Senate probes clash over army plan on censorship and control
Senate investigators scrutinize an army publicity and censorship plan with an administrator to mobilize media, set rules, and supervise voluntary censorship. Lt Col Harris and Lt Brannan rebut claims of licensing the press while Norman Thomas backs scrutiny and criticizes wartime moves. Eight bills in the army files cover draft, resource control, insurance, war trade, finance, and capital supervision.
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War Policies Commission
Clark
C. T. Harris
Army
E. E. Brannan
Norman Thomas
Roosevelt
War Finance Corporation
Boy Stolen With Auto Is Located
Fliers and Justice Department agents scanned east Texas in a night of rain for a kidnapped boy found unharmed. Lars son, a farmer, urged the thief keep the car and return the boy quickly. The sheriff called the abduction likely a first time car thief. A $100 reward was posted. Brazil abolished slavery in 1888.
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Department of Justice
East
Texas
Larsson
Earl Price
Brazil
Benefit Show At Paramount With Vaudeville And Film
A midnight program Sunday at Paramount theater features seven groups in vaudeville and a feature film The Adventure Girl All proceeds go to the Good Fellows fund The event includes orchestra music and is sponsored by Barkdull Faulk post American Legion the Legion auxiliary Radio Station KMLB News Star and Morning World Motion Picture Operators union Trousdale Printing Co and theater staff The Legion auxiliary will run ticket sales and a bumper house is expected Miss Armandine Renaud will present a Good Fellows dance revue at the parish high school auditorium Friday night with all proceeds to the same fund.
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Ets
Good Fellows’ Fund
Booster Club
Paramount Theater
Barkdull Faulk Post No. 13
American Legion
American Legion Auxiliary
KMLB
Paramount Theater and Employes
the News-Star
Morning World
Motion Picture Operators
Union No. 668
Trousdale Printing Co
The
Legion Auxiliary
Armandine Renaud
Good Fellows
Parish
Good Fellows Fund
Memphis Doctor Leaves To Treat Ruston Child
Dr. Eugene Rosamond left Memphis by car for Ruston La to attend the bedside of the three year old daughter of Floyd B James who is critically ill with pneumonia The child is the granddaughter of Dr J C Ayres of Memphis who is in Ruston awaiting news Rosamond planned to fly but bad weather grounded the air trip
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Memphis, Tenn
Eugene Rosamond
Ruston
Floyd B. James
J. C. Ayres
Memphis
Rosamond
Alleged Slayer Taken in Bossier Rushed to Jail
Fingerprint expert J V McVeety showed Sheriff McLean a booking photo from 1925 of the man now in jail labeling him a suspect. The suspect was hurried away before entering the city jail for questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bossier
J. V. McVeety
McLean
Suspect in Cleveland hammer slayings not taken to county jail
Sheriff says high local feeling blocks transfer of a suspect named as R L Roy, identified by Grady Williamson of Shreveport, from Shreveport to Bolivar county jail. Authorities in Shreveport and Memphis police will question him while district attorney hints at a swift circuit court if formal charges follow.
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Cleveland
Miss
Grady Williamson
Shreveport
R. L. Roy
Aurelius B. Turner
Bolivar County
E. R. McLean
Bossier City
McLean
Greer P. Rice
Clarksdale
Memphis
Memphis Police Department
Steve C. Norris
Denver attorney faces charge in abduction case
An affidavit details a coercive abduction plot involving a Denver attorney. It mentions 400 $20 bills split with $2,000 sent to an Oklahoma City address and another $1,000 hidden under a hotel carpet. The lawyer reluctantly accepted the ransom money, unable to follow Laska’s instruction to exchange bills in eastern stores.
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Denver
Oklahoma City
Mathers
Feldman
Laska
Inaccurate Mileage Claim Traced in Ransom Case
Government officials recovered $46 000 in ransom cash from new hiding places in Oregon and Washington. Laska declared innocence from behind nose glasses stating he would rather die than reveal his clients or their secrets.
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Feldman
Oregon
Washington
Laska
Bomb explosions in city linked to anti government campaign
The text links the Autentico party affiliated group with a concerted anti government campaign. ABC leaders and other opposition figures claim to have restrained hot headed members since the raid. Batista is charged with despotism similar to the Machado regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Autentico Party
ABC
Batista
Machado
Improvements in Waterways From Dern Report
Dern reports proposed $8 billion in future waterway projects including Great Lakes St Lawrence and lower Mississippi Valley schemes. 1934 work created 76 623 direct jobs and 200 000 indirect positions as the Army engineers advance river navigation flood control and power plans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dern
Great Lakes-St. Lawrence
War Department
Mississippi River
Mississippi Valley
Mississippi
Missouri
Fort Peck
Bonneville
Grand Coulee
Robinson Sought by Police Reappears in Minneapolis
In Minneapolis on December 18 Thomas H. Robinson, who had been sought by authorities, was reported seen in the area. Police urged caution and continued investigations to determine his current status.
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