Six Die? No, Six Hurt As Creole Derails Near Canton
Six persons were injured when seven sleeping cars derailed after a rail broke under the fifth car on the Creole fast Illinois Central train from New Orleans to Chicago near Canton Mississippi. More than a hundred aboard. front cars brought to Memphis. officials expected line clearance by noon. injuries reported as sprains bruises and cuts from flying glass. Injured include J E Garrett Corpus Christi Texas Mrs Garrett Eva Roberts Hercher AL George Bullmont Chicago H B puy Circe Ill A N Buley Winona Miss.
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Associated Press
Canton
Miss
Illinois Central
New Orleans
Chicago
Memphis
J. E. Garrett
Corpus Christi
Texas
Garrett
Eva Roberts
Hercher
George Bullmont
H. B.puy
Circe
Ill
A. N. Buley
Winona
Baptist Budget Drive to Raise 26580 Starts
The 1931 budget of the First Baptist church of Monroe is 26550 and a campaign to raise it opens at Sunday's service. Sixty five percent, or 17380, funds church operations for 12 months while 9200 supports missions and benevolences.
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First Baptist Church of
Monroe
Women’s Missionary Society
H. W. Petrie
Petrie
Interstate arguments set on Louisiana Railway extension
The Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington announced oral arguments for January 26 on the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company of Texas request to extend its line from Greenville to Dallas.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company of Texas
Greenville
Dallas
Husband files suit over marriage to Pauline Frederick
Hugh Chisholm Leighton, hotel company official, sues to annul a marriage to actress Pauline Frederick claiming the union was only in name. The suit was filed in Los Angeles with charges noted but details incomplete in the fragment.
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Pauline Frederick
Hugh Chisholm Leighton
Los Angeles
Special Christmas Program for Yale Season Announced
The Mount Carmel area plans a joint Christmas program to be presented at the Paramount theater Sunday morning December 21 at 9 o clock with sermons from local ministers. Schools churches and civic groups back the effort aiming to help needy children with gifts. Barkdull Faulk kindergarten pupils craft toys for dolls and Camp Fire girls prepare gift boxes for distribution.
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Paramount Theater
Monroe
Barkdull Faulk School
Camp Fire
Government rests case against U S Army surgeon
The government rested its direct case against Major Charles A. Shepard, Army surgeon, at 10 40 a m today after a week of testimony aimed at proving he murdered his wife in Kansas City.
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Kansas City
Charles A. Shepard
Fisherman Captures Odd River Creature in Ouachita
Fisherman L A Krogmire pulled a 12 inch creature from the Ouachita river near Pine street. The bizarre animal with a catfish like mouth and eel tail defied identification as bystanders watched. He kept the hook in its mouth and carried the creature to Odom Hardware on DeSiard street for examination.
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Monroe
Ouachita River
L. A. Krogmire
Krogmire
Pine Street
Odom Hardware Company
DeSiard Street
Beesemyer Indicted In $8 Million Misappropriation Case
Los Angeles authorities pursue a wide inquiry after Gilbert H. Beesemyer of the Guaranty Building and Loan confesses to misappropriating over $8 million. Robert L. Fleury, vice-president and auditor, is jailed after grand jury testimony. Miss Ethel Flanagan, head bookkeeper, held for questioning as she guarded Beesemyer's private books.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Gilbert H. Beesemyer
Guaranty Building and Loan Association
Beesemyer
Robert L. Fleury
Guaranty Company
Grand
Ethel Flanagan
Guaranty
Bankers oppose plan to cut Louisiana cotton acreage
Baton Rouge bankers and state agricultural extension workers failed to endorse a cotton acreage reduction. Key bankers doubted using loan stringency to force farmers to cut cotton planting. J E Garrett of the Southern Cotton Acreage Reduction Association urged banks to pledge loan withholding until a 25 percent cut through 1933.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Louisiana State Bankers’ Association
J. E. Garrett
Corpus Christi
Texas
Southern Cotton Acreage Reduction Association
Cadets Beat Navy 6-0 in Charity Tilt
Army defeated Navy 6 to 0 in a charity game at Yankee Stadium before about 70,000 spectators. The Cadets scored in the fourth quarter as part of a post season event for the unemployed, with gate receipts expected to top $600,000.
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Cadets
Navy
Yankee Stadium
New York
Army
War
Cadets Corps
Brigade of
Midshipmen
Bowstrom
Kilday
Kildry
Boy Scouts Reorganized At Manifest Friday
The Catahoula Boy Scout district held its annual reorganization meeting Friday night at Manifest. Judge R. M. Taliaferra was elected district chairman with district committee members present for 1931. Community representatives named include John A. Guss and Dr. O. J. Richardson.
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Catahoula
Manifest
J. Noble White
R. M. Taliaferra
Harrisonburg
C. C. Elkins
J. L. Dosher
Court of Honor
John A. Guss
Jonesville
Edward J. Sargeant
H. W. Wright
Reading
C. C. Finlay
O. J. Richardson
I. B. Robertson
J. A
Public Works Fund Reduced by Conferees
Conferees cut the emergency public works bill from 118 million to 116 million and restored a provision allowing the president to use specified sums interchangeably. They dropped the senate requirement for local labor on relief projects and reduced the land roads allocation from 5 million to 3 million.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Democrats Oppose Farm Loans Bill Rushed
In Washington on December 13, Representative McDuffie of Alabama urged Democrats to oppose a Senate approved 60 million loan program for farmers in the grouth area. He warned the upcoming 30 million House committee bill to suspend rules would bar amendments and denounced it as gag rules aiming to speed passage.
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Washington
House
Senate
Grouth
McDuffie
Alabama
New Orleans Man Struck By Bandits Near Home
Peter Schoenberger a 23 year old man was hit on the head by two robbers in New Orleans as he walked home after his truck stalled. He says the assailants robbed him of 15 dollars and fled. He collapsed at home and was taken to a hospital in uncertain condition.
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New Orleans
Peter Schoenberger
Gas rate reduction sought for six North Louisiana towns
Public Service Commissioner Harvey G. Fields announced plans to seek at least a 20 percent gas rate reduction for a nine day period for six towns Ruston Farmerville Homer Arcadia Gibsland and Haynesville. The move targets Peoples Gas and Fuel of Shreveport following a November 19 conference with local officials.
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North Louisiana
Peoples Gas & Fuel Company
Shreveport
Public Service
Harvey G. Fields
Farmerville
Commissioner Fields
Ruston
Homer
Arcadia
Gibsland
Haynesville
Messrs. Belchie and Lasky
Shreveport Gas
Kidnapers Seize Wrong Girl On Chicago Street
Cecelia Giegoldt, 18, was seized by two men on a Chicago street who hid her screams with a robe and held her in a car for hours before discovering they had kidnapped the wrong girl. She was dumped unharmed and police launched a search without clues to the abductor or intended victim.
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Chicago
Cecelia Giegoldt
Hambone's Meditations by J. P. Alley humor piece
A compact satirical column titled Hambone's Meditations authored by J. P. Alley. It uses colloquial dialect to mock politics and social pretenses, delivering sharp humor about those who boast low rates yet show vanity.
Protection urged for missionaries in China in danger
American and British consuls at Canton called for warship protection for 36 missionaries threatened by a communist uprising at Haihow on Hainan island. The missionaries, said to be American and British, were reported in danger as tensions rose near Kwantung province.
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Peiping
Canton
Haihow
Hainan
Hainan Island
Lui Chow
Kwantung
Two Men and Woman Arrested in Metairie Bank Hold-Up
Sheriff reports three arrests tied to the Metairie bank robbery of December 4 with Louis Molay 28 identified as lookout, Frank Delerno 35, and Theresa Kirkhand 21 detained in Metairie. A fourth awaited in car. Barry Nichols later detained by New Orleans police.
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New Orleans
Frank J. Clancy
Metairie
Louis Molay
Frank Delerno
Theresa Kirkhand
Molay
Jefferson Parish
Barry Nichols
Three Young Bandits Executed By Electric Chair
At Sing Sing prison in Ossining New York on December 13 James Bolger 19 James Butler 20 and Italo Ferdinandi 22 were executed for the murder of James Bauer a Westbury Long Island druggist during a holdup Butler was first to die followed by Ferdinandi who spoke between prayers Bolger 19 died last with a firm step and a smiling farewell to the witnesses.
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Ossining
N. Y
Sing Sing Prison
James Bolger
James Butler
Italo Ferdinandi
James Bauer
Westbury
L. S
Butler
Bolger
Pick Committee to Hasten Work in Twin Cities
A Monroe and West Monroe Chamber committee was named to lead a program for stimulating building work among property owners to provide employment. The group will survey homes and buildings and equipment to identify feasible repairs and improvements to be done now.
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Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
West Monroe
George Weaks
J. M. Cobb
Col
Frank Stubbs
Claude Harrison
Albert Horuff
Newsboy Dies in Elevator Crush in Baton Rouge
Robert Marquette, 13, a newsboy on local route No. 3, was fatally crushed when an elevator jammed between floors in a downtown Baton Rouge office building. He died en route to a hospital. a similar incident killed another boy of similar age in the same elevator three years earlier.
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Baton Rouge
Robert Marquette
Marquette
Rebels Crushed Near Jaca in Spain War Battle
Loyal government troops defeated rebel forces near Ayerbe after they had taken Jaca and moved toward Huesca. About 100 casualties reported as insurgents fled to the mountains and toward Jaca. Many insurgents captured. government expected to execute prisoners at dawn.
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Jaca
Spain
Paris
Huesca
Ayerbe
Student Aviator Survives 2000 Foot Parachute Jump
Cadet John Mc Cullough Hodgson of Athens Georgia parachuted from a collapsing plane near San Antonio Kelly Field joining the Caterpillar Club after leaping from 4000 feet. He landed unhurt with facial scratches while the aircraft crashed nearby and was destroyed.
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San Antonio
John McCullough Hodgson
Athens
Kelly Field
Hodgson
Read These Letters Then You'll Join Goodfellows
The morning mail brings a flood of letters to Goodfellows Fund Santa Claus and The Good Folks. Children write of toys they want but many express worry that parents cannot afford gifts this year and hope for help.
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Goodfellows
Goodfellows' Fund
Santa Claus
Daddy
Mother
Santa
Goodfellows Fund Acknowledges Donations for School Aid
The Thursday Afternoon Bridge club members and individuals like Billy B Bendel A B Gaude contributed amounts totaling $1,000.40 to a fund aiding school attendance. The article notes clothes and support to help a child attend school with Santa possibly helping. Continued on Page Two.
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Billy B. Bendel
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YALE
U. S. Army
United Press
Mississippi
St. Louis
Free Eats
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BOY
R. M. Taliaferro
Public Works Fund
Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
The
Bell Syndicate, Inc
China
Ethel Miller
Myrtle Ayres
Portland
Ore
Orleans
BOY Bandits
Sing Sing
PICK
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Goodfellows’ Fund
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