Senate probes expand rail merger scrutiny and campaigns
A Senate inquiry into railroad mergers and reorganizations widens as Joseph B. Eastman’s office adds four carriers Chicago Great Western Lehigh and New England Denver and Rio Grande Western and Western Pacific. Separately a special committee on campaign expenditures meets to plan work next month with other investigations planned into political organizations.
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Federal Transportation
Chicago Great Western
Lehigh
New England
Denver and
Rio Grande Western
Western Pacific
Senate
Senate Committee
Lonergan
Connecticut
Black
Alabama
Senate Lobby Committee
Miss Cortey Hicks Crowned Miss Bernice in Beauty Contest
Cortey Hicks won the Miss Bernice title over 21 contestants in Bernice. She will represent the community at the state fair in Shreveport to compete for Miss Louisiana. Hicks is an honor student in the junior class at Louisiana College in Pineville.
Y'S Men Elect M'Neil District Head
Y's Men statewide gathering names M'Neil district head at a Monroe convention. Speakers included Bob Wilkerson of Vicksburg and Bob Donovan of Shreveport while Tomm y Frazer of Monroe presided the question box. Messages from IA Y's Men leaders were read.
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M'Neil
Bob Wilkerson
Vicksburg
Bob Donovan
Shreveport
Tommy Frazer
Monroe
John Madden
Earle W. Lyman
International Association of Y's Men's Clubs
Henry D Grimes
Douglas L. Smith
Monroe Club
Fairl Bearing to pay quarterly bonus to 1300 employees
New Britain Connecticut June 22 The Fair bearing company announced that its 1300 employees will receive a bonus on July 15 based on earnings for the past three months. It will be the sixth consecutive quarterly bonus paid by the company.
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New Britain, Conn
Fafair Bearing Company
Lions Clubs Annual Meet Opens With Welcome Address
The Lions Clubs annual meet began with R N Allen commissioner of streets and parks Shreveport delivering the welcome. He is a candidate for district governor as former International President Beddow spoke at lunch. A barbecue at Lakeside Country Club and sessions at Hotel Frances mark a busy agenda with boat ride on Ouachita River and a dinner dance on Cherokee Terrace.
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R. N. Allen
Shreveport
Allen
International
Beddow
W. H. Yawn
Farmerville
Pat Murphy
Tommy Downs
Lakeside Country Club
Hotel Frances
Ouachita River
Cherokee Terrace
Bravest Man alifies At Convention
Garry Smythe moves through the Philadelphia convention scene beside Farley's suite. A photographer snaps him and a blue dress official shooes him from a Roosevelt portrait as Smythe vows to stay in the convention wearing London-Knox badges and promoting his slogan Badger the Democrats With Badges. Sweden imports show 7 278 passenger cars and 147 trucks in the first ten months of 1935.
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Philadelphia
Garry Smythe
James A. Farley
Smythe
Roosevelt
Sweden
Roosevelts to Sail Sea in Family Maritime Spree
At least seven Roosevelt family members plan sailing adventures this summer. George E Roosevelt will skipper the 60-foot schooner Mistress while John K Roosevelt sails the Esmeralda and Philip J Roosevelt sails the Jill. President Roosevelt considers a two week cruise with sons Franklin Jr John and James aboard the 56-foot Sewanna off Portland Maine, recalling a 1932 trip.
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N. Y
Roosevelts
Newport
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Bermuda Islands
George E. Roosevelt
John K
George
White House
Philip J
California
Scotland
Jill
Clyde
Washington
Roosevelt
Franklin, Jr
John
James
Italy Britain Move Toward Peace Treaty
Mussolini addressed Bersaglieri in Venezia Square on the 100th anniversary of the special forces promising fasci victory and warning against those who oppose him. An unrelated traffic survey found seven of every ten cars and trucks had effective lights in use.
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Italy
Britain
Duce
Bersaglieri
Venezia
Death of City Mayor's Sister Details Fatal Crash
The victim, Mrs. Kaliski, sister of local Mayor Bernstein, died en route to Ruston hospital after a wreck on a curving highway. Funeral plans were pending. she had taught in Monroe schools for 17 years and leaves a husband, daughter, brothers Rudolph and Julian, sister Nettie, and other relatives. The crash occurred amid multiple recent accidents on the same curve. In Germany, Hitler decreed axe decapitation for kidnappers, retroactive to June 1.
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Ruston Hospital
Kaliski
Duncan
Miss Moore
Granberry
Vaughan-Wright- Bender
Nettie Bernstein
Winnfield
Minna Marx
Industrial truck and tractor exports hit 1935 total
Industrial truck and tractor exports from the United States totaled 920 units in 1935. A separate ad promotes Black and White Ointment claiming to relieve itching and blemishes, with trial size at 10c and large can at 2c, and notes use with Black and White Skin Soap.
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United States
A Little Erasing Saves Texas Mayor from Fine
Mayor Cecil L. Reynolds of Pear Ridge Texas found a 30 cent eraser can fix a $200 water bond signature error. City Attorney James A. Kirkland said the bonds would not be legal otherwise. An hour of erasing and correcting saved him $19999.70.
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Texas
Pear Ridge
Cecil L. Reynolds
James A. Kirkland
Kirkland
Reynolds
Lightning strikes hit Governor's Palace five times in half hour
In Beverly Shores Indiana the model home dubbed the Governor's Palace was struck by lightning five times in thirty minutes. The first bolt ignited a weather vane fire, men extinguished it, a second bolt knocked Vincent Penz from a scaffold, and three more strikes tore holes in the roof and walls and shattered sixty windows.
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Beverly Shores
Ind
Vincent Penz
Bastile Doors End Reign Of Oklahoma Hobo King
Ada Oklahoma June 22. The iron doors were signed and another king went into exile. Tom McIntyre lost his throne as ruler of a transient village on the outskirts of Ada when subjects complained he used a hatchet instead of a scepter. A police poll showed his rule was distasteful and McIntyre went to jail.
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Ada
Okla
Tom McIntyre
McIntyre
Railroad rate cut on Louisiana cotton extended
Baton Rouge June 22 reductions in railroad freight rates on cotton from Louisiana points to New Orleans and Lake Charles will be continued for another year. The measure preserves lower charges for cotton shipments to port facilities, and reflects broader rail tariff policy.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana
New Orleans
Lake Charles
Fatally Injured Man in New Orleans Auto-Bus Collision
Henry Mayer, fatally injured after stepping from behind a bus into the path of an automobile driven by Eugene B. Pitre of Crown Point, near New Orleans. Police said Mayer died after the accident occurred late yesterday.
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New Orleans
Henry Mayer
Eugene B. Pitre
Crown Point
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