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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1929
Page
6
D McCallum reports two Buick autos completed a 15000 mile trek from Pekin to London across extreme roads and jungles. He notes the engines performed perfectly amid scorching heat, high altitude and rough trails, proving the cars capable of any long international journey.
President Hoover may visit Santa Fe during his summer vacation to see Mesilla's Gadsden purchase celebration site and Bishop's Lodge where he stayed in 1922. New Mexico officials hope he attends events and tours Santa Fe landmarks including the capitol and San Miguel church.
The farm relief bill sought by President Hoover and approved by Congress after prolonged debate advances to the White House for signature. It omits the debenture provision, passing despite Democratic and independent Republican opposition, and creates a Federal farm board with a $500 million fund to aid farmers and stabilize crops.
Paris report says Thomas Fortune Ryan III, grandson of the late T. F. Ryan, was formally discharged by a French magistrate as all charges of issuing bad checks were withdrawn. He stayed in seclusion and planned to depart for New York with his attorney.
In Portland Maine on June 25, Morris R Schreiber and his wife rejoiced after learning Arthur Schreiber, 22, who had stowed away on the trans Atlantic Yellow Bird, landed safely. The father anticipated financial gain from his son and the parents waited by radio for updates as the mother tended the household in anxious wait.
Congress is in adjournment over the weekend while Senate finance subcommittees continue tariff hearings. The farm bill passed without debentures and Borah's tariff revision proposal was postponed until Monday. Representative Tilson announced a three day recess next week. The Senate rejected the nomination of Redmond A. Bolton as postmaster in Jamestown North Carolina and Senator Vanderberg from New York protested dry language and prohibition killings.
Fisher Lumber corporation buys timber on 18000 acres in Concordia parish from F. K. Conn and associates. Deed recorded. Timber to be cut at Ferriday and Wisner then shipped to Fisher Body for use in automobile bodies. Establishes Fisher as a major regional timber owner.
The Louisiana Rainbow order for girls, a junior body of the Eastern Star, will elect officers and select a 1930 meeting place as it adjourns its third annual assembly. About 70 girls attend the gathering in Baton Rouge.
Galveston June 15 Lisa Goldarbeiter known as Miss Universe faces a $15000 theatre contract and public display in a bathing suit or shortened costume. She waits for a cable from Vienna as the pageant committee plans a passage home on the LaSalle from New Orleans Tuesday. Papa must decide.
Tom Monk of a Willard service station cautions drivers that hidden car batteries under floor boards can fail suddenly in summer heat. He warns motorists to test batteries as rising temperatures strain performance and reliability, stressing proactive maintenance to avoid breakdowns.
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