Rate reduction demand to be answered by Dec 15
Belchie and Lasky owners of People's Gas and Fuel promise a decision on a uniform rate cut for seven towns including Homer Haynesville Arcadia Gibsland Ruston Farmerville and Athens. Mayors pressed for 40 cents domestic and 12 cents industrial per thousand feet, with possible PSC involvement if refused.
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Belchie & Lasky
People's Gas & Fuel Company
Homer
Haynesville
Arcadia
Gibsland
Farmerville
Athens
Charles C. Gayne
Charles Lasky
George Belchie
R. L. Curry
Yandell Boatner
Shreveport
Public Service Commission
Four Miners Keep Watch Over Body of Mother Jones
Four miners who befriended Mother Jones keep constant vigil over her body in Mt. Olive Illinois where she began her labor union battles. Next Monday she will be buried near the graves of three miners in a ceremony marking the end of a long labor movement chapter.
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Mother Jones
MT. Olive
Mussolini to name Ciano as vice premier
Italian political circles expect Count Costanzo Ciano minister of communications to be named vice premier by Premier Mussolini, signaling a potential successor if the dictator leaves office.
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Costanzo Ciano
Mussolini
Mother Jones rests after long life of labor activism
Mother Jones is laid to rest with pallbearers drawn from miners who died at the Virgen mine riots thirty years earlier. Three men who died near her burial site, plus five others from that riot, are linked to her memorial. A crowd of about 5000 mourners, many miners, escorted the coffin from the Washington train and paid homage at each stop along the route.
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Ers
Mother Jones
Washington
Hartz Sentenced to 21 Years for Nix Slaying in Memphis
Charles Hartz a 3 year old plumber was sentenced to 21 years in the penitentiary in Memphis for the slaying of Adrian Nix an insurance man last July. The case stemmed from a neighborhood quarrel that ended in murder.
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United Press
Memphis
Charles Hartz
Adrian Nix
Capital Loses Beauties as Belgian Ambassador’s Family Departs
The wife and two daughters of the Belgian ambassador, all described as beautiful blondes, will leave the capital in a month. The Belgian prince has been reassigned to Rome.
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Washington
Rome
Hoover Plans $150 Million Public Works Push
President Hoover outlined a six month program to spend 150 million dollars on public buildings and roads with funding allocated mainly to the Agriculture War Commerce Interior and Navy departments. The plan aims to create jobs by funding preauthorized projects and to avoid congressional delays.
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Washington
Hoover
House Appropriations Committee
Public Roads Bureau
Army Engineers
Congress
Agriculture Department
War Department
Commerce Department
Interior Department
Justice Department
Navy Department
College association takes drastic action at Atlanta meeting
Delegates at the Atlanta gathering of the association of colleges and secondary schools reported unprecedented drastic measures after hours of debate. The routine matters were set aside as officials addressed a major policy shift and potential changes to accreditation and funding processes.
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Association
Mississippi
William John Cooper
United States
Cooper
Dr. Cooper
Atlanta
The
Association of Colleges and Secondary
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