Slayer Says Death Holds No Terrors
Slayer tells crowd no terror in death while jury decision is cheered and appeal is planned.
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1928
Page
1
Mexico Court NAMES Intellectual Author In Obregon Killing
Jose de Leon Toral remains resolute facing death for Obregon murder while Mother Concepcion Aceveda de la Linta is convicted as intellectual author and sentenced to twenty years. The San Angel jury, eight to one, found her guilty and a firing squad likely awaits Toral.
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San Angel
Mexico
Jose de Leon Toral
Alvaro Obregon
Concepcion Aceveda de la Linta
General Obregon
Toral
Sodi
Mexican Supreme Court
Federal District
Gotham Jewelry Broker Robbed of Gems in Chicago Cab Heist
Leopold Katz, a New York jewelry broker, reports diamonds valued at 80 000 dollars stolen after four men hailed his taxicab in Chicago. Katz says he dropped his wallet containing 50 000 dollars in gems during the ride and was released once the jewelry was taken.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gotham
Chicago
Navy
Leopold Katz
New York
Katz
Wealthy widow found slain in Detroit basement
Mrs. Jennie Lantz a 51 year old widow of a Detroit real estate dealer was found murdered in the basement near the furnace. Neighbors discovered the body and police suspect a robbery though diamonds were left inside. Lantz lived alone since her husband’s death eighteen months ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Jennie Lantz
Priscilla Selmis
Lantz
Inferno as Gas Well Fire Wrecks Oil Rigs
A gas well fire at the Santa Fe Springs oil field near Whittier Los Angeles ignited tanks and about twelve drilling rigs. Flames rose about a hundred feet after an explosion as gravel and mud were hurled from the well casing and crews fought the blaze from the Bell View Oil Company site.
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Los Angeles
Santa Fe Springs
Cal
Bell View Oil Company
Whittier
Bell View
Two Women and Two Men Hurt in Car Plunge
Four people, two men and two women, were injured when their car collided with a truck on a Trinity river bridge near Dallas and plunged 35 feet into the river. Christine McCoy of Mississippi Leila May McCrary of Alabama J. B. Pennington of Reinhart and H. B. Nicholl of Dallas suffered back leg and other injuries.
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Dallas
Texas
Trinity River
Christine McCoy
Hattiesburg
Miss
Leila May McCrary
Mobile
Ala
J. B. Pennington
Reinhart
H. B. Nicholl
Nicholl
Hoover Faces Political Tasks After Victory
Stanford University Calif Nov 9 Herbert Hoover weighs new political challenges as president elect. North and south realignments loom with expansion plans in the southern states and Republican gains in Congress. He seeks rest but faces constant secret service surveillance and guard duties at his home.
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Associated Press
Stanford University
Cal
Herbert Hoover
Mason and Dixon Line
Hoover En
Secret Service
Hoover
Mrs. Hoover
Mississippi seeks reburial of Lee Jackson Davis in democratic soil
Senator Homer H. Casteel introduces a concurrent resolution in Jackson Mississippi asking Virginia to allow the removal of Robert E. Lee Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis to Mississippi soil. The measure denounces Virginia’s Republican shift and urges governors to transmit the resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
Virginia
Mississippi
Bantamweight Pete Firpo Suspended by State Boxing Board
Lansing, Mich November 9 Pete Firpo bantamweight star facing indefinite preliminary status after discipline by the State Boxing Commission for failing to train. The action marks a setback in his rise as a main bout participant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Mich
Pete Firpo
State Boxing Commission
U S Seeks Flowage Rights Options for Floodway Lands
Federal representatives are in local parishes to obtain flowage right options on lands in the Boeuf basin floodway. Owners would relinquish damages rights for a set payment under Jadwin flood control. Caution urged in valuing flowage rights as low offers harm landowners and others. Opinion differs on payment amounts with committee hearings in Washington ongoing.
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Boeuf Basin
Jadwin
Washington
Lava Covers Mascali Homes As Etna Erupts
Mas cali near Catania, once home to 10 000 people, is now a lava field. Three people named Pistorio perish as lava surrounds their residence while others flee. Engineer troops work to divert flow with mines as spectators watch from afar.
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Associated Press
Catania
Sicily
Mascali
Mount
Etna
Pistorio
Hambone's Meditations by J P Alley EFN Ain't Quit When He Dip
A humorous local column by J P Alley titled EFN He Ain t Quit When He Dip recounting a character named Hambone and a playful scene centered on a dip and stubborn persistence in a lighthearted voice.
Mississippi tax collector orders funds turned into treasury
Two state officials, Attorney General Ruch H. Knox and State Auditor Carl C. White, were ordered by the Mississippi tax collector to transfer on hand funds held in departments into the state treasury within 50 days. The money had not been directed to specific funds and parts were used to pay interest on state funds while other sums were kept in a separate fund "under protest."
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Associated Press
Jackson
Miss
W. J. Miller
Ruch H. Knox
Carl C. White
Treasury
Texas Quarrel Cools Down To Only A Simmer
Texas politics cools after a heated election as Republicans and Democrats clash over leadership and party control. Hoover leads in the state with 342,956 votes to Smith 527,671, while Harry Wurzbach narrowly defeats Augustus McCloskey in Texas’s fourteenth district with 29,538 to 29,516 as counts finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Texas
al Smith
Herbert Hoover
Smith
Hoover
Harry M. Wurzbach
Congress
Augustus McCloskey
San Antonio
McCloskey
Wurzbach
Ten Year Mill Tax Proposal for School Building
A proposed ten year mill tax would fund a new school building estimated at 100000 dollars in cost. The measure seeks voter approval to finance construction and related expenses over a decade.
Qua chita Parish approves junior college plan by vote
The Qua chita parish school board unanimously approves establishing a junior college. A parish wide election is set for December 12 to approve a one mill tax for ten years on Ouachita property to fund the project.
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Quachita Parish
Ouachita Parish
Kiwanis
Lions and
Rotary
Chamber of Commerce
Monroe
Veteran Texas League Player Dies in Dallas
Noah Crabtree known as Tex Wetzel, 58, a veteran Texas league baseball player, died in a Dallas hospital today after a career in minor league baseball.
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Dallas
Associated Press
Texas
Noah Crabtree
Tex Wetzel
Texas Louisiana Canal Project Moves Toward Start Within Months
Roy Miller announces in Baton Rouge that construction on the Texas Louisiana canal should begin in 60 to 90 days with full completion in three to four years. The 600 mile waterway from the Mississippi River to Corpus Christi has routes via Plaquemine and New Orleans with Galveston Bay rights awaiting government approval.
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Baton Rouge
Intracoastal Canal Association of
Louisiana and
Texas
Roy Miller
Corpus Christi
Tex
Mississippi River
Plaquemine
New Orleans
Galveston Bay
Harvey
Galveston
Kansas Police Chief and Cop Kidnapped in Coffeyville
Earl Hackney chief of police and W H McMurtry a policeman were abducted by several men while responding to a theft report about chicken thieves. They were forced into a car by armed men and disappeared as police launched a search.
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Coffeyville
Kans
Earl Hackney
W. H.mcmurtry
Hundreds of planes overflow Jackson for airport dedication
About 150 visiting aircraft gathered in Jackson Mississippi for the dedication of the new municipal airport. Notable figures include Martin Jensen the Pacific flight winner and Art Goebel holder of the West-East transcontinental record. General Preston Brown and Lt Donald Duke arrived, with Captain C A Rome supervising the event. Two days of air performances accompany the ceremonies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson
Miss
C. A. Rome
Department of Commerce
Final Congressional Results Show Republicans Gain In Senate And House
Final results place Republicans at 55 Senate seats to 9 Democrats and 1 farmer labor with 1 vacancy, and 269 House seats to 165 Democrats with 1 farmer labor and 1 socialist vacant seat. The outgoing line lists shifts across states including Missouri Kentucky Ohio New York North Carolina Nebraska and Wisconsin with Victor Berger's seat among the gains. Presidential vacancy changes and short session lineups follow.
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Washington
House
Senate
Democrats
Farmer-Labor
Vate
Congress
Delaware
Maryland
New Jersey
Missouri
Ohio
Rhode Island
West Virginia
Kentucky
New York
North Carolina
Nebraska
Colorado
Iinois
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Victor Berger
Wisconsin
Explosive Kills NM Official Driving Truck
Artesia New Mexico November 9 Zi Carr superintendent of the New Mexico Nitro glycerine company was killed when 600 quarts of explosive in his truck detonated. An automobile hub cap two clothing fragments and a large road crater marked the scene.
Titulescu Fails in Bid to Form Romanian National Union Cabinet
In Bucharest Nicholas Titulescu former minister who sought to form a cabinet succeeding Vin tia Bratianu today failed to assemble a national union government and returned his mandate to the regency.
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Bucharest
Romania
Nicholas Titulescu
Vintilla Bratianu
National Union
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Mother Concepcion
California
Inferno
U. S
Calabria
Hambone
By J. P. Alley
Pat Triflin
Beil Syndicate
Ing
Friends of the Movement
Texas-Louisiana
Kansas
Handsome Legion
Leonidas Barkdull Faulk
American Legion
Forsythe Park
North Fourth Street
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