Jury Convicts Moore Wells in Jena Bank Robbery Case
Moore Wells also known as Charlie Edwards was found guilty by a ten to two verdict for the May 24 LaSalle bank holdup in Jena. Two bandits robbed the bank of seven thousand dollars and fled in a car. A confederate drove the getaway auto while Wells was later arrested in Little Mexico Concordia parish.
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News-Star
Jena
Moore
Little Mexico
Concordia Parish
Black River
Jonesville
Ouachita Parish
Monroe
Boy on Trial for Assault and Murder of 17 Year Old Girl
Paul H. Kauffman confessed slayer Avis Woolery a 17 year old Webb City Missouri school girl went on trial for first degree murder in Kansas City. James R Page prosecutor seeks the death penalty. He lured her with a false job promise assaulted strangled buried in a shallow grave in Swope Park last August. Insanity plea may be offered by defense.
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Kansas City
Paul H. Kauffman
Avis Woolery
Webb City
James R. Page
Kauffman
Swope Park
Clyde Liner Makes Port With Six Of Freighter's Crew
The Henry R. Mallory of the Clyde Line returned to port with six survivors from the freighter Barbadoes after it sank off the Delaware capes early Sunday. Five perished including owner E G Verdini and his wife Hattie. Captain L W Hough recounted a tanker passing by the lifeboat and ignoring flares.
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New York
Henry R. Mallory
Clyde Line
Barbadoes
Delaware Capes
E. G. Valverdi
Hattie
L. W. Hough
Mag Magnolia Petroleum files crude oil price cuts in multiple districts
The Magnolia Petroleum Company announced price decreases from 30 to 36.5 cents per barrel for crude oil purchased in Louisiana districts Pine Island Haynesville Bull Bayou and in Arkansas districts El Dorado Rainbow. In Spartanburg South Carolina Claude Henderson, 29, a garage employee, was badly burned by gasoline mistaken for water. expected to die. A fire in Coney Island threatened Luna Park, four alarms and four frame buildings damaged up to $50,000. Berlin reported floods isolating 14 villages in Ratibor district as Oder river rose 20 feet.
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Dallas
Texas
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Pine Island
Haynesville
Bull Bayou
Louisiana
el Dorado
Rainbow
Arkansas
Associated Press
Spartanburg
S. C
Clsude Henderson
Henderson
New York
Coney Island
Luna Park
Berlin
Ratibor
Upper Silesia
Germany
Lower Silesia
Oder
Family Escapes Fire At West Monroe Home
Fire driven by flames at 4 50 this morning forced Mrs Easterling and her family from their Linderman Avenue residence in night clothes. The Easterlings seven including Virginia 13 W D 10 Willene 3 and roomer Al Knight escaped through a front window. Fire captain estimated damage 700 to 800 dollars on a 3000 dollar home though insurance partly covered loss. The family sheltered with neighbors while clothes were salvaged and the children prepared for school.
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M. Fosterling
Linderman Avenue
West Monroe
Genova Bordeaux Express Wreck Kills Eighteen In France
In Perigueux France a Genoa Bordeaux express wreck killed eighteen people and injured fifty. The collision occurred today leaving survivors and authorities investigating the derailment and dispatching aid.
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Perigueux
France
Three Movie Colony Figures Expelled After Los Angeles Bar Fight
In a Las Angeles press club brawl late last night Ralph Ince Henry Clive and Oliver Price were expelled after declining to leave. Price required hospital care for head wounds while Ince and Clive refused treatment. Rex Lease hosted guests and left with them after the fracas. No arrests were made.
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Los Angeles
Hollywood Movie Colony Today
Ralph Ince
Henry Clive
Oliver Price
Price
Ince
Clive
Rex Lease
Lease
Lease Party
Vivian Duncan
Bank vice president dies after attempted holdup in garage
Court ney R Merrill 54 vice president of Union State bank of South Chicago died from knife or ice pick wounds inflicted by one or two bandits during a holdup attempt as he drove his car into a garage behind the bank. Detectives speculated the bandits mistook a key ring he held for a pistol. In a separate incident two bandits robbed jeweler Max Pian across the state line in Kenosha county Wisconsin of about 40000 dollars in uninsured diamonds. Pian was struck on the head but not seriously hurt.
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Chicago
Courtney R. Merrill
Union State Bank of South
Merrill
John Norton
Winthrop Harbor
Max Pian
State Line
Kenosha County
Wis
Pian
Mystery Explained in Wisconsin Girl Death Case
Madison, Oct 29 A mystery over Marie C McCarthy 18 died in a cottage fire at Morningside resort with Lyman Schley 24 confessing a lighted cigarette caused the blaze He had earlier blamed business enemies though no motive is known The couple planned to be brave and face the blaze together
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Madison
Wis
Marie C. McCarthy
University of Wisconsin
Lyman Schley
Schley
Morningside
Arkansas Man Kills Stepson Wounds Another in Store
Fort Smith Arkansas Oct 29 J G Moore 60 held in jail for killing Wayne Thompson 34 and wounding J A Thompson in a Thompson grocery store. Moore intoxicated and disarmed by bystanders expressed regret only that he did not get a third relative. Continued on page five.
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Fort Smith
Ark
J. G. Moore
Moore
Wayne Thompson
J. A. Thompson
Thompson
Unemployment Relief Effort Under Way in New Orleans
Mayor T Semmes Walmsley and civic leaders launched a study of the unemployment problem in New Orleans with a plan for a job for every family and a minimum wage to buy necessities. Three advisers named to work with the mayor, two more to be appointed, collaboration with national and state officials outlined.
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New Orleans
T. Semmes Walmsley
Walmsley
Chill Weather Forecast Sweeps Pelican State
A weather warning from New Orleans states cooler conditions across Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama with frost possible. The U S weather bureau issued small craft warnings along the Gulf coast from Bay St. Louis Mississippi to Carrabelle Florida as a disturbance over the east gulf and southern Georgia brings fresh to strong northerly winds Wednesday into Wednesday night. Expected low temperatures in New Orleans range 50 to 56 degrees.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
United States Weather Bureau
Gulf Coast
Bay St. Louis
Miss
Carrabelle
Fla
East Gulf
Georgia
Regulars defend support for all amendments in New Orleans
Old regular leaders of New Orleans deny reports that they oppose amendments. They say followers back a large majority in concert with Governor Long and the $68,000,000 road bond plan. A ward caucus was held to coordinate efforts ahead of the general election.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Long
Detroit Man and Daughter Shot in Bed. Baby Dies
Anello Sangelo, a Detroit public works employee, was wounded and his five month old daughter Marguerita killed when shots struck them as they slept in a first floor bedroom. Irene Sangelo, wife, was held for questioning as investigators found her account inconsistent with the evidence.
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Associated Press
Detroit
Angelo Sangelo
Department of Public Works
Marguerita
Sangelo
Langelo
Irene
Receiving Hospital
Vice Crusade in Abbeville Targets Local Venues
Abbeville and Vermilion parishes see a drive led by Father Edmund Daull of Mary Magdalene Church to curb vice. He cites a census showing numerous beer joints tied to vice houses and reports threats from owners associates. He vows to continue the campaign despite danger.
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Associated Press
Abbeville
Vermilion
Edmund Daull
Mary Magdalene Catholic Church
Father Daull
Reforestation Urged for Flood Control in Mississippi Valley
In New Orleans on October 29, H. N. Wheeler of the U S forest service urged reforestation to control floods before the Southern Logging Association. He stated that land planted with trees stops soil wash and that planting all land in the valley suitable for timber could lower the Mississippi's highest flood stage by about four and a half feet.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Southern Logging Association
H. N. Wheeler
United States Forest Service
First Bear of Season Killed Near Opelousas
The first bear of the season was killed last Saturday on the bank of Bayou Close by Rafe Cochran a lumberman from the Lottie community who was in an early hunting party. The 500 pound bear was shot after a long chase and fell at about twenty paces.
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Opelousas
Bayou
Rafe Cochran
Lottie
Cochran
Nurses Arrive for 26th Annual State Convention
Nurses from across Louisiana arrive for the 26th annual Louisiana State Nurses Association convention at Hotel Virginia with an advisory council session in progress. An advisory board session precedes a council meeting at 4 30 pm. About 150 nurses are expected to attend multiple sessions and a luncheon is planned.
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Louisiana State Nurses’ Association
Hotel
Virginia
Advisory Council
Joe Nicholson’s First Flight Ends in Crash at Thomasville
Joe Nicholson, a novice pilot, took his five year old son to a Thomasville airport and boarded a plane despite his wife’s warnings. The motor proved troublesome and the flight ended in a crash, marking his first aviation experience when the propeller and engine complications arose during preparations.
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Associated Press
Thomasville
Joe Nicholson
Tax relief plan to extend Louisiana farmers' taxes
Governor Huey P. Long moves to let drought stricken farmers defer this year's taxes over ten years. The plan, approved by the state board of debt liquidation, would go to the legislature by mailed ballots if the board concurs. The measure relies on a 1928 constitutional amendment allowing postponement for flood sufferers.
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Associated Press
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Huey P. Long
State Board of
Webster Parish
Long
Another Chicagoan Telly of Threats to His Daughters
Local report notes a Chicagoan faced threats to his daughters with a warning from authorities. No further details on the case or individuals are provided in the readable text.
Millionaire Banker Earl Yocum Returns Safe Home
Earl L. Yocum, Galva banker and bank president, arrived home unharmed after a mysterious disappearance last Saturday. He drove to his porte cochere at 6 am, ending a tense domestic and local police mystery. The Yocum State Bank cashier A. E. Anderson confirmed the banker’s safe return.
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Earl L. Yocum
Galva
Inl
E. G. Mugrage
American Legion Guard
Yocum
United Press
Yocum At & A. m
Porte Cochere
A. E. Anderson
Yocum State Bank
Yocunt
Threat letters demand 50 000 menaced Sundberg daughters
Carl Sundberg, vice president of the Mrs-De Vry Corporation in Chicago, admitted receipt two weeks ago of letters demanding 50 000 and threatening harm to his three daughters if not paid. The Riverside home letters, made from clipped newspaper pieces, warned that his daughters were in danger and that instructions would follow. The three girls Dorothy 15 Alice 10 and Bett 5 are under guard at home.
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Chicago
Carl Sundberg
Mrs-De Vry Corporation of
Yocum Kidnapping Case Details Sealed Says Officer
Anderson refused to discuss the ransom report and offered no new information on the abducted Yocum. He confirmed the location of Atkinson about 20 miles northwest of Galva and declined further comment.
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Atkinson
Galva
Anderson
Banker Niles, Benton Harbor President, Kills Self
Clayton M. Niles 62, president of the Farmers and Merchants National Bank of Benton Harbor, shot himself to death yesterday. His body was found around midnight in a barricaded garage at the rear of his home.
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Benton Harbor
Mid
Clayton M. Niles
Farmers and Merchants National Bank of
Congress Candidates Split on Prohibition Question
The association surveyed 823 candidates. 371 replied, with 99 against repeal and 265 for ending the eighteenth amendment. Regional results showed mixed wet and dry leanings, forecasting the issue in 34 states including Iowa Arkansas Texas Oregon Utah West Virginia and Vermont.
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Associated Press
Washington
Association Against
Henry H. Curran
Association
Curran
Iowa
Arkansas
Texas
Oregon
Utah
West Virginia
Vermont
Commonwealths
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Hambone’s Meditations
J. P. Alley
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