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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1934
Page
6
Miss Bedsole reports awakening around 3 a.m. to a “stinging” in her arm and a blow to the head after a man entered her room in the home she shares with her parents. She describes feeling a man’s body as she swatted, with blood in the back of her head and the intruder escaping into darkness.
Fred Workman a Ouachita parish high school graduate and son of Captain W. L. Workman leaves for Corpus Christi Texas to form a business partnership with his brother in the automobile supply and machine shop field. Captain Workman notes he has two adopted sons including Charles Workman who just returned from China and is now in Reno Oklahoma.
Cobb announces official measurement of cotton acreages with government representatives trained to assist farmers. Supervisors will verify compliance on individual farms and expanded acreage checks may follow if contract targets are out of line.
Rollo C. Lawrence was reelected mayor of Pineville in the Louisiana primary held yesterday with 601 votes. John A. Woodward won reappointment as marshal with 522 votes while aldermen E. B. Rogers R. E. Fitzum I. A. Hargis and E. J. Vallery were elected. Ward 1 alderman counts remain uncounted.
Lawmakers pass a bill dubbed the moo cow bill making it a felony to milk another cow. A $288000 slate of appropriations includes $10000 for an electric chair while executions by hanging shift is debated. Senate education approves a segregation measure and Goode Smith urges data on offices away from the capitol.
Baton Rouge June 13 The house appropriations committee voted 10000 to buy an electric chair as part of bills to replace the gallows with electrocution for capital punishment. The plan locates the chair at St Gabriel penal farm Iberville parish after opposition to regional placement.
Special train with radio phones carries Mussolini to Piazzale Roma and by motorboat to Lido Nicelli airport where Hitler’s plane is expected. A guard of aviators and the 71st infantry band will honor them. They travel to San Mario Grand hotel. Lunch with 30 covers precedes first colloquy.
A Montreal to Chicago flight led by Captain Maurice Rossi and Lieut. Paul Codes was delayed to Wednesday due to hazardous conditions. The storms, active for days, may be linked to the Livingston Manor N Y mountainside crash of an American Airlines plane that cost seven lives.
The Acajutla town was flooded with widespread damage as nine days of heavy rains lashed Honduras and El Salvador. Estimates place deaths near one thousand, including 500 in Ocotepeque where a flood wiped out the town. An American flyer reported grievous scenes among survivors and ruined communities.
Farmers rushed their crop to town as the tomato price agreement collapsed. Leading shippers held firm on price and pack while independent sheds bought fruit at any price to disrupt the move. Minor packing- shed disturbances and a threatened strike reflected growing dissatisfaction. Texas shippers urged Mississippi peers to seek a surplus-control solution next year.
Jacksonville Texas June 13 The tomato market opened at three-fourths cent a pound to growers as farmers sold for best price. Prices fell from 2 cents to 1 cent by afternoon amid hot weather and near completion of shipping. Government stats show 115 years of tomatoes shipped from the east Texas sector yesterday with 42 from Jacksonville. No significant rain in 30 days.
Ouachita parish agri cultural agent E. R. Strahan and three Ouachita farmers left Wednesday at 3 a m for Tyler Texas to attend a terracing and soil erosion demonstration at an experiment station near Tyler. Strahan was joined by S O Henry Sidney Stewart and J L Heath. The group will spend Wednesday only at the demonstration.
Federal trade commission accountants found a writeup of 4 560 442 dollars in the property of the Tennessee Public Service Company near Knoxville Tennessee. The correspondence was released by David E Lilienhal Tennessee Valley Authority power director.
The board's report criticized NRA price fixing, alleging monopolistic practices in codes. The document, signed by the speaker and Darrow, denounced attacks by General Johnson and labor allies, arguing the policy does not abolish monopolistic practices and leaves most codes already approved.
The statement argues the so called new price fixing rule does not curb monopolies. It claims approved codes will amend price fixing, showing policy to sustain old practices. The piece asserts monopolistic groups will enforce anti monopoly measures against themselves.
Frank Carter a 62 year old tenant farmer was shot to death at a country store 18 miles southeast of Lufkin Texas W M Burnett landowner was charged with murder Burnett claimed self defense Officers said the men had quarreled recently Burnett surrendered in Lufkin
Miller Hellingsworth, longtime sports editor for the Monroe News-Star, is recovering in Monroe after a period with the Longview News and Journal in Longview, where he worked in the news department.
Texas, back in Monroe, recovers from a broken leg at the home of his wife’s parents Mr and Mrs Cyril Pecastaing after treatment at St Francis Sanitarium. Mr Hollingsworth also fractures a leg twice in separate incidents while using crutches during healing. Twenty two million fish were planted in Montana lakes and streams in 1933.
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