Soviet Rejects Kellogg Pact Warnings Over China Rail Talks
Moscow rejects U S Britain and France warnings to avoid hostilities with China under the Kellogg pact. The notes claim direct negotiations with Manchuria over the Chinese Eastern railway dispute are imminent and the powers’ warnings amount to unjustified pressure.
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Moscow
United States
Great Britain
France
China
Manchuria
Nanking
Shimenovsky
Tsai Yung-Sheng
Mukden
Kellogg
Good Fellows Club Seeks More Christmas Donations
Funds for the Good Fellows Christmas drive rise to 44.50 with 21 added today as the need grows. Local residents urged to send or bring donations to the News-Star to aid the needy before Christmas. Donations already credited to the fund include 10.00 from Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Frizezell and 23.80 previously.
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Good Fellows Club
Good Fellows
Good Fellowes
Good Fellows Fund
News-Star
West Monroe Presbyterian Gisela Neo S .W.o
Bruce Frize Zell
Hilbun Resigns Mississippi Agricultural Service Post
Burn Hilbun resigned today as director of the Mississippi agricultural service department citing ill health. The board of trustees to name a successor Friday morning, and the resignation was presented to Governor Theodore G. Bilbo and accepted. Hilbun had been confined to his home for several months.
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Ky Associated Press
Jackson
Mise
Hilbun
Mississippi Agricultural Service Department
Board of Trustees
Theodore G. Bilbo
State Near End in Rothstein Trial
United Press reports New York December 4 that the state nears the end of its case in the George A. McManus murder trial. Rapid witness testimony established McManus as the registered occupant of the room where Arnold Rothstein was shot and that Rothstein was summoned to that room by a man who claimed to be McManus.
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New York
George A. McManus
Arnold Rothstein
McManus
Rothstein
Poll Tax Payments Slow in Ouachita Parish
Only 513 poll tax receipts for 1930 issued as the November 1 start nears mid-term. Officials warn about upcoming elections including a 1980 West Monroe city race and state congressional contests. Delinquent personal property taxes accrue. real estate taxes due December 31 with a 16 percent penalty.
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Ouachita Parish
West Monroe
Fernando is Found Guilty in Kidnapping
Detroit reports James Fernando father of three was found guilty of seizing and detaining five year old Jackie Thompson from Aug 30 to Sept 24. Imprisonment up to 99 years possible. Judge Charles L. Bartlett to sentence this afternoon. Jury comprised eight men and four women. Mrs. Fernando sobbed as verdict came.
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United Press
Detroit
James Fernando
Jackie Thompson
Charles L. Bartlett
Fernando
Henry =. Thompson
Church Seeks Removal Over Suspected Liquor in Polling Place
The Rev. Dr. H W Tiffany and the Baptist church board of the Redeemer Brooklyn claim a pitcher found in the church basement after a polling place had contained liquor. The election board denied intoxicant but was unsure of contents preferring ginger ale or soda. The 100 year old John R Voorhis declined to smell the pitcher at the hearing. The church request to remove the site remains in abeyance.
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Associated Press
New York
Church Board of Trustees
H. W. Tiffany
The
Baptist Church of the Redeemer
Brooklyn
Election Board
Board of Elections
John R. Voorhis
Cigarette Blaze Fatal to Labor Union Leader Noonan
James P. Noonan 56, vice president of the American Federation of Labor and president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, died in Washington from burns in an apartment fire started by a cigarette. Firemen found him on the floor beside a burning couch after neighbors alerted authorities. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition. Noonan had served as American labor delegate to the 1924 world power congress in London.
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Washington
James P. Noonan
American Federation of Labor
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Mr. Noonan
Mr Noonan
Amelican
World Power Congress
London
South Welcomes Warmer Weather for Tomorrow
The south braces for warmer conditions as deaths and fires rise across the region. New Orleans suffers three blazes linked to cold weather causing $31,000 loss. Memphis reports three injured in a gas heater blast. Trumann Arkansas sees Mrs. Alice Hogan fatally burned in an oil stove explosion.
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New Orleans
Memphis
Alice Hogan
Trumann, Ark
Monroe
John Thomas Brown
Mason Simms
Tamworth
Powhatan County
Virginia
Richmond
Knoxville
Tenn
Gulf Coast
Three May Pay Death Penalty For One Crime
In Macon Georgia on December 4 three death sentences loomed for one capital crime. The murder of James W Parks an 18 year old Atlanta youth allegedly for a 14000 life insurance carried by Mrs Sarah Powers 81 has resulted in her death sentence along with Earl Manchester 20 the alleged hired killer. Counsel for the condemned planned to seek the death penalty for Troy Martin the state star witness on perjury charges claiming his testimony was a fabric of deliberate lies. Martin denied the charge and awaits grand jury action as Schell the Manchester counsel petitions for indictment.
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Macon
James W. Parks
Atlanta
Sarah Powers
Earl Manchester
Troy Martin
Martin
James W. Schell
Manchester
Schell
Late News FLASHES From Searcy and Good Water
In Searcy Arkansas a 3 year old negro boy and a 10 year old white girl were the victims of an assault. the suspect Olethe Long was held for grand jury action on a 10000 dollar bond. In Good Water Alabama a Langley Field tri motor army plane exploded killing Lieutenant Smith and injuring his three companions who escaped to safety as the parachute failed to deploy.
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Searcy
Ark
Olethe Long
Associated Pre
Good Water
Ala
Smith
Langley Field
Healthiest girl and boy picked in annual meet
The four-H clubs annual congress selects Florence Smock 17 from Florida as healthiest girl and Harold Deatline 18 from Indiana as healthiest boy. Smock measures 6 feet 4.5 inches with 129 pounds. Deatline is 5 feet 8.5 inches tall, 150 pounds with broad shoulders. Both emerged from 28 state champions amid Florida sunshine and hard work on farms.
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Associated Press
Chicago
United States
Congress
Eustis
Lake County
Florida
Florence Smock
Harold Deatline
Morgan County
Ind
Miss Smock
Deatline
S&s
Caddo Parish Grand Jury Fails to Indict in Multiple Shootings
Shreveport reports that Grand Jurors in Caddo Parish did not returns true bills against F F Neely exonerating him in the shooting death of George Hyatt on a Cayle area plantation last November 14. The panel also returned no bills against B L Tyson for manslaughter in the death of Virgil Watkins near Vivian, J E Candler in the killing of Ernest Robinson, and C M Miller alleged to have robbed a poker game.
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Shreveport
F. F. Neely
George Hyatt
Cayle
Caddo Parish
Grand Jury
Neely
Hyatt
B. L. Tyson
Virgil Watkins
Vivian
J. E. Candler
Ernest Robinson
C. M. Miller
Prohibition Called Greatest Moral Success Of The Age
Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary of the Methodist board on temperance, prohibition and public morals, called prohibition the greatest moral success of the era in a report to his board’s annual meeting. He urged showing the world how to end rain and war through prohibition as a fair long test compared with the license system.
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Washington
Clarence True Wilson
Board of Temperance
Prohibition
Public Morals
Methodist Episcopal Church
Wilson
America
Still Missing Fate Of Cleveland Air Mail Pilot
The fate of Thomas F.P. Nelson, a Cleveland New York air mail pilot missing since early Monday, remained unclear as search efforts shifted to northern Ohio. Local and federal agencies continued to investigate the disappearance amid efforts to locate the aircraft and pilot.
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Cleveland
Thomas FP. Nelson
Cleveland-New York Air Mail
Ohio
Varf Pleads For Senate Seat In Home Committee Row
The House committee approves a bill to cut the income tax as Varf campaigns for his Senate seat. Supporters cite tax relief while opponents warn of reduced state revenue and fewer public services.
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Varf
Senate
House
Senator Elect Ware Appears Feebly in Senate Demand
In a dramatic scene, Senator elect William S. Ware of Pennsylvania, visibly frail with a paralyzed arm, appeared in the Senate chamber to demand his seat. The Ways and Means Committee reported the 160 million tax cut bill favorably with only one vote against.
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Washington
House Ways and Means Committee
House
Senate
Williams. Ware
Pennsylvania
Tax Bill Details For 1929 Individual Incomes
Under Secretary Mills outlined how the pending tax reduction bill would affect 1929 income taxes for single and married taxpayers at various income levels. The lengthy account includes figures for Present, Pred Income Tax, and Tax Reduction across ranges up to 1,000,000 dollars. Ware, delivering a feeble voice, argued he was lawfully elected three years ago and criticized the senate as violating the people's rights. His physician monitored him closely.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury Mills
Ware
Senate
Left to Abolish Massachusetts State Day Law
The Constitutional Liberty League filed with the secretary of state a petition to repeal the Massachusetts prohibition enforcement act. It carries 32 044 signatures, 12 000 over the required amount, with a new ballot option if the legislature does not act. League president Charles Raekemann said the effort is educational and aims to replace prohibition with a better temperance system.
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Associated Press
Boston
Constitutional Liberty League
Charless. Raekemann
Dilton
League
Massachusetts
Plead Guilty to Robbery of Orleans Bank
Three men pleaded guilty to robbing the Algiers branch of Canal Bank and Trust of $15 000 last week before Judge Alex O Donnell. John Arnold Louis Gentry and Earl Friloux were remanded to parish prison for sentencing next week. The crime carries nine to 14 years at hard labor. Footsteps from the abandoned car led to a farm house where over half the money was found with Arnold in possession.
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New Orleans
Dec
Algiers
Canal Bank and Trust Company
Alex O'Donnell
Parish
John Arnold
Louis Gentry
Earl Friloux
State
Arnold
Negro Indicted for Assault in Richland Parish
A Richland Parish grand jury in a special Rayville session returned a true bill charging a 21 year old Rayville man with criminal assault on a young white woman. He confessed to authorities after being identified. trial set for a special term in Rayville next Tuesday.
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Richland Parish
Rayville
Henry Wilson
Rayville Nero
J. C. Sartor
Richland
MclIntosh
Collision Fatality Report in Meridian Auto Crash
Morris Shannon, age 20, died in a Meridian hospital from injuries suffered in an automobile collision Sunday. The crash involved a car driven by Gracy Parker, 37, a creosoting plant employee, who was arrested on reckless driving charges.
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Meridian
Miss
Morris Shannon
Shannon
Gracy Parker
Creosoting
Parker
Rescue Ships Strive To Reach 21 Marooned After Norwich City Wreck
Rescuers faced heavy seas and dangerous reefs as they wieder attempt to reach 21 crew members marooned on Gardner Island after the Norwich City wreck. Eleven drowned when the ship split, three survivors were taken aboard the Trongate, and supplies were lost with the vessel.
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Associant Pree Pago Pago
Samoa
Norwich City
Gardner Island
Here
Trongate
Trone
Custom Built Humorous Tale by Sidney Herschel Small
The News-Star presents a new serial by Sidney Herschel Small titled Custom Built. A vivid swift moving humorous tale of youth and its loves and ambitions. Watch for the first installment next Monday and subscribe or contact a local News-Star agent if outside Monroe and West Monroe.
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Sidney Herschel Small
News-Star
Monroe
Weat
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