Britain May Seek Emergency League Action on Cotton Tax
A special cabinet committee urged ending the cotton processing tax and proposing policy shifts. They favored voluntary import controls on Japanese cotton goods and a continuing panel to study regional wage gaps in textiles. The report, sent to President Roosevelt and then to Congress, highlighted tax repeal along with imports and wage issues.
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Congress
Roosevelt Eyes Soon Cotton Loan Rate and Security Board Actions
President Roosevelt said he hoped to announce the 1935 crop cotton loan rate soon and to sign amendments strengthening the agricultural adjustment administration shortly. He planned to form the social security act board within a day, select the national labor board soon, and take time naming the federal reserve board directors. Moffett would extend his tenure at the housing administration before returning to private life.
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Roosevelt
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Board of
National Labor Board
Federal Reserve Board
James A. Moffett
Federal
Congress Hurries to Adjourn Amid Roosevelts Program Setbacks
Congress rushes toward Saturday adjournment as the House Judiciary Committee pigeonholes the Walsh bill to impose NRA standards on government contracts, a Senate-passed measure the White House hoped to push. The Guffey coal bill and TVA amendments gain speed while neutrality legislation lingers.
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House Judiciary Committee
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Judiciary Committee
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Massachusetts
Couple From Alexandria Married In New Orleans
William McMahon 40 and Miss Carrie Hughes 35 both of Alexandria La were wed last night at the Seamen s Bethel New Orleans the sailor haven s first wedding event witnessed by about 50 seamen After the ceremony the couple left for a honeymoon in Alexandria where they will live McMahon plans to continue seafaring W T Evans home superintendent acted as best man reflecting on the unusual ceremony.
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New Orleans
William McMahon
Carrie Hughes
Alexandria
Bethel
McMahon
W. T. Evans
Evans
Three Nuns Die in Maryland Bus Crash
A bus collision near Bowie Maryland killed three nuns from the Holy Cross order and two other people. The car’s driver John McCarthy of Washington also died. Bus driver Curtis G Mason from Ballston Virginia was released on $1000 bond awaiting an inquest.
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John McCarthy
Bernard
Frances Gabriel
McCarthy
Winifred Jean (Slaven
Blessed Sacrament
Chevy Chase
Winifred Slaven
Galesburg
Ill
Holy Cross Order
Miss Slaven
Italy
St. Paul's Academy
New York
Holy Cross Academy
Notre Dame
Indiana
Curtis G. Mason
Ballston
Louis Gundling
Lanham
Police Seek Slayer of Blonde Long Beach Woman
Long Beach California August 21 police hunted a tall well groomed man after the body of Gladys Glenn Fair a 34 year old naval stenographer was found in her eleventh floor apartment draped over a bathtub rim. Neighbors W H Wray witnessed an unknown man leaving the hallway Monday night and fleeing down a stairway. The victim had separated from her husband Evan A Fair in San Francisco the day before and planned to reunite with him when he found work in Long Beach.
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San Francisco
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Trades Council Holiday Edition Issued Today
The Monroe Central Trades and Labor Council issued its first Labor Day edition of the News-Star and outlined plans for a September 2 barbecue at Bernstein Place Bayou DeSiard. An automobile parade forms at 9 30 a m and travels Riverside Pine Walnut Grand DeSiard before reaching the Bernstein site with floats and prizes for best entries.
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Riverside Drive
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Walnut
Grand
DeSiard Street
Oklahoma Pays Tribute to Wiley Post
Oklahoma City observed a solemn tribute as the body of Wiley Post arrived by air for the first time since his death. A large crowd gathered at the municipal airport as the hearse transferred the casket, signaling a quiet, reverent procession without disorder. Joe Crosson accompanied the voyage.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Wiley Post
Joe Crosson
Will Rogers
America
Airplane safe for novice
Flying the latest bureau of air commerce lightweight plane is compared to riding a bicycle. A World War pilot says anyone with balance can learn. Lynn Juleson, an experienced pilot, hands control to the reporter at 1500 feet as the aircraft responds smoothly.
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Associated Press
Washington
Bureau of Air Commerce
Lynn Juleson
Air Lines and
Bureau
Rogers Family Reunites After Loss in Los Angeles
The Rogers family travels by train from the east to attend a funeral in Los Angeles. Mrs Will Rogers and children Will Jr Mary and Jim hurry to Forest Lawn chapel where the comedian Will Rogers rests in a simple bronze casket as thousands of mourners gather.
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Will, Jr
Mary
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Forest Lawn Chapel
Orleans Police And Firemen Get Part Pay
New Orleans city policemen and firemen received 113000 dollars in partial salaries for August 1 15. Assistant city accountant Edward A Dinkel announced the payment is part of the one per cent discount plan for prompt tax payments. Back salaries cover two and a half months.
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New Orleans
Edward A. Dinkelspiel
Three die in Laramie Peak plane crash near Indianapolis travelers
Bodies of Dick Arnett and Burnside Smith found among wreckage on the 10,000 foot Laramie Peak after a Thursday crash. Eleanor Arnett was thrown clear and survived the impact, according to transporters and a searching party led by Max Ortiz.
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Wyo
Laramie Peak
Dick Arnett
Eleanor
Burnside Smith
Indianapolis
Walter Higley
Denver
Max Ortiz
Parish School Board Holds Special Meeting
A special meeting of the Quachita parish school board will be held at 11 a m Friday in the offices of superintendent T O Brown. The budget for the coming year will be presented, teachers for the fall term discussed, and routine work addressed. Final plans for opening parish schools on September 16 will be formed.
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Quachita Parish
T. O. Brown
T. H. Harris
Britain Moves to Impose Restraint on Italy Attack
Seven British cabinet leaders tentatively back a policy of financial and economic action against Italy over Ethiopia. Britain seeks an emergency League of Nations session to speed restraint before the rainy season ends, with a Geneva stance aligned to Paris talks and possible embargo tightening before Friday.
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East Africa
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Great Britain
Stanley Baldwin
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Geneva
Pine Top Gravel Road Completed
Construction of a 400 yard gravel road from White's Ferry road to Pine Top, site of a proposed tubercular hospital, is finished under the parish engineering department. Materials and labor were largely donated by ERA, state highway commission, Monroe Sand and Gravel, city of Monroe, and Kellogg Lumber. Joe Ford led the project with plans now under formulation.
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Monroe
Bayou DeSiard
Kellogg Lumber Company
Joe Ford
Parish
Monroe Man Selected As Scout Executive
J. D. Brice of Monroe Louisiana has been named to succeed Charles F. Safley as boy scout field executive in Clarksdale effective September 1. Brice will oversee ten delta counties and about 50 scout units while currently coaching at the Louisiana Industrial School for Boys in Monroe. Safley will take a new post as field executive for the Tennessee area council in Huntsville Alabama, after arriving in Clarksdale three years ago from New Orleans.
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Monroe
Charles F. Safley
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Louisiana Industrial School For Boys
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Tennessee Area Council
Huntsville
Ala
New Orleans
Mrs Bilbo Enters Mississippi Governor Race as Long Backing Rumor Surfaces
In Jackson Mississippi Huey Long's name loomed in the Mississippi run off as Theo Bilbo and Hugh White accused the senator of backing Paul Johnson. Mrs Bilbo, estranged wife of Theo Bilbo, swore a statement endorsing Johnson and denouncing her husband, while Johnson denied Long’s support.
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Miss
Louisiana
Huey Long
Washington
Mississippi
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G. Bilbo
Hugh White
Long
Paul Johnson
Bilbo
Johnson
Venable Calls for Arkansas Senate Tour with Robinson and Long
J Rosser Venable the lone announced candidate for the US senate seat now held by Joe T Robinson proposes a joint Arkansas speaking tour with Robinson and Huey Long next month He labels Robinson and Long the Siamese twins of the power trust in a bold challenge as Long’s 1936 primary plans loom Continued on Fifth Page
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Ark
J. Rosser Venable
United States Senate
Joe T. Robinson
Robinson
Huey Long
Arkansas
Senate
Long
Power Trust
Venable
Joe Robinson
Move is opened to assure house action on issue
President Roosevelt reported favorable to measure as move opened to assure House action. The note indicates progress toward congressional approval of the contemplated issue.
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Senate approves mandatory embargo to curb arms exports
The Senate adopted a seven point foreign relations resolution to enforce a global arms embargo on belligerents, create a licensing system aligned with 1925 Geneva treaty, bar ships from carrying arms to war ports, and authorize the president to restrict ship movements and citizen travel amid rising Italo Ethiopian tensions. A national munitions control board would oversee the program with top government officials.
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Mue Nitions Committee
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
Special Munitions Investigating Committee
Nya Republican
North Dakota
State Department
National Munitions Control Board
Secretaries of State
Ag Chaire Man
Treasury, War and Commerce
House Foreign Navy Relations Committee
Europe's Crisis Casts Shadow Over Congress Action
On August 21 in Washington, European tensions dominated Capitol Hill as Democrats sought to avoid a fight over neutrality laws. The Nye filibuster group pressed to resume tactics to block or force consideration of a bill to keep the United States neutral if the Italian Ethiopian conflict escalates. House sentiment remained uncertain with potential renewed effort if the chamber resisted.
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Pi—Euerope
Capitol Hill
Congress
Senate
Nye
Republiccan
North Dakota
Bone
United States
House
McReynolds
Tennessee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Will Rogers Life Highlights Begin Tomorrow
A quartet of stories recounts Will Rogers life and wisdom as the world’s best loved American. The series, to start Thursday afternoon, will outline his wisdom, shrewdness, and humor in a home spun historical pattern.
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