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The News-Star from Monroe, Louisiana • Page 10

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Monroe, Louisiana
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IGE SIX i THE MONROE NE WS-STAR FULLER IS DEAD AS RESULT OF FIGHT HERE OBITUARY Eros Youth Succumbs To Wounds; Murder Charge May Result W. A. WINBISH The funeral of W. A. Winbxsh, 58, well known resident of Oak Ridge, who died at his home Monday, was held at the residence Tuesday at 2 p.m.

Interment as made in the Oak Ridge cemetery. Rev. D. C. Barr officiated.

TROOPS, OFFICERS PROBE OUTBURST; QUIET RESTORED (Cont4tiued from First Page) Mr Winhish was a member of the Oak Ridge Methodist church and of Edgar (Reese) Fuller, 22, victim of I the Masonic lodge of his home town. and the fol- i He leaves his widow a four-man fight which took Place children: Joe and William Saturday morning on Natchitoches street in West Monroe, died last nipht at St. Francis sanitarium of a knife wound said to have been inflicted by J. C. Brooks, 19, who is being held in the parish jail awaiting grand jury investigation of the affair.

Brooks will probably be charged with murder, it was said. Fuller was stabbed in the left side near the sixth or seventh rib. The knife penetrated the loft. lung, resulting in a hemorrhage of the lung and plural cavity. He died at midnight Monday.

Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 2 at Eros, where burial took place. Fuller is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fletch Fuller; three brothers. Buddy, Jewel and Ravill; and three sisters, Susie.

Eunice and Ethel. Others involved in the fight, which ost life, were W. E. Brooks. father of C.

Brooks, and Hugh oe. All participants in the battle iived in ward seven and had come to Winblsh of Oak Ridge. George Winbish of Bastrop. Mrs. J.

S. McDuffie of Oak Ridge. Mrs. A. J.

Becker of Eldon. and Mrs. M. E. Bennett and Mrs.

R. C. Stokes, both of Monroe. HAMMETT FUNERAL The funeral of Mrs. H.

Hammett. 60. proprietor of the Como rooming house at 504 1-2 DeSiard street, who was found dead in her room Sunday morning, was held at Peters funeral chapel Tuesday morning at 11 Rev. L. T.

Hastings, pastor of the First Baptist church, officiated. Interment was made in the Monroe city cemeteryn MAXINE GARLAND The funeral of Maxine Garland, three, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Garland of Sterlington. was held at the residence Tuesday.

Interment was made in a Sterlington cemetery. child died Monday. MRS. GRACE BONNETTE uvea im wiuu acyoi c.u Mrs. Grace T.

Bonrettr 58, widow 'town in the same bus Saturday morn- Qf jyr Edgar V. Bonnettc, died in a ing. local hospi'al at 7:45 o'clock Monday It was said that Fuller and the eld- ght. She was a post-graduate nurse ii mav nigm. one was a er Brooks had quarreled on the the California School of Nurses and to the city when Brooks rebuked1 Fuller for "his conduct on the bus.

blood" existing between the men for sometime was said to have been another cause of the fight. NINE PERISH AND MANY MISSING IN PACIFIC ISLANDS (Continued from First Paget damaged by a typhoon and tidal wave, said reports from that province, while which were not connected with the volcano eruption, were reported and Miss Eugenia Jonc to have swept Capiz and other sections. The Mayon volcano, located near the Bulusan crater, erupted with disastrous results in 1929 in th.s group of islands u'hich generally arc of volcanic origin. An eruption in the Philippines has been expected by some volcanologists because of recent activity in a ring of volcanoes which exten is in a rough horseshoe from the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines northward to Japan. the Kamchatka peniasula, the Aleutians, Alaska, and on down to the western coast of South America.

Recent activity in this ring, which Is well known to geologists, included a Christmas day eruption of the Shin- mitake volcano in southern Japan in which eight persons were killed, and activity in northern Japanese craters. There also was spectacular activity rceentlv in Mauna Loa in the Hawaiian islands. was also a registered Louisiana nurse. For a number of years she was in the United States government service as a nurse. For the past several years she acted as nurse at the Louisiana training institute.

Mrs. Bonnette was a member of the Gordon avenue Methodist church, from which the funeral was held Tuesday at 3 30 The pastor, Rev. R. M. Bentley, officiated and assisted by Rev.

L. T. pastor of the First Baptist church. Interment was in the Monroe city cemetery. At the time of her death, Mrs Bonnette resided at 2718 Gordon avenue.

Surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Clara G. Wright. Miss Emily Jones all of Monroe; one brother, James Monroe Jones, II. of Pollock; one niece, Mrs.

R. Rust of Alexandria; one g'undniece, Caroline Jean Jones of Pollock; two James Monroe Jones 111. of Colfax, and Percy O. Jones of Pollock. raided by guardsmen with Captain Brown reporting a large quantity of whisky being seized in a restaurant operated by members of the Henley family.

At Little Rock, City Marshal J. H. Barnett, 60, who was wounded slightly in the feud revival, was recovering and expected to return here today with his sons to face service on a warrant he was notified had been issued. Sheriff G. M.

Robertson planned to return the group here. The two sons, Oscar and Hubert, were jailed at Little Rock last night with officers reporting finding a revolver on the latter in addition to 50 for the weapon. Nature of the charges against the Barnetts was not disclosed by Searcy county officers. The sudden battle that marred the i Christmas observance of Marshall followed the reported return on furlough of Leland Henley, 29, sentenced i to prison for life about a year ago for the slaying of W. Findky, well known merchant.

Findley was shot down while walking along the street with City Marshal Barnett by bullets generally believed intended for Barnett. The city marshall and his two sons bombarded a restaurant operated by cousin, Alf, scene of another slaying less than two weeks ago. Le- 1 two brothers, Nobe and Jack. and his sister. Mrs.

Bennie Matthews, 1 were reported to have been in the restaurant from which numerous shots were fired back at the Barnetts. From his hospital bed the city marshal said the battle occurred when he went to the cafe after someone from inside had fired at Rubert as he walked past the building. As Barnett attempted to open the door of the cafe a shot was fired from within and struck him. The Barnetts could not explain the motive of the attack. The city shall's sons said their two brothers had been slain in Searcy county from ambush, but the slayer or slayers never had been identified.

They also they were certain who the killer of Vanee Barnett was, but the evidence was not sufficient enough to push prosecution. Isaac Ragland, a farmer, was wounded fatally here only a few days ago as he sat in restaurant. The assassin wras not identified. BATTLE AGAINST LONG IN 6TH IS NEARING CLIMAX (Continued from First Paget urging Governor Allen to call an election to fill the five-months-old Kemp vacancy. Orleans Tickets Are Taking Shape Up to the last week of September of this year, there were 208 fatal motor vehicle accidents as compared to 14 fatalities from other kinds of NEW ORLEANS.

Dec. Leaders in the new political coalition working on the third mayoralty ticket which will have the support of Senator Huey P. Long in the approaching primary indicated today that the slate for principal offices had been tentatively completed with the addition of Z. D. Nichols, president of the local union, to the list of councilmanic candidates.

As tentatively shaped this morning after the Christmas political truce in hich all factions participated, the ticket to be put out by the Long organization, the Democratic club and the Jefferson Democratic club, would include: For mayor, John Klorer, recently resigned chief engineer for the Orleans levee board; for commission council, Nichols, Dr. John Reeling, incumbent coroner and recent candidate for mayor; Alfred Danziger, attorney, realtor, and close personal friend of Senator Long, and John Vetter, brought over from the former Roeling ticket; for district attorney, Augustus Williams, a brother of Francis Williams, didate for mayor. Mayor T. Semmrs Wl regular chief, recent ally group, and candidate for re-1 expected to announce the ticket before the end of the is expected to include all city commissioners and Disti torncy Stanley, who is re-election. Although the Walmaiey and liams factions are bitterly opposed, latter has already pledged its ing to Stanley, prosecutor of votl fraud charges here in recent months.

After changing his plans sevt times, Registrar of Voters C. S. Barnes, member of the Long group, closed the voters' registration books wi at noon today, asserting he acted on ek the suggestion of the attorney general as a result of confusion arising over the deadline for legal registrations for the primary. The Democratic LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE GEE, SANDY- WE SURE HAD SOME CHRISTMAS- I GET OVER wav daddy SHOWED UP JUST WHEN WE NEEDED HIM MOST- THOSE TWO TROUBLE-M AKIN OLD OF SUPPRESSION HAD US IN A MIGHTY TOUGH BUT IT DIDN'T TAKE TWO SECONDS TO SEND THEM The Depression Is Over kiting HA? HA? THEY TORE OUT DOWN STREET, AS IF they been shot at AND MISSED- NO MORE HARD TIMES FOR US ANY MORE, SANDY- CUMMINGS WILL RETIRE SHORTLY FROM U. S.

POST (Continued from First Paget has the money but must determine how far it is willing to go to aid in recapitalizing a bank. All of the 600 are considered solvent hy their state banking authorities, but the insurance corporation has decided that they should have additional capital. Many ice companies have replaced the back step on their ice trucks with The stars Arcturus and Vega are a small steel stirrup step, because much brighter than our sun; Vega is the back step is so inviting to child- 51 times as bright and Arcturus is ren and causes many accidents. 112 times as bright. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE it 16.

across 5. Unit 4. Mimic 8. Bran chad Tending to Equalizer for a vehicle 17. Four 18.

Female horse German river 20. Dad 21. Half: prefix 23. Seed oovering 25. river 27.

Pertaining to bodies at rest Choke up 21. Unit of work 22. Note of the scale 34. Unit of for re 36. Of the spring 38.

By birth 40. Mars 42. Feminine Solution of Puzzle ee im A mm go AiSl Wl ffel AM 43. Hyi etlcal forro 45. Valley 47.

Presently 49. Short for a man's name FA Cereal 62. First man 54. Parcel of ground 58. Pu.i brr 58.

Faithful 60, Jletric land measure 62. Obstinate 63. Snow runner: var. 65, Rag 58. Outer garment 70.

For fear that 72. Curved bar on a horse's collar 73. By 74. M'-asure paper 76. 76.

79. and classifled Nlgitt muslo of Tran'parent bodies for rnf'-acting: light 4. T7m ui.eealed 5. Cry a cat DOWN 1. Sour substances 2.

Desires wrongfully 3. Expression of Inquiry 4. King of Judah 5. Robbery on the high seas 6. Always 7.

Again: prefix 8. Color 9. Take ven- gea nco 10. Nothing more than 11. Above and touching 12.

Divide 13. Ago 15. Send out 19. Addition to a building 22. Principal 24.

Coated with frosting 26. Outlet 28. Notion 30. Baking chamber 32. Happy 35.

Require 37. City in Nevada 39. ng nights 41. Recr. tlonal contest 43.

Native 44. Officer of a corporation 46. Merry adventure 48. Spanish wide- mouthed pot 51. Roman patriot 53.

Opposite of aweather 53. Good-bye: colloq. 57. Regard 59. Dress 61.

Constructed anew Tree fifi. At that time 67. Resume 69. Br.inches of learning 71. Pace 73.

Serpent 75. Paid public notices 77. Chess pieces 80. New England state: abbr. 81.

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