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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1934
Page
14
Berlin officials dismissed rumors that Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler had been wounded or shot. The claims circulated from Austria Russia and Holland after a Linz newspaper cited a supposed trustworthy source. An official spokesman quipped that if reports of the dead or wounded extend life, Der Fuehrer will outlive Methuselah.
Linzer Volksblatt claims Reichsfuehrer Hitler was wounded by a revolver shot from a taxi in Berlin. The girl, said to be daughter of Brueckner, leader of the Silesian Nazi party, allegedly died along with the taxi driver by Hitler’s guards.
Nearly 100 Pied Pipers using poison bait wage a city wide effort to control Chicago’s rat population. In seven months they report about 500 000 rats killed in a house to house campaign covering a third of the city. The text also notes 118 different taxes are levied on the oil industry in this country.
A meeting will be held at the Ouachita parish courthouse Saturday at 10 o'clock to discuss the national poultry breeding program. Clyde Ingram of Louisiana State University extension will lead, inviting all poultrymen hatcherymen and area residents interested in the program. The plan aims to standardize poultry stock eggs and chicks to improve efficiency quality and protect producers from unscrupulous competition. It emphasizes sanitation breeding stages and pullorum control.
U S Marshal Sidney Freudstein reports four men tied to New Orleans prohibition era smuggling surrendered to start sentences in the Atlanta penitentiary. Convictions upheld after appeals, with a government case on conspiracy to violate prohibition tariff and radio laws. Albert Morrison and Leander Necais, two years plus fines of 5000 and 1000, and merchants D O Neal and Joseph A O Neal, 18 and 15 months.
A new gas well named D Arbonne No 1 was brought in from 2195 feet in Ouachita Parish by Inabnet and Pipes with an open flow of 2 000 000 cubic feet and a rock pressure of 1 000 pounds. The report came Tuesday from the Monroe office of the state conservation department. Seasickness medical note appears unrelated to the oil field item.
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