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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1923
Page
3
In a tense contest, Monroe boys outpaced their local rivals with strong defense and key baskets. Eric J Flor and several teammates led the scoring surge as Missouri league play continued with yesterday’s results and today’s games on the schedule.
A. Bourland, former Monroe resident, died of heart failure at his Little Rock home. Funeral held from family residence with interment in Little Rock cemetery. survived by widow and one daughter. Also notes on a baseball game where Boswell and Turner produced a run, a misstep by Handy, and a crowd from the fair sex. League tie between Ledtue Leaders and Missouri Pacific Railroads ended 4 to 4. Bankers scoring amid a misplayed pitch. game ended at sixth due to darkness with Beadle and Peterson officiating.
The American Cotton Oil Company's West Monroe mill, the state’s largest, shut down indefinitely after a stockholder dispute. About 75 workers were told to seek other jobs as repairs paused and a caretaker took over. The decision follows a notice to employees and a company-wide closure plan, with no reopening timetable.
Jackson Mississippi June 15 attorney general Clay ton Potter rules new hotels are tax exempt for five years under state statutes. A million dollar hotel is under construction in Jackson.
Reports circulated among Parliament friends say Andrew Bonar Law has grown worse after resigning as prime minister and is now seriously ill, despite earlier improvements.
The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan North Louisiana chapter announces a large July 4 event at Kansas plantation near Monroe. A free barbecue, music, and a 11 am address by Dr. William McDougall precede a public open air initiation at 8 pm with hundreds of candidates. Publicity committee notes events run alongside Elks celebration and Forsythe park game.
Assoc press reports preparations for a major Ku Klux Klan ceremony in Crowley Louisiana. Ten special trains and three more will provide track space with 5 000 parking spots and telephone and wire reach from Texas border towns to Morgan City and Alexandria. Three thousand pounds of beef plus fowl and other meat will be barbecued. Seating for 750 at one sitting. The grandstand at the old Fair Grounds reserved for ladies and children. One thousand naturalization candidates on the program. Brass bands and singing to accompany the event. Grounds electrically lit with city water installed. Crowd anticipated to reach 15 000 to 20 000.
Herbert Geister, totally blind since age five, will graduate from John Marshall High School next Thursday with highest honors. He led his class with an average of 97 percent and won the World War Memorial scholarship of 200 dollars at the University of Chicago where he plans to study law. He is senior class president and helped defeat Buffalo high school in debate, crediting his sister Carol as his night eyes.
Associated Press reports Springfield notes Governor Small will defer signing a $100,000,000 road bond bill until after the ten day legislative recess. Voters must approve the measure at the November 1924 general election before it can take effect. The plan funds completion of about 1,000 miles of existing bonds and 2,400 miles of trunk line roads, totaling 8,500 miles of hard surface roads in Illinois.
Jackson Mississippi June 15 Negro leaders from across the state are called to meet June 19 and 20 to discuss the unrest driving farm laborers to northern industrial centers. The call and announcement come from the Natural Rural Industrial Association via the state chamber of commerce. Delegates from each community are urged to attend, including teachers and ministers.
Reuters dispatch wires from Peking report Li Yuan-Hung denies resigning as China president claiming duress. Washington notes civilian applications to enter citizens military training camps this summer have exceeded quotas in several states with total numbers rising over last night.
Allan Dwan directs The Glimpses of the Moon at the Saenger tomorrow with Bebe Daniels Nita Naldi Rubye de Remer David Powell Maurice Costello and Charles Gerrard in a lavish Paramount adaptation of Edith Whartons novel.
Jackson Mississippi June 156 Governor Russell pardoned Elmer Dedeaux a white man from Stone county who was on a suspended sentence for larceny and not in the penitentiary He cited four reasons including a false witness and miscarriage of justice The governor also suspended Jim Boyd a white man serving two years for manufacturing liquor noting the young age first offense helpful to officials and its wise policy to reward those aiding law enforcement
Governor Lee M. Russell pardoned George Turner of Vicksburg who was serving a six month term in Warren county jail for shooting and wounding J Mabry outside a hotel. Russell suspended a six month bootlegging sentence awaiting appeal before the state board of pardon.
The Tiger's Claw stars Jack Holt as Sam Sandell an engineer in India. Holt is attacked by a tiger and survives amid tropical fever. A plot by local thugs to drive whites from the country is thwarted by Sandell's native wife who warns him.
A collection of curious facts covers cancer in Tunis and Abyssinia, Armenia conquered by 42 nations, elephants unable to live in Central Africa, and few US towns start with X. Notes on Swedish shop etiquette, Southampton tides, Hungary’s bigamy penalty, growth rates, drum beating for smallpox, and historical cures.
Many engineers prefer not to drive an even numbered locomotive due to strong beliefs in bad luck, influencing operating practices and train assignments.
The article notes that the aborigines of Australia differ in several important respects from every other race on earth, reflecting contemporary beliefs about distinct cultural and physical traits.
Historical note records that among the 26 barons who signed the Magna Charta only three possessed the ability to write their names. The rest relied on scribes or seals to formalize the document. The statement highlights literacy gaps among medieval nobility.
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