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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1930
Page
2
November in Monroe featured five freezing nights according to Miss Kate Key, with frosts on several dates. The coldest day was November 27 at 27 degrees, while lows of 32 and 23 were recorded on other dates. Rainy weather peaked Saturday, followed by brighter Sunday conditions and a milder Monday morning forecast.
Henry McCoy, 20, was jailed on a breaking and entering charge after the attempted robbery of C. S. Causey's store on Texas avenue. Surrendering after gunfire, he yielded five pennies found on him. The Causey brothers and officers D. J. Bedsole and G. W. Horton escorted him to city hall.
Judge Charles Schulze hosts a banquet at the Louisiana Training Institute in Monroe district honoring scoutmasters assistants and committee members. Committee chairs will outline plans to scoutmasters and their assistants.
Otto W. Thompson drowned while attempting to swim ashore after his boat capsized during a goose hunt on the Mississippi River near Ferriday. Rescuer John W. King was saved after clinging to the outboard boat and drifting five miles before aid. A wind whipped wave toppled the craft.
Jewel Adair aged 16 is being held in Marion Arkansas as a suspect in the killing of EL Byrnes a prominent farmer blacksmith of Earle. Byrnes disappeared Saturday night his body found Sunday on a lonely road shot through the neck. Byrnes carried cash from a small loan business and had been robbed recently including $500 a year ago. Adair to be questioned today.
Bandits holding Bert Nelson and Norwegian missionary Tvedt lowered their ransom from 3060 000 to 30 000. The captors called themselves the first red army. Nelson reported confinement in a settlement run on strictly communistic lines. The same group allegedly killed two English women missionaries weeks earlier.
The seventh annual session of the Southwest Assembly Jewish Chautauqua Society adjourned with Rabbi Walter Peister of Baton Rouge chosen as president. Dallas was set for the next meeting. Vice presidents named include William Nathan of Houston and Rabbi Ira Sanders of Little Rock, with Erhard Mayer of New Orleans as treasurer. An executive committee comprised Rabbis Abram Brill Shreveport Ephraim Frisch San Antonio David Lefkoff Dallas Samuel Rosinger Beaumont Harry Merfeld Fort Worth and Misses Alice Bloch Galveston Sophie Bodenheimer San Antonio.
In Huntington on December 1 Alford Baldwin 16 rode a horse while twin Clifford Baldwin walked. The horse bolted when frightened by a car. Alford suffered a fractured skull and died two hours later after arriving at Huntington hospital. Clifford was also brought to the same hospital with fatal injuries after being struck by a truck.
An army observer reported a new pursuit aircraft passing over San Antonio early today en route to New York. The plane carried First Lieutenants Joe D. Butler and Raoul Woodridge of Rockwell Field San Diego at an estimated speed of 23 to 30 miles per hour and an altitude of 15 000 feet.
Promote Blue Star Ointment to relieve skin irritations itching skin endemic conditions tetter ringworm itching toes poison oak and as an antiseptic dressing for old sores consult your druggist.
First stop scheduled at Hat Box Field Muskogee Ohio with legs to Kansas City Mo and Columbus Ohio. Flier air routes expect arrival in New York today then a return to San Diego to affect Captain Frank M Hawks record. A London sale at Mincing Square saw 3 to 40 tons purchased for dispersal to manufacturers making billiard balls piano keys combs and more.
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