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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1928
Page
2
Reports from the U S tour note widespread friendly receptions across nine nations. Officials say Hoover engaged on economic and US relations without touching boundary disputes, listening to explain American policy.
Katherine Yeldell returns to Shreveport after visiting sister in Mer Rouge. Visitors include Mrs. G M Sims and Mrs. H B Andrews family guests from Leesville Monroe and Jena. Various locals host, visit, and travel to Monroe Alexandria and Collinston for weddings funerals and family gatherings.
Rayville district Boy Scout executive council will meet January 3 at 7 p m in the First Baptist church Delhi. Lions club hosts the event and B Skidmore chairman of the activities committee asks all district officers to attend.
G C Britton cited for driving a car while drunk with a $50 fine. Willie Copeland listed as trespassing with no jail time. Julius Thomas charged with disturbing the peace, $5 suspended. J E Dixon drunk and disorderly fined $7.50. Lula Williams charged as drunk and disorderly with $7.50 suspended.
Dr Joseph Goldberger, famed for revealing pellagra cause and cure, is gravely ill with a form of anaemia. He has received two blood transfusions and more are planned as physicians seek to identify the mystery illness. Twenty colleagues offered transfusions. fourteen were accepted.
The Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company will spend over 87,000 for Monroe additions in 1929, including 57,000 for central office gear and 60 for exchange lines, adding about 400 new telephones. Louisiana sees 5,229,600 of the 39,000,000 statewide budget with 872,000 for local lines and 468,000 for long distance upgrades. The expansion signals continued Southeast growth, with over 125,000,000 already spent in five years and similar disbursements expected.
A Collinston store was burglarized last night with a tray of cheap jewelry and a 32 20 S W pearl handled pistol stolen. Bastrop sheriff's deputies report the suspect as a short heavy set black man wearing a small black hat and light pants.
The Lions club will not hold a luncheon on January 1 due to New Year’s Day. The first luncheon of the new year is set for January 8 at Hotel Virginia at the usual hour.
The state federation of colored women's clubs wraps a two day meeting in this city. It aims to enroll all available negro women in Louisiana and to form a publicity committee to promote progress in home life church school and farm and business. Cora M. Allen of Shreveport serves as president and a home for delinquent negro boys is urged. The delegation met Governor Long in Baton Rouge and a luncheon followed with Daughters of the Elks hosting.
Deputy Sheriff D. L. Roper with his wife son and father returned to Monroe at 6 90 P.M. after a holiday trip to Morehouse Missouri. The one day drive found good roads all the way and brought the elder Mr. Roper back to spend a lengthy visit with his family on Grand Street.
Trenton street from Vernon to Claiborne road will be paved at once under a contract awarded to J. L. Humble. The project caps a two year paving effort in Mayor C. C. Bell’s administration, converting rough gravel into a scenic riverbank drive on the west side. Peaches reports flu and leaves drama cast after two and a half weeks in New York.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science elected Dr Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology Pasadena as president for 1929. Millikan directs the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physicists at Caltech.
The article describes church and civic leaders urging legal action following a lynching in Forrest County. Resolutions request Judge Robert Hall to convene a grand jury, Sheriff Gray to arrest suspects, and Governor Bilbo to marshal state resources. The chamber of commerce may fund rewards totaling up to 2000 dollars, with local officials to post more rewards. County Attorney Holmes offers evidence to the grand jury, while authorities give no clear motive for the killing.
Fatally burned yesterday while near an outdoor fire, the eighth death in the area since last Monday highlights urgent poll tax issues for 1929 1930 elections. Voters must show two year poll tax receipts. delinquent taxes become liens from January 1. The tax office, open until midnight Monday, reports about 4760 dollars in poll taxes paid last night.
The report details a kidnapping attempt and assault on Miss Duvall as she wandered through woods with a black assailant. J. D. Duvall, 55, a carpenter sergeant, was slain in his home with his throat cut and head beaten. Shepherd, a convict serving 20 years for manslaughter, was trusted as house servant at the Duvall residence. authorities suspect he killed Duvall and may have harmed Miss Duvall before fleeing. Posses continue the search for Shepherd.
A deadly sequence at a dancing party near Eros left several dead or injured and six white men held in Jackson parish jail. Nearby, six other fatalities occurred Christmas week including a Missouri Pacific express messenger O H Murphy who killed himself aboard a train near Collinston and Harry Kent who died after drinking moonshine near West Monroe. An early tragedy involved a fatal car crash near Rayville, a boy and car passenger Mrs Marion Mayo dying en route to treatment, and Samuel Johnson perishing in a separate rollover near Triangle filling station.
Ruth Duvall, 18, daughter of J. D. Duvall, a slain Parchman prison farm sergeant carpenter, testified that Charley Shepherd struck her father. She described kidnapping and temporary imprisonment by the suspect, who fled after guiding her to a neighboring cabin. Doctors described her condition as serious.
Beier breaks down under confrontation and admits guilt after his wife, who sought leniency, claimed responsibility. DA Lawrence Brody says Beier’s actions, including a pistol confrontation with Biesen, point to a serious crime rather than first degree murder.
Charges of illegal possession and transportation of whiskey were preferred against both men and they were lodged in the city jail unable to meet bond by noon. The car they used, hired from a local auto-renting concern, was stored. Daugherty claimed to be manager of the Willard hotel while Moore’s work is not known to officials.
Officials urge citizens to settle poll taxes at the sheriff and tax collector’s office in the courthouse. A heavy last minute rush is expected before Monday when penalties take effect and payment is required to preserve qualified voter status.
Officer W W Cummings tailed the suspects after they were seen unloading two five gallon water bottles of whiskey behind the Williard hotel. Capt Clower helped detain the pair. Moore and Daugherty claimed ownership and rented the car.
In South Wales the school teachers themselves are contributing part of their salaries to keep the schools running and support students during difficult times. The move reflects a community effort by educators to prevent disruption to education amid financial strain.
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