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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1934
Page
9
Long drives amendments in a Baton Rouge session altering governance moves for East Baton Rouge Parish. He strips school control from a budget panel and blocks reporting bills, while expanding his power over sheriffs deputies and other state assets.
Stanford University coach C. E. Thornhill selects 38 players for the Rose Bowl trip to Pasadena to face Alabama. The group departs December 24 and 26 with workouts starting December 27. lists include Moscrip and Maentz among ends and backs, Reynolds and Cal laway among tackles, and Grayson at fullback.
Weather hindered Alabama Crimson Tide practice with two days left before flying to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl against Stanford. Rain made the field soggy and slowed workouts, cutting short an offense rehearsal against Stanford defense. full scrimmage was doubtful.
Alabama football begins a final full scrimmage and signal drills as it prepares for the fourth clash of the Crimson shirted eleven. The squad will train in San Antonio on Saturday and reach Pasadena by Christmas Eve for the Rose Bowl effort.
The Okaloosa community club gathered Saturday afternoon at Mrs Henry Mayes home. Mrs Jewel McQuiller led the session demonstrating apple preparation and related techniques.
Officers were not elected due to inadequate attendance at the Santa Clauses meeting. All members are urged to attend the next gathering at Mrs. Alton Burkett’s home to elect officers for the new year.
Sylvia Sidney stars as a native New Mexico Apache girl in Behold My Wife at the Paramount. Gene Raymond falls for her and drama unfolds from romance to confinement with a murder charge and a prison climax. Mitchell Leisen directs with H. B. Warner and Laura Hope Crews in support.
East Baton Rouge parish officials declined to comment on Senator Huey Long's plan to establish a district like the District of Columbia in the parish as the capital of his Louisiana influence. Long amended bills to assume control of the police jury, and to strip the sheriff of the power to appoint deputies. Sheriff Pettit said he had nothing to say, and the police jury president and other members also offered no comment.
The Japanese government purchases the 24 600 ton Adriatic once the world’s largest liner for scrapping in Japan. Colored matter is now added to silk worm diets to produce threads of various colors.
In New Orleans a 25 pound cannon ball from the Civil War era was found embedded in a cypress tree in Bayou St John. Emergency relief workers cut around the find and eventually recovered the well preserved spherical shot.
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