Arson charge follows apartment fire and arrest
Arthur Lane, 28, living near Hill, is jailed on arson charges after a home fire destroyed his residence. His wife said a quarrel led to the incident and she was forced to leave, with Lane arrested after a neighbor telephone report. Bail is not permitted in arson cases. In a separate item, three officers and eight enlisted men were injured at Aberdeen proving grounds when a bomb exploded during handling aboard a vessel. Captain Joseph and First Lieutenant Lewis P. were among the injured, with identities to be confirmed. The blast occurred during tests for forthcoming trials near Virginia capes in June and July.
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Arthur Lane
Ing Hill
Nty
Lang
Lane
Blackman
Jein
Ce Ater
Washington
Army Air Service
Army Proving Grounds
Aberdeen
War Department
Joseph
Lewis P. R
Wang
Virginia Capes
Army
Navy
Carla
Hall
Rae Thin Robert
City considers paid vacations for Mobile employees this summer
Mobile city commissioners weigh a plan granting all employees with one year of service a one week paid vacation from June to September. If approved it would be the first paid vacations for city staff. The meeting also adopted several items including park redesignations and street improvements.
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Mobile
City Commission
Commission
Eureka Garden
Madison
Claiborne Streets
Calvez
Demony Street
Dauphin Street
Springhill Avenue
van Hrennasalaer Street
Mobile Oil Company
One Mile Creek
Mobile River
Davis Avenue
Cuba Streets
Dave Patton
Crawford
Lafayette Street
Brandon & Company
Toulmin & Sons
Fearnway Improvement Association
Fearnway
Shipping Board Meets as Davis Seeks Pact on Wage Struggles
Secretary Davis plans talks with engineers representatives and Shipping Board chairman to formalize last week’s wage and condition settlement. Unofficial reports say unions ratified the agreement by referendum. retroactive to May 1 for one year, including a 15 percent wage cut and removal of overtime and the ten day vacation.
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Washington
Davis
M Engineers
Benso
Shipping Board
Department of Labor
Ame Owners’ Association
Department
Pee
W. 8. Brown
Marine Mungineers Teas
Connel
Sm Hare
Cupid’s best work not in the skillet says YWCA dean
Miss Aubrey Baton, dean of the matrimonial school at the Chicago Y W C A, told 50 prospective June brides the key to marriage is charm and presence not cooking skill. She urged brides to be pleasing in appearance and to use pleasant talk to win husbands, as the school aims to supplement education with practical marriage skills.
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Carl Victor Little
Leasey Wire
UN ‘Eh
Chicago
Cupid
Aubrey Baton
Chicago Y. W. C. A
Miss Batons
Er Aseed
Cour
Hyver Campaign Push Raises Over Seventy Thousand
More than 70000 of the 118000 fundraising quota for the Methodist educational drive in Mobile has been subscribed by Tuesday morning. District reports show six charges fully reported and seven still not yet earned. The drive closes next Sunday but leaders expect the quota to be met by midweek. A Monday report from the Sugegsville charge notes it has reached its quota.
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Hayges
Sugegsville
Suits Filed for 15000 Damages After Cedar Street Collision
Three plaintiffs Richard son Mattie Orange and Nattie Parker sue Mobile Light and Railroad Company in circuit court claiming personal injuries from a collision between an automobile and a Cedar Street line street car on April 30. Richard son seeks 10000 damages and Orange 5000. Attorneys Webb McAlpine and others filed the suits.
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Buits
Mobile Light and Railroad Company
Cedar Street
Cedar Texas
Richardson
Mattie Orange
Nattie Parker
Webb, McAlpine
Poppy Sale Nets 541 Dollars For France War Orphans
Five hundred forty one dollars was collected by local patriotic societies from the downtown poppy sale yesterday. The funds will be sent to France to aid French war orphans and widows. Red silk flowers supplied by French women were sold on Poppy Day in the city.
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France
Rica
Convicted in Circuit Court on Prohibited Liquor Charges
Rudolph Stringfellow and Gordon Graham were convicted today on charges of manufacturing prohibited liquors. Judge Joel Goldsby sentenced each to one year in the penitentiary. Both defendants filed notices of appeal to the supreme court and posted bonds of 500.
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Rudolph Stringfellow
Gordon Graham
Joel Goldsby
Sueme
Warehouses Burn in Ockmart Georgia Fire Destroys Goods
Fire in Ockmart Georgia destroyed two warehouses. M Cochran stored 12 automobiles and 40 bales of cotton plus various goods. Brooks & Nich's warehouse held 100 bales of cotton. Fire occurred at night and caused extensive losses.
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Ockmart
M. Cochran and
Brooks & Nich
Brooks & Is
Jurors Fined For Being Late In Court
J. B. Allen and William Sawyer, members of the Federal court petit jury, were fined $10 each for failing to answer when their names were called at the opening of court. Judge Robert T. Ervin admonished jurors against lateness.
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J. B. Allen
William Sawyer
Petit Jury
Fed Court
Manes
Robert T. Ervin
Judge Berney's Wife Injured in Fall
Mrs. Saffold Berney wife of Judge Baffold Berney of 1045 Dauphin Street fractured her hip in a fall on Saturday afternoon while on her front porch. She remains confined to her home and resting today.
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Saffold Berney
Baffold Berney
Dauphin Ptte
Weather Report from The Weather Washington May 31
Alabama generally fair to Wednesday with light variable winds. No significant changes expected across the state as high pressure remains dominant.
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Washington
Alabama
Lyons Cleared Before Court on Tick Law Charges
In a hearing before Judge Norborne R. Clarke Mrs. Mary B. Lyons and her son Charles Lyons were exonerated of cattle tick eradication inspectors charges. The case lacked evidence to convict and the assistant state solicitor moved for nol prosse in both cases.
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Inferior Criminal Court
Norborne R. Clarke
Mary B. Lyons
Charles Lyons
Heat Record Tops 95 Degrees On Monday
The weather report from the local bureau says the present year’s heat record reached 95 degrees on Monday. Overnight low fell to 69 degrees with little temperature change expected today and Wednesday, accompanied by fair skies and light winds.
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Mercury
Hayes in Jail Under Two Charges Again
William H. Hayes alias Holman, a Negro, jailed after deputies serve Biloxi Mississippi warrants charging him with embezzlement and practicing medicine without a license. Frank Sylvester files the last case alleging Hayes prescribed for his wife.
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William H. Hayes
Holman
Bernstein
Farme
Biloxi
Miss
Inferior Criminal Court
Hayes
Frank Sylvester
Godwin Cleared In Federal Prosecution On Prohibition Charge
Romey Godwin was found not guilty by a federal jury this morning after consent from the government. In related liquor cases Henry McKenzie had bond forfeited and an alias capias issued. bonds for John Lightsey Cecil Easely and Mr Youngblood were forfeited for failure to appear. The court session was brief.
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Romey Godwin
Henry McKenzie
Capias
John Lightsey
Cecil Easely
Mr. Youngblood
Special Mass for Immaculate Conception Graduates
The Immaculate Conception School graduates attend a special Mass at the Cathedral on Wednesday morning at 8. The school choir provides music and the class receives communion. benediction ends the service. Graduates include Mabel Wall Nellie Myers Ida May Lacey and Lucy Cullinane. Commencement exercises follow Wednesday evening in the school auditorium.
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Immaculate Conception
Mabel Wall
Nellie Myers
Ida May Lacey
Lucy Cullinane
Grand jury indicts for illegal stills in Mobile
Federal grand jury in Mobile returns 37 true bills from 569 cases. Indictments include Louis Cazalas and Harry Dodds for manufacturing stills for moonshiners. Jury commends Sheriff Holcombe and Prohibition Agent Wilcox and endorses J. C. Middleton as successor district attorney.
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Mobile
Robert T. Ervin
Louis Cazalas
Harry Dodds
United States
Dr. Melanchhon W. McVoy
John 8. Weldon
Shipping Board
Robert J. McBride
Riley Parker Bridges
Walter Anderson
Ollie, Jackson
R._B.Kinchen
Ae Parker
Fred Thompson
A. F. Stagner
L. J. Lallament
Joe Ida
Stine
Meena
John Lightsey
Burley Lightsey
William Holcombe, Jr
C. P. Wilcox
J. C. Middleton
Naval romance heralded in Orient
Plymouth, May 31. Rev and Mrs Haig Adadourian announce the engagement of daughter Margaret Lyle to Lieutenant Mark Hanna Crouter, aide-de-camp to Admiral Wood. Crouter, a Naval Academy graduate, is assigned to the gunboat Eleano flagship. Adadourian teaches at Nanking University in China and met her fiancé when the Eleano was in Eastern waters.
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Plymouth
Mass
Far East
Haig Adadourian
Margaret Lyle
Mark
Hanna Crouter
Admiral Wood
United States Naval Demy
Annapolis
Eleano
Adadourian
Boston University
Nanking University
Nanking
China
Eljlano
Mahomet Congregational Church
Supreme Court Adjourns In Honor Of Chief Justice White
The Supreme Court adjourned until tomorrow out of respect for Chief Justice White who has died. Justice McKenna announced the death and paid tribute in a somber session. White’s chair and an eagle above his seat were draped in black as emotions ran high.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Justice White
Justice McKenna
White
McKenna
Southeastern Road Brotherhoods Meet In Washington
A conference in Washington between leaders of the four big brotherhoods and southeastern railroad executives will be held late today. The meeting aims to form a regional board for the southeastern railroads and to set preliminary steps for new bargaining agreements between railroads and labor groups.
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Washington
Big Brotherhoods
Southeastern Railroads
Eastern
Einstein En Route To Liverpool On Celtic
Professor Albert Einstein sailed from New York on the Celtic bound for Liverpool. Public attention focused on Memorial Day as his departure drew less notice than his arrival yesterday.
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New York
Albert Einstein
Liverpool
Celtic
Lake Dunmore Will Return to Service in Trade
The steamer Lake Dunmore tied up in Mobile has been allocated to Lind Navigation Corporation of New York and will be put back into operation at an early date, per a wire to Elmo Davidson, shipping board agent. The ship has been idle for several months.
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Lake Dunmore
Mobile
Lind Navigation Corporation of
New York
Elmo Davidson
Shipping Board
Petrograd Port Reported Opened With Lettish Vessel
A Moscow radio dispatch said the port of Petrograd had been opened and that the fleet ship, a Lettish vessel, was involved. The report was carried from Riga Latvia dated May 31. The details remain unconfirmed and unclear.
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Riga
Letvia
Moscow
Petrograd
Orthwein Trial Reveals Night Life In Chicago
Mrs. Orthwein stands trial for murder in Chicago accusing Herbert Ziegler, a Goodyear Rubber exec, of shooting after a jealous romance. Prosecution says the kiss and society circles spurred the killing. defense cites self defense as she recounts a turbulent life and abusive marriages.
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Orthwein
Chicago
ICAGO
Hicago
Wein
Herbert Ziegler
Goody Tire
Rubberompany
Colony
Ohio
Sally
St. Louis
Ralph Orthwein
Satve
Debonair
Herb’ Zeigler
Goodfellow
Tentative Plan Reached in GMNR Rate Case
A conference among Gulf Mobile and Northern officials shippers and Chamber of Commerce traffic leaders reached a tentative plan to adjust rail rates on grain between Mobile and Mississippi points with no change to glass rates to Laurel and return of empty Coca Cola bottles. The new grain schedule will be sent to shippers and if accepted the ICC will review and possibly rescind the current suspension. Shippers claimed Mobile Mississippi rates were higher for several articles.
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Mobile
Gulf, Mobile & Northern Railroad
Mississippi
T. D. Geoghegan
Interstte Commerce Commission
Wreck on New York Elevated Injures Thirty
Investigation opened into the Third Avenue elevated crash in the Bronx last night. Three coaches left the rails and hung over the river. two wooden cars caught fire but were put out. A switch tower was demolished and debris injured bystanders as 30 people were hurt and 500 more endangered.
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New York
Third Avenue
Bronx
Modern Jean Valjean seeks Supreme Court review in Illinois case
The Department of Justice will not oppose a request to review a lower court conviction by the Supreme Court. The defendant, dubbed the modern Jean Valjean, is charged with stealing six sacks of wheat bran valued at $24. A lower court fined $1,000 and imposed a five year sentence plus costs.
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Washington
Department of Justice Today
Jean Valjean
Supreme Court
Applebaum
St. Clair County
Ilinois
Marine strike settlement threatened by rival union leaders
In Washington on May 31 Ernest Pegs representing Pacific coast strikers and Timothy Healy of New York arrived to challenge the pending settlement reportedly ready for signature by W. S. Brown. Pegs and Healy said most sailors oppose the accord and warned of an insurrection if Brown signs.
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Washington
Ernest Pegs
Pacific Coast
Thmothy Healy
New York
Brown
Pege
Healy
Buckeye State damaged by fire at Baltimore pier
The new Shipping Board steamship Buckeye State was slightly damaged by a fire in the boiler room at her Baltimore pier. Officials from Matson line said she would sail for San Francisco as scheduled next Saturday. The blaze started from a spark in a gas torch igniting waste and remained confined to the boiler room.
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Baltimore
New Shipping Board
Matson Line
San Franchisco
Fire on Martha Washington. longshoremen strike unsettles port
Fire broke out this morning aboard the United States Shipping Board steamer Martha Washington but was quickly extinguished. The cause is unknown as longshoremen strike continues and non union labor grows in the port guarded by military forces.
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Buenos Aires
United States Shipping Board
Martha Washington
Special Precautions Mark Sacco Vanzelli Murder Trial
Dedham Massachusetts May 31 A cor don of police guarded the Dedham district court as Nicola Sacco and Bartholomew Vanzelli were tried for their lives in the murder of Frederick At Parmenter paymaster for Blazer and Morri ll Shoe Company and Special Policeman Alexander Beridelis in April 1920 A payroll of $18000 was stolen Police protected attorneys witnesses and court officials All entering the courtroom were searched The defendants are Italian citizens and a $50000 fund raised by Italian societies and labor organizations will back their defense.
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Dedham
Mass
Dedham District Court
Nicola Sacco
Bartholomew Vanzell
Webster Thayer
Frederick At, Parmenter
Blazer and Morriill Shoe Company
Alexander Beridelis
South Braintree
Drowns as Boat Capsizes Near Baltimore
A rowboat carrying Alice Capertown Shaw and five other children from St. Michael's and All Angels church choir capsized in the Seven River near Baltimore. Alice, 12, died. The others escaped narrowingly as rescue efforts followed.
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Baltimore
Alice Capertown Shaw
J. J. Forbes Shaw
St. Michael's
All Angels Protestant Episcopal Beardh
Seven River
John Golden Near Death at Brooklyn Home
John Golden president of the United Textile Workers of America is reported in critical condition at his Brooklyn home after a nervous breakdown and a sinking spell this morning. Medical hopes for recovery are minimal.
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New York
John_ Golden
United Textile Workers of America
Brooklyn
Briand Pushes Silesia Tour After Expert Review
Paris reports Briand favors a tour of Silesia by experts before any premier level action. The record notes Briand handed a note to the British ambassador reiterating France’s position that premiers cannot act until experts examine the issue.
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Briand
Silesia
Paris
Associated Press
London
Supreme Council
Further Delay In Stillman Divorce Hearing Sought
New York May 31 Counsel in the Stillman divorce case met to decide postponing hearings set for tomorrow in Poughkeepsie John Mark guardian of Hitle Guy reportedly sought delay citing other commitments He and associates denied any link to out of court settlement talks which were reportedly abandoned for now
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New York
Stillman
Poughkeepsie
John
Mark
Hitle Guy
Esperant o Crew Believed Aboard Schooner Elsie I
Halifax May 31 A radio from Sable Island says the schooner Elsie II is standing by the Esperanto crew after the American schooner Esperanza foundered off Sable Island in yesterday’s gale. Captain Thomas Denham of Gloucester Mass led the Esperanto which won the international fishing craft race last fall.
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Halifax
Whitehead
Canso
Esperanto
Sable Island
Thomas Denham
Gloucester
Mass
World Standard of Cotton Trade Urged
W. R. Meadows of the agriculture department urged a single world standard for cotton trade at the American Cotton Association conference in New York. He said progress toward this goal would come with the world cotton conference to be held in Liverpool next month.
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New York
W. R. Meadows
Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Markets
American Cotton Association
Meadows
Liverpool
Gotham Realty Men Present New Brief
New York real estate men filed with the supreme court in Washington claim the New York emergency housing laws were not fully upheld in a recent decision. They ask dismissal of appeals pending at the time of that ruling and argue the laws cannot set aside leases not made under protest.
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Washington
New York
Supreme Court
U S Court System Revision Urged by Legal Group
Washington May 31 A joint congressional committee was urged to study the federal judiciary needs. Thomas B Felder of York said new districts are needed due to population growth and clogged dockets. He blamed Prohibition and a rise in automobile related cases for overwork of federal judges.
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Washington
House
Thomas B. Welder
York
Felder
New Mexico Calls Texas Land Grabber
Washington May 31 Texas is accused of a would be land grab in a Supreme Court filing by Frank Clancy for New Mexico. The suit seeks an official admission of the interstate boundary to the Rio Grande river, with New Mexico arguing Texas claim rests on rocks and hills far above the river.
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Washington
Texas
Supreme Court
Frank Clancy
New Mexico
Rio Grande
Will Study Cotton Abroad Conference Trip Planned
Washington May 31 Merrill assistant chief of markets W L Pryor and Meadows connected with bureau attend the cotton conference at Liverpool June 12 to 22 with a three month study of cotton markets prior in Europe. They will also visit cotton growing regions of Asia Minor before touring the continent and will attend the International Chamber of Commerce conference in London June 27.
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Washington
Merrill
of Markets
W. L. Pryor
Meadows
Reau
Europe
Asia Minor
Joyce Files Answer to Wife's Petition in Chicago Case
Upton Archibald Hopkins Joyce faces Peggy Joyce in an ugly divorce filing. The answer alleges Peggy’s past and requests support. The filing presents a lurid portrait of Joyce’s marriage, with financial and personal claims shaping the case.
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Joyce
Chicago
Ars
Upton Archibald Hopkins
James Joyce
Peggy
Freight Cut Urged With Wage Slash on Coast
Washington May 31 A proposal urged that wage cuts be paired with reduced freight rates on Pacific coast fruit and vegetables shipped to the hungry. Malloy, vice president of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees and Shopmen, warned that thousands of workers faced cuts.
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Washington
Malloy
Brotherhood of Mainten
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