Congress Uncertain Over Cotton Market Probes
A Senate agriculture subcommittee plans to summon leaders from the New York Chicago and New Orleans cotton exchanges and the textile institute to explain the cotton market decline. No date was set due to possible adjournment of the special session. Senator Ransdell notes a telegram blaming the slump on legislative threats and congressional uncertainty. Senator Heflin says the issue is important to address.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate Agriculture
New York
Chicago
New Orleans
Textile Institute
Ransdell
Louisiana
J. P. Henican
Sinclair's Term Ends at Midnight This Evening
District of Columbia jail officials will bid farewell at midnight to Harry F Sinclair who has served more than seven months for contempt of Congress related to the Teapot Dome oil case.
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Washington
District of Columbia
Harry F. Sinclair
Senate
Pastor promises to poison rat at church service
In Topeka Kansas the First Church of God scheduled a Tuesday evening anti cigarette demonstration by Rev. A P Jones. He said he would poison a rat with cigarette poison nicotine as 20 minute singing service preceded the event. The plan aims to shock attendees into quitting smoking.
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Topeka
Kans
Church of God
A. P. Jones
Jones
Doctor Heroically Rescues Woman From Window Fall
A Birmingham doctor, Dr. R. V. Jones, aged 65, saved a unnamed young woman who was leaning from a fifth floor window ledge in a downtown office building. He held her as she struggled until others helped pull her to safety, drawing praise from shoppers and workers.
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Birmingham
Ala
R. V. Jones
Kidnapped Baby May Die If Right Diets Are Not Followed
A Brooklyn baby, Donald Larney aged three months, was kidnapped from a carriage before a department store. The kidnapper faces a diet of certified milk lactic acid special sugar and barley water to sustain the infant, whose life hinges on physicians orders.
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New York
Donald Larney
Brooklyn
Wife Wrecks Family Car After Husband Receives Safety Medal
Evanston police honored Ernest Ling with a safe driver license after he logged 175000 accident free miles on an Evanston-Niles Center bus over five years. At home his wife Antoinette admitted wrecking their car beyond repair in a collision with a truck.
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Evanston
Ernest Ling
Evanston-Niles Center
Antoinette
Blood Lusting Texas Mob Hangs Naked Man to Pole
Eastland Texas residents stormed the county jail and lynched condemned killer Marshal Ratliff known as the Santa Claus bandit. More than 1,000 spectators watched as the nude man dangled from a rope that broke, was resecured, and he died after being hoisted again before drop. No arrests had been reported.
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United Press
Eastland
Tex
Court House
Marshal Ratliff
Santa Claus
T. A. Jones
Ratliff
Shreveport Bankers May Take Bonds But Mayor Declines
In Shreveport on November 20 local bankers met with Mayor L E Thomas after no bids were received for the 1 8 million third attack wing and municipal airport bonds. The city may sell by private sale within 60 days if needed and has one offer to sell at par. Bond buyers were reportedly advised not to bid amid market disturbance.
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Associated Press
Shreveport
L. E. Thomas
Thomas
Methodist Bishop Candler Opens Louisiana Conference
Bishop Warren A. Candler of Atlanta opens the 84th annual Louisiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in Lafayette. He urges ministers to avoid politics, focus on church welfare, especially for children and marginalized adults, and to hold daily morning and afternoon sessions with anniversary services.
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Associated Press
Lafayette
Warren A. Candler
Atlanta
Louisiana
Methodist Episcopal Church, South
Candler
Senate votes to adjourn Friday for a rest
Washington November 20 weary senate voted 49 to 33 to adjourn the special session Friday night and take a week’s recess before the December regular meeting. Senator Walsh acting Democratic leader said it was impossible to pass the tariff bill before December 2 and urged a full week to prepare.
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Washington
Senate
Walsh
Monitana
Mystery Pencil Wounds Girl In Nighttime Assault
A mysterious assailant shot a lead pencil into Miss Marie Olson's thigh as she walked home. A physician removed a three inch pencil, and bystanders reported hearing no gunfire. Police hunted the unknown actor behind the weekend incident in Rockford UL.
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Rockford
Marie Olson
Heirs Seek Share of Homer Oil Field Profits
Heirs of Mrs. George W. Shaw Jr file suit in Shreveport district court against Shreveport Eldorado Pipe Line for a multi million dollar share of oil and gas from the Homer field. Plaintiffs Lena Brown Bessie Gandy Hazel Wheeler and Ruby Sullivan claim rights to the southeast quarter of the southwest half of section 13 21 8 Claiborne Parish and seek full accounting and payment of their due share. The case cites 1919 drilling by Shreveport Producing and Refining Corp now merged with the pipe line company as the basis for the claim.
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Shreveport
Homer
George W. Shaw, Jr
Shreveport-Eldorado Pipe Line Company
Lena Brown
Bessie Vada Gandy
Mississippi Official Questions Tariff Group During Hearing
Mississippi commissioner of agriculture J C Holton told the Senate lobby committee he grew suspicious of the Southern Tariff association last July after Senator Harrison sent a letter to the Greenwood chamber of commerce. He said he did not want to be connected with anything questionable and admitted he did not have Harrison's letter.
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Washington
J. C. Holton
Mississippi
Senate Lobby Committee
Southern Tariff Association
Harrison
Greenwood
Miss
Chamber of Commerce
Hambone's Meditations by J Ley and J.P. Alle
A brief notice promotes Hambone's Meditations with the authors J Ley and J.P. Alle. The piece hints at a humorous or rustic tone and mentions “practice law by ear.”
Police Jury Seeks Bids for Sterlington Road Bond Issue
Ouachita parish police jury in a bi monthly meeting adopted a resolution to advertise for sale 359000 Sterlington road paying bonds. The $1000 denomi nations will be payable semi annually and offered up to five percent. Bids open January 15 after a 60 day post bond election. Funds will pave the road from Monroe to Sterlington and toward Morehouse parish. Ward 1 approved the issue last September 17.
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Sterlington Road
Monroe
Sterlington
Morehouse
Little Rock and
Board of Supervisors
City of
West Mon
Three men jailed for auto theft in quick district court ruling
In a swift Monroe Parish session, Olden Cook Horace Monroe and Clarence Henry received six months each in jail with road duty after pleading guilty to auto mobile theft. They were arrested in Rayville with a stolen car owned by Roosevelt Cotton after trying to sell it at a local garage for $200.
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Olden Cook
Horace Monroe
Clarence Henry
Monroe
Rayville
Sheriff's Department
Roosevelt
Dreamland Theatre
Five Points
Former bank cashier pleads guilty to embezzlement
Paris Kentucky November 20 John W Yerkes former cashier of the Farmers and Traders bank pleaded guilty to embezzlement and received a five year sentence The bank had been taken over by another institution after shortages surfaced during the stock market crash
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Associated Press
Paris
John W. Yerkes
Farmers and Traders Bank
Poetic Confession Follows Mississippi Wife Murder
In Ashland Mississippi 25 year old Mrs Marlon Drew awaits sentencing for the murder of her husband After a confession she sent to Governor Theo Bilbo she inspired her 8 year old daughter to testify against her father G T Hunter who had been pardoned from Parchman prison The governor returned home to a family reunion with his granddaughter Dorothy present
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Miss
Marlon Drew
Mississippi
Drew
Gov
Theo. G. Bilbo
G. T. Hunter
Hunter
Parchman
Theo
G. Bilbo
New Albany
Dorothy
North Riverside Glenmar lot sold to L H Fox
A north side lot at Riverside and Glenmar streets with 125 feet frontage sold for 12 500 through L W Mobley between D A Breard and Lawrence H Fox. The lot will be deeded to Fox's son John Fox, traffic manager of Delta Air Service, who plans a residence.
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L. W. Mobley
D. A. Breard
Lawrence H. Fox
Riverside
Glenmar Streets
Fox
Kansas City
Louisiana
General Brown Inspects Basin of Atchafalaya
General Lytle Brown chief of U S engineers and Brig. Gen. T H Jackson head the Mississippi River Commission on a first hand river and levee inspection of the Atchafalaya basin. Their steamer The Control stopped at Baton Rouge then Morganza before continuing to Plaquemine and New Orleans.
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T. H. Jackson
Mississippi River Commission
Morganza
Here
Atchafalaya
Plaquemine
New Orleans
St. Louis
Shreveport Pastor Improves After Wound Infection
Shreveport reports Dr. M. E. Dodd pastor of the First Baptist church is much improved after an infection from a head wound from an automobile accident. He was moved from a sanitarium to his home and pronounced out of danger.
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Shreveport
M. E. Dodd
First Baptist Church
Two men sentenced to life for slayings in Memphis
Edward Jones and John Smith received life in prison after pleading guilty to the killings of Van Skelton a city fireman and S T Dunn a salesman. The crime occurred in a ghort grove famous trysting place for duvere.
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Memphis
Tenn
Edward Jones
John Smith
van Skelton
S. T. Dunn
Skelton
Dunn
Youth Killed Comrade Hurt In Greene County Motorcycle Crash
In Greene county near Bothwell Mississippi two Avery high school students, 18 year old Lewis C McMain and Rudolph Kinsey, were injured when their motorcycle struck a parked car. McMain died en route to a hospital and Kinsey suffered serious injuries including compound fractures and deep cuts.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Bothwell
Greene County
Here
Lewis C. McMain
H. W. McMain
Avery
Methodist
Rudolph Kinsey
Avery High School
Flood Waters isolate hundreds in Southern Wales
A dam collapse at Duffryn near Neath unleashed floods spreading across miles of Southern Wales. In the upper Rhondda district alone about one hundred thousand residents were cut off as waters continued to rise leaving hundreds homeless.
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London
Duffryn
Neath
Wales
Rhondda
Judge Denies New Trial in Loan Shark Law Case
New Orleans November 20 Judge Charbonnet denied a new trial for Leon Zion who was convicted of violating the state loan shark law by charging more than eight per cent on loans.
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New Orleans
Charbonnet
Leon Zion
Western Winter Hits From Canada To New Mexico
Snow and freezing temperatures spread across the western United States from the Canadian border to northern New Mexico. Sub zero readings appeared in Montana, with Denver and Cheyenne each receiving about three inches of snow. Air travel halted while trains and buses stayed on schedule as cold conditions and a windy pattern persisted through mid November.
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Denver
Colo
Missouri River
Rockies
Montana
Wyoming
Canadian
New Mexico
Judith Basin
Livingston
Cheyenne
Weather Bureau
Three Die in Alabama Grade Crossing Collision
Three persons are dead and one injured after a car was struck by a Louisville and Nashville passenger train late Tuesday at Smith crossing nine miles southwest of Birmingham. Victims are Velma Pugh of New Merk, Beatrice Darrough 24 of Leeds, and H Clyde Parm er 24 of Bessemer.
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Birmingham
Louisville and Nashville
Smith Crossing
Here
Velma Pugh
New Merke
Ala
Beatrice Daverough
Leeds
H. Clyde Parmer
Bessemer
News-Star Mailout Offers Cost Savings on Paper Copies
The News-Star will mail copies to save mailing costs for the sender and relieve them of wrapping and mailing duties. A list should be sent promptly as paper stock is limited and availability is capped.
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Louisiana
United States
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