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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1933
Page
6
District Judge Crossley requests a Barnstable County grand jury to weigh the case. He asks $100,000 bail in each suit, calling the matter one of the most heinous crimes for the mental strain on an innocent victim.
Solon says Roosevelt backs Norris bill to force utilities to negotiate with the power trust. The measure would allow the power interests to block construction of new dams beyond Cove Creek, affecting transmission line expansion.
Mrs. Stafford leads a three day News-Star-World cooking school in Monroe at the Paramount theater on May 16 17 and 18. The program promises tested recipes kitchen planning labor saving tips wise shopping and home management with free admission and prizes each session.
A series of fatal incidents across the South leaves 17 people dead. One victim was killed by an automobile in New Orleans. Betty Coburn died after being thrown from a motorcycle at Warrior Louisiana. John Henwood of Little Rock drowned when his boat capsized in an Ouachita River eddy near Hot Springs Arkansas.
The president argues for expanding credit and cooperative industry planning to correct an economic wrong without creating a new one. He defends higher price levels to help borrowers repay in stable dollars, while opposing optimistic overproduction and warns against false prosperity.
David Edward Voris attorney and Greenwood Indiana native died at his Fairhope Alabama home on Saturday and will be buried in Vinton Iowa.
Typhus ravaged Napoleon Bonaparte's Grande Armée during the Russian campaign, killing thousands of soldiers and undermining the invasion's success. The disease contributed to strategic collapse and massive attrition amid harsh winter conditions.
The article advises on easy to grow showy flowering plants six to 18 inches tall for beds and edgings. It covers propagation by seeds, autumn and spring sowing, spacing of six to eight inches and thinning to four inches, and notes autumn sowing yields May to July blooms with continuous bloom by biweekly sowing.
Mahatma Gandhi starts a fast aimed at removing bitterness and cleansing the movement on behalf of the untouchables. He expresses faith the fast will succeed and asks for divine blessing while acknowledging risks to his health and the possibility of death.
Belgium agrees to a tariff truce and will send representatives to confer with President Roosevelt. Phillips told reporters Belgium would adhere to the truce with no reservations quoted. The move coincides with U S efforts to persuade Britain to join the truce before the London economic conference beginning June 12.
Mrs. Euphemie Labatut Provosty widow of Chief Justice Olivier Otis Provosty of the Louisiana supreme court died at the family home in New Orleans after a long illness at age 75. She was a Pointe Coupee native and a member of a longstanding Louisiana family. Surviving are four daughters Mrs. Edouard E. Carriere Mrs. Adina Marioni Mrs. John Francis Tobin all of New Orleans and Mrs. Clifton P. Walker Evanston Ill, plus her son Judge Michel Provosty, a sister Clelie Labatut and a brother Albert Labatut of Pointe Coupee.
A cyclone destroyed the Sevier farm home in ward seven Ouachita parish near Eros last Monday. Mr and Mrs Oscar Sevier and their children survived but were injured by falling timbers and lost clothing. They are staying with Sam Lawson route 1 out of Eros and need clothing and basic aid.
A farm hand Day, believed drunk, stormed into the Schmitz home killing Mr. Schmitz before Loretta Schmitz, age 11, fired the weapon after Day forced her to handle the gun. Loretta and her brother fled to relatives as Day died hours later.
Joe Beeman, 18, fell from a row boat into Bayou Lutre and drowned while playing pranks. He could not swim and the body was recovered within eight feet of the bank before the fire department arrived. witnesses saw the incident from the bank.
A dopey tired feeling is a sign of bowel poisons that breed germs. Adler ika acts on both upper and lower bowels without discomfort. Sold in Monroe by Collens Pharmacy.
In Hradec Kralovo Czechoslovakia a court case pits a music publisher against the Vosenka orchestra leader over royalties for a claimed copyrighted piece. The leader denies copying and offers to perform both works in court to prove they are distinct.
An advertisement touts Blue Star Ointment to treat itch rash tetter foot itch ringworm and eczema. It claims tested medicines melt in quickly and kill germs with a money back guarantee if it fails.
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