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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1933
Page
1
After three hours of deliberation the jury convicts Mrs Manley of manslaughter in the murder trial over the shooting of Reiser at his Plum Street garage. Prosecution alleged a robbery plot with Elmore and Smith. sentence pending. Continuous coverage resumed on page five.
Washington report says Henry Morgenthau Jr announced a plan to refinance about 50 million dollars in Wisconsin farm mortgages held by banks. The plan aims to reopen closed banks, restore depositor confidence, and free over 18 million dollars in public deposits. It includes selling 35 million dollars in bonds and reducing mortgage face values to enable refinancing. Similar plans for other states may follow if feasible.
A jumble of Father’s Day misdates sparks shopping sprees as women flock downtown to buy gifts for dads. Separately, Monroe braces for a potential gas field near Harrisonburg with drillers and officials on site, while local anecdotes follow a wedding mishap and fishers at a nearby stream.
Doctors Gaylord Anderson and Roderick Heffron announced two years of serum therapy trials for pneumonia at the American Medical Association meeting in Milwaukee. The serum, made from horse blood, reduced deaths by more than half in type one pneumonia and showed benefit in type two, prompting calls to expand distribution while preserving scarce supply. The Massachusetts state health department manufactures the serum, which is costly but viewed as the only practical control for pneumonia.
The United States circuit court of appeals reversed Judge James A. Lowell's grant of a habeas corpus writ for George Crawford, a negro, who faced a Virginia murder charge. The court ordered the writ vacated and remanded the case after noting Crawford's trial in a state with no black jurors would not violate constitutional rights.
Two Caddo physicians will examine J. L. Allgood and Ben C. Chandler after pleas of insanity in district court. Judge J. T. Shell ordered the sanity exams to occur in Shreveport within a day or two, with Dr. Douglas Kerlin and Dr. Dean Duncan conducting evaluations over five to 30 days.
Two men identified as Charles Pretty Boy Floyd and Adam Ricchitti abducted Polk County Sheriff Jack Killingsworth in Bolivar Missouri. The pursuit involved Springfield officers and an airplane as a car with an Oklahoma plate fled toward Sedalia after passing through Warsaw.
Washington reports the administration plans to seek bids on 100 million dollars in public buildings before October. Postmaster General Farley and Treasury official L W Robert endorsed the move, with 50 million already committed and 50 million more to be offered within 90 days.
New Orleans June 16. Judge Mark M. Boatner who presided over section B of the civil district courts here for nine years died Friday of pneumonia at age 61. Born Vidalia La May 5 1872 he was a son of Charles J Boatner a former Louisiana congressman and Miss Fanny Mayo of Monroe. He attended Virginia Military Institute and Tulane and served in Hood s Immune in the Spanish American War. He helped draft the 1913 Louisiana constitutional convention and later served as a state senator.
Secretary Wallace plans to reveal his wheat processing tax and acreage reduction program at a press conference Friday at 4 45 p m EST. He will announce the cotton plan Saturday, including retirement of large cotton areas and an option pool for 2 500 000 government owned bales.
NOME Alaska June 16 Spersely settled northlands of the Bering Sea report Jimmie Mattern the world flier missing since leaving the Siberian coast two days earlier on the ninth leg of his solo flight. His fuel would have run out by 1130 p m EST Thursday if he stayed aloft. No ship or settlement had sighted him along the 2500 mile hop from Khabarovsk and plans were paused due to recent reports of lost planes in Alaska.
Producers representing about three fourths of the nations hardwoods back a code to place the industry under powerful governing boards. The plan sets quotas, minimum wages, and 8 hour days for 200000 workers, with regional administration and reporting requirements to Roosevelts recovery program.
The navy urges a 15 million dollar public works expenditure for new combat aircraft. The proposal aims to modernize air power and expand fleet capabilities.
The world economic conference adjourned weekend talks on currency stabilization awaiting Washington's stance. French delegates voiced disappointment after Woodin's Washington remarks denying U S agreement to stabilization plans. The bloc of gold standard nations insists on U S approval before moving forward.
Moscow reports the Communist Party extends control by ordering party political sections to create productive cells in every collective farm. The measure expands current vigilante groups to directly answer to political sections and tighten discipline, with claims of improved production.
The News-Star and Morning World publish a recurring series on state tax matters each Tuesday Thursday and Sunday. An expert author explains how the state and agencies collect and spend revenues from a wide range of taxes and licenses.
In Beverly Hills on June 16, a writer rejects involvement in a debt dispute, recalling plans to collect 90 percent or perhaps seize 10 percent, and praising Roosevelt to handle the matter alone. The writer condemns debt arguments as religious disputes and cites Calvin Coolidge on money.
President Roosevelt signs the industrial control public works bill hailing it as the most important and far reaching legislation. He calls for cooperation from industry labor and citizens and outlines goals to stabilize prosperity provide living wages and curb pirate practices while laying foundations for broader employment through public works.
More than 200 workers at the Langel-Fencil cotton mill joined a strike in Anniston Alabama as a protest over the discharge of a union organizer and a longtime employee. Wages are noted as above the regional average and a meeting with officials and workers was planned to seek settlement. Previous strikes at nearby American Net and Twine and Utica Knitting mills had been resolved.
The emergency session ends with a strong administration victory on veterans' pay. Congress cuts total veterans' payments from over 900 million to about 600 million and the bill is rushed to the White House. The session also enacts wide measures aimed at unemployment, inflation, farm relief, tax policy, banking reform, and social aid.
Norman Oklahoma June 14 Bishop James Cannon's scheduled antibeer address was cancelled by the Norman ministerial alliance. The program was full and could not be accommodated. Local ministers questioned Cannon's leadership and its effect on the anti beer effort.
Dickenson Texas June 16 O R Death ends a strange life when 62 year old hermit Scuddy Richardson a former newspaper writer philosopher and preacher who lived as a nature man for 25 years was found dead from a self inflicted gunshot in a Clifton by the Sea two room shack by Galveston bay A pension from the Spanish American War apparently about to be cut led to the despondent note My next check should pay for a cheap funeral I take my books back to the library
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