Louisiana lawmakers face 58 bills in sixth week session
Baton Rouge June 13 Fifty eight bills were on calendars as Louisiana lawmakers opened their sixth week of the 60 day session. Key items include a 5 million dollar bond for highway maintenance and a 2.5 million dollar farm to market roads program funded by the bond plan. The administration backed measures dominate the agenda with civil service rules and welfare department labor issues awaiting action.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
House
Richard W. Lewhe
Leche
State Welfare Department
Charity Hospitals
State Labor Department
Benning
Sloan Attacks Pay Hour Bill In Letter To Stockholders
New York June 13 Alfred P Sloan Jr chairman General Motors criticizes wage hour legislation saying it would destabilize the economy, worsen unemployment and penalize small businesses. He warns production may fall to 1932 depression levels if wage hours rise too fast, urging productivity gains instead.
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New York
Alfred P. Sloan, Jr
General Motors Corporation
Sloan
Co Cress
Baltimore Tavern Wrecked by Bomb
Baltimore reports a second bombing in 24 hours damaging a northern city tavern and shattering windows in six nearby houses. Police say a home made bomb on the doorsill caused the blast, with injuries reported from a prior Sunday bombing in southwestern Baltimore and 28 houses damaged.
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Baltimore
M. J. Wallace
Ferdinand Kammer
William Adams
Wallace
Fire disaster in Los Angeles apartment blaze claims 150 lives
In Los Angeles on South Alexandria Street a deadly apartment fire killed 150 occupants and left Charles Wolkenstein, 40, dead. Emergency crews fought the blaze as the building burned through the night, with the tragedy prompting investigations into safety standards and evacuation procedures.
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Los Angeles
Charles Wolkenstein
Alexandria Street
Ceiling collapse injures eleven at New York club
Dottie Lavelle, a night club entertainer, sang as a ceiling sagged and collapsed above her last night injuring eleven. In Staunton Virginia five noisy troublemakers were stopped after police said repeated disturbances led to gunfire on owls. In De Smet Idaho two men claimed a dream predicted a bumper huckleberry crop and admitted stealing jars to preserve it.
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New York
Dottie Lavelle
Clichtiv
DE Smet
Idaho
Joe Vincent
Eugene Lallouse
W. A. Weise
Weise
Hunch Leads Gold Hunter to Bodies of Nine Victims
A Fresno prospector followed a hunch to the wreckage of a TWA airliner that vanished March 1 with nine aboard. The plane and nine bodies were found near Buena Vista peak, 9,900 feet high, 18 miles southeast of Yosemite ranger HQ. Evidence included an aviator cap and a co pilots name on a briefcase. The stormy search marked one of California's worst in decades.
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Yosemite
Calif
Buena Vista Peak
Yosemite Valley
Fresno
H. O. Collier
Forest Townsley
Collier
H. M Salisbury
Kansas City
California
John Graves
Sierra
Albuquerque
N. M
Burbank
McGrady Urges Industry to Present Its Side to Public
Detroit June 13 Edward F. McGrady former assistant secretary of labor told Advertising Federation of America members industry falls behind labor in public relations He urged use of public information to tell industry’s story emphasizing workers, ownership spread and large employment tied to raw materials and transport The speech outlined industry contributions and broad ownership in 1934 hitting the need for proactive public relations
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Detroit
Edward F. McGrady
Advertising Federation of America Today
Department of Labor
McGrady
Europe
Asia
Monroe man Sylvester Wise dies after illness
Sylvester C. Wise, 48, a well known Monroe businessman, died Sunday evening after several weeks illness in a local hospital. Funeral Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the family home 415 Pine street with Rev. W C Scott and Rev. L T Hastings officiating. Burial at Riverview Park with Masonic ritual. Active pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers named. (Continued on Seventh Page)
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Sylvester C. Wise
Monroe
Pine Street
W. C. Scott
First Methodist Church
L T. Hastings
First Baptist Church
Riverview
Alex Wilenzick
F. N. Steele
Gordon Surgaine
Frank Kennedy
J. E. Middleton
W. A. Talaferro
John Carroll
Bob Ed Tucker
W. F. Guerriero
F. B. Surgaine
Harry Oliver
J. R. Anders
C. D. Oakley
B. Williams
Mr. Savall
Herman Mickel
W. H. McGee
J. H. Martin
Ruston
Julius Russ
Julius Fink
Tom Adams
H. E. Sloan
Shreve
Accidents Claim 196000 Lives in 1937 in U S
Chicago June 13 The National Safety Council reports 1937 saw 196000 accidental deaths and 9900000 injuries, with motor vehicle crashes causing 39500 deaths and 1.36 million injuries. Total economic losses reach 3.6 billion and per capita deaths fell 4 percent from 1936 due to fewer heat fatalities. Continued on Seventh Page
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Empire State
Flag Day urged by American Legion in Monroe area
An appeal for a general observance of Flag Day on the 161st birthday of the Stars and Stripes was issued by Barkdull Faulk Post No 13, Monroe, and Burnette Downs Post No 201, West Monroe. Mayor Benoit urged citizens to display the national ensign while Post Commanders McKenzie and Harper stressed loyalty to the flag amid world unrest. Businessmen and households were urged to display flags, with Boy Scouts of America also involved.
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the Stars and Stripes
Barkdull Faulk
Monroe
Burnette Downs
West Monroe
American Legion
Benoit
C. F. McKenzie
Boy Scouts of America
Grand Jury to Hear Story of Kidnaping
Miami Florida June 13 a special grand jury convened to hear federal agents and state officers recount events leading to the arrest and confession of Franklin P McCall in the James Bailey Cash Jr kidnapping. The five and a half year old victim was abducted from Princeton May 28 and found dead in palmetto scrub twelve days later. Cash Sr paid 10000 in ransom two days after the theft, the money recovered minus 5000. Sheriff D C Coleman said there was no outside help and that rewards would be returned to donors.
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Miami
Fla
Franklin P McCall
James Bailey Cash, Jr
Princeton
James Bailey Cash
Florida
D. C. Coleman
McCall
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Miami Beach
Coleman
Explosion in Vermilion bay kills Patton brother in blast
New Iberia La June 13 a terr ic explosion at a Texas company gas well 2 miles south of New Iberia Vermilion bay shatters capping equipment. Will H Patton 54 Splendora Tex killed instantly by a fragment. Edward Richardson 24 disappeared before colleagues. One worker blown to watery death.
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New Iberia
Texas Company
Vermilion Bay
Here
Patton Brothers
Will H. Patton
Splendora
Tex
Edward Richardson
Problem Boy Dies in Electric Chair at Rockview
Wendell For rest Bowers, 20, dubbed the problem boy, died in Pennsylvania’s electric chair at Rockview prison. He confessed to killing Mrs. Wilma Carpenter, 38, and molesting her companion, Mary Griffin, 22, in Norristown last December 13. The execution was the first of seven scheduled within a month.
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Bellefonte
Wendell Forrest Bowers
Pennsylvania
Mary Griffin
Bowers
Armies In Two Wars Driving On Defenders
The United States told Japan it would not curb American warships on the Yangtze to aid Japan toward Hankow, saying ships protect American lives and property. Meanwhile Japanese forces push toward Hankow and insurgents advance in Spain, as Europe endures another uneasy peace and Sudeten demands loom.
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Shanghai
United States
Japan
Yangtze River
Hankow
Washington
Harry E. Yarnell
Frank P. Lockhart
Associated Press
Anking
Anhwei
Castellon de la Plana
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Adolf Hitler
Sudetens
Chamberlain
Barkley says session will be concluded by mid week
Senate Leader Barkley after a White House conference with President Roosevelt said Congress would adjourn by Wednesday night without enacting new railroad legislation. He noted the wage hour relief and deficiency bills remain priority and no delay is expected. The adjournment would occur before the president's departure Thursday for his son’s wedding.
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Barkley
Washington
Senate
Kentucky
Roosevelt
Congress
White House
Garner
Bankhead
Reyburn
Texas
House
Prizes Worth 750 Dollars At Annual Cooking School
The News Star and Morning World sponsor the eighth annual cooking school and home makers exposition in Monroe. Prizes totaling more than 750 dollars will be awarded over three days beginning June 15 at 2 15 PM with Mrs Ida Chitwood leading the opening session. Grand prizes include an Electrolux refrigerator and a Norge burner range. Only attendees qualify for gifts. the finale Friday night offers additional rewards.
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News-Star
Morning World
Ida Chitwood
Louisiana
Chitwood
Monroe
Electrolux Refrigerator
United Electric Service Company
Norge
Passman Equipment Company
Jitney Jungle
Income filings show increase in 1937 returns in Louisiana and Mississippi
The 1937 calendar year saw 44,482 Louisiana returns and 16,709 Mississippi returns, up from prior year totals of 40,807 and 14,051. National total reached 5,438,504. City tallies include New Orleans 21,421 and Jackson 2,644 among others.
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Washington
Louisiana
Mississippi
Guy T. Helvering
Internal Revenue
Lousiana
New Orleans
Shreveport
Baton Rouge
Monroe
West Monroe
Alexandria
Lake Charles
Crowley
New Iberia
Gretna
Lafayette
Ruston
Poison spreading in Bayou D'Arbonne fish kill suspected
Dr. G Douglas Williams Ouachita Parish Health unit says Bayou D Arbonne fish are dying in large numbers and warns against eating the fish for the next few days. Ford Hines reports suspected contamination from unknown substances possibly crude oil from Arkansas and ties the events to bayou recession periods.
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Bayou D’arbonne
G. Douglas Williams
Ouachita Parish
Ford Hines
Williams
Bayou D'Arbonne
Agent Hines
Arkansas
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E. L. Bragg
E. B. Turner
M'Grady
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France
Legion Urges
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Forrest Bowers
Wilma Carpenter
China
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