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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1933
Page
2
A dense WPA era networked broadcast grid shows NBC CBS and regional slots from East Coast to Pacific Coast. Listings include orchestras, bands, vaudeville acts, and serials with times spanning morning through late night and daylight time shifts.
The piece extols September as oyster month noting its social prominence and economic impact. It praises oyster dinners for aiding church finances and public life while acknowledging critics who disparage the mollusk. It ends with a welcome to September and its varied oyster preparations.
A discussion on how the eldest child acts as the natural leader and educator within the family. The piece argues the elder's influence shapes younger siblings, for better or worse, through example, study habits, and demanded behavior.
A New York air sample from Central Park shows pollution up from last year and 1930 figures. The article links higher industrial activity and lower visibility to dirtier air while noting prosperity may bring better food and coins.
The piece notes a shift in the United States from traditional hunting to game farms and fur plantations. It laments growing barriers to hunting as a sport, claiming broader access once common has narrowed to fair or none outside protected areas, amid conservation efforts and fragmented reports.
The column argues weather is an outside influence not a daily ruler. It advises workers to ignore heat distractions, stay productive, and avoid weather obsession. It cites Mark Twain about talking of weather and notes modern offices keep temps steady for comfort. Focus on tasks rather than forecast.
A poetry fragment notes longing for vanished things and remembered faces and places. The speaker seeks return of bright hopes and beauty from the past, while a brief exchange hints at memory and forgetfulness between a Man and a Girl.
In a quip from a police officer the exchange questions a road sign message Danger Go Slow and a passerby criticizes the phrasing. The joke notes the sign should read Go Slowly to avoid a solecism.
Mrs. Farmer questions whether the adopted dog will bite as she tests the animal on a trial basis. The case centers on safety and potential liability for the owner.
A courtroom quip centers on a lawyer asking if the woman got out of a car rearward. She replies in denial and notes the vehicle was moving backward, creating a humorous misstatement during the exchange.
A 1933 copyrighted piece presents witty character labels. The Social Director is called a mezzobrow, the Music Critic neutral, and the Mother offers a proverb about contentment. Bobbie boasts wanting all the pie she desires.
A humorous excerpt notes Washington truthful yet fresh as a boy cutting a cherry tree and joking about gun and war antics. It mentions a medieval musical instrument called a fief and riffs on Shakespearean lines with playful misreadings and dating thrice.
Washington reports recount a staged confrontation over Edward F. McGrady’s appointment as assistant secretary of labor, highlighting Miss Perkins, Jim Farley, and Mrs. Roosevelt in a publicized clash over labor influence and the presidential recovery program. The episode exposed tensions between labor leaders, cabinet members, and the White House during Roosevelt era policy shaping.
A Farley recommendation urged placing a Roosevelt loyalist before Chicago command, arguing labor backing on coal and steel codes would pressure the president into a favorable trading point.
Memphis August 31 federal cotton production administrator Cully A. Cobb urged a long time program to stabilize cotton by balancing supply with world demand. He stressed work to avoid criticism and believed price stability would follow when supplies are reduced to reasonable levels, aiding the agricultural adjustment act and southern farming.
Seven defendants pleaded guilty in district court on Wednesday and received jail terms from 30 days to 18 months. Sam Brent got five months for possessing maribusing cigarettes, with 30 days per cigarette. G F Givens drew 30 days for selling whisky under the blind tiger law. James Allen received 12 months for auto theft, without owner consent. Willie Williams got 20 days, already served, for larceny. Monk Cole was jailed 18 months for theft of rims and tubes. Jesse Davis and Hosie Riley got 12 months each for stealing an automobile wheel and tire.
The St Francis Sewing circle met with Mrs Albert Horuff presiding to discuss the December 23 Christmas sale and continued benefit card parties. Attendees included Mesdamn J C Amman J Brennan M Tall A M Herring J E Larkin A J Renaud M F Weaks Miss Evelyn Amman Miss Bell Downes Lizzie Kennedy Jennie O'Kelly Gov L E Hall will speak at Sugar theater Friday night. Dr David Fischman has returned from New York after summer on the Great Lakes as a Jewish War Board member.
Kiwanis club in Monroe screened motion pictures of the recent international Kiwanis convention in Los Angeles. Lieutenant Governor F. K. Hirsch and projector operator Leon Sugar presented the show as the main feature of the meeting. Secretary S. H. McClary urged NRA consumer card signatures and cooperation. District Governor J. K. McDowall of Jackson will visit Sunday for a reception with Hirsch.
Petition for appointment of an executor of the estate of Rev Celestine Mahe who died February 19 in Nantes France was filed in district court by S J Ri vo ire. The priest aided Monroe in Ouachita parish and inventory and appraisal are required. Next surviving heir is Madame Alixe Douroux of Nantes. A will was drawn up shortly before his death but not filed.
Real estate transfers listed for Wednesday include L C Judy to Mrs C W Williams for Lot 9 Square 68 Layton’s Third Addition. Monroe is noted with use and mortgage indebtedness as consideration.
Long fragmentary account describes Gin Lane in Southampton, urban designers, and theatrical production moves toward Broadway. It notes stage careers, disrobing in theaters, burlesque influence, and a nudist camp publicity stunt that caused tension among chorus girls and their publicity handlers.
Hollywood Close-Ups by Dan Thomas sketches a celebrity luncheon at the Brown Derby with Walter Armitage amid autographs from Glenda Farrell and Robert Riskin and others like Mae West and Edward Everett Horton nearby. A Roosevelt roof garden buzzes as Una Merkel dances with Ronald Burlap and a celebrity table anchors Vendome supper and breakfast.
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