Mexican Catholic Church Refuses to Yield to Government
Aut 27. Mexico City's Catholic hierarchy says no Catholic services will resume until religious laws are amended or repealed. They warn the government aims to split the church, urge petitions to congress, and note economic boycott impacts. Guadalajara teachers dismissed for not answering government religious policy circular. police arrest Catholic women picketing cinemas.
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Mexico City
A. P
Mexico
Republic
Germany
Bismarck
Tod
Hhe
Congress
JBL
Hundre
Guadalajara
Pioneer in Mississippi Hunt for Oil Is Dead
Dr. J. D. Donald, a long time Hattiesburg physician and former mayor, died after a brief illness. He helped propose that oil existed in Mississippi and spent much to locate it, remaining convinced of south Mississippi oil deposits. Burial set for today at 4 pm in the city cemetery after services at First Baptist church.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
A. P
J. D. Donald
State Medical Society
State Teachers’ Association
First Baptist Church
Texas Democratic Gubernatorial Primary Heads to Runoff
In Dallas the Texas primary campaign narrows to a runoff between Governor Miriam A. Ferguson and Attorney General Dan Moody. Moody leads by about 120,000 votes from July, but lacks a majority in the first primary, while Ferguson campaigns on anti Moody Fergusonism messaging amid heavy turnout expected.
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Dallas
Texas
A. P
Miriam A. Ferguson
Dan Moody
Moody
Lynch Davidson
Ferguson
Extension Dept Worker Norma Overby Dies in Crash
Norma Overby, a seven year home demonstration agent with the state extension department, died from injuries after an automobile crash in the Black Mountains Tennessee while on vacation. Funeral services are planned Saturday at Gallion Morehouse parish with several from the area expected to attend. She is survived by her mother Mrs S S Overby a brother J D Overby and other relatives.
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Baton Rouge
A. P
Norma Overby
State Extension Department
Black Mountains
Tennessee
Overby
The
State University
Miss Overby
Morehouse Parish
North Louisiana
Jewel McQuiller
Quachita
Gallion
Miss Overbey
Youthful student charged with manslaughter in ex Parisian case
Cleveland, Aug 27. Eril Balanechen, a youthful student and former Parisian, was charged with manslaughter in the mysterious death of his friend Dorothy Elizabeth Kirk, a 21 year old stenographer.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Eril Balanechen
Dorothy Elizabeth Kirk
Second wife of Valentino suggests cremation in feud over burial
Rudolph Valentino's body draws thousands at the Manhattan mortuary as his second wife Winifred Hudnut in Egypt urges cremation and burial in her vault while manager George Ullman favors Hollywood burial. the brother's arrival is awaited and health rules limit holding the body to Sunday.
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Valentino
Allman
Cal
New York
A. P
Rudolph Valentino
Castellaneta
Italy
George Ullman
Winifred Hudnut
Egypt
Hudnut
Woodlawn Cemetery
Hollywood
Ullman
Immigrant rail worker slain after rampage at Chicago terminal
In Chicago an immigrant railroad laborer armed with a shotgun and knife killed one man, wounded three others, and terrorized crowds at a terminal before ex service man Charles Danoff shot him dead. The suspect, Joseph Mazza 36, a Sicilian track worker for Michigan Central, sought revenge. The first victim, Joseph Edwards, a passenger agent, was struck from behind and likely to die.
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Chicago
Aur
A. P
Charles Danoff
Joseph H. Mazza
Michigan Central
Mazza
Joseph Edwards
Gale damages crops in area around capital
Baton Rouge damage from a Wednesday storm tops 75000 with most city dark and lines cut. Surrounding farms suffer heavy losses as crops are flattened while utilities, insurers, and businesses report substantial damage including doors, windows, and vehicles.
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Capital
Baton Rouge
Focal Insurance
Baton Rouge Electric Company
Cumberland Telephone Company
Globe Furniture Company
Baton Rouge Coal and Towing Company
F. W. Hoecomer
Memphis Chicks to Get Driller Slugger Sunday
George Ferrell, Monroe center fielder and hitter now with the Drillers, will join the Memphis Chicks Sunday after being purchased August 18 by the Chicks from Monroe Baseball Association president P. M. Atekin. The Guilford college product has 20 homers this season and will finish the Monroe series with Shreveport before reporting.
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Memphis
Tenn
George Ferrell
Monroe
Drillers
Chicks
Southern League
Ferrell
P. M. Atekins
Monroe Baseball Association
Christian Endeavor Convention Opens With Sessions
The Louisiana Christian Endeavor Union holds its thirty seventh annual four day convention in Monroe and West Monroe. Delegates from across the state attend a service at First Presbyterian church with welcome by H D Apgar and local pastors. Nominating and resolutions committees are announced for next year and the next meeting place.
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Louisiana Christian Endeavor Union
First Presbyterian Church
Millard Baggett
Shreveport
Monroe
West Monroe
H. D. Ajigar
Apgar
Arnold Bernstein
Twin Cities
Ida J. Shoulders
D. W. McElroy
First Christian Church
Ch. L. Lemon
Leesville
Union
Lemon
Resolutions Committee
Mary Pirie
Baton Rouge
Janie Cole
Winnfield
I. B. Holman
Lake Charles
Virginia Smith
Ernest Beck
New Orleans
Lester Mullineaux
William Matthews
Lloyd Mottley
Alexandria
Maxine Carr
Hammond
Paul Duke
Arthur Bader
Carmen Meade
Dorothy Greve
Violet Baillie
Cary Johnson
Zelma Collins
Philip Pfeffer
Covington
Mary Belle Sneed
Rev. Lemon
Twin Cities to Get Improved Mail Service
Postmaster A A Thoman announced from Washington that starting September 1 the Twin Cities will receive enhanced mail delivery including a third daily downtown delivery, new West Monroe carrier routes, and Lover's Lane city delivery to Riverside sanitarium. Street numbering and mail receptacles are required for the new service.
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Twin Cities
A. A. Thoman
Washington
West Monroe
Lover's Lane
Riverside Sanitarium
Thoman
Monroe
Gordon
Jackson
Lee Avenue
West Hampton
West Filer
West Paragood
Fast Carolina
East Dixie
Post Office Department
Arbitration Board Ready To Handle Cases
The arbitration board for railroad labor disputes has begun moving to settle dozens of smaller on line conflicts. Members travel to Pittsburgh Nashville Kansas City and Portland to mediate clerks engineers and trainmen disputes while awaiting the first major case to reach arbitration.
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Washington
A. P
Board of Arbitration
New York
Eastern Railroads
Trainmen’s Brotherhood
Winslow
Edwin P. Morrow
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh and
Shawmutte
Earl Williams
Henry Well Davis
Southern Pacific
Kansas City
Kansas City Southern
G. Wallace Hangar
Nashville
Chattanooga
St. Louis
Portland
Maine
Philadelphia
Explosion at Clymer mine leaves many dead and injured
Fifteen bodies recovered at noon from the Clymer mine as rescuers search for about eighty miners trapped after a 1:03 p m explosion. Ten escaped and four more are hospitalized with gas and burns as investigations by federal and state authorities begin. Miners report a harsh toll across the region with ongoing fatalities.
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Clymer
A. J. Musser
Indiana County
Bo A
Wy Falls
J. J. Forbes
United States Bureau of Mines
Pittsburgh
Forbes
Famed Airman John Rodgers Injured in Plane Crash
Commander John Rodgers, famed Hawaiian flyer, was injured at the Philadelphia Naval Aircraft Factory when his plane crashed into the river. He suffered a broken leg and his mechanic was injured. no further details were provided.
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Washington
John Rodgers
Philadelphia
Navy Department
Negro hanged for deputy slaying near Greenwood Mississippi
Sylvester Mackay, 22, was hanged at the county farm in Greenwood after admitting in court he did not know the slain deputy was an officer. Smith, killed July 7 on a highway, was shot after Mackay asked for a lift. State troops surrounded the jail as officials feared mob action.
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Greenwood
Miss
A. P
Sylvester Mackay
Mackay
Smith
Crippen
Clarksdale
River Stage Readings For Mississippi Ohio Rivers
River stage updates show Memphis at 13.8 with a 2.2 drop while Vicksburg sits at 14.1 rising 1.0. New Orleans reports 2.6 down 2.3 and Red River cities Shreveport 19.4 down 1.2 Alexandria 20.3 down 0.6. Ouachita stations Camden 4.3 up 0.43 Monroe 18.8 down 0.5 Ohio basin Cairo 28.5 and rigs 0.8.
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Mississippi
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
RED
Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Ohio
Cairo
Rigs
Four Unionists Executed in Angora Prison Mass
Four prominent unionists were executed at midnight in Angora prison yard after a special court convicted them of conspiring to kill Mustafa Kemal Pasha. The group included David Bey and Nazir Bey, former ministers, along with Dilma Bey and Nail Bey, former unionist leaders. The executions raise the total hanged for the Kemal life plot to seventeen, with additional sentences of perpetual banishment for other Committee of Union and Progress figures.
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Constantinople
A. P
Mustapha Kemal Pasha
Turkey
Angora
David Bey
Nazim Bey
Sultan Abdull Hamid
Dilma Bey
Nail Bey
Unionist
Kemal
Snivena
Committee of Union and Progress
Reouf Bey
Tat
England
Rahmi Bey
Deputies wounded as chief police kidnapped near Sallisaw
Two deputy sheriffs Bert Cotton and Perry Chunkulate were wounded after a gun fight with bandits on the Albert Pike Highway west of Sallisaw. Chief J. C. Walt of Tapqualah was abducted and forced into the bandits car, which the pursuing officers later abandoned with a sack of money found in it.
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Muskogeer
Oklo
A. P
Sequoyah County
J. C. Walt
Taptaquah
Albert Pike Highway
Sallisaw
Walt
Bert Cotton
Perry
Rail line abandonment approved for Woodworth to Lamorie LA
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized abandonment of a six mile rail line from Woodworth to Lamorie in Rapides Parish Louisiana. The action affects the Woodworth and Louisiana Central Railway and ends service on the line.
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U. K
Washington
A. P
Woodworth and Louisiana Central Railway
Woodworth
Lamorie Rapides
Parish
Interstate Commerce Commission
Devastating Louisiana Gale Leaves Wide Destruction
An autom obile tour through southern Louisiana follows a monstrous storm that caused millions in damage across Terrebonne, La Fourche, Assumption parishes. Towns suffered widespread ruin as winds up to 120 mph toppled homes, wrecked crops, and flooded waterways from Houma to Donaldsonville.
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New Orleans
A. P
Louisiana
Terrebonne Parish
la Fourche
Assumption
Houman
Bayou Terrebanne
Schreiver
Bayou Lakourche
Thibodeaux
Labadeville
Napoleonville
Painscourtville
Donaldsonville
Houma
Gulf
Timiathier
Tavior Beattie
Clovis Daizle
Ann Tabor
Preston Pugh
Timballier
Thilodeaux
Ascension Parish
Sanders Denounces Press in Louisiana Senate Bid Address
J Y Sanders speaking to Monroe audience defended his gubernatorial record citing conservation laws and a state audit system. He attacked Shreveport Times New Orleans Times Picayune and New Orleans States for alleged misdeeds and discussed the free bridge controversy and tolls versus taxes.
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Spanger Theatre
J. Y. Sanders
United States Senate
Monroe
M. C. Thompson
Louisiana
Sanders
United States
Senate
Broussard
Shreveport Times
New Orleans Times-Picayune
New Orleans
West Monroe
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Cunningham
Arbitration Board
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