Women to Convene Louisiana Business and Professional Club
The Louisiana Business and Professional Women's Clubs gather in Monroe Friday for a two day convention with over 100 prominent women from across the state. Miss Dorothy Kulze presides as state president and Mayor Arnold Bernstein speaks at opening. Friday features sessions, reports, and musical programs. Saturday closes with an annual banquet and elections.
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Louisiana
Monroe Lodge
B. P. O.lks
Grove
Monroe
Dorothy Kulze
al Sessions
Arnold Bernstein
Fo M
Free- Oslo
Marguerite Arbeau
New Orleans
Elks’ Club
Oil Volume Increases at El Dorado Well No. 1
El Dorado Arkansas June 7 The Hav id Companys well No 1 brought in a oil flow estimated at 20000 to 25000 barrels daily It has markedly risen in volume since it began With no pipes to handle the output a hundred teams work to rig earthen storage to prevent waste
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Mreas
el Dorado, Ark
French aviator Georges Barbot abandons flight near Garden City
Georges Barbot, French pilot of the fragile flivver machine, announced in Paulsboro New Jersey that he has temporarily halted flights after a crash near here while attempting a flight from Garden City to Washington. He plans to return to France to bring over a similar aircraft.
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Associated Lrese
Paulsboro
N. J
Georges Ibot
Flivver
Girane
Garden City
Washington, D. C
Cur
Marvel Barbot
Barbot
France
California Holstein cow tops 1000 pounds butterfat in a year
California Pietertje oom Mead, a pure bred Holstein raised by the University of California, has produced 1,004.62 pounds of butterfat in 365 days, the 67th U S Holstein to exceed 1000 pounds. Official Holstein Association figures convert this fat to 1,255.77 pounds of butter.
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Chicago
California
Pietertje Oom Mead
University Ofalifornia
United States
Holstein Aviation of America
Norwegian Lutheran Church of America Holds Triennial Convention
Delegates representing more than 500000 members gather in St Paul Minnesota for the Orwegian Lutheran Church of America nine day convention opening tomorrow with a triennial session managed by Associated Press.
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Associated Press
St. Paul, Minn
Orwegian Lutheran Church of America
Tomorow
Mississippi plans to attract European colonists for farms
Mississippi seeks European settlers from Belgium Germany Norway Sweden and The Netherlands to farm forty to fifty acre plots in Lestore county via the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce. The plan costs about 80000 dollars with S M Dort negotiating in Europe. Mexican labor is also being considered in Yazoo City and Madison county funds aid former service men who received land. Palm Beach reports a bullet riddled body found tied to a tree on Palm Beach Island, believed linked to a killing of Poleeman J N Smith.
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Jackson
Miss
Lestore County
Greenwood Chamber of Commerce
S. M. Dort
Belgium
Germany
Norway
Sweden
Netherlands
Chamber of Commerce
Dort
Europe
Yazoo City
Texas
Laurel
Mississippi
Madison County
Officers Surrender in Georgia Murder Case
Six county and federal officers, who mobilized in Atlanta to avoid arrest, left for Greensboro to surrender to Sheriff Hixon of Greene County. Warrants charge them with murder in the killing last week of Jett and J. Bo Smith, alleged rum runners.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
Greensboro
Hixon
Greene County
Jett
J. Bo Smith
Memphis Nurse Chooses Poison Before State Board
Memphis Tennessee June 7 Miss Mary Devlin 21 a graduate nurse from Sherard Mississippi swallowed poison at a hospital hive amid worry over an upcoming technical examination before a state board. She was found by the day watch in critical condition.
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Memphis
Tenn
Mary Devlin
Subterranean Seismic Observatory Planned for St Ignatius College
Observers in Cleveland report a new observatory to be hewn in solid rock beneath the Fairmount Heights campus of St Ignatius College. Rev Frederick J Odenbach says the rock bed will provide a perfect foundation for pendulums and seismographs, allowing detection of tiny tremors without surface interference from street traffic.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
America
St. Ignatius College
Fairmount Heights
Frederick J.odenbach
College Observatory
Odenbach
New Classified Advertisements
A collage of ads for sale and rent items includes Ford sedan, typewriter, furniture, safe, real estate lots and rooms for rent. Also requests for labor, cakes and snacks sale, and job inquiries from Lion Oil & Refining to brick lavers in El Dorado Arkansas. Multiple jurisdictions, dates and contact details included.
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Underwood Typewriter
Ford Levi Stationery Co
J. F. Otwell
Lion Oil & Refining Company
el Dorado
Arkansas
Missouri Pacific
Rock Island
Ouachita Parish Highway Officers Tighten Truck Rules
Commissioner Arthur Taylor appointed inspectors to enforce truck licensing and load limits on Ouachita parish roads. Overloaded trucks will face weighing, touring car license violations end, and hogs on highways will be barred. A Holt tractor with blade will aid ditch cleaning and road maintenance.
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Arthur Taylor
Baton Rouge
State Highway Commission
Ouachita Parish
Taylor
Seaving
Alexandria
Ouachita Police Jury
Monroe-Columbia
Monroe-Bastrop
Holt
Riots Hit Schenectady Traction Strike Action
Riots broke out in Schenectady New York as shots were fired and stones thrown during a traction strike. Car crews abandoned vehicles after being bombarded, with damaged windows and stalled cars chased to barns amid failed attempts to rescue them.
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Schenectady
N. Y
Sweden and America linked by direct radio news in Gothenburg
America week at the Jubilee Exposition in Gothenburg will feature a direct radio news service from America on June 20. The U S Navy will permit use of Annapolis station, with a Swedish receiving station at Kungbacka and an American instrument set for Grimeton. Daily 1000 words of American news will be published in an American-Swedish News Exchange bulletin. The Grimeton station is being built under the Sweden-America Foundation's auspices amid heavy American traveler bookings.
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Gothenburg
America
Sweden
U. S. Naval Communications Bureau
Annapolis
Swedish Department of Telegraphs
Kungsbacka
Grimeton
Sweden-America Foundation
British Girls Compete In Cloak Model Contest
London June 6 A new craze grips English women as they pursue fashion modeling. A London newspaper runs a mannequin contest with top dressmaking houses drawing entrants from across the British Isles. Applicants submit photographs measurements facial descriptions and special qualifications. The best couturiers insist models must have brains as well as beauty and poise since elaborate dress and originality demand intelligent collaboration.
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London
England
British Isles
Defense Testimony In Texas Oil Case Trial
In Fort Worth June 7 the defense in the J. W. Caruth and L. G. Reynolds Jr. trial for alleged misuse of the mails presented testimony supporting a motion to quash the indictment on grounds they were compelled to give incriminating statements to a federal trade commission agent. Caruth and Reynolds testified they were told by their attorney they would be immune from prosecution for providing evidence. Agent John F. Southworth testified no immunity was discussed.
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Associated Press
Fort Worth
Texas
J. W. Caruth
L. G. Reynolds, Jr
Federal Trade Commission
Caruth
Reynolds
Commission
John F. Southworth
Truth in advertising oath adopted by clothiers group
Chicago June 7. The National Association of Retail Clothiers adopts a code of ethics proclaiming advertising as a covenant with the public and the spoken or printed word binding as an oath in a tribunal. It distributes 24000 copies nationwide to emphasize integrity as the cornerstone of commerce.
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Associated Press
Chicago
National Association of Retail Clothiers
United States
High Court Costs Push Parties Toward Settlement in England
In London on June 6 the public weighs the burden of litigation as many settle disputes out of court to avoid escalating costs. Arbitration becomes a preferred path, leaving lawyers with little public sympathy for their financial woes. If a case goes to court, a barrister can recover by law through advance payment and per appearance fees, with no cap on charges.
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Associated Press
London
England
France Plans Great Electric Development
Paris plans rapid electrification after wartime damage and rising prices. Government subsidies rebuild destroyed factories and motivate local plants to motorize. Water power expands in southeastern mountains while electrified rail lines near the initial sections. Brittany tests tidal power for future use. Domestic electric appliances increasingly produced in France though coal stoves remain common.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Brittany
Atlantic
America
Italy
France Faces Heavy Interest on Prewar Loans
Paris reports France pays 8.8 billion francs annually in interest on loans issued before this year to fund reconstruction of devastated regions and pension payments. The figure reflects debt burden from prior borrowing.
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Associated Press
Paris
France
Vagrant Yellow River to Be Put Back in Its Course
The Yellow River in China will be returned to its original course after a dyke project. Fourteen thousand laborers work on the effort with plans to reach about twenty thousand. Estimated cost is 1.5 million Chinese currency, with 360,000 provided by the Government Relief Bureau. Past flooding north of the river bed left thousands homeless in 1921 and the region remains sparsely populated.
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Associated Press
Peking
Yellow River
China
W. H. Mallory
China International Famine Relief Commission
Government Relief Bureau
Kung Chia Pa
Irish jockey Beasley marks 72 years in saddle
Dublin report notes veteran Irish jockey Harry Beasley at 72, who for over fifty years has won top races on the Irish turf. He credits longevity to temperate living, and Governor-General Timothy Healy recently placed his first bet on a horse ridden by Beasley and won.
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Dublin
Ireland
Hardihood
Harry Beasley
Beasley
Timothy Healy
Komaroff On Trial For Murder In Moscow Courtroom
Vasili Komaroff, accused of murdering thirty three persons, faced a packed court at the Polytechnic Museum as troops kept back crowds. He confessed at times and denied his wife involvement while alienists testified to his sanity. A verdict was expected soon with potential imprisonment or execution under Soviet law.
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Associated Pross
Moscow
Vasili Komaroff
Polytechnic Museum
Komaroff
Russian murderer Komaroff and wife sentenced to death
In Moscow on June 7 Vasili Komaroff convicted of murdering thirty two people and his wife as his accomplice received a death sentence. The court announced execution within seventy two hours amid applause from the crowd and calls for immediate carry out.
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Associated Press
Moscow
Vasili Komaroff
Rotary convention frames ethics code for global business
St Louis hosts the fourteenth Rotary International convention with about 8 000 delegates preparing to discuss a plan to develop standard codes and ethical practices across Rotary clubs worldwide. The event notes the rapid growth of clubs to over 1400 in 39 districts across the United States Canada Mexico Denmark Uruguay Spain Panama Argentina and more. Delegates from overseas, especially the British Isles and empire, are arriving in large numbers.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Rotary International
United States
Canada
Mexico
Denmark
Uruguay
Spain
Panama
Argentina
British Isles
Australia
South America
Rotary
British Empire
Lawsuit Over Title to Romantic Lacroma Island
Belgrade June 6 Lacroma Island near Ragusa figures in a Jugo-Sla court case over its ownership. Richard Coeur de Lion built a monastery there after surviving a sea voyage. Princess Elizabeth relinquished all rights to the island for 125000 dollars, ending Ragusa’s bid to seize it.
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Associated Press
Belgrade
Lacroma Island
Richard Coeur de Lion
Holy Land
Ragusa
Maximilian
Mexico
Rudolf
Austria
Elizabeth
Otto Windischgratz
St. Germain
Baden
Hapsburg
Czecho-Slovakia
Negotiations Near Final Stage For Freed Poatzuku Hostages
Tsao Chwang reports negotiations for eight foreigners held by Chinese bandits on Poatzuku mountain are in the final stage and it is confidently predicted they will be freed before next Sunday.
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Tsao Chwang
Poatzuku Mountain
Terrorism Strikes Hit Upper Silesia Laborers
Berlin reports say terrorism prevails in Upper Silesia north east and southeast of Lignitz with numerous outlaw strikes by farm laborers and other workers, according to Berlin dispatches.
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Berlin
Upper Silesian
Lignitz
Rotary Club Hears Call to Boost Boys Work Program
Rotary luncheon featured Marshall Munholland urging renewed focus on boys and boys work. He criticized club indifference and proposed a revived plan, including using vacant city lots as playgrounds and cooperation from members. Arthur Smith invited the club to visit Training School on June 21.
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Marshall Munholland
Rotary
Munholland
Arthur Smith
Training School Board
Rotary Club
Leon Rammond
Ruth Ford
C. L. Ford
Guysipia Stubbs
Enlist All Baptist Churches in South Baptist Campaign
Plans to enlist every Baptist church in the South in a program of systematic and proportionate giving to denominational objects were inaugurated today by the conservation commission of the 75 million dollar campaign. Dr. O E Bryan of Atlanta leads this phase after resigning as superintendent of enlistment and evangelism with the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention yesterday to assume the new post today.
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Associated Press
Nashville
Tenn
South
The
Conservation Commission of the Baptist
O. E. Bryan
Atlanta
Bryan
Home Mission Board
Southern Baptist Convention
Birth rate declines in 1922 census figures
Washington dispatch reports provisional census bureau figures showing a 1922 birth rate of 22.7 per 1000 across 24 states, down from 24.4 in 1921, and a death rate of 11.9 in 33 states, up from 11.6. North Carolina led births at 30.2 while Washington state posted 18 and Maine registered 14.7 to Idaho 8.1.
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Associated Dress
Washington
Maine
Idaho
Printers Strike Hits Sioux City Journal Tribüne La Livestock Record
A printers strike at the Sioux City Journal the Sioux City Tribune and the Livestock Record began Wednesday night and continued into Thursday.
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Associated Proag
Sioux City
Sioux City Journal
Sioux City Tribune
Livestock Record
Poland to Build Direct Radio Link With America
In Warsaw a new powerful radio station is being built to enable direct communication with western countries. Construction began in February 1922 and is due to finish in July next year. The project cost nearly 2 million dollars.
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Poland
America
Warsaw
Marathon Dancing Contest Fights City Ban
Harry Kauffman promoter seeks injunction in circuit court to stop Mayor Dever and Police Chief Collins from preventing the seven day marathon dancing contest planned to start June 12 at the Coliseum Chicago.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Harry Kauffman
William A. Dever
Collins
Date Set for Electrocution in Diamond Murder Case
Valparaiso Ind June 7 Judge Hanibal Lorring will set the date for the execution of Harry Diamond for the murder of his wife Nettie Diamond near East Chicago Ind last February. Diamond was found guilty by a jury and sentenced to death. Defense may request a new trial. Diamond collapsed when the sentence was announced. The state says he killed for his wife’s money and tried to blame the shooting on William Armstrong the negro chauffeur.
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Associated Press
Valparaiso
Ind
Hanibal Lorring
Harry Diamond
Nettie Diamond
Chicago
Diamond
William Armstrong
Twilight League Results and Standings Snapshot
Yesterday's results show V. S. and P. Ry. defeating Monroe Hardware 5 to 2, West Monroe over Missouri Pacific 10 to 7, and L. T. L. beating City Hall 18 to 10. Today Ouachita National Bank faces National Guard at the ball park while standings highlight Ouachita Bank 8 0 and National Guard 5 2.
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Monroe Hardware
West Monroe
Missouri Pacific
City Hall
Ouachita National Bank
National Guard
Ball Park
Wil
Ouachita Bank Ooo
Taylor
West Siders edge Missouri Pacific 10 to 7 in baseball
The West Siders won at the ball park 10 to 7 over Missouri Pacific. Seven hits by each side, but West Siders scored three extra runs from timely hits. umpire details noted. six errors by the losing railroaders.
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American Legion YY. & & P
Monroe Hardware
Monroe Grocer
West Monroe
Thornhill
Bendel
Adams
Lowery
Young
Simmons
Musgrove
Morris
Pire
John Cano
J. Gill
V. S. & P. Ry. Emerged Victor In A Tight Esto Played With the Monrole Hardware
Missouri Pacific
Pete McVey
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