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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1935
Page
16
Hoare signals readiness as penalties after the December League of Nations meeting threaten fuel shortages. Italy watches American stance while the U S supplies about six percent of Italy's oil imports, with Italy relying on imports for most its needs. Italy imports about 2,300,000 tons annually and internal production is about 30,000 tons.
London and Paris propose a set of suggestions to end the Italo Ethiopian war in east Africa as oil sanctions loom. The plan seeks Eritrean secession to Ethiopia and border adjustments while Italy resists peace moves, eyeing fuel shortages and substitutes.
Medical authorities describe kidneys as containing 15 miles of tiny tubes that purify blood. The ad warns of symptoms like backache and swelling and asserts Doan's Pills flush out these tubes, offering relief after years of use and recommending purchase from a druggist.
A White House view skews toward local control reducing alcohol harms as 14 states join 41 total. opponents call repeal a failure citing rising intoxication and crime. F Scott McBride and Bishop James Cannon predict a new dry era by 1945.
Ouachita Parish Medical society holds its annual banquet at Hotel Virginia at 7 30 p m Thursday. Dr J W Bodley associate professor of surgery at University of Tennessee and Dr Irving J Wolff Monroe retiring president are principal speakers. Motion pictures will illustrate features. Bodley will be guest of Dr and Mrs James E Walsworth in Monroe.
Federal investigators accuse Weiss and associates of contracting with the highway commission for road materials and using a scheme to move large sums of money. The probe links Senator Long to a vast 75 million dollar road program and cites rebates paid to Beasley totaling about 84 thousand dollars. Other figures from the era include Joseph Fisher’s tax case and Abe Shushan’s rebates, with a Jefferson parish senator Jules Fisher and the three Nelson brothers also indicted and awaiting trial.
Chauncey Nichols president of the Oklahoma Portland Cement company and Herbert F. Schiff an Oklahoma City accountant indicted in New Orleans for alleged conspiracy to defeat income tax payments will post $10 000 bond each in federal court in Oklahoma City. Schiff a former Oklahoma county excise board member, Nichols and attorney J Berry King were out of the city. Federal court attaches said they would be permitted to post bond here.
A rural education session opens with topics on forward planning and rural financing. Mary Sue Wigley discusses romance of forward planning, Edith Wagar presents rural refinancing, Katherine Lenroot covers child welfare legislation affecting farms, and Emily Newell Blair outlines consumer advisory efforts. A Sunday public speaking contest will feature entries from many states on the farm home and the world today.
Henry King and team tiptoe into a nursery to film five 18 month old quintuplets Yvonne Cecile Emilie Annette and Marie. Dr Allen Roy Dafoe impersonated by Jean Hersholt visits the set and assures lights won’t harm the children. Filming runs daily from 11 to noon with a week to complete the scenes.
In Manila a long-hunted outlaw band clashed with Commonwealth police in Western Cebu Island. A bandit and a constabulary guide were killed, amid reports the outlaws beat to death two constabulary spies after forcing them to dig graves. Six bandits died in a prior fight, and decapitated kidnap victim bodies were found as officers pursued the group.
Riley J. Wilson of Ruston declares candidacy to succeed himself as Congress man from the Fifth District subject to the Democratic Primary on January 21 1936.
Joe D. Goff a 41 year old farmer was held on murder charges in the fatal shooting of Crockett L. Mathis 48 a neighbor. Mathis allegedly attacked Mrs Goff prompting the shooting after a drinking session at the Goff home. Mathis had recently moved to Baton Rouge from Cottage Grove Tennessee.
Visitors from South Carolina criticize the AAA four year cotton control program and Senator Smith says small farmers won’t grow enough cotton. Smith, chairman of the Senate agricultural committee, questions the cotton section leadership while noting Roosevelt’s renomination not a topic in his state. More American automobiles are bought in South Africa than anywhere else.
Public sale of delinquent immovable property for 1934 taxes to be held December 7 1935 at 11 A M at the Ouachita Parish Courthouse Western Front Door. Lists numerous parcels with delinquent amounts including land tracts, gas wells and various property descriptions, owners and penalties.
Listing of multiple West Monroe properties with owner names and tax amounts including Adams F C Lot 2 Sq 4 Flournoys Addn taxes 24.72 and Allen AT Lot 3 8.32 Steele Madden Addn taxes 30.14 plus interest. Amman MRS LOUISE R and family properties with frontages on Commerce St and bounded by G C Moore showing taxes 172.79. Barrett etc addn parcels with taxes 47.13 41.15 7.48 and more parcels in Kaplans Addn and Northern Addn final entry Braswell B 8 Lot in Sec 44 T 17 NR.
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