Bodies Of Post And Rogers In Los Angeles
The bodies of Wiley Post and Will Rogers lie in a Glendale mortuary awaiting public rites before interment. Post’s remains proceed to Oklahoma City for services while Rogers will be entombed at Forest Lawn with ceremonies planned at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
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Post and
Rogers
Los Angeles
Wiley Post
Oklahoma City
Will Rogers
Glendale
Post
Oklahoma
Alaska Wilds
William Winston
Pan-American Airways
Burbank
Point Barrow
Joe Crosson
Seattle
Alameda
Crosson
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
J. Whitcomb Brougher
Forest Lawn
Chelsea
Okla
Maysville
W. F. Post
E. W. Marland
State Capitol
German Catholic Bishops Meet In Secret Conclave
The German Catholic bishops gathered at Fulda to plan a counter attack on Nazi efforts against political Catholicism. Presided by Cardinal Bertram, the assembly discussed protecting clergy from Goering's secret police and concerns over the Reich Vatican concordat amid church dissolutions of Catholic youth.
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Fulda
Germany
Bertram of
Breslau
St. Boniface
Hermann Goering
The
Reich
Vatican
Mass Meet To Protest School Politicalization in Opelousas
Circulars distributed in Opelousas call a public mass meeting Thursday night to protest what a Citizens Committee calls politicalization of St. Landry parish public schools. The parish school board fired fourteen teachers and several bus drivers last week under Huey P. Long backed laws granting his organization hiring and firing powers over staff.
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Opelousas
St. Landry Parish
Huey P. Long
Long
Citizens’ Committee
Austin Nominee Clinches Warren County House Seat
Dr. J. S. Austin was nominated as Warren county's state representative after R. G. Rumage withdrew from the second primary following an attorney general ruling that Rumage was ineligible due to unpaid taxes.
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Vicksburg
Miss
J. S. Austin
Warren County
House of Representatives
R. G. Rumege
Rumage
Orleans Sewer Work Approved
The state advisory board approved a $1,800,000 Public Works Administration project for sewerage and drainage improvements in New Orleans and a proposed $5,000,000 bond issue by the State Highway Commission for road building. Eleven of 19 members were present to pass the proposals under new legislation. The Sewerage and Water Board had urged action on their program financed from public improvement funds. Continued on Eighth Page.
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New Orleans
Public Works Administration
State Highway Commission
Sewerage and Water Board
State Board
School Budgets to be Submitted to State Committee
State Superintendent T. H. Harris announced that the education department will submit its first recommendations on parish school budgets and teacher lists to the state budget committee within days. The Huey Long era panel, including Gov. O. K. Allen and State Treasurer J. S. Cave, can approve or revise budgets and teacher rosters as needed.
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Baton Rouge
T. H. Harris
State Department of Education
O. K. Allen
Harris
J. S. Cave
Mrs Bilbo Considers Campaign Against Husband in Mississippi Race
Mississippi run-off scene centers on Theo Bilbo and Huey Long with Mrs Bilbo allegedly mulling a campaign against her husband The dispute surfaces as Louisiana figure Long influences the governor race between Paul Johnson and Hugh White Bilbo campaigns for White while Johnson accuses Long of backing Johnson and calls Bilbo to return to Washington
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Theo G. Bilbo
Huey Long
Louisiana
Long
Paul Johnson
Hugh White
Bilbo
White
Brookhaven
Johnson
Washington
Coroner Finds No Negligence In Lewis Death
Coroner C L Mengis reports on the traffic accident that fatally injured Harvey Lewis 51 of Cheniere. He says evidence is contradictory and no verdict of criminal negligence could be expressed. The incident occurred on the Dixie Overland highway near West Monroe last August 9.
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Harvey Lewis
Cheniere
West Monroe
C. L. Mengis
Bids Sought for Louisiana Highway Bonds Sale Plan
Baton Rouge announces bids due September 20 for 5 million dollars of road bonds to fund 3.001 billion paved highways and 2.0 billion farm to market roads. Bonds bear five percent interest and mature serially from 1939 to 1960 as part of a 75 million dollar constitutionally authorized issue, with 63.5 million already sold.
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Baton Rouge
A. P. Tugwell
Highway Commission
British Cabinet Rushes Home From Holidays to Face Crisis
British ministers return from continental holidays to confront the gravest international crisis since 1914. An emergency cabinet meeting is set to outline policy ahead of the League of Nations council in Geneva on Sept 4 after the collapse of the Paris tri power talks over Italo Ethiopian peace.
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Associated Press
London
Council of the
League of Nations
Geneva
Paris
Europe
Mussolini
Dynamite Found on Will Rogers Estate in Santa Monica Canyon
Dynamite was found on property belonging to the Will Rogers estate in Santa Monica canyon. The haul included 145 sticks of dynamite, a box of percussion caps, wired fuses and fuse lengths. Detectives probed possible theft from road crews or from Rogers ranch road projects.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Will Rogers
Santa Monica Canyon
R. G. Norris
Army Air Representative
Douglas Aircraft Works
Roosevelt Highway
Humorist
Rogers
Eighteen Missing After Berlin Subway Collapse
Eighteen workers were missing after a section of the Hermann Goering street subway collapsed in Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate. Four workers below the surface were rescued with severe injuries. Police, firemen, first aid teams, and 300 soldiers aided in rescue as flood water from a burst main hampered efforts.
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Berlin
Hermann Goering
Brandenburg Gate
Friedrich Ebert
DeSiard Street Widening at LSU Northeast Center
The front semi circular drive to the Northeast Center of Louisiana State University will be resurfaced with cement and DeSiard street in front of the college widened to 15 feet. Dean C C Calvert calls the improvements important as the current gravel approach and narrow street cannot handle heavy traffic.
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Louisiana State University
DeSiard Street
C. C. Calvert
United States Steel Plans $20 Million Gary Plant Expansion
The United States Steel company announced a second appropriation of 20 million dollars to enlarge and modernize the Gary Indiana plants of its subsidiary American Sheet and Tin Plate. The new program will not start until 1936 as the current improvements finish by year end.
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Chicago
United States Steel Company
Gary
Ind
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Warning to Hoover from Public Enemy No 1 Karpis
Justice Department reveals Alvin Karpis mailed a threatening letter to J Edgar Hoover after eluding federal agents since the $200000 Edward G Bremer kidnaping. Karpis remains the gang’s last major fugitive with three gang members dead in Chicago and Florida.
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Washington
Alvin Karpis
J. Edgar Hoover
Department of Justice Today
Hoover
Ohio
Edward G. Bremer
St. Paul
Minn
Karpis
Atlantic City
Harry Campbell
Wynona Burdette
Delores Delaney
Chicago
Florida
Outfit
Pacific Coast
Middle West
South
New Pension For Rail Men Voted By Congress
Congress approved a new pension system for railroad workers to replace a plan struck down by the Supreme Court. Benefits mirror the old scheme and are funded by a 4 percent railroad payroll tax and a 2 percent payroll tax on workers, with retirement at 65 or after 30 years service. The bill passed the House unanimously and faced minor opposition in the Senate.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
House
White House
Supreme Court
Ways and Means Committee
Hale
Maine
Hastings
Delaware
Metcalf
Rhode Island
Barksdale Field Officer Fatally Wounded
SHREVEPORT La Aug 20 Captain L L Harvey 43 a World War veteran station complement officer at Barksdale field was found fatally wounded at his army post home. A bullet pierced his brain Colonel Robert Godrick said Harvey had been in ill health and had left regular flying duty about a year ago. He is survived by his widow a daughter Mary Harvey 18 a son Edward Harvey 15 both of Shreveport and a sister Mrs A R Marvin of Indiana Ind.
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Shreveport
L. L. Harvey
Barksdale Field
Robert Godrick
Harvey
Michigan
Mary Harvey
Edward Harvey
A. R. Marvin
Indiais
Three Believed Killed in Private Plane Crash Near Glendo
Bodies of Burnside Smith 47 Indianapolis businessman Dick Arnett 28 and Eleanor Arnett 23 were found near the wreckage after a private plane crashed on Laramie Peak. Searchers scoured rugged slopes and crags five days after the incident, confirming the trio were aboard.
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Glendo
Wyo
Indianapolis
Laramie Peak
Wye
Burnside Smith
Dick Arnett
Pilot
Arnett
Eleanor
Wealthy to get security pension
The social security board will begin payments in 1942 under the contributory pension system. All wage earners taxed under title 2 will receive the full pension, regardless of other income. Non-contributory pensions for needy elderly persons are a separate matter with no relation to contributory benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Social Security Board
Committee On Economic Security
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
CCC Man Drowns In Ouachita River Accident
Jose Navarro aged 28 from Tampa Florida a civilian conservation corps camp worker drowned in the Ouachita river at Harrisonburg after apparently striking his head on a river lock abutment while diving.
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CCC
Harrisonburg
Jose Navarro
Tampa
Fla
Civilian Conservation Corps
Ouachita River
Inheritance Levy Proposals Out as Tax Plan Changes
Senate and House conference reach final agreement on a 250 million tax bill removing new inheritance taxes. The package raises estate and gift rates, expands capital stock tax, alters surtaxes, dividends exemption, and sets progressive rates from 2 percent to 70 percent for estates.
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Washington
Senate
House Conference Committee
Roosevelt
McCarran
Adjournment By Saturday Assured
Speaker Burns assured President Roosevelt of congress adjournment by Saturday after reviewing progress yesterday. Final agreement on the Tennessee Valley Authority amendments was near, while the utilities holding company regulation bill remained uncertain. He hoped a compromise would be reached on that issue as well.
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Washington
Burns
Roosevelt
Congress
House
Tennessee Valley Authority
Congress Moves Fast Amid Filibuster Threats
Democratic leaders push a speedy agenda as they seek adjournment possibly by Thursday night. The Senate moved to vote on the 1935 omnibus banking bill and a railroad pension measure while the House approved rivers and harbors funding of 614 million dollars and the Guffey coal control bill as debates continued.
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Washington
Aug
Congress
Senate
House
O. K
Guffey
Lake Charles Transient Pleads Guilty in Slaying
Louis Diddlebach, 23, arrested at a Lake Charles transient camp, pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to taking part in the Labor Day holdup and murder of Patrolman William C. Wilson. Co-defendants Walter Mika and Willie Talarico were executed for their roles. Peter Talarico and John Cosello serve life terms.
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Philadelphia
Louis Diddlebach
Lake Charles
William C. Wilson
Walter Mika
Willie Talarico
Talarico
Peter
John Cosetello
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Delta Airlines
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Texas
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Atlanta
Andrew H. Dixon
Monroe
Herbert Bulkley
P. A. Ivey
Birmingham
Ala
J. W Thompson
Italy
Lewis
Ethiopia
Rome
S. D. Corley
Corley
D’siard Street
Northeast Center
Justice Department
Ment
Barksdale
Myrna
MGM
Myrna Loy
New York
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Harrison
Conference Committee
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