Robber Pair Hold Up Sailor For Cigarettes
Two men emerged from behind box cars on Water Street and held up Jesus Mezias of the steamship Camden at midnight, demanding a cigarette and flashing a pistol. Mezias lost $25 and gave police a description of the suspects as detectives investigated. A separate report notes shoes stolen from 476 Dauphin Street after a rear window entry.
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Jesus Mezias
Camden
Todd Shipbuilding and Drydocks
Polce
Mezias
Charles Burden
Lawrence Arras
Water Street Street
W. Tobin
Dauphin Street
Harry Kersten
Hartwell And Craft Drive First Seawall Stakes At Ceremony
The Mobile bay seawall project began preliminary survey work with State Senator John Craft and major officials leading the ceremony. Officials present included Representatives Sossaman and Taylor, board members, President Laurendine, Commissioners Green and Shelton, assistant seawall engineer Dr. Garet Van Antwerp, and County Highway Engineer John R. Peavy. Craft drove the first stake on the Bayou-Coden section, with observers from local government in attendance.
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Mobile Bay Seawall
John Craft
Arlington-to-Dog River
Bayou la Barre-Coden
Mobile
Sossaman and Taylor
Board of Revenue
Laurendine
Green
Sheltonsistant Seawall
Garet van Antwerp
John R. Peavy
Senator Craft
Coden
Bayou-Coden
Seawall
Shofner Family Mourns After Fatal Auto Incident
Union Church mourns Albert Shofner fatally injured when run over and dragged about 150 feet by a car driven by Elricka Teenate. The elder Shofner, deputy sheriff, is survived by his wife, son, brother, sister, grandmother, and other relatives. funeral services at Union Baptist Church follow his family residence gathering.
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Albert Shhofner
John Shofner
Murray Shofner
Vivian Shofner
Sallie Page
Riley Case Reset In Mobile Threat Letters Probe
Mrs. Jeanette Riley, 50, of 11 North Franklin street, held on a general charge after arrest last Friday night for sending threatening letters to two Mobile grocers. She was detained when a decoy package was taken at a vacant building near her home, detectives said. She remains jailed in default of $500 bond.
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Jeanette Riley
North Franklin Street
Riley
Judge Edington to speak at Jaycees luncheon on election laws
Judge David H. Edington will address Junior Chamber of Commerce members at the luncheon meeting on Wednesday about new election laws governing future balloting. The session starts at 12 at the Cawthon hotel. The Junior Bulletin notes the hotel will contribute 10 cents from each meal to a prize fund to be awarded at each meeting.
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David H. Edington
Junior Chamber of Commerce
Cawthon Hotel
Jaycees
Unsettled Weather With Warm Trend Forecast Tuesday and Wednesday
The local weather bureau predicts unsettled conditions Tuesday night and Wednesday with continuing warm weather. In Alabama and Mississippi the interior remains mostly fair while extreme northwest Florida stays partly cloudy and somewhat unsettled with possible showers Wednesday. Observations at 7 a.m. CST on September 8, 1931 show mixed readings across stations including Montgomery 35, Selma 25, Aberdeen 24, Columbus 33, with small changes in barometer and temperature.
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Florida
Aberdeen
Columbus
Femclowe
Sar
Montgomery
Selma
River Forecasts and Weather Update
Meteorologist releases Tuesday night river and tributary forecasts for the region. Forecast discusses potential rises and weather impacts on waterways and local drainage.
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Arate Seetisket
Bama Ees
Eee
Muggles Case Reset For Friday In Recorder Court
Samuel Savoy and Canal B00 faced the recorder's court Tuesday morning over a charge tied to a contraband device in a box. Police Officers Olsen and Quinn testified, marking the third case under a new law. The suspect box was found on Canal Street near St. Emanuel and Royal streets, with evidence awaiting further proceedings and a $500 bond set.
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Samuel Savoy
Canal
Cigt
Recorder’s Court
Olsen and
Quinn
Charleston
Lawrence
Savoy
Bert St
Emanuel
Royal Streets
A and W Robbed in Downtown Break-In
Burglars smashed a second story window at Albright and Wood Drug Store No 3 at Royal and St Francis streets between ten Monday night and four Tuesday morning and stole 60 dollars in cash and stamps. Detectives Moody and Franco say suspects accessed the second story via a shed roof. Also reported, thief boarded the steamship Castana at Beauregard street and stole 26 dollars and a Waltham pocket watch from R T Dean.
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Albright and Wood Drug Store
Royal and
St. Francis Streets
Moody
Franco
R. T. Dean
Castana
Beauregard Street
Rate changes not expected to hurt port
Southeastern railroads ask the Interstate Commerce Commission to cut cotton rates from points west of the Mississippi to New Orleans without lowering Mobile rates. The move aims at noncompetitive Mobile areas, Mobile Chamber of Commerce official says he has no comment, while the commission previously required rate parity between New Orleans and Mobile.
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Southeastern
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Mobile
Interstate Commerce Commission
Associated Press
Washington
R. G. Cobb
Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Resolution on road bonds approved at last meeting
The board must adopt another resolution before the next meeting to authorize the remaining $400,000 in road bonds. The December 1 interest charges on the Cedar Point road work loom, and the sale of the remaining funds will occur as needed.
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Cedar Point
Bangor sailor fined for drunken driving and license revoked
Bangor negro was fined 200 dollars and court costs or 70 days hard labor for driving while drunk. His license was revoked six months. Biloxi sailor M. F. Weis got 50 dollars or 50 days for violating the prohibition law after liquor was seized from a car. Day, involved in a Knox and Joachim street crash, was fined 25 dollars or 25 days after colliding with the Morris car and damaging a shed.
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Will Bangor
Recorder’s Court
M. F. Weis
Biloxi
Weis
Cawthon Grill
Charles Dougherty
Day
Knox
Joachim
Dee Morris
Morris
Hoover Returns to White House from Rapidan Camp
President Hoover arrived at the White House shortly before nine o clock from his Rapidan camp where he had spent the weekend. He was accompanied by James R. Garfield of Cleveland, a member of his staff.
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Washington
Hoover
White House
Rapidan Camp
James R. Garfield
Cleveland
Phelps Returns General Manager From Vacation
General Manager of the Chamber of Commerce returns from vacation, resuming leadership and duties at the organization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber 01 Commerce
Un sighted Mono Plane Trip Off Kamchatka Gulf
Reports say the orange monoplane carrying Don Moyle and C A Allen, attempting a Pacific crossing from Japan, was not sighted 18 hours after takeoff. Observers estimate it 300 to 400 miles off Kamchatka, likely steering toward Attu Island as fog limits visibility.
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Don Moyle C. A. Allen
Pacific
Kamchatka Peninsula
Attu Island
Attu
Kamchatka
Moyle
Allen
Bea Em Gar
Rs Janda
Pbof
Japanese Pacific nonstop flight attempt from Japan to Seattle
Don Moyle and C A Allen launched from Samushiro Beach aiming to fly 4 465 miles nonstop to Seattle in a heavily fueled single engine plane. They carried 1020 gallons of gasoline and faced high risk as they neared their projected route.
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Don Moyle
C. A. Allen
Japan
Seattle
Tokyo
Pacific
Samushiro Beach
Here
Two Day Arrests On Waterfront Prohibition Sweep
Federal agents seized two automobiles near the steamship docks and arrested George Hart and Rosco Daufor on prohibition charges. About five gallons of liquor were found at the scene. A man named Shon, white, in Panel One was also arrested after police found near beer at his place. Arresting agents were Hargett, Douglas and McMillan.
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Federal Dry F
George Hart
Rosco Daufor
Hargett
Douglas
McMillan
U. S. Denounced in China Over Banknote Shipment
A Central Press report from Canton says a mass meeting in Nanning, Kwangsi province denounced the United States for meddling in China. The outburst followed U S interference when American officials blocked shipment of American made banknotes to the Kwangsi provincial bank two years earlier upon a banking request.
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Hong Kong
Canton
South China Center
United States
Nanning
Kwangsi Province
China
Kwangsi
Ford Reopens Plants Hires Up To Forty Thousand
Between 15 000 and 20 000 former Ford employees returned to work today as Ford officials aim to have about 50 000 men at work by mid September. Letters inviting workers to return were sent last week.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford
Polar submarine Nautilus returns from under polar ice
Sir Hubert Wilkins guided the Nautilus from a polar dive near Spitzbergen and brought the craft back to Longyear City shortly after noon today. The pioneering voyage marks a historic under ice descent by a submarine.
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Oslo
Norway
Sir Hubert Wilkins
Longyear City
Spitzbergen
Famous Pigeon Flock Slain by Poison Pilot
A flock of pigeons was killed by poison in an urban scene near Woolworth Building. A photographer captured a white pigeon perched on the building ledge before it fell. Police report 32 birds dead on the ground as volunteers describe distress calls and cooing amid traffic noise.
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Sera
Woolworth
William Magnussen
Aged Orleans man wounded in gun battle
Dr Dominick A Estrada 78, a veterinarian, was shot and gravely wounded in his New Orleans home by Philbrick Moore 32, who was seeking estranged wife. Moore says he fired first after being shot at. the couple had a history of threats and separations. Police guarded the home as Estrada's condition remained critical.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Dominick A. Estrada
Philbrick Moore
Dr. Estrada
Estrada
Moore
Father seeks clemency for three jailed Murphy sons
A former county deputy sheriff, A Murphy, asked the state board of pardons in Montgomery to free his three sons George Harvey and Joe Murphy who were jailed after nine months of a two year sentence for assault on Deputies Faulk Crabtree at a Theodore dance. The board will consult the trial judge before ruling and the family defense included the daughter of one son.
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Mobile
State Board of Pardons
Montgomery
Associated Press
A. Murphy
Theodore Section
Pat Byrne
George
Harvey
Joe Murphy
Speigner
C. C. Faulk
A. H. Crabtree
Theodore
Bart B. Chamberlain
Board of Pardons
Murphy
White Man Is Chosen Chief Of Indian Tribe
Jarrett Blythe, a Carlisle graduate, won election as chief over five opponents in Bryson City North Carolina. The ballot included women voters for the first time, granting suffrage and replacing the wigwam with an office. Blythe’s victory was noted as a historic shift in tribal leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Bryson City
N. C
Jarrett Blythe
Carlisle
Carolina
James Blythe
Wolfton
Blythe
Brief City Commission Meeting Short and Inactive
The city commission met briefly on Tuesday lasting under five minutes. Only Bates was present among the commissioners, with Mayor Schwarz noting loans for the Spanish War V reunion.
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Bates
Schwarz
3 Tots Die in Fire Victims Burned to Death in Massachusetts Home
Three young children perished in a fatal blaze at a Massachusetts residence. Fire officials reported the home suffered extensive damage and the cause is under investigation. Neighbors described a quiet street disrupted by the blaze.
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Massachusetts
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