U.S. and Russia Sign Famine Relief Pact
An agreement between the United States and Russia to relieve famine in displaced districts was signed by Walter Lyman Brown and Maxim Litvinoff. The program covers food aid and disease control with American control of distribution to aid victims, while preventing military seizure of supplies amid cholera outbreaks.
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Associated Press
Riga
United States
Russia
Walter Lyman Brown
American Relief Administration
Maxim Litvinoff
Russian
Hamburg
Danzig
New York
Soldiers Guard Prisons Gates As Rioters Fire
Knoxville Sept Aug. 20. Rioting at Knox county jail left at least forty wounded, twenty six in hospitals. State militia and deputies fired hundreds of rounds to disperse a mob seeking Frank Martin a negro charged with assault. Cavalry and machine gun units guard the jail with authorities denying mob provocation.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Knox County
Frank Martin
Brummitt
Cates
Schneider
Artesian wells yield inexhaustible water supply
The Bastrop pulp mill this week completed another artesian well drilled by Stovall Drilling Co. of Monroe. Both wells reach roughly 600 to 850 feet, flowing about 750 gallons per minute, and lie only about ten feet apart, suggesting an inexhaustible supply of pure artesian water in the area.
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Bastrop
Stovall Drilling Co
Monroe
North Louisiana Faces Record Sweet Potato Crop
The sweet potato yield in Louisiana is expected to surpass 10,000,000 bushels with North Louisiana contributing a large share. Farmers are urged to build curing and storage houses to prevent field rotting and to enable selling next spring at favorable prices.
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North Louisiaa
Louisiana
Northuisiana
Postmaster links street paving to full mail delivery
Monroe residents may gain full mail service if street paving and repairs proceed citywide. Postmaster Bryant says only about half the population now gets mail because streets are poor and funding limits extension. He urges property owners to push improvements to allow nine carriers instead of five.
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Ostmaster Bryant
Monroe
Dorado Oil Field Drill Sale Reported by Colfax Boss
The Colfax BBS of Southern Oil and Land Company in Grand Rapids announces acquisition of all Oil Company holdings in the Dorado field. Purported price ranges from a quarter to a half million for the Busey holdings, with drilling to begin on offsets on the 50 acre Busey tract in section 31. CONTINUED ON PAGE FIVE.
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Dorado
Colfaxbbs
Southern Oil and Landmpany
Grand Rapids
Mich
Ibbs
Hispany
Oil Company
Diswell
Union County
Pany
Busey Holdings
el Dorado
Constantin Oil Refining Corporation
Busey
Night at Barnstable jail as mob threat looms
In Barnstable Massachusetts a mob threatened to seize three Black suspects charged with assault on a white woman. National guard artillery with machine guns guarded the county jail overnight. Sheriff requested state troops after reports of rescue parties forming from nearby towns. About one hundred men dispatched to guard prisoners kept in separate jail sections.
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Associated Press
Barnstable
Mass
National Guard
Hall Convicted in Murder Case
Russellville Alabama August 20 A verdict of guilty was returned against Fred R Hall a Dallas Texas merchant in a murder case involving Martha Henderson The jury recommended life imprisonment after arguments concluded at a night session Hall's lawyers plan a motion for a new trial He was moved to the county jail with his wife and children present at the reading of the verdict
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Russellville
Ala
Fred R. Hall
Martha Henderson
Dallas
Texas
Hall
Petition With Seven and a Half Million Names Shown
A dry petition about a mile and a half long was displayed at the Women’s Christian Temperance Union convention. It carried seven and a half million signatures from fifty nations, showcasing broad support for temperance aims.
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San Franciseco
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Auto Crash Injures Kent Family Near Monroe
Mr and Mrs Henry Kent of West Monroe are recovering after an auto crash on DeSiard road near Monroe Tuesday night. A Dodge carrying three men collided with the Kent Ford, causing about 100 in damage. Mrs Kent suffered facial and arm bruises, Mr Kent was skinned. The Kent baby and Miss Suallie Sawyer on a back seat were uninjured. A Hudson then struck the Dodge, adding further damage.
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Henry Kent
West Monroe
DeSiard Road
Monroe
Weather Forecast: Partly Cloudy Tonight and Sunday
Tonight and Sunday forecast: partly cloudy with scattered thunder showers on Sunday. Highs and lows not listed. Regions not specified. Forecast emphasizes unsettled weather and potential storms.
Congress Gets Rough Charge of Lie Sets Solons
Washington Aug 20 The Republican tax revision bill moves to a Senate referral after an anticipated passage in the House. Fifty nine amendments were adopted yesterday. Absentee Republican Senators were recalled for a full quorum. The House fight over a Byrnes lie charge sparked a near brawl and a later apology, with the incident ordered stricken from the record.
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Congress
Solons
Washington
House
Senate
Finance Committee
Curtis
Kansas
Fordney
Ways and Means Committee
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Republican Campaign Fund
Byrnes
Mr. Fordney
Mr. Byrnes
Representative Chandler
Oklahoma
Representative Hammer
North Carolina
Chandler
Messrs
Hammer
Rogers
Representative Mann
Illinois
Representativee Garneer
Democat
Texas
Mann
Washington Hope Expressed on German American Peace Treaty
Administration officials say a treaty between Germany and the United States is likely to be signed within a week. No details on progress or the nature of the agreement are being released.
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Washington
Berlin
Germany
United States
Farmers Meet To Seek Substitute Crops For Cotton
West Carroll parish farmers gathered at Oak Grove to discuss replacing cotton with substitute crops next year. Farm agent FE M Sledge moderated, district agriculture official C E Woolman attended after staying in Monroe and spoke on cooperative truck farming plans for the parish.
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West Carrol Parish
Oak Grove
Court House
FE. M. Sledge
West Carroll
C. E. Woleman
Baton Rouge
Department of Agriculture
Monroe
Woolman
West Carroll Parish
Benson Lumber Dry Kilns Burned Friday
Fire at the Benson Lumber Company plant four miles west of Monroe on the U S and P railroad destroyed four dry kilns and part of the tramway. Damage estimated at 1500 dollars. Monroe Fire Department responded at 12 45 pm to Wood and Eleventh streets where a negro cottage burned due to a defective flue. damage around five dollars.
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Benson Lumber Company
Monroe
U. S. and P
Wood
Eleventh Streets
Granite City Woman Identified as Victim Arrives
Mrs. Serena Gilli land was identified by her grandmother and relatives as the murder victim after the body of a woman was found in a shallow grave. She arrived last night from Cincinnati.
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Granite City
Serena Gilliland
Cincinnati
Investigation On Agricultural Low Mood Causes
Washington reports a joint congressional commission will publish a preliminary investigation within thirty days and a final report by December outlining causes and remedies. Chairman Anderson said the aim is to form a long term agricultural program and identify factors behind the depression.
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Washington
Congressional
Anderson
Notice Sons of Masons Meeting at Masonic Temple
All sons of Master Masons aged 16 to 20 inclusive are asked to meet at the Masonic Temple Monday August 22 at 8 p m. They may bring a friend who need not be Mason’s son but must be within the age limit. 20-2t.
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Masonic Temple
Wounded game warden and friend pursue suspects in swamp ambush
N P Cook Ouachita game warden and parish farmer John Jones were shot from behind a tree in La Fourche swamp near Monroe. Deputy Sheriff D L Roper said two assailants fled on horseback after a dog trail ended at riders, with no clues yet as to the shooter.
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la Fourche Swamp
D. L. Roper
Roper
Monroe
Tom Slack
Jones
Mr. Jones
Mr. Cook
Cook
Mr. Roper
Childer
Petroleum engineer to head work near El Dorado
W. H. Bell, chief of the Southern District of the Bureau of Mines Petroleum Division, based in Dallas, is in El Dorado to oversee plans for mapping the Monroe field geology and to prepare a full report on conservation methods and field condition. Bell previously conducted a Monroe gas fields survey amid earlier funding doubts.
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Monroe Field
EL Dorado
W. H. Bell
Bureau of Mines, Petroleum Division
Dallas
Bell
Monroe
Bureau of Mines
Townley-Ellis Syndicate to Begin Haynesville Drilling
The Lownley-Ellis Syndicate of Monroe announces drilling will start in early September in Haynesville section 27-23-8W. Limberman and Bernstein trustee wells nearby, slated to be drilled Monday, are expected to become big producers.
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Townley-Ellis Syndicate
Lownley-Ellis, Syndicate
Monroe
Haynesville
Limberman and Bernstein
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Massachusetts
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Stovall Company
NEW Home Syndicate
Kent
Benson Lumber
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Sons OF Masons
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E. K. Means
N. P. Cook
Ouachita Game War
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John Jones
Grace Episcopal Church
J. H. Swann
St. James Church
Columbus
M. L. Bath Co., Ltd
J. H. Miller
Wexler’s
Robert Hill
Tyler
Presbyterian Church
Weaks Supply CO
West Monroe Light and Water Consumers
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