10 Mar 1930
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1930
Page
1
In Memphis early today a fire at 761 Madison Ave. claimed the lives of Grace Carlton 20 and Myrtle Boozier 29, likely from a cigarette dropped while asleep. A husband saved his wife and firefighters rescued two others from the burning building.
The opening of Edward L. Doheny's bribery trial was postponed to Wednesday by Judge William Hitz due to the death of former President William Howard Taft.
ANTI-FREEZE IS BLAMED IN DEATH OF FOUR INDIANS DEVIL'S LAKE N D Mar 10 An anti-freeze compound stolen from a store and sold as an alcoholic drink is blamed for four Sioux deaths and disappearances on the Fort Totten Indian reservation Authorities fear additional illnesses and possible deaths among three more. The police jury declared an emergency after fire destroyed parish shops tractors graders tracks tools and other equipment and adopted resolutions to cope with the shortage.
The New York Stock Exchange voted to close at 12 30 p m tomorrow in memory of William Howard Taft. Governor officials and traders note the national figure’s impact on policy and finance as markets pause.
The nation prepared to honor William Howard Taft with full military rites. His funeral processions will move from the White House to the capitol rotunda and then to Arlington National Cemetery. Government offices paused. the Supreme Court and Congress adjourned.
Melvin Jones secretary-general of Lions International spoke before a large audience at Hotel Monroe. He traced the rapid growth of Lionism and its social civic and moral impact, noting over 2,100 clubs and 1,002 new clubs in the past 974 days as new chapters form each day.
Louisiana hearing on a $50 000 gift from the highway commission to the New Orleans commercial affairs committee resumes as four witnesses are examined in Judge Favrot's private chambers. O. K. Allen, highway commission chair, not in Baton Rouge for today’s session, on a business trip upstate and without papers for appearance.
Efforts to find Benjamin B. Milner 55 of Monroe La. who plunged into the Mississippi River when his car rode through a ferry gate failed. Mrs Milner and two sons George and Aurelius returned home after a hopeless river search. Daughters Mrs Seaman and Mrs Cox were also to return to their homes this afternoon.
A crash occurred at Natchez ferry landing as a vehicle plowed through a gate. No further details on injuries or causes available in the readable text. Authorities investigated the incident and secured the area for inspection.
A dialect column by J P Alley critiques a note kept by a character who refuses to name a price for a given instrument or debt. The piece uses humor to question fairness and negotiation expectations in a inebriated rural setting.
The First Baptist church safe was looted Sunday night taking about 500 dollars from the Sunday school collection and the evening offering.
More than 90 paralysis cases are reported across three Tennessee counties as medical clinics intensify treatment efforts. Officials say early intervention and rehabilitation services are expanding to meet growing need.
In Elizabethton Tennessee a quarantine was ordered after 13 partial paralysis cases appeared. Johnson City reports over 90 cases across Washington Carter and Unicoi counties with about 50 in the city and eight in the National Soldiers Home. Officials isolate victims and investigate causes while noting many may have used bad liquor or "jake."
Summons for witnesses to appear before the Caddo grand jury, called to probe alleged fraud in a $400 payment to J. A. Bradley and son for jail interior painting, were issued to 20 persons. Mayor Thomas and Commissioner Dixon faced criticism over state auditor findings, with Dixon proposing a purchasing agent for all departments.
The schooner Katherine May drifts with slit sails about 18 miles off Florida's eastern coast. Captain Otto Lenger of the motor ship Phoenicia reports last night contact with the vessel which has a broken rudder and is shipping water. The Katherine May is routing from Venezuela toward Florida ports.
A former Springhill college athlete died of back wounds suffered during a hold up in New Orleans. Three Black suspects were jailed, including Wilmer J. Lyons, a 29 year old book store clerk and local amateur baseball player, who was attacked while walking home.
A fire at Natchez College in Natchez Mississippi destroyed the girls dormitory, believed caused by defective wiring. About 100 girls fled the blaze in their night clothes, with losses estimated at 50 000 dollars. The boys dormitory burned several weeks earlier.
About 125 delegates attended the 97th annual Louisiana Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Rebekahs convention opening in Minden this afternoon. Between 300 and 400 delegates are expected.
Memphis authorities report a chaotic free-for-all that began over nothing left one man dead and another jailed on a murder charge. Guy Palmer Curtis, 24, died after a head blow from a club reportedly wielded by Fred Mobely, 25, in the hospital Sunday night.
Nineteen individuals were scheduled to appear before Judge Wayne G. Borah in federal court in New Orleans on bootlegging charges. Dennis Mandot, a baker and brother of ex pugilist Joe Mandot, was among those arraigned. Authorities seized $15 000 worth of liquor hidden throughout Mandot's bakery during a raid last October.
New Orleans March 10. Moves to present Chief Justice Charles A O Niell of the Louisiana supreme court to President Hoover for appointment to the U S Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Sanford's death. The push was launched by the New Orleans Bar Association executive committee at a special meeting.
The War Department plans flood control on the main Mississippi River with work set at 35 million dollars. Secretary Hurley said Army engineers had nearly completed all plans and specifications, funding to be provided by the pending appropriation bill.
The Missouri Pacific railway will add space in Pullman cars 10 and 18 on Monroe to New Orleans runs after a compromise with H. G. Fields, public service commissioner. A request for an extra sleeper car from Monroe to New Orleans was deemed satisfied by the agreement.
A $75,000 suit against Van East and the Illinois Central arises from the death of Miss Blanche Bloodworth near Oxford last September. The case is pending in Tallahatchie county court at Charleston and will be tried at the April term. Bloodworth was a prominent Tallahatchie county figure and active in school work.
The body of R. P. Holt, 25, a plantation worker, was found under an overturned automobile in a ditch beside a road near Earle Arkansas. Holt apparently lost control and skidded off the road. a passing bus driver discovered him and alerted officers who removed the body.
A naptha explosion and fire at the Chinkai naval station auditorium in Korea killed many, mostly schoolchildren, during Japan’s 25th anniversary of the Russia war victory. The death toll reached 104 with four injured. 134 primary students were present.
Three Finnish women missionaries of the China England mission died after bandits seized them while traveling by boat from Changshu to Kianfu. The incident occurred over a month ago as reports reached Shanghai on March 10.
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