Roosevelt backs separate talks on debts with Europe
President-Elect Roosevelt authorizes Secretary Stimson to arrange individual talks with European debtor nations that have met obligations seeking relief while not opening a general war debt conference. Italy has requested a debt discussion, with others expected to join, including Britain, as Roosevelt links debt talks to broader economic stabilization efforts. France and Belgium are not yet ruled out.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Stimson
Italy
Ihroed
Great Britain
Obvius
General Cooperaton
France
Belgium
Natchez Publisher James K. Lambert Dies at 50
James K. Lambert publisher of the Natchez Democrat died suddenly at his home in Natchez Mississippi. He was about 50 years old and survived by his widow and eight children. A devout Catholic active in public affairs he led editorials against the Mississippi Wales tax and fought for higher prices for farmers and flood control. His influence extended into Louisiana where the paper circulated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Natchez, Miss
Ames K. Lambert
The
Natchez
Intoouisiana
Monroe Earns Praise for Mary Goss Home Opening
A Monroe report highlights the forthcoming Mary Goss Home for Aged Negroes led by Mrs. W A Walker and Mrs C C Bell, honoring Mary Goss's charitable vision. Other items note local optimists, an unemployed relief effort by Frank Breese, a family heirloom knife tracing to 1804, and a dentist chair being wired for the health unit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
W. A. Walker
C. C. Bell
Mary Goss
Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
Senate Debates Remonetization of Silver Amid Glass Bill
Washington January 24 The Senate faced a clash over remonetization of silver as it met to push the Glass banking bill toward a final vote. Liberal Democrats Long and Wheeler urged amendments for free coinage at 16 to 1, with weeks of debate and an informal plan to stay in session to complete action.
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Washington
Senate
Long Ofouisiana
Wheeler
Montana
Four beaten with hammer by neighbor farmer
In Lufkin Texas a man attacked the McCall family and neighbor Mrs Looney with a hammer at a farm six miles north of town. He fled after taking fifteen dollars from the purse and requesting a loan. Mrs McCall and Sallie, 13, suffered crushed skulls and were hospitalized while F L McCall, 60, was struck on the head but not regarded as critical.
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Lufkin
Tex
Roberta McCall
Sallie
F. L. McCall
N. J. Looney
Sheriff's Department
Assessors Reorganize At Baton Rouge Meeting
Assessors from 55 of 65 parishes met in private session with the Louisiana Tax Commission and the Tax Reform Commission to discuss assessment methods and policy, reorganize the Louisiana Tax Assessors Association, and welcome newly elected officials. Trent L. James was named president, Homer LeBlanc vice president, Charles F. Ratcliffe secretary, with L. Moss and L. Richard not reelected.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Tax Commission
Louisiana Tax Reform Commission
H. L. Hughes
Natchitoches
Tax Commission
Hughes
Louisiana Tax Assessors Association
Trent L. James
Rapides Assessor
L. L. Moss
Calcasieu
Homer LeBlanc
St. Martin
L. L. Richard
Jeff Davis
Moss
Richard
Charles F. Ratcliffe
East Baton Rouge
Reorganized Association
Tax Reform Commission
J. Porter Burgess
Ouachita
A. C. Gardiner
Church Point
Lorris M. Wimberly
Bien
Man Wanted in Monroe Escapes Hospital
Ernest Dees, sought in Monroe on charges of stealing automobiles and arson, escaped from Shreveport charity hospital. A hospital letter to Sheriff Milton Coverdale said he discharged himself during visiting hour on January 4, leaving in a hospital shirt with no clothing. He had been jailed locally the previous year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Dees
Monroe
Charity Hospital
Shreveport
Milton Coverdale
Dees
Hospital
State Ponders Snipes Problem
In Columbia South Carolina on January 24 officials faced the dilemma of what to do with Frances Joan Snipes, a newborn girl whose mother is serving a life sentence for murder. The baby, born a week earlier after a death sentence for her mother was commuted, prompted letters from across the country seeking homes. Authorities had yet to decide how to care for the child when Mrs. Snipes is returned to prison as her husband serves a lesser term.
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Columbia
S. C
South Carolina
Frances Joan Snipes
York County
Mrs. Snipes
Gasoline Tank Blast Injures Seventeen in Grider
A 50,000 gallon gasoline storage tank exploded in Grider Arkansas injuring 17 as flames leapt over firefighters. The blast started by a spark from a pumping engine and Osceola firefighters rushed to aid, with four aboard injured including Chief Wathen Pruitt and Gilbert Gough.
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Grider
Ark
Osceola
Osceola Fire Department
Wathen Pruitt
Gilbert Gough
Ben Bratcher
Lehman Williams
Irish ballot in Dail election pits De Valera Cosgrave
Dublin Jan 24 An Irish Free State election pits Eamon De Valera and William T Cosgrave in a race for the Dail presidency under proportional representation. Each campaigned for the head of government, with De Valera urging independence and tariff resistance and Cosgrave seeking to extend party control after a five year term. Counting will be slow as the 153-member assembly votes.
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Dublin
Irish Free State
Eamon de Valera
William T. Cosgrave
Dail
de Valera
Cosgrave
Two Guards Face Murder Charges in Texas Hospital Case
Voluntary statements by a guard and a former guard at San Antonio state hospital underpin murder charges over Hollis O Neal a 25 year old patient. O Neal allegedly beaten days before he died and investigators question link to the slain hospital superintendent B O Simpson found January 5 1933. Simpson may have known too much about the O Neal affair. O Neal admitted to hospital from Weslaco Hidalgo county February 25 1932. The beatings occurred March 6 after a quarrel with a guard.
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San Antonio
Tex
San Antonio State Hospital
Hollis O'Neal
O'Neal
James N. McCrary
James E. Donnell
B. O. Simpson
Simpson
Weslaco
Hidalgo County
Carolina Seeks Return of Lea to That State
North Carolina Governor Ehringhaus asked Tennessee Governor McAllister to extradite Luke Lea and his son Luke Lea Jr. to NC authorities to serve Buncombe county bank law violation sentences. Extradition papers were signed and sent to Buncombe County Solicitor Zeb V. Nettles for transmission.
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Raleigh
N. C
John C. B. Ehringhaus
North Carolina
Hill McAllister
Tennessee
Luke Lea
Luke Lea, Jr
Lea
Buncombe County
Ehringhaus
Zeb V. Nettles
McAllister
LEAS PLAN TO RESIST EXTRADITION IN TENNESSEE
Nashville Jan. 24. Plans to resist extradition of Col. Luke Lea and Luke Lea Jr to North Carolina were announced by their chief counsel L. E. Gwinn. He said habeas corpus proceedings would be used if necessary on the eve of requisition papers receipt.
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Luke Lea
Tennessee
Luke Lea, Jr
Uest
North Carolina
Nashville
Associated Press
Bolivians Stage Assault On Fort Ayala In Gran Chaco Fight
Bolivian army presses fifth day of heavy assault against Paraguayan Fort Ayala amid reports of hundreds dead or missing on both sides. Heat, rains, and mud hinder advances as Paraguayans claim stubborn resistance and Bolivians report breakthroughs in Ayala and further drives toward Corrales and Fort Luis Alberto Herrera.
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Buenos Aires
Ayala
Gran Chaco
Paraguayan War Ministry
Corrales
Pilcomayo
Luis Alberto Herrera
Rogers Has His Say on Death Valley Scotty
Beverly Hills readers discuss the fate of Death Valley Scotty in a chatty letter segment. The writer cites Scottis farewell from Italy and contrasts public praise with personal familiarity, noting Scotty’s deep knowledge of Death Valley and predicting he will “get along.”
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Oklahoma
Italy
Death Valley
Old
Three Monroe bandits tied to Tulsa sheriff shooting
Sheriff Milton Coverdale suspects three men connected to Saturday night Monroe robberies staged the shootings of Sheriff John C. Mosley 49 of Tulsa Texas. Mosley died after a midnight confrontation near a filling station as officers chased the suspects who may have fled toward Tulia after the raid.
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John C. Mosley
Tulsa
Texas
Milton Coverdale
Monroe
Coverdale
Tulia
Mosley
Happy
Morton Serious Ill With Pneumonia
O. B. Morton longtime vice president of Ouachita National Bank fell ill at his Jackson street home Monday night. By Tuesday morning his condition worsened and he was moved to Vaughan-Wright-Bendel clinic. Doctors reported acute pneumonia on the right side and described his outlook as serious. Morton had been active downtown Monday before the sudden onset.
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O. B. Morton
Ouachita National Bank
Jackson Street
Vaughan-Wright-Bendel
Morton
Underworld figure Stanley Anderson shot to death near Baton Rouge
Stanley Swede Anderson a St Louis underworld figure who escaped marshals by leaping from a moving train was shot and killed while fleeing north on a fast freight near Louisiana State University in an open field. Officials identified the body by letters from his wife and son found on him after a high speed pursuit from New Orleans where he faced murder charges.
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Baton Rouge
Stanley
Anderson
St. Louis
United States
New Orleans
Here
Louisiana State University
Kenner
Lutcher
Thomas Kehoe
King Solomon slain in Boston
Boston on January 24 Charles King Solomon night club owner and New York rum smuggling conspiracy defendant died of multiple gunshot wounds after being found by a taxi driver outside a nightclub. Solomon had earlier been indicted with three others on a conspiracy charge to smuggle liquor into the United States.
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Boston
Charles ‘King” Solomon
New York
City Hospital
Solomon
Charles “King” Solomon
United States
Roosevelt Confers With Authority on Economics
President-elect Roosevelt begins a series of domestic and foreign economics talks with Bernard Baruch in Warm Springs about a new international program. He aims to secure cooperation from foreign powers in return for tariff and currency stabilization measures as he shapes his cabinet and foreign policy team.
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Warm Springs
Roosevelt
Bernard M. Baruch
Financial Authority of
New York
Baruch
Senate
Owen D. Young
Senator Walsh
Montana
Young
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