Night prowler gang busted near Dubach by Louisiana sheriff
J Mangum, jailed in Hosher, admits burglaries in the past sixty days in the Dubach area. Sheriff A J Thigpen says a dangerous night prowler ring terrorized North Louisiana towns. Mangum, once jailed in Texas for attempted rape, says he has been arrested several times for theft since release. Stolen goods from Kilgore in Lisbon and from Tatum and Jim Puller in Dubach were found at his Dubach home after arrest. Mangum was born near Groveton Texas and married Addie Deaton in 1917. He worked as a pipeline laborer and had lived in Waskom and Spring Hill prior to moving to Dubach a year ago. Mrs Deaton disclaims knowledge of the source of the goods. candy from one burglary was found in a trunk at their Dubach home.
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J. Mangum
Dubach
Hosher
A. J. ‘Thigpen
North Loulatana
Mangum
Texas Penitentiary
Lufkin
Ving
Texas
Dubech
Thigpen
Kinder
Claiborne Parish
Camege
Lisbon
Kilgore
Eb, Tatum
Jim Puller
Dubsch
Groveton
Trinity County
Addie Deaton
Waskom
Spring Hill
Louisiana
Birds and Dumb Animals Endure Winter Suffering
Winter cuts off natural food and water for birds and domestic animals, causing suffering. Citizens are urged to provide food and water, as editors note the humane duty and public benefit of aiding animals during harsh weather.
Marriage Licenses for White Wur and Hatter
Marriage licenses issued for White Wur Skipper of Dubach to Pearl Jones of Dubach and Elbert Hatter of Choudrant to O neata Thompson of Ruston.
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Wur Skipper
Dubach
Pearl Jones
Elbert Hatter
Choudrant
O’neata Thompson
Ruston
Falling log kills Ponchatoula man
Ponchatoula Louisiana February 18 Albee Hoffman 27 son of Paul Hoffman was killed when a log fell from a truck near Woodville Mississippi at noon Friday He was crushed died almost instantly The body was brought to Hammond for funeral services at noon Saturday He leaves a widow Lucile Steidtmann of Ponchatoula and his father
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Ponchatoula, la
Albee Hoffman
Paul Hoffman
Ponchatoula
Woodville
Miss
Hammond
Hoffman
Lucile Steidtmann
360 Acre Truck Farm Starts Operations Near New Orleans
New Orleans Louisiana 360 acre truck farm at Scarsdale Plaquemines Parish begun by G W Zieger of Chicago. Giant tractors will cultivate and ship hundreds of carloads of winter vegetables annually to northern and eastern markets. Farm chosen after extensive South wide survey as Louisiana truck growing gains notice. Five families have started farming locally with two more near final arrangements.
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New Orleans
Scarsdale
Louisiana
Canal Street
G. W. Zieger
Chicago
Zieger
Plaquemines Parish
South
Improved Flying Service From N C To New York By Air
Gulf Coast Airways division manager William K. Ennis predicted improved service between North Carolina Atlanta and New Orleans upon arrival of the new Steerman plane. Additional planes will be added as mail volume warrants. Eastern Air Transport Line plans four ships in operation within a month, two each way daily between Avante and New York.
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New Orleans
Atlanta
New York
Chicago
William K. Ennis
Gulf Coast Airways, Inc
Eastern Air Transport Line
Avante
Airplane arrivals tie into Brownsville Mexico City run
The report notes a red 16 passenger Mokker monoplane to serve the Brownsville to Mexico City route, plus a Sikorsky empployee from Chicago with half its possible passengers and three Commandaire planes stopping en route to Houston to be used as cotton dusters.
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Meneses Pisid
Néw Ofidum
Brownsville
Mexico City
Sikorsky
Chicago
Commandaire
Houston
Texas
New Money Again Counterfeited in Washington and Heb
The Treasury Department reports a fresh counterfeit $20 Federal Reserve note bearing Andrew Jackson’s portrait and signatures of Secretary Melon and Treasurer H T Tate. It mirrors the recent $10 counterfeit. Public warning urges caution in handling the note.
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Washington
Heb
Treasury Department
Federal Reserve
Treasury
Andrew Jackson
Melon
H. T. Tate
United States
Free Schoolboy Cleared in Killing of Two Liquor Runners
Joy Crow an 18 year old schoolboy, found not guilty of killing Axel Johnson and Babe Snyder after admitting stealing 25 gallons of liquor with two others. Prosecutor indicated no further charges likely. Crow, radiant and hopeful, to return to school and normal life in Grant Nebraska.
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Grant
Neb
Joy Crow
Axel Johnson
Babe Snyder
George B. Hastings
Crow
Snyder
Johnson
Sandhills
Steamship Service To Boston Started Two Weeks After Tampa
New Orleans began a weekly steamship run to Boston when the Commercial Bostonian arrived with general merchandise. The New Orleans Boston service followed the Tampa link by two weeks, and Mooremack Gulf Lines also operates weekly to Philadelphia. J A Mouton, Commercial Agent, notes added ships have increased from two monthly to several now serving New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Boston
Mooremack Gulf Lines
J. A. Mouton
Orleans Business Men To Make Good Will Tour
New Orleans businessmen plan a four day goodwill tour March 18 to 21 1930 covering the Old Spanish Trail from New Orleans to Lake Charles and to Alexandria. The Affiliated Members Division of the New Orleans Association of Commerce backs the trip to strengthen relations with customers in surrounding areas. Delegations participated in three tours during 1929.
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New Orleans
Lake Charles
Alexandria
New Orleans Association of Commerce
F. Bond
Scrapper's Wife Divorces Boxer After Two-Week Marriage
Chicago February 16 Peter Verri amateur boxer trained by his wife. She says he used an iron fist and lasted two weeks of marriage. Judge Joseph Sabath grants divorce after remarks to Mrs. Verri's lawyer Irving Eiseman.
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Chicago
Peter Verri
Joseph Sabath
Two-Cent Fine in U S Beer Case Headlines Seattle Court
In Seattle on February 15 Norris Halverson twenty pleaded guilty to selling home brew. He received a one cent penalty, said to be the smallest Aquor fine ever meted out in United States court here. He paid with a five cent piece in change.
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Seattle
Norris Halverson
Halverson
Ing
Fifth district membership grows in 1929 enrollment
Sanders Baskin reports the Fifth District rises to 1368 members this year, up from 1339 in 1929, with eleven of thirteen posts ahead of last year. Statewide total reaches 4516, surpassing 1929 and last year figures. Major Perry Cole and Dr. W. S. Rutledge attend the Alexandria meeting as Baskin urges full turnout for tonight’s session, including minstrel show decisions.
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Bers
Louttane
Sanders Baskin
Mr. Baskin
Alexandria
Perry Cole
Ww. 8
Rutledge
Cole
Senate OKs Bridge Over State Canal
The Senate approved a bill to let Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Co construct a bridge across the intra-coastal canal in Louisiana. It also passed a House bill authorizing the Morehouse Parish police jury or the state highway commission to build free bridges over Bayou Bartholomew at Cory Bluffs Knox Ferry Bonners Ferry and Parkers Ferry.
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Washington
Morgan's
Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company
Louisiana
Senate
House
Morehouse Parish
State Highway Commission
Bayou Bartholomew
Cory Bluffs
Knox Ferry
Bonners Ferry
Parkers Ferry
Find Homebrew in Auto After Crash
New Orleans report describes Eddie Kauffman 21 of 1104 Music Street trying to fix a misfortune after an evening crash on Royal Street near Canal. His car collided with a second vehicle driven by William Bradshaw who suffered cuts from flying glass and was hospitalized at Charity.
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New Orleans
Eddie Kauffman
Music Street
Kauffman
Canal On Royal Street
Elysian Melds Avenue
William Bradshaw
Charity Hospital
Brew Discovery Sparks Hood Act Charge in Local Incident
The report notes Kauffman faced a Hood Act violation amid a sequence of misfortunes centered on an auto matter. Bystanders who discovered the home brew prior to police arrival were the only apparent beneficiaries.
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Ding
Kauffman
Coolidge Two-Day Visit In New Orleans Ends
Former President Calvin Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge passed away? on Thursday evening and Friday in New Orleans while en route to California. They were warmly greeted, taken on a harbor trip, and hosted by the Association of Commerce at a dinner Friday evening.
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New Orleans
Salvin Coolidge
Public Accounts Official Visits Ruston This Week
Assistant state supervisor of public accounts from Baton Rouge arrived in Ruston this morning and will review the parish superintendent of education police jury and Louisiana Polytechnic Institute books for the remainder of the week.
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Ruston
Shattuck
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Four Men In Sunken Barge Found Frozen To Death
Four survivors of the sunken barge Merrill of Baltimore were found frozen to death in an open lifeboat by coast guard cutter No. 218 at dawn after an all night search off the Delaware Capes. The four seamen, said to be employed by the Eastern Transportation Company of Baltimore, perished when the Merrill went down in a northwest gale after tow lines broke. The cutter is heading to Cape May with the bodies.
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Cape May
N. J
Merrill
Baltimore
Delaware Capes
Coast Guard
No. 218
W. H. Bhea
Eastern Transportation Company
Capes
Hoover Plans Autumn Visit to Mexico
President Hoover is expected to travel to Mexico in the autumn, according to reports. The trip would mark a notable diplomatic visit as U.S. interests in the region are discussed.
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Hoover
Mexico
Washington
Farm Development Visitors Arrive to Address Lincoln Parish
Men from Rock Island Railroad development team B Flannery of Little Rock Arkansas and C H Belting of Topeka Kansas arrive in Ruston for a several day stay. They will tour parish farms with J A Shealy county farm agent and J L McKnight Ruston Chamber of Commerce secretary. Thirteen meetings are planned to discuss agricultural development with area farmers.
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Vn. B. Flannery
Little Rock
Arkansas
C. H. Belting
Topeka
Kansas
The
Rock Yaland Railroad
Fuston
Lincoln Parish
J. A. Bhealy
J. L. McKnight
Ruston
Ruston Chamber of Commerce
New Orleans Plans Eight New School Buildings in 1930
Orleans Parish School Board voted to construct eight new school buildings in the current year. Projects include Alcee Fortier High, Academic High for girls, Palmer School replacement, Allen School elementary division, annex to Roberts Lee, and new facilities for Gayaree Capdau and St Philip McDonough areas plus a 4 trade school for negroes costing 3.4 million with 270000 from the School Board and 125000 from the Julius Rosenwald Fund of Chicago. The trade school aims to teach industrial skills in demand such as domestic science and bricklaying.
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New Orleans
Orleans Parish School Board
Alcee Fortier High
Palmer School
Allen School
Roberts, Lee School
Gayaree-Capdau
St.Philip-McDonough
School Board
Julius Rosenwald
Chicago
Frst
Rosenwald
School Board Pushes Plan for Arid Better Schools
The school board aims to improve education by developing new school plans. Except for Fortier High School the project specifications are not drafted yet but work will begin as soon as possible.
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Alege Fortier
Agent May Be Tried On Five Year Old Murder Charge
Houston dispatch reports five year old murder case against Fred Mertz narcotic agent awaiting extradition to Canada. British attorney Charles Stubbs in Galveston plans to seek Mertz's extradition so trial occurs in Canada. Mertz arrested in his office and released on recognizance by Federal Judge Hutcheson. Warrant brought by Frederick Paris and Stubbs cites murder of Amiedee Belaudeau and kidnapping of Robert Trice and theft of auto owned by Adolphine Begin.
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Houston
Texas
Canada
Fred Mertz
Yton
Charles Stubbs
Galveston
Mertz
Merts
J. ©. Hutcheson
Frederick William Paris
Stubbs
Amiedee Belaudeau
Robert Trice
Adolphine Begin
Hoovercrats to Supreme Court
Birmingham February 18 The Alabama Supreme Court will be asked to rule on the legality of the state Democratic executive committee s action barring Hoovercratic candidates from the party primary. Birmingham attorney Crampton Harris announced tonight following the Jefferson county circuit court s refusal to grant Horace Wilkinson an injunction to halt county officers from proceeding with what he called an illegal election.
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Birmingham
Ala
Supreme Court of the State of Alabama
State
Democratic Executive Committee
Crampton Harris
Harris
Jefferson County Circuit Court
Grant
Horace Wilkinson
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U. S
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State Canal
Coolidge
G. M. Lomax Lumber CO
Ings
Ruston State Bank
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U. 8
Hoovercrats
Supreme Court
Business and Professional Directory
the State Life Insurance CO
Indianapolis
Indiana
W. E. Owen
Ruston, LA
Mississippi Ave
Ruston Mattress Company
J. E. Crawford, M. D
James Bldg
Ham
8. R. Clay
Optom E-Trist
DR. L. F. Green
James
Ellis Bailey
W. P. Simpson
Rubton, LA
Desidence Telefrone
Cal
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