Post To Seek New Members For Veterans Of Foreign Wars
Rod ney J Hobbs post of Veterans of Foreign Wars launches an intensive recruiting drive this week ahead of the Louisiana department encampment set for Baton Rouge July 3 5. The effort surveys local overseas veterans eligible for VFW membership defined by campaign medal service on foreign soil or in hostile waters. Commander C A Hunt is a state encampment delegate and a large Monroe area delegation plans to attend.
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Rodney J. Hobbs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Louisiana Department
Baton Rouge
E. H. Miller
United States
C. A. Hunt
Monroe
Gambling machines confiscated in Monroe raids
About 15 gaming machines were seized by sheriff's aides in Sunday raids on nine Monroe establishments. No charges were filed Monday against the operators. The raids ran from noon to 2 pm on orders from District Attorney Frank Hawthorne, per Sheriff Milton Coverdale.
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Sheriff's Department
Monroe
Frank Hawthorne
Milton Coverdale
Why I Switched to Dodge
George DeWitt Sheets of Cranford New Jersey explains trading a small car for a large Dodge Beauty Winner. He argues the bigger car will cost less in the long run and praises its value and reliability.
Solon Escapes From Hospital By Quick Dash
Zioncheck, the Seattle congressman, escaped from the Sheppard and Enocy Pratt hospital grounds near Towson Maryland. Police, hospital guards and state officers hunted the eloping patient through woods after he hopped a seven and a half foot fence and fled hatless and coatless. His whereabouts remained unknown as of nightfall, with speculation he might have joined his bride or hidden with friends in Maryland.
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Towson
Marion A. Zioncheck
Seattle
Zioncheck
Sheppard and Enocy Pratt Hospital
Baltimore County
Washington State
Baltimore City
Rubye Taylor Nix
PWA
District of Columbia
Max Ammerman
Benjamin Scott Young
White House
Arthur E. Pattrell
Sheppard Pratt
Pattrell
Roosevelt Speaks for Freedom and Economic Equality
The president argues that freedom means equal opportunity in both polling and market places and targets economic royalists. He avoids naming parties while appealing to small business people workers farmers and the average citizen. A five day convention winds down with trains returning Democrats home as banners fade after rain. An albino herring gull is reported found on Kent's island in the Bay of Fundy.
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America
Republican Party
Alf M. Landon
Kent's Island
Bay of Fundy
Mysterious Black Legion hit slaying shocks Chicago
A boy tells police how a big black man posing as a doctor beat Florence Castle to death in a Pal ace Gardens room. The killer stole cash, left a chalk mark on a mirror and fled via a fire escape. The case mirrors a prior YWCA murder and links to the Black Legion.
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Mamma
Florence
Los Angeles
Black Legion
Elvin Richardson
Castle
James Allegretti
Palace Gardens
Bert Thompson
Lillian Guild
Brick
Thomas Starr
Talking Pictures At Monroe Luncheon For Calvert Whiskey
Milton Solomon of Monroe, Calvert salesman, hosted a luncheon at Hotel Virginia for Monroe Wholesale Drug personnel. The event launched a summer sales drive as Calvert whiskey expedition films from French Guiana touted whiskey as a cooling summer drink backed by tests in hot humid conditions.
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French Guiana
Hotelirginia
Milton Solomon
Monroe
Calvert
North Louisiana
Monroe Wholesale Drug Company, Inc
Soloman
HITCHHIKER BRADFORD VISITS MONROE ON LONG TRAINING TRIP
Indy born Ralph Kennedy Bradford known as Lone silent hiker travels to Monroe on a long hitchhiking tour. He has visited 4 309 cities in 14 years covering over 50 000 miles. Bradford collects letters autographs and pictures from officials for scrapbooks and aims to travel 15 000 more miles by 1938. He plans a book on his travels and was featured in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not.
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Monroe
Ralph Kennedy Bradford
Indianapolis
Ind
Bradford
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Pelican
United States
Cuba
Hawaii
Alaska
Europe
France
England
Germany
America
Lawmakers Set to Finish Leche Bills Tonight
Lawmakers move to close four tax bills and advance key La state measures. Proposals include extending debt moratorium, bonds for highway projects, retirement and tenure for teachers, and new revenue sources such as a luxury sales tax to fund social security, homestead exemptions, and hospitalization.
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Hammond-New Orleans Lake Shore
Lake Pontchartrain
Mississippi River
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
Matthews Named Acting Postmaster in Vidalia After Death
Larry Matthews assistant postmaster at Vidalia is appointed acting postmaster by the post office department following the death of Dudley V. Wigner who served as postmaster for 15 years in Ferriday Louisiana.
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Ferriday
Larry Matthews
Vidalia
Post Office Department
Dudley V. Wigner
Last Minute Briefs From Across The World And U S
A collage of brief items reports a loan payoff of 1 140 000 to be paid over 15 years in Peiping The sake of diplomacy follows an apology demand from Japanese authorities toward Chinese officials over an incident in Fengtai In Michigan a killer of 11 year old Robert Kenyon remains at large with no new clues from 48 hours of investigation In Jerusalem Arab disorders persist wounding three policemen and three Jews in week eleven In Massachusetts police cite a four verse song sung by Cambridge youths in a lockup as evidence in armed robbery charges
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Waltham, Mass
Cambridge
New York Stock Exchange Seat Transfers Reach High Total
Arrangements were made to transfer a NYSE membership for 125000 dollars, up 10000 from the prior sale and the highest since April 27. The year’s top price was 174000 on February 19, and the low was 100000 on May 4.
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New York
New York Stock Exchange
Izvestia Calls For 50 Percent Cut On Internal Loan Bonds
Moscow officials quoted by Izvestia propose that holders of government internal loan bonds accept a 50 percent slash in interest rates. The suggestion was reported in the Soviet organ on June 29.
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Moscow
Izvestia
Aged Ouachita Parish Woman Ellen Clark Dies at 93
Ellen Clark 93, long time Ouachita Parish resident and mother of 13, dies after brief illness. Survived by five children Joe Sam Jack Clark Anna Skipper Sallie Sturdevant, all of Ouachita Parish. Funeral Monday 4 pm at Clark Springs cemetery Cheniere Road with Rev. BE Tanner officiating. One son died earlier in an electrocution accident.
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Ellen Clark
Ouachita Parish
Joe
Sam
Jack Clark
Anna Skipper
Sallie Sturdevant
Clark Springs
Cheniere Road
BE. L. Tanner
Assembly of God Tabernacle
West Monroe
Plane wreck deaths and missing in multiple crashes across U S
Reports detail several air crashes with victims and survivors. A band leader and nightclub waitress died in Daytona Beach when a rented plane dived into the surf. Two men died in a Massapequa crash on Long Island. Two women fliers survived a fog crash atop Archer mountain near Camas Washington after a 24 hour jungle hike.
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Marysville
Daytona Beach
Fla
Massapequa
N. Y
Long Island
Archer
Camas
Wash
Clinton
Portland
Ore
Alyce Pashburg
Irma Westover
Pashburg
Vancouver
Archer Mountain
Snokane
Louis Robinson
Two-Place Glider Sets Altitude Record At Meet
Al bert Slatter of Los Angeles and John D. Batterson of Pasadena soared to 5760 feet at the seventh annual soaring meet in Elmira New York setting a new national altitude mark for two-place gliders. The pair piloted the same two-seater used to set the prior record and stayed aloft for two hours and twenty one minutes, landing at Tioga Point Pennsylvania.
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Elmira
N. Y
Albert Slatter
Los Angeles
John D. Batterson
Pasadena
Calif
Slatter
Batterson
Lucretia Buxton
Hawthorne
Fred Barnes
Ingskiwood
Batterson and Slatter
Tioga Point
Commandant Dies at Walter Reed Hospital
Washington June 29 The War Department announced the death at Walter Reed Army Hospital of Colonel Thomas S Moorman aged 61 commander of Clemson College South Carolina He had been ill since Easter and died today after a period of illness
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Washington
War Department
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Thomas S. Moorman
Clemson College
South Carolina
Moorman
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