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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1938
Page
1
Manila reports optimistic notes amid a wide ocean search for the lost Hawaii clipper and its 15 crewmen. Army and navy units say they found nothing as pilots scoured new areas and the salvage ship Pigeon heads to a nearby island for refit.
Hollywood stars weigh in after Norma Shearer says she is unsuited to Scarlett O’Hara and producers consider new casting. Fan letters influence decisions as Katherine Hepburn Margaret Sullavan and Clark Gable are linked with key parts.
A 22 year old brunette Ruth alias Ruth Abel is in FBI custody in New Orleans as police search for Floyd Hamilton. She is said to be a courted associate of Hamilton, recently visited him in Shreveport and planned to meet him in New Orleans after traveling from Lake Charles Louisiana. Authorities note she has ties to Raymond Muilton and to outlaws Barrow and Bonnie Parker. She reportedly escaped from a Louisiana New Virginia institution after serving time and was sentenced to two more years.
American volunteers who fought with the loyalist forces report the international brigade is taking revenge for earlier defeats. Wounded men describe a smashing advance deep into insurgent lines before retreat across the Ebro River on stretchers.
The justice department will launch a grand jury inquiry to determine if organized medicine violated anti trust laws by opposing a cooperative health society. The investigation follows pressure from the American Medical Association and the Medical Society of the District of Columbia against Group Health Association of 2,500 federal employees who hire in house physicians.
Report says six men killed in a land crossing clash as trucks carrying troops moved between Ramallah and Nablus. Soldiers pursued the attackers, capturing six men in the night incident toward Fabien.
J R Strickland 32 of West Monroe was arrested in Ruston and returned to Ouachita parish jail on charges of stealing a truck and produce from an Enid Oklahoma merchant. He also faces a local charge of passing a bogus check and possible penitentiary if convicted. West Monroe police aided in the arrest.
A Toledo area collision between the Mercury bound Detroit to Cleveland and the Commodore Vanderbilt to New York left 38 injured, 3 serious, with 16 to Toledo hospitals and 14 to Cleveland. Dr. George A. Poe treated about 50 at the scene as passengers escaped through shattered observation cars.
A senate committee inquiry into campaign practices fuels the final push for six primaries this week. The Kentucky Democratic senatorial primary, where President Roosevelt backs Alben Barkley, tops the stakes as investigations begin to touch Tennessee and other states.
Great Britain lodged a protest with Japanese authorities citing belligerent guard conduct at bridges linking the international settlement to Japanese zones in Shanghai. The action followed the Dorothea Lintilhac incident and related arrests of Miss Lintilhac and her mother. Japanese columns meanwhile move toward Hankow on the Yangtze.
Judge Paul N. Schaeffer ruled the Pennsylvania grand jury investigation of graft and corruption involving Governor George H. Burle and 13 Democratic officials must continue. A new law allows a legislative committee to take over the inquiry, but the judge blocked testimony and kept Shelley's evidence sealed, while a committee could still be named.
Washington August 1 HUD Administrator Ickes warned municipalities not to delay in applying for public works projects. He noted the PWA had surpassed the half billion dollar mark of the present program and warned that little funding may remain for late applicants. He said 3 995 projects had been approved with total construction costs about 1.046 billion dollars.
The agricultural adjustment administration reports the new crop control law may spark a regional issue in four farming areas. A referendum could be held in the Midwest corn belt on marketing quotas to curb price declines from surplus grain. Legal questions arise in the southern tobacco belt after Georgia and Florida growers secured injunctions against penalties. The outcome hinges on an August forecast of this year’s corn crop.
News det-ails describe Nancy Srege? of Shreveport Louisiana being rushed to Michael Reeve hospital in Chicago for cheai treatment after a crash involving a plane and train while en route from her home. Her mother is Mrs. Son Train of Brooklyn.
Soviet army communique reports five Soviet aircrews killed while Soviet planes pounded Japanese positions in the Siberian Manchurian border area. The brief says heavy bombers and fighters covered the assault, with clashes near Berio and Gente.
The labor relations board ordered adjournment in the Maytag case over a two day period. The board said its action does not acknowledge the governor's order and cited ongoing procedural pauses.
Madison Hill, NLRB trial examiner, reported that Tinley informed him the hearing would not be allowed and that Kraschel’s order to deploy National Guard to enforce martial law would be confirmed in writing. The July strike at Maytag Wash remains under state control.
Aug 1 Indianapolis reports 1 year old John Pierpont Morgan Jr. son of a famed banking family is recovering after an emergency appendectomy. He fell ill while studying midwestern agriculture at the Knightstown area farm of Omar Addison and was brought to a city hospital for surgery.
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