Battle over Dart bill stalls free bridges project leaders clash
Baton Rouge reports show the Dart bill to compel highway completion of the Chef Menteur and Rigolety free bridges fell 9 to 5 in the House public roads committee after Huey P. Long warned legislators of recall threats. Debate centered on hotel supervision and Loeh hotel bill, with hotel owners opposing and supporters urging action.
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Baton Rouge
A.P
Dart
Highway Commission
Public Service Commission
House
Public Roads and Highways
Huey P. Long
Bennett
Douglas
Hebert
Kennedy
Goar
Peck
Lyles
Meremth
Tockel
Vonders
Wil
Senate Health and Quarantine Committee
Edward Righter
New Orleans
Loeb
Tragedy in Lansdale: Father Kills Son and Attacks Wife
Norton Hill, 45, sent a special delivery summons then killed his 20 year old crippled son, beat his wife who is also crippled, and killed himself with a gun. The scene was found in the family cellar with a knife and revolver nearby and a bloody hammer nearby the son. No motive is known. The wife’s condition is critical but improving. The report also notes unrelated events about Thomas A. Edison hosting a prince for lunch after laboratory tours in West Orange, N J, and a Shriner snapshot with the convention traveler.
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Lansdale, Pa
A. P
Norton Hill
Thomas A. Edison
West Orange
N. J
Edison
Prince
Flivver
Sec
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Roads Committee
Gaar
House of Repr
Carlsbad
DeSiard and
Third Streets
Lansdale
Ond
Shriner
Philadelphia
Motor
Prince OF New Inventions
New York
Gustavus Adolophus
Sweden
Miller & Hart
Richelieu
Breard
Campbell’s Pork & Beans
Kansas City
City
West Monroe
Breard Grocery, Inc
The
Sanitary Grocery
Washington St
Southern Grucer-Co- Ctu
Walter
Valier & Spies Milling CO
Saint Louis, Missouri
U.S. A