Senate Restores Taxes On Cosmetics In Revenue Bill
In Washington the senate restored a ten percent tax on cosmetics and toilet articles adding about 20 million dollars in revenue. The chamber quickly reimposed a jewelry tax at ten percent and rejected exemptions for toothpaste dentifrice sterling silver. A five percent tax on mechanical refrigerators was also added, boosting funds for budget balancing.
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Washington
Senate
Finance Committee
House
Shreveport Bond Bill Approved by House Committee
A favorable report on a bill by Rep Rupert Peyton to authorize Shreveport to bond its indebtedness with 950000 dollars was passed by the house municipal corporations committee. The Ruston gas distribution bill hearing was recessed until Tuesday for extended discussion with Mayor Charles Goyne and attorney Yandell Boatner presenting opposing views.
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Baton Rouge
Rupert Peyton
Caddo
Shreveport
House Municipal Corporations Committee
Wright
Lincoln
Hammon
Jackson
Ruston
Charles Goyne
Yandell Boatner
Peoples’ Gas and Fuel Company
State Senate Approves Lame Duck Amendment in Louisiana
Louisiana's Senate voted 37 in favor of a proposed federal amendment to abolish lame duck sessions. It sets Congress to meet annually on January third, with presidential and vice presidential terms ending January twenty and legislators' terms beginning January third in years new officers take office.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
Louisiana
Congress
Rambling Town Notes From H H B And Friends
Local column by H H B with social and civic items from Monroe West Monroe and Tyler Texas. Fly killer plants from R J Rasbury controversial termite damage by J B Glass and a revival misfire at Immanuel church. Mention of J E Lockwood resembling Alvin C York and Veterans of Foreign Wars encampment next month.
Verbal clash ends aviators congress over freedom of the air
The first world congress of trans oceanic fliers in Rome ended after an all night dispute on freedom of the air for future transatlantic routes. France and Spain opposed the resolution supported by Balbo and Von Gronau to keep airports open, with Coste protesting it as political and Gatty backing the measure.
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France
Spain
United States
Great Britain
Italy
Germany
Balbo
Wolfgang von Gronau
Dieudonne Coste
Coste
Lotti Iglesias
Harold Gatty
Greenland
Europe
South America
Azores
Effort Made to Place House Against Levies
Solon opposes added taxes and seeks to defeat a property levy while accepting measures to reduce existing property charges. Local officials discuss voter action as talks continue on ballot questions.
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Solon
American Press Backs Hoover Aid in Budget Effort
The American press pledges aid to Herbert Hoover in a nonpartisan push to balance the budget. Publishers favor concerted action to support fiscal restraint and national economic stability.
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Herbert Hoover
Louisiana House Opposes New Tax Hikes Obsolete System Cited
Louisiana Representative Joseph T. Curry urged the house to pledge opposition to new taxes unless increased revenues are used to cut property ad valorem taxes. The move follows calls that the present tax system is obsolete and burdensome to property owners.
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Baton Rouge
House of Representatives
Joseph T. Curry
Tensas
Curry
Louisiana
House
Lorris Wimberly
Bienville
Congress
Big cave-in endangers Grand and Calypso streets
City engineer crews struggled to save several businesses from being swept into the Ouachita river after a night long cave-in. The pump house on Calypso street sank over 10 feet toward the river, damaging Monroe Steam laundry and suspending operations. Pumps and motors valued around 40000 may be salvageable. potential damage up to 20000. Water flow was stopped.
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Calypso
Ouachita
City
Calypso Street
Monroe
W. I. Neel
Mrs. Kate Stafford Draws Crowds To School Lectures
Despite rain 600 women attended the second lecture at the old city high school auditorium for the News-Star-World homemakers exposition. The theme was Back to the Home with a future talk on Putting Romance into Foods. Exhibits from Home Furniture and Monroe Furniture drew interest and local firms donated gifts at each lecture close.
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Twin Cities
Kate B. Stafford
Old City High School
News-Star-World
Home
Monroe Furniture Company
Mystery Jake Knife Attack Kills Girl in Cleveland
A man calling himself Mystery Jake stabbed children near St. Cecelia's School, killing Elaine Mackin 8, and injuring Lena De Sand 12 and Rose Marie Parker 8. Patrolman Charles Mischely captured the assailant Jake Gordon 40 moments later as bystanders gathered and urged action.
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Cleveland
Jake
Charles Mischely
Elaine Mackin
Lena de Sand
Rose Marie Parker
St. Cecelia’s School
Kinsman Road
Jake Gordon
Crosley School to Hold Commencement Exercises Tonight
Ninety five graduates of Crosley grammar school West Monroe will receive diplomas in ceremonies at 8 p m in the school auditorium. C C Calvert Ouachita parish junior college president will deliver the address.
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Crosley Grammar School
West Monroe
C. C. Calvert
Ouachita Parish Junior College
Esters Aulds
F. F. Aulds
Cypress Street
Raymond Kilpatrick
W. R. Kilpatrick
Stella Street
Martha Hamilton
Pat Hamilton
H. M. Primm
Louis Hoffpaulr
Negro in Ruston charged with multiple forgeries
A man named Ed Pahmahmie, using his real name and forging Guy P Stubbs's signature, cashed several checks in Ruston around May 12 to 14. He was captured there and will be held for trial before being returned to Monroe authorities.
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Guy P. Stubbs
Monroe
Ruston
Milton Coverdale
L. V. Tarver
Ed Pahmahmie
Mr. Stubbs
Brown- Hill Mercantile Company
West Monroe
Pahmahrmie
Atlanta and Pacific Tea Company
Elias and Son
DeSiard Street
Coverdale
Pahmahmie
Tulane Criticizes Charity Hospital Policies to Governor Allen
A Tulane University medical school committee met Governor O K Allen to complain that Charity Hospital policies hamstring their working agreement and impede medical education. The group said they were courteously received and assured of consideration, but warned conditions at Charity Hospital remain uncorrected despite months of protests.
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New Orleans
Tulane University Medical School Today
O. K. Allen
State Hospital
M. J. Magruder
Charles Rosen
J. Blanc Monroe
A. B. Dinwiddie
Tulane
Esmond Phelps
New Orleans Charity Hospital
School of Medicine
Poppy Sale to Aid Disabled Veterans in Monroe
The Veterans of Foreign Wars will sell Buddy Poppies in Monroe Friday and Saturday to raise funds for disabled veterans. About 2,000 silk emblems are expected, far more than last year’s 1,000, with Mrs. B. H. Rust leading Auxiliary volunteers at North Second Street. President Hoover endorses the sale.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
B. H. Rust
North Second Street
Hoover
Senate bill would raise Louisiana marriage age
A senate bill introduced by Dr. Charles A. Gardiner of Sunset would raise Louisiana's marriageable ages. It would be a misdemeanor for ministers or magistrates to perform marriages for males under 21 or females under 18. Current law allows males to marry at 14 and females at 12.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
Charles A. Gardiner
Louisiana
Monroyan 1932 Highlights Monroe School Growth
Neville high school’s Monroyan 1932, published by Monroe Printing, delivers 300 copies. The modernistic annual uses Carl Sandburg’s The Windy City as its theme and dedicates to Monroe city, pairing city growth with school development.
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Neville High School
Monroyan
Monroe Printing Company
National Scholastic Press Association
Carl Sandburg
Windy City
Monroe
Wheels of Progress
Sandburg
Tax On Dogs Advocated In Senate of Louisiana
Baton Rouge May 26 A bill by Dr C A Gardiner seeks a 1 license for male dogs and 2 for female dogs under the state conservation department. The measure aims to curb stray dogs that kill wild game with local magistrates authorized to assess the fee and to euthanize dogs whose owners do not pay the charge.
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Baton Rouge
State Department of Conservation
Senate
C. A. Gardiner
Louisiana Legislature Near End of Third Week
Baton Rouge May 2 Louisiana senate and house finish the third week amid talks on Governor Allen's economy and new taxation program. proposals include cutting salaries for governor and judiciary and hiring a tax expert for a $25 000 study to reform taxation. Rep Hood bills seek 1 to 10 percent incomes tax for 2000 to 500000 and up with a constitutional amendment. luxury taxes on tobacco drinks insurance and severance taxes favored. Ho used returns and highway board changes called for.
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Baton Rouge
Senate
House of Representatives
Louisiana Economy and Taxation
C. K. Allen
Louisiana
Allen
John T. Hood
Jefferson Davis Parish
Hood
Pegues-Madison
Buie-Gilbert
Capone seeks Supreme Court rehearing of tax case
Capone, imprisoned for tax evasion at Atlanta, asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its refusal to review his case. Counsel Michael J. Ahern argued the indictment was defective and could lead to a second prosecution, and that the 10 year sentence covered offenses barred by the statute of limitations.
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Washington
al Capone
Chicago
Atlanta
Supreme Court
Michael J. Ahern
Capone
Ahern
Confederate Commander Opposes Joint Reunion
Memphis Tenn May 2 General Charles Alfred Desaussure commander in chief of United States Confederate veterans says he will never be reconciled to any plan for a joint reunion of Yankees and Johnny Rebs There is no sound reason for us to get together He is preparing to lead his army to its annual encampment at Richmond Va next month A move to have former enemies meet together has been agitated but neither northern nor southern veterans have accepted the proposal The southerners would hear to no such policy and said the stars and bars or no parade The issue lies kept alive by a younger generation that thinks a joint reunion would be a love feast Desaus sure nearing 86 opposes erection of a monument at Appomattox to commemorate Lee army surrender He thinks such a monument would revive an unpleasant picture in the minds of those who love the south Continued on Page Five
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Tenn
Charles Alfred Desaussure
United States Confederate Veterans
Johnny Rebs
Desaussure
Richmond
Confeder
Joseph E. Johnston
Appomatox
Robert E. Lee
Virginia
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