Louisiana House Approves Gasoline Tax Increase Bill
The Louisiana House passed the gasoline tax increase by two cents to fund parish needs and avoid local levies, 83 to 2, sending the measure to the Senate. A dispute between Rep. Roland Reed and Rep. Ben R. Simpson over a meter inspection bill disrupted the session after a motion to postpone.
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Baton Rouge
House
State Budget Committee
Senate
Roland Reed
Evangeline
Judiciary
Ben R. Simpson
Caddo
Simpson
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Charles Gonzales
New Orleans
Overton flood control act signed by President Roosevelt
Telegrams in Monroe announced the president signed the Overton flood control act and praised leaders like Mayor Bernstein and John W. Summerlin for cooperation. Senator Overton’s statement says Louisiana will see about 181.1 million dollars in federal flood works in six years, with total act authorizations exceeding 300 million for the lower Mississippi Valley.
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Monroe
Roosevelt
Senator Overton
Bernstein
Tensan Basin Flood Control Association
John W. Summerlin
Tensas Basin
Louisiana
Mississippi Valley
Secretary of War
United
West Monroe man elected Phi Kappa fraternity chief
William Green Haynes Jr of West Monroe was elected chairman of the executive council at the Phi Kappa three day convention at Hotel Frances. Harold Elliott of Jackson Tenn was chosen director of internal affairs Wilbur Crump of Memphis Tenn director of finance and N D Sapperfield of Memphis director of publications. Memphis chosen as next year’s convention city with a full day of activities including a barbecue and sponsor events.
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William Green Haynes, Jr
West Monroe
National Phi Kappa Fraternity
Hotel Frances
Harold Elliott
Jackson, Tenn
Department of Internal Affairs
Wilbur Crump
Memphis
Tenn
N. D. Sapperfield
Bonus Bail, Lost Bonds, and Local Oddities
New York Butler Thomas Hughes used a $500 bail to avoid jail after a drunken driving arrest aided by a $1,480 bonus. In Pittsburgh James Prescott recovered eleven $50 bonds found by two men who alerted detectives. In Columbus Hayden Skeaton, a 38 year old bellhop, was released from jail to await the postman’s ring on a non support charge.
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New York
Thomas Hughes
Pittsburgh
James Prescott
Prescott
Columbus
Hayden Skeaton
Ex associate of Edison fatally shot in East Orange
Daniel McFarlan Moore 67 former Edison associate was found slain at his Park Avenue home. Police sought a tall thin man described by Moore's daughter as handsome and courteous. Investigators reviewed Moore's private papers and examined a plaster footprint and two discharged .22 shells for clues.
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East Orange
N. J
Daniel McFarlan Moore
Thos
Essex County
Moore
Park Avenue
Beatrice Moore
Miss Moore
William Wiley
James Flannery
Veteran Delivers Bonus Bonds To Self In Odd Post Office Scene
Clay Gothard a veteran and postman, with a letter in hand, asked his wife to identify him to himself and handed his bonus bonds to himself in a bizarre self delivery. In Los Angeles, Robert R. Stentz, 32, among the youngest veterans to draw a bonus, described enlisting at 14 in 1918 and lying about his age for admission.
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Chattanooga
Clay Gothard
Los Angeles
Robert R. Stentz
Navy
Post Office Bonus Bonds Draw Couple's Vacation Plans
In Kansas City Frank N. Riggs calculates that post office bonus payments could enrich the department by about six million dollars, noting advertising postage of 1.71 from mail offers. In San Francisco Mr and Mrs James Hansen receive bonus bonds. Mrs Hansen a Beaune nurse collects 518.79 and Mr Hansen 633. they plan to hold bonds and take a Michigan vacation.
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Kansas City
Frank N. Riggs
Post Office
San Francisco
James Hansen
Irving Berlin Receives Soldier Bonus and Welcomes Daughter
In New York on June 16 Irving Berlin the songwriter received his soldier bonus and another daughter was born to the Berlins at Doctors' hospital. The child is the couple's fourth, joining Mary Ellin aged 10 and a 4 year old daughter, with a son Irving Jr. who died in infancy eight years ago.
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New York
Irving Berlin
Berlins
Doctors’ Hospital
Berlin
Ellin MacKay
Clarence H. MacKay
Long Island
Mary Ellin
Irving, Jr
Swayze Abandons River Life Guard Plan
R D Swayze commissioner of streets and parks announces he has abandoned his plan to station life guards along the Ouachita river this summer citing criticisms. He says the plan was not intended to infringe on health and safety duties and aimed to protect river users.
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R. D. Swayze
Streets and Parks
Ouachita River
Mr. Swayze
Commissioner of Public Health and Safety
Bonus bonds distribution slated today in Ouachita parish
About $650,000 in veterans' bonus bonds were at the Monroe post office Tuesday noon for delivery to World War I veterans in Ouachita parish. Bonds are to be distributed via regular routes and special windows, with carrier delivery homes at 5:30 p.m. for home delivery veterans. Registered notices will be sent Tuesday morning for box holders or employer box recipients.
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Monroe
Ouachita Parish
West Monroe
Federal
James R. Wooten
William D. H. Rodriguez
Quachita Parish
Veterans’ Council
Rodriguez
Finance and Public Utilities
Wooten
United States
Champion Spitter Acclaimed By House In Baton Rouge
Representative Leon Friedman, who subbed for Leonard Spinks and won a tobacco-juice spitting contest in Dallas, received acclaim from the Louisiana House. Lawmakers adopted a resolution to place a "golden cuspidor" on the Speaker's desk and then in memorial hall. sent to the Senate for concurrence.
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Baton Rouge
Leon Friedman
Leonard Spinks
Tangipahoa
Texas
Dallas
House of Representatives
House
Friedman
Lorris M. Wimberly
Memorial Hall
Statehouse
Senate
Zioncheck Fails to Leave Hospital
Washington Rep Marion A Zioncheck says Gallinger hospital officials planned to move him to Baltimore's Shepherd Enotch Pratt hospital. From his ward window he described five men sent to escort him and refused to leave under duress delaying the transfer indefinitely.
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Washington
Marion A. Zioncheck
Gallinger Hospital
Shepherd- Enoch Pratt Hospital
Baltimore
Mad
Washington State
Legion Meeting Draws Biggest En Vouy Crowd Of Year
The Leonidas Barkdull Faulk post of the American Legion held a large regular session with about 1110 members present. Louisiana department commander A J Lichterman of Alexandria spoke on post and department activities. Monroe and West Monroe Chamber secretary S H McClary discussed local and national community life.
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Leonidas Barkdull Faulk
American Legion
Louisianana Department
A. J. Lichterman
Alexandria
Lichterman
Louisiana
Department
S. H. McClary
Chamber of Commerce of
Monroe
West Monroe
McClary
Chamber of Commerce
Noe Opposes Leche Resolution Amid Leche Roosevelt Praise
Baton Rouge reports a heated Senate debate over a Dallas visit praising President Roosevelt. Senator James A. Noe opposed a resolution thanking Governor Richard W. Leche for the Texas trip, amid long list of bills awaiting action.
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Baton Rouge
Huey Long
Roosevelt
Dallas
Senate
Richard W. Leche
Texas
James A. Noe
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Noe
Leche
Funeral for Mrs J H Cone to be held at Dermott
Bastrop La June 16 Funeral services will be conducted at Dermott Ark for Mrs J H Cone 65 mother of Colonel J Carroll Cone head of the United Bureau of Air Commerce who died yesterday at the home of her daughter Mrs Leonidas Styker She is survived by her husband three sons Colonel Cone Henry Cone of Honolulu and Wash Cone of Dermott and two daughters Mrs Styker and Mrs Mena Bibb of Crossett Ark
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Bastrop
Dermott
Ark
J. H. Cone
J. Carroll Cone
United Bureau of Air Commerce
Leonidas Styker
Colonel Cone
Henry Cone
Honolulu
Wash Cone
Styker
Mena Bibb
Crossett
Grand Jurors Demand Tax Case Dismissal Review
Nine grand jurors who indicted Huey Long era allies demand the U S attorney general drop prosecutions and seek immediate release of former State Representative Joseph Fisher from Atlanta penitentiary The jurors accuse official discrimination against Fisher and criticize Washington responses as a changed atmosphere in New Orleans
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New Orleans
Grand
Huey P. Long
United States Attorney General
Atlanta
Joseph Fisher
Fisher
Abe Shushan
Roosevelt
Shushan
Long
Arthur C. Waters
Homer S. Cummings
Washington
Secretary of the
Bonus turned down by some war veterans
Washington reports that as distribution of 1.65 billion dollars in baby bonds to about 3 million World War I veterans neared completion, a portion of potential beneficiaries rejected cash by declining to redeem bonds. Donal A. Hobart of the American Veterans’ association said between 500 and 6% of members chose not to use their bonds personally.
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Washington
Uncle Sam
Donal A. Hobart
American Veterans’ Association
New York
Citizenship Denied Aliens on Relief in New Orleans
Federal Judge Wayne G. Borah denied naturalization to two Italians a Greek and a Nicaraguan on relief rolls saying naturalization would violate the spirit and obligations of U S naturalization laws. He noted citizens must bear allegiance duties and support the body politic through taxation.
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New Orleans
Wayne G. Borah
United States
Borah
Prominent Lafayette Businessman George Doucet Dies at 61
George Doucet a leading figure in Lafayette business circles died early today at age 61. Funeral services are set for Wednesday at 4 pm at St. John's Cathedral with interment in the Catholic Cemetery. In national news Morgenthau reports income tax receipts up over last June’s first 15 days by about 18 percent. Congress sees renewed momentum for anti lynch bill with a possible House vote before adjournment.
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Lafayette
George Doucet
St. John’s Cathedral
Washington
Morgenthau
Congress
Norfolk and Western to pay quarterly dividend August 19
The Norfolk and Western Railway announced a regular quarterly dividend of 1 a share on its adjustment preferred stock to stockholders of record July 31. No discrimination was found in the Works Progress Administration case involving needy aliens whether naturalized or not.
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Philadelphia
Norfolk and Western Railway
Washington
Works Progress Administration
Explosion Kills 59 at Estonian Munitions Plant
Tallinn Estonia reported that yesterday a munitions factory blast killed 59 people and injured 29 in the official disclosure today. Other dispatches note Southern business leaders debating independent industrial development and individuals changing posts and estates, including Rabbi Louis Binstock leaving New Orleans for Chicago, comedian W C Fields battling pneumonia, and the will of Speaker Joseph W Byrns favoring his widow Julia Byrns.
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Tallinn
Estonia
New Orleans
Louis Binstock
Temple Sinai
Temple Shalom
Chicago
Binstock
Nashville
Tenn
Joseph W. Byrns
Julia W. Byrns
Joke May Cost Veteran His Bonus in Fingerprint Switch
Leo Rasche recounts a 1917 prank with Army buddy Bill Smith swapping fingerprints on service papers in Columbia. The Treasury letter questioning Rasche’s $1589 bonus claim implies the joke has cost him about $800, as the fingerprints tied to the records dispute his entitlement. Rasche, once AEF captain and Brooklyn Eagle copy editor, wonders about Smith’s fate.
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Brooklyn
Leo Rasche
Bill Smith
Rasche
Smith
Columbia
S. C
el Paso
Treasury Department
The
Brooklyn Eagle Today
US Contract Voided Over Unfair Labor Practices
Interior Secretary Ickes cancelled a 40.99 million dollar sheet steel piling contract for the Imperial dam after the National Labor Relations Board found Jones and Laughlin Steel guilty of unfair labor practices. The decision followed a court of appeals ruling against the board and affected other bidders Inland Steel and Carnegie-Illinois Steel. Ickes had previously awarded to Jones and Laughlin to deter identical bidding.
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Washington
Sec
Retary
Ickes Today
Jones and Laughlin Steel Company
Pittsburgh
National Labor Relations Board
Jones and Laughlin
Imperial Dam
All American Canal
New Mexico
Ickes
Labor Relations Board
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers of North America
Labor Board
Federal Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Interior Department
Bethlehem Steel Company
Inland Steel Company of Chicago
Indiana Harbor
Ind
Carnegie-Ilinoig Steel Company
Denver
South Chicago
Til Ickes
Olson Clinches Farm Labor Senate Nomination
In Minnesota's primary results Governor Floyd B. Olson easily secured the Farm Labor party nomination for the U S Senate by a wide margin over Carl Taylor. Olson led with 42 916 votes across 744 precincts while Taylor had 2 784. Magnus Johnson charged Elmer Benson remained popular with Farm Laborites. Benson backed Olson for the Schall vacancy and Johnson trailed in the gubernatorial race.
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Roosevelt
Charles E. Coughlin
Floyd B. Olson
Elmer Benson
Minnesota Farmer-Laborites
Olson
United States Senate
Benson
Christianson
WPA
van Nuys
Indiana
Harry L. Hopkins
ST. Paul
Farmer Labor Party
Carl Taylor
Farmer Laborites
Magnus Johnson
United States
Johnson
Schall
Senate
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Williams
W. G. Haynes, Jr
Associated Press
Automobile Merchants Association of New York, Inc
Edison
Tail
A. Edison
Swayze
Zioncheck
Legion
Perhamus
Townsend
Coughlin
Maine
Cone
Southern Industrial Council
John E. Edgerton
Lebanon
Fields
Riverside
Calif
W. C. Fields
U. S
Farmer-Labor Party
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