Exeter City Freighter Sinks in Atlantic Storm
The British freighter Exeter City suffered heavy damage and loss of life in a gale off New York. Captain Iles C. Stedman of the American Merchant reported the master, third officer, a apprentice and seaman lost. Rescue liner reached the stricken ship after a five mile dash amid three hours of rough seas.
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New York
Exeter City
Oficer
Iles C. Stedman
Stedman
Ambrose Lightip
Bank governor to wed longtime associate in London
Montagu Orman, governor of the Bank of England, will marry Mrs Priscilla Maria Worsthorne. The 61 year old bachelor and his bride to be, long linked socially, disclosed plans in a London register filing. Mrs Worsthorne, formerly connected to Alexander Wynand Worsthorne, is active in public affairs and serves on the London county council.
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London
Montagu Orman
Bank of Land
Priscilla Ilia Maria Worsthorne
Norman Penally
Fresold
Worsthorne
Alexander Louis Wynand
Official Budget Adopted By City of West Monroe
The city estimates receipts for 1933 will exceed expenditures by 9000 dollars. General fund 20750 water revenues 26000 fines 600 cemetery licenses 2000 total 49650. Estimated expenditures total 40596.20.
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West Monroe
Monroe
Airmail Pilot Killed In Georgia Crash
Glenn T. Fields flying mail from St. Louis and Chicago to Atlanta died when his plane crashed near Little Kennesaw Mountain outside Marietta Georgia on Friday.
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Marietta, Ga
Glenn T. Fields
St. Louis
Chicago
Atanta
Little Kennesawountain
Here
Town tale and courthouse capers from Monroe Louisiana
A column recounts humorous local episodes from Tallulah to Monroe. A funeral mishap ended with an empty coffin before a proper burial. A hotel mail clerk joke, Dr. McKein Masons, and a court scene end with a cow in lieu of fines, plus a Genevan visit and the King of the Hen Roost heading to Angola prison for five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruth Bennett
X. C. Bennett
Monroe
Geneva
Neb
DeSiard Street
Angola
Green
Southern colleges trade farm produce for student tuition
Southern schools accept crops livestock and other farm goods to cover tuition and living costs. Louisiana State University and Howard College permit cotton and produce as payment, while Mississippi Jones County Agricultural High School and The Citadel also accept farm goods. Students or families bring items and in some cases receive tuition credit rather than cash.
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Atlanta
Dixie
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Louisiana State University
Jones County Agricultural High School
Howard College
Birmingham
University of Georgia
Citadel
Charleston
S. C
Freakish Winds Bring Torrents and Cold Waves
Storms swept across Idaho and western states with six foot snow drifts and drenching rains while southern California faced a deadly gale. San Pedro ships sailed seaward to ride out gales as Los Angeles recorded 2.07 inches of rain and Canoga Park saw 15 families evacuated from rising flood threats. A bridge near a normally dry stream closed as waters surged and power lines failed in Michigan.
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Idaho
California
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Canoga Park
Michigan
Y W C A Board Names Eight New Members
The Y W C A announced eight new board members at the annual meeting held Thursday. New appointees are Mrs. W. B. Clarke Mrs. Henry Colbert Mrs. C. C. Colvert Mrs. David Garrett Mrs. C. V. McGimsey Mrs. Courtney Oliver Mrs. J. C. Sadler and Mrs. Alden Shotwell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Women’s Christian Association Board
W. B. Clarke
Henry Colbert
C. C. Colvert
David Garrett
C. V. McGimsey
Courtney Oliver
J. C. Sadler
Alden Shotwell
Nelson Abell
Guy Stubbs
Louisiana crude oil price cut takes effect Friday
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana lowers prices on all grades in North Louisiana and Arkansas at 7 am Friday. Reductions range from 10 to 27 cents per barrel with specific drops in Smackover Caddo Sabine DeSoto Haynesville Homer Sarepta Cartersville and El Dorado Arkansas. Atlas Pipe Line also trims East Texas crude by 25 to 59 cents.
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Shreveport
Standard Oil Company of Louisiana
North Louisiana
Arkansas
Sabine
DeSoto
Zwolle
Haynesville
Homer
Sarepta
Cartersville
el Dorado
Ark
Japanese Recruits to Be Sent to Manchuria War Zone
The 1933 Japanese army plans to deploy new recruits to Manchuria, boosting force numbers by about fifty percent. They will likely serve guard duties while veterans fight, as hostilities resume in southern Jehol. Reports say three Japanese units move to the southeastern border to seize Jehol when weather allows, with Geneva’s League of Nations committee pursuing a final conciliatory effort amidst bleak prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Japan
Manchuria
Jebol
Tokyo
Jehol
Geneva
League of Nations Committee of Nineteen
Senate counsel confers with Louisiana election investigators
General Samuel Tilden Ansell, newly named counsel for the Senate election committee, met with chief investigator John Holland and staff in New Orleans as they resume data gathering on charges of fraud in the Louisiana race where Representative John H. Overton defeated Senator Edwin S. Broussard. Date of the open hearing was not set.
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New Orleans
Samuel Tilden Ansell
United States
Special
Senate Election Committee
John H. Overton
Edwin S. Broussard
Ansell
John Holland
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Overton
Broussard
Elec
State rests in murder hearing in Dropenoski case
In Baton Rouge on January 20 the state rested its murder case against Ottilie Dropenoski. The defense began challenging the prosecution claim that she induced Sydney Bercegeay to kill her husband Joseph after tiring of him. Attorney J D Womack denied an agreement with Bercegeay to aid his life sentence in exchange for testimony. The slaying followed an ambush after a late night drive.
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Baton Rouge
Ottilie Dropenoski
Joseph Dropenoski
Sydney J. Bercegeay
J. D. Womack
Bercegeay
Dropenoski
Womack
Houston Woman Is Seriously Injured By Car
Mrs Virginia Lavelle a 27 year old Houston Texas sister in law of Vernon Lavelle 25 of Hornbeck La was struck by a coupe in front of a state hospital and seriously injured She suffered a broken knee facial injuries and shock Taken to the hospital the driver J W Whittington was held in jail awaiting outcome of her injuries No charges had been filed at the time of report Mrs Lavelle had come to Houston to be with her brother in law
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Shreveport
Virginia Lavelle
Houston
Texas
Vernon Lavelle
Hornbeck
Lavelle
J. W. Whittington
Reconsideration Sought On Embargo Authority
Senator Bingham Republican Connecticut sought Friday reconsideration of the Senate action approving a resolution authorizing the president to declare an embargo on arms exports to troubled world areas. The move followed Thursday’s vote on the measure.
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Washington
Senate
Bingham
Connecticut
Sin clair Prairie Oil posts 50 cent crude price drop
Houston January 20 The Sinclair Prairie Oil Marketing company announced a flat price of 50 cents per barrel for East Texas crude a cut of 25 cents a barrel retroactive to 7 a.m. January 18.
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Houston
Sinclair-Prairie Oil Marketing Company
East Texas
Missing Rescue Aviators Found In Valley Of Alps
LAUSANNE Switzerland Jan 20 Captain W L Hope and Lieutenant Hinley were located Friday at Vetrox in the Simplon valley after being reported missing during a search for Bert Hinkler. They landed there Thursday and began hiking Diablerets mountain on foot seeking any trace of Hinkler or his aircraft.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
W. L. Hope
Hinley
Alps
Bert Hinkler
Vetrox
Simplon
Diablerets Mountain
Hinkler
Orleans Grand Jury Probes New Orleans Ballot Boxes
The Orleans parish grand jury enters a special session to examine ballot boxes from four city precincts used in the last general election. Attorney General Gaston L. Porterie ordered the boxes presented, with District Attorney Eugene Stanley waiting in an ante room. The probe, urged by the Honest Election League and local bar groups, follows earlier efforts to review amendments voted on in the city.
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New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Grand Jury
Gaston L. Porterie
Eugene Stanley
Orleans
Stanley
Porterie
Honest Election League
Bar Associations
Roosevelt Urges Quick Action on Farm Allotment Bill
Senator McNary said after a White House conference with President-Elect Roosevelt that the incoming president pressed to expedite the domestic allotment farm relief bill now before the committee.
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Washington
Senator McNary
Oregon
Roosevelt
Ohio Valley group weighs leaving national rivers and harbors congress
Cincinnati January 20. Ohio Valley Improvement association consents to consider withdrawal from the national rivers and harbors congress. W C Culkins secretary accuses Louisiana delegation under Senator Huey Long of manipulating by law to gain control with a $5,000 contribution. He says this forces officers and specific project recommendations contrary to long standing policy. A vote is expected next week.
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Cincinnati
Louisiana Association
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
W. C. Culkins
Ohio Group
Louisiana
Huey Long
Congress
Culkins
Ohio
Match Pad Idea Produces Leads in Work Search
New York report on Ralph Neave Jr. of Colgate Class of ’32 who handed out match pad ads on Broadway Fifth Avenue and Wall Street. Outside text asked have you a job for Ralph Neave Jr Inside listed his qualities and experience. The unusual campaign yielded several job leads.
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New York
Ralph Neave, Jr
Colgate
Broadway
Fifth Avenue
Wall Street
Democrats Oppose Tax Bills in Short Session Vote
In Washington on January 20 Democrats on the house ways and means committee voted to table all tax measures, defeating Hawley of Oregon and rejecting Bacharach’s gasoline tax extension. The panel did not debate merits, reaffirming a nonaction stance for a special session of the new Congress.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Hawley
Oregon
Bacharach
New Jersey
Collier
Congress
Kidnap Watchmen and Burglarize Stores in Atlanta
Night watchmen Lee Wicks and Lee Jett were kidnapped and badly beaten by two men who looted the R. S. Allday Supply and R. H. Price Mercantile companies, valued at about 1000 dollars. The robbers called them by name, disarmed them at their car, and bound them with pistol butt blows before fleeing toward Shreveport. Shreveport officers took up the investigation as suspects matched strangers seen in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Tex
Lee Wicks
Lee Jett
R. S. Allday Supply Company
R. H. Price Mercantile Company
Shreveport
Wicks
Jett
Woman of Ruston Dies Early Friday
Mrs. S. D. Pearce wife of former District Judge Stephen D. Pearce died suddenly at the family home in Ruston La She leaves her husband a son Floyd W. Pearce of Ruston and a sister Mrs James M Smith of Shreveport She was organist for Trinity Methodist Church for over 25 years and lifelong member Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery Friday afternoon.
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Ruston
S. D. Pearce
Stephen D. Pearce
Floyd W. Pearce
James M. Smith
Shreveport
President Hoover and Roosevelt in talks on war debt with Britain
President Hoover and President-Elect Roosevelt met at the White House to discuss reopening the war debt issue with Great Britain. France signaled willingness to negotiate if the question is reopened before March 4. An air of secrecy surrounded the talks as officials reviewed economic challenges and farm relief legislation.
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Washington
Hoover
Roosevelt
Great Britain
Paris
France
United States
Foreign Office
America
White House
Stimson and
Mills
Raymond I. Moley
Robinson
Senate
State
Treasury
State Department
Continues Battle With Two Wells Near Conroe
Fire fighters labored to extinguish two burning oil wells near Conroe Texas with damage over 500000. Standard of Kansas No 1 well resisted quenching as Medeley No 2 burned fiercely while state rangers kept spectators at least a mile away. Longview firefighter H L Patton was injured by tubing while assisting the prior blast.
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Conroe
Tex
H. L. Patton
Longview
Houston
Modely No. 1
Poe’s Only Plays Debut At Virginia University
On Poe’s 124th birthday the University of Virginia staged Politian a tragedy inspired by the Beauchamp Sharpe Kentucky murder trial. The premiere drew biographers and scholars and was hosted by the Raven society in the room Poe studied. Dr John C French of Johns Hopkins will speak to the Jefferson society.
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University
University of Virginia
Edgar Allen Poe
Kentucky
Raven Society
Poe
John C. French
Johns Hopkins
Poe Society
Baltimore
Jefferson Society
Politian
Italy
Earl of Leicester
Rome
Castiglione
Lalage
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Jes’ Ramblin
T. Ed Williams
Tallulah
Emy
Madison Parish
Ephraim
B. M. McKein
South Barter
Monroe Organization
Africa
Joan Page
Nairobi
Kenya
Cape Town
Lady Bailey
Niger
French West Africa
U. S. Senate
General Ansell
Sinclair-Prairie
Valley of Alps
Memphis
Helena
Arkansas City
Vicksburg
Natchez
Cumberland
Weetewes
Nashville
OHW
Pittsburgh
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