Louisiana Cotton Cooperative forecasts further cotton advances
Sam Bass, GM of the Louisiana Cotton Cooperative Association, reported $3,000,000 in advances on 1930 cotton to date and expects about $2,509,000 more on 125,000 bales to be handled by January 1. The group has taken over 68,000 bales and projects nearly a fifth of the state's total 665,000 bales. The $5,000,000 paid represents 90 percent of market price. final sale price undetermined, allowing farmers to gain from price increases.
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New Orleans
Sam Rass
Louisiana Cotton Cooperative Association
Louisiana
Bass
Springfield Mayor Gideon Convicted in Dry Case
Mayor Thomas H. Gideon of Springfield was sentenced to two years in a federal penitentiary and fined $10,000 for conspiracy to violate prohibition laws. The sentence matches the maximum. Former deputy sheriff Lee Witherspoon and two bootleggers received two years each without a fine. Gideon was convicted of accepting bribes from bootleggers.
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Springfield
Thomas H. Gideon
U. S
Lee Witherspoon
Seaplane Crash Kills Woman as Boat Is Sunk at Pensacola Bay
In Pensacola Bay a naval seaplane struck a fishing boat, killing Mrs. Annie Lee Edgecomb and critically injuring Alfred G. Simmons. Edgecomb leaves five children.
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Pensacola
Fla
Pensacola Bay
Annie Lee Edgecomb
Alfred G. Simmons
Forty Chicagoans to Find 12 Million for Jobless
Forty Chicago business leaders plan a $12,000,000 subscription to aid the unemployed in the city. They will seek federal relief and speed up government projects, aiming for 19,000 workers contributing $200 monthly for six months. The Northwestern Notre Dame game move funds three charities for jobless aid.
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Chicago
Hoover
Edward Craig
Builders Construction Employers’ Association
Craig
Northwestern University
Northwestern Notre Dame
Dyche Stadium
Soldier Field
Big Ten
Heflin Jr Fined For Drunk and Disorderly in Atlanta
J Thomas Heflin Jr son of Alabama Senator was fined 10 dollars and 2 dollars costs in police court after pleading guilty to drunk and disorderly conduct. He was arrested early at a downtown hotel and later identified by an officer. He said he was released from a Smyrna hospital and came to Atlanta.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
J. Thomas Heflin, Jr
United States
J. Thomas Heflin
Alabama
Heflin
J. Thomas
Lafayette Avenue
Henry Ford Sails to New York After European Tour
Henry Ford left Southampton aboard the Europa for New York today after an extended tour of Europe.
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Southampton
Eng
Henry Ford
New York
Europa
Europe
Labor Gears for 2.75 Percent Beer Under Volstead Act
At its 50th annual convention the American Federation of Labor endorsed modifying the Volstead act to permit beer of 2.75 per cent alcohol by weight. The executive council report, adopted without argument, cites recent developments and enforcement failures as justification.
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Boston
American Federation of Labor
Executive Council
Trains Crash in Ohio Killing Three and Wounding Four
Two Big Four mail trains collided head on in Cleveland after a routing mixup near the Fulton road bridge. Engineers Henry Sprouse and Frank McCarthy and Fireman Charles Graff, Jerry Dickson, and Clarence Sheffield are named among the dead and injured.
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Cleveland
Big Four Railroad
St. Louis
Linndale
Fulton Road Bridge
Henry Sprouse
Charles Graff
Jerry Dickson
Frank McCarthy
Clarence Sheffield
Another Gasser Blows in for Jackson Field
The Jackson field's gas well population grew to 21 with Millsein Gas and Oil's Hartfield No 1 blowing in at 2391 feet. It yields about 40 million cubic feet of natural gas daily.
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Jackson, Miss
Jackson Field
Millsein Gas and Oil Company
Hartfield No. 1
Orleans Boys Reject Danger From Matches and Powder
October 17 report from New Orleans describes 13-year-old Murphy Rando and his 9-year-old brother Frank resolving not to play with matches or black powder. They found a can of powder on the way to school, lit a match, causing a boom and burns that left them frightened and scorched. Patrolman Dowie assisted, ambulance called. both boys were said to be recovering at Charity Hospital.
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New Orleans
Murphy Rando
Frank
Murphy
Emile Dowie
Charity Hospital
Orleans masons cut own pay to spur building
The 240 union brick and stone masons in New Orleans voted to reduce wages from 12 to 8 dollars a day, effective Monday. They say the cut aligns with lowered building costs to stimulate construction in the New Orleans area, stated by Joseph Chavin, the union financial secretary.
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Orleans
New Orleans
Union Brick and Stone Masons
Joseph Chavin
The
Union
Nahoum Appeal Over Embezzlement Conviction Heard
The Louisiana state supreme court heard Jules Nahoum’s appeal of his embezzlement conviction for $60,000 from West Coast Trading, where he served as head. Prosecution said funds financed an unauthorized stock transfer. Nahoum was well known as a financier.
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New Orleans
State Supreme Court
Jules Nahoum
West Coast Trading Company
Nahoum
Second Bank Robbery Suspect Captured in Mississippi
Comrade confesses as third man is held as accessory. Hazlehurst police report Roy Schaeffer arrested after the St Claude branch robbery in which over 2300 dollars were stolen. John Anderson, 37, an ex convict from Knoxville, Tenn., admitted to involvement and nearly 1000 dollars was recovered. Harold Normandale is detained on accessory charges.
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New Orleans
Phillip Massa
Hazlehurst
Miss
Roy Schaeffer
St. Claude
Interstate Bank and Trust Company
Schaeffer
John Anderson
Knoxville
Tenn
Anderson
Harold Normandale
Treasury net balance and expenditures report dated October 15
Treasury reports a net balance of 248 416 272 68 dollars as of October 15 with expenditures totaling 12 423 705 36. Customs receipts for the month to that date amount to 17 205 447 71.
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Washington
Treasury
Storekeeper Robbery by Three White Men Near Monroe
A store operator, Joe Smith, six miles from Monroe on the Sterling ton road, was held up at gunpoint around 11 last night by three white men who entered in a car. They took $5 to $6 from his pockets, then forced him into the car and drove away briefly abducting him before releasing him.
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Joe Smith
Monroe
Sterlington Road
Smith
Defense Nears End of Case in Murder Trial
Rayville October 27 Special to The News-Star J B Mulligan and R W Mulligan face a murder trial over Ralph Powell's July 14 death. Prosecution rests. defense begins witness presentation. Courtroom packed as defense plans to finish about 4 pm with closing arguments to follow.
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Rayville
J. B
R. W. Mulligan
Ralph Powell
Powell
J. B. Mulligan
Carey Ellis
George Wesley Smith
D. J. Anders
Winnsboro
E. S. Richardson
W. W. Pierce
Philadelphia
Miss
Warren Kelly
Hugh Stodghill
Jerry Noland
M. C. Vickers
F. A. Childres
Aaron Stout
L. R. Barnett
W. J
Pine Bluff Man Kills Self to Escape Trial
Otis Baugh, 30, killed himself in Pine Bluff Ark at midnight to avoid a murder trial for slaying his brother in law Bert Waymack during a quarrel on a highway. Georges Marshall, present at the incident, also faces a murder charge to be presented to the Grant County grand jury.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Otis Baugh
Baugh
Bert Waymack
Waymack
Here
George Marshall
Grant County Grand Jury
Explosion at Garment Capital building injures dozens
District attorney investigators probe an explosion at the Garment Capital building in Los Angeles injuring between forty and fifty people. Officials estimate losses at about 1 million dollars as the blast damages the fifth and sixth floors and surrounding structures. Police consider labor trouble and gas accumulation as possible causes.
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Los Angeles
Garment Capital
Beverly Hills Frocks, Incorporated
Six Arraigned in New Orleans Tax Fraud Case
Six men including former city employees were arraigned in criminal district court in New Orleans on charges of embezzlement forgery and uttering and publishing as true tied to a tax collection fraud exposing taxpayers and the city to large losses. Indicted by the grand jury are Lawrence T. Kirn Jr John Scherber William Kleinfeldt Sam Bossosky Hugh Ritchie and August Seeber all entered not guilty pleas and will be set for trial.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Lis
Criminal District Court
Grand
Lawrence T. Kirn, Jr
John Scherber
William Kleinfeldt
Sam Bossosky
Hugh Ritchie
August Seeber
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James Couzens
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R. W. Bailey
R. W. Bailey Cotton Company
Anhurt
Fredericksburg
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Flying Field
Gus Manhart
Chile
Santiago
Concepcion
la Serena
Ultimas Oficias
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Orleans Boys
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Arnold Bernstein
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Monroe,la
Robert Ewing and Associates
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Mulligan Brothers
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Hambone
Meditations
J. P. Alley
Beli Syndicets
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