Japan Holds On Manchuria as Roosevelt Treaty Views Stir
Tokyo declares Roosevelt's call for treaty sanctity will not change Japan's Manchuria policy. officials say neutralization of the Philippines could revise the four power pact. Asahi mocks the idea while League voices relief over treaties amid Sino Japanese tensions.
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Geneva
Roosevelt
League
League Committee of Nineteen
Tokyo
Manchuria
Hoover
Philippines
Foreign Office
United States
America
Japan
Asahi
Texas Governor Urges Sales Tax Reform
Mrs. Miriam A Ferguson, Texas governor, sent a message to the legislature urging a 3 percent sales tax on most commercial purchases with few exceptions to relieve farmers ranchers and homeowners of rising costs. She proposed a $15 106 724 cut in state appropriations for the next biennium and urged lawmakers to act to ease oppressive burdens.
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Austin
Texas
Miriam A. Ferguson
Active West Monroe leader Fred G. Thatcher praised
A hometown profile lauds Fred G. Thatcher vice president and cashier of West Monroe State Bank and active in Ouachita Parish school affairs Kiwanis Boy Scouts and church work. The piece also notes the town mourns Dr James L Griggs and a historic Myers Brothers store faces demolition with a potential parking lot plan and half mast flags in federal mourning for Calvin Coolidge.
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Twin Cities
Fred G. Thatcher
West Monroe
North Louisiana
Thatcher
South Grand
Grammont Streets
Myers Brothers
Myers
Myers Bros
Louisiana
Brothers
DeSiard Street
Monroe
Post Office
Post Office Department
Washington
Calvin Coolidge
Rioters Loot Singer Yokohama Office in Labor Dispute
Police in Yokohama arrested 138 Japanese for a mid day raid on the Singer Sewing Machine branch. Rioters destroyed movable property and records, injuring three loyal Japanese employees and four guards. The assault, tied to a six month labor dispute, caused losses likely to reach hundreds of thousands of yen.
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Yokohama
Singer Sewing Machine Company
Richard McCleary
New York
Singer Company
Japan
McCleary
E. F. Walker
W. L. Malone
Singer
Eastern Gangsters Slayings Shake Hollywood Bootleg Ring
Three men were killed in Hollywood and Long Beach in a suspected eastern gangsters drive to control liquor in the film colony. Harry Meager, a noted bootlegger, died after a car crash. another unidentified man died in the wreck and a third man shot in the head was found near Long Beach. Police said Meager had warned of threats from eastern gangsters and that a gunman may have fired at least two victims before fleeing. Mrs. Meager could not identify the body found with her husband.
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Hollywood
Calif
Harry Meager
Meager
Long Beach
Swers
Fern Meager
North
Irving Boulevard
Acid Attack Struck 19 Year Old in Little Rock Rooming House
Miss Gladys Strickland, 19, said a stranger entered her room Tuesday night and threw acid in her face. Doctors noted burns were not as serious as first feared and facial disfigurement might be avoided. The assailant acted without warning as she talked with a man she had courted for nine months. Police lack leads and await her decision to pursue charges.
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Little Rock
Ark
Gladys Strickland
Miss Strickland
Little Band of Filibusterers Faces Cloture Challenge
In Washington on January 18 the small group of Senate filibusters vowed no business would be conducted by unanimous consent to limit debate on the Glass banking bill. The AP report notes their stance against expedited proceedings as cloture loomed.
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Washington
Senate
Congress
Burton K. Wheeler
Elmer Thomas
Oklahoma
Huey Long
Louisiana
Thomas
Watson
Indiana
Glass
Virginia
Fraud exposed as four labor leaders convicted in Houston case
S H McClary of the local chamber and Houston chamber secretary led an inquiry into a South America job scam. The scheme billed a $37 50 union joining fee for employment. four labor leaders were convicted in Houston on fraud charges. Federal Judge Charles B Kennamer called the case the most reprehensible fraud on record.
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S. H. McClary
Chamber of Commerce
Houston
Texas
Charles B. Kennamer
Montgomery
Ala
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
South America
McClary
Maestri Seeks Dismissal of Federal Suit
New Orleans January 18 Maestri and the state of Louisiana move to dismiss the injunction suit filed by the Russell Sage Foundation to bar use of the Marsh Island game preserve for political purposes The defendants include conservation commissioner Robert S Maestri six others The state argues it is the real party to be affected and would violate the tenth amendment by suing without consent
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New Orleans
Russell Sage Foundation of
New York
Robert S. Maestri
Marsh Island
Maestri
Louisiana
Torture Bandits Reported To Police In Chicago
Chicago police were told of two women burglars who tortured a housewife by burning the soles of her feet with lighted matches to force disclosure of $10. The victim Mrs Rose Schmalzer 22 identified them as the same pair seen before. She said they entered through an open pantry window while she slept. Her husband was at a bakery.
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Chicago
Rose Schmalzer
Orleans Grand Jury Reopens Inquiry Into Amendments Vote
The Orleans parish grand jury met in special session on its own call and did not reveal its purpose. A witness list included many attorneys from the honest election league, the Louisiana State Bar Association, and the Orleans bar group. State's Attorney General Gaston Porterie entered the grand jury room, while District Attorney Eugene Stanley said he would confer with the body during the day.
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New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Grand Jury
Orleans
Honest Election League
Louisiana State Bar Association
Orleans Bar Group
Gaston L. Porterie
Eugene Stanley
Stanley
Farmer Odis White Ends Life With Razor In Louisiana
Homer Louisiana reports Odis White a 56 year old Cross Roads area farmer was found dead after slashing his throat with a razor. He had been in ill health for months and was discovered in his home by his wife when he failed to return from feeding stock. He leaves a wife and seven children.
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Homer
Odis White
Cross Roads
White
Former Monroe resident settles suit with Auburn Mobile
Mrs. N F Jones widow of a Monroe dealer who died in a Dixie Overland crash reached a $155 000 compromise in federal court in St Louis the day after a hung jury. Her husband died when his car wrecked due to defective wheel spokes. Mrs Jones now lives in Shreveport.
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N. F. Jones
Monroe
Auburn Automobile Company
St. Louis
Murder Hearing Under Way in Dropenoski Slaying
Ottilie Dropenoski, 32, goes on trial in East Baton Rouge district court for the murder of her husband Joseph Dropenoski, an oil refinery employee shot outside their home July 1. Prosecutors signal the state will seek the death penalty. jury selection began with co-defendant Sydney Bercegeau having been convicted last week.
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Baton Rouge
Ottilie Dropenoski
East Baton Rouge
Joseph Dropenoski
Sydney J. Bercegeau
Dropenoski
John Fred Odom
Granted Divorce in Paris on Reciprocal Grounds
Maurice Chavalier and Yvonne Vallee were granted a divorce in Paris on reciprocal grounds. The court issued a brief judgment accepting arguments from both sides.
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Paris
Maurice Chavalier
Yvonne Vallee
Roosevelt and Hoover to Meet Friday Morning
President Hoover and President elect Roosevelt will confer at the White House Friday morning on foreign affairs and world developments. The meeting follows their previous session and may renew talks on war debt difficulties with Secretary Stimson. Roosevelt arrives in Washington Thursday for talks with Democratic leaders.
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Washington
Jan
Hoover
Roosevelt
White House
National Capital
Mr. Hoover
Mills
Raymond Moley
Stimson
Budget Measure Hope Abandoned
Congressional Democrats abandoned hope of enacting budget balancing legislation this session and plan a special session of the new congress. Twelve Ways and Means members dropped all tax proposals before March fourth as Speaker Garner hinted a special session is being arranged to pursue the task.
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Washington
Congressional Democrats
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Garner
Capitol Hill
Vernon Scruggs Pardoned by Gov Allen After Long Fight
Vernon Scruggs of Ouachita Parish received a full pardon from Gov. O K Allen on paroles tied to the 1927 case in which he was condemned for the death of Mildred Thomas. The sentence had been commuted to life in 1928 after an extended clemency campaign by his family and supporters.
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Vernon Scruggs
Ouachita Parish
Mildred Thomas
Cadeville
Scruggs
Criminal Court Room
Miss Thomas
Ward Nine
Monroe
Jonesboro Highway
West Monroe
Two Robbers Loot New Orleans Drug Store
Two disguised men robbed a Prytania Street drug store of twenty dollars after forcing clerk Thomas Wilde and porter Ernest Jefferson to lie on the floor. The crime occurred around 8 pm as two boys playing nearby pool observed the scene.
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New Orleans
Prytania Street
Thomas Wilde
Wilde
Ernest Jefferson
Jefferson
Adrian Suberville
Edgar Zachary
England Grieves for Missing Aviators Hinkler and Bailey
England weighs the fate of two famed fliers Bert Hinkler and Lady Mary Bailey as Capt W L Hope searches the Alps for Hinkler while Capt J A Mollison considers a rescue of Bailey who vanished in the Sahara during a speed attempt. French plans loom over Mollison’s rescue decision.
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London
England
Empire
Bert Hinkler
Australia
Mary Bailey
South Africa
W. L
Wally” Hope
Alps
Switzerland
Hinkler
J. A. Mollison
Lady Bailey
Sahara
Cape Town
Mollison
Amy Johnson Mollison
Oran
Algeria
Algiers
Gao
Niamey
Timbuktu
Niger
Colomb Bechar
Morocco
C. W. A. Scott
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Free Islands
Jess Ramblin
Luna
Ward 9
James L. Griggs
Griggs
Dr. Griggs
U. S
Mississippi
Memphis
Arkansas City
Ese Nee
Vicksburg
Natchez
Tennessee Tetee
Chattanooga
Arkansas
Fort Smith Aeee
Eereee
RED Shreveport
Alexandria Eeanee
Ouachita
Camden
Eeeee Monroe Cesveesees
Sage Foundation
Farmer
Auburn Auto
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