Garbage men barred on day society woman disappeared
On June 15 in Stony Brook New York two garbage collectors said they were barred from entering the Parsons Long Island home the day Mrs Alice McDowell Parsons vanished They reported a large parcel and the car in the garage and noted the note demanding 25 00 The search around the 22 acre estate continued with federal agents and state personnel joining the inquiry
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stony Brook
N. Y
Alice McDowell Parsons
Parsons Long Island
Arthur Chadwick
George Winfield
Earl Connelley
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Lindsay Henry
Suffolk County
Anna Kupryanova
Henry
Connelley
Trim White Farm
Alex Kuprianoff
Alice Parsons
Long Island
State Pushes Big Road and Hospital Program
Huey Long era allies push a sweeping road and hospital plan with $9 million highway contracts and a $4.5 million loan to expand a New Orleans charity hospital. Governor Leche faces attacks on a civil service overhaul and a sales tax bill branded a bungling mess by Rep Norton.
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Baton Rouge
Huey Long
State Advisory Board
Board of Liquidation
Legislative
New Orleans
George T. Norton
Office Opened and Contracts Awarded by Printing Board
The Louisiana state printing board awarded contracts for 227.5 million sheets of pencil paper and 106 million sheets of writing paper for the 1987 88 school session. West Bros of Minden bid 60.89 cents per thousand for writing paper delivered in New Orleans and 62.89 cents outside. F F Hansell and Bros of New Orleans bid 239 cents per thousand for all pencil paper. Bogalusa Stationery Co of Bogalusa bid 2343 cents per thousand for New Orleans delivery and 25.49 cents outside. The board chose Bogalusa for New Orleans paper and Jansell and Bros for outside New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
State Printing Board
West Bros
Amelia Earhart Reaches Karachi During World Flight
Amelia Earhart lands in Karachi at 7 05 p m completing a lengthy leg from Massawa Eritrea on a round the world flight She endured over 29 hours of flying across desert mountains and a 1000 mile stretch over the Arabian sea The flight covers about 1400 miles to reach Karachi before planning a weather dependent stop and continuing toward Darwin Oakland via Pan American airways.
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Karachi
India
Amelia Earhart
Massawa
Eritrea
Arabian Desert
Arabian Sea
Miss Earhart
Assahb
Red Sea
Gulf of Aden
Equator
Darwin
Australia
Pacific
Oakland
Calif
Pan-American Airways
Weather brief for Louisiana and Arkansas
Forecasts show Louisiana tonight and Wednesday partly cloudy with local thundershowers in the southeast and gentle southerly winds along the coast. Arkansas allows for partly cloudy skies with probable local showers in the extreme north through tonight and Wednesday.
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Louisiana
Arkansas
Last stand barricades in Basque City as Bilbao siege tightens
In Franco-Spanish frontier and Saint Jean de Luz, British sailors rescued consul R C Stevenson amid crossfire as Bilbao endures bombardment. Basque defenders rushed barricades and snipers targeted advancing insurgents while government artillery shelled insurgent positions.
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Saint-Jean-De-Luz
France
R. C. Stevenson
Bilbao
Stevenson
Hendaye
Seventy Girls in Refinery Faint in Lille
At a Lille sugar refinery in France seventy young workers fainted in two mass episodes, thirty in the morning and forty in the afternoon. Most victims were 17 or younger and frail. none faced serious injuries, while experts investigated the cause and the plant’s work continued disrupted.
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Lille
France
Nine Hurt In Johnstown Strike Riots At Bethlehem Works
In Johnstown Pennsylvania nine people were injured during violent clashes at Bethlehem Steel Cambria Works with a union picket shot twice and a worker struck by a fractured skull. In Columbus Ohio talks for peace continued as Governor Davey urged settlement while Pennsylvania’s Governor Earle instructed state police to take control.
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Johnstown
Bethlehem Steel
Cambria
Bethlehem
Columbus
Steel
Martin L. Davey
Tax dodger names to be disclosed by inquiry panel
Washington June 15 policy call to publish names of alleged tax dodgers won approval from two leaders of the congressional tax inquiry. Chairman Harrison and Chairman Doughton push for public disclosure as the six member panel readies to begin testimony and consider releasing individual income tax return information. Secretary Morgenthau expected as first witness with possible testimony from those named.
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Washington
Congressional Tax Inquiry
Harrison
Mississippi
Senate Finance Committee
Morgenthau
Committee
Senator Vandenberg
Leach elected mayor of Minneapolis in nonpartisan race
Brigadier General George E. Leach, WWI hero and Republican, won the Minneapolis mayoral race over Kenneth Haycraft. Unofficial returns show Leach with 59,485 votes to Haycraft's 50,822 as 160,000 voters participated in a high profile contest. Leach will take office July 5 for his fifth term.
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Minneapolis
George E. Leach
Kenneth Haycraft
Minnesota
Farmer-Labor Party
Leach
Haycraft
W. A. Anderson
Public Service Board Eyes Additional Phone Rate Cut
Wade O. Martin, chairman of the Louisiana Public Service Commission, announced a supplementary citation to Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph seeking further rate reductions. He noted a $500,000 justifyable cut due to increased phone use, with the 640,000 dollar reductions upheld by the state supreme court and potential U.S. Supreme Court review. The proposed cut would apply mainly outside New Orleans, while New Orleans rates may remain unchanged. The secretary was ordered to cite the company to show cause on August 1.
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Baton Rouge
Wade O. Martin
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company
Martin
Commission
United States
Huey P. Long
New Orleans
Senator Long
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Ohio
Maryland
P. A. Frye
Monroe Hosts Shreveport Chamber Good Will Trip
The Monroe West Monroe Chamber welcomes 1 percent representatives from about 75 Shreveport firms arriving by special train. They will tour to Lakeside Country club for a barbecue, stay overnight at downtown hotels, and depart Thursday morning. The tour, led by Howard Crumley, Henry O Neal, and C W Longwill, covers 31 cities in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas with first stop Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
West Monroe
Shreveport
Lakeside Country Club
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Howard Crumley
Henry O'Neal
Shreveport Chamber of Commerce
C. W. Longwill
Hot Springs
Ark
Catholic Leader Convicted in Danzig Insult Case
Ernst Riedel, head of the Catholic Windhorst league in Danzig, was found guilty of insulting the Nazi party and slandering the criminal police. He received six months imprisonment. The Windhorst league, youth wing of the Catholic Centrist party, persisted in Danzig after Germany banned it in 1933.
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Danzig
Ernst Riedel
Windhorst League of
Free City
Windhorst League
Germany
Public invited for Champ Clark widow death and sanatorium dedication
Mrs. Champ Clark 82 widow of the late Democratic speaker died at her daughter’s home in New Orleans after a long illness. Final plans advancing for the G. B Cooley tuberculosis sanatorium dedication at Pine Top with Governor Leche delivering the address and ribbon cutting. Public inspection to follow of two hospital buildings for white and colored patients.
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Champ Clark
New Orleans
Leche
Ric- Hiness
House of Representatives
James M. Thomson
Harding
Clark
Jefferson Davis
Presbyterian Church
Daughters of the American Revolu
G. B Cooley Tuberculosis
Pine Top
Bernice Wright
Richard W Leche
Seven Die in Sinking Off Bowers Beach Delaware
Coast guard reports seven bodies recovered after the fishing boat Teal sank in Delaware Bay six miles off shore near Bowers Beach. Three survivors were picked up by a coast guard cutter. ten men were aboard, nine from western Pennsylvania.
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Bowers Beach
Del
Delaware Bay
Coast Guard
Lewes del
When
Pennsylvania
Believed Slain in Missing Wife Case on Long Island
Officials probing the disappearance of 38 year old Mrs. Alice McDowell Parsons searched the heavily wooded countryside around her fashionable Long Island home for her body as investigation continued.
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Alice McDowell Parsons
Long Island
I C approves Shreveport chamber to support Rock Island unit sale
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized the Chamber of Commerce of Shreveport Louisiana to intervene in support of the Louisiana and Arkansas railroad's plan to buy and operate the Rock Island Arkansas and Louisiana Railway company. The line is part of the Rock Island system.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chamber of Commerce of
Shreveport
Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad
Rock Island, Arkansas and Louisiana Railway Company
Rock Island
Retired Army General Cronkhite Dies in Florida
Major General Adelbert Cronkhite retired U S Army died in St Petersburg Florida after a week long illness Pneumonia and kidney troubles preceded death He served in France in World War I and was involved in a dispute with the War Department over the shooting death of Major Pennington Cronkhite while leading a detail at Camp Lewis Washington.
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ST. Petersburg
Fla
Adelbert Cronkhite
United States Army
Cronkhite
France
War Department
Alexander Pennington Cronkbite
Camp Lewis
Washington
Bernadoc Accused of Check Forgery
Bernadoc, residing at 2506 DeSiard street and running a filling station at 2504 DeSiard street, was jailed in Onachits parish for issuing nine bad checks totaling 1332.27. Arrested by the sheriff, he is held for Webster parish authorities after a warrant by Ecco Oil Company of Minden. Bond set at 1500 dollars.
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WN. B. Bernadoce
DeSiard Street
Onachits Parish
Bernadoc
Sheriff's Department
Webster Parish
Ecco Oil Company
Minden
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Dorothy Barrett
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Dolores
Yvonne
Social Security Board
L. Dark
Winnsboro
Ouachita National Bank
Dark
Norton
Printing Board
Amelia
Allen C. Southern
Independence
Kans
Senate
House Committee
Doughton
North Carolina
House
Ways and Means Committee
White House
Roosevelt
Gen. Leach
Wade Martin
Public Service Commission
Chamber Party
Shreveport Good Will
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