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03 Sep 1935
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1935
Page
1
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Rioting flared at multiple Tampa polling sites as clubs struck voters. Three city firemen and a special policeman were slightly wounded. Adjutant General sent 250 to 3 troops to quell disturbances amid a bitter mayoral contest between Mayor Chancey and ex mayor McKay.
Labor Day rallies featured AFL head William Green praising New Deal social legislation while attacking foes. Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge called the administration the greatest enemy of labor as UMWA chief John L. Lewis urged labor to support Roosevelt with votes and pennies. Col. Frank Knox, a GOP hopeful, remained in the mix.
Widely known Louisianians appear among passengers on the grounded Dixie off Florida. Dr. Oswald E. Denny, a leprosy specialist and major in the U S Public Health Service, is to be transferred to Molokai. His wife Elizabeth Miller and relatives from New Orleans and Carville are aboard with their sons. Ivy Green Kittredge, former New Orleans city attorney, is also listed.
The liner Dixie lay aground on a coral reef off the Florida Keys with 350 aboard as rescue ships Hampered by haze and heavy seas. The United Fruit Limon reported reaching the stricken vessel near French Key and waiting for weather to improve to transfer passengers.
Local readers confront unclear phraseology in a brief morning edition. The fragment hints at a reference to a star or person but lacks context or concrete details to determine the exact subject or event.
Baton Rouge reports Gov. O K Allen granted clemency to two prisoners per state pardon board. Leroy Duckworth received a six month reprieve after serving 17 months of a two year Morehouse parish sentence for wounding less than mayhem. Eli Thomas, jailed for burglary in Winn parish, was pardoned from a ten year sentence. Bond forfeitures totaling 500 dollars for Ethridge and 500 dollars for Citizen were remitted, with Armstrong’s bond amount not stated.
Geneva Sept 3 Informed diplomats said the League of Nations will likely ask Premier Mussolini and Emperor Haile Selassie to pledge not to use war to settle their Ethiopia dispute The British delegation plans to press this approach to avert hostilities and initiate league action Continue reading on page three
Washington reports new administrative rulings by the AAA allow small Louisiana sugar cane growers to market up to 100 tons regardless of base production. Larger producers may market up to 20 percent above base if they accept deductions in benefit payments. The contracting grower may market up to 20 percent more than base or 100 tons, whichever is larger, with deductions applied to those at 100 tons base.
John E. Coxe, after 15 years with the Louisiana state department of education, is appointed state high school supervisor following Charles F. Trudeau’s resignation. Harris informs parish officials in a letter. Trudeau cites a wish to rest and says he leaves on good terms.
Secretary Hull stated that the Ethiopian concession to the African Exploration and Development corporation would not influence U S policy on the Italo Ethi opian dispute. He noted no official reaction had yet been possible on Emperor Haile Selassie s grant of development rights in over half the empire to Anglo American interests.
In Cleveland Tennessee a 26 year old married woman and a 25 year old man were found shot to death in a parked car. Deputy Sheriff Sim Goodwin said the woman's husband, Sam Rogers 28 a hosiery mill worker, admitted shooting them after summoning officers. Rogers claimed suspicions were aroused earlier that night.
Sir Malcolm Campbell, England's speed king, set a new land speed record on the Bonneville Salt Flats with an average of 299.875 mph. He first dashed the mile in 11.83 seconds at 304.311 mph, then logged 12.18 seconds for the measured mile at 295.566 mph, the two runs averaging just under 300 mph.
President Roosevelt approved a five million dollar allotment for preliminary work on the Florida Gulf Atlantic ship canal project, part of a proposed one hundred forty six million dollar program. The aid aims to advance initial construction steps and related studies as officials move to develop the waterway.
SAN FRANCISCO Sept 3 The British steamer King Lud bound from Vancouver to Melbourne went aground on shoals east of Port Pirie near New Zealand The 400 foot schooner of 5224 gross tons owned by King Line Ltd was built by Har-Wolff Belfast in - Details of the accident were unavailable.
A tropical storm was about 40 miles west of Punta Rassa at noon as it tracked northwestward through the Gulf of Mexico parallel to Florida’s west coast. Forecasters warned winds of 65 to 69 mph along the gulf coast toward Clearwater and kept storm warnings in effect.
Former Orleans city health board attorney Bertrand I. Cahn writes to Health Superintendent Dr J M Hatchler claiming his successor earns 350 dollars monthly while he cannot recover back pay. He says discharge without cause grants legal right to payment. Cahn stayed loyal to Mayor Walmsley during Choctaw club realignment near Huey Long's group.
New Orleans dispatch reports officers of Morgan Line released a passenger list for the Dixie liner, en route from New Orleans to New York with about 400 aboard when it ran aground on a Florida reef shortly before midnight Monday. The list includes Mrs. M. Hackett of Baton Rouge and others across Louisiana New York and Brooklyn with several from Los Angeles Minneapolis and Boston.
James C. Prosser and Gilbert Stoll reached Cincinnati from Columbus on a trip to Argentina where they plan a non stop flight back to Cleveland. They said they would fly to New Orleans later and may stop at Birmingham depending on weather.
Dr and Mrs C B Johnston of Bastrop appear among Dixie liner passengers bound for New York from New Orleans. They are former Monroe residents with the doctor having run a dental practice in Bastrop for years. His mother, Mrs C B Johnston Sr, lives in Monroe at 200 Breard Street.
Pi The outstanding challenge to Kiwanis clubs in the next ten years is an aggressive participation in public affairs. Faber A Bollinger of Atlanta Kiwanis International trustee urged during the Louisiana Mississippi Kiwanis district convention banquet in Lake Charles. Election of officers and a fellow-
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