09 Dec 1932
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1932
Page
1
The attorney general has not issued a definite ruling on whether the act remains in force after recent questions about repeal. Officials say local option guidance may apply but it is not a clear legal requirement. Arrests linked to whiskey sales occurred as the repeal question lingers into November and beyond.
Initiate Members and Kirt Touch attended a Junior High day event. A Charles P talk preceded a general discussion focusing on western loyalty and program features.
New Orleans dispatch reports EL Gray of the Asphalt Institute noting all states have sufficient local material to build and surface roads. He recalls West Virginia's 1923 highway maintenance program started with $50,000 and grew to extensive paving, emphasizing proper road material choices. He contrasts gravel and asphalt as viable options for adequate road systems.
The conference endorses federal highway appropriation and urges improved roadbuilding. It backs use of modern machinery, opposes diverting motor tax and license revenues, and calls for low cost year round roads and surface soil improvements.
In Shreveport Louisiana U S Attorney Philip H Me sid says the trial for the sinking of the rum ship Im Alone off the Louisiana coast will be January 3 1933 at Opelousas Louisiana Den Hesan and several others are charged with tariff and prohibition violations connected to the case Hosan is imprisoned in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary for similar charges at Lake Charles and others were convicted at Lake Charles in the same affair which drew international notice due to questions of vessel registry
In Rocky River Ohio pupils from a sparsely built suburb ride taxis to school to save about $3,000 annually. The plan, approved by school officials and the treasurer, aims to ease expenses by contracting a taxicab company for student transport.
A 78 year old woman died from injuries after a road accident near Luling Louisiana. The vehicle carrying her and her son swerved while returning home, leading to fatal injuries for Hig. Local authorities investigated the crash and reported the ages and relationship to the driver.
Fragmentary note indicates a death by self harm in Alexandria on December 9 involving a health official and a conductor, with unclear details remaining.
Capital police pursued reports of a man described as a hungry marcher with dynamite strapped to his body. The unseen threat centered on a white government building, prompting Inspector Burke to order heightened patrols while deeming the claims possibly a hoax.
Mildred Compton a 264 pound Black woman fell from a second story window in Great Falls Tacoma Washington. Police report she survived after landing on a porch which broke her fall. Motive for the leap was not found. Authorities call it an apparent suicide attempt.
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