Cooking School Draws Hundreds at Neville High
The News-Star-World cooking school at Neville High attracted hundreds of housewives from the Twin Cities and northeast Louisiana. Mayor Harvey Benoit welcomed attendees as Mrs Ida M Chitwood opened lectures and demonstrations drew lively audience reaction.
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News-Star— World
Neville High School
Twin Cities
Louisiana
Ida M. Chitwood
News-Star—World
Harvey H. Benoit
James L. Ewing
Silverstein's
Silverstein’s
New England Mobilizes for Spring Forest Fires
Massive fire prevention effort across six states ramps up as Congress approves 5 million dollars for protection along timbered belt from Long Island Sound to the Canadian border. Massachusetts vows 24 hour lookout watches while New Hampshire trains 6000 residents and Rhode Island coordinates firefighting under Morton Harris.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Long Island Sound
Canadian
Massachusetts
Ernest J. Dean
New England
New Hampshire American Legion
Rhode Island
Morton K. Harris
Justice Roberts Hospitalized for Undisclosed Illness
Associate Justice Owen J. Roberts of the Supreme Court was treated at Garfield Hospital for an undisclosed illness. His condition was described as favorable and he was expected to be away for a few days after attending yesterday's court session.
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Washington
Owen J. Roberts
Supreme Court
Garfield Hospital
Six Cities to Be Tested on Aid Surplus
Washington reports a new government plan to send surplus foods through local groceries using stamps for relief families. Six cities with populations above 50 000 will test two stamp methods orange and blue with diverging redemptions and no price fixing by the administration.
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National Food and Grocery Conference Committee
Wallace
Agricultural Department
Agriculture Department
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Quads to Grow Up in Galveston under Chamber Deal
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Badgett who welcomed four girls on February 1 have arranged with the Galveston Chamber of Commerce that the quadruplets will reside in Galveston until they reach 18. The pact ties the chamber to publicizing the family while preventing commercialization as plans proceed to build a home.
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Galveston
Tex
W. E. Badgett
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Storm Warning for Texas Coast Issued by Weather Bureau
Storm warning issued at 8:30 a.m. CST for the Texas coast as fresh to strong southerly winds are forecast this afternoon and tonight. Winds will shift to northerly by early Wednesday, according to the United States Weather Bureau in New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Texas
United States Weather Bureau
Attempted Arson and Threats in Louisiana Berry Dispute
Acting Governor Earl K. Long considered sending National Guardsmen to the Louisiana strawberry belt if acts of violence occur as farmers clash over the 1939 crop. State police arrested Anthony Spitale on weapons charges after an alleged shooting threat against State Representative Charles Anzalone near Independence. he was held for questioning before transfer to Amite. Heavy police reinforcements remained in the berry belt as carload strawberry shipments began for the season.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
New Orleans
National
Louisiana
Long
Louis F. Guerre
Anthony Spitale
Guerre
Charles Anzalone
Independence
Anzalone
Berry-Shipping
Strawberry Farmers’ Union
Spitale
Amite
Florida
Three Men Held as Kidnap Robbery Suspects Near Boundary
Investigators report two suspects identified as the Junction City Arkansas teacher kidnappers on February eleven. The trio faces Lindbergh law and possible Dyer act charges as confessions grow. Boundary area near Junction City Arkansas Louisiana is central to the case.
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Quachita Parish
Louisiana
Junction City
Ark
Milton Coverdale
Frank V. Reitzell
Lindbergh
Arkansas
Dr Morris Fishbein Attacks Medicine Politics In Oklahoma
In Stillwater Oklahoma March 14 Dr Morris Fishbein secretary of the American Medical Association warned the medical profession cannot exist if politics dominate it He said the profession has tried for 50 years to stay out of politics and denounced efforts to make the state health officer the key figure in the state He spoke to the Payne County Medical Association opposing socialized medicine.
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Stillwater
Oklo
Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
Fishbein
Payne County Medical Association
Large Pension Issue Before Texas Solons
In Austin on March 14 the Texas House faces a constitutional amendment plan for a larger old age pension program. The proposal would tax at 2.5 percent and raise other levies to fund about $30 monthly for anyone age 65 and over, with a vote possible before week’s end.
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Austin
Tex
W. Lee O’daniel
Texas
O'Daniel
Wealth Behind Court Case in Manhattan Surrogate Court
In New York March 14 a Surrogate Court notation centers on the distribution of 877000 tied to Ida E. Wood the Herald Square widow. The seven year old tale follows a hoarded fortune found after her death drawing 1107 claimants worldwide.
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New York
Manhattan
James A. Foley
Ida E. Wood
Herald Square
Census Bureau to Probe Personal Affairs in Next Decennial
The census bureau plans the broadest inquiry into personal affairs in U S history with questions on employment income rents housing and living conditions to guide laws allocations and economic policy for the next decade. Economists will use the data to map regional income patterns and unemployment trends.
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Washington
Census Bureau
Congress
President Roosevelt Calls WPA Relief Status Very Serious
President Roosevelt told Congress the relief situation is very serious and urged restoring $150 million to the WPA to run through July 1. He warned without sufficient funds about 1.25 million workers could be discharged and urged Congress to act to sustain employment and national prosperity.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
WPA
United States
Congress of the United States
Sleeping man survives as brick building collapses
In Logansport Indiana a brick building fell while 55 year old Paul R Rea slept inside police found him amid timbers and bricks but unharmed He remained asleep throughout the search. In Miami Florida Joseph M Stein Kirchner of Newton Kansas mailed subscription money with a dollar for a bet on Deadeye Dick in dog races Four Miami Herald staffers joined him to bet 2 dollars total Deadeye Dick won paying 17 20 to the mutuels.
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Logansport
Ind
Paul R. Rea
Miami
Fla
Joseph M. Stein Kirchner
Newton
Kas
Miami Herald
Deadeye Dick
Rabbit trouble nets Tex man toe loss
Palestine Texas, John Boyd recounts his misadventure with a rabbit that led to a rattlesnake bite when he reached into a hollow and steadied his shotgun on his toe, leaving him without a toe.
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Palestine
Tex
John Boyd
Grand jury to probe taxes in Orleans Parish
Orleans parish grand jury will begin an investigation next Tuesday into alleged tax assessment reduction racketeering. Hugh M. Wilkinson, a state bar of Louisiana governor, filed the charges. Wilkinson claims attorneys, tax officials, notaries, and others worked to lower assessments for fees, defrauding the state and city for thousands over three years. Governor Lewhye, while away in Texas, said prosecutions should extend to participants if evidence supports it.
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New Orleans
Charles A. Byrne
Orleans Parish
Grand Jury
Hugh M. Wilkinson
Board of Governors
State Bar of Louisiana
Wilkinson
State Bar
David M. Ellison
Louisiana Tax Commission
Richard W. Lewhe
Texas
Plan to Let Latin American Nations Buy U S War Munitions
Washington reports the administration securing congressional backing for a plan allowing Latin American nations to purchase ships guns and munitions from U S shipyards arsenals and factories. The move accompanies a separate $200 million House effort to fund Panama Canal locks as wartime safeguards.
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Washington
United States
Senator Barkley
Pittman
Nevada
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House
Panama Canal
Congress
State Department
Japan
Senate Naval Committee
Department
Walsh
Massachusetts
Hull
Maas
Minnesota
Guam
Committee to Probe Bund Again in Hearings
The House Committee on Un American Activities plans to start hearings soon focusing on the German American Bund. Fritz Kuhn supports investigation. recent Bund meetings and camps spark public interest as investigators receive new tips and have worked in the field for weeks.
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Washington
House Committee On UN
Bund
Honesty Rewarded in Clarinda Case
In Clarinda Iowa on March 14 Charles Borden of Shambaugh found a bag with four thousand dollars beside a road. He turned it over to the sheriff. A trucking firm driver claimed the money and Borden received one dollar as a reward for his honesty.
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Clarinda
Charles Borden
Shambaugh
Sheriff's Office
Borden
Nation Falls Apart Under Hitler Order
Prague reports the Czechoslovak federal state dissolved after Slovakia declared independence under Adolf Hitler. Hungarian troops push into Carpatho Ukraine as German forces await orders. President Emil Hacha travels to Berlin to meet Hitler amid a rapidly disintegrating republic and rising Jewish emigration fears.
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Melvin K. Whitefeather
Prague
Munich
Slovakia
Adolf Hitler
Woodrow Wilson
Carpathian
Couetry
Carpatho-Ukraine
Germany
Hitler
Hungary
Emil Hacha
Frantisek Chvalekovsky
Berlin
Europe
Joseph Tiso
Bratislava
Bohemia-Moravia
Czech Unity Party
Tiso
Czecho-Slovakia
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