Payroll gains mark a February peak in manufacturing
February manufacturing payrolls rose 12 percent from January, the highest since 1931, with a 6 percent rise in factory employment. The report notes gains across steel and auto sectors, expects March to bring further improvement, and highlights the NRA’s watchful stance on potential hours reductions.
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Department of Commerce
Department
NRA
Blue Eagle
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Party of Industry
Johnson
Allied Commerce Department
Mon roe notes and town talk mix lighthearted chatter
Lucy Waters writes of social life at Monroe and West Monroe events with humor about minstrels, dancing figures, and local candidates. She surveys motorists patterns from Easter Sunday and counts licensure plates, noting plans for a West Monroe runoff and quirks in car headlights and signals.
Governor grants 30 day reprieve for Tom Williams
Baton Rouge April 5 Governor O K Allem granted a 30 day reprieve to Tom Williams convicted in Vernon parish in November 1933 for involuntary homicide. The reprieve allows him to be with his ailing wife.
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Baton Rouge, la
O. K. Allem
Tom Williams
Vernon Parish
Milwaukee man survivor found in Andes crash
Newton C. Marshall of Milwaukee was reported found alive in the Andes, the sole survivor of the March 17 crash of the Von Krohn Scadia aircraft. Five bodies were found in the cabin, with confusion over Marshall's status amid a long jungle ordeal in western Colombia's Chaco district.
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Cali
Colombia
Newton C. Marshall
Milwaukee
Andes
Bolivar-Valle
von Krohn
Scadia
Marshall
Chaco
Walter Geck
Julio Zuniga
Cooking School Ends Tonight at Central School
The News Star and Morning World cooking school closes tonight at Central Grammar. Session begins at 8 o clock with grand prize distribution after 9. Attendance Thursday afternoon overflowed the auditorium and many could not hear. Recipes from Mrs. Stafford are printed in this paper. Prizes awarded Wednesday include Mrs. Anata Johnson and others with addresses listed in the article.
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News-Star
Morning World
Central Grammar School
Stafford
Anata Johnson
South Third Street
H. L. Moore
Calypso Street
E. C. Flaherty
Wood Street
A. L. Gates
C. L. Nelson
Columbia Avenue
Dorothy Fox
E. N. London
South Second Street
H. J. Walker
Washington Street
W. J. Hodge
Trenton Street
West Monroe
W. C. Boudreaux
Hampton
Tom Hood, Jr
South Third
D. Oliphant
North Sixth
Sidney Stroud
North Third
H. T. Taylor
Insurance Convention Opens in Shreveport
The fifteenth annual Louisiana Insurance Society session opens in Shreveport with over 200 attendees. The convention runs through Friday featuring business and social events, including a dinner dance at a local country club tonight. Alphonse Davis of New Iberia is mentioned as a potential president.
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Shreveport
Louisiana Insurance Society
Alphonse Davis
New Iberia
Solons Hope Congress Finishes By May 15
Washington April 5—Speaker Rainey predicts Congress will adjourn by May 15 as the Senate threads through the tax bill and house consent rituals. Key items include stock market regulation, bank-deposit guarantees, a large public works deficiency bill, DC supply needs, and the president’s favored communications and commodity rules. Huey Long presses opposition at a Louisiana appointment hearing as industry voices push stricter brokers regulation and farmers urge protection from dishonest practices.
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Roosevelt
Commodity Exchange
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Pujo
Federal Reserve Board
Norris
Nebraska
Huey Long
Louisiana
Long
Farmers’ Holiday Association of Texas
National Farmers’ Union
Wagner Labor Board
E. T. Weir
Weirton Steel
Sugar measure eyes Senate approval amid Hawaii protests
The Jones Costigan sugar control bill advances toward swift Senate approval after House passage. Hawaii protests query equal treatment with mainland producers, as Delegate McCandless drafts a statehood bid. Hawaii sugar interests threaten a Supreme Court challenge if quotas favor mainland producers. Senate Finance chair Harrison schedules quick action. Costigan cites likely early approval with a April 15 deadline.
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Jones-Costigan
America
Senate
Hawaii
House
McCandless
John Waterhouse
Hawaiian Sugar Planters’ Association
Supreme Court
Harrison
Senate Finance Committee
Costigan
Colorado
Majors Case Now On Trial In U S Court
The federal trial of Fred Majors former Ouachita National Bank teller began before Judge Ben C Dawkins. Prosecution led by J Fair Hardin and defense by George Wesley Smith with K Anne Dodge present. Witnesses testified about a 4000 dollar Palace store cash order later missing from the safe.
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Fred Majors
Ouachita National Bank
Ben C. Dawkins
J. Fair Hardin
United States
Majors
George Wesley Smith
Rayville
K. Anne Dodge
S. W. Davis
Palace
T. L. Hood, Jr
Mr. Hood
Mr. Davis
J. S. Holloway
Morgan Drew
Carroll Dickinson
Milton McIntyre
Joseph Richard Lockwood
Green Lockwood
Local Red Cross setup confirmed in Ouachita parish
National Red Cross headquarters confirms Ouachita parish Red Cross organization for new fiscal year. Executive group includes Dr C L Mengis disaster relief chairman L P Abernathy chapter chairman Mayor Arnold Bernstein ex officio chair man Mamie W Holstein executive secretary. Parish agencies listed include police jury health office sheriff and police departments with American Legion Ouachita Boy Scout council Monroe Welfare association Salvation Army Spanish War Veterans Ouachita Parish Medical society and Veterans of Foreign Wars. Advisory committee chaired by A V Miller with Alymer Montgomery C C Bell and Mrs Jewel McQuiller and Mrs D C Metcalf. Additional committees cover food finance clothing publicity medical aid and more.
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C. L. Mengis
L. P. Abernathy
Arnold Bernstein
Mamie W. Holstein
Police Jury
Parish Health Office
Sheriff's Department
Police Department
American Legion
Ouachita Boy Scout Council
Monroe Welfare Association
Salvation Army
Spanish War Veterans
Ouachita Parish Medical Society
Veterans
Legislation Aims to Cut State Tax Collection Costs
A pre legislative program shifts auditing duties from the supervisor of public accounts to the state auditor while keeping the gasoline tax under constitutional protection. Proposals seek to transfer all special tax collection authority to parish tax collectors, limiting the exception to gasoline tax duties.
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Secretary of State
True Tabloid Tales No 3 on Long and Tax Funds
The Louisiana Kingfish uses tax money as a political asset, with examples cited from F. D. Richardson’s 1928 case at the state colony and training school in Alexandria to a 20 percent salary deduction in Shreveport. The piece accuses the Long Allen regime of politicalizing taxpayer funds.
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Alexandria
Richardson
Long
B. F. Eubanks
Eubanks
Shreveport
Charity Hospital
Oklahoma Flood Toll Presses On Amid Widespread Damage
Floods hit Oklahoma, Wisconsin and surrounding areas with eight dead in Elk City and nine missing in a ten mile Washita river flood zone. Wisconsin reports nine deaths as Eau Claire arrays relief for eight swamped counties. Canton Ohio suffers a fatal lightning strike. Kansas floods ease and Dakota snow reaches 15 inches. Connecticut river rises over flood stage driving ten Hartford families from homes.
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Oklahoma
Washita
Wisconsin
Eau Claire
Ohio
Canton
Kansas
Rocky Mountain
Dakota Hills
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Connecticut River
Eight Bodies Recovered From Washita Flood Waters
ELK CITY Oklahoma April 5 eight bodies were recovered as the Washita River receded. Nine or ten persons were still missing while boats plied the flood washed area along the river.
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Elk City
Okla
Washita
Baptists In Louisiana Conclude Missionary Union Sessions
Registration totals for the Louisiana Baptist Women's Missionary Union convention reached 678 with 145 delegates in the youth division and 533 from all sections. Final sessions conclude tonight with a missionary message by Rev. J Dawson King and the cantata Calvary by the Monroe First Baptist Church.
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Louisiana Baptist Women’s Missionary Union Convention
Bureau of Information
Monroe
West Monroe
Young People's Division
Baptist Missionary Union Convention
Proposal For New Rates On Shipments Are Made
The Inland Waterways corporation proposed new cotton shipment rates between Memphis and New Orleans to railroads in the southern and western rate conferences. General T Q Ashburn said the proposal was advanced after a wartime conference with Secretary Dern and that railroads have until July 1 to decide. He could not publish the exact rate but described it as equitable and designed to preserve shipper advantages from waterways transport.
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Inland Waterways Corporation
Memphis
New Orleans
T. Q. Ashburn
The
Waterways Corporation
Dern
Waterway Corporation
Ashburn
Senate clash over leadership as Harrison attacks Long
In Washington the Huey Long era clash intensified in the senate after Pat Harrison challenged Huey Long by saying the Louisiana senator is less respected by the body and the country. The dispute arose during a finance committee hearing on D. D. Moore for Louisiana internal revenue collector amid earlier verbal throws between Long and Harrison. Harrison praised Arkansas Senator Robinson and defended leadership while Long pressed for tax policy critique as the exchange grew heated before a larger audience on the floor.
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Huey
Senate
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Louisiana
Senate Finance Committee
D. D. Moore
Internal Revenue
Long
Edward Rightor
Moore
Rightor
Jefferson
Harrison
Finance Committee
Hoover
Robinson
Arkansas
United States
President delays Congress during fishing trip
Beverly Hills dispatch says the president is elongating his stay away from Congress until about a dozen bills pass. He plans to return and veto them all at once. The piece humorously notes his past fishing for real game fish and now fishing for mudcat congressmen and senators.
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