Two Fires Probed as Suspected Arson In Mobile
Mobile authorities seek state fire marshal help to investigate two blazes on April 30 and early Sunday. A new one story house on St Stephens road Toulminville showed straw and kerosene in a locker and signs of arson. Alexs cafe at Texas street burned with a $5 000 loss and burglary prior to the fire.
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Mobile Fire Department
Gus Rehm
Mobile Building and Loan Association
St. Stephens Road
Toulminville
Montgomery
Rehm
Manuel Tapia
Tapia
Alex
Texas Street
Strucks
Firm Is Bankrupt H M Price Hardware Co Files For Relief
The H M Price Hardware Company of Mobile has voluntarily entered bankruptcy under president R J Milling. A receiver W C Austin was named, with a large unsecured debt to Merchants National Bank of about 17 250. Liabilities total around 19 876 while assets total about 20 743 including 10 900 stock on hand 3 541 in fixtures and machinery 6 064 in accounts and cash deposits.
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H. M. Price Hardware Company
Mobile
R. J. Milling
W. C. Austin
Merchants National Bank
Monkeys Escape Captured After Downtown Columbus Chase
In Columbus Ohio yesterday 25 monkeys escaped from a zoo truck causing a four hour urban chase. Firefighters police and citizens recaptured most animals with three still missing. one monkey died from exposure after a citizen brought it in. The escape happened when a cage door catch was released during transfer from winter quarters to the zoo.
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Columbus
Ohio
State House
Weather Outlook With Showers and Cooler Air
A weather notice reports thundershowers Tuesday night and Wednesday, with cooler air settling in the north and west on Wednesday. The bulletin also notes thundershowers in the east and south, cooler conditions in many areas, and a river bulletin with observations and forecasts for the Alabama region through Wednesday.
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Alabama
Police Free Friend of Man Found Slain In Store Last Week
T J Wansley a roofer living at 95 Springhill avenue was released after being held for questioning in the murder of William T Morris proprietor of Home Grocery Company at Maple and St Medar streets. He discovered the body and reported the slaying after spending the night at the store.
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T. J. Wansley
Roofer
Morris
Maple and
St. Medar Streets
Springhill Avenue
William T. Morris
Home Grocery Company
St. Medar
Wansiey
Wansley
Warren Burch
Burch
Wankley
Atmore Man Killed By Train In Crichton
Funeral services for Jack Humphrey, 38, of Atmore Ala, killed by a train Saturday afternoon, will be held Wednesday at 10 in Crichton at his sister Gussie Crabtree's home with Wheelerville Cemetery interment. He is survived by his wife, parents Mr. and Mrs. Walter Humphrey, two sisters, and other relatives. Body shipped from Atmore.
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Jack Humphrey
Atmore
Ala
Gussie Crabtree
Crichton
Wheelerville
Higgins and
Conditt
Walter Humphrey
Opal Humphrey
Jury May Get Slaying That Afternoon
Defense rests in the Taylor murder case after presenting testimony on the defendant Elijah Taylor's alleged insanity defense. The trial resumes this afternoon as rebuttal testimony and judge Smoot prepare jurors for deliberation on the August 1929 killing of his wife Adele Overcast at Hamilton and Madison streets.
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Elijah Henry Taylor
Hamilton
Madison Streets
Harry Seale
J. Gordon Bennett
Taylor
George E. Smoot
H. A. Taylor
Adele Overcast
Ed Whittington Improves After Fire Rescue
Ed Whittington 45 a laborer residing at 852 Maryland Street showed improvement Tuesday after neighbors forced entry into a fire engulfed home Monday afternoon to drag him to safety. He was unconscious when helped to a Roche ambulance and later revived at City Hospital.
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Ed Whittington
Maryland Street
Whittington
City Hospital
Roche
Gets Long Term in Federal Court Monday Afternoon
In federal court Monday afternoon Judge Robert T. Ervin ordered the parole release for the defendant on another charge of violating the dry law. The proceeding focused on compliance and potential penalties under federal liquor statutes.
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Robert T.ervin
Tax Reform Meeting Seeks Public Economy in City
A large crowd including public officials gathered Monday at the Battle House for a joint meeting of the Property Owners Protective Association the Mobile Realty Board and the Kiwanis Club. Four resolutions urged economy, oppose salary increases and new taxes, and called for withdrawal or defeat of pending legislation.
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Property Owners’ Protective Association
Mobile Realty Board
Kiwanis Club
Battle House
Highway committee discusses bridge and paving projects
The Chamber of Commerce highway committee talked over a new Three Mile creek bridge, paving a short street near Craighead viaduct, and paving Slam bay bridge road in Baldwin county. A committee of Hand and Vidmer will report on the Three Mile creek project status. Bider to consult with officials about the paving near the viaduct. no firm action on Stapleton bay road, but continued efforts planned with Alabama delegation and the state highway department.
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Three Mile Creek
Craighead
Slam Bay Bridge
Baldwin County
Chamber of Commerce
Charles Hand
John Vidmer
William Bider
Stapleton Bay Bridge
Alabama
Congress
State Highway Department
Auxiliary meeting plans big Florence state gathering
The ladies' auxiliary of Fitzhugh Lee Camp No. 2 United Spanish War Veterans will meet Tuesday night at the armory. They plan important business and aim to mobilize a large turnout for the state meeting of the auxiliary and the Alabama department at Florence.
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Ladies’ Auxiliary
Fitzhugh Lee Camp No. 2
United Spanish War Veterans
Alabama
Florence
Repeal Move On Street Tax In Mobile City Commission
Mobiles city commission considered repeal of the $5 street tax ordinance. Mayor Schwarz proposed the repeal, with Commissioner Hartwell criticizing it as political and Bates signaling support if not blocked. The measure was postponed for a week, with expectations of next Tuesday action by Schwarz and Bates.
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Commission
Schwarz
City of Mobile
Hartwell
Bates
Supreme Court
Bridge star Billy Eget in critical condition in Augusta
Billy Eget aged 19, noted bridge player, is critically ill with double pneumonia in Augusta Georgia. Barrett has six contract bridge caps and, with partner Johnny Rau of New York, won the New Jersey championship and later the national contract bridge championship at Cleveland in December 1930.
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Augusta
Billy Eget
Cowbridge
Barrett
Johnny Rau
New York
New Jersey
Cleveland
Ohio
Miners Die in Kentucky Mine Disaster at Fonde
Three miners were crushed by falling slate in a Clairfield Coal and Coke Co mine at Fonde Kentucky near Jellico. The dead are Jake Partin Frank Partin and Audrey Heath.
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Jellico, Tenn
Clairfield Coal and Coke Company
Fonde
Here
Jake Partin
Frank Partin
Audrey Heath
Couple Slain in Water Valley Mississippi Mystery
W D Wagner 64 a merchant and banker and his wife Mamie Wagner were beaten and hacked to death in their Water Valley home. Bodies hidden in graves and ditch with axe found in garage. A youth house helper questioned as investigators discard robbery theory.
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W. D. Wagner
Associated Press
Water Valley
Miss
Mamie Wagner
Wagner
Parchman
C. T Doyle
Banker Defended in Suit Over Fatal Shooting at Bank Home
W H Lewis president of the First National Bank of Bessemer is made defendant in a $150 000 suit by Lizzie G Lewis mother of George Rowland Lewis killed at the banker s home on April 25 She claims Lewis wrongfully shot him While under bond on a murder charge Lewis testified at a coroner s inquest that threats on his life by the nephew preceded the shooting
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Bessemer
Ala
W. H. Lewis
First National Bank
Lizzie G. Lewis
George Rowland Lewis
Lewis
April arrest total hits 577 for city police
Police chief’s April report shows 577 persons arrested with 1300.50 in fines from recorder’s court hearings and 2434 worth of stolen property recovered by the detective branch. Pension fund receipts reached 262 while drunkenness led with 105 arrests and 8 convictions.
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Recorder’s Court
Detective Bureau
City Commission
Pension Fund of Police and Firemen
Romanian Princess Engaged to Austrian Claimant
Princess Ileana 22, daughter of Queen Mother Marie, betrothed to Archduke Anton De Bourbon nephew of the late Emperor Charles. Engagement ceremony held at Freiburg Castle. guests included Queen Marie and European royals. Archduke Anton, 30, aviator and engineer, to wed in June with a noted European royal connection.
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Ileana
Anton de Bourbon
Charles
Freiburg
Germany
Associated Press
Bucharest
Rumania
Marie
Archduke Anton de Bourbon
Austria-Hungary
Grand Duke
Cyril
Potions Thyra
Russia
Prince of Wales
Boris
Bulgaria
Prince Humber
Italy
Count Alexander of Hochberg
Prince of Press
Queen Marie
United States
White House
West Point
Chicago
Archduke Anton
Spain
Vienna
Archduke Salvatore
Blanche Bourbon
Commission Endorses Miller Revenue Plan In Full
State capital report notes the fiscal commission of 338 members voted to endorse Governor Miller’s revenue program in its entirety after an earlier delay. The plan includes a $25,000,000 road bond issue and a separate substitute proposal by Senator Teasley of Montgomery.
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News-Item
State Capital Bureau
Montgomery
Ala
Miller
Fiscal Commission
Senate
House
Teasley
Commission
Bers
Experts Hear Brition Pleas On War Debts
Julius Barnes told the International Chamber of Commerce that reopening the tariff issue in the next Congress would be most unfortunate. He urged revision of Hawley Smoot rates and called for abolition of floor trading and banning marginal transactions under ten thousand dollars, along with elimination of the Daily Statement and its call money rates.
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Associated Press
Washington
Julius’ Barnes
International Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Daily Statement
Daily Call
International Chamber of Com
Fliers Off Again From San Juan For New York City Flight
Clyde Pangborn Hugh Herndon Jr and Captain Lewis Yancey left San Juan Puerto Rico at 730 am heading to Miami then to New York City. The trip serves as a warm up for their nearly year old plan for a round the world flight. Yancey the veteran transatlantic flier has taught Pangborn and Herndon navigation.
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San Juan
Porto Rico
Clyde Pangborn
Hugh Herndon
Lewis
Yancey
New York
Santo Domingo
Miami
Pangborne
Herndon
Greeley Man Arrested After Deadly Home Fire
James V. Foster 48, a Greeley salesman, was arrested on a highway near Greeley hours after a house fire killed his 19 month old daughter and severely burned his wife and another child. His wife Myrtle Foster accused him of pouring kerosene on their beds. Foster denied the arson claim.
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Greeley
Colo
James V. Foster
Here
Myrtle Foster
Foster
Earth tremor rattles Birmingham area centered near Cullman
A tremor felt across roughly 75 miles of central Alabama awoke residents at 6 17 am. It varied in duration from 10 seconds to a minute with a low rumble building to a stronger shock lasting about 30 seconds centered near Cullman, with reports from Lay D and Clanton.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
Cullman
Here
Lay D
Clanton
Mississippi Farmer Shot Dead In Hancock County
Sam Martin a 37 year old farmer and school bus driver was shot at midnight after answering a mysterious call to his front door in Standard Hancock County He died later at a Gulfport hospital as investigators from Hancock and Harrison counties pursued the murder case.
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Gulfport
Miss
Standard
Hancock County
Sam Martin
Hancock
Harrison Counties
Martin
Man Killed by Train Identified In Williamson
A man struck by a Norfolk and Western passenger train at Cedar near Williamson on Friday was identified as Louis B. Griffin, 39, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His brother William A. Griffin of Winston-Salem identified the body and said Griffin had left home weeks ago to seek work in Baileysville, West Virginia.
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Williamson
W. Va
Norfolk and Western
Cedar
Here
Louis B. Griffin
Winston- Salem
N. C
William A. Griffin
Winston-Salem
Griffin
Baileysville
Labor Trouble Sparks Deadly Clash at Evarts
Deputies from Harlan county fought a crowd ten miles from here in Evarts. Deputy Cox was killed and others injured or dead. reinforcements were sent after a machine gun incident. A grand jury will probe rapid violence tied to labor unrest in the Harlan coal fields with a federal restraining order affecting about 400 miners.
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Associated Press
Han, Ky
Evarts
Harlan Coal
George Dawn Betes Cox
Jim Daniels
J. H. Blair
Lethe Lynch
Forte
Sig
Saas de
Harlan
Evarta
Ott Lee
Blair
D. C. Jones
A. M. J. Cochran
London
Air Case Verdict in R101 Wreck Inquest
London May 5 The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death after resuming the inquest into the R101 airship disaster. Victims died of injuries in France while aboard the airship, with the verdict attributing the cause to gas ice in very bumpy weather.
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London
France
Train Tragedy Claims Three Children and Teacher
Miss Helen Scott a 26 year old rural schoolteacher led students on a birthday party outing at a trestle. As a train rounded a curve she pushed Edith Peterson eight from the tracks to save her but Beulah Mason eight and Miss Scott were struck and killed in the incident.
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H. M. Price Co
Daily River Bulletin
Central Lime
Aberdeen
Eexeerey
Selma
At &Cima
Blazing Home
New Creek
Fitzhugh Lee
Bridge Star
Mloaloolpp
Water Valley Estate
Nicaragua
Water Valley Bank
William Wagner
Bessemer Man
Princess Ileana
Miller Finance
World Trade Parley
Girmingham
Magic City
Harlan Coal Fields
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