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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1929
Page
1
A 65 year old night watchman Alexander Reed fatally shot Nicholas Vogt 38 after Vogt relentlessly taunted him during early morning rounds. Reed claimed Vogt insulted him as he exited a bakery. Vogt died from the wound. a transfusion attempt was made at Charity Hospital.
Edrd D Remel 30 of Echo Rapides parish La killed yesterday afternoon by Percy Miller 35 local oil company employee. The shooting stemmed from an alleged attack on Miller's wife. Remel had returned to Louisiana three years ago and was employed as an aluminum ware salesman. His wife and her 12 year old father were the only witnesses. The Remels had been in Alexandria two weeks and planned to depart today for Monroe La where he had secured work.
Ramsay MacDonald accepted King George V invitation to form a government after Labour won a record Commons majority in the general election. The sequence followed his Windsor Castle audience as the party prepared to take power for the first time since 1929.
In Harrison New Jersey a 25 year old woman Flolen Olyta is found with two bullet wounds to the head in the home of Mrs Rose Silkaitu. A 30 year old priest Rev Paul Neizmans lies dead from a self inflicted gunshot. Police see no motive and note the priest had recently relinquished his pastorate citing mental illness.
Gov. C. Max Gardner urged Confederate veterans in Charlotte to view North Carolina’s postwar rebuilding as the South’s glorious renewal. He recalled the 1860s ruin and described a second Civil War fought in the South’s spirit, citing strength and courage to endure. CONTINUED ON PAGE SIX.
The Osservatore Romano publishes an open letter from the pope to Cardinal Gasparri denouncing Mussolini's comments on the Lateran accords as worse than heretical. The pontiff defends church doctrine, calls the duce badly inspired, and rejects the claim that Rome saved Christianity.
Special to The News-Star Bastrop June 5 Morehouse parish school district two wins a 250000 bond to build a new unit at Bastrop High and one at each of two grammar schools. Crowded classrooms led to temporary rooms. 25 new rooms planned. Official vote 197 to 11. property valuation 530285 for and 40970 against. Contracts expected in September.
Neapolitans faced renewed danger as Vesuvius erupted sending thousands of tons of lava toward Barre and Terzigno after months of quiet. Evacuation had begun for Barre and parts of Terzigno while villagers prepared for further evacuations as three mile high smoke columns rose from the crater and volcanic debris flew through the air.
Mayor Arnold Bernstein urges Ouachita Parish to issue bonds to fund a new bridge across the Ouachita River linking Monroe and West Monroe. He notes years of fruitless state and federal aid efforts and presses immediate local action under Amendment relevant to parish bond authority.
A column titled Hambones Meditations by J. P. Alley continues on page nine. Readers are invited to reflect on the author’s perspective within the paper’s Friday edition.
Judge Lawrence D. Groner ruled in Richmond that Virginia's primary law violates the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments. The decision in James C. West versus Bliley Poltz and Ricker holds the state must provide equal suffrage rights in primaries and general elections.
Four members of a counterfeit ring were sentenced by Judge Ben C. Dawkins in Alexandria. Henry Baynard received two years in prison on one count and five years suspended on seven counts. Mrs. Zodie Rich drew six months with five years suspended. Newton J. Hopper got one year and Herman Crockell's five year suspended term. The group operated with $10 denomination notes and was uncovered after a dispute over sharing money. J. D. Hudson and Clyde Reeves await trial.
Adams County Union issue from March 7, 1878 highlights Paul Vallean Carter waltzing seven hours without pause. He drank beer two hours in but declined beef tea, described as an unparalleled feat in Corning town news.
J M Breard re elected president of Ouachita parish police jury outlines goals for coming year including land option at airport doubling airport acreage to 146 acres and a new bridge linking Monroe and West Monroe. He cites better parish road system firmer finances and securing state and federal aid for the bridge.
Perryville in the northern parish is seeing a boom as two large compressor stations for pipelines to St Louis and Birmingham Atlanta spring up close together. About 75 to 80 houses will be built for new workers, P A Perry is building a brick store, and residents seek a post office as mail comes from Route 3 Bastrop. The two booster plants will cost over 1 million dollars and provide immediate and ongoing employment.
The conservation department minerals division records fifteen new gas field locations last week, a multi parish spread signaling a busy gas season. Locations span Ouachita Morehouse Richland and Union parishes with multiple companies such as Magnolia Petroleum Southern Carbon Palmer Hope Production and Imperial Oil & Gas named across sections. The uptick suggests extended operations beyond the usual inactive summer period.
Civil district court in New Orleans heard briefs on behalf of Dr. Y K Irion conservation commissioner and Robert Maestri appointed by Gov Ruey P Long. Issues focus on Maestri's appointment legality and Irion’s term ending July 1 with no senate confirmation.
A revised farm relief bill titled the Natural Marketing Act moves from conference to House consideration. It merges Senate and House versions to empower stabilization corporations to store surplus and market cooperative goods, with $1.5 million for admin and $600 million for farm board functions. Representative Haugen from Iowa comments on the measure.
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