Kathryn Kelly predicts escape of husband from prison
Kathryn Kelly boasted that George “Machine Gun” Kelly will break out and rescue her before Christmas. She left for Cincinnati after a parting with her mother Mrs. R. G. Shannon, while her mother was moved to a penal farm to serve a life sentence for the Urschel kidnapping.
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Memphis
Tenn
George
Kelly
Kathryn Kelly
Cincinnati
R. G. Shannon
Charles F. Urschel
Oklaoma City
Oklahoma City
Kathryn
Oklaa City
Corpse Found Floating in University Lake
The body of Mrs. Josie C. Munson was found in University Lake in Baton Rouge after a search for her since she failed to return home. Coroner T Bird named an inquest pending while husband H B Munson questioned whether death was self caused. She left four children. husband worked at a local grocery firm.
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Baton Rouge
Josie C. Munson
University Lake
H. B. Mun
T Bird
Munson
Husband
Esale
Burial of Tong Kwe noted among early Monroe Chinese interments
P S Mulhearn notes Monroe has had about six Chinese burials in the local cemetery. He explains the aim is to have bodies sent to China for Confucian funerals. An San Francisco firm reportedly specializes in transporting remains aboard yearly ships to Hong Kong.
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Tong Kwe
Monroe
P. S. Mulhearn
China
San Francisco
Hong Kong
Mediators Claim Strike Victories Amid Turbulent Spread
Associated Press reports peacemakers scored several wins in labor disputes. Weirton steel workers accepted a National Labor Board settlement and will return to work. NRA says four strikes involving 9 000 breadmakers and others settled. Violence flared in Los Angeles, Wilkes Barre, Brockton, and Paterson as other strikes continued from Indiana to California.
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Weirton
W. Va
National Labor Board
Robert F. Wagner
NRA
New York
Los Angeles
Wilkes-Barre
Brockton
Mass
W. L. Douglas Shoe Company
San Joaquin Valley
Calif
Paterson
N. J
Ann Burlak
Indiana
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Quincy
Ill
Monterey
Nazi assailants of U S citizen are sentenced
Two storm troopers who assaulted Roland Velz of Meriden Connecticut for not saluting the Nazi emblem were sentenced to six months in jail in a speed court. The Prussian interior ministry ordered authorities to protect foreigners and press hospitality as sacred amid rising tensions.
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Ministry of the Interior
Roland Velz
Meriden
Conn
Interior Ministry
Reich
Velz
Dusseldorf
Germany
von Haacke
Ministry of Justice
Oil price controls expand as government fixes new ranges
Washington reports that price fixing is added to production controls to stabilize oil markets. The Oil Administration sets midcontinent crude at 1.11 dollars per barrel and establishes wholesale and tank car prices for gasoline across regions with adjustments allowed. Retail prices will add taxes to these minimums.
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Washington
Ickes
Seaboard Territory
Pacific Coast
Friedlander Named Home Loan Field Agent in Arkansas District
Simon Friedlander of Monroe Louisiana has been named field agent for the Little Rock federal home loan bank district to serve Louisiana and Mississippi. He will keep an office in Monroe. J Curran Conway secretary of the bank was named field agent for Arkansas. The agents will help organize savings and loans associations in the district.
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Little Rock
Ark
Simon Freidlander
Monroe
Machado and aides proclaimed Cuban outlaws in Havana
Former President Gerardo Machado, two cabinet ministers, and 24 aides were declared outlaws on murder and malfeasance charges. About 25 million in property was ordered seized as bond. Machado fled to Montreal while other defendants remained refugees amid a hardening stance against the old regime.
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Havana
Gerardo Machado
Cuba
Machado
Octavio Averhoff
Octavio Zubizarreta
Jose Izquierdo
Montreal
Ramon Grau San Martin
Juan Cruz Bustillo
Decision to Quit Arms Conference Arrived At In Advance
Geneva report states Germany decided to leave the league of nations and disarmament conference three days before public announcement. The move followed mature deliberation over events suggesting gains outside formal councils. A potential rapprochement with Germany is hinted if it shows goodwill to reduce Europe’s war machine.
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United Press
Geneva
Germany
League of Nations
Europe
Simon
Gilbert Opposes Longs Tax Plan in Letter to Governor
In Wisner Louisiana on October 17 Special Harry W Gilbert State Senator sent a letter to Governor O K Allen outlining his stance on Senator Longs proposed tax reform. He demands inclusion of department economy before attending any tour stop and urges reduction in expenses across all state departments.
Plan to curb typhus fever in Dixie by rat eradication
U S health service and the biological survey asked for 592000 in grants from the public works administration to wage a southwide campaign against typhus via rat control. Over 1000 cases reported across 46 southern and southwestern states this year with a 2.6 percent mortality rate. Each rat causes about 2 dollars in annual crop and property losses, and several thousand workers would be employed in the effort.
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Washington
Public Health Service and Biological Survey
Public Works Administration
Public Health Service
Biological Survey
Murder Theory Held By Brother In Thompson Death
W W Thompson, Lake Charles attorney, says he believes the Dallas pastor Dr E L Thompson was slugged and murdered near Pleasant Hill La. Authorities are undecided and continuing inquiry as the body was found near the highway three miles south of Pleasant Hill. Funeral services were planned at Leesville Christian Church.
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Shreveport
E. L. Thompson
Mount Auburn Christian Church
Dallas
Tex
W. W. Thompson
Lake Charles
Pleasant Hill
Thompson
E. L. Edwards
Sabine Parish
Shreveport Journal Today
Dr. Thompson
F. P. Cobb
Leesville
Phares
Agency to Lend Funds to Cotton Growers Formed
Washington reports the Commodity Credit Corporation is formed to lend loans of 10 cents per pound on unsold cotton this year as part of Roosevelt’s program. Lynn P. Talley was named president with Oscar Johnston as vice president and J. E. Wells Jr. as secretary treasurer. Directors include Wallace, George N. Peek, Henry Morgenthau Jr., Stanley Reed, and Herman Oliphant.
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Washington
Commodity Credit Corporation
Delaware
Roosevelt
Lynn P. Talley
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Oscar Johnston
The
Farm Administration
J. E. Wells, Jr
Cooperative Bank
Farm Credit Administration
Talley and Johnston
Wallace
George N. Peek
Henry Morgenthau, Jr
Stanley P. Reed
Herman Oliphant
State Insane Hospital Another Highly Politicalized Institution
This article critiques Louisiana governance under the LongAllen era noting heavy use of state facilities for private ends. It alleges state agencies and workers were diverted to partisan activities including reconditioning sound trucks in highway barns and accompanying lawmakers on political forays.
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State Insane Hospital
Long- Allen
Louisiana
Long
Arkansas
Expensive Luxury Hero Team at East Louisiana Hospital for the Insane
A state funded baseball squad at the East Louisiana Hospital for the Insane cost over $1 000 a month including transport. The players were hospital employees assigned to departments and not paid as players. E B Barnette managed the team, which played Meridian and other cities from a $15 000 diamond on asylum grounds.
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East Louisiana Hospital For the Insane
Asylum
Gourrier
Segrist
Lacroux
Cunningham
Humphries
Gilbert
Waldrip
Dugas
Baron
Geautreaux
Austin
Newton
Harris
Ward
Hyde
Brocatto
Baton Rouge Officials Accused of Misusing State Time and Funds
Chairmen and governors are cited in Louisiana papers for spending state time and resources on personal or favored projects. The text notes A P Tugwell and Governor K Allen supervising costly rabbit hutches and household checks, with state employees performing tasks.
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A. P. Tugwell
The
Highway Commission
K. Allen
Winnfield
Bank Exec Wiggin Gets Lifelong Pension After Early Retirement
Albert H. Wiggin disclosed in the Senate stock market inquiry that after retiring as chairman of Chase National Bank he will receive 100000 dollars annually for life. He described his role in bank and affiliate affairs, German loan work, and the German debt range to American banks as 400 to 500 million dollars.
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Washington
Albert H. Wiggin
Chase National Bank
Senate
Ferdinand Pecora
Couzens
Michigan
Chase Securities Corporation
Wiggin
John D. Rockefeller, Jr
Byrd Improved After Laryngitis Illness
Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, confined to his room at the Monticello hotel in Norfolk, was reported considerably improved by Dr. Guy Shirey. he expected to leave his room this afternoon as his flagship Jacob Ruppert prepared to move to Norfolk naval base to load three planes for the antarctic expedition after coal loading.
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Norfolk
Richard E. Byrd
Monticello
Guy Shirey
Byrd
Jacob Ruppert
Norfolk Naval Base
Lamberts Point
Ambassadors Confer In Rome Amid Disarmament Talks
Informal conversations among German British and French ambassadors surfaced in Rome as Germany prepared to negotiate a return to the League of Nations and the disarmament conference. Officials expect the Oct. 26 Geneva meeting to adjourn until after Germany's Nov. 12 plebiscite and election.
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United Eneva
Germany
League of Nations
League
United Press
Rome
Ale Ready
Hitler
Baron Konstantin von Neurath
Geneva
Daladier Questions Hitler Reasons for Disarmament Conference Exit
In Paris on October 17 Premier Edouard Daladier addressed a tense crowd to question Nazi Germany's reasons for pulling out of the disarmament conference. The scene was calm but grim as he answered the German move.
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Paris
Edouard Daladier
Adolf Hitler
Germany
Rogers Has His Say on Conferences and War
Beverly Hills, Oct 1 Special. The speaker mocks international gatherings arguing shorter meetings reduce war risk. He notes Versailles and Washington disarmament talks set wrong fixes and jokes the same delegates attend all conferences, suggesting pensions and celebrity treatment for them.
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Cal
Versailles
Washington
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