Russia Tries to Avert Battle in Manchoukuo
Tokyo reports Soviet infantry crossed into Manchoukuo from Siberia and were surrounded by Manchoukuoan forces near Tungning. Soviet authorities asked to allow the troops to retire with arms and seek an amicable settlement. Details on number of troops and equipment were unclear.
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Tokyo
Rengo
Harbin
Manchoukuo
Siberia
Tungning
Suifenho
Foreign Office
Manchoukuo Tungning
Manchoukuan
Russia
Manchuria
Far East
Manchukuo
Amur
Ussuri
Japan
Chinese Eastern Railway
Divine defends Chief O Malley in Alexandria dispute
In Alexandria Louisiana Dr J R Keeling pastor of the First Christian church issues a fifth statement defending Mayor Lamkin and Chief of Police C C O Malley against state charges of lawlessness. He praises improved moral conditions and says the law is being enforced. Senator Huey Long was once jeered nearby, fueling local controversy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexandria
J. R. Keeling
First Christian Church
C. C. O'Malley
Lamkin
Keeling
Huey Long
Three men moved as mob threats rise in Andalusia
Chief Deputy H Beck Gantt said three men connected to a Florida filling station operator slaying were moved from Covington County Jail to an unnamed county to keep them safe after reports of a mob en route from Laurel Hill Florida. Roads to Andalusia were monitored to prevent violence as two white men and one other were named.
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Andalusia
Ale
H. Beck Gantt
Florida
Covingtort
Laure! Hil
Fila
Wanted Air Bases Bonus Plan for U S Security
Alaska delegate urges a network of air bases from Fairbanks to coastal cities with bombing and pursuit aircraft, submarines, long range planes, and air dirigibles as coastal lookout posts to deter enemies at a fraction of the cost of a major bombing strike.
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JHE
Alaska
Fairbanks
Seattle
Portland
San Francisco
Los Angeles
San Diego
Gulf
United States
Three Men Treated After West Monroe Incidents
Three men were brought to Riverside sanitarium after injuries in West Monroe. Hugh Poe, 23, suffered a knife wound and head blows from a street fight with Hood Zeigler and Breard Zeigler. Nash Jones, 39, injured when a truck wheel ran over him. Hardy Rutherford, unnamed, was clubbed and treated before discharge. Police sought Zeiglers' kin and the truck driver Charlie Causten.
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Riverside Sanitarium
Hugh Poe
Near Eros
Jackson Parish
Poe
Natchitoches Street
West Monroe
Hood Zeigler
Charlie Causten
Eros
Monroe
Hardy Rutherford
Grammont Street
Paving Project Planned for Ouachita River Corridor
Chairman A P Tugwell of the Louisiana highway commission said plans draft to pave about three miles of highway southwest from the Ouachita river bridge west end from West Monroe to Eros. Bids likely in February. paving item still in planning stage. The link would boost paved road between Monroe and Jonesboro via Eros.
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A. P. Tugwell
Louisiana Highway Commission
Ouachita River
West Monroe
Eros
Associated Press
Monroe
Jonesboro
Bonus plan tops list of compromise proposals for veterans
Washington dispatch reports a new $1.2 billion soldiers bonus proposal gaining prominence among compromise plans. If accepted the plan would issue cash payments to veterans by 1935 and amend law to date certificates from Armistice Day 1918, altering maturity to 17 or 20 years under the Patman bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bonus Group
Patman
Stores in City Have Busy Christmas Day
Monroe merchants reported a strong Christmas season with many calling it the best since 1930. Stores, especially a leading department store, said this was the largest Christmas buying period in their history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Eleventh Week Contest Winners Announced
The Jinky contest awards twenty one prizes including 40 dollars in cash. With only ten days left to enter, a 100 dollar grand prize awaits. Entries should be mailed to imagxon from sponsors in Monroe and West Monroe before the closing Wednesday.
Long’s 1934 Sessions Transform Louisiana Politics
Huey P. Long used three special sessions in 1934 to centralize power, strip local self government, punish opponents, and burden business. The author lauds Long’s achievement, claiming a unique political organization rules the state and communities and leaders are worn down by relentless pressure.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Senator Long
Gangster Girl Marie Conforti Sentenced to Prison
Marie Conforti, 21, Chicago sales girl tied to the Dillinger group, chose prison over gangland threats. Federal Judge Patrick Stone sentenced her to one year and one day in Alderson Federal Prison for violating her May probation by harboring Dillinger gang members, including the late Homer Van Meter.
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Marie Conforti
Dillinger Gang
Madison
Wis
Dillinger
Chicago
Patrick ‘. Stone
Stone
Alderson
W. V
Homer van Meter
Miss Conforti
Wisconsin
van Meter
Johnny
Wayne
Van
Aged recluse slain in Brooklyn mansion in suspected robbery
Victoria Muspratt, 79, a reclusive Brookyn resident, was found dead in her crumbling shore road home with three head wounds. Police suspect an intruder struck her last night while seeking rumored hidden cash, as crutches lay beside the body and no weapon was found. Her sister's fell five years earlier after refusing $200,000 for the property. Her nephew John Parker discovered the scene after knocking and receiving no answer.
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New York
Victoria Muspratt
Brooklyn
Shore Road
Violet
John Parker
Death by Own Action Pact Ends in Tragedy Near New Orleans
In Covington Louisiana a 40 year old grocer and a 28 year old waitress allegedly conspired to die together. John A Kelly died from a self inflicted gunshot wound at Charity Hospital while May Gill was critically wounded after a head wound and a hand wound. she is unconscious, found five miles from Hammond after a passerby heard cries for help.
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New Orleans
Covington
John A. Kelly
Charity Hospital
May Gill
Kelly
Miss Gill
Hammond
Mus Gil
Sweetest Girl Faces Imminent Death in Tennessee
Marie Kerr, 19, bedridden with a spreading bone infection in a red brick cottage on Glenwood street, awaits death with courage. After leg amputation and a smiling hospital exit, she remains cheerful at home, guiding visitors and dictating Christmas gift requests while a vigil light glows.
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Memphis
Tenn
Marie Kerr
Glenwood Street
Marie
Florence Kerr
Missing airman believed dead after crash near Louisville
Nashville report says Captain Paul L. Sloan of the Tennessee National Guard believes the American Airlines plane piloted by Russell Riggs disappeared after leaving Louisville at 2 40 am destined for Nashville. Sloan and three other guardsmen circled the route for hours then concluded Riggs is likely killed or gravely injured.
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Nashville
Tenn
American Airlines
Russell Riggs
Paul L. Sloan
105Th Observation Squadron
Tennessee National Guard
Sloan
National Guard
Louisville
Riggs
Richberg Warns Magazine Against Publishing Article
Recovery coordinator Donald R. Richberg informs George Horace Lorimer editor of the Saturday Evening Post that the magazine must assume full legal responsibility for any derogatory material in General Hugh S. Johnson’s forthcoming articles. He warns that many charges lack evidence and could be libelous.
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Associated Press
Washington
Donald R. Richberg
Saturday Evening Post
Hugh S. Johnson
NRA
Richberg
George Horace Lorimer
General Johnson
Recovery plan drafted by ninety industrialists in California
Beverly Hills report notes ninety leading industrialists met at Sulphur Springs and drafted a new plan of recovery. The piece observes that recovery plans vary and criticizes plans as self serving, predicting the Roosevelt plan will be the one used.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Sulphur Springs
Mr. Roosevelt
Laval and Mussolini Talk Italo French Cooperation in Danube
Pierre Laval met Sir John Simon in Paris to outline plans for Italo French cooperation in central and eastern Europe. Laval aims to visit Rome after the Saar plebiscite and emphasized maintaining the regional political order linked to European peace amid four issues: naval rivalry, Balkan affairs, Africa disputes, and Franco Italian economic ties.
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Paris
Pierre Laval
Rome
Benito Mussolini
Danube
John Simon
John
Saar
Laval
Europe
France
Italy
Balkans
Mussolini
Louis Barthou
Marseille
Africa
French Equatorial Africa
Tunis
Purse Snatchings Reported In Ouachita City
Police investigate two purse snatchings one yielding a 128 dollar check drawn on United Carbon company and a second purse theft of 50 cents from Katherine McGee. A separate attempted robbery of News Star World carrier Lester Carr is described near St John street and Bry avenue.
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Katherine McGee
Trenton Street
West Monroe
McGee
Flournoy and McGee
United Carbon Company
Chester
North Third Street
L. G. Parker
Vanderbilt Girl Visiting Mother Returns Home for Night
Ten year old Gloria Vanderbilt slept at her mother's New York home for the first time in two months after a country visit. She toured Fifth Avenue stores with Mrs Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, laughing and racing through toy displays as crowds gathered.
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New York
Gloria Vanderbilt
Harry Payne Whitney
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt
72nd _ street
Gloria
Good Fellows Fund Sees Final Total For Christmas Charity
The Good Fellows of Monroe in partnership with the World and News-Star raised $685.92 in cash and $465.00 in merchandise and toys, totaling $1,130.92. Baskets for needy homes were nearly ready for delivery as of Saturday night, per Mrs. W. P. McCall, secretary of the Monroe Welfare association.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Fellows of
Monroe
the World and News- Star
Double Bank Robbery Hits Okemah inearly 20th Century Heist
Six men in masks looted two Okemah banks totaling about 19000 dollars, binding 13 staff as alarms rang ten minutes after. The robbers escaped in two sedans, leaving behind a trail of tainted Oklahoma outlaw history with prior failed double robberies and famous names noted.
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Okemah
Okla
Oklahoma
Okemah National
First National
Dalton
Peaice
Pretty Boy
Floyd
Castle
Paden
Ohio
Suspect Nabbed in Ride Slaying
Jackson Mississippi police announce the arrest of a 30 year old brick mason named Robert Casey in Jackson for the murder of Ottie Bamer Kelly near Columbus Mississippi. Casey waived extradition and will be returned to Columbus with three Mississippi deputy sheriffs. The victim, a 27 year old divorced woman, was found shot near Columbus after leaving home with a man.
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Jackson
Tenn
Tip Taylor
Robert Casey
Ottie Bamer Kelly
Columbus
Miss
Mississippi
Taylor
Mrs. Kelly
Three Die After Train Crash At Sinclair City Camp
In Tyler Texas three persons were killed instantly and a fourth fatally injured when a south Pacific passenger train hit an automobile at a grade crossing in Sinclair City oil camp near Tyler. The dead include Mrs Levi H Grett 40 Beatrice Grett 17 and Mary Francis Grett 2 with Fountaine Weaver 21 among the injured. The accident left mangled bodies and a wrecked scene at the crossing.
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Tyler
Texas
South Pacific
Sinclair City
Here
Levi H. Grett
Beatrice Grett
Mary Francis Grett
Fountaine Weaver
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Far Eastern
Divine
O'Malley
Tin Men
China
Arthur Brisbane
King Features Syndicate Inc
Iron Mountain Bakery, Inc
Griffin Studio
Johnnies S. Elbert
Central Savings Bank and Trust Co
West Monroe Hardware and Furniture Co
Sur-Wa
Inc
Holloway and Thompson, Natural Gas Co., Inc
Thompson’s Pharmacy
Monroe Automobile and Supply Co
Slagle-Johnson Lumber Co
L W. Rogers
Eureka Grocery
Lee- Rogers Chevrolet Co., Inc
R. and A. Jewelry
Central
Circle
Standard Office Supply
Ollens Pharmacy, Inc
E. Jack Selig, Inc
Monroe Furniture Co
Monroe Hardware (Furniture) Co
Sandman’s Pharmacy
E. R. Kiper Hardware and Supply Co
Hemp’s
Ouachita Baking Co
Ford Levi Stationery Co
North Side
Long
Memphian
Johnson
Rogers
Yours
McNaught Syndicate
Ine
Simon
Vanderbilt
Mrs. Whitney
Good Fellows
Good Fellows’ Fund
Grand Total Roocarerese
Gee
A. J. Tannenbaum
L. N. Larche, Sr
Phewewee
Rodney J. Hobbs
Agnes Jones
Guy Jones
W. T. Grafton
Natlig Meadows
Betty Meadows
Sevdsovaseee
Renaud
Enenee
Roosevelt Stadium
State of
Brick Mason
Tennessee
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