Leche to sign general sales tax bill today
Baton Rouge reports Governor Richard W. Leche planned to sign the one per cent general sales tax act to take effect July 1, replacing the prior luxury levy. Revenue collector Alice Lee Grosjean said tokens would be used for change during transition while merchants must remit the tax or pay it themselves if not collected from consumers. The Senate adjourned after a long session, approving the court retirement bill by 32 to 0 and moving to end a House meal plan delay.
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Baton Rouge
Richard W. Leche
Alice Lee Grosjean
Senate
Brutality in New Orleans Row Charged
New Orleans June 30 The district attorney's office prepared to investigate charges of police brutality tied to a week old teamsters strike. The CIO walkout over a drayage dispute led to shootings and 200 arrests. Representatives said agreements existed with the AF of L and no election was needed. Logan of the NLRB said the matter would be referred for testimony and possible election. Civic and business groups pressed for action.
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New Orleans
Weekold Teamsters
A. F
Charles Logan
National Labor Relations Board
A. F. of L
Logan
New highs reached in stock market on June upswing
New York June 30 reports intense buying lifts the market to new highs as 1,500 to 15,000 share blocks move at the open. Gains surge past the $2 mark, echoing yesterday’s record rise and fueling optimism in copper rubber cotton and other materials. Brokers, idle weeks ago, rush to handle the inflow of orders as market interest broadens.
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New York
Stock Exchange
Princess Baba Expected to Welcome Child in California
Princess Baba, disinherited daughter of the white rajah of Sarawak, and her wrestler husband Bob Gregory, are expecting a baby. The couple said they will live in California until the birth.
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San Francisco
The
Chronicle
Baba
Sarawak
Bob Gregory
California
Motor car thefts lead to quirky governor payment
In Sylvia North Carolina, car occupants drove off from a drug store without paying for drinks. Clerk Tom Wilson quipped he'd charge it to experience. Days later the car returned with Governor Clyde R Hoey paying, saying he had a lapse of memory. In Teaneck New Jersey, a thrush was killed on a tennis court by a service return. Ted McKinley was serving. The mate's plaintive notes echoed from a nearby tree.
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Sylvia
N. C
Tom Wilson
Clyde R. Hoey
Teaneck
N. J
West Englewood
Ted McKinley
North Sandia Peak
Albuquerque
N. M
Medill McCormick
Chicago
Richard Whitmer
Whitmer
Poll Receipts Available for Ouachita Voters 1940 Prep
Ouachita parish voters nearing the 1940 elections sign poll books. Sheriff Milton Coverdale reports 4 402 signatures by mid year, about a quarter of 1937 turnout. He urges ages 21 to 60 to sign at the courthouse before December 31 and to register for the four year period beginning January 1 to qualify for congressional elections in September.
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Ouachita Parish
Milton Coverdale
Coverdale
Sheriff Coverdale
Gipsy Smith to wed young Los Angeles musician
White haired evangelist Gipsy Smith age 78 announced plans to marry Mary Alice Shaw age 26, a Los Angeles musician. He met her in London 14 years ago and she calls him her hero and likens him to a god.
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Los Angeles
Gipsy Smith
Mary Alice Shaw
Mary
Mer
Allie Gerstoe Brady
Miss Shaw
London
Cupid Shoots Many Victims During June
The piece narrates a tongue in cheek June tally of prominent figures struck by Cupid. It highlights John Roosevelt and Anne Lindsay Clark joining in a Democratic Republican alliance, notes a prior union of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and Ethel du Pont, and mentions Kurt von Schuschnigg wed by proxy to Countess Vera Fugger von Babenhausen, all within a satirical political romance frame.
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Chicago
Cupid
John Roosevelt
Anne Lindsay Clark
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr
Ethel du Pont
Atlantic
Kurt von Schuschnigg
Austria
Vera Fugger von
Babenhausen
2000 Old Vets In Convention At Gettysburg
Two thousand aged Civil War veterans gathered on the Gettysburg battlefield for the 75th anniversary reunion. Former foes shared memories as comrades, visiting Oak Hill, the Bloody Angle and Seminary Ridge, recalling Early Sheridan and Lee. The bivouac city of 2,000 tents served as a nostalgic camp for Grand Army of the Republic and Lee veterans alike.
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Paul Martin
Associated Press
Gettysburg
Pennsylvania
Oak Hill
Angle
Seminary Ridge
Johnny Reb
Damyankee
Early
Sheridan
Lee
Grand Army of the Republic
Robert E. Lee
Reunion
Roosevelt links budget to survival values and education
President Roosevelt told National Education Association teachers in New York that history will judge the present by survival values for population and democracy. He urged strong civil liberties, a free press, and local control of schooling with limited federal aid, warning against neglect of human capital and resources.
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National Education Association
Roosevelt
Pallbearers to Lift Coffin of Walt Cagle
Boaz Alabama reports the funeral for Walt Cagle a Sand Mountain forecaster of 47 who died of a heart attack at his farm. Sixteen pallbearers will carry his coffin 7 feet long and 31 inches deep while he lies in a new 89 inch waist pair of trousers. Thousands attended Walt Cagle Day each fall as he forecast weather from his truck and bought flannel for his winter underwear.
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Boaz
Ala
Walt Cagle
Philosopher
Sand Mountain
Big Walt
Walt
Substitute Mothers Serve Orphaned Children Nationwide
In Seattle on June 30, WPA substitutes mothers are being provided to widowers to care for motherless children and handle household tasks across 300 projects. Mrs. Marion Schmadel Goodwin of the Family Consultation Society outlined the program, noting it grew from the temporary housekeeper concept and selects women with proven home life to support families in social work efforts nationwide.
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Seattle
National Conference of Social Work
Marion Schmadel Goodwin
Family Consultation Society
Cincinnati
WPA
Goodwin
Quarrel over secrets and disasters dominate world news
A British parliamentary clash over a secret information case involving Duncan Sandys and Leslie Hore-Belisha leads a day of global focus alongside reports of Japan's storm and earthquake destruction and Czechoslovak song protests in Germany. At least 100 are said to be dead or missing in the disaster report.
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Associated Press
War Office
Japan
Duncan Sandys
M. P
House of Commons
House Committee On Privileges
Select Committee of Inquiry
Leslie Hore-Belisha
Sandys
Penal colony for families proposed in Seattle
Sanford Bates former federal prisons chief proposed an island penal colony for habitual criminals to live with their families. He told a national social work conference that if a man cannot behave according to social order he should be confined for life and perhaps on an island with his family.
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Seattle
Sanford Bates
National Conference of Social Work
Bates
Civic Chest 10 To Be Organized
Monroe and West Monroe will form a community chest after approval by the Chamber of Commerce board. Five civic affairs committee members will join five appointees to create a governing body aimed to begin by September 1. The plan targets about a 30 percent revenue increase and follows successful measures on mandatory luxury tax collection. A representative from American Can Co. reported to the agricultural committee on prospects for a can project.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Community Chest
Agricultural Committee
Bob Harmon
American Can Company
Typhoon and Earthquake Ravage Tokyo Yokohama
The typhoon and earthquake battered Japan killing at least 100 and leaving 200 missing. Tokyo and Yokohama suffered worst, with landslides collapsing homes, tunneling rail lines, and rivers flooding 130,008 Tokyo homes. Rescue efforts faced collapsing cliffs and high waters as winds intensified.
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Tokyo
Japan
Central Meteorological Institute
China Sea
Yokohama
Lowe Land
Yokonama
Takakimi Mitsui
China
Two Helens Reach Wimbledon Final in Comeback Duel
Helen Wills Moody defeats Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling 12-10 6-4 and Helen Jacobs beats Alice Marble 6-4 6-4 to renew their famed rivalry in the all England championships. Don Budge teams with Gene Mako to beat G P Hughes and Frank Wilde 5-2 6-4 12-16 and advance to the men's final.
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Wimbledon
Eng
Helen Wills Moody
Helen Jacobs
Mrs. Moody
Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling
Germany
Denmark
Miss Jacobs
Alice Marble
San Francisco
America
Helens
Moody
Don Budge
Bunny Austin
Gene Mako
G. P. Hughes
Frank Wilde
Great Britain
Dr Charles F Code Awarded Theobald Smith Medal
Ottawa reports that Dr Charles F Code of the Mayo Foundation Rochester Minnesota, a Canadian and among the world's youngest scientists at eight, received the Theobald Smith medal from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for discovering histamine is normally present in human blood and in abnormal amounts signals tuberculosis or allergic reactions. His work may open new paths in distinguishing disease states and reactions in the body.
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Ottawa
Charles F. Code
Mayo Foundation
Rochester
Minn
Theobald Smith
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Code
Former Monroe resident dies by own action in Leesville
Coroner Brown Ward said Ralph Keenan, about 50, formerly of Monroe, killed himself yesterday in Kirkswood, 14 miles north of Leesville, by plunging barber’s shears into his abdomen. He was found dead in his hotel room with the shears embedded. Keenan had recently worked as an inspector for a lumber company.
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Leesville
Brown Ward
Ralph Keenan
Monroe
Kirkswood
Here
Nashecean
A Lumber Company
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Newnan
Southern Methodist
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Rollo K. Blanchard
Hedi Heusser
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Blanchard
Hudson River
Marksman
M’cormick
Hitler
Civic Chest
Ued
DR. Code
Science
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