Furious drive for delegates on in Chicago
Tense day as Roosevelt foes press for convention votes in Chicago. Rival camps wrestle with two thirds rule, chairmanship fate, and Roosevelt viability while leaders hurriedly line up delegates and await Tuesday roll calls amid bitter infighting and political maneuvering.
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Chicago
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Senator Walsh
Montana
Roosevelt
Jouett Shouse
Harrison
Democratic Peace
Congress
Shouse
Walsh
James A. Farley
Alfred E. Smith
Louisiana
Minnesota
Porto Rico
Huey Long
Herine
Generel
Ion
Specthc
Louisiana and Puerto Rico Delegations Clash at Convention
The convention faces heated contests over Louisiana Long delegates and a Sanders led group while Puerto Rico and Pennsylvania seats are decided. Long argues for his delegates. Mouton mocks the process as “three fish” delegations remain contested. Sanders cites 1928 precedents. Whittemore wins Puerto Rico seating.
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Regan
Minnesota
Roosevelt
Einar Hoidale
Smith
Neil M. Cronin
Holdale
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
Jared Y. Sanders
Fernand Mouton
Sanders
Huey Long
Long
Mouton
Jean S. Whittemore
W. R. Bennet
Whittemore
Pennsylvania
Leo C. Mundy
Wilkesbarre
Peter J. McCormick
Dr. Mundy
Houston
Sermon for College Students by Local Pastor
Rev. Ernest Duncan Holloway of the First Presbyterian Church will preach to returning college students tomorrow morning. Area students from other churches are invited. The sermon titled A Thought Provoking Question centers on Paul’s question to God on the road to Damascus asking what he should do.
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Ernest Duncan Holloway
First Presbyterian Church
Holloway
Paul
God
Damascus
Roosevelt Plan Urges Public Vote on Eighteenth Amendment
Strategists insist a clear plank will push the issue to the people. The choice would decide whether the eighteenth amendment is repealed retained or modified.
Moment of decision in search for Marion and Carolyn
In the Whit ney Hall aftermath Katherine debates waking Lillian from a drug sleep as the search for Marion and Carolyn continues. The narrator plans to wait an hour for men to return, then uses the Momsy Code to interpret Marion's note and secure the crucial letter and the code book.
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Katherine
Lillian
Marion
Carolyn
Whitney Hall
Harry Underwood
Philip Vernton
Annie Schwartzman
Speed Demon
Dicky
Mary
The Message Is Decoded By Adele Garrison
A tense scene unfolds as a woman decodes a coded letter with a folding table and hotel stationery. She carefully matches columns from the letter and a code book, pausing to puzzle over difficult phrases. Finally she exclaims triumph and fears the risks of pursuing the source.
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Aron
Klee
Madison Parish Grand Jury Called To Meet
Details remained unclear as a Jackson area grand jury convened in Madison Parish. Suspposed bank robbers allegedly admitted staging crimes at Holly Ridge Many and a toll bridge on the Arkansas River. Sheriff Coverdale reported links to Thomas and Bearden based in Tulsa and Chicago, with possible Oklahoma robberies.
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Madison Parish
Holly Ridge
Arkansas River
Coverdale
Thomas and
Bearden
Tulsa
Okla
Chicago
Thomas
Oklahoma
Relatives of Mrs. Beck Reach Winnsboro From Alabama
Relatives of Mabel Beck 29 a former Baskin bank robbery companion arrive in Winnsboro from Pickens County Alabama bearing credentials claiming she has no prior criminal record and hails from a law abiding family A probate judge allegedly signed one credential Beck denied gang participation saying the bandits kidnapped her in Arkansas and forced her to go with them She and her husband separated deny any criminal activity or prior arrests.
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Winnsboro
Mabel Beck
Franklin Parish
Baskin
Pickens County
Alabama
Beck
Arkansas
Vacation Bible schools for Negro churches close in Twin Cities
Interdenominational vacation Bible schools conducted by Negro churches in Monroe and West Monroe closed with commencement at the colored high school. An average of 600 children attended daily. Programs took place at Tabernacle Baptist First Baptist Zion Hill St Josephs Martins temple and Dyers chapel with Gertrude Allen as supervisor and Mrs Albert Jones guiding the inter racial committee.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Twin Cities
Tabernacle Baptist
First Baptist
Zion Hill
St. Joseph's
Martin's Temple
Dyers’ Chapel
Gertrude Allen
Albert Jones
The
Federation of Church Women of the
Breach of Promise Punished in Belgrade Court
Serbia toughens breach of promise laws. A first case ended in six months hard labor and $100 damages as public interest in protecting women grows under new statutes.
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Belgrade
Serbia
Lawrence Colton Taken by Death Funeral Sunday
Lawrence Earl Colton aged 78 of Monroe died at his home 400 North Third Street. A former Catholic cemetery sexton and owner of the Colton rooming house, he is survived by two sisters two nieces and two nephews. Funeral from the North Third Street residence to St Matthew's Catholic church and cemetery with Rev N F Vandegaer officiating.
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Lawrence Earl Colton
Monroe
North Third Street
Colton
Jefferson Street
Estelle Colton
H. E. Bastoe
L. V. Tarver
Fred Sperkman
Varnon Ware
Shreveport
Colton Ware
Dallas
Texas
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
N. F. Vandegaer
Unparalleled Congress Battles Through War Aid and Budgets
Congress advances war relief wheat programs with 40 million bushels and a proposed 50 million more. Garner and Democrats push equal funding bills, while tax and budget fights reshape appropriations and pay cuts. Senator Norris wins on labor injunction limits and lame duck abolition. Veterans press for soldiers bonus, but senate stalls.
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Farm Board
Red Cross
Senate Democrats
Garner
House
Senate
Treasury
Norris
Nebraska
Fulton County Inheritance Taxes Paid in 1931
Fulton County Georgia paid 9274.51 dollars in inheritance taxes to the state in 1931 according to the Atlanta report. The sum reflects state revenue from estates within the county during that year.
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Fulton County
Atlanta
Titche Will Filed In Monroe Court
The will of Charles Titche, Monroe and Rayville resident, filed in district court after his death, leaves all property to Mrs Titche. In a letter to his two sons he praises their noble qualities and expresses confidence no contest will occur. He leaves the farm known as the Baughton place to his daughter. dated May 6, 1929.
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Charles Titche
Monroe
Rayville
Mr. Titche
Stowaway Hero in Arabian Sea Rescue Named
Maxime Olewski, who stowed away on the Georges Phillipar, helped save many passengers as the ship sank in the Arabian Sea. He received eight days in prison and a suspended sentence.
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Marseilles
Maxime Olewski
Georges Phillipar
Arabian Sea
Witness Question In San Francisco Valuation Case
A 57 minute hypothetical question was propounded to a witness during valuation proceedings in a San Francisco Superior Court. The exchange focused on the financial appraisal and the implications of the expert's testimony for the case.
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San Francisco
Railway and Motor Coach Schedules Adjusted for Illinois Central
Rail lines list eastbound and westbound arrivals and departures for No 204 and No 203 at multiple stations, including Natchez El Dorado, and Missouri Pacific and Tri State motor coaches. Timetable shows specific times for arrivals, departures, and daily exceptions.
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Missouri Pacific
From
T. Louis
St. Louis
Prom Natchez
Netenez
Prohibition Debate Dominates Subcommittee Hearings in Congress
The session featured pro prohibitionists led by Dr Ernest Cherrington facing anti prohibitionists headed by Pierre S Du Pont. Senators Wheeler Montana Hull Roosevelt supporters and other figures spoke as each side argued a submission plank. In Rutland Vermont Killington peak appeared snowbound amid a record cold night.
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Hitchcock
Wheeler
Montana
Hull
Tennessee
Roosevelt
Glass
Virginia
Walsh
Massachusetts
A. Mitchell Palmer
District of Columbia
William V. Comstock
Michigan
Joseph O'Mahoney
Wyoming
Ernest Cherrington
Prohibition Forces
Pierre S. du Pont
United Repeal Council
Americans Presented to British Court in Last Year Event
Crowds thronged the mall last night as eight American women were presented at a British court. The attendees included Miss Louise De M. Dewey of Chicago and Mrs. Even S. Draper of Hopedale Massachusetts among others from Las Vegas New Mexico New York Topeka Kansas Reno Virginia and Kentucky.
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Louise de M. Dewey
Chicago
Even S. Draper
Hopedale
Mass
K. Paul Ramsay
Las Vegas
N. M
Alexander Johnston Robertson
New York
W. Alex Spencer
Topeka
Kans
James G. Wentz
Washington
Jeanne Wingfield
Reno
John James Fitzepatrick
Somerset
Contempt Trial Set for Bennett in Federal Court
Falmon Bennett faces a contempt charge and will be tried Saturday July 2 before Judge Ben C. Dawkins in federal court. He is accused of taking gasoline from a drip in Richland parish in violation of a federal injunction. Bennett was moved from Bastrop jail by federal agent H R Spence and a deputy sheriff, and officers say he also faces a breaking and entering charge in Morehouse parish.
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Falmon Bennett
Ben C. Dawkins
Bennett
Richland Parish
Dawkins
Bastrop
H. R. Spence
More
House Parish
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