Millpool Disaster Reported 700 Miles Off Labrador
A British freighter Millpool, carrying grain to Montreal, sent a last distress call amid heavy seas seven hundred miles off Labrador. No further word has come. ships have searched the area with no sign. The crew, numbering twenty six, were aboard without passengers.
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Dale Harrison
Associated Press
New York
Millpool
St. Louis
Detroit
Labrador
Danzig
Montreal
Dizzy Dean
Ducky Medwick
West Hartlepool
England
Liverpool
London
Gambling resumes on outskirts of New Orleans region
New Orleans area casinos reopen in St Bernard parish after a purge led by Huey P. Long and backed by a city cleanup drive. Long labeled the city a cesspool of iniquity and champions a statewide crackdown while Mayor Walmsley presses the purge amid post primary political shifts.
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New Orleans
Huey P. Long
St. Bernard Parish
Senator Long
T. Semmes Walmsley
Long
Walmsley
Kingfish
Ramblin column ponders town talk and distant deserts
A reader notes the dull season of street gossip and roving debaters in DeSiard Street. A youngster at a first party learns politeness. a Monroe man recalls a Sahara lecture on road safety. A fan questions airliner meteor dodges and de tour routes while a sage observes nail holes in old houses.
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Jes
DeSiard
St. John
Jackson
DeSiard Street
Louisiana Supreme Court appoints Bailey to 14th District
The Louisiana supreme court appointed Judge W. W. Bailey of the 15th district to temporarily serve in the 14th district and handle the duties of the late Judge Jerry Cline, who died September 27. Bailey may still exercise jurisdiction in his home district as needed. A special election to fill the vacancy is expected within 60 days.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Supreme Court
W. W. Bailey
15Th Judicial District
Jerry Cline
Lake Charles
Bailey
High Court
O. K. Allen
Cline
Supreme Court
George Kreeger
Three Nelson Brothers Face Tax Evasion Indictments
United States grand jury in New Orleans indicts Harry B. Nelson, Willis W. Nelson, and John P. Nelson of Mississippi Valley Company Inc for evading $29 279 10 in income taxes for 1931 1933. They deny charges calling them political while tracing ties to Huey P Long era governance.
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New Orleans
United States Grand Jury
Huey P. Long
Harry B. Nelson
Willis W. Nelson
John P. Nelson
Mississippi Valley Company, Inc
Baton Rouge
O. K. Allen
Long
Ouachita Valley fair praised by Agriculture Chief
Harry D. Wilson commissioner of agriculture lauded the Ouachita Valley fair at 11 45 am on radio and 5 30 pm at the fair grounds. He toured exhibits greeted Ouachita visitors and praised the quality of displays despite drought damage. He commended fair officials led by Rev George H Dierlamm and John Birdsong for their energy and perseverance.
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Fair Grounds
Harry D. Wilson
Commissioner of Agriculture
Ouachita Valley Fair
Wilson
Ouachita
George H. Dierlamm
John Birdsong
Disturbance Forms in Gulf Off Louisiana
An advisory from the Washington weather bureau reports a gulf disturbance about 250 miles south of Louisiana with strong shifting winds near its center. Meteorologist Dr. I M Cline says squally conditions are likely along Louisiana and Mississippi coasts with occasional rain tonight and Friday. Moderate to fresh easterly winds are expected in the New Orleans area due to the disturbance.
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New Orleans
Weather Bureau
Washington
Middle Gulf
Louisiana
I. M. Cline
Mississippi
Letters of love admitted in murder trial in Wilkes Barre
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on October 4 1934 letters Robert Allen Edwards wrote to Margaret Crain were admitted as evidence in his trial for the murder of Freda McKechnie. Read aloud by Assistant District Attorney Flannery, the letters reveal a passionate relationship and plans for marriage. The courtroom listened as Edwards slumped, while Freda McKechnie’s mother wept.
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Wilkes Barre, Pa
Robert Allen Edwards
Margaret Crain
Freda McKechnie
Edwards
Flannery
Miss Crain
Mamma
Buddy
Angel
Elmira
George McKechnie
Freda
Daniel Edwards
John Phillips
Stormy Labor Rift Heads Toward AFL Convention
In San Francisco on October 4, the building trades department clash over seating delegates from carpenters bricklayers and electrical workers unions nears a showdown at the AFL gathering. President Green urges unity to avert war and condemns power seekers while John Stokes of London attends as fraternal delegate.
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San Francisco
Building Trades Department
American Federation of Labor Convention
A. F. of L
Executive Council
Carpenters, Bricklayers and
Electrical Workers International
William Green
Workers of the World
Green
Federation
John Stokes
London
Long threatens to bolt party over supreme court race
In Tioga Louisiana Huey P Long warned he would quit the Democratic Party and back a general election candidate if a new Democratic primary for the third district justice race was not called. He said he told the Crowley party executive committee it would bolt if no further primary was held after Justice Winston Overton's death. Fournet faces Porter who claims he became nominee after Overton's death and an unopposed first primary.
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Democratic Party
Fournet
Thomas Porter
Justice Overton
Long
Crowley
District Democratic Executive Committee
Porter
Rayne
B. H. Pavy
Opelousas
Grand Jinky Award Promises Cash Prize to Entrants
The News Star and Morning World announce a grand prize of one hundred dollars for the entrant with the most Jinky sets in the contest. Participants must visit cooperating firms to obtain Jinky blanks, collect receipts, and submit entries totaling two dollars and a half or two dollars with a Jinky star or the word Jinky.
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News-Star and
Morning World
Jinky
North Second Street
Samuel Insull Case Outlined by Prosecutor
Chicago October 4 Samuel Insull's stock sales in his ill fated corporation securities company were called a simple conspiracy to swindle by government. U S District Attorney Dwight H Green said the company was a dumping ground for stock to boost Insull stock price. Insull and others put common stock from Insull Utility Investments into the new firm plus a few dollars in cash. It owed 3 500 000 for the continued on Twelfth Page.
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Chicago
Samuel Insull
Corporation Securities Company
United States
Dwight H. Green
Insuil
Insull
Insull Utility Investments
Explosive Theft Threat at Remington Park
Federal agents joined Stratford police in hunting 10 cans of pounol stolen from Remington U M C park. Described as the most powerful explosive, the pea green containers are highly sensitive and could blow up half a city. A $100 reward was posted, and three other magazines were tampered with while two watchtower telephones were ripped from walls.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Stratford
Remington U. M. C
Remington
Remington Park
Stock Buy Authorized For West Monroe Bank
The Reconstruction Finance corporation reported that in August it authorized subscription for $45,000 of preferred stock in West Monroe State Bank of West Monroe Louisiana and $25,000 in Clinton Bank and Trust Co of Clinton Louisiana. It also approved a $5,000 loan to Commercial Bank and Trust Co (receiver) of Spring Hill Louisiana and a $5,000 loan to M. Marx Inc of Bogalusa Louisiana.
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Washington
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
West Monroe
Bronx Attorney Announces Find In Kidnap Case
Bronx District Attorney Samuel J. Foley said investigators found in Bruno Hauptmanns trunk road maps of the Sourland mountain area in New Jersey near Col Charles A Lindberghs estate. He noted maps cover Gay Head Buzzards Bay and Martha's Vineyard, and an English German dictionary aligns with ransom word usage.
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New York
Samuel J. Foley
Bruno Hauptmann
Sourland Mountain
New Jersey
Col
Charles A. Lindbergh
Foley
Hauptmann
Hopewell
N. J
Jersey
Bronx
Gay Head
Buzzard’s Bay
Elisabeth Island
Martha's Vineyard
New England
Kidnapping Plot Frustrated in Wheeling Two Men Held
In Wheeling West Virginia two men Harry Thornton and Thurman Bowen were arrested on conspiracy to kidnap Betty Bloch 24 daughter of a tobacco magnate. They admitted planning to hold her for 25000 ransom and were arraigned with 50000 bail each awaiting trial. Miss Bloch is to be married this Saturday.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Betty Bloch
Department of Justice
Harry Thornton
Haberdashery
Thurman Bowen
J. J. Waters
Pittsburgh
Miss Bloch
U. S
John Kindleberger
Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company
West Virginia
Dredge Boat Workers Involved In Newellton Fight
In Newellton Louisiana a government dredge boat employee Earl T. Searcey 28 was wounded by a knife in a late night drug store brawl. A B Nixon another worker was jailed in Madison parish Tallulah pending condition updates. A third man McWater suffered a minor cut and returned to the dredge boat. The drug store owner called it a drunken brawl.
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Vicksburg
Miss
Earl T. Searcey
Searcey
Here
Mississippi River
Newellton
A. B. Nixon
Madison Parish
Tallulah
McWater
Tigers Force Tie With Cardinals In Extra Innings
Detroit at Navin Field saw Goose Goslin win in the 12th for Lynwood Rowe as the Tigers beat St. Louis 3 to 2. Charley Gehringer drove home the decisive run to even the World Series at one win apiece.
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Navin Field
Detroit
Goose Goslin
Lynwood
Schoolboy
Inning Observed Cardinals and Tigers Tug at Start
First inning features Martin grounding out for the Cardinals after Rothrock wears a pair of tough counts. Frisch singles on a sharp line drive as Medwick fans swinging. Tigers respond with White grounded out, Cochrane and Gehringer produce a fielder’s choice error. No runs, one hit, one left for St Louis. none for Detroit.
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Cardinals
Martin
Rothrock
Gehringer
Greenberg
Frisch
Owen
Medwick
Tigers
White
Colling
Collins
Hallahan
Cochrane
Cardinals Rally in Second Inning Detail Players
In the second inning Collins struck out and DeLancey earned a hit on a ball glancing off a knee. Orsatti tripled scoring DeLancey while Durocher and Hallahan added outs. Tigers reply includes Goslin singling and Rogell fouling, as the frame ends with Frisch and DeLancey involved.
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Cardinals
Collins
Weli
White
DeLancey
Gehringer
Tiger
Orsatti
Durocher
Hallahan
Fox
Tigers
Goslin
Frisch
Rogels
Rogell
Aviator Plotting Own Death Thought Slayer Was Agt
Los Angeles October four. Charles Stellmach a 38 year old aviator was the victim of a designed crime with himself as planner and killer. Police say he staged death by his own action to collect double indemnity from a life policy taken out a month earlier. His body was found on Malibu beach with a bullet wound after he inflicted a non fatal wound at home and smeared blood to appear murdered.
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Los Angeles
Charles Stellmach
Malibu
Stellmach
Paul
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