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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1935
Page
3
Wallace argues income redistribution is a necessity for full economic recovery. He urges complete national coordination for balanced expansion to raise production and payrolls, boost consumption, and achieve higher living standards. He warns against partial, industry only actions and calls for international trade to prevent unemployment and costly farm relief.
The Santa Claus post office handles growing international mail with the Santa Claus cancellation. Postmaster Philipps and staff stamp and remail letters to readers worldwide, a tradition that began in a small general store and now rides on trucks and concrete roads. Herschell recalls the town’s name shift from Santa Fe after the Indiana town conflict.
An advertisement promotes Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin as a liquid laxative for gentle regulation of digestion. It claims natural laxatives senna and cascara form no habit, suitable for children, with a money back guarantee if relief is not achieved.
London and Paris draft a Franco-British formula to end Africa hostilities and ease European crisis. Mussolini may push troops in Ethiopia to strengthen bargaining, while Selassie could trade land for Assab. The plan envisions Ethiopian access to the Red Sea and Italian control of large Ethiopian territories with a league treaty for aid.
A false report that Italians would bomb Addis Ababa sparked a hurried evacuation. Thousands fled to hills and groves as the crown prince ordered women and children to evacuate and began moving imperial treasures before the warning was found erroneous.
The Good Fellows plan to assist eight forgotten children this Christmas season. They will call to spread cheer as funds allow, with every donated dollar spent on this purpose. Send checks to the Good Fellows Fund in care of the World and News-Star.
Six persons were arrested in New Orleans after picketing the Tudor theater to protest the film Red Salute they called war propaganda. Among those arrested were Maurice Clark and Alfred Lopez members of political groups, Mrs Louise Jessen a socialist official, Mrs Gladys Ryder and two Tulane students John Blair and R F Cauley. Police charged them with handing out protest leaflets without permits.
Augusta Georgia December 11 Regular church attendance for a year is the sentence imposed by City Judge Gordon W Chambers on three men charged with disturbing public worship by making unusual noises during services at a Methodist church The alternative is 12 months on a chain gang The judge suspended the chain gang sentences on the promise of the trio to school themselves in Sabbath decorum.
A forum speaker argues diversification protects farmers from cotton risk. He cites a 1920s study showing safe farmers grow multiple crops and use cotton as a money crop while maintaining other needs on the same farm. Mississippi author David L. Cohn criticizes cotton dependence and urges new markets and nationalism to boost domestic cotton use.
The Claiborne parish police jury at its monthly meeting reenacted the one cent gasoline tax to relieve unemployables in Homer Louisiana.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Moore of Sterlington at a Monroe sanitarium on December 7. Howard Lawrance Hodges was born to Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow L. Hodges at St. Francis sanitarium. A daughter born December 7 to Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Pyles of Lake Hall plantation. A son born December 4 to Mr. and Mrs. Shelley Dark near Dodson. maternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Terrel of Dodson and paternal grandparents Mr. and Mrs. William L. Dark of Gaar's Mill.
The Mississippi river bridge near New Orleans will open next Monday. Speakers include Jesse H. Jones of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation Governor O K Allen and A D McDonald of the Southern Pacific lines. The $14 000 000 structure was erected at great expense.
The Ouachita Business Men's club will hold a charity ball at Cherokee terrace Hotel Frances on December 21. Music will be provided by Alec White's orchestra. Net proceeds will fund Christmas baskets for the w onder privileged.
George Olvany Jr., 22, son of a former Tammany leader, lay in critical condition with a head wound after being found unconscious in snow near a deserted hotel. A .45 pistol with two shots fired was found beside him. Bruce Clark, a journalist friend, discovered him following a note from Olvany at a farewell party. His parents, George W. Olvany and wife, were with him at the hospital through the night.
Covington Louisiana December 11 a freight train trapped Thomas A Grace 40 on a railroad trestle near Covington He leaped into a gully to escape breaking a leg He was hospitalized with a broken leg after choosing the trestle shortcut over the passenger bridge to reach town.
Mendieta calls cabinet and council of state to meet for a joint session to elect a provisional president within 48 hours amid unsettled politics and army activity against kidnappers. Havana police and troops hunt Nicolas Castano, a Havana millionaire missing since Monday, amid a radio station raid and $300,000 ransom fears. Fourteen raiders damaged CMQ equipment in a raid three hours earlier as army and police flood the capital.
A scheduled broadcast by Mendieta over COCO station targets the United States to discuss the political situation. The program outlines tensions and policy debates expected to be aired to a wider audience.
The Barnette home in Homer Louisiana burned overnight from unknown causes. Mrs Capers Barnette woke on the rear porch and escaped unharmed. Other occupants were away visiting in El Dorado Arkansas.
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