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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1938
Page
5
The Czechoslovak parliament is expected to raise compulsory military service from two to three years when it meets June 15. This would add roughly 70,900 to 100,000 men to the present two-division army. Despite internal and external tensions, Praha moves to strengthen defense while preparing for the tenth Sokol congress scheduled July 4 to 6, with plans for global visitor participation.
Senator Holt of West Virginia argues a relief bill provision allowing limited WPA funds to train household servants marks the first instance of big business aided by Congress. He says it would make the New Deal shudder to see maids in economic royalists homes as the Senate approves the measure after Senator Adams of Colorado supports aiding colored workers to qualify for steadier work.
Chatham Louisiana announcement by L. E. Shelton says an old fashioned homecoming will be held at the Brooklyn church near Chatham on Sunday June 12 with an old fashioned picnic planned for attendees.
A marriage license was issued yesterday in Little Rock to Marcel Duhon 30 of Lafayette Louisiana and Dorothy Mae Howe 19 of Little Rock.
Mrs W B Jarred of 513 Ann St Lake Charles Louisiana praises Gly-Cas after years of stomach indigestion gas and kidney pain disruptions. She credits the remedy for restoring sleep energy and appetite and notes it is sold by Phoenix Drug Co 348 DeSiard St and other local druggists.
Williams, a 41 year old badge collector, shows a vast cache including a 1700 Worcester fire department badge and a Scotland Yard silver badge. He travels by train and bus visiting fire departments and police offices to add lapel pins and medals to his collection while planning a cross country tour reaching California in about a year. He aims to visit all 48 states and has honorary ties to many departments. The underwriters association offered $4000 for the lot.
Japanese aerial strikes hit Hankow amid claims of 30 planes in a raid and 20 Chinese planes shot down, while Canton endured bombing. On the Yangtze river, pirates boarded the Dollar vessel and two towed boats, seizing over 1,000 bags of rice and stripping passengers of cash as an Indian watchman was wounded resisting.
Two workmen were killed and two seriously burned when a fire at the National Railways creosoting plant near Perote Veracruz destroyed the plant the railway station and several dwellings. Eleven workers were missing but believed later accounted for.
Louis O. Warren a 30 year old employee of United Gas pipeline department from Latex Texas was killed instantly when his car crashed into a pipe laden truck at a filling station on the Louisiana Texas line Bethany located near Shreveport.
Oscar K. Carter of Fairfield and Daisy D. Williams, a school teacher, began courting forty years ago and announced their marriage last week in Carmi Illinois. In New York Fire Commissioner John J. McElligott ordered fire crews to slow at intersections to avoid wrecks and cemeteries filling up.
In Bethany Missouri residents gathered at the 4 year old Harrison county courthouse to discuss a new building. A rainstorm interrupted the meeting as water leaked through the roof and a proposal to circulate petitions for a bond election passed unanimously.
Spokane report states Konstantinos Georgiou Kallochrictianakis received citizenship and court permission to adopt the name Gus Elf. The Greek immigrant will now go by his chosen anglicized name.
In Decatur Illinois William Harris chased a stray but his own dog vanished. A friend afterward returned the dog, bringing relief to Harris and his family.
Letter and Spirit Des Moines patrolman Martin Brightman admitted overtime parking before Municipal Judge Ralph Powers. He handed two $1 bills and said he’d paid his fine, prompting the judge to suspend the fine while warning that a repeat offense would double the penalty.
In Jonesboro Louisiana James Wendell Smith aged 2 died May 25 at a local clinic. Funeral was held at Hebron Baptist church with interment in the church cemetery. Also in Jonesboro Timothy Neil aged 18 died in May with services at Old Transport cemetery near Dodson May 29 and burial there. In Bonita Louisiana S D Bagwell aged 79 died May 22 at home and was buried at Bonita cemetery May 23. he survived by two daughters and several grandchildren.
Jonesboro Louisiana June 1 special officers for the year were elected at a recent meeting of the Fifth Congressional District Rural Letter Carriers association. W H Tolar Wyatt president W R Humphries Grayson vice president C E Ponder Monroe secretary treasurer Farmerville chosen next convention city Ben F Shafer New Orleans president of the Louisiana Rural Letter Carriers association delivered principal address.
Washington reports police said a 25 year old black man confessed orally to attacking 12 year old Etta May Coleman, a Montgomery County Maryland schoolgirl.
Police began a systematic check of 1,000 cabin cruisers near Davenport Neck Long Island Sound in a bid to locate the boat believed to hold 12 year old Peter Levine. Investigators scoured the sound for body parts as laboratory tests on the boy’s clothing and the copper wire binding awaited results. Murray Levine the father said he has withdrawn from direct efforts and left the case to police.
Ferriday La June 1 special Concordia parish school board president Judge Joann Dale will present the diplomas at Ferriday High School commencement Friday night. Seniors graduating include valedictorian Alvidra Dufresne and salutatorian Ha Edwards along with Mary Knight Geraldine Hendrison Mou Ashley Louise Thomas Clara Jean Gertie Westbrook Joe Waisem Lamar Price and Lester Summmerall.
CCC drainage work will continue indefinitely in Louisiana. Director Robert Fechner told Senator Overton and Representative Mouton that drainage camps will be treated like soil conservation and forest service camps and operated under a new policy. Camps at Abbeville Thibodaux Ville Platte Lafayette and Iowa will complete existing projects in the fall, with aides saying crews will be reassigned within the state after completion.
Plasterers halted construction on a new Frankford hospital wing when a mother robin returned to the nest she built in a wall section. Workers planned to resume after the bird finished rearing her two young.
Iowa Treasurer Leo J. Wegman released a telegram he said praised WPA chief Harry Hopkins for endorsing Otha Wearin in the Democratic senatorial primary. Governor Kraschel condemned Hopkins, amplifying the race as Wearin challenges Senator Guy M. Gillette with national attention and GOP-like rhetoric in the weeks ahead.
In Czechoslovakia at Ager on June 1 a fight broke out between about 35 Konrad Henlein followers and Sergeant Wenzel Toman of the Czechoslovak army. Toman fired at the floor in self defense, injuring two followers with leg wounds while taking the sergeant into custody.
An advert promises relief from rheumatic pains using Prescription C-2223 a pain easing formula. It touts thousands helped and offers a money back guarantee with prices 60c and 1 dollar, sold by druggists.
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