House Passes Two Teacher Bills In Louisiana
The Louisiana House approved life tenure for teachers by 82 to 4 and then unanimously backed a measure returning hiring authority to parish school boards, removing it from the state budget committee. Governor Leche pushed the bills as a special order with strong support and expected Senate action soon. Four representatives opposed the tenure bill.
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Baton Rouge
House
5S. A. Bordelon
Avoyelles
Huey P. Long
Richard W. Leche
Senate
J. W. Cannon
Red River
J. T. Curry
Tensas
N. S. Hoffapuir
Acadia
M. Risinger
DeSoto
Representaive C. A. Riddle
Democratic convention opens with New Deal focus in Philadelphia
The Democratic National Convention session in Convention Hall Philadelphia June 23 recessed after strong attacks on the Republican ticket. James A Farley led the rally praising the New Deal and Franklin D Roosevelt, denouncing foes as split and plotting both sides. The crowd cheered as Farley vowed to carry on the Roosevelt recovery program.
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Philadelphia
Associated Press
London
Knox
Alfred E. Smith
James A. Farley
du Pont Liberty League
Minimum wage coming says Miss Perkins
Secretary Frances Perkins arrives in Philadelphia to urge a constitutional route to establish a minimum wage, aiming to curb wage declines seen in 1932 while exploring all constitutional options before the Democratic resolutions committee.
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Miss Perkins
Philadelphia
Frances Perkins
Democratic Resolutions Committee
Local Heat Wave Broken By Rain In Monroe
A wind storm and rain Tuesday morning cooled Monroe’s heat wave after days of record heat. City hall readings dropped from 102 103 degrees Monday to about 86, about 14 degrees below recent highs, ending a week of extreme heat.
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Monroe
Vicinity
Katie Key
Mercury
Last-Minute Briefs From Across the World
A compilation of terse notes from cotton farmers in Memphis awaiting a research foundation report. Military and political items include General Chan Chai-Tong taking command of anti-Japanese forces in Hong Kong, Winston Churchill criticizing Europe’s 1914 situation, and Polish Nazi treason cases with deaths in custody. Also reports a Texas electric chair execution of Juan Rivera and a Los Angeles murder inquiry involving Herman Jacobs.
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Hong Kong
Chan Chai-Tong
Los Angeles
Herman Jacobs
Caroline Lindahl
Jacobs
North Dakota Prelude to Key Primary Vote Ends Bitter Campaign
Fargo reports a bitter primary contest closing with multiple issues and personalities shaping a heavy turnout. Attention centers on Congressman William Lemke, Union party presidential candidate, amid national focus on the race.
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Fargo
N. D
North Dakota
William Lemke
New Union Party
Van Sweringen Called Before Senate Panel on Rail Finance
O. P. Van Sweringen, veteran railroad executive, testified before the senate interstate commerce committee in Washington regarding the financing of his numerous companies.
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Washington
O. P. van Sweringen
Senate Interstate Commerce Committee
Heat forecast fuels drought worries for Midwest farmers
Chicago June 23 forecasted higher temperatures with little rain for drought plagued areas of the middle west. The report dashed hopes of worried farmers seeking relief from dry conditions.
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Chicago
Drouth
Middle West
Landon to Be Busy to Mrs. Landon
Governor Alf M. Landon planned a busy schedule upon returning from Estes Park Colorado with a full engagement book awaiting his reentry into Kansas politics and state matters.
Conference debate over Dardanelles fortification clarified
At Montreux on June 23 the conference heard Turkish requests to refortify the Dardanelles as part of a four point program aimed at revising the Lausanne pact of 1923. Several delegations voiced objections during the sessions.
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Montreux
Switzerland
Turkey
Dardanelles
WPA Orders Continue Security Wages Nationwide
Washington June 23 Harry L Hopkins announces that state WPA administrators must keep the current security wage scale from 19 to 94 dollars monthly unchanged.
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Washington
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress Administrator
WPA
Peace Bills Signed By Governor Leche Ending Funds Dispute
Governor Richard W. Leche signed four measures ending the rift with the national administration over federal work fund allocations. Acts repeal Long era restrictions on advisory board control and punishments for federal officials, plus a two year extension of the debt moratorium. The moves conclude the first major legislation to reach his desk. The Louisiana legislature, in its seventh week, pledged to accelerate its work.
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Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
Louisiana
National Government
Huey P. Long
State Advisory Board
Long
Roosevelt Signs New Tax Bill and Interior Funding
President Roosevelt signed the new tax bill and a $100 million Interior Department appropriation. The plan aims to raise about $800 million via sweeping corporate tax revisions and levies, shifting corporation income to stockholders for taxation at the individual level. Critics warn it could harm corporate surpluses needed for operations.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Interior Department
Congress
House
Senate
Striking Furniture Workers Idle In Baton Rouge
Five hundred employees of the C. B. Mengel furniture plant in Baton Rouge struck for higher wages and protested alleged worker replacement by Negroes. Company officials and workers' representatives planned a meeting to resolve the dispute as the plant remained closed. The walkout followed a previous year’s strike when workers returned after wage demands were deemed unmet.
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Baton Rouge
C. ¢ Mengel Company
Howard C. Loehner
International Kiwanis chief urges unity and service in All Kiwanis Night message
International President Harper Gatton told Monroe Kiwanis members and wives at Hotel Virginia that Kiwanis must value spiritual aims over material gains as it works to improve citizenship and education. R N Bob Allen was elected district governor of Lions District Eight at the thirteenth annual convention in Shreveport, with Alexandria named next year’s host city.
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Says Organization
Alexandria
Monroe Kiwanis Club
Hotel Virginia Roof Garden
International
Harper Gatton
Kiwanis
United States
Canada
R. N.bob Allen
Public Utilities
Shreveport
Louisiana
International Lions Association
Hotel Frances
Allen
Shreveport Lions Club
Lions Club
Rotary Convention Splits Delegates into 40 Groups
Atlantic City June 23 delegates at Rotary International split into forty camps for an afternoon of shop talk by physicians undertakers lawyers steel workers florists retailers and more. The steel pier was reserved for delegates and families. Speeches of welcome were given by Atlantic City Rotarians and officials while Ed Johnson of Roanoke Va. praised Rotary as a producer of friendship between nations.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Rotary International
Steel Pier
Ed R. Johnson
Roanoke
Rotary
Baton Rouge bill limits freight trains to seventy cars
Senator Clarence A. Lorie of Baton Rouge saw legislative approval today as the bill limiting freight trains to 70 cars passed the Senate 86 to 0. The house then sent the measure forward in Baton Rouge.
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Baton Rouge
Clarence A. Lorie
House
Riot at Wheeling Steel plant leaves guard dead four others shot
At the Portsmouth Ohio Wheeling Steel plant a riot between pickets and guards left one guard George Myers dead and four wounded. Sheriff Arthur Oakes read the riot act in New Boston as gunfire totaled 200 to 300 shots during a transport of food along a company train.
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Portsmouth
Wheeling Steel Corporation
George Myers
Arthur Oakes
New Boston
Clarence Highfield
West Street
All Parishes Plan Rallies to Roosevelt
Louisiana state officials map Roosevelt nominators rallies for June 27 as Roosevelt accepts the nomination. Local parish committees are named in the fifth district with chairs to be elected, listing Caldwell C C Shepherd and others across parishes.
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Fifth Congressional District
Caldwell
C. C. Shepherd
J. J. McKeithen
Bill Mecom
John James
Catahoula
D. W. Gibson
John Dale
Wolf
Allen Price
Willie Gilbert
Jackson
Kelly Hodge
Max Gatlin
Wayne Stovall
Lincoln
Stewart Hunt
Ruston
R B. Knott
Raymond Heard
Madison
Jeff B. Snyder
A. J. Sevier
Mayor Hall Allen
Frank McCaffery
Morehouse
George Madison
Bastrop
Fred Carpenter
Republicans Invite Smith and Others to Back Landon
New York June 23 The Republican party extended a welcome to Alfred F Smith and other Democrats who join him in opposition to the New Deal John D M Hamilton Republican national chairman and campaign manager for Governor Alf M Landon said Republicans would honor Smith and four colleagues who demanded President Roosevelt be set aside at Philadelphia The five reportedly made a party over country choice as millions will do including former Governor Joseph B Ely former Senator James A Reed former Secretary Bainbridge Colby and former State Supreme Court Justice Daniel Cohalan
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New York
Alfred F. Smith
John D. M. Hamilton
Alf M. Landon
Smith
Hamilton
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
Joseph B. Ely
Massachusetts
James A. Reed
Missouri
Bainbridge Colby
Supreme Court
Daniel Cohalan
Japanese Bayonet Incident In Peiping Martial Parade
A Japanese soldier used a bayonet to drive Captain Henry S. Jernigan from a Peiping sidewalk during a martial demonstration. Jernigan, a U S cavalry captain, escaped injury by blocking the weapon as about 3,000 Japanese troops marched with bugles toward an embassy field.
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Peiping
Hopkinsville
Jernigan
United States Cavalry
Convention Talk in Philadelphia Aims to Unite Dempsey Tunney
Democratic convention plans in Philadelphia feature Col. Edwin A. Halsey courting boxing legends Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney for an honorary sergeant-at-arms role. The piece notes Tunney defeated Dempsey in 1926 at Municipal Stadium and mentions other convention color including an ice-skating donkey race and caricaturists at work.
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Philadelphia
Edwin A. Halsey
Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney
Dempsey
Hasley
Tunney
Municipal Stadium
Municipal Auditorium
Will Rogers
Col. Halsey
Farmerville Man J Monroe Taylor Dies in Auto
Seized by a sudden heart attack, J Monroe Taylor 63, longtime Farmerville water plant superintendent, died Tuesday morning before help could arrive. He collapsed while seated in his automobile near the water plant after finishing his early morning rounds, as he spoke with T E Griffin of Farmerville.
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Farmerville
J. Monroe Taylor
T. E. Griffin
Taylor
Griffin
Boy Killed as Truck Wrecks Near King's Store
In Tallulah Louisiana on Sunday a truck veered into a ditch and threw two brothers from the running board. George Stovall age 14 died from injuries. Louis Stovall was injured with lacerations. Clara Stovall, their sister, was the driver.
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Tallulah
King’s Store
Here
George Stovall
Louis
Clara Stovall
Four Years Etch Lines In Face Of President Roosevelt
Washington June 23 Four years have etched new lines in Franklin D Roosevelt s face yet friends say his health remains good. Observers note aging marks but he appears friendly and spirited on the eve of the Philadelphia convention. He has gained weight to about 180 pounds swims daily and often drives or visits the Grayson home in the late afternoon.
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Washington
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
Philadelphia
Chicago
Cary T. Grayson
Red Cross
Florida Democrats Balloting Today For Governor Nominee
Florida Democrats went to the polls to nominate their governor candidate Raleigh Petteway and Fred P. Cone lead the race. The campaign focused on personalities with Cone backing old age pensions and hinted reform on slot machines. A redrawn district pits R A Green against W J Sears in the second district race.
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Jacksonville
Fia
Florida
Raleigh Petteway
Tampa
Fred P. Cone
Lake City
Cone
Townsend
National House of Representatives
R. A. Green
W. J. Sears
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al Smith
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