Roosevelt and LaGuardia discuss municipal power plant plan
President Roosevelt and Mayor LaGuardia hold talks on using federal funds for a New York municipal power plant. The plan aims to lower private rates and could form a regional power distribution network with PWA support and Navy and utilities officials at the table.
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Washington
Roosevelt
LaGuardia
New York
Metropolis
White House
Ickes
Public Works
New York City
Fiorello H. LaGuardia
PWA
Reuben E. Bakenhus
New York Naval District
Admiral Bakenhus
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Maurice P. Davidson
Missing woman figure in Carmel search mystery
Mrs. Eliot Boke Schaffner, 39, vanished from her Carmel home in night attire. Bloodhounds and air-supported searches spread from Carmel to Monterey County as husband Joseph H. Schaffner flew from Chicago to join the effort. Sister Marion Todd arrived from San Francisco as police and staff at Monterey hospitals refused to discuss her illness.
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Carmel
Calif
Eliot Boke Schaffner
Fam
Monterey Hospital
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Here
Marion Todd
Schaffner
Todd
Messiah Promised Tonight By Northeast Choral Club
The Choral club presents Handel’s The Messiah at 8 15 tonight in the Northeast Center of Louisiana State University under Roger Frisbie with Dr Henry W Stropher and soloists Mrs Daisy Carlock Mrs Erica Hornsey Willis Ducrest Sherrod Towns Florence Zeigler as accompanist The performance includes the standard oratorio sections and choruses led by a state university orchestra and featured soloists.
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Monroe
Northeast Center
Louisiana State University
Roger C. Frisbie
Frisbie
Henry W. Stropher
Louisiana State University Symphony Orchestra
the State University
Daisy Carlock
Erica Hornsey
Willis Ducrest
Sherrod Towns
Florence Zeigler
Dublin
Ireland
Handel
Englishwoman hanged for murder despite appeals
Hull England December 19 Mrs Ethel Lille Major 42 mother of two was executed for poisoning her husband the first woman hanged in England in eight years. Crowds gathered outside Hull prison while appeals to royalty failed and clemency requests were dismissed.
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Hull
England
Ethel Lille Major
Stark
Buckingham Palace
Home Secretary
Charges Against Russia Could Be Probed on Capitol Hill
On Capitol Hill a new inquiry into Soviet Russia and its control of groups seeking to overthrow the U S government was indicated by AFL leaders William Green and Matthew Woll. Navy Commander W L Kirkman testified that Communist agitators targeted the armed forces with disloyalty and sabotage. House Foreign Affairs Chair McReynolds said he may ask the State Department if a Litvinoff pledge was violated.
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Washington
Russia
Capitol Hill
William Green
Matthew Woll
American Federation of Labor
House
W. L. Kirkman
Navy
McReynolds
Tennessee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
State Department
Maxim Litvinoff
United States
Wednesday Is Eleventh Jinky Day
Today is the eleventh Jinky day urging entries by 6 pm at Jinky headquarters 135 North Second Street. Prizes include $40 cash and 21 merchandise awards for the most original Jinkys. a $100 cash grand prize awaits as the race tightens. Local firms offer free Jinkys and sponsorship details follow.
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Jinky
North Second Street
Japanese Move to Abrogate Washington Naval Treaty
The Japanese government acts to scrap the Washington naval treaty and indicates readiness to meet any situation. The privy council recommends abrogation to Emperor Hirohito, who is expected to approve, with plans for a new naval treaty to guarantee national security.
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Tokyo
Hirohito
Privy Council
Kiichiro Hiranuma
Pacific Ocean
Japan
United States
Crowd Repulsed With Tear Gas at Shelbyville Court
In Shelbyville Tennessee on December 19 guardsmen used tear gas bombs to disperse a mob trying to storm the courthouse where E. K. Harris a Black defendant charged with assault on a white girl was being tried. He had been held in Nashville jail for safety and returned with 110 guardsmen.
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Shelbyville
Tenn
National
Court House
E. K. Harris
Nashville
Rogers Has His Say on World Peace and Mussolini
A Beverly Hills reader critiques newspaper coverage and comments on Italy and Ethiopia. He notes a slack pre Christmas mood and hopes someone prevents Mussolini's new war.
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Rogers
Beverly Hills
Cal
Yugoslavia
Italy
Clemency Approvals Reported by Louisiana Pardons Board
The Louisiana state board of pardons reported eighty-five clemency applications favorably and sent them to the governor for immediate release if approved. Twenty-four requests urged full pardons and sixty-one sought sentence commutations. restoration of citizenship was urged for nineteen individuals. Caddo Parish case Earl Fulton Scriber, robbery, commutation to time served.
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Baton Rouge, la
State Board of Pardons
Caddo Parish
Earl Fulton Scriber
Northeast Storm Warnings Issued From Boston to Jacksonville
The U S Weather Bureau issued storm warnings with advisories at nine am. Northeast warnings cover Boston to Nantucket and southeast winds from Nantucket to Norfolk. Southwest winds shift tonight from Norfolk to Jacksonville as a secondary disturbance over Georgia moves northeast with increasing intensity.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Boston
Nantucket
Norfolk
Jacksonville
Georgia
Sandy Hook
Wilmington
Eugene R Black dies former Federal Reserve head
Eugene R Black former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and governor of the Sixth District Federal Reserve Bank died at his Atlanta residence at 61. He had recently resigned as Fed chair to resume his post in Atlanta and had worked to improve credit facilities while serving as liaison for banks with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. He was a son-in-law of Henry W Grady and a noted leader in Atlanta and the region.
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Atlanta
Eugene R. Black
Federal Reserve Board
Black
Roosevelt
Federal Reserve Bank of the
Sixth District
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Henry W. Grady
South
Eugene Meyer
Sixth Federal Reserve District
University of Georgia
Lifeboat Rescue Aboard Sisto on North Atlantic
Sixteen Sisto crew members near death in a storm were saved by a lifeboat team from the passenger liner New York. Amid rolling seas, the small craft ferried the exhausted sailors to safety as four vessels watched and searchlights swept the scene.
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Gannett
Associated Press
U. S. Europa
New York
Sisto
Europa
North Atlantic
Local pageant to feature 1200 Neville students
A Yuletide pageant titled Christmas in Song and Story will be presented Thursday night at 8 o clock in Neville auditorium by 1200 pupils from Neville high and other city schools. The Nevilles high choral club will have a prominent role with Miss Clara Hall directing music and Mrs. Minnie Ruffin overseeing drama.
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Neville High
Neville Auditorium
Nevills High Choral Club
Clara Hall
Minnie Ruffin
James Russell Lowell
James Digby
Mary Carl Clark
John Bernie Oakland
Three Fundraising Events Planned for Good Fellows Aid
A series of events raises money for the Good Fellows Fund to provide Christmas cheer for children in Monroe and West Monroe. Plans include Armandine Renaud’s dance revue, a Booster Club dance, and vaudeville plus a late show, with proceeds to the fund.
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The
Good Fellows’ Fund
Parish High School
Armandine Renaud
Missouri Pacific Booster Hall
Harry Rice
Monroe
West Monroe
Renaud
Long trains bills to centralize Louisiana government
In Baton Rouge a Senate Finance Committee hearing advanced Huey P. Longs measures to consolidate power, giving the governor authority over parish police jurors and seeking control of state education and public services. Several bills were pocketed or amended, with final passage set for the next day.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
District of Columbia
Long
East Baton Rouge
Senate Finance Committee
Washington
O. K. Allen
New Orleans
T. Semmes W
Senate
J. Hugo Dore
Hugo
St. Mary-St. Martin-Iberia
Public Service Commission
Louisiana State University
Schools of Dentistry and Pharmacy
House
Huey P Long Plans Mini District of Columbia Capital
Senator Huey P Long proposes a miniature District of Columbia as the seat of his Louisiana empire. The plan was disclosed at a committee hearing as part of his broader 33 program.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
District of Columbia
Louisiana
Long
State Cracks Down On Dope Racket In Louisiana
In New Orleans on December 19 a judge sentenced Frank De Mari to not less than 20 months nor more than five years in the state penitentiary for possessing heroin. The ruling follows the 1934 narcotic act making narcotics possession a tertiary offense and marks a strong start in parish efforts to curb dope racketeering.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Frank de Mari
Willian J. O'Hara
de Mari
de Mars
Parish 4
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Teeeneene
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Natchez
Ouachita
Camden
Choral Club
Zion
Lamb of God
U.S
Iron Mountain Bakery, Inc
Griffin Studio
Johnnies
Elbert
Central Savings Bank and Trust Co
West Monroe Hardware and Furniture Co
Sur-Wa
Inc
Holloway and Thompson, Natural Gas Co., Inc
Thompson’s Pharmacy
Monroe Automobile and Supply Co
Slagle-Johnson Lumber Co., Inc
J. W. Rogers
Eureka Grocery
Lee- Rogers Chevrolet Co
A. Jewelry
Central
Circle
Standard Office Supply Co
Collens Pharmacy, Inc
E. Jack Selig, Inc
Monroe Furniture Co
Monroe Hardware (Furniture) Co
Sandman’s Pharmacy
E. R. Kiper Hardware and Supply Co
Hemp
Ouachita Baking Co
Ford Levi Stationery Co
North Side Pharmacy
Garden OF Eden
Galapagos Islands
Pacific
Alfred Rudolph Lorenz
Parisien
Marchena Island
Charles Island
Eloise Bousquet de Wagner
Robert Philipson
Paris
Baroness
Philipson
Hiv Ropert
Diese
McNaught Syndicate
Ine
U. S. Weather Bureau
Frank E. Gannett
Methodist Missionary Society
Young Married Ladies Bible Class
Presbyterian
Will Atkinson
Henry A
D. M. Atkinson
Louisiana ‘District of Columbia
STATE
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