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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 12, 1936
Page
1
Three crew members were injured in a crash reported on J ws sector road. Police say one crash involved an intentional trigger. another involved a switch “cocked” situation. Authorities removed spikes in the other case as part of the investigation.
Insurgent forces battered Madrid’s northwest approaches under driving rain. They moved through University City and Casa de Campo, facing heavy artillery and machine gun fire. Lightning lit the night as planes stayed grounded and fires raged in streets.
Two L and A freight wrecks near Spring Hill and a cocked switch derailment injure three Shreveport railmen as Gov Leche meets railroad leaders and union reps amid a long strike. Engineers Johnson Best and Brakeman Jacobs transported for care. none seriously hurt.
A Washington report uncovers a hidden campaign finance scene with notable contributions from Hearst amounting to 45000 dollars. The piece highlights major donors and the influence of large sums on political proceedings.
The piece weighs the elusive size of campaign outlays in 1936. It cites pre election figures for parties and committees, notes underreporting and private influence, and lists major donors and labor actions shaping the Roosevelt and Republican efforts. It highlights the scale of labor support and prominent contributors on both sides.
A blaze in Rodessa Louisiana last night damaged the 28 room hotel the majestic theater and a shoe store with losses pegged at 15000 dollars. About 20 people escaped unharmed as volunteers brought the fire under control.
Eugene O Neill American playwright awarded the 1936 Nobel prize for letters in Stockholm He is the second American laureate after Sinclair Lewis and joins a pantheon including Anatole France Thomas Mann and Rabindranath Tagore His career spans eight plays winning three Pulitzers and a prolific output from Provincetown foundations to Broadway and beyond
Hollywood reports Bert Wheeler and Sally Haines plan marriage around February 15. Wheeler, the comedian, confirmed the date while Murial Evans and Marshall Worcester also announced upcoming nuptials with statements implying imminent plans.
In New Orleans on November 12 a blue eyed blond baby boy, found in St. Tammany parish woods carried by a dog, was admitted to Charity hospital healthy and weighing six pounds three ounces. Mrs. Louis E. Crawford led the push to keep the child, claiming she saved his life and would move heaven and earth to retrieve him. Welfare workers intervened amid her protests.
In Eagle Pass Texas on November 12 John Nance Garner legendary Cactus Jack arrives in a wheezing eight year old car with a canoe on top and canvas buckets. Sheriff-elect Hermann Lehmann recounts Garner’s fishing trip after his reelection.
Census bureau reports for August 1 to October 31 show cottonseed crushed totaling 1,437,799 tons, up from 1,328,771 a year earlier. Mills held 3,272,173 tons of cottonseed on hand October 31, versus 829,288 a year ago.
Secretary of State confirms Amendment No 15 failed in state voting 127 776 for and 152 273 against with three parishes pending. Amendment 3 and others carried by large margins. three parishes yet to report. In Boston a father offers to sell himself for 2500 to cover debts and eviction risk.
Louisiana teachers convention in November 1921 seeks hundreds of rentable rooms. Delegates pay one dollar per person per night for each room with multiple occupants. Contact Chamber of Commerce at 315 or 1430 to list accommodations.
Obituary notes include James Elmer Walker former Bossier parish representative and First State Bank president. funeral held in Plain Dealing. In Eunice a woman, Mrs Ernestine Ortego, died from gunshot wounds inflicted by her husband who then killed himself. Mussolini boycotts Geneva session of ILO as delegates miss meeting. In Atlanta a robbery suspect struck by a punch while in custody. In Portland King Edward arrives for inspection of the home fleet amid heavy rain.
Ogden Utah November 12 police questioned 11 year old Della De Haven after she said a man with a butcher knife chased her and had a headless body in his car. Officers gave little credence to the tale.
In Red Bank New Jersey police pressed a blood drenched confession by Ralph Mills 26 a job pressman claiming he killed his wife and himself with the same pistol after a police pursuit. In Trenton federal agents and state police hunted gun girl and two male partners who abducted a state trooper and dumped him in a Pennsylvania ditch. In Manchester England textile mills brace for a possible strike as the cotton industry readies a vote among union members before Christmas.
Covington Tenn November 12 Five men faced arraignment on charges tied to the robbery slaying of Charlie Cianciola owner of the Golden Slipper night club Cianciola 42 was shot in a rear bedroom of his club 15 miles south of Covington Sheriff Vaughan said confessions were obtained from Jack Richardson 30 Leonard Richardson 47 William Jennings Red among the defendants and Augustus Wilkins an accessory after the fact G Robinson also charged. Jennings denied involvement.
The American Federation of Labor executive council reportedly is nine to eight in favor of expelling John L. Lewis and his 10 rebel United Mine Workers unions for forming the committee for industrial organization. Anti-Lewis leaders urge expulsion at the upcoming convention, while some council members may defer to delegates.
Chief Deputy U S Marshal J E Tobin said Allan Rey Dafoe medical advisor for the Dionne quints was served at the airport with a $1,000,000 breach of contract suit. Deputy Konrath recognized Dafoe, read the summons, and the case aims to resolve the dispute over exhibiting the Dionne quintuplets in federal court in December.
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