Central Seeks to Restrain Tax Collection in Rail Suit
Ilinois Central seeks a temporary injunction in New Orleans on December 22 to halt Ouachita parish tax collection on railroad property. The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad company v. Louisiana Tax Commission names multiple parishes and towns as defendants, including Ascension and Orleans, with various officials also named.
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Ilinois Central Railroad
Ouachita Parish
New Orleans
Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad Company
Louisiana Tax Commission
Tax Commission
Ascension
East Baton Rouge
East Feliciana
Iberville
Jefferson
Orleans
St. Charles
St. James
St. In the Baptist
West Feliciana
Ingston
St. Tammany
Tangipahoaville
Bossier
Caddo
Lincoln, Son
Quachita
Richland
West Monroe
Yachita
Parish
Milton Oneton L. Porterie
German Ambassador Luther Addresses Steuben Day Amid Boos at MSG
Turmoil erupts at Madison Square Garden as Dr. Hans Luther German ambassador to the United States speaks at a Steuben Society of America German day celebration. Luther's praise of the German chancellor is met with boos while on stage with General John Preston.
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Hitler
New York
Madison Square Garden
Hans Luther
United States
Steuben Society of America
Luther
John Preston
Luther Howell Joins Benoit-Nash Motor Co as Tire and Battery Chief
Luther Howell has joined the Benoit-Nash Motor company in Harrison and Hall streets to head the tire and battery department. The firm secures the Cooper line of tires and batteries with Monroe country agency. Howell, in Monroe since 1922, brings extensive tire industry experience dating to 1918 with prior roles at Circle Filling station and Stuckey Rubber Company.
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Benoit-Nash Motor Company
Harrison and
Hall Streets
Luther Howell
Pany
H. H. Benoit
Cooper
Monroe
Howell
Monroe Sinc
Circle
Stuckey Rubber Company
Eleven Marriages Set Clerk of Court Record in Quachita
Eleven marriage licenses were issued at the office of the clerk of court on Saturday, possibly the year's highest one day total and close to the office’s all time daily record. An employee noted the peak was 15 licenses in a single day. A man marrying for a third time said he was getting too old to be single, despite his previous wives having died.
Bicycle theft reported in city area
Police report a blue Iver Johnson bicycle, size 28, serial 431046, stolen Friday night between 7 and 8 from 196 North Second Street. The owner is listed as John Ferrand of 412 Washington Street.
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John Ferrand
Washington Street
North Second Street
Iver Johnson
Prices to climb on Frigidaire by Jan1
Frigidaire dealer A I Kilpatrick of Standard Office Supply says price increases will take effect after Christmas to keep sales strong during the season. He notes higher material and labor costs but emphasizes delayed pricing to aid holiday buyers and calls the demand for household equipment robust as refrigeration shifts electric. A Kansas City man arrested for speeding claimed he was hurrying home to avoid catching a cold.
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A. i Kilpatrick
Standard Office Supply Company
Frigidaire
Kilpatrick
Kansas City
St. Matthew's to Stage Play Santa Claus Workshop
St. Matthew's school students perform a five act play Monday at 7:45 PM in Ouachita Parish High School auditorium. The show titled Santa Claus Workshop features a fourth act Santa's Little King with a large cast including Alexander McKinnon, J. Hart Worsham, Patsy Daves, Mary Catherine Cobb, and many others plus pages, fiddlers, children, angels and an accompanying piano violin vocal selection.
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Ouachita Parish High School
St. Matthew's School
Old King Cole
John Hart Worsham
Stanley Hodges
Louise Guerriero
Vincent Romano
Albert Dunn
Pat Phelan
Simple Simon
Bob Mouton
Little Jack Horner
Charles Amman
Miss Muffett
Mary Florence Morrison
the Hunter
Malcolm Hebert
Dorothy Cascio
Cyril Pecasting
Sépiano
Helene Heller
Hazel Heller
Mary Turk
Veronica Wilds
Jo Ann Guerriera
Teresa Turk
Ivnta
Little King
Miriam Merivele
Margaret Butler
Jerry Merivale
Danny Cage
Betty Merivale
Louise Rivelle
Tom Derrot
Hughes Engstrom
Evelyn Berrot
Rosalie Ballard
Intruder
Louise
No Multiple Placements on Civil Works Projects
National reemployment service reports a strict ban on placing more than once per family on CWA and relief work. J W Worthington notes 1260 ERA job placements through December 1 including foremen and time keepers from ex service ranks with dependents. He adds no changes to current assignments and 914 men placed on CWA projects by December 11 with continued preference for former service members with dependents in timekeeper and foreman roles.
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CWA
J. W. Worthington
Worthington
Real estate transfer filed in court clerk office
Lee G. Venters transfers lot 3 in square 1 of Mrs. 8. C. Eby’s second addition to West Monroe to Averil Crow. The record notes a consideration of 50 dollars.
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Lee G. Venters
Averil Crow
8. C. Eby
West Monroe
Actor Phillip Holmes to wed Florence Rice in New York
Salt Lake City report says Phillip Holmes plans to marry Florence Rice in New York the day after arriving from Hollywood en route to New York. Rice is the daughter of sports writer Grantland Rice and his wife.
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Salt Lake City
Phillip Holmes
Hollywood
New York
Florence Rice
Grantland Rice
B C Jacobs Dies at Home in West Monroe
B C Jacobs, 71, died Saturday afternoon at his residence 701 North Third Street West Monroe. Funeral services will be held 4 p m Sunday at the residence with interment in Hasley Cemetery. Survived by son Leon Jacobs and four daughters Alma Crane Effie Arledge F E Jacobs Alberta Jacobs, all of West Monroe Breauxbridge Washington DC West Monroe.
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B. C. Jacobs
North Third Street
West Monroe
Hasley Cemetery
Jacobs
Leon Jacobs
Alma Crane
Breauxbridge
Effie Arledge
Washington, D. C
F. E. Jacobs
Alberta Jacobs
Purse Grabbed From Woman Reported in Five Points Area
A black woman, Nursie Pitt, living at 206 Short Twelfth Street, reported to police Saturday night that a black man grabbed her purse containing 11.07 dollars while she walked along DeSiard Street near Five Points.
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Nursie Pittman
Short Twelfth Street
DeSiard St
Five Points Street
Negro gets life term in prison for Virginia slaying
George Crawford, a Negro, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Virginia for the murder of Mrs. Agnes Boe ing Isley, a Middleburg sportswoman. The jury of twelve white men found him guilty after a brief deliberation, while Crawford had named an alleged accomplice, Charlie Johnson, as the actual killer. Johnson was at large. The death penalty had been sought by the state.
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Leesburg
George Crawford
Agnes Boeing Isley
Middleburg
Richmond
State Penitentiary
Charlie Johnson
Charles H. Houston
Crawford
Ilsley
Johnson
Isley
Mina Buckner
Boys Escape From Louisiana Training Institute
Two boys fled the Louisiana Training Institute Saturday night and escaped in a stolen Chevrolet coupe. The vehicle bore Louisiana license 236-605. They wore blue overalls. police had limited additional descriptions.
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Louisiana Training Institute
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Spedo Kokinos
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Little Boy Blue
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Gene Ritter
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Masonic Lodge
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Will P. Sevier
Ipphire
Mznson Parish Farmers’ Club
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George H. Thompson
E. S. Mobrley
K. E. Byson
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G. H. Thamnson
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H. F. ‘Ssell
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Mounds
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