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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1933
Page
2
Margaret Lee, a forty year old wife and mother in a Pennsylvania town, writes of fatigue with domestic duties and yearns for a year abroad with a nurse friend. Her husband George opposes, yet she departs after encouragement to seek a break from nine teen years of relentless chores.
Kathleen Norris argues that true marriage rests on companionship and mutual respect not money. She notes how a wife’s yearly holidays refresh partnership, while a neglectful husband like George Lee prospers on self glorification despite domestic chaos.
Kathleen Norris argues that companionship defines real marriage and delights in its miracle and happiness. She contrasts it with men choosing shallow gold-diggers and asserts women endure hard work, care for children, and despise injustice and unfair treatment.
A Louisiana party faction denounces the Kemp election as void and endorses a December 27 election to name State Senator J. Y. Sanders Jr. as sixth district representative. Shreveport Monroe and New Orleans mass meetings condemn Huey P. Long and allies as tyrants. graft accusations target Longism.
Washington report says affidavits since the New Orleans sub committee closed its probe of Senator John H. Overton’s Louisiana election are being filed, but no new witnesses will testify. Senator Connally notes the panel did not need adducal witnesses and a committee report is being prepared. He also described emerging from duty work with relief from the muck and mud.
In remarks at a New Orleans hearing, Connally called a committee leader a coward while noting that a minor employee might mismanage proceedings. He referenced John G. Holland, the committee investigator, who had denounced Connally and the panel.
Orange New Jersey native told his lawyer in Santé prison last night he was the victim of an error and protested his wife’s detention. The list includes Mme Lidia Tchekaloff Stahl, 48, Russian, Louis Martin, 43, translator, Mlle Madeleine Mermit, 23, French teacher, Benjamin Bercowitz and wife Clara, Romanians Moise Salmon, 26, and Chana, 27, Polish medical students, and Doucham Narandison, 42, Serbian journalist.
Sixty seven children aged 3 to 18 were evacuated from Thomy Lafon orphanage in New Orleans as a frame main building burned. The fire started in a kitchen pantry before breakfast. the walls collapsed within 15 minutes. Sister Angelica and the nuns conducted a fire drill and guided all to safety with no casualties.
Judge Paul DeBaillon heard a motion to quash the indecent assault charges against former Lieutenant-Governor Fernand Mouton in a Lafayette case involving two young girls. Attorneys challenged the law's constitutionality. Harry Seidler pleaded guilty to assault and not guilty to an attack charge. Sidney Yandle's trial for criminal attack is scheduled for January 9.
President Roosevelt announces a joint act with other nations to absorb 35 million ounces of silver annually for four years and to hold half of the treasury silver as bullion. He cites cooperation with Australia Canada Mexico Peru Spain and India to lift prices and curb oversupply in a bid to stabilize global markets.
The government gold price stayed at 34.06 dollars per ounce today marking the fifth consecutive posting since President Roosevelt's silver coinage announcement. London bar gold opened at 32.07 dollars per ounce with sterling at 5.08 to the pound.
Gov. O. K. Allen grants clemency to six convicts including Laird and McCoy with time served releases and reductions. Recipients include Laird of Caddo burglary 1932, McCoy of Caddo manslaughter 1928, Asanto Calcasieu robbery 1933, Williams De Soto manslaughter 1932, Noto East Baton Rouge arson 1933 reprieved 90 days, Halpin Calcasieu robbery 1933.
The funeral for two month old Kathryn Marie Bond was held at Monroe city cemetery after dying Thursday night at her parents’ home on 806 Mississippi street. She is survived by her parents and siblings James Clifton Helen Hilda Eunice and Aleta Mae Bond.
Four men robbed the West Baltimore Calvert bank branch today, each armed with a revolver, and escaped with fourteen thousand one hundred dollars. Police search underway as clues mount in the Dec 22 incident.
Noted figures share holiday plans from St. Paul to New York including Clarence Darrow Rosa Raisa and Mary Pickford. Mayo brothers in Rochester expected to receive greetings from around the world. George Mundelein outfits 100 poor boys. Bobby Jones Lindberghs at home in Atlanta. New Orleans offers gifts for 30 000 poor children as relief drives continue. Kansas City hosts 15000 children at Convention Hall with baskets of fruit candy and nuts. San Francisco clubs hotels and theaters stage festive scenes while Boston prepares Christmas Eve services on the Common.
Moscow reports the All-Union Godless society renewing its campaign during Christmas to attract believers from churches. The slogan calls for full worker attendance on Christmas day while the government ignores the day, scheduling its central committee winter convention to open on December 25.
Roosevelt signs rubber tire and smelting codes with effect dates December 31 and January 1 and 8 for rolling steel door and grinding wheel pad. Johnson says he aims to obtain construction, printing, and publishing codes including the American Newspaper Publishers Association pact. He reports codes are completed awaiting final reports and executive orders.
Miss Turley testified that a Ouija board commanded a 14 year old girl to shoot her father and that the mother, known as Venus of America, advised digging for buried treasure after cliff writings were found. The mother and son David described the father blasting for treasure while the young cowboy was nearby.
The Philadelphia transportation strike leads to a company position delaying returns of workers. It will reinstate strikers as circumstances allow but bars those involved in violence and refuses to assign new personnel to fill places. Dr Leiserson criticizes the P R T for not following board rulings.
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