Congress Near End Of Six Month Session
The Senate debates the Black Supreme Court nomination while the House sends a sugar control bill to conference. An air mail under ICC scrutiny faces a one man filibuster. Finance advances a tax loophole bill. housing aid is trimmed to 500 million. Farm bill priority discussion aims to clear presidential objections to crop loans.
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Congress
Senate
Supreme Court
Senator Black
Alabama
House
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
McKellar
Tennessee
Senate Finance Committee
House Banking Committee
Sheriff Sale Notices From Ouachita Parish Court Listings
Multiple 1937 sheriff sale notices from Ouachita Parish Fourth District Court listing properties seized to satisfy writs. Notices include parcels in Monroe West Monroe and Trenton with terms cash, locations at the court house, and sale dates set for September 18 1937.
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Sheriff's Sale Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Lawrence
Meryweathers
Merryweathers
State of Louisiana
Parish of Ouachita
Fourth District Court
Fourth Judicial District Court
Ouachita
Monroe
Louisiana
Maryland
Steele-Madden
West Monroe
Trenton
Willams Phillips & Company
Belzure
Louis Werner Sawmill Company, Inc
W. A. Kelly
Louisana
Ihita
Court House
Vis. Werner Sawmill Co.romroperty
Oid Ta. Ae
Sheriff's Base Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
Virginia Williams
Wilson Williams
Ouachita Parish
J.C. Pierce
W. G. Gladney
Township
North Range & West
Sheriff’s Base Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
R. R. McCord
State of
Riverview
Insurgent advances threaten Santander as Reinosa falls
A near Santander strike by insurgents pushes within 30 miles of the city after capturing Reinosa and its major factory, Constructora Naval, while government reports cite a large scale withdrawal amid heavy attacks and prisoner gains.
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Reinosa
Bilbao
Biscayan
Franco
Foreign Legionnaires
Santander
Dr Hood Rites Set for Wednesday in Louisiana Parish
An obituary notice recounts Dr. Hood who settled in Jackson parish after arriving in 1842 and practicing medicine from age 21 in 1891. He ran a drug store, retired to Monroe in 1923, and held church and Masonic memberships. Survived by four brothers and two sisters, he never married. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Valery.
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Louisiana
Jackson Parish
Louisville Ky
Eros
Monroe
First Baptist Church of
Masonic Lodge
New Orleans
Shreveport
Eros State Bank
Dr. Hood
T. L. Hood
West Monroe
Charles Hood
Nick Hood
Plano
Tex
Sem Hood
Emory
W. M. Chaddick
Mattilda Hood
Evans says Black not Klan member
Dr. Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, declared Hugo L. Black is not a Klansman or sympathizer. He dismissed Copeland’s attacks as political posturing and said he did not intend to be drawn into the issue.
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Evans
Atlanta
Hiram W. Evans
Ku Klux Klan
Hugo L. Black
Alabama
Copeland
New York
Supreme Court
Dr. Evans
Shanghai Burning as Chinese Japanese Battle Rages
In Shanghai the Chinese and Japanese clash along the Whangpoo riverfront and Hongkew district. Fires blaze across eight miles as shells rain, with police stations isolated and prisoners killed in the settlement jail. Two American volunteers guarding the customs station are missing.
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Hongkew
International Settlement
Whangpoo
Yangtze Estuary
Shanghai
Chapei
Whangnoo
Honchen
Hongkow
Yantzepoo Road
Kishi Brigade
Oyama
Hungiao Airport
Japan
Kishi
Sechewan
Pootung
Pootung Flats
Garden Bridge
Refugee Tenders Evacuate Women and Children Down Yangtze
U S citizens offer prayers as a neutral refugee tender carries women and children from the embattled Woo sung area toward the President Jefferson. The voyage down the Whangpoo river is marked by artillery exchange yet respected as mercy by both Chinese and Japanese sides. Mrs Theodore Roosevelt and her son Quentin join the evacuees bound for Manila.
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Jefferson
Woosung
Dollar Line
United States Marine
Manila
Theodore Roosevelt
Quentin
Roosevelt
United States
Whangpoo
Tragedy of Lynching Suspect Dragged and Killed
A Black man named Gooden was ambushed by assailants who dragged him into a car then killed him near a Brighton to Mason road in Tennessee. Deputies later found his body half submerged with a rope around his neck and more than 30 bullet wounds.
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Gosden
W. W. Pickens
J. T. Scott
Covington
Tipton County
Brighton
Mason
Tenn
Gooden
Pickens
Scott
Nation covered by blanket of heat
A searing heat wave swept the nation with temperatures in the nineties and little relief expected. Chicago reached 95 degrees while many states faced heat with passing showers and Midwest corn crop fears rising from grain damage reports.
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Chicago
Midwest
Nebraska
South Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
Board of Trade
Weather Bureau
New York
Move to Hold School Ballot
Daisy Terzia and others move to authorize Monroe officials to prepare a resolution for a tax election. It seeks to repeal 11-2 mills maintenance and replace with a 4d-mill tax for ten years starting 1937. The school board would present it to the commission council urging state approval.
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Daisy Terzia
J. M. Cobb
Warren Taylor
Cobb
City of
Monroe
Commission Council
State Tax and Bond Board
Daisy Strong Terzia
City School Board
Old Faithful Geyser Spouts Millions Daily
Old Faithful geyser releases about 33 million gallons of water each day, enough to supply a city of around 300,000 people. The figure highlights the vast scale of Yellowstone National Park’s iconic feature and its daily fountain of mineral rich water.
Fliers Search for Six Russians in Arctic Flight Mission
Reports describe Bob Randall flying from Edmonton to Aklavik in a plane chartered by the Russian embassy while Zadkoff from the Soviet side prepared to reach Cape Wellen. The Krassin icebreaker and Moscow planes indicate a coordinated search amid vague radio transmissions and a missing transport plane. Lava flows over snow without melting its base, cooling the surface.
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California
Aklavik
Northwest Territory
Bob Randall
Arctic Ocean
Washington
Edmonton
Alta
Markovo
Anadir River
Siberia
Zadkoff
Cape Wellen
Siberian
Krassin
Cape Schmidt
Alaska
Moscow
Pole
Fairbanks
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Boland
Pennsylvania
Milton Coverdale
Esa Coverdale
Overdale, Sean
Paul Tugend
Donaight
Buffalo
N. Y
Coverdale
St. Francis Sanitarium
M. I. Valery
Breard Street
Pan
China
Hull
Malin Craig
Army
James O. Richardson
Naval Operations
Stanley K. Hornbeck
State Department
Far Eastern
Spain
Speak
Black
Bone
Matson
Monterey
Sydney Heads
Australia
America
U. S
Italy
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