Bandits Bind Mobile Man in Home Robbery
Frank Roche, a Mobilian, was bound to a bed by two masked men at 157 North Lafayette late last night. They rifled the house taking about $5 and two revolvers, then fled. Roche freed himself and notified police. Separate reports: Edna Moore and Highball Produce Co. burglaries with tracks and eggs stolen. suspect activity seen by Herbert Bevins.
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Frank Roche
North
Lafayette Street
Roche
Rothe
Edna Moore
Congress Street
Highball Produce Company
Davis Avenue
Herbert Bevins
Adams Street
Cavaliers Elect Sam Hooks Club President
The Cavalier Club elected Sam Hooks as president and Edwin Stuardi as vice president at its annual meeting held on Wednesday night March 25. Also chosen were Billy O Connor secretary, Rappy Perez treasurer, and Thomas Hicks sergeant at arms.
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Cavalier Club
Sam Hooks
Edwin Stuardi
Billy O’conner
Rappy Perez
Thomas Hicks
America
Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
J. O. Goodman
Frank Kling
Harry Lilly
Roosevelt
J. Will Stafford
Henry Weinacker
Carl King
Cavalier
Edwin Stuards
City Compromise Postures Over County Claim Details
City Commissioner Cecil Bates challenged a county claim of 37.56 due January 15, now resolved Thursday after city comptroller Hugh Zeigler received a county warrant for 40000 with discount. City and county settled 2 for upkeep of an unpaved street and part of hospital costs at 75000. The warrant covers the remaining balance from the compromise.
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Cecil Bates
Hugh Zeigler
Hughes and Miller Held for Grand Jury on Liquor Charge
Cornelius Hughes and Lee Miller were arraigned Thursday morning on liquor charges. Bond set at $500 each as they were held for the grand jury.
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Cornelius Hughes
Lee Miller
Spring Hill
White
Mobile street car routes rearranged with approved plan
The Mobile Light and Railways Company won consent from the Alabama public service commission to reroute downtown lines from Royal to Water on Water Street and from Dauphin to St Francis on St Francis Street. The city commission supported the change to save about 10000 dollars and improve service, despite merchant opposition on lower Dauphin Street. The plan shifts the Water Street loop to run north on Royal then west on St Francis, with paving costs to be borne by the railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Water Street
Public Service Commission
City Board
Okehs
Ingomery
Als
Momery
Ala
Mobile Light and Railways Company
Alabama Public Service Commission
Mostreet
Royal
Water
Dauphin
St. Francis
Mobile Utility Company
Mobile City Commission
Montgomery
Lower Dauphin Street
City Commission
Phin
Will of Dr Wright Filed For Probate In Mobile
The will of Julius Tutwiler Wright educator and school owner was filed for probate on January 23 1925. It names Mrs Sthel Pape as executrix without bond and Mrs Ella Anderson Pape as manager of both the University Military School and the Girls Preparatory School. Wright died last week of pneumonia and left half interests in the Girls Preparatory School to Miss Pape and the other half to his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ella Anderson Pape
University Military School
Ncan Tee School
Julius Tutwiler Wright
Ent
Williams. Pape
David H. Edington
Sthel Pape
Wright
Pape
Mobile
Preparatory School
Murder Trial Opens Over Cedar Street Killing
Roger Combel faces first degree murder charges for the January 10 death of Ed Singleton at Cedar and Montgomery streets. Jurors were drawn but many salesmen were disqualified for opposing capital punishment as Solicitor Barty Chamberlain signals a death penalty case. The trial, before Judge Claude A Grayson, is expected to reach the jury in the afternoon after the state rested.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roger Combel
Claude A. Grayson
Combel
Ed Singleton
Cedar
Montgomery
Robert Mobley
Olin Rayburn
Edward G. Corry
James A. Fryer
Edward McGlinn
Herbert P. Lee
James E. Carter
Raymond A. Ballweg
H. Bruner Mizelle
Clarence Cate
Travis BR. Dungan
Thadius F. Archer
Jim Dickson
Charles Reed
Barty B. Chamberlain
Shirt and pistol ordered turned over in murder case
Acting on a request by Laurence Southall brother of L C Southall recently convicted of the murder of John Rip O Rorke Judge Claude A Grayson issued an order turning over to the former a shirt of Lee Southall and the pistol which the state charged was used to shoot O Rorke to death The plea was granted after the state raised no objection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurence Southall
L. Cecil Southall
John
Rip) O’rorke
Claude A. Grayson
Circuit Court
Lee Southall
O’rorke
Grayson
South iced for stealing of auto here
Frank Howe aged 19 was arrested at Bayou la Batre by County Traffic Officer Ollie Lartigue and Deputy Sheriff Ressijac on a grand larceny charge. The coupe owned by H. D. Lessene of 63 Bienville avenue was taken from its downtown parking near Government and Joachim streets last night while the owner attended a theatre. Police and officers recovered the car and Howe’s bond of $500 remains unmet.
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Frank Howe
Bayou la Batre
Ollie Lartigue
Ressijac
H. D. Lessene
Bienville Avenue
Lessene
Joachim Street
Citation Served in Parole Revocation Hearing
A citation was served Thursday by Edgar Murphy to Mobile youth cited for parole violation. The youth, once sentenced to two years at the National Training School in Washington for motor vehicle theft, faces a hearing set for April 2 after alleged involvement with three other Mobile boys in a car and overcoat theft at the Country Club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edgar Murphy
National Training School
Washington
Murphy
Country Club
Four Men Fined in Prohibition Conspiracy Case
Louie George Robert George Earl Miller and Lamar Smith of Chunchula were fined for conspiring to violate the prohibition law. Louie George paid 200 dollars while Robert George and Lamar Smith were fined 50 dollars each Earl Miller was discharged in this case after a large quantity of liquor was found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louie George
Robert George
Earl Miller
Lamar Smith
Chunchula
Anthony
Lawmakers to View Mobile Docks on Coast Guard Cutter
Twelve legislators from the seaport committees will tour Mobile harbor aboard the coast guard cutter Gresham. The party, including floor leaders and speakers, will inspect the state docks and terminals at General Electric and meet with officials, with industrialists from the dam district also joining.
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Senate
House
Dam
Mobile
Birmingham
St. Francis Street
Coast Guard
Gresh
Birmingham Train Robber Burnap Arrives in City Jail
Arthur Burnap 26 arrived from Chicago in custody of Jefferson County sheriff to answer a $5,500 express messenger robbery on a Louisville and Nashville train near Birmingham March 14. He implicates three others under arrest as Brock L Williams and R J Brown deny framing charges.
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Birmingham
Ala
Arthur Burnap
Chicago
Jefferson County
Louisville
R. J. Brown
Boyles
Hiram F. Williams
Brock
Burnap
Couple Found Dead in Memphis Gas Fumes Victimises Willis
Neighbors alerted police when J. T. Willis a sewing machine agent did not open his shop. Police found Willis and his wife dead in their sleeping apartment with a gas stove jet burning. Both wore night clothes. Willis lay on the floor with a pillow beneath his head while Mrs. Willis lay across the bed.
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Memphis
Tenn
J. T. Willis
Willis
Mrs. Willis
Don't Pay Your Light Bill Until Itemized
A Chicago murder trial feature outlines how witnesses identified suspects in the June assassination of Al “Jake” Lin Brothers. Patrick Campbell, a truck driver, says he chased a man and points to the defendant as the fugitive seen near the scene. Defense questions Foster identification as part of the case.
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Associated Press
Criminal Courts Building
Chicago
Jake
Lin- Tribune
Brothers
Patrick Campbell
Randolph Street
Foster
Frank Foster
Otto Swoboda
Pedestraan
Cross Nation
Lingle
Notion on Itemized Bills From Power Company
Citizens in Mobile urged to refuse unitemized bills from the power company until charges are clearly itemized. The notices accuse the company of hiding rates up to 30 cents per kilowatt hour and encouraging codes on the back of bills, calling for transparency and fairness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tecma Mobile
Pomuranniie Y
Amendment would make Green eligible for commissioner post
A bill filed in circuit court Thursday seeks to amend the record to allow J Leslie Green to serve on the board of revenue. Green began duties in January and his lawyers Gordon Edington and Leigh argue eligibility would be granted none the less Estes D Baker, a former commissioner, questions Green's right to serve due to a prohibition law conviction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Leslie Green
Board of Revenue
Circuit Court
Gordon, Edington and
Leigh
Green
Estes D. Baker
El Captain Aground Off San Antonio Point Reaches Salvage
The lumber schooner El Captain sent an SOS claiming to be aground off San Antonio Point 320 miles south of Los Angeles. Later reports say it moved on a clay bottom and is not in immediate danger as Buchanan stands by in San Diego and salvage tug Peacock from Los Angeles prepares to arrive.
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Los Angeles
el Captain
San Antonio Point
Here
MacKay
Buchanan
San Diego
Peacock
Los Angeles Harbor
Mobile Legal Fight Over Rum Ship Deauville
Federal court in Mobile hears a case over possession of the British schooner Deauville and its $15,000 liquor cargo. The government seeks confiscation for customs violations while the crew was released weeks after capture and tow to Mobile. The ship remains tied at the state docks and the cargo stored.
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Coast Guard
Mobile
Schoner
Theachooner
Florida
Four men charged with murder in Keith case in Birmingham
Warrants sworn for Odis Stephens Atlanta Dave Brodie Tom Renfroe and John Pollis charging murder in the death of Dennis C. Keith 20 who fell from a sixth floor hotel room during a dice game in Birmingham Alabama Investigating detective W B Patterson said Keith fell while dodging a rush from two men Stephens admitted prior prison terms for narcotics and whiskey offenses and to being a fugitive from Atlanta.
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Associated Press
Birming
Ale
Dennis C. Keith
W. B. Patterson
Keith
Odis Stephens
Atlanta
Dave Brodie
Tom Renfroe
John Pollis
Stephens
White Bound Over in burglary case at Carre Bottling Co
Claude White was arraigned in police court and held to the grand jury under bond of 500 dollars. Police accuse him of burglarizing the EB Carre Bottling Company at 5 North F Street.
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Claude White
Grand Jury
EB. Carre Bettling Company
North F Street
Forty Three Injured In Charlotte Tram Wreck
A Southern Railway engine plowed into a streetcar at Trade street near the Southern station injuring forty three people. Most victims were negro domestics en route to work from Biddleville. An ambulance rush blocked the area while investigators probed cause and gate actions at the crossing.
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Associated Press
Charlotte
N. C
Southern Railway
Trade Street
Biddleville
Jack Kimball
Kimball
Boyce W. Hunter
W. C. Hudson
South the Gates
John Faulkner
Guy Smith
Slayer of 12th in Missouri arrested near Milan
Notorious killer James Burke, linked to the St Valentine’s Day Massacre and facing 12 murder charges, was captured at a farm near Milan Missouri and brought to St Joseph. Rewards totaling 90000 were posted for his apprehension and he admitted his identity.
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Associated Press
ST. Joseph
H. Burke
Cago
Milan
Burke
Kansas City
Proctor
State
United Statesment of Justice
L Joseph
Sisher
Man Bound Over For Forged Check at Woolen Mills
B. f Houston Texas was held to the grand jury by Recorder D Hy ton on a charge of forging a check for 20 dollars. The accused allegedly forged the name of T. H. Wakeford a YMCA official and passed the check on Woolen Mills for a suit of clothes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
D. Hyton
T. H. Wakeford
Roose
Don Woolen Mills
Weather Outlook Local and Regional Storm Threats
Increasing clouds then thunderstorms expected Thursday night into Friday. Warmer temperatures followed by more storms. Alabama potential for thunderstorms and cooler air Friday, with a cold wave in the north. Mississippi shows storms tapering in the southeast with a cold spell Friday night, temperatures dipping below freezing in the north.
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Alabama
Mississippi
River Forecast for Montgomery and Selma Areas
Weather bulletin indicates potential river level changes near Montgomery and Selma with forecasted impacts likely by Friday. Communication notes irregularities in the signal but urges readiness for possible local flooding or high water conditions.
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Cavaliers Elect
Ayge
Cedar Point Road
U. S
Gresham
Magic City Prison
Foster Club
Albi
Campbell
Michigan Avenue
Randolph
Alabama Power Company
Mobile Division
Missouri
Hoover
Mercer Courtty
Aberdeen
Columbus
Tuscaloosa
Selma
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