Dance benefits Good Fellows Fund planned for December 21
The Good Fellows Fund dance at the Three Million Inn on Tuesday December 21 features Jack Angell’s orchestra and proceeds go to provide a Happy Christmas for Twin Cities children. A Missouri-Pacific Women’s Club dance at Booster Club House on Ouachita Avenue Thursday promises a strong program and crowd.
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Good Fellows Fund
Three Mile Inn
Jack Angell
Good Fellows
Twin Cities
Missouri Pacific Women’s Club
Booster Club
Ouachita Avenue
Booster Hall
Commutation Protest Over Mitchell Death Sentence
Coffeeville Mississippi December 14 juror R F Groves protests Governor White's order commuting William Mitchell's death sentence for the 1932 slaying of Lewis Bryant. The juror asks why courts are overruled by executive action while the state supreme court had twice upheld the conviction. Mitchell was due to be hanged Friday. Governor White declined to comment.
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Coffeeville
Miss
William Clarkitchell
Yalobusha County
White
R. F. Groves
Mitchell
Groves
State Supreme Court
Lewis Bryant
Memphis
Tenn
Chicago
Luxuries Of Playboy To Sell Cheap
Receivers attorney David Leavenworth seeks buyers for discounts on rare items from Harold Ryder once known as a Wall Street prodigy. Ryder spent lavishly, with dozens of suits and expensive goods, and faces a sentence that covers food clothing and shelter for years, while a judge imposes additional terms.
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Pat McGrady
New York
David Leavenworth
Harold Russell Ryder
Wall Street
Charles C. Nott
Weidmann Used Loot to Pay for Dancing Lessons
Eugene Weidmann, labelled strangler in a robbery gang, told police he spent part of his loot on tango and waltz lessons. He admitted another serious case and revised his account of the shooting of Roger LeBlond, naming Roger Million as gang chief.
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Paris
Eugene Weidmann
Jean de Koven
Brooklyn
N. Y
Weidmann
Eugene Keller
Strasbourg
Roger LeBlond
Roger Million
Weidman
LeBlond
Georges
Who's Who Will Name 17 at LSU
Baton Rouge Louisiana December 14 Seventeen LSU students have been chosen by a faculty committee to represent the university in a collegiate Who's Who selection Nominees include Rose Long Freddye Williams Ruth Wackermann Georgia Given Katherine Cross Thomas Baggio Frank Craig Arthur Gayle Joe Sanders Guy Milner Walter McGee Ed Gatto Paul Leslie Jack Hobgood Lamer Miller Norton Arst and J E Atchison selected by Dean Nora Power Colonel Roy Hill and Major Perry Cole
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Nora N. Power
Roy Hill
Perry Cole
Rose Long
Freddye Williams
Ruth Wackermann
Georgia Given
Katherine Cross
Thomas Baggio
Frank Craig
Arthur Gayle
Joe Sanders
Guy Milner
Walter McGee
Ed Ga
Pact Reached on Importing of Seed Oils
Agricultural commissioners from seven southern cotton states reached a practical agreement to cooperate with cotton seed oil mill interests to curb excess importation of foreign oils and fats. They urged a national legislative plan to stabilize cottonseed prices and endorsed proposals for import controls and rate discrimination remedies.
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New Orleans
Harry D. Wilson
Louisiana
Southern Commissioners of Agriculture
Thomas J. Kidd
Birmingham
Ala
Crusher
United States
Robert J. Goode
Montgomery
J. C. Holton
Mississippi
Manila Readies Aid As Hoover Passengers Reach Manila
The steamer President McKinley nears Manila with 453 passengers from the grounded President Hoover as the city prepares to aid the shipwrecked refugees. Salvage teams from Hong Kong expected to assess the Hoover, while Navy destroyers deliver Christmas mail to Manila.
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Manila
President McKinley
President Hoover
McKinley
Manila Bay
Hong Kong
Hoover
Formosa
United States Navy
Kobe
Mania
Rescue Efforts Halted as Jap Chinese Clash Delays Panay Refugees
Refugees from the Panay face renewed danger as Japanese and Chinese troops clash near Hohsien hindering attempts by Oahu Bee and Hozu to reach and transfer the 52 survivors and two dead. British officer sought Japanese withdrawal while naval parties contact refugees marching toward the Yangtze river town.
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Shanghai
United States
Hohsien
Yangtze
Oahu
Bee
Hozu
Nanking
Hanshan
The
Panay
Charles L. Ensminger
Ocean Beach
Calif
Sandro Sandri
Negro Burglar Shot and Captured in West Monroe
Hillyard Green a 19 year old Negro of Downsville was shot in the leg by Carey Holmes a West Monroe grocer while allegedly attempting to enter Holmes residence at 209 Drew avenue about 1230 Tuesday morning. He was arrested by police, treated at St Francis sanitarium and later jailed for investigation.
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Hillyard Green
Downsville
Carey Holmes
West Monroe
Holmes
Drew Avenue
St. Francis Sanitarium
Ouachita Parish
Sheriff's Department
Roosevelt's Bold Stroke Elevates American Diplomacy
The piece lauds Franklin D. Roosevelt for directly addressing Japan's emperor to resolve the crisis, praising his decisiveness and diplomatic prowess. It argues the move averted war, framed as a bold, principled stance that respected American interests without seeking peace at any price.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
Japan
America
Roosevelt
Postoffice expands holiday mail handling in Monroe
Monroe postoffice staff led by Postmaster J R Wooten adds daily facilities for Christmas mail. Extra parcel post windows and trucks. two rush hour stamp windows. sales exceed 9000 dollars in first 13 days of December. four parcel post windows planned for Saturday. West Monroe branch to receive added facilities. Shippers not required to affix stamps.
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Monroe Postoffice
J. R. Wooten
West Monroe
Death trial opens for Claude Vance in Shaw Mississippi
Jury selection began in Cleveland Mississippi for the trial of 42 year old Claude Vance of Shaw charged with the June gun duel slaying of Night Marshal E C Harrington. District Attorney Greek Rice seeks the death penalty. Vance’s daughter Grace 19 a LSU yearbook beauty is a principal defense witness claiming self defense.
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Cleveland
Miss
Claude Vance
Shaw
E. C. Harrington
Greek Rice
Bolivar County
Vance
Grace
Louisiana State University
Agreement Sets Lake Lea Tax Bill in Memphis
A $247,797 federal income tax bill for Lake Lea, former state figure and publisher, was sent to the internal revenue office for collection. The adjustment follows a conference between Lea’s counsel and the government and was approved by Sam B. Hill, who leads tax appeals hearings. The tax commission added $1,151,417 of taxable income to Lea’s 1929 report after a dispute over the figure.
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Memphis
Tenn
Lake Lea
Internal Revenue Office
Lea
Sam B. Hill
Washington, D. C
United States Board
United States Tax Commission
Post Office Safe Blown Open in Louisiana Heist
A Forest post office and general store in Oak Grove operated by A. B Catron was robbed when a safe was blown with nitro glycerine Monday night. About 156 to 200 dollars vanished while roughly 100 dollars in postal funds and stamps remained untouched in a separate box. Sheriff W S Bassett said no clues were found and labeled the burglary the work of experienced safe crackers.
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Oak Grove
Forest
A. B Catron
Goggs
W. S. Bassett
West Carroll Parish
Labor Groups Seek Major Revisions to Social Security Act
The American Federation of Labor and the CIO plan four amendments to expand old age and unemployment coverage to all workers, require benefits during legitimate strikes, raise the minimum pension to 30 dollars, and remove compulsory employee contributions. Phil Murray of the United Mine Workers backs housing use of reserves as a separate proposal.
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Federation
Congress
Philip Murray
United Mine Workers
C. O
Social Security Board
Panay's Commander Sends Wife Orchids
New York December 14 orchids from her husband for her birthday comfort Kather ine Brown Hughes who awaits news after the Panay gunboat sinking near Nanking. Lieutenant Commander James Hurden had written a card for his bride of two months as she arrived from Atlantic City. She longs for word on his safety and medical care after a shell splinter injured him. Mrs Hughes left China in September with other navy dependents, awaiting fuller reports.
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New York
Katherine Brown Hughes
Panay
Nanking
James J. Hurden
Atlantic City
Hughes
China
Navy Department
Navy
Roosevelt demands for satisfaction meet panay incident
Washington reports the United States delivered a formal note to Japan demanding apologies full indemnification and guarantees against future attacks after the Panay incident The note was handed to Japan's foreign minister by Ambassador Grew and echoed Roosevelt's earlier oral message to Emperor Hirohito Tokyo says Japan regrets promises indemnification and measures to prevent recurrence were taken
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Washington
State Department
Japan
Panay
Roosevelt
Hirohito
Joseph C. Grew
Tokyo
United States
Emeperor Hirohita
Man Confesses Faking Hit Run Injury in Texas
Bob Norton of near Stranton Texas confessed to faking injuries from a hit and run on the Diane Overland highway last Saturday at about 3 am. He was moved from St Francis sanitarium to Ouachita parish jail after signing the statement citing a desire for a soft bed and meals. Sheriff Milton Coverdale and Coroner Irve Wolff led the probe after X rays showed no injuries and hospital doctors found no physical illness.
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Bob Norton
Stranton
Tex
St. Francis Sanitarium
Ouachita Parish
Diane-Overland
Milton Coverdale
Coverdale
J. Wolff
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H. G. Hollingsworth
R.x
Buster) Gowett
American State Department
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Mason-Dixon Line
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J. J. Hughes
Yangtze River
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