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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1928
Page
25
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In Houston on June 20 a Black man named Robert Powell was abducted from Jefferson Davis hospital by eight unmasked men. His body was found hanged from a bridge near Houston at 6:36 a.m. Powell had been accused of slaying City Detective A c Davis during a public safety incident days earlier. Deputy S Y Q Brizenbine reported Powell was restrained, robbed, and carried from the hospital with a rope around his neck. The incident drew state attention as Governor Moody ordered three state rangers, led by Captain Frank Hamer, to assist the investigation. Two rangers already in Houston for a national convention aided the district attorney.
Governor Long blasts Standard Oil as price fixing monarchs after senate finance panel reduces McClanahan severance tax on oil and related materials. He attacks influence charges by Mrs. Pleasant and Sen. McConnell during a heated Baton Rouge hearing. Senatorial split sides with Pike Hall and John M. Caffery voting no.
Special to The News-Star from Bastrop La June 20 reports that Morehouse parish may soon have an oil well as Meyers No. 1 of Texas Oil Co shows a strong oil indication at 3000 feet two miles north of Gallion. Huff No. 1 near Bonita reaches 2000 feet and may trigger Meyers drilling. Lease offers up to 50 per acre are declined by acreage holders amid title perfection delays.
Associated Press reports 26 bodies recovered from four collapsed buildings after a boiler explosion in a Mexico City bath house. About 30 injured, including American H Kenneth Ferguson of the Mexican Telephone Co. His condition not serious. The blast levelled the bath house and adjoining structures in a poorer quarter.
Baton Rouge June 20. Representative Saves resolution demanding an explanation from the Louisiana State University board of governors for the dismissal of four faculty members was voted down in the house by seventeen to seventy three.
Proponents of racing scored five victories before a committee of the Louisiana House. Several bills to ban betting or restrict racing were unfavorably reported, while a sixth measure to raise the license tax on racing plants passed. A ban on bookie information and whip or spur use was also reported unfavorably.
Six armed men raided a Canadian National Express car at Toronto Union Station. They used a ruse involving backing a large sedan to the car then seized three registered mail pouches valued up to 100000 dollars. One agent resisted threats and escaped to summon police as the robbers fled toward Windsor.
In Chicago on June 20 Mayor William Hale Thompson and associates including Michael Faherty George Harding and the public administrator along with three real estate experts were ruled in circuit court to have conspired to hire real estate men for work under the Thompson administration at a city cost of 1 732279 restitution ordered to the city treasury The judge said the conspiracy pursued dual aims financing Thompson political activities and private gain for conspirators
The Ohio Supreme Court freed George Remus, once known as the bootleg king, from the state hospital for the criminal insane in Lima after upholding a habeas corpus ruling. The decision ends his confinement following his December murder of his wife Imogene in Cincinnati. Attorney General Edward C. Turner said there would be no appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Harbor Grace N F June 20 Miss Mabel Bell plans to fly the Atlantic with three companions in Charles A Levine's Columbia but cancelation announced. Rumors of a Rome hop are dispelled as plans end for now. Levine urged Miss Bell to abandon the attempt after Earhart's prior successful flight.
Comic caption style piece noting a Sunday golf attempt by a player who forgot his religious beliefs and lost his nerve, with a humorous mispronunciation and a punch line about his failure to swing. The item reflects a syndicated humor strip tone from 1928.
General Umberto Nobile and five companions from the North Pole dirigible Italia were located off Northeast Land by Major Maddalena who dropped provisions and medicaments from a hydro airplane. Maddalena reported all appeared well and radio messages kept Kings Bay informed as Amundsen and others searched unsuccessfully for the group previously.
Bridges across the Mississippi at Vicksburg and Natchez would be tax free for five years under a measure by Senator C. C. Brooks of Tensas. The senate unanimously approved the bill calling for a constitutional amendment.
BATON ROUGE June 20 The house 58 to 39 indefinitely postponed the bill to abolish the attorney to the inheritance tax collector in New Orleans The governor's brother holds the questioned job in question, keeping him in place.
Los Angeles, June 20. Police pursue a pistol used in the slaying of John I. Glab, retired Cicero druggist, at his home Monday night. Hazel Glab, 29, widow, is held on suspicion as a key figure in the case amid testimonies of violent quarrels. A maid said the couple fought and she warned of murder, while a neighbor described a woman in a light dress fleeing to Glab’s car after the shot. Glab’s widow previously claimed a Chicago feud related to liquor running sparked their conflict. she lived with Glab in Los Angeles and previously with SW. Oregon’s McIntyre after Glab’s return. She married Glab five months ago after a Reno divorce.
A tornado demolished the house shared by the McKibben and Woodruff families near South Coffeyville Oklahoma injuring several. Six month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Joe McKibben was killed and Frank Woodruff suffered a broken shoulder.
New York June 20. Due to threatening weather the ten round heavyweight contest between Johnny Risko and George Godfrey at Ebbetsfield was postponed this afternoon and rescheduled for Saturday night.
Baton Rouge June 20 Gov Huey P Long urged raising the occupation tax on carbon black from four tenths of a cent to one cent per pound to keep the industry from moving to Texas. Prominent Monroe men opposed the tax before the senate finance committee. The amendment reflecting the governor's plan was adopted. The bill originated in the house, which had passed it recently.
In Baton Rouge on June 20 the Holcombe bill to stop dentists from practicing under a corporation name passed the senate 37 to 2. An amendment allows licensed surgeons or doctors to extract teeth take x-rays or perform other necessary operations.
In eastern Arkansas flood areas federal engineers augmented Peach Orchard levee crews in Woodruff County and near Jackson Bay as backwater from the White River raises new danger to 50,000 to 75,000 acres. They warn conditions are softer than last year and extend the risk as relief efforts expand.
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