Mrs Gunn Held As Slayer Of Husband In Double Robbery
Mobile police sought two black bandits after a Wednesday night holdup on Lawrence Street near Conti and Government. F. S. Dixon, 215 South Jackson, was relieved of $35 as the pair held him at pistol point and rifled his pockets. Dixon described the man as tall and slender in white trousers and shirt, the woman in a light dress.
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Mobile Police Department
F. S. Dixon
South Jackson Street
Pitols
Dixon
Ed Tunstal
Lawrence
Conti
Government Streets
Tunstall
Moody
Franco, Arras
Burden
Charges Reset for Eight Men at Monroe Park
Eight youths faced disorderly conduct charges after an arrest Wednesday night at Monroe Park by Officer J A Hub baka. The case was continued to June 15 with a warning from Recorder D H Edington to end misbehavior. Defendants include Alfred Hansen Travis Daugherty Frank Campbell George Ewert Woodie Woods Richard Taylor Archie Dunlap and Andrew Over street.
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Monroe Park
J. A. Hubbaka
Recorder’s Court
D. H. Edington
Alfred Hansen
North Carolina Street
Andrew Overstreet
Bay Avenue
Travis Daugherty
South Lawrence Street
Frank Campbell
Choctaw Street
George Ewert
Woodie Woods
South Conception Street
Richard Taylor
Harris Street
Archie Dunlap
Marine Street
Officer Hubbard
Park
Two Injured in Worded Auto Accidents
Mrs William Bady of 961 Garrity street suffered a fractured rib and bodily bruises after being struck by a car driven by Robert Pearson of 217 South Cedar street. Felix McConnell of Plateau endured a broken leg when struck on Craft highway near Toulminville by James Inge of 856 Dauphin street. Mrs Bady requested no charges against Pearson. Detectives White Connick and Pearson filed report.
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William Bady
Garrity Street
Felix McConnell
Plateau
Bady
Robert Pearson
South Cedar Street
M. M. White
Joe Connick
W. V. Pearson
McConnell
Craft Highway
Toulminville
James Inge
Dauphin Street
Inge
Shelton Files as Candidate in Second District Race
James F. Shelton former county engineer qualified for the board of revenue and road commissioners from the second district after paying a fee with Thomas Allman acting secretary of the Democratic executive committee. He is the district’s second candidate to qualify.
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James FE. Shelton
Board of Revenue and Road Commissioners
Thomas Allman
Radio Schedule on WODX From The Mobile Register and News Item
Radio program grid from WODX 1410 KC and 212.5 meters lists segments by time including National Furniture Co, Studio Programs, music, Easy Hour off air, Pure Milk Co featuring Cousin Caddie, Spring Hill College Centennial program, Albright and Wood, Tellier's Symphony Orchestra, Phi Omega Dance remote control from the Battle House and a good night signoff.
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National Furnitur Co
Pure Milk Company
Cousin Caddie
Spring Hill College
Lord's Tire Service
Albright and
Wood
Tellier's Symphony Orchestra
Phi Omega Dance
Battle House
Dot
Rate Protest Heard Over Lumber Handling at Pensacola Port
The Mobile Chamber of Commerce challenged Inter state Commerce Commission charges on lumber handling at Pensacola and Gulfport, claiming Pensacola fees are one fourth of a cent versus Mobile's one cent. Hearing before Examiner McChord concluded with briefs due July 1. railroad officials attended and Mobile’s R G Cobb led the case.
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Pensacola
Gulfport
Hart Port
McChord
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
lLmmber
Gulf
Mobile
Federal Court Room
Interstate Commerce Commission
R. G. Cobb
Downtown Dauphin Street Property Bought by Lou-Ala Group
Lucy M Webster and J B Webster of Mobile sold 211 Dauphin street and adjacent sites on Conception Conti streets to Harry Latter president of Lou Ala Investment Co. for 173500. The large lot fronts Dauphin and Conception with full ground floor area near a quarter acre. Latter plans a modern building for Mobile with local architects drafting plans.
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Dauphin Street
Capitol Theatre
Lucy M. Webster
J. B. Webster
Mobile
Harry Latter
Lou-Ala Investment Company
New Orleans
Conception Joachim Streets
Conception Street
Mobile Hotel
City
Bluebird Shoe
Weaver's
Conti Street
Jefferson Davis heirs sue over timber cut near Beauvoir
A chancery suit filed in Gulfport alleges Pyramid Securities of New Orleans and Byrd Brothers Lumber of Biloxi cut about 900 trees without permission from land near Beauvoir, Miss. The Hayes heirs named Jefferson Davis Hayes, Varina Hayes Webb, Lucy Hayes Young, and William Davis Hayes of Colorado Springs as complainants.
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Gulfport
Miss
Jefferson Davis
Pyramid Securities Company
New Orleans
Byrd Brothers Lumber Company
Biloxi
Beauvoir
Jefferson Davis Hayes
Varina Hayes Webb
Lucy Hayes Young
William Davis Hayes
Colorado Springs
Col
Conferees Back Flexible Tariff Provision
Washington May 29 conferees on the tariff bill reach a flexible provision broadening presidential powers and curbing the tariff commission. The plan lets the commission propose rate changes up to 50 percent and the president may approve them or let them lapse by inaction.
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Washington
Tariff Commission
Davis Denies Klan Ties In Luverne Campaign Speech
W C Davis of Jasper, lieutenant governor and gubernatorial hopeful, declares he never joined or supported the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama. He cites a 1925 Jasper mass meeting resolution he authored condemning Klan activities and vows to pursue economy in state government without hindering progress. He frames his campaign around toll bridge freedom, education gains, and a double primary system.
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Ku Klux Klan
Alabama
Luverne
W. C. Davis
Jasper
Mobile
Battle House
Davis
Norville Leigh
N. E. Stallworth
B. M. Miller
Cubernatorial
Burglars Fail in Delchamps Store Loot Attempt
Burglars attempted to loot a Delchamps store on McGill Street between Hannon and Reed avenues but fled when frightened. Police HQ reports say nothing was missing at the time of the incident.
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Delchamps
McGill Street
Hannon and
Reed Avenues
Murphy High to Graduate 375 Seniors Thursday
Murphy High School will hold commencement Thursday night for a class of 375 seniors, 200 girls and 175 boys, who will receive diplomas. The program includes diploma awards and recognition of distinctive scholastic achievements.
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Murphy High School
Woman Held to Grand Jury in Semmes Arson Case
Mrs Reatha Howell is held to the next grand jury on a second degree arson charge over the 1927 destruction of H Hudson Howell's Semmes residence. Special Judge W H Cowan presided. bail set at 500 dollars. Territory notes mention Hartley and Lowery already served terms for related acts. Special Investigator Homer Slaughter led the blaze inquiry.
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Tisdale J. Touart
Reatha Howell
W. H. Cowan
Semmes
Ala
W. C. Hartley
Robert Lowery
Kilby
Nolle
Howell
Homer Slaughter
State Fire Marshal's Office
Conference Held On Tuberculosis Care Wards Planning
A conference at 4 pm Thursday in the mayor's office will discuss city county cooperation on building wards for indigent tuberculosis care. Attending will be the board of revenue, city commission, tuberculosis association, and Mobile County League of Women Voters. Leaders from the League urged annexing care for incurables with Cottage Hill work and in connection with City hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Revenue
City Commission
The
Tuberculosis Association
Mobile County League of Women Voters
Cottage Hill
League of Women Voters
Kate Hagan
Nellie Cammack
Fr Walsh To Speak Before Spring Hill Centennial
Father Joseph Walsh president of Spring Hill College will broadcast from 9 to 10 pm Thursday on WODX The Register and News Item studio. He will discuss The Necessity of Endowments The centennial exercises are set for Saturday Sunday and Monday with a pupil orchestra from Loretta Schwaemmle’s studio performing The first half hour is donated by Lord's Tire Service and the latter half by Albright and Wood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spring Hill College
WODX
Register
Father Joseph Walsh
Father Walsh
Loretta Schwaemmle
Lord's Tire Service
Albright and
Wood
Lindy Takes Off From Newark Mystery Flight
Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh departed Newark airport with a male passenger amid mystery flight plans. Spectators denied that the passenger was Ambassador Dwight W. Morrow and Lindbergh kept his destination secret before the hour.
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Newark
N. J
Charles A. Lindberg
Dwight W. Morrow
Lindbergh
Atlantic City
Morrow
Zeppelin India River Run North
The Graf Zeppelin continued its long flight from Friedrichshafen toward Lakehurst with about a thousand miles completed. Off Cayenne French Guiana the airship moved at 60 mph and reduced the remaining distance to Trinidad to under 1000 miles as it nears the West Indies.
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Associated Press
Friedrichshafen
Germany
Lakehurst
Cayenne
French Guiana
West Indies
Trinidad
Two Gem Thief Suspects Held For Murder Probe
Police say Robert Nelson and co conspirators tied to jewel thefts are held as detectives pursue a murder probe. About $1.5 million in gems recovered. Nelson's deposit box in Chicago holds jewels worth around $200,000. Additional raids yield more evidence and clue to Cicero Capone gang links.
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New York
Robert Nelson
First National Bank of Chicago
Nelson
Cicero
Ill
al Capone
Oliver
Chicago
Superior Court of Chicago
George Cole
James Watson
Hot Springs
Ark
Preston Austin
Teaus
Hilda Carter
Mystery Veil Surduds Fate of Gun Victim
Chicago police puzzled by a gang killing with no corpus delicti. A man was shot as he tried to flee. gunmen loaded the body into a car and sped away, pursued by a special officer who grabbed one suspect. Other names and connections surface as detectives seek suspects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Edgewater
Bradley arraigned on drunken driving collision plea
Lorenzo Bradley a Negro appeared in circuit court Thursday on a charge of driving an automobile while drunk causing a collision at Ann and Spring Hill avenues. He pleaded guilty. Judge Joe W. Goldsby ordered a prior $100 fine and costs imposed in the recorder's court, appeal noted.
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Lorenzo Bradley
Ann and
Springhil Avenue
Joe W. Goldsby
Recorder's Court
Woman found slain in Harlem River near Yankees stadium
The body of a woman with a diamond ring and copper wire around her neck was recovered from the Harlem river near the Yankees stadium. Police estimated she had been in the water for two months or more. A white gold watch rested on the wrist and the ring featured nine diamonds and two sapphires.
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Joseph L. Simon
Lafayette
New York
Harlem River
Senate Conferees Named on Muscle Shoals Bill
The Senate sent the Muscle Shoals bill to conference with the House to bridge big gaps on government operation versus private lease of the Alabama power plant. Norris McNary and Smith named as conferees. little hope of agreement this session remains, with final action likely in December.
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Washington
Senate
House
Alabama
Norris
Nebraska
Senator McNary
Oregon
Agriculture
Mittee
Smith
Carolina
Duty measure again clouded in new attage
Washington May 29 The fate of the tariff bill grew more uncertain as house and senate conferees adopt a flexible tariff clause giving Hoover power but face strong senate opposition Senator Harrison Mississippi denounces the compromise as a crime against the people and urges Democrats to reject it He attacks Reed Smoot and Edgar B Brossard calling them gold dust twins of Utah
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Washington
House
Senate
Hoover
Harrison
Mississippi
Reed Smoot
Utah
Edgar B. Brossard
Tariff Commission
Trah
Three Killed in Texas Fire in Abilene
In Abilene Texas three men died in a rooming house blaze in the business district. Eight others escaped including two children. The dead were Harvey Sprinkle 21 Bernard Love 19 both of Melrose and Roy Thomas 28 of Abilene. Sprinkle and Love were college students due to graduate next week.
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Abilene
Texas
Harvey Sprinkle
Bernard Love
Melrose
Roy Thomas
Sprinkle
Love
Thomas
Maude Parker
Felony Indictment Returns Against Tar Party Quintet
In Hammond Louisiana five Starnes brothers are indicted for conspiracy to commit a felony wounding mayhem and disfiguring dentist Dr Sedgie L Newsom with caustic substances. The Tangipahoa parish grand jury returned true bills and prepared for an early trial with Dr Newsom as principal witness. Hammond Mayor C C Carter attended.
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Hammond
Five Starnes Brothers
Sedgie L. Newsom
Tangipahoa Parish
Newsom
C. C. Carter
Charles
Gordon
Newton
Henry
VerdigIh Coroner Jury: Woman Accused in Slaying
Mrs. W C Gunn of Sylacauga Alabama is jailed for first degree murder in the death of her husband on a highway near Oxford. The coroner jury ruled the shooting intentional, found a 32 caliber pistol at the scene, and noted money hidden in the car. Authorities reported initial statements about highwaymen, then a confession-like account of self defense. The case hinges on a June 9 grand jury convening for a preliminary hearing.
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Talladega
Ala
W. C. Gunn
Sylac Day
Jville
Gunn
S. O. Wesley
Sylacauga
Wesley
Richamoe
Ulee
Oxford
Heine
Jack
Officials postpone Mobile Bay Boosters Club meeting
Mobile Bay Boosters Club announced the Thursday meeting at the Battle House has been cancelled. A new date was to be fixed later and the agenda included a Dauphin Island development movement with R. V. Taylor slated to speak.
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Mobile Bay
Skipper to Speak at Norwegian Mission
Captain Gerhard Folgero of the Viking ship Roard will speak in English at the Norwegian mission on Thursday night at 156 South Conception. The public may hear Folgero describe his experiences aboard the Roard in port.
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Gerhard Folgero
Viking
Sion
South Conception
Folgero
Weather and river forecast across Alabama and Mississippi
Showers and cooler temperatures are expected Thursday into Friday with mostly cloudy skies. River forecast for the Tombigbee near Demopolis Montgomery Selma and nearby areas indicates a slight fall tonight and a possible minor change in levels.
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Alabama
Parés
Mississippi
Terror
Montgomery
Selma
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Hunt
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James Hines
Ralph Pierce
Clyde Bridges
Allegretti
Cotton Club
Ralph Capone
Reece Shoals
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Dr. Newsom
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