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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1939
Page
2
Chinese leaders in San Francisco privately note American Chinese monthly remittances to Chiang Kai Shek. The Chinese Digest reports average remittances around 1.25 million dollars monthly. The community embraces wagers on Chiang Kai Shek's chances amid the war.
An offer promises reduced car payments or cash loans against your vehicle. It claims you can settle with creditors while you wait, with payments postponed until July 15 and small monthly repayments thereafter.
The text notes American Chinese gambling as a link to homeland ties and political loyalties. It describes fan-tan and pigeon games as central to risk, with Chiang Kai-Shek’s fate seen as determining fortunes. It adds that unburied bones are sent to China for ancestral burial, a practice challenged by Japanese occupation.
Discussion centers on raising the federal gift to 20 dollars a month from 15 with California already paying enough to trigger full benefits. Some lawmakers from low pension states back a 4 of pension contribution up to 20 dollars. Nationwide, only about one in three seniors over 65 receive pensions, with 6.6 million aged 65 plus and 1.8 million on pensions. The Townsend plan’s fate looms ahead of next year’s campaigns as Democrats rally around the issue. James A. Farley highlighted Republican votes for Townsend despite charges of excessive government spending. He cited cost estimates of 24 billion dollars per year for pensions up to 200 dollars monthly.
The piece notes Charley Brown, a chancery messenger at the British embassy, receiving the Order of the British Empire and meeting the king and queen. It recalls large crowds on Pennsylvania Avenue for past events, from a World War I funeral procession to Lindbergh’s Paris flight appearance. It also mentions Roosevelt’s denial of disclosing wine brands to be served at the White House.
Reports quote admiralty and Asahi on Japanese anger over Shanghai and Kulangsu disputes. News note Tinkler death at Shanghai mill causes unease among sailors, while British authorities probe a possible poisoning. Editorials accuse Britain of pressuring Japan. concessions in Tientsin face withdrawal and lockout.
The report from Tokyo says Japan seeks a major new offensive in China while Britain negotiates with Moscow on three power collaboration. Japanese carriers bombarded Chinese-held islands near Swatow though a land assault at Swatow did not occur.
Jack Sampson of the University of Nebraska clinches three Midwestern AAU weightlifting titles, including a 225 pound lift in the 181 pound class, as smoke clears from the roof search scene. Scout Leader Eddie Laxson promotes Willow-Tit Willow Weatherford, Okla. activities.
Laxton promotes a new boys event, a slingshot tournament, to reduce bird deaths this spring as he notes the problem of mocking birds and other birds being killed by slingshots.
A blue eyed student flier, Eshleman, planned a 15 hour flight to Mars from here and was jailed after a failed takeoff due to a broken gasoline line. He insisted he intended to repay the plane hire from earnings, while rescuers doubted his tale. The owner suggested fear after losing the radio beam led him to land.
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