06 Mar 1924
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1924
Page
1
The piece laments selective justice in the Teapot Dome affair, notes White House delays on tax return releases, and questions administration complicity while urging voter disapproval at the polls. It reflects on Daugherty, Denby, McLean, and broader party privilege. It ends with a weathered forecast about public sentiment.
Baton Rouge March 6 A P reports Dr Walter L Fleming dean of Vanderbilt College of Arts and Sciences is prominently mentioned as successor to President T D Boyd who retires at end of this year as head of Igba State University Fleming taught history at the university from 1907 to 1917 before going to Vanderbilt University
In Decatur Georgia Mrs Sarah Byfield seeks 100000 damages from Walter T Candler son of Asa G Candler over an alleged July 1922 attack aboard the Berengaria en route to Europe. The case arose after Candler sued Byfield for 25000 and a related note. The Byfield party included her husband Clyde and relatives attended the session.
Washington March 6 Developments in oil and other scandals revive talk of Attorney General Daugherty retirement. White House weighs a successor as at least three men were asked, including former Senator Kenyon of Iowa. Daugherty travels from Miami where his wife is ill amid Senate inquiry and grand jury findings involving officials near his office.
The escapee known as Memphis Sling, Will King, who broke from Morehouse parish jail at Bastrop, drifted to Monroe and stayed near Seventh and Wood streets. He, with white accomplice Jack Gardner, allegedly beat a woman with an ice pick, then fled as police arrived. King has a thirty year total sentence across three southern states and is sought nationwide.
City officials led by Mayor Arnold Bernstein and the Monroe Chamber of Commerce report hearings on the Wilson oil pollution bill before the rivers and harbors committee in Washington on March 14 and 15. Congressman Riley J. Wilson requested pollution data be ready for review. The city has collected photographs and material showing oil pollution effects and planned to present them, though trip details for the delegation remain undecided.
Mississippi news notes the Jordan bill to curb bathing suit length and athletic garb passes house public health committee with changes. The measure now limits outfits to knee and elbow lengths amid protests that such rules curb personal freedom.
President Coolidge sent two telegrams to Edward M. McLean of Florida. The messages concerned local District of Columbia government matters and congratulatory notes on Lincoln Day and the Senate Denby matter. Secretary Slemp issued corrections clarifying the February 12 telegram referenced the Denby issue.
The article argues that the Monroe field faces a declining gas supply with Swartz showing falling pressure. It critiques Bulletin Nine’s forty year estimate, discusses Rock Two prospects, and questions current carbon black use. It highlights the need for conservation and balanced industrial use to sustain employment and growth.
Washington March 6 report shows the house ways and means committee voted 16 to 3 to report a soldier bonus bill. Dallas March 6 gasoline prices rose four cents per gallon in the city today.
Washington March 6 The Senate finance committee moved to enact four joint resolutions to cut personal income taxes by 25 percent this year, with the reduction to apply to installments due March 15.
Washington March 6 Senator Harrison urged President Coolidge to make a direct public statement to clear suspicion surrounding the Prescott telegram to Edward B McLean. He said it is incumbent on the president to explain himself and not rely on others to speak for him.
Washington March. G Fred Startrek, a director of the War Finance Corporation, told the oil committee today that the matter he wanted to see E B McLean about, as mentioned in the McLean telegrams, concerned the purchase of the Washington Post.
The government will file bills of equity to recover Doheny and Sinclair oil leases claiming fraud and illegality. The action seeks return of naval reserves, injunctions against further drilling, receivership, and a special grand jury to weigh evidence around April 1. Proceedings target federal courts in Wyoming and southern California.
A movement gains ground in the house to establish the identities of the two representatives charged in a Chicago grand jury report with bribery. The conference included Speaker Gillett Publican Leader Longworth and others as Garrett’s resolution of inquiry is considered.
Former Veterans Bureau director Charles R Forbes appeared before a United States commissioner in Washington on March 6 and pleaded not guilty to fraud conspiracy and crime charges stemming from a Chicago jury verdict.
New York March 6 Cotton prices rose this day by three to four dollars per bale on stronger spot demand in the south and firmer Liverpool market signals. May contracts climbed to 29.19 in early trading as offerings remained light.
The House debate on Henry Ford's offer for Muscle Shoals concluded today at 3 56 p m. The session closed with applause as members adjourned.
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