18th Judicial District Balloting Defies Governor's Proclamation
New Orleans dispatch reports voters in the 18th district kept polling places open despite Huey Long canceling the district attorney election. Balloting ran heavily in West Baton Rouge Therville and Pointe Coupee as locals rejected the governor's move and backed candidate Hewitt Bouanchaud. Legal action contemplated includes mandamus to force commission issuance and potential appeal to the supreme court.
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United Press
New Orleans
Huey Long
Long
West Baton Rouge
Therville
Pointe Coupee
Hewitt Bouanchaud
Supreme Court
Voters in 18th district cast ballots in general election
In Baton Rouge on November twelve voters ignored Gov Huey P Long proclamations and went to the polls to stamp the rooster a gesture of party regularity in the solid south. They aimed to ratify the democratic nominee for district attorney from a second primary held weeks earlier.
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Baton Rouge
Huey P. Long
18Th Judicial District
Solid South
Negro Boy Kills White Arcadia Lad by Accident
A seven year old boy, son of Alfred Jones of Arcadia, was accidentally shot and killed by a Black child in Tennessee where the family is staying for highway work. The youths were in a backyard when the little boy fired the gun by accident.
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Negro Boy
Arcadia Lad
Shreveport
Alfred Jones
Arcadia
Tennessee
Jones
River Towns Face Rising Flood Threat in Alabama
Heavy rains across northern and central Alabama sent rivers over banks. Centerville on Cahaba reported seven feet above flood stage with rising water. Additional morning rainfall intensified danger to nearby small towns.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Centerville
Cahaba
Perth
Trehafod
Rhondda
Dee
Severn
Rye
Cumberland
Judge refuses to annul dual salary edicts
Baton Rouge scene as Louisiana highway commission lawyers lose bid to annul an injunction barring hiring legislators as special attorneys. They sought an annulment claiming delay after the court opinion invalidated the restraining order, but Judge W Carruth Jones overruled, citing the law’s inapplicability to the region.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Highway Commission
19Th Judicial District Court
Percy Saint
The
Highway Commission
District Court
State Supreme Court
W. Carruth Jones
Mystery death of Miss. youth is finally solved
Macon Mississippi reports Sheriff Walker of Noxubee county says 23 year old Bob Miller’s death was caused by a car running over him as he lay in the road near Shuqulak. Earlier reports claimed he was beaten and dumped at his home. No further action will be taken. Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon.
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Ky Associated Press
Macon
Miss
Walker
Noxubee County
Bob Miller
Shuqulak
Miller
Mississippi Valley association nominates officers at St Louis
William R. Dawes of Chicago named for a second term as president with Thomas F. Cunningham of New Orleans as vice president at large and Richard E. Hawes of St. Louis as treasurer. The meeting discussed river and rail competition and rate control proposals for all transportation.
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Associated Press
ST. Louis
William R. Dawes
Chicago
Mississippi Valley Association
Thomas F. Cunningham
New Orleans
Richard 8. Hawes
Mississippi Valley
Denison
Ollie B. Webb Elected President of Louisiana Baptists
Shreveport reports Ollie B. Webb of New Orleans chosen president of the Louisiana Baptist convention at its 82nd annual assembly. Dr. W. L. Roy and C. M. Mannigan named first and second vice presidents. Roy withdrew to back Webb, but the ballot proceeded with all candidates remaining. The gathering opened at First Baptist Church with hymns led by John S. Raymond.
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Shreveport
Ollie B. Webb
New Orleans
Texas and Pacific Railroad
Louisiana Baptist Convention
Webb
W. L. Roy
Natchitoches
C. M. Mannigan
Lake Charles
A. J. Smith
Queensborough
Dr. Roy
First Baptist Church
Highland Baptist Church
Zion
John S. Raymond
John S. Raymond, Following Which Dr. Roy
L. M. Cole
Monroe
Baptist Children’s Home
Red Cross Initiates Roll Call Drive in Ouachita Parish
The Ouachita chapter of the Red Cross began a roll call drive at 9 a m with a complete executive lineup led by General Chairman Dr F K Hirsch of West Monroe. The city conducts a systematic canvass locally as volunteers, captains, and helpers organize across residential and business sections to boost support.
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Ouachita
The
Red Cross
F. K. Hirsch
West Monroe
F. J. McCoy
Joe Marx
Sam Goldman
W. M. Harper
J. W. Proffitt
M. G. Michael
Mra
R. H. Oliver, Jr
Judge Harper
H. S. Schlenker
Charles Reid
Jack Selig
J.S. Washburn
Roy Whittaker
R. Tidwell
W. B. Mangham
Will Rodriguez
B. Pombecuff
Harry St. John
Henry Haas
C. Meredith
Gertrude Blanchard
C. M. Neely
Plans for electing Negro Democrats to Congress
Senate investigators released letters showing James A. Arnold of the Southern Tariff Association discussed with Vice President Curtis a strategy to elect Black Democrats from St. Louis Chicago and New York. The plan aimed to build a Southern Republican council by aligning black leadership to strengthen the party in the South.
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Washington
Congress
St. Louis
Chicago
New York
Curtis
James A. Arnold
Southern Tariff Association
Senate Lobby
Arnold
Southern Republican Council
Republican
South
Vance Muse
Darkey
Hoover
Trade surplus hits record nine months in 1926
Washington November 12. Favorable trade balance of 484 million dollars for the first nine months of this year was announced by the commerce department today. Exports valued at 3.844 billion dollars and imports at 3.26 billion dollars both rose to new highs since 1920.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Harris asserts schools need over two million dollars
State Superintendent T. H. Harris told Ruston officials that free Louisiana schools require about 2.25 million dollars in new revenues to reach a satisfactory level, contingent on an approved equalization fund. He cited charts showing a decade of decline in the state's property assessments and pledged to support the funding push with his office.
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News-Star
Ruston
Louisiana
T. H. Harris
Harris
Hambone's Meditations by J. P. Alley continues
A column titled Hambone's Meditations by J. P. Alley appears continued on page ten. The piece uses dialect humor and reflects on changing times and religious life among readers, with local flavor and familiar cultural references.
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Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
Farm and Home Agents to Meet Here Thursday
Northeast Louisiana farm and home demonstration agents from Moorehouse West Carroll Richland Franklin Lincoln Jackson Caldwell and Ouachita meet at the courthouse in Monroe next Thursday starting at 10 30 a m Claude Davis district farm agent and Miss Mary Johnson district home agent will preside The session reviews this year work and plans for annual reports due to Baton Rouge next month
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Monroe
Claude Davis
Mary Johnson
Baton Rouge
the Bell Syndicate, Inc
Multiple Scale Collapses in National Building Incidents
In New York a 20 ton stone crashed through seven floors of the Bank of America building causing panic and crowd control near Wall Street as workers sought safety after a lifting cable failure. In Montgomery scaffold collapse at S. H. Kresge building injures several workers with four admitted to hospital. Philadelphia reports three dead in a Fifth and Reed Street building collapse. In Phoenix a person dies in a burning exhibit section at the state fairgrounds, others feared buried in the embers as wagons burn.
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New York
Bank of America
Wall Street
Financial District
Stock Exchange
Philadelphia
Fifth and
Reed Streets
United Press
Poenix, Ariz
Abner K. Kline
Arizona State Fair Grounds
Stock Market Closes at New Bottom in Liquidation Sweep
New York November 12 The stock market ends at a new low as scores of issues drop one to twelve dollars a share amid heavy liquidation. A hundred stocks hit fresh yearly lows while a late closing gong marks a delayed session. Brokers say distress liquidation remains unresolved despite no new news.
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New York
Wall Street
Start Tests of Gas Pipeline to Georgia
The Southern Natural Gas company reports natural gas from Monroe-Richland fields is now in transmission lines to Atlanta and testing has begun. Sections will be tested daily and by December gas should reach Columbus Mississippi, with Birmingham district to receive gas early next month. The 496 mile main line is rapidly advancing toward completion expected January 1 1930 with a total cost of 25000000 dollars.
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Southern Natural Gas Corporation
Monroe-Richland Fields
Atlanta
Columbus
Miss
Birmingham
Three Miners Rescued From a Living Tomb
McGrewmor Colorado November 12 three miners trapped 400 feet underground in the McNeil Coal company mine were freed after a 13 hour relay effort by a 50 man crew. The men Jack Condon 34 Earl Le Branch 21 and Jack Garber 27 survived the cave in and received air through a pipe from a nearby tunnel.
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Jack Condon
Earl le Branch
Jack Garber
England Endures 72 Mile Per Hour Gale and Floods
Storms lashed the south and west coasts injuring vessels and flooding towns. Wind hit 72 to 85 miles per hour as ships rode out the night, with the Belgian steamer Jan Breydel and the Nimbo among those affected and emergency crews rescuing crews from stranded ships.
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Dover
Eng
English Channel
Jan Breydel
Ostend
Anchorage
London
World War Aviator Sought After Worthless Check Charge
Swede Presnell posed as a world war aviator in Alexandria last week and was charged today by a local businessman with writing a worthless check for 15 dollars. Police traced him to New Orleans and learned he had since left for Baton Rouge.
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Alexandria
Presnell
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Girl pays five dollars for leap from five thousand feet
An 18 year old girl Ruth Rockwell rented a plane at Curtiss field and leapt from 2000 feet. She hoped to die and come back at nine oclock that evening. Her body was found after crashing into a tree and wires near Valley Stream Long Island. Parents say eyesight failing and she had been melancholy. She left notes speculating on death and seeking any sign of life after.
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Ruth Rockwell
Curtiss Field
Remsen Street
Valley Stream
L. 1
United Press
Miss Rockwell
Philadelphia
DW. Rockwell
South Philadelphia
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