Watchman Injured as Fire Destroys Pleasure Craft at New Basin Canal
Fire at the New Basin Canal wharves in New Orleans damages ten ships and yachts and destroys the yacht Cintal D. Watchman John Gercich, 61, was in a dying condition at Charity Hospital from burns. Loss pegged at about 92 000 with several boats including Loiterer, Chinook, Baby Lou, Huntress, Junior, Private and Glenmore sustaining major damage.
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New Orleans
New Basin Canal
John Gercich
Watchman
Charity Hospital
Paul Doullot
Doullot and Williams
Gercich
William Douglas
Lawrence Fabacher
Baby Lou
Huntress
Junior
Rudy O'Dwyer
Joseph Behan
Glenmore
New Orleans Moves To Force Release Of 1930 Tax Rolls
The city seeks mandamus to compel Louisiana Tax Commission to approve and release New Orleans 1930 tax rolls so tax collection can begin. City officials claim Long administration delays hinder revenue, amid ongoing political feuding with state leadership. Additionally a fatal shooting occurs when a husband mistakes his wife for a burglar in St. Landry parish.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Michel Provosty
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Tax Commission
Edward M. Robbert
Long
Huey P. Long
City Commission Council
T. Semmes Walmsley
Tax Commission
Prisons Probe to Resume This Afternoon in Baton Rouge
The senate investigations open this afternoon into state prison affairs with Clay J. Dugas general manager John B. Burgin operator Pecue rice plantation and W W Prine Burgin's superintendent called to testify. The session follows detailed accounts presented by W N Mc Farland former state auditor about penitentiary contracts and convict labor.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Senate Public Roads Committee
Highway Commission
Senate Committee
Clay J. Dugas
John B. Burgin
W. W. Prine
Burgin
Dugas
Pecue
W. N. McFarland
Westwego Girl Held After Shooting of Boyfriend
In Westwego an early Sunday shooting after a dance sent Sidney Adams to a New Orleans hospital with two wounds near the heart and stomach. His girl friend Miss Oneida Aste was jailed after admitting firing one shot.
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Westwego
Sidney Adams
Oneida Aste
Adams
Miss Aste
Jefferson Parish
Local Man Fatally Struck by Fast Train Near Riverton
Joseph Marshall Williams 85 of Monroe died an hour after a northbound Missouri Pacific passenger train struck him north of Riverton. His stalled car at Steamboat Spur crossing led him to push it off tracks. his wife Eloise 7 and son J Marshall Jr. 4 witnessed. Williams died from a fractured skull and internal injuries at a Columbia sanitarium. Funeral at Amity Church Richland parish with Masonic lodge involvement. He leaves wife, two children, mother, two siblings. longtime coffee salesman, previously in Columbia. home at 906 Alabama Street Monroe.
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Riverton
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Columbia
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Richland Parish
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Marker locations proposed for Fort Miro by Col Landers
Colonel H L Landers of the Army War College historical section advocated marking Fort Miro at either the southwest corner of the courthouse square or on the McGuire property opposite the courthouse, provided the latter is purchased. He will support whichever site is designated by local parties. Sanders tours Louisiana to mark sites with monuments.
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Historical Section
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Fort Miro
Court House Square
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Colony Sanders
Louisiana
Shreveport
Chamber of Commerce
John Humble
Grand and
Calypso Streets
Grand Street
Colonel Landers
Prodigal San Shines on Fatted Calf in N C
In New Orleans on Sunday the fatted calf was revealed at a tea dance on the roof of the New Orleans Athletic Club. Men wore shorts well above the knee in a public revival of a Dartmouth origin trend now spreading to Tulane groups.
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Explosion in Chinese munitions dump kills and wounds hundreds
A massive blast at Chu chow munitions dump near Changsha in Hunan on June 10 killed about 100 people and injured 300. Rebel forces reportedly captured the dump, a hand grenade mishandling sparked the disaster, and a jail break attempt during the chaos added further casualties.
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Chuchow
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Hunan
Kwangsi
Overton denies speaking at long Baton Rouge meeting
Alexandria attorney John H. Overton said he would not attend the mass meeting in Baton Rouge on Wednesday night. He stated that circulars naming him as a speaker were printed without his knowledge and that the announcement was an error.
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Huey P. Long
John H. Overton
Alexandria
O. K. Allen
News-Star
Yachts collide off Greenwich. sailor drowns amid rescues
A sailor drowned and ten people including actress Claire Windsor were rescued after two yachts collided three miles off Greenwich Connecticut. The Plant yacht Lolita, with Windsor aboard, was hit amidships by the Chandwan III owned by O Chatfield Taylor.
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New York
Claire Windsor
Phillip N. Plant
Greenwich
Conn
Miss Windsor
O. Chatfield Taylor
Male Lady Godiva Not Crazy Poker Game Loser
Frank Smith 30 denied insanity after police arrested him while riding as Lady Godiva with socks. He claimed tough luck from a poker game and was released after relatives provided clothes.
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Lady Godiva
Memphis
Tenn
Frank Smith
Smith
Boone defends highway probe testimony amid resigning dispute
Senator William C. Boone of Claiborne challenges Chairman O. K. Allen on highway committee testimony. Boone says he sought to resign as a highway commission attorney last year but was pressed to stay with salary offers. He cites Governor Long’s letter urging him to remain and denounces Allen’s remarks as misrepresentation.
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Commission
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Allen
Aged Man Hart Dies After Collision Near Corry
M. H. Hart aged 66 of Bosco died from a fractured skull after the car he rode in rear ended a parked vehicle on the Lone Star highway near Corry. His son R. L. Hart 28 who drove the car is recovering at Riverside sanitarium. The Grayson couple C. N. Robinson and Miss Lula Justice escaped with minor bruises. Funeral arrangements pending. Hart is survived by his wife and several children.
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R. L. Hart
Riverside Sanitarium
C. N. Robinson
Lula Justice
Grayson
Hart
Hambone's Meditations a Baptist church tale
In a humorous local column J P Alley recalls a tale of church money antics and a family clash over where to attend worship. A playful regional voice critiques family tradition and faith with a stubborn headstrong tone.
Boy Climber Permits Death After Auto Crash
In Monette Arkansas near a telephone pole crash 16 year old Charles Wilson died after crawling from Joe Swarms 16. authorities say Wilson’s parentswill not prosecute and Swarms faces a driving while intoxicated charge. Dallas McKenzie 16 remains hospitalized with severe head cuts. Swarms was released to his parents without bond.
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Ark
Joe Swarms
Charles Wilson
Carmi
Here
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Justice of Peace
Jonesboro
Dallas McKenzie
Farmer From Son's Grave Ends Life in Mississippi
In Blue Mountain Mississippi Tom Howard aged 40 killed himself at home after visiting the grave of his 14 year old son J. D. Howard who had drowned Friday. A storekeeper saw him buy shotgun shells and his wife heard a gunshot in a closet.
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Associated Press
Blue Mountain
Miss
Tom Howard
Howard
Cotton Co op to Open Work June 23 in Crescent City
E F Creekmore general manager of the American Cotton Cooperative Association announced from Washington that a staff of about 300 workers will organize at central headquarters to be located in New Orleans beginning June 23. The group will assist farmers in marketing and stabilizing crops and is expected to function by July 1 and be fully operating by August 1.
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Crescent City
New Orleans
E. F. Creekmore
American Cotton Cooperative Association
Washington
Giants Launch Home Run Spree Against Cubs
New York Giants blast three homers in the first two innings to take a 3 to 2 lead over the Chicago Cubs. Terry belts his tenth of the season in the first, while Jackson and Allen hit their seventh and fifth respectively in the second. Game notes New York at Cleveland postponed due to rain.
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New York Giants
Cubs
Terry
Jackson
Allen
Giants
Cleveland
Clarksville editor Guy Clark dies at sea
Advices report Guy Clark editor of a Clarksville Mississippi newspaper died of heart trouble aboard the steamship Amapala while returning from Cristobal to New Orleans. The body was embalmed for shipment to New Orleans.
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Cristobal
New Orleans
Baby Shot In Head Survives As Police Probe Grows
Chicago June 16 The six weeks old son of Mr and Mrs Oscar J Stensland remained alive and fed after a .22 caliber bullet lodged in his skull Doctors found a hole in the temple and a bullet in the brain An operation to remove the bullet was not undertaken pending condition Police could not identify the shooter but investigation continued.
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Chicago
Oscar J. Stensland
Chicago Police Chiefs Resign Over Gang Murder Fallout
Police Commissioner William F. Russell and Detective Chief John Stege resigned under pressure after the gang murder of Chicago Tribune reporter Alfred J. Lingle. Russell becomes a captain assigned to civil service. Stege is demoted to captain of the Irving Park district. Deputy Commissioner John Alcock named acting commissioner. Deputy Detective Chief John Egan appointed Stege successor.
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William F. Russell
John Stege
Alfred J. Lingle
Chicago Tribune
Russell
Stege
Civil Service
Irving Park
John Alcock
Farmer dies after fast ends in shotgun suicide
Frank W. Davis a 58 year old Danville farmer who ended a 26 day hunger strike by eating, was found dead in his cabin with a shotgun wound to the heart. Neighbors discovered him and authorities labeled it death by self action. Physicians said he had been dead eight to ten hours. He had only recently returned to his cabin after authorities planned to commit him for observation at Western State hospital for the insane.
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Frank W. Davis
Davis
Western State Hospital
New Commission Upheld in Bonnet Carre Spillway Case
The U S circuit court of appeals denied writs by Bonnet Carre landowners to undo Judge Borah's replacement of the appraisal board. The newer panel Walter B Spencer W Morgan Gurley and William A Wenck is binding. The court also denied challenges to certain awards and opened condemnation actions against railways and others for rights of way in the spillway area.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Bonnet Carre
Wayne G. Borah
District Court
Borah
J. P. Kemper
Benjamin Crump, Jr
William T. Coats
Walter B. Spencer
W. Morgan Gurley
William A. Wenck
William J. Guste
A. E. Johnson
Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company
Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company
Western Union
Idaho Youths Ordained as Sen Buddhist Monks in U S
Two Roise Idaho youths L A Col burn 21 and F M Ormsby 25 were ordained as Sen Buddhist monks Mokusai and Koun in San Francisco temple. The ceremony led by Muegen Senzaki symbolized renunciation with a knife gesture. They plan to travel to Japan for five years of training.
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San Francisco
Roise
Idaho
United States
Muegen Senzaki
L. A. Colburn
F. M
Greenville Saenger theatre officials to face Sabbath law charges
Greenville Mississippi officials show up before City Judge Emmet Hart to answer charges of violating the sabbath law. Manager Dan Burgum projectionist Herman Pogue and cashier Mrs Hedgecock were arrested yesterday by Police Chief William Taggart as the Saenger theatre began Sunday movies.
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Greenville
Miss
Saenger Motion Picture Theatre
Emmet Hart
Dan Burgum
Herman Pogue
Hedgecock
William Taggart
Longs Highway Bill To Be Debated In Legislature Tonight
A dozen controversial measures including attacks on the current administration are scheduled in the Louisiana house and senate tonight. The primary target is Governor Long’s road bond plan described by advocates as the 1980 administration measure. A challenge to admissibility of the administration substitute road bill is expected to trigger a heated round of debate as desks move the bill toward regular order.
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Baton Rouge
Long
House
Senate
Bauer
St. Mary
Roth House
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