Fiendish split in Marian Parker case clues point to Hickman
Police piece together a portrait of William E. Hickman as a dual figure a churchgoing youth and a calculated thief. They connect blue Cadillac thefts and drugstore robberies to the slaying drama, while tracing a daring escape route through Culver City and nearby roads.
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Los Angeles
Wm. E. Hickman
Marian Parker
Edward S. Scheller
Wm. FE. Hickman
Dr. Jekyl
Fox
Hickman
Culver City
Marian
Monroe approves 150000 protection highway bond by wide margin
In Monroe 211 of 233 voters backed a 150000 protection highway bond, with 22 opposing. The nine mile route from south of the trainings institute to DeSiard road at Edgewater Gardens would be built if federal support falls short, funded by a one mill tax for five years in wards three and ten.
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Monroe
Trainings Institute
DeSiard Road
Edgewater Gardens
Quachita River
Six Drown When Skiff Capsizes in Rising Alabama River
Six persons drown after a skiff capsized in the rising Alabama River at Benton Alabama. Jam Nichols a saw mill operator and five Black individuals including two children were aboard when swift currents overturned the boat. All bodies were recovered as the river carried them downstream and rescue was hindered by heavy floods. Jim Nichols survived with his wife and eight children.
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Associated Press
Benton
Ala
Alabama River
Jam Nichols
Charlie Nichols
Jim Nichols
Alabama
War Department Approves Bridge and Oil Plans
The War Department approved several applications. The Vicksburg Bridge and Terminal Company of Little Rock gets revised plans for a bridge over the Mississippi near Vicksburg. Young Lee Oil Company of Texas plans an oil derrick in Kelson Bayou, La. Louisiana Highway Commission approves plans for a temporary bridge over the Calcasieu river one mile below Lake Charles.
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Associated Press
Washington
War Department
Vicksburg Bridge and Terminal Company
Little Rock
Mississippi
Vicksburg
Young-Lee Oil Company of Texas
Kelson Bayou
Louisiana Highway Commission
Calcaskeu River
Lake Charles
Beginning of the End for Condemned Men in Louisiana
Three Louisiana death-row inmates Byron Dunn Joe Genna and Morton Brasseaux face imminent executions after all legal challenges failed and Governor Simpson denied further stays Genna and Brasseaux are set to die December 30 while Dunn awaits a January 27 hanging with Robert Dunn’s sentence already commuted The cases have exhausted state and federal appeals and habeas corpus petitions and no further relief is anticipated
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Associated Press
Lake Charles
Byron Dunn
Joe Genna
Morton Brasseaux
Louisiana
Simpson
Genna
Brasseaux
J. J. Breville
Dunn
Samuel E. Duhon
W. E. Collins
Calcasieu
Robert Dunn
Byron
Genna Brasseaux
Louisiana Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Federal District
Christmas Fund Reaches Toward Flood Stage Anew
The Good Fellows of Monroe recall flood levels as they fundraise for relief. They describe sandbag efforts along the Ouachita, noting memories of past flooding and ongoing community need as prosperity remains uncertain.
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Monroe
Submarine S-4 Rescue Works Resume After Gale
Reports from Boston and Provincetown state divers under Rear Admiral Brumby resumed operations to reach the six men trapped in the sunken S-1. James Ingram, the first diver, previously helped reach the S-51 two years ago, as equipment and pontoons were deployed for a controlled ascent and air-line guidance amid rough seas.
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Boston
James Ingram
Frank H. Brumby
Philip Andrews
First Naval District
Provincetown
Mass
James Insram
Block Island
Hearts Northwest Wala
Yulcon
Icka
Dr Floyd L Hodge of Calhoun Dies at 63
Dr Floyd L Hodge of Calhoun aged 63 died early today after a three month illness. He practiced medicine in Ouachita parish and was active in local betterment. Survived by wife and seven children, brother, sister, and relatives. Funeral at Calhoun residence tomorrow at 10 AM with Calhoun Methodist pastor officiating. Burial in Calhoun.
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Floyd L. Hodge
Calhoun
Hodge
Union Parish
Louisville
Ouachita Parish
Bryan
Irving
Mary
Sarah
June
Jerry
Floyd
Wesley Hodge
Quanah
Tex
Virginia Hodge Ellis
Girl Reappears After Funeral Shocks Town
Miss Fannie Broyles was found alive in a coffin after a funeral service near Luray Virginia. Her brother James noticed a slight eye twitch, halting the burial and triggering resuscitation efforts. She recalled the events and said she was conscious but stunned by a head injury from a falling tree limb. She has since recovered under medical care.
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Luray
Fannie Broyles
Here
James Broyles
Acquitted bootleg king faces sanity test for freedom
George Remus, acquitted of wife murder on insanity grounds, must prove he is sane now to gain freedom. A probate court will order a new sanity evaluation while pending contempt of court conviction looms. Judge Shook may temper punishment amid Remus’s decade of legal battles and public reaction.
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Rebus
Associated Press
Vcinati
George Remus
Remus
Chase
Jude Shook
Elton
Shook
Cousel
Elston
World In Round Said To Be Foiled By Square
A humorous dialect riff asserts the world is round and insists the peasant knows square foils foil foibles. The piece plays with language and local color, tongue firmly in cheek.
Congress adjourns for year to reconvene January fourth
Congress ends the year with brief sessions in both houses. Senate members depart after a short ceremony honoring Senator Jones of New Mexico, while the House passes several bridge bills and a resolution of grief. A separate bill proposed by Representative Letts would fund inland waterways with 40 million dollars for Mississippi River elevators and warehouses, repaid by operating revenues.
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Senate
House
Washington
Jones
New Mexico
Stimson
Longworth
Tilson
Inland Waterways
Inland Waterways Corporaton
Missippi River
Letts
Iowa
Treasury
Louisiana towns to get new post offices under Sandlin bill
Rep Sandlin of Louisiana introduced a plan to build five new post offices in Arcadia Coushatta Mansfeld Homer and Haynesville at 75000 each and to alter the Shreveport federal building at 500000. A separate measure would let the Louisiana highway commission build a bridge across the Red River near Coushatta.
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Washington
Louisiana
Sandlin
D. la
Shreveport
Arcadia
Coushatta Mansfeld
Homer
Haynesville
Louisiana Highway Commission
Coushatta
House
Sheriff Declares Christmas Liquor Bust in Monroe
Sheriff Coverdale and deputies arrested Charlie Meeks and Grady Jackson on De Siard street at 9:36 p.m. for transporting 26 gallons of whiskey in three ten gallon containers, three five gallon containers and a pairon unit. Jackson posted 759 bond while Meeks remained jailed in the parish hoose.
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Coverdale
Charlie Meeks
Grady Jackson
DeSiard Street
Monroe
Meeks
DeSiard Road
Jackson
Reid intro funds control floodway waters bill in Congress
Representative Reid introduces the flood control act of 1928 to take full federal responsibility for Mississippi floods and to study and apply control for all navigable streams. The bill would expand the Mississippi River Commission and push for reservoirs, levees, spillways, and channels while differing from the Jadwin plan on cost sharing and authority.
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Illinois
Jadwin
Mississippi
Associated Press
Washington
Reid
House Flood Control Committee
Congress
Army Engineers
Coolidge
Mississippi River Commission
Mnor
Dladwin
Chief of Army Engineers
Oklahoma Court Enjoins Legislature From Special Session
Oklahoma County District Court permanently enjoins the legislature from holding a special session. It rules the self convened session illegal and bars meetings, impeachment actions, and further investigations of state officers. The order targets Governor Henry S Jennings and attorney Warren K Snyder.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
New York Homecoming of Bennet J Doty From Biloxi
Bennet J Doty of Biloxi Mississippi deserts the French Foreign Legion for homesickness and returns to America to rejoin his parents in New York aboard the Majestic. He was saved from execution and a penal fortress by American intervention after desertion. Doty served in the Syrian desert against the Druses and was twice cited for bravery. He said he deserted to hear English again.
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Associated Press
New York
Bennet J Doty
Biloxi
Miss
France
Foreign Legion
America
Doty
Legion
Gilbert Clare
Lemuel Doty
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BY J. P. Alley
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Bennet J. Doty
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