Levee Breakouts Prompt New Orleans Hearing
Break in a New Orleans area levee near Myrtle Grove triggers emergency response as engineers rush to the scene. In Vicksburg and Memphis the Mississippi flood crest is forecast to reach high levels into May with gradual drops planned in other rivers. An Interstate Commerce hearing in Monroe discussed a likely gasoline railroad rate reduction benefiting Louisiana refineries and increasing output.
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New Orleans
Myrtle Grove
Associated Press
Memphis
Mississippi
Weather Bureau
Louisiana Railroad Commission
Monroe
Shreveport
Baton Rouge
H. J. Fernandez
Louisiana
Rotary address links Golden Rule to world service
Monroe speakers showcase Rotary spirit with Jamie Heron urging cooperation among Lions Kiwanis and Rotary to uplift humanity. The program featured a 15 piece orchestra, a Boy Scout note and a hand saw solo before Heron’s talk on Rotary as a global movement rather than a mere club. CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.
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Rotary
Jamie” Heron
City School
Monroe
Heron
Rotary Club
Lions
Kiwanis
Louisiana Training Institute
Henry Whitfield
Dug” Miles
Mr. Heron
Ty” Cobb
New Jersey
al Rotary
Christ
Good Fellowship
Conference at Genoa Sees Allies Seek Stable Russian Pace
Experts from Soviet Russia and seven major powers begin reconstruction talks in Genoa. Germany accepts censure for a Russia pact while promising not to disrupt conference decorum. French protest warns of broader Russian questions beyond the Russo German treaty.
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Genoa
Germany
Associated Press
Russia
Great Britain
France
Italy
Japan
Belgium
Czechoslovakia
Holland
M. Chicherin
Wirth
Levee Board Plans Three-Mile Top Strip Near Arkansas City
Arkansas City report notes levee board officials intend to top strip a three mile section to meet rising river stages next week. Farm labor withdrawal is hindering progress. State convicts likely to be called. Adequate sandbags are on hand.
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Associated Press
Vicksburg
Thevee
Weather Bureau
Tallahatchie
Upper Yazoo
Yazoo
Mississippi
Arkansas City
Greenville
Mississippi River floods ease as Arkansas sees no new trouble
Arkansas City reports a stable river situation with no new Mississippi side reports. Levee labor shortages persist as plantation owners pull workers for farm tasks. Flooding impacts extend from St Louis to Cairo with extensive farm and livestock losses in Illinois and ongoing levee repairs in Louisiana.
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Associated Press
Arkansas City
Arkansas
Mississippi
St. Louis
Cairo
Ilinois
Rush Landing levee embankment sloughing forces large work crew
William Head president of the Missiewippi levee district reports near Rush Landing that an embankment has sloughed with a grave situation. Five hundred men worked through the night and many remain on the job as more sand bags are needed.
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Tunica
Miss
William Head
Missiewippi’ Levee
Rush Landing
Fuller Brush opens Monroe office under Hewitt
Milton M. Meyer of Jackson, branch manager, announces that Fuller Brush Company has established an office in Monroe. H. M. Hewitt will run the Monroe office, which will serve parishes around the Ouachita Valley as headquarters.
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Milton M. Meyer
Jackson
Fuller Brush Company
Monroe
H. M. Hewitt
Ouachita Valley
Gasoline Tank Wagon Explosion Causes Five Deaths
Five people died in hospitals after an explosion in a gasoline tank wagon yesterday at a Downey filling station. Five others suffered serious burns and were in critical condition as firefighters battled the blaze.
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Los Angeles
Scrces
Downey
Steamer Rathlinhead Raided by Armed Gang
Fifty armed men raided the Rathlinhead anchored in Dublin. The watchman was wounded and the decks sprayed with gasoline setting the vessel ablaze. Crew and Irish republican army troops quenched the fire, preventing serious damage.
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Dublin
Rathlinhead
J Army
Real Estate Activity Surges in Old Town Monroe
Miss Emma McEnery sells to Leon Hendrick property in the McEnery part of the Lee Avenue addition for 7000 dollars. Osee W Zeagler sells to A G Cook a lot in square fifty four of the J M Bread addition on the east side of North Fourth street for 7000 dollars. Reuben W Winberry sells to W T Miles for seven in section 42 17N 3E near West Monroe for 1800 dollars and M Broderick sells to Reuben W Winberry five acres in West Monroe for 3800 dollars.
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Emma McEnery
Leon Hendrick
McEnery
Lee Avenue
Monroe
Osee W. Zeagler
A. G. Cook
J. M. Bread
North Fourth Street
Reuben W. Winberry
W. T. Miles
West Monroe
M. Broderick
Monroe Business College opens Dermott extension May first
The Monroe Business College will establish an extension college at Dermott Arkansas on May 1, announced by president Alton H. Perry. The Southeast Arkansas Literary and Athletic Association held its annual school and athletic meet at Dermott yesterday with hundreds of pupils attending.
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Monroe Business College
Dermott
Ark
Alton H. Perry
Southeast Arkansas Literary and Athletic Association
Arkansas
Federal Petroleum Plans Large Ouachita River Campaign
The Federal Petroleum Company has secured Sterlington land on the Ouachita river and will soon establish an assembling plant. It plans an extensive oil and gas campaign along the Ouachita river in Union and Ouachita parishes and will store material at Sterlington for use in its operations.
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Federal Petroleum Company
Sterlington
Ouachita River
Union
Ouachita Parishes
Boards Praise Splendid Work in Flood Fight Across Delta
Officials of the Arkansas Louisiana Missouri Railway and Missouri Pacific report flood waters receding along tracks for 100 miles north of Monroe. J W Summerlin, president of the Tensas Basin Levee Board, says congress aid prevented need for bonds as levee boards spent over 100000 in two weeks of emergency work.
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Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri Railway
Missouri Pacific Railway
Monroe
Louisiana
Arkansas
Chauvin
Missouri Pacific
J. W. Summerlin
Rayville
Tensas Basin
Treasury
Southeast Arkansas
Southeastern Arkansas
Chicot
Desha
Lincoln
Summrlin
Heath Returns to Jury Selection Role in Parish
Judge Fred M. Odom appoints James L. Heath and R. L. Benson to the Owachita jury commission Heath reappointed while Benson replaces Henry Hamilton who serves as deputy assessor The grand jury was dissolved after Heath’s deputy sheriff appointment at the North Louisiana Fair in Calhoun October A criminal court term opens May 15 with the grand jury to convene Monday District Attorney David L Garrett says the session will be brief focusing on murder cases with bills of information filed in non capital cases to save money
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Fred M. Odom
James L. Heath
R. L. Benson
Owachita
Heath
Mr. Benson
Henry Hamilton
Louisiana
Calhoun
David L Garrett
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Nid
Ce Tae An
Orleans
Interstate Commerce Commission
Federal
Examiner Fleming
Washington
Examiner
Western Carbon Company
Cincinnati, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company
Zain Gen
Carlo Sehanzer
L. L. Smith
Helena
Arkansa Ab
Fis
Gaeenrie
Jackson Company
Local Business College
New Ark
Thos. H. M'Millan
First Presbyterian
Daughters of American Revolution
National Life
Mnvirep
Evangelical Churches
Rev
J. L. Evans
Monro Church
Wexler’s
Genasco
Selig & Russell
BH. L. A
Geo. Hooker
C. B. E. Meeting
Anex
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