Chamber drive in Monroe seeks $6 000 balance
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce reports $800 raised on the first day of a quiet drive for an additional $6,000 income. Banks Central Savings Bank and Ouachita National Bank pledge to raise and support, with local firms boosting subscriptions. A dinner is planned in West Monroe with participants from both towns.
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Chamber of Commerce
J. H. Trousdale
Trousdale
D. F. Walker
Central Savings Bank and Trust Company
Ouachita National Bank
P. M. Atkins
Chamber
Monroe Hardware Company
Atkins
H. R. Speed Insurance Agency
Trousdale and Slater
Cox, Rainey and Davison
Monroe
West Monroe
Twin Cities
Mr. Trousdale
Briand Wins Confidence Vote On Finance Bill In Paris
Paris December 3 deputies back Premier Briand's finance rehabilitation bill by 257 to 229 in a two day session. It marks the fifth confidence vote for the new ministry.
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Paris
A. P
Chamber of Deputies
Briand
Briand Cabinet Secures First Finance Victory in France
Paris reports Premier Briand's new cabinet wins its first battle in the Chamber of Deputies. A confidence vote passed 257 to 229 as finance measures push 6 billion francs in bank advances and a 7.5 billion franc paper money issue. The bill moves to the senate for review.
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Paris
A. P
Briand
Chamber of Deputies
Merom Hial
Bank of France
M. Briand
Loucher
Senate
Finance Committee
Doumer
Missoffe
House
Renault
Ferguson Back At Work Faces Fresh Texas Crises
Governor Miriam A Ferguson returns to duties after a Temple visit as stock raisers and dairymen seek a $600000 school book contract and a push for a special session. Fifty legislators urge a session by December 16 to authorize funds for cattle killed in foot and mouth patrols and other tensions with Attorney General Dan Moody.
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Austin
Texas
A. P
Miriam A. Ferguson
Temple
Dan Moody
South Texas
Galveston
Texas Rangers
House
Millionaire owner launches WHAP radio station in New York
William H. Taylor, a wealthy anthracite operator, owns WAAP a non jazz non advertising station in New York. WHAP opened Monday night with Percy Grainger as headliner and is nominally owned by the William H. Taylor Finance corporation. It is estimated Taylor will spend about 1 000 000 in ten years for the station which cost 140 000 and may cost 75 000 yearly to operate.
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New York
A. P
William H. Taylor
WAAP
WHAP
Percy Grainger
4@ headliner
M. H. Simmons
M P T P Terminal Project Nears Completion At Alexandria
About 300 men work on the Missouri Pacific Texas and Pacific joint terminals in Alexandria La at a cost of 1 million dollars. The shops will handle 300 cars daily and 20 miles of track will manage 1 500 cars. A three mile cutoff and new yards ease city congestion. An additional 1 000 080 project Bolton high school is nearby.
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Alexandria
A. P
Missouri Pacific-Texas & Pacific
Anandale
Willow Glenn
Missouri Pacific
Bolton High School
Chapman to Have Been Hanged in CT Prison Today
Gerald Chapman remained in his Connecticut state prison cell as a federal habeas corpus hearing continued. A decision by Federal Judge Edwin Thomas could affect whether he remains for execution or returns to Atlanta to serve a 25 year mail robbery sentence.
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Chapman
Hartford
Conn
A. P
Gerald Chapman
New Britain
Connecticut State
Atlanta
Edwin Thomas
Connecticut
Butler Fights Quiet GOP Rift Over LaFollette Membership
Washington December 3 Senator Butler of Massachusetts chairman of the Republican national committee remains noncommittal on treating Senator Elect LaFollette of Wisconsin as a party regular in committee assignments and other matters. The GOP conference faces potential trouble as several colleagues balk at recognizing LaFollette. Curtis extended a formal invitation for LaFollette to attend the meeting yesterday but no stance is given.
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Washington
A. P
Senate
LaFollette
Curtis
Greece Must Pay for Frontier Disturbance
Geneva report says Greece should pay Bulgaria twenty million leva in damages and an additional six million leva for loss of lives. The League of Nations commission reported findings on Greco Bulgarian frontier incidents.
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Geneva
League of Nations Commission
Greece
Bulgaria
League Council
New York arrest links to New Orleans double murder case
New Orleans police report arrest of Leonardo Cipolla in New York on a $5,000 bond for the May 1921 killings of Dominick Digiovanni and Giuseppe Gaeta in New Orleans. Cipolla's possible ties to the Dallas Calmes murder and to six Italians hanged at Amite are noted, with authorities awaiting confirmation.
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New Orleans
A. P
New York
Tupelo Street
Burgundy
Leonardo Cipolla
Dominick Digiovanni
Giuseppe Gatto
Cipolla
Chicago
Nolle
New Oreans
Digiovanni
Gaeta
Atea
Dallas Calmes
Independence
Joseph Bocchio
Joseph Giglio
Andrea Lamantia
Natale ‘Deamore
Rosario Leona
Joseph Rini
Amite
Langley’s Committee Chair to Elliot After Conviction
Representative Langley of Kentucky, already convicted of violating the prohibition law, will not take his seat at Congress. His chair the public buildings and grounds committee will go to Republican Indiana Representative Elliot. House leaders expect no action against Langley’s seat while the Supreme Court reviews his appeal.
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Washington
A. P
Representative Langley
Kentucky
Congress
Public Buildings and Grounds
Representative Elliot
Indiana
House
Supreme Court
Langley
Mother and two children charged in bank robberies
Sioux Falls S D Dec 3 A diary tied Catherine Rogers Zera 19 and Charles Rogers 17 to two bank robberies police say They await hearing on the Renner bank robbery Friday $300 was taken and a diary note cites October 6 190 with items bought for the family The youth admits his mother forced him and his sister to participate but he was not arrested
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Sioux Falls
A. P
Catherine Rogers
Zera
First State Bank
Renner
Charles Rogers
Chuck
Charles
Dry status condemned by Mellon amid enforcement dispute
Secretary Mellon described as unfounded and unjustified the latest drys attacks on enforcement policies. He urged that a reform letter to the White House lacked definiteness and offered little aid to treasury officials in enforcing the eighteenth amendment.
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Washington
A. P
Mellon
White House
Treasury
River Stage Readings From Mississippi and Adjacent Rivers
River stage observations show Mississippi levels at Memphis 18.3 with a 0.3 fall, Vicksburg 30.9 down 0.7, New Orleans 9.9 off 1.2, and Shreveport 10.0 down 0.1. Alexandria 11.0 down 0.4, Ouachita at Camden 10.2 off 0.5, Monroe 29 owe rise 0.3, and Cairo 24.8 down 0.5.
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Mississippi
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orleans
RED Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Ohio
Cairo
Connecticut Solon Plans Bill Expanding Civil Aviation Aid
Connecticut Senator Bingham will introduce legislation to create a bureau of civil aeronautics in the Commerce Department to promote commercial aviation and expand military and naval aviation. A companion bill will be offered in the House by Chairman Parker. The joint effort seeks broader government aid without dramatic reorganizations.
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Washington
A. P
President’s Air Board
Bureau of Civil Aeronautics
Department of Commerce
Bingham
Connecticut
House
Parker
Commerce Committee
War and Navy Departments
United States
Army
Navy
Department of National Defense
Willian Mitchell
War and Navy Department
Klan threat hints in Rhinelander suit testimony
White Plains New York December 3 A P report on Isaac Mills chief counsel for Leonard Kip Rhinelander alleging a Ku Klux Klan warning against Alice Beatrice Jones and her family. The trial resumes as Mills argues alleged fraud by silence and color in the marriage case with jury verdict expected soon.
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White Plains
N. Y
A. P
George Jones
Alice Beatrice Jones
Leonard Kip Rhinelander
Isaac N. Mills
Rhinelander
Jones
Mills
Leon R. Jacobs
Alice
Klan
Ben
Jacobs
Lee Parsons Davis
Philip Rhinelander
Leonard
Kip
New Rochelle
Christ
Pontius Pilate
U S Protests Mexican Land Legislation
The United States government protested Mexico's new land law affecting American and foreign interests. Ambassador James Sheffiled visited the Mexican foreign office and delivered a diplomatic note. The law is under discussion in the Mexican senate after passage by the lower house.
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San Antonio
Texas
A. P
United States
Mexico
James Sheffield
Mexican Senate
House
Ten Thousand in Gems Stolen from Financier
Mount Risko New York December 3 The millionaire colony here is stirred over the theft of 10000 dollars in gems from the home of Moses Taylor financier and steel magnate.
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Mount Risko
N. Y
A. P
Moses Taylor
Secret Commons Session Spurs Overnight Debate
London December 3. The House of Commons sat until 7 15 this morning with the last three hours held in secret the first such move since world war days. The topic was safeguarding industries with liberals and labourites opposing as a protective tariff. A labourite motion to exclude all strangers led to reporters and others leaving the chamber while government supporters made no stand.
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London
A. P
House of Commons
Six Day Bicycle Race Leads Pack in New York
At Madison Square Garden the 88th hour of the six day race finds Goosens Debats and Georgetti McNamara team leaders after 1,418 miles and nine laps. They hold one lap over Linari Benratto and Kockler Stockholm, with 9 other teams 2 to 9 laps behind.
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New York
A. P
Madison Square Garden
Goosens-Debats
Georgetti McNamara
Linari-Benzatto
Kockler-Stockholm
Dusting Cotton by Air Shows Major 1925 Increase
The annual bureau of entomology report states over fifty thousand acres of cotton were dusted with calcium arsenate dropped from airplanes. The practice, used against the cotton belt weevil, is becoming established as costs drop. The report also notes progress against the Japanese beetle, European corn borer, and Mexican bean beetle.
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Washington
A. P
Bureau of Entomology
Cotton Belt
Teacher Charged With Bomb Plot In Cuba
HAVANA Dec. 8 A P Vicente Dorado Y Gonzales a public school teacher has been arrested for manufacturing bombs Police say 34 finished bombs and 40 packets of explosive ingredients were found in his classroom evidence cited by authorities concerns a bombing plot officials report and ongoing investigations by Cuban police and prosecutors
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Havana
A. P
Vicente Dorado Y. Gonzales
Dorado
Rau
Last Appeal Planned in Ouachita Murder Case
George Wesley Smith says he will bring Howard Roberson’s fate before the state Pardon Board on December 14 seeking commutation. Roberson, condemned for the Epstein murder, faces execution January 15, 1926, with appeals exhausted after a sequence of trials and Supreme Court denials.
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Baton Rouge
A. P
Fuqua
Ouachita Parish
Howard Roberson
Adolph Epstein
Swartz
Roberson
Ouachita
George Wesley Smith
Board of Pardons
D. A. Schumaker
Sheriff's Department
Luther Hays
Epstein
Supreme Court
District Court
High Court
Hays
Bastrop
Tulane Considers Pacific Coast Game for New Year
Tulane may accept a postseason invitation to play a Pacific coast opponent, possibly Washington, in Pasadena on New Year's Day. Coach Clark Shaughnessy and Pacific Coast Conference official Jack Bienfiel discussed the plan in Chicago while Tulane weighs the waiver of a Southern Conference post season rule at Athens.
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New Orleans
Tulane University
Tulane
Pacific Coast
Pasadena
Calif
Jack Bienfiel
Pacific Coast Conference
Chicago
Clark D. Shaughnessy
Shaughnessy
University of Washington
Athens, Ga
Wilbur C. Smith
Athens
German Mexican Trade Treaty Cancelled by Berlin
Berlin announces the cancellation of the 1852 German Mexican trade treaty, set to expire next October. Mexico states readiness to immediately enter negotiations for a new treaty.
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Berlin
A. P
Messian
Mexico
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