Hold Up Near Crichton Targets Insurance Collector
W M Campbell of Crichton a field lector for the Commonwealth Insurance Company was robbed last night near the cotton mill village. Two young men 20 to 25 drove up in a car demanded money from Campbell and fled after taking between 70 and 80 dollars in cash while Campbell could not identify them face to face though he could recognize their voices. Deputy sheriffs investigate.
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W. M. Campbell
Crichton
Commonwealth Insurance Company
Cotton Mill
Schwarz
Campbell
Reopening of Ellingson Murder Trial Set in San Francisco
AP reports on plans to reopen the Ellingson murder case in San Francisco. A 17 year old girl was adjudged insane, and is to be returned to Napa County for confinement after weeks of observation by state staff.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Ellingson
Napa State
Alabama editors invited to tour Mobile port terminals
State editors from Alabama will visit Baldwin county June 18 to 28 and may take a boat trip from Fairhope to Mobile to inspect the new port docks. Major General William L. Sibert and the docks board oversee the project as editors tour Bay Minette Foley and other Baldwin county towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alabama Editorial Association
Baldwin County
Mobile
Chamber of Commerce
Fairhope
Idwin
Bay Minette
Foley
Banks sue over death of Effie Matthews in kerosene blast
The Merchants Bank admin of Effie Matthews estate seeks 50000 dollars in a circuit court suit against Bert Sherman Alza Sherman and Alice Sherman doing business as Mobile Oil Company. Matthews died January 25 at home after a kerosene explosion allegedly containing inflammable products bought at St Louis Street Market. A prior suit for 25000 dollars regarding Mrs Fannie Crosby death is noted along with indictments against Oil Company officials for selling substandard fuel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Circuit Couort
Merchants Bank
Effie Matthews
Bert R. Sherman
Alza C. Sherman
Alice P. Sherman
Mobile Oil Company
Miss Matthews
Adams Motor Company
Mob Attacks Dallas County Jail Over Murder Case
A mob of thousands gathered near the Dallas county jail as four men Frank and Lorenzo Noel faced murder and assault charges. Police repelled the rush with gunfire and water streams while deputies and fire crews prepared defenses. Several bystanders were wounded. a few alarms proved false as the mob tried to free the alleged prisoners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Dallas
Texas
Has County
Frank
Lorenzo Noel
Tim Jolly
Dwight Stewart
N. E. Duncan
J. J. Young
Stewart
Dallas County
Ryan Ad
Lonely Road
Ust University
Bel Waa
Iurer
W. IL. Mi
Restore Old Rates on Iron and Steel to Mobile
The Mississippi Warrior barge line system will amend its tariff and restore old rates to Mobile for iron and steel from Pittsburgh after Mobile interests raised the issue. Theodore Brent, manager, says the published increase resulted from an old minimum rate and will be corrected, with no change intended for Mobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi Warrior
Mobile
Theodore Brent
Iron and Steel
Pittsburgh
Brent
Chamber of Commerce
Birmingham
Cuba
Lso
Ascension Day Services At Grace Lutheran Church
Special services for Ascension Day tonight at 7 30 at Grace Lutheran Church. Rev Hafner will preach A Christian's Journey is Heavenward Bound. Choir will remain for plac e after service. A regional Walther League rally for Pensacola Elberta Foley and Pascagoula will be held May 23 24 with hosts Grace Lutheran. Ed Konstanzer delivers welcome address. Junior Walther League meets Friday at 8 at the parish house.
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Race Lutheran Church
Hafner
Walther League
Pensacola
Fila
Elberta and Foley
Ala
Pasgagoula
Miss
Walt
Taxi Driver Fined for Reckless Driving
J. W. Powell a taxi driver was fined $15 or 15 days after Motorcycle Officer Brown testified Powell drove on St. Anthony street and Springhill avenue at 34 miles an hour. Powell denied the charge but the court ruled the officer had a speedometer on his motorcycle and Powell did not have one on his car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. W. Powell
Brown
Powell
St. Anthony Street
Springhill Avenue
Banana cargoes arrive on two United Fruit steamers
Forty thousand stems of bananas reach port this morning aboard the United Fruit Company ships Smaragd and Verona. Earlier in the week the Vera carried 20,000 stems and then sailed. Next week vessels Honduras Venator Vera and Ellis are scheduled to arrive with bananas.
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United Fruit Company
Smaragd
Verona
Vera
Honduras
Venator
Ellis
Cutter Comanche Sets Course for Galveston Port
The coast guard cutter Comanche will likely sail tomorrow morning for its base at Galveston and later call at this port while touring the gulf. The Comanche was formerly stationed here and has been transferred to the Texas port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Guard
Galveston
Gulf
Texas
Alabama and Mississippi Fair Tonight and
Weather note from Washington reports fair conditions across Alabama and Mississippi tonight. Tomorrow likely continued pleasant with no major storms in the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Entering Guilty Plea In Auto Smashup Case
Willie Mastin Jr pleaded guilty in circuit court to intoxicated driving and leaving the scene after a crash. He faced fines totaling over 300 dollars plus costs and was sentenced to hard labor and terms from a prior recorder ruling. Other defendants faced varying penalties including reckless driving and vagrancy forfeiture.
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Willie Mastin, Jr
Estra
Mastin
J. R. Eastburn
Circuit Court
Recorder
BE. L. Pate
Pate
R. E. Kelly
Alvis Connor
Earl Ford
Percy Noel
Nolle
Hazel Clemmons
David Holt Announces Run for Mobile County Legislature
David Holt longtime Chamber of Commerce publicity manager and commander of the local American Legion post announces his candidacy for the Mobile county seat in the state legislature. He will resign as Legion post commander to pursue the race and aims to advance harbor and port development at Mobile.
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David Holt
Chamber of Commerce
American Legion
Mobile County
W. H. Holcombe, Jr
Hoyt
Legion Post
Port of
Mobile
Burglars Hit Shoe Store on Dauphin Street
Thieves entered Smith's Shoe Store at 217 Dauphin street through a skylight and stole 16 dollars from a cash register and two small watches. They tried to force the safe but failed. The same burglars entered the offices of Drs Grenade at 125 Dauphin street and carried off gold fillings, bridge gold, and old rings.
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Smith’s Shoe Store
Dauphin Street
Drs. T
T. J. Grenade
Episco pal Minister to Lead Service at Whistler Church
Rev R A Pearce, a well known Episcopal minister, will conduct services at St Pauls Episcopal church in Whistler next Sunday at 11 oclock. The communion service closes a week of prayer by the Woman s Episcopal Auxiliary.
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R. A. Pearce
St. Paul's Eopal Church
Whistler
Woman's Episcopal Auxiliary
Lutherans Plan New Church At St Elmo Alabama
The English Evangelical Lutheran church of St Elmo Alabama organized in probate court to form a new congregation. Trustees named include Marvin Heaceh Hanson and Olin Hanson. The group plans to build a church at St Elmo at a later date.
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ST. Elmo
English Evangelical Lutheran Church of
Woman Held Guilty of Reckless Driving
Mrs Moore was found guilty of reckless driving for a April 9 collision at Government and Dearborn streets that injured Mrs C O Danridge Effie Morris and a child as they left the First Christian church. The circuit court appeal bond was set at 100 dollars and posted.
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Government
Dearborn
Circuit Court
Chattanooga Shrine to Visit Mobile on Special Train
The Rebelle temple of Shriners from Chattanooga Tenn will stop in Mobile Tuesday morning at 7 oclock for three hours visiting Abba Temple guests at the Scottish Rite cathedral for breakfast. They travel by special train with band and patrol en route to Los Angeles for the Imperial Council session. Mobile hosts depart Tuesday night with H N Stevens potentate his wife Daniel Jett Alex Hancock past potentate J W Voltz Jr Little Abba Temple of Selma and spouses accompanying.
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Rebelle Temple of Shriners of
Chattanooga
Tenn
Mobile
Scottish Rite
Abba Temple
Los Angeles
Cal
Imperial Council
Abba
H. N. Stevens
Daniel Jett
Alex Hancock
J. W Voltz, Jr
Little Abba Temple
Selma
Chicken fined five dollars under local ordinance
W. H. Maytor of 206 North Conception street was fined five dollars by the recorder for keeping domestic fowl at large. He initially appealed but paid the amount. Mrs. M. E. Scott of 205 North Conception testified the chickens disturbed her lawn and garden for over a year, once causing her to chase the chicks at dawn in a bathrobe.
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W. H. Maytor
North Conception Street
Recorder
Maytor
M. E. Scott
Body of Drowned Man Held for Order
The body of W. O. Walker 24 is held in Memphis awaiting instructions from Barnesville Georgia. Walker was among Norman disaster victims recovered by government workers and found at Polk's Landing Arkansas about 30 miles south of the sinking site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
W. O. Walker
Barnesville
Walker
Polk’s Landing
Ark
Old Messenger to Be Reconditioned Coast Guard AB-80 to be rebuilt as AB-20
The coast guard boat AB-80, formerly the Messenger, will be re conditioned to improve its capability against ram runners along the coast. Repair work is expected to be done in Mobile and the AB-80s will join other coast guard craft in the gulf to block rum running.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coast Guard
Mobile
Stowaway Charged After Arrival of Schooner Ludlow
Immigration officials arrest Charles Hubert Day after the schooner Ludlow reaches Port Macoris and a stowaway is removed. The incident follows the vessel's port call and raises questions about boarding security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Hubert Day
Ludlow
Port Macoris
Heflin to Tour Alabama on Senate Rules
Senator Thomas J. Heflin will tour Alabama to discuss changes in Senate rules proposed by Vice President Dawes. Dawes will speak in Birmingham on May 27 advocating limits on unlimited debate. Heflin says he was not invited to Dawes dinner or the postmeeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lafayettville
Ala
Thomas J. Heflin
Alabama
Senate
Dawes
Birmingham
Heflin
Oscar W. Underwood
Italian Aviator Extends Flight From Burma to Siam
Captain de Pinedo, the Italian aviator, left Mergui Burma this morning bound for Pusket Siam. He continues his historic crossing from Italy toward Japan and Australia.
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Rangoon
Burma
de Pinedo
Mergui
Pusket
Siam
Italy
Japan
Australia
Cuba Enters Period of Strict Legal Compliance
Havana May 21 J M Barraque secretary of justice announced Cuba has entered a period of strict compliance with the law and an independent judiciary in a formal statement indicating renewed legal enforcement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
J. M. Barraque
Cuba
American Girls Tonight to Bow to British King and Queen
London May 21 AP Sixteen American women and about 850 guests prepare for the first royal court of the season at Buckingham Palace. The list includes Miss Jean Field Blair and others in the general circle and Mrs. Luke McNamee and several others in the diplomatic circle. Fashion plans feature miniature courts, trained etiquette tips, bobbed hair, ostrich feather clips, and jeweled headbands. Dresses are described as having medium length skirts.
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London
Associated Press
George
Queen Mary
Buckingham Palace
Jean Field Blair
Richmond
Mary Louise Butterfield
Chestnut Hill
Mass
Elizabeth Irving Chase
Waterbury
Conn
Mary Campbell Chester
New York
Greenwich
Suzette Dewey
Chicago
Washington
Migg
Helen Edwards
Cincinnati
Betty Galey
Joan Williams
Luke McNamee
Naval Attade
Herbert F. Leary
Claude A. Jones
Marion
Alice Tully
Corning
Houghton
John Lawrence
Boston
John Taylor
Philadelphia
Williamson
Howell
Warsaw
Cumberland Church Opens Convention in Nashville
The Cumberland Presbyterian general assembly meets in Nashville with few candidates for moderator. D. M. McAnulty of Bolivar presides as lay moderator. the group plans moderator election this afternoon while tackling missions, college athletics and fundamentalist Bible interpretation. The concurrent Woman’s Missionary convention debates changes in board duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville, Tenn
Associated Press
General Assembly
Cumberlandresbyterian Church
D. M. McAnulty
Bolivar, Tenn
E Woman's Minkewaxy Convention
Woman's Board of Missions
Ukrainian church declares dependence on Russian church
A May 21 report states the rein ecclesiastical council proclaimed the Ukrainian church dependent on the Russian church, signaling a shift in church alignment.
Nashville readers condemn biography for slander of Rachel Jackson
Citizens led by Mrs. Walter Stokes and Mrs. Betty Donelson condemn Meade Minnigerode’s book An Informal Biography of Rachel Jackson as indefensible slander. They cite portrayal of Rachel as illiterate and Jackson as a boor, calling for corrected respect for Mrs. Jackson’s legacy and public criticism of the author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Associated Press
Meade
Walter Stokes
Regent Ladies Armitage Association
Betty M. Donelson
Andrew Jackson Society
Old Hickory
Jackson
Tennessee
New Forest Fires Threaten Villages
Fires swept across hundreds of miles of timber land in northern Wisconsin as high winds fanned new blazes. State guardsmen and volunteer firefighters battled the flames while villages faced possible destruction near Laona on May 21.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laona
Wis
United Press
Wisconsin
Andolunteer
American Ranch Attacked in Mexico. Manager Killed
A Saltillo dispatch reports bandits attacked the American owned Sabanillas ranch near Saltillo Mexico killing the Mexican manager Jose Perez. The American consulate protested and authorities are sending troops to pursue the bandits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Saltillo
Jose Perez
President and Mrs Coolidge Host Disabled Veterans Fete
Disabled World War veterans confined to Washington hospitals were invited to a White House lawn fete with President Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge. The event continues an annual tradition begun by President Harding, drawing a large guest count to the White House grounds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Coolidge
White House
Harding
Napa State Hospital case looms as trial resumes
San Francisco report notes Othy Ellingson, 17, facing matricide charges, defends sanity claim as defense plans to argue a third person killed Joseph Ellingson. Attorneys consider a renewed inquest and possible return of the girl to Napa facility while proceedings resume Monday.
Trotsky Bypassed for Cabinet Posts in Soviet Union
Moscow reports that all members of the People's Council and Soviet cabinet were reappointed by the executive committee of the union of soviet socialist republics. Leon Trotsky failed to secure a cabinet post amid concerns abroad that such a move would signal Bolshevik weakness.
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Moscow
Cated Press
Council of People's Committes
Rykoff
Union of Soviet
Leon Trotsky
Pst
Tzky
Rotzky
Trotsky
French Moroccan Troops Launch Big Offensive in Taounat Riff
In Rabat on May 21 the French Moroccan forces began a major push to seize posts in the Taounat area of the Riff. De Chambrun's units with artillery at Kifiane conduct operations as 308 Krim reportedly presses to EF rumors of German support.
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Rabat
Unitea Press
Riff
Taounat
de Chambrun
Kifiane
Krim
Germany
Seized Autos Put On Border Patrol
Washington May 21 Thirty motor cars seized from bootleggers were turned against border rum runners today by a treasury department using new legislation that empowers the government to use confiscated vehicles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Treasury
Sleeping Sickness Grows in England and Wales
Official statistics show the sleeping sickness rising in England and Wales. The figures advance from 16 in 1912 to higher counts in 1913 and 1934, with notable mention of Viscount Milner in the context of discussion on disease spread.
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England
London
Associated Press
Viscount Milner
Wales
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