Recovery data shows scarce labor in 1933 crisis efforts
The article notes a shortage of manual labor for relief projects in North Carolina and nationwide. It reports 1,200 youths in Pisgah National Forest asked to supply their own tools, widespread wage increases, and rising employment in NRA and CWA programs. It cites figures for Massachusetts, Ohio, and New York agencies and mentions political criticism of CWA policies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iig
North Carolina
Conservation Corps
Pisgah National Forest
CWA
Department of Labor
Washington
Perkins
Ohio
Toledo
NRA
Harry Hopkins
Chattanooga
Arkansas
Louisiana
Virginia
Tennessee
Kentucky
Chatta- Pooga
Rgin
Hopkins
Minnesota
Gover Olson
Ottumwa
Charles Seal
Nrew York
Unemployed Veterans Invited to VFW Meeting with Hobbs
Rodney J. Hobbs post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will meet at the clubhouse on North Second Street Thursday night. All unemployed ex-service men with dependents are invited. Dr. F C Shelton, commander, issues a special invitation to men with no prior contact to help in employment cases.
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Rodney J. Hobbs Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
North Second Street
F. C. Shelton
Fund To Assist Needy Increases
A grateful youngster sells his last copy as his widowed mother worries over gas bills and Christmas meals. The Good Fellows fund for 1933 nears closure with only a third of its goal met, urging Twin Cities readers to donate to the Monroe News-Star drive at 110 North Second Street.
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Sonny
Santa
Monroe
Good Fellows
Good Fellows’ Fund
Twin Cities
Abou Ben Adhem
Abou Ben
The
News-Star
North Second Street
Property Redeemed From Taxes Amid Fast Payouts
Property taken for taxes is being redeemed quickly as homeowners reclaim their lands and dwellings after auctions. Total 1933 redemptions amount to 38,185 dollars with interest and costs, rising from 21,966.82 in 1932 and 21,056.89 in 1931. The government loan program for cotton and action by the Federal Land Bank and HOLC aided the effort, says Miss Grace.
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Federal Land Bank
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Miss Grace
Four Charged With Heading Alleged Espionage Ring
Police alleged a wide espionage ring tied to France’s frontier fortifications with operations led by a Mexican collage of Italians Yugoslavs Slovenians and Russians. Arrests spread across Paris Thionville Metz and surrounding areas as documents wireless sets cameras and money were seized.
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Gianvetti
Louis Martin
Ministry of Marine
Frankfort
Germany
Martin
Madame Stahl
Mlle
Madeleine Mermet
Moise Salmon
Switz
Place de L’opera
Bercowitz
France
Edouard Daladier
Metz
Lauter
Thionville
Clement Bruss
Joseph Schohn
Schohn
Louis Doll
Christmas Gift Paroles Issued Across States
Reports describe holiday parole actions as governors grant or consider clemency for prisoners. In Arkansas a prison camp meningitis outbreak halts homegoing plans and blocks clemency petitions until quarantine ends. Georgia and Florida show varied practices with conditional pardons or no regular Christmas paroles.
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Miller
Arkansas
Tucker Prison Farm
Futrell
Tennessee
McAllister
Lorida
State Pardon Board
Shultz
Mississippi
Louisiana
Winter and Short Days Are Here This Week
December brings the start of shorter days with winter unofficially arriving on December 22. In the local area sunrise is 6:58 a.m. and sunset 4:58 p.m. through December 22, then days gradually lengthen until June 21.
Million Dollar Bridge Opens Across Berwick Bay
Morgan City Louisiana reports the new million dollar bridge across Berwick bay linking Morgan City to Berwick on the Old Spanish trail opened to traffic this morning. Hundreds of cars had crossed before noon and a dedication date will be announced later.
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Morgan City
Berwick Bay
Berwick
Former State Legislature Member T. W. Berry Dies
The funeral for T. W. Berry prominent Winnsboro attorney and former state legislator who died in a New Orleans hospital was held at the First Methodist church in Winnsboro. The body was arrived in Monroe Tuesday night and taken to his Franklin parish home. Berry served in the legislature under Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant and was a colonel on his staff. Surviving are his mother four sisters and a brother, all listed as Winnsboro residents except one sister in Kentucky.
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T. W. Berry
Winnsboro
New Orleans
First Methodist
Monroe
Franklin Parish
Berry
Ruffin G. Pleasant
C. L. Berry
Leo Richardson
Lois Coincan
Martha Doman
Ben Dooms
Knutilaw
Willis Berry
Eighth District Protest Meeting Arranged
Judge Nat Tycer of Hammond and officials from Shreveport Cou shaw Baton Rouge preside as 300 deputies enforce an injunction blocking the sixth district election. The gathering opposes seating a sixth district congressman and backs Mrs. Bolivar E. Kemp, Senator Long’s candidate, with listed parishes Rapides Avoyelles Vernon Natchitoches Grant Winn La Salle Sabine.
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Grundy Cooper
Democratic New Deal Organization
Eighth Congressional District
Tycer
Congress
Bolivar E. Kemp
Long
Rapides
Avoyelles
Vernon
Natchitoches
Grant, Winn
la Salle
Sabine
Funeral held for Lenora Airoldi in Monroe
Lenora Airoldi 77 died Monday night at her daughter’s home in Camden Arkansas while visiting. Funeral services were conducted at her son Joseph Airoldi’s residence and at St Matthew’s Catholic church with Rev N F Vandegaer officiating. Interment followed in the Catholic cemetery. She is survived by three children Joseph Airoldi Mrs Mendolia and Mrs Joseph Zagone nine grandchildren and was the widow of Anthony Airoldi.
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Lenora Airoldi
Albert Mendelia
Camden
Ark
Joseph Airoldi
North Fifth Street
St. Matthew's Catholic Church
N. F. Vandegaer
Joseph Messina
Vincenzo Genusa
Biaggio Miano
V J. Cascio
Rocco Monaco
Frank Anzalone
Joseph LaPietra
V. J. Buttitta
Columbus Social Club
Airoldi
Monroe
Mendola
Joseph Zagone
Shreveport
Anthony Airoldi
Presbyterians Present Christmas Pageant at First Church
The First Presbyterian church will stage He Came to Bethlehem a dramatic Christmas interpretation on Sunday December 24 at 1 30 p m. The pageant features pilgrims shepherds angels magi the star of Bethlehem Miriam the inn keeper's wife and Mary. Written by Elsie Duncan Yale it is directed by Mrs Vivian Harper with music by the church choir under Leon Hammond.
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Bethlehem
First Presbyterian Church
Christ
Rome
Miriam
Mary
Elsie Duncan Yale
Vivian Harper
Leon Hammond
Thefts From Auto Reported To Police
Florent E Hammonds courthouse custodian and deputy sheriff reported thefts from his car parked at 111 Texas street. Items taken included five ladies gowns one pair of boys trousers size 15 and one boys blue sweater with one gown described as silk and others crepe.
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Texas Street
Florent E. Hammonds
Peak Parcel Post Volume Expected at New Jackson Street Post Office
Parcel post operations at the new federal building on Jackson Street show rising totals. On Tuesday 500 packages were shipped and officials expect Wednesday to exceed that figure with a peak on Thursday. L A Fourmy, located in the Ouachita National Bank building, was the first to mail from the new post office sending a package to Sullivan Missouri at 8 am Monday.
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Federal
Jackson Street
Ouachita National Bank
Sullivan, Mo
Ouachita Parish High Hi Y Club Program
The Ouachita Parish High School senior Hi Y club met Tuesday night at the Y M C A hall on South Grand. The program featured a devotional led by Cyril Holt a talk on the value of athletics by Coach Ben Rush of O P H S and refreshments served by L C Pace and John Leist.
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Ouachita Parish High School
South Grand Street
Cyril Holt
Ben Rush
L. C. Pace
John Leist
Ouachita Junior College Plans Christmas Party
Students at Ouachita Junior College will hold a Thursday afternoon Christmas party featuring a student gift exchange, a dramatics club performance, and musical numbers and readings to conclude the afternoon program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Junior College
Robbery Attempt at Alvis Hotel Foiled by Clerk
Police say a small man about 135 to 140 pounds attempted a robbery at the Alvis Hotel. He wore a heavy overcoat with a pistol hidden beneath, and fled after the clerk alerted authorities. Officers responded but the suspect disappeared, thought to have boarded a freight train out of Monroe.
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Alvis
McDuffie
Safford
Police
F. K. Ham
A. P. Clower
E. N. LeVasseur
W. G. Banister
Monroe
Kincaid Rites Held in Monroe
The funeral of Miss Bernice Kincaid 31 who was killed when the automobile she drove turned turtle in a ditch near Met Rouge was held at 3 o'clock Wednesday at the Davis-Lawhead funeral home. Rev L T Hastings officiated, with interment at Riverview burial park. She became blinded by oncoming headlights losing control while driving from Monroe to her mother's home in Oak Grove. She jumped from the car just before the crash.
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Bernice Kincaid
Met Rouge
Davis-Lawhead
L. T. Hastings
First Baptist Church
Riverview
Miss Kincair
Monroe
Oak Grove
Sus
Permit Issued for Flowery Mount Church Roof Repair
A permit to re roof and repair Flowery Mount church on Wood street between Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets was issued Wednesday by G W Jones city building inspector.
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Flowery Mount Church
Wood Street
G. W. Jones
Untimely Death From Car Crash Leaves Family in Grief
A single survivor recounts a fatal automobile accident in which one woman died instantly when the car overturned. Three others escaped with minor injuries. The deceased, Miss Kincaid, left behind an only daughter in Alaska, her father, her divorced husband, and her mother Mrs J O Kincaid of Oak Grove, plus three brothers residing in Oak Grove.
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Miss Kincaid
Alaska
J. O. Kincaid
Oak Grove
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