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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1932
Page
3
The Salvation Army aims to raise 5500 for the coming year as of today with 3200 already pledged. Envoy Hugo Mendel and Monroe workers press to meet the target in a few days despite bad weather. Mendel will spend Christmas in Lafayette before returning to New Orleans for a new assignment.
Millville New Jersey motorist James Allen skidded into Laurel lake and nearly drowned before breaking a window and swimming to shore. He arrived home to find a summons for driving without a license awaiting him.
Southwestern Louisiana Institute students began their Christmas break several days early due to deteriorating weather and road conditions. The holiday period was moved up from next Wednesday and a Southwestern Texas Aggies basketball game scheduled for Tuesday was canceled.
A group of men from the unemployment relief bureau were put to work by city streets and parks commissioner R. D. Swayze to remove ice and snow from downtown Monroe sidewalks. The task aided Christmas shoppers and pedestrians navigating slick walkways in the business district.
The forecast warns of continued cold with a hard freeze along the coast and partly cloudy skies. Yesterday multiple auto accidents occurred across Monroe and surrounding streets due to slick pavement as winter storms cut travel and disrupted transit from Mississippi to Georgia.
A patchwork of storms spreads across the United States with sleet in the southeast and Midwest snow, causing road blocks in Mississippi and fatalities from exposure in Texas. Atlanta reports sleet and a fatal auto strike as eastern regions brace for continued cold and possible snow. Weather centers warn of further freezing, frost in California coast towns, and pedestrians seek shelter as losses from crops in the Sacramento valley rise.
In Wisner Louisiana sleet coats streets with one to three inches and temperatures dip to 17 at 7 am. Transportation slowed but no serious damage reported to wires and no accidents known in the area from the fleet conditions.
Georgia fugitive Burns, once a magazine publisher, escapes and is recaptured after years in Chicago. Warden Hardy, overseeing Burns under custody for a 25,000 dollar bail, defends his handling and denies cruelty while noting Burns would likely earn leg chains if returned to finish four years six months and 24 days.
The Bastrop Good Fellows organization launches a city wide drive to raise relief funds for the poor and unfortunates. Workers from zones solicit $1 from every employed resident while a canned goods matinee at Rose theater raises additional contributions.
Inclement weather forced the box supper at Cheniere schoolhouse to be postponed. It will be held at the same location Tuesday night at 7 30 o'clock as a benefit for the school.
In Albany Georgia a car collided with a switch engine in East Albany killing two women and a man, who were Mr and Mrs Jack Vinson and Mrs Lillian Whitaker. The couple had been recently married. Two others, Miss Billy Toole and a man named Loftin, were critically injured and amputations were required for Miss Toole and one other victim.
France waits for a new step from the United States as Walter E Edge opens preliminary inquiries on debts. The plan aims to show deputies progress to their constituents and persuade them to back start of negotiations.
The Chicago city council debated a retaliatory boycott of French products and a ban on American travel to France. Alderman Thomas J. OGrady introduced the measure, which would include wines if prohibition is repealed, and referred it to the judiciary committee.
The piece describes President Roosevelt’s relentless routine, waking late, working from breakfast in bed, and dictating with his secretary. He meets guests at lunches and dinners, often works late, sometimes watches a private motion picture, and keeps his study light burning until midnight. It notes the North Pole moving south about six inches annually.
A theater benefit is held tonight to aid the Good Fellows Fund in Monroe Louisiana. A donor from Collinsville Oklahoma sends a $2.00 check in memory of son John Russell Doonar with a note requesting the fund be thanked and listed accordingly.
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