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Newspaper
Ruston Leader
Location
Ruston, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1930
Page
2
The gas engine era on farms, enabled by stationary engines and tractors, expands beyond fields to urban markets. Mechanization has created millions of jobs in tractor and vehicle industries, supporting about 22 million total livelihoods tied to farm products, while reducing reliance on horse labor and cutting costs.
A Los Angeles Times opinion argues that reckless driving stems from motorists' mindset and weak licensing. It cites 25 to 30 thousand annual deaths and hundreds of thousands injured in preventable crashes, blaming indifference to safety and lax licensing laws with poor enforcement.
A broad wartime style editorial warns that forest fires cause vast property losses and deaths each year due to carelessness. It cites insurance studies and industrial injuries, urging individuals to adopt constant caution and safety habits to protect people, land, and funds.
A proposed bill in the House seeks to ban transporting concealed or sawed off firearms across state lines with limited exceptions for military and police transport. The measure has not yet reached a vote and faces mixed reception amid editorials arguing it may erode civilian rights.
An editorial argues that broad anti pistol legislation has raised crime and urges modernization of the legal system. It calls for swift justice targeting real criminals rather than restricting law abiding citizens.
Government market news notes another strawberry season ends with disappointments due to unusual weather. Farmers faced unsatisfactory results and look to 1931 for better outcomes, while diversifying income from milk poultry eggs hogs and other products could ease the burden.
Dartmouth undergraduates stage a crusade against full length trousers, opposing pants from the knee down. Their call Free dom of the Knees mocks fashion trends like suspender displays and argues for Puritan simple standards, denouncing eye catching attire and knee exposure.
Senator Hall introduces an act to bar governors from bribing Louisiana lawmakers with public funds to influence legislative outcomes. The piece calls members to declare their stance, promising to publish a roll of honor or dishonor based on votes and actions.
The USDA Bureau of Agricultural Economics says whole cooked chickens and canned poultry mark a new marketing era. Ready to serve dressed birds and pull drawn packs expand demand, with government inspected safety boosting consumer confidence and potential higher prices for prime birds.
Farm Information Bureau outlines a program to improve farm stock under the Hatchery Chicks Moretreater Profits slogan. It pledges to produce chicks capable of generating profits for buyers while addressing failures in customer dealings.
Senator Black calls the tariff debate a smoke screen while labeling Southern and Western Democrats as abandoning Jeffersonian principles at this session. He notes votes against states’ rights, limited government, human rights over property, and a stance on the Bill of Rights, with some Southern Democrats opposing Parker over white supremacy.
The Leader office received a Louisiana highway map from Pan American Petroleum Corp. It includes city road maps for New Orleans Shreveport and Baton Rouge, a state road map with parts of Mississippi and Texas, and a southern states map naming highways. The map notes Ruston on the Dixie Overland and Pershing highways.
Dr. Joseph A. O'Hara, president of the Louisiana State Board of Health, told the Louisiana Pharmaceutical Association that the federal government failed to remove Jamaica ginger extract from the market after paralysis cases appeared in Tennessee. He accused federal chemists of inaction and credited the Louisiana board for stopping sales, noting a $50 reward for a Jamaica ginger seller’s arrest.
Four hundred singers with a forty piece orchestra will take part in the second performance of the Greater New Grivaus Choral Society in the new auditorium on Monday May 19. J S Hiller president says the program will include thirteen numbers. The New Orleans Choral Society was formed in 1929 by the New Orleans Association of Commerce Music Committee to promote Weller music.
Louisiana reports contracts worth 2,154,000 for new buildings and engineering work in the past month. Of this amount, 200,400 covered work started in New Orleans. The report notes losses for the state and obesity in the comparison.
State totals for last month show public works and utilities 1 045 200 residential 551 200 commercial 267 100 and other 260 100. New construction in Louisiana since January 1 reached 26 409 400 versus 23 211 200 a year earlier. Four month total in New Orleans 3 317 500 versus 7 180 800 last year. April planned work in Louisiana 6 505 800 versus 11 493 400 last year. New Orleans April reported 1 271 600 versus 858 200 last year.
A cargo of 43 wild animals 103 alligators and 43 West India crocodiles left New Orleans aboard the Erfurt bound for Bremen to be distributed to zoos in Germany and Switzerland. Purchased by Louis Ruhe of Alfeld the shipment was among the port’s largest saurians cargoes with crates lining the fore deck and moans and grunts echoing from the aisles.
Oakdale Tenn May 20 Mobile la negro bad man is living though riddled with seven bullets fired by a posse that tracked him into a thicket near here. The negro who stabbed Marion Goodman Southern Railway special agent stabbed Thursday is said to have killed W A Brown Southern special agent at Birmingham Feb 27 Mobile when captured gave his correct name Willie Campbell and home at Columbus Ga The posse had been searching for him since the stabbing when Goodman arrested him for trespassing Goodman is in a Chattanooga hospital suffering from eight knife wounds in the back Sentiment at Oakdale rose after the stabbing that an unidentified negro who did not readily comply with surrender orders was shot and killed yesterday.
In New Orleans and nearby parishes, federal court padlock orders lasting one year closed 48 commercial and residential properties plus 16 more in St Tamany and Iberia. The dozen or so closed venues include a former speakeasy at 911 Common Street run by James Brocato, alias Jimmy Moran, now imprisoned in Atlanta.
Irving R. Gaertner, owner of a St. Louis collection agency, faced federal charges for mailing obscene or threatening material as his "shame car" toured neighborhoods. The car, painted with phrases about bad bills and slow pay, prompted some residents to pay promptly to avoid public shaming.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Morlax welcomed four daughters in Lansing following today's census release. The quadruplets weighed between three pounds and four ounces and four pounds eight ounces, with physicians reporting all four as perfect physically.
Washington May 24 James J Fetser chairman of the American Red Cross said the organization was fully prepared to handle any emergency in the Red River flood area of Louisiana. Relief work does not yet require emergency housing or feeding of flood refugees. A Red Cross representative has been in the territory a week making relief plans.
Mrs Martha Stewart Hunt 54 wife of John H Hunt prominent Hodge lumberman died 7 p m Saturday at home in Wales Apartment Shreveport They moved to Shreveport two weeks ago and illness preceded death Funeral home McCook Brothers to Arkadelphia Ark Sunday in private car provided by Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Services to be held at old family home in Arkadelphia Monday Surviving husband two sons Stewart S Hunt Ruston and Alex T Hunt Hodge two brothers Frank Stewart Hodge and Will A Stewart Arkadelphia three grandchildren The family had lived in Louisiana 30 years moving from Arkadelphia in 1900 Mr Hunt helped organize Hodge Hunt Lumber Co where he remains secretary and GM They lived in Winnfield for 17 years before moving.
A stray monkey at large in Annapolis broke into the hardware and accessory shop of A H Wilson on Friday night. It pulled items from counters, opened disinfectant, poured it around, sprinkled powder on showcases, and caused havoc. Later the animal threw paint cans at passersby, spraying paint on window panes.
New Orleans La More than 200 vessels of all types and sizes are expected to participate in the regatta of the Southern Yacht Club the second oldest club of its kind in the country Saturday May 31. Entries are expected from yacht clubs along the Gulf of Mexico from Sarasota Florida to Galveston Texas. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke a former commodore of the club is expected to attend. Since the club’s closing last November extensive renovations have been under way. The club on Lake Pontchartrain is among the best appointed in the United States and traces back to Pass Christian Mississippi where it started before moving to its present site within the first 20 years of its life. It has occupied three homes on the present site.
Kodiak Alaska May 24 A nine hour battle with a rare blue whale was reported by the Tanginak crew of the American Pacific Whaling company fleet. With a harpoon in its side the 85 foot whale towed the whaler at six knots through spray from mid morning until night. A bow gun shot missed a vital spot, then a third shot near dark ended the contest.
In Poteau Oklahoma an 11 year old girl’s marriage to 32 year old Tom Heather sparked arrests for perjury after authorities questioned Heather and the girl’s father L M Ohler about the girl’s age. They allegedly lied to obtain a marriage license a month earlier. The couple were detained at their Bakoshe area home as the investigation continued.
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