08 Jan 1939
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1939
Page
1
The Manufacturers Record reports 1938 southern contracts valued at 831 million dollars, with December alone at 116 million. Public buildings, roads, and bridges drove growth while industrial work stayed weak. residential expansion is anticipated as demand improves.
Tom Mooney was released from prison on Saturday after 22 years behind bars. California Governor C. L. Olson granted a full pardon amid a changed political climate and public opinion regarding his case.
London reports President Roosevelt's warning to aggressors has given Britain and France renewed resolve. Prime Minister Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier plan to meet in Paris to set firm lines beyond which they will not retreat, with Chamberlain visiting Rome to push for peace and resist further concessions.
The first citywide building census in New Orleans will begin around January 16 with a 180 worker WPA team led by civil engineer E L Eustic. It will inventory 103000 dwellings by type size and modern conveniences, summarizing data by blocks for economic area analysis and future planning.
Police data show 623 traffic accidents in 1938, up from 518 in 1937. Pedestrian and bicycle crashes surged with 36 pedestrians struck and 61 bicycle riders hit, while 5 people died versus 8 the prior year.
Governor Leverett Saltonstall moves to oust officials as he begins GOP rule ending eight years of Democratic government. Public hearing announced for Tuesday on the removal of Race Commissioners Moyse and Foley while Education Commissioner Reardon defies resignation and remains prepared to face changes.
A 21 man committee of southern and western cotton growers met in Washington to tackle fading markets. Led by C. G. Henry of the American Cotton Cooperative association, the group reviewed production data and both foreign and domestic markets and the crop control law, with possible recommendations to Secretary Wallace for changes in the cotton program.
Mrs Dorothy Holderman of Rochester New York secretly boarded her husband Russell Holderman’s twin motor Lockheed race plane in New York. They arrived in Miami after five hours and 44 minutes with no toothbrush. The event, part of the all American air maneuvers, awarded prizes to Max Constant and others while Miss Cochran’s earlier record still stands.
Former Tennessee residents in Shreveport endorse Cordell Hull for the 1940 Democratic presidential nomination. A Jackson Day Dinner resolution urges the presiding officer to notify the Washington Jackson Day Dinner of the endorsement.
The United States Chamber of Commerce denounces President Roosevelt's budget forecasting a 3 billion dollar deficit and calls it a direct challenge to Congress. It notes 1931 onward deficits and warns of 1.5 billion dollars in interest on debt next year. It cites public opposition to excessive spending and says Congress has a crucial task ahead.
In Shreveport Louisiana Floyd Locklear fourteen-year-old grammar student was shot and killed late today while hunting near the city edge with neighbor Joseph Rothenberger fifteen. Rothenberger said they shot at an abandoned shack. he fired again after Locklear entered it and later found him dying with a forehead wound. Rothenberger rode home to tell his father and led police to the shack about an hour later. he was not held.
The former Chicago gang leader Al Capone was secretly transferred today to the Terminal Island federal jail in Los Angeles to serve a year. He was brought from Alcatraz, where he spent four and a half years, after a tax evasion conviction and a May 1932 start in Atlanta. The jail at Terminal Island opened last year for short term and some inmates with longer terms. Capone’s misdemeanor sentence ends next year.
United States customs employees destroyed almost 1 200 cases of imported Mexican wine and brandy in New Orleans after unpaid duties. The liquor, stored since 1934 in a bonded warehouse, was opened and smashed on St. Louis Street near the Mississippi River. Company president E B Fontaine cited post prohibition influx and ongoing duty forebearance, with more destruction expected next week.
California Governor Culbert Olson pardoned Thomas J. Mooney for the 1916 San Francisco preparedness day parade bombing after a long-prison term. The unconditional pardon ends Mooney’s decades long stand as a labor symbol and he pledged to work toward a peaceful social order.
Czech and Hungarian reports conflict over yesterday’s Munkacs battle. At Komaromeschi, gendarmes fired five times while arresting a man accused of insulting Admiral Horthy as about 150 protesters, stirred by cross border Slovak agitation, attacked them with sticks and stones.
In rural Davidson County Tennessee a mother Mrs Willie Brown 23 and her two children Ray Allison 1 Louise 3 died in a house fire near Nashville. Anna 5 escaped with severe cuts and burns after leaping from a window. Mrs Littie Mosley 26 shared the dwelling and reported kerosene kindling caused an explosion.
Beatrice Neb Jan 7 Butch a yellow Persian cat owned by the Mack Webb family vanished ten days earlier. The Webb family searched desperately until Miss Elaine Stevens heard a faint sound from an old trunk on the back porch. She found Butch weak from nine days without food or water but alive and making a faint meow.
An ex convict and his brother Joe Paul Lester and Ernest Lester both of Shreveport were held in Ouachita parish jail on auto theft and burglary probes. Their arrest followed a stolen auto recovered near Farmerville with accessories stripped. Officers questioned them in connection with burglaries in Shreveport and Bossier City and a gas theft at Morehouse parish near Bastrop. Joe Lester has a long police record dating to 1924 with prior larceny, post office and bank robbery charges.
Witnesses testified about a brutal August weekend in a heat soaked “Klondike” cell block where four county prisoners died, a fifth attempted suicide, and many others struggled to breathe as guards were accused in murder and manslaughter cases.
President Roosevelt calls for unity within the Democratic Party and argues that any split should be fought inside the party. He warns Republicans have inflated intra party fights and urges independents to join a liberal, constructive push for 1940.
Warren Madden chairman of the labor relations board lashed at Senator Burke accusing him of distorted facts and reckless statements. Madden said Burke had not presented evidence to the senate subcommittee and repeated that his charges are unfounded.
Ground for the souths first newsprint plant will be broken by January 15 according to B L Kurth president of Southland Paper Mills Inc The exact date to be set at a Monday directors meeting New citizens and job seekers flow into Lufkin as construction nears but officials say no jobs are available yet Local employment office reported 25 applications in one day
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