New Orleans Clash Over City Books Audit
Mayor Walmsley and the city commission refused to allow E A Conway the state auditor to examine the city books. Conway left City Hall after government officials denounced the move as coercive political retaliation linked to Huey Long’s bond plan. The dispute signals a wider political struggle between state and city authorities over Long’s $60 million paved roads program.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
T. Semmes Walmsley
Commission Council Today
E. A. Conway
City Hall
Huey P. Long
Walmsley
Conway
Baton Rouge
Orleans
State House
Long
Mr. Conway
Skelly
Pratt and Gomila
Rain and cold wipe out most major league baseball schedule
Associated Press reports heavy rain and cold weather cancel most major league games. Only two games remained, both in the American League featuring the Browns and Tigers in Detroit. The National League had three games initially on the docket, while Chicago and St. Louis played a doubleheader yesterday.
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Associated Press
New York
Browns
Tigers
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Two Birmingham Girls Bum Rides To New Orleans
In New Orleans on May 19 two Hatleyburg Mississippi women, Mrs Daniel Miller an 18 year old bride and her 16 year old sister in law Maud Miller, were arrested in public wearing blue sailor trousers and white shirts after riding rides from Birmingham to New Orleans. They were placed in custody awaiting advices from the Hattiesburg sheriff for return home.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Birmingham
Hattiesburg
Daniel Miller
Maud Miller
Cecelia Gallagher
Rancher Killed as Brother Observes in Mint Canyon
SANGUS Calif May 19 deputies searched for three masked men after the murder of 65 year old Albert Horton in his Mint Canyon road home. His 95 year old brother George Horton witnessed the slaying and alerted authorities.
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Sangus
Calif
George Horton
Albert Horton
Mint Canyon Road
Cat Eye Annie Escapes Auburn Prison in New Break
Lillian McDowell known as Cat Eye Annie, a famed inmate with a peculiar eye cast, slipped from Auburn women's prison just before 5:30 this morning. She sawed through cell door wood and climbed walls, leaving guards puzzled after earlier refusals to join a jailbreak with Sally Joyce Richards and Amelia Bascom.
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Jy Associated Press
Auburn
N. Y
Cat Eye
Annie
Lillian McDowell
Auburn Women’s Prison
Frank L. Heacox
Sally Joyce Richards
Buffalo
Amelia Bascom
Noklyn
Viyem
Lone Wolf
Vicksburg Prepares for Mississippi River Bridge Celebration
Vicksburg Mississippi readies for a large influx of visitors tomorrow for the Mississippi river bridge celebration. City officials trumpet that everything is free as the event draws thousands to town.
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Associated Press
Vicksburg
Miss
Mississippi River
Northeast Louisiana to attend Vicksburg bridge dedication ceremonies
Local officials and business leaders from Monroe will travel by special Illinois Central train at 7 a.m. to participate in the dedication of the new rail and highway bridge over the Mississippi River in Vicksburg. Attendees include Mayor Arnold Bernstein President John Breard Albert Horuff S. H. McClary CC E. Faulk P. M. Atkins J. T. Austin and other businessmen.
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Louisiana
Vicksburg
Mississippi River
Arnold Bernstein
John Breard
Ouachita Parish
Albert Horuff
Chamber of Commerce
S. H. McClary
E. Faulk
News-Star and Post
P. M. Atkins
J. T. Austin
The
Illinois Central
Festival Events Gather Crowds With Free Admission
A carnival day opens with fireworks parades and an air circus, free to the public. The Mississippi bridge opens to visitors from 6 a.m. May 20 to 6 a.m. May 21 as carnival spirit fills the town with flags bunting and festive activity.
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Mississippi River
Girl 14 Survives 35-Foot Well Ordeal In Florida
Jean Gray Brown, 14, fell into an abandoned 35 foot well during a sorority initiation near Lakeland. She used boards and bricks to create a platform and stay above water for hours until rescuers pulled her out unconscious. She recovered at home from exposure.
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Associated Press
Lakeland
Fla
Jean Gray Brown
Detective Trio Beats Gangsters in Memphis Hotel Brawl
Three Memphis detectives fought four Illinois gangsters in a loop hotel. Grady Smith and two other detectives confronted the assailants who used pistols as clubs, subduing them after five minutes and taking the men from Rockford Illinois to the police station. The gangsters were identified as L. J. King Paul Givingo James Robertson and Jake Casioppi.
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United Press
Memphis
Tenn
Grady Smith
Anne Sullivan
Smith
L. J. King
Paul Givingo
James Robertson
Jake Casioppi
Rockford, Il
Powerful Indian Chief Freed in Murder Case
The Pir of Pagaro, a powerful native chieftain, was acquitted today in Karachi on a murder charge. He remains in jail awaiting trial on five other charges including torture and beating of women.
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Karachi
India
Pagaro
Four youths missing on Lake Pontchartrain cruise
Four teens, two 16 year old boys William Gillen and Edward White and two 16 year old girls, vanished after a Sunday afternoon motorboat trip from the Southern Yacht Club on Lake Pontchartrain. Searchcraft probed the lake as heavy winds lashed the area with hopes the Flaming Youth grounded in an inlet and spent the night there.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Lake Pontchartrain
William Gillen
Edward White
Southern Yacht Club
Weather Becomes Wetter With Rain Totals Rising
The Ouachita River rose 2.5 feet in 24 hours as almost ten inches of rain drenched the area since last Thursday. The weather report says clouds persist with no new rain expected for the next section, while Twin Cities recorded 4.1 inches in the 24 hours ending at 7 am today.
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Twin Cities
Kate Key
Death Toll From Floods and Storms Mounts
Relief for flood stricken and wind swept regions arrives as Red Cross aid, troops, or normal weather returns. Floods and tornadoes hit southern and southeastern Arkansas, the hardest, over the weekend as the toll rises to thirty two.
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Red Cross
Prowlors Captured in Crescent City After Alarm and Night Watch
Two negro prowlers were captured in New Orleans Crescent City today. One, Harry Moise, aroused by Rev. Father Le Sage at St. Joseph church rectory, was taken nearby. The second, Willie Johnson, was caught by a night watchman in Orleans Lumber office.
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New Orleans
Father le Sage
St. Joseph Church
Harry Moise
Moise
Willie Johnson
Orleans Lumber Com
Roberts Nomination to Supreme Court Favored by Judiciary Panel
United Press reports the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously favored the nomination of Owen J. Roberts for associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Action was expected to move through the Senate shortly. A single protest from Norman Thomas of the Socialist party suggested Roberts be questioned on economic and social views, but was deemed unnecessary.
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Washington
Owen J. Roberts
U. S. Supreme Court
Senate Judiciary Committee
Senate
Roberts
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
Thomas
Predict A Rise In Red And Ouachita Rivers Near Arkadelphia
May 19 prediction from the New Orleans weather bureau reports an overflow in the upper Ouachita river bottoms. The Red river below Shreveport is forecast to rise for a week or more, cresting near Arkadelphia around 12 feet and reaching 39 to 41 feet at Camden between May 21 and 23. Flood stage at Arkadelphia is 19 feet 6 inches, while Camden’s flood stage is 30 feet.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Weather Bureau
Ouachita River
Red River
Shreveport
Ouachita
Arkadelphia
Camden
Ark
Mississippi
Ross LaSeen
Memphis
Helena Ee
Rise
Arkansas City
Vicksburg i
Natchez Er Wavagen le
Onemnigoeae
Plaquemine
Atchafalaya
Melville
Missouri
Kansas City
Ohio
Cairo
Arkansas
Little Rock
Red
Alexandria
Sepang
Monroe Erie Enedaan Ee
Texas and Oklahoma Floods and Wind Leave Dozens Dead
Disturbances left many homeless and a score of dead with scattered injuries. North Texas and Oklahoma faced fading flood dangers as high winds receded. Over the weekend twenty lives were lost. twelve Black individuals died when wind leveled plantation shanties in Phillips County, Arkansas.
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Texas
Oklahoma
Phillips County
South
Shreveport Men Rescued by Plane From Flooded Route
Three Shreveport citizens Ben Johnson D P Hamilton and B M Watkins were stranded by floods at Hope Arkansas after train washouts blocked progress to Shreveport. They flew home with pilot Curry Sanders, surveying about 30 miles of inundated lands between Hope and Lewisville.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
Ben Johnson
The
Commercial National Bank
D. P. Hamilton
Root Refineries
B. M. Watkins
Arkansas Natural Gas Company
Hope
Ark
St. Louis
Louisiana & Arkansas
Missouri Pacific
Curry Sanders
Lewisville
Watkins
Enforcement Transfer Bill Shifts Prohibition Police
Washington May 19 Hoover backs transfer of prohibition enforcement to the Justice Department. The House approved Senate amendments to the Williamson bill, moving city law enforcement responsibility from the Mellon era to Attorney General Mitchell. The bill now goes to President Hoover for signature.
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Washington
Hoover
House
Senate
Justice Department
Mitchell
Mellon
Supreme Court Rules on Municipal Trolley Line Service
The Supreme Court upheld city power to force a street car company to maintain full service under a perpetual five cent fare in a Decatur Georgia case. It also ordered continued service for a financially loss-making line in Columbia Washington DC after a mandamus from the state supreme court.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Decatur
Georgia Power Company
Columbia
D. C
State Supreme Court
Legislators Probe Gov Bilbo Land Deals in Mississippi
Jackson May 19 The house investigating committee studied evidence in the Bilbo land deals inquiry. Records from Pearl River county show about 20000 spent by the executive since 1928 on land purchases.
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Jackson
Miss
Bilbo
House Investigating Committee
Executive Office
H. K. Rouse
Pearl River County
Desperate Chinese Refugees Flee Bandit Threats in Hupeh
Thousands of peasants flee interior Hupeh province to Hankow seeking shelter. Forty women attempted suicide by river plunge, with several fatalities after throwing themselves on railway tracks. The refugees lack food and water for days.
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Hankow
China
Hupeh
Han
Old Courthouse Burns in Cocke County Fire
Fire destroyed Cocke county courthouse in Newport Tennessee early today. Records were saved. The building cost ten thousand dollars when constructed nearly forty years ago.
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Newport
Tenn
Cocke County Court House
Engineer among dead as passenger train hits work train
A Schulkill division Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train struck a work train north of Shawmont station. One man, Alexander Fager, 63, of Philadelphia, the passenger train engineer, was killed. Nine others were injured, including a woman.
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Associated Press
Philadelphia
Schulkill Division
Pennsylvania Railroad
Shawmont Station
Alexander Fager
Long Says Road Bill to be Introduced Soon
Gov. Huey P. Long, returning from New Orleans, said the administration’s hard surfaced highway measure will be introduced in the Louisiana legislature within a day or so. The proposal mirrors the 1928 bill with bonding increased to two cents per gallon, keeping the same safeguards and citizen approval via an 11 member highway advisory committee.
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Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Huey P. Long
Citizens Highway Advisory Committee of 11
Prohis Nab Confederate Vet 80 on Dry Charge
An 80 year old Confederate veteran John Schexnayder was arrested in Covell Bay Livingston Parish near New Orleans for manufacturing whiskey. He said he never knew prohibition existed and described a life fishing in salt marshes with an antique still, speaking of laws and whiskey as if untouched.
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Barry J. Olloway
United Press
New Orleans
John Schexnayder
Louisiana
Schexnayder
Covell Bay
Livingston Parish
Chary
Likker
United Press Today
Richmond
Farrin
Bay
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