Fingerprint expert links Dunns to death car blood print
W R Ellison testified the hand print on the death car door matches Bob Dunns print in a major circumstantial case against W Robert Dunn and Byron Dunn for the Deputy Sheriff Sam E Duhons killing. Blood evidence and car door prints were entered with defense objections and a cross examination followed.
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Lake Charles
W. R. Ellison
W. Robert
Byron Dunn
Sam E. Duhon
W. Robert Dunn
Bureau of Identification
Beaumont
Texas
E. Duhann
Mr. Ellis
Bob Dunn
Bob
Samuel E. Duhon
Curtis Busey
Quiz Busey
Morris Stewart
Busey
O. B. Litton
Richard Larue
Durbridge
Spanish Trail Highway
Duhon
Dunn Home
Louis Hebert
Wessells Talk on Sales and Service Standards Tonight
GEO M WESSELLS will present an up detailed address on sales and service standards at 7 30 PM at Los Angeles auditorium City Hall The Monroe Chamber of Commerce sponsors this extended public talk aimed at retail and wholesale audiences with a large attendance urged by local businessmen store employees and the public
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City Hall
George M. Wessells
Easter Gift of 5000 Dollars To Orphanage
Announcement of a 5000 dollar Easter gift by Mrs. I. K. Findley of Shreveport funds a superintendent's home at the new Louisiana Baptist Orphanage on DeSiard road in Monroe. Superintendent F. C. Flowers says the gift is timely as work on the building will start soon and the institution has already funded five other inmate buildings.
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I. K. Findley
Shreveport
New
Louisiana Baptist Orphanage
DeSiard Road
Mary Goss
Monroe
F. C. Flowers
Gaona Retires From Bullring After Record Farewell Show
Rodolfo Gaona Mexico’s premier toreador concluded his 18 year career with a final appearance before over 22 000 fans in Mexico City. He killed three bulls on the day and ends with a tally of 1 807 animals slain and a fortune over a million dollars built largely in the last five years.
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Mexico City
A. P
Rodolfo Gaona
Mexico
Toreador
Rodolfo
Coleta
The
Republic
Guanajuato
Gaona
Poison Suspect Mrs Cunningham Detained After Mystery Deaths
Mrs Anna Cunningham, wife of a family with six deaths since six years, was taken into custody at the county hospital by Gary police and a visiting Indiana officer. Exhumation at Valparaiso planned for chemical analysis as authorities pursue a poisonings case. The surviving son, David Jr., remains in a Chicago hospital as investigations continue.
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Chicago
A. P
Anna Cunningham
County Hospital
Bury
Ind
Valpaiso
Cunningham
Gary
West Monroe to vote on light plant sale to power company
West Monroe residents head to the polls Tuesday to decide on selling the city light plant to Louisiana Power and Light. If approved, the city joins a system backed by Sterlington station and Arkansas water plants, with guaranteed power and lower rates, plus an estimated $298,500 value in benefits over the franchise term. The proposal was crafted by the city council and a citizens committee, with strong support from both sides. The 6 am to 7 pm election sees high expected turnout, aided by enthusiastic interest from women voters.
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West Monroe
Louisiana Power and Light Company
Sterlington
Arkansas
South
Citizens’ Committee
Power Company
T. L. Hood
J. H. Watkins
Mississippi Banker Stricken and Dies at 36 in Memphis
L Bertram Bays banker of Houston Mississippi died in Memphis after a stroke suffered days earlier He was president of three banks and had financial interests in several others in North Mississippi Bays attended the Confederate reunion in Memphis last year where he funded a large group of veterans from his county.
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Memphis
L. Bertram Bays
Houston
Miss
Bays
Mississippi
Woman Slayer Caught After Prison Escape
Mrs Winona Green, jailed for the murder of her husband’s parents, was recaptured in Memphis after escaping Pulaski county jail. She confessed to killing Robert Green and another woman in Oklahoma, and will be jailed in Little Rock awaiting appeal.
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Memphis
Winona Green
Pulaski
Little Rock
Arkansas
N. A. English
Union Station
Missouri Pacific
Red Fork
Oklahoma
Pulaski County
Kensett
Ark
Diary of Northwestern Student Ends in Lake Michigan
Robert Preston a 21 year old Northwestern University student and son of an Oak Park family ended a life of perceived failure with suicide in Lake Michigan. Coroner doctors described his diaries as candid insight into a modern youth's phantasies revealing his battle with an incurable diabetes and resultant self indulgence and abandonment.
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Chicago
Robert Preston
Northwestern University
Oak Park
Lake Michigan
Northwestern
University of Illinois
Court at Alexandria Sets Western District Term Start
The United States court for the Western District of Louisiana will convene in Alexandria on April 20. Grand and petit juries have been drawn to serve this term of court.
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Alexandria
United States Court For
Western District of Louisiana
President's power to remove executive appointees at issue in court
The Supreme Court weighs the president's authority to dismiss appointees under the constitution in a back pay dispute from 1920. Solicitor General Beck argues removal aligns with enforcing laws, while Senator Pepper asserts Senate consent limits presidential removal of postmasters.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Congress
Senate
Frank S. Myers
Portland
Ore
Wilson
Myers
Beck
Senator Pepper
Pepper
Women Attend Easter Service Without Hats
In Cottage Grove Oregon on April 13 women of the Christian Church attended Easter services hatless to counter male claims that their visit was for displaying new bonnets.
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Cottage Grove
Oregon
River and Tributary Water Levels Report
Mississippi and Ouachita river stages listed for several cities. St Louis and Memphis show rises, Wississippi and Shreveport fall slightly, New Orleans declines, with Alexandria small rise. Ouachita stations Camden and Monroe show minor decreases and a typographical note.
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Mississippi
St. Louis
Memphis
Wisssburg
New Orleans
Ted
Shreveport
Alexandria
Quachita
Camden
Monroe
New Post Office Contract Awarded for Thibodaux
The federal post office building in Thibodaux Louisiana has been awarded to a Massachusetts firm for 29870 dollars. Postmaster Boudreaux says construction will be finished within ten months.
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Thibodaux
Federal Postoffice
Massachusetts
Boudreaux
Compulsory Arbitration Declared Unconstitutional in Kansas Case
The Supreme Court ruled compulsory arbitration in industrial disputes unconstitutional in two Wolff Packing Company cases from Topeka Kansas. In a separate decision the court held the Sherman Antitrust Law not violated by the Builders' Exchange and San Francisco open shop supporters, reversing a lower court finding on restraint of interstate commerce in building materials.
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Washinggton
Supreme Court
Charles Wolff Packing Company
Topeka
Kansas
Industrial Relations Court
Washington
Builders’ Exchange
The
Industrial Association
San Francisco
Rags to Riches: Wickett's Rise From Apprentice to Oil Chief
F H Wickett of Chicago climbs from a $3.00 weekly lawyer's apprentice to head of Pan American Oil after its takeover by Standard Oil of Indiana from Edward L Doheny. Born in England to poor parents, his ascent peaks at age fifty seven.
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Alger
F. H. Wickett
Chicago
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Edward L. Doheny
England
Four Blacks in Custody After Dallas Attack
Four negroes were taken into custody near the SMU campus in connection with the death of Ryan Adkins and the attack on Mrs. Mary Steer. Police found a bloody shirt at a nearby camp. victims were assaulted as they drove past, and the attackers then wrecked the car.
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Dallas
Ryan Adkins
Mary Steer
Southern Methodist University
Adkins
Yale return for degree and thanks to hosts
Graduates will return to Yale around June 1 to receive their degrees while recalling the hospitality of Senator and Mrs. Hardtner at their home on Easter Sunday. George Ziegin and team report 700 feet drilled on Urania No. 1 in section 18-10-2E with casing planned by Friday.
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Yale
George Ziegin
Urania
Urania No. 1
Gulf Refining Company Urania
Briant Plans New Cabinet Amid French Crisis
Paris April 13 Briant seeks to form a new cabinet after Herriot resignation. He met President Doumergue asking for time to pick ministers while socialist leaders weigh binding to his leadership. Quarterly settlement day looms with 400 million francs needed to pay officials and avoid firm defaults.
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Paris
Briant
Ene
Doumergue
Herriot
Senate
Briand
Socialist Party
M. Brand
Second Fire in West Monroe Strikes Home Again
A West Monroe residence on South Fifth Street burned in the afternoon, the Simmons home damaged about $6,000 with partial insurance. Fire crews fought to save the structure after an alarm rang around 3 p m. Mrs Simmons was at home with a visiting child as the fire broke out. the cause remains undetermined and residents estimate about $4,000 in other losses.
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South Fifth Street
Avnce
Far Simmons
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la Selle Parish
Burford & Stevenson
Yale University of
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Reforesta Tion
H. H. Chapman
Austin B. Woods
Calif
John N. Tyler
Conn
Carlos Soulit
Phillipine Islands
Calvin Stott
Penn
Callender Winslow
James Beach
N. Y
Elton J. Smith
Phillip Sargent
James Long
Johann Kear
Holland
Frederick Meuhleck
E.h.wisckett
Southern “U
Ira Nelson
Uranian Lumber Company
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Sigi
Eireus
France
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