Mayor Denies Petition To Inspect City Books In Court
A Crescent City dispute centers on a petition by 50 voters to audit New Orleans city books. Mayor Walmsley rebuffed the private citizen stance while Judge Gleason hears Conway mandamus arguments on whether the governor can compel access to public accounts.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Commission Council
T. 8
Walmsley
E. A. Conway
Huey P. Long
Conway
Hugh Wilkinson
City Hall
Orleans Parish
Long
Civil District Court
Walter L. Gleason
Marcel Provosty
Attorney General
Wilkinson
Hoover Signs Bill to Create National Health Institute
President Hoover signed a bill to establish a national health institute in Washington with a $750000 appropriation. Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, author of the measure, attended and received one of the president’s pens.
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Washington
Hoover
Ransdell
Louisiana
Bill Would Allow Family Fishing Licenses
In Baton Rouge on May 26 Representative W. H. Hawkins of Red River reintroduced a measure to grant a single annual fishing license for the entire family. The current 1928 law requires a $1 per person license for game fishing with live or artificial bait, unfair to large families.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
W. H. Hawkins
Red River
Hawkins
Supreme Court rules liquor buyers immune to penalties
Washington May 26 The Supreme Court rules that the buyer of bootleg liquor cannot be prosecuted under ordinary circumstances in the Farrar v Boston case. The decision leaves open whether a buyer who knows a shipment is involved can be charged with conspiracy. Justice Sutherland notes Congress has not passed new laws, potentially prompting renewed calls for buyer guilt legislation.
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Supreme Court
James E. Farrar
Boston
Alfred E. Norris
New York
Philadelphia
High Court
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Farrar
Sutherland
Congress
Lowman
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Treasury
Prohibition Enforcement
Prohibition
Think Four Boys Were Swept Into Storm Sewer
In Baltimore Maryland four boys feared dead after vanishing during a Saturday storm. Alban 15 Donald Moore 12 Francis Welden 9 and John Kelly 14 reportedly entered storm inlets near the city edge despite warnings. City workers, parents and neighbors search the flood channel.
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Baltimore
Alban
Donald Moore
Francis Welden
John Kelly
Ministers Demand Enforce Blue Laws In Modern Trenton
Trenton officials and clergy clashed over the 1796 New Jersey vice and immorality act as Public Safety Director Labarre orders enforcement. Police raid golf courses stations theaters and other venues to detect violations while grand juries review offenders. The blue laws now face a modern test with religious leaders pushing for strict prosecution.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey
George B. Labarre
Labarre
Ton
Probe into Jake paralysis spurs intensified national inquiry
Washington May 26 Prohibition Commissioner Doran orders a broader probe into the Jake paralysis outbreak. After a two week southern tour he links a bootleg Jamaica ginger mixture containing creosote carbolic acid alcohol and flavoring to paralysis cases and vows action against northern Louisiana and Mississippi distributors. Estimates place south and southwest paralysis cases at 6 000 to 7 000.
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Washington
Doran
Mississippi
Louisiana
U S Post Office Inspectors Visit Monroe To Survey Needed Expansion
U S district engineer H G Richey and post office inspector W B Watkins arrived in Monroe to study the post office situation. They will report to Washington on the need for a new federal building or an extension. The visit follows action by Congressman Riley J. Wilson and local figures to address congestion. About 50 000 people are served by Monroe's post office, with receipts rising for two decades. the present building dates from the early 1890s when the city had about 3 000 residents.
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H. G. Richey
U. S
Postoffice Department
New Orleans
Watkins
Postoffice
Monroe
Washington
Mr. Richey
Riley J. Wilson
P. M. Adkins
Travis Oliver
Thoman
Supreme Court Rules 1926 Rail Labor Act Constitutional
The U S Supreme Court held the 1926 rail labor act constitutional in the provision prohibiting railroads from interfering with or coercing employees in choosing representatives. Chief Justice Hughes announced the decision on an appeal by the Texas and New Orleans roads, upholding the act against company union challenges.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Hughes
Texas
New Orleans
Wells Inundated In Nebo Bottoms Flood In Morehouse Parish
Up to eighty wells in the Nebo bottoms along the upper Ouachita in Morehouse Parish are reported under five to seven feet of water. Extra crews move meters out of reach of rising waters, with most wells owned by Southern Carbon and subsidiaries. Barney Oakland, head of Ouachita Parish Red Cross, issued a statement today.
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Morehouse Parish
The
Southern Carbon Company
Ouachita
Man Leaps From Auto as Train Strikes It Die At Crossing
In Schriever May 26 Glynn Chan son of Metairie road near New Orleans was killed when his rice broker partner John D. Ross of Crowley was injured in a collision between their car and a Southern Pacific freight train at a grade crossing in Chachoula. Chanson jumped from the automobile before impact and was killed hitting a rail. Ross's injuries were undetermined as he was transported to New Orleans for care. Engineer Aaron Edgecombe said he did all he could to avert the crash.
Hambone's Meditations by J. P. Alley
A study in dialect humor where Hambone remarks on daily life and the quirks of rural figures. The piece relies on vivid speech and regional color to deliver a lighthearted slice of country atmosphere.
Exhumation Extends Inquiry in Bastrop Poison Case
Mrs Lavinia Hayden whose death split a Bastrop poisoning case was exhumed at Crossett Arkansas on Saturday. A portion of viscera was removed for further strychnine tests under oversight of Morehouse Parish Coroner Dr R B Leaver. District Attorney Garrett ordered the re examination to reassess the key witness death impacting Ellis Hayden's indictment.
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Lavinia Hayden
Bastrop
Ellis Hayden
David I. Garrett
Cotton May Be Replanted After Flooded Areas
Shreveport May 26 Cotton can be replanted and will make a good crop in flooded areas around Dixie Gilliam and Belcher if water recedes soon says Reuben T Douglas planter and legislator of Gilliam His optimism rests on the view that planters in his section will have work for tenant refugees and that not all land is under water Some 20000 acres in northern Caddo parish have been flooded.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
Dixie
Gilliam
Belcher
Reuben T. Douglas
Douglas
Caddo Parish
Orlean woman marked 100 with birthday at home
New Orleans May 26 Mrs. Margaret Hollins 100 celebrated her centennial at the Protestant home for the aged. A Kentucky native who calls herself a southerner the Yankees couldn t silence she recalls General John Morgan and General Basil Duke saying goodbye before the Civil War. She also remembers 1812 and hears her grandfather shout for Andrew Jackson.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Margaret Hollins
Hollins
Kentucky
Crevasse Floods Armistead on Red River Levee
New Orleans reports a crevasse along the Red River levee flooding Armistead area. Governor Long hosts a legislative house warming at the executive mansion with a 300 guest cold plate supper planned for tomorrow night.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Governor Long
Baton Rouge
Executive Mansion
Dr Bass Pleads Guilty Ending His Trial
Dr Andrew J Bass a retired dentist and Columbia Missouri native was sentenced to life imprisonment in Bentonville Arkansas after pleading guilty to murdering William Robert Pearman to collect 200000 in life insurance Bass had earlier confessed to shooting Pearman near Columbia Missouri and transporting the body to Gravette Arkansas to fake a hijacking death Bass then admitted the killing in court and will serve life in Little Rock.
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Ark
Andrew J. Bass
Columbia
William Robert Pearman
Bass
Pearman
Missouri
Gravette
William Folta
Dr. Bass
Little Rock
Vast Cash Transfer Moves $850 Million in NYC
In New York on May 26 a cor don of police guarded the financial district as $850 million in cash was moved from the Pine Street temporary home of the Bank of the Manhattan Company to its new Wall Street building. Fifty police blocked access, 28 bank guards armed with machine guns protected key points, and armoured trucks carried the currency. The transfer took under five hours.
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Associated Press
New York
Financial District
Pine Street
Bank of the Manhattan Company
Wall Street
Negro Accused of Attempted Attack on White Woman
Hammond May 26 A negro named Joseph Perkins alias James Brown was arrested at Tangipahoa station by Sheriff Frank Edwards charged with attempted attacks on a white woman and a negro woman. The sheriff moved him out of the parish to prevent violence and planned to transport him to New Orleans.
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Associated Press
Hammond
Joseph Perkins
James Brown
Tangipahoa Station
Frank Edwards
New Orleans
Meriwether Found Dead Aboard Train Near St Louis
Richard Meriwether vice president and general manager of the Texas Interurban railway was found dead in his berth by a porter aboard the Missouri Kansas Texas Blue Bennett near St. Louis as it approached the city on May 26.
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ST. Louis
Richard Meriwether
Texas Interurban Railway
Missouri, Kansas and Texas
Blue Bennett
Supreme Court Denies Review Over Streetcar Staffing Rule
The Supreme Court today denied the city of Shreveport Louisiana a review of an ordinance requiring two operators a conductor and a motorman on all street cars.
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Washington
Supreme Court Tooday
Shreveport
Boy Hits By Car While Rescuing Kitten In New Orleans
Four year old Roy Key was struck by a car on Louisiana Avenue while attempting to rescue a small kitten. He suffered a broken collarbone and bruises. The kitten escaped unhurt.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Louisiana Avenue
Roy Key
Armistead and Eastpoint Flood Marooned by Red River Breaks
The village of Armistead in Red River parish and Eastpoint were marooned as the Red River levee broke Sunday. Water rose rapidly with six to ten feet covering farmland. Refugee camps form for the homeless as Red Cross outlines relief plans at Coushatta. more than 60 families affected.
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Armistead
Red River Parish
Ater
Red River
Eastpoint
Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad
Shreveport
Louisiana
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Red Cross
Coushatta
Connie Ritter Sentenced to Life in Prison
Connie Ritter former chief lieutenant of Charlie Birger pleaded guilty in a West City Illinois murder case from December 11 1926 and was sentenced to life. The Adams murder tied to Birger's downfall saw three other lieutenants already serving life terms. Ritter fled four years before capture in Gulfport Mississippi and chose life instead of possible death if tried. Ernest Blue remains at large.
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Associated Press
Clinton
Ills
Connie Ritter
Charlie Birger
Desperado
Joe Adams
West City
Ill
Adams
Birger
New York Records Coldest May 26 Temperature
The mercury fell to 44 degrees in New York today, the coldest May 26 on record with the weather bureau. Three days earlier, last Friday, saw the year's hottest day at 89 degrees.
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New York
Weather Bureau
Tobacco Tax Planned in Louisiana to Fund Schools
Baton Rouge State Times reports a tobacco tax proposal to raise 15 percent on wholesale tobacco, modeled on Alabama, aimed at funding schools. Estimated $1.2 million yearly, distributing about $10 per educable child to parishes. Rep. N. S. Hoffpauer pushes constitutional amendment to boost state aid to $15 per educable child.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
N. S. Hoffpauer
Acadia Parish
Louisiana
Committees Will Ponder On Tick Eradication Bill
Louisiana’s 1930 general assembly moves into its third week as agriculture committees plan hearings on tick eradication bills sponsored by Ginsberg and Peltier. The plan would empower the state livestock sanitary board to lead an intensive campaign with funding decisions left to legislators, potentially relieving parishes of financial burden.
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Baton Rouge
General Assembly
Louisiana
Agriculture
House
Ginsberg
Rapides
Senate
Peltier of
LaFourche
State Livestock Sanitary Board
Armstrong
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