Walmsley Group Alleges Unfair Drawings for Vote
Walmsley asserts Old Regular faction faced discrimination in September 11 election commissioner drawings for St. Bernard parish. He vows mandamus action against the St. Bernard Democratic committee to recognize his candidate submissions. Claims Jefferson draws favored Long faction while other parishes show mixed outcomes.
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New Orleans
Walmsley
Long
St. Bernard Parish
Herve Racivitch
Congress
St. Bernard
Democratic Parish
Democratic Committee
Louisiana Campaign Sparks New Threats Before September Primary
Baton Rouge reports say Huey P. Long and Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley clash as New Orleans voters approach the September 11 congressional primary. Rumors place Long threatening a second special session to impeach judges while Long’s allies claim observers are needed to monitor election conditions. Walmsley vows police protection at polls as a federal probe into income tax continues.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
T. Semmes Walmsley
New Orleans
Long
National Guard
J. Y. Sanders, Jr
Joseph Burns
House of Representatives
Washington
House
Walmsley
Federal Grand Jury
Death sentences handed to two Cuban officers in Batista revolt case
In Havana on August 23 two high ranking Cuban army officers Major Angel Echevarria and Captain Augustin Brice were sentenced to death by a court martial for taking part in a revolutionary plot against Col. Fulgencio Batista. The trial at Camp Columbia followed swift investigations and witness testimony as the rebellion in Pinar del Rio was crushed. Reports of eight enlisted men shot were officially denied though newspapers claimed they were true.
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Havana
Fulgencio Batista
Angel Echevarria
Augustin Brice
Army Signal Corps
Camp Columbia
Pinar del Rio
Mario Hernandez
Five Die as Train Hits Auto at Private Crossing
A car carrying six people was struck by a train at a private level crossing near Bigwood Ontario. Five were killed instantly and one seriously injured including Donald Schell the driver and Thomas Schell who died later. The group had been returning from a dance at Bigwood.
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Bigwood
Ont
E. Roberts
Quebec
Canadian Pacific Railway
John Francis
Huntington
W. Va
Edith Weston
Chicago
Julia Johnson
Cicero
Donald Schell
French River
Thomas Schell
Donald
Parry Sound
Schell
Archibald Pool Former Editor Dies At 71
Archibald Pool former associate editor of the Louisville Courier Journal died at his home from a paralytic stroke at age 71. He had a long career in the newspaper field and distinguished service in journalism. He is survived by his wife and family.
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Washington
Archibald Pool
Louisville-Courier-Journal
Slashed Body of Girl Found In Ditch. Murder Charged
Birmingham report details the discovery of 19 year old Faye New in a ditch near the city after an alleged roller coaster of events with Harold Taylor who is charged with her murder. A. B. Cain, initially suspected suitor, was released after police found his account credible. The autopsy cites two mortal throat wounds and a brutal struggle. Police traced tracks from the ditch to the car as Taylor claimed innocence.
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Birmingham
Ala
Faye New
Howard College
Harold Taylor
Taylor
A. B. Cain
Faye
Miss New
Gip H. Evans
R. L. Carlisle
Luther Hollams
Cain
Chief Hollums
McCoy Helton
Hol
Man Faces Two Serious Charges in Monroe Incident
Rush Wimberly twenty five of Bienville parish is jailed on charges of criminal assault and kidnapping arising from an incident in Monroe last Sunday. A preliminary hearing is expected next Saturday along with two co defendants Hardy White and Irene White who are held on conspiracy charges.
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Rush Wimberly
Bienville Parish
Bienville
E. H. Martin
Anice Henderson
Monroe
Hardy White
Irene White
Sheriff's Department
Wimberly
353,888 Running Bales Of Cotton Ginned To Aug 16
Census bureau reports that 353,888 running bales of this year’s cotton had ginned by August 16, plus 4,424 round bales as half bales. Year-ago totals were 459,528 running bales and 9,807 half bales. Ginnings by state include Texas 330,395 and Georgia 12,483 with historical comparisons.
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Washington
Alabama
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Mississippi
Texas
Tullis Protested Retirement From LSU Faculty
Baton Rouge Aug 23 R L Tullis Dean Emeritus of LSU Law, connected since 1907, retires with Col A T Prescott after board of supervisors action. Tullis objected to retirement citing refusal to sign a law degree for Kennedy tied to the Whangdoodle campus scandal. Board resolutions cited for retirements.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
R. L. Tullis
Law College
A. T. Prescott
Department of Government
Board of Supervisors
Tullis
K. K. Kennedy
James M. Smith
Housing Envo y Delegates Return From Memphis Conference
Housing program liaison officers from Arkansas Alabama Tennessee Mississippi and Louisiana returned home after a Memphis conference. They will contact banks to facilitate loans for home modernization and repairs and will implement a state specific program aligned with the federal plan.
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Memphis
Tenn
Arkansas
Alabama
Tennessee
Mississippi
Louisiana
E. E. Murray
Nashville
Fred Ellsworth
New Orleans
Emmett Morris
Little Rock
Quintuplets at Callander Gain Weight in 87th Day
The Dionne quintuplets all gained weight today totaling 5 1 4 ounces as attending physician Dr. A R DaFoe reported the babies were doing well at Callander Ontario August 23.
Pittman blasts Louisiana government as dictatorship at Gilmer rally
Ellijay Ga Aug 23 De claring free thinking people have been horrified at conditions in the state government of Louisiana Judge Claude Pittman candidate for governor told a Gilmer county audience that right here at home we are little better off In Louisiana the people s voice means little they have a dictator there just as they have in Russia Italy or Germany Like his friend Huey Long Eugene Talmadge has sought to place himself.
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Ellijay
Louisiana
Claude Pittman
Gilmer County
People's
Russia
Italy
Germany
Huey Long
Eugene Talmadge
Truckers Code Explained At Louisiana Meeting
A NE Louisiana meeting at Hotel Monroe drew 15 trucking representatives where R T Lauderbach of Washington DC outlined the national trucking industry code. He stressed the code is federal law requiring registration and adherence to minimum wages hours and filing of a minimum tariff with penalties including a $500 fine or six months imprisonment per offense.
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Hotel Monroe
Louisiana
R. T. Lauderbach
Washington, D. C
National
Trucking Industry Code Authority
Mr. Lauderbach
Tobacco Prices Soar to Record Heights in Auction Belt
Reports from North Carolina's tobacco belt show opening prices from 22 to 27 dollars per hundred pounds with some grades doubling or tripling last year's figures. Farmers stand to earn about a hundred million dollars for the crop, roughly twenty million more than last year, as the sales season begins.
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Raleigh
N.C
Judgment on New Deal Aims by Liberty League
The American Liberty League moves to recruit 3 to 4 million property owners to judge the New Deal. It pledges nonpartisan, not anti Roosevelt, with leaders linked to both parties including Alfred E. Smith John W. Davis James Wadsworth and Nathan L. Miller. The campaign seeks influence amid debates over Roosevelt policies.
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Washington
American Liberty League
Roosevelt
Peter
Paul
Alfred E. Smith
John W. Davis
Hoover
Coolidge
James W. Wadsworth
Nathan L. Miller
Republic
New York
Jouett Shouse
Suspect Admits Theft of Cars In Local Case
Claude M. McIntosh 28, arrested in Morehouse parish and jailed here, admitted to stealing two cars from Monroe Auto and Supply storage. Sheriff Milton Coverdale said the confession came Wednesday. Another suspect Frank Blackford 40 was arrested earlier at Little Rock Arkansas with the car.
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Claude M. McIntosh
Morehouse Parish
Monroe Auto and Supply Company
Milton Coverdale
Frank Blackford
Little Rock
Ark
Massacre Report Near Siberian Border In 1930s Dispatch
Tokyo reports a Harbin dispatch stating 33 Korean settlers near the village of Hsinoc Engtze on the Chinese Eastern railway west of Pogranichnaya were massacred by bandits. The village lies at the Siberia Manchuria border area reported by the Japanese agency.
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Tokyo
Harbin
Rengo
Hsinoc Engtze
Siberia
Pogranichnaya
Labor board favours move on motor car code
Evening report from Brooklyn indicates Labor Board endorses changes to the motor car code. NRA effects on employment studied by the board as police investigate an explosion aimed at F Nathan Wolf, secretary of the cloak and suit code authority, for his NRA enforcement work. Police call it a scare bomb aimed to halt investigations. No injuries. windows shattered. porch damaged. In Chicago a separate bombing hits an open shop printing plant owned by Thomas J Cullen, causing about 1000 dollars damage. Cullen employs 12 people at 1 25 an hour while NRA scale is 82 cents and union demand is 1 12.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
F. Nathan Wolf
Cloak and Suit Code Authority
Wolf
NRA
Chicago
United States
Thomas J. Cullen
Uncle Sam Applies Remedies to Strike-Heavy Labor Scene
The administration pressed labor reforms amid widespread strikes. The NRA labor board moved to reopen the automobile code and push wage and hour revisions in car factories. George A. Sloan of the Cotton Textile Institute spoke from New York on impartial government action.
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NRA Labor Board
Automobile Manufacturers
American Federation of
Hobson Rejects Hero Label At Veterans Event
Rear Admiral Richmond P. Hobson, famed for the 1898 Merrimac daring in Santiago harbor, tells cheering veterans that he merely followed Admiral Sampson's orders. He recalls leading seven sailors in a torpedo mission that flooded into history as a bold but controversial act.
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Pittsburgh
Richmond P. Hobson
Santiago Harbor
Hobson
United Spanish Veterans
United States
Sampson
Merrimac
Mother Of Alderman In West Monroe Succumbs
Mrs. S. D. Kennedy aged 78, mother of West Monroe alderman S. D. Kennedy Jr., died at her Chatham home early Thursday. Survived by widower, four sons including S. D. Kennedy Jr, and four daughters. Funeral at 10 a.m. Friday at the Chatham home with burial in Chatham cemetery.
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S. D. Kennedy
S. D. Kennedy, Jr
Chatham
Irene Morris
M. H. Powell
Plea Made in Lake Charles Welcome by Mayor
Lake Charles Louisiana August 23 Mayor Trotti addressed more than a thousand American Legion members and auxiliary at the 16th annual state convention urging vigilance against dictatorship. He denounced demagogues and condemned any slacker set up as a dictator while praising United States authority and liberty. Commander J R McCann spoke for the local post and guests included Robert L Gordon national vice commander and John Thomas Taylor Washington vice.
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Lake Charles
D. A. Trotti
Legion Auxiliary
State Department
Gibralter
American Legion
Trotti
Mussolini
Hitler
Sam
United States of America
Louisiana
J. R. McCann
Legionnaires
W. B. Williamson
Robert L. Gordon
Dermott
Ark
John Thomas Taylor
Washington
Jewish Congress Date Announced For 1935
Geneva reports leaders move to form a world Jewry congress committee to organize an international Jewish congress in August 1935 in Geneva. A 50 member general committee with 12 on the executive plan includes room for Americans. Rabbi Stephen S Wise and Dr S Margoshes named as possible executives.
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Geneva
United States
Stephen S. Wise
S. Margoshes
New York
Margoshes
Has His Say Irkutsk Dispatch On Train Talk
The report from Irkutsk cites Petrovsky Avod and Verhneude Insk as a multilingual train scene with English German Russian Swiss Sezecks American Indians Japanese and a noted Chinese authority on Far Eastern affairs. The note claims Roosevelt urged scouting new brain material and ends with a quirky sign off.
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Irkutsk
Petrovsky
Avod
Verhneudeinsk
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