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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1930
Page
5
The Louisiana Training Institute board conditionally granted a right of way to extend Jackson Street through the institute grounds. Final action mirrors the tentative plan, aligning with paving plans by the city. Attending were J. T. Austin chair, P. M. Atkins, and H. Awl.
Edwin R. Holmes, federal judge of the southern district of Mississippi, awaits promotion to the U S circuit court as political difficulties delay his appointment. Democrats favor W Cal Wells of Jackson while Republicans back Ben Cameron. State Bar recommendations to be sent to Washington by W H Watkins to resolve the choice.
The Swartz Baptist revival drew a large crowd last night. A 7 p.m. prayer meeting led to the preaching service by Rev. M. E. Weaver with the theme Prepare to Meet Thy God. Sunday offerings include Sunday school at Lock Arbor and Swartz, a union service at Swartz at 11, and B Y P U at Swartz at 7 followed by an 8 p.m. sermon. The public is invited.
Dwight W. Morrow, running for the United States senate, told a Paterson audience that Germany was not wholly responsible for the World War. He argued the blame was overstated and faulted naval competition as a trigger. He urged ratification of the London naval treaty as a peace safeguard and naval guide.
Emmett Parks, formerly living near Spencer in Union parish, brought a giant turnip to The News-Star Office. The root weighed six and a quarter pounds on three scales and was firm and unblemished. Parks said he planted urnips February 20 and has another as large at home.
William Ready and Stanley Wyatt of the Ouachita parish health unit returned to Monroe last night to spend the week end after days in post flood sanitation work in northwest Louisiana. E. B. Johnson assistant state sanitary engineer, stationed at Monroe, is now in Caddo parish.
The second annual Epworth Hi league assembly opens in Mansfield on Tuesday next week. Monroe will send two delegates Miss Elizabeth Langford state field secretary and Mrs Y S Arnnet. Douglas Page Monroe assistant treasurer will also attend.
Mrs. G. A. Adams mother adviser of the Rainbow Girls chapter and member of the grand assembly executive committee travels with Miss Margaret Wilson and others from Ruston by auto to New Orleans for a four day Rainbow Girls grand assembly meeting. Mrs. Adams is past worthy grand matron of the Order of the Eastern Star.
B M Drake county agent at Sum merville in Chattooga county Ga visits E R Strahan local agricultural agent at the courthouse. He and his son W W Drake are in Monroe to see his brother Rev W W Drake. The younger Drake teaches biology in Birmingham High School. His 14 years in agricultural work focus on boosting cotton yields with five acre contest plots on 205 farms, 138 finishing the year at about seven eighths bale per acre. The year shows fewer participants but many demonstration plots remain.
The Hoover administration will not turn over all London naval treaty documents to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. President Hoover says disclosure would harm public interest and hinder future negotiations. Secretary Stimson adds there were no concealed understandings and no commitments beyond the treaty text.
William H. Kelly 66 inventor of Kelly metal a copper and lead fusion used in motor bearings died in Los Angeles. He sailed the seas for years and during the Spanish American War he retrieved postage stamps and cargo from the Morgan City in a diving suit. He headed operations saving the U S Navarro and crew in a Alaska storm. He is survived by his widow Elizabeth Kelly.
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Meek depart today for Shreveport to attend the funeral of their infant granddaughter Gloria Fay, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James B. Meek.
C W Shoptaw who has been assistant manager at the J C Penney Co store in this city for three years is appointed manager of the Pine Bluff Arkansas store effective immediately. He will move with his family and J T Morgan becomes assistant manager here.
A letter to the editor from J G Bell pleading for the owner of a stray dog to claim him or allow sale. He muses on fraternal orders, dogs, and kindness, asking readers to sympathize with pets and the poor, and signs with address 410 Walnut Street. He references a bygone era and urges humane treatment of dogs.
The Daily Scoop, a five column by four page tabloid from Jackson Mississippi, covers gas and oil development. Publisher Earnest Watson once worked for The Monroe News-Star. A feature profiles Anthony Gibbon regarded as the Father of the Urania Oilfield.
Nineteen thousand dollars in cash was stolen today from the vault of the Rich mond Hill National Bank in Jamaica Long Island by three armed bandits who tied up four employees and escaped in an automobile.
Work has started on a new 8 inch gas line from Fairbanks to Monroe by Southern Gas Lines Inc. contractor George R Hun size 50 to 60 workers. Project costs about 125000 dollars and may face slight delays from high water. The line will add 75 to 100 million cubic feet daily capacity and connect with four existing lines to supply Monroe from the Northeast Louisiana fields. Additional laid lines on Jackson street Lee avenue and lower South Grand street by Natural Gas Co will extend gas service with 8 inch main on Jackson and further extensions on Lee avenue and South Grand to interconnect multiple mains.
At Villacoublay France films of various airplane stunts aid aircraft designers. Professor Magnan of the College of France leads experiments questioning why birds have soft feathers while planes use polished wings. The inquiry covers flight principles and material properties.
Engaged Betsy Cushing daughter of Dr and Mrs Harvey Cushing of Boston will marry James Roosevelt son of Governor and Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt of New York in Brookline Massachusetts on June 4.
A dynamite explosion in the Park Hill district of Denver wrecked a cave inside a mine and killed Dennis J. Phillips, 23, a Denver and Garo, Colorado mining man, as he rode in his automobile nearby.
A dynamite blast at a mountain homesite shattered windows and sent debris across houses a mile away. Parts of Phillips' car and his body were found 300 yards distant after the blast. The dynamite had crystallized and was dangerous. Phillips warned his mother he would remove it before an accident occurred. Police attributed the explosion to jarring of the car.
In Lincolnton North Carolina Roosevelt Hart 18 confessed to taking part in the murder of S K Bryant a Nashville Tennessee electrician. Hart says Icard struck Bryant with a rock and he pointed a gun. Hart and Icard were picked up by Bryant near Marshall. John Scarch is held at Marshall for the murder.
Georgia Tech President M. L. Brittain said 250 of this year's 800 graduates will enter the job market directly. The June report notes students may sing a familiar alma mater line but face strong employment prospects.
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