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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1929
Page
1
Two armed men halted Leland Petrie on a side road near Albany BiYa and refused money and a watch. They drove away with Petrie’s automobile and an unnamed girl after dragging him from his car and firing at him.
J W Crump aged 70 prominent planter and member of the Madison parish police jury died suddenly at his Tallulah area home near Waverly. Officials believe a heart attack caused death after a day at a jury meeting. Survived by widow three sons Arthur Charles Wesley and a daughter Mrs Eugene Dyers. Funeral at Tallulah today.
Harold Benson ten year old college student died in a collision near Clinton. Two occupants in the other car Jack Sanders and Lazelle Garret of Jackson were seriously injured. Benson was returning from Bolton after visiting friends and attended Millsaps College for summer school.
Reports from the Graf Zeppelin and two sighting ships place the airship beyond Nantucket Shoals near dawn, moving due east at about 109 miles per hour and about 15 mph faster than its known cruise speed due to tail winds. The launch from Lakehurst occurred at 12:40 EDT as a band played There’s a Long Long Trail A-Windin.
Mayor Bernstein reports a positive outlook for the plant project. He states the location is favorable and the plan appears very probable, signaling continued support and progress for the project.
Mayor Arnold Bernstein reported strong progress toward locating the American I. G. Chemical plant south of Monroe with the Standard-Oil and Electric Bond and Share groups plus Harvey C. Couch backing. Bernstein praised efforts and predicted a historic Louisiana investment as negotiations near final conclusion.
A 60 year old man identified as FE. F. Bob Lee was slain last July 29 and his body dumped in Horseshoe Lake near Jones. Funeral services will be held in Bastrop with interment in the city cemetery. Three men Henry Webb Joe Winn and Joe Webb are suspects with conflicting confessions. District Attorney David I. Garrett leads the murder investigation as the grand jury prepares for its fall session.
In unofficial returns from 1,570 of 1,681 precincts John Garland Pollard led with 102,767 votes. His rivals G Walter Mapp and Rosewell Page trailed with 29,171 and 4,612 votes respectively.
S T Duke, a farmer near Grayson, brought the first bale to Bridgers gin in Columbia. The bale weighed 475 pounds and graded strict middling, selling for about 22 cents. Ginning was free of charge. This marks the fourth consecutive year Duke has delivered Caldwell Parish’s first bale.
A U S Canada arbitration panel has been named to hear the case over the sinking of the rum runner I m Alone in the Gulf of Mexico last March. Justice Willis Van Devanter will represent the United States and Eugene LaFleur K C of Montreal will represent Canada. George Wharton Pepper, former US Senator, is noted among the appointees.
Public Service Commissioner Harvey G. Fields announced approval to discontinue a passenger train on the Missouri Pacific division between Monroe Bastrop and Ferriday provided mixed trains carry mail and bus service replaces travel. He toured Bastrop Rayville Mangham Winnsboro Ferriday Vidalia and said sentiment favored the change with separate white and colored compartments and 30 day wait before effect. The Lake Providence Ferriday Vidalia leg remained under study and the planned discontinuation was later abandoned after talks with railway officials.
A farmer was killed near Camp Ti and his wife wounded by a youth who opened fire after an estrangement. Police report the assailant fled the scene. investigators seek motive and capture whereabouts.
In Campti Louisiana near Grappes Bluff a 45 year old farmer, Robert Simmons, was killed and his estranged wife seriously wounded in a shooting blamed on domestic troubles. Joe Andrews, 21, shot Simmons after Simmons fired on his wife in front of the Andrews home. Authorities describe Simmons as intending to kill himself after a confrontation that left four children fatherless.
A gas well in the Tullos Urania Oil Field reached 700 feet at Hardner No. 1 on the Philip O Bannion Jease lease in section 1 township 10 range 1 east. Driller Hicks reports a 5 000 000 cubic foot estimated flow and plans a test gauge this afternoon.
In New Orleans the market fell after the government crop report showed an indicated cotton crop of 15 543 000 bales. Trading opened after the report with October at about 18 43 and December at 18 63, down 39 to 41 points from pre report levels.
In Nogales on the border, Francisco Leyva, seven, died of a skull fracture from a rock thrown from Mexico into Arizona. Police say two boy gangs, one in each country, regularly clash across the border line. Officers on both sides are rounding up participants as Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora remain divided by a pole line in International Street.
Milwaukee August 8 mourners from across the country gather to honor Victor L Berger 69 former Milwaukee Leader publisher and former U S representative His body lies in state Friday with funeral services planned Friday or Saturday and interment in Forest Home cemetery Hundreds of messages pour in praising the former congressman from fellow socialists and supporters
Yonkers patrolman Michael Regan shot home after duty as two shots hit him. His wife was killed beside their sleeping four year old and 13 month old. Roomer Richard Kehoe and roommate Patrick Flynn died from self inflicted or accompanying gunfire after a note. Flynn, a Yonkers post office watchman, had roomed in the home for six years.
Local reports mix inflation fears tied to a Monroe plant site with a dramatic murder trial. Mayor Bernstein urges affordable worker housing costs as a large I G Chemical plant location nears, while Dr. James H. Snook testifies in Columbus on Theora Hix’s death, describing fatal blows and a heated confrontation in a car at a rifle range.
A burly black intruder cut several locks from 14 year old Geraldine Smith in Cedargrove, Shreveport, about 2 am. The girl screamed, her father and brothers woke, the intruder fled, and police had no clues to arrest.
Nettie McGahee was arrested in Shreveport by local police and Webster Parish officers on a warrant charging her with kidnapping her 18 year old daughter. She was returned to Spring Hill as efforts to reach an agreement with her former husband were reported. The couple had divorced with custody given to the father for the daughter while the mother cared for a son.
In Memphis Tennessee doctors faced a grave case of a one year old girl Miss Vera Stone who began hiccoughing in Ripley last June. The illness persisted despite many claimed cures and a hospital admission here.
The department of agriculture estimates a cotton crop of 15 543 000 bales of 500 pounds gross weight for the year based on August 1 crop condition at 69.6 percent of normal. Last year yielded 14 478 000 bales and the August 1 condition was 67.9 percent. The ten year average is 67.8 percent.
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