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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1925
Page
1
J A ell deputy sheriff of Tulsa County was found dead by a roadside south of Nashoba. A posse and two prisoners being held for transfer to Granite reformatory are missing after the deputy's death as authorities pursue escaped inmates.
In Mississippi Bay St. Louis hearing set for injunction against removal of records. Five Harrison County supervisors and several officials are named as defendants in a bill alleging improper sale of school land assets to M D Tate, a Pearl River lumberman, for about 2200 dollars from lands valued at more than 15000.
In Chicago on March 25 a 1925 American League season pass is prepared in a pine envelope purse with a golf monogram for Mrs. Cal Coolidge. Johnson of the American League confirms the gift as she is noted among Washington fans. Passes for President Coolidge or Vice President Dawes will be standard folders with monograms.
Julius Rosenwald of Sears Roebuck and Company announced a charitable gift of 1,000,000 to the University of Chicago development fund. The gift aims to boost the fund by 7,500,000 this year and supports an alumni drive.
At San Pedro California March 25 the battleship fleet staged six minutes of loud gunnery drills as eleven dreadnoughts fired in sequence. Salvos from 16 and 12 inch guns roared across the Pacific while destroyers paddled ships and dummy heads. the exercise tested gun power and crew precision in a mock battle.
Two of eight Harrison county jail escapees in Mississippi returned to the jail at two A.M. and told the keeper they had made a mistake. W. J. Wilson, charged with issuing checks, said he wanted to see a Biloxi man on business and then came back. Joseph Barr, Bil oxian held for criminal assault, accompanied him and claimed no knowledge of the other six fugitives.
The Southern Pine Association reports strong support for mandatory grade marking of all lumber from member mills. Seventy nine mills covering 52.9 percent of production favor marking and an 8 cent per thousand feet assessment to fund a nationwide advertising campaign.
Stanko Jukich, who killed his 16 year old sweetheart Jennie Medeke in Ruth Nevada on February 14, faces execution by lethal gas as the second such sentence in Nevada after a Ely jury found him guilty of first degree murder. He claimed a marriage contract with the girl and her parents refused to honor it. The first lethal gas execution in Nevada was a Chinese man convicted of murder.
Washington reports quote Interior Department petroleum engineer R. Van A. Mills warning that corrosion of metal equipment in oil and gas fields causes vast waste and financial losses. He notes widespread junking of pipe tubing casing and other material and says many operations cannot profitably continue without reducing losses.
The Baltimore conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South voted 141 to 137 against unification with the northern branch, needing two thirds for approval. The vote ended a heated campaign led by W. W. Millen and Dr. Ernest Wolf, with adjournment by Bishop Warren A. Candler. The Cuban conference recently approved unification 48 to 0.
Dorothy Ellingson, 16, appears in San Francisco court without the makeup that marked her first days of trial for the murder of her mother Mrs Anna Ellingson. Nine men and two women sit as temporary jurors. she asks to be tried by elderly men and no women.
New York reporters name Salvatore J Florentine Joseph Mulholland Francis Kinnally Cornelius Kelly as charged in a series of late winter robberies in the financial district totaling over 200000 dollars. Robert J Leighton and Frank Hart are also tied to separate thefts involving bonds and certificates.
Newport Vermont report states grappling resumed for the body of C. H. Hutchins believed in a deep swamp above Lake Memphremagog near Coventry station. Yesterday a trapper recovered Edith M. Young 24 of Orleans a former schoolteacher on a buggy seat with a dead horse in the shafts. Uncertain if Hutchins survived or drowned with Young’s death and the buggy wreck.
Louis Dorn, a New Orleans street car conductor, welcomed triplets last week. Two infants died two days after birth while the surviving baby, weighing 3 pounds 12 ounces, remains in an incubator under his father’s hopeful prayers.
Urania Petroleum officials say equipment including piping tanks and a fine sand screen are en route to resume flow from Urania No 6. A liner will be removed and screen inserted to reconnect lines. Activity around Urania shows 20 and 40 acre tracts trading at 250 to 1000 dollars per acre amid cautious, mixed prospects.
Monroe's Chamber of Commerce launches a drive to list available rooms for oil visitors. Sig Masur heads the retail affairs panel guiding rooms via phone or in person to hotels, with distribution to ease overflow. The committee plans publicity and booklets for Urania.
John DeMoss received sixty days and $500 fine plus four months in jail in default of payment after pleading guilty to possession of whiskey. He was arrested after two gallons were found in his car on a highway near Fondale by Sheriff Coverdale Deputy Roper and Officer Thurmond. George Washington Hawthorne also faced whiskey charges with trial set for Saturday after a raid at his residence. his case was moved to district court from the city court.
Vicksburg Mississippi announces a centennial celebration on May 14 and 15 featuring a historical pageant and a flower parade marking the city’s 100th anniversary with events scheduled for early summer.
U S agricultural agencies publish status data on boll weevil in major cotton regions. Officials urge producers to monitor pest population trends and follow integrated management practices amid uncertain seasonal conditions.
A federal agricultural report projects a normal initial boll weevil emergence in the southeastern states for 1925 with lighter infestations from Alabama westward. Infestation will be highly variable, with sharp contrasts between nearby areas, and no tax-based relaxation in control is advised. The study tracks weevil survival in Spanish moss across Louisiana, Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi and cites historical records since 1915.
Mississippi smokers surveyed by state education head W F Bond show support for a 10 percent luxury tax on tobacco to fund free text books for school children. Bond reported nine of ten smokers questioned favored the tax as educators seek to raise public education funds.
Oil operators and Henry T. Hardtner gather at Urania La to push leasing around the Urania No 6 location as follow ups move toward an offset and a possible model town plan. Zeigin buys and sells acres with profits amid raids on trackage and rail needs.
Officers found three bottles of pink colored corn whiskey in a car with J. D. Stanley J. E. Porter and Alma Roberts. They faced Hood bill violations in court this morning. Stanley and Porter were fined 190 dollars and 60 days in jail costs. Roberts was discharged. A pink colored whiskey bottle was also located in the vehicle.
Louisiana conservation officers visited No 6 Urania well led by H W Bell and Capt R P Webb with Rep R L Prophit observing. They discussed potential regulations, surface casing specs, and plans for supervision if large drilling resumes, with permits to be issued from Ouachita bank office.
Berlin march 25 a Hamburg dispatch reports seven persons dead two missing and three seriously injured after an explosion on the oil lighter Saturn caused a harbor fire. Wreckage was hurled into city streets as the blast rocked the port of Hamburg.
The Mississippi and Red rivers show rising and falling levels at several towns. St Louis and Memphis report changes with fall and rise figures, while Vicksburg and New Orleans indicate shifts. Red River gauges note Shreveport and Alexandria lowering levels and Ouachita sites Camden and Monroe reporting declines.
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