Monroe to join new loop with Arkansas clubs
Shreveport officials announced steps to form a class D Louisiana Arkansas Teague league. Pine Bluff El Dorado Lake Charles Baton Rouge Alexandria and Monroe are named as members with Alexandria and Monroe already in the Cotton States league. The plan aims to address long travel distances by creating a more compact organization for both leagues.
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Shreveport
Shreveport Baseball Club
Louisiana-Arkansas Teague
Pine Bluff
el Dorado
Arkansas
Lake Charles
Baton Rouge
Alexandria
Monroe
Louisiana
Federal Flood Board Work Marked by Berthe Speech
Local representatives at a Mississippi Valley Flood Control meeting in Wempnis viewed the open session as a key step in securing fair flood control measures. The gathering forged a united front among senators, representatives, and flood control leaders from southern states. L T Berthe, Missouri Levee district consultant, gave a standout address as part of the continuing effort to ensure flowage rights surveys and court interpretations align with congressional intent. Continued on page seven.
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Mississippi Valley Flood Control Association
Wempnis
Congress
Mississippi Valley
L. T. Berthe
Missouri Levee District
Youngest Captain Criticized Heroic Barados Sailor Saves 20
Lionel Licorice a Barbados quartermaster on the Vestris is hailed as a hero after saving 20 lives during the disaster. Alfredo Ramos, an Argentine swimming star, survived fourteen hours and credits Licorice with leading boat 14’s rescue. Ramos notes officers failed to act. Licorice remained calm until introduced to reporters.
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Associated Press
New York
Lionel Licorice
Vestris
Alfredo Ramos
Negro
Ramos
Licorice
Sinking of Vestris Brings Beacon on Rescue Failures
New York dispatch recalls the steamer Vestris sinking after only about 80 of 328 aboard were saved. Survivors say life boats carried mainly women and children before the ship lurched, causing boats to crash and many passengers to leap or be dragged into the sea.
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Associated Press
New York
Vestris
Perjury Trial of Stewart Moves Slowly in DC Court
The perjury trial of Robert W. Stewart, chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, in Washington DC began a slow day as counsel finalized corrections to the stenographic record of Stewart's senate testimony in the Teapot Dome case. The revised version was admitted and read as the jury weighs whether he lied about bond transactions tied to Continental Trading of Canada. Prosecutors may finish their case by Friday with the defense schedule next week. Stewart denies knowing distribution of bonds by Continental.
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Washington
Robert W. Stewart
Standard Qail
Indiana
District of Columbia Supreme Court
Stewart
Senate
Teapot Dome
Continental Trading Company of Canada
Continental Company
Broadcasting Suspended After False SOS Alarm
Radio broadcasting paused briefly in New York after an SOS distress call was received. The suspension ended almost immediately when officials advised the alert was a false alarm and stations resumed regular programming.
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New York
Inventor Dies From Own Luminous Paint
Dr Sabon von Sochocky died from aplastic anemia caused by radioactive exposure from luminous paint he created for watch dials at United States Radium Corporation in East Orange New Jersey. Several women workers there suffered similar poisoning. the company settled lawsuits for 1.25 million dollars with annuities and legal costs.
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East Orange
N. J
Sabon von Sochocky
United States Radium Corporation
Orange
Dawes Honors Memory of Waller a Friend of His
Vice President Charles G. Dawes visited New York to lay a carnation on the casket of his boyhood friend Brad Hulbert known as the gentleman of the Bowery. Dawes noted Hulbert's kindness and arranged funds and casket details before returning to Marietta Ohio where their paths diverged in life’s course.
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Dawes
Waller
Chicago
Charles G. Dawes
United States
New York
Brad ‘Hubert
Marietta
Brad Hulbert
Hulbert
Davis to Join Commission for Mississippi River Tour
Secretary Davis of the War Department will join the Mississippi River Commission on an inspection trip next week. The tour will stop at key river points, hold public hearings, and proceed to New Orleans before returning to St. Louis for the Mississippi Valley Association meeting. Davis aims to review flood control work and visit unvisited river sections.
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Washington
Davis
War Department
Mississippi River Commission
New Orleans
St. Louis
Mississippi Valley Association
Five Declare For Payments In Floodways
Five national legislators pledged federal reimbursement for losses in Mississippi river floodway areas after a meeting of the flood control association in Memphis. Senators Ransdell and McKellar and Representatives Whittington Driver and Wilson expressed support for flowage rights payments through spillways and urged thorough surveys of tributary basins before construction on Beouf.
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Memphis
Tenn
Federal Flood Board
Joseph E. Ransdell
Louisiana
K. D. McKellar
Tennessee
W. M. Whittington
Mississippi
W. J. Driver
Arkansas
Riley J. Wilson
Mississippi River Flood Control Association
Ransdell
Beouf
Pondering Hat Case Frees Chicago Man
Michael Maloney, 67, was freed by Judge Padden after being charged with begging on a public street. He explained he carried his hat in his hand to ponder, noting he cannot ponder with the hat on. The judge discharged him, approving his customary sans chapeau pondering.
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Chicago
Michael Maloney
Mike
Padden
Maloney
Judge Padden
Fargo man found dead in residence
A Fargo man was found dead in his home with authorities investigating the circumstances. Officials did not release a cause of death and the case remains under active inquiry.
Inspectors Find Fargo Postmaster Suicide After Check
Postal inspectors who aimed to talk with T Verne Carey assistant postmaster found him dead by suicide in Fargo North Dakota. Hugh Corrigan the postmaster discovered a bullet wound and a nearby pistol. Inspectors declined to comment on Carey accounts during the annual financial check. A separate report notes a ten thousand dollar shortage in Norman Y Carey assistant postmaster Fargo accounts.
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Associated Press
Fargo
N. D
T. Verne Carey
Postoffice
Hugh Corrigan
Carey
ST. Paul, Minn
Norman Y. Carey
Rush Db
Red Cross Enrollment Progress Reported Strong
The annual Red Cross roll call began yesterday and is progressing well. Downtown committees report 274 members and $453 raised, with drive members including A Shotwell Gordon Cummings J L Bell J A Clarkson Armand Breard and J E Colvin, and more committees to report.
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Red Cross
A Shotwell
Gordon Cummings
J. L Bell
J. A. Clarkson
Armand Breard
J. E. Colvin
Hambone’s Meditations about Storekeeper and Credick
A humorous column notes Hambone’s mischief as he mocks a storekeeper who sold merchandise on credit. The piece highlights the cashier’s caution and Hambone’s sharper sense for thrift and practical humor in everyday shop life.
Young Kentucky highway head to speak at Chicago meet
J. S. Watkins the Kentucky state highway engineer and self described youngest head of a state highway department will speak at the American Association of State Highway Officials conference in Chicago.
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J. S. Watkins
Kentucky
America
American Association of State Highway Officials
Chicago
Hell No You Jump Said Carey After Ship Evacuation
New York report recounts Captain W J Carey of the Vestris and steward Alfred Duncan leaving the sinking liner Berlin. Duncan says they were last to jump as lifeboats vanished. Carey urged jump, and Duncan followed. Carey vanished and was not seen again.
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Associated Press
New York
W. J. Carey
The
Vestris
Alfred Duncan
Liverpool
Berlin
Man rolls peanut 11 miles for bet in Harlingen
In Harlingen Texas on November 14 Bill Williams rolled a peanut from Rio Hondo to Harlingen eleven miles with his nose. A placard on his back read Al lost and so did Bill as the bet required a mile a day for eleven days.
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Harlingen
Tex
Bill
Williams
Rio Ifondo
Motion for New Trial Overruled in Prohibition Case
In Alexandria Louisiana F L Delahoussaye of Pineville was sentenced to sixty days in jail and fined $400 for violation of the prohibition law. An appeal to the state supreme court was noted after the motion for a new trial was overruled.
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Alexandria
F. L. Delahoussaye
Pineville
Supreme Court
Fire Incendiary Tragedy Claims Three In Virginia Home
Nathan Kendrick 72 his crippled daughter Bertha 22 and grandson Elias Kendrick 11 burned to death in a house fire at Sandy Level Virginia authorities said origin undetermined. A separate report from Lake Charles Louisiana says George Coleman 20 charged as accessory after the fact in the killing of Thornhill farmer Ducre Mallette his wife and three children. Navy patrol seaplane PN-11 destroyed by fire near Bellevue Washington crew Lt Calloway and Lt Tomlinson escaped unharmed.
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Sandy Level
Nathan Kendrick
Bertha
Elias Kendrick
Lake Charles
George Coleman
Ducre Mallette
Thornhill Farmer
Washington
Navy
Bellevue
D.C
Lieut
D. W. Tomlinson
Salesman Narrowly Escapes Train Crash At Crossing
A. W. Mason, 80, a traveling salesman from Oklahoma City, survived a collision when his sedan was struck by a Missouri Pacific passenger train at the DeSiard crossing on the Dixie-Overland highway. He suffered scalp cuts and bruises but no broken bones, was taken to St. Francis sanitarium in Monroe after the wreck, and recalled seeing the engine headlight too late to avoid the crossing.
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A. W. Mason
McCaskey Regster Company
Missouri Pacific
DeSiard
Dixie-Overland Highway
Mason
Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
Mr. Mason
Oklahoma City
Army Officers Inspect Site for Third Attack Wing Field
A party led by Assistant Secretary of War F. Trubee Davison arrives in Shreveport to inspect a proposed site for the third attack wing aviation field. The tri motor Fokker, piloted by Lester Maitland, passes Selman Field en route from Montgomery.
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Shreveport
Army
F. Trubee Davison
Aviation Field
Lester E. Maitland
San Francisco
J. E. Fechet
Army Air Corps
Crooked Dice Found in Beverly Gardens Safe
New Orleans authorities report fifty pairs of crooked dice hidden in a safe at the Beverly Gardens gambling casino raided by state militia. Lieut Colonel Roy said the discovery followed the Monday morning raid and noted the dice gave the gambler no chance.
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New Orleans
Beverly Gardens
Roy
Destroyers Bring Eight Bodies From Vestris Wreck
The destroyers Acushnet and Tucker return to New York from the Vestris scene with eight bodies, all men. Four have been identified: Ralph P. Whitehead of Woodstock New York and Tom Jones a crewman aboard the Vestris on the Acushnet. Jose Gonzalvez Rua of New Bedford Massachusetts and Raymond Garcia Pelal of New York on the Tucker. Rua is with wife and two year old son. Pelal’s name does not appear on passenger or crew lists. Each ship carries two more unidentified bodies. The destroyers are expected to dock tonight.
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New York
Acushnet
Tucker
Vestris
Ralph P. Whitehead
Woodstock
N. Y
Tom Jones
Jose Gonzalvez Rua
New Bedford
Mass
Raymond Garcia Pelal
Rua
Pelal
Survivors Arrive From Vestris Tragedy Amid Blame of Captain
Among 125 on the American Ship and 23 on the Berlin the survivors debated the Vestris disaster. Officers and crew largely praised the officers but blamed the captain for indecision that doomed the ship, he perished with it.
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Berlin
Vestris
Fifth Annual Progress Edition Copies Still Available
The News-Star offers remaining copies for sending to friends relatives and business connections. Orders need a list of names and addresses plus ten cents per copy. Hundreds have already shipped nationwide and abroad, with reduced mailing costs inside the United States.
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