Mobile Boy Hurt In Crestview Crash En Route To Panama City
Orvin L Mason 19 of Mobile was critically injured with a severe left arm injury likely requiring amputation after a collision with a cotton truck and trailer near Crestview Florida. His companions L W Whitehurst and T B Judge suffered minor injuries. The trio were en route to Panama City to visit M E Parker. Whitehurst is related to Thelma Wooten who died from gunshot wounds in Mobile.
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Pensacola
Fla
Orvin L.mason
Mobile
Als
L. W. Whitehurst
T. B Judge
Crestview
Fenzacolg
Pensacola Hospital
Mason
Whitehurst
Judge
Panama City
M. E. Parker
Thelma Wooten
Storm advisory tracks hurricane like disturbance near Hispaniola
The Weather Bureau issued an advisory noting a tropical disturbance of hurricane intensity moving west-northwest at about 400 miles per day. Its center was roughly 100 miles south of Puerto Rico, likely to pass south of Haiti, with caution for vessels along the path. Meteorologist Albert Ashenberger of Mobile says the system is about 1,500 miles southeast of Mobile and typical September motion averages 250 miles daily before recurving.
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Ashington
Ther
Caribbe
Sea
Porto Rico
Haiti
Albert Ashenberger
Mobile
Gulf of Mexico
Cuban Hurricane Forecast Tracks Threaten Caribbean
The Cuban national observatory reports a hurricane in the Atlantic still active near San Juan Puerto Rico. It moves northwest slowly and threatens the Dominican Republic and Haiti with possible impacts on southwest Puerto Rico as the Belen university observatory notes a disturbance near Dominica and Guadaloupe with hurricane intensity.
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Havana
Cuban National Observatory
Atlantic
San Juan
Porto Rico
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Belen University Observatory
Masked Robber Steals From Sioux City Theater Receipts
A masked armed man robbed three Orpheum theatre employees in Sioux City early today, escaping with 5700 in week end receipts. The incident occurred at the Orpheum theatre as staff prepared for performances. Police investigated and searched for the suspect.
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Sioux City
Orpheum Theatre
Weather and river bulletin for Alabama and Mississippi
The bulletin notes generally fair weather for Tuesday night and Wednesday with little temperature change. It lists river observations at 7 am CST on September 2 1980 for cities including Columbus Demopolis Tuscaloosa Montgomery Selma and forecasts Tombigbee and Alabama rivers with limited tonight effects.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Gieir
Daily River Bulletin
Clumbus
Demopolis
Tuscaloosa
Se Montgomery
Jes Selma
Murder Charge Filed In Deputies Shooting Death
Thelma Wooten, Mobile mother of two, died after a Thursday night shooting in which two sheriff's deputies fired on the car she rode in. Deputies C. C. Lane and T. H. Sullivan face murder charges and are jailed without bond as the case prompts a renewed grand jury probe.
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Thelma Wooten
Bart B. Chamberlain
Roche Mortuary
Theodore Wooten
Leonard Wooten
Whitehurst
Mary
Azine Point
Emory Whitehurst
Davis
Mobile Infirmary
Mobile County
One Dead in Mobile Labor Day Diving Accident
Willie Toppy Agudo, 44, a painter, died at City hospital from a broken neck after hitting Mobile Bay bottom while diving through an inflated tube at Barrett's beach. A救援 by Fred Rogers saved others. two injured and several arrests were reported as police logged the toll of observance day.
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Willie Agudo
Mobile
Willie ‘‘Toppy”’ Agudo
City Hospital
Mobile Bay
Barrett
Agudo
Fred Rogers
South
Conception Street
City Shops Open After Labor Day Holiday
Mobilians returned to work Tuesday morning after a Labor Day weekend of festivities. Monroe Park hosted the Central Trades Council picnic lasting into the night with contests and an orchestra. Residents also fished, golfed, and picnicked as others enjoyed days off.
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Monroe Park
Central Trades Council
Police Court Orders Lamy Held for Jury
William J. Lamey, Mobile dairy man, arrested on four forgery charges, held to the county grand jury under a 3500 bond after a police court hearing. Accused of passing forged checks at Van Antwerp's Seed Store H M Price Hardware Co Greer branch and other city establishments. Jordan Barnes and D L Nichols arraigned on drunk driving charges, fined 270 and costs 70 days hard labor with auto operation suspended. Willie Banks, a negro, fined 500 and costs 140 days for cutting Charlie Williams, the assault deemed provoked.
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William J. Lamey
Mobile
van Antwerp
H. M. Price Hardware Company
Greer
Jordan Barnes
D. L. Nichols
Recorder’s Court
Willie Banks
Charlie Williams
County Approves 5000 For Reforestation In Mobile County
The Mobile County board of revenue voted 5000 for ongoing forestry work with monthly payments starting November 1. The fund joins 10000 from state and federal sources for a broader protection program. Watchmen and two officers will be hired to investigate fires, with crews stationed at Axis Bayou la Barre Seven Hills Wilmer Georgetown towers. Senator John Craft seeks support from the Chamber of Commerce forestry committee.
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Mobile County
Board of Revenue
H. F. Smith
Smith
Axis
Bayou la Barre
Seven Hills
Wilmer
Georgetown
John Craft
Forestry Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Charlies ‘A
Three Mile Creek Bridge to be funded by federal state and county
The Three Mile Creek bridge linking Mobile to bay bridge and Chickasaw will be funded by federal state and county money. The project, under state highway department supervision, will be a bascule or swing bridge with adequate navigation clearance. Bids were rejected for being too high, and the federal Bureau of Roads now agrees to cover half the cost.
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Three Mile Creek
Mobile
Bay Bridge
Chickasaw
John R. Peavy
State Highway Department
Peavy
Montgomery
Federal Bureau of Roads
Couny
Matt Boykin
A. D. Davis
Boykin
Alabama
Grand Bay
The
Bay
Mobile reports August employment aid and New York file
The Mobile employment bureau assisted 44 unemployed in August per supervisor Mary E. Nelson to the city commission. The report notes New York opened a similar bureau after Mobile County's action to establish an employment service.
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Mobile Municipal Employment Bureau
City Commission
Mary E. Nelson
City of
New York
Mobile City Commission
Youth jailed for bread theft by 12 year old
A Negro juvenile, 12, was arrested at Kennedy and Congress streets early Tuesday for stealing bread from a store. Police Officers Coker and Baker filed a report at police headquarters and turned the youth over to juvenile court authorities.
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Kennedy and
Congress Streets
Coker
Baker
City Chamber Aids Auditorium Plan and Patrol Claim
Mobile Chamber of Commerce joins city commission in plans for a municipal auditorium with progress noted by Mayor Hartwell and Commissioner Schwarz. A claim of $50 for loss of salary physician's fees and clothing damage from Catherine Martin struck by a police patrol was approved for payment.
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce
City Commission
Leon Schwarz
Harry T. Hartwell
Hartwell
Cecil F. Bates
Commissioner Schwarz
Bates
Schwarz
Chamber of Commerce
Woodie Woods
St. Anthony and
Royal Streets
Catherine Martin
City Tax Clerk Extends Hours for Street Tax Payers
J. Rogers Burgett, Mobile street tax collector, will stay open until 8 p m Tuesday to collect the $5 annual street tax from male residents. The move assists those who missed payment. Meanwhile W F Collins seeks Supreme Court review of Mobile's street tax after the Court of Appeals affirmed its validity and denied a rehearing.
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J. Rogers Burgett
Burgett
W. F. Collins
Alabama Supreme Court
Pantran to be hanged for prison official's murder
At Leavenworth Kansas the scaffold is erected for the first Kansas hanging since 1870. Carl Pantran, described as a hardened criminal, will die by hanging between 6 and 9 am Friday for killing R G Warnke, the prison laundry manager, in a 1928 rage after demanding a first degree murder sentence.
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Leavenworth
Kans
Kansas
Carl Pantran
America
Federal Penitentiary
Panzran
R. J. Hopkins
Tria
R G. ‘Warnke
Burglary Foiled At Coleman’s Grocery
A burglar used a step ladder to reach the transom at the door of Coleman's retail grocery at northwest Broad and St. Anthony streets shortly after 1:20 AM Tuesday. The intruder fled when frightened. Detectives White and Pearson investigated and summoned manager J. W. McDavid, who found nothing missing.
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Coleman
Broad
St. Anthony Streets
White and Pearson
J. W. McDavid
McDavid
French Fliers Near New England Shores On Epic Sea Flight
A French flyer and his companion completed the last leg of a Paris to New York sea flight crossing the Atlantic. Coste and Bellonte passed Canso and Halifax en route, reversing Lindbergh’s route by skirting Newfoundland before aiming for Long Island. New York prepared a welcome as crowds gathered at the airport awaiting their arrival.
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New England
Associated Press
Canada
Maritime
Paris
New York
Diedonne
Coste
Maurice Bellonte
Canso
Nova Scotia
Europe
North America
Lindy
Charles A. Lindbergh
le Bourget Field
Newfoundland
France
Isle of
St. Pierre
Curtiss- Wright Field
Long Island
Charles A
America
Lind
Place de la Concorde
Bride awaiting call from New York after transatlantic flight
Paris reports Madame Dieudonne Coste waiting in her apartment for a promised long distance telephone call from New York. She described sleepless nights and a vigil beside her husband Maurice Bellonte as he crossed the Atlantic with his navigator.
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Paris
Madame Dieudonne Coste
New York
Atlantic Ocean
Associated Press
Maurice Bellonte
Carlton Plot Case Thrown Out of Court
In Jacksonville the Justice of the Peace dismissed charges of conspiring to assassinate Governor Doyle Carlton against Fred O Eberhardt publisher Frank Ralls and Henry Halsema for insufficient evidence. The state failed to make a case to bind the defendants over to criminal court and the prosecution objected as witnesses were recalled for cross examination before the dismissal.
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Jacksonville
Fie
Justice of the Peace
J. C. Madison
Doyle
Carlton
Fred
Eberhardt
Tallahassee
Frank Ralls
Henry Halsema
L. D. Howell
Nye attacks shadowing in Chicago for McCormick
Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota reveals a senate campaign funds investigation committee summoned the officers and operatives of a Chicago detective agency hired to shadow him. Ruth Hanna McCormick’s campaign expenses are cited as having been investigated, with more detail promised on page 8.
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Chicago
Senate Campaign
Gerald P. Nye
North Dakota
Nye
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Hearst Arrives in London After France Expulsion
William Randolph Hearst, American publisher, arrives in London and says France gave no formal complaint, calling him an enemy and danger. He cites Anglo French treaty publications in Hearst papers as the cause of strained relations, while officials are described as polite and allowing a longer stay if desired.
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London
William Randolph Hearst
Hearst
France
Legs Diamond Imprisoned On Order of German Police
American authorities in Germany declined further involvement after Jack Legs Diamond was arrested on the Ostend Vienna express. The embassy said it gave no arrest orders, only warnings about a notorious criminal entering Germany. Cologne and Aix la Chapelle authorities confirmed Diamond’s identity and continued to detain him as an undesirable alien while awaiting further American guidance.
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Aix-La-Chapelle
Germany
Jack
Diamond
United States
Cologne
Washington
John Diamond
Aix-Le-Chapelle
New York
Berlin
Ministry of the Interior
Paris celebrates Coste Bellonte Atlantic flight to New York
Reports from Paris and Boston say Captain Coste and his flying mate Bellonte completed their Atlantic crossing to New York. French crowds gather to welcome the aviators as newspapers publish hourly bulletins and offices prepare to show newsreels of the flight.
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Paris
Coste
Bellonte
Nova Scotia
Atlantic
New York
France
Trio fined for prohibition violations in inferior court
Ed Blount Harris McLaughlin and Clem Atkins were fined 60 dollars and costs 50 in a lower court on prohibition charges. Mary Crabtree Virgil He and John H Weaver all from Indian Springs territory were arraigned on three counts and held under 1000 dollars for a year. C V Shoubb case on passing worthlreset for September 1. Case of ert é for operating a motor vehicle without a license and drunk driving reset September 4.
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Ed Blount
Harris McLaughlin
Clem Atkins
Inferior
Ert É
City Fire District to Undergo Annual September Inspection
The central fire district will be inspected in September by fire chiefs and captains from the various companies under Commissioner Leon Schwarz. All public buildings are excluded from the inspection. Daily reports will be made available.
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City
Leon Schwarz
Ous
Lindberghs Take Off From Bellefonte for New York Flight
Colonel Charles Lindbergh and his companion departed from Bellefonte airport at 8 45 a m for New York aboard the Spirit of St Louis. Early weather reports warned of fog and poor visibility along the route but the Bellefonte area conditions were clearing.
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Lindberghs
Bellefonte
Charles Lindbergh
Lindbergh
Wee ! Ronte
New Yorks
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