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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1936
Page
9
James A. Farley said the Democratic convention in Philadelphia will be one of the most successful ever held and expressed confidence in Roosevelt's re election. He noted a possible fight over abandoning the two thirds rule for presidential nominations and said southern delegates may resist.
Legion officers enjoy a breakfast as they present the first bonds with Smith nearby and Borah visible in the Point of Service setting.
Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida died suddenly at his home in Washington. He served in the senate since 1909 and chaired the banking and currency committee. His term would have expired in 1939. The death follows another Florida loss in the Senate within a month.
The Rev. Claude C. Williams of Little Rock urged labor and social groups to file complaints against six men who flogged him and Miss Willie Sue Blagden near Earle Arkansas. A conference of Southern Tenant Farmers union attorneys will consider the matter on Friday in Memphis.
A six ton bull elephant named Wally was sentenced to death by firing squad after killing his keeper Ed ward Brown. Zoo officials described the animal as normally peaceful but dangerous after the incident. Two detectives were assigned as executioners with rifles borrowed from a gun dealer.
The Morning World denounces Senator James A. Noe for attacks on Gov. Richard Leche amid efforts toward harmony with President Roosevelt. It argues federal flood control funding and new public buildings justify the administration's approach and warn continued strife harms Louisiana’s progress.
A farmer found a brown bag by the highway with a human skull and severed digits. Sheriff Chalk estimates the victim died about ten days earlier. details describe mutilation but no motive given.
Louisiana delegates chosen by the Democratic state central committee will meet Friday at 2 30 p m in Baton Rouge with Governor Richard W Leche and national committeeman to outline plans for party assembly. Led by Robert S Maestri the group is technically uninstructed but expected to back Roosevelt.
Shreveport report says Flying Cadet Wolcott A. Ferris 23 from Sacramento California landed on a bombing range after engine trouble. He suffered a sprained ankle and a minor cut above the eye with only minor injuries.
Robert Whatley 16 son of Mr and Mrs Henry Whatley of Trout Louisiana was killed near Jena when a logging truck he rode on collided with a post. Chains securing the log load snapped sending him to the pavement.
The carbon black tax proposal was withdrawn from the Louisiana House files by Representatives E. G. Burke and Peter A. Hand of New Orleans before a passage vote. It would have levied a half cent per pound on carbon black or a half cent per thousand feet of natural gas used in manufacture. Governor Leche also received a letter from Texas Governor Allred praising the Dallas visit for the Texas centennial.
World War veterans of Ouachita parish converge on the Monroe and West Monroe post offices to redeem bonus bonds totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars. Each veteran receives a $50 bond for every $50 owed and a check for the remaining amount, with a 3 to 4 day processing period before checks are issued.
Rail lines into Monroe will observe the second annual Railroad Week July 13 to 19. Western Association of Railroads sponsors. Railway Express will join in a local meeting. S. A Moss named chairman of arrangements with J. S. Summer sill as secretary and other officers from Missouri Pacific and Illinois Central. An elaborate nationwide program will be observed during the week.
Fresh strikes erupted in Ghent Hainaut and Verviers as 170000 Belgian workers walked out reports say dock quarry and textile workers joined the nationwide action. A Navy plane crash near Norfolk killed Lt Charles E Mallory and radio man W C Gray. The Louisiana House backed a proration bill expanded to cover natural gas sulphur salt and related minerals.
Six hundred striking taxicab drivers ended their walkout in Dallas returning to work, ending the city’s second such walk out within a month.
Walter C. Martin, 49, a promoter, convicted of obtaining funds by misrepresentation of Washington influence, was sentenced by Judge Cornelius Fr to five years in Sing Sing. Reports from Nassau and Inagua Island described three white men found dead near a wrecked vessel on a reef.
Terrorists fired on a children’s home in the American colony on the plain of Sharon. The residents escaped unhurt.
In Madrid on June 17 leftists accused of being impotent to quell labor riots blamed a rightist program for their troubles. In New Orleans Joseph W Boutain aged 42 received 79 bonus bonds, gave them to his wife, then disappeared. Police found his body in a ditch near an abandoned powder plant, drowning suspected while intoxicated.
The house ways and means committee unanimously reported favorably a bill by Representative E G Burke of New Orleans. The item appears in Baton Rouge June 17 with continuation on the seventh page.
East Orange New Jersey June 17 The daughter of inventor Beatrice Moore visits Red Bank mortuary to view the body of Jean Philip Gebhardt a suicide near New Monmouth. Police theorize Gebhardt killed 67 year old scientist at his Park Avenue home and may have sought Moore for invention aid. Gebhardt previously lived in Middletown NY asylum in 1924 and had a workshop at his home rear.
In New Orleans Gentilly road a 43 year old butcher Dominick Natal was arrested on assaulting an officer who tried to remove a road block Natal had set up with four by four timbers and spikes to deter traffic due to unpaved bridge approaches Natal struck assistant traffic supervisor Charles W Matherne during the confrontation local residents had pressed for paving without success
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