Public Service Body Calls Off Railway Hearing
The Louisiana Public Service Commission cancelled a hearing on whether railroads must submit credit transportation arrangements with the highway commission and contractors for road building materials. Commissioner LeBlanc cited ongoing work orders and projects already under way, noting employment impact from highways and bridge construction and related material sources.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Louisiana Highway Commission
Dudley J. LeBlanc
New Orleans
Highway Commission
Commission
LeBlanc
Texas Scientists Use Ultrasonic Vibration to Kill Bacteria
Two Texas scientists report destroying bacteria with sound waves produced by a nickel tube vibrating at about 8800 cycles per second via electromagnetic coils. The method centers on high pitch air vibrations aimed at microbial targets.
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Texas
Republicans Campaign to Hold White House in 1932
The Republican National Convention renominated Hoover and Curtis and launched a $25,000 borrowing plan as funds and morale ran low. Everett Sanders was named national chairman guiding a campaign marked by protests over Curtis and the party’s prohibition plank.
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United Press
Chicago
Republican Party
White House
Hoover
Curtis
Everett Sanders
Indiana
Calvin Coolidge
Republican National Committee
National Committee
Sanders
Fess
President Hoover
Henry W. Peabody
Massachusetts
Women’s National Committee For Law Enforcement
Prohibition
First National Committee
J. R. Nutt
Cleveland
Nutt
New National Committee
Streetcars Stand In for Rails After Socialist Government
In Santiago Chile conductors and street railway workers took time off to celebrate the new socialist government. A substitute service using horses carried passengers as the city observed the political change.
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Santiago
Chile
Shank’s Mare
Mrs Wherry Wins District Court Action Over Husband’s Death
Judgment for the plaintiff granted in Vera Wherry versus George Zeigin. Wherry sought 20 dollars weekly for 300 weeks under workers compensation after his December 1 1930 death while employed as a driller near Monroe Bastrop. He left a widow and three children.
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Vera Wherry
George Zeigin
Wherry
James C. Wherry
Zeigin
Monroe-Bastrop “Hill
Sheriff Milton Coverdale Repeats Oath for Fourth Term
Ouachita parish sheriff's staff renewed their oaths of office yesterday afternoon and began serving another four year term. Pat Hamilton, clerk of Ouachita parish court, administered the oath to Sheriff Milton Coverdale and
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Ouachita Parish
Oath Delayed as Jailer Illness Halts Ceremony
Deputies Meredith F X Cline D L Roper Gordon Surgaine W H Ban ister and O J Horn listed among officials. Jailer W W Curtis unable to take the oath due to illness delaying the ceremony.
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Meredith
F. X. Cline
D. L. Roper
Gordon Surgaine
W. H. Banister
O. J. Horn
W. W. Curtis
Burglar Pleads Pardon After Crossing Flower Garden
A burglar who had just ransacked his home begged the pardon of L. G. Buford of Kansas City for crossing a flower garden while making his getaway.
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L. G. Buford
Kansas City
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