North Dakota Brother Driver A Capture Boy Incident
A woman was rushed to the hospital after a driver captured a boy. hospital reports show 15 stitches were taken for injuries.
08 Jul 1929
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1929
Page
1
A woman was rushed to the hospital after a driver captured a boy. hospital reports show 15 stitches were taken for injuries.
Associated Press reports Jay Charles Delaet an unemployed 19 year old slashed Miss Caroine Goodwin of Rahway New Jersey at Broadway and Vesey Street. He later confessed to killing a woman in Detroit in 1925. He was held for police after a passerby and his brother subdued him until officers arrived.
A lawsuit filed in Alexandria seeks a temporary restraining order to stop Mrs. W T David, Rapides registrar, from receiving and certifying recall petitions against Representative J W Sylvester. Judge Culpepper set July 16 to show cause why an injunction should not issue. The suit argues the recall excludes legislators and is unconstitutional. recall election cost is estimated at 2000 dollars.
The Louisiana Supreme Court refused a rehearing in the free textbook case, ending disputes over using severance tax revenues for book purchases. The decision allows funding for text books across public, private, and parochial schools, with four original suits consolidated and led by Bossier and Caddo parish boards and others.
Willie Busbey 19 from Greenwood South Carolina died from injuries after a freight car backed into a line in the Illinois Central yards at Bossier City near Shreveport. Charles Pickle 25 of Huntsville Alabama suffered a crushed arm and is in serious condition. A third youth escaped injuries while the trio rested under a string of cars.
The body of 10 year old Salvatore Demore was found in marshes near the Salem Turnpike. Police investigate a Black Hand group led by a man known as Patsy who allegedly demanded 5000 dollars from the boy's father. Identification relies on religious articles and a slingshot. The death cause remains undetermined pending autopsy.
Jackson Mississippi July 8 1928 three men in a large yellow roadster offered a ride to Jimmy Ramsey a Tupelo sailor bound gagged and dumped beside a highway between Forest Hill and Raymond after robbing him of 118 dollars. Ramsey was found nearly unconscious by a passing motorist and gave details to police.
Washington reports a 3.2 percent rise in cotton area under cultivation in the United States to 48,457,000 acres as of July 1, up from 46,946,000 a year ago. Louisiana is at 2,216,000 acres, with a note that this year’s total is below the 1926 record. The forecast for August 1 production will depend on July 1 acreage and ten year abandonment averages.
Camden Ark July 8 E E Marsh city marshal at Chidester and Walter Patterson an alleged bootlegger were shot to death in a gun battle tied to a liquor raid near Chidester last night Marsh slain by Patterson who was then killed by Constable Luther Meeks Deput y Sheriff John Pruitt says Patterson seized Marshs pistol and began firing at Marsh during transport to jail
Jackson Mississippi July reports Governor Bilbo denounces fraud charges as the most inexcusable, unreasonable, and contemptible falsehood conceived in the mind of a black-hearted villain and assassin. The statement came in a special address.
Governor Huey P. Long begins an eight stop swing through Webster Parish to rally support against Representative J. Bacon over his impeachment vote. The day starts at 8 30 am with stops in Dayline Dubberly Shongaloo Springhill Sarepta Cotton Valley and ends with a barnstorming rally in Minden.
In a humorous note from the hot weather season, Hambone runs a small store selling light-weight clothing while insisting he also sells light-weight meat. The playful contrast highlights the vendor's witty sales pitch and seasonal commerce.
New Orleans city commission requests New Orleans Public Service Inc to accept Carmen union terms for return to work of striking motormen and conductors as negotiations resume. The union seeks immediate recognition and a contract clause protecting rights, while two labor department conciliators head to New Orleans to aid settlement.
Hines 21 and J F E Robinson 35 died after burns from a vapor flash at the Louisiana Oil and Refining plant in Cotton Valley. Both men were among 16 workers repairing a damaged pipe when the blaze occurred. They were treated by Dr. John C. Pugh before being moved to a sanitarium in Shreveport.
John D. Rockefeller observed his ninetieth birthday with little change to routine. The magnate, entering his ninety first year, is praised as a dean of world figures alongside Edison and Hindenburg. He plans to stay useful and healthy, reflecting on a life of moderation and quiet activity after relinquishing business to his son.
Campers along Lake Pontchartrain halted the building of a municipal airport after the Louisiana Supreme Court refused a rehearing and ordered a civil court injunction to restrain Orleans Levee Board from moving campers. A. L. Shushan vowed to pursue all legal steps to finish the project, with a possible constitutional amendment and a public vote in 1990.
Culver City California July 8 Confidence rode the single meter Bi plane Angeleno as pilots L W Mendel and R B Reinhart neared the 174 hours 9 seconds sustained flying record. By 12 29 30 a m they passed 137 hours and hoped to reach 2 30 29 p m tomorrow to break the Cleveland mark set by Roy I Mitchell and Byron K Newcomb last week.
Pilot Roger Williams and navigator Lewis Yancey launched the Pathfinder monoplane from Old Orchard Me for Rome at 8 49 a m east standard time. The 4700 mile flight aims for 45 to 60 hours with three support planes nearby.
Laura Weaver, 21, held for torch murder of Wilmer T. Kitselman, 52. She says she strangled him after an affair dispute, rolled the body in a quilt, rolled it down stairs, dumped it by a roadside, doused it with naptha and set it alight. The body was later identified by a brother via false teeth after being found by farm boys.
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