Riot ending in fatal shooting near Adena Ohio
A mine strike riot near Adena Ohio left one man dead and another wounded as hundreds confronted workers at the Goodyear Somers mine. Governor White ordered National Guard readiness with a battalion on standby to quell the unrest in Harrison county and neighboring districts.
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Columbus
Ohio
Harrison County
National Guard
Adena
Steubenville
George White
Frank D. Henderson
Washington, D. C
145Th Infantry
Ohio National Guard
Somers
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Walter Kimbel
Maurice Wooster
United Mines Workers
Muskingum
Zanesville
Millfield
Hocking Valley
Lake Providence Depot Destroyed by Flames
The Missouri Pacific depot at Lake Providence Louisiana burned early today causing about 30000 in damage. Tramps were seen fleeing the scene after the fire started in an empty box car. The loss included store rooms platform waiting rooms counters warehouse trucks and several rail cars. Depot agent B R Wall said insurance practically covers the loss and temporary arrangements will be made for passengers and freight pending railroad decisions on replacement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicksburg
Miss
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Lake Providence
Mark H. Brown
R. Wall
Mississippi sales tax bill faces two percent rate report
A newly formed conference committee from the Mississippi House and Senate today issued a report urging a basic sales tax rate of two percent. The House had backed a three percent rate with administration support, while the Senate had cut it to two percent.
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Jackson
Miss
House
Senate
Col Clarence Douglas recalls Daily Phoenix sale tale
Lions club guest Col Clarence B. Douglas recounts his 1900 Muskogee Indian Territory purchase of the Daily Phoenix for 4500 dollars with pay-any-time terms and later sale for 48000 dollars. Other notes describe banquets, a haynesville robbery alert, and a deacon’s liquor spill incident in Monroe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence B. Douglas
Lions Club
Phoenix
Muskogee
Indian Territory
Douglas
Daily Phoenix
Chicago Jobless to Give Comic Revue for Charity
Chicago unemployed men living in shelters stage a self made revue titled breadline frolics. It will be performed April 25 in a loop theater with no profits or contracts. The project grew from Gold Coast leaders aiding shelter residents and funding instruments and a recreation director.
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Chicago
Gold Coast Society
Walter Borden
W. C. Bechtold
Arkansas House Refuses to End Its Own Session
The Arkansas House keeps its session open as it debates retrenchment legislation. Key lawmakers from the lower chamber challenge delays and push for budget cuts amid ongoing negotiations with Senate leaders.
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Arkansas House
Twenty Dollar Bill Traced To New York Merchant
A counterfeit twenty dollar bill traced through Gotham Bank leads investigators to a New York merchant who obtained the note. Authorities follow the note to the suspect, who is being questioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
As Gotham Bank
Arkansas lawmakers clash over retrenchment bond refunding bill
Governor Parnell and Secretary Ed McDonald outmaneuver a defiant Arkansas House to sign a 47 million refunding bill during a four week special session. Representative Curtis Cannon urged voters to push senators back to capitol as retrenchment measures proceed amid campus turmoil and political resistance.
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Little Rock
Ark
Parnell
Ed F. McDonald
House
General Assembly
McDonald
Arkansas Legislature
Senate
Arkansas
Curtis Cannon
Cannon
Blaze Level Ruston Brick Building in Morning Fire
Ruston Louisiana reports a morning fire destroyed the oldest brick block on the U S and P railroad block. The building housed Thompson's barber shop Rose beauty shop and the Hub gents clothing store with losses totaling thousands. Gus Thompson owner of the barber shop lists 4250 loss with 1250 coverage. The Rose beauty shop owned by Mrs C N Patterson is a total loss. Hub owners Barker and Glasgow estimate their loss
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Ruston
U. S. and P
Milton Kidd
Plain Dealing
Taylor and Posey
Thompson
Rose
Hubgents
Gus Thompson
C. N. Patterson
Barker and
Glasgow
Robbery at Lone Star Gas Station in Winn Parish
In Winnfield two young white men robbed the Lone Star Gas filling station at 2:45 a.m. They used a pistol after buying fuel and oil, taking 21.94 cash, a flashlight, cigarettes and goods worth about 60 dollars. The pair fled via an overhead bridge after cutting telephone wires. Police and sheriff canvassed routes and searched roads.
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Winnfield
Lone Star Gas Company
C. H. Martin
W. P. Martin
Young Martin
Martin
Packton
Alexandria
Horace Peters
Peters
Bryant Scholars
Columbia
Winn
Yoggs
Clyde Ingram to Inspect Poultry Flocks in Parish Visits
Poultry specialist Clyde Ingram of Louisiana State University and Mrs. Mary Johnson pass through Monroe en route to Farmerville. They visited E. R. Strahan and Mrs. Jewel L. McQuiller. Johnson aims to organize a parish home demonstration council in Union Parish. a 100 percent council attendance was once recorded in Ouachita. Ingram will tour several Union Parish poultry farms with flock records.
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Clyde Ingram
Louisiana State University
Mary Johnson
Monroe
Farmerville
E. R. Strahan
Jewel L. McQuiller
Johnson
Ouachita Parish
Ingram
Union Parish
Darrow Set to Defend in Kahahawai Case in Honolulu
In Honolulu four defendants await Clarence Darrow as the prosecution closes its case in the Kahahawai murder tied to the Thalia Massie incident. Public Prosecutor John C. Kelley presented gruesome exhibits and testimony from neighbors and jail staff while a court adjourned awaiting Darrow’s strategy and a possible final witness from Kahahawai’s mother.
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Associated Press
San Francisco
Honolulu
Albert O. Jones
E. J Lord
Navy
Thomas H. Massie
Grace Fortescue
Robert Bell
Helen Ripley
Joseph Kahahawai
Clarence Darrow
John C. Kelley
Granville Fortescue
Darrow
Kelley
Yeggs Loot Bank Today At Chatham
Robbers locked the People's Bank in Chatham vaults during the noon hour and made off with an unknown sum. Sheriff Milton Coverdale rushed to the scene as officials checked the haul, estimated possible losses up to six hundred dollars or more. The cashier C. M. Womack and assistant B. Womack were held in the vault until help arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
People’s Bank
Chatham
Milton Coverdale
C. M. Womack
B. Womack
Plea for Higher Sugar Levy Left With Commission
Washington April 14 The plea of American sugar refiners for a higher tariff on foreign refined sugar rests with the tariff commission and a decision may not come before June Hearings in the sugar study ended with refined sugar and raw sugar tariff discussions likely to continue Investigators near completion of data on foreign and domestic costs for refined and raw sugar American importers and Cuban interests challenge the commission's right to a separate higher duty The refiners seek equalized Cuban sugar duties to 2.12 per 100 pounds on refined and 2.14 on 107 pounds of raw sugar to produce 100 pounds refined
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Tariff Commission
Commission
Five Nominees Named For Queen Of The May Pageant
Five city school girls India Stubbs Joy Steele Nancy Terzia Doris Beaman and Carrie Mae Calder have been nominated for Queen of the May to be chosen at Forsythe park on May 1 ballot boxes will be placed in schools as last year The Spirit of Spring Maid Marion will be Marjorie Chambers and Robin Hood will be the pageant theme with Armandine Renaud dancing students featured in scenes Miss Lucyle Godwin notes hopes for a larger event than last year
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Forsythe Park
India Stubbs
Joy Steele
Nancy Terzia
Doris Beaman
Carrie Mae Calder
Margaret Poag
Marion
Marjorie Chambers
Robin Hood
Lucyle Godwin
Armandine Renaud
Dentists Open Fifty-Second Louisiana Convention in Monroe
Louisiana State Dental Society holds its fifty second annual convention in Monroe at Hotel Virginia with about 100 members present and 100 more expected. Registration ran from 9:30 to noon. Board of directors met at 10 a.m. with officers and district representatives listed. Charles Tuller presided at the 1 p.m. session, Rev. W L Duren delivering the invocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana State Dental Society
Hotel Virginia
F. J. Wolfe
New Orleans
A. C. Broussard
Paul Salles
Lafayette
Walter Leabo
Shreveport
R. L. Wood
Monroe
H. F. Feltus
Baton Rouge
B. J. LaCour
Welsh
M. F. Jarrell
Alexandria
Charles §. Tuller
W. L. Duren
Woman Advocates Repeal of National Dry Statute
Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, head of the women’s group for prohibition reform, told a Senate committee that the eighteenth amendment has financed crime and poisoned national life. She joined former Senator James W. Wadsworth in urging repeal while Senator Bingham urged returning liquor control to the states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Charles H. Sabin
Women's Organization For National Prohibition Reform
James W. Wadsworth
New York
Bingham
Republican
Connecticu
House Ways and Means Hearing Ends in Ejection Over Bonus Debate
The April 14 hearing on the soldiers' bonus turned chaotic when Chairman Crisp ordered Capitol police to eject J. W. Ford and Samuel J. Stember who demanded a hearing. They later returned claiming to represent ex service men's posts nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
House
Ways and Means
Crisp
Capitol
Workers’ and Soldiers’ League
J. W. Ford
New York City
Communist Party
Samuel J. Stember
Stember
Williford King
New York University
Ford
Capitol Police
United States
Fire Wipes Out Large Portion of Rigeland South Carolina
Fire swept Ridgeland killing more than 1500000 in uninsured lumber and destroying Ellis and Quartermans Bomber company a saw mill a planning mill a sash and blind factory and 15 to 20 negro dwellings as fire raged from 9 p m to 3 a m volunteer firefighters mainly high school boys pulled drums of gasoline from a burning storehouse averting a major explosion and keeping the town from complete ruin
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ridgeland
S. C
Ellis and Quarterman Bomber Company
Titanic Sinking Remembered Twenty Years On
New York marks twenty years since the Titanic struck an iceberg and sank after its ill fated maiden voyage. The disaster claimed 1513 lives with 711 survivors among 2224 aboard. The ship built for White Star Line sailed from Southampton April 10 1912 toward New York.
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New York
Belfast
White Star Line
Southampton
Cherbourg
Queenstown
America
Europe
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Phil Bernhardt
Haynesville
C. A. Prescott
Louisana Rating and Fire Prevention Bureau
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St. John Street
Disregards
Parnell Jafsie
Hopewell
N. J
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Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Bronx
Jassie
Davis Isaacs
East River Savings Bank
John F Condon
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Ruston Building
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Memphis
Helena
Arkansas City
Natchez
Angola
Cumberland
Nashville
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Cairo
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Fort Smith
RED
Shreveport Pee Teeeee
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe Sentence
Winn Parish
Fortescue
Kahahawai
Thalia Massie
Yeggs
Robert M. Harriss
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