Gov Huey Long accuses Shreveport police chief of murder
Gov Long denounces Shreveport Police Chief Bayer as guilty of murder for ordering a raid that killed a Negro and two officers. He demands a state investigation, criticizes the chief’s blackening of officers, and contrasts his stance with Mayor Palmer’s defense of the raid. The governor vows action but keeps details pending.
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Hueyr Twng
Nearo
Shreveport
Bager
Guider
Riouts
Killng
United States
Supreme Court
K. D. Bayer
Hia
Ohr
J. G. Palmer
Sleeveport
Polier Chia
Regime mobilizes Russian male workers for return to road jobs
The government orders men who have worked on roads in the past five years to resume their old roles immediately, with employers warned of severe penalties if they do not discharge affected workers. Plans to draft housewives into industry via communal kitchens are noted as freeing women from traditional duties. A separate notice announces the Dubach Lumber Company stockholders meeting in Ruston, La., on February 10, 1931, at 10 a.m. to elect directors and address other business.
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Russia
Dubach Lumber Company, Ltd
Dubach
T. L. James & Co
Ruston
G. W. James
A. H. Wacker
Father Sentenced To Senate Juror Excused
South Bend Indiana January 22 summons for federal jury service. A J Ballard of Marion explains his father is serving a sixty day sentence in the state Senate. Ballard also notes business ties with his father Jesse Ballard state senator for Grant county and a farmer packer and banker. Judge Thomas W Slick excused him.
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South Bend
Ind
A. J. Ballard
Marion
Ballard
Jesse Ballard
Grant County
Packer
Thomas W. Slick
Smudge Pots Fight California Frost Again
Smudge pots burned in Southern California citrus groves to prevent frost. This marks the second cold snap since January 2. A low of 27 degrees yesterday was offset by the pots with no damage. this morning's chill was not more severe.
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Los Angeles
California
Readiness Of Red Cross Relief Urged By Drouth Chairman
B F Thompson as Louisiana Drouth Relief Chairman urges Red Cross aid for drouth suffering families. He notes Red Cross will supply food fuel clothing and livestock where needed after investigation and requests parish committees to help needy households contact local chapters.
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B. F. Thompson
Red Cross
Drouth
American Red Cross
Louisiana Drouth Committee
National Red Cross
Floating airports in 24 hour line to Europe envisioned
Eleven: Twenty four hour air service between the United States and Europe using floating airports anchored every 350 to 400 miles along an all weather route is predicted by Edward R Armstrong president of the Armstrong Beadrome Development Co Inc. of Wilmington Delaware Speaking at an aircraft session of the society of automobile engineers the terminals would be at New York and Vigo Spain Armstrong is designer of a floating airport.
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Detroit
United States
Europe
Edward R. Armstrong
Armstrong Beadrome Development Co., Inc
Wilmington
Del
Society of Automobile Engineers
Armstrong
New York
Vigo
Spain
Bridge Increases Canned Goods Sale
In Chicago on January 22 the National CannersAssociation heard retiring president GE Hume declare that bridge is boosting canned goods sales. He noted housewives play bridge in the afternoon and buy more groceries to feed their husbands, urging more households to take up the card game.
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Chicaga
National Canners’ Association
GE. Hume
Hume
Cannon's Son Weds Washington Bride in January Nuptials
Jan 22 report from Washington notes David P Cannon Jr., son of Bishop Janes Cannon, Jr., married Mile Margaret Kee Pull of Washington last Saturday. The ceremony joined the Cannon and Pull families in a quiet service with local acquaintances in attendance.
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Washington
David P. Cannon
Janes Cannon, Jr
Wias
Margaret Kee Pull
Parental Education Conference Set in El Dorado Arkansas
A one day parental education conference will be held in El Dorado Arkansas on Saturday with Dr Ada Hart Arlitt of the University of Cincinnati as principal speaker. The event gathers parents and teachers from Union county and invited guests from other areas. The program features state leaders and educators focusing on Arkansas adult and parental education. The meeting is hosted by the Arkansas Congress of Parents and Teachers in cooperation with the state board of education.
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el Dorado
Arkansas
Ada Hart Arlitt
Faculty
University of Cincinnati
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
Union County
Ruston
Olan Morgan
County Association
The
Dorado Times
Dr. Arlitt
National Federation of Women's Clubs
Home Economics State Department of Education
State Congress of Parents and Teachers
L. D. Reagan
Arkansas Congress of Parents and Teachers
Goldie Pyle
State Department of Education
Drucilla Kent
Alma Keys
Little Rock Board of Education
Roben Rhea
Norphlet School
Arkansas Congress of Parent- Teachers
State Board of Education
P.T. A
South Arkansas
Parent Education
Arkansas Congress
L. D. Feagan
Golda Pyle
Road To Grand Isle Gulf Resort to Begin Soon
New Orleans plans for a highway to Grand Isle aim to cut the trip to 100 miles. Bids for embankments and drainage on a 26 mile route from Golden Meadow to Grand Isle will be sought February 10 by the state highway commission. The island, famed for surf bathing and tarpon fishing, now relies on boat or air access.
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New Orleans
Grand Isle
Harry B. Henderslite
Golden Meadow
Highway Commission
Raceland
Louisiana Leader In Contemplated Construction Work
New roads spanning vast distances will be built across the nation this year, employing around 9,000 miles of roads and nearly 1,000,000 workers. The project is valued near one billion dollars with federal funding approaching 295 million, covering states considering road programs and excluding independent county work.
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New Orleans
Globe
America
Iin
Fire Bugs In Big Blaze At Mich Capitol
Lansing authorities began an incendiary inquiry after a fire swept the Michigan State Capitol just after midnight damaging the first, second, and third floors. Estimated losses reach $50,000 with Civil War relics in the ground floor museum destroyed. An attempted break in at the attorney general’s offices on the second floor raised arson suspicions.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan State Capitol
Bids Set For Seven Million Dollars On Louisiana Roads
New Orleans on January 20 bids for 439 miles of highways at an estimated 7 million dollars will be received February 10. The letting covers 20 concrete road projects, five bridges, three embankment and gravel projects, and nine asphalt and amnesite paving tasks across forty parishes as part of Louisiana's new 75 million highway program.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Sunday Bridge Barred In Massachusetts
Pittsfield Mass January 23 The Superior Court Judge William A Hurns ruled in a case against Thomas H McMahon and Edward P O Hearn that playing bridge on Sunday and any card games including casino poker is illegal in Massachusetts whether money is involved. The judge stated the law makes no exception for wagers or lack thereof.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Superior Court
William A. Hurns
Ilegal
Thomas H. McMahon
Edward P.o'hearn
Hoover Supports Wickersham View Against Prohibition Repeal
President Hoover agreed with the Wickersham report that the eighteenth amendment should not be repealed as a remedy for liquor abuses. He dispatched the message to Congress alongside the report, while noting objections to a proposed revised constitutional amendment.
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Washington
Hoover
Wickersham
Enngress
Hoover Praises Temperate Prohibition Document
Mr. Hoover praised the document as temperate and judicial. He said its general tenor should stimulate the clarification of public mind and the advancement of public thought.
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Congress
Hoover
Standing On Head For Dime Bet Fatal To Boy
In Brunswick Georgia January 22 Buster Day a 12 year old black golf caddy died instantly after collapsing from standing on his head for five minutes in a ten cent bet. He ruptured a blood vessel and died at once.
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Brunswick
Buster Day
Buster
Large Number Trees And Shrubs Planted In The Crescent City
New Orleans, January 22. As many as 200 trees daily and hundreds of shrubs and flowers are being planted along streets and in parks, says George H. Thomas, superintendent of the New Orleans Parking Commission. He estimates by May 1 total trees planted will reach 55,000 as the commission plans to keep up the pace in 1931.
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New Orleans
George H. Thomas
Carter’s Little Liver Pills Advertised Remedy
An old advertisement promotes Carter’s Little Liver Pills as a preferred remedy for biliousness torpid fever and constipation. It urges avoiding substitutes and promises initial weight loss as the liver cleanses the system, claiming the pills thoroughly purify the body.
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Carter
City undertakes plantings along streets and parks
Mr Thomas outlines progress as crews plant trees and shrubs along streets paved in 1930 and in parks and neutral grounds. Workers replace summer and fall plants with evergreens and flowers along streets, using weeping willows, oleanders, hackberries, elms, magnolia, ash, myrtle, pakn and gum trees.
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Ing
Mr. Thomas
Cardul credited for relief in Denison woman
Mrs Nannie Davis of 418 W Woodard St Denison credits Cardul with ending years of side and back pain and weakness. She weighed about 110 pounds before treatment and says four bottles restored health, energy, and the ability to work. She endorses Cardul for run down, nervous conditions and monthly suffering.
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Denison
Texas
Cardus
Nannie Davis
W. Woodard Street
Cardul
Renae Ara
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