Hull warns firms on arms registration under neutrality law
Secretary Hull threatens criminal prosecution for firms and individuals handling arms who fail to register under the neutrality act. The notice lists eight registrants and outlines penalties of up to five years in prison or a $10,000 fine. Registration ends November 29 with licenses required for import or export.
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Washington
Dec
Hull
Secretary of State
Ickes
National Munitions Control Board
Ethiopian Leader Bids for Peace with Italy
Emperor Haile Selassie seeks renewed peace talks with Italy as Mussolini forms a wartime brain trust to reshape the Italian diet and the British treasury offers large loans toward the effort.
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Mussolini
Associated Press
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Italy
Cairo
Landslide Buries Verde Cocha Village in Ecuador
A landslide in the Andes near Huig ra buries Verde Cocha killing 50 inhabitants. The front of rocks sweeps two miles, erasing the village and wiping out parts of Yinancay and Guayagsi ranches with many cattle lost. Government relief teams head to the area as railroad lines escape damage.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Verde Cocha
Huigra
Andes
Yinancay
Guayagsi
Railroad Span at Orleans to Open on Dec 16
Stanley L. Barras chief the first train across the new Mississippi River bridge at New Orleans on December 16 marking the span’s official opening. A 14 car train with 1000 guest seats will carry invited dignitaries including President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Cabinet members from across the region.
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Orleans
New Orleans
Stanley L. Barras
Mississippi River Bridge
Association of Commerce
Wilson S. Callender
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Ickes Says He Is Misunderstood on Exports
Secretary Ickes said his November 21 remarks on exports to Italy and Ethiopia were misunderstood. He stated he only urged compliance with efforts to halt shipments of munitions to belligerents and clarified that his target was oil exports.
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Hull
Ickes
Italy
Ethiopia
Washington
Blast destroys lugger near dynamite barge
An explosion and fire destroyed a lugger used by an oil exploration company at Bayou Chene twelve miles from Morgan City Louisiana. The blast occurred within feet of a barge loaded with dynamite and caused burns to Edgar Parkhurst and Willard Harris both of Orange Texas as fumes from gasoline being transferred ignited. The lugger owned by Sam Watkins and leased by Humble Oil was valued at three thousand dollars.
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Morgan City
Bayou Chene
Edgar Parkhurst
Willard Harris
Orange
Texas
Sam J. Watkins
Humble Oil Company
Tenant's Share of Cotton Fund Will Be Larger
The AAA announces higher tenant share of 1936 cotton adjustment payments to attack the south's farm labor problem. Officials say contracts drafted in 1934 had no precedent for landlord tenant division, leading to an arbitrary scale. Outbursts followed the announcement.
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Washington
AAA
Resettlement Administration
Louisiana wins freight case before Interstate Commerce Commission
Baton Rouge LA Dec 3 The Louisiana public service commission announced it won a rail freight surcharge case at the Interstate Commerce Commission blocking rate increases it said would affect intrastate shipments of important commodities. Commission secretary P A Frye was informed the ICC denied an oral hearing.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
P. A. Frye
Commission
Four Bank Robbers Escape From Muskogee Jail
Four members of the Irish O Malley gang escaped from the Muskogee city federal jail in a gunfire raid. Dan Heady Dewey Gilmore Russell Cooper and Leonard Short fled in a commandeered car after shooting their way out. Chief of Detectives Ben Bolton was critically wounded and a fifth prisoner was felled by a police bullet.
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Muskogee
Okla
Okemah
Ben Bolton
Marsh Corgan
Don Garrett
Heady
Kansas City
Gilmore
Dallas
Cooper
Fort Smith, Ark
Short
Galena
Roosevelt outlines resettlement limit and example plan
President Roosevelt, touring Pine Mountain Valley in Blue Springs, Ga, argues federal rural resettlement should focus on planning and setting examples rather than broad spending. He calls the Pine Valley project a dream come true and a model for counties nationwide, saying government money is limited and must be targeted. He notes potential for one million families to work toward better living conditions and stresses the need for example programs over universal federal action.
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Blue Springs
Roosevelt
Pine Mountain Valley
Cason Calloway
la Grange
Calloway
Little White House
Warm Springs
Pine Valley
United States
Jackie Coogan and Betty Grable Engaged in Hollywood
Hollywood reports Jackie Coogan age 21 and Betty Grable age 19 are engaged. Coogan, aiming a screen comeback after earning about 1 million as a child star, is to marry Grable within a year possibly in June. Grable wore an emerald-cut diamond given by Coogan.
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Hollywood
Calif
Jackie Coogan
Betty Grable
Miss Grable
Conn Grable
St. Louis
Jackie
Coogan
Patricia Ellis
Toby Wing
Two Die in Massachusetts Prison Break
A gang of convicts broke from a Massachusetts facility and two inmates and a truck driver were killed. Several guards and prisoners were injured in the noon escape incident reported from Boston.
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Boston
Good Fellows Hear From Parents Plea for Christmas Aid
The Good Fellows desk overflows with letters from Monroe area families seeking material aid for Christmas. A mother of five asks for clothes, shoes, and food as her husband’s limited work leaves bread scarce. A 9 year old boy and others also request gifts, while another note asks help for three children with a missing father and no clothes or food.
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Good Fellows
Good Fellows Program
Monroe
West Monroe
Santa Clauss
Santa
The
Good Fellows Fund
Four Year Plan for Cotton Control Outlined
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration announces a four year cotton program aiming for 11 to 12 million bales in 1936 with reduced base acreage from 45.5 to 44.5 million acres. Signers will cut 30 to 45 percent in 1936, with a five cent per pound benefit payment and a revised division of payments among landlords tenants and workers.
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Washington
AAA
Supreme Court
Unsolved Kidnap Wedding Snarl In West Virginia
In Lewisburg West Virginia a jury failed to convict William Mavin Roman of abducting Dorothy Evelyn Bradley when she was six. Dorothy Evelyn Roman now wife and mother to his child remains estranged from her family. The mother of the missing girl pushes for custody and institutional placement, accusing Roman of turning her daughter away.
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Lewisburg
W. Va
Bradley- Roman
Dorothy Evelyn Roman
William Mavin Roman
Dorothy Evelyn Bradley
Richard Bradley
Roman
Evelyn
United States
Louisiana Places Second In National Cotton Test
In Chicago on December 3 the 4 H national congress championships for peanut and cotton growing crowned Mississippi as the peanut champion with Louisiana in second and Tennessee third. Individual cotton winners included Aubrey Clayton Tennessee and John Coleman Mississippi among top varietal titles. Louisiana finished second to Mississippi in cotton.
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Louisiana
Chicago
Mississippi
Magnolia
Tennessee
Jackie Byars
Philadelphia
Miss
Henry White
Waverly
Tenn
Rodgers Johnson
Aubrey Clayton
Collierville
John Coleman
Sturgis
John Allen Darnell
Glen Allan
Leche Enters Governor Race In Huey Long Shadow
In New Orleans on December 3, Judge Richard Leche announced his bid for governor with Long's political machinery backing him. He pledged to continue Long's program, while Congressman Cleveland Dear urged overthrow of Long’s "oppression" and a return to Democratic governance.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Richard Leche
Long
Cleveland Dear
Leche
Plans for Christmas mail rush at Monroe Post Office
Plans are laid at the Monroe post office for handling the Christmas mail surge expected to exceed last year. It is the second year at the new building and Postmaster James Wooten promises the best possible service through the holidays while urging the public to mail early.
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Monroe Post Office
James Wooten
State Supreme Court Awards Trapper Damages
The Louisiana Supreme Court awarded Jacinto Esmele $4 294 30 damages against Violet Trapping Co Inc and Mirandona brothers for alleged illegal possession of trapping grounds. The ruling reversed a St Bernard parish court decision. Esmele sought 8 365 for 12 780 muskrat pelts claimed to be taken under a lease.
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New Orleans
State Supreme Court
Jacinto Esmele
Violet Trapping Company, Inc
Mirandona Brothers
Esmele
High Court
J. Claude Meraux
St. Bernard Parish
Father Mother and Son Die in Bonita Fire Tragedy
A Bonita family of four was trapped by flames as a house fire swept through their home. The father, mother, and their son perished while one member escaped unharmed, authorities said.
Fire Claims McCleary Family In Bonita Tragedy
In Bonita Louisiana on November 3 a fire killed Pat McCleary 60 and his son James 24 as they tried to rescue their mother Mrs. McCleary 49. Ab McCleary 16 escaped through a bathroom window and described the heroic, fatal effort to reach the mother amid smoke and flames.
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Bonita
Pat McCleary
James
Here
McCleary
Ab McCleary
James McCleary
Tugwell attacks Mississippi peonage in radio forum
Rexford G Tugwell says peonage in the Mississippi valley has gone on too long. He depicts a conflict where both northern farmers with mortgages and southern tenant farmers sharecroppers are bound by a flawed system, urging a better economic structure as a heritage for all.
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Washington
Rexford G. Tugwell
Mississippi Valley
Washington Star
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Slide
James H. Breasted
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Dear
Woman
Blaze
C. L. Walcott
Tugwell
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