Harris urges recovery of overcharges at Louisiana Normal
Louisiana state education head T H Harris urged the board to seek reimbursement from Caldwell Brothers Hart Weiss Dreyfous and Seiferth and contractors for about 272483 in alleged overcharges on LSU Normal College in Natchitoches projects. The architects were dismissed and all firms are tied to Lincoln parish indictments. The board also blocked a ban on politics and suspended Jungle Gardens landscaping projects at Southeastern Louisiana.
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Baton Rouge
T. H. Harris
State Board of Education
Louisiana State Normal College of
Harris
Warren Easton Hall
Normal College
Caldwell Bros. and Hart
Weiss, Dreyfous and Seiferth
New Orleans
Lincoln Parish
Grand Jury
Richard W. Leche
Leche
I. Pye
State Board
E. A. MeKlhenny
Jungle Gardens
Southeastern
Coast Guard Aids Two Vessels After North Atlantic Distress Calls
A cutter sped through stormy seas to answer SOS from the British steamer Blairbeg and the US liner President Harding 300 miles south of St Johns Newfoundland. The Harding requested medicines splints and fracture supplies and a cutter to remove a seriously burned passenger while the Blairbeg's exact condition was undisclosed. Storm warnings were posted as disturbances formed 600 miles off Nantucket.
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New York
Coast Guard
North Atlantic
Blairbeg
St. John's
Harding
Weather Bureau
Nantucket
Mass
le Verdon
Sur
Typhoon Deepens Casualties in Kyushu Japan
Reports from Kagoshima indicate 38 dead 33 missing and many injured after a typhoon struck the southern Kyushu region. Kagoshima and Miyazaki prefectures faced heavy destruction with thousands displaced and many bridges washed out. Hundreds of fishing boats vanished and communications disrupted.
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Tokyo
Kagoshima
Kyushu
Miyasaki
Tuberculosis Tax Upheld in Ouachita Parish Case
Judge J. T. Shell ruled the one mill tuberculosis sanatorium tax legal with legislative authority. Plaintiffs sought an injunction to stop levy, collection, and receipt of benefits but the suit was dismissed with cost. Defendants included Mrs Joe Hanna, Sheriff Mil ton Coverdale, and Ouachita Parish Tuberculosis association.
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J. T. Shell
Ouachita Parish
G. B Cooley
Joe Hanna
Milton Coverdale
Ouachita Parish Tuberculosis Association, Inc
J. L. Evans
M. F. Halley
Tracey Goodwin
H. T. Goodwin
Governor Denies Extradition for Gallogly in Georgia case
Governor W Lee O Danial granted extradition to Georgia for Richard Gallogly saying the decision lies with courts. Gallogly a life term inmate claimed forced guilty plea and cites harsh Georgia prison life risking death if returned. he fled with his wife after escape from hospital to prison.
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Austin
Richard Gray Gallogly
Georgia
W. Lee O'Daniel
Gallogly
Southwest
Texas
Billings in Freedom Plans to Wed After 23 Years
Warren K. Billings, freed from Folsom after 23 years, meets his bride-to-be Josephine Rudolph, former San Mateo librarian, in a restrained gathering at the attorney’s home. They plan no immediate wedding or future plans for a day or two after release following Gov Olson’s commutation.
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San Francisco
Warren K. Billings
Sacramento
Culbert L. Olson
Folsom
Tom Mooney
Govenor Olson
Mooney
Billings
Josephine Rudolph
San Mateo
George T. Davis
Miss Rudolph
Davis
Old Regulars Doubt Earl Long Can Win Governorship
In New Orleans on October 18 a leading Old Regular quoted by a staff correspondent said Earl Long is an impossible candidate and the Old Regulars face a one in a hundred chance of victory. The stance follows a closed caucus endorsement, amid hints of deals with May or Maestri, ward leaders, state jobs, and internal political struggles.
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New Orleans
Earl Long
Earl
Maestri
Ulick Burke
First Ward
Thomas J. Hill
Leche
Changes in Neutrality Bill Planned
Washington Oct 18 Senators drafting the arms embargo repeal bill met to modify provisions allowing American vessels to trade with belligerent safe possessions while prohibiting cargo and passenger shipments to warring nations and colonies. The panel discussed cash and carry shifts, presidential discretion on exempt zones, and constitutional questions on extending shipping restrictions beyond three miles.
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Washington
Pittman
Nevada
Foreign Relations Committee
Clark
Missouri
Harrison
Mississippi
Borah
Idaho
Pacific
Five Month Crisis Ends in Amoy Settlement Agreement
Amoy China October 18. A five month crisis between Japanese and American British and French forces in Kulangsu Amoy international settlement ends with withdrawal of naval landing parties. Agreement calls for council cooperation with Japanese consular officials and increased Japanese police representation to curb anti Japanism.
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Amdoy
China
Kulangsu
Amoy
Indictments Hit Louisiana Leaders in Broad Scandal
Louisiana federal and state juries indict dozens of officials and others in a sweeping scandal first exposed last June. Among the accused are former Governor Richard W. Leche, House Speaker Lorris Wimberly, ex LSU president Dr James Monroe Smith, and Seymour Weiss. The probe targets embezzlement, mail fraud and tax violations, with hundreds of indictments and a gubernatorial race heating up for January 16.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mortimer X. Gulch
Gulch
James Monroe Smith
Louisiana State University
Monroe
Richard W. Leche
Lorris Wimberly
House of Representatives
O. John Rogge
Rogge
Seymour Weiss
Huey P. Long
Noe Photographs Registration Books In New Orleans
State Senator James A. Noe candidate for governor began making photostatic copies of Orleans parish poll registration books after winning his appeals battle Local authorities initially refused permission citing AG office ruling Noe campaign calls the photos a routine step to verify his house to house canvass against registration records
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New Orleans
James A. Noe
Orleans Parish
Court of Appeals
Attorney General's Office
Noe
Six Witnesses Sought in Jury Hearing in New Orleans
In New Orleans on Oct 18 James O Connor announced that informations would be filed against persons named in testimony in the tax assessment reduction racket case. Earlier Oct 13 a bid to summon six non grand jury witnesses was made in the three judge court over charges of non cooperation with the Orleans parish grand jury against District Attorney Charles A Byrne.
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Maury Maverick
San Antonio
Canaress
John Shook
Maverick
New Orleans
James O'Connor
Charles A. Byrne
Orleans Parish
James J. Morrison
Hugh M. Wilkinson
Henry DeFraites
Eddie Reed
William G. Rankin, Jr
Morrison
Wilkinson
DeFraites
Frank T. Echezabal
Hugh C. Quarles
Chest Workers Being Selected For Campaign
Key men to solicit employees at firms with 10 or more workers were lined up by the Twin City Community Chest committee. The second annual financial campaign begins Monday and runs through November 4. S. A. Moss heads the committee and aims to finalize solicitor appointments by Friday.
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Twin City
Hotel Virginia
Chest
Flashes In The News From Across The Nation
Reports from Columbus Cambridge and Tucson describe minor legal scrapes and police training scenes. John Henderson admits stealing milk from a county jail porch. Bernard Carney faces vagrancy charges and seeks warmth. Tucson police trainee Oliver White endures lectures to stay awake.
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Columbus
Ind
John Henderson
Henderson
Tucson
Ariz
Oliver White
Police Officers Training School
University of Arizona
White
Russia fails to reach Turkish pact after Moscow talks
Prime Minister Refik Saydam told the Turkish parliament Moscow talks with the Soviet Union were fruitless as Russian demands clashed with Turkish policy in the Dardanelles. He said Turkey would not abandon security commitments to Britain and France, though relations with Russia remained friendly. Reports noted a potential British Turkish pact to defend the Mediterranean and a Hatay agreement with France signed earlier. A Turkish mission had been in London observing the Moscow negotiations.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Refik Saydam
Dardanelles
Republican Peoples Party
Saydam
Ankara
Moscow
Great Britain
France
Russia
Sukru Saracoglu
Britain
Mediterranean
Hatay Republic
London
Marriage Of Nazi Blamed For Present European War
A British white paper links Marshal Werner von Blomberg’s 1938 marriage to Erika Gruhn with triggering a purge of moderates from Hitler’s circle. It notes Hitler then took personal command of the armed forces, ousting Blomberg, Fritsch and 13 others, and suggests ensuing events helped precipitate the war. The report cites Nevile Henderson’s account of 1938 and the shakeup affecting von Neurath Beck Neurath and Beck amid Austrian and Czech occupations.
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London
Germany
Marshal Werner von Blomberg
Nevile Henderson
Berlin
Lord Halifax
Blomberg
Hitler
Marshal von Blomberg
Baron von Neurath
Fritsch
Beck
von Blomberg
Erika Gruhn
Mo. 2
Hermann Wilhelm Goering
Werner von Fritsch
Reichswehr
von Fritsch
Warsaw
Nevile
Ludwig Beck
Konstantin von Neurath
Roosevelt replies to King Gustav V on neutrality stance
President Roosevelt advised King Gustav V that the United States joins other American republics in supporting neutrality and order under law as outlined at the Stockholm conference. He said the conference’s work will be followed with interest and tied to the Panama conference’s neutrality pledge.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Gustav V
Sweden
Stockholm
Soviet Russia
Finland
United States
Panama
Russia
Kalinin
Europe
Pius
Chamberlain
Britain
Germany
Berlin
Adolf Hitler
Holy See
Gustav
Uni
Powell enters Louisiana governor race announcing graft crackdown plan
Luther I. Powell of Shreveport declares candidacy for governor. A veteran of the Spanish American and World Wars he pledges to prosecute graft and crime and to divert his governor salary to a fund rewarding graft uncoverers. He denies financing from Leche Shushan Maestri Weiss or any highway gang.
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Shreveport
Louisiana
Luther I. Powell
Powell
United States
Leche
Shushan
Maestri
Weiss
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Japan
Shell
Penitentiary
Long
Hollywood
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Cotton Ed
Associated Press
Cambridge
Bernard Carney
Wilford D. Gray
Norway
Denmark
House of Commons
British Isles
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