas. Mississippi follows with fair conditions tonight, colder in the south and east with frost along the coast, and Saturday sees warmer, fair weather.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Cotton futures open steady with early bids
New York commodities report shows March at 30.91 cents per pound, May at 31.06, July 20.34, October 26.77, and December 26.22, indicating a stable start to trading on March 16. The data outlines the specific futures contracts and their initial quotes.
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New York
Cotton futures open steady in New Orleans opening
The New Orleans market opened with cotton futures steady as of March 16. March contracts traded at 30.73, May 30.66, July 0.32, October 26.45, and December 25.97, reflecting stable early trading sentiment.
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New Orleans
Metro Forecast Promises 8 Degree Fall With Frost
A forecast shows the thermometer dropping to 53 with frost possible in Mobile and nearby areas by Saturday morning. Rain occurred earlier, then the forecast calls for a generally fair, clear and cold night. The observer warns frost could damage young vegetation, especially beans.
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Mabile
Mercury
Seaman Plants Story Ends With County Jail Entry
Seaman John Plant wandered on Royal street near the county courthouse about 7 pm without a compass or star and walked into the county jail. Jailor Joe Connick detained him on drunken conduct with a half pint of white liquor found in his right rear pocket. He faced an additional charge of violating prohibition law.
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John Plant
Royal Street
County Court House
Joe Connick
Plant
Cobb Returns After Rate Conference
R G Cobb traffic manager Mobile Chamber of Commerce returned from Atlanta where he attended two rate revision conferences affecting Mobile. Sessions covered steel and iron rates under the transportation act and brick rate revisions. A further iron and steel rates meeting is set for April 13 with a shippers meeting the day before. Railroads consider brick rate revision after shippers objected to a proposed 25 percent rise.
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R. G. Cobb
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Atlanta
Mobile
Knights of Columbus Initiation in Mobile on March 26
The Mobile Council of Knights of Columbus will hold its first initiation of the year on March 26. Five new candidates will join the order with an A degree team from Indianapolis assisting. Men and novices will attend Mass at St. Matthew’s Church in Oakdale before the ceremony, and visitors from nearby towns are expected.
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Mobile
Knights of Columbus
Sime Indianapolis
St. Matthew’'s Catholic
Oakdale
Earby
Real Estate Men Discuss Multiple Listing Plan
Members of the Mobile Realty Association met at the Atha Fishing Club on Dog River for a regular session. They dined at the clubhouse then returned to Mobile as the business session focused on the new multiple listing system to be adopted by local realtors and implemented soon.
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Mobile Realty Association
Atha Fishing Club
Dog River
Mobile
Thousands of Mobilians File Income Tax Returns
About five thousand residents filed income tax returns in Mobile before the deadline last night. Local IRS agents report the largest payment by an individual at 2500 dollars and the smallest at six cents. Roughly one third of returns were non taxable and total tax due remains undetermined, pending Birmingham and local office data.
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Mobile
Internal Revenue Department
Birmingham
Poison still uncovered near Gulfcrest by county officer
Deputy Sheriff Arthur Davie of Chunchull found a wooden covered whiskey still on Bull Branch five miles east of Gulfcrest. The device connected to copper tubing and six barrels of mash showed it had recently been in operation and was heated by molasses.
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Sheriff's Office
Arthur Davie
Chunchull
Bull Branch
Gulfcrest
War Warfare Revision Letter Received
Judge John Bassett Moore’s report as the U S representative on the international commission of jurists to revise warfare rules was received at the state department. It covers agreements from The Hague on radio and airplane use in war and a summary will be issued after departmental review.
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Washington
John Bassett Moore
United
International Commission of Jurists
State Department
Commission
The
Hague
Department
Daugherty to rule on Kick in fruit juice
Attorney General Daugherty will fix the amount of Kick allowed to accumulate in cider and unfermented fruit juices before natural processes violate the Volstead law. Prohibition Commissioner Haynes informed Representative John Philip Hill that the ruling will affect thousands of farmers and city fruit juice mixtures and has been delayed for months.
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Washington
Daugherty
Haynes
John Philip Hill
Maryland
Murder Now Seen In Death Of N Y Model
New York police probe the death of Dorothy King an artist model in West 57th Street apartment authorities suspect murder after an empty chloroform bottle is found and two unidentified men the big fellow and his secretary visited her the night before her death Miss King a noted beauty was found dead by a maid with possible suicide not ruled out Boston resident Bert Guimares friend of the deceased is questioned as a potential link to robbery mentions in the case emerge but identification of the two visitors remains unclear
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Bart B. Chamberlain
Paul Cagalas
Cazalas
Dauphin Street
Royal Street
Postoffice
Royal and Water
Bienville
New Orleans
City Commission
Mobile
North Royal Street
Crawford
Hartwell
Taylor
Commission
New York
Hiss
Dorothy King
West 57Th Street
Miss King
Billy Bradford
Coughlin
Norris
Wagner
Gardner
Chicago
Bill To Settle Street Question To Be Framed
A conference to draft a bill for taking over all city streets from the county will be held at a city hall soon. Attending will be the city commission members, the revenue board, city and county attorneys, and Mobile county legislative delegation. Rep. Edward J. Grove announced the plan. date to be set when Mayor R. V. Taylor can attend.
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City Commission
Board of Revenue
Mobile County
Edward J. Grove
R. V. Tayior
Man with spinal injury after liquor raid shooting
In Fort Worth Texas on March 16 Mehl Haley lay in a hospital with a smashed spinal column and punctured spinal cord after a January 28 liquor raid shooting. Doctors said death is near and Haley asked for baptism as his condition worsened with his wife at his bedside.
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Fort Worth
Texas
L ‘Haley
Alden Coffey
Haley
Big Oil Fields Found in Russia Reported Near Kamchatka
A recently located oil field in Kamchatka is claimed to surpass Rik as Russia's wealth source. A government commission will assess the finds with potential foreign investment for development contingent on proven value.
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Russia
Adivostok
Eee
Fielag
Kamchatka
Rika
Publisher's Mother Dies in Chicago
Mrs. J. March Patterson mother of Paul W. Patterson president of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association and publisher of the Baltimore Sun died in Chicago yesterday from a heart ailment at her home.
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Chicago, Ills
J. March Patterson
Paul W. Patterson
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
The
Baltimore Sun
Primitive Dagestan tribe believes U S lies bottom of world
In Daghestan mountains a tribe mistaking Americans for dwellers at the world’s bottom, living in darkness, regards the globe as table shaped with themselves on top. Dr. F A Golder notes their belief that Americans plow while walking upside down with horned oxen bearing candles.
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Moscow
Mar
Daghestan
F. A. Golder
Hoover Foundation
Golder
Negro mail bandit shot and killed near Omaha
A lone bandit identified as George Kennedy of Pocatello Idaho was fatally shot after attempting to escape during a robbery of a Union Pacific storage mail car on train No 6 near Summit Nebraska. Kennedy carried 3260 worth of silks and valuables when killed by mail clerk J C Kull. He reportedly boarded the train at North Platte about 200 miles away as the crew observed him bow before the ground when the train halted and the shooting occurred.
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Omaha
Nebr
George Kennedy
Pocatello
Idaho
Union Pacific
Simmit
Neb
Kennedy
J. C. Kull
North Platte
Summit
Hotel head found murdered as suspect surrenders
The body of Miss King was discovered by a hotel maid near noon. Investigators found diamonds missing and chloroform listed as the cause of death. Gardner, Chicago businessman, confessed to the slaying claiming self defense amid a volatile dispute over money.
Police disrupt elopement plans in Washington
Thomas Gray Hadden Jr. and his 17 year old fiancée Nancy Holden Chalkley were apprehended in an auto reportedly owned by Hadden's father. Police held the couple on charges of fugitives from justice after their elopement attempt was interrupted by authorities.
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Washington
Thomas Gray Hadden, Jr
Richmond, Va
Nancy Holden Chalkley
Hadden
Sacco Too Weak to Attend New Trial Hearing
Nicola Sacco, jailed in Dedham after his hunger strike, could not attend the Dedham hearing on motions for a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti. Vanzetti appeared in court as the proceedings began.
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Dedham
Mass
Nicola Sacco
Bartolomo Vanzetti
South Braintree
Sacco
Vanzetti
Jury Deliberates on Fate of Man in California Case
San Francisco court reports Henry Wilkens on trial for the murder of his wife Anna Wilkens. A second jury deliberated after a Memorial Day hold up and shooting. prosecutors allege Wilkens arranged the fake crime to remove his wife and pursue relationships with Helen Lange.
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San Francisco
Cal
Henry Wilkens
Hhe Herder
Anna Wilke
Wilkens
Arthur
Walter Caster
Red Cross Plans Use of Planes for Disaster Relief
Washington March 16 The army and naval air service at the post office department will be available in the future for rapid transportation of disaster relief efforts. The arrangement with the three government elements was announced at Red Cross headquarters here.
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Washington
Naval Air Service
Post Office Department
Cross
Lenine Improvement Reported by Soviet Officials
Moscow dispatch reports Premier Lenine show remarkable improvement since yesterday. Rosta officials state the dangerous progression is reversed and the premier's arm leg and tongue affliction is expected to gradually disappear.
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Moscow
Ner Lenine
Rosta
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