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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1930
Page
10
A federal study of 69 land grant colleges finds students similar to the general population in morals. It notes fraternities sororities and dances as problem areas with drinking, rowdy behavior, cafe and roadhouse attendance, and alumni or guest influence raised by college officials.
C. E. R. McKenzie national executive of the American Legion said Tuesday that four of eight Louisiana posts back an immediate payment plan for adjusted service certificates issued to World War veterans. About 30 posts remain undecided. McKenzie noted the certificates valued at about 1.13 dollars are a debt acknowledged by the United States, not a gift.
Two bandits in a large automobile robbed two New Orleans gas stations last night pulling in cash totaling 55 dollars. Police received a description of the suspects and their car.
Joe Crowley's Paint Store advertises rental of an electric waxer and a vacuum cleaner. The notice also mentions picture framing services offered by the store.
Vicksburg officers and posses today searched the countryside for Wad dell Casey a 19 year old black worker on the Mercer Hawkins farm charged with fatally shooting William Davis a 45 year old manager. Davis had ordered Casey away from the Hawkins place after remarks to Mrs Hawkins. Casey allegedly fired from a shotgun as Davis drove to Vicksburg killing him.
Ovide Tauzin a 70 year old tenant farmer living in Lafayette parish near Milton was fatally injured in a collision at a local crossing. The Sunset Limited east bound derailed the locomotive and one car, Tauzin died after being hospitalized with a fractured skull and other injuries.
The United States asks for an early Supreme Court hearing on its appeal of Judge Clark of New Jersey ruling the Eighteenth Amendment invalid because ratified by state legislatures. Solicitor General Thacher with Youngquist and others argues the Constitution allows the Clark interpretation and no ambiguity exists in the amendment language.
The Paramount shows The Princess and the Plumber with Jes Farrell and Maureen O'Sullivan in a modern romantic tale from director Alexander Korda. The Balkan princess and her engineer hero travel by car and airplane while a classic courtship unfolds.
Attorney General Percy Saint of Louisiana filed in the supreme court a brief for the boundary dispute with Mississippi. The document outlines 22 reasons in support of the state’s position ahead of oral argument on Monday.
The United States will not recognize President Orellana's government in Guatemala. The American legation in Guatemala City conveyed the stance on instructions from the State Department. Officials declined to comment, citing high authority.
The disinclination to extend recognition to Guatemala rested on the 1923 treaty conditions for recognizing new Central American regimes. The state department held that the Orellana regime seized power by a civil coup d etat, not via constitutional provisions permitting recognition under the treaty.
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