Dreams and telepathy tales cross the Atlantic
An item recounts Walter Gatward and Ernest Smith at Bush Bill Park near London both making the twelfth hole in one after dream premonitions. It also cites Dr J H Rhine at Duke University announcing 100,000 experiments supporting telepathy amid odds of one in ten to the billion. The piece touches on Mt Pelee’s 1902 eruption and parapsychology as evidence of time and place effects.
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Bush Bill Park
London
Walter Gatward
Ernest Smith
Duke University
J. H. Rhine
Rhine
Mt. Peleen
Martinique
Thousands Attend Rites for Patricia in Chicago
Thousand of mourners filled Oak Park streets and the Church of the Ascension for the funeral of Patricia Ma cuire known as the "sleeping beauty." Her mother Mrs Miley and relatives offered support as Patricia lay in a silver gray casket adorned with a large spray of pink roses, reflecting a family tragedy.
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Chicago
Oak Park
Patricia Macuire
Sleeping Beauty
Church of the Ascension
Peter Miley
Patricia
Hansen
Diate
Federal Court to Open Monday in Western Louisiana
The U S district court western division of Louisiana will convene Monday morning with a light criminal docket and several civil and probation matters before Judge Ben C. Dawkins. Major crimes involve liquor law violations, whisky manufacture and sale, and Dyer act offenses. Grand jury investigations and civil motions follow, listing Mill Gilstrap for sentence and several civil suits including Pardue vs United Gas Public Service and others against Arkansas Natural Gas and Hope Pro.
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United States District Court
Western Division
Louisiana
Grand Jury
Ben C. Dawkins
VU. S
Mill Gilstrap
C. G. Pardue
United Gas Public Service Company
P. Bullis
H. G. Warren
Gunby
Arkansas Natural Gas Company
G. P. Bullis
Blanchard
Goldstein
Walker
O’quin
W. H. Arnold, Jr
J. Henry Hemler
Hope
Louisiana to Lose Its PWA Offices
New Orleans report states that Louisiana offices will be absorbed by region five with headquarters at Fort Worth Texas. Administrative personnel will be drawn from the six states region five covers Louisiana Texas New Mexico Oklahoma Kansas and Arkansas. Ongoing projects and 33 with approved allotments will continue while 44 with no allotments will be dropped. Over 100 workers weekly leave WPA relief rolls in the New Orleans area with no forced reductions.
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New Orleans
Orloff Henry
Public Works Administration
Ickes
Louisiana
Region Five
Fort Worth
Tex
Henry
Texas
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas
James H. Crutcher
Works Progress Administrator
WPA
Supreme Court Expected To Maintain Silence On Klan Charge
Hugo Black prepares to join the Supreme Court as critics press the Klan issue. Supporters argue he explained past Klan ties. opponents vow renewed attacks. Roosevelt stays silent as the case unfolds and back from the western trip. battle reports from Shanghai describe Japanese bombardment as Chinese lines hold in Chapei amid smoke and debris.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hugo L. Black
Order
Congress
Roosevelt
Alabama
Morris J. Harris
Shanghai
Japan
Chapei
International Settlement
Whangp20
Music Group 10 Start Campaign Opens Monroe Dinner
The Monroe Civic Music association begins membership solicitation with a 7:30 PM dinner at Hotel Frances. A. B. Clarkson will toast, Miss Muriel Springstead of Chicago will speak, and guests include Mayor Bernstein, Joe Marx, Rabbi Hirsch, and Dr. Calvert. Over 200 workers expected.
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Monroe Civic Music Association
Hotel Frances
A. B. Clarkson
Muriel Springstead
Chicago
Civic Concert Service, Inc
National Broadcasting Company
Monroe
Arnold Bernstein
Joe Marx
The
Chamber of Commerce
F. K. Hirsch
C. C. Calvert
Northeast Center
L. 8S. U
Orleans Teacher Safe From Perils
Miss Ethel W. Perkins a high school chemistry teacher who escaped a bombing at Shanghai an earthquake at Manila and a typhoon at Hongkong is ready to resume teaching after her Orient ordeals She visited Shanghai and was in a refugee boat narrowly missed by a bomb arriving Manila two days after an earthquake later escaping a typhoon by margin She will meet her chemistry class Monday morning at a girls high school
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New Orleans
Ethel W. Perkins
Shanghai
Manila
Hongkong
Orient
Perkins
Mock election creates Little Chicago voters in city boundary
A group of merchants east of Five Points invented a phantom municipality named Little Chicago inside a single boundary. In a playful mock election, Gus Kokinos and Tom Adams contested mayor, with Colonel Rothman elected by universal voters as a humorous, ever-expanding annual event.
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Five Points
Chicago
Ill
United States
Gus Kokinos
Tom Adams
Rothman
Kokinos
Adams
Monroe
Negro Hunter Sought After Town Marshal Is Slain
Opeloousas La Oct 2 Sheriff Doucet said a negro named Lester Senegal shot and killed Sunset Town Marshal Gilbert Burleigh after Burleigh arrested him for alleged auto theft. Burleigh shot him at a country store then sought him in a rear building. Senegal fired fatally. Burleigh leaves a widow and six children.
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Opelousas
D. J. Doucet
St. Landry Parish
Gilbert Burleigh
Postes
Lester Senegal
Burleigh
Cankton
Senegal
Doucet
Britain And France Fling Down Gauntlet To Italy
Inclement weather in northeast Louisiana delayed attendance at the Quachita Valley fair for Children’s Day. Due to rain, today’s children under 12 and 4-H members ride admission will be half price from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. with one ride at 5 cents and all other rides at 5 cents. Show prices also reduced. tonight’s performance closes the fair.
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Louisiana
J. H. Birdsong
Morning World
Great Britain and France press Italy on Spain evacuation
London report says Britain and France demand Italy evacuate troops from Spain and settle the Spanish civil war issue. Simultaneously Soviet Russia issues a sudden note demanding arms shipments to the Spanish government and the ending of the non intervention scheme. The Geneva league assembly fails to secure unanimous approval for a resolution threatening the end of non intervention.
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London
Great Britain
France
Italy
Spain
Soviet
Russia
Geneva
League Assembly
Five workers killed in Detroit sewer air lock blast
Five work men were reported killed in a new interceptor sewer in Detroit as hydraulic pressure destroyed an air lock this afternoon.
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Detroit
Former track star held in slayings
Detroit, Oct. 2. William Hawthorne, 23 year old former collegiate track star and Detroit probationary patrolman, is charged with murder for shooting Catherine Fox Hawthorne and John M. Barrett at the Barrett home. He confessed at a police station saying I have just shot my wife and her sweetheart. Hawthorne, once Michigan State Normal College pole vault champion, married to Catherine Fox in 1936, had left college last June.
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Detroit
William Hawthorne
Catherine
John M. Barrett
Barrett
Hawthorne
Catherine Fox
Ann Arbor
Michigan State Normal College
Miss Fox
Detroit Police Department
High Official in Russia Arrested for Treason
Moscow October 2 7 Abdullah Rakhimaieff premier of Tadjakistan and chairman of its central executive committee was removed on charges of spying for a foreign Fascist state. Treason against five Tadjakistan officials announced by Pravda. Also reports say five grain workers and twenty thieves were executed in Kazakstan and Irkutsk respectively as part of a broad anti crime drive.
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Moscow
Abdullah Rakhimaieff
Taduikistan
U.ssr
Rakhimaieff
Shirintha Shotemov
Tadjakistan
Rakhimsieff
Pravda
Communist Party
Courgeos
Kazakstan
Irkutsk
Final Rites Held for Alvin Howard
New Orleans October 2 Alvin P Howard vice president of the Times Picayune Publishing Co and an official at Hibernia National Bank was buried in New Orleans today at age 48 after dying suddenly Wednesday in Plainview Texas en route to his ranch in Florida Texas pallbearers were prominent figures from journalism and banking the interment was private
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New Orleans
Alvin P. Howard
Times-Picayune Publishing Company
Hibernia National Bank
Howard
Plainview
Tex
Florada
Rainstorm floods New Orleans streets with citywide delays
New Orleans endured a 22 hour tropical cloudburst delivering 13.57 inches of rain by 1:30 p.m. and nearly flooded most districts. Meteorologist W F McDonald cited a merger of two Gulf disturbances causing widespread rain from Florida to Texas with low winds and a 29.68 inch sea level pressure reading.
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New Orleans
W. F. McDonald
United States Weather Bureau
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf Coast
Florida
Texas
McDonald
Weather Bureau
Labor clash looms as AFL plans split with CIO
Denver October 2 Organized labor faced a potential factional war as AFL leaders outlined plans to sever ties with the CIO. William Green described a two group division, charters revoked, and a broad campaign to winpoplar support, portraying CIO leader John L. Lewis as autocratic. Green signaled an aggressive push into CIO territory and decisive battles ahead.
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Denver
F —Organized American Labor
American Federation of Labor
John L. Lewis
C. I
Whiliam Green
Organized Labor Movement
C. I.0
Green
C. 1
A.F. le
Sahn
Lewis
Greer
A. F. L. F Building Trades Convention
Grand Jury Will Convene Monday In Quincy Parish
The fall term of district criminal court opens Monday at 1 o'clock with the Quachita parish grand jury sworn in and charged. Trials begin Monday November 1 for indicted individuals and those with information. Only about a dozen cases on the docket, sessions expected to close next Wednesday. Suspects are in jail or out on bond.
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District Criminal Court
Quachita Parish
Jury Commission
Iff
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Witt
PWA
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