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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1934
Page
2
Union president says the group demands recognition as about 3,500 house employees join a strike that began a week earlier. Efforts in San Francisco aim to mobilize a nationwide walkout of longshoremen in solidarity with 25,000 maritime workers.
In Washington on June 12 the Wagner labor board bill was abandoned for the present. The administration will enact temporary power to handle labor disputes until the next session.
Hugh S Johnson and Senator Wagner led labor department experts in drafting a stopgap bill to shift authority for the NRA labor board from the executive to legislative control. White House posture suggested Roosevelt would not seek the measure, complicating House plans for a brief temporary resolution before January congressional session. Senate leaders floated quick passage to enable presidential action, with a possible White House conference later today.
District Attorney Grover C. Julian plans murder charges against Alesi, a lumber mill worker and cousin of the slain grocer, after prosecutors say he fashioned a razor edged weapon from a planing tool. Alesi protested innocence as officers claim he was seen making the knife and washing blood from his clothes. Authorities noted tensions with Fazio over attention to Mrs. Fazio and her daughter as neighbors recount the scene.
Health resorts treat many lumbago sufferers listed in Who’s Who. Novelist Rafael Sabatini is among recent cases after contracting the ailment in Switzerland while sending two passovers to a youth with a broken leg on a remote Adelboden ski run.
Rescue teams carried seven victims from the wreckage of a 14 passenger airliner on Last Chance Mountain near the Catskills after a crash that killed pilots Clyde Holbrook and John Barron Jr and passengers including Harry Pinsley Ada Huckeby William Bader and William Cass. Police found three small explosive bottles but coroner Burke saw no pre crash explosion. An inquest was planned as fog and updrafts were blamed for the mishap.
lawmakers clash over a proposed measure to ban or curb newspapers in the Louisiana legislature. Speakers argue about press freedom while citing history under Mussolini, Hitler, and Stalin, with several representatives defending the role of local papers. The discussion centers on the Pegues resolution and its merits.
The record shows 33 voting for the Pegues resolution with a list of names by district. 55 voted against the measure, including numerous Orleans and neighboring parishes. Absent and not voting totaled 12.
The ruling challenges the act prohibiting sale of alcoholic liquors on Sunday. Justice Land wrote the opinion, with Rogers and Overton concurring. Anderson faced a $25 fine or 30 days in jail. District Attorney Eugene Stanley will study the decision's statewide implications.
Lawmakers hear Treadway argue eight state property rules grant wives title to husbands income and that joint returns unfairly tax, calling it a fiction. He says the bill fixes an unfair system, not revenue loss, ensuring each citizen pays his share.
In West Monroe the municipal general election is a formality with no opposition to Democratic nominees. At 12 30 pm 64 votes were counted across three precincts with C C Bell as mayor and Lee Hawkins Ed Harrell B A Gentry S D Kennedy and Monk Golson as unopposed aldermen nominees.
On a complaint by W. E. Corwin, Henry Flynn was arrested Monday by sheriff's department members under a peace warrant. Flynn failed to make bond and was lodged in the parish jail.
The article discusses boll weevil infestation and advises dusting plants with calcium arsenate in a pre square dusting, noting funding limits. It suggests frequent shallow cultivation during the fruiting peak from late June to late July to cover squares with dust and kill immature weevils, and urges early arrangements for dusting machinery and calcium arsenate with parish agent available for more guidance.
Coroner absolves A J Ritter of fault in the death of G E Robinson 76 night watchman for Stovall Drilling after he stepped from a city bus at Washington and Eleventh streets. Witness Vernice Carr said Robinson moved into the car path. Ritter swerved to avoid him and called for help.
Dominick G Massony 38 of Waterproof drowned near New Orleans. Funeral services were held in Natchez at 10 am Monday. Interment followed in Natchez city cemetery. He was born in Waterproof to Mrs Conchetta Guerriery Massony and the late Frank Massony. Survived by mother in Washington Mississippi and sister Mrs John J Serio of Washington, Mississippi.
Funeral services were held for Addie Mae Martin 20 at a Swartz area home with burial nearby. Survivors include widower George Martin and two young children. Also, funeral services for Mrs. George F. Bolton 49 at Clarks residence with Rev John Faul Jones officiating. Interment at Bethel cemetery. Surviving family includes three sons, two daughters, two brothers, and a sister.
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