26 Mar 1921
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Newspaper
The Mobile News Item
Location
Mobile, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1921
Page
1
Five armed men in an automobile held up Italian store keeper John Taranto in New Orleans this morning and fled with 5300. Taranto had money to cash laborers checks near his store.
Deputies searched the rural western county for a Black man described as a tramp who attacked Mrs. Bessie Neese with a soda bottle after she returned from Spring Hill with provisions. She was found unconscious beside the G M and N railroad tracks and taken to Mobile’s City Hospital in critical condition. The motive was believed to be robbery.
I M Vincent of the U S immigration office reports inspection of the Mennonite settlement at Yellow Pine Alabama. About 50 people are clearing land to farm cattle poultry fruit and vegetables with more families expected to move from Canada. Potential arrival reaches about 2000 people across south Alabama in three years.
James Glass surrendered at the county jail today on a warrant sworn in the inferior criminal court charging assault with a pistol. Frank Harvey, a blacksmith at Lawrence and St Michael streets, says Glass fired a pistol shot at him last Friday morning after a fight with Glass and unknown others.
Mobile scouts from several troops left the city for a hike to Dog River. They will cook lunch outdoors and complete scouting tests. An tone Neilse of Troop 5 and M. M. Chisholm of Troop 2 led the party. They are expected to return late this afternoon.
The Weather Washington reports unsettled conditions for Alabama and Mississippi with probable showers and thunderstorms tonight and Sunday. Warmth continues tonight, followed by cooler Sunday afternoon and night with strong conditions expected.
A Washington Weather Bureau small craft warning says Mobile and the Mississippi coast will face fresh strong southerly winds and squalls this weekend. The forecast notes winds will rise tonight and Sunday with a warm Sunday morning and likely no winds later in the day.
Several hundred Easter postcards containing tinsel decorations are withheld at the Mobile post office under rules banning this mail. Unenclosed tinsel cards will be held. senders may reclaim them for remailing in a different form. Regulation aims to protect clerks from cuts and possible infection.
Recorder D H Edington said attachments would issue for police officers to appear in court after W D Kemp failed to appear in the J E B Pippins reckless driving case. Edington noted this was the officer’s fourth absence and set the matter for next Tuesday. Chief P J O Shaughnessy said Kemp was absent due to illness and witnesses placed him on the streets.
Thomas Crivalleri and Robert Medicus appeared before the recorder on charges of dis orderly conduct and discharging firearms within city limits. The chief asked for bonds raised from 100 to 250 dollars each after stating arrests for discharging firearms from taxicabs early Friday. Hearing set for next Wednesday.
R. M. Weinacker of Weinacker Bros. a grocery operator at Government and Catherine streets is charged in a new warrant with employing a child under the legal age while schools were in session. Ester Lee Rider and May McCord of the state child welfare department are complainants. This marks the third arrest in the alleged offense following H. L. Plane a druggist and a later proprietor.
Thomas J. Boltz a special shipyard officer fired at a burglar after waking to a noise at his front door. He fired three shots as the man fled. Police Officer Dean also fired but the burglar escaped. Early this morning officers searched 105 Monroe street yard but found no one.
Three men tied to the January Union station million dollar robbery are jailed in Chicago as postal inspectors recover 34000 in stolen bonds. A secret hearing before US Commissioner vis Mason identified suspects William F. Krietzer Isadore Goldberg and C A Jetree. Krietzer said he found the bonds and passed them to Goldberg who handed them to Jetree to sell. Their attempt to sell to a local bond house led to arrests.
Paris officials say no inquiry has been received in the United States regarding charges in the French parliament about debts owed by the United States. They dismiss the matter as political claptrap for home consumption.
Anniston March 26 The annual state convention of the Woodmen of the World will meet here next Tuesday. The three day meeting will draw 8000 to 10000 visiting Woodmen. State officers will be elected and other business of importance transacted. The organization will also choose a meeting place for 1922.
Dublin reports 475 people killed and 252 wounded since January in clashes across Ireland. Civilians total 301 dead and 470 wounded, with the remainder being crown forces.
Lieutenant W D Coney, transcontinental flyer, fractured back and paralyzed from the chest down after his plane crashed near Crowville Louisiana during a record attempt from Jacksonville Florida to San Diego California. In Natchez hospital he remained in very serious condition with about one chance in ten of recovery as doctors reported fractures to the third fourth and lumbar vertebrae and a temperature of 103. His mother hurried from Jacksonville to join him and doctors issued later bulletins noting his condition roughly unchanged.
Washington reports former president Wilson is improving after an indigestion attack yesterday. Doctors Grayson and Ruffin estimate no permanent illness and will closely monitor his condition. He moved about yesterday but will be kept quiet for several days.
Chief Justice John C. Anderson of the Alabama supreme court refused a venue change in the Baird case. Defense attorneys blocked moving trials of Rob ert Lancaster and Roy Patton, Alabama guardsmen charged with killing William Baird near Jasper in Walker county. A mistrial was declared in Lancaster’s January 31 trial. other guardsmen were indicted alongside Lancaster and Patton.
The Lloyd Brazileiro steamer Uberaba ran on rocks 60 miles off Maranhao state. All passengers and crew were rescued by the British steamer Austin. The New York to Rio Janeiro voyage vessel and its cargo are reported lost.
Atlanta Georgia March 26 Governor Dorsey offered rewards totaling 500 for arrest and conviction of persons alleged to have attempted to wreck two Atlanta Birmingham and Atlantic Railway trains this week. One 250 reward was offered for a Glynn county incident and another for a Coffee county incident.
John W. Biesch 19 of Cleveland Colorado, discharged from the navy at San Francisco last month, was shot through both legs at midnight while approaching a soft drink stand on the Arkansas side of the Harahan bridge in Memphis. He did not know who fired and his calls for help went unanswered.
Dispatches report continued communist agitation in Munich with police breaking up a procession displaying red flags. Another message notes rioters looted a cash box from Breslau railway station.
MERSEBERG Germany March 26 United Press reports communists seize Bitterfeld and occupy factories in Saxony. A red army detachment guards hot spots near the city while other units hold approaches. Klarfeld voters strike planned. Halle remains quiet amid the upheaval.
Berlin police uncovered evidence of a plot to dynamite public buildings, newspaper plants and monuments as part of a communist uprisings plan. Authorities warned the public while thousands of unemployed men attempted to seize factories but were dispersed.
Washington reports bad news for those needing beer or wine as a new internal revenue commissioner faces delays. Secretary Mellon postpones a recommendation delaying dry law enforcement reforms. A large field of candidates complicates the appointment, and approval awaits the new official’s oath.
In Winchester Virginia on March 26 the 500 acre Audry estate near Berryville once home to Nellie Park Custis niece of George Washington was sold by Archibald Cumming to Bernard B. Jones of Washington. The buyer plans to use the farm for breeding race horses and the land reportedly sold for 250 dollars per acre.
Dr Joseph Peterson of Peabody College Nashville Tenn was elected president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology at the first day’s session. M T McClure of Tulane University was chosen vice president Dr S C Garrison of Nashville secretary and treasurer A Edwards of the University of Georgia and J F Dashiel of the University of North Carolina were named council members.
Louisville March 26 Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb known as Irvin Cobb humorist and lecturer who served as a colonel on Governor A Stanley staff has been renominated for a commission at his former rank. Governor Edwin P Morrow says Cobb will be called back into service when he arrives April 3 and will be commissioned.
In Oglethorpe Georgia authorities probe an A B and A locomotive wreck that toppled into the Central of Georgia freight, smashing the ticket office. The agent escaped with minor injuries while a fireman says he saw a man leap from the cab.
The man identified as Ambry Garrett, accused of killing Sai Bee Bourgeois 76 and Lacey Murphree 15 near Henry Bilen, near Birmingham, was captured in Chattanooga after riding a freight train from Argo. A Masonic ring and a watch from the elder victim were found with him.
Bishop John Kilgore of the Methodist Episcopal church and former president of Thirty College in Durham with ties to Southern Railway entered Dr Howard A Kellys sanatorium in Baltimore for treatment of an unspecified ailment He previously lived in Charlotte North Carolina and was a longtime hospital figure in Baltimore.
Myron T. Herrick of Ohio, previously discussed as a possible France ambassador, is expected to meet with President Harding soon to discuss the appointment, according to White House reports.
Rescue efforts persist near Pensacola after a balloon and its crew vanish in offshore winds. Private aircraft, powerboats, and dirigibles joined the hunt with multiple planes, eagle boats, and a submarine aiding. Messages and carrier pigeons provided scattered updates, but authorities could not confirm reports from Panama City or Phillips.
Seattle March 26 Liam Phillips a Port Charad rancher was found guilty in federal court of possessing two charcoal with intent to manufacture liquor. He was fined 500 dollars after a jury deliberated 23 hours. The jury acquitted him on other liquor charges.
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