House Rules members may convene soon
Washington reports House Rules Committee members may meet before the special session to discuss possible terms for loosening their hold on the wage hour bill. Chairman O Connor says he may send a request to all committee members. The bill aims to set a labor standards board with minimum wages up to 40 cents, a 40 hour work week, and a ban on child labor with some exemptions. Southern opposition argues lower wages for the region.
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House Rules Committee
O'Connor
New York
Congress
Roosevelt
Senate
House Labor Committee
Rules Committee
House
Labor Standards Board
South
Ruling to Increase Revenue of State With Waterfront Lands
Baton Rouge officials announce that state revenue will rise as courts affirm that land subsiding under navigable waters remains state property. Attorney General Gaston Porterie cites mineral wealth and royalty potential in south Louisiana, noting prior reversals and a US Supreme Court stance backing the state court.
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Baton Rouge
Gaston Porterie
Porterie
South Louisiana
State Supreme Court
Louisiana
United States Supreme Court
Reeves lawyers seek venue change in five manslaughter case
Attorneys for Harry Reeves, a truck driver, ask for a transfer of venue from Calcasieu parish to Beauregard parish claiming inability to receive a fair trial. The case involves the death of five Lake Charles residents in an east Lake Charles truck collision. Three damage suits totaling 163500 were filed against Reeves, his employer Heartfield Oil Co, and Great American Indemnity Co of New York.
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Harry Reeves
Calcasieu Parish
Beauregard
Reeves
Here
Heartfield Oil Company
Great American Indemnity Company of
New York
Open Bids For Social Center In Alexandria
Gravier and Harper of Alexandria submitted the lowest bid for the new two story social center building for the Northeast Center of Louisiana State University at the university offices. The bid totals 77 664 dollars and the contract is expected to be awarded Saturday. Eleven bids were received with a high bid of 101 313 13 dollars from Caldwell Brothers and Hart of New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Burkes Brothers
Pittman Brothers Construction Company
C. E. Andrews
Ruston
M. T. Reed Construction Company
Belzoni
Miss
General Construction Company
Shreveport
Forcum-James Company
Memphis
Vizma Sinking Near Port La Carosse
The Latvian steamship Vizma was reported sinking near Port La Carosse and the Georges Leverdier said it would take off the crew. The radio message came from the Georges Leverdier as the ship foundered off Marseille on October 14.
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Marseille
Georges Leverdier
Vizma
Port la Carosse
Bankers' new head urges balanced budget and deficit consciousness
Orval W. Adams elected president of the American Bankers Association calls for substantial government spending cuts and broader tax bases. He warns against monopolies in banking, labor, and industry and urges bankers to educate 42 million savers on fiscal responsibility.
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Boston
Orval W. Adams
American Bankers’ Association
The
Association
Adams
Salt Lake City
Tom K. Smith
St. Louis
Leonard P. Ayres
Virgil Jordan
National Industrial Conference Board
New York City
14 Year Term Given Burglary Suspect
J H Lowell 27 known as the silverware burglar pleaded guilty in district court to burglary and was sentenced by Judge David I Garrett to 14 years in the Louisiana state penitentiary. He was handcuffed after threats to trouble the parish jail and was linked to about 14 Monroe robberies, mainly silverware thefts during owners’ absences.
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J. H. Lowell
Monroe
David I. Garrett
Louisiana State Penitentiary
Lowell
Garrett
Sheriff's Department
Women Twins Seek Twin Husbands Return in Odd Court Tale
The Coats twins Lois and Louise seek to rekindle marriages with Roy and Ray Sebring, U S Marines, after annulment of their second marriages to Hubert and Herbert Sharpe. The twins say divorces from the Sebrings were not final when they wed the Sharpe brothers, and they blame a quarrel for the split.
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Los Angeles
Coats
Lois
Louise
Roy
Ray Sebring
United States
Honolulu
Hubert
Herbert Sharpe
Marian, Ark
Sebrings
Sebring Brothers
Consul Marriner Shot Dead in Beirut
United States consul general in Syria James Theodore Marriner was killed by an Armenian in Beirut who believed he had been denied a visa. The assailant fired six shots at close range and was captured after the shooting.
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James Theodore Marriner
United States
Syria
Foreign Service
Beirut
Marriner
Japan aims to rule all of China says Matsuoka
In an interview from Tientsin Yosuke Matsuoka president of the South Manchuria Railway reveals Japan seeks control of the whole of China to block Soviet influence. He says the army will occupy Nanking and defeat Chinese forces as Shanghai dominates leadership.
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South Manchuria Railway Company
Tokyo
Japan
China
East
Tientsin
Matsuoka
Jspen
League of
Associated Press
Nanking
Shanghai
Editors Urge Faith in America Amid Press Convention
In New Orleans editors from AP newspapers convene and urge readers faith in America. Levellon Brown notes regional funding shifts while stressing America faces internal and external fights but will tackle hard jobs as it has in the past.
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New Orleans
United States of America
Associated Press
Arthur Brisbane
America
White House Cornerstone Mystery Still Big Puzzle
Historian Eddy Gilmore reports the White House cornerstone mystery remains unresolved with theories about its age origin and possible hidden inscription. He notes findings by Captain Edwin P. Locke that the cornerstone is uninscribed and likely backed by a metal plate, while recounting milestone household upgrades under various presidents over the years.
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White House
Eddy Gilmore
Washington
Executive Mansion
President's Palace
Edwin P. Locke
United States Engineers
Madrid fires up after deadly insurgent shelling
Madrid returns to normal after a night of heavy bombardment as ambulances haul dead and wounded. The strike hit the hotel housing foreign visitors and the two story ministry building, sparking fears of a broader mobilization of men aged 18 to 45.
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Madrid
Ministry of State
Ministry
Italian Forces Claim Ethiopian Bandits Kill 58 in Africa
Rome reports 41 Italian officers and 17 soldiers killed by Ethiopian bandits during the rainy season attacks in a central plateau. The communique notes swift counterattacks, capture and execution of Deginc Auris and Deginc Hailu Chebred, and confirms 38 officers and 3 NCOs plus 4 regular troops and 15 blackshirts wounded.
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Fagh
Deginc Auraris
Deginc Hailu Chebred
Impeachment Proposal Over Roosevelt Hull Cable
Rep Tinkham of Massachusetts urged in a Geneva cable that Congress should consider impeaching President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull for not enforcing the neutrality law amid the Sino Japanese conflict. He said the president and Hull had nullified Congress and asked reassembly to seriously consider impeachment for high crime and misdemeanor.
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Tinkham
Republican
Massachusetts
Geneva
Congress
Roosevelt
Hull
Iem
China
Bonnie Hill Faces Pardon Request Rebuff in New Orleans
Bonnie Hill the 23 year old convicted slayer again sought a pardon but was sharply rebuked by Lieutenant Governor Earl K Long who heads the pardon board. The board will deny clemency to narcotics violators this session. Hill from Ozark Arkansas is serving six to eighteen years for manslaughter after stabbing John L Pierce of a Jackson Mississippi family in a French Quarter nightclub. Her prison record includes subordination charges.
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New Orleans
Bonnie Hill
Earl K Long
Long
Ozark Ark
John L. Pierce
Jackson, Miss
French Quarter
Shanghai Battle Rages as Shells Hit International Settlement
A heavy bombardment in Shanghai’s international settlement kills and wounds civilians while American Marines and a sailor suffer injuries. Militia and aviation actions accompany the struggle, with US forces evacuating mills and a radio man aboard the Augusta wounded by shrapnel.
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United States
Orient
Yangtrepoo
Sochow-Kashing
Milton Hiatt
Crystal River
Fis
United States Marines
J. P. McMichhael
Connersville
Ind
Asiatic Fleet
Augusta
Geese On Wing To Southland Over Louisiana
Flocks of wild geese pass over the city with lights disturbing residents. The birds, migrating along the Mississippi, are seen circling hopeful for the season. Open season on ducks and geese runs November 27 to December 2 in Louisiana.
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Olema
Lenisiogia
Louisiana
Misesissippi
Quechita
Lauiisiana
Prominent Orleans Merchant Dies at 67 in New Orleans
New Orleans October 14. Fred W. Evans a prominent 67 year old merchant died of a heart attack at his home. For 25 years he served as general manager of D. H. Holes Company Ltd, a leading department store. He was born in Columbia Tennessee. Surviving are his son Hugh McClogher Evans a brother Berry Evans both of New Orleans and a sister Mrs Charles Jackson of Mt Pleasant Tennessee.
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Fred W. Evans
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