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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1937
Page
3
Madrid reports heavy government attacks on Teruel as forces clash in a snowy battle. A government communique cites 200 insurgents captured with arms surrendered by retreating troops, while both sides issue varying battlefield accounts.
A White Christmas service sponsored by the Women's Missionary Union of Monroe First Baptist Church will be held tonight at 7 30 o clock. The program features white gift gifts beneath the tree a playlet Encircling the World With Our Prayers and Gifts and special music by a quartet from the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home directed by Mrs Evelyn Swayze. The public is invited to attend. Indian day school enrollment under the commissioner of Indian affairs has more than doubled in the past 10 years.
Attorneys for Eugene Weidmann 29 ex convict who confessed killing Brooklyn dancer Jean DeKoven and four or five others asked for a psychiatric examination before trial. They cite alleged lack of emotion and specific actions at burials as areas for alienist inquiry. The case involves findings at St Cloud villa and near Fontainebleau with connections to a murder for profit gang.
Funeral services for Mrs Josephine M McClendon 90 widow of Judge R W McClendon were held Friday at 9 30 am at the family residence West Monroe with Rev Ernest D Holloway officiating and burial at Ruston. She was a New Orleans native who served in the Confederate nursing corps and was survived by two daughters Mrs Kate Morrice Mrs C E Faulk and a son FE A Buelow.
James Bendel Hembree infant son of Mr and Mrs T C Hembree died last night at a focal clinic shortly after birth. Funeral services were held Friday at Hasley cemetery with Rev H L Johns officiating. Interment followed at Hasley cemetery. Wallis Carr six months old son of Mr and Mrs W A Carr of 612 Washington street died Friday at a local hospital. Funeral services were held Friday at Mulhearn Funeral home with Rev L T Hastings officiating. Interment followed in Riverview cemetery. He is survived by parents two brothers Curtis and Billy Hembree and two sisters Mary Lois and Doris Carr. Grandparents include Mrs L Shattuck of Minden and Mrs W W Hembree of Benton and R M Carr of Monroe and Mr and Mrs W A Hampton of Pioneer. Pallbearers listed as John W Brown P E Massey C S Foster and C D Hart.
C. S. Walker elected chancellor commander of Stonewall lodge No. 8 Knights of Pythias at the annual election held Thursday night. Other officers elected include J. Norman Coon vice-chancellor R. L. Ross Jr prelate C. A. Kimball master of work J. Arthur Smith keeper of records and seal and master of finance A. W. Trotter master of exchequer W. S. Cole master-at-arms H. S. Snyder inner guard Leo Garland outer guard. Mr. Kimball and M. G. Moore named grand lodge representatives with P. S. Mulhearn and Benny Oakland alternate grand lodge representatives.
Rev and Mrs Starks missionaries to Africa will address a Monday evening service at the Church of God Polk and Lidel streets at 7 pm. Mrs Starks will show lantern slides of jungle travels and share mission experiences as the couple awaits final departure for Africa after visiting Oklahoma for holidays.
In Norristown Pennsylvania police identify Wendell Forrest Bowers 19 Ambler as murder suspect after a gallery of rogue portraits prompts recognition by Miss Mary Griffin 22 beauty shop operator who says the killer attempted assault on her yesterday. Chauffeur Thomas McNutt and Emma Anderson cook at a Camp Hill home also scrutinize the photos and claim they saw the man near the scene. District Attorney Frederick B Smillie swears out a murder warrant.
Meridian police awaited Missouri officers to question John Cram of Blooming Prairie Minnesota after his late yesterday arrest. He was booked on suspicion of involvement in the October discovery of a burned embalmed body in an automobile near Edina Missouri. Cram held incommunicado, refused to answer questions as investigators pursued the high profile nationwide search.
Two ocean going freighters collided in heavy fog near Locust Point in Baltimore harbor but resumed voyages after brief inspections. The 8,000 ton Emergency Aid bound for Los Angeles backed from a pier into the 10,000 ton Capitan bound for Texas, causing no injuries or serious damage.
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