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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1915
Page
5
A committee resolutions declare one crop farming unsafe and urge bankers to assist farmers. The text highlights concerns over monoculture and financial risk, urging lenders to support diversified farming strategies backed by policy.
Bankers from cotton states formed the Cotton States Bankers' Conference to aid Southern farmers in marketing crops and promoting a year round selling season. Joseph Hirsch of Corpus Christi was named chairman. Moorehead Wright secretary. QO. Newton Jr. treasurer. State vice chairmen were named for multiple states with plans for warehouse facilities, uniform cotton laws, safe farming, and a farmers rate sheet to improve credit terms. The Texas warehousing system was recommended for adoption.
Senator Gallinger told President Wilson that Republicans will not oppose the national defense program if it is framed by a Democratic caucus. He supported strengthening the army and navy and said cooperation with Democrats is possible. The President warned against making the defense plan a Democratic party measure. Servia’s recent conquest by the Teutons and Bulgarians is noted with population and area figures.
Army engineers propose $474000 for locks 3 and 7 and $25000 for channel work to secure continuation of river improvements along Quahecita and Mississippi regions. The plan includes nationwide maintenance requests totaling about $44.8 million for rivers and harbors for the coming year.
Notice to advertisers bans late copy after ten oclock in the morning and says large ads must be filed the day before insertion. Then a local item lists river property values ranging from 50 000 to 299 700 including Pine Bluff and Ouachita and Arkansas rivers. Last night Louis Frans dropped a pistol in Hudspeth Evans barber shop. the weapon discharged injuring his knee and he is resting at St. Francis sanitarium with possible amputation.
A State University Junior Extension Service tour concluded with three schools visited and four thousand feet of educational films shown at Drew, Cheniere, and Swartz schools. Prof Hires praised Ouachita agents C E Woolman and Miss Monie Miller as top Louisiana workers. The party began a tour of Morehouse parish today.
Ouachita Valley Camp No. 14 Woodmen of the World elected officers for the coming year led by consul commander S C Blackmon and adviser lieutenant B D Robinson. Two candidates were initiated and the camp plans a $40 000 home next year with a banquet to mark the installation and invite the Woodmen Circle.
One of three Louisiana high school principal conferences will meet in Monroe Thursday and Friday with all state principals expected to attend. Prof. C. Ives will preside and T. H. Harris will be present to give an address. E K L Neville and Jack Hays organize the program to be held in the Auditorium with public access.
Enthusiastic supporters gathered at Catloassee for a series of splendid meetings featuring Col. Pleasant. Local residents expressed strong backing and praised his leadership and plans.
In Sulphur and Marksville gatherings, Colonel Pleasant draws large Democratic crowds while Donaldson Caffery plans a Iberia Parish appearance with Barret. New Orleans will host a State board of pardons session as Pleasant supporters organize over five hundred voters in Marksville.
The Democratic National Convention will meet in St. Louis starting Wednesday June 6 at noon. After ballots St. Louis won the nomination over Dallas and Chicago with West Virginia switching to St. Louis on the second roll call making the decision unanimous.
British Premier Asqanithos faces Socialist MPs in the Commons as neutrals push for talks on peace proposals. The response denies immediate action, stating negotiable terms must follow clear limits and parliamentary debate.
Conflicting dispatches say a tank steamer was torpedoed and sunk while others claim vessels safe. Germen and Bulgarian pressure increases as Serbians retreat behind Albania and Montenegro frontier. French positions reportedly favorable with British holds along Strumitsa line. fighting near Demirkap and Satoniki cited. Paris notes French progress against Germans and Belgium campaign.
A dispatch from deaundpia cites a London report about the tanker Communipeau Wear sinking near New York. Captain Nordstrom's message says the ship reached Alexandria, with confusion over whether it was torpedoed on the return voyage or earlier. A Rome announcement claimed torpedoing near Tobruk, Tripoli.
Dispatches from Rome and London conflict over the sinking of the American tanker Communipaw. Officials here confirm the vessel went down while awaiting details on the tanker Petrolite and a possible attack near an arc of the Atlantic.
An early bulletin states German forces seized a French position, advancing over five hundred yards of trench lines with Champagne District Ve. The report notes a single sincere store per every hundred inhabitants in the United States.
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