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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1936
Page
1
The Spanish fascists press within 10 miles of Madrid as government mobilizes all fit adults to defend the capital. Refugees swarm the city raising hunger and fear while the CNT pushes for the government's resignation amid factional tensions.
President Roosevelt led a ceremony at the Statue of Liberty marking its 50th anniversary and calling for ongoing American freedom and peace. Guests included French ambassador Andre de La Boulaye and Mayor LaGuardia with Ickes delivering remarks on liberty as a beacon amid global tensions.
President Roosevelt and Governor Alf M. Landon toured the New York metropolitan area with a full day of events. Roosevelt dedicated a gymnasium at Brooklyn College funded by the PWA, spoke at the Statue of Liberty’s 50th anniversary, and addressed Roosevelt Park on the East Side before a reply to NRA revival questions.
Rome reports the 14th anniversary of the march on Rome and the start of a 15th year of Fascism. Blackshirts, students, and Fascists parade past Palazzo Venezia as Mussolini proclaims Italy’s ascent in national life, prestige abroad, and territorial expansion.
Captain George T. Summerlin United States minister to Panama will be honor guest at a reception and banquet this evening at Hotel Virginia. He traveled from San Francisco by automobile and will report to the president and state department on Panama conditions. Attendees include Governor Leche US Senator Overton and other prominent officials.
Washington October 28 A bill to cut railroad workers to a 30 hour week with no pay reduction is being drafted by rail union leaders for introduction in the next session of Congress George M Harrison head of the Railway Labor Executives association said the move aims to curb unemployment with about 500000 idle workers remaining despite improved traffic and profits. The AFL position on a general 30 hour week for all industry will be revealed at its upcoming convention.
Captain James A. Mollison began a one stop flight to London via Harbor Grace aiming to set a 17 1 2 hour record from Floyd Bennett field to Croydon air drome. He wore a dinner jacket and carried 420 gallons of fuel for 512 hours at 15000 feet. The Bellanca monoplane NR 190 is blue and orange with a Gyroscope compass and artificial horizon.
Charles Vance Millar left a capricious will awarding about half a million dollars to the Toronto mother with the most births in ten years. The playful contest stirs debate as the deadline nears and lawyers await the outcome.
Toronto reports a wave of melodrama as threats and eerie warnings appear around the Mothers' Marathon. Parents tighten security, wary of a mysterious intruder at the Nagle home who shouted to leave the Millar will contest within 24 hours.
Commodore Sir Edgar Britten, 62, commander of the liner Queen Mary, died in Southampton after paralysis struck him hours before the ship was to sail to New York. He suffered a stroke as the vessel prepared for departure.
New York dispatch argues Britain shields King Edward VIII from scandal over Mrs Simpson. Press censors royal coverage to protect the throne, with diaries and private life kept private. Crown seen as glue holding empire together. public tolerant of Edward’s private romances.
A collage of quirks from Delaware to Wyoming shows election oddities from rival Republican electors in Delaware to towns merging with reservoirs in Massachusetts. Other notes include political paths for a railroad conductor in Wisconsin and Wyoming’s suffrage roots, plus Montana's proposed medical exams for marriage and a Connecticut attorney general decision.
New York reports reveal a long line of romances surrounding King Edward VII and Mrs Wallis Simpson. The Oct 23 hearing in Hetty Green estate case highlights the Green family fortune and heirs.
Summaries report a hotel robbery in New Orleans where two unidentified men slugged a night clerk and escaped with 195 dollars. Dayton discusses Orville Wright birth home potential transfer to Ford's museum. Paris notes France plans to spend about 460 million dollars on military expansion. New York covers United States Steel earnings rising in the September quarter to 13.6 million dollars, reversing last year's deficit.
Three thousand coal miners went on strike at Roubaix blocking roads and overturning coal trucks. The action forced a shutdown of 20 factories near Lille, impacting about 7,000 workers.
Threats of a maritime strike loom as federal officials push last minute efforts to avert a walkout by 37,000 dock and seagoing workers on the Pacific coast.
Captain William T. Davidson known as the fog-eater retires from the Clyde-Mallory line. At sixty nine, he departs after four decades aboard ships, his long career ending as he nears December birthday.
In Budapest on October 28, two sergeants convicted of transmitting military secrets to Czechoslovakia were executed in a square formed by 300 white-faced soldiers. The witnesses were ordered to serve as an example to the Hungarian armed forces.
The commerce department reported that U S exports exceeded imports by 4 442 000 dollars in September marking the first month since May that American sales abroad were greater than purchases from foreign nations.
At dawn in Caen Andre Martin became the 260th victim of France's executioner Monsieur de Paris Anatole Diebler. Diebler, 68, the hereditary headsman of the third republic, handed down the office since the Revolution and now seeks to quit as no family member will take the job.
Wallis Warfield Simpson, twice divorced, leaves Mayfair for a guarded life after Ipswich court granted decree nisi. A lone officer keeps watch at 16 Cumberland Terrace as furnishings arrive for her new home while questions of a royal marriage linger.
In Pittsburgh on October 23 a murder trial hinged on moonlight as prosecutors argued 17 year old John Hanna Jr could have identified his mother by the moon glow the night she was shot in the garage. The defense says he shot at a moving object and did not recognize her.
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