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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Aug 31, 1933

Page

7

Windsor Actress Alleges Affair With Broker Read

Windsor, a blonde actress from Los Angeles, testifies she believed a romance with Alfred C. Read blossomed after he claimed his wife would divorce. Read admits being a tied man and misses his wife. Windsor says his statements were true as she proceeds with the suit for damages.

Angeles Windsor Alfred*c. Read Givne Marian Read Fore &F Oakland Cal Busian Read Illinois Read de- Lhe New York Ing West Pei

Achita Fair Attracts Interest. Directors To Meet Friday

G H Dierlamm manager of the Achita Fair association notes an important directors meeting at Sam Humphries offices Monroe at 4 p.m. Friday. Monroe and West parish residents show strong interest and cooperation is sought to establish the fair. Dierlamm expects a wide variety of displays and plans will be announced as they develop.

Ge H. Dierlamm Wuachita Fair Association Sam Humphries Monroe West Parish Jerlamm

Baton Rouge Man Volunteers for Sleep Disease Research

Herbert Brown a 27 year old ex soldier from Baton Rouge offers himself as an experimental subject in the fight against sleeping sickness. He says illness from tuberculosis keeps him from work and hopes to aid science by undergoing humane trials in St Louis as encephalitis research expands. He lives with his parents in a Baton Rouge area suburb.

Baton Rouge Herbert Brown Brown St. Louis

National Legion Chief to Speak on NRA Campaign Air Tonight

Louis Johnson, national commander of the American Legion, will address a nation wide radio audience from New York at 10 30 p m EST on a drive to bring employers under the NRA code by Labor Day The talk titled For a Permanent Armistice aims to create November 11 as a new Armistice Day with the end of oppression More than sixty stations will carry the program and 10745 posts plus 1400000 members will hear the chief impact of the NRA pledge across the legion and auxiliary.

Louis Johnson American Legion Columbia Broadcasting System New York Johnson United States Legion NRA Legion and Legion Auxiliary

Malaria illness hits Florent Hammonds. firemen convention planned

Florent Henry Hammonds, 12, son of Florent and Mrs Hammonds of 605 South Third, is ill with malaria at home. Plans proceed for the state firemen convention in Monroe on September 12–14, Fire Chief Roddy says. The junior class of Gordon Avenue Methodist church staged a puppet show for a fundraiser Thursday. West Monroe Kiwanis hosted a banquet at North Louisiana Experiment Station with Sidney Stewart, station manager, and Dean C Calvert as speaker. The postmaster reports 39 more blue eagles needed to reach 1,000. 961 have signed up so far.

Florent Henry Hammonds Florent Hammonds South Third Street Monroe Roddy Gordon Avenue Methodist Church West Monroe

Receipts From Meat And Dairy Tax Rise in Louisiana

Baton Rouge reports the meat and dairy products tax will yield about 36000 for the quarter ending June 30 up from 24785 the previous quarter. Dr E P Flower secretary of the state livestock sanitary board attributes the rise to higher product costs and forecasts yearly collections near 120000. Revenue funds tick eradication work in Pointe Coupee Iberville and eastern Ascension parishes barely covering the first eradication zone.

Baton Rouge E. P. Flower State Liverstock Sanitary Board Pointe Coupee Iberville Ascension Parishes

States' rights question dominates bar convention debate

At Grand Rapids, the American Bar Association wrestled with the idea of a federalized police force proposed by Pat Malloy. Attendees balked at abandoning constitutional prerogatives, while Homer Cummings was slated to outline crime fighters plans and Dean Justin Miller pressed adherence to law and courts.

Grand Rapids Mich American Bar Association Pat Malloy United States Malloy Justin Miller Duke University Law School Homer S. Cummings Cummings Dean Miller John J. Parker Fourth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals Parker

Y's Men's Club Meets with Recovery Program Pledge

The Monroe Y's Men's Club held a dinner meeting featuring violinist Miss Eileen MacKinnon and pianist Miss Florence Ziegler. The group unanimously pledged to support the national recovery program. Visitor H. B. Durkee of New Orleans spoke, Leon Hammonds organized the program, and William Leber will arrange next week's gathering.

Eileen MacKinnon William Leber

Reverend Holloway Returns From Vacation at First Presbyterian

Reverend Ernest D. Holloway and Mrs. Holloway have completed a month long vacation in Mississippi and Missouri and returned home on Wednesday. He will lead both morning and evening services this Sunday at the First Presbyterian Church with a special choir program in the morning led by Leon Hammonds.

Ernest D. Holloway First Presbyterian Church Holloway Mississippi Missouri Presbyterian Leon Hammonds

City to observe Labor Day holiday next Monday

The day will close city stores and banks while courts and post offices suspend operations. Mail will be delivered to lock boxes and sent on trains and by air. The Monroe Trades Labor Council plans a downtown parade with unions and NRA affiliated employers encouraged to enter floats. Committee chair C. B. Atkinson and members Alvin Hendry C. C. Blanchard W. S. Adcock coordinate plans.

Retail Merchants’ Division The Chamber of Commerce Trades Labor Council Monroe

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