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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1938
Page
4
A damaged OCR fragment mentions an office space or room and a day described as Sunday with unclear context. The readable terms include references to an office and a room, but no clear event, names, dates, or actions are established for a complete notice.
A local civic club promotes building a band stand in Fort Forsythe Park to enable Sunday summer concerts. Monroe supports music minded citizens, school bands, and cultural programs, urging organization and consensus to provide free public entertainment and cultural privileges in the park.
The article portrays China’s suffering from war and then flood and pestilence. It depicts massive death, ruined cities, destroyed homes and livelihoods, hunger, and a population driven from homes, with relief efforts overwhelmed by scope. It calls for practical sympathy and aid.
Secretary Ickes will place 1000 beavers in Idaho to aid flood control and wildlife. An experimental 20 beaver colony showed dam building to create cattle drink pools and improve water retention. The plan, led by F R Carpenter, aims to boost beaver numbers significantly and reduce flood losses.
In a 1938 column, John Blake relays Dr. Klein’s claim that fish positively respond to Brahms, Beethoven, and Bach during meals while avoiding swing and hot jazz. The piece riffs on future sights of music on boats and even Toscanini-inspired fishing fleets, urging better taste through heard music.
This column reflects on war photography by Art Menken showing the brutal realities of sieges such as Nanking and urges using war footage to promote peace. It contends that factual documentary images could dampen war enthusiasm and shift public opinion toward peace and rational policy.
The piece surveys Congress five months into the term with conservatives praising early feats and later condemning leadership as rubber-stamp. It highlights Roosevelt’s power recovery on Capitol Hill, key New Deal battles, and notable figures like Vice President Garner Senator Harrison O Connor Wheeler Ed Burke and Matty Maverick. A dramatic gallery exchange ends the column with a protest on art freedom.
Editorial notes diphtheria remains a threat in some cities despite medical advances. Baltimore saw rising cases from 1934 to 1937, yet deaths fell with antitoxin use. It advocates universal toxoid inoculation by six months, with Schick testing for susceptibility during outbreaks to curb spread.
Joan Fontaine and Olivia De Haviland rise as stars though twins in talent not birth. Joan, 20, renamed Fontaine to avoid using her sister is name. Olivia, 22, pursued teaching but won a Max Reinhardt Dream production break that led to a film contract. Born in Tokyo the sisters moved to the United States for health and artistic ambitions. They live with their mother in Beverly Hills and Joan is linked to actor Conrad Nagel.
Fifteen years ago on June 29 1923 women from Ouachita and Lincoln parishes will convene at Calhoun experiment station under Mrs Jewel McQuiller home demonstration leadership. The program features cooking canning fruit packing and preserving demonstrations while W R Dodson dean of the agricultural college will urge local youths to pursue higher education at the new state college. Mal McGilvery promoter aims for a July 4 boxing match at Forsythe park tied to the Elks convention with a 2000 bond posted and a charter request inland.
The Louisville site notes historic details about Fire Company No 3 of Monroe and includes a reference to ancient Roman punishment for parricide sewn in a sack cast into the sea or river.
A grass fire on Jefferson between North Fourth and North Fifth streets yesterday afternoon was put out before causing any property damage. Company No. 1 of the Monroe fire department from central station used the truck’s booster tank to extinguish the flames.
Veteran columnist Paul Harrison surveys film sets made to resemble jungles for Bulldog Drummond in Africa and Booloo. He notes lions, especially an 11 year old named Jackie, and highlights Eleanor Powell and Mama Clark in tropical scenes. The piece also critiques Hollywood publicity stunts and talent quests, citing Tommy Kelly as a successful discovery amid widespread casting hoopla.
By George Ross in New York the piece notes how Harlem chatter and campus slang distort the king's English. It highlights Kay Kyser and Cab Calloway explanations, examples from colleges and Harlem, and mentions phrases like jitter-bug, beat to my socks, and joint is jumpin. It also describes a brochure by Calloway and Kyser notebook of terms, plus a pastoral interlude about Anna Held at a Country Inn beyond the Bronx.
Extensive NBC WEAF and related network listings outline daytime and prime time radio across East, Midwest, Mountain, South and Pacific regions. Programs include Amos and Andy, Fred Allen, Lum and Abner, The March of Games, Space Talk, and various orchestras with station sharings and time blocks.
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