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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1935
Page
3
In Addis Ababa baron Muzzi Falconi, Italian consul, was wounded after firing two shots while hunting. He was found by his ascari and moved to an Italian hospital as Ethiopia orders an inquiry into the incident amid Italy Ethiopia tensions.
Three teachers in St Landry parish two in Opelousas and one in Washington were dismissed by the school board but later reinstated. The piece notes restoration of positions amid ongoing personnel changes in the parish.
Supt W B Prescott announced reinstated positions for Curry Couvillien Opelousas High Alma Caldwell Opelousas Elementary and Christine Guzzo Washington School Fifth Ward on the St Landry parish school board. Veo Joubert named Lawtell principal Mamir Landry reassigned Eunice High School. The Canada goose migration route was altered by Jack Miner at Kingsville Ontario. Radium valued above 1.5 million dollars per ounce.
Letters threatening to shoot the recipient’s heart were sent to several Georgia residents including Taylor Whitley of Dacula Flowery Branch landowners A J Wayne and C R Ware of Lawrenceville and Lawrenceville attorney Pelberton Cooley. The Department of Justice received the letters which demanded 4000 dollars and warned of fatal violence if not paid within ten years.
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a tax measure to fund railroad workers pensions. It would raise the total tax to 7 percent, split evenly between a payroll tax on carriers and an income tax on workers. The bill, 18–4, follows Roosevelt's push for pensions and replaces a prior unconstitutional railroad pension scheme on his desk.
House members report efforts to craft a compromise arms embargo law aimed at delaying its effective date to February 1 1936 to avoid targeting the Italian Ethiopian crisis. The plan would broaden to a credit embargo and grant licensing, with Roosevelt viewed as preferring executive power.
Washington congress faced delays as adjournment date remained unclear with talk of this Friday or next Wednesday. The Guffey coal control bill advanced in the senate amid debate over a 15 percent tax on sales and NRA code enforcement, while a Borah amendment cut exemptions under anti trust laws. House and senate work continued on neutrality, taxation, and utilities regulation, with Roosevelt pushing for swift action and a possible conference on the tax bill.
President Roosevelt expressed hope that the House will accept a compromise on the utilities holding company bill. The letter to Speaker Rayburn cited the Senate conferees' proposal as a generous concession and urged passage this session. The plan would relax 1942 dissolution demands and push the Securities and Exchange Commission to trim holding companies to single integrated systems.
Charles K Brunson Jr 22 died Monday while working on overhead electrical equipment on a state highway bridge under construction in Columbia. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 3 p.m. at his family home with Rev. Edwin Grant officiating. He is survived by his parents and five sisters. Interment followed at Columbia Hill cemetery under Riser Funeral Home.
The small marine creature from the oyster family known as pholad can bore holes through hard stone. It is a tiny bivalve capable of creating drilled gaps in rock surfaces.
The Louisiana state department of education reports a 65 percent drop in educable children from 663,169 in 1930 to 620,061 in the 1935 census. Authorities credit improved accuracy of teacher enumeration versus outside enumerators. The note ends with an odd line about a Brazilian black anaconda snake that snores when it sleeps.
Rupert Hughes to deliver a eulogy as Mrs. Rogers and her three children Will Jr Mary and James arrive from the east in the private car of Jesse Jones head of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Special guards restrict access to the Rogers ranch grounds at Pacific Palisades.
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