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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1937
Page
2
A lone bandit entered the motors workshop office at 12 22 pm and forced cashier Miss Perce to fill a large sack with bills and coins after finding the safe empty. He warned her not to follow and left casually, later joking about a past Shreveport robbery. Insurance covered the loss.
The article reports on calls for impeachment of Federal Judge Geiger following allegations by Cummings to Sumners. It describes claims that Geiger mishandled automobile company cases, citing dismissed tax cases and alleged agreements to plead guilty. It notes justice department aims to enforce anti trust laws and Roosevelt administration planned statute revisions pending studies.
The article notes that ships and troops in China remain to assist in maintaining order and protecting American lives and property. It quotes officials saying withdrawal is not opportune, while efforts continue to evacuate Americans and keep communications with diplomatic missions open. It mentions damage limited to burning mills and the Japanese-held cotton mills in Tsingtao.
The Japanese military attache released a staff investigation claiming the Panay was not fired on and was moving, conflicting with survivor reports and a prior Tokyo foreign office note. He defended the report amid questions from foreign correspondents and Marines commander General Beaumont.
Shanghai dispatch reports an imminent Japanese offensive in Chekiang and Anhwei as General Iwane Hatsui confirms the plan. The fight extends along coastal China from Tsingtao to Canton with three U S warships at Tsingtao ready to evacuate about 300 Americans if needed.
General Erich Ludendorff died at peace with his fuehrer amid praise of his service to Germany. Reports say his life was dedicated to a united and prepared nation and that his new neo pagan faith was recognized alongside Catholic and Protestant churches.
Justice Sutherland and Justice McReynolds issue a dissent calling wire tapping unlawful as inconsistent with ethics and personal liberty. The court delays action on a California gas rate case and plans to issue opinions on January 3 as justices prepare. The Hindu belief noting the Ganges river as sacred appears in nearby material.
The report links Joseph P Kennedy as a potential successor to lead the maritime commission amid praise from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A long article also covers Robert Worth Bingham’s burial procession from Baltimore to Louisville with U S and British officials attending, and notes his career as publisher of the Louisville Courier Journal and Times and his service as ambassador to Great Britain.
Miss Katherine Fitzgibbon, a Denver beauty operator, says she will not collect Colorado's 2 percent sales and service tax and plans to move her beauty shop to another state rather than argue with customers.
Five Dafoe nursery quintuplets name Santa in a winter scene while recalling a past photo involving a bearded man. They confuse Dr Allan Roy Dafoe with Santa and point to head nurse Miss Jacqueline Noel when asked for Pere Noel.
The village of Santa Claus experiences a boom as remailing firms and a new cancelling machine boost Christmas mail. Eight residents assist Phillips amid long hours, while trucks move mail to distant rail points since the town sits off the rail line. The hamlet formerly Cross Roads earned its Santa Claus postmark after 1853, sparked by a Sunday school class.
President Roosevelt names Ebert K. Burlew of Pennsylvania as first assistant secretary of the interior to succeed the late Theodore A. Walters Burlew is currently administrative assistant to the secretary Claude M Evans of Texas is named regional director of the farm security administration at the Agriculture Department. They know he isn't their own father because they call him Papa.
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