Walker Defends NYC Administration at Hearing
Mayor James J. Walker faced questions from Samuel Seabury on the Equitable Bus franchise during a tense Hofstadter committee hearing in New York. Cheers and hisses echoed as the mayor rammed back, insisting memory limits and prompting a brief verbal clash before audience laughter and the session continued.
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Allen
New York
Hofstadter Legislative Committee
James J. Walker
Samuel Seabury
Legislative Committee
Equitable Bus Company
Seabury
Equitable
Walker
Democrats Lay Relief Measure Before Senate
In Walington on May 25 a $2.3 billion Democratic bill for unemployment relief and industrial revival was laid before the Senate with the approval of the Democratic steering and policy committees. Senator Wagner of New York introduced the measure for five Democratic sponsors who drafted it. He defended public works and argued Hoover’s bond objections lack merit, citing parity with local toll bridges and tunnels.
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Walington
Senate
Wagner
New York
Hoover
Robinson
Arkansas
Walsh
Montana
Coroner and Wife Held in Plaquemine Dry Raid
Dr Walter J Pellette Plaquemine parish coroner and Mrs Pellette among 14 arrested in federal prohibition raids. Officers seized 2 6? gallons of orange and blackberry wine. They faced charges of sales manufacture and possession as cafes restaurants and hotels near Burns were raided for liquor.
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New Orleans
Walter J. Pellette
Plaquenine Parish
Pellette
U. S
Burns
Mississippi River
Local notes on Monroe life and Eureka circus plans
H. H. B. reviews Monroe culture clubs and a cantata by the Community Choral club led by Prof. Frisbie. A Ouachita explosion case is explained as nitro glycerine soup from a roomer with no injuries. Eureka Springs plans its first circus on flat ground near a lumber plant amid alpine housing.
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Monroe Sketch Club
Community Choral Club
E. Richards
Ouachita Avenue
Warren Garrett
Barney Oakland
Eureka Springs
Lydia
Crescent College
Eureka
Lower House Pushes Broad Salary Reduction Bill
Louisiana representatives William Pegues Jr and James Madison propose a sweeping 20 percent cut to state official salaries. The measure targets the governor and lieutenant governor plus eight elected officers, seven judges, and top state commissioners, with a two thirds vote required for passage.
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Baton Rouge
William Pegues, Jr
DeSoto
James Madison
Morehouse
House of Representatives
Public Service Commissioners
Conservation
Pegues
House
Land Office Register
Agriculture
Louisiana
Supreme Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
District Court
Conflict Looms As Vets March to U S Capital
In Washington Indiana 400 World War veterans allied with East St. Louis merchants prepared to seize a Baltimore and Ohio freight train to press a bonus protest path to Washington D C. They encamped along the railroad right of way and posted sentinels as they awaited a planned capture.
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Washington
Ind
U.P
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Washington, D. C
East St. Louis
Great throng to hear Tripp at Sunday Bible meeting
More than 1,000 men from Monroe and neighboring communities are expected at the Paramount Theater 9:30 Sunday morning for a joint Bible class gathering. Rev. Frank Tripp of Joplin Missouri, former pastor here, will speak, with Oliver B. Morton as chairman.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Louisiana
Paramount Theater
Frank Tripp
Joplin
First Baptist Church
Oliver B. Morton
L. A. Stulee
Mr. Tripp
Mr. Tipp
Dual Banking System Defended at Meeting
Rudolpf S. Hecht, president of the Hibernia Bank and Trust Co of New Orleans, defended state and national banking as he addressed the tri state bankers convention in Memphis. Hecht, chairman of the American Bankers Association policy commission, condemned any move to federalize all commercial banking. The multiplicity of jurisdictions is the safeguard of freedom he said.
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Memphis
Tenn
Rudolpf S. Hecht
Hibernia Bank and Trust Company of
New Orleans
Bankers’ Convention
Arkansas
Mississippi
Tennessee
Hecht
Economic Policy Commission
American Bankers’ Association
Hoover Nears renomination as GOP delegates accumulate
President Hoover appears set for renomination after Texas pledged 49 delegates, bringing his tally to 621 with 1,044 claimed across 14 states. Democratic rival Garne r holds 90 from Texas as Roosevelt rises to 474, while Alfred E. Smith sits at 94. Maryland Republicans will award 19 Hoover delegates after his May 2 victory over France. Delegation contests begin June 9 in Chicago.
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Associated Press
Hoover
Texas
Joseph I
France
Garner
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Delaware
New Jersey
Alfred E. Smith
Maryland
White House
Chicago
Texas Democrats back Garner on ticket amid demand to repeal Prohibition
In Houston on May 25 the Texas Democratic convention endorsed John N Garner for president but split on Prohibition. After pledging 46 votes for Garner at the national convention the group voted to submit repeal of the eighteenth amendment to the states. The meeting ended disorderly.
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Houston
Texas
John N. Garner
Hood Amendment Converts Tax Plan Into Broad Income Levy
The article critiques Representative Hood of Jefferson Davis parish for proposing an income tax amendment that would remove the lien tax limit and impose a broad levy up to 10 percent. It argues such a move would hit all classes, contradicting earlier compromises, and warns it could raise already burdensome taxes, worsen state debt, and fail to lower current tax bills. It urges the legislature to reject the Hood amendment.
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Hood
Jefferson Davis Parish
Gov
Allen
Louisiana
Blanchard
Mrs. Stafford Greets Large Audience at Expo
Four hundred women attended the News Star World home makers exposition at Central Grammar School auditorium. Mrs. Kate B. Stafford of St. Louis lectured on the modern homemaker, noting how to live well on modest incomes and promising tomorrow's talk on Back to the Home. Gifts were distributed to forty three attendees with prizes funded by local sponsors such as City of Monroe Collens Pharmacy Johnnie Smith Elbert Home Furniture and Jersey.
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News-Star-World
Central Grammar School
Kate B. Stafford
St. Louis
Blackmer Declines Return After Teapot Dome Trials
Washington May 25 Henry M Blackmer the missing witness in the naval oil cases will not return to the United States despite income tax settlements totaling about 4 000 000 and a 60 000 contempt fine paid by George Gordon Battle attorney for the Denver oil man Battle said Blackmer would stay abroad after paying the fine for refusing to testify in the Sinclair Fall Teapot Dome proceedings.
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Washington
Henry M. Blackmer
United States
George Gordon Battle
Denver
Teapot Dome
Harry F. Sinclair
Albert B. Fall
Internal Revenue Bureau
Senate vote sought on Philippine independence for farmers
Washington May 25. Senator Borah chairman of the foreign relations committee asked in the senate for a vote on Philippine independence before the session ends as a measure to assist the American farmer.
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Washington
Senate
Borah
Foreign Relations Committee
Plead hunger in court as cause of store entry
Two defendants pleaded hunger as their reason for burglarizing Hello World grocery in Ouachita parish. John Polk and Andrew Johnson, both Negroes, were sentenced by Judge J. T. Shell to five years in the state penitentiary after admitting guilt. Ellen Kennedy, 17, received six months for assault with a dangerous weapon connected to a Casino Park shooting.
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J. T. Shell
Ouachita Parish
State Penitentiary
John Polk
Andrew Johnson
Hello World
Polk
Johnson
Red Cross
Ellen Kennedy
Casino Park
DeSiard Road
St. Francis Sanitarium
J. B. Thornhill
Senate Tax Drives Face Setbacks Amid Bill Deluge
A flood of economy and taxation bills moves through committees as Governor O K Allen seeks budget solutions. Senator Scott Heywood's tax source inquiry is killed in the upper chamber, while two repeal measures to end the state prohibition law advance. The workload strains enrollment staff as hundreds of bills accumulate in both houses.
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Baton Rouge
Scott Heywood
O. K. Allen
Senate
House
N. S. Hoffpaulr
Acadia
Waldo H. Dugas
Lafayette
Judiciary
House Judiciary
Claude Duke
New Orleans
Heywood
Senate Finance Committee
Senate Corporations Committee
Clement Moss
Lake Charles
Lake Charles Harbor and Terminal
Oh Doctor Opera Set By Neville High Seniors Tuesday
Neville high school seniors will stage two act opera Oh Doctor in the school auditorium on Tuesday May 31. The plot centers on Dr Drinkwater who runs a sanatorium and a spring and disowns his son for marrying an actress. Glory, the daughter, must decide between the will and her contract while Honor and Madam Chere plot to reach the sanatorium.
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Doctor
Neville High School
Drinkwater
Glory
South America
Honor
Madam Chere
The
Sam
Senate Bonus Petition Gains Signers For House Vote
The Patman cash bonus petition to force a house vote drew 82 of 145 required signatures as of May 25. If enough members join and the house sits June 13, a vote on considering the $2 billion plan could be scheduled.
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Washington
Patman
Nebraska
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