Details of Weiss case reveal Louisiana Tech building costs
Oscar Seybold testified in the 10 U. S. Court case that the Louisiana Tech administration building cost $248,947.43, based on his office records as office manager for Caldwell Brothers and Hart. The firm earned $340,437.21 for the project with a stated profit. he cited an excess profit of $41,705.02 and a $20,552.51 repayment to the institution. He also said Caldwell Brothers loaned Weiss $28,000 in late 1935 to early 1906.
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Oscar Seybold
Summa Caldwell
Caldwell Brothers and Hart
Leon C. Weiss
New Orleans
Louisiana Tech
Malcol Lafargue
Tech
Seybold
Cakdwell Brothers and Hart
Caldwell Brothers
Ruston
Seybolt
Weins
Warmer Weather Forecast For City Tomorrow
Forecasts from the United States Weather Bureau predict warmer conditions in the northern portion of the state tomorrow. Readings rose to the upper sixties in the morning while a Caribbean storm advisory urged caution for interests in western waters as the system moves slowly northward.
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United States Weather Bureau
New Orleans
Mercury
Jacksonville
Fla
Weather Bureau
Caribbean
Secretary of Navy Talks to Trainees in New York
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox addressed midshipmen aboard the training ship Illinois during a tour of naval defenses in New York. He warned of an hour of menace and a worldwide contest between hardened nations and those that have grown soft, urging national resolve.
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New York
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
Midshipmen
Knox
Linois
State and Army Cooperate on Camp Housing Near Alexandria
State agencies and army personnel coordinate with private contractors to build training quarters for up to 100000 civilian guardsmen and conscripts near Alexandria. State Police and Louisiana Employment Service deploy to manage safety and staffing, with officials noting a push to prevent cane harvest labor from migrating to camp work.
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Alexandria
Louisiana Employment Service
Steve Alford
Phil Charnet
Army
Wiliam J. Pyburn
Employment Service Office
Pyburn
Hattiesburg
Mixs
Camp Shelby
Mexico Denies Japan Oil and Scrap Iron Deals
Mexican officials say President Cardenas cancelled a large oil concession to Tokyo controlled Veracruzana and rejected a $400,000 scrap iron bid from Japanese agents. The moves reinforce western hemisphere solidarity amid Pacific tensions and reflect constitutional limits on foreign concessions.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Cardenas
Iran
Pacific
United States
Veracruzana Company
Vera Cruz
Japan
Orient
Francisco Castillo
Unnecessary Surgical Operations Questioned by Doctor
Dr Harold L Foss, surgeon in chief at Geisinger Memorial Danville Penn, told the American College of Surgeons conference that hundreds of daily operations are unnecessary. He cited unregulated small hospitals and said 26 poorly trained surgeons exist for every well trained one. He warned public steps may follow if the issue is not solved by surgeons themselves.
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Associated Press
Chicago
American College of Surgeons Hospital
Harold L. Foss
Geisinger Memorial Hospital
Danville
Penn
Bag of nickels pays off debt in Reading
James Ott, new father to a girl born two weeks earlier, paid his hospital bill with a bag of nickels claiming it contained a thousand coins. He then said he had another bag for the doctor. The incident occurred at the cashier’s desk in Reading, Pennsylvania.
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Reading
James Ott
Sont
Ott
Delegates Enjoy Ouachita River Boat Ride After TB Conference
Delegates at the Southern Tuberculosis Conference held here spent the afternoon on the Ouachita River after a luncheon and sessions. Morning talks included bronchoscopy in tuberculosis and benign versus malignant tumors. Dr. Moorman presided, with Dr. Brown leading the state directors meeting at the Virginia Hotel. The Ouachita Parish Tuberculosis and Public Health Association hosts the event.
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Ouachita River
W. K. Hart
Charlotte
N. C
Owene Carr
Memphis
Tenn
John §. Harter
Miss
M. J. Buckles
Louisville, Ky
Louis Clerf
Philadelphia
L. J. Moorman
Oklahoma City
American Trudeau Society
R. Alec Brown
New Orleans
Virginia
Pam
Quachita Parish
Guardsmen Die in Plane Crash Near Shelton Washington
Two Washington national guardsmen Lieutenant George Nelson and Lieutenant Roy V. Jones both of Spokane were found dead in a crash near Shelton. The overdue training aircraft from the 116th observation squadron was located by ground posse a few miles north of Shelton after disappearing Monday afternoon.
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Fort Lewis
Wash
Washington National
Army to Be Ready by March 1942 Says Patterson
Assistant Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson told the New York Herald Tribune Forum that by March 1942 an army fit to meet any challenge will be ready. He called national defense the paramount issue and warned that time is the immediate enemy in arming the nation.
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New York
America
Robert P. Patterson
New York Herald Tribune Forum
Patterson
Germany
War Department
Americans Seek Passage to the United States from Orient
More than 4,000 American citizens in the Orient have filed applications for passage to the United States. Steamship lines report no cancellations despite protests that evacua tion fares are nearly prohibitive. Many hope for a last-minute change but expect departure if the United States does not force a showdown with Japan, fearing loss of American interests in the Far East.
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Shanghai
Orient
United States
Japan
Far East
Meeting for Twin City Community Chest teams
A 5 p.m. Wednesday meeting for all small gift teams and key men of the Twin City Community Chest and Council campaign will be held in the Virginia hotel ballroom. All team members are urged to attend. A representative of the West Monroe Welfare Association was slated as principal speaker at the 5:30 p.m. Tuesday radio hour.
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Twin City Community Chest and
Council
Virginia Hotel
Community Chest
West Monroe Welfare Association
Bombs Hit Hamburg Docks In RAF Assault
British air ministry reports two crippling blows on Hamburg dockyards where war ships were under construction and a Nazi convoy was attacked. Fires spread through the yard as explosions lifted ships. London also cited Churchill’s pledge to gain air superiority in 1941 and plans to place bomber squadrons under army command for future operations. Italy claims a Red Sea naval victory over Britain with torpedo boats attacking a convoy near the Gulf of Aden amid heavy fire.
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Associated Press
RAF
London Air Ministry
Hamburg
Air Ministry
Ministry
Winston Churchill
Britain
Lord Croft
London
Italy
Great Britain
Red Sea
Mussolini
Gulf of Aden
Portugal imposes export and import controls on commodities
Lisbon announces a new law restricting exports of tea coffee sugar cocoa livestock tin mineral products oils coal dried fish cotton and fats and requiring licenses for each item. In Paris Grynszpan, the Polish Jew jailed for Vom Rath’s 1938 murder, is sent to Berlin for new judgment amid ongoing anti Jewish demonstrations.
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Vichy
France
Herschel Grynsvpan
Paris
Berlin
Grynszpan
Ernst Vom Rath
Germany
Churchill Criticized Over France Plea as British Cant
Berlin reports derisive reaction to Prime Minister Churchill's call to France. Sources say Britain still bombs Dakar and other French sites, undermining his plea as a pose of friendship. Continued on second page.
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Berlin
Churchill
France
Dakar
Old fashioned homemaking urged to keep girls from prison
Cincinnati report quotes Mrs. Marguerite Reilley of Ohio's Marysville reform school proposing to train girls in homemaking fields to deter delinquency. She notes inmates gain pride and self confidence through routines like scrubbing, cooking, sewing, and neat housekeeping, with beauty services and free grooming as incentives.
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Cincinnati
National Prison Congress
Marguerite Reilley
Ohio Women's Reformatory
Marysville
Reformatory
Axis press reports on Laval talks and French surrender offers
Paris dispatch reports Pierre Laval vice premier of the Vichy government arriving for talks with German officials in Paris about moving the French government and possibly accepting a pact to preserve most French territories except Alsace Lorraine Nice Tunisia and Djibouti with Germany likely to claim Alsace Lorraine and Italy Nice Tunisia and Djibouti. Rumors of a Laval Hitler meeting circulate amid Churchill’s warning that Axis seeks to carve up the French empire.
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Paris
Berlin
Pierre Leval
Petain
Vichy
Les Verrieres
Switzerland
France
Mareshal
Philippe Petain
Alsace-Lorraine
Nice
Tunisia
Jibuti
Churchill
Senate to Probe Price Chiseling in Defense Purchases
Senator Wheeler announces a broad Senate interstate commerce subcommittee inquiry into price gouging in defense materials and bottlenecks hindering the defense program. The review will cover extortionate pricing, defense housing costs, and impacts on private construction, with no witch hunt intent.
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Washington
Wheeler
Democrat
Montana
Senate Interstate Commerce
National Defense Comemission
Department of Justice
Sumeber
Runoff Primary Results Announced in Louisiana
Baton Rouge officials declare Overton Brooks and Newt V. Mills renominated. Official returns from the September 15 runoff show Brooks 19,146 and O Neal 18,004, Mills 22,746 and Edward Daney 22,146, with Gladney also listed in the count.
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Baton Rouge
Wcretary
Overton Brooks
Newt V. Mills
Brooks
Henry A. O'Neal
Mills
Edward Daney
Gladney
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