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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1923
Page
3
From page one of 24.8 feet a rise of 13 feet in twenty four hours floods backwater and inundates hundreds of acres near Pine Bluff. The river forecast at twenty nine feet lessens risk to levees as embankment strengthening continues to block the flood.
Monroe faces Homer at Forsythe Park in a three game series Friday to Sunday under Rebel Oakes. Key additions include Hubert from Alabama and Moore returning as a big league veteran. Covington also nearing full strength. Games start 4 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 3 30 p.m. Sunday with nine games in ten days.
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting tomorrow evening at the Monroe hotel with Rotary Kiwanis and Lions clubs members in attendance. Officers for the coming year will be elected and directors for both senior and junior boards announced. notable re-elections and new members listed. Sunny Jim Coombes district governor of Lions Clubs for Arkansas will speak as the principal address.
Receipt of a hometown committee endorsement for W. A. West of Jackson Louisiana and news a friend of Elmo Lee of Shreveport recently toured south Louisiana to gauge sentiment for a potential gubernatorial bid. Jeff B. Snyder of Tallulah and Judge J. G. Palmer of Shreveport were slated to speak but canceled from today’s program.
The page reports a wave of candidates entering the race in Caddo parish and surrounding districts. Shreveport figures including W. M. Wallace and B. H. Lichenstein are listed with others like Percy N. Browne and Judge David B. Samuel seeking state and city offices. Campaign events feature speeches by leaders and prospective candidates.
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce reports success in attracting manufacturing, including Southern Chemical Company and a major pulp and paper mill, with plans for 2200000,000 and a 30 to 70 person payroll. Officials highlight transcontinental highway efforts and completed Ouachita river locks and dams aiding future growth.
The Monroe Chamber of Commerce reports pushing a new hotel project to meet city needs and growth. It backs agricultural development with an expert agent and promotes public health, while securing approval for a $406,000 courthouse and jail bond. Secretary Collins led the campaign and lauds the organization’s service to the city and parish.
Isaac Lemle chairs a Monroe Tennis Association meeting at city hall. About twenty fans attend as rules are reviewed. Juniors split into two classes with entry $1. Senior men pay $5, women half that. Only association members may compete on July 4. Applications to Lemle Millsaps or Schulze.
Washington extends the flag program for two more days with speakers including Secretary Davis of the labor department, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt of the navy department, and John T. Tigert commissioner of education.
In Washington on June 14 President Harding said the flag means more to veterans than to ordinary citizens but that military service members owe no more to the flag than others. He urged elevating the flag’s honor among all Americans and endorsed protective measures for national defense. He suggested no law changes but called for broad civic endorsement.
Washington reports May cotton consumption at 620,966 lint bales and 64,728 linters, with April totals 577,396 lint and 59,192 linters. May on-hand in consuming establishments stands at 1,621,290 lint bales and 168,892 linters, while public storage holds 1,579,666 lint bales and 47,583 linters. Spindle activity drops to 35,390,137 for May. Imports reach 28,593 bales and exports total 160,863 bales with 2,818 linters.
The speaker pledges unwavering duty in saluting the flag in both official and unofficial roles. The flag is praised as a symbol of liberty for American schooling youth, a beacon for citizens abroad, and a sign of brotherhood from relief ships delivering aid to suffering peoples.
Hammond Indiana June 14 Dr Bill Elgrand president of the National Flag Day Association prepared address urges preservation of the nation s history through accurate facts and endowment to fund education and commemoration during annual Flag Day exercises.
Alvin Owsley national commander of the American Legion speaks in Indianapolis on June 14 asserting the 146th birthday of the American flag as a beacon of hope and faith amid a sick and exhausted world.
Ouachita Natural Gas & Oil Co of Monroe completed Walker No. 1 in section 32 19 5E Swartz parish. The gasser tests at 31 000 000 cubic feet of gas per day. The Louisiana department of conservation tested the well with R P Webb and D S Cook supervising.
The American Association of State Highway Officials will hold meetings in New Orleans on December 3 4 5 and 6 following a letter to Wilson T Peterman chairman of the Louisiana highway commission from W Markham executive secretary of the organization The Louisiana official invited last year the executive committee has accepted Fort Worth Texas to erect a monument honoring Confederate women the second such memorial in the United States
Mrs. L. L. Deen receives word of the death of A Blanchard of Little Rock former Monroe resident and Missouri Pacific conductor. Burial held in Little Rock. widow and one daughter survive. Golf tournament opens in Baton Rouge with about one hundred golfers. leaders include Frank Godehaux Nelson Whighey and Hert Jones from New Orleans.
Five ministry representatives try to carry on a shattered national administration in Peking after President Li Yuan-Hung fled to Tientsin. Reports say Li Yuan-Hung was captured at Tientsin railway station aboard his special train amid a search for government seals.
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