Monroe Police Test New Radio System In Monroe
The Monroe police department tested a new $7 000 radio station KPML on Thursday afternoon and again at 8 p m. RCA engineer Louis Byrne reported excellent reception with Baton Rouge and Shreveport stations. Interference caused by local equipment will be investigated with plans to apply filters. Some gear is still missing and remote control units are not yet in service, requiring manual switchovers. Sergeant C H Sisson managed the control during the test.
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KPML
Louis Byrne
RCA
WBRP
Baton Rouge
KNGP
Shreveport
Byrne
C. H. Sisson
Negro Wildlife Camp Held At Mineral Springs
The first Wildlife Camp for negroes runs this week at the Johnson and Jordan Negro 4H Club camp in Mineral Springs. Instructors include John S. Campbell Homer Towns D Burkhalter and more with Professor T J Jordan directing the program blending wildlife lessons with health and recreation. Mallard ducks clocked 60 mph and canvasbacks 72 mph in the camp notes.
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Louisiana
John S. Campbell
Homer Towns
D. Burkhalter
T. J. Jordan
Negro Work
Southern University
Selma Joseph
DeSoto
Cordelia Blackburn
Lafayette
Charles Thompson
Rapides
Grant
William E. Rees
East Feliciana
A. G. Facen
Ouachita
S. W. Jones
Bossier
Redriver
L. J. Washington
Franklin
Ruby Fisher
Avoyelles
Nellie Graham
Madison
Jerushia Griffin
East and West Carroll
Oliver C. Guiton
Washington
E. F. Purvis
Lincoln
Jackson
F. B. Batten
Union
Amelia Lewis
Natchitoches
Rotarians hear Professor Ford urge better South American ties
Amos W. Ford, economics professor at Louisiana Tech, told Monroe Rotary members that the U S must improve economic and cultural relations with South America. He warned Germany’s influence and urged subsidies for American industry and cultural groups as national defense. New Orleans visitor George Rice attended, and Mike Biedenharn and Bill Mintz returned from a sanitarium.
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New Orleans
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Ballot influence figures show uneven swing in electoral college
Princeton statistician Dr John Q Stewart outlines how individual voters in close states can swing large electoral margins while in landslide states one vote has tiny impact. Examples include New Hampshire and Mississippi in 1936 and Wyoming versus Texas in a forthcoming election, with numerous state figures cited.
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Iowa
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Louisiana
Mayor MeestreI backs Jones Noe Old Regular slate
New Orleans Mayor Robert S Meestri announced in a ward caucus his active support for the Jones Noe Old Regular candidates in the September 10 Democratic primary. He confirmed the backing when asked if he was actively supporting the slate.
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New Orleans
Robert S. Meestri
Germany says war taxes minimal as economy expands
Berlin reports Fritz Reinhardt, state secretary, says Germany funds the war through existing tax channels with no major tax raises or new public loans. He cites 1939 to 1940 tax income growth driven by higher productivity and living standards under Hitler, and compares four months of tax collections to support the claim.
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Fritz Reinhardt
Finance Ministry
Germany
Reinhardt
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Reich
Hollywood Notes: Courtroom Briefs Across Tinseltown
Paulette Goddard must answer her father's suit by September 16 over a $75 weekly allowance claim. Myrl Alderman drops further prosecution in the attempted murder case against Martin Snyder after his new trial grant. Snyder is free on bail. Moe Snyder’s conviction for wounding Alderman stands, with a state supreme court granting a new trial. Cowboy actor Dick Foran receives a two year liquor abstinence order and a $100 fine for disturbing the peace. Margaret Sullavan faces an injunction.
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Los Angeles
Paulette Goddard
Joseph R. Levee
Levee
Charles Chaplin
Myrl Alderman
Ruth Etting
Martin
Moe) Snyder
Miss Etting
Alderman
State Supreme Court
Cowboy Heron Dick Foran
Margaret Sullavan
Actress Faces Court Over Contract Claim in Invisible Women
A actress, employed by no other studio, awaits a Wednesday court appearance to answer Universal Pictures charge she breached a contract to star in the film Invisible Women. The case centers on a disputed movie role and adherence to an agreement with the studio.
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Universal Pictures
Dade County Role Plays Train Waiters With Props
In Miami the county school board resumes a hotel employee training program using stage props including rubber fried eggs and wooden bread slabs to teach prospective waiters how to serve real articles.
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Miami, Fla
Miami
Dade County School Board
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