Date Set For June 12 Meeting On Road Matters
Montgomery board of revenue will meet with the state highway commission and Governor Bibb Graves on June 12 to discuss road matters amid controversy over highway materials. Chairman Arthur D. Davis said the principal objective will be road topics and that the session is not secret. The board also discussed school bond plans and the timing of issuing the second block of road and bridge bonds from the $5 million fund.
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Board of Revenue
State Highway Commission
Bibb Graves
Montgomery
Arthur D. Davis
Graves
Highway Commission
Fisher Is Fined For Drunk Driving In Pensacola
D. E. Fisher of Pensacola was fined 250 dollars and 90 days by Acting Recorder T. J. Touart after a Sunday arrest at Royal and Dauphin streets for driving a car while intoxicated. J. B. Thompson, arrested with Fisher, received a 25 dollar fine and costs on a drunkenness charge.
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D. E. Fisher
Pensacola
Fla
Royal and
Dauphin Streets
Gallimore
T. J. Touart
J. B. Thompson
Fisher
Boy Recaptured After Escape From Industrial School
Aless Chappell, 17, was docketed at the county jail for escaping from hard labor at the Boys Industrial School in East Lake Alabama. Officials say the youth had been sent there months earlier for bad conduct and made his getaway.
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Aless Chappell
Boys Industrial School
East Lake
Ala
Cutter Tallapoosa Heads Out After Radio Equipment Install
The cutter Tallapoosa, based at Key, which has been in Mobile gathering extra radio gear, is scheduled to depart the port today. The vessel was previously stationed here.
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Key
Mobile
Weather brief for Alabama Mississippi and Florida
Partly cloudy showers in southeast Alabama, cooler tonight. Tuesday fair and warmer in the north portion. Mississippi fair, cooler in east portions. interior warmer. Extreme Northwest Florida local partly cloudy and cooler, fair Tuesday. forecast generally okay.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Florida
Weath
Senator Craft to be Honored With Highway Tablet
Mobile prepares to honor John Craft known as Father of Good Roads with a tablet on Craft highway near Three Mile creek. Earl Putnam Bartlett will unveil at 5 PM on the 82nd birthday as officials and citizens attend. Attendees include Colonel Woolsey Finnell and State Highway leaders. Father J R O Donoghue to give invocation.
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Senate
John Craft
Alabama
Mobile
Senator Craft
Good Roads
House
Earl Putnam Bartlett
Craft
Three Mile Creek
Board of Revenue
Senate of
Arthur D. Davis
Woolsey Finnell
State Highway Department
State Board Commissioners Law
Turner
Sibley Holmes
Baldwin County
Cecil Bates
J. H. Webb
Charity League Work On Edition Near End
The Junior Charity League of Mobile nears completion of its annual edition of The News Item. Members work feverishly with editorial and advertising copy as regular news staff take a holiday during publication day.
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Junior Charity League of Mobile
Mobile
Junior Charity League
Ward Faulk
Petition seeks change in Fulton road contract to amesite use
Residents of Fulton road signed a petition this morning asking the board of revenue to alter the contract awarded to Mobile Construction Company for Fulton road. The petition, prepared by W P and C A Berbeze, will be presented to the board, while county officials weigh legality and bids.
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Board of Revenue
Fulton Road
Mobile Construction Company
W. P
C. A. Berbeze
John R. Peavy
George E. Stone
Mr. Peavy
Stone
Bert Johnson
Itecrete
Amesite
Warner Brothers Directors Agree To Split Stock
Warner Bros directors approve a stock split proposal amid corporate strategy discussions. The move aims to realign share structure and potentially boost liquidity as the film studio charts its near term plans.
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Warner Bros
P—Direc- Gavicnick
Two youths arrested for fruit store hold up in Mobile
Owen Lazany aged 18 of Chattanooga Tennessee and Sam Montgomery of Apalachicola Florida were arrested on highway robbery charges after confessing to holding up Harry Giolites fruit store at St Joseph and Beauregard streets. They were identified by Giolites and $46.50 was taken with $40.60 recovered. Both are Spring Hill College high school students and were taken into custody by Lt Edward Sheets and Det Walter Blackman.
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Owen Lazany
Chattanooga
Tenn
Sam Montgomery
Apalachicola
Fla
Harry Giolites
St. Joseph and
Beauregard Streets
Spring Hill College High School
Edward Sheets
Walter Blackman
Giolites
Sheets
Railroads Win Right to Challenge Valuations in Court
The Supreme Court ruled that the Interstate Commerce Commission must value railroad property by reproduction cost under current prices, reversing lower court findings on the St. Louis and O’Fallon line. The ruling limits the railroads’ 11 billion dollar valuation claim and sets a new standard for rate making.
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Washington
St. Louis
Ywer
Interstate Commerce Commission
Commerce Commission
Commission
Oot
Dairymen Seek Human Disease Knowledge For Milk Safety
In Columbus Ohio on May 20 thirty two thousand dairymen from 13 cooperatives urged scientists to identify and eradicate diseases that could pass to humans via milk. They acknowledge potential short term losses but foresee long term marketing gains. C G McBride of Ohio State University notes rising demand for high quality milk.
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Columbus
Ohio
C. G. Mcbride
Ohio State University
Chamber Invites Attend Pascagoula Seawall Dedication
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce and other groups received invitations to the Pascagoula seawall dedication Friday afternoon in Mississippi City. Members attending will be named delegates by the chamber, per O M Phelps general manager, who announced the plan.
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Pascagoula Seawall
Mississippi City
Chamber of Commerce
O. M. Phelps
McKenzie Sought by Western Union for Urgent Message
Western Union sought T McKenzie of Government Street near Mobile County High School to deliver a message stating that his sister Mrs Thigpen is dying and instructing him to come or call 822 W Bogalusa.
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The
Western Union
T. McKenzie
Government Street
Mobile County High School
Norris Attacks Power Trust Buyups of Newspapers
Senator Norris charges the power trust seeks to buy American newspapers to control public opinion and national resources. He condemns International Paper and Power Co for buying Boston papers and warns of misuse of mail subsidies.
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Power Trust
Norris
Solon
International News Service
Washington
Powe Trust
Senate
W. Norris
Republican
Nebras
Nebraskan
International Paper and Power Company
Boston
of Cotta Trust
Capitol Hill
George E. Norris
Nebraska
Eastern
Southern
Nera
Norris Wou
Coaliti
Senate Today
Federal Trade Commission
Sidien
Yonge Sets 25Hour Endurance Record in Beach Flight
Laurie Yonge of Jacksonville claimed a new five minute endurance record with 25 hours in a cabin monoplane on a beach at 1 05 p m. He started with 156 gallons of fuel and five gallons of oil, the largest load for a 90 hp plane. The craft weighed about 2800 pounds and a crowd watched as he returned with the record.
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Jacksonville
Laurie Yonge
Joe
Yonge
Monoplane Fort Worth Refueling Attempt Begins
In Fort Worth Texas on May 20 the Monoplane Fort Worth piloted by R L Robbins and James Kelley completed the first refueling at 6 30 this morning as part of a bid to break the endurance record.
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Fort Worth
Texas
R. L. Robbins
James Kelley
Fort Worth Plane Aims For Endurance Refuel Record
The single motor Fort Worth monoplane piloted by R L Robbins with James Kelly as co pilot left Mea chan Field at 11 33 a m to beat the army Question Mark record of 150 hours 40 minutes 15 seconds by staying aloft until 7 13 15 p m Saturday night The first refueling note at 7 30 p m said the motor ran fine and the initial refueling was set for 6 o clock this morning By 3 33 a m the craft had 16 hours aloft.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Meachan Field
R. L. Robbins
James Kelly
Machado Repeats Oath as Cuban President
General Machado y Morales took the oath of office in Havana for a second six year term as president shortly after noon today.
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Havana
AP to Launch High Speed News Wire to Southern Papers
The Associated Press will open a high speed main trunk wire news service from New York to the News Item The Mobile Press and other southern papers in a few weeks. The system will channel national capital reports to southern readers and send regional news from the South through its 18 bureaus. The project aims to boost coverage of markets and sports with the AP’s large staff filing from New York and southern circuits.
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New York
Associated Press
Mobile R
Regio Oe Aes
National Capital
South
Locat
Brothers in Memphis Brawl Leave One Seriously Hurt
Two grandsons were involved in a Memphis fight on May 20 in which one man said he shot in self defense after his brother drew a knife. James Harris could not recall how he was shot.
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Memphis
Tenn
James Harris
James
Trials Begin For More Than 50 Strikebreakers In Contempt Case
In Elizabethton Tennessee Chancellor C E Miller set trials for Wednesday for over fifty strikebreakers charged with contempt of court. The group rose from fifteen as more pickets arrested last week were arraigned, contending that their picketing violated an injunction against interfering with operations at the American Yanzstoff and American Berg Mills.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
C. E. Miller
Bemberg Mills
Militia Guards Carter County Strike Zone In Elizabethton
Eight companies of state militia patrolled Elizabethton Tennessee amid reports of a large strike demonstration. Adjutant General W C Boyd said martial law would not be ordered unless necessary. Dr A Mothwurf, head of Bemberg and Glantzatoff, heads to New York for business. then Baltimore for American Bay Association meeting. A labor condition report will be presented to the senate investigating committee by Raleigh Reece, brother of Rep Carroll B Reece.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Carter County
W. C. Boyd
A. Mothwurf
American Bemberg
American Glantzatoff
New York
Baltimore
American Bay Association
Probe 18 Ordered by War Secretary Good
Secretary of War Good ordered a probe into claims that federal arms were used by Tennessee state police during the textile strike. The inquiry, announced last night, is not aimed at the strike itself but at the cited allegations and related claims.
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Elizabethton
Tenn
Tennessee
Levee Break Near Memphis Threatens 80000 Acres
Floodwaters breach a weak spot near Kaannett Missouri and threaten about 80 000 acres. Residents near the Overall plantation two miles north of Memphis faced inundation as water spread from the gap at 1 30 this morning. No major town lies in the direct path as efforts to avert further crevasse continue.
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Memphis
Tenn
Rene Averteres
Kaan Nett
Convicts Sent to Mound Landing as Levee Threat Grows
Severe weather at Mound Landing near Greenville Mississippi threatens the levee on the Mississippi River. Army engineers brace for possible breach while Governor Bilbo orders 300 convicts to assist, though held pending federal regulations.
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New Orleans
Mound Landing
Greenville
Miss
Mississippi River
Theo Bilbo
Frm
Pratt Opposes Pacgeneos Tariff Increase In House
Representative Ruth Baker Pratt of New York testified before the house immigration committee arguing against a proposed tariff increase for Pacgeneos. She claimed domestic sugar production cannot become an American industry due to climate, and that cane and beet growers face production limits. Pratt noted labor largely comes from Mexico.
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Washington
Ruth Baker Pratt
New York
House
William Green
Keane Can Federation of Knee
Pratt
House Immigration Committee
Mexico
Group Returns From Alabama Junior Chamber Conference
The Mobile delegation to the semi annual Alabama Junior Chamber of Commerce session in Birmingham Friday and Saturday returned Sunday reporting a successful meeting. W. M. Jernigan of Mobile led the group and filed the summary.
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Mobile
Alabama Junior Chamber of Commerce
Birmingham
W. M. Jernigan
Prisoner Escapes on Train During Manhunt Near Orleans
James Morales, a federal inmate convicted of narcotics, leaped from a moving train two miles north of Mobile while en route to Atlanta. A manhunt by deputies and federal agents followed, with nine other prisoners absent, as officers scoured nearby woods but Morales remained at large.
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Atlanta
Mobile
James Morales
Harrison
Ély
Morales
Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
New Orleans
Omo
Woodlands
Ask Rehearing In Washington Trade Case Amid Shipping Debate
On May 20 a filing argued that Kansas City and Texas ports like Houston and Galveston, faced competition, while the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe pursued a policy of routing imports through certain ports, perceived as harming New Orleans.
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Washington
Kansas City
Texas
Houston
Galveston
Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe
New Orleans
Two Drowned In River Fishing Trip Near Macon
In Macon Georgia two men died in the Gee River when their small craft capsized six miles south of the city during a fishing trip. The accident occurred on May 20 as the boat overturned in the current.
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Gee River
Macon
Here
Potato Shipments Reported by States Through May 18
Daily US potato shipments reported by H. E. Rutland show new stock totals by state including Ala 21 Calif 6 Fla 3 Ga 10 La 29 Miss 1 S C 19 Tex 4 totaling 268. Old stock mainly from the north pushes the day’s total to 602. The May 19 figures list new stock Calif 2 Fla 2 La 4 Tex 1 and a total of 33 with old stock not fully specified.
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H. E. Rutland
United States Department of Agriculture
United States
Ala
Calif
Fia
Miss
S.C
Tex
Via
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J. R. O'Donoghue
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