Fort Huachuca Slayings Linked to Demotion Motive
At Fort Huachuca Arizona a negro private James Abernathy killed four including Captains Joseph Wessely and David Palmer and their wives after killing wounded Lt Harvie Matthews. Investigators found no discipline breach. Abernathy judged as suffering temporary insanity. Matthews a brother in law of Claude Ashe living near Monroe on the Dixie Overland highway. Continued on Fourteenth Page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Huachuca
Ariz
Joseph R. Wessely
San Antonio
Texas
25Th Infantry
Wessely
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
David A. Palmer
Beverly
Mass
Palmer
Mary Lowden
Dedham
James H. Abernathy
Quartermaster’s Corps
Houston
Harvie R. Matthews
Chapel Hill
Matthews
Claude Ashe
Monroe
Ashe
Abernathy
Georgia Prisoner Proposes Trade Death Sentence for Cook County Victim
Howard Curtis, a Georgia inmate convicted of murder, writes to the South Carolina governor offering to swap his life sentence for Mrs Beatrice Snipes death penalty. He argues it would allow the expectant mother to raise her children and cites chivalry, but authorities say no legal mechanism exists for such an exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Howard Curtis
Georgia
Beatrice Snipes
South Carolina
Local Tales of Monroe Folk and Oddities
Phillip Wood bagged a blackbird with a U. S. Biological Survey band 436560 near Crescent Bend. Sterling Godfrey, fallen hip and arm survivor, honored by the Elks. Miss Fitzgerald delays trip home. a three penny coffee tale amuses town. laborers recall past colonial nights at a downtown hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phillip Wood
Crescent Bend
U. S. Biological Survey
Monroe
Will Rogers
Screen
Charles Stewart
North Fifth Street
Catherine Fitzgerald
Ogdensburg
N. Y
Chicago
H. D. Reaves
St. Louis
L. W
L. W. Baldwin
Dr. L. R. Hemler
Alto
Sterling Godfrey
Monticello
Elks Lodge
Baby Doe Tabor Guards Matchless Mine With Gun
In Leadville Colorado on December 30 1924 aging widow Belle Emmaline Baby Doe Tabor asserts sole possession of the Matchless mine. She guards the property with a double barreled shotgun claiming mortgagees cannot seize while she remains in residence and recounts her late husband H A W Tabor's wish that the title never leave her name. She reports previous arson attempts and vows vigilance from sunset to sunrise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leadville
Colo
Doe” Tabor
H. A. W. Tabor
Colorado
One Billion and Half Lent Out by R F C Report
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has lent $1,502,168,401 to banks railroads farmers and states to meet economic difficulties. By Nov 30 $283,049,032 was repaid with banks repaying $233,587,301. Loans totaled $1,541,906,876 to 6,494 corporations plus $52,104,357 for farm marketing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Reconstruction Corporation
Lumberman Halloran Indicted In Winnie Ruth Judd Case
Phoenix lumberman J J Halloran was indicted by the Maricopa county grand jury in connection with Winnie Ruth Judd's trunk murders of Agnes Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson. The first deficiency bill to provide 31 421 000 for immediate government needs was reported by the appropriations committee cutting 12 285 188 from the administration budget. Daisy De Melker was executed in Pretoria for poisoning her son Cecil Rhodes Cowle after being sentenced November 25.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix, Ariz
J. J. Halloran
Phoenix
Maricopa County
Winnie Ruth Judd
Agnes Anne Leroi
Hedvig Samuelson
Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Treasury
Pretoria
Union of South Africa
Daisy de Melker
Cecil Rhodes Cowle
Island Question Put Squarely Up to Pres Hoover
The House passed the compromise bill granting independence to the Philippines after a ten year transitional period and sent it to President Hoover for action. Hoover warned that independence without economic stability would crash Philippine revenues and life, while supporters cite the ten year interim and stabilization provisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pres. Hoover
Washington
Philippine Islands
Hoover
House
White House
Hurley
Sun Up Play by Little Theater Proves a Success
Monroe's Little Theater drew 500+ in rain for Sun Up by Lulu Vollmer at Ouachita Parish Junior College. Blanche Oliver impressed as Widow Cagle with powerful, faultless portrayal. K Anne Dodge and Shelby Cage also received strong notices for their mountaineer roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Little Theater Group
Lulu Vollmer
North Carolina
Ouachita Parish
Blanche Oliver
South
Cagle
MISS JUNE LONAS HURT IN KNOXVILLE FALL
Miss June Lonas a state field representative of the national Red Cross fractured her left arm during a Christmas vacation in Knoxville Tennessee and is confined in a hospital there for more than five weeks. Her friends here regret the injury and prognosis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
June Lonas
National Red Cross
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
Floods Threaten Lowland Towns Across Dixie States
Rivers surged from the Carolinas to the lower Mississippi as rain-soaked alerts spread. Rome Georgia faced major flooding with 140 refugees under relief care while Oostanaula Etowah and Coosa rivers stayed high. Chattanooga reported the Tennessee four feet over flood stage.
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Atlanta
Carolinas
Mississippi Valley
Georgia
Rome
North Carolina
South Carolina
Alabama
Mississippi
Tennessee
Arkansas
Oostanaula
Etowah
Coosa
Chattanooga
Tenn
Rossville
Monroe Year End Sale Slated For Last Day Of 1932
In Monroe the Year End Sale is set for tomorrow the last day of 1932. Local merchants join in a city wide clearance offering bargains to surpass previous value sales. Wholesale prices rising drive ready for inventory and spring stocks, with hundreds of items moved to cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Twin Cities
Poll Tax Payment Request for 1932 Delinquency Notice
A citizen requests paying the poll tax for 1932 to the Sheriff and Tax Collector of the parish. The message asks for a receipt by enclosed self-addressed stamped envelope and reminds payment of 1932 state and parish taxes. Penalties for non payment start January 1.
Orleans Bridge Contracts Signed After Confab
Final formal signing of contracts for the 13 million dollar New Orleans bridge over the Mississippi occurred at a Friday conference of state officials railroad representatives and builders. Construction begins next month with land clearing under way and completion projected in about two years. Attendees included Governor O K Allen Senator Huey P Long Mayor T Semmes Walmsley and Thomas Cunningham. Financing comes from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation which bought 6 million and 7 million in belts and highway bonds respectively.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Mississippi River
O. K. Allen
United States
Huey P. Long
T. Semmes Walmsley
Thomas Cunningham
The
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Belt Commission
Highway Commission
Allen
Dan Cupid’s Aim Failing as Ouachita Marriages Decline
Records show Ouachita parish marriage licenses fell from a 1929 peak of 652 to 450 in 1932. Economists link the trend to waning prosperity, while the six year sequence 1932 450 1931 549 1930 573 1929 652 1928 586 1927 633 underscores a steady drop in marriages.
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Ouachita Parish
Dan Cupid
Dan
Cupid
Monroe
World Cotton Output Drops to Five Year Low
The Agriculture Department estimates 1932 33 world cotton production at 24 million bales the smallest in five years. Foreign output is put at 11.3 million bales up from last year but below 1930 31 while U S cotton textile mill activity continues uncertain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Department of Agriculture
United States
Youth Burn to Death in Kirbyville Hotel Fire
John McClung 16 died in a blaze at the Chambers hotel in Kirbyville Texas. Four others were injured leaping from the second floor as flames trapped guests and the building burned rapidly. Mrs Myrta McClung and Mrs H H Chapman helped in lifting the boy’s body before escaping.
Arrests follow Winnfield bank robbery
Police rounded up several suspects after the noon robbery of the Bank of Winnfield yesterday. Gyp Barton of Lewisville Ark was detained near Texarkana in connection with the bandit gang. About $3,000 was taken, with more arrests expected as Louisiana officers cooperate with Miller County officials. District Judge Wiley Jones, who was present during the robbery, aided the inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winnfield
Bank of
Louisiana
Gyp Barton
Lewisville
Ark
Texarkana
Miller County
Barton
Garland City
Wiley Jones
Colfax
Bloody Bodies Found in Car Near Monroe Steel Plant
Two unidentified men were found dead in a running car near the Newton Steel plant in Monroe Michigan with blood on the running board and a rope around each neck. Detroit and Toledo police suspect a gang feud. Fingerprint experts were summoned to identify the victims as deputies investigate ownership linked to a Toledo man named James La Painte.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe, Mich
Newton Steel Company
Detroit
Toledo
Monroe
James la Painte
Chestnut Street
Roosevelt Signals Readiness to Economize Government
President elect outlines plans for general federal reorganization to cut costs after March 4. Democrats push for broad authority to reorganize while Hoover budget measures and a tax program are debated in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Washington
House
Albany
Congress
Hoover
Garner
M Roosevelt
Representative Rainey
Birmingham Church Music Director Ends Life
Edwin Lyle Taylor 42 a music director and organist at First Baptist Birmingham died by suicide in a church Sunday school room by inhaling gas. Janitor Hosey Peoples found the body and a note asked his wife in Mobile to wait for a registered letter Friday morning. Coroner G M Evans ruled death by own action. Taylor had been in Birmingham since August after leaving Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Edwin Lyle Taylor
First Baptist
Hosey Peoples
Taylor
Mobile
F. Cleveland
Doupling Street
J Hobbs
G. M Evans
Los Angeles
Levee Board Advances Monroe Right of Way Approval
The Tensas basin levee board filed resolutions with the clerk of court approving right of way for Monroe levee construction. The resolutions, adopted in a special session, authorize rights of way for Monroe’s new levee as surveyed by the Vicksburg engineer district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tensas Basin
Monroe
Levee Board
United States District
Vicksburg
Monroe New Levee
Board of Commissioners
Tensas Basi Levee
Louisiana
New Grayling Bend
New Levee
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Tate
Investigation Board
Jes’ Ramblin
Wayne McCarty
Jess Ramblin
Little Theater
Memphis
Helena
Arkansas City
Natchez Weet
Cincinnati Waneee
Cairo
Tennessee— Chattanooga
Fort Smith
Little Rock
Shreveport
Alexandria Ee
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Monroe Eeeeeeses
Dixie States
Tennessee River High
Jackson
Orleans
State Highway Commission
Agriculture Department
Car
Collier
House Ways Means Committee
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