Walter L. Cohen Dies, Noted Negro Political Leader
Walter L. Cohen, 76, comptroller of customs for the New Orleans district for seven years and a prominent Negro political figure, died after a liver ailment. He had been unconscious two days and died at 2:30 am at his home. Cohen served as customs inspector in 1882 and was a delegate to every Republican National Convention since then, later editing the Republican Courier and serving as register of the federal land office under McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft.
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New Orleans
Walter L. Cohen
United States
Register of the Federal Land Office
McKinley
Roosevelt
Taft
Plane crash injures girl en route to funeral
A plane carrying three friends to the funeral of Marion Sanders in Booneville Miss crashed on takeoff in Savannah Tenn injuring Louise Guinn 22 of Savannah The plane owned by Booneville banker Sanders who died Saturday night by suicide was piloted by Memphis pilot McLemore Elder The other passenger was Tom H Isbell a Savannah grocer Sanders served on the Booneville Banking Co board of directors
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Savannah
Tenn
Booneville
Miss
Louise Guinn
Marion Sanders
McLemore Elder
Memphis
Tom H Isbell
Sanders
Booneville Banking Company
Three Hooded Bandits Rob New Orleans Auto Hire
Three white hooded bandits still at large after a daytime hold up at a New Orleans self drive car rental firm. Armed men forced two employees to lie on the floor, blasted a safe door, and escaped with about $200 in a company car later found abandoned.
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New Orleans
Indians paid $700 to reveal fliers bodies location
In Roberval Quebec two Montagnard Indians received 700 to disclose where W H Cannon and Leonce Lizotte lay after their October 1929 plane crash. They said the wreckage sits five miles southwest of Lake Chibougamua near the Boisvert river in Collier county. An Montreal rescue flight, halted by snow, had reached sixty miles.
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Boisvert River
Collier County
Montreal
One Brother Killed Another Wounded In Mississippi Disturbance
In Potts Camp Mississippi authorities investigate the fatal shooting of Lloyd Gurley and the critical wounding of his brother Glenn following a liquor and gambling disturbance. Deputies entered an abandoned house and a fight ensued after a Gurley struck deputy Tucker with a bottle. Four men, Curtis Holmes Charlie Cowthan Wooster Holmes and Frank Bramslett were jailed on alcohol and disorderly conduct charges with other counts linked to the melee.
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Holly Springs
Butler Overton
Claude Brownlee
Leslie Tucker
Carrell Mason
Gurley
Tucker
Doxey
Curtis Holmes
Charlie Cowthan
Wooster Holmes
Frank Bramslett
Gurleys
Along Came Youth at the Paramount and Brothers at the Capitol
Actor Stuart Erwin rises from Squaw Valley to Hollywood stardom, joins Fox and Paramount, and leads in Playboy of Paris and Along Came Youth at the Paramount. Bert Lytell stars in Brothers at the Capitol with Dorothy Sebastian and others, directed by Walter Lang.
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America
Stuart Erwin
Squaw Valley
California
United States
Erwin
Hollywood
University of California
Los Angeles
Fox
Maurice Chevalier
Playboy of
Paris
Charles Rogers
Leon Errol
Richard Arlen
Stew” Erwin
England
Paramount Theater
Itol Theater
Bert Lyteil
Bob Naughton
Eddie Connolly
Bowery
Coroner’s Jury Probes Slaying Near Opelousas
A coroner’s jury in Opelousas investigates the fatal shooting of J. S. Brown eight miles west of the city on a highway. Brown, said to be formerly of Lake Charles, was killed during an argument over a debt with Tom Burnett who was arrested after claiming Brown knocked the pistol from his hand and caused it to discharge.
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J. S. Brown
Lake Charles
Monroe
Here
Burnett
Brown
Eskimo Marriage Seen as Practical Partnership
The text frames Eskimo marriage as a practical business partnership with no strong sentiment, noting kissing as one observed custom.
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