Officials Dedicate L. T. I. Gym in Monroe Ceremony
Colorful ceremonies marked the dedication of Louisiana Training Institute's new $67,000 gymnasium. Lt Governor Earl K. Long and other dignitaries spoke. Porterie praised reforms in penal institutions, citing improvements since 1900 and noting L T I as a model.
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Louisiana Training Institute
Earl K. Long
Gaston L. Porterie
A. A. Fredericks
State Normal College
E. S. Richardson
Louisiana Tech
Jesse Hair
State Department of Physical Education
John S. Patton
W. H. Todd
Morehouse Parish
George Long
Ernest Albritton
State Conservation Department
J. Lloyd Warren
L. T. I. Board
Arthur S. Tidwell
S. L. Digby
Harvey Dillion
Curtis Smith
Porterie
Charles Dickens
Victor Hugo
Louisiana State University
Monroe
Louisiana
Hitler Again Seeks Army Nazification
Berlin reports indicate Adolf Hitler is renewing efforts to Nazify the German army as head of state and military power. Three generals reportedly offered resignations in protest, though most observers doubt he will back down from the drive amid recent army and cabinet shake ups.
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Wade Werner
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Munich
Bombed Chinese language papers threaten publisher in Shanghai
H P Mills of New Orleans, publisher of Hwa Mei Wan Pao and another paper, received armed protection after his Shanghai news plant was bombed. Three Chinese injured as terrorists targeted anti Japanese copy. Mills had appealed to the American consulate for safety.
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Shanghai
H. P. Mills
International Settlement Police
Mills
New Orleans
Hwa Mei Wan
Idzumo
Times-Picayune
Chicago
Wright Case May Be Given to Jury Today
Los Angeles jury expected to hear final arguments in the Wright murder trial as Paul A. Wright faces charges for the killings of his wife and John Kimmel. Prosecutor J. Miller Leavy described him as a moral leper while defense attorney Jerry Giesler framed him as a man with no motive, pleading temporary unconsciousness as a factor. The defense planned to demonstrate aspects of the scene using the piano bench as evidence. The case was nearing jurors’ reach late today or tomorrow.
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Los Angeles
Paul A. Wright
John Kimmel
Jerry Giesler
J. Miller Leavy
Wright
Giesler
State Police Launch Anti Crash Drive in Louisiana
State police begin a statewide crackdown to reduce auto accidents. Assistant Superintendent Murphy Roden says violators will face criminal charges with district attorneys handling prosecution. Focus targets reckless and drunken drivers, unlit vehicles, and drivers not stopping for school buses. five men were arrested in Jefferson parish for passing a school bus and speeding in a school zone.
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Baton Rouge
Jefferson Parish
Murphy Roden
Roden
Senate rushes crop measure to White House
Senate leaders sidetrack the anti-lynching filibuster to push the house approved farm bill as farm programs aim to regulate abnormal wheat corn cotton tobacco and rice supplies and curb price swings. Senators Smith and Pope predicted quick approval though some expect renewed debate over committee revisions.
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Washington
Senate
White House
Smith
South Carolina
Pope
Idaho
Bids Accepted for Claiborne and Red River Road Work
Louisiana highway commission received bids for two projects. In Claiborne parish grading and resurfacing 7.622 miles on route 565 between Hurricane and route 115, low bid from Fred Baldridge Opelousas at 38,357 dollars. In Red River parish grading and resurfacing 4.343 miles on routes 225 and 1164, low bid Martin and Nichols Alexandria at 21,389 dollars.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Highway Commission
Claiborne
Red River Parishes
Claiborne Parish
Hurricane
Fred Baldridge
Opelousas
Red River Parish
Martin and Nichols
Alexandria
Roosevelt asks Congress for 250 million relief funds
President Roosevelt urged immediate congressional appropriation of 250 million dollars to ease relief needs over the next four and a half months. He warned existing funds would not cover unemployment rise and could force cuts in WPA rolls. WPA officials indicated most aid would go to industrial centers, especially auto plants.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Speaker Bankhead
Works Progress Administration
WPA
Loans Promised to Small Business Men
Washington reports the administration plans to extend RFC lending to small businesses within a week or ten days. Secretary Roper hosted a large meeting where officials hinted at possible changes, including loan liberalization or new credit schemes. Historical RFC usage shows about 190 million in authorizations with 109 million loaned. Senator Pepper urged RFC insurance authority to back private loans.
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Washington
Jesse H. Jones
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Commerce Roper
RFC
Claude Pepper
Florida
Two Ex-Bankers Free Under Bond
P. K. LaGrone and J. B. Phillips former employees of the Commercial National bank in Shreveport were released on $2,500 bonds after arraignment on federal charges of false entries and embezzlement. LaGrone allegedly took $705 and Phillips $690, offenses said to have occurred last August. It was reported shortages were made good and no complaints were filed by the bank or bonding companies, with investigation by a federal bank authority.
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Shreveport
P. K. LaGrone
J. B. Phillips
Commercial National Bank
Liberty Today
LaGrone
Phillips
President to nominate army generals soon in major reshuffle
President Roosevelt will send nominations to the senate for about six new major and brigadier generals in a wide high command overhaul. A brigadier will replace Major General George S. Simonds in San Francisco as retirement and health-based promotions drive changes over nine months, affecting 26 officers across the general ranks.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Senate
Army
George S. Simonds
Ninth Corps
San Francisco
War profits bill attacked in Congress amid defense debate
Washington Feb 10 congressional opposition surfaced to a proposed war profits bill. The House Military Committee delayed action as dissent grew over the plan to fix wartime price ceilings and tax provisions aimed at banning excess profits, with Maverick arguing much is unnecessary.
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Washington
House Military Committee
House
House Naval Committee
Maverick
Texas
Treasury
Flooded houses collapse killing fifteen in Rio de Janeiro
Fifteen people died and twenty were hurt when flood weakened houses collapsed today in Rio de Janeiro.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Woman Ends Life After Kiss Refusal in New York
New York waiter William Quigley left home after an argument and did not kiss his wife. He returned to find her dead from gas poisoning, gas flowing from the kitchen range. A patrolman at the building reported the scene.
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New York
William Quigley
Quigley
Envoy Visits Mrs Rubens in Moscow Prison Interview
Mrs Ruth Marie Rubens of New York, two months into detention, spoke for over an hour with U S charge d affaires Lou Henderson at Butirka prison. Soviet judges censored the session and limited questions about her December 9 arrest on espionage suspicions. Henderson and Angus Ward, consul, identified her by a valid passport under her real name. she had been traveling on an invalid alias.
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Moscow
Ruth Marie Rubens
New York
Lou W. Henderson
United States
Henderson
Butirka
State Department
Angus Ward
Ward
Donald L. Robinson
So viet ice-breaker closes in on Greenland floe rescue
The Soviet ice-breaker Taimyr reported it was about 130 miles from the drifting ice floe where four Russian scientists are stranded off Greenland. The ship and three rescue planes aimed to locate a base for operations after radio contact was reestablished following a 36 hour magnetic storm disruption.
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Russia
Greenland
Kandalaksha
Moscow
White Sea
Murmansk
Taimyr
Dushenoff
Red Navy
United States Steel renews labor pacts
United States Steel and the Committee for Industrial Organization renewed their 1937 labor contracts indefinitely after a three day conference. The agreement keeps a $5 a day minimum and 40 hour week but leaves open wage changes or contract termination. Prices cuts by independent mills sparked wage and price concerns. Benjamin F. Fairless warned government price reductions could force wage cuts.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Committee For Industrial Organization
Philip Murray
Steel Workers Organizing Committee
Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation
United States Steel
Benjamin F. Fairless
Sheriff Continues Rewards Despite Police Jury Action
Baton Rouge Louisiana February 10 Sheriff Newman H DeBretton announced he would continue rewards for dangerous criminals despite the parish police jury refusing to reimburse a $250 reward paid for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Negro for criminally assaulting a white girl The assailant received a 20 year term at hard labor DeBretton cited an emergency justifying immediate rewards and pledged future payments regardless of the jury's stance
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Baton Rouge
Newman H. DeBretton
California hurricane wrecks millions in damage and tragedy
A northern California hurricane killed five people and injured scores while causing property losses in the millions. It twisted the Golden Gate bridge and halted Sacramento lights and transit as floods threatened and highways, railroads, and communications broke down.
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San Francisco
California
Los Luis Obispo
Los Angeles
Oregon State Line
Coast Line
Sierra Nevada
Coast
Farallone Islands
Golden Gate
Golden Gate Bridge
Sacramento
Japanese Guns Thunder Away In Central China Battle
Japan launches a major campaign to choke the Lunghai corridor in central China with eight columns advancing from the north and south. Chinese forces of about 400,000 defend the Sunghai corridor as 100 Japanese warplanes bomb and strafed targets across the region near Chengchow and Lunghai’s crossroads.
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Shanghai
Japan
China
Lunghai
Chengchow
Sunghai
Leche Names Board On Unemployment
Governor Richard W. Leche appointed H. Payne Breazeale E. H. Williams and W. A. Todd Jr to the unemployment compensation division board of review in Louisiana The trio will hear claims for benefits and decisions may be appealed to the state courts in Baton Rouge.
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Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
State Department of Labor
H. Payne Breazeale
E. H. Williams
State Federation of Labor
W. A. Todd, Jr
Morehouse Parish
Wellare
Tris
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Fridtjof Nansen Land
Arctic
Urmansk
Soviet
L. T. I. Gym
Claiborne Work
Mrs. Rubens
Floe
Leche Names Board ON Unemployment
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