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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1928

Page

3

Public Service Commission Hearing Listings in Louisiana

The Louisiana Public Service Commission announced cases for hearing starting December 17 in Shreveport and other cities. Discontinuances, cancellations of certificates, and motor freight operations across multiple railroads and trucking lines are scheduled, including Alden Bridge agency, Dixie Overland Highway routes, and various carrier disputes.

Associated Preas Baton Rouge Henry Jastremski Louisiana Public Service Commission Shreveport St. Louis Southwestern Railway Alden Bridge Brinstine Railroad & Canal Company Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Meridian Red Bull Auto Line Vidalia Thomas J. Lishman Tallulah Motor Express Company Dixie-Overland Highway Monroe Merchants Freight Line, Inc Alexandria Tri-State Transit Company Ike Thomas Matrick Freight Line Louisiana Public Services Commission Brady Newton G. Vincent Lake Charles Louisiana-Texas Line W. P. Leonard Ruston Arcadia Minden Gibbsland L. ©. Grisham Marion W. Creed Dry Prong Moeter Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad E. R. Guyton S. B. Hunt Caddo” Transfer & Warehouse Co Shivet Yarea William Lake Providence C. H. Ussery Salma Roy C. Colvin Georgetown R. C. Colvin Yazoo Mississippi Valley Railroad A. Brown

Engineers Speak On River and Harbor Control Changes

Senior engineers defend the Corps of Engineers and oppose transferring river and harbor work to the War Department's rivals. They praise wartime and peacetime projects, including the Panama Canal and Mississippi flood plans, and urge constructive realignments within cabinet leadership while honoring duty to national defense.

Europe Engineer Department Panama Canal Corps of Engineers

Jadwin Deplores Move To Shift River Work

Major General Edgar Jadwin chief of army engineers objects to transferring rivers and harbor work from the War Department arguing the shift would be an error after 40 years of a propagandistic campaign against the Corps of Engineers driven by envy and cupidity.

War Department Corps of Engineers Jadwin Washington Edgar Jadwin Army Engineers

Activities of the 70th Congress Today

Senate considers prison labor bill. House handles minor bills on UC calendar. Foreign relations panel reviews Kellogg anti war treaty. House agriculture panel weighs amendment to the Packers and Stockyards Act. Senate interstate commerce panel discusses a bill to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in soft coal.

Senate House Foreign Relations Committee House Agriculture Committee Packers and Stockyards Interstate Commerce Committee

For Rent Electric Waxer and Vacuum Cleaner at Store

Joe Crowley's Paint Store advertises rental of an electric waxer and a vacuum cleaner. Exact location and rental terms not provided in the readable text.

Joe Crowley

Corps of Engineers’ enduring role affirmed in pledge

A historic pledge proclaims the Corps of Engineers should continue indefinitely for the nation’s interests in waterways and their users. The speaker insists the corps will never fail in devotion to public works and national needs.

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