Harrison 10 Talks Economy to President Roosevelt
Senator Harrison of Mississippi and Representative Cooper visited the White House to urge budget cuts to spur business confidence and recovery. Critics warn deep cuts could hurt indicators while officials say spending remains essential to national income.
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Harrison
Mississippi
Senate
White House
Roosevelt
Cooper
Tennessee
House
Ways and Means Committee
Hatch
New Mexico
Harold D. Smith
Michigan
Smith
Lansing
Mich
Capitol
WPA
Congress
Senator la Follette
Wisconsin
War Referendum Promised for Senate Vote in Session
Advocates of a national war referendum win a promise of a Senate floor vote this session. Senators La Follette and Clark with 12 sponsors expect hearings soon. House Military Committee backs a plan to use strategic war minerals for European debts or surplus farm goods, tied to a $100 million four year war reserves program. The referendum would require a popular vote before entering war, except in western hemisphere attacks.
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Senate
la Follette
Wisconsin
Clark
Missouri
Judiciary
House Military Committee
War Department
United States
House
Hull
Mrs Emile Gassie Becomes American Citizen
Mrs. Emile P Gassie Jr wife of the American embassy attache wounded in the Panay bombing in 1937 was among 78 admitted to American citizenship. The Russian born wife who married Gassie in China had fled Bolshevik Russia in 1917. Also admitted was Otto Meyer Lehmann a claimed cousin of Albert Einstein and merchandise manager of a fruit company.
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Emile P. Gassie, Jr
Panay
China
Gassie
Russia
Otto Meyer Lehmann
Albert Einstein
Lehmann
Germany
Ruit
Counterfeit Chapter Emerges in Chicago Case
Federal indictments target Frankie Parker and August Englehardt in a multi jurisdiction counterfeiting case. A $17 880 cache of bogus bills was found buried near Tom O Shanter golf course after Parker and Englehardt letters and a mysterious map surfaced. Captain Callaghan said deciphered letters led to the cache and described the cryptic map with a flag the number 15 and trees to move.
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United State
S Secret Service
Frankie Parker
August Englehardt
Parker
Illinois
Englehardt
Terminal Island
Los Angeles
Cali
Tom O'Shanter
Thomas J. Callaghan
United States Secret Service
Adeline Springer
Callaghan
Molds for Coins Sought in Prison
Acting Warden W F Amrine of Ohio penitentiary led an intensive search for molds used to make counterfeit coins by inmates. He aims to locate the molds amid reports of illicit activity within the prison. A secret service operative was asked to assist in the counterfeiting inquiry.
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James C. Woodard
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Husband of Baby Giver Arrested
Baton Rouge March 9 deputies arrested Leo Barmient of Donaldsonville husband of a woman who tried to give away her baby days ago The couple had agreed to adopt the infant when authorities stepped in securing a job for the mother and returning the 18 month old boy to her The sheriff said the man admitted drinking fled to Texas after a lapse of memory
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Newman de Bretton
Leo Barmient
Donaldsonville
Texas
Long Acts as Louisiana Chief Executive Amid Governor's Absence
Lieutenant-Governor Earl K. Long begins a three week tenure as acting chief executive while Governor Leche recuperates in Mineral Wells Texas. Long vows to keep order in the Florida parishes during strawberry shipments and warned he may call out the state militia if needed.
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Earl K. Long
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Richard W. Leche
Florida
Long
Leche
Mineral Wells
Tex
Rudolph P. Easterly
John S. Nelson
Delmas D. Sharp
Livingston Parish
State House
Pasteur Damaged By Fire On Atlantic Liner
Fire aboard the 30,000 ton Pasteur in St. Nazaire France caused serious damage and threatened crude oil stores. The blaze, found at 2 30 a m in a fireplace chimney, spread to scaffolding before being extinguished. Pasteur launched February 15 1938 and due to enter service around June.
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France
Pasteur
Atlantique
Garner Boom for President Still Sizzles
Friends of Vice President Garner push a 1940 bid with tentative state plans to send delegates. No formal drive until Congress adjourns, Garner has not voiced his own stand, while supporters maintain a nucleus for an organization amid Detroit Texas rally memories.
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Detroit
Tex
Roy Miller
Corpus Christi
Cotton surplus measure sent to Senate for action
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved Chairman Smith's cotton bill and sent it to the Senate for consideration. Estimates suggest the plan could require over 300 million dollars in federal outlay, though Smith claims costs would be around 100 million. The bill shifts support from loans to price payments up to five cents per pound, diversifying how growers market cotton this season.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Smith
South Carolina
Senate
Wallace
Tulane Dean Seeks Court Control Of Louisiana Bar
Dean Paul Brosman of Tulane Law School urged the Monroe Rotary Club to appeal to courts to remove political influence from the Louisiana bar. He noted past legislative defeats and cited a state supreme court ruling that ultimate control lies with the courts. He criticized the Bar of Louisiana's governance for elected non lawyers and lack of local disciplinary oversight.
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Monroe Lad Joins Ashes Voyage For Saito Funeral
Corporal John Alvin LeBlanc of Monroe will serve aboard the U S S Astoria conveying the ashes of former Japanese ambassador Hiroji Saito from Washington to Yokohama. LeBlanc, son of Mr and Mrs A M LeBlanc, is a Ouachita Parish High School 1935 graduate and Marine Corps veteran.
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United States
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Yokohama
U. S. S. Astoria
Monroe
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A. M. LeBlanc
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Hampton Roads
Arthur M. LeBlanc
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Navy
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United States Marshal Hal Harvin captured a clam clamped on a duck’s foot during a duck hunting outing in Florence South Carolina. In Pulaski Virginia Police Chief M C Pierce reported a missing automobile later found parked on a street, reminding him he parked it there days earlier. In Salt Lake City Val S Snow discovered two skunks in his basement while firing the furnace and sought biological help.
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Pulaski
M. C. Pierce
Salt Lake City
Val S. Snow
Plans Ready for Training Air Mechanics
Washington march 9 administration plans are complete to train additional aviation mechanics to build and service thousands of new war planes. Authorization to proceed awaits presidential signoff with pilots training also planned.
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Labor Peace Group Moves to New York for Unity Talks
The American Federation of Labor labor unity committee travels to New York City to test John L. Lewis plan to merge the CIO and Big Four rail unions with the AFL. Negotiators will begin reviewing the proposal tomorrow night, while AFL opponents keep their position, signaling possible counter proposals later.
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Peace Committee
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New York City
New York
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William Green
Federation
Chamber of Commerce approves 1939 program plans
The junior board endorsed the 1939 program with unanimous support from civic affairs convention highway public relations sports and membership committees. The civic affairs panel led by E C Gibson backed postal plans to split Monroe and West Monroe offices and a rat control plan pending funding by local governments. The convention group led by Max Moses noted 18 conventions secured for 1939 and 123 in 1940 statewide, with 23 in New Orleans. banners will be created by WPA workers for display in DeSiard Trenton and nearby business districts.
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E. C. Gibson
West Monroe
Monroe
Quachita Parish
Max Moses
Louisiana
New Orleans
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Trenton
WPA
Former actress Gladys Banks dies after fall in New York
Gladys Frazin Banks, former actress and ex wife of Monte Banks, associate producer for Twentieth Century Fox, died after plunging from a sixth floor West End Avenue apartment. She left a note saying she could not bear suffering, and relatives noted a recent nervous breakdown.
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Gladys Frazin Banks
Monte Banks
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Company
West End Avenue
Banks
Louis Frazin
General Miaja Blocks Exits From Madrid in Revolt Day
Madrid braces as General Jose Miaja seals exits from the city to crush communist pockets amid a defense council revolt. War planes bomb rebel groups near Madrid while 1,000 carabineros surrender. Mobile units join the effort as two infantry companies back the uprising.
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New Defense Council
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Miaja
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Miaja Council
Third arrest expected in motor death in Norwalk
State Patrolman Ray Abrams disclosed a third arrest is anticipated in the case of Carl Schlett 29 found dead beside a rural road January 27. Mrs Coletta Schlett widow of the paper factory owner and Harold Hastings 35 neighbor are jailed on first degree murder charges. Hastings says he drove to a Sandusky casino and later reported a truck collision.
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Coletta Schlett
Harold Hastings
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Schlett
Russell Ramsey
Hastings
Sandusky
Ramsey
Rex Bracy
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