Louisiana House votes down highway land expropriation bill
The Louisiana House rejected the Heintz bill to let the state highway commission expropriate land for rights of way with damages handled in court. The vote was 43 to 45 after an earlier prolonged debate. An amended version allowing pre expropriation steps passed 48 to 30. CONTINUED ON PAGE TEN.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
House of Representatives
Heintz
Louisiana Highway Commission
Highway Commission
Ginsberg
Rapides
Dupre
St. Landry
Sylvester of
House
Red Sox edge Tigers 5 4 in first game of doubleheader
Boston and Detroit opened a twin bill with a 5 to 4 Red Sox win after a pinch hit home run by Sweener in the sixth inning with one aboard. Rain postponed several slated games across St Louis New York Philadelphia Chicago Brooklyn and others with doubleheaders rescheduled for tomorrow.
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St. Louis
New York
Philadelphia
Chicago
Associated Press
Boston
Sweener
Red Sox
Detroit Tigers
Aviator Relates Dream Before Transatlantic Flight Start
J W Stannage of the Southern Cross spoke in Dublin before a planned trans Atlantic flight to New York about a dream in which the flight began and progressed well until after ten hours the wireless dynamo froze. He found a real danger on inspection and had repairs done at once.
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Associated Jess
Dublin
Irish Free State
J. W. Stannage
Southern Cross
New York
Senate Taxes Bill Collapse Ends Tax Amendment Push
In Baton Rouge on June 24 the Caffery proposed constitutional amendment to raise income tax limits from 3 to 10 percent and add property tax deductions failed in the Senate 16 to 22 after an hour of debate. A two-thirds yes vote was required. the measure would have gone to voters in November. A separate 1 to 7 percent income tax schedule in the House would die with this defeat. Names of supporters listed include Anderson Barouse Boone Brooks Caffery Delahoussaye Dore Ducros Hall Hughes Huson Knott.
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Baton Rouge
Caffery
Senate
Anderson
Barouse
Boone
Brooks
Delahoussaye
Dore
Ducros
Hall
Hughes
Huson
Knott
Cotton Cooperative to Take Over Million Bales State Groups
In New Orleans on June 24, E F Creekmore president of the Cotton Stabilization Corporation announced that about 1 000 000 bales held by state cooperative marketing associations will be taken over to clear the way for the new crop. The federal Farm Board directed operation will permit financing for state organizations as Texas markets begin to rise.
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New Orleans
Cotton Stabilization Corporation
E. F. Creekmore
American Cotton Cooperative
Texas
Senate Prison Probe extended to July Fifth
The Senate penitentiary investigating committee voted to extend its inquiry into the state prison’s conduct until July 5. Testimony showed the prison bought equipment totaling nearly ninety four thousand five hundred dollars from KWKI operator W K Henderson since 1928, with bids reportedly not always sought.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Senate Penitentiary Investigating Committee
Holcombe
East Baton Rouge
W. K. Henderson
KWKI
Shreveport
C. T. Phillips
Shushan Brothers
New Orleans
Phillips
Henderson and Shushan Brothers
J. Bob Daniels
Henderson
A. M. Hickman
Orleans Man Robbed at Alexandria Recounts Escape
G. B. Petrie of New Orleans, engineer with Southern Bell Telephone, said a lone robber bound his hands with his belt and gagged him with a handkerchief, stole his watch and $27, and left him tied in woods six miles from Alexandria. He freed himself after three hours and recovered his belt to break free.
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Associated Press
Alexandria
G. B. Pertrie
New Orleans
Petrie
Southern Bell Telephone Company
City Orders Fourth Bus for Passenger System
City commissioner D A Breard says the city has ordered a fourth bus for auxiliary use in the passenger transportation system. The bus may serve Bernstein Park on special occasions such as celebrations fairs and picnics to facilitate travel when previously announced facilities are in place. The first three buses will be allocated to Washington and others to be announced.
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D. A. Breard
Finance and Utilities
Bernstein Park
Maltese Constitution Suspended by British Government
London June 24 The British government will suspend Malta’s constitution temporarily due to a tense political standoff with the Vatican. Premier MacDonald told the House of Commons that full legislative and executive power remains with the governor while the current ministry stays on in a consultative role.
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Associated Press
London
Vatican
MacDonald
House of Commons
Malta
Jeanerette Pair Accused in Baby Abandonment Case
Police seek return of Roy Verrett and his wife from Jeanerette to New Orleans to face charges for abandoning their two weeks old child. The infant, found mosquito bitten and crying in the street, was born at Charity hospital on June 11.
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New Orleans
Roy Verrett
Jeanerette
August Wattingly
Charity Hospital
Girl's Tale May Send Daddy to Electric Chair
A 10 year old witness Harriet Belak testified about the murder of her mother on March 17. She described her father Andrew Belak shooting his wife, then himself in the wrist before lying down.
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Chicago
Andrew Belak
Harriet
Belak
George
Richland Parish Sells Bonds for School Buildings
Two bondissues totaling 245000 were sold by the Richland parish school board to fund new schools in districts 13 and 20. District 20 bonds of 220000 went to Ryan Sutherland and W L Slayton of Toledo. district 13 bonds of 25000 went to Continental Bank and Trust Co New Orleans. Funds will finance a 145000 Mangham high school a 35000 Archibald grammar school a 35000 Alto grammar school and a 25000 ward 6 grammar school with contracts expected late July.
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News-Star
Rayville
Richland Parish
Ryan Sutherland and Company
W. L. Slayton and Company
Toledo
Ohio
Continental Bank and Trust Company of
New Orleans
Mangham
Archibald
Alto
Cyclone Rips Through South Central Ohio Barns and Homes
A cyclonic storm struck south central Ohio shortly after noon causing widespread damage to barns houses and trees and injuring one person according to early reports.
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Columbus
Ohio
Kingsford Smith Southern Cross heads for Newfoundland
The Southern Cross, captained by Charles FE Kingsford-Smith, flies west from Dublin toward New York with four crew. Foggy seas and strong west winds slow but do not stop the nonstop Atlantic crossing attempt. Position at 8 40 am EST placed 51.08 north 25.49 west, about 70 miles west of the Irish coast with Newfoundland distant.
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Dublin
Ireland
Charles FE. Kingsford- Smith
Southern Cross
Atlantic Ocean
New York
S. S. Valenda
Newfoundland
Kingsford-Smith
Portmarnock Strand
Legislature in Brief House Bills Passed
House roll calls show HB 405 to merge state and national banks with a 73 to 0 vote. HB 455 allows sheriffs sales on Wednesdays and Saturdays with reconsideration, 84 to 1. HB 319 bars state officials and employees from soliciting contributions from colleagues, 77 to 3. CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE typed erroneously as Pive.
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Hunter
Hamiter
Bogan and Roberts
Heintz
Senate bills and votes on health, insurance and staff pay
Senate action lists B 135 Knott increasing the salary of assessment at Morehouse, S B 140 Fernandez allows the state board of health to sell property in New Orleans, S B 12 Peterman authorizes insurance companies to deposit with the state treasurer security equal to legal reserves, and U S R 167 Anderson creating the
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Fernandez
State Board of Health
New Orleans
Peterman
Anderson
4-H Camp Opens With 216 Youth Enrolled Across Parishes
About 216 boys and girls from Richland Morehouse Ouachita Union Lincoln West Carroll and East Carroll parishes attend a five day 4-H club camp on the Boeuf river. Courses include forestry dairying crops nutrition and clothes making with 45 minute classes and afternoon recreation. Instructors include G L Burlison C W Davis Mrs Mary Johnson R H Wasson Clyde Ingram M Hull A Boswell.
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Rayville
Boeuf River
Louisiana
G. L. Burlison
C. W. Davis
Mary Johnson
R. H. Wasson
Clyde Ingram
M. Hull
A. Boswell
State Department of Conservation
Billa Landry
P. H. Green
A. R. Cain
Gordon D. Cain
Jewel McQuiller
Ouachita Parish
R. W. Todd
State Board of Health
Richland
Morehouse
Ouachita
Union
Lincoln
West Carroll
East Carroll
Boxer Fatally Hurt in Six Round Battle
Bruno Moraskey 23 of Moundsville nicknamed Young Bruno died in a hospital from concussion after a six round bout with Perry Bridges Warwood. Bridges knocked Moraskey down in the final round and was jailed. Promoter John Ritz released on $1000 bail.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Bruno Moraskey
Moundsville
Bruno
Moraskey
Perry Bridges
Warwood
Bridges
John Ritz
Moritz Firm Forced to Wall at New Orleans Exchange
The failure of C. E. Moritz of Natchez Mississippi a long time member of the New Orleans Cotton Exchange to meet obligations was announced with no market impact. Moritz says his affairs in Natchez are being liquidated Moritz and Nelson of Natchez who operate a Greenwood branch announce liquidation due to reverses with all client trades closed at market open.
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Orleans
Associated Press
New Orleans
C. E. Moritz
Natchez, Miss
Greenwood
Miss
Moritz & Nelson
Natchez
Chinese Officers Sent to Japan for Yearlong Military Courses
Thirty Chinese army officers, all graduates of Chinese military academies, have been dispatched to Japan to pursue advanced courses in military sciences for a year.
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Japan
Nanking
Aviator Controls Plane From Covered Cockpit on Test Hop
Captain William C. Ocker of the army air corps flies an observation plane from a covered cockpit on a 3&8 blind flight to Washington. Lieutenant C. J. Crane as safety pilot handles landings from the uncovered cockpit with stops at Muskogee Scott Field St Louis and Dayton before a planned Bolling Field arrival.
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San Antonio
Brooksfield
William C. Ocker
Army Air Corps
Washington, D. C
Army
Ocker
C. J. Crane
Crane
Muskogee
Okla
Scott Field
St. Louis
Wright Field
Dayton
Ohio
Bolling Field
Washington
Heat Wave Eases as Temperatures Drop from 115
United Press reports highest unofficial temperature reached 115 in the Midwest and South with Chicago and surrounding areas enduring deadly heat. In Chicago 13 deaths linked to the heat, parks filled with sleepers, ice and milk relief provided as officials forecast cooler conditions.
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Chicago
West
Midwest
Weather Bureau
House Votes Tomorrow on Constitutional Convention
Baton Rouge June 24 The House moves toward voting on the administration’s constitutional convention bill this week while a Senate defeat stops a resolution opposing the national prohibition amendment. The Appropriations Committee delivers the biennial bill for 80 million dollars in anticipated revenues over two years. The Senate extends its penitentiary investigating committee to July 5 as the House plans to take up general appropriations Thursday. Governor Huey P Long pushes the convention to write the highway bond plan and other reforms into the constitution, amid private accord to make the bill a special order Wednesday.
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News-Star
Ruston
Ruston Chamber of Commerce
Baton Rouge
House
Senate
Louisiana
Appropriations
State Tax Commission
Huey P. Long
W. F. Edwards
West Carroll
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