White House of the Confederacy Dedicated in Montgomery
Confederate Day observances honor gray clad veterans as the first White House of the Confederacy is reopened and dedicated. Senator Pat Harrison addresses the crowd while veterans, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and American Legion members remember the Southern cause. Banks and post offices close across the South for the tribute.
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Aby Associated Press
Montgomery
White House
Confederacy
Sons and Daughters
Dixie
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Jefferson Davis
Confederate States of America
Monroe
Robert E. Lee Memorial Association
Woman’s Auxiliary
American Legion
Court Square
Confederate Veterans
Sons of Confederate Veterans
Veterans, Sons of Veterans
Knights of Pythias
Elks Club
South
Marine engineers and board fail to reach agreement
Negotiations between marine engineers and the shipping board over wages and working conditions have broken off. W S Brown president of the marine engineers benevolent Association said the failure was due to owners and board refusing to reinstate striking engineers. Senator Kenyon charged graft in the government merchant marine operation by the shipping board while opposing a $50,000,000 deficiency appropriation.
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Marine Engineers and Board
Washington
Marine Engineers
The
Shipping Board
W. S. Brown
Marine Engineers’ Beneficial Association
Ship Owners and Shipping Board
Kenyon
Iowa
Senate
Civilian relief to aid Negroes homeless after Oklahoma race war
Tulsa dispatch reports martial law troops to be recalled unless incidents occur. Civilian relief plans map housing for thousands of destitute Negroes after the burning of quarters. At least thirty dead, hundreds wounded, property loss estimated at 1.5 million dollars. Business leaders will build houses quickly and consider lands for a northern Negro colony.
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Associated Press
Tulsa
Okla
Barrett
Robertson
Oklahoma City
Christians Massacred by Turkish Forces in Samsun and Trebizond
Athens correspondent reports from Constantinople that new massacres of Christians occurred at Samsun on the Black Sea coast and Trebizond near Armenia. Bodies filled streets as shops were looted. the American destroyer arrived at Samsun to shield Americans.
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Samsun
Black Sea
London
Athens
Exchange Telegraph
Constantinople
Trebizond
Menia
Ambassador at St James Smearing American Mothers
Former Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels condemned the American ambassador to Britain for claiming the US entered WWI to protect its own interests not democracy. He spoke at Anderson College in Aberdeen and tied the treaty failure to national anxiety and cotton prices.
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Associated Press
Aberdeen
Court of St. James
London
America
Europe
Josephus Daniels
Anderson College
Daniels
United States
Berlin Press Sees No Cheer In Wirts Talk
Berlin editors react to Chancellor Wirts in the Reichstag speech on government policy. Most say the new government must prove its ability to meet the allied ultimatum and marshal resources for entente obligations. Coalition papers praise candor while nationalists call the address noncommittal and a sign we sign you pay.
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Berlin
Wirts
Reichstag
Tageblatt
Wirt
Upper Silesia
Efforts to Make Attorney General Appointive Balked
Baton Rouge June 3. Efforts by Harold A Moise to have the governor appoint the attorney general failed 73 to 27 when motion to table was carried. Mrs J D Wilkinson of Shreveport won a juvenile court judge seat in Shreveport though her amendment was broadened to apply to all cities over 25 000. The legislature was directed to make all provisions. Wilkinson was applauded and Porvosty said the judiciary committee accepted the amendment and it was adopted.
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Baton Rouge
Harold A. Moise
C. C. Hardin
Leesville
J. D. Wilkinson
Shreveport
Wilkinson
A. ©. Porvosty
Judiciary Committee
Treasury reports sharp May tax drop and year to date decline
Washington figures show May income and profits taxes totaled far lower than a year earlier by 24 million dollars. For the eleven months of the current fiscal year the shortfall reached nearly 560 million dollars versus the same period last year.
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Washington
Treasury
Lot Transfers in Ouachita Parish Show Cash Trades
Robert Layton sold to Sol Gross a lot in block thirty three of Layton's second addition for 90 dollars. W D Hamilton sold oil and gas rights in 16 2016N 3E for 700 dollars. T A Grant sold to J E Dough tie an undivided one half interest in twenty acres of land in 10 17N 3E for 400 dollars.
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Robert Layton
Sol Gross
Layton
W. D. Hamilton
D. H. Perker Oil and Gas
T. A. Grant
J. E. Doughtie
Ouachita Parish
Frost-Johnson Interests to Erect Plant at Huttig Site
Frost Johnson Interests will replace the Union Sawmill plant destroyed by fire with a modern 300000 foot per day mill. Filer & Stowell of Milwaukee handles plans. work to start within a month and take six to eight months. 1100 employees will be assisted. site on burned structure. company insures $800000 loss.
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Frost-Johnson Interests
Huttig
BIG Lumber. Mills
Union Sawmill Company
Filer & Stowell Company
Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
F. W. Scott
Scott
Arkansas
Louisiana
St. Louis
War criminal sergeant convicted in Leipzig six month term
Leipzig reports Sergeant Neuwman convicted on twelve counts of mishandling British prisoners and sentenced to six months in prison. Paris notes moves to reopen trial questions as German sentences are deemed too light. Also referenced are Captain Robert Dollar, founder of Dollar Steamship Lines, and his rise from chores to founder wealth.
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Leipzig
Sergeant Neuwman
Paris
London
Liepzig
Robert Dollar
Dollar Steamship Lines
Quebec
Sausage Loaf Recipe Instructions
A simple sausage loaf mix combines sausage meat with bread crumbs and a finely chopped onion. Season to taste, form into a loaf, and bake until browned.
Tonight and Saturday Weather Outlook
A forecast shows partly to mostly cloudy skies tonight and Saturday with scattered thunder showers possible across the area. Local temperatures are expected to vary with humidity and isolated storm chances.
U S Gets Land in Parish for Locks and Dam at Sterlington
A. L. Smith and Major J. A. O Connor of the U S engineering corps have a one year lease contract for land in 20 and 29 20N 4E to establish a right of way for railway tracks and a telephone line from the St Louis Iron Mountain and Southern to Lock and Dam No 5 in Sterlington parish.
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A. L. Smith
United States
J. A. O’connor
United States Engineering Corps
St. Louis
Monroe High School Holds Graduation for Eighteen
Eighteen graduates of Monroe High School received diplomas in a simple ceremony at the local auditorium. Dr. David Fichman gave the commencement address on The Open Mind while City Attorney Harry Rusaki and Mayor Arnold Bernstein assisted with diplomas and a class gift of two electroliers for the campus. The event featured salutes by the valedictorian Freneau Surgaine and salutatorian Addie McNeill, a chorus performance, and a D A R medal for American History won by Thomas Larche.
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Monroe High School
E. L. Neville
Arnold Bernstein
David Fichman
City Atorney
Harry Rusaki
Freneau Surgaine
Addie McNeill
Mary Smith
Fichman
E. L. Owens
Ft. Miro
Thomas Larche
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Stockholm
Vladivostok
ST. James
Ment
Ross
King
National. Education
National Armament
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Genasco
U. S
Parish
Sterlington
Russell
West Monroe
W. A. Kirkpatrick
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