Traffic law strict enforcement aims at complete stops on thoroughfares
Judge warns violators as new ordinance classifies Dauphin St Francis Government and Conti as thoroughfares requiring full stops before turning or crossing. Police HQ order and Recorder Edington pledge heavy penalties. Several traffic cases result in fines, suspensions, and delays at Recorder's court.
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D. H. Edington
Dauphin
St. Francis
Conti
Roger Lyons
Gathan Scott
Scott
Ww. T. Mathews
F. A. Tremer, Jr
Mobile Register Company
Recorder’s Court
P. B. Stiggins
John McCarron
Fire Crews Respond to Three Alarms in 24 Hours
Fire department answered three calls in the 24 hours ending this morning at 7. A 9:20 p.m. blaze at 65 67 Dauphin Street threatened the Dure Paint Store but was checked. Other fires occurred at 13 Hospital Street and 459 Maryland Street. Chief Gus Rehm announced F N Torp and Jack White to the supernumerary roll. A letter from A H Parsons of Mobile Pulley and Machine Works praised First Assistant Chief Bert Fox and his crew for handling a grass fire behind the plant.
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Dauphin Street
Dure
Hospital Street
Maryland Street
Gus Rehm
F. N. Torp
Jack White
Tug Lytle Master Charged With Shipping Act Violation
Captain C. H. Daughdrill of the Mobile tug Lytle faces a federal warrant for allegedly selling the American schooner Angietena to Cuban registry without United States Shipping Board approval. The arraignment occurred before U.S. Commissioner J. I. Burgett. the transfer allegedly took place in 1920.
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C. H. Daughdrill
Lytle
Mobile
Angietena
United States Shipping Board
Daughdrill
U.S
J. I. Burgett
Shipping Board
Prohibition Era Arrests In Federal Violation Case
Chadwell was arrested yesterday on a federal charge of violating the prohibition law. Frank Howard, identified as a Black man, was arrested today on a charge of conspiring to violate the prohibition law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ea Chadwell
Frank Howard
FUGS CALLED TO FIRE ON FARMER'S ISLAND
Harbor tugs were summoned to Farmer's Island to move idle barges of the Mississippi Warrior Barge Line after a fire broke out in a stack of crossties nearby. The blaze burned for hours with slight damage. Farmer's lies near the new state Saeae site.
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Farmer's Island
Mississippi Warrior
Farmer's
New State Saeae
Weather Outlook for Alabama and Mississippi
Alabama fair tonight and Wednesday with showers in extreme south portions. Mississippi expects fair conditions tonight and Wednesday.
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Alabama
South O
Mississippi
Upward stock boom leads Gulf Mobile North and rivals
In New York May 5 stock prices rose at the open led by rail and oil shares. Gulf Mobile Northern Woolworth and Consolidated Gas hit new high for the year while Maxwell Motor B gained near record levels. Radio Corporation slipped after news of legal action by De Forest Radio Company. Cotton futures opened easy in New York and steady in New Orleans with May and July figures listed.
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New York
Gulf, Mobile & Northern
Woolworth and
Consolidated Gas
Maxwell Motor “B
Radio Corporation
de Forest Radio Company
Alabama Pecan Growers Conclude First Day Convention
About 100 delegates from across Alabama and guests from Mississippi attended the Alabama Pecan Growers Association meeting at the Cawthon Hotel. Programs covered pecan scab control, pests, grafts, cultivation, and marketing with a banquet and motorcade planned for Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama Pecan Growers’ Association
Cawthon Hotel
Mississippi Coast
W. J. Durand
Mobile County Association
Mobile County
Gardiner C. Tucker
Vineyard
Clifton Kirkpatrick
Selma
Ala
L. E. Miles
Auburn
M. B. Waite
United States Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Gulf Coast
A. A. Rich
Foley
Coastal
H. Gibbons
Extension Service
W. A. Ruffin
J. L. Pelham
United Sates Department of Agriculture
Albany
Young Orchard
George W. Peake
Alabama Pecan Company
Eufaula
Agricultural Farms Home Program
L. N. Duncan
Otto Brown
Alabama Department of Agriculture
Montgomery
Morgan Interest in Company Denied
Owen D. Young chairman of General Electric denies in a public letter that GE is controlled by J P Morgan Co or any banking group. He says no one is authorized to ask the federal government to act on GE matters. Untermyer had charged lack of Justice prosecutions against GE in letters dated April 30.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Owen D. Young
General Electric Company
Samuel Untermyer
J. P. Morgan & Co
Pan American Train to be Inspected Here May 8
City Passenger Agent H C Geron of the Louisville and Nashville announces a public inspection of the Pan American train at the L and N station on May 8. The train, running between New Orleans and Cincinnati, has received substantial new equipment and improvements.
Barge Tuscaloosa Sails to New Orleans and Mississippi
The self propelled barge Tuscaloosa will sail today for New Orleans and Mississippi river points after discharging freight here yesterday. The Tuscatones will bring freight and a barge brought here by the towboat on which shipped yesterday.
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Tuscaloosa
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Ford seeks approval to merge three rail lines
Henry Ford applied to the Interstate Commerce Commission for permission to consolidate the Detroit Toledo Ironton Railroad and the Toledo Detroit Railroad with the Detroit Ironton Railroad Co. The plan groups the lines under one corporate management to allow more convenient and economical operation.
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Washington
Henry Ford
Interstate Commerce Commission
Detroit, Toledo & Ironton Railroad
Toledo-Detroit Railroad
Detroit & Ironton Railroad Co
Mexico Refuses to Pawn in State Game
President Calles warned that Mexico will not allow any country with diplomatic ties to use that friendship to push doctrines Mexico does not support. He responded to a Moscow speech by M. Tchitcherin praising Mexico's recognition of the Soviet government. Calles said recognition aimed to aid peoples in choosing their own governments, not to meddle in others' affairs.
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Mexico
Associated Press
Calles
M. Tchitcherin
Moscow
America
Cualles
Pacific Oil Reports 1924 Financials with Record Assets
Pacific Oil reveals 1924 annual totals of 95.39 million dollars in assets. Current assets reach 15.34 million with 10.28 million cash. Current liabilities total 6.11 million. Company notes 5.97 million extra barrels produced in 1924, bringing total output to 15.57 million barrels.
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San Franncisco
Pacific Oil Company
Pound Sterling Hits New High On Exchange Market
London reports the pound sterling rose on renewed demand from the United States and local buyers. It touched 4.851 8 per dollar, its highest level since the war on this side of the Atlantic, aided by Chancellor Churchill's remarks in the house regarding the gold standard bill.
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London
United States
Atlantic
New York
Churchill
House of Commons
Houghton Address Impresses Berlin In Visit
The Houghton pilgrim dinner speech impressed Berlin officials who say the envoy’s remarks targeted France. The Berlin foreign office notes Germany feels threatened by France despite a guarantee pact proposal. Houghton’s allusion to military leaders is not tied to Hindenburg, as an army is essential to any leader.
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Berlin
United States
Ambassado Houghton
Germany
France
Houghton
Hindenburg
Valsalli High School Expels Four Over Rolled Stockings
Four girl students at Valsalli Union High School were expelled by the school board for appearing in class with stockings rolled below the knee. The board stated that stockings rolled below the knee would not be allowed.
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Valesali
Cal
Valsall Union High School
Anti Hindenburg Coup Planned in Hanover
On May 1 the communists urged trade unions and socialists to hold an anti Hindenburg demonstration. They react to a planned bourgeois manifestation for the president elect set for the same day.
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Hanover
W Ers
American to Get Honor at College
Dr. Shatler Mathews dean of the divinity school at the University of Chicago and Provost Bernard of Trinity College Dublin will receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Glasgow University.
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Dublin
Shatler Mathews
Divinity School
University of Chicago
Bernard
Trinity College
Glasgow University
Boundary clash leaves Bulgarian émigré dead
Sofia May 5 dispatches report one Bulgarian émigré killed and another severely wounded in a fight near the Bulgarian Yugoslav border between émigrés and Bulgarian troops.
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Sofia
Bulgaria
Dispatches Today
No Perfect Baby Found at Chicago Health Exposition
More than 19 000 babies entered the national baby congress and health exposition while nearly 2 000 were examined. doctors say no perfect baby has ever been found, with most scores in the 86 to 90 percent range. One child scored 98.5 percent but flat feet and spaced teeth kept the total average down.
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Chicago
Secretary Jardine to ride bronchos at Mandan round-up
Secretary of Agriculture William Jardine will ride bronchos at Mandan North Dakota round-up July 2 to 4. A letter from F M Russell confirms Jardine will attempt many rides and meet requests to ride as many bronchos as possible for the benefit rodeo run by the local agricultural fair association.
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Mandan
N. D
Associated _Press
William “Billy” Jardine
John M. Stephens
United States Northern Great Plains
Bil
John Stephens
Maladin
Idaho
Bill
Montana
Stephens
Jardine
Idaho Agricultural Department
Washington
I. H. Connolly
Agricultural Fair Association
Millions to be Put in Factory Repairs
Bethlehem Steel outlines Cambria plant improvements with an initial 3 million dollars, plus 2.5 million for seventy coke ovens at the Franklin plant and a half million for a paint shop. The Cambria facility runs at about 65 percent capacity, with expectations of improved conditions soon.
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Johnstown
Cambria
Eugene G. Grace
Bethlehem Steel Company
Franklin
Thirty Two Held In Indiana Primary Arrests
Police arrested thirty two men as polls opened in Indianapolis city primary. Eleven baskets of printed Ku Klux Klan slates were seized and a dozen men carried weapons, according to authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis
Ind
False Words Killed Trio New Evidence
Nicholas Lucy Luciano one of the West End bank messengers murder witnesses recants his testimony as absolutely false. He told District Attorney Charles J. Dodd that his statements led to the execution of Morris and Joseph Diamond and John Farina last Thursday. Luciano is jailed on perjury charges after surrendering in Bayonne New Jersey.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Nicholas (Cheeks) Luciano
West End
Charles J. Dodd
Morris
Joseph Diamond
John Farina
Luciano
Bayonne
N. J
Youth Leaders Rise in Congregational Churches
Chicago May 6 Young people are taking on church leadership roles and trustee duties. Dr R W Gammon notes a youth led at Plymouth Church proved more conservative in administration, highlighting growing youth influence at the eighty second annual Illinois Congregational Conference in Chicago.
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Chicago
R. W. Gammon
Illinois Congregational Churches
Congregational Conference of Illinois
William IF. Slade
Manhattan
Kan
Gammon
E. W
Lansing
Mich
Plymouth Church
Board of Trustees
Prudential
Nioe
Plot Thwarted in Sofia Bomb Plot Trial
May 6 report details a trial in Sofia where communists accused of bombing the cathedral faced a murder revelation. Stoltzoff testified of a plan with agent Belacieff to dynamite parliament. Kalechkoff’s alleged murder derailed the scheme against the Zankoff ministry.
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Sofia
Zankoff
Stoltzoff
Belacieff
Kalechkoff
B Stoltzoff
Dirigible Los Angeles Safely Arrives at Mayaguez
The navy airship Los Angeles arrived at Mayaguez Puerto Rico on May 6 after the 1300 mile flight from Lakehurst New Jersey in about 22 hours. Thousands of spectators waited for a view as the giant craft prepared to move to the mastship Patoka and would stay three days before returning to Lakehurst.
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Mayaguez
Porto Rico
Los Angeles
Lakehurst
N. J
Morroccan Battle Floods Bibane Front as French Relieve Posts
Paris reports a new clash in Bibane Morocco as General Colombat seeks to relieve key outposts. Rif forces, pushed back west of the OQuergha river, suffer heavy losses while mounting stubborn resistance.
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Paris
Bibane
Morocco
Colombat
Oquergha
Cotton Mill Sold in Spartanburg at Public Auction
Spartanburg cotton mill valued at 250 000 was sold for 134 000 to Horace L Bomar at public outcry. The sole competing bid came from W B Gray of Woodruff. Bomar represents receivers BR C Fiske and George Norwood. buyers acted for a group of investors.
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Spartanburg
International News Service
Horace L. Bomar
W. 8 S. Gray
Gray Cotton Mills
Woodruff
Bomar
BR. C. Fiske
George Norwood
Greenville
Germany May Seek $375 Million Loan By Year End
A Strasbourg dispatch indicates Germany may seek a new loan of 375 million dollars by year end. It says Germany has nearly exhausted the initial Dawes plan loan and plans to request additional funds from the Allies.
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London
International News Service
Germany
Strasbourg
Knoxville Man Stabbed to Death in Domestic Altercation
Roy Rudd aged 40 was stabbed to death in Knoxville Tenn after an early morning quarrel with wife Jane Rudd 24. Mrs Rudd, widowed Frank Davis 18 and John Robison 50 a Negro were detained for investigation today.
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Knoxville
Tenn
International News Service
Roy Rudd
Jane Rudd
Rudd
Frank Davis
John Robison
Father of Kidnapped Girl Spends Six Days Searching
Walter Chatterton, father of Lucille Chatterton, searched Vermont for six days and nights for his kidnapped daughter, getting only eight hours of sleep during the ordeal.
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Walter Chatterton
Lucille Chatterton
Vermont
Pearl Harbor Defense Plans Highlight Harbor Dredging Needs
War officers and newspapermen tour Pearl Harbor defenses in Honolulu. They urge dredging to deepen the channel to 45 feet to admit the US dreadnoughts, expand anchorage, and improve cruising radii for aircraft to detect and counter enemy fleets. Concerns include alien fishing rights inside Pearl Harbor and potential privatization effects.
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Honolulu
Associated Press
Pearl Harbor
Oahu
United States
Pacific
Naval Ee
Wome
Otere
Haleiaw
Nurmi on Way East After New Laurels
Paavo Nurmi Finland’s wonder runner heads to New York after a Pacific coast stay with Willie Ritola and other stars. Hugo Quist, Nurmi’s manager, cites officials of the Olympic Club and an expense account of 1184 since leaving Chicago, with an advance of 1200 and the balance refunded to Joseph R. Hickey.
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San Francisco
Paavo Nurmi
Finland
New York
Pacific Coast
Willie Ritola
Los Angeles
Nurmi
East Coast
Hugo Quist
Olympic Club
Chicago
Quist
Joseph R. Hickey
Amundsen ready for polar dash from Spitzbergen
Oslo May 5 Rohld Amundsen prepares for his airplane dash to the north pole with planes and crews awaiting favorable weather at Spitzbergen. He is believed to have altered plans to skip Alaska after reaching the pole and return from Spitzbergen.
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Oslo
Norway
United Press
Rohld Amundsen
North Pole
Spitzbergen
Amundsen
Alaska
Spitzenbergen
Daughter of noted pioneer dies in California
Mrs. Sarah Jane Dutton age 84 native of Missouri and daughter of John Hopper who led the Hopper ox train case to California in 1827, dies in Santa Marta California. She leaves 53 grandchildren 43 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. Two brothers and five daughters survive her.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Sarah Jane Dutton
Missouri
John Hopper
California
Santa Marta
Coast Guard arrests shakeup amid rum smuggling probe at Staten Island
In Clifton N Y on May 6 authorities said nineteen Coast Guard members from the Staten Island base were jailed on rum running charges after a broadshakeup aimed at curbing rum traffic. Capt J I Bryan cited confessions from all nineteen and noted hasty recruitment shortcomings as the cause while a federal armada prepared to combat rum smuggling along the Atlantic coast.
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Clifton
N. Y
Staten Island Coast Guard
Coast Guard
Boa
Key
Staten Island
W. V. E. Jacobs
New York
Jacobs
Coast
Andestroyers
Iekowes
Cetlers
Methodist bishops open parley today
Minneapolis May 5. Thirty bishops from the United States and several foreign countries open the spring meeting of the Methodist Episcopal church mission boards. They will discuss assignments for bishops and dates for annual conventions. Debates on rural community moral spiritual conditions are expected. Bishop Charles Ed Locke of St. Paul arranged the gathering. The bishops meet mostly in executive session.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Charles
Ed Locke
St. Paul
Firemen Heroic Rescue in New York West Side Blaze
A two alarm fire trapped fifty women and children in a West Side tenement. Firemen used ladders to reach upper floors after occupants waited nearly an hour for rescue. Fourteen families on the top floors could not reach fire escapes initially.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bean
Woman faces long jail term for acid attack in Hills
Los Angeles May 5 One to fourteen years in San Quentin penitentiary loomed for Mrs Bernice Ludstrom Day after her superior court conviction yesterday of throwing acid into her husband Darby Day Jr during a domestic quarrel in Hills last February. Sentence will be pronounced Thursday. Carlyn Lundstrom her sister, tried with her as an accomplice, was acquitted.
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Los Angeles
San Quentin Penitentiary
Bernice Ludstrom
Darby Day, Jr
1 Hills
Carlyn Lundstrom
Better Mailing Week Proclaimed by Postmaster General
Washington May 6 Postmaster General today designated May 1 to 7 as Better Mailing Week to boost the nation wide campaign aimed at reducing the dead letter office backlog. The effort targets saving government costs and improving mail service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
New Today
Britain Favored by Africa Tariff Move
Capetown dispatch reports Africa plans a most favored nation tariff policy for Britain. The measure requires reciprocal treatment and was announced in the assembly yesterday.
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Britain
Africa
Capetown
South
Great Britain
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