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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1915
Page
1
Postal men deny assertions attributed to General Reynolds and voice dissatisfaction with management. The exchange centers on conditions and operations affecting mail service and staff welfare.
Five Postal telegraphers subpoenaed to testify before the Industrial Relations Commission contradicted general manager C E Reynolds who said employment conditions were satisfactory. The men cited excessive work and low pay, with little chance for redress. one said he would likely be fired if he testified further. Others noted crowded work conditions and lack of union awareness as grievances.
FE Emerson and another operator claim easy access to relief from the chief operator. Two messenger toys recount their role in obtaining opium from a Chicago convict. Shrimpton notes a spy system in the Western Union office deterring union activity. Carroll explains automatic transmitting machines reduce jobs but not costs, while the company keeps 600 extra workers in his division.
Washington April 14 The Supreme Court will hold no session tonight in tribute to Lincoln on the fifty year anniversary. The court is led by Chief Justice White a former Confederate soldier from Louisiana and his absence is noted as a ceremonial gesture.
P C Jenkins prominent Butler county resident was convicted on charges of implication in night riding and sentenced to four years in prison. He allegedly led a band who forced a man to witness the flogging of his sixty year old wife. The testimony offered no reason for the crime.
The sixteen thousand carpenters strike ends work as union leaders and employers fail to agree on raising pay from 65 to 70 cents per hour. The walkout likely puts thousands of allied tradesmen out of work.
The schooner Persis Colwell arrived with two crew members ill of a disease believed to be yellow fever. One crewman died March 25. The ship is quarantined in mid stream as Dr. Von Ezdorf of Mobile Hospital staff plans to oversee the case. doctors say there is no danger.
A leading American manufacturer selects newspapers after gathering nationwide data to solve his advertising challenge. He advises others to obtain the same market facts by contacting the Bureau of Advertising at the American Newspaper Publishers Association in New York.
The city school hosts a program for its annual meet featuring literary and musical contests. Students perform readings, recitations, and choir pieces in a graded program for attendees.
Dozens of visitors expected as spelling and arithmetic contests unfold Friday morning at the parish school. Preliminary athletic bouts mark the opening day, with final contests scheduled for Saturday at Park.
At Parish High School the day starts with tennis preliminaries at 8 a m. Spelling and arithmetic contests occur in the assembly hall. Forsythe Park hosts girls and boys basketball preliminaries at 1 30 p m. City High School Auditorium features literary contests at 5 00 p m.
The Northeast Louisiana Athletic Association prepares a two day rally in Monroe with more than five hundred visiting contestants. The Friday night program at City School Auditorium features declamations quartets and a debate on minimum wage. Organizers urge local citizens to welcome guests and promote Monroe as a potential annual meeting site.
London reports the British steamship Ptarmigan was torpedoed and sunk today by a German submarine in the North Sea. Eleven of the twenty two crew were saved.
London reports in the House of Commons that total British casualties since the war began amount to 130,900, announced by the under secretary of war.
A fire at the Gulf Compress Company's plant in Tupelo Mississippi today destroyed 1800 bales of cotton with a loss of 75000 dollars. The blaze started from a cigarette discarded by a tramp.
An official Berlin statement reiterates the failure of Russian forces from Przemysl to break the Lupkow and East Dulka passes and other fronts. German and French reports note heavy Russian losses and a reduced offensive power. Petrograd claims differ but acknowledge a near halt in Russian advances. Rome reports Romania’s intervention seems imminent.
A gang of about a dozen bandits stopped a freight train at Semborn Buffalo on April 15. They stripped several cars of bolted silk goods worth about 50000 dollars and made off with a 5 ton motor truck. The engine was cut off and the crew bound. The engineer escaped and the guard alerted authorities.
Farmers in Monroe face cotton volatility yet could gain daily cash from a thriving milk industry. In the past year Monroe received 12500 dollars of sweet milk from Arkansas points and a railroad delivered three car loads of condensed milk for local jobbers in one day. Condensed milk shipments total thousands annually, bringing money into the farming region.
A terse note highlights a push to secure self sufficiency in the southern region's feed supply and to stimulate the cattle market for higher profitability amid fluctuating livestock prices.
Prof P G Holden asserts the cattle fever tick costs the South hundreds of millions annually in lost value milk output and hides. He cites US Bureau data and urges eradication through dipping vats, arguing self sufficiency in food and forage is essential for regional prosperity.
In Baton Rouge on April 15, a state board session began enforcing the anti lobby law. Governor Hell met with Sheriff Womack and Chief Deputy Hopkins to discuss alleged unregistered lobbyists tied to public service corporations. Violations carry up to 1900 dollars in fines and a year in parish jail.
The author argues every farm should produce vegetables and raise chickens for home use and sale, keep cows for milk and butter, and maintain cattle to ensure soil fertility. He links cattle ticks to debts and calls for tick-free South to compete, citing stock show prizes as proof.
Honolulu reports Chief Gunner's Mate Frank Crilley descended 288 feet to examine submarine F-4 missing since March 25. The craft lay on its starboard side on a sandy bottom with two attached lines. Observations may precede a raise attempt, no recompression chamber used. The note about baseball in the Orient follows in the dispatch.
Rumors swirl around independent candidates in the Second and Perth wards as local observers watch for possible campaigns and alignments ahead of upcoming elections.
Rumors of independent candidates and a new registration spread in Monroe after the recent primary. City Attorney Frank P. Stubbs ruled that voters who registered for the primary may vote in the general election without reregistering as books reopen to accommodate new voters.
Washington April 15 an official Japanese embassy statement calls reports of a naval base in Lower California and occupation of west Mexico coast preposterous and says it was never their intention to seize territory there.
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