Nation vows long fight as 600 pledge war on crime
Attendees of the national crime conference pledge a long program to curb rising crime. Attendees cite 1933 figures of about 1.3 million serious crimes with three quarters unsolved, and call for a permanent national crime organization and a national scientific center for anti crime study.
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Washington
Homer Cummings
National Crime Conference
West Point
Cummings
Justice Department
Sellin
Normal's roster sets new winter term enrollment record
Louisiana State Normal College in Natchitoches reports winter term enrollment in the college department reached 1125, surpassing the 1933 record. Officials expect final quarter enrollment near 1175 and note 121 FERA scholarship students are working in stenographic clerical library farm and dairy roles on campus.
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Natchitoches
Louisiana State Normal College
FERA
S. J. Sibley
New Orleans Woman Seeks Information at Morgue
Mrs Ernest Swanner visits the city morgue with a friend to learn about a local man killed in a Chaud incident. A policeman identifies the victim by clothing and a letter addressed to Ernest O Swanner triggering family confusion over identities and a missing person inquiry.
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New Orleans
Ernest O. Swanner
Mobile
City
Michaud
Three Towns Advised To Build Plants
The Tennessee Valley Authority says three north Alabama municipalities should proceed with plans to construct their own electric plants after legal actions to block the Alabama Power company purchase and with the option to convey distribution properties remaining remote. The TVA cites investor protection and cooperation from communities while noting the contract option expires February 12, 1935.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority Today
Alabama Power Company
Alabama
Tennessee Valley Authority
A V Miller To Speak At Bible Class Meeting
A V Miller, gas company official and active citizen, will address the Sunday Business Men's Bible class at West Monroe First Baptist Church. The meeting starts at 9 45 a m and the invitation extends to all men of the Twin Cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. V. Miller
Gas Corporation
Business Men's Bible
West Monroe
Lemon Drop Kid at Paramount and Chained at Capitol
Damon Runyon’s The Lemon Drop Kid closes at the Paramount with Lee Tracy and Helen Mack leading. The tale follows a race track gambler who bets a millionaire on the wrong horse and hides in a quiet town until romance changes his plans. At the Capitol, Chained stars Joan Crawford and Clark Gable with strong support from Otto Kruger and Stuart Erwin, acclaimed for its direction by Clarence Brown.
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Paramount
Damon Runyon
Little Miss Marker
Paramount Theater
Lee Tracy
Helen Mack
Runyon
Kid
Tracy
You Belong
To Me
Minna Gambell
William Frawley
Henry B. Walthall
Baby LeRoy
Marshall Neilan
Clarence Brown
Sadie McKee
Joan
Diane
Manhattan
Joan Crawford
Clark Gable
Mike
South America
Otto Kruger
Mr. Field
Stuart Erwin
Johnnie
Son Of NY Police Officer Detained By Sheriff
Sergeant Haase of the New York City police requested arrest of his son William Haase 18 for a charge described as fancy. Sheriff Milton Coverdale complied Friday and held the youth in jail. The young man, married, was registered with his wife at the transient bureau. she was not detained. The sheriff awaited a telegram from the father on disposition of the case. The act of speaking calls into action 44 different muscles.
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Charles H. Haase
New York City
William Haase
Milton Coverdale
Young Haase
Coverdale
Christmas Seal Work Is Praised In Ouachita Parish
W G Grasse of Palace department store lauds Christmas seal donations after visiting families from Ouachita Parish Tuberculosis and Health association. He recounts cures and employment aid funded by seals and urges more purchases to support the effort led by Captain G B Cooley and Miss Bernice Wright.
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Palace
Grasse
G. B. Cooley
Ouachita Parish
Cooley
Quachita Parish
Fires extinguished at multiple city locations
Four grass fires were put out by firefighters on Thursday. The blazes occurred in the 4000 block of Lee Avenue, behind 225 Walnut Street, near North Third and Erin streets, the 1200 block of South Second Street, and on DeLiard Road.
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Lee Avenue
Walnut Street
North Third
Erin Street
South Second Street
DeLiard Road
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Wilbur Underhill
William Stanley
Thorsten Sellin
University of Pennsylvania
Ren
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Walker
Florida
Latze
Spa P. and
G. P
Sunbrite
Fureka Grocery
Commerce ST
Monroe
Weiners, Ib
Morning Joy
CS Esee
Sachs
Pillsbury
Normal
TVA
Imonroe Grocer Co., Ltd
Waggoner-Gates Milling Co
Independence
Capitol
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Capitol Theater
Ture
New York
W. G. Grasse
Losis
Jewel
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Dixie
Swift & Company
Arton
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