Buying Carries Cotton Upward in Market Rally
In Washington on May 27 buyers pressed cotton higher after a week of selling. July futures rose to 8.11 cents and December option to 9.51. Middling 1 1/8 inch averaged 8.82 cents, up from 8.10. Traders linked gains to inflationary policy signals, tariff moves, and farm act provisions. Some warn Texas rains could mute gains, others see persistent demand and credit expansion supporting prices.
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Washington
New York
Congress
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Texas
Mrs. Sarah Shuster Celebrates 95th Birthday Quietly
Mrs. Sarah Shuster marks a ninety five year birthday at 516 Hudson Lane. She is noted as the oldest living white woman in Monroe or West Monroe. Born in Bavaria she came to America at age eight, first living in Calhoun Louisiana. She has six children with several daughters living in Monroe and elsewhere. Family praises her alert mind and hopes for many more birthdays. She will host friends Sunday at 911 Jackson Street with daughter Mrs. Tom Atkinson.
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Sarah Shuster
Hudson Lane
Antwerp
New Orleans
America
Calhoun
Isaac Shuster
Galena
Shreveport
Farmerville
Shuster
Monroe
Tom Atkinson
Hugh Bracey
Nettie Wise
Chicago
Eugene Stern
St. Louis
Gilbert Rose
Asheville
N.C
Louisiana Governor Needed Bold Independent Leadership
A public letter urges the Louisiana governor to seize his constitutional powers to reform state government amid rising expenses and a powerful tax commission. It condemns patronage, diverted school funds, bank closures, and unequal assessments, calling for decisive, independent leadership to restore confidence and govern for the people.
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Louisiana
Louisiana Tax Commission
Department of Supervisor of Public Accounts
United States
Commonwealth
Revival Ends Tonight by Evangelist Allen at Dixie and Lee
Evangelist Harry S. Allen brings his revival in a large tent at Dixie street and Lee avenue to a close tonight. He promises a unique sermon with unprecedented demonstrations and claims no other preacher has ever done or shown.
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Harry S. Allen
Dixie Street
Lee Avenue
Foreign nations react to U.S. gold clause removal
AP reports responses from London Paris Berlin Rome Madrid and Geneva to Washington’s decision to strike the gold clause from obligations. British relief on debt relief. Paris sees dollar drop yet reluctance to pay. Berlin notes inflation risk. Rome bankers welcome but warn on debt reductions. Madrid banks say little effect. Geneva sees threat to trade and raw material prices.
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London
United States
Paris
Berlin
Reich
Germany
Rome
Italy
Madrid
Spain
Geneva
Washington
Louisiana mills resume work amid flooding delays
The Chicago Mill & Lumber Company in Tallulah plans full operation with about 80 workers at the mill, 40 at a timber camp near Somerset, and 30 more for log supply. A backwater keeps Ferriday mill idled, with 30 to 60 days expected to reopen as river levels fall. Other Tendal and Sondheimer mills are rumored ready to start.
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Tallulah
Chicago Mill & Lumber Company
Ware
Somerset
Tensas Parish
Cotteiweud Turner
Tendal
Tendal Lumber Company
Sondheimer
Chicago Mill Company
Missouri Pacific
Fourteen Hundred Men to Get Jobs on Ouachita Flood Project
Pritchard says 1 400 men will be recruited for flood relief work in the Ouachita area. Seven camps, five acres each, will be set up above and below Monroe and along the river bank with roads to be built. The Tensas Basin Levee board must secure rights of way and land for camps while the federal government bears other expenses. Camps are to be located near Sterlington, Linton Stubbs estate, Dingrave's lane, Hamp- ton Faust property, Corey station, J D Rodgers property, and J W James property, covering about ten miles. Work to proceed with speed.
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Tensas Basin
City of
Monroe
Ouachita River
Sterlington
Linton Stubbs
Dingrave's
C. D. Brooks
Pritchard
Stationery Bears Feature Hitler Goering and Goebbels Portraits
Berlin reports show Nazi stationery bearing Adolf Hitler Hermann Goering and Joseph Goebbels with Goebbels touted as shaping the nation’s soul. Goebbels drives propaganda while Goering maintains domestic order and links to education ministry Bernhard Rust. Rust pledges Nazi culture at universities. Also noted is the start of calcium carbonate ice manufacture in California's Imperial Valley.
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Associated Press
Berlin
Hitler
Goering
Goebbels
Joseph Goebbels
Hermann Goering
Goebbel
Cologne
Nollendorf Theater
Germany
Prussia
Bernhard Rust
Rust
West Monroe student wins gold wrist watch at tech
Miss Audrey Hoffpaulr of West Monroe receives a gold wrist watch for the most unselfish service to fellow Louisiana Tech students.
Miss Hoffpauir Awarded Watch for Unselfish Service
Audrey Bess Hoffpauir of West Monroe received a gold wrist watch at Louisiana Tech’s commencement for “most unselfish service” to fellow students and the college. An anonymous donor provides the annual prize, and Hoffpauir also received a gold medal for best citizenship in the dormitory. She earned a bachelor of science in home economics and is active in Theta Upsilon, W C A Band-o-Glen, and Home Economics clubs.
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Tech
Miss Hoffpauir
Louis Hoffpauir
West Monroe
Alma Burk
Hoffpaulr
Theta Upsilon Sorority
Dormitory House Council
Home Economics
College
Conservation Corps To Assemble In Mississippi
About three to four hundred young men from Louisiana and Mississippi will gather in Natchez on June 1 for physical examinations. Captain Warren Scanlon of New Orleans will conduct the tests, under direction from state and county welfare officials.
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Natchez
Miss
Louisiana
Mississippi
R. P. Stewart
Adams County Welfare Board
George B. Power
Warren Scanlon
New Orleans
G. O. P. Plans Sales Tax Levy Push
Senate Republicans plan to press a sales tax levy as a substitute funding for a $3.3 billion public works section of the industrial recovery bill. Hearings resume with opponents to including Capper Marland oil regulation. Senator Reed will seek party support and may seek Democratic help.
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Washington
House
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Reed
Republican
Pennsylvania
Morgan
J. P. Morgan
German church elects first evangelical bishop in Reich
Berlin May 27 the Rev Fredrich Von Bodelschwingh a noted German social relief worker was tonight elected first evangelical bishop of the reich by the German Protestant church groups who resisted the Nazi church effort to name a Nazi candidate.
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Berlin
Fredrich von Bodelschwingh
The
Reich
Acadians Honor Ancestors in Saint Martinville Park
Louisiana descendants exiled from Nova Scotia in 1760 create a park at the landing site and erect a statue to Evangeline Jerome from Longfellow's poem, honoring their forefathers.
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ST. Martinville
Louisiana
Nova Scotia
Evangeline
Jeroine
Longfellow
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