Balbo Leads Ocean Flight to Rio De Janeiro
Italian seaplanes begin trans Atlantic voyage under General Italo Balbo. Twelve planes depart Orbetello at 7 46 am headed to Cartagena on a bold first leg. The expedition aims to fly via Dakar Natal and across to Rio de Janeiro with 53 officers and crew aboard.
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Cartagena
Spain
Orbetello
Italy
Rio de Janeiro
Lake
Italo Balbo
Mediterranean
Dakar
Senegal
Atlantic
Natal
Brazil
Ouachita Agents Honored by Police Jury for Farm Work
Ouachita parish farm advocates Mrs Jewel McQuiller home demonstration agent and EF Strahan agricultural agent received rising votes of thanks at the police jury session. McQuiller won a silver cup from a New Orleans paper for top publicity by any demonstration agent in the state last year. Strahan earned the $25 prize for the best story written.
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Ouachita Parish
Jewel McQuiller
EF. R. Strahan
Ouachita
Henry Ford Escapes Injury in Ohio Car Collision
Henry Ford and his chauffeur and secretary were in a collision in Youngstown Ohio last night. The steering gear was damaged but Ford escaped injury and continued toward Detroit in a new car after a delay of about an hour and a half.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Henry Ford
Detroit
New Roads in Ouachita Parishes for State Highway Plan
Ouachita parish police jury designated a contact committee to review three newly planned roads under the state highway program. The committee, appointed at the last meeting, will coordinate with the state highway department to map the routes including a link to Jackson parish beginning at Cotton's filling station on the Jonesboro road.
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Ouachita Parish
State Highway Department
Jackson Parish
Cotton
Jonesboro Road
Ouachita Arrives in Orleans With Large Cotton Cargo
Three barges loaded with cotton arrived in New Orleans aboard the Ouachita from Camden Arkansas where the consign ment was taken aboard. Additional cotton was picked up at Arkansas and Louisiana points en route to New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Ouachita
Camden
Ark
Arkansas
Louisiana
Santa Claus Letters Featured Daily in News Star
The News Star announces daily publication of Santa Claus letters from Monroe and West Monroe children. Readers are urged to write letters with desired gifts and mail them to the News Star for forwarding to Santa in the frozen north.
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Santa Claus
News-Star
Santa
Monroe
West Monroe
Mr. Santa Claus
Appeal to be taken on day law decision
An immediate appeal to the supreme court will be taken from Judge William Clark’s New Jersey ruling declaring the eighteenth amendment invalid. Assistant Attorney General Youngquist and Prohibition officials discussed direct appeal while Prohibition Director Woodcock ordered continued enforcement of prohibition under the eighteenth amendment in New Jersey. Louis J. Tutt received a telegram detailing the move.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William Clark
New Jersey
Clark
Youngquist
Philip Forman
Howard T. Jones
Prohibition
Woodcock
Louis J. Tutt
Junior College Site Emphasis by Joe Renwick
Ouachita Parish School Board President Joe Renwick replied to West Monroe alderman H. A. Brownlee about constructing a junior college here. He stressed site selection as key, noting $58,000 in local bank funds from 1929 one-mill tax and expected $180,000 from 1930 tax by construction time.
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Joe Renwick
Ouachita Parish
H. A. Brownlee
West Monroe
News-Star
Renwick
Brownlee’s
Modernization Plan for Orleans French Market
Theodore Grunewald proposes complete modernization of the French Market the oldest in the United States as part of a broader market system reorganization in New Orleans. The plan calls for three markets total a central market and two branches, confinement of activities to these sites, sale of surplus property, and a municipal department of markets.
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New Orleans
Theodore Grunewald
Commission Council
Guatemalan Government Overthrown Reported
A message from Guatemala states President Palma's government was overthrown. General Mauro de Leon, former minister of war, was reported killed in yesterday's fighting, and the country was described as tranquil today. The dispatch was signed by Rodriguez Betteta, secretary of the military junta now in control.
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Washington
Recinos
Guatemala
Palma
Rodriguez Betteta
Mauro de Leon
UY NO
Man Rescued After Six Days Drifting in Gulf
In New Orleans on December 17 Francisco Vasquez a charcoal maker from the Isle of Pines was rescued by the steamer Lena Luckenbach after drifting six days in the Gulf of Mexico in an 18 foot scow about 160 miles off Cuba. He had endured four days without water and was weak and nearly unconscious when rescued. Captain Walter Towns reported the rescue.
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Associated Press
NEWS
Walter Towns
North Louisiana Mayors Seek Gas Rate Reductions Talks
Mayors from Ruston Farmerville Arcadia Haynesville Homer and Gibsland met Public Service Commissioner Harvey G Fields and Peoples Gas & Fuel officials to discuss reducing high gas rates. Fields acts as pacifier in the dispute and may propose settlement ideas.
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North Louisiana
Harvey G. Fields
Peoples Gas & Fuel Company
C. C. Gayne
Ruston
Commissioner Fields
Farmerville
Arcadia
Haynesville
Homer
Gibsland
Shreveport Gas Iim
Pacificator
What to Buy In Today's News Star
Classified shopping feature lists various department categories and page numbers for autos, jewelry, furniture, tools, and apparel. Readers are invited to browse product sections on pages 7 8 14 15 13 6 8 10 11 2 3 5 7 9 10.
Where to Buy It In Today's News-Star
A listing of local advertisers and shops appears on the Advertiser page including Bernhardt Bros Jewelry Music Collens Five Points Pharmacy Collens Pharmacy Cummins-Windes Radio E Edney Flower Shop Field's Frankel Bros Griffin's Studio Holloway Thompson Home Furniture Monroe Furniture Keene's Slipper Shop Lennon Motor Co Merchant's Salvage Miller & Kahn and Henry Marx Co.
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Enlnds
Collens
Five Points
Pharmac Collens 3Rd St. Pharmacy
Collens Pharmacy, Inc
Cummins-Windes Radio Co
E. Edney Flower Shopec
Mike John Ae Keene
Lennon Motor Co
Wales
Henry Marx Co
Merchant's
Miller & Kahn
Monroe Furniture Co
Train Hits Car at Grade Crossing Injures Four
Four people in a Baskin community car were injured when a Missouri Pacific passenger train struck the auto two miles north of Winnsboro. Driver Roy McGee and Francis Williams were hurt, Williams' 2 year old son and Jeff Williams were also injured. the car was demolished and rescued motorists rushed all to Winnsboro sanitarium.
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Winnsboro
Missouri Pacific
Francis Williams
Francis Williams, Jr
Jeff Williams
Roy McGee
McGee
Winnsboro Sanitarium
Williams
Baskin
Franklin Parish
Former Judge Ben Lindsey Discharged on Disorder Charge
A charge of disorderly conduct against former Judge Ben Lindsey was dismissed by Magistrate Dreyer. The case stemmed from Lindsey interrupting a religious ceremony at a cathedral. The hearing took place in New York.
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New York
Ben Lindsey
Dreyer
License Plates for Cars Go On Sale Tomorrow
Monroe will start selling automobile license plates Thursday morning under D M Doughty who handles local plate distribution. Fees may be paid at Doughty Insurance in the Monroe Auto and Supply building at 300 Walnut Street. Alice Lee Grosjean says 1931 plates are on sale and all cars must display them by February 1, with forty five days to purchase to avoid congestion. Orders may be mailed to the Motor Vehicle department.
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Monroe
D. M. Doughty
Doughty Insurance Agency
Monroe Auto and Supply
Walnut Street
Doughty
Alice Lee Grosjean
Two Bank Bandits Die Wounded After Running Battle
Associated Press reports from Sidell Illinois describe a running battle between a posse and five bank bandits. Two gang members were killed, one may have taken his own life, and another wounded as authorities recount a spree of western Indiana holdups and the Clin bank robbery.
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Sidell
Ill
Indiana
Citizen's State Bank
Clin
Frigid Winter Deepens Cold Across Monroe
The Monroe area logged a 24 degree low on Tuesday night, down 18 degrees from a high of 42 earlier, with heavy ice forming on exposed pools. Frosts were among the season’s heaviest, roofs glistened white, and the Ouachita River bridge area showed light-snow like coating as the sun rose.
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Monroe
Kate Key
Government Weather Recorder
Ouachita River
Robbery Hits LeCompte General Store
The Abe Goldberg general merchandise store in LeCompte Louisiana was entered and robbed of more than $2,000 in goods last night. The sheriff's office investigated but reported no clues.
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Alexandria
Abe Goldberg
LeCompte
Sheriff's Office
Democrats Defeat Hyde Over Farm Relief Loan Bill
The House Agriculture Committee cut the drought relief loan from 60 million to 30 million dollars and struck out loans for farmers to buy food. Secretary Hyde testified that 25 million dollars would cover needs of drouth stricken farmers and called the Senate plan for food loans dangerous. He noted the drought damage was confined to corn hay and pasturage with no national harm from cotton.
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Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Senate
Hyde
Wife ceased to love him says Major Shepard in Kansas trial
Major Charles A. Shepard testified in his murder case that his wife had ceased to love him. He described previous statements to federal agents as inaccurate and said the officers’ business was not his concern. The defense pressed discrepancies between his Denver statement and current testimony.
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Kansas City
Kas
Charles A. Shepard
Shepard
Denver
Sardius M. Brewster
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O. A. Easterling
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