Defense guns miss airmen in U. S. tests at Langley
Langley Field aviators towing targets faced shrapnel and machine gun fire in a War Department test at Fort Monroe Virginia. Despite high winds 39 shrapnel rounds failed to hit, a single direct machine gun hit occurred, and searchlights failed to reveal the aircraft. Army naval officials praised machine gun performance and aerial defense potential while noting limited shrapnel effectiveness.
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Monroe
Mar. F
Langley Field
Congress
Army
Navy
War Department
House Aircraft Committee
Ming
Coastrtillery
Riveride Country Club Contract Awarded for New Home
The Riveride Country Club homes project on Cole Island was let to W. C. Salley of Bernice for 22500 dollars. The one story frame building, 105 by 100 feet in an L shape, will include a central fireplace, large dining space, music area, and expansive porches as plans emphasize beauty and utility. Construction to begin Monday with rapid completion expected and designed to overlook golf links.
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Riveride Country Club
Cole Island
W. C. Salley
Bernice
J. W. Smith
Mary Lee
Students at Mississippi Woman's College Endow Fund
Five hundred students at the Mississippi Woman's college in Hattiesburg agree to skip Sunday night suppers for the rest of the year. The savings will be added to the college's $100,000 endowment fund effort.
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Hattiesburg
Miss
Mississippi Woman's College
North Louisiana high school tourney heats Ruston field
Twenty three teams gathered at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute in Ruston for the North Louisiana high school basketball tournament with morning eliminations using three minute periods. Semifinals to follow as teams vie for honors at the North Louisiana rally in April.
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News-Star
Ruston
O Quachita Parish High School
Urania
Clarks
Oak Ridge
North Louisiana
Hall Summit
Dry
Weldon
Haynesville
Ouachita Parish
Coushatta
Bryceland
Jamestown
Farmerville
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Athletic Field
Th Field
Monroe
Parish High
City High
Mike Smith
Prescott Smith
Vernon Coates
W. Griffin
W. Guy
Arthur Tidwe
Terry
Parish
Major Prince of
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Arnold J. Bagwell
R. Kline
Walden
Thompson
Louisiana College
Stroud and
Tete
Bolton High
Alexandria
Highway reroute to Ruston sparks regional protest
Shreveport and Natchitoches chambers oppose Jefferson Highway shift to pass through Ruston, cutting Shreveport out. A special delegation will travel to Kansas City for the association meeting to press against routing changes. The proposed path would run from Russellville Arkansas to Little Rock Ruston Alexandria and New Orleans, bringing the road closer to Monroe if moved. Monroe keeps watch on the northwest state reroute.
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Shreveport
Chamber of Commerce
Natchitoches
Jefferson Highway
Ruston
Kansas City
Canada
Gulf
Russellville Ark
Little Rock
Alexandria
New Orleans
Texas
Monroe
Pershing Calls on President Zayas in Havana Visit
General Pershing with Ambassador Crowder and Secretary Jordan called on President Zayas in Havana today. A cavalry escort accompanied the party to the palace.
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Pershing
Zayas
Havana
Crowder
Jordan
La Follette faction blocks early Senate organization
In Washington on March 7 the Republican drive to organize the new Senate stalled as Norris and Borah opposed rapid action. Borah condemned removing insurgents from senior ranks as impolitic and unfair while warning campaign spokesmen must explain the move to voters. Watson and Brookhart clashed over party unity and past defections.
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Washington
Senate
la Follette
Norris
Nebraska
Borah
Idaho
Majority Committee On Committees
Republican Committee On Committees
Watson
Indiana
Republican Party
Brookhart
Iowa
Big Railroad Merger Considered Linking KC Southern to L R N
L F Loree and KC Southern officials in New Orleans discuss acquiring the Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company. A syndicate of New York bankers seeks consolidation of four large systems, potentially including the Chicago and Alton. The merger would span ten states with about 15000 miles of track and an $800 million capitalization.
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Orleans
New Orleans
L. F. Loree
Kansas City Southern Railway
Louisiana Railway and Navigation Company
Texas
Shreveport
Kansas City
New York
St. Louis
Chicago
San Francisco
Missouri
Kansas
Chicago & Alton
Union
Lavaye Faces Court Ordered Land Removal by Oil Company
Lavaye Wyoming residents confront a federal court decree ruling the town site of 1,500 people belongs to Ohio Oil. The judge ordered possession within sixty days via government lease for oil development, prompting an appeal to the U S circuit court. Contempt citations threaten residents who stay past deadline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lavaye
T. Blake Kennedy
Cheyenne
Ohio Oil Company
Oil Company
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Kennedy
Lavoye
Lumber Plant Burns in Alexandria Big Loss Reported
A Chopin Lumber Company plant in Alexandria Louisiana burned this morning destroying the planer office and several carloads of lumber. The fire cut off mill communication and total loss was not yet estimated. Robert Stack of Alexandria is company president.
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Alexandria, la
Chopin
Robert Stack
Alexandria
Fleets swing into formations for mimic fight off Mexican coast
Aboard the U S S Seattle off the Mexican coast the two great fleets totaling 109 United States war crafts prepare for a dramatic mimic combat. The staged clash is described as one of the Pacific’s most spectacular maneuvers.
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U. S. S. Seattle
Mexican Coast
A. P
United States
Pacific
Funeral services for Rev Murrah conducted today
Jackson Mississippi March 7 funeral for Right Rev Bishop W B Murrah of the Methodist Episcopal Church South who died in Memphis will be held this afternoon at 4 in Millsaps College chapel. Bishop Candler of Atlanta presides assisted by other clergy. Students keep guard over the remains and hundreds pay respects before a procession to Greenwood cemetery in the family lot.
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Jackson
Miss
W. B. Murrah
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Memphis
Millsaps College
Murrah
Bishop Candler
Atlanta
Millsaps
College Chapel
Greenwood Cemetery
River Stage Readings for Mississippi and Red Rivers
Measurements show river levels for Mississippi at St Louis Memphis Vicksburg New Orleans and Red at Shreveport Alexandria with rises and falls. Notable values include Vicksburg 34.9 rising 0.4 and Monroe Ouachita 15.1 falling 0.2.
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Mississippi
St. Louis
Memphis
Vicksburg
New Orléans
Red
Shreveport
Alexandria
Ouachita
Camden
Monroe
Couch Seeks City Plant Acquisition in Mississippi
Harvey Couch interests push to acquire light plants in several cities including West Monroe. Aberdeen offers the plant for 105000 cash plus a five year free street lighting pledge by Couch’s Mississippi Light & Power Co. rivalries exist with Alabama Power, Coosa and Cherokee Bluff hydro plants.
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Harvey Couch
West Monroe
Aberdeen
Miss
Alabama Power Co
Mississippi Power & Light Co
Mississippi Light & Power Co
Couch
Tupelo
North Louisiana
Mr. Couch
Alabama Comany
Cherokee Bluffs
Coosa River
Pine Bluff and
Sterlington Company
Reprieve sought for Amos White facing hanging
The Louisiana State Board of Pardons will review a commutation request next Monday for Amos White, a 28 year old Black man sentenced to be hanged for the July 1922 murder of his wife, Gladys White, near Armistead. White has already received two sixty day reprieves amid questions over circumstantial evidence and an alleged confession.
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Shreveport
State Board of Pardons
Baton Rouge
Amos White
Coushatta
Gladys White
Armistead
White
O. H. Simpson
Henry Bethard, Jr
Bethard
S. M. Coyle
Retria
J. W. Jones
Irc
Extradition Battle Over Borglum in North Carolina
Gutzon Borglum, the Stone Mountain Memorial sculptor deposed in Georgia, fights extradition to DeKalb County. He arrived in Greensboro for habeas corpus hearings after authorities tied him to destroying memorial models.
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Greensboro
N. C
Gutzon Borglum
Stone Mountain
Atlanta
Clifford Walker
Stone Mountain Confederate Monumental Association
North Carolina
DeKalb County
Borglum
A. P
Borgium
Stone Mountain Monumental Association
Salesman Says He Is Author Marries Widow in Georgia
In Macon Georgia Mrs George Ade widow of Griffin Ga married a man six weeks ago who claimed to be Indiana author George Ade. Local reporters later found another Ade in Florida and after long distance calls the husband admitted he sold meat and might drive taxi. The other George Ade denied the Macon story as a fable.
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Macon
George Ade
Tom Oxford
Griffin
Indiana
Alabama
Florida
Kentland
Ind
Brook
Brooklyn
Associated Press
Belleair
Fla
Baton Rouge Pastor Recovers From Appendicitis Attack
Dr K H Knight pastor of First Baptist Church Baton Rouge operated on in Alexandria La after an acute appendicitis attack and showed improvement after a good night in hospital. In Kiev Ukraine Father Andrae Fedoukovitch Polish Catholic priest was burned alive in Jitomir authorities say attackers were agents of Polish secret police.
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Alexandria
K. H. Knight
First Baptist Church of
Baton Rouge
Kiev
Ukraine
A. P
Andrae Fedoukovitch
Jitomir
Here
Accel Police
Texas bootlegger on convict gang escape
B J Stanley, a Texas bootlegger sentenced for prohibition law violations, escaped after leaping onto a running board of a passing car with convicts on a public road near Carson Beauregard parish. Theodore Rice, the car driver, was arrested as an accomplice. It was suggested Stanley switched to a car driven by his wife.
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Lake Charles
B. J. Stanley
Texas
Carson
Beauregard Parish
Theodore Rice
Rice
Stanley
Mallard duck released in Illinois travels to Louisiana 1922 1924
A mallard duck no 102444 released near Browning Illinois on March 7 1922 by F C Lincoln traveled nearly three years and reached La Fourche swamp near Monroe Louisiana. An aluminum leg tag from the U S Biological Survey led the finder to mail the tag for a Washington report showing long distance migration and purpose of tagging to study bird life and migrations.
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Browning
Ills
F. C. Lincoln
la Fourche Swamp
Monroe
Ilinois
L. R. Henry
Henry
la Kautie
U. S
Washington
Biological Survey Department
North
America
Simons to become interim president of German Republic
Berlin March 7. Reichstag majority parties plan to appoint Dr Walter Simons as interim president of the German republic until a successor to the late Ebert is elected. Simons, former foreign minister and current president of the supreme court at Leipzig, would allow Hans Luther to continue as chancellor. He led German reparations talks and later served as legal adviser on the Upper Silesian boundary commission.
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Berlin
Reichstag
Walter Simons
Simons
Supreme Court
Leipsich
Ebert
Hans Luther
Dr. Simons
Fehrenbach
Japan adopts strict peace preservation act against communists
Tokio March 6. The house passes the peace preservation act also called the anti Bolshevist law. It provides imprisonment for most communist activities and is described by government officials as a response to the Japan Russia agreement. A heavy police guard surrounded parliament during the vote.
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Tokio
A. P
School Superintendent Dies After Car Attack
FATONTON Ga March 71 W C Wright Putnam county school superintendent died at 9 30 this morning from injuries from an assault after giving a lift in his car near Eatonton. Three men held in jail in Atlanta are charged in connection with the assault on the educator who spent forty years with the Georgia school system.
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Fatonton
W. C. Wright
Putman County
Eatonton
Atlanta
Georgia School System
Missing officers feared dead after Vinton raid
Lake Charles deputy Sam Duhon and federal agent L G Collins vanish after going to the Dunn home near Vinton to raid a suspected liquor operation. Fire destroys the Dunn house as deputies and New Orleans helpers search the area for clues amid theories of foul play and kidnapping.
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Lake Charles
Lyons
Vinton
Sam E. Duhton
L. G. Collins
New Orleans
Dunn Brothers
Byron
Eustice
Bob Dunn
Duhon
Dunn
Collins
H. Rhordriguez
Raymond Lyons
Calvin Pereto
Hcuse
Byron Dun
Byron Dunn
C. D. Jackson
Prohibition
Fishermen and Horses Drowned in Sea of Azov Ice
In Ekaterinoslav on March 7 reports say 150 fishermen and 60 horses perished after their ice floe broke in the Sea of Azov. The men were out with hay and horses and wagons when rescue arrived too late.
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Sea of Azov
Russia
Ekaterinoslav
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George Campbell Carson
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Habeas Corpus
Tex
Duck
Illinois
German Republic
Japan
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