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Newspaper

Monroe News Star

Location

Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America

Date

Dec 17, 1930

Page

7

Famine May Hit Millions in Big Szechuan Province

Associated Press reports severe living costs and famine risk in western Szuechuen as 25 million people face high taxes and poor crops. Rice yields were down sharply and soup kitchens operate as beggar numbers rise. foreign trade shrinks and extensive taxes burden shipments to Yangtse port towns amid rising communist influence.

Chungking China Szuechuen Szechuen Yangtse

Aviator diners blamed for debt in East St. Louis bankruptcy

Henry Mazzoni, owner of a restaurant at a local aviation field in East St. Louis, says aviators who ate and flew away without paying caused his financial troubles. He claims several hundred dollars are owed to him in bankruptcy court as of December 17.

East ST. Louis Henry Mazzoni Mazzoni

Poison Gas Tragedy Claims Waitress Life

Miss Helen Knippers 23, of Many, dies from carbon monoxide poisoning in a car with P E Wells 40, Fort Jesup merchant and Sabine parish police jury member. Wells, partially paralyzed, is hospitalized after being overcome. both found on a highway near Many. Wells likely to recover. coroner Dr Willis P Butler investigates. Wells had not returned home the previous Saturday. The report lists several family members.

Shreveport Helen Knippers P. E. Wells Fort Jesup Sabine Parish Wells Willis P. Butler Caddo Parish

Funeral services for Mrs. M. P. Fisher planned in Grayson

Funeral services for Mrs. P. M. Fisher 54 of Grayson are set for 2 pm at First Baptist Church Grayson with burial at Welcome Home cemetery near Grayson. She died Tuesday after a brief illness leaving husband two sons H. B. Fisher of Columbia and Bernard Fisher of Grayson and four others.

P. M. Fisher Grayson First Baptist Church Welcome Home

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