Rates Rise For Mobile Affects In Interstate Tariffs
Mobile officials announce two rate cases will take effect April 1. Meridian Traffic Bureau won reductions after months of hearings, with Mobile traffic leaders securing many concessions. The Mississippi Valley case raises rates from points north of the Ohio River to Mobile, and the Meridian case lifts rates within 200 miles of Meridian Mississippi with some exceptions.
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Mobile
Interstate Commerce Commission
Traffic Bureau
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Pr Valley
Alabama
Meridian Traffic Bureau
Ohio River
Meridian
R. G. Cobb
Mississippi Valley
Hill River
Miss
Concrete paving advances on Craft highway toward McDonnell land
Rapid progress on the John Craft highway to Chickasaw is aided by favorable weather. The county has secured rights of way on most of the route except for land owned by James and William F. McDonnell of Mobile, where condemnation is sought. The contractor has laid over a mile of concrete with culverts and bridge supports in place while court action proceeds against the McDonnell property.
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John Craft
Chickasaw
Chickasaw Company
James
William F. McDonnell
Mobile
Mobile public utilities face hearings before Alabama commission
Three hearings set for Mobile interests with the Public Service Commission. The Mobile Gas Company case reopens April 17 after city officials won a reevaluation challenge. The Mobile Street Railway seeks higher cash fares from seven to eight cents with hearings in Montgomery next week. The Southern Bell Telephone Company faces an Alabama wide inspection of accounts and 1912 financials to verify charges and credits.
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Alabama Public Service Commission
Mobile Gi Company
Mobile Light and Railway Company
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph
State Commission
Montgomery
Harry T. Hartwell
Frank J. Yerger
Public Service Board
Cry of
Mobile
Hartwell
Yerger
City Commission
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Alabama
Ee Wcre
Telephone Company
Unclear fragments report accident and recovery incident
A damaged text fragment describes a boy in a school setting involved in a risky experiment with a pin. A chase, emergency treatment, and a window incident are referenced but details are unclear and disjointed.
Cleveland Readies for National Coal Strike Action
In Cleveland Ohio leaders race toward a unified front as unions plan nationwide strike action for April 1. Warren B. Stone and John L. Lewis discussed strategy last night but offered no subject details.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Nnion
Warren B. Stone
Te Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
John L. Lewis
Senators and Representatives Plan Muscle Shoals Gorgas Tour
Congressional members from the senate agriculture house military committees prepare for a two site inspection trip to Muscle Shoals Alabama and the Gorgas plants. The delegation includes Reps Hull Kearns James Miller Parker Ware and others with a Birmingham departure tonight and return planned after visits to Muscle Shoals and Gorgas.
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Washington
Aneshers
Senate Agriculture House
Muscle Shoals
Gorgas
Als
Hull
Iowa
Kearns
Ohio
James
Michigan
Miller
Parker
New Jerse
Figener
Birmi
Ideparure
Parris
Shfield
Pine
Muscle
Mareh Si
Flying boat passengers reported dispersed at sea off Bimini
The flying boat departed from Miami bound for Bimini when it vanished in the open sea. Pilot Robert Moore said the craft broke apart and only two women survived after exhaustion. Passengers Dickson of Memphis and Mrs Lawrence Smith and Mrs August Buite, all from the city, were aboard.
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Miami
Bimini
Ken
Robert Moore
August Buite
City
Large Confirmation Classes in Pensacola and Florida Parishes
Rt. Rev. Bishop Edward P. Allen will administer confirmation at 10 a.m. at St. Michael’s Church Pensacola and at 4 p.m. at the Catholic church in Warrington. In April he plans confirmations on Sundays at St. Patrick’s Apalachicola St. Margaret’s inBayou La Batre St. Claver’s and St. Michael’s Mass at 10:30 a.m. with a 4 p.m. service at the Catholic church in another Florida parish.
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Edward P. Allen
Mobile
Fla
St. Margaret's Church
Ayou la Batre
St. Claver’s Church
Ate
St .6 Catholic Church
Clean Up Week Campaign Aims at City Areas
The city launches Clean Up Week with residents urged to clear vacant lots remove trash and tin cans and plant flowers. Yesterday focused on back yard cleanups as volunteers aim to beautify neighborhoods and reduce blight.
Alabama Children’s Aid Society Fund Drive Continues
A $1,500 subscription drive supports the Alabama Children’s Aid Society. The campaign will run for a few days until all names on the list are processed. The society places children from institutions across the state into homes and relies on public generosity.
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Alabama Children’s Aid Society
Peron
Akle
Oer
Ohilians
U S Grain Growers Meeting In Turmoil
Chicago March 25 Amid shouts of the anti administration faction for recognition the first annual convention of the United States Grain Growers Inc was adjourned in a turmoil Friday by President C H Gustafson Prior to adjournment Robert A Cowles Bloomington Ind and Robert Peter on Oswego Ill elected as directors announced their refusal to serve
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Chicago
United States Grain Growers, Inc
Pres. C. H. Gustafson
Robert A. Cowles
Bloomington
Robert Peteron
Oswego
Fil
Fts
Federal Officers Arrest Loxley Wilson For Prohibition Violation
Loxley Wilson of near Satsuma was arrested by federal authorities on a charge of violating federal prohibition law after a seizure of a still yesterday. He posted bond set at 1000 dollars for his appearance at a preliminary trial.
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Loxley Wilson
Satsuma
Weather Forecast for Alabama and Surrounding Regions
Showers and likely thunder storms tonight and Sunday with slightly warmer interior conditions. Fresh to southeasterly winds, shifting directions, and cooler Sunday afternoon in the western areas.
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Washington
Alabama
Lea
Detective Darnell Extradition Fight Over Embezzlement Charge
Sidney H. Darnell aged 37 former Mobile district superintendent for Bodéker Detective Agency is in Cincinnati awaiting extradition to Mobile on an embezzlement charge. The warrant alleges he embezzled funds while acting as a Bodéker agent and he seeks governor’s requisition papers to return. Darnell lived at 50 St Stephens Road and ran an office in Mobile’s City Bank building.
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Sidney H. Darnell
Bodéker Detective Agency
Cincinnati
Mobile
Jeu Tettiba
Police
Bodeker
Darnell
Detective Bureau
Emory V. Warren
Ohio City
City Bank
St. Stephens Road
Urges Quick Completion of Coal Terminal Unloader
Theodore Brent asks rapid testing and deployment of the unloader at Mobile to meet daily barge-line demands. Major North will oversee four test periods within days, then hand over to Warrior River line management. Reloader work and other parts are being rushed to finish the system.
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Theodore Brent
Mississippi Warrior
Major Rl North
U. S
Wil
Major North
Brent
Mobile
H. D. DeBardleben
Warrior River
Missouri Pacific Seeks 18 Million Bond Authority
The Missouri Pacific Railway asks the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to issue 18,096,500 dollars in first and refunding mortgage six percent gold bonds. The plan covers discharge or refunding of 12,641,000 dollars of five percent bonds due January 1, 1923 or reimburse expenditures for property acquisition and construction under current funds.
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Washington
Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Soldier bonus bill cleared for Senate action in finance panel
Washington March 26 The soldier bonus bill sits in the Senate Finance Committee awaiting tariff matters. Chairman McCumber plans to bring it up and report it to the Senate for action before the session closes.
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Senate
Washington
Senate Finance Committee
McCumber
Judge Calls Women the Battling Sex in Jamaica Court
Magistrate Doyle in a Jamaica police court calls women the battling sex while hearing the disorderly conduct case between Mrs Sanders and Mrs Schulz. He suspends sentence and argues the term weaker sex is a misnomer noting most disorderly conduct involves women and suggests women on war fronts if another war occurs.
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New York
Doyle
Jamaica
Nee Sanders
Annie Schulz
Pussyfoot Hears From Home Folks On 60th Birthday
Westerville Ohio March 25 Home town folks honor William E Pussyfoot Johnson on his 60th birthday though he is absent Letters of good wishes arrive from local residents and to Indianapolis where he is delivering two addresses Flowers and a room decoration are prepared in an uptown hotel for his arrival
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Westerville
William E. “Pussyfoot
Johnson
Pada Ph Gi
Indianapolis
Orleans Bank Merger Cleared In New Orleans
Directors of American Bank and Trust and the ne Bank and Trust voted to approve the consolidation. The merged entity will be American Liberty Bank with F Prevost Beckenridge as president and a combined capital of 37,601,090 dollars and deposits of 3,000,000 dollars.
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New Orleans
American Bank and Trust Company
Ne Bank and Trust Company
American Liberty Bank
F. Prevost Beckenridge
No Berman
White Library to Reach New Orleans Next Month
The library of the late Chief Justice Edward D White will be moved to New Orleans next month. The books will be housed in a university building funded by a $1,590,000 campaign collected through popular support.
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New Orleans
Edward D. White
United States
Giag Ying Univer
Ely
Levee Work Expanded South of Cairo as Floods Rise
Levee district engineers say additional men will be assigned tomorrow with mounted guards patrolling every five miles along the river levee. Government engineers join local levee boards, providing transport and supplies. Backwaters flood sawmills and factories in far southern Memphis, prompting suspensions until waters recede. Yazoo and Mississippi Valley tracks near Memphis are submerged, with traffic diverted.
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Cairo
Hoin
St. Francis
Missouri Line
Memphis
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Flood Fighting Force Expanded Near Vicksburg
Mississippi flood operations escalate with increased force in the Vicksburg region. Government assigns boats, tools, sacks and high water equipment to the third Mississippi district to protect levees along the White River, Ark., and a Texas line, with patrols and reserve units stationed at Vicksburg Greenville and Rosedale.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Mississippi Ae
Eee
Tive
Hiver Betereen
White Iver
Ark
Tansas
Greenville
Rosedale
Arkansas River
Red Fork
Leland Dike
Arkansas-Louisiana State Line
Louisiana
Madison
Mississippi
Bolivar
Brunswick
Large Delegation Knights Templar To Visit This City
Over a thousand Knights Templar travelers pass through Mobile en route to the 26th triennial conclave in New Orleans from April 24 to 27. About 60 Mobile members will host the visitors. Notables include Joseph Kyle Orr of Atlanta and L. P. Newby of Indianapolis. The order travels in Pullman cars and plans an elaborate entertainment program in New Orleans.
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Knights Templar
New Orleans
Mobile
H. C. Geron
Louisville & Nashville Road
Mobile Commandery
New, Orleans
Geron
L. P. Newby
Indianapolis
Ind
William l. Sharp
Chicago
Templar
Rangers to Dallas to Fight Night Riders
Dallas reports Texas rangers may be sent to combat night riders after Gov. Neff offered ranger services. Police say organized bands of loggers have whipped 65 people locally with 166 more on the list, and the action would be led by a woman.
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Dallas
Tex
Texas Rangers
Neff
Rangers
Miners Win Backing From Rail Unions In Labor Stand
John L. Lewis secured support from W. B. Stone and planned allies as 20,000 Norfolk & Western shop crafts staged a sympathy strike. Rail unions pledge backing, 60 million tons of coal to be mined and distributed starting April 1, with 60,000 telegraphers ratifying a protective agreement.
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John L. Lewis
United’ Mine ‘Workers
W. 8. Stone
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Lewis
Cleveland
W. L. Lee
Brotherhood of Railroad
Norfolk & Western Railroad
United States
Government to adopt hands off policy during miners walkout
Washington March 26. Government officials say a policy of protection will be in place during the miners walkout across coal fields. Officials indicate no actions will be taken until work is suspended and an ultimatum will be issued at midnight March 31 to federal agents nationwide.
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Paul R. Mallon
United Pe
Washington
Mmarch
Goverment
Fitchburg Textile Employes Vote to Strike Morning Protest
Fitchburg Massachusetts Parkhill Manufacturing workers affiliated with the Amalgamated Textile Workers of America vote unanimously to strike at the mill over a 2 percent wage cut, with 940 of 1,460 employees in the union. The strike follows more than a month of the wage reduction.
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Eae Gpanccy
Fitchburg
Mass
Parkhill Manufacturing Company
Amalgamated
Textile Workers of America
British Engineering Faces Stoppage Over Managerial Control
London March 25 A Associated Press report says immediate government intervention is needed to avert a complete stoppage in the engineering industry affecting about one million workers. Returns from the managerial control agreement vote show a near three to one rejection of the employers terms.
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London
Associated Press
Three Free On $1000 Bond In Barrett Death Case
Miss Owell a school teacher and three men were ordered held without bail following a grand jury action in Birmingham. Barrett's body was found in a creek three weeks after his disappearance and an examination showed he was slain before being thrown into the creek. Witnesses testified Barrett had paid attention to Miss Popwell.
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Birmingham
Owell
Dewell Barrett
Hearty
Jefferson County
Barrett
Creek
Miss. Popwell
London Times Hails U S Ratification Of Four Power Pact
The London Times comments that ratification by the U S senate of the four power treaty is a hopeful achievement. It congratulates President Harding and Secretary Hughes on bold initiative and patient endeavor guiding the pact through. Other papers do not editorialize on the ratification.
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London
Associated Press
United States
London Times
United States Senate
Senate
Pres. Harding
Lee
Hughes
Nine Miners Die In Short Blast At Sopris
In Sopris mine No 2 near Trinidad Colorado a late Friday explosion killed nine miners and left ten missing. Two bodies identified. two others badly burned. Rescue teams entered the mine, the cause is not yet known. The blast occurred just after the day shift left, 3009 feet inside the mine. Officials warned the death toll might rise to thirteen.
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Trinidad
Col
Sopris
Colonnado Fuel and Iron Company
Here
Rabbi Wise Attacks Flappers Parents on Broadway
Rabbi Stephen S Wise condemned jazz dancing as sex gymnastics and called society a competition in semi nudity He dismissed so called problems in productions and said flappers describe young people and their parents as grown up flappers He refused to tar and feather producers citing defiled pitch and morals.
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New York
Stephen S. Wise
League For Political Education
Serpemepiine
Tameu
Rabbi Wise
Moore Alone Survive in Miami Plane Tragedy
A Miami plane wreck left two survivors after the crash 130 miles north of Tampico. The pilot and a male passenger told rescuers the ship encountered a disconnexion interval before the crash. One survivor described a brave struggle as passengers faced exhaustion and fear before the craft went down.
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Moore
Miami
Fla
Grace and Ruth Freed on Bond in Boston Case
Grace and Ruth released under bonds totaling 89 000 in a case tied to a cargo valued at 5 and a schooner linked to Walter D In the bahan bal gs hamian Importers Limited and M J Sullivan of Masa Government officials stated forfeiture would follow if not decreed by courts with bond collection expected.
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Boston
Siarch
Walter D
Hamian
Hamian Importers, Limited, Bwi, and M. J. Sullivan
Masa
League of Nations Council in Paris Meets for Sessions
In Paris on March 25 the Council of the League of Nations convened to discuss league work and whether to send members from technical committees to the economic conference. The gathering weighs supervision of Genoa plan outcomes and notes figures like Herbert L. A. Fish and Leon Bourgeois as strong backers of proposals.
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Paris
Cated Press
Corncil League of Nations
Heavening
Sizer
Herbert L. A. Fishes
Leon Bourgeois
Wen
League
Genoa
Northern Alabama's valuation cited for railroad plant fire report
The interstate commerce commission reported a total valuation of 4,155,000 dollars for the Alabama railroad plant. The study noted 63,289 placed on the plant with the overall valuation concentrated in the railroad territory referenced.
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Alabama
Washington
Alabama Railway
Snowbound in Moroccan City Delays Spanish Troops
Fragments report severe snow in Teu Tan Morocco delaying Spanish forces and interrupting communications. The city is reportedly covered by deep snow layers, hindering movement and operations.
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Teduan
Morocco
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