Aviators Start Baghdad Flight In Heavy Plane
James Ayling and Leonard Reid launched from Wasaga Beach Ontario at dawn aiming for Baghdad in a non stop long distance flight. The Trail of the Caribou, a twin engined biplane, weighed over a ton more than its limit and carried 1000 gallons of fuel and four days of food for the grueling 6500 mile journey. Reid, age 36, a Canadian, and Ayling, 29, a former Royal Air Force pilot, hoped to set a world record despite prior failed attempts and strong headwinds.
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Baghdad
Iraq
James Mollison
Amy
Central Canada
Harbor Grace
Mld
Two Convicts Dead and a Wounded at Angola Penitentiary
In Baton Rouge on August 8 two inmates were killed and one wounded at Angola prison. Fred England was found slain in his cell with 200 prisoners nearby. Lucas Badeaux and Joseph Schiro were charged with his murder. Raleigh C. Mitchell was killed and James C. Bird wounded when a guard shot as inmates crossed the guard line during an apparent escape attempt.
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Baton Rouge
Angola Penitentiary Farm
Fred England
Fred C. Wilcox
West Feliciana Parish
Lucas Badeaux
Joseph Schiro
England
Patrol Vessels to Be Delivered to Gulf Coast
Two new Coast Guard patrol boats the Nike and the Triton will join the Mississippi Gulf Coast fleet, with the Nike bound for Pascagoula and the Triton for Gulfport. A third boat, the Nemesis, already launched for St. Petersburg, completes a plan to station 15 such craft nationwide.
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Washington
Coast Guard
Gulfport
Pascagoula
Miss
Mississippi
Louisiana
Nike
Triton
Nemesis
St. Petersburg
Mississippi Gulf Coast
New York City
Bell kills town bell ringer in Hungary
A bell fell on Jozef Mar ton the town bell ringer in Hungary killing him. The accident occurred as the bell was being rung.
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Kisvarda
Hungary
Jozef Marton
Negro Baptist Convention Set For Bastrop
The 55th annual Tenth District Negro Baptist association convention will meet at Second Negro Baptist Church in Bastrop next week. Sessions start Sunday and run through the week with over 350 delegates expected. About 75 delegates and 200 laymen from Monroe and West Monroe are anticipated. Rev. E. B. Hollens, association president, will preside. A separate note mentions tooth decay prevention through proper diet.
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Tenth District
Negro Baptist Association
Second Negro Baptist Church
Bastrop
Monroe
West Monroe
E. B. Hollens
Blue Star Ointment touted for skin troubles
An advertisement proclaims Blue Star Ointment kills foot itch germs and soaks in without burning. It claims effectiveness against itchy eczema rash tetter ringworm pimples and other skin troubles.
L. B. Faulk Post Elects Officers
Isador Liebreich was elected commander of L. B. Faulk Post of the American Legion at the regular meeting. Other officers include W. S. Perhamus as first vice commander and W. M. Haddad as second vice commander with several key posts. Delegates and alternates to the state department convention to be held at Lake Charles were also named.
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Isador Liebreich
L. B. Faulk
American Legion
Legion Memorial Home
W. S. Perhamus
W. M. Haddad
Harry Stein
Robert Cowden
H. B. McClendon
Ernest Holloway
G. R. McClain
H. P. Rutherford
Peter Fasi
C. M. Mitchell
H. Flood Madison
B. A. Trousdale, Jr
Sam Rubin
Dr. R. L. Wood
J. B. Bailey
Bernard Levi
J. S. Garelick
F. E. Hammonds
L. E Howell
Wayne Huckaby
Frank Manley
Sam Newsom
Dick Bowdon to Speak at Y's Men's Meeting
Dick Bowdon former YMCA secretary and Louisiana Power and Light employee will be the chief speaker at the Y's Men's club meeting at Hotel Frances 6 30 this evening. His topic is The Young Man of Today and His Problems.
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Dick Bowdon
Louisiana Power and Light Company
Y's Men's Club
Hotel Frances
Mrs Winifred Thompson Dies After Brief Illness
Mrs Winifred Mae Thompson 27 of West Monroe died Tuesday night at 6 30 at St Francis sanitarium after a brief illness. Funeral services were held at Peters Funeral chapel at 3 o'clock Wednesday with Rev E L Tanner of the Assembly of God West Monroe officiating. Interment was in Hasley cemetery near West Monroe. Surviving are the widower four children George Vernon Lyn and Anne Thompson and her father F C Westover of Winnsboro Mississippi.
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Winifred Mae Thompson
West Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
Peters’ Funeral Chapel
E. L. Tanner
Assembly of God
Hasley Cemetery
George
Vernon
Lyn
Anne Thompson
F. C. Westover
Winnsboro
Miss
Fey Selected to Quell Nazis in Vienna Drive
Austria assigns Major Emil Fey sweeping powers to suppress Nazi influence. He may discharge private employees suspected of Nazi sympathy as the cabinet weighs Franz von Papen's appointment as Germany's envoy amid strained relations. The drive has seen a fourth Nazi executed since it began weeks ago.
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Vienna
Austria
Emil Fey
Fey
Dollfuss
Ernest Felke
Franz von Papen
Germany
Hitler
Charter measure defeated in Shreveport aldermanic vote
Shreveport voters rejected the proposed aldermanic city government by 3,740 to 2,089 in the August election, keeping the mayor and commission council as the governing body. Officials and candidates prepared for fall primary campaigns after the result.
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Shreveport
Friends of
George W. Hardy
Local Candidates Include Ford and Caldwell in Race
In the election discussions several candidates were named for re election including John Ford commissioner of finance and Sam S Caldwell member of the Cade do parish police jury.
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John Ford
Sam S. Caldwell
Cade Do Parish
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Reid
Wasaga Beach
Ont
James Ayling
Leonard Reid
Angola
Kentucky
U.S.A
Schenley Distributors, Inc
F. Strauss & Son, Inc
Monroe, la
Pan American Petroleum Corporation
Pan-Am
H. S. Read
Pan-American Petroleum Corporation
Mars
Earth
Gulf Coast
Tosacco Cay
Negro Baptist Convention
Cooie
I AM
Y’s Men’s
Winifred Thompson
von Papen
Charter
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