Labor march leaves Staunton for Illinois coal fields
A four mile long motor caravan carrying striking miners left Staunton Illinois aiming to sway workers against the new five dollar wage scale in southern Illinois. Organizers predicted the protest could draw up to 25 000 people and camp at Dowell overnight.
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Staunton
Southern
Illinois
Dowell
Franklin County
Christian County
Taylorville
Belleville
Southern Illinois
Mascoutah
Springfield
Ill
Pana
Attempt to burn Seville US consulate in Seville Spain
Unidentified persons tried to ignite the American consulate in Seville during the night. The fire was caught early and extinguished with only minor damage. the arsonists’ identities are unknown but officials suspect communists. The building houses valuable furniture and serves as former Seville exposition HQ.
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Seville
Spain
Richard Ford
Ford
Miss Martha Renaud and Others Birthdays Listed
Local column tallies today’s birthdays for dozens of residents including Miss Martha Renaud Mrs Sam Orchard and Miss Sadie Schmalinski with dates across the year. A Biloxi gulf coast tale of a shark chase and a bat on a Lee avenue streetcar provides light anecdotes.
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Martha Renaud
Sam Orchard
L. J. Gimler
Sadie Schmalinski
W. B. Ayars
Adrean S. Baer
Doris W. Baer
Dayton F. Ball
Francis Barringer
Georgia S. Barringer
Jordan Barton
Ouida L. Collins
M. E. Bell
W. L. Bendel
Charles G. Bennett
Clyde Benson
J. E. Bethancours
Francesca Biedenharn
Edel Blanks
A. Blumenthal
Ethel Boardman
R. A. Boyce
A. L. Breard
Elizabeth Breard
James K. Brothers
Nona Brothers
Charles B. Braun
Chaplin Moves Against Sons Pursuing Film Careers
Charles Chaplin plans to seek court action to stop his two young sons Charles Jr and Sidney from starting in films without his consent. His lawyer said a petition may be filed to challenge wife Liza Grey Chaplin’s custody contract that allows the boys to appear in Fox Pictures projects. Chaplin believes the boys are too young for a movie career and should wait for normal childhood development.
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Los Angeles
Charlie Chaplin
Liza Grey Chaplin
Chaplin
Sidney Earl
Fox Film Studio
Loyd Wright
Wright
Planes In Air Derby Fly Over City In Morning
J H Hayes of Ponca City led 26 fliers into Shreveport as the Cord air derby entered the city en route from Jackson Miss to the national air races in Cleveland. Crowds watched planes pass Monroe between 11 05 and 11 30 this morning.
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Shreveport
J. H. Hayes
Ponca City
Shreveport Municipal
C.S.T
Monroe
German Field
A. J. Davis
Waco
Pitcairn
More Counties May Join Farm Strike in Nebraska
Norfolk farmer E. J. Way said two more northeast Nebraska counties would be organized Friday to join the farmers strike movement. In Des Moines two midwest strike gains were reported with milk prices rising. Omaha milk officials agreed to pay $2 per hundredweight, Lincoln dealers $1.80, and over 1,000 farmers gathered along highways into Omaha amid transport interference.
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Norfolk
Neb
E. J. Way
Waterbury
Nebraska
Des Moines
Omaha
Iowa-Nebraska Cooperative Milk Association
Lincoln
Rolleigh Family Reunion Honors Monroe Pioneer Music Dealer
E C Rolleigh born 1866 Bastrop opened Monroe’s first music store in 1888. He marks his sixty sixth birthday as family members travel from Shreveport Camden Arkansas and local kin gather for a camp barbecue hosted by son-in-law W J Riley. Rolleigh has four grown children and fourteen grandchildren.
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E. C. Rolleigh
Monroe
Bastrop
W. J. Riley
Rolleigh
Brothers Sought in Slaying of Mobile Realtor
Police traced Raymond and Sam Dyson, sons of Marmaduke Dyson of Fairhope, in Mobile homicide case. H. M. Butler Jr., prominent realtor, was beaten and strangled after luring him to a hotel room. The Dyson brothers fled. Baldwin and Mobile authorities search for them as murder charges loom.
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Sam Dyson
Alabama
Mobile
Ala
Fairhope
Marmaduke Dyson
H. M. Butler, Jr
Dyson Brothers
Butler
Baldwin County
Bart B. Chamberlain
Warren Burch
Solicitor Chamberlain
Dysons
Burch
Dyson
Cotton freight rates cut by Interstate Commerce Commission
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered lower cotton freight rates with new carload based pricing. Rates from Arkansas Missouri and Western Louisiana to New England and Canada drop from 45 to 30 cents per 60 000 pounds, effective August 27 from some points and September 6 from others. The inland waterways plan to follow with federal barge lines, after a June inquiry. Some large shippers and Mississippi river barge lines opposed the changes.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Inland Waterways Corporation
New Orleans
New England
Canada
Arkansas
Missouri
Louisiana
Mississippi River
Broussard speaks on Jadwin plan in Bastrop
In Bastrop Louisiana Senator Edwin S. Broussard on the courthouse square reiterated support for the Jadwin Flood Control plan. He said his role on the senate sub committee to revise Jadwin would help secure payment to landowners and hinted he would be named chairman if Roosevelt won the presidency. He mocked floor speeches that he said only attracted attention and front pages, arguing they hamper Senate work.
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Senate
Aviatrix Reconsiders Trans Oceanic Flight
London August 24 Amy Johnson says she has reconsidered plans to fly across the Atlantic. She cites deference to her husband Captain J A Mollison who made the first westward solo North Atlantic flight last week and is now in New York preparing to fly home.
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London
Amy Johnson
Atlantic
J. A. Mollison
North Atlantic
New York
Suit Aims Insurance Payout After Calhoun Slaying
In Ouachita parish district court, heirs of David Franklin Avant seek $5,000 from Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association of Omaha claiming accidental death coverage. Avant was slain at his Calhoun store on May 27, 1932. the policy named Susan K. Avant, his mother, as beneficiary, who died earlier.
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Ouachita Parish
David Franklin Avant
Calhoun
Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association of
Omaha
Avant
Susan K. Avant
Murder Indictment Brought by Orleans Grand Jury
Orleans parish grand jury indicted Joseph H. Charamie aged 17 for murder in the August 6 holdup slaying of Holland Hutchinson 36, who was store manager.
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New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Joseph H. Charamie
Holland Hutchison
Hutchinson
Oceanic fliers safe as one plane lands at Harbor Grace
Anxiety lifted as two Atlantic fliers reached Harbor Grace Newfoundland. Thor Solberg and Carl Petersen crashed 50 miles away with no injuries. Clyde Lee and John Bochkon landed safely after departing Floyd Bennett Field.
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Associated Press
Atlantic
Harbor Grace
N. F
Thor Solberg
Carl Petersen
Floyd Bennett Field
New York City
Clyde Lee
John Bochkon
Barre
Oslo
Norway
Solberg-Petersen
George R. Hutchinson
St. John
N. B
New Grandstand Planned at Ouachita Junior College
Plans for a permanent cypress grandstand at Ouachita Junior College call for 180 feet in length and 18 tiers with 30 boxes. Bids open September 1 in the Supt T O Browns office. The 4 502 seat facility aims to host the October 15 L S A and Mississippi Agricultural College football game attracting about 7000 spectators.
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Ouachita Junior College
Supt
T. O. Brown
Mr. Brown
Mississippi Agricultural College
J. W. Smith
Curtis Praised For Prohibition Stand In Political Row
The Methodist board of temperance and public morals said Vice-President Curtis is the only candidate worthy of commendation and noted Hoover’s change proposal as bitterly disappointing. Dr Daniel A Poling of allied forces for prohibition endorsed Hoover and predicted re election.
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Washington
Curtis
Methodist Board of Temperance Prohibition and Public Morals
Hoover
Daniel A. Poling
Allied Forces For Prohibition
Louisville and Nashville Abandons Kentucky Line
Washington Aug 24 The Louisville and Nashville railroad company was authorized to abandon its 77 mile line from Frankfort Kentucky to Irvine Kentucky.
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Washington
Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
Frankfort
Irvine
Police Seek Missing New Orleans Real Estate Leader Ramsey
Police and relatives hunted for Cicero A. Ramsey a local real estate firm president and Baptist churchman who vanished after sending a despondent note to his wife. A reference to Canal street and the river prompted night patrols along the Mississippi levees. he was seen leaving his downtown office hatless earlier that morning. Ramsey had recent ill health and had lived in New Orleans for 35 years after coming from Atlanta.
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New Orleans
Cicero A. Ramsey
Canal Street
Mississippi River
Ramsey
Atlanta
Baptist Church
Incumbents Lead as Mississippi Primary Returns Update
Jackson Aug 24 Incumbents held early leads in most Mississippi congressional districts as yesterday’s Democratic primary returns favored incumbents in districts one four and five with incomplete results. In the sixth district RB Hall rose to second behind W M Colmer prompting a runoff while T Webber Wilson trailed. A possible federal redistricting action looms over the delegation.
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Jackson
Miss
House of Representatives
RB. S. Hall
W. M. Colmer
Hall
T. Webber Wison
Mississippi
Pennington foresee auto plants reopening this fall
Local auto dealer O R Pennington, after a trip to Detroit, reports that many plants closed for 18 months or more plan to reopen this fall. He cites repairs underway to resume output and says Ford workers are set to return on November 1 under a gentlemen's agreement with peers.
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O. R. Pennington
Detroit
Mich
Pennington
Ford
Caldwell man faces two charges tied to Olla bank robbery
Lannie Dortch, a Caldwell parish farmer, is jailed facing two charges for complicity before and after the Olla State Bank robbery. Sheriff J W King said Dortch harbored bank bandit Jim Yarrell, who recently stayed at Dortch’s Dixon community home and aided in Yarrell’s escape.
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Columbia
Olla State Bank
Olla
Lannie Dortch
Dixon
Caldwell Parish
J. W. King
Dortch
Olla Bank
Sheriff King
Jim Yaverell
King
Yarrell
State Penitentiary
Jim Yarrell
Walter Owens
Monroe
Milton Coverdale
Pat Murphy
Farmerville
West Monroe
L. C. Hammonds
Louisiana built planes enter transcontinental air derby
Three Louisiana built planes led by Jimmy Wedell James Heaslip and Roscoe Turner depart Patterson to race from Los Angeles to Cleveland. The trio were built at the Wedell Williams plant under Wedell’s direct supervision as they head to California for the Saturday event.
Mussolini weighs converting Italy's public debt
Rome August 24. A reliable source says Premier Mussolini is studying debt conversion modeled on England. About 75 billion lira would be involved, with six to seven billion cash needed for redemption. No immediate move planned. groundwork may start when conditions improve.
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Rome
Mussolini
England
Stefani
Italy
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