14 Feb 1920
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1920
Page
1
In Washington on February 14, Frank L. Polk was named acting secretary of state as Secretary Lansing resigns amid policy disputes over the peace pact and the League of Nations. Polk will serve until Wilson names a successor. health concerns reportedly deter him from pursuing the permanent post.
President Wilson accepts the resignation of Secretary of State Robert Lansing after a dispute over cabinet meetings during illness. The split stems from tensions over peace treaty plans and League of Nations linkage, with differing views on Mexican policy and the Jenkins case affecting relations as Lansing joined the American peace delegation in Paris.
Tonight and Sunday are forecast to be generally fair with cool to cold overnight temperatures. Expect light winds and potential freezer conditions in some rural areas with occasional frost.
A West Monroe property deal valued at 18000 dollars transfers from W S Heard and Horace Elkins to Dr Duke Hodge and Charles W Parnell. The Beck lot and Osborne lot are described along the Ouachita river and Haynes Lane with tracts west of Elkins property. Other transactions include George H Steele to R L Wingate for 83250 and Wingate to Edward Edwards for 3500.
Washington Feb 14 union leaders debated President Wilson's wage decision with railroad brotherhoods. Officials sent telegrams to locals to steady workers while awaiting full negotiations and correspondence. Representatives continued talks with union heads across the country as sessions stretched through the day.
Allen Barker, head of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance and Railway Shop Laborers, said there is nothing in President Wilsons proposal to unions that would cause the strike order to be withdrawn. The strike by maintenance workers continues in Detroit as of February 14.
Washington reports the agricultural census is lagging because many farmers spend winter months in cities and not on farms when enumerators call. The note comes from the census bureau and highlights urban residency as a hindrance to complete enumeration.
A peculiar situation in Ouachita Lincoln and Jackson parishes shows landowners demanding fixed ten dollar acre leases with some as high as fifteen dollars. Lease holders fear inflated prices will slow oil and gas development, harming prospects on land with potential finds. Leases recorded include Louisiana Development Corporation to J W Downey for 30 acres at 1200 dollars and other 20 to 80 acre tracts with values ranging from 60 to 9500 dollars.
The Davey Petroleum Corporation will locate its Monroe headquarters on the main floor of the New Star Hotel Building and employ about thirty local staff plus a field force. A field manager with seventeen years of experience leads operations across several states, with a scouting team active in Kansas Texas Oklahoma Louisiana Tennessee and Kentucky. An advisory board of Ouachita business leaders will be announced, including J. M. Goff and his son D. H. Goff. Drilling will begin immediately with two wells in Homer field five in Kansas one on the big block in Morehouse parish and one in Union county Arkansas.
Paris February 14 The supreme allied council grants Hungary eight days to reach agreement with the allies. One allied power is inclined to propose appreciative alterations to the pact, according to the Matin.
Columbia officials deny reports that Atlas Oil Company bought leases in Caldwell parish in the local township. The company says it has purchased no acreage there and has no plans to do so. A Columbia dispatch earlier claimed Atlas was obtaining leases, but officials say the reports were mistaken for other firms' activities.
The government rents a Grand Street storefront next to Southern Hardware to open an army surplus store. EF Ficken of the New Orleans army surplus division says Louisiana residents can save money on many items, some at half price, with a likely quick sellout in a week or ten days. Corned beef, roast beef, tomatoes and shoes are highlighted as best sellers for families and institutions.
Louis Guerriero leased the upper story of the two story corner building at Hall and DeSiard streets to A. L. Kognn of Shreveport for five years starting February 20. Rent set at 100 dollars per month.
Louisiana shippers win a partial victory in the Natchez rate case as the Interstate Commerce Commission limits testimony to Louisiana to Natchez routes. Rates from all US points to Louisiana are removed for several months, with a new hearing set for February 24 as Louisiana interveners prepare further testimony and tariffs.
Washington on February 14 announced that soldiers who have served overseas since July 11, 1919 will get a 20 percent increase on their entire base pay authorized during the world war.
Washington Feb 14 The senate agricultural committee votes unanimously for the revised Kenyon Kendrick bill proposing federal oversight of the meat industry.
The Hague February 14 sources say Holland would likely accept allied requests to move the ex Kaiser away from the German front but objects to any dictated placement such as the Dutch islands or a specified destination.
Business leaders call for all organizations to back a rushed census drive to exceed 20 000 in the two cities. Residents are asked to visit the post office area or federal building to be enumerated as organizers warn time is short and a united campaign is needed now.
Three hundred thirty three hardwood companies and individuals in sixteen states are named as defendants in a federal suit filed in Memphis charging conspiracy to restrain trade under the Sherman act. The defendants allegedly joined the open competition plan across Ohio West Virginia Pennsylvania Kentucky North Carolina Missouri Mississippi Tennessee Illinois Louisiana Texas Arkansas South Carolina New York Indiana and Alabama.
Dr Jatoh Gould Schurman resigns as president of Cornell University after nearly twenty eight years, citing a tenure limit of twenty five to thirty years for a chief executive, a move announced at a meeting of the university's general administration committee in Ithaca New York.
Monroe city faces higher paid labor costs as prison labor output drops by more than half from 1918 to 1919. Inspector Heap reports eight month totals show 7429 days in 1918 versus 407 days in 1919, signaling a shift toward hiring municipal workers to complete street and public works.
Budapest reports circumstantial details of a plot alleging former Emperor Charles tried to enter Hungary on a false passport to reclaim the throne. Government evidence says he would cross the Austrian frontier as Kaspar Kovacs with three accomplices to proclaim his return and win support.
Notice to all gas consumers who have not paid their gas bills by the 20th of the month that service will be discontinued without further action by NATURAL GAS CO. INC.
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