Ouachita Parish Votes Four Mill School Tax for Three Years
The Ouachita parish school board called a special election for September 7 to approve a four mill levy for three years to fund parish schools. Superintendent T O Brown warned the tax is needed due to poll tax abolition and rising costs, estimating about $90 000 annual revenue on a $25 000 000 valuation. The board faces new building needs in Stirlington and West Monroe and may consider bond elections if revenue falls short. Brown noted expected state aid of only up to eight dollars per educable child, with homestead exemptions not aiding until 1936.
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Mayo Brothers Praised At Roosevelt Visit In Rochester
President Roosevelt urged Mayo Clinic founders Dr William J Mayo and Dr Charles H Mayo to honor their humanitarian work as Rochester celebrated with ceremonies by the American Legion. Legion national commander Edward A Hayes presented citations while Roosevelt unveiled a plaque and laid a wreath at the Mayo statue and visited St Mary's hospital in tribute.
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Famed Crook Turned Reformer John G. Goode Dies at 70
John G. Goode a once notorious thief who shifted to prison reform died at his Brooklyn home aged 70. His life spanned roles as a yegg till thief train robber highwayman non working NYPD officer derelict and later a lecturer on reform.
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Plant with devil's claw mystery perplexes Ramblin' About Town
Parish worker Henry V. Bouscaren carries a gray pecan shaped plant to Jes' Rambin' about town. It resembles a devils claw or buffalo horns and likely hails from Texas Panhandle. Other items note glowworm fishing tricks in Racine and lightning strikes sparing a hen and chicks.
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Hollywoods ideal couple Conrad Nagels separated by divorce
Ruth Nagel obtained a Juarez Mexico decree divorcing Conrad Nagel due to his prolonged film work absence. She kept custody of their eight year old daughter Ruth and both said they would remain friends. The couple had faced rumors of discord for five years and briefly separated a year earlier.
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Heat Wave Pushes Midwest Records Across Several States
Scorching mid continent heat drives temperatures above 100 with Kansas City at 108 and Concordia Kansas at 108. Missouri and Kansas suffer hardest with hot winds intensifying damage to crops as four deaths are linked to the heat wave. North Dakota reports 90 to 94 before a late rain cooled the area. Continued on Tenth Page.
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Committeemen Study Needs of Unemployables
Ouachita parish officials and citizens form two committees to handle about 55 unemployables or physically disabled individuals recently removed from parish ERA rolls. President Breard appoints W J Vinson A B Myatt J L Warren to oversee the effort, meeting with Monroe and West Monroe leaders to arrange joint aid funding and relief actions.
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Father Of Quintuplets Winner In Court Action
Judge Joseph B. David dismissed a $100000 damage suit and a request to halt publication of pictures of the Dionne quintuplets. Ivan I. Spear, operator of the Century of Progress Tour bureau, sued Oliva Dionne, the Chicago Times, and a photo syndicate over a May 31 contract for exhibition rights. The judge ruled the quintuplets are world figures and allowed newspapers to publish photographs.
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Troops Ordered to Be Careful About Shooting
New Orleans August 8 A Senate Huey P Long Militia was instructed at Jackson barracks to fire only under dire circumstances and to exercise extreme caution with firearms amid a bloodless clash with Mayor T Semmes Walmsley s police. Only three shots have been fired in ten days of unrest.
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Explosion tears through eighteenth floor at 45 Christopher Street
An explosion on the eighteenth floor of an apartment building at 45 Christopher Street in New York left that floor wrecked and injured several people. One woman, identified as Jeanette Bair, a staging agent, was found unconscious and in dying condition. ambulance surgeons tried to revive her.
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Young Man Tops Field in Senate Primary Ballot
Three states tallied off year primary ballots with apparent results. In West Virginia Rush D. Holt wins the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican Henry D. Hatfield in November. In Missouri Harry S. Truman wins the Democratic nomination while Roscoe Patterson is the Republican nominee. In Kansas Omar B. Ketchum wins the Democratic nomination for governor as Alf M. Landon seeks a second term.
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Registration Deadline For Primary Voting
Voters must register this year to vote in the Democratic primary on September ul. General registration applies and no one may vote without re registering. The final date to add a name to the registration books is Saturday August 11 before the congressional primary.
Mike Moss Returns to New Orleans for U S Probe
Mike Moss former New Orleans business and political figure arrived from his Arizona ranch to testify before a federal grand jury in a broad inquiry into income tax returns linked to Huey P. Long and associates. He was guarded by federal agents and brought to the federal building where he and a stenographer were summoned before the jury.
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Pickets Halt Work at Pekin Distillery Plant
Pickets surrounding the American Distillery plant in Pekin Illinois repelled a work march by non union men injuring four workers as about 200 strikers faced an equal number of laborers. Authorities planned a peace conference while other Illinois unions faced sporadic violence and nationwide labor tensions persisted.
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Labor Leaders Reject Proposal
Labor leaders of the United Textile Workers of America rejected a proposed plan for settling the strike at a Huntsville mill. The walkout shut down six mills for three weeks, affecting about 5,000 workers and overwhelming the labor dispute scene.
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Murder indictment against Alabama minister
A grand jury charged Rev. L. P. Royer with first degree murder in the slaying of 81-year-old Frank Pickens, a deacon in Royer’s church, in Moulton Alabama. The minister is to be arraigned at 10 a.m. tomorrow. William Roger, 14, son of the minister, is being investigated and held without bond on murder warrants alongside his father.
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Hesters Report Details 1933 34 Cotton Season
Secretary Emeritus H G Hester and Ac tive Secretary Henry Planche of the New Orleans cotton exchange elaborate on the 1933 34 season statistics. They note nominal receipts of 152 million dollars more for a 13 368 000 bale crop, but in depreciated dollars, and say the old order of supply and demand no longer exists as government influence dominates. They warn that efforts to rectify past policy and reduce production aim to lessen excessive supply.
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Possible Auto Plunge Victims Sought in New Orleans
In New Orleans on August 8 police divers scoured the Mississippi River near Louisiana Street wharf for possible victims of a car that plunged into the water in darkness. Ferry crew heard a car roar toward the wharf and a splash, then saw the vehicle sink out of sight. the driver’s intent remains unclear.
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Cotton crop forecast at 9.195 million bales for 1934
The U S Department of Agriculture projects a 1934 cotton crop of 9 195 million bales the smallest since 1896 except 1921, down 3 852 million from 1933 and 5 480 million below 1928 32 average with 60 4 per cent of normal condition on August 1 and drought affecting states Oklahoma Texas western Arkansas and parts of Louisiana.
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Polish Strikers Threatened With Expulsion at Lens
In Lens France Aug 8 French miners freed 11 captives after a 36 hour strike by 180 Polish miners who held 11 French workers hostage. Police opened an inquiry and may order some Poles to cross the border. The incident followed arrests of two Poles for political activity.
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