Bodies Found After Akron-Pittsburgh Train Wreck
Pittsburgh dispatch reports an eighth body recovered from the Akron-Pittsburgh wreck with engineers and fireman likely among the deceased. Officials had dismissed a frozen switch theory and work continues to identify victims amid extensive injuries and remaining missing.
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Pittsburgh
W. M. Shaw
New Castle
O. C. Douthitt
Youngstown
F. R. Dravo
Millionaire Contracting Company
Washington, D. C
David A. Ducharme
Ansonia
Bank officers in court over insolvent deposits in New Orleans
In New Orleans on February 27, 49 officers and directors of the Continental Bank and Trust and Interstate Trust and Banking companies appeared in court in groups. Bonds were posted with $11,000 for Lynn H. Dinkins and James J. A. Fortier and $4,000 for other officers. They faced charges of accepting deposits while knowing banks were insolvent and will be arraigned later after the open court inquiry into the city’s banking crisis. Dinkins blamed drastic devaluation for the trouble.
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New Orleans
Continental Bank and Trust Company
Interstate Trust and Banking Company
Lynn H. Dinkins
Interstate
James J. A. Fortier
Continental
Eugene Stanley
Roosevelt
Dinkins
Town Notes Jump From Gadgets To Gas Lights
A quirky column covers a proposed baby nap proving device using a light beam and alarm from a crib. aquarium gossip notes goldfish turning white. a man uses chewing gum while driving. a trained squirrel drinks from a bottle. H W Rayner pioneers natural gas cooking at Monroe fair stand after Forsythe well sparked a gas line.
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Institute of Radio
Albert Davis
St. Francis Sanitarium
Arthur H. Salisbury
G. Washington
Arnold Bernstein
Phillip Davis
Atlanta
H. W. Rayner
Lee Avenue
Monroe
Forsythe
Rayner
Fair Ground
Six Boats Destroyed By Fire In New Orleans Basin
Fire in a houseboat at the new basin canal early today spread to a luxury cabin cruiser and two speed boats, destroying two boathouses and a fast racer named Bearcat. Edward Burke owned the initial houseboat and Anthony Monteleone owned the Bearcat. losses totaled about $20,000 as crews moved other vessels to safety.
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New Orleans
New Basin Canal
Edward Burke
Anthony Monteleone
Bearcat
Lake Pontchartrain
Henry Monteleone
West Wind
Germany Shifts Bulgarian Rebels to the Red Republic
Berlin reports three Bulgarian revolutionaries Georgi Dimitroff Wassil Taneff and Blagoi Popoff were secretly deported by air to Soviet Russia as part of a high profile case tied to the Reichstag fire. The action followed their acquittal and the beheading of Marinus van der Lubbe. Moscow is notified by the Associated Press.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Russia
Georgi Dimitroff
Wassil Taneff
Blagoi Popoff
Moscow
Marinus van der Lubbe
Germany
Associated Press
State courts probe Dean defense witness in Kennedy case
In Greenwood Mississippi Dr. Sarah Ruth Dean, accused of murdering Dr John Presley Kennedy, faces a state bid to undermine a defense witness who testified that Dean planned to marry Captain Franklin Maull of Lewes Delaware. The witness Ruth Dean Boyls repeats details of a trousseau sewing and alleged secret romance while under cross examination.
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Lewes
Dela
Kennedy
Captain Maull
Fred Witty
Three Armed Men Loot Bank At Lancaster Texas
Three men armed with shotguns robbed the private bank of R P Henry and Sons in Lancaster at noon. They forced the assistant cashier Lancaster mayor L L Henry and two customers to the floor, took between 2000 and 3000 dollars, then fled toward Dallas in a late model car. One robber stayed outside in a parked car to whisk the others away with the loot.
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Lancaster
Tex
R. P. Henry and Sons
Dallas
L. L. Henry
O. L. Worley
Shreveport Denies Farley Anti-Long Speech Claim
Shreveporters reject Huey Long's accusation that Postmaster General Farley made an anti Long speech during his October 18 visit. Mayor George W. Hardy and Caddo Parish Democratic executives said the claim is untrue and Farley offered no political condition or remark about Senator Long.
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Shreveport
Huey P. Long
Farley
George W. Hardy
Caddo Parish
Democratic Executive Committee
Senator Long
Sen
Senate Adds 55 Million for World War Veterans
The Senate approved an amendment to the independent offices bill adding about 55 million dollars annually for World War veterans. It restores 29,000 veterans to the rolls with presumed service-origin disabilities and returns full former rates, shifting proof to the government on non service-origin findings.
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Washington
Senate
Independent Offices
Steiner-McCarran
Allen Again Breaks Faith With Voters
Lake Charles February 27 special report shows Governor Allen breaking pledges to call special elections for the sixth congressional district and several parishes. Voters in Caddo Calcasieu St James Caldwell and St Martin seek vacancies and offices while local authorities threaten action if no call by March 6. Continued on Eighth Pages.
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Lake Charles
Long-Allen
Caddo
Calcasieu
St. James
Caldwell
St. Martin
Allen
True Tabloid Tales of Rev F L Cox in Louisiana Politics
Rev F L Cox of West Monroe emerges as an active administrator who shifted from the conservation commission to a health department inspector. He sought a U S Senate bid during 1982, faced funding questions, aligned with Senator Long, and later discarded the race to join the estate board of health. His actions illustrate party faction dynamics and political maneuvering in Louisiana.
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F. L. Cox
West Monroe
Washington
Cox
Louisiana
Overton-Broussard
The
Conservation Commission
New Orleans
Long
United States
Estate Board of Health
Rev. Cox
Health Department
Monroe
Johnson Jumps Gun On Critics Of NRA Program
NRA chief Hugh S. Johnson unveils a 12 point code revision plan and a broader blue eagle compliance push. He orders public hearings for modifications, vows continued national drive, and signals a closing of ranks for a new forward NRA movement amid criticism.
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Johnson
NRA
Washington
Hugh S. Johnson
Clergyman-turned-clerk questioned in Mary Ellen O’Con nor slaying
William Henry DuBois, once a clergyman and now a post office clerk, was arrested at Jamaica Long Island and questioned in the year-old case of 15 year old Mary Ellen O’Connor who was found beaten to death in a Long Island thicket.
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William Henry DuBois
Jamaica
L. 1
Mary Ellen O'Connor
Long Island
Associated Press
Judge Harper Seeks Fifth District House Seat in Louisiana
Informal announcement from Municipal Judge W. M. Harper confirms he intends to run for Congress in Louisiana's fifth district. Harper says a formal platform is being prepared and will be released when ready, aiming to appeal to voters with a constructive program. He has served since 1912 in Monroe, rising from railroad clerk to train dispatcher before practicing law and serving as municipal judge.
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Judge Harper
Riley J. Wilson
Harper
Monroe
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Arkansas
Pine Bluff
Bill Harper
Cotton Belt Railroad
Monroe Sets March 1 Deadline for 1934 Liquor Licenses
Monroe city officials announce all 1934 liquor licenses must be paid by March 1 with prosecutions for nonpayment to follow. Local licensing had been paused awaiting state supreme court ruling on local option laws and Hood Act repeal. Regulatory steps may proceed now that the court’s decision ends the local option obstacle.
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Monroe
State Supreme Court
New Orleans
City Commission
Supreme Court
High Court
Telegram Ends Restoration Hopes for Wage Boost
A telegram from the state CWA office in New Orleans to Ouachita parish administrator S. M. Collins halted local efforts to restore the 40 cent per hour wage. It ordered payment not to exceed 30 cents for common labor and 75 cents for skilled labor on work done since Friday February 23.
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CWA
New Orleans
S. M. Collins
Ouachita Parish
Army P-26 Planes Grounded Nationwide
The Army Air Corps ordered all P-26 type pursuit ships grounded until further notice after a fatal crash near Denison Texas. Lt. F. S. Patrick was killed in the accident, and officials said the suspension is routine pending investigation into the cause of the crash.
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Washington
Army Air Corps
Army Air
F. S. Patrick
Denison
Texas
Fury of Winter Fells U S in Four Day Disaster Spree
A four day wave of crashes storms and hazards kills at least 88 in the United States. Incidents include an airliner crash near Salt Lake City a Pittsburgh train wreck tornadoes in the deep south and blizzards isolating towns from New England to the southeast.
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Associated Press
Sudde
United States
Suneday
Salt Lake City
Pittsburgh
Aguila
Ariz
Dartmouth
Tampa
Fla
National Guard
Lorain
Ohio
Bethel
Kas
New York
Pennsylvania
New England
Long Island
New York City
Alabama
Georgia
Mississippi
Louisiana
Bowdoin
High Point
N. C
Greensboro
Rehabilitation Work Progresses
Rehabilitation of tornado damaged areas in five southern states advanced amid sub freezing weather. Cold winds from Sunday left 17 dead in Mississippi Alabama and Georgia and injured hundreds while unroofing hundreds of homes in those states plus South Carolina and Florida. Relief workers led by the Red Cross continued operations.
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Birmingham
Ala
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
South Carolina
Florida
Moments of Comedy in Empty Jobs Tales from Parish Offices
A Mississippi era item notes odd job applications from wary workers. In Madison parish a 113 year old woman applied for work while in Lincoln parish a 90 year old man sought labor to support a wife and two children. Morehouse recounts a man claiming dependents replaced by goobers and a visitor hearing of 13 dependents including a cook and 12 mules.
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CWA
Madison Parish
Lincoln Parish
Ruston
Morehouse Parish
Yassuh
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