Indian Motif Dominates Ouachita Junior College Yearbook
The Chacahoula 1933 annual presents an Indian motif with a blue buckram cover, embossed Indian chief, teepees, arrows, and birch-bark canoe imagery. Eva LaVelle Simmons provides the period drawings as part of a yearbook featuring society histories, member photos, and staff credits. T. O. Brown is honored in the dedication.
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Ouachita Parish
Chacahoula
Ouachita Junior College
Eva LaVelle Simmons
T. O. Brown
Congress weighs veterans conference and tax implications
The president warned that Senate amendments could trigger new taxes to cover about 170 million dollars, while a White House estimate put regulatory changes at 50 million. The Senate's presumption of service-connected cases—about 160 thousand—faces opposition as the administration seeks to replace it with a reasonable doubt standard to protect veterans without expanding government costs.
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Senate
White House
Best Route Named to Worlds Fair
Secretary S H McClary says Monroe to Chicago travelers should take the Little Rock route via Monroe Memphis Vidalia totaling about 950 miles. The trip often split over two days with an overnight in Paducah Kentucky. Many inquiries reach the local Chamber of Commerce about summer travel plans.
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Monroe
Chicago
Little Rock
S. H. McClary
Memphis
Vidalia
Illinois
Paducah
McClary
New Heath Dept Warnings Over City Budget Lacks for Garbage
Public notices warn rats spread dangerous diseases amid city funding gaps for garbage removal. Stearns Electric Paste touted as the fastest way to kill rats mice and roaches with multilingual directions and a 55 year track record. Sold nationwide for 35 cents per box or tube.
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Heath
Stearns
U.S
Negro in jail questions value of friendship after beer find
Jim Hysaw, a bewildered black man in Fort Worth county jail, asked if it pays to be a friend while visiting a prisoner. A package he carried contained two iced bottles of home brew, which the jailer allowed the visit to proceed.
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Fort Worth
Texas
U.P
Jim Hysaw
Hysaw
Road Projects' Completion Debate At Local Meeting
The police jury discussed state road projects across the river with no bridge work since last fall due to economic conditions. A push emerged to use unemployment funds for Bayou DeSiard drainage and a gate into Bayou Bartholomew was considered. The library appropriation faced withdrawal unless a July 1 state-controlled reorganization occurred, prompting talks between police jury and library board.
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C. R. Tidwell
J. Porter Burgess
A. P. Tugwell
State Highway Commission
Bayou DeSiard
Bayou Bartholomew
Burgess
Tidwell
Breard
Arnold Bernstein
Library Committee
W. J. Vinson
D. Y. Smith
J. C. Sadler
Library Board
Breard Elected Jury President by Acclamation
Breard chosen jury president by acclamation. Parish officers and health board reelected for another year. Parish employes listed: Hill, Renaud, Culpepper, Green, Rogers, Strahan, Mrs. McQuiller, Wright, Mengis. J. W. Williams leads parish health board with Yancey Powell Harrison Welch. Myatt named official parish printer. No opposition noted.
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F. M. Hill
B. J. Renaud
A. E. Culpepper
East Side
H. Q. Green
West Side
R. H. Rogers
E. R. Strahan
Parish
Jewel L. McQuiller
E. L. Wright
C. L. Mengis
Parish Board of Health
J. W. Williams
E. R. Yancey
Leadership course urged enrollment at Barkdull Faulk
Miss Lucyle Godwin announces an urgent 10 day leadership course at Barkdull Faulk. Registration remains open by contacting her immediately. The lectures run 9 to 11 a.m. with some sessions through June 17, targeting church leaders civic workers and playground managers. No playground staff for summer without completion.
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Barkdull Faulk
Lucyle Godwin
Miss Godwin
France Will Not Propose Paying Debts on June 15
As the June 15 debt installments approach the French hold to the view that Britain will default too hoping a global settlement and aid to the world economic conference. Government circles say a Roosevelt gesture would shift French opinion but see none possible with Congress. Washington reports the administration insists debtors must initiate negotiations themselves.
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Britain
Roosevelt
Congress
Washington
Bank Liquidity Hearing Reveals March 1 Deposits
Liquidity officials testified on March 1 deposit inflows for Hibernia Canal and Continental banks after a holiday shutdown. Hibernia received 4.174 million dollars, Canal 6.465 million, Continental 14 thousand. Bank officials and state regulators testified in open court.
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Hibernia
R. N. Sims
Hibernia Bank and Trust Company
J. F. Fink
Canal Bank
L. J. Dumestre
Continental Bank
Continental
Stanley
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Washingte
Roe
State Bank
J. S. Brock
John D. Baradat
Criminal District Courts
Alex C. O'Donnell
J. Arthur Charbonnet
Choir singer missing as police pursue leads in town
Police hunt a church choir member who disappeared after leaving home Monday. Neighbors saw her in a blue figured house dress, bare headed and without hose. An anonymous call about her being in a downtown store and leaving town proved untraceable. no notes left at home.
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Miss Lucas
Publisher Cyrus Curtis dies at 82 in Wyncote suburb
Cyrus H. K. Curtis, renowned newspaper and magazine publisher, died at his Wyncote home at 2 10 am after a lingering illness. He would have turned 83 on June 18. Funeral services set for Friday at the Curtis residence with family present. Curtis built a publishing empire including Ladies Home Journal and Evening Public Ledger plus numerous Philadelphia papers and the New York Evening Post. He enjoyed music and yachting, his boat Lydonia among the finest pleasure craft.
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Philadelphia
Cyrus H. K. Curtis
Wyncote
Curtis
Mary Louise Curtis Bok
W. Curtis Bok
Gary W. Bok
John C. Martin
Martin
Curtis-Martin
Pearson Wells
Detroit
Martin E. Redfuss
Freeman Brown
Rockland
Maine
Portland
Boston
People's Ledger
Tribune and Farmer
Louisa Knapp
Ladies Home Journal
Keystone
Curtis Publishing Company
Saturday Evening Post
The
Country Gentleman
Public Ledger
Evening Public Ledger
Evening Telegraph
Philadelphia Press
Morning Public Ledger
Philadelphia North American
Philadelphia Enquirer
New York Evening Post
Lydonia
Wets and Days Organizing in Dixie States
The movement to repeal the eighteenth amendment spreads in Tennessee Georgia Florida North Carolina and Alabama with F Scott McBride and Bishop James Cannon Jr present A July 18 election date looms in Alabama where supporters expect the repeal drive to begin A Mississippi council forms to push repeal and beer legalization with Dr Sidney W Johnston named president and petitions planned for a special legislative session Other southern states see similar organization efforts
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Tennessee
Georgia
Florida
North Carolina
Alabama
F. Scott McBride
James Cannon, Jr
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Charles E. Rice
Homewood
Alliance Against
Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
United Council
Sidney W. Johnston
Vicksburg
Confab Called Over Bank Reform Bill Deadlock
White House aides summon leaders to resolve the Glass Steagall reform dispute as conferees halt sessions after failing to agree on deposit insurance. The Vandenberg amendment divides administration and negotiators while Senator Long balks at insurance into the fund.
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White House
Glass- Steagall
Vandenberg
Senate
Glass
Long
Louisiana
George Lester Sworn In As Assistant District Attorney
George Lester was sworn in Wednesday morning as assistant district attorney. He previously opposed Hawthorne and Thornhill in a three cornered race, supported Hawthorne, and was appointed after Hawthorne took office. Thornhill remains temporarily in office due to his jury case experience. The week of June 12 includes the murder trial of Mrs. Frank Manley and others in the shooting of Ted Reiser.
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George Lester
Pat S. Hamilton
Lester
Frank W. Hawthorne
Morehouse Parish
J. B. Thornhill
Ouachita Parish
David I. Garrett
Hawthorne
Thornhill
Frank Manley
Orville Elmore
Roy Smith
Ted Reiser
Van Sweringens Start Railway On One Million
Crowds packed a hearing room as Van Sweringen testified about funding the railway start with a shoe string. Investigators prepared a resolution seeking broader access to Morgan partners income tax returns and stock deals linked to payments.
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Senate
Morgan Partners
Fletcher
Postevite
van Sweringen
Pecora
Woodmen delegate heads to Detroit with Century of Progress visit
Fire Chief and Mrs. Frank J. Roddy travel to Detroit for a Woodmen of the World national convention. On return they will drive via Chicago to the Century of Progress world fair. Supt. T. C. Brown and Mrs. Brown plan a three month Boulder vacation to regain health.
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Frank J. Roddy
Detroit
Mich
the Woodmen of the World Organization
Chicago
Supt
T. C. Brown
Preliminary Hearings for McGarritys Held Today
Preliminary hearings for Malcolm and Douglas McGarrity charged with stealing an automobile Saturday night from Monroe Automobile and Supply were scheduled for Wednesday at 2 p m in district court here. They were arrested by state highway officers with the car and held in the parish jail after transfer from the city jail.
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Malcolm McGarrity
Douglas McGarrity
Monroe Automobile and Supply Company
Auto Accident Victims Recover After Jonesboro Highway Collision
Three members of the Peters family and their father from Sterlington were injured when their car struck a bus on the Jonesboro highway Tuesday morning. All five were taken to a Monroe clinic and by Wednesday all were reported much improved with Stuart Peters previously believed to have the most serious skull fracture showing good progress.
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Stuart Peters
Mary Bell Peters
I. N. Peters
Sterlington
Jonesboro
Monroe
Stuart
Rum Running Trial Details Conspiracy Over I'm Alone
Jurors were selected and opening arguments concluded in the case over a alleged liquor smuggling plot aboard the ship I'm Alone off Louisiana. Prosecutors intend to prove Dan Hogan and three others conspired to bring rum from British Honduras. defense contends no connection. Judge Dawkins overruled double jeopardy challenge, noting evidence will show if same conspiracy is involved.
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Coast Guard
Louisiana
I'm Alone
Phillip H. Mecom
United States
Dan Hogan
British Honduras
Hogan
Ben C. Dawkins
Hearing Denial in Elmore Case Delays Sentencing
The judge denied another hearing for Elmore noting no reasonable doubt existed, the district attorney having shown all expected evidence and a conspiracy claim. A bill of exception was reserved by defense counsel George Wesley Smith. Preliminary appeal actions were set for 2 PM Wednesday with potential sentencing later that afternoon.
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George Wesley Smith
Defense Counsel
Elmore
Funeral held for Mack Rogers in Natchez
Mack Rogers aged 21 alias John Cain died in a Natchez hospital after a confrontation with officers during an arrest attempt in Jonesville Louisiana. He was among suspects in Louisiana bank robberies and a Smackover Arkansas robbery. His father identified the body and appealed for a straight life. Deputy Gallner fired the fatal shot after Rogers allegedly seized a pistol from Town Marshal Ben F. Smith.
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Natchez
Miss
Mack Rogers
John Cain
Rogers
Ida
Jonesville
Louisiana
Smackover
Ark
W. H. Rogers
Tensas Parish
Roy Huff
Catahoula Parish
Young Rogers
Sicily Island
Ben F. Smith
Smith
L. C. Gallner
Shreveport
Longview
Tex
Ouachita Junior College Extends Summer Course Registration
Ouachita junior college extends summer course registration through the rest of the week. President C C Calvert announced the extension after initially restricting registrations to Tuesday only. Current registrations trail slightly behind last year’s figures.
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Ouachita Junior College
C. C. Calvert
Senate Republicans Push 1 12 Percent Sales Tax Alternative
Washington June 7 Senate Republicans decided to press for a 1 12 percent sales tax as a substitute for proposed corporate levies to finance the 3 3 billion public works program in the industrial recovery bill.
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Washington
Senate
Luncheon By Monroe Lions Club Reports At New Orleans Meeting
Delegates at the annual Lions International convention in New Orleans heard humorous reports. Monroe Lions Club met for a Tuesday luncheon at Hotels Frances. Ed Everett Farmerville district governor elect attended with a delegation. Myatt was reinstated. M. R. Jackson joined the club.
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Lions International
New Orleans
Monroe Lions Club
Frances
Ed Everett
Farmerville
A. B. Myatt
M. R. Jackson
Walsh Receives Purple Heart for World War I Wounds
James O Walsh of Crescent Bend receives the Purple Heart for wounds suffered in 1918 during World War I. He enlisted April 1 1917 at Little Rock Arkansas and served 14 months overseas with Company F 128 Infantry, discharged May 24 1919.
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James O. Walsh
Crescent Bend
Order of the Purple Heart
Walsh
Little Rock
Ark
128 Infantry
Chimney Collapse Buries Dozens of Children in Ontario School
A chimney crashed through the roof of a public school during a storm near Winona Ontario. About 20 children were buried under falling bricks and debris. No further details on injuries or fatalities are provided. A separate note mentions three Milwaukeeans starting a leather necktie firm.
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Winona
Ont
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Joe Hanna
John Collens
Effie Pace
Mary Goss
Charity Committee
France
Pique
J. C. Penney Co
Dixie States
Confab
van Sweringens
Hotel
Virginia
Stella Vinson
Rpeeegeeee
EET Megal Works
Walnut St
Monroe,la
Lions Club
Jas. C. Walsh
Monroe Commercial School
Fridaire
Frigidaire
Frigidai
General Motors
Standard Office Supply Co. K. OF P
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