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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1938
Page
14
Jefferson arrested for a life burglary linked to a string of postoffice robberies across Monroe area during ten months. Officials reported burglaries at Foules Holly Ridge Spencer Standard Me Joseph Laran and other towns as part of the case.
Federal post office inspectors credited local sheriffs and police departments and the state police for their unfailing cooperation in solving a series of post office robberies in the area. They reported arrests and the penitentiary sentence for the Laran postoffice robbery and an assault on the assistant postmaster, along with solved cases of theft and forgery of postal money orders.
Mississippi observed the 130th birthday of Jefferson Davis with a holiday and a ceremony on the lawn of the state house to dedicate the Jefferson Davis memorial highway. The legislature named a new paved road from the Tennessee line near Whitehaven to the gulf coast in his honor. Davis, born in Kentucky, grew up in Mississippi, served as U S senator, secretary of war, and was elected president of the Confederacy in 1861. He died December 6, 188?
He endured imprisonment at Fortress Monroe in irons for part of the time. Released after the intercession of Horace Greeley and other influential easterners, he spent his final years in retirement at Beauvoir, the Confederate shrine near Gulfport. He died in New Orleans and was buried there, later moved to Richmond, Virginia.
Washington June 3 The senate confirmed the nomination of Aubrey C Griffin as postmaster at Jackson Mississippi.
Chicago police say 18 year old Robert Nixon confessed to slaying four women and a girl in Chicago and Los Angeles, with two accomplices named. He described the attacks, including the bricks used, and investigators linked prints to Nixon from the Castle and Worden cases.
The 71 judges of the Great Sanhe drin supreme Hebrew tribunal returned a quick guilty verdict but acquitted the defendant. The acquittal reflected beliefs of possible conspiracy or a lack of calm deliberation.
Quachita Parish schools superintendent T. O. Brown announced that the summer school for high school students will open next Monday at 8 30 a m. Students may makeup failed subjects for regular credits. Jack Hayes, the parish high school principal, will direct the program with a staff of instructors.
Linville High School Future Farmers of America elects officers for the next year with Jack Jordan as president Bennett Holdcraft as vice president and parliamentarian Merlin Thomas as secretary treasurer and Walter Wilson as reporter Holdcraft and Byram McKinnie are named as delegates to the statewide FFA meeting in Baton Rouge this summer in Louisiana.
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