New Orleans Bank Robbed in Bold Hold Up
Mississippian Whittington urged a flood diversion plan. New Orleans mayor Bernstein denounces the proposal as harmful to Louisiana. Bernstein, head of the Tensas Basin Flood Control Association, attacks Whittington before the U.S. Engineers board over Jadwin project changes and fuse plug levee removal.
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New Orleans
Bernstein
W. M. Whittington
Greenville
Miss
United States Board of Engineers
Mississippi
Boeuf Basin
Arkansas City
Arnold Bernstein
Tensas Basin
Yass Basin
Jadwin
Yazoo
Whittington
Cypress Creek
New Assistant Joins Ouachita Parish Home Demonstration
Miss Margaret Firnberg arrives from McGehee Arkansas to assist Mrs Jewel L McQuiller as Ouachita parish home demonstration agent. A Southwestern University graduate and Opelousas native she will lead meat canning demos and later may be reassigned to Jena as plans shift. She will help prepare the annual extension report detailing the year’s work.
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Jewel L. McQuiller
Margaret Firnberg
McGehee
Ark
Miss Firnberg
Southwestern University
Opelousas
Jena
Mrs. McQuiller
Ouachita Parish
State bans on Florida citrus lifted for December
BATON ROUGE November 15 The state quarantine blocking shipment of citrus from Florida zones affected by the Mediterranean fruit fly into the south Louisiana citrus belt will be lifted on December 1 announced by W. E. Anderson state entomologist.
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Baton Rouge
Florida
South Louis Mina
W. E. Anderson
British King of Jazz Sees Siegfried's Ghost and Faints
Conductor Darewski at a London ball reports seeing a ghostly Siegfried figure from Wagner lore materialize near the stage. He collapsed in shock as the illusion faded, the band halted, and dancers crowded around him amid headlines of modern music and Valhalla.
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Siegfried
Associated Press
London
Herman Darewski
Seigfried
Richard Wagner
Convent Garden
Darewski
Seuski
Woton
Breunhilde
Big loan sought for drouth area farmers
The administration proposes a 60 million dollar loan program to assist farmers in 21 drouth states including Louisiana. Loans would buy seed fertilizer and planting supplies for next year. Senator McNary of Oregon is expected to sponsor the measure in the Senate.
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Washington
Drouth
Capitol
Congress
McNary
Oregon
Agriculture Committee
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Kentucky
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
Wyoming
Montana
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tennessee
Louisiana
Alabama
Texas
Mississippi
Cagle Released From Contract At Mississippi A. and M.
Christian Keener Cagle is released from his two year football coaching contract at Mississippi A. and M. college. President Hugh Critz notified in Birmingham where Cagle is with his team for a game with Auburn. Cagle asked to be released effective Nov. 15 to join the New York Giants for a game against the Green Bay Packers.
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Starkville
Miss
Christian Keener Cagle
Mississippi A
M. College
Hugh Critz
Cagle
Birmingham
Auburn
New York Giants
Green Bay
Wis
Packers
Houck Sentenced 14 to 21 Months for Shooting with Intent
W H Houck pleaded guilty in district court to shooting with intent to kill and was sentenced to 14 to 21 months in the Baton Rouge state penitentiary. The case grew from a Dixie Overland Highway affray near Monroe with shots exchanged between Houck and Clarence D Wall, who alleged Houck was tied to a Farmerville bank robbery. authorities found no substantiation.
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W. H. Houck
State
Baton Rouge
Houck
Monroe
Clarence D. Wall
Wall
Farmerville
Intracoastal Canal group re elects officers for life
The Intracoastal Canal association of Louisiana and Texas re elected all officers for life at its final session in New Orleans. Corpus Christi was chosen as the site for next year’s convention. Cleveland A. Newton urged dovetailing freight and water rates into a general rate structure to build a south owned merchant marine.
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New Orleans
Intracoastal Canal Association of
Louisiana and Texas
C. S. E. Holland
Houston
Corpus Christi
Texas
Louisiana and
Cleveland A. Newton
St. Louis
Mississippi Valley Association
North Atlantic
Gulf Ports
Fos
Hambone's Meditations on Hard Times and Leaving
Laughing voice of J. P. Alley imagines Hambone and neighbors facing economic strain. A dialect-tinted meditation notes money scarce and the urge to move on, capturing everyday resilience and humor amid hardship.
Man Missing in West Monroe as Hunt Starts
A ten day search for B. L. Craghead, 28, missing from West Monroe, has yielded no trace in Texas, Mexico, or Louisiana. Craghead left his 505 North Fifth Street home November 3 for Farmerville but rode a bus to Shreveport, and has not been located since departing the bus station. Chief J. M. Hammons says Craghead, who was bonded recently to represent a business matter, vanished while en route.
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B. L. Craghead
West Monroe
Texas
Mexico
Louisiana
J. M. Hammons
Craghead
North Fifth Street
Farmerville
Monroe
Shreveport
Hammons
Authorities Seek Griffin in Boy's Fatal Shooting
Sheriff deputies in Richland parish hunted Robert Griffin Friday in Snake Ridge for the killing of 17 year old Hiram McCrory last Sunday. Willard Childers, 19, is jailed on the murder charge after an argument with McCrory and a later shotgun blast.
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Sheriff's Department
Rayville
Snake Ridge
Richland Parish
Robert Griffin
Hiram McCrory
Mangham
Willard Childers
McCrory
Griffin
Childers
R. L. Jones
Natchez, Miss
Natchez
Syndicate Smashing Arrests After Coast Guard Seizure
U S officers arrested 15 men and a woman in New York after dismantling a rum running syndicate. A patrol captured the dory Patricia in Gravesend bay with 500 bags of liquor valued at 25 000 dollars. Earlier, authorities seized liquor worth 116 000 dollars from the operation and its fully equipped radio directing setup.
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New York
Navy
Coast Guard
Gravesend Bay
Patricia
Ambrose Channel
Coast Patrol
Federal authorities seize bonds liquor in major New York raid
In New York on November 15 federal agents rounded up 15 men and one woman on high bonds as liquor valued at 116000 dollars was confiscated amid a sweeping raid. The operation signals a broader crackdown on violations linked to organized crime and bootlegging.
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New York
Liquor Seizure After Police Find Whiskey in Ford Coupe
Police recovered ten half gallon jars of whiskey from a Ford coupe in a downtown hotel lot early Saturday. A woman, identifying as Margaret Quinn, claimed the car as hers and said it had been stolen. the car was traced to Miss M. Quinn but ownership remains unsettled. Police suspect a hotel employee connected to the scene but have no arrest evidence.
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Margaret Quinn
Miss M. Quinn
Miss Quinn
Seaplane DO-X Lands North of Bordeaux
The giant German seaplane the DO X made a forced landing along the French coast last night and resumed its flight to Bordeaux at 11 55 a.m. today. It touched down near Gaurinc in the Gironde estuary about 30 miles northwest of Bordeaux amid misty conditions and low clouds.
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Bordeaux
France
Gaurinc
Gironde
Emergency cabinet orders protection for essential services
Madrid reports an emergency cabinet meeting ordered military protection for light, water, gas and food services after bloody labor riots with thousands of workers. Officials unofficially warn martial law could be used if needed.
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Madrid
Navy
Alabama Beauty Louise Wood Crowned Freshman Representative
Louise Wood of Covington Tennessee has been chosen the most representative freshman at the Woman's College of Alabama in Montgomery.
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Louise Wood
Covington, Tenn
Woman's College of Alabama
Montgomery
Gravel to be laid on Forsythe avenue Loop road extension
City crews will start laying gravel on the Forsythe avenue extension to the Loop road early next week. With favorable weather, work could finish in about 10 days and provide a new thoroughfare through a rapidly developing eastern section. The project links city and parish portions of a two and a half mile road to Forsythe park high school.
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Forsythe Avenue
Loop Road
New City
Forsythe Park
Youth Exonerated in Slaying of Former Deputy
Coroner R. O. Carter of Bossier parish exonerated Clarence E. Wilson of blame for the fatal wounding of A. C. Gray, a former deputy sheriff of Caddo parish. The coroner ruled the shooting justifiable homicide.
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Shreveport
R. O. Carter
Bossier Parish
Clarence E. Wilson
Bossier City
A. C. Gray
Caddo Parish
Trains Collision Kills One Injures Dozens in Toledo
A collision of two Lake Shore electric trains in Toledo results in one fatality Will Thurstin of Hessville. Six seriously injured and 11 passengers bruised or shaken as the pilot car is struck on a siding by a Toledo bound passenger coach and bursts into flames.
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Toledo
Will Thurstin
Hessville
Bandit Robbery Strikes Freret Street Bank in New Orleans
Two bandits robbed the Freret street branch of the Interstate Trust and Banking company in a night raid, locking four employees in the vault and two in the lavatory. They escaped with 4200 dollars after forcing the vault open while a fireman assisted by turning the combination numbers. The victims named were manager Raymond Mollere, tellers Fred Hebert and Peter Fonte, and bookkeeper Charles Becker. The bank had prior robberies by bandit gangs.
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New Orleans
Freret Street
Interstate Trust and Banking Company
Raymond Mollere
Fred Hebert
Peter Fonte
Charles Becker
Three Starns Indicted in Grand Jury Case
Isaac Newton Charlie Henry and Gordon Starns brothers and local businessmen face grand jury indictment in Tangipahoa and Livingston parishes for pouring caustic substance on Dr S L Newsom Hammond dentist. Bonds set at 750 each amid ongoing civil suit for 60000 in favor of Newsom. Newsom claimed Starns alleged infidelity with his wife.
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Hammond
Isaac, Newton
Charlie
Henry
Gordon Starns
S. L. Newsom
Tangipahoa Parish
Livingston Parish
Newsom
Isaac Starns
War Secretary Approves Mississippi Dredging Allotment
United Press reports Secretary of War Hurley approved a $400,000 allotment to dredge a nine foot channel in the Mississippi River from the Ohio to the Missouri rivers. The action aims to improve navigation and commerce along the disputed stretch.
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Washington
Hurley
Mississippi River
Ohio
Missouri
Cuss Box Proposed to Boost Goodfellows Donations
A cuss box plan to raise funds for the Goodfellows Fund spreads as a novel approach in Monroe. Swearers pay a nickel. deniers are fined a dime, with reports of up to ten dollars in a week. Welfare officials will audit cases to ensure aid goes to worthy families during Yuletide assistance.
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Goodfellows Fund
Monroe
Goodfellows
Monroe Welfare Association
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J. M. Greve
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Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
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