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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1939
Page
2
Congressional committee advances substitutes for the excess of capital losses deduction and revises stock re declaration rules with 1941 revision dates. It also tees up taxes on nuisance items like cigars and liquor and proposes uniform treatment for banks insurers and other entities including bankruptcy receivers and rental housing corp.
A discussion questions why smallpox vaccination laws are not enforced and whether recent mild outbreaks may be immunizing many adults. The piece suggests complacency could reduce cases now but risks a future generation of susceptibles, potentially renewing the disease cycle. It notes the steel industry consumes 8,000 grams of platinum valued at $10,000 annually.
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Miss Hazel Joiner of West Monroe wins today’s sepia toned camera enlargement. The paper selects pictures only from those who ordered earlier and urges readers to send in order cards now.
The resignations stem from internal conflict over union policy and accusations of Communist influence. A New Orleans vote meeting featured a fight injuring Louis Rojas while Homer Taylor faced assault charges. The national tanker strike conference in New York adopted a June 9 resolution to terminate the strike at midnight Tuesday.
In Riviere du Loup the royal couple bade farewell to French Canada after a 26 minute stop. About 25 000 spectators and nearly all 100 World War veterans watched as Queen noticed veteran Jim Thomas bearing shrapnel from Vimy Ridge. Thomas spoke of lingering head pain though the royal moment brightened his day.
Katherine Cornish visits the Midwest Army post where Anne Carewe and Barney Nelson host a costume party for a polo event. Elizabeth, Major Carewe, and Annie Carewe’s friendship intersect with Adam Drew a poised major admired by Elizabeth. The scene sets social tensions and hints at a pending accident on the polo field.
The trial of a self described adventurer accused of creating martyrdom for Franco sympathizers continued as witnesses described torture methods in Spanish prisons. Cells in monasteries, cement chairs, raised blocks, and rooms painted with vivid colors were used to deny rest, feed, or water, with prisoners forced to walk inside a drum shaped chamber while sounds were magnified.
Enola Nebraska and Enola South Carolina share a name origin tale. The South Carolina town was named by spelling alone backwards. The Nebraska town got its name by reversing founder Thomas Malone’s last name and dropping the letter M.
Alfred Landon argues Roosevelt should not run again and criticizes New Deal policies. He warns against a rushed Republican nomination and stresses the need for sound recovery, party unity, and a leader ready to brake potential booms. He condemns extremist voices and insists on responsible governance.
Britain weighs Moscow and Berlin responses to Halifax remarks on negotiating Europe’s issues. Strang to Moscow aims to speed talks on a three power pact with France and Britain. Pravda signals insistence on Baltic guarantees to Estonia Latvia and Finland. Hitler’s VO Beobachter notes colonies before peace. Rome reports pressuring Franco for alliance.
William Green Lewis denounces Congress for a poor labor record claiming failure to restore jobs protect civil liberties and enforce labor laws. He asserts AFL and big business conspired to destroy the Wagner Act and discusses a massive unorganized workforce while urging continued unionization nationwide.
Brief items from Ohio to Iowa cover a man in Ohio sending a $20 bill and a conscience note, a Seattle caller misreading day and night, a Civil War veteran tale of age fibs in Colorado, zoo animal meat bills and a Grinnell College graduation pickpocket spree in Grinnell Iowa, with wallets stolen from graduates and a secretary of commerce.
The Martin unions claim strength in Fisher No 1 while CIO leaders call the strike ineffective and end it. Fisher No 1 halted an hour. GM plants largely normal. In Saginaw police and pickets clashed injuring several. six men faced arraignments on charges from disorderly conduct to felonious assault with hearings next week.
A new organizing drive charges the A F L struck foul blows during the rivalry for labor field supremacy. A C I O official warned that the policy will not be tolerated for long.
Prosecutor tells magistrate that 21 rounds of ammunition for a sawed off rifle and 10 airgun pellets were found with John Lawlor, plus 1,000 pellets at his lodgings. A bullet hole appeared in the Princess Royal and Earl of Harewood residence on the shooting night. Lawlor claimed his rifle jammed and he wanted to see the dukes and kings as the Kent family heads to Australia for the duke’s governor general post.
In Bowling Green Kentucky 16 year old J. E. Bibb shows a wooden clock over 100 years old. He claims it keeps accurate time and strikes hours like a modern clock. The entire mechanism uses wood for cog wheels and bearings with only small metal pins.
New York City endures its harshest spring drought since 1903 with only 0.25 inch of rain since May 1, sparking concerns for crops on Long Island and in New Jersey. Wells are drying, irrigation rises, and experts warn of millions in losses as hay and crops lack moisture.
Justice admonished critics at the World’s Fair noting that foreign exhibitors should question Grover Whalen not U.S. officials. He said wealthy exhibitors avoided trouble by meeting union demands and urged fair administration to prove its commitment to a cooperative, profitable environment. Obermeier of the World’s Fair Joint Board Culinary Committee defended American unions and called for clearing up abuses among some foreign concessionaires.
A humorous ad describes torpid liver and sour temper in hot weather and promotes Calotabs as a nausealess calomel remedy. One or two tablets at bedtime cleanse the system, with morning relief and renewed appetite. Genuine Calotabs come in checker board packaging and cost ten or twenty five cents.
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