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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1936
Page
2
The aircraft, en route to Chicago, crashed into a rolling field after its landing gear retracted. Weather deteriorated from 1800 to 500 feet. visibility was three quarters of a mile with fog. A farmer nearby heard the plane pass about 10 p.m. with both engines reportedly functioning.
Chicago and Southern officials report Russell C. Mossman died in the Robertson airport crash near St. Louis. He had ten years or more flight experience and served as co-pilot on the carrier’s doomed flight with Carl Zier and six other passengers.
A Pittsburgh to New York bus overturned twice in rain on a mountainside 12 miles west of Huntingdon. Two people were killed and 1 injured as rescuers worked four hours to reach six trapped passengers among the 15 aboard.
The bus wreck near a hill crest at 12:30 a.m. eastern daylight time left two women dead and several others badly cut or bruised. Driver George Kukich of Pittsburgh survived unscathed as the vehicle overturned after knocking down about 75 guard posts and shearing the top from the body. The victims identified include Frank Hatuk, 48, of Youngstown Ohio and Florence Corrignan, about 25, of Cleveland Ohio. Mrs Martha Gray of Washington Pennsylvania and Mrs Lois Kelly of Coalport Virginia were among the injured.
Two autos collided on U S 91 three miles south of Niles Michigan killing six people and fatally wounding a seventh. Victims include Private Eugene Newby and three Fort Jefferson privates en route to army maneuvers in Michigan. Also among the dead are Joe Hill 22 of Niles and four others.
Owen Johnson, author of The Sea Wolf and friend of Yale figure Dink Stover, announced his campaign for the Democratic nomination for Representative from Massachusetts first district. Son of former ambassador Robert Underwood Johnson, he said he would run after responding to several hundred Democrats including Ellery Sedgwick of the Atlantic Monthly.
A grass fire in the 1600 block of DeSiard Street was extinguished yesterday afternoon about 4 30 by Mionree firefighters.
Complex listing of radio network hours and programs across BASIC East Midwest Northwest and Pacific regions. Appears as a dense station guide with show times, orchestras, and featured acts, including NBC networks and various regional lines. Including names like Gene Arnold The Weavers Loretta Lee and Benny Goodman with orchestras, plus city and time blocks.
Bitter pronouncements from both sides signal a clash over the CIO drive to organize production workers. Lewis of the United Mine Workers refuses to disband the organizing committee, insisting the CIO is a rival to existing craft unions. The executive council backs policy and criticizes Lewis for splitting labor by creating a separate CIO structure.
The Log Rollers' Association of the Woodmen of the World met recently in Monroe and scheduled a session at the Wi. W. hall at 2 40 pm on Sunday.
The Winnsboro Parent-Teacher Association sponsors a program at the Princess theater in Winnsboro Louisiana. Mack Bardley Jr will be master of ceremonies. Acts include Annie Lee Kirkland Barbara Graves Gloria Adams Carlton McDonnell Paula Hammond Faye Todd Helen Todd June Langford Amarylia Hill with piano accompaniment by Mrs Walter Wood Annie Mac Taliaferro and Elsie Taliaferro.
A mine disaster trapped sixty miners after a night shift collapse. One man surfaced badly burned, while seven more were reportedly trapped behind a rear fall. Rescue teams reached many bodies as wives and relatives gathered at the pithead and Dr James Henderson called the situation hopeless.
4000 soldiers reach the coast after a Gibraltar battle as government air forces plan a relentless war on rebel strongholds in Spain. Thirty aircraft reinforce northern seaboard air squadrons from Madrid with at least 300 machines planned to crush the revolt. Fascist leaders seek air superiority and big profits in Spanish oil if the rebels win. Paris backs a non intervention policy with seven nations approving in principle and notes to curb arms shipments to Spain and Morocco.
Prominent West Monroe figure Pat Hamilton veteran clerk of court dies after a lengthy tenure and public service. Survived by wife Ruth Nixon Hamilton and daughter Martha Nixon Hamilton. He guided the parish clerk's office since 1920 and taught Sunday school at First Baptist Church West Monroe.
Secretary of the Treasury demoted Secret Service men after inquiries into the Dillinger gangster shooting death. Successors unnamed. Morgenthau stated Murphy had 35 years in the service with an unblemished record. The secretary disapproved the action and vowed not to permit it by Treasury Department members.
Victor Fortune's ta we dog Idaho, a half Airedale police hound, was ordered 26 months confinement as an animal dangerous to swimmers but now begins a two week Hollywood audition period. Harry Sessions says several film outfits want Idaho and the owner expects compensation.
Aug 6 report states Farmerville High and Downsville High will gain agricultural departments at the start of the September school year. Existing programs already operate in Marion Linville and Spearsville high schools in Union Parish.
A group of college and seminary students from Franklin parish are conducting study classes this week in several Deer Creek association churches. They teach workers for Sunday school and Baptist Training Union departments.
At the Tri- Parish Medical society meeting in Tallulah Dr. M. W. Hunter of Monroe presented a paper titled Pain of Angina Factoris and Conditions Stimulating Angina. Discussion followed from Dr. H S Coon of Monroe and several regional physicians from Tullulah Lake Providence and Newellton.
Bernstein's Bayou DeSiard barbecue hosts a meeting inviting local electrical and hardware firms to join a new Monroe organization. The aim is to reduce electric consumption in the city. A naming contest via the World and News-Star offers a $10 prize and closes Monday at six.
Medical authorities note kidneys contain about 15 miles of tubules that filter blood. Doan's Pills, used for decades, are marketed to flush these tubes and relieve symptoms like backache, leg pains, and fatigue, urging readers to buy at the drugstore.
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