Cabinet Resigns as Hara Is Assassinated in Tokyo
The Japanese cabinet quit after a morning meeting in Tokio while Premier Hara was stabbed on Friday and died soon after. Cablegrams of horror poured in from capitals worldwide as authorities said a demented youth carried out the attack. A week on Better Speech Week was declared by the National Council of Teachers of English with Ouachita Parish High School students planning observances led by the senior class. The English Council outlined a nine o'clock program for November 7 featuring a song, a speech on Better Speech Movement, a dramatization, and a piano solo.
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Associated Press
Washington
Hara
Japan
Tokio Foreign Office
Tokio
Takashi Hara
National Council of Teachers of English
Ouachita Parish High School
America
Parish
English Council
Assassination Shifts Japanese Premiership Role
Viscount Uchida takes acting premier post in Japan as Takashira Hara is assassinated. In Washington officials worry over armaments talks but expect Nipponese delegation to remain for the conference with Admiral Kato stepping in as acting premier and soon to relinquish power.
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Admiral Kato
Washington
Takashira Hara
State Department
Japan
Kato
Hara
Hard Will
Faust Brothers to Open Big Plant at Crew Lake
Faust Brothers Lumber Company will start operations at their Crew Lake mill on the coming Monday announced by general manager B M Wakefield. The reopened plant is expected to run continuously and employ many workers as regional lumber facilities revive after months of closure.
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Faust Brothers
Faust Brothers Lumber Company
Crew Lake
B. M. Wakefield
Rev H W Ledbetter seeks transfer to new field of service
Rev H W Ledbetter, pastor of the West Monroe Methodist church, will attend the Alexandria conference to seek transfer to another field. He has led for six years, with health prompting the move, during which the church grew to 246 members and opened the Community Methodist church at a cost of 37000.
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Ledbetter
H. W. Ledbetter
Methodist Church of
West Monroe
Alexandria
Igbor
Methodist Church
Rev Tripp to Deliver Armistice Day Speech at Bastrop
Rev Frank Tripp pastor of the First Baptist church of Monroe has been selected to deliver the Armistice Day address at Bastrop. Morehouse post will host a large celebration with Red Cross and American Legion organizing committees. The day includes a parade featuring the Legion Red Cross school children and parish vehicles, band concerts, a basketball game, barbecue dinner, parish booths refreshments contests a picture show and vaudeville at the auditorium.
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Frank Tripp
First Baptist Church of
Monroe
Bastrop
Morehouse Post
Red Cross
Americsen Legion
American Legion
Forgery Suspect Walks Free After Jail Escape
L. R. Krim mell, sentenced to fourteen years in San Quentin for forgery, was taken to the county jail in Los Angeles but escaped within an hour. He waved “good-bye” to the door keeper and vanished. A visitor’s pass was swapped by a man posing as an official, who used it to gain entry and liberty.
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Los Angeles
L. R. Krimmell
San Quentin Penitentiary
Kimmel
Senator La Follette demands Mellon's ouster over tax policy
Wisconsin Senator La Follette called for Secretary Mellon to resign as fiscal head of the government criticizing his stance on taxing wealth. He accused Mellon of declaring the wealthy could not be made to pay their share and pledged to fight tax relief for wealth in the upcoming congressional campaign.
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Washington
Mellon
Senate
la Follette
Wisconsin
Milk Strike Battles In Brooklyn Over Pitched Battle
New York officials say the milk wagon strike crisis is passed and deliveries will resume early next week. Police fired more than thirty shots during a Brooklyn clash as strike sympathizers pelted three milk wagons with bricks and stones. fifteen arrests were made.
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New York
Brooklyn
Senator Weeks Denounces Army Nurse Charges
In Washington Senator Weeks condemns charges against army nurses and soldiers executed without court martial, declaring no decent man would make such charges. In Belfast sixteen Sinn Feiners raided Kesh barracks seizing rifles and ammo, aided by garrison absence at boxing tournament. In Gogota opposition to US Colombia treaty grows as senate approves twenty five million settlement. In Kansas City a masked robber trussed seven mail clerks on an Atchison Topeka Santa Fe train and escaped with two sacks of registered mail.
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Washington
Weeks
Senate
Watson
Belfast
Gogota
Colombia
United States
Chamber of Deputies
Panamanian
Kansas City
California
Negro Crushed to Death at Stand ard Gin Plant
Sam Baldwin Jr a 22 year old Black worker on Hardtimes plantation died instantly at the Stand ard Gin Company plant after leaning into an automatic steam packer while inspecting it He drove a cotton wagon for Slagle Johnson Company and was crushed at 5 05 pm officials say the accident stemmed from a misunderstanding of the packing mechanism by Baldwin
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Sam Balwin, Jr
Standard Gin Company
Slagle-Johnson Company
Baldwin
Long Criminal Libel Trial Near End as Arguments Start Tuesday
Judge Brunet set Tuesday for argument in Huey Long criminal libel case after both sides rested their evidence. Long testified under sharp cross examination denying damage to his case and insisting Standard Oil control of state influence. The defense requested time to prepare further arguments as depositions and lengthy testimony wrap up.
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Brunot
Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Huey Long
Public Service
Huey P. Long
Parker
Brunet
Long
Standard Oil Company
United Mine Workers President Urges Pennsylvania District Officers
John L. Lewis, UMW president, wrote to Pennsylvania district officers advising avoidance of Monday's strike if operators pledge to comply with yesterday's federal court of appeals order in the check-off system case.
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Springfield
Ill
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Pennsylvania
Federal Court of Appeals
Miss Vera Booze Wins Fair Dress Prize
Miss Vera Booze captured first prize in the Home Economics department for a spring frock worn by her. Miss Sarah Bres and Miss Booze returned from Shreveport with the fair honors going to Monroe and Ouachita parish.
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Vera Booze
Sarah Bres
Shreveport
Booze
Monroe
Ouachita Parish
M. E. Board Advocates Self Defense Against Bootleggers
The Methodist Episcopal board on temperance urges Prohibition agents to remember their families when bootleggers and moonshiners threaten them. It defends officers right to quick, efficient defense against armed criminals, noting surprise at such guidance.
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Washington
Board On Temperance
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Coal Mine Strike in Indiana Ends Abruptly
Indianapolis November 5 Officials expect a general return to work in the Indiana coal fields in a few days as the U S court of appeals suspends Judge Andersons injunction blocking the check off Twenty eight miners are planned to return and mine owners say train service will be restored Mine operators predict full resumption by Monday at all state mines closed by the strike
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Associated Press
Indianapolis
Indiana Coal Fields
United States Court of Appeals
Anderson
Court of Appeals Session Set for Monroe November 14
Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeals convenes in Monroe on Monday November 14 with Judges Porter Thompson and Dawkins presiding. Twenty six cases from Ouachita Lincoln Franklin Caldwell Union East Carroll Concordia and Jackson parishes scheduled for trial start the docket with eight from Ouachita on day one.
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N. Thompson
R. B. Dawkins
Ouachita
Lincoln
Franklin
Caldwell
Union
East Carroll
Concordia
Jackson Parishes
Ouachita Parish
L. C. Hud
Jackson
Monroe News-Star
Property deals mark parish transactions in recent days
William B. Gladney sold to Travis Oliver a Hud son Riverside Block One lot at Third and M streets for 1750 dollars. J A Roller sold to G W Dalgarmo gas rights on 240 acres in 2-19N-5E. Mrs Julia A Collins sold to Lawrence B McCarthy part of Filhiol s first addition north of Sixth for 5000 dollars.
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William B. Gladney
Travis Oliver
Hud
Julia A. Collins
Lawrence B. McCarthy
Filhiol
North Sixth
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Lafollette
Rass Eee
Lois Gregg
Cliffie Olmstead
Viscount Uchida
Rev. Tripp
Morehouse
Forger
Wexler’s
Grace Episcopal
St. John and
Oak Streets
H. J. Brown
Sam Baldwin
Slagle Johnson
Packer
Palmer
Vera
M. E. Board
Guy P. Stubbs
Indiana
Court OF Appeals
Court of Appeals For the Second Circuit of
Louisiana
Ber
Charles V. Porter
Genasco
Weaks Supply Company
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