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Meantime, forestalling Senate action, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Assistant U. S. Attorney General, spurred a Grand Jury investigation of Mississippi's postmasters, 75 of whom were summoned last week to Biloxi to be scrutinized. As everyone knows, Mississippi's Negro Republicans, headed by National Committeeman Perry W. Howard, control their fair share of the South's 25,000 Federal jobs, which aggregate $35,000,000 per annum in salaries. Indictments began, arrests followed for "purchase and sale of public offices...
...extradition. His lot will be a sandy purgatory of heat, fever, mosquitoes, mangy beasts and tribesmen foes who fight like jackals-but there will be "no questions asked". . . . Such a life attracts not only fugitives, but honest youths athirst for adventure. Such a life attracted Bennett J. Doty of Biloxi, Miss. (TIME, July 26, 1926), who served with the Legion gallantly in Syria, then deserted. He was not sentenced to death but to only eight years hard labor because of pressure from the U. S. State Department. Last week the result of more such pressure was that Bennett J. Doty...
Atlanta, Ga. Asheville, N. C. Biloxi, Miss. Brunswick, Ga. Charleston, S. C. Chattanooga, Tenn. Cleveland, Ohio Corpus Christi, Tex. Dallas, Tex. Detroit, Mich. Erie, Pa. Greensboro, Lakeland, Fla. Los Angeles, Calif. New Orleans, La. Norfolk, Portsmouth...
...London, Conn., to the New Jersey coast. It succeeded. Rum row practically disappeared. But it has reappeared in the Gulf of Mexico, furnishing gulf ports with many kinds of dangerous drinkables. Last week the Coast Guard announced that it would extend its blockade in that direction, operating from Biloxi against the rum runners from Bimini...
...Biloxi, Miss., the United States Marshal was ordered by a writ of sequestration to "seize and bring into court" a 75 ton dead whale, as to the ownership of which there was a legal contest...