Railroader becomes prosperous farmer after job loss
O M Dowdey a 37 year old railroad fireman who lost his job last February turned to farming on rented land near Bayou De Siard. He manages 4 1 2 acres of cantaloupes 7 1 2 acres of cotton 4 1 2 acres of corn plus peas and a garden. He expects five to six bales from cotton and 150 bushels of corn with vegetables canned for winter. Dowdey says they have not missed any meals and will not miss any.
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E. R. Strahan
Ouachita Parish
O. M. Dowdey
Dowdey
B. Morton
Bayou de Siard
Monroe
W. T. Landrum
Mr. Strahan
Local Taxpayers Plan March To Capital
A public statement urges state parish and city governments to reveal how tax savings are achieved and asks voters to travel to Baton House Tuesday. It calls for a definite program, press publicity, and broad backing to pressure officials and lawmakers.
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Baton House
Frank A Johnson Dies Sudden in Hotel Room
Frank A Johnson dies in a hotel room, ruled due to heart failure. He worked for a salt company about four years, was unmarried, and his parents live in Camp Hill Alabama. The local association canceled today’s parade in his memory. Coroner Mengis deemed no inquest or autopsy necessary, funeral plans pending word from Alabama relatives.
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Johnson
Salt Company
Camp Hill
Ala
Association
CL. Mengis
Earthquakes Felt in Santiago Barely Damaging
Two tremors shook Santiago this morning with minor damage reported. Local officials described the shocks as slight and limited in impact.
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Santiago
Chile
Repeal Rumpus Intensifies In Federal GOP Meetings
Debates over a repeal plank dominate Republican gatherings as wets and drys stage protests and marching plans. Key figures, including Henry Curran and F Scott McBride, urge repeal or defend the Eighteenth Amendment amid national speculation on party leadership.
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F. Scott McBride
Anti-Saloon League
Crusaders
Republican Citizens’ Committee Against
Ida B. Wise Smith
National Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Curran
McBride
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
League
Rockefeller
Republican National Committee
South Carolina
Joseph W. Tolbert
Georgia
James W. Arnold
Louisiana
Ernest Lee Jahncke
Mississippi
Perry Howard
Senator Fess
Ohio
Charles G. Dawes
Reconstruction Corporation
Congress Hotel
Curtis
Woman Electrocuted in Biloxi Electric Line Tragedy
In Biloxi Mississippi a woman named Annie Cavanaugh died after contacting a live street lighting wire while investigating a nearby car crash. A white man presumed drowned was found in the bay near Ocean Springs with initials C. J. F. on his clothes as the only clue.
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Biloxi
Miss
Annie Cavanaugh
Willie Cavanaugh
Bay of Biloxi
Ocean Springs
Local bridges to resume work on Ouachita Black rivers and Rapides
Baton Rouge reports Louisiana highway chairman A P Tugwell announced resumption of bridge construction on the Ouachita river at Monroe the Black river on the Jonesville Ferriday highway and the Rapides Alexandria link. Federal aid and credit extensions by railroads and contractors enable revival of work halted months ago due to bond sales issues. Monroe bridge about 15 percent done with three piers partially finished. Black river bridge 71 percent finished with most piers and spans erected. Contractors Stevens Brothers St Paul Minn and Doullut and Ewin Inc New Orleans.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
A. P. Tugwell
Louisiana Highway Commission
Ouachita River
Black River
Jonesville-Ferriday Highway
Rapides
Alexandria
Monroe Bridge
Stevens Brothers
St. Paul
Minn
Doullut and Ewin, Inc
New Orleans
Police Juries Urged to Send Delegates to Capital Meetings
Mr Hatch urged police juries to be represented at the Tuesday hearing and Monday organization meeting in Baton Rouge. Early replies showed strong turnout and he asked overlooked juries to send delegations anyway, stressing no one would be ignored.
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Hatch
Baton Rouge
Stanley Reid Honored At Louisiana Travelers Association Meeting
Stanley Reid was honored while other officers were named at a 1916 Louisiana Travelers Association gathering at Gordon hotel. A golf tournament and boat ride were planned for today with a banquet and dance tonight at Hotel Frances. Reports and minutes from the prior convention were reviewed and plans for the coming year discussed.
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Knights of the Road
Louisiana Travelers’ Association
Gordon Hotel
Gardiner
New Orleans
Hotel Frances
Charles Eby to Graduate From University of the South
Charles Eby of this city will receive a degree from the University of the South Sewanee Tenn as one of 30 seniors this year He is a Phi Kappa Phi member and has been a standout on the Sewanee track team He plans to teach This year marks the college 75th anniversary with special features and a large alumni reunion expected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Eby
University of the South
Sewanee
Tenn
Eby
Phi Kappa Phi
Hoover approves Lake City VA hospital funding
Washington reported on June 11 that President Hoover has approved the federal board of hospitalization recommendations for a $200,900 construction project at the Veterans Administration hospital in Lake City Florida.
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Washington
Hoover
Federal Board of Hospitalization
Veterans’ Administration Hospital
Lake City
Fla
Brinkert denial casts doubt on girl's story in Morrow case
Washington dispatch reports Edna Sharpe sister of the maid who killed herself in the Morrow home, sought permission to leave the United States the day the Lindbergh baby was kidnapped. Records show she was a quota alien and planned to sail March 18, with authorities rechecking seas ports in New York. No record exists of the sister who died by self destruction.
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Washington
Edna Sharpe
Morrow
Lindbergh
Por
New York
Immigration Bureau
Edna
Englewood
N. J
Violet Sharpe
Dwight W. Morrow
Ernest Brinkert
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Walsh
Alpine
Emily Kempakien
Colonel Lindbergh
Violet Sharpe Denied In Lindbergh Kidnapping Case
In Englewood New Jersey Violet Sharpe a young waitress denied knowledge of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping. Edna Sharpe her sister said Violet knew nothing about the crime and later Violet killed herself after police pressed her for hours under questioning.
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Stourbridge
England
Edna Sharpe
Violet
Englewood
N. J
Beenham
New York
Aquitania
Edna
Viscount Cobham
Hagley Hall
Autopsy Determines Death by Own Action in Bergen Case
The maid's body was found in a closet with a son spilled nearby. The Englewood morgue received the remains and Dr. Raphael Gillady, a Bergen county physician, conducted an autopsy and ruled death by her own action. No disposal plans were disclosed.
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Englewood
Raphael Gillady
Bergen County
Moody ladder link to Lindbergh case surfaces in N Y
Captain Edward Decker said Claude Moody suspects a ladder used to reach Lindbergh Jr s nursery was stolen from his Rouken Glen property The ladder is similar to the one found at the Lindbergh home and Moody last saw it in February as a fruit tree pruning ladder In Detroit handwriting samples were taken from Robert Burns as a suspected Lindbergh case clue but officers doubt his involvement
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
Edward Decker
Claude W. Moody
Rouken Glen
Charles R. Lindbergh, Jr
Moody
Ernest Brinkert
Decker
Lindbergh Sourland Mountain
Detroit
Robert Burns
New Jersey
Burns
Violet Sharpe
Dwight Morrow
Miss Sharpe
Hoover Rejects War Body Idea In Letter To Cox
President Hoover says few signers know the law and declines another committee. He seeks suggestions from Cox and associates on actions by government or private agencies to improve the situation.
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Hoover
Cox
Linville Farmers Ship Three Cars of Irish Potatoes
About 15 Linville community farmers cooperatively shipped three cars of Irish potatoes this week. The seed was bought and the potatoes grown and shipped under the Lin-Ha-Spin-Deanian club directed by S. D. Reed. They plan to explore tomatoes and cantaloupes and join with neighboring parishes to grow truck crops next year.
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Linville
Lin-Ha-Spin- Deanian Club
S. D. Reed
Mrs Elbert Grows Tripled Zennia in Yard Mystery
Mrs Johnnie Smith Elbert reports an unusual zennia plant in her yard. The specimen bears three distinct centers with triple flowers and petals, an oddity amid a season noted for odd crops and twin or triplet growths.
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Elbert
Zennia
Johnnie Smith Elbert
Fourth District Democrats Hold Mass Meetings In Louisiana
In Louisiana's Fourth District Democrats meet to name delegates for the state convention. Edward Righter leads a New Orleans delegation to Shreveport where rival delegates to Chicago will be chosen. Parish leaders include Charles Gelbke from Gretna Adolph Levesque from Des Allemands and Louis Lasseigne from La Place. The convention will use Cameron parish as the voting unit with one vote per 3000 population.
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New Orleans
Edward Righter
John M. Parker
12Th Ward
Francis Williams
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Fourth Ward
Harry Gamble
First Ward
P. A. Gaudet
Orleans
State Central Committee
Shreveport
Charles F. Gelbke
Gretna
Jefferson Parish
Adolph Levesque
Des
Louisiana V F W Encampment to be Held Shortly
The Louisiana VFW encampment plans a Saturday 9 45 morning event at Hotel Frances with Sergeant Alvin C York speaking to overseas servicemen. A 2 00 pm parade through Monroe features bands and York, followed by a Sunday visit to Vicksburg for a new VFW post initialization.
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Louisiana V. F. W
Hotel Frances
Alvin C. York
Paramount Theater
Monroe
York
Louisiana
Mississippi
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Vicksburg
Miss
Representative Yon Supports Referendum Move
Rep Tom Yon of Florida’s third district, once a strong prohibition backer, said in a Washington telegram he would back a referendum if the Democratic national convention adopts it. Yon, who lost the Democratic primary last Tuesday, faces a runoff with Millard Caldwell, a referendum advocate.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Tom Yon
Florida
Washington
Peyton Yon
Yon
Millard Caldwell
Tax Opponents Move To Fight Ad Valorem Relief
Louisiana lawmakers plan a Tuesday hearing on four joint resolutions to abolish ad valorem taxes for 1933 and 1934 and defer 1932 levies. Proposals include an income tax a one cent gasoline tax and a 10 million dollar bond issue for budget stabilization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
O. K. Allen
Joint Judiciary Committee
Senate
Louisiana Tax Commission
William J. Hammon
Jackson Parish
House of Representatives
House
Monroe Building & I Lone Association Special Meeting Notice
Monroe Louisiana May 18 1932 notice of a special meeting of the stakeholders at the association office 196 St John Street Monroe to consider amending Articles 11 IV V VI IX XI Nil and XX of the charter and to transact other business at 10 oclock A M Monday June 20 1932 signed by A W McWilliams president and secretary BYNUM Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Monroe Building & I Lone Association
St. John Street
Louisiana
Co. & Bynum A. W. McWilliams
Local Girl to Receive Illinois Diploma in Banking Degree
Margaret Elizabeth Gangstad daughter of Mr and Mrs J 5 Gangstad 1701 North Third street is among the University of Illinois Urbana Urbana graduates in a class of about 2300 she will receive a bachelor of science in banking and finance at commencement exercises tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Elizabeth Gangstad
J. 5. Gangstad
North Third Street
University of Illinois
Urbana
Miss Gangstad
Morehouse District Colored Educational Meet Set
An executive meeting will be held by the Morehouse District Colored Educational Association on June 24 at the Little Dee Colored Baptist Church in Mer Rouge.
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Morehouse District Colored Educational Association
Little Dee
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