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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1931
Page
8
Winnsboro reports over 5000 voters registered in Franklin Parish with Ward Seven contributing 1035 registrations. Despite sheriffs and clerks posts not contested, strong interest in state races could push turnout to about 4500 plus votes in the Democratic primary.
Funeral services were held today for Maurice H. Rooney longtime secretary to Colonel E M House at the Paris Peace Conference He also served as district attorney of Orleans Parish in prior years.
The community Christmas program for colored people is set for tomorrow at 1 30. Public is invited including white friends. Mayme Goodwyn requests fruit nuts candy or toys for the kindergarten by noon Thursday. A call to 1881 will arrange collection. Prof E J Hamilton from Southern University will sing two negro spirituals on request of Miss Julia Wossman.
Police questioned three men as investigators probed the Christmas death of six year old Marian McLean in a Cincinnati tenement. A red liquor vessel and a slender belt found in a relative’s room were linked to the case as officers widen the search and review a past molestation arrest. Mrs Mildred McLean faced Christmas while her estranged husband prepared to fly in from Phoenix seeking a free air ride offered by an airline.
Georgia to Mississippi governors share memories of Christmas as children. Huey P. Long recalls stuffing four galleys of type as a 15 year old printer’s devil and earning 75 cents to buy candy for his girl. Theodore G. Bilbo remembers Christmases near Pearl River swamps.
A compilation of reminiscences from several Southern governors about their fifteenth Christmas. Tales span family reunions, chestnuts and marbles, hunting, baking and feasting, Santa pranks, and early budgets. Georgia’s Richard Russell recalls illness that season.
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