Abductors Demand $60,000 for Boettcher Kidnap
Two masked men abducted Charles Boettcher II and his wife in Denver. They left a ransom note urging Claude Boettcher to pay $60,000 and to follow instructions while warning not to notify police. The wife read part of the note before the suspects fled with Boettcher in a car.
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Denver
Colo
Colorado
Charles Boettcher
Boettcher
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Charles A Lindbergh
Stephens
Claude Boettcher
Mabel
Lind- Bergh
Louisiana State medical school rated acceptable by AMA
The American Medical Association council on medical education in Chicago rated Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans as acceptable, placing it on a level with Yale and Johns Hopkins. The new school opened in October 1931 after authorization by LSU and Charity Hospital boards, with inspection by General Ireland and Dr. Cutter.
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New Orleans
Council On Medical Education of the
American Medical Association
Chicago
School of Medicine
Louisiana State University
Rigney D’auncy
Yale
Johns Hopkins
Board of Supervisors
New Orleans Charity Hospital
M. G. Ireland
J. A. Cutter
James M. Smith
L. S. VA
Arthur Vidrine
Medical School
Past Building Committee Portrait Reveals 1913 Church Edifice
The First Baptist church recalls its 1913 building committee C E Bynum Sr Frank Masling W M Parker O B Morton Sr O O Clark W H Hill and W M Ruffin. The piece notes their foresight and sacrifice plus the sorrow that only three survive. A separate item mentions Oliver Twist the five month old English bulldog en route to Vice President-Elect Garner.
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First Baptist Church
C. E. Bynum
Frank Masling
W. M. Parker
O. B. Morton
O. O. Clark
W. H. Hill
W. M. Ruffin
Senate Hearing Sought On Overton Election Probing Plan
New Orleans February 13 tentative plans call for senate hearings across Louisiana as the special sub committee continues its probe into the Overton election fraud charges. General Samuel T. Ansell counsels the committee and favors touring Baton Rouge Alexandria Shreveport Monroe Lake Charles and Lafayette to gather evidence. The panel may extend into the next congress with Chairman Senator Robert B. Howell authorizing continued inquiry.
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New Orleans
John H. Overton
United States Senate
Senate
Baton Rouge
Alexandria
Shreveport
Monroe
Lake Charles
Lafayette
Robert B. Howell
Samuel T. Ansell
Connally
Texas
Bratton
New Mexico
General Ansell
Huey P. Long
Representative Overton
Louisiana Lodge
West Point
U. S. Army
Six New Cardinals to Be Created on March 13
The Osservatore Romano reports six new cardinals to be named at a March 13 consistory. Pietro Fumasoni Biondi, hostolic delegate to the United States and Mexico, and Jean Marie Rodriguez Villeneuve, archbishop of Quebec, are among the elevated prelates. Italians would form a new majority among the 58 cardinals. Archbishop Fumasoni Biondi will leave Washington, and a new delegate will be appointed. The move marks Pope Pius XI naming cardinals for only the second time in two and a half years after Cardinal Frith-Awisth of Austria’s funeral.
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Vatican City
Osservatore Romano
Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi
Hostolic
United States
Mexico
Jean Marie Rodriguez Villeneuve
Quebec
Fumasoni-Biondi
Washington
Shee
Anesta
Vatican
Curia
Rome
Pope Pius
Schuster
Milan
Church Senate
Cardinal Frith- Awisth
Austria
Man Found Dead at Hotel Alexandria
Caleb McNeilly, a middle aged man, was found dead in his room at Hotel Alexandria near Five Points early Sunday. Coroner says heart disease caused death. efforts to locate relatives continued at noon Monday while police and coroner investigated the natural death.
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Caleb McNeilly
Hotel Alexandria
Five Points
McNeilly
C. L. Mengis
Hearing Is Continued For Lindbergh Extortion Plot Trio
A Roanoke preliminary hearing for Norman Harvey, his wife Elsie, and Joe Bryant accused of extorting Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and threatening his infant son was postponed to 2 p.m. Saturday. Handwriting and fingerprint tests by Washington experts prompted the delay. Bonds were set at $7,500 for Harvey, $5,000 for Elsie, and $5,000 for Bryant.
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Roanoke
Charles A. Lindbergh
United States
Charles D. Fox, Jr
Joseph Shaffer
T. X. Parsons
Bureau of Standards
Washington
Fox
Norman Harvey
Elsie
Joe Bryant
Associated Press
Monroe welcomed new bishop Daniel Desmond
A large crowd braved rain at the Missouri Pacific station in Monroe to greet Rt. Rev. Daniel Desmond newly elected bishop of the Alexandria diocese. The procession included St. Matthew's church and school members, St. Francis sanitarium nurses, school faculty, and Boy Scouts. Desmond officiated at the 8:30 mass at St. Matthew's after arrival from Boston.
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Missouri Pacific
Boston
Mass
Daniel Desmond
St. Matthew's
Southern headline notes 18 deaths from winter mishaps
Atlanta reports 18 southern fatalities over a wintry weekend from automobile crashes, burns, explosions, exposure, asphyxiation and a pistol wound. States led with Tennessee four deaths, Louisiana and Virginia three each, others one each. victims include J. P. Haliburton and son Warren in Tennessee and Sam Simmons in Manchester.
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South
Tennessee
Louisiana
Virginia
Arkansas
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
North Carolina
J. P. Haliburton
Warren Haliburton
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Sam Simmons
Manchester
James N
Texas Store Robbed by Pair of Bandits
Two masked men robbed Weingarten grocery store No. 9 in Houston of over $4,000. They forced manager D. E. Riddle to move the cash to a waiting automobile where three accomplices including a woman awaited. One robber herded about twenty employees into a corner with a pistol.
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Houston
Texas
Weingarten
D. E. Riddle
Public Service Commission Sets Two Day Hearings in March
Harvey G. Fields, chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, announced changes to hearings in Monroe and Lake Charles for March. Monroe will hold sessions March 13 and 14, Lake Charles March 16 and 17, with about 30 cases per day, aiming to clear a large portion of the docket and plan April and May hearings in Baton Rouge.
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Harvey G. Fields
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Monroe
Lake Charles
Fields
Commission
Baton Rouge
Frye
North
Louisiana
Hotel Virginia
New Orleans
Monroe Officers to Testify in Pineville Burglary Case
Summonses were issued for state witnesses from Monroe in the district court at Alexandria for the case against J. W. Chili Pace of West Monroe charged with burglarizing a Pineville filling station. Officers L. V. Tarver and Frank V. Reitzell expect to travel to court Tuesday. Pace was arrested after the Pineville burglary. Reitzell overheard Pace directing tire removal by telephone.
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Alexandria
J. W.chili Pace
West Monroe
Pineville
L. V. Tarver
Frank V. Reitzell
Monroe City
Pace
Reitzell
Texarkana Bank Robbery Suspect Returned to Winnfield
Texarkana Arkansas February 13 Job Ward 22 identified as one of three bandits who robbed the Bank of Winnfield Louisiana of 3000 dollars December 29 returned to Winnfield He was identified here by J A Nugent cashier of the bank and Judge Wright who witnessed the robbery
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Texarkana
Ark
Job Ward
Winnfield
J. A. Nugent
Judge Wright
Japan stands firm on Manchuria in league talks
Japan informed the League of Nations it remains determined to preserve Manchukuo in Manchuria. Chinese forces resist a Japanese push into Jehol as seven thousand Japanese troops concentrate east of Jehol. Tokyo stock market reacts to fears of possible excommunication.
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League of Nations
Manchuria
Tokyo
Jehol
Associated Press
Manchukuo
League
Chaoyang
Tokyo Stock Exchange
Foreign Office
China
Peiping
Germans Battle Hitlers Force as Death Toll Rises in Reich
Berlin reports reveal eight towns saw clashes between Nazis and opponents leading to eleven deaths and 23 injuries. Bloodshed included a raid on communist headquarters in Eisleben with three Nazis killed and 15 wounded. Police fired on civilians observed with windows open during Nazi patrols.
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Hitler
Reich
Eisleben
Bochum
Strassfurt
Dessau
Breslau
Dortmund
Stuttgart
Bensheim
Rogers Has His Say On Manchuria Crisis
In Beverly Hills a reader quotes a letter arguing the league of nations failed to act on Manchuria. The writer criticizes Japan for disrespecting sanctions and says Europe should confront the issue while Russia will handle it when ready. The note adds that American and Russian involvement is unnecessary.
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League
Japan
Manchuria
America
Russia
Europe
Bill to cut off veterans allowances introduced in House
A bill to end non-service connected partial disability allowances for all wars was introduced in the House by Rep Lankford as a Republican. It would save an estimated 300 to 400 million dollars annually while continuing hospitalization and allowances for veterans permanently disabled, with pensions for those 65 and older preserved, and would not affect service-connected disability payments.
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Washington
House
Lankford
Virginia
Missing girl sought by El Reno father in Monroe search
D E Christie of El Reno Oklahoma visited Monroe to confer with police and Salvation Army seeking his daughter missing since January 14. He traced her route from El Reno to Miami passing through Paris Texas with two other girls before they split up. The 13 14 or 15 year old girl is described as five four tall 98 pounds auburn hair brown eyes olive skin and last seen wearing a gray green coat a green hat and black high heel shoes carrying a brown Gladstone bag.
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D. E. Christie
el Reno
Okla
Monroe
Police Department
Salvation Army
Miami
Fla
Christie
Paris
Texas
Debts Confab Topped by Commons Statement
Prime Minister MacDonald told the House of Commons that the Washington debts talks next month will cover the full program of the proposed world economic conference. He endorsed a wide scope for the debts conference aiming for a harmonious US Britain approach, without signaling any power to the British delegation to bind decisions.
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London
MacDonald
House of Commons
Washington
House
United States
Fraud probe names local man in governor campaign ties
New Orleans reports detail cross examination of Francis Williams in the senate probe of Representative John H. Overton's election. Huey P. Long questions S. B. Hunter of Shreveport about a $1,000 contribution to Dudley J. LeBlanc's 1932 gubernatorial bid and potential promises to repeal the oil severance tax. Williams admits using dummy candidates and notes prior elections with manipulated majorities.
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New Orleans
Francis Williams
Senate
John H. Overton
Huey P. Long
S. 8. Hunter
Shreveport
Dudley J. LeBlanc
Williams
le Blanc
Huntersone
LeBlanc
Hunter
Long
Public Service Commission
Overton
Eliminate Tariff From Farm Bill Passed By Senate Panel
The Senate agricultural committee cut the five cent per pound tariff on imported fats and oils from the domestic allotment farm relief bill but did not decide other provisions. Proposals on cotton production limits and acreage control were not acted upon. The panel debated dairy protection duties briefly as dairy products were removed earlier, along with hogs tobacco rice and peanuts.
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Washington
Senate Agricultural Committee
Bankhead
Alabama
Senator McNary
Oregon
Convict Stabbed to Death At Retrieve Prison Farm
At Retrieve Prison Farm Texas Tom Reis a Galveston bandit known as a squealer was stabbed to death by Clyde Thompson a youthful killer. The assault occurred as convicts filed out of the dining hall with Reis dying after seven chest wounds. Thompson and B Allen cornered Reis and used a crude dirk from a file. Guards halted a broader prison break plan tied to a Jan 19 incident. Thompson 19 from Eastland had previous murder charges and a life sentence after a prior verdict was commuted.
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Prison Farm
Tex
Tommy Reis
Galveston
Clyde Thompson
Ike Kelly
Thompson
B. Allen
Reis
Kelly
Allen
A. L. Lester
Lester
Eastland
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