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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1936
Page
1
New York defeats the Giants 13 to 5 at the Polo Grounds to clinch the World Series in six games. Vernon Gomez starts for the Yankees against Freddy Fitzsimmons as the crowd of about 38,400 watches in Manhattan.
Swedish aviator Bjorkvall began a projected nonstop light to Stockholm from Floyd Bennett Field in heavy seas off Newfoundland. Baroness Eva von Blixen-Finecke was left behind after plans for a joint flight were abandoned amid criticism and paper backing withdrawal.
Pittsburgh Oct 6 Mayor William N McNair submitted his resignation to City Clerk Edward Schofield effective immediately. Officials debated whether it takes effect now or after council action. McNair had clashed with the Democratic administration since 1933 and resigned following a dispute over a treasurer appointment.
Baton Rouge received 4.9 million metal tokens to pay the new luxury sales tax, easing shortages. Shreveport first to get a batch, 1.62 million tokens. rest to be distributed by truck. 1.64 million earmarked for New Orleans as merchants cope with partial tax collection during shortages.
Sir Joseph Barcroft, English physiologist, chilled his blood and saturated his lungs with carbon dioxide to study mind effects of blood changes. He described his experience at Yale in a talk to scientists, noting the momentary warmth as blood rushed to the surface when nerves relaxed. Barcroft is Cambridge physiology professor and WWI shell shock relief figure. He received one of 62 Harvard tercentenary honors.
Abbeville La Oct 6 194? Merchants and consumers rally against proposed constitutional amendments tied to a 2 percent luxury sales tax starting Oct 1. E Whitney Bonin Leroy merchant leads protest, says amendments fund social security and scorns governor Leche officials. Ben J Haney in New Orleans conducts unofficial referendum opposing the tax.
Memphis edition confirms sale of The Commercial Appeal to Scripps-Howard. Colonel James Hammond retires as publisher and president. John H. Sorrells becomes president. Enoch Brown retains minority stake. WMC and WNBR radio stations included. Sale terms not disclosed. No personnel changes expected. paper to operate in the spirit of former editor C. P. J. Mooney.
In a tense campaign atmosphere at Topeka and Washington, Governor Landon meets with immigration official Edwin Corsi on liberalizing laws and a nonpartisan relief board, while Roosevelt returns to D C after conferences. Labor leader Green says 90 percent backing. Murphy touts industrial gains. Knox criticizes administration amid Communist ties debate.
Louisiana State University plans to purchase Westdale Country Club for 25000 to secure a golf course for students. President Dr. James M. Smith notes the property will host social functions and house a modern clubhouse pool and courts. The club lies near the university and features notable local players Haas and Paul Leslie.
The Daily News of Jackson Mississippi plans a pony express run on October 15 from its offices following the Natchez trace route and will also dispatch a motor express by the shortest airline highway. Readers are invited to estimate travel time differences to showcase transportation progress. The stunt supports Adams County fair and Natchez trace rodeo events.
Premier Julius Goemboes of Hungary died at a sanitarium in Nymphenburg after a long illness at age 50. He resigned as minister of war and had led a cabinet since 1932, promoting revisions of postwar treaties and closer ties with Germany and Italy.
Washington reports bears in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are resisting new shamrock green on pearl signs. Park officials say the animals scratched, clawed, and pulled down wooden signs on North Carolina and Tennessee trails, threatening to force a trail clean sweep until a solution is found.
Refugees report Madrid executions surpass 3000 middle and upper class citizens. Death squads described as blood thirsty, likened to 1789 sans culottes. Morgue figures rise from 15 to 82 in days, amid friction between socialist government and syndicalists.
A Washington woman found a pocketbook with $100 after a raid on her chicken house and later a man offered to buy her chickens. When she said she had none, he asked to see her birds and fled in an automobile.
Funeral services planned in Union West Virginia for Dr. William Porcher Miles 69 retired sugar planter who died Sunday His father the late William Porcher Miles once presided over the University of South Carolina before focusing on sugar plantations in Louisiana.
As battles rage on many fronts 150 000 rebels prepare a march on Madrid with Franco at the helm government lines hold. Reports claim advances near Torrijon de la Calzada and Illescas while government defenders fight in rains from Avila to Siguenza and repulse cavalry near Navalperal de Pinares.
Washington reports the federal communications commission continued hearings on radio regulation revisions. Proponents urge preserving air time for education by radio, arguing big commercial broadcasters dominate channels and undermine educational opportunities. S. Howard Evans of the national committee on education by radio and Dr. A. G. Crane led the push.
Hollywood recalls Andrew Beranger as he notices initials carved on a foothill oak from 1912 while filming Under Southern Skies He recalls filming The Birth of a Nation in which he wore a Confederate uniform, triggering a remembered coincidence between roles.
An authority declares a concentrated food pill cannot replace a four course meal, noting calories drive continued kitchen operation. Dr Milton A Bridges of Columbia University calls dietetics expert.
Secretary Morgenthau directed a overhaul of the Honolulu customs service and dispatched new coast guard officers and customs inspectors to Hawaii to stop what was described as a rising stream of narcotics smuggling.
Justice department officials said they are investigating hundreds of cases in which firms seeking government contracts for supplying construction material submitted identical bids.
In Boston two human legs were found in Boston harbor near the city. Officials say the limbs, likely from a young brunette woman in her early 20s, were hacked from a body to obscure identity. Medical examiners noted the legs had been in water about one to two weeks.
A. N. Clinton 43 of Clay Jackson parish will appear before Ouachita parish grand jury Friday charged with operating while intoxicated and failing to stop after a hit and run that seriously injured two bicycle riders on Brownville road. The victims Gertrude Brown 16 and John D Bailey 17 are recovering at St Francis sanitarium with compound leg fractures. Clinton was released on two bonds of 750 each.
Hundreds of lepers escaped San Lazaro hospital to march on Malacanan palace in Manila. They protested imprisonment while tuberculosis patients were not quarantined, clashing with police before being returned to the hospital after secretary Jose Vargas met them and promised to present their views to President Manuel Quezon.
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