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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1929
Page
1
State sources report plans to file Articles 10 impeachment charges against Attorney General R H Knox seeking his removal. The move aims to oust a high official amid ongoing political controversy and legal scrutiny.
The Mississippi House received and filed the majority report urging impeachment and began drafting about 10 to 15 articles. The vote to receive the reports was 129 to 0 with 11 absent. The house also adopted a rule requiring full member voting and authorized inserting testimony into the articles.
Shanghai dispatches say telegraphic links between Urga and Kalgan were severed today causing consternation in Chinese circles. They fear outer Mongolian tribes may invade China, with Russian influence already strong in outer Mongolia.
Bloodier Tong war fears rise as five are killed in two days in New York and Boston. U S Attorney Charles H Tuttle and Chinese consul general Samuel Sung Young urge peace ahead of a conference. A Harlem laundryman is shot at his ironing board. Authorities note violence in Chinese districts but report calm elsewhere.
DETROIT Aug 6 The disappearance of Richard J. Sandilands federal prohibition agent after a river incident near Detroit is under investigation. Maxine Heath wife of John Heath told customs officials her account of a struggle on the Detroit river and the agent’s vanishing while Heath swam back to his boat the Maxine. Heath’s attorney said Sandilands boarded the vessel to compel docking without badges, sparking fears of hijacking.
In Louisiana’s third district a tight race ends a spirit ed campaign for the seat left by the late Whitmell P. Martin. Republican M. F. Norman of Morgan City faces Democrat Numa F. Montet of Thibodaux with flood relief and a sugar tariff as top issues. Huey P. Long campaigns for the Democrats while Republican leaders promise flood control acts. A heavy turnout is expected.
Virginia's Democratic primary ends with three hopefuls John Garland Pollard G Walter Mapp and Rosewell Page vying to lead the party in the governor race. Lieutenant Governor James H. Price and Attorney General John R. Saunders face no opposition. Election day turnout seen from local races steady despite apathy.
In Sulphur Louisiana a Southern Pacific freight train struck an automobile at the R eight crossing. Mrs D C Broussard about four was killed instantly and Cecil Vincent about seventeen died several minutes later. Both victims resided in Sulphur.
The Graf Zeppelin undergoes refueling and provisioning at Lakehurst N J as preparations proceed for its midnight start on a 22 000 mile globe circling flight with 18 passengers aboard and freight and mail for the world tour. Passengers include Joachim Rickard Otto Hillig and several notables as mail closes at 2 pm.
A dialect sketch questions the meaning of new money and old money. The narrator jokes about whether people know the difference between wealth and seeds, comparing value and tradition in a humorous street tone.
Four major Louisiana agricultural bodies gather at Louisiana State University for the annual short course aligned with the American Institute of Cooperation. B B Jones urges closer ties between agriculture and business while over 1,000 delegates attend from the Louisiana Farm Bureau and others. Gov Huey P Long and Ag Commissioner Harry Wilson are invited to speak at tonight’s banquet.
Gov Huey P Long rescinds the August 20 recall for Representative George J Ginsberg of Rapides. The action follows Judge W Carruth Jones injunction halting all recall movements and confirms the governor’s prior stance after impeachment actions earlier in spring.
E J White from Ward 7 near Monroe sent the Wanamaker and Half and Half cotton to the Standard Gin and the 48 pound bale was listed at the Central Savings Bank and Trust for display. Fertilizer was used per farm bureau. auction set for early Thursday at 11 a m at the bank. Sander Berry donated toward rewarding the grower.
Temporary burial in trenches used at Calvary cemetery Queens as a week long strike by grave diggers leaves 600 bodies unburied. Workers demand union recognition and higher pay while arbitration talks proceed between strikers and cemetery trustees.
Ohio case against Dr. James H. Snook, once a professor at Ohio State, nears closing as prosecutors lay out the affair with Theora Hix and the confession in June. Detective Lavely testifies about the beating and throat cutting, with details of years-long relations and a rifle-range trip. Evidence includes two emotional stimulants found in the victim’s stomach and the claim Snook killed her after she refused continued relations.
An elevator descends from the seventh floor to the basement in a midtown loft building injuring twenty-one people, five women. Officer and patrols respond, ambulances called, two victims Lucy Adduico and Louis Rappaceno taken to hospital.
The Bailey family in Marietta Georgia was attacked in their home by a black man who was killed in a struggle with Mr Bailey. Mrs Bailey and the two children were injured though not seriously. The killer's body was found inside the house with Mr Bailey unconscious nearby. A milkman alerted authorities to the brutal assault.
At the University of Virginia's Institute of Public Affairs a round table on the south's economic and industrial development heard Bruce Crawford denounce southern labor practices as archaic and unjust and accuse the Republican party of hindering workers seeking stability. W Jett Lauck noted south policy aims at broader national prosperity while Crawford defended organized labor and its right to bargain and appoint representatives.
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