Six Men Charged in Interstates Bank Robbery
In New Orleans on November 6, six men were charged in the Interstate Trust and Banking Co robbery at the Freret branch. Fred Deibel seeks lunacy defense, with a commission named to assess mental fitness. Some co-defendants have been tried or pled guilty, while others await further action.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Fred
Deibel
Freret
Interstate Trust and Banking Company
Diebel
A. C. O'Donnell
Criminal District Court
George F. Roeling
Orleans
Clarence Pierson
Pineville
Glenn Lmith
Jackson
Claude Cefalu
Edward Tierney
Harold Normandale
O’donnell
Willie Bennett
John Eckholdt
Cefalu
Tierney
Normandale
Eckholdt
Tulane
River Flood Stages Rise on Ouachita Monroe
River flood stages rise over 24 hours at Ouachita and Monroe with readings showing 40 and 42 feet, a 0.1 foot change. Officials caution residents along impacted stretches as conditions shift.
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Ouachita
Monroe
Uchang
Boston elected ABA president to succeed Marvel
American Bar Association selects Charles A. Boston of New York City as its new president to follow the late Josiah Marvel of Wilmington Delaware. The change represents a continuation of the association's leadership line from a major legal center to another prominent city.
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Associated Press
Charles A. Boston
New York City
American Bar Association
Josiah Marvel
Wilmington
Del
Clinic Planned for All Crippled Tot's Here Soon
Monroe plans a clinic to study and treat all crippled children in Guachita and surrounding parishes affected by infantile paralysis. Dr J W Williams, director of the local health unit, said the program has backing from the local medical society. The clinic will assess and apply orthpedic surgery, exercises, braces, and transplant-tendering at appropriate stages to limit permanent damage.
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Monroe
Guachita
J. W. Williams
Williams
Steamer Northwestern Loses Rudder Off Alaska Coast
Portland dispatch says the steamship Northwestern sent an SOS two miles south of Cape Spencer Alaska after losing her rudder. No further details were available.
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Alaska
Portland
Ore
Merchants Exchange Radio Today
Northwestern
Cape Spencer
Death in automobile crash near Picayune identified as L. G. Ray
Police report a fatal auto wreck at Picayune with L. G. Ray of New Orleans, Ford Motor plant worker in St Bernard parish. Motorists freed his body. a companion, George Wust of Gentilly, was unhurt.
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New Orleans
Picayune
L. G. Ray
Ford Motor Plant
St. Bernard Parish
George Wust
Gentilly
Pantry Drive Aids Monroe Needy At Paramount Matinee
Readers are urged to donate canned foods to help Monroe families hit by drought. The Morning World News-Star and Paramount Water sponsor a 9 am Saturday kiddie matinee where admission requires a canned item. Any nonperishable food item is welcome.
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Monroe
Morning World
News-Star
Paramount
Paramount Theater
First Baptist Plans Big Educational Building in Louisiana
The First Baptist church approves plans for a large educational complex with 136 classrooms, 15 assembly halls and five offices or libraries, totaling 38 000 square feet. A $75 000 fund drive led by O B Morton will finance construction set to start in February, inspired by Dr Mil lard A Jenkens recent revival and Abilene church model.
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First Baptist Church
Louisiana
South
O. B. Morton
Millard A. Jenkens
Abilene
Convention Preparations Under Way for Louisiana Meet
Preparations progress for the Louisiana state convention in West Monroe from November 11. Hotel Monroe offers eight rooms and a reception suite for officials and delegates. Private accommodations and planned entertainment for hundreds of visitors are arranged by church leaders and women’s groups.
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Twin Cities
West Monroe
Hotel Monroe
J. E. Doughtie
H. L. Driskell
First Baptist Church of
L. A. Stuke
Monroe
M. E. Dodd
Shreveport
Joe Mosely
D. R. Isom
West Side
Democrats Still Hopeful of Majority in The House
The AP reports Republicans hold 217 House seats with 218 needed for a majority after Selvig wins Minnesota ninth. Minnesota tenth undecided between Republican and Farmer-Labor. Democrats lead in six Kentucky districts. Senate contests in Kentucky and Minnesota unresolved. GOP may hold House with 217 to 210, with seven seats undetermined.
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Selvig
Minnesota
Kentucky
Langley
Robison
M. M. Logan
Schall
Einar Hoidale
Democratic National Committee
Illinois
Indiana
Pennsylvania
House
Congress
Farmer-Labor—l
Senate
Farmer Labor
Democrats
Farmer-Labor
Kiwanis to Promote West Monroe at Louisiana Baptist Convention
West Monroe Kiwanis club plans to showcase city features and advantages during the eighty third Louisiana Baptist convention. A clean up drive attracted volunteers to beautify streets and vacant lots as preparations include decorating the municipal park and 70 local businesses. Ray Sisson of Louisiana Power Light pledged to decorate the city water tank ahead of the event.
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West Monroe
Kiwanis Club
Fred Thatcher
Twin Cities
Boy Scouts
Women's Missionary Society
Women's Christian Temperance Union
Kiwanians
Louisiana Power & Light Company
Ray Sisson
Ouachita Parish to See Road and Bridge Projects Soon
Definite announcements on road and bridge work under Huey P. Long's 75 million improvement plan are expected in Ouachita parish within days. Dr. C L Mengis, road committee head, travels to Baton Rouge to confer with Governor Long and the highway commission about parish projects including a bridge on the Ouachita River at Monroe and paving the Monroe Bastrop road.
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Ouachita Parish
Huey P. Long
C. L. Mengis
Baton Rouge
Ouachita River
Monroe
Monroe-Bastrop
New Suspect Held in Killing of L. L. Worden
A 20 year old youth identified as Herbert Thompson is held in the parish jail for investigation in the slaying of Lester L. Worden 36 at the Bungalow Inn early Monday. Thompson alias Tommie Cox drove away suspect Earl Hoffman 24 of Pineville who is jailed on a murder charge. Fingerprints were mailed to the Louisiana bureau of identification in Shreveport.
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Herbert Thompson
Lester L. Worden
Bungalow Inn
Earl Hoffman
Pineville
Worden
Thompson
Hoffman
Tommie Cox
Jimmie Cox
Louisiana Bureau of Identification and Investigation
Shreveport
Savings Deposits Rise Despite Business Slump
Savings deposits in American banks and trust companies grew by 267.18 million to nearly 28.485 billion, a record high, for the year ended June 30. Depositors reached 52,769,175, up 5,048 from the prior year, per the American Bankers Association.
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New York
American Bank Association
Girl 19 Shoots Self in Columbia Plantation
Miss Isabelle Watson, 19, of Belleview plantation near Columbia, shot herself with a single barrel shotgun amid illness and fading sight. She died hours later after expressing hopelessness, with family at dinner and a physician summoned.
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Isabelle Watson
Belleview Plantation
Columbia
Ouschita Parish Reports Road Construction Spent
S M Collins parish engineer releases a breakdown showing $41 706 59 spent on road work from August 7 to October 31 including $3 171 96 on grubbing $4 428 56 on drainage structures $10 852 93 for gravel and $22 636 75 under the emergency program The report notes prior spending and current ward progress with several roads completed under various wards.
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Ouschita Parish
S. M. Collins
Collins
Ward Ten
Ward One
Horseshoe Lake
Prairie Bayou
Ward Three
Ward Four
Cross Bayou
Ward Five
Natchitoches
White's Ferry
Garreling
Indian Village
Ward Six
Cheniere-Brooks
Calhoun Cemetery
Cypress Road
Columbia
Forsythe Avenue
Sterlington
Tom Mix Hospitalized for Spinal Trouble Recurrence
Film cowboy Tom Mix remains under hospital treatment in Los Angeles due to a recurrence of spinal trouble from a fall from a horse years ago. Doctors report his condition is being closely watched and no complications beyond the spinal issue are indicated at this time.
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Tom Mix
Los Angeles
Official Count Of Amendments Vote Completed
Baton Rouge reports the secretary of state completed official tabulation of Louisiana parish returns from Tuesday's constitutional amendment vote. Amendments carried by about a 2 to 1 ratio, with Proposition No 1 the paved highway bond issue at 120 771 for and 6 004 against. Orleans Jefferson and East Baton Rouge contributed the largest totals for Governor Long's improvement program.
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Associated Press
Batons Rouge
Lousiana
Secretary of State
New Orleans
Lake Charles
State House
Orleans
Jefferson
Long
East Baton Rouge
Sheriff Broussard of Vermilion Dies at Abbeville Home
Crowley reports Claude Broussard, about 50, sheriff of Vermilion parish, died at his Abbeville home after a brief illness. He was serving his second term and was highly popular in the parish.
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Crowley
Claude Broussard
Vermilion Parish
Abbeville
Broussard
Oil field worker killed in wreck near Rosedda
Field man Glen Darnell aged 26 died when his roadster hit a sand bed near Rosedda and overturned. Passenger E. E. Yount and his wife were only slightly injured in the crash reported from Vivian Louisiana.
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Vivian
Glen Darnell
Rodessa
E. E. Yount
Last miner death toll from Sun Day Creek mine reached
The Sun Day Creek Coal Co Mines No. 6 at Millfield Ohio logged its 76th fatal blast victim at 7 30 am as 18 men escaped the gas filled shaft. Rescue workers fear more deaths await as investigations by state and federal authorities begin while families identify bodies in a makeshift morgue. Walter Porter recalls escaping the gas with injuries.
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Millfield
Sunday Creek Coal Company
Sunday Creek Company
J. J. Forbes
Pittsburgh
U. S. Bureau of Mines Experimental Station
California
E. W. Smith
State Department of Industrial Relations
Buddy
Walter Porter
Porter
Boxers Offer Charity Fight and Navy Seeks Charity Game
Boston reports Jack Sharkey through manager Johnny Buckley offers to meet Young Stribling in New York next month with all proceeds donated to charity. Washington notes the navy would consider a charity football game but has no formal talks with the army. A Navy game with George Washington University on November 29 could be played for charity if GWU agrees.
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Associated Press
Boston
Jack Sharkey
Johnny Buckley
Stribling
New York
Washington
Navy
Samuel S. Robison
Naval Academy
Army
George Washington University
Valentino Funeral Publicity Scheme Revealed in Court
S George Ullman, executor for Rudolph Valentino, testified in superior court that he hired 40 press agents and 1,500 policemen to stage Valentino's 1926 funeral to boost estate value. He reported debts of 500000 with a 700000 profit from careful management, while siblings allege misappropriation of funds.
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Los Angeles
Rudolph Valentino
Ballyhoo
Superior Court
S. George Ulman
Alberto Gugliel
Maria Guglielmo Starda
Valentino
Ultman
Ullman
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Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
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Self
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