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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1938
Page
8
New York reports from Dun and Bradstreet show retail sales averaging 2 to 8 percent above last week nationwide as cold weather and Christmas shopping begin. Wholesale buying also rose, with most stores posting gains and strong demand for heavy apparel and rubber goods.
Wholesale volumes expanded this week as consumer buying surged while the 1937 shortage narrowed to 3 to 10 percent. Many markets saw orders exceed recent peaks though individual orders remained small on average. Quick delivery dominated orders for early merchandise, but quantities were still insufficient. About 15 percent of spring clothing needs were covered versus last year, and cold weather apparel sold at the season's best rate.
Deputies in the Italian parliament watch as foreign minister Count Galeazzo Ciano sparks debate on Italy and Fascist aims in Tunisia Djibouti and Corsica. France Britain and Germany weigh shifts in Mediterranean influence amid talks on Czechoslovakia and Ribbentrop’s visit. The Tunisian issue strains Franco Italian ties while broader European diplomacy intensifies.
Mary Brown named three rough looking men with a mustache in a kidnapping that forced her from school and kept her overnight in a hut. An automobile dropped her near home about 10 pm as police and family searched wildly. Her condition was described as shaken but not harmed.
The page notes a forum at luncheon on Our Foreign Policy with Leslie M. Norton chairing and discussions by Miss Mary Hester Mrs John L. Coon Dr Virginia Gangstad and Mrs Fred Williamson among others. It references a piano solo Gitanerias by Miss Ann Goodwin.
A district court jury in Omaha Neb awarded Mrs Barbara Urbach 3250 dollars for a knee injury described as a trick knee that prevented kneeling in church and hindered housework. The verdict cites the embarrassment and inability to scrub floors as key factors in the decision.
An Omaha woman alleges a knee injury from a store fall and sues for five thousand dollars. Her husband George is referenced in relation to duties.
Oklahoma City boys suggest using money for Oklahoma A. and M. football coach to buy prize bulls to improve state livestock. Joe Scott, president of the state board of agriculture, backs the idea while workers counter that bulls have better conditions than the men and propose a beef option for players. A stray line mentions Elgin, Illinois and a pug.
Dr Knute H Hanson laments daily taxi trips for his pug pug as friends chauffeur the wandering dog. Hanson says the animal acts daffy about riding in cabs and knows the way home but won’t walk.
Disney Oklahoma a boom town along the Grand River gathers funds for a grand first anniversary party. A large sum has been collected to present to the prettiest girl at the celebration amid a festive crowd of locals and visitors.
Citizens voted on a sum for the New Year's party and, with thrice refusals to choose a winner, the allocated money will pay for the celebration.
Detective Joseph Mack arrested Edith Morris, 24, at a pawn shop in New Orleans. He took her to a precinct and questioned the fate of a $350 wrist watch missing from Fred D. Ketchum's home. She claimed she swallowed it, X-rays corroborated, and she was booked on possession of stolen property.
Report says caviar is being distributed to under nourished Russian children as a treatment for rickets. Officials note nutrition programs aim to improve health while critics question effectiveness and safety.
The first group of 20 Jewish children from Nazi Germany arrived at Harwich England as part of a Berlin committee plan to relocate 5,000 non Aryan youngsters. The dawn landing came hours before a London meeting of delegates from the United States Great Britain the Netherlands France and Brazil to discuss homes for persecuted Jews in Europe.
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