Alabama Bankers Gathered Here In Annual Convention DAY SESSION
Mobile hosts about 250 Alabama bankers for the Alabama Bankers Association annual convention. Delegates arrived by train from Birmingham, Montgomery and elsewhere. attendance expected to set a record. Governor Harding of the Federal Reserve Board will speak on Banking Under the Federal Reserve Act. A theater party and dances follow sessions, with Friday and Saturday activities noted and parking controls around Bienville Square.
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Mobile
Alabama
Alabama Bankers Association
Birmingham
Montgomery
Apa
Mobile State
Battle House
P. G. Harding
Theederal Reserve Board
Oscar Wells
R. Excel Fry
R. V. Taylor
Charles B. Verner
First National Bank of
W. P. G. Harding
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Act
Country Club
Bienville Square
J. Bowie
Ala
P. Bestot, Jr
LeBaron Lyons
A. L. Staples
EB. . Higgins
E. F. Ladd
M. J. McDerott
George Michael
William Curtin
J. B. Dortch
J. W. Woolf
H. Austill Pharr
W. J. Parham
R. Keener
Thos
R. D. Walker
Peter Burke
Luke R. Mauee
Thomas Bartee
R. Christian
Weather Roundup Across Cities With Varied Conditions
Regional forecasts list Atlanta Birmingham Nashville Nashville at Chattanooga New Orleans Little Rock and other cities with conditions such as clear cloudy and rain. National and American matchups also noted with times and sites including New York Pittsburgh Philadelphia Cincinnati Chicago Detroit and St Louis.
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Southern
Atlanta
Birmingham
Ohile
Memphis
Nashville
Chattanooga
New Orleans
Little Rock
Moody
New York
Pittsburgh
Hiladelphia
Cincinnati
Chicago
Oklyn
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Detroit
Washington
Boston
Weather Brief for Alabama and Mississippi Regions
Partly cloudy weather with local showers tonight or Friday and a change in temperature in Alabama. Mississippi expects partly cloudy skies with thunderstorms tonight or in the southern portion and little temperature change.
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Washington
Alabama
Negro Hangs Self in County Jail Cell
Sidney Bennett, 23, held on a murder charge, was found dead in his county jail cell at 6:30 AM. Coroner Hale ruled death by suicide with a belt rope, after an earlier failed attempt. Bennett left a note claiming the shooting of his wife was accidental and expressing remorse.
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Sidney Bennett
Bennett
S. F. Hale
Hercules Street
Monday Street
Two Convicts Escape From County Road Gang
Henry Armstrong and Geo Anderson escaped from the county road gang on Cottage Hill road Wednesday afternoon. Guards and officers searched the western county overnight without success. Armstrong, with prior escape history, received additional hard labor. Anderson received a one year sentence for grand larceny.
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Henry Armatrong
Geo Anderson
Cottage Hill
Ollie Lartigue
Armstrong
Claude A. Grayson
Hattisburg
Mias
Mobile
Anderson
Plan Port Aid Drive In State At Meet Today
The plan for a sea port amendment campaign was informally discussed at a state harbor board meeting in the commission office. No definite plans were outlined, only general educational work before the November vote. Gordon Smith D H Dunlap and Sydney J Bowie of Birmingham were present, reportedly to lead the campaign, along with three board members Milner Hartwell and Christian.
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State Harbor Board
Commission
Government Street
Gordon Smith
D. H. Dunlap
Sidney J. Bowie
Birmingham
H. K. Milner
Harry T. Hartwell
R. A. Christian
Mobile
Conference On Daylight Saving Set For Friday
The Mobile city commission schedules two Friday conferences. At 11 o clock the daylight saving plan will be discussed after a petition signed by 135 people, mostly railroad clerks. The second conference will explore funding and planning for additional high school buildings with the county superintendent of public schools.
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Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company
Commission
Board of School Commissioners
Army drive workers meet Friday at Cawthon Hotel
Salvation Army drive organizers schedule a Friday morning conference at 10 o'clock in the Cawthon Hotel assembly room. The meeting will finalize campaign details for the early June effort and ensure volunteers who pledged service can attend.
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Salvation Army
Cawthon Hotel
Prohibition Writs Filed Target Four Suspected Liquor Nuisances
United States District Attorney Aubrey Boyles filed petitions for writs of injunction against four properties in Junction alleging liquor manufacture sale and barter in violation of the national prohibition act. The sites are 105 South Water 300 South Cedar 407 Beauregard and 203 North Conception streets.
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United States
Aubrey Boyles
South Water Street
South
Cedar Street
Beaure- Sard Street
North
Conception Street
Charles
de Tepe
Lynn Ordered Held in Automobile Case
Joseph W. Lynn of Jacksonville was held to the grand jury under $750 bond after arraignment on a charge of stealing an automobile from A. A. McCrary. Prosecutors said Lynn drove the car to Pascagoula and attempted to dispose of it. Fifteen women arrested in Saturday raids were reset for Monday as witnesses were noted absent.
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Joseph W. Lynn
Jacksonville
Fla
A. A. McCrary
St. Emanuel
Conti
Inferior Criminal Court
Lynn
Pascagoula
Miss
W. H.holcombe, Jr
Bave Court
Appeal Taken When Negro Convicted
Georgiana Wallace a Negro convict ed in the circuit court of murder in the first degree for killing Joe Henderson a Negro man and sentenced to life in the state penitentiary filed notice of an appeal to the supreme court Judge Goldsby ordered a stay of execution Attorney Foster K Hale stated the case will go to the higher court at once The case occupied the court all day Wednesday and the jury after 20 minutes out last night returned the verdict and fixed the sentence as above
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Georgiana Wallace
Circuit
Joe Henderson
Wagon load of beans given to city asylums
A wagon load of snap beans was donated to orphan asylums and other charities after no market or buyers could be found. Farmer L J Schiorff from west of Spring Hill reported the beans had no sale and dealers made no offers.
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L. J. Schiorff
Spring Hill
Lasker appeals to business men to aid subsidy
Washington May 18 American business was urged by Chairman Lasker of the shipping board to back a government subsidy to place the U S merchant marine on parity with Great Britain. He spoke to the United States Chamber of Commerce on building facilities for overseas commerce and liquidating the fleet. He cited the 5 5 3 naval ratio from the Washington armament conference and urged a large merchant fleet to match Britain’s naval power.
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Washington
Lasker
The
Shipping Board
Great Britain
United States Chamber of Commerce
United States
Keller Seeks Venue Change in Mississippi Pig Death Case
In Leakesville Mississippi a motion for change of venue in the murder case of Charles A Keller a former Sunbury Pennsylvania store clerk. Keller is charged with the killings of George and Clem Odom and with the wounding of Town Howard Norman and C A Page following a dispute over a pig on Keller s property. The lunacy commission decision delayed proceedings and the continuance request was denied.
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Leakesville
Miss
Charles A. Keller
State Line
Sunbury
Keller
Keller Ist
George
Clem Odam
Howard Norman
C. A. Page
Meridian
Adams de Paies
Odoms
Mandate Conditions Align With Hughes Note on Syria
Washington officials said the French mandate over Syria should follow the conditions outlined in Secretary Hughes original note. The plan mirrors freedom of land commerce and open competition advocated in other mandates, with Palestine having distinct government and resource provisions.
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Washington
Associated Press
United States
Syria
Hughes
Supreme Council
America
Palestine
State Department
Léague
Judge Denies Return of Auto Seized in Prohibition Inquiry
Judge Robert T. Ervin refused the petition to return a automobile claimed to belong to J. A. Morrison a local cafeteria proprietor seized by federal prohibition agents after beer was found in the car. The court ruled the vehicle now rests with another party and the petition failed to show improper seizure or ownership grounds.
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J. A. Morrison
Robert T. Ervin
Morrison
League of Women Voters to Attend Wilson Trial
A committee from the League 6 Women Voters will attend the trial of Shreveport woman Wilson in the Labor Temple. The group acted after visiting Solicitor Chamberlain and learning he would handle the case under state law.
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League 6 Women Voters
Shreveport
Sarah” Wilson Ney
League
Labor Temple
Chamberlain
Wilson
Fire at Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome Claims Dozens
A deadly blaze struck the Santo Spirito hospital complex in Rome. Sixteen bodies recovered by 7:30 am as collapse and smoke trapped patients in the wards. rescue teams pulled twelve more dead victims from the ruins.
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Rome
Associated Press
Santo Spirito
Carabiners
Royal Guards
Lv Petients
Rushi
Wholesale prices show no changes in April levels
The April average level of wholesale commodity prices was basically unchanged from March. Farm products, foods, clothing, and building materials dipped by under one percent, while fuel and lighting materials and metal products rose by just over two percent, offsetting the declines.
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Washington, D. C
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Department of Labor
Buckingham writ hearing awaited in Mississippi murder case
Miles G. Buckingham, wealthy Memphis insurance man, is jailed in Madison County awaiting a habeas corpus hearing set for Monday after his arraignment on a charge of murdering his wife Loraine Harris Buckingham near Pickens on May 9. The couple were traveling from Biloxi to Memphis when the crime occurred. trial delayed to January 1923.
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Canton
Miss
Miles G. Buckingham
Memphis
Madison County
Buckingham
Loraine Harris Buckingham
Pickens
Buckinghams
Biloxi
Harding Magnates Plans Kept Secret Dinner
Washington May 18 The White House guards all details of President Harding's dinner tonight for about twenty steel magnates. Guests arriving seek enlightenment but receive little information. The official guest list remains withheld though it is known to include nearly every major steel leader in the country.
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Washington
White House
Harding
Motorist killed and another injured in Newport News spill
Four men from Norfolk and Portsmouth were riding back from a lodge meeting when R T Etheridge of Portsmouth lost control and the car plunged over a six foot embankment at Jefferson street end in Newport News. A A Miller of Norfolk was killed and I cu Reynolds and Co A Reynolds of Portsmouth were injured though not severely.
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Norfolk
A. A. Miller
R. T. Etheridge
Portsmouth
Jefferson Street
Newport News
I. Cu. Reynolds
Co. A. Reynolds
Order of Red
Erry Landing
Hague Conference Plans Ready for Russia Truce
Genoa political commission approves plans for a four month truce and non aggression pact tied to the Genoa conference on Russia. The pact sets up two commissions to reconvene June 20 and work at The Hague with abstentions from aggression and propaganda.
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Genoa
Associated Press
Hague
Night of Belfast violence leads to further shooting
In Belfast the Marrowbone district saw a wild barrage as police and soldiers fought gunmen. Four men were killed and several others wounded as attackers raided Musgrave Street police barracks, entered the building, and exchanged fire before fleeing. Constable Collins died of wounds, while Constable McKeon remained severely to moderately wounded.
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Belfast
Associated Press
Marrowbone
Musgrave Street
Collins
MecKeon
Three Coal Tipples Blasted Near Turtle Creek
Three tipples at Spellman Brothers Silvia Brothers and Goodhope mines were destroyed by blasts four miles above Turtle Creek in Pittsburgh. The incidents occurred as miners have worked since the April 1 strike, with Matthew Patterson arrested and other suspects expected.
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Pittsburgh
Turtle Creek
Matthew Patterson
United Mine Workers
Woodside
Spellman Brothers
Silvia Brothers
Goodhope
Gasoline Prices Increase in Fort Worth
In Fort Worth Texas on May 18 Standard Oil subsidiaries raised gasoline prices by two cents per gallon bringing the price to 25 cents a gallon.
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Fort Worth
Texas
Standard Oil
Conference on Coal Fuel Prices Sparks Open Meeting
Washington May 18. A coal strike persists as the Hoover administration convenes a public conference of about fifty operators to curb profiteering. Hoover urges voluntary action, proposes district clearing houses and Washington super committees to stabilize supply and prices amid nonunion mine operations.
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Thomas T. Stokes
United Staff Co
Washington
Sec. Commerce
Hoover
G. H. Caperton
N River Coal District of
West
Caperton
Pres. Harding
Sec. of Commerce
Sec
Et Hoover
Rok Aer
Brie
Rome
Waston
Steel
Plans Complete in New Steel Merger Sealed
Plans for a merger between Consolidated Steel Iron Company of St Louis and the Hossier Company of Terre Haute are virtually completed. The combined cap would total 12 million dollars with 7 million from Consolidated and 5 million from Hossier, announced by J R Stein, president of Hossier.
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ST. Louis
Consolidated Steel Iron Company
Hossier Company
Terre Haute
J. R. Ntstein
Copany
Southern Railway Secures Guarantee for Equipment Trust Securities
Washington May 18 The Southern Railway was granted permission to guarantee part of the interest and principal of equipment trust certificates to be issued by a trustee for a railroad purchase. The securities will be sold by a Philadelphia financial institution and funds used to buy new rolling stock.
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Washington
Southern Railway
Adelphia Financial Institut
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Army Drive
Boyles Ask Liquor
Negress
Pig
UNUCA
EAMG
U. S
Henry Wood
United Press
Russia
Lloyd George
Netherland
Child
Lloyd Gee
Schanger
Association of Way
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