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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1930
Page
2
Mayor Arnold Bernstein extols the Byrd South Polar exhibit opening today in the old Morning World building. He urges every man woman and child in Monroe to view the rare display of dogs the original equipment used by Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd and his expedition team.
Nashville attorney Larkin E. Crouch arranged to furnish $25,000 bond today as receiver for Southern Publishers Inc parent of Memphis Commercial Appeal and Knoxville Journal. Chancellor James B. Newman announced the appointment after denying a separate request to appoint a receiver for Tennessee Publishing Co publishers of the Nashville Tennessean. The ruling cited no creditor pressure or default on bonds and allowed the going concern to continue.
The southern commission on the study of lynching announced the University of North Carolina law school will survey current state laws on mob violence prevention and punishment. A uniform anti lynching act may be prepared for states to adopt. Factors cited include economic racial tensions, education, and community back- ground influences.
A solemn mass celebrating Christ's birth will be held at St Matthew's Catholic Church at midnight. Father Vandegser will read the mass, Father Marsh will deliver the festival sermon, and the choir will sing Gounod's Mass with a manger tableau near the main altar.
A school program on December 19 featured songs readings and plays by students from multiple grades. The report notes an injury later alleged to involve amputation of the right leg amid a civil suit seeking damages for pain and suffering loss of time medical costs and related expenses.
Fragmentary text hints at a cautious note by Simas Min It and possible advice to avoid a direct path after a diamond pack. The readable portion offers no clear event, date, or involved organizations to confirm a fuller story. Entities and specifics remain uncertain in the surviving lines.
A mosaic of short items from multiple places. Dinners at 2,227 served at a Missouri cafe. a $9,000,000 Christmas dividend by Midwest Refining. marriages and divorces with costs listed in Oklahoma. a stolen stopwatch for Speaker Longworth in Washington. Holiday visits and gifts from Georgia to New Jersey. Christmas cheer for brick masons over 50 in Oklahoma.
Jessie Kims of Caldwell parish filed a civil suit in Ouachita parish district court seeking 15350 against Union Oil Mill Inc of West Monroe for injuries from a fall through the hopper house floor caused by alleged employee negligence several months earlier.
In Winnsboro on December 24 sheriff Price reports about 700 of roughly 4,000 eligible residents filed poll tax registrations. About 70 percent of those eligible and a portion of taxpayers are using 1990 deferred payments, prompting expected action by the state board of liquidation to stabilize parish finances. The assessment roll shows 11,000 taxpayers with near 15 million dollars in value.
Colonel Arthur Woods, head of the president's emergency committee for employment, urged jobless men to remain in their home communities. He cited Arizona, California and Florida as overwhelmed by an influx of unemployed men and families.
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