Senate Votes to Complete Dam at Muscle Shoals
The House military committee approved the Ford proposal on Muscle Shoals, excluding the Gorgas steam plant, and favored disposing of government properties. House members expect to accept the Senate amendment and appropriations of 7.5 million dollars to resume work on the Wilson dam at Muscle Shoals.
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Senate
Muscle Shoals
HOUSE
Wilson Dam
Williams
Associated Press
Washington
House Military Committee
Ford
Gorgas
Detroit
Ford Muscle Shoals talks reach agreement in executive committee
Washington June 3. A majority of the house military committee and Henry Ford representatives reached a settlement in executive session on differences in the committee plan for Ford’s offer on Muscle Shoals. The senate approved a 7.5 million dollar amendment to continue dam two construction. it must pass conference and await house agreement before work can start. Senator Williams Mississippi attacked Republican opposition and tied Ford offer to Ford’s past party affiliation.
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Associated Press
Washington
Henry Ford
House Military Committee
Ford
Muscle Shoals
Senate
Muscle Shoals Federal Power Project
Army
House
Norris
Lodge
Mass
Congress
Germany
Williams
J. 8. Williams
Mississippi
Skirm
Ouachita National Bank Holds Second Annual Picnic
Officials and employees of the Ouachita National Bank with families boarded gasoline launches at the Breard Shingle Mill mooring and headed to Pine Top for the second annual bank picnic. Luncheon baskets were opened and games were planned to follow as last year’s event inspired the gathering.
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Ouachita National Bank
Ouachita
Pine Top
T. E. Flournoy
National Jersey Campaign to Start in Ouachita Monday
Ouachita parish hosts National Jersey Week under the Ouachita Jersey Breeders Association with talks by prominent Jersey breeders and agriculture experts from Mississippi, Louisiana, and the state. A barbecue picnic and a gathering for farm women at Calhoun's Louisiana Experimental Station are planned with speakers from Baton Rouge and Calhoun.
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National
Jersey
Ouachita
Ouachita Parish
Monroe
Ouachita Jersey Breeders’ Association
Mississippi
Louisiana
Department of Agriculture
Paton Rouge
Strahan
Mia
Jewell McQuiller
Demon
Louisiana Experimental Station
Calhoun
A. C. Smith
Baton Rouge
Mary Sue Gesell
Baton
Uatohy
Tipi
Norma Overbey
Monroe Pursues 1923 Legion Convention Bid
Monroe leaders seek popular backing to invite the American Legion state convention for 1923. A $3,000 guarantee plan aims to fund traveler hospitality with $250 from each of banks, hotels, merchants and civic groups, contingent on citizen approval and convention acceptance.
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Monroe
State Legion
Baton Rouge
Legionarres
Isaacman
Sam Smith
Central Savings Bank & Trust Company
Bernstein
Red City
Premier Poincare submits new deal on Soviet problem
Paris reports Premier Poincare sent a memorandum to the United States and other powers invited to The Hague on Russian affairs. He calls for Russia to withdraw its Genoa memorandum as a condition for French participation and ties Russia's reconstruction to farm revival and peasant gains under a new regime.
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Paris
Poincare
United States
Genoa
Hague
Russia
Veterans Honor Memorial Day With Confederate Veterans
Eight elderly Confederate veterans accompanied by Daughters of the Confederacy in automobiles to a Monroe cemetery to lay flowers on comrades’ graves and observe Memorial Day. Speeches followed brief ceremonies as Captain W. T. Renwick delivered the memorial task. banks and merchants closed in honor of the day.
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South
the Confederacy
Daughters of the Confederacy Jin
Old Cemetery
Monroe
Old South
Henry W. Allen
W. T. Renwick
Olive Reath
Arcadia High School Plans Awarded to Monroe Architect
The Arcadia board of education awarded the 100000 contract for high school plans and specifications to J. W. Smith, Monroe architect. Plans promise completion within thirty days with July steps to award the contract and rush the building for the next term. A stadium near the school will also be designed by the same architect.
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Arcadia
Board of Education
J. W. Smith
Monroe
Lieutenant Reed Unaccounted For In Balloon Race
Lieutenant W F Reed of Pensacola Florida the sole navy entry in the national balloon race started at Milwaukee Wednesday was the only pilot unaccounted for at dawn today He and aide Kit Mullenax are believed drifting over the Great Lakes region with location uncertain Also in Folkstone England a French plane from Croydon to Paris fell into the English Channel two bodies were recovered by a cross channel boat
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Associated Preas
Chicago
W. PF. Reed
Pensacola
Fla
Milwaukee
Lieut. Reed
Kit Mullenax
Great Lakes
Folkstone
Ing
Croydon
London
Paris
Dymond Ku Klux measure crushed in state house vote
In Baton Rouge on June 3 the Dymond Ku Klux measure failed in the Louisiana house by 45 to 28, despite governor John M Parker’s efforts. The bill was sent to the judiciary committee on second reading and then indefinitely postponed, viewed as a test of administration strength.
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Baton Rouge
John M. Parker
Dymond
House
John Dymond
Judiciary Committee
T. F. Depaoli
T. H. McEachern
Claiborne
Depaoli
Abels
Ashford
Caloagne
Colbert
Conner
Colvin
Choke
Cox
Cooley
Davis
Defuentes
Dupree
Erbelding
Evans
Heinen
Henry
Hughes
Humphries
Hunter
Ivy
Jones
Jordan
Keith
Merk
Mills
Mitchell
Morgan
McEachern
McClelland
McGeighan
Newson
Prophit
Radesich
Shields
Starns
Stirling
Sylvest
Teckell
Turner
Upton
Whitehead
Williams
Orleans
Womack
Winn
Alexander
Arras
Barrett
Byrne
Chappins
Copellar
Dalferes
Dejean
Ditch
Dreyfus
Drexler
Duignan
Fransche
Guillot
Lacarte
Lecler
Moise
Nunez
Parent
Richmond
Smith
Stafford
Thibodeaux
Tobin
Vaughan
Webb
Wilkinson
Carbon Factory Ready To Produce Carbon For Eastern Plants
The Thermatomic Carbon Company of Pittsburg nears opening its carbon black plant at Sterlington Louisiana with R M Uhlinger overseeing completion. Inventor claims the new process doubles carbon output and saves heat, prompting plans for Sterlington ballast production from local clay.
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Thermatomic Carbon Company
Pittsburg Corporation
Joseph M. Guffey
Pittsburg
Sterlington
R. M. Uhlinger
Monroe
Louisiana
Morris Trustee Secures Arkansas Acreage To Extend Monroe Gas
Morris a Dallas trustee leading a syndicate of eastern and Southwestern capitalists has secured land northwest of the Morehouse parish gas fields in Ashley county Arkansas to extend the Northeastern Louisiana gas fields. The group expects the Monroe gas belt to enter Ashley county near Hamburg where a well is being drilled. Standard Oil also secured acreage north of the Morehouse line and plans two test wells. Recent completion of several Morehouse wells with large gas capacities supports the belief that Ashley county could become a major gas field.
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H. C. Morris
Dallas
Tex
Morehouse Parish
Ashley County
Arkansas
Louisiana
Monroe
Hamburg
Standard Oil Company
Morehouse
Opposition to Hammon rail tax bill in Monroe delegation
Senator Hood and Representative Webb join Monroe officials and business interests to oppose the Hammon measure. A strong Monroe delegation heads to Baton Rouge to fight a bill requiring railways operating in multiple parishes to tax rolling stock by parish mileage, which leaders say would disrupt finances of Monroe and other Louisiana cities. The Saturday conference organized city parish and business interests to oppose the measure with Mayor Bernstein calling for unified action.
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Hood
Webb
Monroe
Ouachita
Hammon
aBton Rouge
T. L. Hood
T. T. Webb
Arnold Bernstein
H. H. Russell
Monroe Chamber of Commerce
Louisiana
Bernstein
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American Legion State Convention
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American Legion
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Arcadia High School
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Reed
Dymond Bil
Agricultural College
First Presbyterian Church
West Monroe
Methodist
Thermatomic Company
Weaks Supply Co
Genasco Roofing
Bill OF Gentleman
Jackson
Riverside
3Rd Street
DeSiard
Forsythe Park
EL Dorado Vs
Grace Church
Edward Farren Hayward
City High School
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