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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1933
Page
4
Sheriff A M Hough of Webster Parish, a prominent Minden resident for 33 years, died at his home after a period of illness. He was elected in 1928 and was serving a second term. funeral held at the First Baptist church in Minden. He leaves a widow and three children.
Sumner Welles, United States ambassador to Cuba, assures Cubans he will not meddle in their domestic affairs. He reiterates that the Platt amendment is not a license for intervention. Scattered vivas break out as he arrives and is escorted by police to the Hotel National amid tight security.
The Monroc Co Theater announces its annual meeting at 8 p.m. on May 15 in the Grand theater building on South Grand street. Officers will be elected and plans for future activities outlined, with a strong appeal for full member attendance. The theater has presented several successful plays this year, organized through the municipal recreation department.
Border Patrolmen Oscar Stetson and Earl Hill shot their way out of a smugglers ambush west of Terlingua Texas killing Julio Salis and driving another Mexican to flee across the Rio Grande. The clash occurred late Sunday as the officers trailed two smugglers who opened fire but scored no hits.
Evangelist Harry S. Allen leads a nightly revival at the corner of Lee avenue and Dixie street drawing five hundred or more. Ker mit Hollingsworth directs music with a large choir as Allen cites Psalms and a dramatic conversion story to urge sin repentance. Monday’s message is “A Man Up a Tree and How He Got Down.” Services start at 7 45 p m.
The Ouachita Parish Fox Hunters club joined the Union Parish Fox Hunters at Haile Louisiana for a Saturday night hunt after barbecue prepared by N. S. Pace. Over 100 hunters and 15 dogs participated and the event was deemed entirely satisfactory. Members named include Mrs. B. M. Grider, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Ross, Dixon Swayze and family, E. D. Harris and family, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Paulin, J. A. Steen and others.
The marsh rabbit of our southeast swampland is as much at home in water as on land and actually swims for sport.
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Work to clear right of way for a new levee system along the Ouachita river south of the city began Monday. F C Saucier of Marksville, the contractor awarded the job by the Tensas Basin Levee board, moved the Scott residence at Buckhorn bend. About 52 houses and outbuildings will be removed within 60 working days from Buckhorn bend to Standifer street and Plum street to Morris avenue.
In Johnson City Tennessee on May 8 more than 200 former soldiers calling themselves the second B. E. F. marched into the Southern railway yards and said they would ride a freight train to Washington to protest disability compensation cuts. They expect to be discharged soon from the local veterans hospital and will ask President Roosevelt to pay the bonus.
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