Fisher Warns House Group Its Act May Cause Break
Senator Jules Fisher, long allied with Huey Long, warned the house ways and means committee that a bill affecting Jefferson parish gas franchises could bring a disastrous result in Louisiana politics. The committee, voting unanimously, reported favorably on Senator Harvey Peltier’s bill allowing the Louisiana Public Service Commission to grant franchises where police juries refuse. George Wallace said Governor Leche approved the measure with an amendment for an appeal from PSC rulings, though he noted appeals go to the courts. The Jefferson parish stronghold angle loomed large alongside Peltier’s main item.
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Baton Rouge
Jules Fisher
Huey P. Long
House
Ways and Means Committee
Jefferson Parish
Louisiana
Fisher
Senate
Harvey Peltier
Louisiana Public Service Commission
George Wallace
Richard Leche
Public Service Commission
Wallace
Peltier
Washington
Congressional
Ellender
Pepper
Florida
Rain Hampered Robber Chase Across Louisiana and Arkansas
A large force including state police sheriff's officers and FBI agents pursued a four man gang led by Charles Chapman and Floyd Hamilton in northwest Louisiana and south Arkansas. Rain slowed the hunt as authorities faced bank robberies in Minden and Bradley with looted sums estimated between 18 000 and 25 000 dollars. National Guard planes joined the chase near Lewisville Arkansas along the Louisiana border, targeting bandits blamed for recent bank robberies and evading a 50 man posse.
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Shreveport
Bossemen
Louisiana
Arkansas
Charles Chapman
Floyd Hamilton
Minden, Law, Bank and Trust Company
J. E. Harper
Lewisville
Ark
National Guard
Boocan
Here
Bradley
Minden
New Basin Canal Bridge Bids Requested
Baton Rouge Louisiana highway commission called for bids on July 6 for a bridge across the new basin canal at the Baton Rouge New Orleans airline highway into New Orleans. That same day bids will be received for 3.018 miles of grading and surfacing from Bayou Portage to route 336 in St Martin parish. Today bids were opened for .774 mile of grading and surfacing on a cutoff to Pollock in Grant parish. Low bidder Robinson and Young of Baton Rouge offered 15.53 dollars per mile?
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Baton Rouge
New Basin Canal
Baton Rouge-New Orleans
New Orleans
Louisiana Highway Commission
Bayou Portage
Route 336
St. Martin Parish
Pollock
Grant Parish
Robinson and Young
Court Reform Foes to Help in Elections
Washington dispatch notes anti administration forces in 1939 sessions may unify despite poll outcomes. Senate foes of the court bill and other Roosevelt measures, led by Wheeler and Burke, helped Democrats facing administration opposition in renomination campaigns.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Wheeler
Montana
Burke
Nebraska
Gillette
Iowa
Hopkins
van Nuys
Indiana
Bill Foe
Tomato planter unearths three $20 gold coins in Uniontown
Samuel Camilli, while transplanting tomatoes, dug up three $20 gold coins on a site where a house burned three years ago and $3,000 in gold and paper money was lost. Local legend adds the tale of buried treasure and recovery during gardening.
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Uniontown
Samuel Camilli
Britain seeks action after Spanish air attacks on shipping
London reports fresh bombings in Spanish waters spur swift measures. The Brisbane bombing near Denia and the Isadora disruption near Castellon de la Plana heighten British worry over casualties. Britain plans possible single and multination pressure on Franco, studying an international air patrol model already used by a naval patrol.
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London
Britain
Brisbane
Denia
Castellon de la Plana
Francisco Franco
Bargelone
Burgos
Lenient sentences for 34 pickets at Baton Rouge plant
Thirty four pickets convicted of contempt of a federal injunction were sentenced by Judge Wayne G. Borah to 10 to 45 days in jail. He called the penalties lenient, saying the men were victims of bad advice. Arrests followed a May 28 disturbance at Consolidated Chemical Industries sulphuric acid plant during a strike.
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Baton Rouge
Wayne G. Borah
Consolidated Chemical Industries
Borah
Child Dies After Prolonged Sleep Sickness
Niagara Falls reports the death of 18 month old Elsie Palazzo after a 50 day sleep illness following a measles outbreak. Doctors diagnosed a form of meningitis. blood transfusions and tube feeding failed to save the child.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Elsie Palazzo
Fury of War Forces Mass Flight From Three Cities
Reports from Washington and Shanghai describe mounting tension over wage bill pay provisions and a vast refugee exodus in China. Southern senators press for wage differentials while Japan widens its six spearhead advance, driving hundreds of thousands from Canton Hankow and Chengchow toward coast and Chungking as government offices evacuate inland.
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Shanghai
Japan
China
Canton
Chengchow
Sunghai
Peiping
Hankow
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chicago
Peiping-Hankow
Henan
Anhwei
Changko
Checheng
Hsuchang
Hwaiyang
Pohsien
Yencheng
Hofei
Anhwei Province
Shucheng
Yangtze River
Nanking
Anking
Chihkou
Tatung
Chungking
Szechwan
Foiled Kidnap Plot Told in British Court
Oxford England June 9 The prosecution outlined England s first modern kidnap plot failure as John Bruce Thornton 50 disguised in corsets attempted to seize Viscount Nuffield automobile owner and Lord Ramsden aided the plan Thornton was charged with inciting Ramsden to assist and arrested May 24 at Lord Nuffield s Cowley plant The scheme aimed to abduct at a pistol point take the captive to the yacht Pierrette and force letters of credit through Thornton bought a disguise in Australia a red toupee with
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Oxford
England
John Bruce Thornton
Britain
Henry Ford
Thornton
Arthur G. F. Ramsden
Viscount Nuffield
Ramsden
Lord Nuffield
Cowley
H. J. Parham
Pierrette
Australia
Alcatraz Warden Frames Criminality as Overlapped by Insanity
Alcatraz warden James A. Johnston told the American Psychiatric Association that criminality is overlapped by insanity. He presented 10 case histories of prisoners, not named, and described inmates brought for medical exams. He warned that lifers and long-termers may crack from time served, stagnate in a circumscribed world, and feed on repetition.
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Howard W. Blakeslee
Associated Press
Francisco
James A. Johnston
Alcatraz
Federal Island
al Capone
Machine Gun Kelly
American Psychiatric Association
Johnston
Pioneering fliers leave Wake Island on Pacific flight
Six Americans led by Richard Archbold fly the Guba on an 8,000 mile Pacific voyage from Wake Island toward New Guinea. Lewis A. Yancey navigates while Russell Rogers pilots as the crew plans scientific work near Lake Hobema to collect plant and animal specimens.
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Wake Island
American Museum of Natural History
Guba
New Guinea
Richard Archbold
Pacific Ocean
San Diego
Calif
Honolulu
Pan American Airways
Midway Island
Archbold
Wake
Hollandia
New York
Guam
Russell Rogers
Lewis A. Yancey
Lake Haobema
Officer Killed as Convict Captured in Ozark Chase
June 9 report from Aziz details deputy Jack Hickox’s death in Main Street by a man linked to five escaping inmates from a Florence prison farm. James Bailey was captured, confessing shooter Tony Meyes and Columbus Reece remain at large with Ray Hunt and Sam Carey aiding.
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Ray
Aziz
Jack Hickox
Florence
James Bailey
Sam Carey
Ray Hunt
Hickox
Bailey
Tony Meyes
Columbus Reece
Joe Lazear
Louis Hoffman Dies After Long Illness At 73
Louis Hoffman 73 longtime Monroe figure dies after lingering illness. Funeral at residence Friday 9 30 am with Rabbi F K Hirsch of Temple B Nai Israel officiating. Interment in Jewish cemetery the grave service will be Masonic in nature. Son of late L H Hoffman pioneer Monroe merchant born in downtown Monroe and lifelong resident.
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Louis Hoffman
Monroe
F. K. Hirsch
Temple B’nai Israel
L. H Hoffman
Kidnapped Boy's Body Found. McCall Confessed Ransom Plot
James Bailey Cash Jr. was found slain a mile from home in Princeton, Florida. FBI director J Edgar Hoover said Franklin Pierce McCall confessed writing the three ransom notes and collecting the $10,000. State Attorney Worley orders a special grand jury. McCall, a 21 year old truck driver and minister's son, led investigators to the body's location. Police say he was in custody for a week after the ransom scheme was uncovered. The family planned a private funeral as authorities continued inquiries.
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Miami
George A. Worley
D. C. Coleman
McCall
Hoover
Cash
Coleman
G-men
King George Makes Awards on Official Birthday
King George VI reviewed meritorious service across fields from cricket to politics in a ceremonial celebration for his official birthday. At 43, he rode a chestnut charger in scarlet and gold as colonel in chief of the Scots Guards, leading a procession with the Dukes of Gloucester and Kent from Buckingham Palace to the Horse Guards Parade for the Trooping the Colour.
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London
George VI
Duke of Windsor
Scots Guards
Gloucester
Kent
Buckingham Palace
Card Delivered 21 Years After Scout Medal Date
In Peekskill New York on June 9 14 a man named George C Clark receives a long delayed mail card dated 1917 notifying him to attend a Boy Scout meeting where he would receive a medal for selling ten liberty bonds. The card was found in a near by mailbox four blocks from his home and delivered now.
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Peekskill, N
George C. Clark
Clark
Wealthy hotel owner Bentley dies in Alexandria
Joseph A. Bentley, 77, noted Alexandria lumberman banker and builder of Hotel Bentley, died here. A native of Williamsport, he moved to Texas in 1886 and started the J. A. Bentley Lumber Co. in Zimmerman. later built the Hotel Bentley and an eight story annex. Survived by sister Mrs. E. A. Emery and brother W. R. Bentley. Funeral set for tomorrow then body to Williamsport for interment.
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Alexandria
Joseph A. Bentley
Williamsport
Texas
E. W. Zimmerman
J. A. Bentley
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
Bentley
South
E. A. Emery
W. R. Bentley
Beverly Hills
Calif
Holy See protests rebels bombardings in Spain
Vatican news service said the Holy See directs continual insistence to General Francisco Franco against bombardments of civilian populations. The appeals to France continue as part of a policy to diminish suffering in war, with no other protests and no joint action with other powers.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Holy See
Francisco Franco
Spain
France
Bare See
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