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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1920
Page
1
War Declared at Fiume by DAnnunzio and Italy
London report says Captain Gabriele D Annunzio proclaims a state of war between Fiume and Italy and forbids residents to leave the city while threatening to shoot opponents. Rome dispatch notes torn railway tracks barbed wires and cut wires along Fiume roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D’annunzio
Fiume
Associated Press
London
Gabriele D’annunzio
Italy
Rome
Spea
Fiume Roads
Christmas mercy frees five Monroe prisoners
Monroe city officials led by Mayor Arnold Bernstein Judge Charles Schulze and Inspector Robert Heap released five prisoners as a Christmas “present” for good conduct. Names include Jimmie Meek Henry Fuller Nettles Sampson J. S. Smith and Ben Hunt with short remaining terms. Plan also for a festive Christmas dinner. Crime and drunkenness declined in 1920 versus 1919.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Monroe
Charles Schulze
Arnold Bernstein
Robert £. Heap
Henry Fuller
Nettles Sampson
J. S. Smith
Ben Hunt
Marion Deaths and Ambassadors in Early Peace Talks
Myron T. Herrick former American Ambassador to Paris is summoned to Marion by Harding to discuss the peace plan for the coming administration. A Denver death notice reports Mrs J H McDonald, age 20, wife of J H McDonald, and mother of two, interred in Alexandria after services in that city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Errick
M’donald Marion
Denver
Associated Press
Marion
Myron T. Herrick
Cleveland
Paria
Harding
J. H. McDonald
Weather forecast tonight and Friday fair
Weather forecast calls for fair skies tonight and Friday. Cold air continues along the coast with temperatures ranging from 20 to 26 degrees in the northern area.
Holy Office Decree Targets Y M C A In Rome Warning
The Holy Office in Rome issued a decree warning bishops about the American Young Men’s Christian Association as a corrupter of youth faith. Officials in New York expressed astonishment saying the overseas Y M C A department sees no cause for alarm and plans to review the decree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dee
Holy Office
Catholic Ops
Men's Christian Association
New York
Overseas Department
The
Young Men's Christian Association
Rome
C. V. Hebbard
Intral Tire and Service Plans Expanding on Grand Street
Central Tire and Service Company prepares a major expansion on Grand and Grammont streets leasing a warehouse near Ward Street. Owners Tidwell brothers plan to remodel at a cost of about 4000 dollars to create a drive in filling station and auto repair shop with two street entrances to serve customers from both directions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Tire & Service Company
Tidwell Broters
South Grand Street
Grand Street
Grammont Street
Clara Barton Smith Surrenders to Oklahoma Sheriff
Paso residents report Clara Barton Smith sleeping under her father’s roof after Oklahoma officers located her on December 23. She traveled to Juarez last night and surrendered to Sheriff Garrett of Ardmore, then was taken to her father’s home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ara Smith
Father
Old
Paso
Clara Barton Smith
Oklahoma
Miss Smith
Juarez
Garrett
Ardmore
Reorganized Cotton States League Eyes Mississippi Cities
Meridian and Jackson host talks on reviving the Cotton States Base ball League with Mississippi towns likely forming an eight city circuit including Meridian Columbus Greenville Clarksdale Greenwood Jackson Vicksburg and Gulfport. Gulfport and Columbus may be dropped from a six town option. New board to function as result of 1920 law. Ouachita parish to appoint three member parish board of equalization to review assessments each May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cotton States Parish
Meridian
Miss
Jackson
Cotton States Baseball League
Mississippi
Louiaian
Alabama
Meridiah
Columbus
Greenville
Clarksdale
Greenwood
Vicksburg
Gulfport
C. J. Bell
Delta
Selma
Tuscaloosa
Montgomery
Alu
Monroe
Deltates
Hattesburg
Laurel
Ouachita Parish
Parish Board of Equalization
General Assembly
State Board of Affairs
Board of State Affairs
Boards of Review
Thieves Take Bills From Xmas Tree in Scranton
In Scranton Pennsylvania on December 23 two illuminated Christmas trees were hit by thieves who pelted windows with stones and seized new currency. Police arrived and arrested the men who were found with bulging pockets of bank notes. The prisoners are deaf mutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scranton
Tariff bill faces defeat in Senate despite House approval
Washington dispatch notes Fordney Emergency Tariff bill passed the House by a wide margin but supporters expect it to be defeated or heavily amended in the Senate. The report discusses equalization of property values, parish boards, and compensation rules for local boards, plus a stray line on flowers in polar regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solons
Associated Press
Washington
House
Senate
Boards of Equalization
Board of State Affairs
Parish of Orleans
Parish Board of Equalization
Board of Assessors
Commission Council
Revision Committee
Orleans Board
Koreans accuse Japanese of brutal acts in Manchuria
The Korean commission in Washington on December 23 released a statement charging Japanese military authorities with deeds more frightful and barbarous than any alleged in Belgium during the war. The claim was based on reports from Manchuria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchuria
Washington
Belgium
Modification in Jobbers' Rate Case Sought
A hearing in the Natchez Louisiana rate cases will be held January 14 before Examiner McQuillan at the St Charles Hotel in New Orleans. Monroe business interests seek a modification of the ICC order to cancel jobbers' rates and H J Fernandez will represent Monroe interests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe
Louisiana
Interstate Commerce Commission
McQuillan
St. Charles Hotel
New Orleans
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
George B. McGinty
H. J. Fernandez
White Texan lynched by Ft Worth mob after officer’s death
Tom W. Vickery, a Whiteman charged with murdering Policeman Couch, was taken from the county jail by twenty five masked men and hanged. Shots were fired into the body as authorities learned of the lynching. Police found the body hanging near the packing house district after surrender of jail guards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
FT. Worth
Texas
Tom W. Vickery
Whiteman
Couch
Vickery
Packing House
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Itve
Laos
Geo. Metthew Adams
Spirit OF Holidays
Paris
York
Pee
Ms Ar
Baptist Foreign Mission Society
Monrof
Colorado
Clares Association
Intral Tire and Service
Morbis
State Affairs Board
Xmas Tree
Polar
First Methodist
M. G. Spaugh
Stonewall Lodge
R. F. Humble
Germany
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