Louisiana Seeks Supreme Court Review on 15 Percent Rate Rise
Louisiana public service commission prepared to take its dispute with the Interstate Commerce Commission to the U S Supreme Court over a 15 percent rate increase for freight. The action targets exemption of certain Louisiana commodities from the I C C tariff rise intended as emergency relief. The Kentucky railroad commission was notified of the intention while regulators face a November 1 deadline to apply I C C rates to intrastate traffic.
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Baton Rouge
Louisiana Public Service Commission
Interstate Commerce Commission
Louisiana
United States Supreme Court
Moses R. Glenn
Kentucky Railroad Commission
Doak Attacks Norris as Unreliable in Nebraska Issue
Senator Norris of Nebraska challenged Doak to prosecute him for perjury over an affidavit from 1930. Doak replied Norris cannot be trusted and accused him of false statements, citing Norris’s affiliation claim and a Richberg related memorandum.
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Doak
Norris
Nebraska
Minneapolis
George W. Norris
Labor
Monroes Changes Noted In Sig Haas and Local News
Fifty four years ago Sig Haas located in Monroe and has lived there since. The piece notes Monroe’s changes from 1878 to 1922 and Haas’s quiet contribution to the city’s progress. It also recounts community efforts by Mrs. T L Morris on health and Red Cross boards and her work at a mortuary.
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Sig Haas
Monroe
Haas
Miss Lizzie
T. L. Morris
The
Red Cross
Lizzie
Quirky Mississippi Towns Named For Oddities And Coffee
In Hot Coffee Mississippi a sign misled a traveling salesman to a town rather than a drink. The innkeeper J. J. Davis touted his coffee and a painted coffee pot, giving the settlement its name. Mississippi features many amusing place names alongside Indian-named counties and other quirky locals.
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Miss
Mississippi
J. J. Davis
Mobile
Memphis
Ment
Whynot
Possum Neck
10 Mile
Sosa
O. K
Haserway
Yalobousha
Tallahatchie
Issaquena
Oktibbeha
Itawamba
Tishomin
Canadian Prison Riot Leads to Siege and Troop Deployment
Kingston Ontario reports list a 12 hour outbreak at Portsmouth Penitentiary where 900 inmates rioted. Soldiers with machine guns guarded the gates as guards fought prisoners amid gunfire in a drizzly wind. one inmate wounded.
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Kingston
Ont
Portsmouth Penitentiary
Seige
Gilbert Smith
Toronto Mail
Empire
Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
Big meat curing plant to open on DeSiard street
The American Service company prepares to formally open its large meat curing plant at the DeSiard street ice plant next Friday at 2 pm. A meat curing demonstration will be given by W T Cobb LSU extension animal husbandman and E R Strahan Quachita parish agricultural agent. A morning killing and scalding demonstration will be held near Monroe on a farm to be announced.
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American Service Company
DeSiard Street
W. T. Cobb
Louisiana State University
E. R. Strahan
Quachita Parish
Monroe
M. D. Lester
Louisiana
Roosevelt Called Idealist by Senator Cutting
Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico described Franklin D. Roosevelt as an idealist who seeks to put his ideals into practice. Cutting, a recent resigning Republican national committeeman, said he is not a Democrat but hopes Roosevelt would implement a progressive administration if elected. He noted Roosevelt's clashes with wealth and social elites on Wall Street and in eastern society.
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Washington
Norris
Doak
Donald Richberg
Nebraska
Roosevelt
Richberg
Republican Party
Paris
Boni de Castellane
Helen Gould
Jay Gould
New York State
New York
Buffalo
Lehigh Valley Railroad
United States
Santa FE
N. M
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
National Progressive League
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Cutting
Wall Street
Roosevelt Lands in Springfield for Campaign Address
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt arrived in Springfield to deliver a campaign speech and visit Abraham Lincoln's tomb. A noisy welcome rose from cheering crowds as his special train pulled in and Illinois Democratic dignitaries greeted him before a motorcade to the Lincoln tomb.
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Springfield
Ill
Illinois
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Tomb
Roosevelt Campaign Rhetoric in New Hampshire Tour
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt campaigns across Springfield and toward the west and south denouncing Republican intimidation while offering aid to coal miners and farmers and pledging to seek extra revenue by legalizing beer. Crowds gather on an observation platform during his stop.
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Springfield
Franklin D. Roosevelt
U S Extends Naval Holiday To March 1 1933
The United States agrees to extend the naval holiday agreement until March 1 1933. Notification will be sent to Geneva and the State Department will explain the reasons. The extension covers only ships not yet laid down and allows replacement of existing vessels to continue. The move aims to give the disarmament conference in Geneva a chance to reach reductions.
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Washington
United States
Geneva
State Department
Prominent Gulf Coast Commerce Figure Dies at 69
J H W Steele known as Harvey Steele dies after a long career in Louisiana and Texas gulf ports shipping and cotton. Born in Alabama he moved to New Orleans as a youth and rose to wealth through cotton grain bookings at New Orleans and Galveston. He survived the 1900 Galveston hurricane on foot with his wife and later rebuilt the port. He spent retirement on a ranch near San Diego California.
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New Orleans
J. H. W. Steele
Louisiana
Texas Gulf
San Diego
Cal
Alabama
Harvey Steele
Galveston
Texas
Louisiana Gulf
Bastrop Postoffice Gets $80,000 Building Plan
Washington reports little time lost on Bastrop's new postoffice funded by the Garner relief act. Instructions to seek sites were issued, bids due November 21, for 27,000 square feet corner site with 160 feet frontage on a main business street. Plans begin once a site is chosen.
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Washington
Bastrop
Treasury
Tugwell orders gasoline source inquiry started
Louisiana highway commission chairman A P Tugwell ordered an inquiry into gasoline sources used by contractors along state borders after Colonel E P Roy reported the collection of 4248.44 from H B Blanks Inc. The company argued the tax did not apply to their method of bringing gas into Louisiana.
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Baton Rouge
A. P. Tugwell
Louisiana Highway Commission
E. P. Roy
Commission
H. B. Blanks, Inc
Louisiana
Arkansas
Blanks Company
Tugwell
Legal Department of the State Supervisor of Public Accounts
Blanks
Roy
East Carroll Parish
Grand Lake
Ark
State Tobacco Suit Submitted to U S Court
Interstate Tobacco company seeks to operate in Louisiana without state tobacco tax. The case was submitted to Judge Ben C. Dawkins in Shreveport with an agreed statement of facts and affidavits. Briefs due in ten days. no testimony heard.
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Shreveport
Interstate Tobacco Company
Louisiana
Ben C. Dawkins
Tobacco Company
Alice Lee Grosjean
Dawkins
Baker, Lawdon and Ford
Marshall
Texas
G. C. Chandler
Bossier City
Monroe
Stiffkey Rector Ousted Over Morality Charges
Rev. H. F. Davidson, rector of Stiffkey, was removed and degraded from priestly and deacon roles in the Church of England after his July conviction on immoral conduct involving several young women. The ruling was delivered before the high altar by the bishop of Norwich, following prior ecclesiastical depromotions. Davidson protested his innocence and said he would pursue reform of consistory court procedures and any possible appeal.
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Norwich
England
H. F. Davidson
Stiffkey
Church of England
Davidson
Political picture of 1932 campaign rhetoric across cities
The report surveys Republican and Democratic spins from Washington Chicago and Cleveland. Secretary Mills accuses Roosevelt speech of inaccuracies while Everett Sanders says Democrats frighten voters. Roosevelt predicts government stabilizing coal, Garner blames Hoover for broken promises.
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Washington
Mills
Gov. Roosevelt
Pittsburgh
Republican National Committee
Chicago
Everett Sanders
Roosevelt
Terre Haute
Ind
Garner
Hoover
Cleveland
Ritchie
Officials Leave to Attend Meet Concerning Milk
Mississippi dairy officials travel to Kentwood Louisiana to negotiate enforcement of Louisiana milk inspection law. J C Holton and Dr N M Parker meet with Louisiana board of health after protests from downstate dairymen from Brookhaven McComb Centreville and others. The clash arises from Louisiana inspectors charging Mississippi dairies shipping into Louisiana. The session aims to ease tensions and resolve inter state dairy trade friction.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Louisiana
J. C. Holton
N. M. Parker
State Board of Health
Kentwood
J. A. O'Hara
Louisiana State Board of Health
South Mississippi
Holton
Brookhaven
McComb
Centreville
Downstate
O'Hara
U S Engineers to Start Work Here at Once
Mayor Arnold Bernstein announces immediate U S Army Corps of Engineers action to protect Monroe from Ouachita flood waters. Major C B Larkin to advertise bids for southern front line levee. over 60 000 allocated. Project under Tensas basin levee board with Mississippi River Commission backing.
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Arnold Bernstein
New Orleans
H. B. Ferguson
Mississippi River Commission
Monroe
Ouachita
United States Engineering Corps
Jackson
C. B. Larkin
Vicksburg
Bernstein
Engineering Corps
Army Corps
Tensas Basin
Reprieve Granted Cameron Parish Doctor
Dr. Leroy Lambert of Cameron parish received a 60 day reprieve from Governor Allen after his June conviction for assault and battery in an alleged attack on W. D. Phanton. He faces a state pardon board review following a prior 90 day reprieve to pursue clemency claiming oil field patients need his services.
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Baton Rouge
Leroy Lambert
Cameron Parish
W. D. Phanton
Pardon Board
QO. K. Allen
State Pardon Board
Cameron Oil Field
Japanese Drive Advances Against Chinese Bandits in Manchuria
In Manchuria on October 21 Japanese forces began a new operation from Taian against the band led by Chief Pej Patten as captives Mrs. Pawley and Charles Corkran were released after a month and a half in captivity. The dramatic armored train reunion occurred at Yingkow as Pawley embraced his wife before their handoff to Captain Kawahito for presentation to the British consul. Mrs. Pawley, wounded by hardships, was taken to a hospital run by her father Dr. Phips for care.
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Newchang
Manchuria
Taian
Kenneth Paweley
Charles Corkran
Pej Patten
Rice Growers Are Told How to Increase Returns
M S Winder of Chicago spoke to rice growers outlining a plan to raise returns through a voluntary equalization fee and a pooled market. He proposed 20 percent of each crop into a port pool to lift domestic barrel prices from 1.50 to as high as 3.00.
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Jennings
M. S. Winder
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
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