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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1935
Page
3
Monroe post office reports the first month of night airmail averaged 18 to 19 pounds daily, with total day and night mail at 27 pounds. Postmaster J R Wooten says late mail delivery to most U S destinations saves business houses time and money. About 1,350 letters are dispatched daily based on July pounds.
A grass fire at Spencer and Myrtle streets was put out yesterday afternoon by Monroe fire department crews. The call came in at 3:44 PM.
Virgil Garlock 32 and brothers Wade and J A McKissick 24 30 West Monroe residents face manslaughter charges in the July 23 West Monroe saloon shooting that left Lloyd Bennett 25 dead. Garlock’s bond cut from 1500 to 1000 while McKissicks bonds drop to 750. All await grand jury in October. Wesley Jackson released on 750 bond. Coroner says Garlock acted in self defense and Jackson and J A McKissick instigated the argument.
Judge Charles Schulze reports army worm infestation on a small cotton tract at Louisiana Training Institute with prior damage on Jeff Cole’s plantation northeast of Monroe. Boll weevil damage noted. Rainfall needed. Farm agent BE R. Strahan says poison from any drug store is the only control.
Information at the Monroe West Monroe Chamber of Commerce office in the Hotel Virginia builds a steady stream of travelers. Secretary S. H. McClary notes the service costs little to users while gathering up to date routes and tips for trips across the country, from Washington to San Diego and points along I l corridors. Highways are improving and commonly better than years past, with many choosing routes via Memphis Nashville Knoxville Roanoke or Atlanta and coastwise paths to the nation’s capital.
In a three week road test with 750 car owners Gulf gasoline is claimed to outperform regular brands. Evaluations cover mileage starting pick-up power and overall performance with seven of ten voters declaring Gulf superior on at least one criterion. The ad attributes this to Gulf’s refined formula offering five qualities in one.
MGM presents Murder in the Fleet a detective romance set aboard a warship during visitors day Civilians and crew are confined as investigators pursue a hidden criminal The cast includes Robert Taylor Jean Parker Jean Hersholt and others with director Edward Sedgwick as scenes feature electrocution a water flooded powder magazine fight to the death and a tense outcome at sea
Ouachita parish sheriff's office announced the solution of two store robberies, one near Swartz and another at Alto. A total of eight men were arrested including C. E. Kennedy and John S. Price, with confessions tying them to the Vinson store theft and aiding the Alto robbery. Loot recovered and arrests extended to Easterling and others in Rayville and West Easterling.
Rufus Sam Raborn known as the Dixie Baritone headlined the Wednesday Kiwanis meeting at Hotel Virginia. Cherokee Indian youth Jewell Spencer from Oklahoma accompanied on piano. Raborn sang several numbers and spoke informally. He assists in evangelistic services at a Mississippi street tabernacle and belongs to the Mannington West Virginia Kiwanis club. He soloed at the Kiwanis International convention in Toronto last year.
Mae West stars in Go in to Town at Capitol, a Paramount film in which a bronco busting cowgirl becomes society’s sweetheart. She inherits cattle money, pursues Paul Cavanagh to Buenos Aires with horse racing, then returns to Southampton. Supporting cast includes Lebedeff, Coral, Owsley, Gateson.
Monroe police superintendent L V Tarver announced on Thursday the appointments of Sergeants J D Busby and B L Brantley to captains. The promotions, approved by the state civil service commission, become effective immediately and create two sergeant vacancies that will not be filled. Captain F S Pettit will now serve as senior captain. Both incumbents had previously served as patrolmen and sergeants.
After a preliminary hearing in West Monroe before Judge Decker Moore Henry Green and Houston Frost were remanded to Quachita parish jail on accusations of lying in wait with a dangerous weapon to commit a crime. Warrants were sworn by Judge Williams. Green swore out a warrant against Williams charging assault with a dangerous weapon. Williams was released Wednesday on a $500 bond.
An automobile driven by Cash Clay and a bicycle ridden by a Black cyclist collided. Details on injuries, location, and outcome were not provided in the surviving text.
Rhymes Hill, a negro, collided yesterday at 5 10 pm at the DeSiard and Hall streets intersection but no injuries were reported according to police headquarters.
Cases disposed by Judge Harper include Earl Johnson drunk and dis orderly fined $7.50 Nellie Cash fighting fined $7.50 J W Cash fighting fined $7.50 Cecil Haynes malicious mischief five days in jail
Apple and pear growers in New Zealand seek to establish a market in the United States with the current season seeing about 20,000 cases shipped.
Louisiana State Normal college conferred bachelor of arts on 58 students Wednesday. One recipient hailed from Monroe and another from West Monroe. Miss Sarah Ragland of Monroe and Mrs. H P Smith of West Monroe received bachelor’s degrees. Mrs. Smith is principal of the Claiborne school west of West Monroe on the Dixie Overland highway.
A Memphis clothing company was granted a 25 cent judgment against a African American boy in a dispute heard by local authorities.
Dr. Ray G. Banister, instructor in surgery at Tulane University, returns to New Orleans to resume duties after a few days with his parents Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Banister at 514 Oak Street.
A bicycle belonging to the young son of Henry Sandman of 211 Erin Street was stolen sometime Tuesday night from the Sandman residence, police reported yesterday afternoon.
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