Doctor Gives Final Message in Tomb Case
Doctors issued a last message in a case involving a pair found dead in a tomb. Officials say workers on the site were exhausted and investigations continue into the circumstances surrounding the fatalities.
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21 Apr 1936
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Monroe News Star in Monroe, Louisiana
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1936
Page
1
Schools Close for P. M. Atkins Bridge Opening
City and parish schools in Ouachita area will close Friday May 1 for the opening of the P. M. Atkins bridge over the Ouachita River. Monroe and West Monroe students may attend the ceremonies with rural children allowed to join, Northeast Center students may attend but classes will resume in the afternoon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Quachita Parish
Monroe City
North Center
Ouachita River
Monroe
West Monroe
Northeast Center
Arnold Bernstein
T. O. Brown
C. C. Calvert
News- Star-World
Bernstein
Rescue Efforts Continue For Trapped Miners In Nova Scotia
Rescue crews and draegermen press toward a 141 foot underground chamber where Dr D E Robertson and Charles Alfred Scadding are trapped since Easter Sunday. Hermann Magill lies dead as Michael Dwyer predicts a few hours more may bring life. Volunteers from Steellarton join the dangerous rescue in the Moose River gold mine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Moose River
N.S
Michael Dwyer
Nova Scotia
D. E. Robertson
Toronto
Charles Alefred Scadding
Hermann Magill
Robertson
Draegermen
Volnteer
Dwyer
Stelelarton
Draegerment
Funeral for Howe Held at White House
The East Room hosted the funeral for Colonel Louis Mc Henry Howe Secretary to President Roosevelt and longtime political adviser. Services were planned for 4 p.m. with Rev C Ernest Smith officiating. the president and Mrs Roosevelt will accompany Howe to Fall River Mass for burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Howe
White House
Washington
Louis McHenry Howe
C. Ernest Smith
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Roosevelt
Naval Hospital
Fall River
Mass
Hyde Park
Executive Mansion
Weiss Tax Trial Set For May 25 In New Orleans
Trial of Seymour Weiss former treasurer of Huey Long political group faces income tax fraud charges set for May 25 in New Orleans. He is among several political associates indicted with one acquitted another convicted. Louisiana Quarry officials C D Nicholls H R Schiff of Tulsa and J R Wilson of Oklahoma City also face trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Seymour Weiss
Huey Long
Weiss
Atlanta
Louisiana Quarry Company
Louisiana Highway Commission
C. D. Nicholls
H. R. Schiff
Tulsa, Okla
J. R. Wilson
Oklahoma City, Okla
Publishers at Meet Discuss Press Freedom
The American Newspaper Publishers Association meets in New York with hundreds discussing press freedom amid actions of federal agencies. Col. Robert R. McCormick to present on the subject while the group pledges aid to William Randolph Hearst over alleged breaches by the FCC and Senate lobby committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
American Newsspaper Publishers Association
Robert R. McCormick
The
Chicago Tribune
Committee On Freedom of the
William Randolph Hearst
Federal Communications Commission
Senate Lobby
Settlement Voted by Dock Strikers Ends Shipping Tie Up
San Francisco April 21 Union longshoremen voted to settle their dispute with employers and return to work under a federal board award. The move ends a long maritime strike that halted traffic through the Golden Gate with possible port-wide implications to nearby San Pedro as the Grace liner Santa Rosa prepared to dock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Golden Gate
International Longshoremen's Association
Waterfront Employers’ Association
San Pedro
Santa Rosa
Leche Set for Easy Governorship After May Inauguration
Baton Rouge April 21 After Richard W Leche heir to the Long Allen political machine is inaugurated May 12 he will have an administrative cinch. He may assume election by a historic Louisiana landslide and about 98 percent of legislators will be administration men. Longs centralized power will give Leche vast executive latitude and many jobs to dispense to loyal supporters. The statehouse watches how Leche will wield inherited political power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
Long-Allen
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Long
Leche
O. K. Allen
Statehouse
Clean-Up Drive Garners Strong Support in Twin Cities
Residents of Monroe and West Monroe back a spring cleaning campaign as Quachita Parish Health unit inspectors tour private premises. Dr. G Douglas Williams urges those not yet cleaned to finish by Wednesday night amid satisfactory response in the Twin Cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
West Monroe
Quachita Parish
Twin Cities
G. Douglas Williams
Injured Lake Charles Woman Dies After Highway Crash
Mrs. John H. Dosher, 24, of Lake Charles, died in Alexandria hospital from injuries suffered in a Monday morning crash near Jena. She traveled with her three young daughters on the way to visit relatives. the children had bruises. Dosher, husband, mother and two sisters survive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Charles
Jena
Alexandria
John H. Dosher
Dosher
Baton Rouge
Indictments Expected in Wendel Abduction Case in Brooklyn
Kings County District Attorney Geoghan prepared to present evidence to the grand jury seeking indictments of six people in the Paul H. Wendel abduction case. The probe names possible masterminds and involves searches in Detroit and Cleveland. The defender for Schlossman said masterminds behind the case remain, while no evidence ties Governor Hoffman to the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
N. Y
William F. X. Geoghan
Paul H. Wendel
Kings County Grand Jury
Martin Schlossman
Trenton
Detroit
Cleveland
Schlossman
Samuel Leibowitz
Bar of Justice
Geoghan
Harold Hoffman
Indicted in Death of Afflicted Son in Shreveport
B A Bass 73 Cedar Grove real estate dealer faces murder charges for the October 15 shooting of his 24 year old afflicted son Dan Nel son Bass. A murder indictment was returned yesterday and the trial date is not set. Neighbors reported shots at the Bass home but police were told everything was peaceful. Mrs Bass, the stepmother, found the son dead the next morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
B. A. Bass
Cedar Grove
Dan Nelson Bass
James A. Galloway
Bass
Beekman Place slaying suspect admits murder of Nancy Titterton
Police Commissioner Valentine said John Fiorenza admitted killing 34 year old author Nancy Evans Titterton after assisting to the Beekman Place murder scene. Fiorenza, 24, from Brooklyn, said he bound and strangled her following an assault and was traced by twine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lewis J. Valentine
John Fiorenza
Nancy Evans Titterton
Titterton
Beekman Place
Valentine
Fiorenza
Brooklyn
Tempers Flare in Party Talk in Senate Session
A Senate flareup over the New Deal and its enemies heated debates in a packed gallery. Republican Senator Hastings of Delaware defended the American Liberty League and Alfred E. Smith while Democratic Leader Robinson of Arkansas denounced foes of the New Deal. In Cleveland Ohio the same day, the national Republican committee named Senator Frederick C Steiner of Oregon as keynoter and temporary chairman for the June 3 convention opening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Hastings
Delaware
Robinson
Arkansas
American Liberty League
Alfred E. Smith
Cleveland
Ohio
National Republican Committee
Frederick C. Steiner
Oregon
Fascist Italy marks Rome's 2689th anniversary with nationwide mobilization
Rome and the kingdom observed Rome's founding with Mussolini speeches and public works dedications while planning a massive mobilization to celebrate a looming victory at Addis Ababa. The display echoed last year's frontier milestone with millions participating in the celebration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Rome
Italy
Ethiopia
Addis Absha
Kingdom
Mussolini
Hl Duce
Addis Ababa
Romulus
New Orleans Boy Burned While Mother Casts Gas Can
Peter Schwander five was hospitalized in serious condition after he ran into a blazing gasoline can being moved by his mother Grace Schwander sixty. The mother and father received minor burns as they quickly wrapped the boy in blankets and doused the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Peter Schwander
Grace Schwander
Last-Minute Briefs From Around The Nation
A wide spread of short news items from Sharon Pennsylvania to Jerusalem covers a major fire destroying Sharon’s shopping district and a fraternal temple, a kidnapping probe in Rockwood Tennessee, a gang shooting near Kansas City, a German cruiser visit to Baltimore, border patrols in Colorado, a Tupelo tornado survivor in Memphis, police testimony in Florida, a March import surplus in Washington, minimum wage awards in New York, aristocratic politics in Vienna, and escalating Jewish Arab clashes in Jerusalem with 120 injured and 20 killed.
Los Angeles Fossil Skeleton Identified as Woman 30,000 Years Ago
In Los Angeles on April 21 a partial fossil skeleton found a month earlier was tentatively identified as a Woman who lived about 30 000 years ago. The discovery sheds light on prehistoric human life in the area and is subject to further verification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Democratic convention set with Barkley keynoter Robinson permanent chair
The committee on arrangements meets in Philadelphia Saturday with Senator Barkley of Kentucky expected as keynoter and Senator Robinson of Arkansas as permanent chairman of the Democratic national convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senator Barkley
Kentucky
Robinson
Arkansas
Committee On Arrangements
Philadelphia
Desperate Rescue Effort In Underground Pit Delayed
Rescue workers fight to reach victims as they remain uncertain when the breakthrough will come. Dr. D E Robertson pleads for information and mentions his brother in law Charles Ivey as a potential connection or aide in the stalled operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. E. Robertson
Charles Ivey
Peace efforts collapse as League faces Ethiopia protest
In Geneva on April 21 the League of Nations halted its East Africa conciliation drive as Ethiopia protests council inaction. The council adopted a midnight resolution condemning the failure and sanctions while appealing to Italy for peace, adjourning to May 11 with a revived effort after French elections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
League of Nations
Ethiopia
Council
Italy
League
Anthony Eden
Britain
Senate OKs Flood Control Bill for Lower Mississippi
The Senate passed a 272 million flood control bill for the lower Mississippi with no opposition and sent it to the House. It limits federal participation in right of way purchases for the Eudora floodway through southeastern Arkansas and northern Louisiana to about 20 million, amid prior opposition concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
MiSissipp
Vanderberg Republiccan
Michigan
Roosevelt
United States
Eudora
Arkansas
Louisiana
Vandenberg
Pork Barrel
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