Hazlehurst Murder Links Ada Converse to Magazine Bus
Thomas Converse, oil geologist from Wichita Falls, Texas, to be questioned about the Hazlehurst murder of Ada Converse. Walter Drury identifies his mother’s body. Ada Converse used the name Lois Jewell while part of a magazine solicitation party in Monroe.
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Ada Converse
Monroe
Lois Jewels
Hazlehurst
Miss
Thomas Converse
Wichita Falls
Texas
Vicksburg Road
Copia
Walter Drury
Ada Drury
Robert F. Heap
Mississippi
Ada Conversé
Lois Jewell
Bell Brown
D. M. Bissett
J. M. Groves
E. Jf. Farrar
I. L. Adams
Christine Baldwin
Thelma Coppes
Luis Jewell
Jeff
Inspector Heap
Heap
Farrar
Adams
Mises
Adi Veury Converse
Wiehiva Falls
Warana
Texsus
Converse
Young Prory
Ministers urge closing of public pool rooms in Twin Cities
Protestant and colored church leaders in Monroe and West Monroe moved to curb crime by closing public pool rooms, urging stronger Sunday observance and city action. Sermons on law enforcement followed a ministerial association meeting, with resolutions to be presented to city officials.
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Monroe
West Monroe
Twin Cities Ministerial Association
City Commission Council of
West Side
Churches demand closure of public pool halls in twin cities
Resolutions adopted by all movement churches call for closing pool rooms in Monroe and West Monroe. Pastors and deacons signatories oppose pool halls as a public nuisance and urge Mayor and Council to enact ordinances to ban their operation and deter reappearance.
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Board of Deacons
Commonwealth
Twin Cities
Monroe
West
Commission Council
Service Council Will Meet Tonight
The community service council of one hundred Gitivens will meet tonight at TRUvelock in the city high school auditorium. President Gee. G. Weaks urges every member and invites the public to attend and participate. A short cing will follow with a statement by Mr. Mitchell and progress reports from division chairmen. The council may recommend policies and programs to the executive committee.
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Community Service Council
Gitivens
Truvelock
City High School
Gee. G. Weaks
Weaks
People’s Movement
Mitchell
Huerta Delays Oil Tax Decree Outline In Mexico
Mexico City February 20 Secretary of Treasury Huerta asked correspondents to delay publishing the decree outline that sets the basis for an agreement between the Mexican government and American oil companies on export taxes. Washington reports the resignation of Federal Judge Landis was received at the White House. In Atlanta the opening session of the twenty third annual convention of southern agricultural workers discussed various agricultural topics.
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Missouri Pacific Railway Company
Te Monravs Womble Branch
Ihne
Monroe
el Dorado
Memphis
Union County
Missouri Pacite
Une Missouri Pacific
Mexico City
Huerta
New York
Washington
Landis
Chicago
White House
Atlanta
Twenty-Third Annual Convention of
Southern Agricultural Workers
Immigration law extended to June for solvency talks
The report notes an immigration extension until June 30 under the three per cent restrictive act. Ranking Republicans of the Ways and Means were invited by the Senate Finance Committee to discuss tariff bill valuation plans. The House referred the soldiers bonus financing to the special tax sub-committee with a meeting planned for tomorrow.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Ways and Means
Associated Press
Senate
Irish team released after jail order calm in Northern Ireland
Irish republican army football team members freed from Londonderry jail under viceroy order amid a calmer Northern Ireland scene. Fourteen thousand British troops remain, with fifty military and forty police barracks under provisional government control as border tensions ease.
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Belfast
Irish Republican Army
Dromore
Londonderry
Dublin
Ireland
Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Harding Declines to Grant Treaty Data to Senate
President Harding replied to the Hitchcock resolution that most negotiations for the four power Pacific treaty were conducted without records and that disclosing confidential negotiations would not serve public interests. He asserted there were no secret exchanges of notes. The Foreign Relations Committee soon after voted 10 to 1 to report the U S Japan Yap Island treaty favorably.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harding
Senate
Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Japan
Yap
Okmulgee Judge H R Christopher Resigns
Okmulgee County Judge H R Christopher resigns effective March 1. The Okmulgee County Bar Association committee presented the resignation to Acting Governor Trapp after citizens demanded action following the judge's discharge of the grand jury probing the defunct bank affair.
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Oklahoma City
Okla
H. R. Christopher
Okmulgee County
Trapp
Okmulgee County Bar Association Committee
Okmulgee Bank
Guaranty Bank Suspends five days to reassess
Eldorado bank officials under state examiner orders suspend operations for five days after a Friday run. Directors promise a bigger, solvent bank and plan to reopen with increased capitalization and Federal Reserve membership. Air passengers delivered currency from Shreveport to back deposits.
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Lieut. Shaffer
W. R. Redfern
Jimmie Cox
Shreveport
el Dorado
Guaranty Bank
W. C. Medley
Birger
Medley
A. H. Hill
Florada Wholse Isle Grocer Co
Federal Reserve
Guaranty Bank and Trust Co
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Crossett
Missouri Pacific
Mull City
Board of Mayor
AL W. Waddill
Wallace Cli
Frank Tripp
OR. Reynolds Widh
J. d. Evans
Law Enforcement
First Methodist Church
A. W. Waddill
The
Law
Service Council
Okmulgee
Jackson
Eldorado Bank
C. CG. Seleeman
Dallas
Methodist Church
Centenary
Saunders’ Garage
South Grand
Weaks Supply Co
Genasco Roofing
City Hell
Court House
Ouachita National Bank
Central Savings Bank & Trust CO
Louisiana Savings Bank & Trust CO
Central Savi & Trust CO
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