Moonshiner Seen Operating Still Near Three Mile Creek
A moonshiner was spotted last night operating a whiskey still in a swamp by Three Mile Creek near the Southern Railway bridge within city limits. Deputies Wade Cannon and Brannan searched the area by hip boots and located a five gallon milk can still with a quart of liquor produced, but a man vanished and is feared drowned.
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Three Mile Creek
Southern Railway Bridge
Arcement
Heriff Alerdeen Wade
Wade
Rufaez Cannon
Charles Brannan
Disa
Banking and Insurance Committee public hearings planned in Mobile
The Committee on Banks and Insurance schedules public hearings in Mobile the week of April 9 to review banking and insurance issues. Chairman Wallace C. McAdory of Birmingham leads a roster including E B Sanders Conecuh and D F Anderson Clark. The panel will also meet in Birmingham and Montgomery to tour state institutions and gather needs.
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Mobile
Montgomery
Wallace C. McAdory
Birmingham
Daphne
State Normal School
8. B. Sanders
Conecuh County
D. F. Anderson
Clark
J. L. Byars
Lawrence
F. E. Burleson
Mongan
Eugene Carter
George Frey
Jefferson
Mount . Vernon
Jackson
Chatom
Grove Hill
Butler
York
Cuba
Livingston
Tuscaloosa
Tornado Toll Rises Across Arkansas and Missouri
Tornadoes in Arkansas and Missouri over two days killed 26 people and left about 100 homeless. Green Forest Arkansas reported 15 dead with 50 to 76 injured. Denser damage hit Joplin Missouri with many killed and missing, and Green Forest area faced ruined shops, a factory blaze, and homes as rescues continued by lantern light.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Green Forest
Missouri
Saline County
Here
Joplin
Denver
Marshfield
Ebs County
Hall
Howell
Oregon
Eureka Springs
Missouri and North Arkansas
Res
Bandits Rob Metairie Ridge Bank in New Orleans heist
Armed with sawed off shotguns two bandits robbed the Metairie Ridge Bank and Trust branch in New Orleans of about $4,000 after catching a manager and a woman employee by surprise. They forced the staff and fled toward the highway toward Bayou Rouge.
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New Orleans
Metairie Ridge
Ve Bank and Trusteee
Beloit
Roesoy
Two Ships Arrive to Load Cargo for New York
The Mallory Line steamer Colorado arrived at Pier 4 at 9 30 this morning to load for New York via Tampa. Nicolo Odero also docked with cargo bound for Genoa after Pensacola. Benjamin Brewster from Rotterdam enters drydock at Standard Oil for repairs. Departures include Lysefjord bound for Livingston via British Honduras and Bowden discharged from drydock ready to sail.
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Mallory Line
Colorado
New York
Tampa
Nicolo Odero
Genoa
Pensacola
Fillette
Green
Benjamin Brewster
Rotterdam
Standard Oil Company
Lysefjord
United Fruit Company
Livingston
Guatemala
British Honduras
Fruiter Bowden
Bridge Approach Work Rushed to Meet Traffic Timeline
After an inspection of the Baldwin county road approach to the bay bridge George Moulton informed officers that additional teams and other pares will be put to work to complete the highway connection by the time the bridge and causeway work is ready for traffic Three dredgeboats are now at work on the causeway division of the project.
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Baldwin County
Bay Bridge
George Moulton
Mobile Bay Bridge Company
Man Dies En Route to Work on Dauphin Street
Ed Franklin, 57, described as a Negro, collapsed and died at about 6:30 am on the north side of Dauphin street between Cedar and Lawrence streets while walking to his job. County Coroner F. Hale ruled the death due to organic heart trouble. Franklin resided at 562 St. Francis Street.
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Ed Franklin
Dauphin Street
Cedar and
Lawrence Streets
F. H. Spieth
F. Hale
Franklin
St. Francis Street
Weather outlook for Alabama and Mississippi
Alabama shows mostly cloudy skies with possible showers in the north tomorrow, colder by Sunday afternoon and much colder Sunday night into Monday. Mississippi predicts interior showers tonight, colder Sunday with rain, and winds shifting from southeast to northwest by Sunday night.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Death of Garard Harris Prominent Birmingham Newsman
Garard Harris famed newspaperman and former United States district attorney for Mississippi's seventh district was found dead in bed in Birmingham at 52. Acute indigestion cited. He served as Latin America economist, taught foreign trade research, and contributed to fiction magazines. Survived by widow and four children.
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Birmingham
Ala
Garard Harris
Birmingham News
United States
Seventh Judicial District
Jackson
Miss
Harris
Georgia
Latin America
Federal Board of Vocational Education
University of Georgia
Millsaps College
Mississippi
Garard Harris Dies In Birmingham Career Journalist
Garard Harris died this morning in Birmingham. He was a well known Mobile Register staff member and a prominent southern political writer. After retiring as federal attorney in Jackson Mississippi he became a freelance writer and regular staff correspondent for New Orleans papers.
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Garard Harris
Birmingham
Mobile
Mobile Register
South
Jackson
Miss
United States
New Orleans
Mandamus Hearing Continued In County Funds Dispute
George E. Stone county treasurer seeks funds from Ed ward J. Huet clerk of the inferior criminal court in a mandamus to require payment of court costs. The hearing was continued to March 2% with Huet asking for more time to study the case. Huet notes demands from the county and sheriff for about $5,000 in costs since January and seeks a court ruling on entitlement.
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George E. Stone
Edward J. Huet
Inferior Criminal Court
Circuit Court
Tisdale J. Touart
Huet
Building and Loan Firm Increases Stock Capital
The Home Mutual Building and Loan Corporation of this city increased its capital stock from 250000 to 500000. The filing, a guarantee, was recorded in the court. C. C. Lowder is listed as president of the firm.
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Home Mutual Building && Loan Corporation
Caueteante
C. C. Lowder
Presidenil
Mobile Made Goods Exhibit Planned by Chamber
The Chamber of Commerce arranges with local banks to display Mobile-made products in lobby spaces for a Monday morning opening. The effort aims to inform residents about local production, facilities, and resources and to foster loyalty to Mobile by encouraging use of local goods.
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Chamber of Commerce
Mobile
Wisconsin party calls off tour to Mobile gulf coast
The Wisconsin good will tour to Mobile and nearby areas has been postponed to next year probably February. Lee I Yorkson chairman of the tour and secretary of the Wisconsin Association of Commerce advised the Chamber of Commerce of the postponement. The program planned golfing bathing swimming yachting tennis and other gulf coast activities.
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Wisconsin
Mobile
Chamber of Commerce
Lee I. Yorkson
Wisconsin Association of Commerce
Yorkson
Gulf Coast
Ice Cream Stolen From Mobile High School
Police report a store room break in at Mobile High School yesterday afternoon. A gallon of ice cream was taken after a window was broken to gain entry. Albert Winston, arrested by Officer John Kruse for theft of trousers, received 30 days hard labor.
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Mobile High School
Albert Winston
John Kruse
Woman Sues Over Shovel Strike Injury on Hall's Mill Road
Nina Marshall by Webb and Shepard sues Joseph Fromherz, Inc. for 15000 alleging a bucket from a steam shovel operated on Hall's Mill road struck and injured her severely on January 2 last. The defendant built the road.
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Nina Marshall
Webb & Shepard
Circuit Court
Joseph Fromherz, Inc
Hall’s Mill Road
Frombert
Hall's Mill Road
285 Owe License Fees in Mobile Report
A 1927 report by County Constable Angelo indicates 285 persons operating various businesses in Mobile have failed to pay their state and county license fees. The notice enumerates delinquent licensees and highlights enforcement actions pending.
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Mobile
Angelo 8
US to hold Doc Cook in prison awaiting probation test
Dr Frederick A Cook will remain at Leavenworth federal penitentiary until a test of the probation law is made. The department says judges may grant probation only before sentence begins, a point not yet tested in any circuit court of appeals. District Attorney Zweifel was told to seek a stay of the probation order execution.
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Washington
Frederick A. Cook
Federal
Leavenworth
Wilson
Fort Worth
Cook
Circuit Court of Appeals
Zweifel
Department of Justice
Detective Pistole Dies At Home
George Walter Pistole 57 a veteran detective with the city police died at 6 15 AM at his residence 703 Dauphin Street He helped capture bandit Bill Wright at the L N station on December 30 1924 and was wounded in the incident Funeral set for Sunday at 4 PM from his home He was a lifelong resident and is survived by his wife two brothers two sisters and other relatives
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George Walter Pistole
Police Department
Dauphin Street
Pistole
Bill Wright
Government and Commerce Streets
L. & N. Fruit
Gertrude Johnson Pistole
Wilmer Pistole
Mobile
Oliver Pistole
California
F. Tacon
Henrietta Stole
Auto Stolen From Rear of Blythe Residence
A Whippet sedan was stolen last night from the rear of Mrs. A. B. Blythe's home at 2361 Springhill Avenue. The car was parked behind the garage and the owner notified police this morning.
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A. B. Blythe
Springhill Avenue
Steels Barge Launch Delayed To May For TCI Yard Build
The second of four barges for the Tennessee Coal and Iron Company by the Alabama Drydock and Shipbuilding Co was postponed from this afternoon to May. Construction not fully complete, with final work to be finished by Tuesday.
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Tennessee Coal and Iron Company
Alabama Drydock and Shpibuilding Company
False alarm at Papa Nick Café robs scare ends
Two Mobile police officers investigated a mysterious man at the Papa Nick Cafe on lower Government street at 2 30 am. A caller warned of a cafe robbery and the officers rushed to catch the suspect red handed but found only a man stepping under a unknown circumstance.
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Lower Government Street
Hogan Killing Mystery Deepens in Macon
In Macon Georgia E B Hogan cotton broker was shot dead Wednesday night on the Atlanta Macon highway while with widow Eva Tanner. Sheriff J R Hicks says no arrests and no solid leads as of Saturday. Lino type student Douglas Weaver 22 was released after alibi. Mrs Tanner fled the city and her whereabouts are unknown.
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Macon
E. B. Hogan
J. R. Hicks
Douglas Weaver
Hogan
Atlanta-Macon
Here
Eva Tanner
Two Ships Go On Drydock at Todd's
The Standard Oil tanker Benjamin Brewster was moved to Todd's drydock last night for general overhaul. Dredge Anne C. Tingman also entered the drydock for extensive work to be completed over an unspecified period.
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Standard
Benjamin Brewster
Todd
Anne C. Tingman
Cooler weather expected Sunday in Mobile
The weatherman predicts cooler temperatures for Sunday with likely showers Sunday or Sunday night followed by a sharp temperature drop. Tonight and Sunday will be cloudy according to the forecast.
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Mobile
Chicks to Play Toledo in Rainy Exhibition Day
In Memphis on March 19 the Chicks and Toledo Mud Hens planned an exhibition game after a rain delay. The teams aimed to resume the schedule with a Saturday contest and a likely feature of the day.
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Toledo
Memphis
Tenn
Tony
West Wrapped in Heaviest Snow of Year
Denver reports a major snowstorm hitting Colorado and Wyoming with roads blocked by deep drifts. Mountain towns like Silverton face highway closures and mining areas endure heavy snowfall as cold temperatures push a southwest cold wave inward.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Wyoming
Silverton
San Juan Basin
Casper
Wyo
North Platte
Neb
Middle West
Florida student ends life in Jacksonville home
Florida today reports a 14 year old junior high student Dorry Mae McLeod shot herself with a shotgun at her Jacksonville home. A note read Ive quit worrying. No definite motive could be ascribed.
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Jacksonville
Fila
Florida
Dorry Mae McLeod
St Louis Girl to Marry Abroad
Paris notice announces Miss Iffin Higleman of St Louis and Miami to wed international lawyer Raymond Harper of Paris. Miss Higleman is daughter of Mr and Mrs Locke Higleman and niece of Ju Advocate John Hull. Harper is son of Donald Harper of New York and Paris. The wedding is planned in Paris in May.
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Paris
Iffin Higleman
Raymond Harper
Miss Higleman
Locke Higleman
St. Louis
Miami
John Hull
A. Harper
Donald Harper
New York
Railroad Seeks $30 Million Bond Issue
The Texas and Pacific Railroad asked the Interstate Commerce Commission for authority to issue $30,000,000 in five percent bonds, with $16,000,000 to be sold immediately. Proceeds would cover mature debt and reimburse the railroad treasury for past expenditures.
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Washington
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission Authority
Valuation Placed on Trans-Mississippi Terminal Railway
The Interstate Commerce Commission fixed a tentative valuation of the owned and used property of the Trans-Mississippi Terminal Railway Company in New Orleans as of June 1916 at 5 621 836 dollars. The company carries a contingent liability of 4 450 000 dollars and its book investment is 5 063 440 dollars.
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Washington
Trans-Mississippi Terminal Railway Company
New Orleans
Schuh Stands In Shadow Of Electric Chair Trial
The jury found Schuh guilty of murder in the death of Greer in Oklahoma. Sentencing to imprisonment is set for March 19 as Mrs. Greer faces her own murder trial next Monday.
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Schuh
Ben
Lacneta Vr
Greer
Ee Ac Flaw
Okla
Cate
Ben Ak
Ion Cess Aene
O'Clark Jay
Ielaak
O Nn Johnson
Elec
Eran
Johnston
Anita
Schuht
Iowa
F. Lynch
Lynch
Tellez Kellogg to Confer Today in Washington
In Washington on March 19 Manuel C. Tellez the Mexican ambassador returned from Mexico City where he met President Calles and planned a call on Secretary Kellogg. President Coolidge at the White House noted a temporary pause in confiscation of American property in Mexico. No new developments on Mexican oil and land law disputes were announced.
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Washington
United Tes
Mexico
Manuel C. Tellez
Mexico City
Calles
Kellogg
State Department
Coolidge
White House
Pe Ae
Jugo-Slavia Denies Rumor of Mobilization Frontiers
In London on March 19 the Jugo-Slavian legation rejected a Rome based report that heavy mobilization was underway on the Italian and Albanian frontiers. Albanian circles and Belgrade Paris talks were cited as uncertain in confirming warlike preparations.
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London
iAy
Jugo
Interview With Borodin Denied
Officials refused access to Borodin and to interview others, citing Birong Shanghai coverage. The report notes press restrictions and a denial of questions to pursued officials and associated attendees.
Bank Robbery Ends With Two Clerks Shot in Baltimore
March 19 report says three men attempted a bank robbery at a Baltimore branch. Robert McWweit was shot in the face and Damon Gaskin was slightly wounded during the failed hold up. The bandits fled after failing to obtain cash.
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Baltimore
Eee Bank
Bast Onmmeen
Mivest
Robert McWweit
Damon Gaskin
Booswide. de
Setae Tiet Bank
Orleans Woman Named Welfare Head at National Level
Miss Susan K. Gillan of New Orleans has been named as a at large member of the Lang committee of the National Welfare Foundation Association. She is superintendent at the New Orleans children's bureau within the Louisiana state public charity committee.
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Washington
Susan K. Gillan
New Orleans
Ate
Lang
National W. Foundation Association
Peruvians Oversubscribe Foreign Loan Abroad
Washington March 1 The Peruvian loan of 000 floated simultaneously in New York London Amsterdam and Zurich has been oversubscribed. The Peruvian embassy advised by the Lima government reports strong demand from international buyers in the oversubscribed issue.
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Washington
New York
London
Amsterdam
Zurich
H Times
Lima
Bucknell Debate Team Victorious in Abolish Eighteenth Amendment
Bucknell University debaters, led by a William and team, prevailed on the question That the Eighteenth should be abolished. The victory reflects strong argumentative performance and strong team coordination.
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Bucknell
William and Team
Tallapoosa Woman Dies at Age 112
Tallapoosa Georgia hushed as Mrs. Adeline Backus dies at home at 112. Husband passed away at 88 a year ago. Her oldest daughter, aged 73, died six years ago.
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Tallapoosa
Tallapoosa, Ge
Adeline Backus
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