Louisiana Tech trims student paid publications staff
Campus publications at Louisiana Tech lost three paid student positions The Tech Talk sports editor, assistant business manager, and Lagniappe associate editor will cease to be paid The move follows a plan to print Lagniappe in the campus printing shop reducing costs but creating a need for an extra printer The president cautioned against covering salaries from maintenance funds and the publications committee elected to drop the three paid posts to balance the budget.
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Louisiana Tech
Tech
Tech Talk
Lagniappe
College Annual
G. W. Bond
He Has Had His Moments So She'll Keep Him
In Cleveland on October 22, Mrs. Fred C. Jackson told Common Pleas A. J. Pearce that her husband was often drunk and violent, yet she refused divorce. The judge ordered Jackson to pay her $50 a month or face jail for failing to comply with the court order.
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Cleveland
Common Pleas
A. J. Pearce
Fred C. Jackson
Jackson
Jobless And Needy Counted In New York City
Policemen began counting those out of work and in need as part of a campaign to relieve suffering this winter. An emergency employment committee of 100 industrialists financiers and civic representatives aims to raise 150000 weekly for a payroll fund to be run by the charity organization society and the association for improving the condition of the poor. Mayor Walker said police would census the unemployed and recreation piers and municipal buildings would house the homeless. Subordinate city payroll staff would contribute a dollar a month toward a relief fund, potentially totaling 150000 monthly.
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New York
Charity Organization Society
Association For Improving
James J. Walker
Bronx Terminal Market
Dreams He Drives Auto and Leaps From Window
In New Orleans Earl Gillory a 21 year old man dreamed Tuesday night he was driving toward a speeding train and leaped to safety as the car would crash. He later awoke under his bedroom window with both heels broken and hospital doctors say he enacted the dream by jumping from the window.
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New Orleans
Earl Gillory
Constance Street
Gillory
Mercy Hospital
Moran defies on return from vagrancy arrest
Chicago October 3 The investigation into the slaying of Tribune reporter Alfred Lingle continued. George Bugs Moran, noted gang leader, appeared defiant declaring I am not afraid of anyone upon returning to Chicago after a vagrancy arrest.
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Chicago
Alfred Lingle
Tribune
George
Bugs) Moran
Moran
Moran defends resort stay amid Chicago ties and Capone feud
Moran tells reporters he has stayed at a resort near Antioch with brief trips to Chicago to collect dividends. He says he is not a vagrant, claiming an income around $25,000 as part owner of a cleaning and dyeing company. Moran is known as an enemy of Al Capone.
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Peater
Antioch
Chicago
Lingle
Moran
Alphonse Capone
Detectives Held In Extortion Plot In Chicago
Chicago October 23 two veteran detectives Ernest Dallege and John McCarthy were held on extortion charges after a trap set by fellow officers. Acting Police Commissioner Alcock stripped them of their stars following testimony by Joseph Mason a South Side druggist who said they demanded 25000 then 5000 to stop arresting him for a alleged bomb plot.
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Chicago
Ernest Dallege
John McCarthy
Alcock
Joseph Mason
South Side
Mason
Callege
McCarthy
World's Meanest Mule Put Down By Own Action
Fort Hancock New Jersey October 23 Jersey Lightnin the army's only white mule broke her neck while in the stocks to be shod Old timers say she did it on purpose out of cussedness The mule had recently drawn publicity when she was to be shot and Col JC Johnson saved her by correcting a mistyped order from shat to shod
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Fort Hancock
N. J
Jersey Lightnin
J. C. Johnson
Needle Attacker Seeks Kidnaping Victim In Des Moines
DES MOINES IOWA Oct 23 A needle attacker attempted to kidnap 22 year old Mrs R J Hassett after injecting her arm with a hypodermic needle. She escaped and ran to her apartment locking the door before the effects of the injection overwhelmed her. Physicians were unable to determine the opiate used by the assailant.
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Des Moines
Iowa
R. J. Hassett
New Quarantine Station To Be Built In New Orleans
New Orleans La Oct 23 Work is well under way on a new quarantine station and its accompanying buildings to be placed just below the immigration station at the port of New Orleans The government is spending 500000 on the project with 300000 allocated for 19 buildings and the rest for equipment and beautification Major structures include the detention barracks and the administration building while the hospital fumigation plant and officers and attendants quarters comprise the remainder
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New Orleans
Port of
Death Follows Smoke Of Thirteen Cigarettes Tale
In Washington a 26-year-old department store employee, Miss Draper Gill, wrote a life story titled Thirteen Cigarettes then died after turning on gas in her attic bedroom. Police found her unconscious, and the manuscript with thirteen cigarette stubs lay beside the ash tray.
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Washington
Railway Company To Build Terminal Warehouse In N O
New Orleans officials announce that the Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad will construct a new warehouse and freight terminal at Julia and Liberty Streets in early 1991. The project includes modern mechanical facilities for handling and storing freight and will improve existing track facilities as part of a broad modernization campaign.
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New Orleans
The
Louisiana and Arkansas Railroad
Julia and
Liberty Streets
L. and A
Aged Out Given Home And $15,000 In Woman's Will
In Los Angeles a San Gabriel widow leaves a half million estate to provide a home and $15,000 for Mitzi the cat if she outlives Mrs Maude Ide ca in the will. The pet has a room and catwalk, with a rose garden nearby.
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Los Angles
Mitel
Mitzi
Maude FP. Ide
San Gabriel
Maude F. Cain
Ide
Survey To Help Idle Underway
Washington reports a winter relief program underway to curb unemployment. About 3.5 million people are idle as Col. Arthur Woods is chosen to head a new organization coordinating municipal, state, and federal agencies with welfare groups. The plan follows a cabinet committee meeting on unemployment.
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Washington
White House
Hoover
Col
Arthur Woods
New York City
Local doctors return from Tri-State Medical meeting
A group of local physicians headed by Dr. J. J. Bennett Dr. D. S. Calhoun and Dr. J. L. Smith of Dubach Dr. J. 3. Mc Bride of Ansley and Dr. M. T. Green attended the fall clinic of the Tri-State Medical Society in Shreveport at the Charity Hospital. Attendees hailed from Arkansas Texas and Louisiana with a larger gathering than prior years.
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J. J. Bennett
D. S. Calhoun
J. L. Smith
Dubach
J. 3. McBride
Ansley
M.T. Green
Tri-State Medical Society
Shreveport
Shreveport Charity Hospital
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
Louisiana Methodists To Meet At Alexandria
The eighty fifth annual session of the Louisiana conference of Methodist Episcopal churches will be held in Alexandria the week beginning December 3. Dr W W Holmes pastor of the local First Methodist church spoke in two messages describing and interpreting the conference and its work.
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Alexandria
Louisiana Conference of Methodist Episcopal Churches
W. W. Holmes
First Methodist Church
Freed after Jamaica ginger poisoning case in Oklahoma
Muskogee Oklahoma October 22 Federal Judge R L Williams held a man rendered unable to walk from drinking Jamaica ginger has been punished enough and freed W O Porter one of five Holdenville men charged with selling poisoned Jamaica ginger which caused partial paralysis.
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Muskogee
Oklo
R. L
Williams
Jamaica
W. O. Porter
Holdenville
Billion and Half Increase in Cigarettes in One Year
New York reports that cigarette production for the first nine months of 1930 rose by over 1.5 billion compared with January–September 1929, aided by modern manufacturing methods and UV testing. Advertising outlays and overall production reached new peaks, with nine months totals at 92.051 billion versus 90.534 billion. September production surpassed 10 billion as 10.190 billion were produced, against 10.405 billion in September 1929.
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New York
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Senator McKellar To Address Fraternity Meeting
Baton Rouge October 21 Kenneth McKellar will address a Pi Sigma Alpha public meeting at the capital on Friday night speaking on Public Affairs and the Democratic process. The event showcases the national honor fraternity’s chapter activities in Louisiana.
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Baton Rouge
Pi Sigma Alpha
Kenneth McKellar
State official to welcome visiting speaker at meeting
Professor Charles W. Pipkin of the State University will preside over the meeting. Governor Long will officially welcome the speaker and introduce him to the gathering.
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Gctant Party
Charles W. ‘Pipkin
Department of Comparative Government
the State University
Covernor Long
High Court Refuses Caldwell Appeal On Labor Fine
New Orleans October 21 The United States Supreme Court refused to consider George A Caldwell's appeal over a Louisiana labor act requiring employment of registered voters on public works He was fined 100 dollars after being convicted for employing a nonresident nonregistered carpenter P L Zagguey Caldwell served as general superintendent for Caldwell Brothers and Sand Brothers contractors on the municipal auditorium
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New Orleans
George A. Caldwell
Louisiana
Supreme Court of the United States
Caldwell
Criminal District Court
Louisiana Supreme Court
Caldwell Brothers and
Sand Brothers
Municipal Auditorium
P. Ll, Zagguey
Rocket Plane To Speed 3000 Miles An Hour
SAN FRANCISCO October 23 German rocket craft expert Herr Fritz von Opel predicted the airplane of twelve years hence will be rocket propelled and fly 25 miles above the earth at 3000 to 5000 miles an hour. He said the high speeds may seem ridiculous now but will become common in a few years as practical development proceeds.
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San Francisco
Fritz von Opel
von Opel
Requested Officer To Shoot Him In New Orleans
John Houston 24 of 3929 Toulouse Street walked up to Patrolman Charles Sewell at Canal and St Patrick Streets and asked to be shot saying he is tired of living. Sewell arrested him and booked him at the Tenth Precinct as a suspicious character awaiting a sanity examination.
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New Orleans
John Houston
Toulouse Street
Charles Sewell
Canal and
St. Patrick Streets
Houston
Sewell
Tenth Precinct
Poice
Flood Toll Reached 25 In Mexican Town Tuxpan Nayarit
MEXICO CITY Oct. 23 Tuxpan Nayarit reported 25 dead in floods that swept the town and nearby areas in the first half of the week after torrential rains. Bayona San Felipe and Cerrabola in Nayarit were inundated as thousands of cattle drowned. Vera Cruz reports put losses in that state and Oaxaca at about 3,000,000 pesos.
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Mexico City
Tuxpan
Nayarit
Mexico
Bayona
San Felipe
Cerrabola
Vera Cruz
Oaxaca
Bank robbery link found in Farmerville gun duel
Monore Louisiana dispatch reports local authorities hope arrests solve the Farmerville bank robbery. Gun duel on a highway left Jack Houck wounded and in parish jail while Clarence Wall was slightly injured. Wall implicated Houck and claimed Houck attacked him en route to tell police. Bank robbed of $10,000 about a month earlier.
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Monroe
Farmerville
Jack Houck
Clarrence Wal
Here
Houck
Wall
Thhem Houck
Congress Campaign Labels Jumble Across Parties
Washington, Oct 22. Political cross currents shape the 1930 congressional race with Democrats backing Republicans and Republicans campaigning for Democrats. Wet and dry factions also mix as party labels blur in scattered contests, notably in Pennsylvania where GOP leaders oppose Pinchot and dry Democrats split from their standard line.
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Francis M. Stephenson
Washington
Pennsylvania
Gifford Pinchot
Political party shifts court 1928 Senate races across states
The report notes Republican and Democratic maneuvers in Nebraska Wisconsin Colorado and Montana with figures like La Follette Walsh Costigan Norris Hitchcock Heflin Bankhead and Smith cited. It highlights party switches tensions in Nebraska and a dry versus wet split among both parties amid predictions of campaign stances.
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John Hemphill
Northwest
la Follette
Wisconsin
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Edward P. Costigan
Colorado
Nebraska
George W. Norris
Gilbert N. Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Alabama
Senator Heflin
John H. Bankhead
Hestin
Alfred 4. Smith
Ex Kaiser Denies Gift To Fascist Campaign
Doom Holland reports the former Kaiser told the Associated Press that neither he nor any of his sons contributed to the Fascist campaign chest. He called earlier statements, including a Berlin Acht Uhr Abendblatt report, pure invention with no foundation in fact.
Cat Woman Mary Janovich Slain in Gary Indiana Home
Mary Janovich a 65 year old recluse known as the cat woman was found slain in Gary Indiana. Police say she was choked and robbed with a probable motive while living alone with many cats. A search of the home was ordered. She reportedly held about ten thousand dollars plus an estate sum and had run a loan business from which she profited.
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Gary
Ind
Mary Janovich
Janovich
Polce
Four Eyed Fish and Nine Inch Moth Captured
Philadelphia report notes a four-eyed fish and a nine-inch moth added to the Academy of Natural Science collection. The specimens were collected in Honduras by James A. Q. Reb, secretary of the academy, and companions during a two month expedition, including six weeks in the cloud forest interior.
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Philadelphia
Academy of Natural Science
Honduras
James A. Q. Reb
Academy
Insect Discoveries by Explorers in Fog Shrouded Lands
Explorers endured a lingering fog as they collected over 7000 insect specimens using gasoline lamps. A nine inch moth dominated the lighted sheet while other finds included a flightless gold green grasshopper and a twig like grasshopper nearly indistinguishable from its perch.
Massacre claimed as Red bands seize Kiang province
Reports from Shanghai dated October 22 estimate 60,000 killed when the fourth and fifth Red armies captured Kiang, Kiangsi on October 6. The Kan-Kaing river allegedly ran red with victims, with corpses piled in vast numbers. The attack followed bandit and communist pressure over foreign captives in the province.
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Shanghai
Kiang
Kiangsi
Kan-Kaing
Navy asks 1.5 million for new super dirigible ZRS-5
Washington reports the navy department seeks 32 million dollars for naval aviation in the 1932 budget. It includes 1.5 million to begin work on the ZRS-5, the second of two new submarine cloud dirigibles, with details unfolding.
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Washington
Naval Aviation
Navy
Navy Department
Tulane Band May Accompany Team To Tech Game
New Orleans Oct. 22 Readers saw Tulane University band uniforms for the Tulane Birmingham Southern game and discussion grew of sending the band to Atlanta for the Georgia Tech clash. Uniforms are deep olive with light blue trimming gold buttons satin lined capes and light blue caps.
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New Orleans
New Orleans to Get World’s Largest Car Ferry
In New Orleans, a 452 foot long car ferry, built for the Southern Pacific Lines in Pittsburg, will join local rail service. Upon arrival the existing ferry will be cut in half and the new section inserted, enabling handling of large trains.
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New Orleans
Pittsburg
Southern Pacific Lines
Two Boys Fight Over Girl Ends in Knife Duel Tragedy
A Sunday joy ride in Huntsville Alabama left Ross Sneed 19 dead and Homer Sterling 22 wounded. Sterling remained hospitalized and faced murder charges in Sneed's death. The two girls present said liquor sparked the quarrel that led to the stabbing.
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Hunntsville
Ala
Ross Sneed
Homer Sterling
Sterling
Sneed
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