Budget politics stir refunds for farm program losses
Treasury officials estimate less than 10 percent of the billion dollars collected under the farm law would be returned. Rep Cullen urges December 31 claim deadline extension amid Supreme Court fate uncertainty. He notes taxpayers challenge over proof of claims to recover funds.
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GTON
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Cullen
New York
Treasury
Supreme Court
Roosevelt
Harry L. Hopkins
Works Progress
Senate
George L. Berry
Nathan L. Bachman
Tennessee
Bachman
McAdoo
California
Andrews
Florida
Hull
Czechoslovakia
Robert A. Young
State school bands thrill crowds at Louisiana contest
The Louisiana state band contests showcased class F to A bands from Ouachita parish and Neville High in Monroe with a massed 1600 players parade and a late night Ruston High orchestra show directed by Harvey Nelson. Drum major contests featured Steve Burns as a leading contender.
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Hotel Frances
George Moffett
Quachita Parish High School
Neville High School
North Fourth Street
Louisville Avenue
Washington Street
DeSiard
South Grand Street
Wood Street
Central Grammar School
Ruston High School
Harvey Nelson
Ouachita Parish
Monroe
State Department of Education
T. H. Harris
Louisiana
S. T. Burns
Louisiana Music Education Association
O. Lincoln Igon
Baton Rouge
Welfare meet voices fixist plan for social fabric
Louisiana leaders discuss a strategy linking immediate relief with addressing underlying social causes. Speakers urge balancing aid to the sick with reforms to income, delinquency, literacy, and mental health, while pursuing coordinated national programs for the homeless and transient populations.
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Louisiana
Janvier
Richard R. Foster
New Orleans
Department of Public Welfare
William H. Nes
Christ Church Cathedral
Wiladislava Szurek Frost
Monroe
George Freeman
Community Fund
Shreveport
Roy Muller
Lake Charles
Anna L. Sulie
Alexandria
Corinne Fonde
Poppy Day Proclaimed In Monroe For May 8
The American Legion auxiliary will sell memorial poppies Saturday May 8 1937 in Monroe from 8 am to noon with proceeds aiding local welfare and hospital work. Mayor Arnold Bernstein urges citizens to cooperate as the 11th annual sale proceeds are allocated to local programs.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Arnold Bernstein
Monroe
Zeppelin Graf Zeppelin Flight Schedule Uncertain After Disaster
The Graf Zeppelin's future flights remain uncertain after a disaster. Officials say early judgments are unavailable and no commitment from the air ministry is given while the ship waits in Frankfort before its May 11 South America crossing.
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Air Ministry
Zeppelin Company
Frankfort
South America
Refugee ships bring thousands to French havens
French authorities promise refuge in homes and hospitals as ships unload refugees along the Gironde. The Habana carries over 2,183 passengers including many children to La Reole near Bordeaux, while the Tuarra brings 153 children and 170 adults to Pauillac. French naval medical teams board Izarra at Pauillac, accompanied by two nurses.
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Pauillac
la Palice
la Rochelle
Royal Oak
Seventy
Almirante Cervera
la Roe
Bordeaux
Gironde
Carimare
Margaux
Chateau Palmer
Bilbao
Mians Ndes
Naval Sanitary Service
Izarra
Progore
Taylor Inquiry Again Resumed in Hollywood Mystery
Los Angeles May 1 The unsolved slaying of director William Desmond Taylor may prompt a new exhaustive inquiry after 15 years. Diaries of Mary Miles Minter and romance with James Kirkwood are under review by the grand jury as DA Baron Fitts notes Kirkwood is not implicated. Minter and her family testified while diaries seized from her home this week are examined. Mrs Fillmore, estranged from Mrs Shelby, sues for 48000 dollars.
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Los Angeles
Ace
William Desmond Taylor
Mary Miles Minter
Miss Minter
James Kirkwood
Baron Fitts
Kirkwood
Fitts
Grand Rapids
Mich
Charlotte Shelby
Margaret Fillmore
Shelby
Taylor
Santa Barbara
Eugene Marcus
Mary
James
Child’s quick call saves home as firemen respond in Florida
In New Smyrna Florida a four year old boy Marshall Sams called for help by telephone and directed firemen to a brush fire threatening his home and nearby houses. Firefighters arrived to extinguish the blaze and credited the child with likely saving property and lives. The other note mentions Scarlatti composing the Cat Fugue after hearing a cat play his harpsichord.
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New Smyrna
Fla
Marshall
C. H. Sams
Marshall Sams
Scarlatti
Night crash of ill fated sky queen stuns families
Witnesses recalled a terrible sight as the Lakehurst wreck left survivors in shock and dead on a spring night. Crew member Hans Hugo Velt sent a hopeful message from his hospital bed while state troopers and nurses tended the scene and mournful crowds gathered at the hangar.
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E. C. Hazard
Pinewald
N. J
Hans Hugo Velt
Prussia
Lakehurst
Berry Named U S Senator From Tennessee in Appointment
Portly labor leader George Leonard Berry was appointed by Governor Gordon Browning to the U S Senate seat from Tennessee to succeed the late Nathan Bachman. Berry, 53, will serve until the November 1938 election and has backed President Roosevelt's court plan. The piece ends with a cuckoo metaphor about nesting birds.
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Nashville
Tenn
George Leonard Berry
United States
Tennessee
Browning
Berry
Roosevelt
NRA
Florida dance hall operator faces life for perjury
Mrs. Mae Hall, a Florida dance hall operator, faces life in prison after giving perjured testimony in the Arcadia trial of three cowboys charged with killing another. Judge W. T. Harrison invoked a law that grants life terms for false testimony when a prisoner's life is at stake.
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Mae Hall
Florida
Arcadia
Fla
W. T. Harrison
Verdict Expected Friday in R M Carr Case
A verdict in the R M Carr case, an Monroe insurance man charged with wounding his brother in law Earl Voss, was expected Friday afternoon after morning arguments in district court. Carr sits on a five man jury for the trial over a stabbing reported last winter at Voss's home amid three years of ill will.
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R. M. Carr
Monroe
Earl Voss
District Court
Carr
District Criminal Court
Voss
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