Senator Bourgeois Arrested Amid Baton Rouge Tense Scene
Ernest J. Bourgeois leader of Louisiana’s Square Deal Association was taken into custody by guardsmen at the association headquarters. Spectators followed as he was led toward Huey Long’s hotel headquarters amid a heavily guarded capitol and court session in Baton Rouge where Long pressed murder charges against unnamed officials.
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Baton Rouge
Ernest J. Bourgeois
Square Deal Association of
Louisiana
Huey Long
Association
Square Deal
Bourgeois
Huey P. Long
J. di. Womack
Senator Long
Washington
Long
Gaston L. Porterie
East Baton Rouge Parish
Capitol
Statehouse
Huey Long Arrives at Baton Rouge Under Martial Law
Senator Huey P. Long lands in Baton Rouge with 700 soldiers and state police guarding a city under martial law. He travels from New Orleans with a large retinue, faces strict orders limiting gatherings and press coverage, and plans actions against alleged plotters while his guards confront a photographer at the train arrival.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
New Orleans
Washington
Long
Heidelberg
Statehouse
Joe Messina
Leon Trice
Associated Press
College Day Observed at Central Methodist Church
College Day will be observed at the Central Methodist church on Sunday. Dr. E R Naylor president of Athens college will preach at eleven o clock. The college quartette will sing Blessings and Father Most Merciful.
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College
Central Methodist Church
E. R. Naylor
Athens College
Girl Karpis Left Behind Yields Baby After Seashore Shootout
Dolores Delaney, 19, gave birth to a seven four pound girl in Atlantic City after fugitive Alvin Karpis fled a hotel shooting with Harry Campbell. The infant and Delaney remain in hospital as the pair face Florida harboring charges. both women are held on fifty thousand dollars bail.
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Dolores Delaney
Alvin Karpis
Atlantic City
Delaney
Karpis
Harry Campbell
Winona Burdette
Florida
Hahnemann Hospital
Dancers Shocked as Boy Fires Gun at Harmony Event
Amzi Bridges 21 pulled a pistol during a Gaffney dance injuring Mary Sue Harrill 17 in the left side then shot himself. Bridges died at the scene. Harrill was treated at Gaffney Hospital and expected to recover.
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Gaffney
Amzi Bridges
Mary Sue Harri‘s
Bridges
Miss Harrill
J. W. Bridges
Clint Harrill
HOLC Legislation May Be Delayed
Washington Feb 1 Administration officials faced a warning from House rules chair O'Connor that HOLC capital-boosting legislation may face delays. Some members show interest in Rep. Sweeney's proposed HOLC operations investigation. The bill would seek 1 to 1.5 billion dollars in new capital and has not yet been drafted. Roosevelt has given the measure a must list status.
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Washington
Administration
House
Home Owners Loan Corporation
O’connor
N. Y
Rules Committee
Sweeney
Ohio
Congress
Roosevelt
Liverpool Cotton Statistics For Week End
Weekly cotton statistics show imports of 40 000 bales with 23 000 American stock and 897 000 total American 311 000 forwarded 54 000 American 18 000 exports 3 000. American nil.
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Liverpool
Birth Certificate Push Spurs Plans Across States
Articles detail rising birth certificate campaigns in multiple states including Alabama Montana Iowa and Wyoming. A Rhodes scholar hopeful in Montana sought a certificate by mail and phone while an Iowa coach requested one to prove age for a player. A Wyoming man sought registration for his children after seeing the campaign reports.
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Alabama
Montana
State Board of Health
Iowa
Wyoming
Rev J O Hanes to Address Decatur Mass Meeting
Rev J O Hanes is invited to speak to a mass meeting of men and women from all Decatur churches at Central Methodist church Sunday at 2 30 pm on the suggestion of Dr L Sturdivant presiding elder. He will appeal for full consecration of heart and life in trying times. He is conducting services at West Decatur Methodist church with Rev T H Wilson as pastor through next Wednesday evening.
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Pastors Union
Sturdivant
Decatur
J. O. Hanes
F. Hawkins
Central Methodist Church
Hanes
West Decatur Methodist Church
T. H. Wilson
Clinkstock to Seek New Hearing in Manslaughter Case
Memphis Feb 1 Convicted wrestler Big Jim Clinkstock 245 pounds was free on bond pending a February 7 hearing on a motion for a new trial. He was found guilty of manslaughter for fatally beating Leo Kahn a Memphis furniture store operator and radio MC after a six hour deliberation. The punishment capped at eight years in the state prison pending the new trial decision.
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Memphis
Tenn
Shelby County Criminal Court
Big Jim” Clinkstock
Clinkstock
Leo Kahn
State Penitentiary
Labor declines code extension in car industry
William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee that organized labor would not accept the automobile code extended by President Roosevelt, calling it a failure that forces workers to endure nearly unlimited hours. A Black 30-hour week bill consideration followed the ballot among workers.
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Washington
William Green
American Federation of Labor
Todey Organized Labor
Roosevelt
Senate Judiciary
Green
Automobile Manufactur
Relations Strain As Roosevelt Expands Automobile Code
Washington reports rising clashes between the administration and the American Federation of Labor chiefs over the auto mobile code. Roosevelt says the changes advance employment conditions while AFL leader Green condemns the move as an imposed measure without a hearing. An NRA official notes recent supervised elections in Detroit, with high worker participation in nine plants as part of the new framework. Dr. Leo Wolman heads the national automobile labor board.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
A. F. of L
Roosevelt
William Green
NRA
Detroit
Blue Eagle
National Automoble Labor “Board
Leo Wolman
Cotton Legislation Hit By Testimony
A E Hohenberg president of the American Cotton Shippers Association told the Senate Agriculture Committee that the agricultural adjustment act prices American cotton out of world markets. He urged recognition of the government's duty to make benefit payments to cotton farmers to offset tariff burdens amid tariff reductions.
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Washington
Agricultural Adjustment Act
A. E. Hohenberg
American Cotton Shippers Association
Senate Agriculture Poo Ag ‘Ittee
TVA Interrogatories Over Alabama Power Dam Site Price
Judge Grubb ruled TVA must answer questions on an amendment to its contract with Alabama Power Co for the Joe Wheeler Dam site. The stockholders seek to halt TVA electrification, arguing price issues and compliance with federal powers, with motions pending on injunction and trustee bank questions.
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Birmingham
Ala
W. I. Grubb
U. S. District Court Today
Tennessee Valley Authority
Alabama Power Co
Joe Wheeler
Grubb
TVA
Forney Johnston
Alabama
Chemical National Bank
Oesult
Tempo
North Alabama
Public Works Administration
J. M. Barry
Singing Slayer Hanged in Orleans Parish Jail
Kenneth Neu, known as the singing slayer, was executed at Orleans Parish Jail for the murder of Sheffield Clark, a Nashville businessman. He walked to the gallows at 12:01 PM and was hanged after a brief pause, addressing witnesses as the trap released.
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New Orleans Parish
New Orleans
Kenneth Neu
Orleans Parish
Sheffield Clark
Nashville, Tenn
Neu
Meyer
Nell
Tors
Henry Meyers
New Orleans Man Faces Gallows for Nashville Businessman's Murder
Louis Kenneth Neu, 28, nightclub entertainer, will be executed at Orleans parish jail at noon for the murder of Sheffield Clark, wealthy Nashville businessman. Neu, filled with religion and penitence, faced limited hours before the scheduled execution.
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New Orleans
Louis Kenneth Neu
Orleans Parish
Sheffield Clark
Nashville, Tenn
Pastors urged to submit church notices by Friday six
The Daily asks pastors to send church announcements to the office by 6 PM Friday. Notices will be set on the linotype machines Friday afternoon, with the shift ending at 6 PM. Announcements for Saturday publication must be in by finishing time.
Atlanta Mayor Targeted in Prohibition Rally
Bishop Ainsworth led a rally attacking Mayor James L. Key and other officials over beer sales in Georgia. He said mayors promoting beer defy state law and contribute to lawlessness. The consolidated forces for prohibition backed a state referendum under the county unit system. The temperance committee of the Georgia House will meet Monday to consider liquor and beer measures.
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Atlanta
James L. Key
Key
Georgia
Ainsworth
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Macon
Bishop Ainsworth
Consolidated Forces For Prohibition
Temperance Committee
The
Georgia House
Chas. W. Lindsey Dies Sudden at 55 in Town
Chas. W. Lindsey 55 prominent local resident died suddenly at his home 713 Second Avenue West at 10 AM. He appeared well earlier in the downtown district. Believed to be heart attack. Survived by widow Lazelle two sons Henry H and William R a sister Mrs L P Stover. Funeral arrangements announced later by Brown.
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Chas. W. Lindsey
Second Avenue
West
Lindsey
Ben
Lazelle
Henry H
Wiliam R
L. P. Stover
Brown
Alabama Legislature Moves Through Washington Bills In Session
In Montgomery the legislature pushed the remaining eight Washington sponsored new deal bills through the House with Senate committees giving favorable reports. Recesses followed each bill as rules members prepared for probable passage by Saturday. The measures create public corporations for rural electrification water works and other projects while a King Pin measure would give a governor appointed board power over bond issuances.
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A. F. Mahan
Associated Press
Montgomery
Ala
House
Senate
Rules Committee
Anniston
PWA
Rene Bama
Congress
Washington
Tallapoosa
Riverside High Player Hurt After Collision With Wall
Robert Lentz, a Riverside High basketball player, sustained a deep chin gash when he crashed into a gym wall during a game. He was taken to a physician's office for treatment, with several clamps used to close the wound.
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Robert. Lentz
Riverside High
Eleven Die in German Plane Crash Near Stettin
Berlin reports eleven killed when a German-Russian Airways passenger plane crashes near Poderjuch by Stettin. The three crew and eight German passengers died after fog and rain forced the low altitude flight toward the ground. The aircraft was en route from Koenigsberg to Berlin and crashed about 7 p.m. local time.
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Berlin
Poderjuch
Stettin
Koenigsberg
Southern Tenant Farmers Union Loans Bill Approved
The Southern Tenant Farmers Union in a dispute with East Arkansas landlords wins approval for a bill that would provide loans to tenants to purchase farms, advancing a plan discussed today.
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Southern Tenant Farmers Union
East Arkansas
Pur- Pirthead, Debeen Os Dem
Agen Age Ay
Defense disputes Fisch myth in Lindbergh ransom case
In Newark, defense attorney Edward J. Reilly argued Fisch did not write the ransom notes and questioned state handwriting analyses. Expert Trendley testified the nursery note was written by Hauptmann or a left handed author, challenging earlier expert claims.
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William A. Kinney
Lemington
Bruno Hauptmann
Hauptmann
Ing
Trendley
Reilly
Fisch
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr
Frisch
Hauptmann handwriting expert contests Lindbergh ransom note writer
Bruno Richard Hauptmann’s first handwriting expert challenged the eight opposing craftsmen’ claims and testified that Hauptmann was not the author of the 1 cent Lindbergh ransom notes. John M. Trendley of East St. Louis testified after the trial resumed in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping and murder case.
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William A. Kinney
Associated
Flemington
N. J
Bruno Richard Hauptmann
Bergh
John M. Trendley
East St. Louis
Ill
Hauptmann
Charles A. Lindbergh
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