11 Apr 1938
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1938
Page
1
Governor Richard Leche met with state education heads in Baton Rouge to plan budget needs for the next biennium. He said he will consult department heads individually and will propose few changes to the current legislative setup, citing strong state prosperity and progress.
Federal court in the Western District of Louisiana enters its second week with Norman Harvey of Union Parish on trial for interstate transportation of a stolen automobile. Carlyle D. Jones, parole violator, faces 18 months in a federal penitentiary after his earlier sentencing for a stolen auto offense. Prosecutor J. Fair Hardin notes Jones’s criminal history in Texas and Louisiana as he awaits further court action. Harvey is accused of stealing a Griffin Auto truck in El Dorado Arkansas around the time in question.
Henry Ford and wife quietly marked their 50th wedding anniversary in a farmhouse near Ford Motor Company headquarters with only family present. Mrs Ford also celebrated her 71st birthday. A civic ceremony is planned in Dearborn tomorrow night at Greenfield Village.
By DeWitt MacKenzie AP Foreign Affairs Writer in YORK April 11 Our new ambassador to England Joseph P Kennedy will go down in history for his daring in discontinuing the presentation of debutantes at royal courts This annual rush has long been a headache for the American embassy in London and Washington This season 300 pairs of eyes have pressed to be among those duchesses who sought the honor to curtsy to their majesties The pressure from influential interests is strong but Kennedy has shown courage in resisting
Governor Bibb Graves opened the souths bid for lower freight tariffs at an interstate commerce commission hearing in Birmingham Alabama. He attacked current rail rates as a barrier to commerce and testified as the opening witness in a complaint by eight southeastern states alleging railroad discrimination against southern shippers. More than 100 attorneys rate experts shippers and civic group representatives attended the session before ICC member William E. Lee. New England and eastern states opposed the move for lower rates.
In Sao Paulo 31 children died as 2,500 spectators panicked rushing to exit a crowded theater. Fourteen people are gravely injured and 27 others hurt less seriously. State authorities opened an investigation after hoaxers shouted fire triggering the panic.
Chester Bailey Fernald a 69 year old American born dramatist and newspaperman was drowned in Dover harbor after being knocked off the auxiliary cutter Florence by a boom while returning from France with his son John. He had been a Washington correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle and authored books and plays including The White Umbrella Always Afternoon and The Day Before the Day.
President Roosevelt met with congressional and departmental leaders to discuss sidetracking parts of his program amid a government reorganization defeat. A $1.25 billion work relief appropriation for the first seven months of the new fiscal year was proposed for WPA alone, against a $1 billion full-year estimate.
A national anti Nazi convention to oppose the organized menace of Nazism in the United States was set for May 15 in New York. Delegates from 23 trade unions and Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant groups form the coalition. Dr Kurt Rosenfeld warned that the Austrian plebiscite would boost Nazi propaganda here and the group estimates Nazi propaganda costs at over 30 million dollars annually.
The Queen Mary reached Plymouth after a stormy voyage from New York. Several passengers were lightly injured, the grand piano was damaged, and hundreds of dishes were broken during the rough crossing.
A 4 30 a m explosion at Farmerville High School damaged two rooms used for home economics and a third grade room while exterior walls remained intact. The blast, caused by a non automatic gas boiler left lit since Friday, emptied $5 000 to $10 000 in losses. Classes will continue as normal as reconstruction follows.
Washington April 1 Charles Evans Hughes chief justice of the United States marked his 76th birthday today. Appointed by President Hoover in 1930 he has not missed a day due to illness and appears in robust health. He is eligible for retirement on full pay but has shown no such intention. Only two justices are older Brandeis 81 and McReynolds 76.
S. M. Sevier, 21, son of Missouri-Pacific special agent R. M. Sevier, was gravely wounded by a pistol shot fired accidentally by his father Sunday afternoon during target practice near Eighth Street and Texas Avenue. The wound, from a .357 pistol, pierced the back and right of the spine and entered the lower intestine.
John R. McIntosh, prominent attorney and former judge, was re elected president of the Fifth District Bar Association at its annual Winnsboro meeting. A planter and Bank of Oak Grove vice president, he has led the group covering West Carroll Richland and Franklin parishes since its nine year founding. The 1939 meeting is planned for Oak Grove.
The Monroe police report two suit thefts involving men named Taylor on opposite sides of the Ouachita River. W. D. Taylor of 414 Pine Street West Monroe says his blue serge suit was taken from his home about three days ago. A. L. Taylor of 104 1/2 North Seventh Street reports a blue suit with his initials inside pocket stolen within the last four weeks.
Several hundred delegates from 37 Louisiana Baptist district associations will attend a two day training union of officers and workers at First Baptist Church West Monroe on April 12 and 13. The event marks the third in a five year Southern Baptists program with talks by leaders from the Baptist Sunday School Board and state mission board.
El Paso officers hunted a blonde woman and a man in a black coupe believed tied to the deaths of Mrs Weston G Frome and her daughter Nancy. The car was seen in several southwest Texas towns and was reportedly following the Frames’ car the day Berkeley women were killed near Van Horn.
Richard Whitney former New York Stock Exchange president was sentenced to five to ten years for grand larceny with sentences running concurrently. He took the verdict calmly and will serve at Sing Sing. Dewey’s office urged a substantial punitive sentence.
Washington April 11 Vic Donahey Democrat Ohio named to head congressional probe into the Tennessee Valley Authority. Vice President Garner designated him to chair a five member Senate panel with five House members joining. Donahey, famed for silence in five years in the Senate, said he would be content to be a horn, big or small, in the inquiry.
Washington April 11. Dr Francis E Townsend author of the Townsend plan to pay $200 a month to the aged failed to overturn a 30 day jail term and $100 fine for contempt of a house committee. The high court refused to review a District of Columbia appeals court ruling upholding the sentence. Townsend aged 71 left a committee session May 21 1936 after criticizing legislators as unfriendly and unfair. He said he would not return except under arrest. He contended the district court refused to let him refute government evidence that his departure was in bad faith or was prompted by personal abuse from the committee’s questioning.
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