Senators battle over bonus as tariff bill advances
In Washington on June 21 the soldiers bonus was made a special order after the tariff vote, after an all day fight. Senator Walsh led a bid to move ahead on the bonus, while Senator Watson won a table vote 51 to 22 to postpone. the drama continued as the debate tested two thirds rules and party lines.
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Indiana
Associated Press
Washington
Walsh
Massachusetts
Watson
Insana
Underwood
Alabama
Borah
Bursum
Calder
Cameron
Capper
Cummins
Curtis
Dillingham
Dupont
Edge
Ernest Fernald
France
Frelinghuysen
Gooding
Harold
Jones
Kellogg
Ladd
Lemroot
Lodge
McCormick
McCusaber
McKinley
McLean
McNary
Moses
Nelson
Newberry
Nicholson
Norbeck
Odie
Phipps
Poindexter
Shortridge
Smoot
Spencer
Sterling
Sutherland
Townsend
Wadsworth
Wills
Labor Will Probe Harvard's Action
Cincinnati June 21 The American Federation of Labor convention adopted a resolution calling for an investigation of alleged discriminatory action by Harvard College to bar Hebrew students. The delay in starting the labor plan to combat court decisions adverse to unions was noted as the convention resumed with the program proposed by the special policy committee.
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Cincinnati
American Federation of Labor Convention
Harvard College
Hebrewa
Organized Labor
Special Policy Committee
Annual Baptist Sunday School Picnic Set for Thursday
The First Baptist Sunday School picnic will be held Thursday June 22 with seven large trucks and about twenty autos departing the church at 9 am for the Orphanage pecan grove on DeSiard road. Five hundred expected. Music by the Louisiana Training Institute band. Games and sports facilities prepared.
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First Baptist Sunday School
Pecan Grove
DeSiard Road
Terminal Heights
First Church
Frank Tripp
Earl Wolsingle
Bastrop
Charlie Butler
Julian Holloway
DeRidder
Louisiana Training Institute
E. A. Porter
O. B. Morton
John S. Ramond
Brant Seaman
J. D. Hitchcock
W. L. Husted
S. C. Blackmon
Louisiana
First Baptist and
First Baptist Church
Gas promoters plan Arkansas gas pipeline from Monroe to Little Rock
Arkansas capitalists study piping gas from the Monroe field to Little Rock along the Missouri Pacific line. A district would serve Little Rock Pine Bluff and intermediate towns, extending toward the Louisiana line, with a plan to keep gas prices low and cover booster costs and bond interest.
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Monroe Field
Little Rock
Missouri Pacific
Arkansas Improvement District
Monroe
Louisiana
Little
Justin Matthews
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Portland
McGehee, Dumas
Pine Bluff
Matthews
Severa
Missouri Pacific Railway
Monroe Fields
North Little Rock
Louisiana Line
Ark
Local Shippers Meet to Address Rail Problems
Monroe and West Monroe shippers will convene at the Chamber of Commerce under the Monroe Traffic Bureau to discuss transportation and rate matters. The meeting, called by H J Fernandez, aims to secure benefits from rail industry adjustments amid rate changes and anticipated traffic growth.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Chamber of Commerce
Monroe Traffic Bureau
Monroe Territory
H. J. Fernandez
Twin Cities
Fernandez
Cobb Heads Monroe Chamber of Commerce for Year
The newly elected Monroe Chamber of Commerce board chose J M Cobb as president with Albert Horuff as first vice president and Jno J Herring as second vice president. Secretary Collins and assistant secretary were reelected with a salary increase as the group plans continued affiliation with the Monroe Traffic Bureau and a $1000 annual contribution. The board urged better Pullman facilities between Monroe and New Orleans and urged action at a meeting to push W S & P railway to build a passenger station in Monroe.
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Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Tr. I. Flournoy
R. Downes
F. F. Millsaps
J. M. Cobb
C. C. Bell
Walker Glenn
J. J. Herring
Geo. G. Weaks
J. W. Collens
4. A. Smith
C. E. Paulk
Collins
Fisen
Albert Horuff
Jno
J. Herring
R. Downes, Jr
Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
Monroe Traffic Bureau
Traffic Bureau
New Orleans
W. S. & P. Railway
Messrs. Bell
Herring
Weaks
T. E. Flournoy
W. S. & P. Railroad
Labor Chiefs mull joint plan for strike action
Chicago and Cincinnati reports show rail and coal unions weighing a coordinated walkout. Rail workers tallying ballots in Burnside and Illinois Central shops reveal limited support for a strike while unions plan conferences in Chicago to decide next steps.
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LABOR
Chicago
Railroad Labor Board
Burnside
Illinois Central
Cincinnati
Attorney General invites input on steel merger cases
Washington June 21 Attorney General Daugherty made public a statement saying the department of justice would be glad to hear from any dependable person who has any legitimate argument against the two steel merger cases now before the department.
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Washington
Daugherty
Department of Justice
Department
Highway Work to Be Started Soon
Ouachita police jury received word from state highway engineer J. M. Fourmy that no definite start date can be given for the Monroe Ruston link of the Dixie Overland highway. Mrs Fourmy said they await Washington approval for Ouachita parish work.
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Ouachita
J. M. Fourmy
Monroe-Ruston
Constitutionality of Butler Measure Debated At Hearing
In Baton Rouge on June 21 the legality of the Butler bill to end commercialized race gambling on licensed tracks will be discussed in a public hearing before the legislative bureau late today.
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Baton Rouge
Legislative Bureau
Negro arrested in Lafayette murder of Sheriff Landry case
A suspect arrested at Lake Charles is believed to be part of a gang that shot Aristide Landry and wounded Sheriff Felix Landlais at Youngsville seven miles from Lafayette. A posse hunts for the remaining gang members.
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Lafayette
Lake Charles
Aristide Landry
Felix Landlais
Youngsville
Here
Wagon Mines in Indiana Open Up After Strikes
Terre Haute Ind June 21 seven teen wagon mines closed last week by strikers demonstrations opened this morning. All mines are heavily guarded. No trouble is reported.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Street Car and Work Train Crash in Monroe
A street car and a work train collided on Jackson Street and Lee Avenue in Monroe Wednesday morning around 9 o’clock. Percy Wallace the street car motorman and Susie Burns were taken to St Francis sanitarium with injuries. seven or eight others were hurt lightly and the rest escaped serious harm. The accident occurred on a curve below an old switch as the two cars failed to avoid each other. witnesses noted about twenty passengers on Wallace’s car.
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Percy Wallace
Susie Burns
St. Francis Sanitarium
Wallace
Louis Waggoner
Wood Street
Monroe
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