Escapes Report From Pekin Express Holdups Breakthrough
Major Roland Robert Allen and Major Roland Jr escape bandit hold up near Pekin early morning. The tally of those who escaped or freed rises to fourteen, including seven men and a child, with a list of captives compiled from various reports. A separate note from Shanghai reports fourteen captives held near Suchow with conditions worsening from exposure and lack of food.
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Pekin
Th Press
Roland
Robert Allen
Roland, Jr
upshal-Pekin Express
Robert Alle Noland Pinger
Roland Pir I. Zimmerman
Shanghai
Linz
Nanfu
J. B. Powell
L. G. Major Pinger
William Smith
Bimbe
Emile Gedore
Ax Friedman
Lyne Zon
Hearing On Canal Project At Aberdeen Mississippi
United States Army Engineer office schedules a public hearing at Aberdeen city hall on June 5 at 9 a.m. to examine and survey the Tombigbee river for canalization into the Tennessee river. State Senator John Craft promotes Mobile delegation support with merchants and citizens. Written factual submissions on regional resources and trade will carry weight. oral testimony will be heard.
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United States Engineer
Aberdeen
Miss
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
John Craft
Mobile
Alleged Deserter To Face Court Martial at Barrancas
Clarence E. Burton, 29, who admitted desertion from an army post near Los Angeles, will be taken to Barrancas Florida tomorrow for trial by court martial. Burton was spotted by an army officer at a baseball park and identified by officers Frank Curtin who arrested him.
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Clarence’ E. Burton
Recorder’s Court
Los Angeles
Calif
Barrancas
Fla
Burton
Frank Curtin
Unlawful Use of Electricity Charged at Lunch Stand
M. Karkulakis, operating a lunch stand at 76 South Royal Street, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Moses mer mter on a charge of unlawful use of electricity. A. D. Quackenbugh, superintendent of Mobile Electric Company, signed the affidavit alleging a jumper was placed on the electric meter to prevent current from registering.
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Karkulakis
South Royal Street
Moses Mer Mter
D. Quackenbugh
Mobile Electric Company
Poho
Don
Papa
American killed in Paris street fight
Paris dispatch reports James Miller Par melee, 26, of Yonkers New York, cashier at Guaranty Trust Company, was shot and killed on the boulevard Mare sherbs during a street battle as he was caught between gendarmes and Apaches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
James Miller Parmelee
Yonkers
N. Y
Guaranty Trust Company
Maresherbs
Weather forecast for Shington May 3
May 3 forecast notes light rain in the north tonight. Thursday looks fair with rising temperatures. areas around Alan and Mississimil ai to see continued cool, then warmer conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shington
Alan
Mississimil
Bridge Sites Inspected By U S Engineers
Federal and state highway engineers inspected proposed Mobile Baldwin bridge sites yesterday and continued today on the Mobile river side. Officials from Washington and Montgomery joined Mobile and state crews, with three sites under review and a possible route via Magazine Point Blakeley Island and Village Point, Baldwin county.
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Federal
Mobile-Baldwin
Mobile
O. I. Grover
Federal Highway Department of Washington
Mobile River
Magazine Point
Blakeley Island
Baldwin County
Village Point
Atlanta Executive Named New Mobile Chamber Secretary
John E. Addicks of Atlanta chosen to succeed the late P. Femore as secretary of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce. He will begin work June 1 after winding up affairs in Atlanta and returning to Mobile. Addicks, longtime Georgia resident, formerly with E I du Pont de Nemours Company and recently authored an industrial review of Atlanta that drew manufacturer interest.
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John E. Addicks
Atlanta
Mobile Chamber
Oree
P. Femore
Addicks
Mobile
Georgia City
Chamber of Commerce
E. I. duPont-de Nemours Company
Insurance Agents Convention Heads to Montgomery in 1924
James H. Glennon president of the local board of fire underwriters says Mobile will send a large delegation to the Alabama Association of Insurance Agents annual convention in Montgomery May 15 16 1924 and lobby for Gulf City as the 1924 meeting place.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Alabama Association of Insurance Agents
Montgomery
Gulf City
James H. Glennon
Board of Fire Underwriters
New Manager Named for Mallory Line Succeeding Raymond
G B Raymond, Mallory Steamship Co local manager, is transferred to Clyde Line agent post in Jacksonville Florida and will depart soon. He is succeeded by E L Quincy, formerly Clyde Line Charleston office chief, who is present and assumes charge immediately. The Clyde and Mallory lines are allied.
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G. B. Raymond
Mallory Steamship Company
Clyde Line
Jacksonville
Fla
Raymond
Quincy
Charleston
Clyde
Mallory
Atlantic
New York
Mobile
Tampa
Gulf
County to Open Bids for New Gravel Pit
The county will open bids May 14 for operation of the Mobile county gravel pit at Glendon. The board will supply equipment including a locomotive tender three dump carts four wagons and all stumpage to the winning bidder. The contractor will be reimbursed 0.37 percent of track maintenance costs for six months. Specifications require loading all gravel with at least 60 percent rock retained on a quarter inch mesh screen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Mobile County
Glendon
Ala
Harrison gives bond in sum 500
Thomas F. Dicey Harrison surrendered to the county jail last night and posted bond of 500 for his appearance in the inferior criminal court. The warrant followed a raid on a Davis avenue and Davidson street location alleged to be operated by the defendant, led by Rufus Cannon with federal support from W. Tresmith and state officers Tom Cleveland and Jobin H. Farmer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas F
Dicey) Harrison
Rufus Cannon
Inferior Criminal Court
Harrison
Davis Avenue
Davidson Street
W. Tresmith
Tom Cleveland
Jobin H. Farmer
Hunger Striker Doubtful at Second I W W Trial
Fifteen men linked to the I W W face a second circuit court trial Friday after a mistrial. Four hunger strikers J Brondal Charles Bishop B Thornton and K Carlson are too weak to attend, having refused food for eight days in protest of imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
IL W. W
J. Brondal
Charles Bishop
B. Thornton
K. Carlson
Bureau Abandons New Hospital Plan
The United States Veterans Bureau will stop its plan for nationwide hospitalization and allow thousands of disabled veterans to remain hospitalized only in their home states. General Frank T. Hines, new bureau director, issued the order preserving local hospital care after a surge of appeals from veterans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
United States Veterans Bureau
Frank T. Hines
Bureau
Tikhon Refuses to Be Unfrocked
Moscow May 9. Dr Tikhon former patriarch of all Russia refused to remove his priest robes after a church committee led by Metropolitan Peter informed him he was unfrocked by the conclave. He questioned the authority and asked who the unfamiliar bishops were and how he was declared no longer an Anglican cleric.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
The
Asia- United Press
Peter
Tikhon
All Russia
Nggionger Aglergyman
Shipping Board Steamer Gebhart on Rocks Near Umatilla Reef
The U S Shipping Board steam schooner Lake Gebhart ran aground near Umatilla reef on the Washington coast. The Coast Guard cutter Snobgnish races to assist, expected to arrive after several hours. The latest radio message indicated immediate danger aboard the Gebhart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Interna News Service
United States
Pping
Lake Gebhart
Umatilla Reef
Shington
S. O
Radio Corporation
Ougt Guard
Gebhart
Berlin press outraged by Bohlen sentence verdict
Berlin on May 9 reports heavy press reaction to the Bohlen group sentences. The communist paper Rote Fahne calls the rulings monstrous while other papers say innocent Germans are punished to shelter Premier Poincare. The decision is seen as fueling passive resistance in the Ruhr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Associated Press
Gustav Dirupp von Bohlen
Rote Fahne
Poincare
Werden
Ruhr
Missing Bon Air Dairyman Sought By Officials
The sheriff and police were asked to search for Matt Hayes a 75 year old dairyman of Bon Air. He left home Monday morning at 7 30 and has not been seen since though his wife recalls a possible sighting at 12 30 that day. He is described as six feet tall with grey hair and grey mustache and has a scar on his right cheek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile County
L. W. Roe
Edington
McPhillips
Dauphin and
Julia Streets
Roe
Davis
Heyman Gabriel
Elizabeth Fonde
Carlin
R. P. Roach
R. EB. Daly
Mobile County Protective Association
Reece Farnell
Devils Site
Advisory Council
Matt Hayes
Bon Air
Ace
Harding Cancelled NYC Trip
In Wington on May 9 President Harding's planned travel to New York City for a sanction of General Balli Bo Pe ink Ivation Army was canceled. Public affairs pressure was given as the reason for the change.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wington
New York
Ean
Balli Bo
T House
Girls Seize Power Plant Auto Sparks Town Blackout
Two young women were arrested in New Orleans area for stealing an automobile owned by Peter Winkle, restaurant proprietor at Little Woods. They admitted taking the car used to generate electricity. they found the car in a shed after fleeing to the camp. The vehicle was recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Peter Winkle
Little Woods
Winkle
Wilson May Be Democratic Choice for 1924 Presidency
Lawrence Martin reports that David F. Houston of Missouri is Woodrow Wilson's present choice for the 1924 Democratic presidential nomination. Houston, a former secretary of the treasury and agriculture, is viewed as strong in the West and Midwest, respected by business and farmers, and likely to avoid public campaigning while Wilson weighs the League of Nations issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Martin
Washington
David F. Houston
Missouri
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
League of Nations
Houston
the Treasury
Agriculture
Aew
Lan
N. Bekinens
New
West
Middle West
League Nd
Wilson Eeherke
Weet
Democratic Party
Madison Square Garden
Navi York
Wil
Policy Decided For Hospital at Tuskegee Ala
The Veterans Bureau announced a policy to employ Negro doctors in minor positions at the Tuskegee Alabama hospital while the chief medical officer will be white for now. The plan aims to give patients equal treatment with Negro staff where trained, amid protests from factions within the Negro community. Colonel H. R. Stanley, a white officer, serves as chief medical officer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Veterans Bt Hospital
Tuskegee
Ala
Veteran’s Bureau
Tu F
Veterans Bureau
Mirector Hines
Col. H. R. Stanley
Veteran Navy Lieutenant Robert Vier Dies at 82
Iladelphi a May 9. Lieutenant Robert Vier, 82, U. S. N. retired, died here yesterday. A veteran of the Civil War and Spanish American wars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iladelphiag
Robert”vier
Myrtle Hayes Indicted in $25,000 Schwab Forgery Case
New York reports Myrtle B Hayes of Boston now living in the city is indicted on forged notes ending with Charles M Schwab's signature. The case centers on a $25,000 note connected to The Chatham hotel project in Boston and a broader $200,000 to $300,000 fraud involving forged signatures of prominent financiers.
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Hayes
Schwab
New York
Myrtle GB. Hayes
Boston
Charles M. Schwab
Chatham
District Attorney's Office
Chatham, Inc
George Gordon Battle
Henry A. Mark
Stoddard & Mark
Myrtle B. Hayes
Cetenenenalill
Grand
New York World
Cassie D. Chadwick
Cleveland
Financial
Mark
Plot to Upset Stock Exchange Probed by Inspectors
Postoffice inspectors tracking a NY scheme to dump forged cashier checks and force broker purchases of millions in stocks. They placed under surveillance two New York promoters believed to be the brains of the plot while another former street figure was said to be largely eliminated from the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Postoffice
New York Stock Exchange
German harbors thriving amid tonnage gains and subsidies
Bremen May 9 Marine activity dominates German ports Hamburg Bremen Bremenhaven Ixinden Lubeck Stettin Kiel report gains in tonnage cleared. Government subsidies aid German shipyards buying second hand vessels abroad and patching them up. Some ports show zero per cent tonnage in 1913 as old world routes regain steamship service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bremen
Germany
Hamburg
Bremenhaven
Ixinden
Lubeck
Stettin
Kiel
Eighty Thousand Recovered From Mint Loot
Secret service operatives announced the recovery of 80000 dollars stolen in the Denver mint robbery. The grand jury will consider indictments next month, with some of 26 indicted last fall tied to disposal of securities stolen in Chicago and New York mail robberies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul. Minn
Denver Mint
Secret Service
Chicago
New York
St Louis Pastor Dies After Operation
The Rev S A Colle age sixty six pastor of a local Presbyterian church and former president of Greenville and Tusculum College in Tusculum Tennessee died today after an operation for a carbuncle Burial will be at Morristown Tennessee
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ST. Louis
May
S. A. Colle
Greenville and Tusculum College
Tusculum
Tenn
Morristown
Volstead liquor prescription limit voided by federal judge
Federal Judge Knox ruled that the Volstead act provision limiting medicinal liquor to a pint per ten days is void. He said Congress allowed medicinal use with greater quantities under certain circumstances and that the 18th Amendment aimed at beverage prohibitions, not ending medicinal use. The government plans to seek a stay pending appeal.
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New York
Knox
J. Balnibe Pere
Dr. Lambétti
Congress
United States
John Holley Clark, Jr
Supreme Court
Pola Negri Confined to Room After Operation
Los Angeles May 9 Pola Negri the tragedienne underwent a surgical operation last Saturday and is now recovering at her Beverly Hills home. The physician says she will be in bed at least another week and calls are forbidden except from Charlie Chaplin her fiancé who visits daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Cal
Pola Negri
Beverly Hills
Los Angeles Times
Charlie Chaplin
Negri
Tadio
Miss Negri
British reply to German reparations proposal expected soon
London May 9 The British reply to the German reparations proposals will probably be sent tomorrow or Friday. The note will be terse and energetic, not as condemnatory as the French answer, but it will show clear acceptance of the proposals and demand a more substantial workable formula for Europe’s economic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Europe
New Texas Fraud Order Issued In Fort Worth
A fraud order was issued by the Postmaster General today in Fort Worth Texas targeting the OIA Company and several individuals. The action marks ongoing enforcement actions in Texas related to fraudulent mail schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Washington
Postmaster General
New Today
E Tia Oia Company
Fort Worth
Notable Deaths and Injury Report From Norfolk
Mrs B Stuart, widow of a Southern family leader, died after injuries to her two year old in a fall last Sunday. R Waller said the incident was reported to the Intern Service today as the family mourns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
B. Stuart
Southern
Waller
Mra
Macready Groom Kelly Best Match In Dayton Wedding
John MacReady, who flew from New York in an army plane, was to marry Nellie Jay Turner of Delaware in Dayton at 4 30 this afternoon. Lieutenant Oakley cites the transcontinental bridegroom as the groom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
John Macready
New York
Nellie Jay Turner
Oakley
Dayton
Harding Inclined to Panamat Washington May 9
Reporters quote White House officials indicating President Harding favors passage of a proposal through Alaska to Panamath and possibly to Porter. Denby and the Shipping Board chairmen have discussed the plan several times in the past week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harding
Paham
Denby
Pogal
Shipping Board
Florida Flowers for Mrs Ha on Mother’s Day
Fragmentary notice from the Florida section describes a Mother’s Day floral offering for Mrs Ha. The report mentions a meeting where the offering was planned and timed to reach Tampadjn, with a reference to a House Sunday event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida Flowers
Mrs. HA
Peeness
Florida
Civic Clif
Chamberlin Quits Shipping Board in Oregon resigning
Washington May 9 Chamberlin former U S senator from Oregon resigns from the Shipping Board effective June 30 His resignation accepted by the President He will practice law in Wen ton Berlin remained unclear in OCR text
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Chamberlin
Incarey Change Shakes Shoreline Report
Fragmentary coastal report notes changes in waters off Los Angeles as mariners arrive. Text is garbled but references shifting currents and offshore conditions affecting ships near the harbor.
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Board
ARMY
U.S
D. C
Mallory Line
Bond
W. W
Shipping Board Steamer
Berlin Srate
Bohlen
Gotham
David Houston Wilson
Tuskegee Ala
David Wees
Prohibition
Jeb Stuart
Macready
Kelly Best
BOA
Angeles
Free State
DE Valera
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