31 Dec 1918
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1918
Page
1
A man brought to the sanitarium by a Black individual Friday was identified as N. R. Prenix. The report notes his death occurred Sunday, with limited readable details available from the fragment.
A white man named N. R. Phenix died after severe burns at St. Francis Sanitarum Sunday noon. He was found badly burned with an amputated right forearm and three missing fingers on the left hand. No home or cause was given, and his body was embalmed and held for relatives.
President Wilson and his party left Dover for Calais at 11 20 this morning as the voyage to France commenced.
The city expects a year of celebrations as Monroe commemorates peace after the war, honors returning soldiers, and embraces political reform moving to a commission system. The centennial naming of Monroe in 1819 and its 1871 charter are noted, with preparations urged for first class observances in Nineteen-Nineteen.
The State Department received favorable updates on Archangel in Russia from Martinus Zine, noting unofficial Bolshevik reports of Allied and American forces facing no imminent danger. He met with Acting Secretary Polk. officials say allies see the situation as under control. Bolshevik troops are German-led with artillery but avoid close combat.
Federal and city investigators probe a series of bomb explosions that wrecked the homes of Justice Von Moschzsker, Acting Police Superintendent Mills, and Ernest Tries. occupants were not seriously hurt as glass and debris scattered across distant city blocks. pamphlets denouncing law and order lay in the streets.
General Pershing notified the War Department that about 15 000 additional troops are assigned for early convoy home. The 229th and 235th regiments of the Eighty third division each number over 50 officers and 3400 men, and the Fourth regiment of the air service includes about sixteen aero squadrons.
In the Ruhr Valley Westphalia police or military forces faced armed strikers who attacked the soldiers guarding two coal mines. Both properties suffered damage before the strikers were forced to resume work.
London reports King George presented a finely printed illustrated history of Windsor Castle to President Wilson as a birthday gift.
The notice warns that today at 1 30 will end poll tax payments and receipts must be secured before midnight to avoid disfranchisement for 1919 and 1920. It cautions that only 2325 voters had qualified and outlines upcoming elections including president governor and local officials. Receipts will still cost a dollar but lose voting value after tonight.
Washington reports an across the board raise for government telegraph system workers starting January 1. Those employed over a year and a half gain 19 percent, while workers with shorter service receive a 5 percent increase, excluding non functional offices and messengers.
Boston officials report Terry McGovern of Philadelphia died at City Hospital after a match with Frank Britt. McGovern suffered a fractured skull when he fell to the floor in the sixth round. Britt has been arrested.
London Dec 21. Germany refused to allow Polish troops to use railroads from the Polish border to Vilna. Berlin said German troops returning from Russia must use the roads.
Seventeen prominent men including a non Bavarian duke were arrested in Munich after a conference at a large hotel. Police say they planned to recruit citizen soldiers while they allegedly planned an attack on existing institutions. Only the publisher and a banker named as ringleader remained detained. others were released.
Judge J R McIntosh of Floyd newly appointed judge ad interim for the Sixth Judicial District opened his first session for Ouachita and Morehouse parishes. An order set a regular session for Friday January 3rd 191% at 10 o'clock in the morning with the motion hour to begin the day, attorneys advised to observe.
Washington reports show the United States spent about 18.16 billion dollars in the year ending Dec 31 to support War Government operations and loans to the Allies. Treasury computations detail how the vast wartime expenditures were allocated across government activities and financing.
The record indicates allocations of about 10 million to the army and general military establishment, 2 billion to the navy, 1 billion for shipbuilding, and 1 billion for other civil needs.
Washington December 30. Representative Doolittle introduces a resolution urging an Allied and United States army entry into Berlin to impress on the Germans that Germany has been decisively defeated.
Berlin dispatch to the Daily Mail reports General von Hindenburg telegrammed magnates that he would support a British occupation of Germany. The message appeared from London dated December 1.
The arrest of Theodore Stewart Sunday afternoon is described as capturing the bootlegging king in the city. Officers Murphy and Bennett staged a sting behind a city hospital barn, leading to Stewart’s capture and a $100 fine in city court for bootlegging with a second case a drunk, Jim Walters, fined $5.00.
A community house requests a new building to provide badly needed social and civic services. The effort focuses on accommodating programs, meetings, and outreach to residents, aiming to strengthen local engagement and support networks.
R Lt Prophit Jr calls on Monroe citizens to donate Liberty Bonds and join a mass meeting to discuss building a communal center. He envisions a structure housing civic moral and physical activities, preferable to a Y M C A, with a temporary committee to organize and print public support for the movement.
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