Leche aides plead guilty in mail fraud case in Louisiana
Two co defendants George Younger and L P Abernathy pleaded guilty to federal mail fraud tied to a state highway truck deal that allegedly netted 113 370 with Leche allegedly receiving 310 000 Judge Dawkins delayed sentencing as former governor Richard W Leche faced the case joined by witnesses including Mayor Robert S Maestri The arraignment of W T Bradford Ben F Bradford and others on a similar bus sale scheme in Alexandria followed.
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Alexandria
Richard W. Leche
George Younger
L. P. Abernathy
State Highway Commission
Leche
J. St. Clair Adams, Sr
Ben C. Dawkins
Adams
Younger
Abernathy
Dawkins
Robert S. Maestri
New Orleans
W. T. Bradford
Ben F. Bradford
British Seek Russian Treaty in Moscow Mission
Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour MP and former Moscow visitor, heads to the Soviet capital on an economic mission. Moscow reportedly welcomes a British proposal and signals favorable prospects for improved relations. Russia hopes Cripps will negotiate a trade agreement and decide on details.
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London
Sir Stafford Cripps
Moscow
Soviet Union
Sir Stafford
Stafford
Foreign Office
Chungking
China
Joseph Stalin
Ivan Maisky
Lord Halifax
Cripps
Russia
Britain
Permanent LSU Head Studied by Jones
Baton Rouge May 27 Governor Sam Jones reviewed recommendations from the LSU Alumni Federation executive committee urging equal consideration for Louisiana men in selecting a permanent LSU president. Acting president Paul M. Hebert, former law school dean, has led since Dr. James M. Smith resigned amid imprisonment on fraud and perjury charges.
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Baton Rouge
Sam Jones
Louisiana State University Alumni Federation
Louisiana
Paul M. Hebert
Law School
James M. Smith
Angola
Brock Defies Assembly Says He Will Not Quit
Louisiana banking commissioner J S Brock announced from New Orleans he will not resign despite a legislative push to remove him. Both houses signed a resignation petition. Governor Sam H Jones offered no comment after Brock met with him. Rep Dayton McCann of Avoyelles district led the effort potentially prompting a legislative inquiry into bank liquidations and the moratorium payrolls.
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Brock
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
J. S. Brock
Sam H. Jones
New Orleans
Jones
Dayton McCann
Avoyelles Parish
State Moratorium Commission
Meeting Called On Health Unit
Dr. G. D. Williams announces a mass meeting for all locals at 4 p.m. Wednesday in the city courtroom to discuss establishing a Ouachita parish health unit. He notes space shortages and new equipment arriving, with staff rising from eight to 25 over five years.
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G. D. Williams
Williams
Ouachita Parish
Maneuvers Satisfactory Army Leaders Tell Press
CAMP BEAUREGARD La May 27 The army completed the largest peacetime war maneuvers with about 70000 officers and men returning home after May 5 exercises A five hour critique praised blitzkrieg tactics as sound and found most equipment transport and armament satisfactory Major General Herbert J Brees announced the triangular division is sound but called for more tanks anti tank guns and a reconnaisance unit He noted a move from animal drawn transport to motor vehicles and warned that defense measures by ground troops are upcoming continues on second page
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Camp Beauregard
United States Army
Herbert J. Brees
Italy Presses Toward War Amid Blockade Tensions
Rome May 27 Mussolini met with army chiefs mobilization directors and arms producers as Britain seeks to ease hostility over the blockade. Italian leaders signaled potential concessions but public mood remains hawkish with Gibraltar and Suez key to meditating a softer stance.
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Charles H. Guptill
Rome
Italy
Gibraltar
Suez Canal
Mediterranean
Malta
Sicily
Mussolini
End Milk Strike in Chicago Area Ends
Chicago's eight day milk strike ended with delivery resuming as trucks replenish a depleted supply. Some 6,000 workers returned to work at pre strike wages pending June 10 contract talks. If talks fail an arbitration board will be formed and, if needed, overseen by Archbishop Stritch.
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Chicago
Cris
Inside
Dairy Workers Union
Edward J. Kelly
Thomas J. Courtney
Samuel A. Stritch
Vienna refugee found hanged near college fraternity house
John F. Corser, 19, an electrical engineering student at Georgia Tech who fled Austria after the Nazi takeover, was found hanged Sunday in woods near a college fraternity house. A note asked peers to remember his cheerful Vienna smile.
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Vienna
John F. Corser
Georgia Tech
Austria
Phi Epsilon Pi
Congress Races to End Term by June 15
Senate leaders push a fast two week timetable to wind up the session by June 15 while House managers doubt adjournment by then. Key items include defense measures the 1.1 billion relief bill and wrangles over the Logan Walter bill and Wagner Act amendments.
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William B. Ardery
Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Barkley
Kentucky
Nnvy
Newsboy Gives Aid and Blood to Injured Child
In Spokane Washington on May 27 a newsboy rushed six year old Harvey Spencer to a hospital after a hunting accident pierced his right lung. The boy was near death as David Windle, 17, in an old car, met a farm wagon bringing Harvey from the hill. The newsboy then returned to deliver papers and transfusion was performed.
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Spokane
Wash
Harvey Spencer
David Windle
Harvey
Missing American sailors sought by Red Cross in Paris
Officials of American volunteer organizations asked the International Red Cross to locate eight American men listed as missing after German bombardments. The men have not been heard from since they were placed on the disappeared list a week earlier. Also announced was the death of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia from a wound in Flanders.
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Paris
International Red Crow
Prince Wilhelm of
Prussia
Flanders
Friedrich Wilhelm
Hohenzollern
Wilhelm
Marmor Palace
Dorothea von Salviati
Maly
Fred
Roosevelt Urges National Unity in Radio Address
In a May 77 broadcast Roosevelt called for unity and warned against treachery and fear. He pledged to strengthen defense to any future height and defended military spending as building a top peacetime force. He urged vigorous action against spies saboteurs and traitors to protect national security.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Army
Navy
of Bis
Receovelt
American Vessel Manhattan Arrives in Naples
The US liner Manhattan arrived at Naples amid an already booked return passage for Americans wary of Italy entering the war. Officials note neutrality rules could bar American ships from the Mediterranean, blocking Naples and Genoa routes. Mrs Myron C Taylor, wife of the president’s envoy to the Vatican, plans to sail. The ship is set to sit at Naples this afternoon and Genoa on June 1.
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Naples
Italy
United States
Manhattan
Mediterranean
Genoa
Myron C. Taylor
Hornevelt
Vatican
Warning of possible criminal act cited by embassy
Berlin dispatch reports the United States embassy received a serious warning over two days alleging an imminent criminal attempt by unnamed actors. The alert signals heightened tension and potential security concerns for diplomats in the area.
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Berlin
United States
Fraud Indictments Looming In Georgia Investigations
Federal prosecutors prepare to seek indictments over alleged state road material purchases in Georgia. Twenty one individuals including three highway board members and former officials were summoned to testify before the grand jury as prosecutors pursue claims that bidders were blocked and taxpayers defrauded under anti trust and related statutes.
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Rome
Georgia
State Highway Board
Highway Board
United States District
Lawrence Camp
Department of Justice
W. L. Miller
L. L. Patten
Herman H. Watson
James L. Gillis
State Democratic Executive Committee
John
Battle in Flanders Dominates News as German Offensives Rage
Allied and German forces clash in a two phase drive across Flanders and the Lys Ypres sector. German assaults aim to split French British and Belgian armies encircled along a narrow corridor from Lille to Courtrai while French artillery and defense stiffen the line along the Meuse. Contingent actions threaten Dunkerque and Calais as channels and communications loom critical.
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Flanders
Gemmeny
Gundlaught
Velencientes
Scheldt River
Lene Ypres
Dunkerque
Calais
Hitler
Lille
France
Courtrai
Belgian
Lys
Ypres
Alune-Meuse River
The War At Flance and Allied Withdrawals
Paris reports Allies in the Valenciennes area withdraw to prepared positions west of the Scheldt as a heavy Nazi drive targets Menin and coastal ports Gravelines Dunkerque. Bombers raid English airports on the Belgian coast.
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Paris
Valenciennes
River Scheldt
Menin
Calais
Gravelines
Dunkerque
London
John Dill
Imperial General Staff
Edmund Ironside
Scotland Yard
Air Ministry
Dublin
Ireland
Rome
Italy
Mussolini
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