Congress to probe Farm Board cotton stabilization program
J W Garrow of the American Cotton Shippers Association urged the Senate Agricultural Committee to launch a full investigation into the Farm Board's cotton stabilization activities. He claimed direct and indirect stabilization damaged producers, raised public debt, and created a huge surplus while depressing prices from 18 to about six cents per pound. He urged liquidation and tighter controls on loans and fund use.
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Washington
Farm Board
Senate Agricultural Committee
J. W. Garrow
American Cotton Shippers Association
United States
Garrow
Liquidation Board Meet Called By Governor Long
Governor Huey P. Long called a meeting of the liquidation board for 8 o'clock tonight at the executive mansion to approve extra state house construction contracts and possibly discuss other matters. Long was in New Orleans today and planned to return to Baton Rouge for the session.
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Baton Rouge
Board of Liquidation
Huey P. Long
Executive Mansion
Long
New Orleans
Slope of Town Hears Light Items From St. Matthews To Monroe
A column notes St Matthew's School receives a 15 foot flagpole for front lawn ceremonies and daily US flag display. It mentions the Penny Club expanding in the South with Atlanta as example, raising about 750 dollars weekly via penny meals. Light vignettes follow: Big Boy Cummings chases a squirrel, Virgil Sehon finds two mice crawl across a car, a Monroe diary owner explains an embarrassing entry, bargain day stamps in a window, preachers and politicians converge at Hotel Monroe, a chap detained for fraud bears a Mormon-sounding name, and a Junior College class jokes about the Thirty Years War and the Riviera mislocated in Paris.
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Monroe
Hotel Monroe
Tennessee to Play N. Y. U. In Charity Football Game
Tennessee, unbeaten Southern contender, will meet New York University at Yankee Stadium on Dec. 5 for unemployment relief. Receipts go to Knoxville and mayor’s committee. Col. Ruppert offers stadium free. Tickets range from 1 to 3 dollars. broadcast likely.
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Tennessee
New York
University of Tennessee
New York University
Yankee Stadium
Kentucky
Lexington
Tulane
Green Wave
Washington State
Southern California
University of Georgia
Bulldogs
Knoxville
Jacob Ruppert
Japs Capture Chinese City Near Mukden
Allied dispatches report Japanese forces in Manchuria advancing with naval and troop movements toward Mukden plus captures at Sinminfu. China and Western powers press for a neutral inquiry and League Council action while Shanghai sees student protests demanding war and Tokyo seeks a pacified formula with limits on military action.
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Associated Press
Manchuria
Chinwangtao
Mukden
Anganchi-Tsitsihar
Shankhaikwan
Peiping
Sinminfu
Hsinmintun
Washington
United States
Commission of Inquiry
Paris
League Council
China
Kaotsishan
Tokyo
Shanghai
Japan
Nanking
Hongkong
Eugene Chen
Canton
Moscow
Flagman J H Young Dies on Duty at Plum Street Crossing
J H Young 69 flagman at the Missouri Pacific Railroad Plum Street crossing died of a heart attack shortly after 6 AM while on duty. He left a widow and children Mrs J H Moore W E Young Monroe and Miss Johnnie Young Monroe Miss Donnie Young Hot Springs Ark and two sisters. Funeral plans incomplete with services expected tomorrow morning and burial at Girard.
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J. H. Young
Plum Street
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Mississippi Street
Mr. Young
J. H. Moore
W. E. Young
Monroe
Johnnie Young
Donnie Young
Hot Springs
Ark
Girard
Train Hits Auto. Three Die Five Hurt Near Homer City
Three persons were killed and five severely injured when their car was demolished by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train near Homer City Pennsylvania. The deceased were Jasper Kunkle 40 Mrs J Mulholden 35 and her oldest son. The others were taken to a hospital at Indiana with poor chances of recovery.
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Homer City
Pennsylvania Railroad
Jasper Kunkle
7. Mulholden
Thanksgiving Observed by Monroe Churches with Services and Game
Monroe prepares a full Thanksgiving program with Union services at the First Baptist Church at 10 am led by Rev W W Drake and choir additions from other churches, a St Matthew's Catholic high mass at 8 30 am, and Grace Episcopal 9 am service with music. A 2 30 pm football clash on the Ouachita Parish Junior College field features the Ouachita Lions versus the Boston Bears in Alexandria.
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Monroe
Union
Monroe First Baptist Church
W. W. Drake
Monroe First Methodist Church
L. A. Stuke
First Baptist Church
L. T. Hastings
Thomas F. Jett
First Christian Church
Ernest Duncan Holloway
First Presbyterian Church
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
N. F. Vandegaer
Grace Episcopal Church
E. F. Hayward
Ouachita Lions
Boston Bears
Alexandria
Ouachita Parish
Gandhi Breaks With British Over Indian Question
London November 25 Mahatma Gandhi declared a break with the British government saying the round table conference failed to yield self government. He announced a return to India to restart non-violent non-cooperation and urged the nation to endure further suffering for freedom.
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London
Mahatma Gandhi
India
Gandhi
Debenture and fee plans urged for Farm Board fix
National Grange and American Farm Bureau Federation urged Congress to act on agricultural surpluses. The Grange backed an export debenture, the Farm Bureau favored an equalization fee, with both sides proposing compromises. Senate Agricultural Committee heard testimony from leaders including Louis J. Taber and Edward A. O Neal as lawmakers debated strengthening or abolishing the Farm Board.
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Washington
Congress
Farm Board
National Grange
American Farm Bureau Federation
Louis J. Taber
Grange
Senate Agricultural Committee
Edward A. O'Neal
Farm Bureau Federation
Kleberg Victory Gives Democrats House Majority in Texas District
In a special election to fill the Wurzbach seat, Democrat Richard M. Kleberg of Corpus Christi won in Texas Fourteenth District. The House stands 218 Democrats to 214 Republicans with 1 Farmer-Labor and 2 vacancies, signaling a Democratic push to elect John N. Garner as speaker. The result shifts national power and aids anti prohibition reform.
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Washington
New House
Texas
Richard M. Kleberg
Corpus Christi
House
Farmer-Laborite
John N. Garner
Hoover
White House
Garner
Harding
Harry M. Wurzbach
Lone Star
Wurzbach
Kleberg
C. W. Anderson
San Antonio
Short Line Railroads Seek Government Aid
A 22 member delegation from 300 short line railroads pressed President Hoover for relief. They urged a $100 million revolving loan fund, repeal of the I C C recapture clause, plus regulation of bus and truck transport and ICC oversight of inland waterways. Bird M. Robinson of the American Short Line Railroad Association said the President appeared sympathetic.
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Washington
United States
Hoover
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Bird M. Robinson
American Short Line Railroad Association
Caldwell and Lea Pleas Overruled By Court
In Chattanooga Tennessee Judge C Taylor overruled pleas in abatement by Luke Lea Rogers Caldwell and J D Ramsay to indictments returned by the federal grand jury at Greenville. The trio faced charges of violating and conspiring to violate national banking laws in the Greenville indictments.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Luke Lea
Rogers Caldwell
J. D. Ramsay
Greenville
C. Taylor
Taylor
Thanksgiving forecast for cold fair weather across the nation
Washington reports a mainly fair but colder Thanksgiving forecast. The East, warmed earlier by southern breezes, will see brisk cold with possible morning frost. Snow and rain may hit isolated areas. frost is expected in Georgia and South Carolina as temperatures fall after a warm November.
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Washington
East
Weather Bureau
Pacific
Atlantic
Georgia
South Carolina
Ex Governor Alfred A. Taylor Dies at 83 in Tennessee
Former Tennessee governor Alfred A. Taylor known as the Sage of Happy Valley died at Appalachian Hospital in Johnson City at 5:45 a.m. after a long illness. He faced a famous 1886 war of the roses campaign with his brother Bob Taylor, and leaves two sons Frank and Blaine at his bedside.
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Johnson City
Tenn
Alfred A. Taylor
Sage
Happy Valley
Tennessee
Appalachian Hospital
Bob Taylor
Frank
Blaine Taylor
Alf
Fiddling Bob
Robert Love Taylor
Mae West Show Halted by U S District Attorney Order
In Washington on November 25 police halted Mae Wests ongoing production of The Constant Sinner and warned that any further performances could lead to arrest of the entire cast. United States District Attorney Leo A Rover backed the action after a recommendation from Assistant District Attorney Michael F Keogh, with possible charges of obscenity and indecency and penalties up to one year in prison and a $500 fine. Miss West plays Babe Gordon in the advertised play described as her scarlet story of passion.
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Washington
Mae West
United States
Leo A. Rover
Michael F. Keogh
Rover
Miss West
Babe Gordon
Indictments Dismissed On Court Order In New Orleans
In New Orleans on November 25 Judge A C O'Donnell quashed two Grand Jury indictments against Mayor T Semmes Walmsley for improper investment of city trust funds. The judge ruled the old city ordinance was superseded by a Legislature act granting discretionary investing power. The indictments charged illegal conversions of funds and poor record keeping during Walmsley's tenure as finance commissioner.
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New Orleans
T. Semmes Walmsley
A. C. O'Donnell
Criminal
Eugene Stanley
Walmsley
O'Donnell
Criminal District Courts
Warren Doyle
Walmsiley
Stanley
Doyle
Commission Council
McDonough Public School Fund
Sickle Dispensary
O O’donnell
Louisiana
Lyda de Putti Falls Seriously Ill in New York Hospital
Lyda de Putti, noted film star, is seriously ill in Gotham Hospital after a pleurisy episode worsened her condition. Earlier throat problems required an operation, and a chicken bone lodged in her throat led to blood poisoning prompting surgery. Delirium accompanied nurses say as telegrams of sympathy poured in.
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Lyda DE Putti
Gotham Hospital
New York
Flying Missionaries Missing in Alaska Wilderness
Anchorage dispatch reports brothers George J. Flores and Marshal La Peyre known as flying missionaries missing since Monday after a 150 mile flight from McGrath to Holy Cross. Weather and rugged terrain hinder search efforts as authorities coordinate from Anchorage.
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Anchorage
Alaska
George J. Flores
Marshal LaPeyre
McGrath
Holly Cross
One-Cent Gas Tax Defeated in Ouachita Parish
Official returns show the one cent gasoline tax failed by 598 votes in Ouachita Parish. Total votes 2,730 with 1,066 in favor and 1,664 against. Ward Ten approved, while Wards Four Nine Eight and Seven rejected, many with only a handful in support.
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Quachita Parish
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