Reservoir Critics Fight Mississippi Flood Plan
Rep Swing of California charged power companies oppose reservoirs for flood control to keep power development out of government plans. Col William Kelley of Buffalo denied knowledge of propaganda and said the study considered flood control irrigation storage power and navigation. report based on feasibility. Continued on page six.
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Washington
Mississippi
Swing
California
House Flood Control Committee
William Kelley
Buffalo
N. Y
Arm Engineers Flood Reservoir Board
Army Engineers
Jasiwin
Kelley
Engineer Corps
Buffalo Electric Light & Power Company
National Public Utilities Association
Baby Without Brain Dies in Chicago Hospital
A brainless newborn girl dies in Chicago after parents and doctors say life would be futile with paralysis and imbecility. Attending physician Dr. Martin Schupmann says the child would never think or move, and nature was allowed to take its course. The case recalls 12 years prior when Dr. Harry J. Haiselden refused surgery on Baby Bollinger to end a hopeless deformity.
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Chicago
Bollinger
Ray Cullen
The
Herald and Examiner
Martin Schupmann
Harry J. Haiselden
Paul Swift Admitted to L. T. Institute
Paul Swift, 16, admitted to Louisiana Training Institute by court order at Homer after involvement in the October 31 hammer killing of J F Jowers of Haynesville. Elisha Swift and Mrs. Jowers indicted for murder. Paul accused of aiding disposal of the body.
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Paul Swift
Louisiana Training Institute
Homer
Swift
J. F. Jowers
Haynesville
Jowers
Elisha Swift
Paul
Young Swift
Mississippi Attorney Injured in Auto Collision Near West Monroe
Carey Lee Ratcliff a 31 year old lawyer from Natchez Miss was struck by a car at 5 40 am near a filling station close to the West Monroe traffic bridge He suffered head contusions and two fractures of the right leg and was taken to St Francis Sanitarium where he remained unconscious at noon The car was driven by Mason Mc Enery of the Travelers Rest Stock Farm just outside West Monroe authorities report the condition grave
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West Monroe
Carey Lee Ratcliff
St. Francis Sanitarium
Ratcliff
Natchez, Miss
Mason McEnery
Travelers Rest Stock Farm
Muted Prophecy: Cal Coolidge To Exit White House
Washington reports a knit bedspread made by Mrs. Coolidge is seen as a mute prophecy that President Coolidge will leave the White House in 1929. The piece bears the U S coat of arms and Lincoln dates 1861 1865 on one side and Calvin Coolidge 1923 1929 on the other.
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Washington
Lincoln
Calvin Coolidge
Weather Delays Endurance Flight Attempt by Pride of Detroit
Continued adverse flying weather in Daytona Beach Florida today forced Edward F. Schlee and Wm Brock to postpone their bid to break the world endurance flight record aboard the Pride of Detroit monoplane.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
Edward F. Schlee
Brock
Pride of
Detroit
Civic Funeral Planned for Hospice St Charles Fire Victims
Quebec reports 26 dead with 14 missing after the Hospice St Charles orphanage blaze. City officials announce a civic funeral Sunday with municipal and provincial funding, burial after a group service, and a mass on Monday. The 95 year old building housed 500 children and nuns. a modern wing remained intact. Loss estimated at 250900 dollars, insured for 90000.
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Associated Press
Quebec
St. Charles
Simard
Mother St. Hidefonse
Clemency Denied in Taxi Killing Case in Louisiana
New Orleans December 16. Joe Genna and Morton Bresseaux, sentenced to death for the slaying of J. J. Brevelle, a DeRidder taxi driver, are denied clemency by the state pardon board. The board also refused commutation for Phillips of Natchitoches. The pair confessed and faced execution. Governor Simpson awaits potential appeal.
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New Orleans
Joe Genna
Morton Bresseaux
DeRidder
State Pardon Board
Genna
Bresseaux
Simpson
Iluch Phillips
Natchitoches
Sulphur
J. J. Brevelle
Brevelle
Pickering
Texarkana Council Backing New Airport Plan
Texarkana Ark December 16 The city council received a petition signed by 115 taxpayers requesting an election to approve 35000 dollars in bonds to establish an airport on the Bankhead highway two miles north of town. City Attorney Ben E Carter was instructed to draft an ordinance for adoption at the next meeting in two weeks.
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Texarkana
Ark
Bankhead Highway
Ben E. Carter
St Matthew's Plans New Parochial School Construction
The parish announces a $60,000 brick and stone parochial school on Grammont street in Monroe to open next fall. The 73 by 120 foot were 15 rooms cafeteria recreation hall and lockers for 500 pupils. The frame church and priest residence will be removed with a new priest's residence planned later.
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Grammont Street
St. Matthew's
Monroe
First Presbyterian Church
Parchial
J. W. Smith
Tire Ish
St. Matthews School
Jackson
National Guardsmen Bar House From Senate Chamber
Oklahoma City dispatch reports National Guardsmen remain at entrances to the state senate chamber to block House members from meeting in the senate rooms. The House proceeds amid court rulings as impeachment charges loom against Governor Henry S Johnston and other officials. The guard, mobilized Monday, is under orders to allow senate sessions.
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Associated Press
Oklahoma City
National
House of Representatives
Senate
Oklahoma
House
Henry S. Johnston
National Guard
Johnston
Capitol
Ex-Constable Fatally Shot Near His Home
Texarkana report says Virgil Grigson fifty five, former Gar land township constable, was shot early today and died after being taken to a hospital. He named the shooter before dying. authorities withhold identity. Grigson had been a star witness in the Henry Adams murder trial.
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Texarkana
Virgil Grigson
Garland Township
Grigson
Henry Adams
Pastor and Woman Die in Minneapolis Church
In Minneapolis on December 16, Rev. Lloyd R. Tucker, pastor of the Second Spiritualist church, and an unidentified woman were found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in the pastor’s basement living quarters. A small gas heater burned with doors and windows closed. deputy coroner Dr. C A Hobbs ruled accidental death after noting the heater consumed the room’s oxygen.
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Minneapolis
Lloyd R. Tucker
Second Spiritualist Church
C. A. Hobbs
Lions Pay 54 Dollars Boost Christmas Fund
The Goodfellows received a jump in donations as the Lions club contributed 54 dollars, increasing the total from 570.25 to 458.25, with eight days until Christmas and significant room for further help from Santa contributors.
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Goodfellows
Lions Club
Santa Fraternity
Expel Eight Techmen for Haircutting at Louisiana Tech
Louisiana Tech president John R. Conniff announces eight upperclassmen expelled after a campus hair cutting incident involving 25 freshmen. The action follows a similar purge at LSU last month and targets several football players among the expelled students.
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Associated Press
Ruston
Louisiana
Louisiana Technical Institute
Louisiana State University At
Baton Rouge
Mike Donahue
Tiger
Louisiana Tech
John R. Conniff
Conniff
Harley Ross
Quitman Long
Harold Wise
Goodwyn Courtney
Walter Butler
Gill Burnham
Gil, McCasland
Edwin Cox
Ohio Flood Worsens Lowland Toll in Northeastern Cities
Heavy rainfall swelled the Mahoning and Tuscarawas rivers as Warren and Massillon evacuees fled rising waters. Canoe City on the Mahoning was fully inundated with 150 residents rescued by boat. Relief crews worked overnight while southern Ohio faced fewer damages unless rains persist.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
Ohio
Mahoning
Tuscarawas
Warren
Massilon
Canoe City
Mahoning River
Gas Break Leaves Arkansas Cities Without Supply
A break in the Arkansas Natural Gas main south of Arkadelphia cut gas to twenty Arkansas cities including Little Rock Pine Bluff and Hot Springs on a cold day. The line had not been located by mid morning and officials doubted restoration before night. Gas comes from Louisiana fields and the temperature was 23 degrees in Little Rock.
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Little Rock
Arkansas Natural Gas Company
Arkadelphia
Arkansas
Pine Bluff
Hot Springs
Louisiana
Lindbergh to Visit Four Countries besides Mexico
Ambassador Morrow informed the state department that Charles A Lindbergh accepted invitations to visit Guatemala Honduras El Salvador and Panama. No dates for the flights to these capitals have been set yet by Colonel Lindbergh.
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Associated Press
Washington
Morrow
State Department
Chas. A. Lindbergh
Guatemala
Honduras
Salvador
Panama
Lindbergh
Lindbergh to Visit Panama for Youth Air Service Hope
Panama president informs the Associated Press that Col. Charles A Lindbergh will fly to Panama. The exact date remains unsettled as the invitation was extended Tuesday by telegram, aiming to inspire Panamanian youth and boost air service on the Isthmus.
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Panama
Chas. A. Lindberghh
Chiari
Associated Press
Liindbergh
New York
Isthmus
Farmers May Receive a Hundred Jersey Bulls
PINE BLUFF Arkansas December 16 Plans for giving away 100 or more pure bred Jersey bulls to Jefferson county farmers were discussed at a mass meeting of Pine Bluff merchants and chamber of commerce members called by a committee studying ways to boost local business anchored by the request for action.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Jefferson County
Ping Bluff
Chamber of Commerce
Five red Russians executed after Canton raid
Five Russians, sent by Moscow to direct Canton’s spoilation, were killed after the white army counter attacked. The consulate was entered by a military detachment, forcing all staff to accompany them to the public safety bureau amid reports of at least one execution.
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Associated Prous
Hong Kong
South China Morning Post Today
Canton
Moscow
Central
Bureau of Public Safety
Koomintang
Governor Smith weighs irregularities in sewer project
New York December 16 Governor Smith considers charges seeking removal of Queens President Maurice Connolly and other borough officials over alleged irregularities in a $16 000 000 sewer construction. Alderman elect George A Harvey filed the charges. Gross waste of public funds is among the principal accusations. The governor will study them and act but has not indicated a course.
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New York
Smith
Maurice F. Connolly
Queens
George A. Harvey
Post Office Prepares for Annual Christmas Rush in Monroe
Monroe post office under postmaster A. A. Thoman readies for the holiday surge with extra manpower and a reorganized flow. A, A. Thoman oversees operations as upstairs federal court room becomes temporary mailing department led by W. A. O’Kelly, shipping through the new counters and busy clerks.
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Monroe
A. A. Thoman
W. A. O'Kelly
Federal Court Room
NI. Ramsey
Mr. Ramsey
Renee
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Harvey Perkins
Katie
Edna Saddler
Ferry
Texarkana Council
St. Matthew’s
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Luther Reed
Memphis
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J. P. Alle
C. O. Hammond
Henry M. Johnston
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