Roosevelt plan aims to aid farmers and unemployed
President Roosevelt ordered a combined program to purchase and distribute foodstuffs to relief recipients, aiming to reduce farm surpluses while feeding the unemployed. Officials estimate 75 million dollars may be spent, with products including beef dairy poultry and cotton goods.
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Roosevelt
Agricultural Adjustment
Federal Relief Administrations
White House
Relief Administration
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Speed Ordered In Relief Plan
President Roosevelt accelerated a plan for federal purchase of surplus foods and staples for the needy. He ordered rapid initiation within 30 days and conferred with Secretary Wal on the relief program during the Washington briefing.
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Speed
Washington
Roosevelt
Wal
Sneezing Powder Causes Churchroom Laughter in Monroe
A Sunday night service at a Monroe suburban church erupts as sneezes sweep through the pews after a visiting pastor. Local humor centers on a pair of pants trades and a city beat officer recalls old downtown routes and a river gauge joke.
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Monroe
Dominie
Outward Calm Now Prevailing in Havana Area
Havana Buoyed by outward calm as government and opposition clash over Grau San Martin's resignation. Hunger increases as food stores dwindle and warehouse strikes continue, while rebel forces under Juan Blas Hernandez engage government troops in Camaguey and Las Cuevas.
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Ramon Grau San Martin
Juan Blas Hernandez
Machado
Camaguey
Miguel Mariano Gomez
Marianistas
Grau San Martin
Gran San Martin
Las Cuevas
Blas Hernandez
Officers Return to Parish Seat in Chase
Sheriff J J McFatte of DeSoto parish and deputy M V Austin arrived in Mansfield after a late night chase to transfer three convicted attackers of grocer George Holsenbeck. The trio Henry Jenkins 21 Wiser Jackson 41 and another man were en route to Caddo jail at Shreveport when the sheriff reported a negotiated safe transfer to an undisclosed destination.
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J. J. McFatte
DeSoto Parish
M. V. Austin
George Holsenbeck
Caddo
Shreveport
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Wiser Jackson
Woman Is Given 5 Years For Slaying Her Spouse
In Longview Texas Ruth Atwood 30 was convicted of murder in the beating death of her husband Dallas B Atwood of Longstreet Louisiana. The jury deliberated under an hour and she cried as Judge Renne Allred Jr sentenced her to five years. Atwood died after a severe beating near railroad tracks last month. two men were arrested and one will be tried later.
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Longview
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Dallas B. Atwood
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Renne Allred, Jr
Atwood
Gregg County
Move to obtain funds rests with local school boards
Judge H H White president of the state board of education said court action to compel distribution of school funds must be brought by individual school boards, not the state board. He cited act 100 of 1922 and opposed using liquor revenue for schools while approving other recommendations.
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State Board of Education
E. H. Fisher
Bienville Parish
Fisher
State Board
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Tuey Succumbs at Shreveport
S B Tuey 42 residing on Sterlington Road near Ouachita Junior College died in a Shreveport hospital. Funeral at Mulhearn Saturday at 2 30 p m with Rev Ernest Holloway in charge. American Legion Leonidas Barkdull Faulk Post to attend. Interment Riverview burial park. Tuey earlier worked with Parlor City Lumber and later was unemployed. In despair he drank concentrated lye on August 3.
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Sterlington Road
Ouachita Junior College
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Illinois Central Railroad
Mulhearn Funeral
Ernest Holloway
Leonidas Barkdull Faulk Post
American Legion
Tuey
Riverview
Parlor City Lumber Company
Bank Looted in Stuttgart Robbery
Three men armed with a submachine gun and pistols robbed the Peoples National Bank in Stuttgart Arkansas of under $1,000. They forced three female employees to ride the running board of the robbers’ car to shield them from officers’ fire.
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Peoples National Bank
Ford shifts toward NRA 32 hour work week plan
Ford Motor Company aims to move its 50 000 employees to a 32 hour week within the NRA automotive code not yet signed by Henry Ford. Officials expect an average of 35 hours weekly, with alternating five and three day weeks and eight hour days, while the code calls for 35 hours and 43 cents per hour.
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Ford Motor Company
NRA
Henry Ford
Ford
State Tax Load series explained in The News-Star and Morning World
Readers are urged to follow a multi-part series on state taxes in The News-Star and Morning World. The articles, written by an experienced fiscal writer, explain how Louisiana collects and spends revenue from taxes licenses and related sources.
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News-Star
Morning World
Orleans Hotel Slayer to be Tried in New Jersey
Paterson New Jersey dispatch reports Louis K. Neu Savannah crooner indicted for murder in the first degree in Paterson for the September 10 slaying of theater manager Lawrence N. Shead. Acting Governor Emerson L. Richards says Neu could be sent to Louisiana or Tennessee authorities if not convicted here, with plans to proceed promptly in New Jersey courts.
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Emerson L. Richards
Lawrence J. Shead
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New Orleans
Nathaniel Kent
Passiac County
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Harry Heher
Supreme Court
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Lindbergh Kidnappers Trial Sought by Paris Police
Paris police said they have a suspect who possessed a 1,000 lb note identified by the Bank of England as part of the Lindbergh ransom money. The ransom was paid in U S bills and may have been exchanged for British currency.
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Bank of England
Charles A. Lindbergh
United States
State Allots Funds For Game Preservation
Washington Sept 22 An allotment of 4500 to Louisiana for construction work by the biological survey of the department of agriculture was announced by Federal Administrator Harold L Ickes. Four thousand dollars funds the construction of special boats for enforcing the migratory bird law and five hundred dollars pays for posting Berton Island East Timbalier and Shell Keys bird and game refugees with trespass warning signs.
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Louisiana
Biological Survey
Department of Agriculture
Federal Administrator of Public Works
Harold L. Ickes
Berton Island
East Timbalier
Shell Keys
Rapides Parish Businessman Dies by Self-Inflicted Shot
John W. Dunn aged 61 a prominent Alexandria businessman owner of the Alexandria Coffee Co shot and killed himself in his shop police said He was a Rapides parish native former member of the police force and is survived by his widow and five children.
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John W. Dunn
Alexandria Coffee Company
Rapides Parish
Cotton Purchase Plan Weighs in Capitol As Roosevelt Reviews
Washington news outlines an administration plan to pay farmers 12 to 15 cents a pound for this year’s cotton under acreage reduction, with potential next year cuts by producers. President Roosevelt convened agriculture advisers including Wallace and Peek to study the proposal amid talks on compensatory processing taxes for competing commodities.
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Senator Bankhead
Alabama
White House
Roosevelt
Conference of Southern
Wallace
George Peek
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Labor Contract Awaits Presidential Approval in Coal Strike
A single labor contract covering wages for hundreds of thousands of miners awaits President Roosevelt's approval to implement soft coal's NRA code. The agreement, described as the greatest in magnitude in collective bargaining history, sets tonnage rates to sustain the basic minimum daily wage scales and was handed to Hugh S Johnson for review. J D A Morrow, president of the Northern Coal Control Association, noted swift approval was expected.
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President Roosevelt
Hugh S. Johnson
Swift
J. D. A. Morrow
Northern Coal Control Association
Postoffice Changes Discontinue Isabel Louisiana Office
The fourth class postoffice at Isabel La Washington parish will be discontinued Oct 14 and mail will be handled through Bogalusa La. Rufus W Echols is reappointed as postmaster at Converse La, the office having been relegated to fourth class.
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Postoffice Department
Isabel
Washington Parish
Bogalusa
Rufus W. Echols
Converse
Daring gunmen hold up federal workers in Chicago and kill officer
In Chicago five gunmen halted federal reserve bank employees on Jackson Boulevard, seized mail bags, and fled in a second car. A pursuing officer, Miles Cunningham, was fatally shot as the robbers’ car crashed near Adams and Halsted. Police found a heavily thumbed map suggesting planning across multiple states.
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W. C. Bachman
Miles Cunningham
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Morris Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Victor Piontkowski
Otto Wiznar
Proctor Hale
John McGillan
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la Salle
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Tax Move Hype Over NYSE Taxes Sparks Jersey Shift
Beverly Hills editorial comments on proposed taxes for the New York Stock Exchange and predicts a Jersey migration. The piece mocks the ease of relocation for the exchange and warns of politicians following Tennessee-like tactics. It imagines farms and houses being moved to escape taxes.
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