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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1928
Page
3
Grace church will hold Holy Eucharist at 11 45 tonight with choir organ piano and violin. A low Eucharist is planned tomorrow morning and evensong at 4 30 pm. St Matthew's will offer a midnight mass just before 12 and two masses tomorrow at 6 30 and 9 30.
A tri motor 15 passenger Gray Goose Air Lines plane from Chicago is due in Monroe today for a short stay. Information reached Travis Oliver this morning. The visit will last several days and the purpose remains unspecified.
William W. Pope a former Mississippi state representative from Pike and Walthall counties and noted inventor is critically ill at his daughter's home near Mag Soll a. Pope served three terms in the House and contributed to major committees. He created the Pope side-barrow widely used in cotton cultivation and later devised a stump burner earning a 1913 patent. About six years ago he went totally blind and recently had eye surgery in New Orleans improving some sight.
Barney F. Taylor was arrested at 4 a.m. Sunday by Officer J. M. Webb and charged with driving a car while drunk.
Chicago December 24 The titan red hair soprano says Mary Garden’s memoirs will be frank but not published while living people mentioned remain. She returns from Beaulier France and notes no Isadora Duncan revelations about love affairs though she may mention one or two. Her first opera appearance this year is planned in Sappho.
Peter Cardone a Brooklyn manufacturing chemist and expert pistol shot killed two armed men during a poker game hold up at Fred Rendino's Brooklyn home. He was wounded in the arm and two bystanders were killed. Police Commissioner Whalen praised his courage.
Camp Fire girls from local groups will meet at 7 p m in the old parish school, then tour the city by car to sing in homes including those with sick residents. Residents may signal a visit by placing a lighted candle in a front window.
Ira Rodgers head coach of West Virginia University football favors starting the second half where the first half ends. He would push for a rule making the third quarter a continuation of the second, to be discussed by coaches and athletic directors in New Orleans.
An 18 month old boy from Bluefield West Virginia is in a Cincinnati hospital in serious but improved condition after swallowing a toy motorcycle with a tiny man on it. Doctors indicated that removal would depend on his respiratory status and overall condition.
The Clark Drive‑U‑Self at 120 Jackson street reported Sunday night that O. F. Morgan of 511 Ouachita avenue rented a Chevrolet coach with license 174 184 at 11 30 p m promising to return in an hour. He failed to return and the matter was reported to police.
J. C. Davis, a negro, was placed under a $50 cash bond Saturday night after Officers H. E. Webb and L. G. Parker found a pint of whisky in his possession.
Tom Morris customs inspector on the Mexican border is killed after briefly allowing a prisoner to light a cigarette before being handcuffed. The assailant fired four shots, three hitting Morris and one wounding Inspector Rogers, who returned fire but the fugitive escaped to Mexico. A jail term was issued for the second smuggler.
Mrs Coolidge sits unrecognized for 15 minutes among travelers in Springfield Union Station waiting room as 11 a.m. train to Washington departs.
Twenty one persons were arrested from Saturday 6 p m to 1 a m with six jailed at their request. Charges included investigation three cases driving drunk two fights two illegal whiskey possession one concealed weapon one trespass one drawing a dangerous weapon and one disorderly conduct.
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