Reflective Ruminations on Power and Justice
A reflective monologue critiques the aura of power surrounding the 'top dog' and examines ideas of justice. It invokes Tom Meir, Moscow trials, Trotsky, and Mooney to question how reputations color verdicts and whether legal fairness survives celebrity and propaganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommey
San Quentin
Lopaganda
Caplistic
Tooney
Moscow
Moscow Jals and Thought Leon Trotsky
Mooney
Louisiana Wildlife Federation Seeks Expanded Powers
The Louisiana Wildlife Federation urged expanded regulatory powers for the conservation department at its annual convention. Proposals include fixed hunting and fishing seasons, bag and creel limits, license uniformity, methods control, and migratory bird protections. A 1942 convention in Monroe elected board members and set monthly financial reporting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aton Rouge
Conseron Department
Louana Wildlife Federation
Ne Group
Willet
Narles L. Horne, Jr
Gus Voltz
McCaleb
Henry Sevier
C. J. Montgomery, Jr
Mry Achee
S. K. Knight
Charles Wuster
Ant Bateman
Minees
Ted
Eggy Shannon Found Dead in Hollywood Home
Peggy Shannon a 31 year old former film actress prominent in the early 1930s was found dead in her Los Angeles home. Her body lay in a sun suit in a kitchen chair with autopsy expected to determine cause. The report notes her career declined after 1940 and mentions marriage to Albert G. Roberts.
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Ollywood
Peggy Man
Clara Bow
Tne Bluff
Ark
Albert G. Roberts
Reed
Miss Shannon
Iss Shannon
Peggy
Ass Shannon
Hollywood
Roberts
Alanyis
Hoover warns convoys could force war and curb aid
Former President Herbert Hoover argues that using naval convoys to Britain would plunge the U S into immediate war and throttle material aid to Britain. He says keeping out of war is essential to supply Britain’s next critical months and warns of a potential dictatorship in total war. He cites three hard facts including the transformation of the war and the risk of Hitler seizing Suez Iraq North Africa and the Mediterranean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Herbert Hoover
United States
Britain
Hoover
Red
National Broadcasting Company
America
Hitler
Suez
Iraq
North Africa
Mediterranean
Europe
Army Sends Massive Hawaii Maneuver Display
Hawaii launches its 1941 spring maneuvers with about 40 000 troops from Schofield Fort Shafter and Fort Armstrong to test Oahu defenses. General Short said the US faces threats in both Atlantic and Pacific theaters as parachute troops and air power join the exercises.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Hawaii
United States
Pacific
Army
Atlantic
Hawaiian
Walter C. Short
Hawaiian Department
Schofield Barracks
Fort Shafter
Fort Armstrong
Oahu
Hickman Field
Wheeler Field
Europe
China
Wage Hour Law Justifying Hopes Says Fleming
Biloxi Mississippi May 12 The wage and hour administrator Philip B Fleming told the Mississippi Bankers Association that the act should be viewed as a whole. He said the law is helping to put the unemployed to work and bringing fairer competition, giving millions a more equitable share of national wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Biloxi
Miss
Philip B. Fleming
Mississippi Bankers’ Association
Shushan and Four Lose Final Appeal on Mail Fraud Conviction
Abraham L. Shushan and four others failed to win Supreme Court review of their mail fraud conviction linked to a 1936 refinancing contract with the Orleans levee district. The group, including Newman Harris Miller and Waguespack, were sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $2,000 each after the Fifth Circuit upheld the verdict. The case involved excess fees allegedly paid to the levee board and its associates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Abraham L. Shushan
Huey P. Long
Louisiana
Supreme Court
Justice Murphy
Justice Department
Board of Levee Commissioners
Orleans Levee District
Shushan
Levee Board
Robert J. Newman
Norvin T. Harris, Jr
New Orleans
Henry J. Miller
Herbert W. Waguespack
Federal District Court
Fifth Federal Circuit Court
Newman and _ Harris
State moves to drop bond suit in Louisiana
Baton Rouge judge reserves judgment on exceptions and sets arguments on merits after the state seeks dismissal of a $6.145 million bond issue challenge. The suit, filed by James H. Morrison on behalf of a Livingston Parish taxpayer, argues the reorganization amendment abolished the state board of liquidation but the board acted on the bonds. Bonds intended to cover state obligations and Confederate pensions are not being delivered to a purchasing syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
James Womack
James H. Morrison
Hammond
Livingston Parish
State Board of Liquidation
Morrison
Womack
Cicero Sessions
A. M. Suthon
Supreme Court
District Court
Highway Department
Education Department
Big Things in London Remain Untold
London diary reveals hardship behind brief headlines. A rose seller bombed from a street stand relocates twice as a war of nerves and constant moving unfolds. A widowed naval wife takes a government job and fights fires through dawn, inspiring gritty resilience amid urban peril.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Gina
South Boston Navy Drydock Strike Involves Major Defense Project
American Federation of Labor skilled craftsmen began a one day walkout at the South Boston navy drydock halting work on a $30 million defense project. Union spokesmen cited the hiring of 1200 WPA and civil service workers as the cause and warned they could call out 300 yard workers if no settlement is reached. Simultaneously the CIO United Auto Workers planned a nationwide strike against General Motors with talks resuming before a defense mediation board in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
American Federation of Labor
Navy Drydock
South Boston
Mass
Navy Yard
E. A. Johnson
Building and Construction Trades Council
WPA
Civil Service
C. I. O. United Automobile Workers Union
General Motors Corporation
Defense Mediation Board
Washington
United Automobile Workers
Detroit
Hudson Motor Company
General Motors
Hudson Company
Sidney Falgout Ends Own Life at Grand Street Home
Sidney Falgout, 36, shot himself Sunday afternoon at his home 129 12 South Grand Street. Dr J T French, parish coroner, ruled death by own action. Police traced call from Mrs Falgout, who cried for an officer at the scene. Falgout died from a self inflicted wound to the chest with a .38 caliber pistol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sidney Falgout
South Grand Street
J. T. French
Parish
J. D. Busby
Busby
Falgout
Westminster Abbey Damaged as London Faces Bomb Ruin
British ministers survey wreckage in the bombed House of Commons and Westminster Abbey after a night of air raids. Arthur Greenwood notes reconstruction plans amid charred walls and 50 foot debris. Parliament figures report safekeeping of the mace and historic cabinets while Churchill’s rooms remain intact. Cleanup continues at a hotel hit by a heavy blast.
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Russell C. Landstrom
Associated Press
London
Arthur Greenwood
Britain
House of Commons
Greenwood
Westminster Abbey
British Museum
Big Ben
Westminster Hall
Abbey
England
Vyvyan Adams
Gladstone
Disraeli
Churchill
World War II News In Major Allied Battlefronts
The World Today reports hundreds of Nazi planes raid 20 British air dromes while the RAF mounts a large counteroffensive. British air forces strike Hamburg Bremen Rotterdam and London sees its lightest raid in weeks. Rescue workers search ruins for victims.
Missing Brewster couple Spark Pennsylvanian search
Bellefonte Pa May 12 Experienced woodsmen and sportsmen pilots launched a search for Mr and Mrs Benjamin Brewster prominent New Yorkers whose cross country plane has been overdue since Friday Officials and volunteers tracked the route from Roosevelt Field New York to Warren Ohio fearing a forced landing in the Alleghenies The search follows reports of a dead motor heard near a low flying plane.
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Bellefonte
Aviation
Alleghenies
Benjamin Brewster
Pennsylvania
Brewsters
Roosevelt Field
N. Y
Warren, O
Warren
C. H. Shaffer
Eight Year Old Boy Drives Car in Minnesota Memoir
In Minneapolis area a fearless 8 year old, Donald Kobs, found his father's keys and backed a car from the driveway. He drove toward Coon Rapids, veered into a ditch briefly, and at a gas station the attendant ultimately drove him home. The boy decided he does not want to drive for now.
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Minneapolis
Donald Kobs
Coon Rapids
Donald
Mr. Kobs
Hess vanishes after flight defying Hitler orders
Berlin reports Rudolf Hess has crashed in a personal plane after a flight last Saturday made against Hitler's commands. His adjutants were arrested, and Hess was missing with uncertain fate as Nazi leaders await details of his disappearance and possible death.
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Berlin
Rudolf Hess
Adolf Hitler
Nazi Party
Hess
Hitler
Fuehrer
Pres Rudolf
Hermann Goering
Reich
Marshal Goering
Landsberg Fortress
Munich
Dr Paul H Herron Rites Arranged
Rites are set for Dr Paul Hilton Herron 37 prominent north Louisiana physician instant electrocuted in Oak Ridge while taking an X ray. The funeral is at Oak Ridge Episcopal church Tuesday at 10 a.m. Interment in Hasley cemetery West Monroe with ministers officiating. Peters Funeral Service in charge.
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Paul Hilton Herron
North
Louisiana
Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge Episcopal Church
Frank S. Persons
Dring
Hasley Cemetery
West Monroe
Persons
E. F. Hayward
Grace Episcopal Church
Peters Funeral Service
E. M. Barham
R. E. Barham
Sam Conger
A. G. Corey
Erle M. Barham
W. M. Nolan
P. H. Wade
George Files
D. H. Reitzell
Dr. Herron
Rush Medical College
Chicago
Collinston Woman Improves After Arm Amputation
Mrs. W. O. Davis of Route 1 Collinston is reported improving at St. Francis sanitarium after doctors amputated her right arm following a Sunday noon automobile accident. The arm was crushed and removed halfway between the elbow and shoulder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. O. Davis
Route 1
Collinston
St. Francis Sanitarium
Scarred anew by luftwaffe on week end
London faced fire wreckage as the Luftwaffe renewed strikes over the weekend. RAF bombers hit Hamburg Bremen Emden Rotterdam IJmuiden and a Texel seaplane base in a raid described as a broad counter offensive. Diplomats cautioned about potential high level talks among Hitler Mussolini and Stalin on European economic and military realignments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luftwaffe
Vichy
France
Adolf Hitler
Mussolini
Joseph Stalin
Europe
Darlan
Associated Press
London
Empire
Germany
Hamburg
Bremen
Britain
Emden
Holland
Rotterdam
Ijmuiden
Texel
Frazier Ready for Murder Trial Again in Louisiana
In Baton Rouge Louisiana Attorney General Eugene Stanley announced he will prosecute murder charges against Charlie Frazier and three other convicts, survivors of the 1933 jail break that left Captain John A Singleton dead. Frazier, 42, with eight escapes, had sought habeas corpus challenging the indictment but Stanley insists the case remains valid to uphold prison discipline. The extradited Texan faced a mistrial on Singleton’s slaying and argues he should return to Texas to finish a life term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Charlie Frazier
John A. Singleton
Louisiana
Eugene Stanley
Frazier
Captain Singleton
Stanley
Singleton
James V. Alred
Texas
Bicycle light rule posted for city safety
The Daily note explains Section 53 requiring every bicycle on city streets or alleys to display a white light to the front between sunset and sunrise visible 500 feet, and a red rear light or reflector visible 500 feet to the rear under normal conditions. The rule aims to improve nighttime visibility and rider safety.
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Ils
Fair
Westbrook Pegler
NROE
Eggy Shannon
IS Angeles
Unisity of
California
Los Angeles
Roose
Lous Knott Koontz
Defense Democracy
U. S
Dena Shelby Diehl
Danville
Sara Shelby Dunn
Emmet W. Milward
Lexington
Sydney Warfield Clay
Frankfort
Diehl
J. Merrill Frazer
Cincinnati
Golden Rule Foundation
American Mothers National Committee
Boston Navy Drydock
G. M. Walkout
Pacific Coast
Monroe
The
Ethiopia
Tobruk
Libya
Sicily
Tripoli
Rutba
Soviet
Russia
P. H. Herron
Oak Ridge Church
Hasley
Norman Walker
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