New Orleans Street Car Clash Prompts Tear Gas Scene
In New Orleans tear gas bombs were used by police and U S deputy marshals to disperse a crowd at a dynamited street car scene. Acting Mayor Semmes Walmsley condemned the gas and the marshal reaction while noting a baby was in danger. Four dynamite sticks were found on Tulane belt tracks later. The car men rejected the settlement, keeping a looming strike.
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New Orleans
United States
S. Semmes Walmsley
Tulane Belt Tracks
A. 8
Langston
Board of Directors of
Public Service
Celebration Opens Baltimore Two Hundredth Birthday Festivities
Baltimore marks its 200th birthday with Defenders Day as schools and many institutions close. The navy dispatches the battleship New York and cruiser Memphis, while army units from Fort Meyer and Langley Field join along with air service planes from Selfridge and Quantico Marine base in a four day celebration.
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Baltimore
Maryland
Fort McHenry
Navy
New York
Memphis
Sixth Field Artillery
Third Cavalry
Fort Meyer
Army
Army and Mary
Selfridge Field
Langley Field
Quantico Marine Base
Sikorski Amphibian Begins Long Caribbean Flight
A Sikorsky amphibian operated by the New York Rio and Buenos Aires line carries six mechanics from Tampa at 6 30 am for Havana as the first leg of a 7000 mile journey via the West Indies and along South America to Buenos Aires R H McGohn commands the plane which reached Washington yesterday and Tampa last night.
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Tampa
Fla
New York
Rio
Buenos Aires
Havana
Cuba
West Indies
South America
Buyesnos Aires
Argentina
Washington
R. H. McGohn
Weather outlook for Alabama and Mississippi
Partly cloudy and warm through Thursday night and Friday. North portions of Alabama and Mississippi may see thunder showers, with cooler but still warm conditions in some areas. Occasional downpours possible in northern sections Thursday night.
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Alabama
Mississippi
Four Admirals Named In Arms Lobby Quiz
The Senate Naval Committee met to probe the alleged disarmament lobby at Geneva amid Hoover administration pressure. Four American rear admirals were named in the inquiry as part of the arms lobby controversy.
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Geneva
Eins
Senate Naval Committee
Jeans
Hoover
Department of Justice
Great Britain
Senate Lines Up Inquiry Into Arms Lobby Tactics
The Senate naval committee moved to plan hearings to reveal interference by large U.S. shipbuilders in Geneva disarmament talks. Chairman Hale ordered an executive session to decide witnesses and procedure with William B. Shearer expected as the first witness for Bethlehem Shipbuilding, New York Shipbuilding, and Newport News Shipbuilding.
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Naval Committee
Shearer
Washington
Hoover
Geneva
Finance deal in paper AUW Mer sued
William Lavarre testified in his own defense in the Hall Lavarre newspaper suit in Macon Georgia. He said his gross income was 128000 dollars in the first seven months of 1928 and that he had planned to buy newspapers for three years before meeting Harold Hall in late 1927. Lavarre claimed he discussed the plans with Hall in July 1928 and that Hall would join him if guaranteed the same income he earned with Scripps Howard. He denied Hall learned that the International Paper erred first.
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Macon
William Lavarre
Hall-Lavarre
Harold Hall
Lavarre
Hall
Scripps-Howard
Senate Defers Vare Seat Case in Tariff Battle Start
Washington Sept 12 With the Vare seat dispute postponed to December the tariff bill moves forward. By a 41 to 3 vote the Vare case was deferred until Congress meets in regular session leaving the administrative provisions of the bill to be debated first ahead of rate schedule sections.
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Washington
William S. Vare
Pennsylvania
Senate
Vare
Congress
Finance Committee
Carolina Mob Probe Starts at Charlotte
Ten persons including Ben Wells organizer for the National Textile Workers Union were subpoenaed to appear before Judge Thomas J. Shaw as authorities seek to identify mob members in the flogging of Wells and kidnapping of union associates. The mob of several hundred traveled by car caravan. Governor Gardner ordered full investigation.
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Charlotte
N. C
Ben Wells
National Textile Workers’ Union
North Carolina
Thomas J. Shaw
Wells
Shaw
Superior Court
Mecklenburg
Gaston Counties
John G. Carpenter
O. Max Gardner
Gastonia
C. M. Lell
C. D. Saylor
C. F. Ader
Forest Fires Burn Across Western Oregon as Blazes Grow
Forest supervisors in western Lane county report improving conditions in one area while new fires threaten the region. About a dozen serious fires burn through the week as crews guard fronts to prevent spread. A new blaze at Booth Kelly logging land near Eugene and another near Cedar Mills are reported. Officials deny destruction of Lane county settlements.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Forest Supervisors
Lane County
Booth Kelly Lumber Company
Eugene
Cedar Mills
Henderson Informer Faces Preliminary Hearing in Murder Case
Baldwin county informer L. D. Henderson is set for a 10 o’clock Thursday preliminary hearing in Bay Minette on a first degree murder charge tied to the Labor Day slaying of Jake Keller of Robertsdale. Prosecutor Hall will lead the case with deputies Joyner and Steele among witnesses near Fairhope.
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L. D. Henderson
Sheriff's Department
Baldwin County
Bay Minette
Jake Kellar
Robertsdale
Charley Lowell
Fairhope
Henderson
C. C. Hand
Hall
J. W. Joyner
W. H. Steele
Jake Keller
Lowells
Keller
Fair P
Steele
Joyner
Lowell
New York Socialite Alice Walker to Tour Thee of Innocence
Miss Alice Walker daughter of Mr and Mrs A Stewart Walker of New York and Southampton will star in Thee of Innocence in a road show touring the east. She has studied drama for three years and is a member of the junior league.
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New York
Alice Walker
A. Stewart Walker
Southampton
Long Island
Candy-store owner seeks missing 11 year old Ruth Ireland
Berkeley police searched for Ruth Ireland age 11 after she was last seen yesterday afternoon after leaving school. W A Buckhart, owner of a local candy chain, asked authorities to locate the child amid fears she has been kidnapped.
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Berkeley
Cal
Ruth Ireland
Nice
W. A. Buckhart
Actress Marries Route to Honolulu on Honeymoon
San Francisco dated Sept 12 Janet Gaynor film actress and Lyndell Peck San Francisco attorney travel to Honolulu on their honeymoon after sealing marriage in Oakland yesterday.
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San Francisco
Janet Gaynor
Lyndell Peck
Honolulu
Oakland
Clint Rowlett Injured In High Speed Highway Crash
Reports from Hairston indicate Clint Rowlett of Jackson Tennessee is resting as well as possible after a wreck near Topton. The car, carrying Mrs Rowlett and two others, left the road at high speed and rolled, pinning Rowlett under the machine. The group was bound for the Gulf coast.
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Meridian
Miss
Hairston
Clint Rowlett
Jackson
Tenn
Topton
Rowlett
Gulf Coast
Chicago Youth James Kane Dies After Football Injury
James Kane aged 12 dies in Chicago after infection set in following a football game. He is noted as the first Chicago football fatality of the 1929 season.
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James Kane
Chicago
Chinese Officials Interne Over 300 Russian Citizens
Harbin Manchuria September 12 Chinese authorities report 200 Soviet citizens were interned in the last 48 hours, adding to earlier detentions for a total over 300. Soviet planes lobbed leaflets over Pogranichnaya and nearby border areas, and a Japanese official was killed in the Pogranichnaya bombardment.
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Harbin
Manchuria
Ranichnaya
Mulin
Pogranichnaya
Bear Burglar Bear Captured After Florence Place Home Invasion
A bear, acting as a burglar, entered E. M. Megginson’s Florence Place home early Thursday, rifled the kitchen, and sat on a stove eating cakes before a posse cornered it and forced it into a cage. Neighbors and Mrs Megginson pursued the intruder after alarms, with Mr Dees leading the armed response. The animal, about the size of a monkey with brown fur, is being held for investigation into its past.
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E. M. Megginson
Florence Place
Mra. M
Megginson Dence
Ginson
Mr. Dees
Dees
Police chase ends with wreck and arrest in local drive
A whiskey-drenched auto was seized after a pursuit that began on Dauphin Street near Macy and ended in Feraway when the driver jumped and the car toppled into a large drain. Officer Fisher reported the chase reached about 40 mph before the crash. John Daniels alias W C Brown held for wife murder in 1928. Other cases include vagrancy fines and DUI charges for Louisville and Pensacola residents.
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Joe Scout
Dauphin
Macy Streets
Feraway
Fisher
Burch
Erine
Macy
John Daniels
W. C Brown
W. L. Terrell
Prentiss
Miss
Terrell
Daniels
Eddie Owens
Recorder
Earl Davis
First National Bank
J. Lee
Louisville
G. W. Gray
Pensacola
Wilkinson
Damage at Infanta After Typhoon Strikes Philippines
Governor General Dwight L Davis and Major Walter Kilner visited Infanta to assess the disaster where floods from three rivers and sea surge inundated the town to ten feet. More than 50 died there, with total area losses around 200 lives and a damage estimate near 1 million dollars as Red Cross relief and ships distribute supplies.
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Manila
Dwight L. Davis
Infanta
Tayabas
Walter Kilner
Red Cross
Polillo
Edsal
War department to sell bonds for Philippine government
The War Department plans to advertise bids to sell Philippine government bonds with a par value of 1,500,000 dollars. The four and a half percent bonds mature October 1, 1959 and are secured by the Philippine metropolitan water district.
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Washington
War Department
Philippine Metropolitan Water District
City Sues Mobile County Over Hospital Operating Costs
The City of Mobile sues Mobile County for 96004.66 dollars, claiming half of City Hospital's operating expenses from March 1, 1928, to February 28, 1929, were unpaid. Vincent F. Kilborn, city attorney, cites a 1901 statute and notes prior demands and a lack of action by the county board.
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Kilborn
City Commission
Supreme Court
James H. Webb
Webb
Mexico City to Kansas City air race joins International Air Circus
The race from Mexico City to Kansas City gains Mexican government approval and offers five thousand dollars in prizes with two overnight stops along the route. Three American pilots Col. Art Goebel Captain Frank Hawks and Charles Hughes plan to enter. Cuban and Mexican military pilots are expected to participate.
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Kansas City
Mexico City
International Air Circus
Fairfax Airport
Art C. Goebel
California
Honolulu
Frank M. Hawks
Los Angeles
Charles “Speed” Hughes
Minneapolis
Jewel theft revealed after Lido getaway
Mrs Richard H Grant arrives in New York detailing a jewel loss of $50 000 while staying at the Lido Italy. She linked a gang of thieves to the heist and said the group had been active in fashionable European resorts.
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Richard Grant
Italy
New York
Lido
Richard H. Grant
General Motors
Quinn Dies After Auto Crash In Mobile
James Wheeler Quinn, 17, of 113 South Dearborn Street, dies hours after a two vehicle wreck at Washington Avenue and New Jersey Streets. Donald Willie and James Williams are injured. both vehicles demolished. Quinn is survived by mother Ida Owen Quinn, sister Mary Elizabeth, and brother John Richard. funeral arrangements to be announced by Roche Mortuary.
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Washington Avenue
New Jersey
James Wheeler Quinn
Ida Owen Quinn
South
Dearborn Street
Quinn
James W
Rec Ant Street
City Hospital
Selma
Ala
Mobile
Mary Elizabeth Quinn
John Richard Quinn
Roche Mortuary
Burglars Break In Homes in Meridian Miss
In Meridian on Sept 12 burglars forced entry to two homes of J L Eastburn and F J Littlefoot. They took $5 cash from Eastburn and a pistol from a broken window entry. A pipe and tobacco were stolen from Mr Winchard trumps. The Catlett store yielded candy chewing gum and cigarettes. Police had no clues.
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Meridian
Miss
J. L. Eastburn
F. J. Littlefoot
Meridian D. L Club Elects New Officers
Misses Myrtle McDonald is president Josie Baker vice president Minnie Danner secretary and Ethel Graham are elected officers at the annual YWCA meeting in Meridian. They will be installed at the next meeting.
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Meridian
Miss
Myrtle McDonald
Josie Baker
Minnie Danner
Ethel Graham
D. L Club
Wall Street Opens With Strength In Early Trading
New York stock market starts with broad gains and brisk turnover as several blocks of 5,000 to 18,000 shares trade. Westinghouse and U S Steel gain, Radio United, National Cash Register, North American, Pennsylvania and Bethlehem Steel rise modestly. Standard Oil of New Jersey opens up after yesterday’s late upturn but shows instability in early session.
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Wall Street
New York
Westinghouse
U. S. Steel
Om Radio
United Corporation
National Cash Register
North American
Pennsylvania
Bethlehem Steel
New Jersey
Standard
New York Futures Open Steady Across Major Contracts
Futures in New York opened steady with October at 18.6, December 18.96, January March 19.19, and May 19.31, reflecting a muted start across key months. Traders monitored early price signals as markets began the session.
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New York
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