Louisville avenue site favored for Monroe river bridge plan
River traffic officials and local leaders testified at a Monroe hearing before Maj. John Co. H. Lee. Louisville Avenue emerged as the preferred bridge site due to navigation safety and river bend considerations. Maj. Frank T. Payne and others framed the discussion as an official, orderly proceeding.
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Louisville Avenue
Ouachita River
Monroe
Arnold Bernstein
C. C. Bell
West Monroe
Theo. F. Terzia
Ouachita Parish
Maj
Frank T. Payne
State Highway Commission
John Co. H. Lee
Vicksburg
United States
Lee
Louisville
Wood Street
Forsythe Avenue
N. F E. Lant
Death Claims Retired Senior Bishop Hendrix
Bishop Eugene Russell Hendrix 80, retired senior bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died at his Kansas City home. He served over 50 years, term ending in 1922 due to ill health, and left three daughters and a son. He was a long time leader and presiding bishop for 36 years.
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Associated Press
Kansas City
Eugene Russell Hendrix
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Mia
George Waring
Grand Rapids
Mich
Martin Simpson
Paul Mohr
Hendrix
Three Die in Tanker Beta Boiler Explosion Near Jersey
The tanker Beta suffered a boiler explosion that tore a hole in its hull and caused a fire off the New Jersey coast. Three crewmen died, a fourth was badly burned, and the ship reached drydock under coast guard escort, with one injured seaman transferred to Staten Island hospital.
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Associated Press
New York
Beta
Jersey
Coast Guard
McCall
Ammen
Marine Hospital
Staten Island
West Monroe Fire Totals Three Buildings Losses
A morning blaze on the paper mill road west of West Monroe destroyed three structures owned by Del Kelly. Two frame houses and a small grocery store with stock burned rapidly, a garage also burned, with total losses near 4500 dollars and partial insurance. The fire was spotted by Mrs. C. B. Lewis, with water-mains limiting spread.
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Monroe
del” Kelly
Paper Mill
West Monroe
C. B. Lewis
Kelly
Old Sausage Grinder Is Not on the Market
Perry New York reports Elmer French sold Henry's agents a steam engine over fifty years old but vows a century-old sausage grinder remains unavailable from the Ford Museum of Antiques.
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Perry
N. Y
Ford Museum of Antiques
Elmer French
Henry
Elmer
Ruth Elder declines housewife role and pursues career
Ruth Elder says women can do many things and will mix domestic duties with a career. She cites plans for vaudeville and lectures alongside aviation fame and notes her husband is supportive, hoping to try another transatlantic flight next year with Haldeman.
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Associated Press
New York
Ama
Ruth Elder
88 Elder
Dixie
Macom
Panama
Miss Elder
Haldeman
Nationalist Army Chief Flees Hankow in Panic
Gen Tang Sen Chi, commander of Hankow Nationalist troops, fled Hankow aboard a Japanese steamer amid chaos. The city reported injuries, a bombing at the Chinese Tobacco Co building, and looting by Tang’s bodyguards. General Ho Shien moved to command the Wuuhan garrison as Japanese marines landed.
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Hankow
China
Tang Sen Chi
Japan
Chinese Tobacco Company
Ho Shien
Chi
Wuhuan
Vienna Woman Seeks Godfather for 21st Child
Frau Franziska Grausatesh seeks a godfather for her 21st child through Ilustrierte Kronen-Zeitung. Her husband is unemployed and ten of the other twenty children are non-earners, prompting the public appeal.
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Vienna
Franziska Grausatesh
Ilustrierte Kronen-Zeitung
Cold Wave Sweeps The West And Midwest
A severe storm with heavy rain and lightning hit the Middle West after 10 pm, dropping temperatures from 59F to 49F by morning. Sub zero readings appeared in Montana and a five state front sent over fifty degree drops to Southwest and Midwest areas. Dallas registered 53F above after a twenty degree fall as more cold unsettled weather was forecast.
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Kate Key
Kansas City
Montana
Lewiston
Wyoming
Idaho
Middlewest
Oklahoma
Texas
Dallas
Chicago Storm Rips Through Lake Region Killing Boy
A powerful gale battered the lake region from Chicago to Indiana and Michigan, dropping temperatures from 71 to 48. An unidentified Milwaukee boy was killed by lightning while two Springfield children were injured. Dozens injured and thousands of dollars in damage reported. western air routes halted with eastward service under threat.
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Chicago
Lake
Hyde Park
Indiana
Michigan
Milwaukee
Springfield
Hawaiian Love Romance Ends in Separate Rooms
In Manila on November 12, news reports say Mrs. Horace E. Dodge Jr and Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Manning have separated during a honeymoon in the Pacific. The couple, who wed in Honolulu weeks earlier, drifted apart aboard the President Cleveland as it neared Shanghai amid passenger accounts of frequent quarrels.
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Manila
Horace E. Dodge, Jr
Detroit
Benjamin Franklin Manning
Honolulu
Manning
Army and Notre Dame Clash Before 76000 at Yankee Stadium
A record New York crowd of about 76 000 watched Army and Notre Dame play at Yankee Stadium. Army scored first on a 49 yard run by Keener Cagle in the first period, then Notre Dame brought in its first team as Dahman blocked an extra point kick. Army led 6 0 at the period’s end.
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New York
Army
Notre Dame
Yankee Stadium
Nave
Keener Cagle
Dahman
Murell
Murrell
South Benders
Early football scores from New York games
First period results show Army leading Notre Dame by 6 to 0 while Dartmouth dominates Cornell 21 to 0 and Michigan and Penn State post early wins. Second period notes Army 6 Notre Dame 0 Princeton 6 Yale 0 Penn 12 Columbia 0 Pittsburgh 21 Nebraska 7 Harvard 6 Brown 6 Dartmouth 34 Cornell 0.
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New York
Army
Notre Dame
Penn
Columbia
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Brown
Syracuse
Colgate
Dartmouth
Cornell
Nebraska
Pittsburgh
Penn State
New York University
Michigan
Navy
Vanderbilt
Tennessee
Robbers break into Edwards Motor Car a safe and flee with cash
Early today robbers entered Edwards Motor Car in New Orleans, cracked the safe and escaped with between 700 and 1000 dollars. In Ohio a farm house fire near Batavia killed Jesse Darlington, his mother and baby son, with wife burned fatally. A radio sermon will be preached for Dr. Barnhouse's mother, buried in California, by the Tenth Presbyterian Church pastor.
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New Orleans
Edwards Motor Car Company
Batavia
Ohio
Jesse Darlington
Here
Philadelphia
California
Donald G. Barnhouse
Tenth Presbyterian Church
Barnhouse
Theodore Barnhouse
Watsonville
Cal
Lynching of Henry Choate Shocks Columbia Tenn
In Columbia Tennessee a determined mob of about 350 men stormed the jail and hanged 18 year old Henry Choate from a second story window after officers arrested him on suspicion of assault. Reports said Choate confessed to beating a white girl with a pistol as crowds gathered at the courthouse. The event followed discovery of a blood stained pistol at a farm house.
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Associated Press
Columbia
Tenn
Citadel of Justice
Henry Choate
Choate
Court House
J. R. Parson
Armistice Day gun fray leaves four dead in Alabama town
In Opp Alabama four men died in a gun battle on Armistice Day night. Policemen Ed Nix and Lee Clark were killed along with Cleve Dauphin and his son O C Dauphin both described as liquor law violators. Two bystanders were wounded. The clash began when officers tried to stop a car driven by Dauphin.
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Associated Press
Opp
Ala
Alabama
Ed Nix
Lee Clark
Cleve Dauphin
O. C. Dauphin
Young Dauphin
Pinchot Called Before Teapot Dome Probers
Gifford Pinchot former Pennsylvania governor was summoned before the grand jury probing jury tampering in the Fall Sinclair case. What Pinchot may know about the matter remains undisclosed.
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Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Ex Governer Pinchot Testifies in Teapot Dome Probe
Former Pennsylvania governor Gifford Pinchot testified before a grand jury in Washington as part of the jurors inquiry into jury tampering in the Fall-Sinclair Teapot Dome conspiracy trial. District Attorney Gordon and assistant Neil Burkinshaw led the government investigation into Burns detective activities.
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Associated Press
Washington
Gifford Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Graud Jury
Mr. Pinchot
Hoover to Visit New England for Flood Relief Work
President Coolidge sent Secretary Hoover and Attorney General Sargent to Vermont to confer with Governor Weeks on flood rehabilitation. Sargent, a Vermont resident, knows the ground. Hoover has spent the summer on Mississippi Valley relief efforts.
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Washington
Coolidge
Hoover
Sargent
Vermont
Weeks
New England
New $2,000,000 Veterans Hospital Assured for Alexandria
Alexandria learns the new $2 million United States Veterans hospital is assured. The chamber of commerce reports Attorney General Sargent has approved the site title subject to a constitutional amendment, with the Veterans bureau ready to start preliminary work and begin construction promptly after passage.
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Alexandria
United States Veterans Hospital
Chamber of Commerce
T. W. Holloman
I. W. Sylvester
Washington
Sargent
Veterans Bureau
Mary Garden Talks Lindbergh Admiration in Paris
New York reports Mary Garden declares strong admiration for Charles Lindbergh after singing for him during his Paris visit. She recalls the Star Spangled Banner and says she did not know the words, later having them looked up in a library.
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New York
Mary
Prisoner Reveals Own Story in Manslaughter Trial
J W LaRue a 28 year old oil field worker was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of S M David age 24 after a two day trial in the fourth district court. The verdict carries an indeterminate sentence with a maximum of 20 years under Armistice day rules. The defense argued it was a fight arising from words while the state emphasized brutality of the assault.
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J. W. LaRue
S. M. David
Fourth District
David I. Garrett
Supreme Court
la Rue
William C. Pegues, Jr
Mansfield
David
Pegues
L. S. A. Law School
LaRue
B. O. Lytton
Selman AirportApproved After U S Inspection
U S aviation officers Major Frank Lackland and Lt G C McGinley inspected the proposed Selman field in Monroe. They praised drainage, low navigation hazards, adequate size for standard government traffic, and easy city access via DeSiard Street, signaling strong federal satisfaction with the project.
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Selman
Monroe
Frank Lackland
United States Aviation Corps
Fort Crockett
Texas
G. C. McGinley
Shreveport
DeSiard Sere Ashe
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