Farmers vote down tobacco control plan in polls
Washington dispatch reports farmers rejected tobacco marketing quotas in several states while cotton quotas were approved. Referenda show Burley and dark type tobaccos largely opposed, with flue cured tobacco and rice previously voting down quotas, as political leaders weigh how to shape New Deal farm controls.
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Washington
Administration
Burley Tobacco
Borah
Idaho
Jones
Ocrat
Texas
House
Acrire Committee
South Carolina
Congress
Boy Burned Near Bastrop Gas Stove
A five year old, Johnny Clay, is in critical condition after his clothing caught fire from a gas stove at the Clay home near Bastrop Louisiana. His mother was burned while trying to smother the flames. both are patients in the hospital.
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Bastrop
Johnny Clay
J. L. Clay
Top
Clay
Tal
Jace and
United Gas Company
Icy winds sweep most of Europe chill the continent
Siberian north east winds spread snow and sleet from Scotland to Greece causing record low temperatures. Readings dropped to 26 below in places with -25 to -30 ranges reported in several regions. Snow fell in Scotland and southern England while water froze on coast resorts.
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Siberia
Europe
Scotland
Greece
Ial
Zrom
Carpathian
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
Germany
Baltic
Ickes Lashes at Henry Ford and Lindbergh for Medals
Secretary Ickes at the Cleveland Zionist society Hanukkah banquet challenged Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and other Americans who accept medals from dictators to explain why their birthright is not forfeited. He criticized those who accept honors while dictators commit crimes.
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Cleveland
Henry Ford
Charles A. Lindbergh
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Ickes
Cleveland Zionist Society
Ford
Congressional Investigating Committee
America
Shortest Day of Year Marks Winter Solstice
On Wednesday December 21 the shortest day of the year arrives marking winter. eldsol reaches nadir then moves north. The day begins at 6 14 a m Monroe time with sunrise at 7 14 a m and sunset at 5 02 p m for about nine hours forty eight minutes of sunshine if clear.
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Eldsol
Monroe
Northeast Center library building planned with $101000 cost
The new Northeast Center library will imitate the style of the music building. The ground floor lobby measures 47 by 30 feet and a 24.5 by 50 feet stack room will hold 20 000 volumes.
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Northeast Center Library
Salley and Ellis
Music
Good Fellows Campaign Receives Donations for Fund Drive
Two letters expressing Christmas cheer arrived Monday for the Good Fellows Fund. James A. Noe sent sixteen dollars and asked the gift be in Gay and Jimmie Noe, dr. not his name. Rae F. Rinehart Jr memorial gift included. Jack Angell plans a tag day with young women to boost Three Mile Inn ticket sales for Wednesday appeal and fund donations.
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Good Fellows
James A. Noe
Good Fellows Fund
Monroe News-Star
Gay
Jimmie Noe
Rae F. Rinehart, Jr
Rae F. Rinehart
Wharon
Jack Angell
Three Mile Inn
Monroe
West Monroe
Roosevelt to seek broader social security coverage
President Roosevelt plans to ask Congress in January to extend and strengthen the social security act. The move follows advisory council recommendations to widen insurance coverage to about 8.6 million workers by 1940 and extend protections to wives widows and children with a disability program under consideration.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Social Advisory Council
National Defense
Carl Gray
George Harrison
Social Security Board
Double murder suicide at Union church settlement in Louisiana
In Winnsboro Louisiana on a Sunday afternoon David Fife 64 shot and killed Mrs Jessie Nelson after she refused his marriage proposal and then killed himself. The incident occurred at Sam Fife's home in Union church settlement about six miles northeast of Baskin and left two young children motherless.
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Winnsboro
Union Church Settlement
David Fife
Baskin
Frank McNair
Nelson
Sam Fife
Judge Faris Dies at Home in St Louis
United States Circuit Judge Charlies B. Faris, who ruled on Roosevelt era monetary policy and the gold clause in private contracts, died at his St Louis home. He was 74 years old, having retired in November 1935 and suffered a stroke in October 1937.
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United State Circuit
Charlies B. Faris
Roosevelt
Congress
Faris
Young Mexican Kills Parents and Kidnaps Girl in Texas
Frank Salazar, a farmhand, admits drunken frenzy killings of Mr and Mrs Kennedy of Miles Texas. He abducted 14 year old Wilma Kennedy, shot and injured two Kennedy daughters, then fled to Austin where he was jailed. District Attorney seeks death penalty citing multiple murders and a kidnapping.
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Frank Salazar
Miles
San Angelo
Kennedy
Fay
Imogene
Wilma
Associated Press
Austin
Tex
West Texas
O. D. Fisher
Wilma Kennedy
Salazar
Kennedy Farmhouse
Lee O. Aller
Allen
Four Houma Residents Injured in Train Collision
Four Houma residents were injured in a collision between an automobile and a freight train on Jefferson highway just above Orleans parish. Mrs Eva DiSalvo 23 suffered skull and jaw fractures. Her six year old daughter Mamie had skull fracture. Mrs Henry J Boudreaux 60 had skull fracture and her son Murphy Boudreaux received multiple lacerations.
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New Orleans
Houma
Jefferson Highway
Orleans Pariah
Eva DiSalvo
Mamie
Henry J. Boudreaux
Murpy
Boudreaux
Bid Date Set for Grade and Surfacing Route 126 in Tangipahoa
Baton Rouge La Dec 19 The Louisiana highway commission set January 18 as the bid date for grading and resurfacing 5 339 miles of Route 126 in Tangipahoa parish between Routes 9 and 7 including airfac ing work along the highway.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Highway Commision Today
Tangipedos Parish
Flashes In The News: Odd Tales Of Mishaps And Crimes
A Boston user named Sadiq the Sheik distributed astrological charts in a booth and faced arrest by Policewoman Hazel Hagerty after claiming stars warned him. In Brockton Charles Lapworth finishes a gold trimmed casket and plans to use it after turning 100. Augusta witnesses a radiator anti-freeze explosion. Salt Lake City recalls a dead ant in a clock linked to its theft. In Omaha a report of family disturbance leads to police investigation as officers Schneider and Beliis encounter a collapsed stairway.
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ST. Louis
Sheik Abdul
Betore
Hazel Hagerty
Sadiq
Sheik
Brockton, Maas
Charles A. Lapworth
Lapworth
Snyder Trial Near Verdict In Murder Attempt Case
Los Angeles December 19 The trial of Martin Stoyder known as The Gimp nears a verdict on three counts of attempted murder kidnapping and one gun law violation. If convicted he faces up to 115 years. Star witness Ringder testified self defense while Alderman Etting and Edith Snyder challenged Snyder's account. Jury could hear closing arguments and return a verdict today.
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Los Angeles
Martin
Stoyder
Ruth Etting
Etting
Myra Alderman
Ringder
Snyders
Alderman
Mims Etting
Edith Snyder
Proposals on large loan to China spark international tensions
London reports flag a $350000 export import loan to China as dangerous political move. Japan objects citing opportune and regrettable act. Romanian plan to move 150000 Jews to Palestine strains diplomacy with Britain. Hungary and Romania face increased Jewish rights tensions amid European shocks.
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United States
China
Washington
Tokyo
France
Agen
Europe
Hachiro Arita
Japan
East Aales
Central
Dae
Palestine
Ceretain
Hungary
Romania
Government offers splendid jobs in Washington in 1940s style ad
Government positions include Supreme Court justice with 320000 salary and summer vacation, Attorney General at 15000, Secretary of Commerce at 13000, Secretary to the President with a White House office and travel, District of Columbia Commissioner at 99000 with car, and Comptroller General at 10260. The notice promises office space, autos, meals, and benefits.
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Supreme Court
Secretary of Commerce
White House
District of
Comptroller
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