Four Natural Gas Firms Face Charges in Ouachita Parish
Twelve criminal counts were filed against four natural gas concerns in Ouachita Parish for alleged schemes to dodge royalties and severance tax. The Houston based firms include Austin Gas Inc, Imperial Oil and Gas Inc, Interstate Natural Gas, and 8S D Hunter. Investigators say meters were bypassed or absent to conceal gas extraction, masking royalty and tax obligations. The probe cites state conservation data and notes royalties typically go to landowners at one eighth of gas or oil produced, with severance tax at a fraction of a cent per thousand cubic feet.
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Ouachita Parish
David I. Garrett
Austin Gas Company, Inc
Imperial Oil and Gas Company, Inc
Interstate Natural Gas Company
8S. D. Hunter
Monroe
State Conservation Department
Amherst College Drops Religion Courses From Curriculum
Amherst Mass May 2 The board of trustees voted to remove all religion courses from the college curriculum effective next September. Dr James Gordon Gilkie of Springfield Mass will lose his Biblical literature courses as they are discontinued. Reasons cited include cost lack of resident professor status and duplication in other departments.
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Amherst
Mass
Calvin Coolidge
Dwight L. Morrow
Amherst College
James Gordon Gilkie
Springfield
Arthur Stanley Pease
Gilkie
Moslem Faithful Journey Across Desert to Mecca
The annual Hajj pilgrimage begins as pilgrims travel from Damascus and Cairo toward Mecca. Hundreds of thousands join on the desert trek, with tens of thousands yet to arrive and many enduring severe hardship on the hot route through Africa.
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Desert
Mecca
Jerusalem
Islam
Africa
Damascus
Cairo
Bank rate cut fails to check falling market
The New York Federal Reserve cut its rediscount rate to 5 percent, a move seen as historic, but the stock market continued to fall in early trading. Large declines appeared in several major shares, with some dropping $4 to nearly $10 a share as the market lagged behind the ticker. The market then turned dull after an initial rally attempt.
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Associated Press
New York
New York Federal Reserve Bank
New York Stock Exchange
Pistol Stolen From Guard at Ohio State Pen
Unrest rose in isolation quarters of 1100 prisoners as an automatic service revolver disappeared from a prison guard at the Ohio State Penitentiary. Colonel Haubrich heightened guard strength, noting the weapon's loss may involve another soldier. Inside the enclosure convicts threw rocks at workers and Pat McDermott, life-term for murdering Canton editor Don Mollett, was moved to solitary confinement.
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United Press
Columbus
State Penitentiary
Robert Haubrich
Pat McDermott
Don Mollett
Canton
Ruth Reymond Retains Louisiana Women’s Golf Title
Ruth Reymond of Baton Rouge defeated Mrs. Dick Richards of Shreveport two and one to win the Louisiana Women's Association championship final in Baton Rouge. This marks her fourth state title and adds to her status as a former southern champion.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Ruth Reymond
Dick Richards
Shreveport
Louisiana Women's Association
Reymond
Jurists Interrupt Several Questions Raised By Court
In New Orleans on May 2 the federal court heard the United States defend the interstate commerce commission order allowing lower grain shipment rates by western railroads to Galveston than to New Orleans. The Texas and Pacific and Louisiana and Arkansas railways argued the ICC exceeded its powers by entering the economic field, while government counsel contended the ICC acted on railroad representations and did not aim to equalize conditions between ports.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Galveston
Texas and Pacific
Louisiana and Arkansas Railways
Elmer B. Collins
Washington
Eighth Attempt Within Five Days Made to Burn Memphis Home
In Memphis, authorities intensified the search for a persistent pyromaniac after the eighth attempt within five days to burn J. J. Gannon's home. The seventh attempt failed yesterday morning and last night a rag soaked in kerosene was found ablaze in a front window, but no serious damage occurred.
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Memphis
Associated Press
Tenn
J. J. Gannon
Co-Operative Company
Hambone's Meditations: Trouble Bout Po' Folks in High Society
J P Alley delivers Hambone's Meditations noting a clash between po folk life and elite society. The piece blends humor and social critique as it sketches the misadventures of characters navigating class expectations and pretensions.
Tech Talk Earns All American Rating In National Contest
Tech Talk the Louisiana Tech student newspaper is named one of five senior college weeklies to receive All-American rating from the National Scholastic Press Association. The council reports Tech Talk scored 950 of 1000 points on the official scorebook.
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Tech Talk
Louisiana Tech Here
National Scholastic Press Association
Minneapolis
Minn
National Association
the Bulletin
Kansas State Teachers’ College
Emporia
Charletonian
Carlton College
Northfield
the Cosmos
Coe College
Cedar Rapids
College Chips
Luther College
Girl Dragged to Death by Moving Car Near Simsboro
Miss Lorene Rasbury seventeen, daughter of Jake Rasbury, was dragged several hundred feet when her clothing got caught on a car bumper as she started the engine with a crank. The vehicle, driven by her younger sister, stopped only after progress, and Rasbury died shortly after at Ruston Lincoln sanitarium. Interment set for Simsboro.
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Ruston
Lorene Rasbury
Jake Rasbury
Simsboro
Arcadia
Miss Rasbury
Ruston-Lincoln Sanitarium
Deaths and Damage From Midwest Storms Hit Seven States
United Press reports a first series of tornadoes and storms across seven midwestern states. By May 2 Chicago tally shows more than twenty deaths in Nebraska Missouri Kansas Minnesota Illinois with heavy property damage in Wisconsin and Iowa. Dozens injured as homes collapse amid darkness.
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United Press
Chicago
Nebraska
Missouri
Kansas
Minnesota
Ilinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
One Dead as Police and Strikers Clash in Cuba
In Regla Havana on May 2 strikers clashed with police killing one and wounding 12. Police halted a riot that began at a meeting, later subdued after infantry and cavalry were called in. Martial law was imposed on the town.
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Cuba
Havana
Regla
Garland James Reported Dying After Auto Strike
Shreveport May 2 Garland James seven year old son of a lumber company employee at Waskom Texas near the state line is reported in a dying condition after being struck by an automobile in front of the family home while walking from school.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
Garland James
Waskom
Texas
Roof and Wall Collapse Injures Six in Birmingham
Six workmen were hurt when the roof and east wall of the old post office building collapsed during razing in downtown Birmingham. Four were seriously injured, with L C Brooks W N Keltner E D Smith and D D Thomas among the seriously hurt. others were treated on site. Rescue was slowed by a large crowds and police restored order.
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Associated Press
Birmingham
Ala
L. C. Brooks
W. N. Keltner
E. D. Smith
D. D. Thomas
George W. Holmes
Ross V. Collins
Walmsley to inaugurate two giant pumps in New Orleans
Mayor T S Walmsley will switch on two massive pumps in uptown New Orleans completing a 14 million dollar drainage program. Engineers say the system can handle a 14 inch rainfall in 24 hours, preventing floods seen last year. Pumps No 1 at Melpomene and Broad streets and No 6 at Metairie are described as among the world’s largest, pumping water over the levee into the Mississippi River.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
T. S. Walmsley
Uptown
Melpomene
Broad Streets
Metairie
Mississippi River
Orleans Man Lying Unconscious Four Hours In Car
Michael Fridge aged 23 lay unconscious in his wrecked automobile for four hours after his car smashed into a tree near a Pontchartrain Boulevard bridge in New Orleans. Passersby found him and he was taken to a hospital in critical condition.
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New Orleans
Michael Fridge
Pontchartrain Boulevard
Jury fails to reach verdict in slander case
In Rolla Missouri on May 2 the trial of Rev Paul Bennett of Newburg Maine ended without a verdict after jurors who had deliberated since Thursday noon could not agree on criminal libel charges brought by Miss Olive Warren, a Newburg teacher, alleging slander.
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Rolla
Ozark
J. H. Boweron
Paul Bennett
Newburg
Olive Warren
Monroe Man Elected Rotary District Governor at Lake Charles
Rotary Governor D Aubrey Haas of Monroe was elected by acclamation to lead the 17th district at the district conference in Lake Charles. Haas organized the Monroe Rotary Club and has been its leader since inception, serving as club president for two years and director for five years. He was also general chairman of the 17th district convention in 1928.
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D. Aubrey Haas
Monroe
Rotary
Lake Charles
Haas
Monroe Club
Aubrey Haas
Haas Named Governor of Rotary District 17
D Aubrey Haas of Monroe was nominated unanimously as governor of the 17th Rotary district of Louisiana and Mississippi. Conference secretary Harry Worsley cast the vote. Judge J G Palmer submitted Haas's name before noon recess. Haas will be officially elected at the Chicago convention in June.
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Lake Charles
D. Aubrey Haas
Monroe
Rotary
Louisiana
Mississippi
Harry Worsley
J. G. Palmer
Shreveport
Mr. Haas
Haas
Chicago
Mississippi Boundary Ruling Affects Willow Point Dispute
The U S Supreme Court special master rules that Louisiana and Mississippi boundary at Willow Point follows the 1912 13 river channel center. The 1823 to 1912 13 accretions show the line moved with the river and a vulsion created a new channel to the west.
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Washington
Louisiana
Mississippi
Supreme Court
Thomas G. Haight
Willow Point
Mississippi River
Two Men Adrift After Vessel Disabled in Gulf Rescue Underway
Coast Guardsmen from Galveston to Port Aransas and Corpus Christi searched today for Captain Albert Bailey and an unnamed crew member believed adrift in a life boat. The M. N. P. was disabled and towed into Alvaro Obregon, Mexico, by a passing vessel.
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Galveston
Tex
Port Arkansas
Point Isabel
Corpus Christi
Albert Bailey
Bailey
Alvaro Obregon
Mexico
Sue Cafe Owners for Use of Labeled Sauce
McIlhenny company of New Iberia files five federal suits in Shreveport to stop cafe owners and grocers in Lafayette and Opelousas from selling a labeled sauce the firm claims as its trademark. Defendants named include Warren Gardner Luke Martin Theron R B Christmas and Stinson Co Inc.
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Shreveport
Lafayette
Opelousas
McIlhenny Company
New Iberia
Warren Gardner
Luke Martin
C. O. Theron
Woman dies after eating ice cream in New Orleans
Mrs. Ethel Cole, 43, died in a New Orleans hospital after eating a plate of ice cream and experiencing pains. Doctors ruled heart trouble as the cause.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Ethel Cole
New York Police Accuse Moscow of Inciting Riots
New York police reveal photostatic copies of Comintern letters and Amtorg memos dated January 3 1930 detailing plans to stir U S labor and military unrest. Documents reference Seattle operations and a May Day outbreak strategy to unite workers against the economic crisis.
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Moscow
United States
America
G. Grafpen
Amtorg Trading Cor
Poration
Amtorg Corporation
Grafpen
Comintern
Third Internationale
Seattle
Amtorg
Mlegal
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