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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1937
Page
1
Washington reports the Yangtze and South China patrols have faced repeated danger since 1870. The Panay was sunk by Japanese air attack, with riots in 1927 and bandit assaults in 1930 31 marking decades of evacuations, battles, and fortified security for Americans abroad.
Six inmates including J W Blair and William B Woods charged with fatally stabbing guard J Olin Sanders during a hostage plot to escape. They were bound over to the January 12 general sessions court after an inquest criticized prison handling. Senator Edgar A Brown called for inquiry into the prison system. Governor Olin Johnston declined comment.
Izvestia said Soviet authorities took measures to arrest the missing couple known as Mr and Mrs Donald L Robinson. U S agents pursue a secret inquiry into possible espionage and a passport mill amid their unexplained disappearance in Russia last week.
From gunboat Oahu reporting in war news, Nanking, once proud capital of ancient China, lies strewn with bloodied corpses of soldiers and civilians after bombing, shelling, and fierce fighting. Escaping Chinese troops discarded uniforms in a mass retreat through the city.
Rev. R. T. Watson of Bryan Ohio was unanimously chosen as pastor of the First Christian church in Monroe. He and his family plan to move to Monroe around January 1. He succeeds Rev. Crayton S. Brooks who resigned to take a southern Ohio pastorate. Watson, 34, is a Kentucky native and studied in Walton and Covington Kentucky, and at Transylvania College.
Sheriff office warns Quachita Parish voters they must have state poll book receipts by December 31 to vote in 1938 and 1939 elections. About 10,000 voters have not secured receipts, risking last minute delays without an immediate rush.
Strong support in Congress grows for resuming government spending on a modified scale to spur business activity. Some senators urge January or February start, debates split over pump priming versus other approaches. A public statement backs a 10 point plan to curb recession including tax revisions and relief distribution.
Obituary note for Charles L Ensminger a US Navy storekeeper on the Panay killed when the gunboat was bombed and sunk by Japanese airmen near Nanking His home was Ocean Beach near San Diego California.
Oliver Alden Thayer, 24, arraigned in Salem for murder of his 72-year-old aunt Miss Alice R. Thayer after she died from a shotgun wound at the family home in Topsfield. He had earlier pleaded innocent to murdering his sister Katherine, 32, and reportedly confessed to both shootings citing family nagging as motive.
New Orleans reports confirm Kit Cat the reportedly richest bowlegged cat died soon after inheriting $10,000 from Mrs. L C Beneke. Executor J J Miranne and veterinarian Dr J E Karstendiek offered varying accounts. guardianship and codicils shifted bequests among Misses Annie Rose McCaffrey and cousins Rena Nettie Westfall, with a home for animals arranged before burial details remained unclear.
Roosevelt’s lieutenants push wage hour and farm bills through stalled Congress. House fights substitutes while Senate lines up farm bill. Fast conference talks hoped to avert delays before December 22 special session ends. Griswold amid AFL counterproposal defeated 162 to 131. The wage bill seeks 40 hour workweek and 40 cent minimum wage in interstate commerce.
Mrs. Josephinesy Mary McClendon widow of Judge R. W. McClendon died at her West Monroe home after a year of declining health. A native of New Orleans born September 23, 1847 she lived in Ouachita parish for over six decades. Funeral at 9 30 Friday at 211 McClendon Avenue with Rev. Ernest D Holloway officiating. Burial in Ruston cemetery. Pallbearers listed.
Children from Monroe and West Monroe schools contribute to the Good Fellows fund for underprivileged youths. Pupils from diverse backgrounds banded together in collections showing genuine sacrifice and school spirit during the Christmas season.
The Commercial Appeal honored 215 winners from 14,000 mid south farmers in the 1937 plant-to-prosper contest at a banquet. Notable awards went to C. W. Armstrong and wife for diversification and living at home, with $500 from the Memphis Chamber of Commerce and $100 from the paper. Additional prizes were awarded to H. L. Majure, Godfrey L. White, and R. A. Greenway for various farm improvement and landlord efforts. County champions from four states received honorary certificates. a separate division for negro farmers will be added in 1938.
Alabama's annual parade of released convicts began with 554 selected prisoners starting a two week Christmas holiday. Breakfast greeted the convicts as they wore neat clothes and waited for the gates to swing open. Among those released by Governor Bibb Graves for good conduct, 30 were women.
Illness among cast members forces the Little Theater to delay the opening of The Torch-Bearers at the Northeast Center auditorium. Rev. E F Hayward, president, said a new date will be announced through the press.
Winter storms hit Pennsylvania causing many traffic accidents with five dead and many injured. Air, road, and water travel halted across large parts of the state as conditions worsened before modest improvements and a wary forecast.
A blaze at the Superior Match company plant on Chicago's near north side seriously burned seven young women and a man after explosions swept a second floor. The fire started in the assembly room where paraffin cardboard sheets tipped with match heads were cut. Firemen battled flames for two hours as bystanders watched, with damage over $50,000.
Tokyo announces a company of bluejackets will salute the Panay wreck site on the Yangtze to honor those killed after the bombing. Japanese sailors collect 5900 yen for the U.S. Navy as Foreign Minister Hirota seeks a settlement while a high naval officer is recalled.
Washington reports that sugar quotas for the coming year, valued around 469 million dollars at current prices, will be allocated to U S producers abroad. Secretary Wallace will apportion shares this week under a program to stabilize supplies and prices. The agriculture secretary will estimate U S consumption and assign quotas to producing areas, with no area exceeding its allotment. Next year Cuba is slated for the largest share.
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