Star Light About Good Intentions
The notice lists events at star light theatre with good intentions program details and dates. Local readers are urged to attend screenings and community activities featuring speakers and charitable promotions.
27 Dec 1923
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1923
Page
1
The notice lists events at star light theatre with good intentions program details and dates. Local readers are urged to attend screenings and community activities featuring speakers and charitable promotions.
Reports circulate of a peace move led by General Angel Flores governor of Sinaloa and presidential candidate amid federal offensives against Estrada Dieguez in Jalisco and Fontanato Maycotte in Oaxaca. Border reports note rebel forces gathering for drive toward Mexico City. irregulars expelled from Morelos to Vera Cruz.
Edward Young Clarke, once a leading Klan figure, renounces the movement and calls on Kingsmen to reform or disband. The piece notes Clarke's belated conversion, critiques past Klan leaders, warns that future scrutiny will judge both intent and thought, and links weather and agricultural impact to public policy debates.
The Senate Public Lands Committee votes to compel Harry F. Sinclair to detail all stock transactions tied to the Wyoming naval oil reserves lease and any syndicates formed to market those stocks. The move overrides Sinclair's protest and targets related company formations and market activities.
In Forrest county a labor shortage forces employers to seek aid from police and justices of the peace. C M Red Morgan of the Mississippi railroad commission visited Judge Hearst in his court. the official offered to post a fine in exchange for temporary work by prisoners, enabling Morgan to obtain a few workers for a limited term.
Oc tavia Bell a 20 year old Black woman says five Black attackers forced her into a downtown car, drove her miles away, assaulted her and branded her with words declaring her immoral. L G Farley 17 is among two youths held as police seek ID of the others. She appeared in town after walking from the crime scene.
A fast moving fire destroyed the death house pavilion at the Dunning state hospital for the insane in Chicago last night killing seventeen people. Fourteen of the dead were patients in advanced stages of insanity. Attendants E. J. Caraker and wife and their eight year old son Lowell are named among the victims. only one patient was identified. The rest were burned beyond recognition.
Cambridge Mass December 27 In a series of intelligence tests given to 197 students and 112 girl undergraduates at Radcliffe College the girls ranked 4.5 percent higher than the college men according to figures released by Harvard psychologist A A Roback. He notes similar studies at Simmons College and Clark University and says the average intelligence of girls in colleges is higher than that of men.
A 20 year old Japanese youth fired a cane gun at Prince Regent Hirohito in Tokyo as he rode to a diet session. Police say the shooter is insane and may implicate others in a broader plot. Viscount Iriye was injured by glass splinters.
Tokyo reports Home Minister Goto has resigned taking responsibility for the attempted assassination of Prince Regent Hirohito by a 20 year old in custody. Guarding of Gotos residence and socialist centers is intensified amid fears of anti socialist outbreaks.
Washington December 27 Former Ku Klux Klan leader N Y Clarke writes to President Coolidge offering to cooperate in ending activities he deems deviant from the founders plan Clarke says a steady withdrawal from Klan activities has occurred and that he severed official ties over a year ago He proposes a proclamation urging Klansmen to reform or disband and outlines a vision of scientific educational propaganda lodges universities hospitals and fraternal unity he signs as Imperial Giant Knight of the Ku Klux Klan and offers to help expel undesired elements
W H Evans imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan plans to visit several Ohio cities next month to reconcile secession movements, a Klan spokesman told reporters in Youngstown.
Fire at Grace Episcopal Church in this city at 7 am damaged a large roof section and soaked the interior with smoke and water. Rev. E F Haywood estimated losses around 10000 dollars and said insurance would not cover the damage. The organ, walls, floors and furnishings suffered, but the Munich stained glass window and three other domestic windows remained intact.
Paris reports the dirigible Dixmude may have crashed between Biskra and Togourt in southern Algeria during a gale. Ninety miles south of Biskra and sixty miles north of Touggourt the airship vanished on December 21 after requesting a local weather report. Fifty crew members are still presumed alive though search efforts off Tunis Tripoli and Malta continue.
An unconfirmed report states that a peace proposal involving Flores was brought to Mexico City on December 27. The report provides no additional details on participants, venue, or potential outcomes.
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