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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1925
Page
1
Canton battles intensify as rival Chinese forces clash for control with many casualties. Foreign gunboats arrive and refugees crowd river fronts while a shuttle of Americans negotiates outside the city. Airplanes circle over Canton as strikes and unrest spread to Shanghai area.
The Rapides parish police jur y adopted a unanimous ordinance valid after August 1 making it unlawful for physicians to prescribe intoxicating liquor for medicinal use. Penalty on conviction ranges from 100 to 500 dollars or imprisonment. A second proposed measure aims to bar Sunday fishing or hunting in Rapides parish.
President Coolidge weary but pleased after a long day in Minnesota for the Norse American centennial. He and Mrs Coolidge rested overnight in Madison en route to Washington, with a reception at the Minnesota state capitol in St Paul and a rain swept state fair visit where he spoke over 30 minutes to a large attentive crowd.
In Jackson Mississippi the crude moonshine still seized by prohibition officers is shown in Chief Enforcer E S Chapman’s office. A rusty lard can with mud caulking forms the still and a wooden worm with mud seal connects to a gas pipe. Officials say the liquor sold to youths and the drink is described as deadly.
London reports that Britain acknowledges Franco-British reply to Germanys security pact proposal. The plan is a mutual assistance accord protecting both sides of the Rhine and linking German entry into the League of Nations to the pact. It positions the League as guardian and frames the agreement as a new entente among European powers.
In Sturgis Kentucky on June 9 the bodies of fourteen missing miners were recovered at the 400 foot level after an explosion at West Kentucky Coal Mining Company. Seven white men and ten African American workers were found, along with three others previously located.
Essen officials defend the Krupp works against disarmament demands saying misuse for military purposes is impossible. A sub commission of the allied control body is stationed at the plant to supervise Versailles treaty observance.
Major General Harry Taylor approved plans for a Mississippi River bridge at New Orleans with a 750 foot main span and 130 feet clearance above mean gulf level. The new design, favored over a low drawbridge, allows immediate construction within a $15 million limit, with piling to start next week and completion roughly 38 months after contracts are let.
Premier Painleve said he would fly to Morocco with M. Eynac to confer with Marshal Lyautey on the Riffian invasion. He aims to return in three to four days to inform parliament with firsthand knowledge of French operations amid growing enemy activity and difficulties for Abd-El-Krim's forces.
A jury of middle aged married business men is chosen in New York to try Dorothy Perkins 17 for the murder of her suitor Thomas Templeton. The state says she hid the pistol in her bedroom until a February party at home. The defense notes the struggle with her father over the revolver and Conners as the rejected suitor. First degree murder carries a possible electric chair sentence.
Monroe gains a first class state orphanage site after five years of effort led by Rev. R. J. Pirkey. The Lake Charles location moved to Monroe with 436 acres at DeSiard road, funded by local Baptists Mary Goss and Shreveport donors. Five cottages, landscaping, a 400 acre farm, and a private water system form a modern home for the institution.
Irvin H. Bacon died after a Bastrop diving accident in shallow water caused a vertebral fracture. His body was moved yesterday to Bastrop and funeral arrangements set for Wednesday at Bastrop Methodist Church at 4 30 p m with burial in Bastrop new cemetery.
Louisiana State Baptist Orphanage children arrive on the Rainbow Special at 7 25 am to a warm Monroe reception. They tour, dine, and are driven to the new DeSiard road home, with community leaders and city cars aiding the move. Formal dedication planned for summer after road paving completes.
Secretary Wilbur rejects sending dirigible Los Angeles or Shenandoah to hunt for Amundsen's polar party. He warns a wild goose chase is not feasible and opines heavier ships and existing MacMillan flights should precede any airship effort.
Richard Loeb, one of the Bobby Franks slayers, has shown rapid improvement after post-infectious delirium from measles, according to physicians at the Joliet prison hospital.
Mississippi levels list Memphis 6.6 with a 0.1 fall, Vicksburg 11.5 down 0.4, New Orleans 2.0 down 0.3. Red River shows Shreveport 8.4 down 0.2, Alexandria 5.5 down 0.3. Ouachita records Camden 3.9 stationary and Monroe 13.6 up 0.1.
Governor Fuqua offered a $100 reward for the slayer of Oscar B. Turner at LSU Baton Rouge. Police pursued theories of a student or janitor as suspect while finger print expert Maurice ONeill searched agronomy hall for clues. The case drew inquiries from Plymouth Illinois to New Orleans as investigators released no arrests.
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