Negro Held For Death Of Little Girl Hit By Car
Tatiah McClain a 26 year old negro living near Columbia was held for safekeeping after fatally striking 6 year old daughter of Henry Costes with his car on the Boeuf river road. The collision occurred at 4 PM and the child died within 15 minutes. McClain halted then was rushed to the Caldwell parish sheriff in Columbia amid fear of neighborhood unrest.
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Tatiah McClain
Columbia
Monroe
J. W King
Caldwell Parish
Henry Costes
Boeuf River Road
McClain
King
Louisianian Father of 27 Children Dies
Rene Calmes, a noted Tangipahoa character and father of 27, died at his Robert area home after a long heart illness. Funeral services were held, and he had been working on a Tangipahoa parish history. He survived by 20 of his 27 children from two marriages and was brother to Dallas Calmes, linked to a historic murder case where six Italians were hanged.
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Hammond
Rene Calmes
Tangipahoa
Chilren
Robert
Calmes
Tangipahoa Parish
Dallas Calmes
Dranks Poison And Cuts Throat Before Shrine
New Orleans, March 6 Tony Spanya 29 of 1717 North Claiborne avenue sought death with a proper ceremony He drank iodine from a bottle and slashed his throat at 7 15 a m in front of the St Ann National Shrine at 2117 Ursuline street Passersby witnessed the act He was taken to Charity hospital where doctors said he would recover.
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New Orleans
Mar
Tony Spanya
North Claiborne Avenue
St. Ann National Shrine
Ursuline Street
Spanya
Charity Hospital
Right To Refuse Advertisement Upheld in New Orleans
New Orleans March 6 The State Supreme Court ruled that a newspaper may freely contract with or refuse to deal for advertisements. The decision arose from a damage suit by Rai Zoding Fridenberg et al seeking $10,000 after the Shreveport Times Publishing Company refused to publish ads for goods obtained at a sheriff sale. Publication of newspapers is a strictly private enterprise the court stated and publishers may choose their advertising customers.
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New Orleans
State Supreme Court Today
Shreveport Times Publishing Company, Ltd
Caddo Parish
Rai Zoding Friedenberg
Supreme Court
Ingratitude and Farmers Fall to Governor Long
Gilbert L. Dupre of Opelousas writes to The Item rebutting a Baton Rouge State Times quote attributed to Governor Long. Dupre argues the governor demeaning farmers shows ingratitude and predicts higher taxes will follow, urging farmers to feel betrayed.
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Senator Boone
Baton Rouge
Long
Gilbert L. Dupre
Opelusas
N. O
Domestic Gas Use Rises In New Orleans In Q1
New Orleans public service report shows domestic natural gas consumption for the three months ending January 31 up 37 percent from the prior year. The rise is blamed on colder weather, greater use for space heating, and more domestic consumers.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Public Service Inc
Utility Sales Report and Fire Loss At City Facility
Total municipal and commercial sales in November through January reached 166,660,987 cubic feet this year versus 106,542,883 the prior year. Industrial sales stood at 2,268,039,104 compared with 1,393,572,959. Superintendent F. M. Mill noted the stove had not burned in daytime and the electric current had been disconnected. Five tractors six trucks an automobile and valuable machinery in the garage were gutted by flames. Insurance covered the loss. Sparks damaged five nearby buildings lightly.
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F. M. Mill
Monroe Road Machine Burns in Ouachita Parish Garage
Fire of undetermined origin destroyed highway machinery valued at 620000 at the Ouachita parish maintenance garage at Tenth and Adams streets Monroe Louisiana March 6. A general alarm was sent to the Monroe fire department for the first time since December 1926. Fire authorities suggest gasoline escaping from an automobile contacted an open stove caused the blaze.
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Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Tenth
Adams
Monroe Fire Department
Pire
Mother saves baby and dog dies from poison
In Culver California a mother saved her two year old daughter by grabbing meat tainted with strychnine from a dog. The dog had already eaten some and died from poisoning. Harrigan Joseph Visceglea investigated a basement gas leak then forgot to leave the upper floor as a pipe explosion occurred. He escaped with minor injuries.
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Culver
City
Calif
Harrigan
Joseph Visceglea
Aghong
Extension geography class opened at Louisiana Tech
Under T A Green, associate professor of education, Louisiana Tech extends a new class in Geography of the Western Hemisphere. It meets at 4 p m Monday in Teen Academic building with about 15 students. The extension program has grown to over 500 students, including 200 in group lectures and 300 via correspondence.
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T. A. Green
Louisiania ‘Tech
D. G. Armstrong
Tech Extension Department
Professor Green
Green
Louisiana Tech
Sens
Western Hemisphere
Louisiana ‘Techy Extension Division
Armatrong
Thigpen Arrests Alleged Seducer of Gulfport Miss
Thigpen arrests Nafeil Abratwins on a seduction charge after a warrant from Sheriff Havens. He is jailed awaiting transfer to Mississippi officials in Gulfport. A note mentions a larger vocational school planned in Berlin near 3 million dollars.
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Thigpen
Gulfport, Miss
Sherift Jus
W. Havens
Gulfport
Mississippi
Sheritt A. J
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