Pacific coast freight rates lifted by ICC to Mobile
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered suspension of reduced Pacific coast freight rates from interior points to Mobile and New Orleans for transfer to coast steamers. Rates to apply from April 1, boosting gulf ports share of Chicago and Ohio river traffic, amid opposition by eastern rails. The ruling aims to parity Chicago and related points with eastern cities in Pacific coast commerce.
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Mobile
New Orleans
Interstate Commerce Commission
Associated Press
News-Hem
Gulf Ports
Chicago
Ohio River
Atlantic
Washington
R. G. Cobb
Mobile Chamber of Comeé
Mississippi
Mississippi Valley
Central Railroads
Extensive flood damage hits county highways and farms
Heavy rains caused widespread destruction across the county with repairs projected at ten thousand dollars. The Pascagoula-Mobile road known as Three Notch Road was washed out, cutting through traffic for a week or more and delaying Carriers and markets. Farm fields and truck gardens suffered thousands in losses as fills and clay gravel roads washed away. bridges and city streets also faced dangerous washouts requiring weeks of work to restore.
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Pascagoula-Mobile
Three Notch
T. B. Altman
Board of Road Commissioners
Mobile
Grand Bay Union Church
J.S. Douglas
Douglas
Grand Bay- St. Elmo
Pascagoula
Oakdale
Davis Avenue
Mes Iq
Warrior river barge line at risk over funding delay
Preparations at Mobile and the Chamber of Commerce discuss action on the Warrior river barge line as weeks of debate over rates and appropriations continue. Secretary Weeks cites congress budget limits while shippers blame unpublished rates for lack of profit and threat to operations.
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Behal
Mobile
Weeks
War Department
Associated Press
Warrior River
Congress
Chamber of Commerce
Warrior Branch
Mississippi Warrior
Secretary of War
Mocreer Weeks
Walter Parker
New Orleans Association of Commerce
Erie
M River
Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
Violet
Mississippi River
Lake Borgne Canal
Prohibition Efforts Target Bootlegger Routes
March 29 report cites Col Nutt organizing aides to close bootlegging lanes from a Ward liner operanza off Profida coast. He aims to negotiate with British allies to halt smugglers supplying liquor to the United States and dry up the booze reservoir.
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Col. Nutt
Operanza
Gente
Nastae i
United States
Profida
Tariff bill nears passage as Watson defends wage standard
Indiana Republican Sen Watson leads debate on a tariff measure to protect American wages and farm products while shielding industry from dumping. Fordney Smoot fight looms over the hides schedule raising shoe costs 30 to 60 cents, with concessions to shield farm products and avoid depressions in currency regions.
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Theate Finance Committee
Uni
Sen. Watson
Indiana
Watson
Oemus Watson
Goreny
County Forces Busy on Bridge Repair after Heavy Rain
Every available man in the county road department is repairing bridges on roads leading out of Mobile damaged by Tuesday's heavy rain. Crews are strengthening major bridges weakened by excess water as the engineer asks the board of revenue to approve extra men. Gravel roads mostly fared better than expected. sand roads and sand hills were washed.
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County Road Department
Mobile
Board of Revenue
Georgia Prison Farm Superintendent Dies
The superintendent of a Georgia prison farm died in the state March 29. He previously served as a district attorney and an official with the state commission. He is survived by a widow and a daughter, Martha Brown, of Montgomery, Alabama.
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Georgia Prison Farm
Xseran Ga
Nied
MD. A
Martha Brown
Montgomery
Ala
Mt Aetna Erupts Forces Inhabitants to Flee
London dispatch reports Mt Aetna in violent eruption with lava streams pouring from the crater. Inhabitants of nearby villages have fled their homes as several earthquakes shake the Palerm o and Messina provinces in recent days.
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MT. Aetna
London
Mt. Agtna
Rome
Eee Ar
Palmero
Crater
Vilon
Palmera
Messina
Southern Railway Officials Meet in Chattanooga Conference
In Chattanooga Tennessee on March 29 L Green vice president in charge of general traffic and FE Shaw freight traffic manager arrive with 150 traffic officials for a general conference on Conditions. The meeting runs through today and tomorrow with Fairfax Harrison president expected tomorrow.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
L. Green
Southern Railway
Fairfax Harrison
Weather Summary for Alabama and Mississippi Tonight
Alabama and Mississippi will experience showers and likely thunderstorms tonight with only small temperature changes. The forecast notes unsettled conditions across the region.
Mobile Pig Iron Rate Case Revived On Public Service docket
The Alabama Public Service Commission revives the Mobile pig iron rate case with a hearing set for next Monday. Mobile Chamber of Commerce traffic bureau and Mobile Pulley and Machine Works accuse L and N Southern and Mobile and Ohio railroads of unjust pig iron rate in carload lots from north Alabama to Mobile. The commission also cites the M O and Gulf Mobile and Northern to justify better accommodations at Government Street station, with a Tuesday session. Other cases involving Mobile and south Alabama set for Monday include rate challenges on wood shipments to Montgomery Tuscaloosa and Maplesville and fertilizer rate relief requests from Birmingham group points to Mobile.
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Mobile
Alabama Public Service Commission
Montgomery
Traffic Bureau
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Mobile Pulley and Machine Works
Commission
L. & N., Southern and
Mobile & Ohio
Alabama
Wrshedsparet
Egy
Gulf, Mobile and Northern
Government Street
South Alabama
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Tuscaloosa
Maplesville
Southern Railway
Birmingham
Gulf States Fair Board Launches Capital Drive
Fifteen directors of the Gulf States Agricultural and Livestock Fair Association begin a drive to raise 10000 in paid in capital. The association plans 29000 authorized capital with 16000 already paid in and four teams with members listed conduct daily calls and distribute prospect cards.
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The
Gulf States Agricultural and Livestock Fair Association
Businessmen of
Mobile
E. M. Bailey
R. J. Kearns
Jack Dair
Germans Held by Immigration Men
Wilhelm Bhardt a German arrived on the steamer Helena at port today and is being held by immigration officials He went on board at Tampico according to the report.
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Wilhelm Bhardt
Helena
Tampico
Road Plans To Hold Attention Of Board
Road matters will be taken up by the board of revenue at its first April meeting. A committee to purchase 14 mules for the road department will report back. Ten mules for general road work and four for the county gravel pit. An verbal agreement with the engineer risks his job if the gravel pit remains unopened. Equipment includes four mules three dump carts and a switch agreement with the Southern railroad at Glendon. Whether the board will uphold the engineer's pledge on failure is under discussion.
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Board of Revenue
Road Department
Boards of Revenue
Southern Railroad
Southern
Glendon
Stolen Goods Recovered in Chickasaw Burglary Case
Detectives Bernstein and Milla recovered a large haul of stolen items including groceries meat cigars soap shoes ladies wear silk shirts and tobacco from Chickasaw last night. The property valued near 500 was taken from F Woods grocery on Telegraph road about ten days earlier. Suspects Lucky Goodson George Broadnax and John Pierce face burglary warrants.
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Chickasaw
Bernstein and
Milla and Ie
F. Woods
Telegraph Road
Lucky Goodson
George Broadnax
John Pierce
Textile mill tie up spreading further in Rhode Island
The Rhode Island textile strike widens as 22 mills close including the Andrews mill at North Smithfield reacting to a 16 percent wage cut. The North Smithfield plant, a Philadelphia based Andrews company branch, is the first woolen and worsted mill hit. about 100 workers are normally employed.
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Providence
Rhode Island
Andrews
North Smithfield
Andrews Company
Philadelphia
House Passes $288 Million Army Measure
Washington March 29 The House without roll call approved the army appropriation bill totaling about 288 million dollars for the coming fiscal year to cover military and non military costs of the War Department. The Senate will be sent a version reducing the regular army to 115 000 by July 1 with 7 000 Philippine scouts and 11 000 officers. China troops and some Hawaii Panama Canal Rhine forces to be kept abroad. The bill adds 15 million and continues a wartime financial policy. This is the tenth annual supplemental measure. Navy and Justice State bills await action.
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Washington
House
War Department
Senate
China
Hawaii
Panama Canal Zone
Rhine
United States
Navy
Department of Justice
State Department
Bankers to Meet With School Board on Finances
Bankers of Mobile will meet with the school board this afternoon to discuss a plan to issue warrants against future income to meet present building needs. The board faces several hundred thousand dollars in construction and enlargement work and plans a $200,000 building program after vacation. The discussion will cover discount rates and technical matters of the warrant plan used to finance road work.
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Bankers of
Mobile
Legion Post Get-Together Tonight With Varied Program
The Lamer L. McLeod post American Legion plans a Thursday night supper at 8 o clock. Program features include talks by C M A Rogers and Gordon Smith, violin and vocal performances, dances, tropical songs, comedy, and the Star Spangled Banner by Mrs Henry Wright. Reservations with Edwin A Zelniker at 1048 Francis Street are requested in advance.
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Lamer L. McLeod Post
American Legion
J.P. Alvaro
C M. A. Rogers
Jossepaul Savage
William McLeod
Vautrot Sisters
Gordon Smith
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Adelaide Johnson
Carl Kiinge
McAfee Brothers
Henry Wright
Edwin A. Zelnicker
Francis Street
Mobile-Houston Barge Line To Open Soon
Mobile reports indicate a new barge line will connect Mobile and Houston via Galveston. Gulf States Steam Ship Company will operate the service, start in April, with offices in Mobile. outbound freight includes coal and iron from Birmingham, return trips carry Houston district goods.
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Mobile
Houston
Galveston
Texas
Gulf States Steamship Company
Warrior
Birmingham
Rosa Blazek Chooses to Die With Siamese Twin
Rosa Blazek of Chicago decided to die with her dying Siamese twin sister Josefa. She rejected doctors advice to separate them and refused X rays to assess surgery. She said she would not live without Josefa even if it meant death, after wavering over life for her 12 year old son Frantz.
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Chicago
Rosa Blazek
Josefa
Rosa
Frantz
Clue to Kidnapped Child Discovered in New Jersey
Woodbury NJ March 29 information received by the police may lead to the recovery of Ida Kramer seven who was believed kidnapped from her home last Saturday Sheriff Clark Gloucester county said the information came soon after the arrest of Esther Yannenbaum of Camden charged with abduction Yannenbaum held on ten thousand bail for further hearing The sheriff said two men with a frightened exhausted child were driven by car to a house in South Camden
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Woodbury
N. J
Ida Kramer
Clark
Gloucester County
Esther Yannenbaum
Camden
Foreigners Request to Buy Mexican Property Surges
More than 200 foreigners including 180 Americans have applied for permission to purchase Mexican properties under foreign office rules. The directive aims to cut red tape by requiring applications to be submitted directly to the foreign office.
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Mexico
CIPY
Foreign Office
Recognition for Mexico Progresses
Washington march 29 progress is being made toward recognition of the Obregon government of Mexico officials said at the state department today but it is still impossible to forecast when recognition will be extended. A high state department official described differences regarding fundamental principles between this government and the Mexican government as the hold up.
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Washington
Obregon
Mexico
State Department
High Estate Department
Miracle Only Can Avert Pit Strike Declared
NEW YORK March 29 The United Mine Workers warn only a miracle can avert a general strike set for three days hence as the miners press a 19 point demand. Dr Warriver of Lehigh Coal says suspension likely April. Union chiefs and operators converge on events shaping wage talks in Pennsylvania mines.
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New York
Associated Press
Anthracite Sub-Committee
Thomas Kennedy
United Mine Workers
Said & Dr. Warriver
Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company
Pennsylvania
Sailor Seeks Bride For 66000 Inheritance Race
Pensacola sailor F N Red Berrigan on leave at the naval air station received two telegrams promising 66000 to the man who marries by 4 oclock today after the death of an uncle in Providence R I. He has no girl and friends aid the hunt as the story grows sensational. A second telegram arrived from lawyers handling the estate.
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Pensacola
F. N
Basilica at Quebec Burned Relics Saved
Fire destroyed the basilica of Ste Anne de Beaupre in Quebec as flames spread from the sacristy to the monastery of Redemptorist fathers. The statue of Ste Anne and historic relics were saved by heroic Brothers. property damage set at 1,200,000 dollars.
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Quebec
Ste. Anne de Beaupre
Ste. Anne
Redemptorist Fathers
North America
Flood Crest Expected Between Cairo and Memphis
Weather bureau officials predict the crest of the river flood will pass between Cairo and Memphis Friday. Reports indicate a gradual rise and a possible point of temporary crest with no break in levees noted by engineers.
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Memphis
Penn
Mai
Helena
Cairo
Weather Bureau
United
Hi Ark
Uncertain River Flood Preparations Near Vicksburg
Industrial and river traffic details indicate preparations for rising waters at Vicksburg Mississippi with references to the Royal Route steamer Uncle Oliver, Yazoo and Mississippi railroad yards, and protective pumps. Read as ongoing coverage of flood risk and infrastructure responses along the river.
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Royal Route Company
Levee
Polimyre Island
Vicksburg
Australia Island
Uncle Oliver
Greenville
Yazoo
Missilie
Lee Quanter
Reforestation Session At Southern Pine Association Meet
New Orleans hosts the Southern Pine association convention with focus on reforestation of pine lands. Charles of the Southern Sales corporation cites a $12 billion lumber industry employing millions, moving vast freight and paying substantial freight bills while speakers from Yale and others discuss forestry interests and practice.
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New Orleans
Southern Pine Association
Charles
Southern Sales Corporation of
New
Birz
Prof. J. Mey
Yale University
BR. D. Esa Orleans
Villa Going Into Packing Business
Francisco Villa, famed Mexican revolutionary, plans a packing plant at Joar ing with equipment and workers to support a growing ranching operation. The information comes from the commerce department noting Villa’s initiative after his return to Mexico.
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Washington
Marek
Francisco Villa
Mexico
Merce
Joaring
Cotton Price Program Ordered by Senate Action
Washington March 29 federal investigation into the drop in cotton prices leads to a Senate ordered study. The inquiry focuses on market operations and potential factors affecting the cotton trade in the South Carolina region and across the national exchange.
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Washington
South
Carolina
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Pascagoula Road
Sec
Sen. Smoot
Stock Fair Association
Mobile - Houston
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Kennedy
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Busine
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