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OLUME LXXXVIII? No. 143
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NEW ORLEANS, LA., SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 193* di=z.
UGAR TARIFF DATA PREFARED FOR PRESIDENT
icument Is Expected to Be Presented Within Week.
fUTHERN FOREST . BUDGET INCREASED . t
pert rells of Progress Vlade in Growing Timber for Profit.
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/a?hington. June 14.?With its liminary discussion of the re-t of its commodity division ?iially finished, the tariff collision today called upon its ex-ts to compile tables and other ? ntr ^^rtmne"d?.To'r?T?:cTu-i in the report to be su1>mit-to tht president in the sugar
*P?rts from the economics, legal, juntlnr and surai^ division* o( oommlwloa will be*ln' wcirk may On the preparation of the 1 requested t>y the commlssldn lo-and It, 1? hoped to have this iptated within f week.
Hh tbli Information berore them, *T? or thg commission will set-$9Wti lo Lbe aotual work of pre-of th?tr report for the president I*hl9h IS* executive will base any o? be ftiay take In proclaiming a a?a at doty on sugar. It probably require two or three weeks to pleta the commission's report r the tables and other l&forma-are presented.?
Reptort to Be Divided, ible* and other data will be pre-id alon* several lines, with and lout Ihcltialon of transportation ? and the methods which might followed, efcoh of which mlfht
Explosion Victim Native of Ship's Namesake State
CUcrenCe Thetiu Beur|?oi?,
Victim Of the turret explosion on the dreadnought Mississippi, who wai born in Waveland, Miss., and
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luu and xneraber of the Wash* i?gton .Ajfttllery.
SURVIVOR GIVES CLUETOCAUSE OF FATAL BLAST
CITY?S INCREASED' WEALTH SH 0WT1 BY BOARD?S DATA
Gain of $12,583,969 in Real Estate Valuations Is Disclosed.
ASSESSOR?S FIGURES PROVIDE FOR NEEDS
?AMATEURS?FACE DIFFICULT TASK IN STEERING SHIP
New Method* to Be Used in Organization of Campaign.
REPUBLICAN PARTY NOW IN EVOLUTION
Air Pressure Failed to Clear Barrel of Gas, la Suggestion.
(By the Assoolated Press)
I Rato PetWo, Cal., June 14.?Lack of sufficient air pressure to clean out the great fourteen-inch gun barrels In turret No. 2 of the* battleehlp-Hls-sisslppl, -was the tlrwt evidential Clue offered today to the board of Inquiry investigating the cause of Thursday1! disister which cost forty-eight lives.
Bauer Asserts Schools? Estimates, Not Council?s, Are Correct.
Convention Gives Butler Foretaste of Coming Stuggle.
An increase of $12,583,969 in real j estate	and improvement valua-
tions for 1924, as compared with 1923, was reported yesterday by H. N. Umbach, president of the board of assessors.**
The result will be kn Increase of Hrreregw?*^he ?ehy mW* age, 27.5 on 85 ptt* cent valuation, tflll bring $294,150.29, while the stale tax, 8.26 mills on 100 per c*nt valuation, will bring $10831774. An average of 2.5 per cent li subtracted as not collectable.	*
The city return ts divided among the departments as follow*:
Board	of	liquidation, 10
mills ......................$106,968.74
School board, T mills ........	74,874.62
City alimony, ? 1-2 tnllls .. 68,626.43 Fire end police department*,
2. mllla_______________... -21^176
Sewerage and water board, 2 mill* .........................	21,892.76
Total .................$294,160^9
All departments except the tcbool board have formed budgets on -the 1923 basis, so that th? Increases are pure surplus. According to IL JA. Murphy, commissioner of public finance, the cottnell probably will proceed without expansion of the present budget. Personal property rittua-tloas are to be considered. License
NEW GOVERNMENT U FRANCE IN S'i
Continued on Pafe fifteen.
fii BOBKBT T. 8MALL (Special Qorrerpondtnt Timei-Picayune)
Cleveland, O.,' June 14.?The old pilots have been dropped, there is a new captain at the helm, a new crew aboard, and the ship of the ?Grand Old Party'1 has _set_forth on Jhe restless seas ofi politics with C?lvin Coolidge and ?Charlie? Dawes in the first and second cabins.
Almost from the oeglnfcilng lo the end, the management of the machinery of the Republican organisation has been placed In th? haodft of w*hel the seasoned politicians call ?amateurs.? New England has furnished the chairman, but* an effort hai been made lo giva broad character to the organised forces by selecting a secretary from Chicago and a treasurer from the Rocky mountain stales, Butler in First Campaign. Chairman William M. Butler of Massachusetts Is to lead his first national f?ght. He has been a member of the national committee only a com paratlvely short time, but as President Coolidge has faith In Massachusetts so baa he faith in the new man from Massachusetts,
It has been forecast from. Washing* ton that the coming campaign on the part of Republicans would be con ducted differently from most of the S battles of the past. The form of the
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TWELVE PfcRBH ALCLOUDBURSL WRECKS HOMES
Nine Members of Two Families in One House Killed.
V. Xdo today, (peak 1*4 during a n meafrva, just before he h leraaA. On the left it M? SocfahJBt leader Palnleve pubhc by M. ?>umergue,
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Foreign Pc to Be Th
?	Johnson City, Tenn., June 14.? Twelve known dead, four seriously injured, more than a dozen houses, barns and mills demolished, twenty miles of the Appalachian division of the 8outhern railway made impassable with parts washed away and thousands of acrev pf farm land ruined, constitute the toll-of the most disastrous cTaodburM j&vter recalled In tL*s section. It appeared to hare Its center near Hunter, Slam and Carden?s Bluff, and on Little Stony creek and Blue Springs creek, where a house in which were two families went to pieces, talari* nine llves^
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Pan* June 14?Edouard leader if the coalltlcTU of t wblci von the recent elect a gowamntil crisis of days, a many	respects
denta* n Preach history fi form? a mew govern** iijlinss^. made up to oarrj repea'j**]y expressed determl exc^m ^ minority' fron | patie* tn fH/toUe affairs, rtproMMtatWes ?( fair' ow partv ?*4 groups aasoelate in tk* suoceeiful eledlo. pclga.
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