Peace Looms in Coal Sector Amid Labor Turmoil
The Associated Press reports cautious hope for peace in western Pennsylvania coal fields as operators offer conditional union recognition via wage deductions. California sees a swelling 25 000 striker count with 7 000 Los Angeles garment workers joining protests. Other regions report scattered strikes and curfews in Sullivan Indiana and Buffalo.
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Associated Press
Coe
Pennsylvania
California
Roosevelt
Los Angeles
Guards Probing Series of Blasts in Sullivan County
In Sullivan Indiana a detachment of guardsmen investigates a string of blasts near Paxton and a nearby Starburn mine. Three men are detained for questioning after an explosion near Frank Bar’s home. National Guard restrictions on dynamite were lifted and miners were allowed to return to work after peaceful talks.
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Sullivan
Ind
Threeullivan County
Republic 1
Buffalo
le Island
West Virginia
Ohip
Detroit
Sullivan County
Paxton
Frankbar
Starburn
National Guard
Ace
Labor Federation declares broad boycott against foreign goods
The American Federation of Labor at its convention voted to boycott goods and services from Germany Italy Russia and any country that opposes free trade unionization. The executive council urged targeting German goods while the resolutions committee backed a single nation boycott to avoid accusations of bias against a particular nationality.
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Washington
Aycott
Ameri- Federation of Labor
Germany
Italy
Russia
Via
Executive Council
Resolutions Committee
Rambling Town Notes and Local Anecdotes
A column recalls a fast street crossing by J S Sutton, praise from L J Hunni cutt, and shopfront gold and silver decorations on St John. Read about Peggy Prim’s modern makeover at the State Normal school, a BernStein park weiner roast, Reverend Bentley’s ice water caper, and J D Hamilton shopping during his wife’s birthday week.
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Monroe
Prim
Natchitoches
State Normal School
Peggy Prim
R. M. Bentley
Brotherhood of the Church
Bernstein Park
Reverend Bentley
J. D. Hamilton
Pen Upont Island Nearing Reality
Washington reports an inaccessible prison island for dangerous federal convicts is under consideration with life imprisonment for crime bosses. Alcatraz in San Francisco Bay is chosen to house inmates like Urschel kidnapers Harvey Bailey and George Kelly and bar them from influencing others.
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Washington
Justice Department
Harvey Bailey
George Kelly
Urschel
Cummings
Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz Prison
War Department
Italian Bluebeard Cesare Serviatti Shot After Court Conviction
In Specia Italy a 47 year old man known as a modern bluebeard was executed by Carabiniere bullets. Cesare Serviatti had been convicted on 11 counts tied to disappearances and deaths of three women who trusted him. Beatrice Margarucci from New Jersey and Pasqua Bartolini were murdered for their savings. Remnants of bodies were dumped in the Tiber and elsewhere, sparking a nationwide outcry. The case involved railway suitcases containing body parts found in Naples and Rome. (Continued on Eighth Page).
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Spezia
Italy
Cesare Serviatti
Bluebeard
Serviatti
Court of Assizes
Casanova
Don Juan Tenorio
Beatrice Margarucci
Franklin Avenue
Long Branch
N. J
Rome
Pasqua Bartolini
Naples
Slaying of Aged Doctor Stuns Memphis Police
Dr. Edwin A. Gillespie a 77 year old retired physician was found murdered in the backyard of his Memphis area home. Police reported a crushed skull likely from an iron pipe and noted two pistols missing from the house amid an ongoing investigation. His two Memphis sons and a Mississippi acquaintance discovered the body small bill folder with 66 dollars found in his pocket. Reasons for the killing remain unknown as investigators comb the property.
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Memphis
Tenn
Edwin A. Gillespie
Frank Glisson
Homicide Bureau
Lambert
Miss
J. R. Spidle
Marks
Glisson
Gulfport Doctor Elected to Surgeons Board
Dr. Edward C. Parker of Gulfport Mississippi was elected a member of the board of the American College of Surgeons at the annual convention in Chicago. He will serve a three year term through 1936.
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Chicago
Edward C. Parker
Gulfport
Miss
The
American College of Surgeons
U S S Macon Airs Over Georgia En Route to Sunnyvale
The U S S Macon passed over Milledgeville and other Georgia cities on its daytime southbound flight from Lakehurst New Jersey toward Sunnyvale California. The voyage curtailed planned public receptions and noise making as the dirigible flew high and fast after dark from Lakehurst.
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Atlanta
U.S. S
Macon
Sunnyvale
Cal
Lakehurst
N. J
Milledgeville
Ruston Pioneers Mark Semi Centennial Celebrations
Ruston Louisiana marks its 50th birthday with a pioneer parade and a city festival. Sheriff A J Thigpen receives the citizenship cup for outstanding service, awarded by L J Fox of the American Legion. Miss Charlotte Davis is to be crowned Miss Ruston as the gala event closes.
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Ruston
A. J. Thigpen
Lincoln Parish
Old Pioneers
L. J. Fox
American Legion
Roosevelt
White House
Charlotte Davis
Riley J. Wilson
K. F. Hewins
Louisiana Tech
Charles C
Hoarders Face U S Prosecution for Gold Hoarding
United States attorneys were ordered to prosecute 44 people holding more than 1000 in gold illegally with Attorney General Cummings directing immediate action under the anti hoarding order. He outlined plans to extend to those hoarding over 100 in future cases and urged use of division investigators for information.
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Washington
United States
Cummings
Division of Investigation
Trial Dates Fixed for Ouachita Parish Murder Cases
In Ouachita parish district court Judge David I. Garrett fixed trial dates for defendants whose cases will be heard at the November jury term. A. C. Warlick faces murder charges in the Claude Moore shooting with trial set for November 6, and John Skiles, a ward nine farmer, for the Willie Butler shooting on November 13. Skiles appeared on a stretcher and stayed briefly.
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Ouachita Parish
David I. Garrett
John Skiles
Ward Nine
Rioters Storm NRA Office in New York
Mounted police rode through crowds of rioters at the NRA head quarters in midtown New York as 3,500 radicals caused disorders. More than 50 arrests were made while over 2,000 strikers gathered at the hotel and banners proclaimed the right to choose labor organizations.
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New York
NRA
Pennsylvania
Charley Frazier Captured Near Box Elder after 24-Hour Pursuit
Texarkana, Oct 13. Charley Frazier an Angola prison breakout suspect was captured near Box Elder Red River county after a 24 hour chase by a multi county posse. An accomplice escaped and Tollison and Stibham were robbed before the capture near R W Peek's home. Frazier was wounded in the leg.
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Charley Frazier
Box Elder
Texarkana
Tex
Louisiana
Red River County
Frazier
R. W. Peek
Clarksville
Carleton
Nuck Tollison
Gaylor Stibham
Red River
Tollison
Stibham
Peek
Jim Gear
Angola
Deport
Paris
Texas
Recovery chiefs move to meet NRA challenges
NRA officials pressed to override recovery power challenges as they reject minimum price markup schemes. Wagner warned of appearances by labor board over western Kentucky coal operators refusal to attend arbitration. Johnson acts on steel company defiance over blue eagle surrender and awaits reports before next steps against New Rochelle employers.
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Washington
NRA
Roosevelt
Wagner
New York
National Labor Board
Western Kentucky
Hugh
Johnson
Labor Board
Wierton Steel Company
West Virginia
New Rochelle
Wallace
George N. Peek
One Seaman Killed in Cin cinnati Explosion Off San Pedro
One seaman was killed and several injured in an ammunition explosion aboard the light cruiser Cincinnati off San Pedro California. The blast occurred in the forward 6 inch gun house. Orvanger G. Allen a second class seaman from Irvington Kentucky died.
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San Pedro
Cal
Cincinnati
Orvanger G. Allen
Irvington
Fisher Calls On Education Board To Release School Funds
Bienville Parish Superintendent E H Fisher urges Louisiana Education Board led by H H White to act on releasing state school funds. He cites $2 332 456 in treasury as of October 1 and predicts about $3 000 000 by November 1 and presses for action to distribute funds to schools.
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Fisher
Education Board
Baton Rouge
H. H. White
State Education Board
E. H. Fisher
Bienville Parish
White
State Board
Gouging Denial by Monroe Retail Merchants
Monroe merchants deny profiteering under the NRA program. A chamber statement says price increases reflect higher overheads from shorter hours higher wages and a processing tax. Invoices show only reasonable profits with accounts marked NRA operation signaling factory wage gains passed through to retail prices.
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Monroe
Retail Merchants
Chamber of Commerce of
West Monroe
NRA
Oklahoma entertainer given five year suspended sentence for murder
Louis Ruthardt a 24 year old Oklahoma City nightclub entertainer was sentenced in Dallas district court to five years suspended for the murder of his 15 year old dancing partner Jo Betty Sell. The jury deliberated after Ruthardt testified that Miss Sell jumped from a car six days before her death on May 30.
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Dallas
Louis Ruthardt
Oklahoma
Jo Betty Sell
Oklahoma City
Grover Adams
Ruthardt
Miss Sell
Burial of Gus Winkler witnessed by widow and few at Park Lawn
Gus Winkler, Chicago gang overlord, was buried at Park Lawn Cemetery after services at the Church of St. George. His widow and a small group of spectators attended the burial in St. Louis on October 13.
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ST. Louis
Gus Winkler
Chicago
Park Lawn Cemetery
Church of St. George
Ouachita Solon Opposes Levies Minus Economies
Baton Rouge report says Louisiana tax reform chairman J Porter Burgess refuses to sign a tax relief pact with Senator Huey P Long and others, calling it incomplete especially on government economies. The agreement proposed seven new taxes and split with signed members over economics.
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Baton Rouge
J. Porter Burgess
Louisiana Tax Reform Commission
Huey P. Long
A. C. Gardiner
Church Point
Burgess
W. Scott Heywood
Lorris M. Wimberly
Arthur Mitchell
The
Come Mission
Senator Long
Long
the American Progress
Commission
American Progress
Louisiana
Rogers Has His Say in Beverly Hills Column
In Beverly Hills on Columbus Day, the writer muses on historical figures and national pride. He recalls meeting Emil Ludwig at Charley Chaplin’s house and jokes about Napoleon and Lafayette, then laments locals finding success abroad and commits to deeper historical study.
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Calif
California
Chamber of Commerce
Rboland
America
Columbus
Spain
Charley Chaplin
Emil Ludwig
Walter Winchell
Ludwig
Napoleon
France
Lafayette
U.S
Pershing
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