Senate trims Roosevelt lending plan and curbs campaigns
The senate banking committee cut 400 million from the Roosevelt lending program and added 80.6 million for reclamation projects. Taft said Republicans are unsatisfied and seek further curtailment. The panel also reduced railroad equipment spending and toll road authorizations to smaller totals.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Roosevelt
Taft
Ohio
Minority Committee
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Noe Denies Oil Land Use in Louisiana Campaign
The News-Star prints Senator James A. Noe's prepared statement denying benefiting from hot oil and denying operations in specific areas. The paper vows continued questions to Noe and other candidates, asserting a public interest mission against corruption and promising legal action if affidavits or damage suits arise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
News-Star
James A. Noe
Quachita Parish
Louisiana
Noe
News- Star
Ouachita
Robert S. Maestri
United States
Commonwealth
Buyers' Mart Set to Open Here Next Sunday in Monroe
The second annual North Louisiana Traveling Men's Association merchants mart will run Sunday and Monday at Hotel Frances. About 27 exhibitors from nine states will display goods on the second and third floors, with travelers, wholesalers, and retailers gathering to place fall and winter orders. A banquet on Sunday features Charles Evans of Little Rock. The event aims to cut travel costs by centralizing the market for North Louisiana, south Arkansas, and Mississippi buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Louisiana
South Arkansas
Mississippy
South
France executes spy ring leader in secrecy
In Nancy France a 31 year old blacksmith Louis Lucien Franck was executed for selling information to a foreign power during the Czecho Slovak crisis last September. He headed a spy ring and was put to death by firing squad under a new secrecy law. A laborer and a clerk received life terms and President Lebrun denied a pardon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy
France
Louis Lucien Franck
Franck
Rankin Cancels Meeting On Department Audit
William G Rankin the state conservation commissioner canceled a scheduled 10 am to 3 pm meeting with a Young Men's Business club committee to discuss opening department books to auditors. He said he would refer the request to the attorney general and noted a $75,000 balance to be turned over to Louisiana State University for a geology hall after receiving legal advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Wiliam G Rankin
Young Men's Business Club
Rankin
Arthur G. Hill
Conservation Department
Louisiana State University
Timber Land Row Blamed for Death in Louisiana
In Alexandria Louisiana on July 21 L Roy Barmore 30 representative of Crowell and Spencer Lumber company of Longleaf was killed amid a timber land dispute Theophilus Messer 63 was sought in the shooting Messer reportedly claimed ownership of the land where Barmore supervised timber cutting the affray occurred in the woods of Evangeline parish near Meridian
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Alexandria
L. Roy Barmore
Crowell and Spencer Lumber Company
Longleaf
Theophilus Messer
Barmore
Messer
Evangeline Parish
Meridian
Governor Candidate Denies Hot Oil Ties in Louisiana
A gubernatorial candidate rejects allegations tying him to hot oil schemes in Louisiana. He claims no personal or indirect profit from oil sales, denies owning leases near Black Bayou, Bayou Bartholomew, or other sites, and asserts no deal with Standard Oil. He has moved to sue accusers for criminal libel and seeks publication of this denial.
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Louisiana
Black Bayou
Bayou Bartholomew
Standard Oil
Ouachita Parish
John D. Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Monroe Morning World—News-Star
Shreveport Times
Long Maestri Try To Save Hueys Political Machine
New Orleans reports say Governor Earl K Long and Mayor Robert S Maestri join to salvage Huey Long’s political machine. Farr and Maestri remain heirs to the old regime as Leche resigns and Weiss faces mail fraud charges. Long defends Maestri against newspaper accusations of oil corruption.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long
Maestri
Huey
New Orleans
Earl K. Long
Robert S. Maestri
Huey Long
Farr
Kingfish
Richard W. Leche
Seymour Weiss
State to bid on seven college buildings in Louisiana
State Superintendent T. H. Harris announced bids will be accepted next Tuesday for seven new college buildings funded with 716,769.82 dollars from state and federal sources. Bids will also cover equipment for one building at Southwestern Louisiana Institute and three at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute with 244,722 dollars available. Projects include a stadium dormitory girls dormitory and a women gym at Southwestern Louisiana. a gym at Southeastern College Hammond. a power plant and laundry at Louisiana Polytechnic. a student center and natatorium at LSU Normal College Natchitoches. and a utility system at Grambling Negro Normal College.
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Baton Rouge
T. H. Harris
Southwestern Louisiana Institute
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Harris
Southwestern
Southeastern College
Hammond
Louisiana Polytech
Louisiana State Normal College
Natchitoches
The
Negro Normal College
Gramblang
Ship and Ferry Hit at Orleans
A collision at the foot of Canal Street in New Orleans between the steamship S S Edgar F Luckenbach and a ferry boat New Orleans damaged both vessels with no injuries reported. The Luckenbach sank about 40 feet from the riverbank and partly settled in ten feet of water.
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Orleans
New Orleans
Edgar F. Luckenbach
Los Angeles
Mississippi River
Canal Street
Clovis L. LeBlanc
S. S
Eight RAF fliers killed in British crashes
London July 21 Eight fliers died today in three RAF crashes involving four planes. An RAF craft collided near Leck Enfield Yorkshire killing three. A mid air collision near Deal Kent claimed two occupants from one plane and a lone flier from the other. A small plane plunged into the North Sea near Bridlington drowning two men.
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London
Royal Air Force
Leckenfield
Yorkshire
Deal
Kent
North Sea
Bridlington
Threats Rise Over Sakhalin Oil Concessions
Tokyo reports a Soviet demand for confiscation of Japanese oil and coal properties on Sakhalin led to fears of a mass clash. Japan mobilizes a northern fleet unit while negotiations with Soviet officials continue.
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Tokyo
Naval Ministry
Japan
Soviet
Russia
Sakhalin Island
Siberian
Sakhalin
Moscow
Shigenori Togo
S. A. Lozovsky
Masato Sakonji
North Sakhalin
Japanese Anti-Foreign Drive Expands in North China
In Tientsin and Peiping on July 21, the Japanese army announced new anti foreign measures impacting British interests. American and other foreign merchants report import export controls and currency regulations crippling business, with Chinese allies urged to boycott British goods and a press campaign claiming European goods will soon vanish.
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Tientsin
China
Peiping
Yellow River
Weiss Returns From New York To New Orleans
Seymour Weiss, back from New York, says he has no appointment with Mayor Maestri to discuss continuing on the police board. Weiss is under federal indictment for mail fraud tied to the Bienville hotel sale to LSU. He and three others posted $10,000 bond after the indictment.
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New Orleans
Seymour Weiss
New York
Robert S. Maestri
Maestri
Weiss
Bienville
Louisiana State University
Jackpot Draws and Mixed Winners at Yackinville Theater
In Yackinville North Carolina the theater’s jackpot prize led to multiple winners including W Banks Horton who claimed the prize in week one and week three while absent a second time. The fourth drawing produced the name W Banks Horton again sparking crowd protests and a final drawing in the lobby. Floyd D Wylie a firefighter returns from a fishing trip to find his home burned with questions to answer. In Phoenixville William Hallman suffered a knee fracture and his wife and grandson sustained rib injuries in a likely accident.
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Yackinville
N. C
W. Banks Horton
2. Banks Horton
Winnah
Baton Rouge Chief Discharged by City Council
The Baton Rouge city council discharged Police Chief Joe Bates by a two to one vote and offered the job to Captain W. D. Atkins of the state police who leads the bureau of criminal identification. Mayor Bynum protested the move while noting Bates’ praised conduct and urging due process for municipal officers.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Joe Bates
W. D. Atkins
State Police
Atkins
State Police Bureau of Criminal Identification
Bates
Wade H. Bynum
King H. Strenzke
Finance
W. H. Perkins
Commission
Bynum
Strenzke
State Civil Service Commission
Poland Aims to Keep Public Quiet Over Danzig Tensions
Warsaw officials urge restraint as Danzig reports arrests of three Poles including Father Bernard Whiecki and workers Kozuba and Augustyn Petrykus. They cite no motive for the priest’s detention and note a frontier guard’s killing remains under investigation while Poland seeks objective reaction to avoid German provocation.
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Warsaw
Poland
Danzig
Free City
Bernard Whiecki
Zoppot
Kozuba
Augustyn Petrykus
Germany
New Orleans Men Indicted Again in $14,196 Tax Diversion
Prominent contractor Hart and Dr. James Monroe Smith, former LSU president, along with Seymour Weiss and two others, face federal mail fraud charges over the sale of Bienville hotel shown as nurses’ home. The indictment says National Equipment billed LSU for $14,196.07 taxes and was paid, though university owed no debt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Monte F. Hart
New Oreleans
James Monroe Smith
Federal Grand Jury
Louisiana State University
Bienville
Smith
University
Hart
Seymour Weiss
Lee Circle Hotel Company, Inc
National Equipment Company, Inc
Prevailing pay on WPA projects under question
The justice department was asked to rule if prevailing hourly wages can be paid on WPA projects begun before July 1 new relief act. A Mayors Conference committee proposed the compromise amid strikes over a 130 hour month. WPA Commissioner Harrington noted projects reopening in Minneapolis. Reports varied on participant numbers in protests.
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Washington
Justice Department
United States Conference of Mayors
F. C. Harrington
WPA
Minneapolis
Workers’ Alliance
New York
Alliance
David Lasser
Representative Woodrum
Virginia
House Committee
Corrigan Still Going Wrong Way in Pensacola
Honeymooning flyer Douglas Corrigan, famed for the wrong-way flight, checked into a Pensacola hotel with his wife Elizabeth Marvin. A clerk corrected the register to read Mr. and Mrs. Corrigan. The couple arrived from New Orleans and he planned to inspect the naval air station.
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Pensacola
Fla
Douglas Corrigan
Elizabeth Marvin
San Antonio
Tex
Corrigan
New Orleans
Naval Air Station
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Cleveland, O
Jerry
Gerould
Donkey Boys
Goldners
Timber Land Row
Monroe Morning World
Monroe News-Star
Big Four
Unite Efforts
S. Luckenbach
Nikolaevsk
Associated Press
Seattle
Floyd D. Wylie
Mr. Wylie
Phoenixville, Pa
William Hallman
Hallman
Oost
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