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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1932
Page
5
The West Monroe Kiwanis club will hold a session led by president H A McDonald to review the club’s activities since organization. Past presidents T C Drew Fred G Thatcher and Captain H M Williams are to attend. Members may bring a guest who is a club member. The Weekly Echo urges continued growth and flood protection through organized effort.
R J Strozier a leading peach grower in the parish anticipates a big crop next year to offset the unusually small 1932. He cites over-stimulated tree growth from a warm previous winter and a March freeze as factors. His suburban Arkansas road home burned months ago and he now lives in a garage while awaiting a new house.
Unemployed women may earn money through the unemployment relief bureau by quilting. A dedicated room will open in West Monroe with Mrs. J. H. McCormick in charge. Interested women should register at the relief committee offices on South Grand Street. Quilters earn 1.50 dollars daily though continuous work is unlikely. Citizens with material scraps are urged to donate them. quilts produced will be distributed to needy families in the parish.
J H Salsbury 22 Mack Spillers 22 and Ernest Lee Salsbury 19 were held in parish jail after arrest by sheriff's deputies. They faced theft of cattle charges for taking cattle from Allen Gilbert near the Ouachita Caldwell parish line. one cattle is in their possession.
Roy Smith remains in St. Francis sanitarium charged jointly with Orville Elmore and Mrs. Frank Manley in the fatal shooting of Ted Reiser. He cannot be moved to parish jail for some time and was shot in the thigh during the incident.
The Ouachita Parish high school announces the honor roll for the first semester six weeks. Seniors led with three point averages including Louise Cash Ardelle Johnson and Rosa Rutledge. Also named are top juniors Daw son Kennedy Sydney Alexander Mary Pindell Cordell and Myrtle Lipscomb. Florence Young led the freshman with a 3.0.
The Y's Men club delivered a Christmas tree loaded with presents to Worthy and needy children from Monroe and West Monroe schools. Harris Tyson oversaw the event at the Weaks building, marking the third annual drive funded by two weeks of dinner suspensions. About 300 children under eight received a toy, fruit, and nuts, with Junior Charity League help and a Santa Claus visit.
The article claims the newly finished Dnieper river dam in Soviet Russia is the largest power dam, while noting the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River will become the world’s largest power and irrigation dam once completed.
Cloud banks broke for the first time in over ten days along the Pearl river valley near Jackson as floods recede. Refugees look to a milder Christmas as danger of further rises eases, with new high water near Columbia and Monticello posing little threat.
The Good Fellows report no fire or medical care at the scene and urge temporary housing bedding food and clothing. They ask other agencies to share the burden as the Monroe Welfare Association cannot fully fund the urgent relief.
The Ouachita Parish High School publishes the Yuletide Ouachita Lion in green ink this week. Editor Brownlow Hastings and assistant Robert Faulk lead a well edited issue rich with illustrations and seasonal feature articles. The Kodiak Bear, native to Kodiak Island Alaska, is described as the largest known bear with many specimens exceeding 1200 pounds.
A Louisiana sheriff’s office report from Baton Rouge cites a Bureau of Identification letter describing Santa Claus with aliases, age about 65, 5 feet 5 inches, 175 pounds, red suit, white beard, and a “confidence game” involving children and fathers. The letter warns of his reindeer era, now flying in airplanes, and notes December 15 to July 1 as the window of activity. It calls for arrest, the use of force, and immediate notification to state police if found.
Announcement stated bids for interior lighting fixtures installation at the new Monroe post office will be opened at the United States treasury in Washington on January 19. Drawings and specifications may be obtained from James A. Wetmore, acting supervising architect. Steel work resumed after weather delay. second floor skeleton nearly complete and third floor framing to start tomorrow.
Six Japanese aviators were killed and another seriously wounded when Chinese irregulars shot down a bombing plane near Wan Pao Shan, twenty miles northwest of Changchun Manchuria. The craft was bombing a concentration camp. Chinese anti aircraft fire scored a direct hit and the engine exploded.
Displays brighten Monroe storefronts as Christmas windows draw shoppers. Featured venues include Home Furniture, Mike John department store, Goldmans, Fields Woman's Shop, Collens and Thompson pharmacies, Marys Flower Shop, Royal Confectionary, Cullen's Pharmacy, Grand Leader, Mrs Johnnie Smith Elbert Woman's Shop, Cinderella Shop, Dixie Bedding and Furniture, and in hotel lobbies at Oua chit a National Bank Virginia and Frances Hotels.
Poor weather halts nine on the West Side as crews pause operations. When conditions improve, officials in charge will resume work. Oak furniture can be renovated using hot linseed oil applied with a flannel cloth.
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