World famed sculptor George Bernard Barnard dies at 74
New York April 25 UP Death ended the restless hand of George Grey Barnard 74 famed sculptor. The modern Michelangelo whose marble figures grace great galleries worldwide left unfinished his Rainbow Arch monument to democracy after 15 years and $200000 spent on a 100 foot model. His notable works include The God Pan at Columbia Norway’s Brotherly Love and a Lincoln statue sent to Manchester to mark 100 years of peace with Britain. He also created a group of 33 marble statues at the...
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New York
George Grey Barnard
Abel
Cain
Michelangelo
Barnard
God Pan
Columbia University
Norway
Abraham Lincoln
Manchester
England
United States
Great Britain
Orleans Man Dies of Heart Attack
Lewis H. Stanton, 78, son of Edwin M. Stanton, dies at home in New Orleans from a heart attack. A Washington-born financier and former stock farmer, he moved to New Orleans in 1890 after marrying Adele Townsend. Survived by two daughters, two sons, and a sister. Funeral set for today.
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New Orleans
Lewis H. Stanton
Edwin M. Stanton
Abraham Lincoln
Adele Cephie Townsend
Mary Ashley Townsend
Louisiana
Washington
James Buchanan
National Capital
Princeton University
United States Supreme Court
Stanton
Stevens County
Minn
Gideon Townsend
Ernest Lee Jahncke
Mary Stanton Collins
Edwin
Gideon T. Stanton
Bessie S. Habersham
Public Health Workers Plan Session Here
A quarterly conference of Louisiana public health workers is set for Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Ouachita parish courtroom at City Hall. About 60 directors, technicians, nurses, inspectors and secretaries from Ouachita and neighboring parishes will attend. Regional U S Public Health Service consultant Dr. W K Sharp will speak on a Generalized Public Health Program. Other speakers include Dr. L A Masterson, Dr. J A Coleman and Miss Lawrence Bernard.
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Louisiana
G. Douglas Wiliams
Ouachita Parish
Ouachita
Lincoln
Union
Morehouse
Richland
Franklin
Tensas
Madison
East Carroll
West Carroll
W. K. Sharp
New Orleans
United States Public Health Service
L. A. Masterson
Maternal and Child Health Division
J. A. Coleman
General Disease Control Division
Japanese Grilling of American Aviator in Yokohama
Melvin Gibbon, 27, an American aviator, faced questioning by Japanese authorities in Yokohama over alleged ties to the Chinese air force. Investigators weigh indicting him under strict public safety laws with potential penalties up to death or life imprisonment after reviews of information he may possess. Gibbon was arrested on arrival aboard the Empress of Asia en route to Vancouver.
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Yokohama
Melvin Gibbon
Gibbon
Vancouver
B. C
Secret Service
China
Train Auto Crash Fatal in Biloxi
Mrs. William Cuthbert, 57, died from injuries after a railroad train struck an automobile driven by her husband. He suffered several fractured ribs. The Cuthberts, natives of George Springs Tennessee, had lived in Biloxi four years.
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Biloxi
Miss
William Cuthbert
Cuthbert
George Springs
Tenn
Taxes on U S salaries and bonds urged by Roosevelt
President Roosevelt asked Congress to end tax exemptions on income from all future government bonds and on government salaries. He argued existing exemptions stem from judicial decisions and could be removed by a short statute, noting recent court trends may support the change. The move aims to reduce a growing reservoir of tax exempt securities held by affluent individuals and institutions.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Salvationists Plan Meetings in Monroe Youth Conference
Four to five hundred young people are expected to attend a three day Louisiana and Southern Arkansas Divisional Youth conference in Monroe starting Friday. Lt-Commissioner Ernest I. Pugmire will preside. Registration begins 4 pm at Hotel Virginia. The opening concert The Music of Youth features multiple school bands and marimba pieces by Jeanette Mae Smith before the conference formal opening at First Methodist.
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Monroe
Louisiana and Southern Arkansas
Ernest I. Pugmire
Salvation Army
Hotel
Virginia
Music of
Ouachita Parish High School
Ouachita Parish
Neville High School
Louisiana Training Institute
Brown Harmonica
Salvation Army Band of
Shreveport
Jeanette Mae Smith
First Methodist
Dawes Recovers From Emergency Surgery in New York
Brigadier General Charles Gates Dawes former vice president underwent emergency surgery for acute suppurative appendicitis in New York. He was stricken in his Waldorf Astoria suite while attending the wedding of Francis Warren Pershing and Muriel Richards and is reported in good condition by hospital staff.
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New York
Roosevelt Hospital
Charles Gates Dawes
Dawes
Chicago
Francis Warren Pershing
John J. Pershing
Muriel Bache Richards
Waldorf, Astoria
Henry W. Cave
Ford workers seek $1500 yearly minimum wage contract
The Ford Brotherhood of America pledges an annual minimum of 1500 dollars for every hourly worker at the Rouge plant in Dearborn. The independent union says it has about 21,400 members amid peak production periods nearing 90,000 employees. Negotiations with Ford Motor Co. have continued for a month, with written contract proposals delivered after recent conferences. Louis J. Colombo Sr. represented Ford and submitted the company’s response to Edsel Ford.
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Detroit
Ford Brotherhood of America
Brotherhood
Mammoth Rouge
Ford Motor Company
Dearborn
Louis J. Colombo, Sr
Ford
Edsel
Free cotton classing moves to congress for beltwide service
Washington April 25. Southern senators will ask Congress to establish a free government classing service for the cotton belt. Senator Bankhead Alabama and committee chair Smith South Carolina plan to attach the provision to the agriculture appropriation bill. Finch cotton expert estimated 12 cents per bale for 10,000,000 bale crop and about 1,300,000 dollars for 13,000,000 bale annual crops. Continued on Eighth Page.
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Washington
Congress
Cotton
Bankhead
Alabama
Senate Agriculture Committee
Smith
South Carolina
Department of Agriculture
Senate
C. L. Finch
Agriculture Department
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Finch
Fifteen Japanese troop trains and new offensive close on Taierhchwang
Fifteen troop trains moved from Tientsin toward central China as Japan renews the drive to seize Suchow and Taierhchwang. Chinese forces resist south Shantung border advances and report Japan may engage up to 300,000 troops. Japanese supply efforts shorten lines of communication near Jihchao, aiding the southern push toward Lunghai and Shantung-Kiangsu fronts.
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Taierhchwang
Shantung City
Lunghai Railway
Shantung
Japan
Suchow
Sunghai Line
Tientsin-Pukow
Tientsin
China
Szechuchen
Lunghai
Tancheng
Jihchao
Tsingtao
Haichow
Shantung-Kiangsu
Sinanchen
Bar
Leche Seeks Repeal Of Special Attorneys Law
Governor Richard Leche announced plans to sponsor a bill repealing a law allowing the governor to hire special attorneys on a contingent fee basis up to 50 percent. The move follows a case with Hugh Wilkinson over Standard Oil of Louisiana. The budget conference discussed funding for the attorney general and departmental needs ahead of the legislature convening shortly.
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Baton Rouge
Richard Leche
Hugh Wilkinson
New Orleans
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
Wilkinson
Huey P. Long
State Department
Britain Faces Calls for More Planes in War Readiness
London reports a growing parliamentary uproar over Britain’s aircraft shortfall. Officials sent an air ministry mission to the United States and Canada to study production. Defense aims target 1,750 first line planes by 1939, with uncertain reserves, while observers urge at least a 50 percent production boost to meet needs.
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London
Britain
John Simon
Air Ministry
United States
Canada
Defense
Daily Mail
War Against Spain Began Forty Years Ago
Congress declared war on Spain 40 years ago in a tense session. Spain kept silent after the United States issued an ultimatum demanding exits from Cuba. The ultimatum expired at noon April 23, with a de facto state of war already in place as President McKinley proclaimed a blockade of Santiago and the north Cuban coast.
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Washington
Congress
Spain
United States
Cuba
McKinley
Santiago
Cuban
Rotarians Open Annual Meet in Monroe Virginia Hotel
Nearly 550 Rotarians and Rotaryanns registered for the 139th district conference in Monroe as 600 are expected for tonight's banquet at Hotel Frances. District Governor H V Cooper of Vicksburg summarized Rotary progress in 35 Louisiana clubs and five Mississippi clubs while International Director Percy Scurrah of Victoria reviewed Rotary work in 81 countries. Welcome comments came from Dr. W L Bendel and Monroe Mayor H H Benoit, with Northeast Center Men's Glee Club and soloist Johnette Register providing musical greetings. Mayor Benoit praised hosting the large service group and pledged Monroe’s hospitality for the gathering.
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H. H. Benoit
Virginia Hotel
W. L. Bendel
Monroe
Hotel Frances
H. V. Cooper
Vicksburg
Rotary
Louisiana
Mississippi
Percy Scurrah
Victoria
B. C
Rotary International
Prizes awarded at Monroe Egg Hunt in Forsythe Park
The eighth annual egg hunt drawn 5000 to 7000 people in Forsythe Park as Monroe fire department led by Captain H E Roberts called it the best attended. Girls grand prize diamond ring from R and A Jewelry went to Clarice Humphries Swartz. boys grand prize seven dollars fifty from Hotel Frances won by Charlie Miller 701 Calypso Street. little tots prize from Hotel Virginia claimed by Joy Dean Anthony Highland Park. Teflis Grotto band played as participants lined up.
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Forsythe Park
Monroe
Teflis Grotto Band
Three Executed In Pennsylvania
In Bellefonte Pennsylvania three Chester men Edward Rose John Creszak and Theodore Dominik were executed in the electric chair for a July 1936 lover lane holdup that killed Floyd Tranon and injured his companion after they were surprised while parked. The condemned showed little reaction beyond Roses muttered prayer as straps were fixed.
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Bellefonte
Pennsylvania
Edward Rose
John Creszak
Theodore Dominiak
Chester
Floyd Tranon
Tranon
Rose
Birth Of Strong Anglo French Military Pact Imminent
The European scene shows Germanic minority demands in Czechoslovakia and a Hungarian bid for upper Hungary as a wider crisis looms. A potential Anglo French pact forms amid talks between Britain and France, while Henlein's Sudeten Nazis push for self government. Turbulence spreads to Spain and China fronts with Japanese moves and regional tensions rise.
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Associated Press
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
France
Britain
Konrad Henlein
Fuehrer
Henlein
Praha
Czechoeslovakia
Leslie Hore- Belisha
Marie Gustave Gamelin
Edouard Daladier
Georges Bonnet
London
Neville Chamberlain
Viscount Halifax
Teruel
Mediterranean
Spain
China
Melvin Gibbon
Egypt
Farouk
Mohammed Mahmoud Pasha
Russia
Rose Cohen
Moscow Daily News
Hitler appoints Buerckel to oversee Austrian reunion
Berlin reports Reichs chancellor Hitler names Joseph Buerckel federal commissioner to complete the reunion of Austria with the German Reich. The office, based in Vienna, reports directly to Hitler and runs through May 1 1999. Buerckel also extends Easter peace period to May 10 to organize personnel and structure.
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Berlin
Saar
Germany
Austria
Hitler
Vienna
Buerckel
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Ennium
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Warren Baggio
Tax Commission
General Fund
Baggio
Cooper
Fire Department
Adolf Hitler
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Hungarian Revision League
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