Senate Passes Other Security Bills In Louisiana
Baton Rouge June 11. The Louisiana senate unanimously passed the old age pension measure 35 to 0 despite a vigorous critique from former Governor James A. Noe who opposed the pauper oath and 65-year age requirement. He endorsed the bill only as better than no pension plan while citing Huey Long’s opposition to its terms.
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Baton Rouge, la
James A. Noe
Richard W. Leche
National Administration
Senate
Baton Rouge
Monroe
Noe
Messrs. Burke, Morvant and
Stich
Huey P. Long
Louisiana Governor Urges Coatless Summer For Men
Governor Richard W. Leche urged Louisiana men to abandon coats during the hot months, citing climate and public health. The proclamation notes the legislature as likely to follow, and frames coatless summer as prudent and healthful.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Richard W. Leche
Leche
Monroe Woman's Brother Killed in Vivian Incident
K B Darnell, 26, of Vivian, was found dead along a highway south of Vivian. Acting coroner Dr. Harry W. Paul ruled the death accidental after an investigation. Darnell was brother to Mrs. W R Hatcher, wife of a News Star stereotyping worker, who left for Shreveport upon hearing the news.
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Shreveport
K. B
Buster) Darnell
Vivian
Harry W. Paul
Darnells
Darnell
W. R.hatcher
The
News-Star
World
Vote Nears In Franceon Child Labor New Deal
Premier Leon Blum seeks a parliamentary vote on labor reform bills as Paris cafe and hotel workers strike in protest of proprietor obstinacy. The first social reform measures move through a 33 member chamber study committee amid walkouts and meatless meal threats.
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Paris
Leon Blum
Chamber of Deputies
Topeka plans noise making for Landon nomination
The Kansas capital prepared to celebrate a possible Alf Landon nomination with loud festivities. Chamber official Mark Drehmer promised a full home town celebration with noise and fireworks to mark the moment, asserting a global “toot” would be heard if Cleveland names him the Republican nominee.
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Topeka
Kas
Kansas
Alf M. Landon
Cleveland
Mark Drehmer
Chamber of Commerce
German police dog saves man from enraged bull near Oakdale
In Lake Charles la a German police dog saved T H Gillespie from a charging bull near Oakdale by counter attacking. The dog drove the bull away and Gillespie was rescued and taken to the Oakdale clinic for wounds. He was reported improving today.
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Lake Charles
T. H. Gillespie
Oakdale
Gillespie
Old Confederates Ride Again at Shreveport Reunion
Survivors of General Nathan Bedford Forrest’s cavalry, aged nonagenarians, parade on horseback in Shreveport amid a extreme heat wave. A heat prostration death, a fainting woman, and several hospitalizations marked the event as veterans recalled Civil War exploits. “Mother” Jane Rogers, 85, was hospitalized with illness not disclosed.
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Shreveport
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Uncle Sam
Barksdale Field
Jane T. Rogers
Houston
Texas
Charity Hospital
Roosevelt Addresses Texas War Memorial and Peace Aim
President Roosevelt on a West tour praises Texas pioneers at San Jacinto asserting liberty minded people fight for right. He hopes the United States can uphold principles by peace rather than war while continuing to tackle economic and social problems. He speaks next in Houston San Antonio and Austin with Dallas awaiting a centennial celebration and Vincennes to honor George Rogers Clark.
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Dallas
Texas
Arkansas
Houston
San Antonio
Austin
Mexico
West
Vincennes
Ind
George Rogers Clark
Northwest
Mayor Hears F D R Speak at Fairpark Rally
Monroe Mayor Arnold Bernstein joined dignitaries near President Roosevelt as a crowd estimated by the mayor at fifty thousand packed Fairpark at Lide Rock on a Wednesday evening. Officials described a sea of humanity stretching across the hillside.
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Arnold Bernstein
Monroe
Roosevelt
Fairpark
Lide Rock
Woman Campaigner Rushes to Hoover at Convention
Frances J Clair of New York City scales the convention floor to demand re election of Herbert Hoover. She carries three orchids and challenges ushers as she pushes toward the speaker's platform amid applause for Hoover.
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Cleveland
Frances J Clair
New York City
Herbert Hoover
United States
Hoover
Mrs Bob Burns Dies After Lingering Illness
Mrs. Anna Wood Burns wife of Bob Burns vice president of Twin City Printing died at her home 1108 North Third street Thursday at 510 am after a lingering illness. Funeral services will be held at the residence Friday at 1000 am Rev Ernest Duncan Holloway pastor First Presbyterian church will officiate Interment Riverview Burial Park pallbearers listed Honorary pallbearers include Twin City Printing personnel.
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Anna Wood Burns
Bob Burns
Twin City Printing Company, Inc
North Third Street
Ernest Duncan Holloway
First Presbyterian Church
Wil
Riverview Burial Park
Bob. Tucker
Sam W. Davis
W. H. Anders
Boy Confesses Killing Father Then Casts Body in River
A 16 year old boy confessed to beating his father and dumping the body in the Chicago River after a dispute over a stolen car. William Rudnick, 40, was believed missing. police planned river dragging as the search continued.
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Chicago
William Rudnick
Cody
Emil Rudnick
Charles Myles
Myles
Rudnick
Glassell Succeeds Father on Caddo School Board
Baton Rouge Louisiana Governor Richard W Leche appoints Reuben W Glassell to Caddo parish school board to replace his father R T Glassell who resigned after 20 years service at Belcher.
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Baton Rouge, la
Reuben W Glassell
Caddo Parish
R. T. Glassell
Belcher
Richard W Leche
Convention Talk At Cleveland Reveals Vibe Of GOP Delegates
June coverage notes Cleveland vendors optimistic about a convention windfall as officials estimate 800000 to 1000000 dollars influx and daily spending by delegates. Anecdotes highlight waitresses patience, Mrs. Bertha Baur’s embroidered butterflies, and memories of Knox and Vandenberg as rivals.
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Bertha Baur
Chicago
House Eager to Entrain for Texas
The House of Representatives adjourned after an hour of routine work with committee reports. Only one measure passed, by Rep. John Peters of Winn, to dispense with formal bill of exceptions and allow court minutes to stand in criminal cases.
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Baton Rouge
House of Representatives
Texas
John Peters
Winn
Panama selects Arosemena as president per official figures
Panama City reports Dr Juan Demostenes Arosemena as the new Panama president based on official government figures. Also noted are crop damage forecasts in Washington and background on John Barrymore inquiries in Los Angeles, Anyox forest fire threats in Canada, and Mussolini naming Badoglio to lead Italy's defense staff.
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Panama City
Panama
Juan Demostenes Arosemena
National Revolutionary Coalition Party
Union Leaders Reject Remington Rand Settlement Claim
ILION New York June 11 seven union leaders in the Remington Rand strike dispute a company settlement statement. They say only a few workers returned to the reopened plants in Ilion Syracuse and Tonawanda and the fight has just begun. Cairo Egypt June 11 a troop train ahead of a transport train carrying engineers to Jerusalem was blown up near Lydda no injuries reported.
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N. Y
Remington Rand, Inc
Syracuse
Tonawanda
Cairo
Egypt
UPI
Jerusalem
Lydda
Sigma Phi Omega holds three day national convention in Memphis
The Sigma Phi Omega fraternity founded at Sewanee military academy opens its three day national convention in Memphis with P. Hubert Kuhn of Chattanooga presiding as president for his tenth year.
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Memphis
Tenn
Sigma Phi Omega Fraternity
Sewanee Military Academy
P. Hubert Kuhn
Chattanooga
Cotton Buyer Sentenced for False Pretenses in Cotton Receipts Case
Jim Thomas a 30 year old Monroe cotton buyer pleaded guilty in district court to obtaining under false pretenses receipts valued at 1500 dollars. He received a year in the penitentiary after selling 20 bales of cotton to a Florida buyer and leaving for Florida. He was brought back from Jacksonville May 11 and jailed pending trial. He had earlier been serving a state road sentence for beating a board bill and squandered the sale proceeds.
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Jim Thomas
Monroe
Thomas
C. W. Parnell
West Monroe
Parnell
Clifford Benson
Florida
Jacksonville
Officer shoots burglary suspect in New Orleans house
A suspect identified as Clarence W. Williams, 35, said to have burglary ties, was shot and killed in his bedroom by Patrolman Henry F. Mellen during an attempted arrest in New Orleans. Other officers participated in the operation.
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New Orleans
Clarence W. Williams
Henry F. Mellen
Mellen
Williams
Landon Knox Ticket Emerges as GOP Convention Moves
As the Republican convention narrows paths to a Landon Knox ticket for the campaign against the New Deal, rivals withdraw and Col Frank Knox of Illinois lingers as VP prospect. Delegates shift amid platform debates, with Landon seeking changes on draft policy and the minimum wage constitutional amendment.
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Frank Knox
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Grand Rapids
Mich
Harley Parker
Chicago
Associated Press
Hall C Land
Landon
Platform Committee
Hoover Nomination Hopes Fade in Cleveland
By Byron Price Associated Press Star Writer in Cleveland June 1 delegates faced a strange moment as Herbert Hoover spoke at the convention The 1920 24 28 and 32 Hoover were recalled in debate over his political return Some delegates weighed which version of Hoover they were witnessing The old Hoover The new Hoover or the entertaining hero of Belgian relief as they pondered his valedictory to party leadership
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Kansas
Alfred Mossman Landon
Cleveland
Associated Press
Star
Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Proposal Opposed by Union Veterans in New York
Syracuse June 1 A proposal to honor Robert E Lee Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis with a postage stamp was denounced by 38 aging veterans at the 70th annual encampment of the New York state department Grand Army of the Republic They adopted a resolution denouncing the Confederate leaders as traitors to the flag and saying they sacrificed all to save the union no honor is due those who sought to destroy it.
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N. Y
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Jefferson Davis
New York State Department
Grand Army of the Republic
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