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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1938
Page
3
A public hearing in the House Ways and Means Committee explored a new 1 percent sales tax replacing the luxury levy. The bill would require merchants to collect from consumers and tax imports. Exemptions include farm products, utilities, newspapers, and ship supplies. Louisiana residents would file July imports and July sales for August 20 reports.
Louisiana House votes 61 to 14 to concur with a Senate amendment authorizing 300000 from severance tax revenues to buy the Chalmette site for a national park. Debate centers on land value and school tax funds. lawmakers say schools will not be harmed.
The president stressed raising education in poorer communities without cutting richer ones and urged extending aid to the bottom. He linked freedom to learning, pressed against censorship abroad, and touted world peace through cultural exchange at the 1938 expos.
President Roosevelt, during the New York cornerstone ceremony for the federal building at the fair, urged extending the Western Hemisphere spirit worldwide. He said the good neighbor policy depends on understanding and active effort, noting regional tranquility yet global unrest requires action.
Miss Gertrude A. Smith of the Benjamin Rose Institute Cleveland argues substitute mothers seek to fit into other homes with training in case work health routines menus budgeting and household management. She adds the social security act does not solve aging problems and notes fewer young people to support the aged amid low birth rates.
Postmaster J R Wooten announces the Monroe postoffice will be closed in all departments on Monday July 4. Citizens should mail letters and packages before noon Saturday, the usual closing time. The article also notes deep sea fish appear gray due to pale light.
Turbulent reports from Japan describe floods and a quake causing transportation and communications disruption with up to 200 missing. In Spain a major insurgent air raid on Badalona killed 45 and wounded nearly 100, as Catalonia faces intensified bombardment amid Francoist operations.
The piece lists a string of marriages and engagements in June including Harold Ickes's surprise wedding to Jane Dahlman, Marshall Field Jr and Alfred Vanderbilt brides, Molly Hudson and Josiah Trent, and Lily Pons with Andre Kostelanetz. It notes other high profile unions and missed Hollywood stars, ending with a gap in Cupid's June list.
Five dollars in nickels were stolen from a vending machine at Frank Genusa's shoe repair shop at 619 DeSiard Street. Police say entry was gained through a transom over the front door. detectives L. G. Parker and D. J. Bedsole led the probe.
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