Unclear fragment hints at New York issue
Fragmentary text mentions New York context with unclear references. No identifiable individuals, organizations, dates, or events can be confirmed for a cohesive summary.
We found your results!
18 Apr 1924
Page 1
Monroe News Star in Monroe, Louisiana
We have 1,268,751 pages in Louisiana
View this page and access billions of articles with a 7-day free trial.
Start Free Trial
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Not what you were looking for? Search our billions of articles
Articles on This Page
This newspaper page contains 23 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1924
Page
1
Sensational talk and crime notes toll the day
News STAR LIGHT reports Mr. E L Wright probation officer makes grave charges about crime while reflecting on sensational press news. It covers the Thomas Plan tax refund fight, a dozen lines on six men in Tangipahoa Parish awaiting May 9 doom for Dallas Calmes murder, and wary commentary on Japanese exclusion amid wartime readiness. It notes another auto accident near St John street and March price dips in food per Department of Labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. L. Wright
Mr. Wright
Mock Convention in Chicago Nominates La Follette for Vice President
A mock Republican convention at the University of Chicago nominated Senator La Follette of Wisconsin with Coolidge supporters bolting the slate. The platform called for recognizing Russia, total disarmament, canceling England’s debt, abolishing conscription, continuing the gem agreement with Japan, and Philippine independence. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania faced no opposition for vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aci Srold
Chicago
University of Chicago
LaFollette
Wisconsin
Coolidge
Russia
England
United States
Japan
Philippines
Pinchot
Pennsylvania
Kearns Jailed After Drunken Motor Party
Los Angeles April 18 Jack Ins manager of Jack Dempsey was arrested on a drunkenness charge during a loud automobile party. He pleaded guilty, was fined 25 dollars, and held five hours before bail. Officers said he resisted arrest with notable fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Jack Ins
Jack Dempsey
Kearns
Monroe News-Star Subscription Rates
The Monroe News-Star lists subscription prices in the city as fifteen cents a week, sixty five cents a month, and seven dollars fifty cents a year for mail delivery. A prior story noted rates by mail only, with no carrier delivery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enroe
Monroe
Sensational sought by Monroe jail chief prompts editor reply
E L Wright, chief probation officer, demanded sensational material from the Monroe News Star to expose community conditions. He contends juveniles should not be named in press reports, while the paper offered a reporter to chase sensations but defended discretion and publication policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe News- Star
E. L. Wright
Wright
Ouachita Parish
Monroe
Monroe News-Star
Mr. Wright
J. W. Smith
News- Star Publishing Company
News-Star
Cyclonic hail storm injures fifty in New Orleans
A cyclonic hail storm swept New Orleans last night damaging hundreds of residences and injuring fifty, none seriously. The west Carrollton area suffered twenty demolished homes, with others roofless or damaged. two houses collapsed trapping residents and prompting rescues. The storm also shattered windows at the New Orleans Country Club and St Anthony's Church as hail stones large as eggs fell from a high altitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Carrollton Avenue
Forshey
Olympia
North Patrick
Holly Grove
Lake Pontchartrain
New Basin Canal
New Orleans Country Club
St. Anthony’s Church
Canal and
St. Patrick Streets
Jackson Avenue
Carrollton
R. A. Dyke
Court Proof Thermometer Shows Speeding Cab
Scott Lucas a Black defendant faced Judge Schulze in police court over speeding in Monroe. He argued the thermometer on his cab was tested and likely wrong, claiming he could not exceed 10 miles per hour. The judge has fined speeders at 25 dollars, and Lucas paid with two tens and a five.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott Lucas
Scott
Judge Schulze
Monroe
Lucas
Yassah
Considah
Schulze
Gillett Linked to Seized Liquor in Savannah Conspiracy Case
Clark Grier testifies before the Daugherty committee alleging long delays in Savannah liquor conspiracy prosecutions and claiming a 50 000 missing shipment tied to Speaker Gillett. H. L. Scaife corroborates departure from the Justice Department after the Savannah report and cites a 1918 1920 seizure at Union Station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Savannah
Daugherty Investigating Committee
Clark Grier
Georgia
Department of Justice
W. J. Burns
John L. Phillips
Phillips
District of Columbia
H. L. Lcaife
Grier
Department
Scaife
Washingto
Gillett
Gaston B. Means
Scaifer
Union Station
Monroe Council Rebuts Thomas Road Fund Plan
The Monroe City Council votes to disapprove Mayor L. E. Thomas of Shreveport proposed 1924 highway amendment granting municipalities over 5 000 residents one third of motor vehicle license taxes for street maintenance. It endorses the Highway Commission and urges other Louisiana cities to oppose diverting state highway revenues to cities or parishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Commission Council
Thomas
Monroe
New Orleans
L. E. Thomas
Shreveport
Highway Commission
P. M. Atkinson
Louisiana
Legislature of
Highway Commission of Louisiana
State of
Exoneration Granted in Prohibition Agent Killing Case
Hugh Dearie federal prohibition agent was exonerated by the Caddo parish grand jury after investigation into the killing of a negro during a raid on a Vivian dance hall. Dearie, a former New Orleans policeman, had faced bond of 1500.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Hugh Dearie
Prohibition
Caddo Prish Grand Jury
Vivian
Dearie
New Orleans
Five Hundred Hungry Tourists Stranded Near Colorado River
EL CENTRO Calif April 18 Deputies ordered to maintain calm as about 500 automobile tourists are prevented from crossing the Colorado River into Arizona due to Arizona embargo on California traffic. Stranded travelers face food and water shortages while appealing to Governor Richardson for aid amid growing hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
EL Centro
Calif
Desert Point
Colorado River
Arizona
California
Richardson
Marr Trade Details Reported In Texas Company Case
Te at Arkansas April 18. Albert Culver head of land and leases for the Texas Company testified in Pat Marr oil case that his firm bought Marrs Double Barrel Gusher and Camden No 2 holdings for 1.5 million dollars and that attorney J D Mahoney received a 100000 commission. Culver denied Marr was a partner. Other witnesses described Marrs dealings with a supposed silent partner George R Hale and a telegram to Hale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tearkana
Ark
Albert Culver
Texas Company
Houston
Texas
Pat Marr
Marr
Camden
Culver
Double Barrel
Hale
Saxon
Fort Worth
R. C. Eatman
Shreveport
Standard Oil Company
Louisiana
Margoyles
Last member of notorious trio executed in Arkansas
Joe Sullivan died in the electric chair at the Little Rock state penitentiary at 5:37 am for the July murder of detective Luther Hay. The escape gang, led by “Diamond Joe,” included Emery Connell and Eusolos Sullivan, all involved in a sensational prison break. Sullivan’s body was to be sent to Kansas City for burial by his mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Joe Sullivan
State Penitentiary
Luther C., Hay
Sullivan
Kansas City
Joe
Arkansas
Diamond Joe
Redfield
Pine Bluff
Connell
Becker Accomplice Sentenced to Electric Chair in Ossining
Reuben Norkin was executed at Sing Sing for aiding Abraham Becker in the murder of Becker's wife. Norkin testified he acted as a lookout while Becker knocked the wife unconscious and buried her alive in a lime pit. Becker had been executed last December.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Becker
Ossining
N. Y
Reuben Norkin
Sing Sing
Abraham Becker
Norkin
Two Negroes Hanged at Cook County Jail
Lucius Dalton and Henry Wilson, convicted of Patrolman Vincent Skiba’s slaying, were hanged at 6 35 this morning in Cook county jail. Both spent part of the night listening to radio programs. Skiba was killed during a botched arrest of Wilson Dalton and another robber at two tea stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook County
Chicago
Qlucius Dalton
Henry Wilson
Vincent Skiba
Skiba
Wilson
Dalton
Food Prices Slip Downward During Month of March
The Labor Department reports wholesale prices of 404 commodities fell to 150 in March from 152 in February. Farm product prices dropped four percent in March led by declines in cotton cotton seed eggs hides wheat oats rye potatoes and tobacco. Retail food prices averaged a two percent decline for the month driven mainly by lower egg quotations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Labor
Washington
Labor Department
Department of Commerce
Calmes Slayer Expected to Confess Before Hangings
New Orleans report says one of six condemned for the Independence bank killing of Dallas Calmes in 1921 is expected to confess to save five companions. The six, all of Italian heritage, face double scaffold hangings in Tangipahoa Parish. Roy Leona is among the condemned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Amite
Dallas Calmes
Independence
Tangipahoa Parish
Calmes
Supreme Court of the
United States
Italy
Gregorio Leona
New York
Roy Leona
Roy
Orleans Parish
Gregorio
Brooklyn
Japanese Premier says envoy to stay in place amid row
Tokyo reports Premier Kiyoua told U S reporters no reconsideration of Ambassador Hanihara’s recall is planned. He said the note’s threat phrase was misread and text shows no aim to interfere in U S affairs. He urged a conciliatory approach to immigration and noted the exclusion clause may lack presidential signature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokio
A. P
Hanihara
KiYoura
America
Japan
Penrose Wire Taps Tie To Harding Nomination
Senate oil committee hearing reveals Procter of Cincinnati denied contact with Penrose during the Chicago convention and that a ciphered Penrose wire operated from Chicago to Philadelphia. Telegraph operators described plans to boost certain candidates including Harding, Wood, Lowden, and Johnson, with Capper noted among attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Oil Committee
Cooper Procter
Cincinnati
Gene
Lord Wood
Procter
Penrose
Das 2
Hawson
Harry F. Sinclair
Sinclair
Wareren G. Harding
L. W. Dixon
Chicago
Senator Penrose
Philadelphia
Dixon
Walsh
John T. King
Certai
Wood
Lowden
Johnson
Senator Harding
Colonel Procster
Senator Walsh
Harding
Attempt to charge Coolidge for Lincoln birthday radio
Nathan Burkan told the Senate Patents committee an attempt was made to bill President Coolidge 2500 dollars for casting his Lincoln birthday ad. He said he hoped the president did not pay and noted ongoing talks among radio firms, telephone and telegraph companies, and broadcasting agencies for mutual benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nathan Burkan
Society of Authors, Composers and Publishers
Senate Patents Committee
President Coolidge
Burkan
Baseball Results From American League Summary
Cleveland and Detroit games unfinished with scoreless or zero output The Detroit sequence shows sporadic outs and fielders Edwards Sewell Cole Bassler scattered. Philadelphia Washington game had rain and was not played.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Ron
Detroit
Dok
Edwards
Sewell
Cole
Bassler
National League standings note for Boston Philadelphia New York
Baseball standings list teams Boston Philadelphia New York and Brooklyn with Rein noted in the National League context. The fragment implies a standings or card summary from a Boston or New York market, but the exact details and numbers are not clear.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Tess Way
Rugm
Lue
Mr. Thomas
Congress
St. John Street
Park School
Baptist Church
Est
St. John
Jack Kearns
ATES
Cook
Thirty-Third Continental Congress of the Daughters of the American Revolution
Anthony Wayne Cook
Sleuth
Prohi
Shreveport Standard Oil
Notorious Trio
Diamond
Joe’ Sullivan
Death Chamber
U.S
A. PL
Ichisuke Tsuno
Yomieuri
Procters
John B. Alcorn
Terre Haute
Indiana
Alcorn
Boston
Brooklyn Rein
No. Gram
Search the Monroe News Star Today with a Free Trial
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
Not Finding What You Were Looking for on This Page of The Monroe News Star?
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
Browse Newspapers
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
By Location
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
By Date
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
By Publication
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.