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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1934
Page
2
The piece outlines rival camps in Germany as Hitler tightens grip. Radical factions backed by Nazi storm troopers push for broader social control while preserving private initiative. Conservatives rally behind traditional elites including the Reichswehr, Stahlhelm, Hindenburg, aristocracy, and Catholic and Protestant groups.
The Senate approved amendments to a Shreveport city charter bill after a floor debate led by Lindsey and Chasez. Amendments were adopted and the bill returned to the calendar. Debate covered mayoral salary and council turnover under the new charter, with questions about quarterly department reports and a tugwell bill. The night session aimed to speed up action on the Tugwell measure. A Smithsonian scientist refuted the belief that pearls lose luster from wear, and a circus elephant diet was detailed.
An old advertisement urges washing kidney tubes to restore vigor and eliminate waste. It warns of pain and fatigue if kidneys fail to empty and promotes Doan's Pills as a safe prescription remedy trusted by millions for over four decades.
The measure authorizes suspending laws governing special tax elections and calls for elections to authorize levies to pay bond principal and interest. Wimberly says the resolution lets local levy reductions occur proportionately if in lieu revenue is available before November.
Fayette Alabama June 28 Mrs Earl Porter is in jail on an assault with intent to murder charge for beating and maltreating 12 year old Mary Virginia Johnson in her care for 16 months. The more serious charge was filed as authorities pursued the case involving the orphan.
Sheriff Joe McConnell learned that the hospitalized child in Jasper had grown worse. Deputies found Mrs. Porter at relatives near Reform after neighbors debated her treatment of the child. The 57 year old wife of a tenant farmer faced assault and battery with a club charge.
The Louisiana House approved the Dore senate bill 71 to 13 as a legislative pardon for bankers charged last year with accepting deposits in insolvent banks. It creates a general de pression defense, halting prosecutions linked to insolvency and shifts closing decisions to the banking commissioner. District Attorney Eugene Stanley says the bill goes to the governor without a saving clause and notes many cases await trial.
Violence erupts in Austria as Austrian troops clash with Heimwehr in Graz. Bombings target railways power plants and a printing plant in Innsbruck and Vorarlberg. Hostages jailed as police hunt the bombers amid national political tension.
Washington reports Secretary Dern told reporters that investigators in the War Department are impairing the nation’s defense program.
An advertisement touts Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules as a cheap diuretic to flush kidneys of waste and acids. It claims relief from nighttime urination and various pains like sciatica neuritis lumbago and rheumatic aches, urging buyers to ask their druggist for the GOLD MEDAL product sourced from Haarlem in Holland.
The body of John H. Nance a 23 year old Memphis youth who reportedly jumped from a bridge in Memphis in April is being sent home. Cecil Nance the youth’s brother and Memphis attorney identified the body from teeth and underwear recovered from the Mississippi River north of Baton Rouge. He said his brother was despondent and left a letter saying he loved his parents and felt he was not meant to do any good in this world.
A meeting of the American Sugar Cane league is set for July 13 in New Iberia Louisiana with addresses by sugar experts from the federal Department of Agriculture in Washington and the state sugar experimentation staff following a tour.
A meeting in the Sugar Belt, including the Leon Landry plantation, Albania plantation, and Iberia Parish Federal Experiment Farm, will discuss various matters concerning sugar production. The session is open for public discussion of agricultural issues and policy impacts.
A critical study on broadcasting titled So you re going on the air by Robert West analyzes all phases of radio. It targets radio fans sponsors broadcasters and minority listeners seeking higher caliber program material. Rodin Publishing, 200 West Fifty seventh Street, New York.
A compact note contrasts many tobacco varieties grown domestically and internationally describing their distinct tastes qualities and burn characteristics and ends with a claim that Chesterfield holds a milder better appeal than others.
Samuel Rogers of the University of Wisconsin faculty, author of Dusk at the Grove which won the Atlantic $10,000 novel prize, is introduced as a rising figure in publishing. Born in Rhode Island and descended from Roger Williams and Benedict Arnold, his novel Dusk at the Grove will be published August 24.
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