Plan for Seed Loans in Flood Areas Faces Delays
A seed loan program akin to last year’s $45 million funding awaits allocation details. Officials stress loan importance due to flood impact and high cotton debt, with Mr. Turnbough canvassing Parishes in Mississippi. Loans may be delayed by about two weeks, making initial disbursement several weeks later than last year’s February 1 start.
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Wseed
Jloan
Turnbough
Mississippi
Tensas
Franklin
Madison
Monroe
Astronomers Probe Distant Eras With Telescopes
Dr J A Comstock of the Los Angeles Museum notes life in Earth's past may have begun 300 million years ago as unicellular forms. He discusses prospects of a 20 inch telescope to observe events from eras when the planet was still warm and life scant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Comstock
Los Angeles Museum
Hubble
Indigestion Remedy Ad Highlights Phillips Milk of Magnesia
The ad explains that most indigestion results from excess stomach acid and promotes Phillips Milk of Magnesia as the quick, harmless remedy. It touts its tasteless spoonful in water, warns against crude magnesia forms, and notes availability in 25c and 50c bottles. It also endorses Phillips Dental Magnesia as a teeth whitener.
Roosevelt and Smith Faces in New England Delegates
In New England several states show tight delegation races with Roosevelt and Smith pledges split. Maine, Rhode Island, and Connecticut show mixed support while Vermont leans Roosevelt. the 2nd district in New Hampshire features two Roosevelt and two unpledged candidates.
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Roosevelt
Smith
New Hampshire
Manchester
William N. Rogers
Fred Brown
Rogers
Rhode Island
Patrick Henry Qunn
Quinn
J. Howard McGrath
State Committee
James E. Dunne
Providence
Maine
Edward C. Moran, Jr
John H. Dooley
Str’ Committee
Portland Evening News
Connecticut
New Democratic Organization
Wilbur L. Cross
Cross
Vermont
Democratic State Committee
Chinese Cavalry Presses Front as Shanghai War Wounds Rise
In Shanghai more than 1,000 people, including civilians, suffer Chinese war wounds with hospitals overwhelmed. The International Settlement fortifications grow stronger with Marines aiding sandbag and barbed wire barriers as civilians are ordered off streets by 9 p.m. and battle lines push nearer Chenju and the Chinese General Hospital.
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United States
Shanghai
Red Cross
Associated Press
Chenju
Edgar Wallace Dies in Beverly Hills at 56
Beverly Hills California February 10 Edgar Wallace noted mystery author and prolific writer died at 4 45 am from double pneumonia after influenza two days earlier. He rose from London newsboy to one of the world’s highest paid writers. Wallace came to Hollywood to write scenarios for RKO with longtime secretary Robert Curtis actor Walter Huston present.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Edgar Wallace
London
Robert Curtis
Walter Huston
Wallace
Hollywood
England
RKO Radio
Road projects and tax, dyke, and canning plant updates
The police jury approved designating a Calhoun to Eros-Choudrant road for parish work and authorized detour roads for high water. It authorized deed-back of unused land and sought tax extension guidance. Railroad talks urged rebuilding a dyke while A L M Railroad pushed for a Black Bayou Bayou DeSiard drainage cut. Also approved a 1,000,000 unemployed employment drive and reported West Monroe levee work and the West Monroe canning plant output totaling over 53,000 vegetable cans and 11,000 meat cans.
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John M. Breard
S. O. Henry
Calhoun
Eros-Choudrant Road
Mr. Henry
H. M. Williams
Downing’s
Natchitoches Road
Sander Berry
Messrs
Moorehead
Burnett
A. and
L. M. Railroad
Black Bayou
Bayou DeSiard
Fish Hattery
Blanks Parker
J. M. Myatt
Mr. Breard
The
American Legion
Myatt
West Monroe
Jewel L. McQuiller
Monroe's House Devastated By Night Fire
A fire gutted the Gail Uo Monroe residence at 510 Hall Street early today. Firemen estimate about 50 percent damage totaling roughly $4,000, with home and contents insured. The blaze, likely starting in a pantry, origin undetermined. Mrs. Monroe woke to smoke and alerted her 18 year old son Louis, plus Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Kerrigan. all four escaped.
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Gail Uo Manroe
Hall Street
Harvey Kerrigan
King Zulu Monarch Leads Mardi Gras Parade Through Downtown
King Zulu and retinue rode a wooden platform truck in a Negro Mardi Gras parade on Pine Street, amid grotesque jungle music. He wore a brown derby, grass skirts, lemon-tan trousers, pink spats, and beads while his queen smiled. The unit then moved downtown to a 10:30 p.m. dance ending at Tenth and DeSiard Streets.
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Africa
Pine Street
Regal
Zulu
DeSiard
Japanese leaders and Hamaguchi era linked to London naval treaty
The Wakatsuki cabinet fell after criticism of China policy and finance. Baron Shidehara, long-time diplomat, served as acting premier during Hamaguchi’s convalescence and helped steer negotiations that brought Japan to the London naval treaty amid ultra patriotic opposition.
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Rejiro Wakatsuki
Wakatsuki
China
Inouye
Shidehara
United States
Hamaguchi
Shiohara
Japan
List of LS U L department associate members names
A long list of associate members and students from various towns and parishes is compiled. Names include Davis Johnston Grayson Ducote Guillory Hess LeBlanc Delcambre Gammage Montrose Holdeman Crowley Landrenau Mamou LeBlanc Robe Lemoine Mansura Melancon Geismar Meredith Moss Oubre Loreauville Price St Romain Marks ville Wasson Concienne Centreville Brand Couvillion Davis Eubanks Knight Lamendola Nabours Poland and others across Louisiana.
Alpha Tau Alpha established at LSU in Baton Rouge
The national professional agricultural education fraternity installed its largest LSU chapter this weekend. Forty two initiates include 24 LSU Agricultural Education students and 18 honorary and associate members. Dr C S Anderson of Penn State officiated as installing officer.
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Baton Rouge
Alpha Tau Alpha
Louisiana State University
L. S. U. Department of Agricultural Education
United States
Iota
C. S. Anderson
Pennsylvania State College
2. Lis
John C. Floyd
J. G. Lee
College of Agriculture
J. W. Bateman
University Division of Agricultural Extension
P. L. Guilbeau
S. M. Jackson
Agricultural
State Department of Education
J. W. Baudoin
Youngsville
K. E. Campbell
Pine Prairie
H. J
Romeville Ranger Names Revealed in Wedgens Burg Incident
J Parent and J A Wedgens burg are identified as involved figures along with Julius O Quin in a case tied to the Romeville region. The report notes the presence of a ranger named J Parent and references a Burg named Wedgens. Further details remain sparse in the fragment.
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J. Parent
Romeville’ Ranger
J.A
Wedgensburg
Julius O’quin
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Fifth St
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Washington and Walnut Sts
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Foreign Office
Chiang Kaishek
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kenkichi Yoshizawa
France
Kentaro Kaneko
Washington
Gensuke Hayashi
Kiku Jiro
Paris
Imperial University
Students’ Patriotic Association
Jimmu Tenno
Milton Coverdale
Mistol
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Louisiana State
Davenport
Vesta
Garland
ST. John and Harrison Sts
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