Marine unions to vote on tentative shipowners settlement
Marine workers at the port of Mobile including firemen water tenders and oilers and seamen’s unions expect a vote Sunday on a tentative agreement reached in Washington to end the nationwide strike. The terms will be released after local unions approve them and would cover one year with wage reductions.
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Mobile
Washington
Admiral Benson
United Shipping Board
Marine Engineers
Fficial Association
Nike
Chuahan Benson
Wuntry
Americanowners’ Association
Recorder’s Court
Atorneys
Harry Nyhiuls
Dauphin Street
Atlanta City to Take Dip Next Saturday Plan
The Atlanta City, the eleventh ship built at the Chickasaw plant, will launch next Saturday at noon. A party from Atlanta including prominent citizens and a sponsor with her maids will attend and be hosted by Chickasaw company. The ship is the first named for a city outside Alabama. prior launches were Alabama-named vessels. The sponsor, chosen by the Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, is not yet named locally. Afterward Memphis City will be launched, early July.
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Atlanta City
Chickasaw
Georgia City
Chickasaw Company
Alabama
Anniston City
Thomas E. Kilby
Chamber of Commerce
Allanta
Atlanta
Memphis City
Call for Reforms in Mobile County School Funds
EB A Henry reports to Governor Kilby urging changes in Mobile county schools to make the business manager subordinate to the superintendent. He recommends a three member committee to approve all expenditures and questions the one bank policy for educational funds.
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Mobile County
EB. A. Henry
Thomas E. Kilby
Henry
Examiner Henry
Rotary Club
North Dakota farmers push five cent loaf bread plan
Farmers in North Dakota propose restoring a five cent bread price by using a bonded mill at Grand Forks funded with a 2 million dollar bond. Horace A. Davis of Brooklyn Mass outlines the plan to show farmers can get more for wheat while bakers pay less for flour and the public saves on bread. The effort involves an experimental mill at North Dakota Agricultural College and aims to adjust grain and flour grading nationwide.
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New York
North Dakota
Horace A. Davis
Brooklyn
Mass
Tern
Bank of Dakota
The
United Pre
Grand Forks
Davis
Eee
North Dakota Agricultural College
Old Girls Not Flappers Need Watching Says Wright
NY education official H A Wright argues in New York high schools the threat is the going generation not the coming one. He notes short skirts and rouge are outdated among students and says the real issue lies with older women clinging to old fashions.
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Paul R. Malion
United Press
New York
H. A. Wright
Wright
United Press Today
Chicago
Itv
Federal Grand Jury to Adjourn Monday
The federal grand jury has sat since Monday and will adjourn Monday to complete work. Indictments have been returned and witnesses examined. Many indicted defendants out on bail are expected to plead next week, including those charged with violating prohibition laws. Some have already pleaded guilty. Names mentioned include Jack Tennenbaum and Shep Mason.
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Federal Grand Jury
Lave
Jack Tennenbaum
Shep Mason
Red Men Postpone Selection of Home Site at Gadsden
At the annual convention in Gadsden Alabama Dr H J Krudop was named chairman of the appeals. The decision on the site for the Widows and Orphans Home of the order was postponed until next year. Attending from Mobile was Moreland Marsh and Dr Krudop representing Tuscahoma Tribe No 59.
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Gadsden
Ala
H. J. Krudop
Ile
of Appeals
Hans
Mobile
Moreland Marsh
Krudop
Plans for Educational Drive by Ladies' Aid Society
The Ladies' Aid Society of St. CIs Street Methodist Church announced teams to take part in the Christian education drive Sunday with a supper at Scottish Rite cathedral. Actor R A Christian presented plans and Rev S W Hian Rev R P Cochran and Miss spoke on the drive.
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Ladies’ Aid Society
St. Cis Street Methodist Church
Scottish Rite
Prohibition Charge Arrests Reported Near Cedar Point
Sheriff Walter Blackman reports three men detained last night near Cedar Point for violations of the state prohibition law and related motor vehicle offenses on a highway. T. Roberts L. Kelly and L. N. Necamp face charges and are due in court.
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T. Roberts
L. Kelly
Cedar Point
Walter Blackman
L. N. Necamp
Memorial Day Observed At Cemetery by Mobile Legion
Memorial Day services are planned Sunday at the cemetery with ex service men from Mobile urged to attend. The event features a wreath at Confederate Rest, songs, and addresses by Rev G C Tucker and Rabbi Alfred G Moses. Taps by Michael T Judge. Memorial Day observed Monday with federal buildings and offices closing.
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Memo
Mobile
Cecil Bates
American Legion
George Street
Mobile Post
Grand Army of Songs
G.C. Tucker
America
Martha Gusman
Alfred G. Moses
Michael T. Judge
Semmes
Postoffice
Coden
League of Women Voters to Meet Next Thursday
The Mobile County League of Women Voters will hold its regular monthly meeting Thursday at 11 am in the league headquarters above the Smith Piano store. Mrs. James Hagan announces reports on child welfare bread ice prices and other matters. A membership drive quota for state work registration and a possible committee to appear before the revenue board are on the agenda.
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Mobile County League of Women Voters
Smith Piano
James Hagan
Board of Revenue
Fifteen Tank Steamers Offered for Sale or Charter
Fifteen tank steamers tied up in Mobile are listed for sale or charter by the Shipping Board with bids due by June 10. Among them is the Phoenix serving as a fuel supply ship at Mobile during the Blakeley Island station build. Vessels offered include Brandywine Chestnut Hill Sharon Antietam Avondale Hisko Phoenix Overbrook Silber brook Romulus Cuyamaca Dinsmore Latham and Moffitt with the last four described as concrete ships.
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Mobile
Shipping Board
Phoenix
Ofd
Blakeley Island
Brandywine
Chestnut Hill
Sharon
Antietam
Avondale
Hisko
Overbrook
Silberbrook
Romulus
Cuyamaca
Dinsmore
Latham
Moffitt
Tanker Tows Disabled Steamer Toward Jacksonville
The Oska loosa, a shipping board vessel out of Mobile bound for Antwerp, reported disabled southeast of Jacksonville. A tanker has towed her into Jacksonville for repairs after main and circulating pumps failed. Officials expect a quick delay.
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Shipping Board
Oskaloosa
Mobile
Antwerp
Jacksonville
Page & Jones
Weather outlook for Alabama Mississippi tonight warm and fair
The May 28 weather notice reports fair skies and continued warm conditions across Alabama and Mississippi with a mild night ahead. The bulletin notes warm temperatures expected to persist into tonight.
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Washington
Alabama
Mississippi
Sheriff Mandamus Hearing Postponed to June 4
In a mandamus case brought by W. H. Holcombe Jr. through Stevens McCorvey and McLeod, the circuit court postponed argument against the county board of revenue and road commissioners. The dispute centers on whether the county must supply a cooking stove and utensils for the jail and two typewriters plus an adding machine. The sheriff argues the law mandates county provision, while commissioners claim the sheriff must furnish all such equipment.
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W. H. Holcombe, Jr
Stevens
Young Sossaman to Practice Law Here
George A. Sossaman of Mobile, recent University of Alabama law graduate, took the attorney oath today before Judge Price Williams of the probate court. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. George K. Sossaman of this city.
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George A. Sossaman
Mobile
Law School
University of Alabama
Price Williams
Young Sossaman
George K. Sossaman
Hoodlums Seize Train But Land In Denver Jail
Twenty seven alleged I W W members were jailed after attempting to commandeer a Union Pacific freight train from Cheyenne to Denver. Police stopped the train outside Denver and at Greeley as crew alerted Union Pacific officials. the men surrendered and were placed in jail.
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Denver
Col
Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Wyo
Division
Greeley
Euy
Neutral Zone Plan Emerges for Upper Silesia Settlement
Paris reports Allied ambassadors nearly approve a neutral zone between German and Polish forces in Upper Silesia pending frontier fixation. The council seeks more information before final action. British troops arrive at Oppeln to suppress Polish insurgents. Germans concentrate near Brieg.
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Paris
Associated Press
Allied Council of Ambassadors
Upper Silesia
United States
Polea
Oppeln
Cologne
Brigehead
Kreuseburg
Brieg
Silesian
Foreign Office
Polish insurgents and German volunteers clash in Upper Silesia
May 28 dispatches from Karlsbad report ongoing hostilities between Polish insurgents and German volunteers in Upper Silesia with no sign of a pause.
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London
Upper Silesia
Karlsbad
Summerlin Presents U S Note to Obregon in Mexico City
George T. Summerlin United States charge d affaires met President Obregon in a cordial debate. He delivered a memorandum from Washington that was not a ultimatum for treaty or protocol and did not embody Albert B Fall's Senate report. The note was welcomed by local newspapers despite prior criticism of the secretary.
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Mexico City
George T. Summerlin
United States
Obregon
Is State Department
Washington
Renaseian
Mexico
Albert B. Fall
Secretary of the Interior
United States Senate
Natural Gas Entered Orleans Light Bloc
New Orleans Finance Commissioner Richard Murphy demands natural gas be part of any street car and utility solution. He ties the city’s light and fuel problems to the rehabilitation of the New Orleans Railway and Light Company, seeking council approval before any plan is approved.
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New Orleans
Richard Murphy
New Orleans Railway and Light Company
Murphy
Commission Council
General Porter’s Condition Remains Unchanged
New York May 28 General Horace Porter Civil War veteran remains critically ill and his condition was unchanged at his home this morning.
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New York
Horace Porter
Bomb intended for Boris kills two during Sofia ceremony
In Sofia on May 27 a bomb aimed at King Boris and officials exploded during a Metropo litan church anniversary event. Two men died and ten were injured. the king remained unharmed. A student demonstration preceded the blast, followed by riots as the crowd set a communist club ablaze and police struggled to restore order. The bomber escaped.
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Sofia
Boris
Cyrilus and Methodius
British Soldiers Spread Over Dublin Search After Raid
Crown forces invested a large area around Dublin mansion house and cordons blocked several streets with barbed wire entanglements. Exhaustive searches of nearby houses began as forces claimed to have captured the Irish Republican Army headquarters in a recent raid.
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Dublin
Associated Press
Crown
Dublin Mansion House
Shots fired at staff officer in Belfast escape detected
In Belfast on May 28 a staff officer was targeted by gunfire but not harmed. The shooters fled the scene after firing, leaving no injuries or immediate clues.
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Belfast
Girl Walking With College Man Slain in Philadelphia
May 28 Philadelphia: Josephine Howard a 17 year old telephone operator was shot and killed while walking with a college student. The shooter leaped from a scaffold in front of a house and fired twice at close range and fled. Police seek the discarded suitor and the mother and brother say he threatened to kill her if she would not marry him. The college student is held as a witness.
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Philadelphia
Josephine Howard
Caruso Boards Ship for Italian Visit
Enrico Caruso, in shaky health, sails aboard the Presidente bound for Italy to visit his homeland. Guards were posted to manage the crowd of admirers as he plans a summer stay in Italy to regain his health.
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Caruso
New York
Enrico Caruso
Italy
Arrests Succeed Fighting Along W Virginia Sector
Marshall Crum, arrested over the Nolan fight involving Kentucky guardsmen and state police, was released in Williamson by Major Tom Davis. Two negroes were seized at Rawl for concealed arms and a white man at Matewan faced charges for insulting two female state witnesses from last winter. No new disorders reported along the upper Tug river.
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Williamson
W. Va
Marshall Crum
Kentucky
Matewan
Tug River
One Killed, Others Seriously Injured in Fort Worth Fire
D Rhoades aged 55 died from burns in a fire that leveled the Grammer Hotel in Fort Worth Texas on May 28. Dr B J Plunkett of Duncan Oklahoma suffered a fractured skull along with three others badly burned. A woman and child remained missing as search continued amid fears the Terminal Hotel block could be destroyed.
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Fort Worth
Tex
D. Rhoades
B. J. Plunkett
Duncan
Oklahoma
Terminal
Harding Defends Loan Tightening At Federal Reserve
Birmingham May 28 W P G Harding governor of the Federal Reserve Board defended the 1920 loan tightening at a luncheon honoring him He said expansion would have caused collapse and that the board did not profiteer Earnings were small relative to the large sums involved, with only 2.9 percent. He noted eight board members were reduced by a billion dollars since December and that agricultural and live- stock sectors saw little relief in six months.
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Birmingham
Federal Reserve Board
W. P. G. Harding
Harding
Children rescued after 92 hours imprisoned in closet
In Paterson New Jersey on May 28 five year old Stella Wiener and seven year old Harry Barber were found alive after spending 92 hours confined in a clothes closet. The children said a catch lock kept them from opening the door from inside, and they were recovering from their ordeal as searchers scoured the area.
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Paterson
N.J
Stella Wiener
Harry Barber
Counside
Fiume to join Italy after a pact with Jugoslavia
Rome reports that Fiume and its harbor will be annexed to Italy by force under a pact with Jugoslovia to be signed before June 1. Porto Baros is also to be annexed under the same agreement.
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Rome
Fiume
Italy
Jugo-Slavia
Porto Baros
Marine engineers accept 15 percent wage cut to end strike
The Marine engineers agree to a 15 percent wage reduction for one year under U S Shipping Board authority. After a conference with Benson and the Secretary of Labor the plan was approved by the president. If unions vote to accept today and tomorrow workers may return next week to operate 13 000 tons of government shipping while private shipowners consider similar terms.
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New York
American Steamship Owners’ “Association
Atter
Washi
Benson
Shipping Board
the Marine Engineers
Davis
Winthrop L. Marvin
Ier
Engineers’ Beneficial Associats
Benson Ng
Wmenter
Cme
Washington
May
Marine Engineers
Admiral Benson
United States
Ieee
Hugh Kerwin
Bureau of Mediation
Atl
Four marines released from Parish prison in New Orleans
Four of the striking marines were freed in New Orleans on orders of Assistant United States Attorney W O Hara. They would not be tried with 93 others charged with violating restraining orders against assisting shipping board vessels. A jury was secured to try the men for enticing the crew from the steamship Hadnot. Trials began at the new post office building with daily sessions from 9 to 1.
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Parish
United States
W. O’hara
Shipping Board
French Morroccans kill Hun engineer in Rhineland
Paris May 28 Two Moroccans, soldiers in the Rhineland, were tried by the French war court for the murder of a German engineer near Frankfurt. One man was condemned to death, the other sentenced to hard labor imprisonment.
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Paris
Rhineland
Warco O
Frankfort
Mayence
Petit
Autoload of Booze Captured in Georgia
HAWKINSVILLE Ga May 23 Four hundred seventeen quarts of wrapped in straw rye and whiskey and the automobile used to convey the liquor were seized by the sheriff. Occupants giving names of Mr and Mrs B W of Chattanooga Tenn deposited $1 000 on sides leaving the whiskey and vehicle.
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Hawkinbville
Chattanooga
Tenn
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