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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1923
Page
3
Probation Officer Wright notes a surge in juvenile female delinquency in Monroe due to inadequate home guidance. He cites excessive freedom for girls over 14 and time spent at home as key factors, with boys’ rates steady. He urges a central state girls trade school and warns mothers to protect daughters before delinquency manifests.
Completion of three gas wells in Morehouse and Ouachita parishes is recorded by the department of conservation. Morris trustee White No 1 finished December 5 with 32 040 000 cubic feet daily, Magnolia Carbon Bowles No 1 finished December 10 17 983 000 cubic feet, Cosmos Carbon Hancock No 2 finished December 12 5 570 640 cubic feet. Drilling progress predicts several completions next week including LaDel Ol properties Fee 16 Morehouse parish and multiple Ouachita parish wells by Chester Carbon Howkerman West Virginia Gas Co and others.
A. Collman president of U. S. Candy and Ice Cream Co. returned home to Monroe after the Arkansas Supreme Court reversed an El Dorado circuit court ruling from last June. The decision absolves him of being implicated as a principal in charges of receiving deposits in an insolvent bank. Trial evidence showed he was out of town when the questioned deposit occurred.
James W. Good, former Iowa congressman and Chicago lawyer, has been chosen to manage the 1924 presidential campaign in the Middle West for President Coolidge.
Wisconsin Senator Robert M Lafollette called Coolidge's congress message an able concise frank standpat speech. He argued it favors big business interests including railroads coal magnates and profiteers against the masses.
The House received committee slates already approved by Republican and Democratic leaders and planned to adjourn after formal ratification until Tuesday to let the committee organize. Republicans opposed some rules and committee makeup but leaders anticipated no deadlock similar to the Senate over Senator Cummins’ reelection case.
Viola Dana delivers witty social commentary in The Social Code with Malcolm McGregor. The mystery feature plays at the Saenger theatre tonight, promising a thrill every minute and a memorable line about listening to poets.
Counsel for the collector filed in federal court a tax lien against Charles W Morse of the Lee House Washington for 1 224 591 24 dollars. The lien, entered on the judgment roll, stems from taxes due to the Internal Revenue Service.
From Washington comes word that general campaign headquarters for President Coolidge will be established in Chicago on December 27. In Berlin the government faces a massive emergency currency legacy from passive resistance, totaling 180 trillion marks, with the Reichbank declining to assume responsibility.
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