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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1934
Page
10
At mass meetings residents condemned proposed tax schemes including in lieu taxes and tax increases. Delegates were urged to vote against spite measures and back Senator Frank H. Peterman’s proposal for tax relief through economy. The resolutions denounced legislators who act for personal gain and fear rather than public welfare.
A Bastrop mass meeting demands tax relief through spending reduction and rejects new taxes unless dedicated to specific uses. Speakers criticize a homestead exemption amendment and highlight unequal parish school tax assessments. A committee will study each tax measure and report back at a future meeting.
A Bastrop mass meeting unanimously adopts a resolution opposing new state taxes unless government spending is cut and any new levy is restricted to a dedicated in lieu fund. The measure calls for property tax relief in Morehouse parish and requests copies be sent to senators, representatives, and the press.
Louisiana representative James Madison of Morehouse parish urges public protest against tax bills in Baton Rouge. He warns real estate taxes would rise, calls for legislative defeats of new taxes, and cites East Carroll parish resolution opposing extra levies without property tax cuts. The measure targets state economy and abolition of needless departments.
In Lake Providence Louisiana on June 5 a special report notes a resolution to Representative Robert P. Kennedy and Senators A L Sevier and D B Fleming by East Car Parish legislators protesting new taxes and urging action.
An elderly man reports decades of pill use for constipation ending after trying Kellogg's Ali Bran given by his nurse daughter. He credits regular use with freedom to eat any food, no constipation, and improved digestion aided by the product's bulk vitamin B and iron.
A group of Tangipahoa parish residents urged legislators to oppose new taxes and push retrenchment in state spending. Spokesman H P McClendon presented a Hammond mass meeting resolution urging lawmakers to vote against tax increases and for cost cutting. They asked Senators Holland and Representatives Anzalone and McEneely to oppose all tax bills.
Voting at noon showed a sparse turnout across four large precincts with nine ballots at Ward Five Precinct One City Hall West Monroe, six at Ward Three Precinct One Parish Courthouse, five at Ward Three Precinct Four Tidwell and Sons, and three at Ward Ten Precinct Six Milner Motor Company. Other precincts also reported low balloting.
Political figures pledge to oppose costly measures and to use their influence to defeat state tax increases. They urge voters to support retrenchment of state government spending and lowering of property taxes.
Neil H. Swanson traced the tale of James Dickson the Liberator of The Indian Nations and wrote The Phantom Emperor. Dickson claimed to raise an army to free Mexican territories, unite tribes, and crown himself monarch in California, issuing a Spanish proclamation to Indians and recruiting 60 men. Swanson found diaries and war articles but no final fate for the project.
In Copenhagen Professor Paul Rubow says Selma Lagerlöf, the sole woman in the Swedish Academy and Nobel Prize in Literature winner, is the most read author in Denmark based on a newspaper interview.
Officers pursued a trio of youths in Indiana after they stole ten gallons of gasoline and rammed a car through a restaurant entry. Pfaffenberger, wounded four times, returned fire as the bandits fled toward Seymour, while Deputy Amick and Sheriff Amick exchanged shots by a restaurant and filling station near Underwood. Pfaffenberger was hospitalized at Scottsburg with a guarded recovery prognosis.
Sylvanus P. Jermain, former Toledo welfare director and current Toledo district golf association president, suggests a Blue Eagle dollar coin to Roosevelt. The coin would be silver with a tiny gold eagle stamp, resembling a half dollar in size, as a recovery symbol requiring little gold for a limited issue.
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