Wall Street Falls as Wheat Break Triggers Liquidation
A sharp drop in wheat futures under one dollar spurs heavy selling in the stock market. Major names including General Motors Montgomery Ward Canadian Pacific Northern Pacific and St Paul drop to new lows for the year while call money surges toward 10 to 12 percent by week’s end amid tight credit conditions. Bears press with renewed vigor as brokers warn on long commitments and seek caution until credit stabilizes.
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Stanley W. Prenosil
Associated Press
New York
General Motors
Montgomery Ward
Canadian Pacific
Northern Pacific
St. Paul
Call
Northwest
Western Railroad
Commission
Mercy shoots at attacker after grocery dispute
T A Mercy, operating a Davis avenue grocery, says a man attempted to assault him last night. Mercy fired in self defense when attacked, causing the assailant to flee in a car later found held by police as possibly stolen. Police have no further clues on two masked men linked to a separate early Sunday holdup near Mertz station.
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T. A. Mercy
Davis Avenue
Gracie Street
Mercy
C. L
Ross Street
Mertz Station
Dockins
Here
Rai |Petation
Mertz
Negligence Alleged in Wire Death Suit in Mobile Circuit Court
One of Mobile circuit court’s largest death suits was filed by Evie C. D'Olive and her attorneys Gailis Smith Johnston against parties tied to an electric wire incident. The case seeks damages claiming a highly charged wire caused a fatality and names the husband and a woman as defendants.
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Mes
Evie D’olive
Husband
Gailis
Mobile
Evie C. D’olive
Walter Sibley
Olive
Smith
A Johnston
Dramatist Eugene O'Neill Sued Over Novel Plot Claim
Georges Lewis of New York files in U S district court for 1 250 000 alleging the play Strange Interlude plagiarized from her privately printed novel The Temple of Pallas Atheneae The Theatre Guild Boni and Liveright and Horace Liveright are named in the suit as producers and publishers.
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New York
Eugene O'Neill
Doctors greet American physicians at London meeting
In London on May 27 Sir John Bland-Sutton and other leaders welcomed members of the Interstate Post-Graduate Medical Association of North America. The visit included a lecture in the morning and demonstrations of operations at British hospitals in the afternoon as part of a series of receptions in honor of the American doctors.
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London
Post-Graduate Medical Association of North America
John Bland-Sutton
Royal Society of Medicine
Chicago capitalist commits suicide in San Francisco hotel
Jesse Whiteside a 45 year old retired Chicago capitalist shot himself to death in a downtown San Francisco hotel early today. He had come to California for health reasons and had been living with his family in Palo Alto before the tragedy.
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San Francisco
Jesse Whiteside
Chicago
California
Palo Alto
Potato shipments reach 942 cars across states
Old stock mainly from northern states on May shipments listed by region. Totals show 476 cars for the day in United States including California Virginia Norfolk section and 466 cars of old stock. Overall daily grand total 942 cars. Cucumber shipments noted in United States.
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United States
California
Virginia
Norfolk
United
Supreme Court rules pocket vetoes kill late Congress bills
The Supreme Court ruled that pocket vetoes by the president are effective to kill legislation sent near session end even if it is not the final session of a congress. The Muscle Shoals bill was pocket vetoed at the close of the first session of the last congress. The decision states Congress must be in session when the president returns a bill with disapproval.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Muscle Shoals
Congress
Battle Pirates Clash Near Woosung River Mouth
London dispatch reports a two hour clash at the Woosung river mouth between Chinese government ships and pirates. Government forces with three cruisers sank 20 pirate boats. about 1000 pirates drowned and 250 were captured.
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London
Ake River
Woosung
Times
Cutter Pontchartrain Heads for Mobile Home Port
The coast guard cutter Pontchartrain leaves Tampa and heads toward Mobile. It is expected to reach its home port in the latter part of the week following target practice activity near Tampa.
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Tampa
Coast Guard
Pontchartrain
Mobile
Senate Vote Switch Sets Textile Inquiry Path
The Senate manufactures committee reversed itself and voted six to five to have the inquiry into the textile industry conducted by the committee rather than the Federal Trade Commission. Chairman LaFollette said approval by the full Senate is needed to start the inquiry, with a close vote anticipated.
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Washington
Senate Manufactures Committee
Federal Trade Commission
Senate
LaFollette
McNary
Oregon
Hatfield
West Virginia
Wheeler
Montana
Tyson
Tennessee
Sheppard
Texas
Metcalf
Rhode Island
Deneen
Illinois
Halee
Maine
Goldsborough
Maryland
Smith
South Carolina
French Majors Claim World Air Speed Record
Etampes France May 27 Majors Weiss and Girier of the French military air service say they set a new world speed record over a 5 000 kilometer route of Etampes Chartres and Orleans. They completed the course in 26 12 hours at an average of 116 7 miles per hour. The former record belonged to Italian aviators Ferarin and Del Prete who averaged 86 miles an hour over 4 760 6 miles.
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Etampes
France
Weiss
Girier
French Military Air Service
Chartres
Orleans
Ferarin
Delprete
Earthquake in Central Turkey Kills 64, Wrecks 1857 Homes
Havas dispatches from Angora report 64 killed and 72 injured in 74 villages across Central Turkey after a Saturday quake. Karalissar Southehir near Sivas suffer the worst damage with 1857 houses destroyed and 313 damaged. Earlier quakes in May hit Russian Turkestan and Persia causing about 2000 deaths.
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Paris
Havas
Angora
Turkey
Karalissar
Southehir
Sivas
Russian Turkestan
Persia
Buyers' Week Plans Discussed by Mobile Merchants
First discussion of annual Buyers Week planned for August by Mobile wholesale merchants is set for Thursday at a Mobile Chamber of Commerce wholesale committee meeting. Herbert Brown, chairman, called the meeting for 10 o'clock. Committees are to be named shortly as plans must be arranged weeks in advance.
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Herbert Brown
Senator Heflin Reveals New Plot to Kill Him
Senator Heflin of Alabama told the Senate a letter purporting to reveal a murder plot against him. The note described a plan with two men and a woman en route to Washington to assassinate him on the road using dumdum bullets and an attack on his car.
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Senator Heflin
Senate
Internationalews Service
Washington
Alabama
Losses From Fruit Fly Prompt Ten Million Fund
Proposal seeks ten million dollars to compensate orchard losses from a Mediterranean fruit fly outbreak. Payments would target trees planted in eligible orchards for six years or more, calculated per tree by age: one dollar for six to eight years, two dollars for eight to ten, three dollars for ten to fifteen, and four dollars for fifteen and older.
Tariff Bill Proposes Higher Duties On Tobacco and Broom Corn
Washington May 27 The house ways and means committee advances amendments raising import duties. Wrapper tobacco unstemmed from 2.10 to 2.50 per pound stemmed from 2.75 to 3.15. Broom corn to 10 per ton, flax seed duty per bushel. tariff also shifts 56 cent rate on a listed item from 40 cents, with a recent presidential action raising to 56 cents under a flexible tariff.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress Eyes Early Summer Recess Amid Key Votes
Congressional readers hope for an early break as Senate votes on the census reapportionment bill and House action on tariff measures loom. A deadlock between Senate and House farm bill conferees over the expert debenture plan could delay the plan.
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Washington
Congressional
Senate
House
Transatlantic flight for Yellow Bird and Green Flash postponed
In Old Orchard Beach Maine on May 27 the Yellow Bird led by Armino Lotti and Rene Le Fevre planned to fly to Paris via New York but weather risks postponed the take off. The Green Flash with Roger Williams and Lewis Yancey awaited weather reports before attempting Rome flight.
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Maine
Armino Lotti
Paris
Rene le Fevre
New York
Jean Assolant
Roger Q. Williams
Lewis A. Yancey
Gator
The
Greens
Rome
Two Teens Plead Guilty to Crichton Burglary
John Herrin and Buford Smith both 16 of Crichton pleaded guilty to breaking into W. J. Falkner’s Crichton commissary and stealing 52 dollars. They were bound over to the grand jury under 300 dollars bond. Joe Miller was fined 30 dollars plus costs or 20 days hard labor for violating the prohibition law in the same court.
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John Herrin
Buford Smith
Crichton
Inferior Criminal Court
W. J. Falkner
Joe Miller
Tisdale Touart
Supreme Court declares Sheriff Cunningham subject to arrest
Washington May 7 27 7. The supreme court ruled Sheriff Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia may be arrested by the senate for refusing to answer questions in the investigation of William S Ware’s election to the Pennsylvania Senate.
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Washington
Thomas W. Cunningham
Philadelphia
Supreme Court
Senate
William 8. Ware
Pennsylvania
Confession About Failure Ties to Christian
New York May 2. Gr Cheis iac said a 20 page document written by Christian before his death tells the whole failure story and places all blame on him. Smith said he would produce the confession when requested. Detective tracing Christian after his disappearance tied to the brokerage firm collapse. Christian was arrested in Texas last March on mail misuse charges, freed on $5,000 bail, and was awaiting trial when he died.
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New York
GR. Cheisiac
Christian
Smith
Texas
Roscoes Violations Lead to Multiple Fines in Recorder Court
In recorder's court this morning, P. J. Crimi nale was fined 25 dollars and T. L. Crabtree 10 dollars for violations of slot machine or dinance. Both appealed. Three youths W. J. Faulk J. D. Latty and Cecil E. Powell faced 15 dollars or 15 days each for a Dauphin street fight. James Nelson, a colored bell hop, paid 50 dollars for possession of half of a half pint of liquor. Judge D. H. Edington warned that a repeat offense could bring three months on county roads. Liam B. Inge, attorney for The Reg-
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Recorder’s Court
P. J. Criminale
T. L. Crabtree
W. J. Faulk
J. D. Latty
Cecil E. Powell
Dauphin Street
James Nelson
D. H. Edington
Liam B. Inge
Reg
Conference on deep waterway from Rome to Mobile
A state conference called by Governor Bibb Graves will discuss a deep waterway from Rome Georgia to Mobile Alabama. Attendees include the city commission Senator John Craft John B Waterman and a Mississippi Valley Association delegation plus Mobilian business leaders. The Montgomery meeting aims to spur port development and has favorable engineer surveys.
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Bibb Graves
Rome
Mobile
John Craft
John B. Waterman
Mississippi Valley Association
Chamber of Commerce
Montgomery
Georgia City
Changes in Army Air Tactics Foreshadowed by Davison
Washington May 27 F Trubee Davison assistant secretary of war for air announced changes in army air tactics after two weeks of Ohio maneuvers. Davison completed a 7000 mile flight inspection across the country and said the wargame experience pointed to tactical shifts with potential effects on air operations nationwide.
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Washington
Ohio
F. Trubee Davison
Air
Davidson
Air Corps
Davison
Life of a notorious monarch of the underworld on screen
The piece sketches the peril filled life of a feared criminal. It notes Capone’s prison statement as proof of ongoing danger and hints at strict security and orders from authorities. The column promises continuation on page 10.
Court Orders Newsboys to Stop Disorder on Mobile Streets
Judge D H Edington held that disorderly conduct by newsboys selling papers on Mobile streets must stop or offenders will be prosecuted. The case of two newsboys, Charles Shake of the News Item and George Allbright of The Press, was continued to Wednesday.
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D. H. Edington
Recorder's Court
Charles Shake
George Allbright
William B. Inge
Register and
News Item
Register
News- Item
Shrine train heads to Imperial Council meeting in Los Angeles
Approximately 130 Shriners from Abba Temple plus families and friends will depart Tuesday at 10 PM by a special Pullman train for Los Angeles to attend the Imperial Council of North America meeting June 4. The trip includes eight Pullmans and several cars with an elaborate program of entertainment and business. Names of nobles signed up include I V Wood and Eberlein among others.
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Abba’ Temple
Los Angeles
Imperial Council of North America
Nobles of the
Mystic Shrine
Loulaville & Nashville Railroad
New Orleans
Convention City
I. V. Wood
A. Pearson
A. Godbolt
E. P. Eberlein
B. Adams
C. H. Cowan
W. BE. DeVan
C. P. ‘Smith
A. G. Car
Linotypes Darkened As Tribute To Hyland Memory
Dick Hyland was laid to rest amid flowers as editors remembered him. Services were conducted from Roche mortuary and at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception with Father Pat presiding.
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Hyland
Dick” Hyland
Roche Mortuary
At the Immaculate Conception
Father Pat
Water may rise as high as fifteen feet
Reports warn residents of a potential flood surge with water levels seen climbing from five to sixteen feet in affected areas. Authorities urge precaution and monitor rivers and levees for rapid changes. Local crews mobilize to reinforce flood defenses and assist evacuations if required.
Levees Hold After Long Delta Flood Fight
Engineers say French reef levee structures reinforced to contain rising waters near Memphis. Hundreds continue work to shore up the dyke while vast delta lands remain threatened by the flood.
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Memphis
Tenn
Cow Valley
Hearing Set In Mobile For Fertilizer Tariff Suspension
A July 15 hearing in Mobile will consider suspending the Illinois Central rail tariff on imported fertilizer materials at Gulfport. Examiner Kerwin will preside as the Commerce Department and local commission discuss objections by shippers to absorbing the charge, delaying action.
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Illinois Central Rai
Gulfport
Wee Connet
Mobile
Ccner of Commerce
Kerwin
Posal
Interstate Commerce
Two Hurt In Wheelerville Fight Infirmary After Injuries
Police report a morning brawl near Wheelerville left Bert Ellis with head and arm wounds and Neese with a head injury. Both were treated at a local infirmary.
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Bert Ellis
Neese
Ellis
Tyler Nominated Mississippian Nominated as Marshal
Tyler state official from Mississippi receives Senate approval for appointment as United States Marshal. The May 1 announcement places him in the federal justice framework with duties including law enforcement and court security.
Weather Summary for Alabama and Northwest Florida
A weather note reports thundershowers moving through Alabama and Northwest Florida. Forecasters expect scattered storms with brief heavy downpours and possible lightning across the region today.
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Alabama
Mo Cieney
Florida
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