Louisiana $7,000,000 road program set for federal approval
The Louisiana Highway Commission outlined a $7 million construction plan to begin after federal sign off. The plan funds 19 main route projects, 14 municipal jobs, 43 farm to market roads, and 32 overpasses with $6.1 million WPA aid and state matches. Monroe is included. plan targets eliminating grade crossings.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiiana
State Highway Commission
Works Progress Administration
Bureau of Public Roads
A. P. Tugwell
Commission
Nazi moves to crush Catholic press widen Nazi campaign in Germany
Berlin reports Nazi actions to eliminate Catholic newspapers in Baden and Upper Silesia. Fuehrer organ accuses Catholic papers of politics and religion blending, giving three months to conform or disappear. Civil society and press ties cited as evidence of anti church strategy. King probe proposal on U S relations with Germany noted with doubt.
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Berlin
Baden
Fuehrer
Max Amann
Reich Press Chamber
Amann
Reich
Upper Silesia
Hitler Youth Movement
King
Propaganda Ministry
Utah
United States
Germany
Britain halts arms exports to Italy and Ethiopia
In the House of Commons Sir Samuel Hoare announced a temporary halt on licenses for exporting arms from Great Britain to Italy or Ethiopia. Transit of arms destined for Ethiopia through British territory will be allowed under treaty terms, while licenses to export remain suspended for now.
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London
Samuel Hoare
House of Commons
Great Britain
Italy
Ethiopia
Samuel
George Lansbury
Sir Samuel
Cotton Association Seeks 12 Cent Loan on Cotton
The American Cotton Cooperative Association urged a 12 cent government loan on 1935 cotton. Representing 14 states, the group acted at its board meeting in New Orleans. E F Creekmore said action was needed as the AAA had not responds to a prior proposal.
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New Orleans
American Cotton Cooperative Association
E. F. Creekmore
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Eleven Injured As Bus Hits Rail Switch Engine
A Teche line bus traveling from New Orleans to Mobile collided with a Mississippi Export switch engine at Kreele, Mississippi, causing 11 injuries. All but three were treated and released from Jackson County Hospital in Moss Point. Injured include Rosa Lee Parker Biloxi Ora Wells Philadelphia and driver John Berwick New Orleans. The wreck occurred in heavy rain as the bus reached the tracks.
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Mobile
Teche Line
New Orleans
Mississippi Export Railroad
Kreele
Miss
Jackson County
Moss Point
Rosa Lee Parker
Biloxi
Joseph Busby
Ora Wells
Philadelphia
John Berwick
Mississippi Export Company
Winners Named in 4-H Contests at LSU Short Course
Doris Johnston of Sieper Rapides parish won the dress contest sweepstakes at LSU as part of the 4-H short course with a model dress costing 163 dollars. The event followed a dress revue and demonstrations by about 500 4-H club members in Baton Rouge.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University
Doris Johnston
Sieper
Rapides Parish
Safety Pin Removed From Child's Throat
Physicians at Charity hospital in New Orleans performed a delicate operation to remove an open safety pin from the throat of nine month old John Gaspard. The child was brought from near Kaplan Louisiana by his parents Lovelace and wife after swallowing the pin during his mother's dressing. The pin could not be removed with forceps first.
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New Orleans
Charity Hospital
John Gaspard
Kaplan
Indian May Be Tried In Moonlight
In Everglades Florida authorities weigh tribal handling after Kon Sa Tee a 17 year old Seminole was stabbed at an illicit still during a drinking bout Johnny Billy is named as the suspect by Boy Jim while Billy claims Boy Jim did the deed Interpreters aided Coroner J W Russell as the inquest adjourned awaiting Indian leaders wishes Speaker mentions Big Cypress tribe members Watch Billy and Billy Roberts say mash fueled the intoxication delaying identification of the killer
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Everglades
Fla
Kon- Sa-Tee
J. W. Russell
Kon-Sa-Tee
Johnny Billy
Boy Jim
Billy
Billy Roberts
Big Cypress
Further Drilling In Rodessa Field Planned
Preparations for more drilling in the Rodessa oil field followed the completion of United Gas Public Service's Young No. 1 well, expected to yield 15 000 to 25 000 barrels daily. An offset well, Caddo Parish Levee Board No. 1, is planned nearby. Dr J A Shaw called the area likely to become a major field.
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Shreveport
Rodessa
United Gas Public Service Company
R. W. Norton
Caddo Parish
Wealthy rail heir Col Henry H Rogers dies at 55
Southampton New York July 25 Col Henry Huddleston Rogers heir to Standard Oil fortune and son of H H Rogers died at Southampton hospital after a long illness. He suffered pneumonia last October and underwent operations in May at Johns Hopkins before returning to his summer home for convalescence. His widow announced the death. He was born December 1879 in New York City and graduated from Columbia University in 1901.
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Southampton
N. Y
Henry Huddleston Rogers
Standard Oil Companies
Southampton Hospital
Col. Rogers
H. H. Rogers
John D. Rockefeller
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore
Rogers
New York City
Columbia University
Orleans Young Democrats Invite Robinson to Speak
Orleans Young Democrats invite Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas to speak in New Orleans. William P. Hagerty, president, says Robinson will be in nearby Arkansas and would be a privilege to meet the party leader and staunch Democratic supporter.
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New Orleans
The
Young Democrats of
Louisiana
Joseph T. Robinson
Arkansas
Forrest City
Ark
William P. Hagerty
Robinson
Senate
Coin Harvey Rejects Huey Long Hero Status for 1936 Bid
W H Coin Harvey founder of the Liberty League says Huey Long's share the wealth plan is impractical and he has not chosen Long as his standard bearer. Harvey praises Long's fearlessness but criticizes the plan as costly and confusing and opposes paternal government as Jeffersonian.
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Montene
Ark
Huey P. Long
W. H
Harvey
The
Liberty League
Democratic National Party
Louisiana Sclon
Huey Long
Monte Ne
Long
Jefferson
Whilden Abandons Pistol Recovery Plan
Oscar R. Whilden a state leader of the anti Huey Long Square Deal association says he will abandon legal efforts to recover a pistol he claims was taken from his apartment during a raid by state officers. State authorities deny any pistol was taken and call the raid an effort to locate illicit liquor caches in the French Quarter.
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New Orleans
Oscar R. Whilden
Huey P. Long Square Dea! Association
Tax bill aims for 200 million annual raise in Ways and Means
The Ways and Means Committee leaders reach a tentative tax plan to raise about 200 million dollars yearly. It would tax higher incomes and inheritances, corporate profits, and company income while excluding the inter corporate dividend proposal. The plan’s fate depends on later changes and potential presidential objections.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Democrats
Fatal wound ends row over pump in Dixie Overland area
Lloyd W. Bennett 28, Brown Paper mill employee, died at St Francis Sanitarium from a bullet wound in the abdomen inflicted by Virgil Garlock 32 during a late Tuesday night dispute over an automobile pump. The shooting occurred near Lucian Webb's sandwich shop and saloon west of West Monroe on the Dixie Overland highway. Bennetts funeral was held at the home of his parents Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Bennett in Brownville with interment at Pleasant Grove cemetery. Surviving are his parents two brothers L. T. and Carl Bonnett and a sister Essie Bonnett.
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Lloyd W. Bennett
Brown Paper
St. Francis
Virgil Garlock
Lucian Webb
West Monroe
J. T. Bennett
Brownville
Pleasant Grove Cemetery
Here
Jonesboro Road
E. L. Tanner
Assembly of God
L. T
Carl Bonnett
Essie Bonnett
De Queen Slaying Mystery Baffles Police
The unidentified white man found dead near De Queen Arkansas remains unsolved as police report a clue exploded. A hotel registrant named D Dunn from Belzoni Mississippi paid two weeks rent in advance then vanished, and a jailhold man is being questioned as the investigation continues on page ten.
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Dequeen
Ark
D. Dunn
Belzoni
Miss
Oil Royalty Check Paid To State Sets Record
The state treasury gained 64 thousand 694 dollars and 73 cents as Texas company paid oil royalties on state leases at Lake Barre and Caillou Island in Terrebonne Parish. The receipt, the largest single check from oil royalties to the state, was announced by Lucille May Grace, state land office registrar.
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Baton Rouge
Texas Company
Lake Barre
Caillou Island
Terrebonne Parish
Lucille May Grace
Register of the State Land Office
Girl wears pants in wedding vows prompts jail threat
In Columbus Kansas a woman who wore male attire at a wedding confronts an order to abandon trousers or face jail. Alice Delores Hayes, living as a man, stayed at the home of her 14 year old bride Margaret La Vernia Fowler in Galena Kansas while police weigh the unusual case.
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Columbus, Kas
Alice Delores
George) Hayes
Galena
Kas
Margaret la Vernia Fowler
al Manes
Picher
Okla
Miss Hayes
Manes
Two Mussolini Sons Made Officers in East African Air Force
In Rome on July 25 Vittorio Mussolini aged 19 was named a second lieutenant and Bruno Mussolini aged 17 a sergeant in the East African air force. Both brothers recently completed training and join the bombardment corps for East African service as blackshirt Italy supports the Duce amid ongoing tensions with Ethiopia.
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Rome
Benito Mussolini
Vittorio Mussolini
Air Corps
Bruno
Bombardment
Milk prices cut in Monroe and West Monroe
The Ouachita Dairy Dealers Cooperative plans to reduce milk prices in Monroe and West Monroe on August 1. Sweet milk drops from 14 to 12 cents per quart. pint price set at 7 cents and buttermilk at 6 cents per quart. R G Harmon, president, supported the reduction after a lengthy meeting at the Chicot Parish courthouse.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Ouachita Dairy Dealers Cooperative Association
Northeast Louisiana
Quachita Parish
R. G. Harmon
Harmon
18 More Deputies In New Orleans Approved
NEW ORLEANS July 25 With 18 more criminal deputies approved for New Orleans the criminal courts idle for two days because no deputies were available prepared to resume sessions. Sixty seven deputies were originally discharged because the state bureau of criminal identification and investigation failed to approve them. Thirty seven of the deputies were still discharged. Under one of Huey Long s recent laws the bureau must approve the election of deputies sheriff.
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New Orleans
Criminal Courts
State Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation
Huey Long
Five Louisiana Congressmen Take On Dictator Figure
A heated political clash in Louisiana features five congressmen opposing a perceived dictator as they plot moves to challenge the senator. Tensions rise across campaigns with public rallies and sharp accusations as the fight for control intensifies.
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Louisiana
Huey Long Faces Anti Long Campaign In Louisiana
Five Louisiana congressmen split from Huey Long denouncing his rule and vowing a full ticket against his machine. Long dismissed the move as political posturing while remaining in Washington amid looming January primary plans and state elections.
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New Orleans
Huey Long
Louisiana
Long Senate
Long
O. K. Allen
State Supreme Court
Disorders in Terre Haute Spur Guardsmen Action
Striking workers trigger martial law enforcement as about 600 employees remain on strike at the Columbian Enameling plant. National guardsmen clash with 3,000 demonstrators near Twelve Points, with gas blasts and one injury. Eleven arrests raise total detained to 180 as taverns are ordered closed.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Columbian Enameling and Stamping Company
Columbian
McNutt
Edward MacBeth
Will Rogers on Republicans and Roosevelt power shift
Will Rogers notes strong Republican confidence to take government in about 18 months. He cites Bert Snell and Ham Fish preferring quicker action, arguing against Roosevelt and the constitutional four year term. Rogers says Ham and Bert are challenging Matt and Jeff.
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Beverly Hills
Cal
Bert Snell
Ham Fish
Roosevelt
Ham
Bert
Matt
Jeff
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Theodore Dreiser
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Millicent
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Whilden
Inter-Corporation
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Father’s Air Service
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