Butler County Murder Case Aims Third Grand Jury Review
Mobile solicitor Bart B. Chamberlain assists Butler county in re examining the killing of Mrs. Frank Gafford from two years ago. The case, tried twice and remanded for retrial due to trial errors, now seeks fresh evidence before a Butler county grand jury under Solicitor W. H. Stoddard with Attorney General Harwell G. Davis overseeing.
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Butler County
Bart B. Chamberlain
Mobile
Greenville
Frank Gafford
Harwell G. Davis
Montgomery
Butler
Gafford
Supreme Court of
Attorney General's Office
Alabama
W. H. Stoddard
Créfishaw
George
Minnie
Cammie Cheatham
Cheatham
Montgomery County
Cammie
Jake Crenshaw
Davis
Attorney General’s Department
Oklahoma salesman held in Mobile on Oklahoma warrant
R. I. Wilburn a salesman listing the Bienville Hotel as his address is detained at Mobile police headquarters on a warrant from Oklahoma City charging him with disposing of mortgaged property. A telegram from Sheriff Ben B. Dancy says an officer will return with Wilburn. Bond has not been made.
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R. I. Wilburn
Bienville Hotel
Oklahoma City
Okla
Wilburn
Charles F. Howell
Ben B. Dancy
Oklahoma
Mobile
Tapia Improves After Self Inflicted Wounds in Mobile
Homer Tapia, 29, who stabbed himself after arriving from Pensacola, Fla., is reported in improved condition at Providence Infirmary. His physician says he has a chance to recover. Tapia said he stabbed himself due to worries about things in general.
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Homer Tapia
Mobile
Pensacola
Fla
Providence Infirmary
Tapia
Legion Meeting Calls Mobile Ex Service Men to New Orleans Trip
Members of the Lamar Y. McLeod Post and other ex service men are summoned to a 7 30 PM meeting at the Battle House to discuss plans for the Mobile delegation’s trip to the American Legion convention in New Orleans. F Taylor Peck, committee chair, leads the call.
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Mobile
American Legion
New Orleans
Lamar ‘Y. McLeod Post
Battle House
F. Taylor Peck
National Basketball Schedule Note for Philadelphia New York
Philadelphia plays New York at 1 15 p m and Brooklyn visits Boston at 3 15 p m Brooklyn at Boston. Chicago travels to Pittsburgh in cloudy conditions. No American games scheduled.
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Philadelphia
New York
Brooklyn
Boston
Chicago
Pittsburgh
Weather outlook for Alabama Florida and Mississippi
The forecast notes fair weather for Alabama and west Florida tonight and Thursday. Mississippi is also fair tonight and Thursday with warmth in the northwest tonight.
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Washington
Alabama
Florida
Mississippi
Northwest
War Threats Cast Damper On Markets
Near East war threats weighed on the New York stock market at the open with declines across sectors. The oil group stood out with gains in Tidewater Barnsdall Houston California Petroleum Phillips Petroleum and Standard Oil of California. Mexican Petroleum fell and rail and some steel shares faced selling pressure amid weak August earnings.
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New York
Near East
Tidewater
Barnsdall
Houston
California
Petroleum
Phillips Petroleum
Standard Oil of
Mexican Petroleum
Marland
Atlantic Gulf
Gulf States
Vanadium
Cotton futures slip as Dardanelles rumors offset gains
In New Orleans daily trading, 20.14 cents for October led a 14 to 16 point midday drop as rumors of English and Turkish forces clashed affected sentiment. Government crop reports warn of late picking and poor conditions while opening prices show modest steadiness across contracts in New Orleans and New York sessions.
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New Orleans
Dardanelles
New York
Plans For Buyers and Fashion Week Showings Progress
Local retailers report rapid planning for Buyers and Fashion Week under the Mobile Chamber of Commerce. About 75,000 notices will go to out of town and Mobile customers, with nightly band concerts in Bienville Square. Rail fare refunds apply for qualifying purchases. The event runs October 9 to 14.
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Mobile Chamber of Commerce
Bienville Square
Prohibition Raid Near Orchard Destroys Stills and Mash
County and federal officers seized two 60 gallon stills and 23 barrels of mash near Mulford branch Orchard nine miles west of Mobile. Deputies Blackburn Burch Moore and federal officers Thompson Cox led the raid alongside resulting arrests of Nathaniel Pugh and Jewell Henderson, two black men charged with violating state and federal laws. Police on Lexington and Davis avenues faced gunfire from a bootlegger the same night.
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Prohibition
Mulford Branch
Orchard
Mobile
Blackburn
Burch
Moore
Thompson
Cox
Connolly
Gallimore
Lexington Avenue
Davis Avenue
Nathaniel Pugh
Jewell Henderson
MOBILIANS MAY GET FRATERNAL HONOR
Mobile Odd Fellows may vote next October on grand lodge officers with Albert D. Block favored for grand warden. Isis Palace No 10 Knights Oriental Splendor plans a ceremonial October 18 led by Thomas B Allman with Montgomery and Birmingham reps to attend. Mobile Elks to stage a charity minstrel show October 16-17 chaired by C H Stutz.
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Mobile
Order of Odd Fellows
Grand Lodge
Albert D. Block
Odd Fellows
Alabama
Ber
Isis Palace No
Knights Oriental
Thomas B. Allman
Montgomery
Birmingham
Mobile Lodge of Elks
C. H. Stutz
Negro fined and imprisoned for assault in city court
The Russell, a negro, was fined $500 and 140 days hard labor for assaulting Claude Porter after a Monday night fight near Davis avenue and Lafayette street. Recorder D H Edington imposed the sentence. Virginia Nicholas, Frances White and Walter Fletcher, also negroes, were docketed afterward for assault and battery.
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the Russell
Costa
D. H. Edington
Claude Porter
Davis Avenue
Lafayette Street
Virginia Nicholas
Frances White
Walter Fletcher
Move to draft all national resources for future war
Washington reports the American Legion will push a universal service act at its New Orleans convention. The plan, drafted with help from War Department figures, would authorize the president to conscript people and industrial plants in another war, with capped pay and government control of prices and labor. Colonel D John Markey leads the effort and cites expert input from top economists and policymakers.
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Washington
American Legion
New Orleans
Legionnaires
D. John Markey
Legion
War Department
Weeks
Markey
Masons to Hold Lodge of Sorrow in Mobile
A joint lodge of sorrow will be held by Mobile area Masonic blue lodges at the Scottish Rite Cathedral on October 8. The memorial service is led by a general committee representing Mobile Lodge 40, Howard 69, Athelstan 369, and Pentalpha 804 with invitations extended to nearby blue lodges to join.
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Lodge of Sorrow
Masonic Blue Lodges of
Mobile
Scottish Rite
St. Francis and
Claiborne Streets
Masonic
Herbert A. Feibelman
Eer Eeey Cog J. Taggart
R.H. Parsons
Croom
Harlan W. Saeter Uaeaye
Southall
Robert L. Padgett
Hardy N. Stevens
G. O. Morton
M. Appleby
J.C. Cale
Ed. M. Edmonds
Mobile Lodge
Howard Lodge
Athelstan Lodge
Pentalpha Lodge
Grand Bay
Bayou la Barre
Theodore
Citronelle
Four Crager System salesmen freed on bail
Chicago report says four Crager System salesmen freed on bail after headquarters raid in New York and arrests in Chicago. Federal agents say nearly $1,000,000 was raised through illegal mail sales of securities of the Glass Casket Corporation, which is not implicated in the charges.
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Chicago
Crager System, Inc
New York
Quarette
Crager
Glass Casket Corporation
Hearing to Decide Oyster Shell Rate Between Gulf Ports
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspends the Biloxi to Mobile and Biloxi to New Orleans crushed oyster shell rate hike. Louisville & Nashville proposed raising from 99 cents to 1.07 dollars per ton. Biloxi crushers protested. a hearing will be held later.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Biloxi
Mobile
New Orleans
Louisville & Nashville
Temperature Trend Expected to Hold Steady Through Thursday
Forecast from the Mobile weather bureau shows little change in temperatures tonight and Thursday. A high near 86 degrees was reached yesterday with a low around 67 last night.
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Weather ’S Bureau
B and O declares embargo on coal shipments to Lake
Youngstown Ohio September 27 Baltimore and Ohio Railway will today declare an embargo on coal shipments to Lake Superior according to authoritative sources.
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Youngstown, O
Baltimore & Ohio Railway
Lake
Churches Relied Upon To Assist Law and Order
President Harding asks churches of all denominations to help maintain respect for law and order. Archbishop Hayes met with the president at the White House and said Harding urged churches to exert their influence to develop reverence for law and greater respect for order.
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Washington
Harding
United
Archbishop Hayes
New York
White House
Death of Tom Watson Leaves Georgia Party Leaderless
In Georgia, about fifty thousand followers of U.S. Senator Tom Watson face a leadership vacuum after his death in Washington. Anticipation grows for a successor chosen by Watson’s loyalists, with Governor Thomas W. Hardwick able to appoint a temporary replacement under state law.
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Atlanta
Associated Press
Georgia
United States
Thomas E. Watson
Washington
Thomson
Hickory IL
Tom Watson
Watson
Thomas W. Hardwick
Spanish General Silvestre Escapes Moors Feigning Lunacy
The Heraldo de Madrid reports Fernan dez Silvestre former Melilla commandant general escaped death in Morocco by feigning lunacy and is alive in a South American city. After Melilla battle in July 1921 he was variously reported killed captured or to have died by own hand.
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Madrid
Fernandez Silvestre
Melilla
Morocco
Heraldo de Madrid
Silvestre
Rail Merger Cases To Be Continued In Southern Cities
Washington Sept 27 Hearings on proposals to consolidate rail lines especially in the southeast will be resumed next month as Interstate Commerce Commission examiners sit in southern cities. Plans call for forming three major regional systems that would combine most southeastern trunk line railroads. Similar schemes exist for other regions but await study by railroads and communities involved.
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Washington
Southeast
Interstate Commerce Commision
Commission
United States
Mobile and Fort Worth Aim for Complete Game Details
The News Item presses for full play-by-play coverage of the Mobile at Fort Worth baseball game via direct AP wire. Aims to showcase Mobile Bears’ chance to regain South prestige if Mobile wins. If Fort Worth wins, the series ties and a decisive game may be needed with further implications for the Southern League.
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Associated Press
Mobile
Fort Worth
Panthers
Bears
South
Liempnis
Little Rock
Tre Fort Worth
Germany to pay Rhine occupation costs via German dues
Washington reports a plan by Secretary Hughes approved by the reparations commission to credit Germany’s dues for maintaining American troops in the Rhineland against its reparations account. The plan avoids cash payments and relies on credits toward Germany’s wartime costs.
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Washington
Germany
Rhine
Secretary of State
Hughes
United States
Rhineland
Mean
Coal Transportation Plans Discussed With Federal Official
Washington report states a National Coal Association committee led by J. C. Bryson of Romerset Pennsylvania told Federal Fuel Distributor Spens that only a two to three day supply of cars exists across soft coal fields. They urged immediate rail operator cooperation to move coal to market, citing shopmen's strike impacts.
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Washington
Spens
National Coal Association
J. C. Bryson
Romerset
L. Yerkes
Birmingham
Ala
E. C. Mahan
Knoxville
Tenn
J. G. Bradley
Dundon
W. Va
W. L. Andrews
Baltimore
W. D. Ord
Land Graff
A. J. Meehan
Johnstown
Hoover to Talk Lumber Standards
Secretary of Commerce Hoover will meet the central commission of lumber standards on Tuesday October to discuss standardization in the lumber industry. Wilson Compton of the National Lumber Manufacturers Association announced the purpose is to show the industry can operate in the public interest without government regulation.
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Washington
Hoover
Central Commission of Lumber Standards
Wilson Compton
National Lumber Manufacturers Association
Compton
Railroads Load Record 945,919 Cars in Week
Washington Sept 27. American railroads loaded 945,919 cars in the week ended September 16, the highest seven day total since October 22. The figure surpasses the prior week by 113,175 cars and is 9,367 more than the same week last year. Traffic rose across most commodities.
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Washington
American Railway Association
Missouri Democrats Attack G O P Inefficiency
In Mexico Missouri on September 27 Democratic speakers Senator Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas and A Q Stanley of Kentucky opened the campaign denouncing the Hoover Harding administration as inefficient. They attacked the tariff as a boost to profiteers, argued living costs would rise while wages fall, and criticized rising Missouri taxes and a bureaucratic federal state. They complained of many new agencies and costly governance since 1913.
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Mexico
Associated Press
Missouri
Joseph Taylor Robinson
Arkansas
A. QO. Stanley
Kentucky
Harding
Hyde
Robinson
San Francisco
Congress
Lberty
Stanley
Reed
George Washington
Seneca Chief Seeks Pow Wow With Harding
Big Chief Hawkianas from the Buffalo New York Seneca reservation arrives at Washington seeking a White House audience and a handshake with the Great Father. He previously appeared in April with a pine turkey and again yesterday, anticipating today’s daily handshaking hour. He denies aiming for a federal post or treasury gifts, wishing only a friendly greeting.
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Washington
Big Chief Hawkianas
Buffalo
New York
White House
Big Chief
Charley Johnson
Big C
Treasury
War Dept Sells 1604 European Railway Cars to Poland
The War Department announced the sale of 1,604 European type railway freight cars to Poland for 4,802,660 dollars. Cash payment is 1,200,640 dollars with the rest due in six years via five percent notes of the Polish Republic. Cars stored at Norfolk and New York yards cannot be used on American railways due to gauge differences.
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Washington
War Department
Republic of Poland
Polish Republic
Norfolk
New York
France
Rioting Irish Prisoners Wreck Cells in Cork Jail
A Cork message reports 440 prisoners rioted in Cork jail starting Sunday. After hours of pandemonium authorities ordered a desist, extended the deadline, and the inmates opened fire, wounding two men, one fatally, ending the disturbance.
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Belfast
Cork
Nashville Man Dies in Birmingham Hospital
Erbie Morgan of Nashville Tenn died in a Birmingham Alabama hospital after being found critically ill on a downtown street. Police will determine if there were any causal factors tied to his death.
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Birmingham
Ala
Erbie Morgan
Nashville
Turbulent Near East as Greece crisis reshapes influence
The report outlines shifts in Near East power amid Greece collapse and Constantine abdication. Britain shows a softer stance toward Turkish nationalists while a Turkish deadline is debated. A Russian delegation, with Leon Trotsky, may travel to Berlin on Turkish straits talks as instability grows.
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Near East
Greece
Constantine
Near Bation
Leon Trotzky
Peoples Co
Berlin
Russia
Stantinely
Greece Revolt Looms as King Constantine Abdicates
News dispatches report Greece in upheaval as King Constantine is said to have abdicated. A military revolt led by an officer named tas spreads from Mytilene and Chios to the capital area, with warships mutinous and troops mobilizing. Premier Venizelos's stance unsettled amid this crisis.
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London
Ciated Press
Sociated
Greece
Constantine
Uniary
Aegean Islands
Athens
Cen
Stantine
Tas
Eral
Myti Chios
Smyrna
Amn
Seouerl
Nhe
Saloniki
Thrace
Venizelos
Hissis Tance
Crisis Reported at Chicago City Hall Amid Tension
Chicago City Hall faced a tense stand off as officials reported a crisis involving factions aligned with and against the administration. Dates and exact actors remain unclear but the events suggest a partisan split within local governance affecting city operations.
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Chicago
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