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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1930
Page
2
The report describes Bobby Thatcher binding Pascoe, an unseen force moving stolen funds, and a dawn incident where Pascoe’s captors crouch in a cabin doorway with Pascoe’s rifle as rescuers hover. The scene centers on a failed rescue attempt and a candle that went unrelit.
The Republican Party debates whether to oust Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the GOP, after his financing of a campaign against Senator Norris of Nebraska. Norris, renominated as a Republican, backed Hoover foe Smith in 1928, while party leaders push a hands off policy.
In Columbia Missouri athletic directors of several Big Six schools seek lower football admission charges. Current prices range from 25 cents to 3 dollars per game. Advocates say cheaper tickets would increase attendance and invite many young people who have been priced out to attend.
West Virginia Wesleyan fans hail halfback Clifford Battles as the 1830 galloping ghost of the gridiron. He has six TD runs of 65 yards or more and burst 66 yards against NYU. He wowed Georgetown with long runs and logged 97, 86, and 88 yard gallops versus Waynesburg.
Memphis December 22 Circus clown Fentress Weir held in city jail for stabbing Joseph R. Murphy his rival for the affection of Ola Tiewater a 37 year old widow and mother Weir confessed saying Murphy attacked him months earlier and he feared further harm at the rooming house run by Mrs Tiewater. The Canadian government estimates the 1930 dominion wheat crop at 395 854 000 bushels.
Officers for the Business Men's Bible class of the First Methodist church were elected Sunday. Claude Harrison, a civic leader, was named to head the class. Other officers include D. W. Caldwell as first vice-president J. D. Petty as second vice-president J. W. Keene as secretary A T M Gains as assistant secretary Lafayette A Trousdale as second assistant secretary John Madden as teacher John T. Bryant as assistant teacher Joe Smith as music director Miss Juanita Porter as organist and Mrs A D Gains as violinist.
In Monroe and West Monroe the Christmas tree season drew record crowds as about 500 cars carried families to nearby woods to select pines holly and cedar. Residents enjoyed the outings and the decorating after returns, while babies slept through the bustle.
Lester J Maitland the famed aviator is to be tried today by a court martial in the eight corps area on charges of being under the influence of liquor at the Fort Sam Houston base hospital after a motor bus accident last August A nurse will testify. A mob gathered before the St Joseph county jail demanding release but was deterred by Sheriff Roach and local authorities.
Kansas City dispatch reports Ray Sond Gunn, who confessed to killing Miss Velma Colter a Maryville, Missouri schoolteacher, was moved to a secure jail in Kansas City from St. Joseph to protect him from mob violence following an earlier Sunday attempt.
The pardon board urged clemency on 11 convicts along with two citizenship restorations, two fine remissions, nine sentence commutations, and two illegal sentence corrections. The recommendations were sent to Governor Huey P. Long for Christmas action while he holidayed in Shreveport.
Two people died in Arkansas automobile crashes over the weekend. Carl B. Holcomb of Delight was fatally injured when his car went into a ditch and overturned, dying two hours later at a nearby home. Verilie Wright of Round Mountain near Conway died in a crash near Scotland on Sunday afternoon.
In Boston reports the lighthouse service marks Christmas as a workday for keepers with tenders delivering meals during the holiday.
The article notes bells cannot reach the lighthouse keeper’s family, but a tolling bell buoy serves as a substitute to warn sailors of dangerous rocks or reefs, ensuring alerting sounds reach mariners even when church bells are distant.
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