Von Papen group will hold posts under president
President von Hindenburg met Adolf Hitler for fifteen minutes and reaffirmed that the cabinet under Chancellor Franz von Papen will stay in office. Hitler demanded the chancellorship, but Hindenburg refused for moral reasons and for the sake of the fatherland. Hitler refused to serve only in a cabinet post and left the meeting with his supporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
von Hindenburg
Adolf Hitler
National Socialist Party
Franz von Papen
Hitler
Reichstag
Germany
von Papen
Final rush at court house to register before election
Voters raced to Miss Lillian Collins registrar of voters on the final day to register or confirm registration before the September 13 Democratic primary. About 75 people registered or sought to verify their status yesterday, with more today as new registrants and movers reached voting age. The rolls close 30 days before the election and the office will close at 5 pm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillian Collins
Birthdays of town’s eligible bachelors listed
H. H. B. notes that birthdays of local bachelors are published to stir interest. A long listing follows with names and birth dates. The item also covers mail scams aimed at Joe Trammell, a car dealer incident, and local levee work gossip plus a vacation note for Paul Gendler.
Gallant Old Show Boat To Continue Its Dramas
The Old Cotton Blossom river showboat in New Orleans was seized for debt after a federal writ. Captain William Prather was named custodian and directed the cast to proceed with performances such as Ten Nights in a Bar Room and Dixie. The vessel has toured the Mississippi for four decades despite financial troubles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Cotton Blossom
Burdette Street
William Prather
William B. Wells
Mississippi
Prather
St. Paul
Coast Guard Probe Into Rude Search On Deep Sea Rodeo Ship
Mobile, Aug. 13. Captain Fisher said an investigation will be made into an alleged search under gunfire of the Wilhelmina E entrant in the Alabama deep sea rodeo by the Walcott coast guard patrol boat. Leon H. Wildberger of Mobile accused a boarding party commander of discourteous treatment during the liquor search after warning fire. The Walcott was docked returning from a training cruise, with expected report today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Walcott
Coast Guard
H. G. Fisher
Gulf Division
Leon H. Wildberger
Fisher
Parish Chairmen Appointed to Oversee Relief Funds
John M. Breard announces the appointment of parish chairmen for unemployment relief distribution in the fifth district. Names include Millsay in Ouachita and McIntosh in East Carroll among others, with various towns listed for each parish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Breard
Ouachita
F. F. Millsay
Monroe
Catahoula
Roger C. Reeves
Harrisonburg
Concordia
John Dale, Sr
Vidalia
Franklin
E. D. Walker
Winnsboro
Caldwell
A. D. Bridger
Columbia
Morehouse
J. R. Indlum
Bastrop
Lincoln
O. E. Hodge
Uston
Richland
George B. Franklin
Rayville
Union
John B. Miller
Farmerville
West Carroll
Frank Wolker
Lake Providence
East Carroll
John B. McIntosh
Oak Grove
Madison
H. C. Sevier
Tallulah
Tensas
B. F. Young
St. Joseph
Sheriff in Monroe Probes Hobo Slayings on Freight Trains
Sheriff Hughes visits Monroe as he pursues a gang blamed for a string of freight train killings. He reports evidence of assault and robbery and notes six suspects jailed in Shreveport with a seventh sought in Tallulah. Two victims, Natch OAnna and cousins Sam Cascio, were found mangled under a passing train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. R. Hughes
Shreveport
Monroe
Milton Coverdale
L. V. Tarver
Hughes
Joe B. Fairbairn
Eddie Farmer
Tallulah
Bill Terry
Henry Washington
Natch O'Anna
Sam Cascio
Union Wagon Drivers Insures Families Against Gangsters Guns
Chicago union stakes $15000 from its $800000 fund to pay families of officers killed by hoodlums within 24 hours. Leaders Fitchie Summer Bryant cited as targets after December ransom case. Union hardens defenses with armor, bulletproof shutters, and police machine gun nest nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union of Wagon Drivers
Chicago
Milk Divers’ Union
Chicago Daily Tribune
Robert C. Fitchie
Union
Steve C. Summer
Ray Bryant
Fitchie
Summer
GOP to push veto repeal legislation this session
Senate Republicans plan to move quickly on the eighteenth amendment at the December session led by Senator McNary. The push follows President Hoover’s call for prohibition reform with Glass claiming Hoover copied his proposal. Hoover may urge immediate action on state liquor control with protections for dry states, though he has said little publicly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoover
Senate
McNary
Oregon
Glass
Virginia
Capitol Hill
Congress
Weather observers track tropical gale in Gulf waters
Houston reporters say a tropical disturbance in the Gulf appears to move north northwest and may bring gale force northeast winds to the Texas coast by nightfall. Storm warnings were issued from Port O’Connor to Morgan City as the barometer fell from normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Port O’connor
Matagorda Bay
Morgan City
Pullman Rates Ordered Hired In This State
The interstate commerce commission ordered a 20 percent increase in Pullman sleeping car fares in Louisiana. Starting June 6 1921 the Louisiana public service commission blocked state rate hikes. The ICC ruled services in state were similar to national levels and required alignment with broader rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pullman
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Louisiana
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Pullman Company
Baton Rouge, la
Merchandising course for Monroe merchants announced
Dallas manufacturers and jobbers offer a free three night Merchants Institute in Monroe on August 17 18 and 19. Henry W Stanley the institute director says the program will cover high spots of modern merchandising including retail salesmanship advertising display and merchandising problems. Speakers expenses are paid by the World and News Star.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
Merchants and Businessmen of
Southwest
Merchants’ Institute
Monro
Monroe
Henry W. Stanley
Institute
Merchants Institute
Juret
Virginia
The
World and News-Star
Hoover Prepares to Start Attack Upon Low Mood
President to call a meeting to unify the reconstruction program as Hoover readies a campaign to rally support. The move aims to stabilize policy and address economic strain during the formative phase of postwar recovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoover
Hoover aims to unify recovery drive with business rally
President Hoover plans a White House conference of national business and industry committees to coordinate federal resources and private initiative. He stresses recovery as the main objective despite campaign pressures and prohibition debates and favors revising the Eighteenth Amendment to restore state liquor control while banning saloons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.P
Hoover
White House
Drys
Return from Farm Short Course Attendees Listed
More than 40 people who attended the annual farmers and farm women's short course at Louisiana State University returned today from Baton Rouge. They traveled in private autos after a Monday visit to the state capital. Names include Mose and Mrs Perry, R L Moore and wife, Ruth and Katie Moore, and many others from the parish. Stewart heads the Calhoun experiment station. Strahan is the area agricultural agent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge
Mose Perry
R. L. Moore
Ruth
Katie. Moore
J. C. Hundley
Robinson
Collie Robinson
J. H. Miller
Mildred Miller
J. B. Landreaux
Ray Sisson
Clara Dennis
I. D. Wallace
Sidney Stewart
Eva
Ethel Jordan
W B. Mask, Sr
Charles Schulte
Ben S. Tarver
O. S. McDonald
Rosa Belle McDonald
Lowell
Joe Lowe
J. B. Filhiel
N. W. McHenry
M. W. Montgomery
James Montgomery
Eunice
Mertie Rawls
Miss Morris
E. R. Strahan
John Strahan
Jewel L. McQuiller
Carolyn
Stewart
Calhoun
Martial law ordered after Chile student rebellion
In Santiago on August 13 martial law was proclaimed after police and soldiers crushed a student revolt at the University of Chile. About 400 students seized buildings demanding Col Marmaduke Grove head the government replacing Carlos Davila. A police officer, a student, and a bystander were killed. twenty wounded and reports of up to five more deaths. Troops fired. most students fled and 50 were captured.
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Santiago
Chile
University of Chile
Col
Marmaduke Grove
Carlos Davila
Col. Grove
Senor Davila
Louisiana Plans Prosperity Loan to RF C
Chairman A P Tugwell of the Louisiana highway commission and A G Newmyer of New Orleans will depart Washington to present Louisiana relief loan requests to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Governor O K Allen said Harry B Henderlite and R S Hecht would go Sunday to seek aid for a rail highway bridge over the Mississippi at New Orleans. Louisiana seeks 12 million dollars for unemployment relief through public works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
A. P. Tugwell
Lousiana Highway Commission
A. G. Newmyer
New Orleans
Washington
O.K. Allen
Louisiana
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Harry B. Henderlite
R. S. Hecht
Mississippi
Illness of Edith Rockefeller McCormick Pulls Famed Family Close
Chicago August reports say the gravely ill Edith Rockefeller McCormick brings reconciliation to the divided McCormick clan. Harold F. McCormick, former husband, rushed to her Drake Hotel bedside with yellow roses as Fowler McCormick seeks to repair rifts from the Stillman marriage amid losses to protect renters and buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
U.P
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
Mde
Harold F. McCormick
Harvester “King
McCormick
Pacific Coast
John D. Rockefeller
America
Drake Hotel
New Orleans Officers Wound Escaped Convict
Clifton Goddett also known as Cliff Dogan, a 38 year old Mississippi convict who escaped from guards a week earlier while being transported to Parchman penitentiary, was critically wounded and captured in a St Joseph street residence after an exchange of gunfire with New Orleans police. He had been convicted of highway robbery in George county Mississippi and sentenced to four years. Authorities called him a desperate character and he had warned he would never be taken alive.
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New Orleans
Clifton Goddett
Cliff Dogan
Mississippi
Parchman Penal Farm
St. Joseph Street
Goddett
George County
Doctors Called For Testimony About Autopsy
In Miami on August 13, Capt. W N Lancaster denied telling Mrs Clarke he might have killed Haden Clarke. Doctors Tallman Gone and Jones testified Clarke’s death resulted from a pistol against his head, but they could only speak to probability, not suicide.
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Miami
Fla
Haden Clarke
W. N. Lancaster
Fra
States
N. Vernon Hawthorne
Clarke
M. H. Tallman
Donald F. Gone
Walter C. Jones, Jr
Jessie M. Keith- Miller
James M. Carson
Red Cross Life Saving Tests Conclude With 25 Trained
H A Kenning Red Cross field worker led a three day life saving course here culminating in about 25 participants across classes. Renewal certificates were awarded to Baroney Oakland S L McConnell Hulen Kirk Miss Eileen MacKinnon and John L Schneider. New examiner certificates went to Grant Bean George Jackson Jr and Huel Kemp. Senior renewals were granted to Mike John Jr and new senior certificates to Jim Baynham Jack Anders Helena Hayward John Zerre and Fred Williams. Kenning departs for Vicksburg to oversee similar testing.
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H. A. Kenning
Red Cross
Baroney Oakland
S. L. McConnell
Hulen Kirk
Eileen MacKinnon
John L. Schneider
Grant Bean
George Jackson, Jr
Huel Kemp
Cate
Mike John, Jr
Jim Baynham
Jack Anders
Helena Hayward
John Zerre
Fred Williams
Kenning
Vicksburg
Varied Sports Planned On Sunday for Excursionists
Excursionists from Missouri Pacific and Illinois Central lines are expected in Monroe and West Monroe with as many as 5000 visitors tomorrow. A full program includes two p m motor boat races on the Ouachita River, a 3 30 p m baseball game Missouri Pacific versus Holsum, a flag tournament at Municipal Golf Links, a band concert at the municipal natatorium, a 7 30 p m swimming meet at the municipal pool, and all day zoo viewing and free saltwater swimming. Special Missouri Pacific trains will operate Sunday to return travelers to Arkansas and Louisiana points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
West Monroe
Twin Cities
Quachita River
Missouri Pacific
Holsum
Ouachita Valley League
Forsythe Park
Municipal Golf Links
Municipal Band
Municipal Natatorium
Municipal Zoo
Illinois Central
Louisiana
Arkansas
Shrevesport
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Little Rock
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R. H. Hope
Murray Hudson
Joe Isaacman
Sam Ivy
Eva S. Johnson
Lady Bird Johnson
W. M. Johnson
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Blanche G. Karnes
David Kaplan
Ida Kaplan
L. L. Kea
W. W. Kendall
Frank M. Kennedy
J. W. Kilbourne
A. K. Kilpatrick
J. B. King
Lela S. King
W. D. King
L. H. Krogmire
Sam Ladart
A. L. Lagrone
E. J. Lanham
W. G. Lawhead
Mrs. Marion Learned
Joe Trammell
Joe
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J. R. Hart
Delhi
Tensas Basin Levee
Sam Abrowitz
Buckhorn Bend
Paul Gendler
R. J. Wishnick
Century Carbon Company
Swartz
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