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14 May 1924
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Monroe News Star in Monroe, Louisiana
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1924
Page
1
Baton Rouge Murders and Gas-Themed Crime Report
A scrambled item notes a second hammer murder in Baton Rouge and a prior Orleans incident. It touches on crime, moonshine gas theft, gangland burials in Chicago, Indian chief visits in Monroe, and a committee report on river pollution bills.
Bootleggers Plea Screen Attacked By Anti-Saloon Leader
May 14 report from Washington records Wayne B. Wheeler of the Anti-Saloon League rebuking a petition by the Bootlegger’s Union of America to modify the Volstead Act for 2.75 per cent beer. Wheeler calls the appeal fake and warns it would revive saloons, undermine prohibition, and aid brewers with immense profits. He displays photos of fortified breweries and says bootleggers would not stop at evidence destruction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Baptists Decry Controversy On Fundamentalism
The sixty ninth annual Southern Baptist convention opened in Atlanta with over 6 000 delegates from many states. Officers will be elected after Dr E M Mullins of Louisville delivers the opening address. Speakers condemn modernist fundamentalist clashes and urge U S entry into the League of Nations. A resolution backs stronger prohibition laws and opposes current bills to modify the Volstead act. Senator Walter F George of Georgia and Rep William D Upshaw of Georgia address the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Southern Baptist Convention
Maryland
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Texas
S. Carolina
Florida
Arkansas
Georgia
District of Columbia
Ilinois
Tennessee
Virginia
Alabama
Louisiana
New Mexico
Missou
Northern Baptist Convention
E. ¥. Mullins
Louisville
Mullins
George W. Daniel
Richmond
Z. T. Cody
Greenville
S. C
John D. Mell
Athens
United States
League of Nations
Congress
Douglas Freeman
Richmond, Va
Walter F. George
America
George
William D. Upshaw
Texas and Pacific ends eight year receivership
The Texas and Pacific Railroad completes reorganization and terminates its eight year receivership. Missouri Pacific gains control with Gould family representation. Trans-Mississippi Terminal Company assets and New Orleans terminals to benefit from planned improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Texas and Pacific Railroad
J. L. Lancaster
Dallas
Federal
Western District
Louisiana
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Texas and Pacific
Trans-Mississippi Terminal
Annunciation Street
William H. Williams
The
Missouri Pacific
Gould
South
Ee Senger
Minister MacDonald Holds War Debt Talks Delay
In Indón May 14, Minister MacDonald said in the Commons he would not seek U S entry or allied debt relief until concrete terms are agreed with ports committees and a broader conference is considered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MacDonald
Commons
United States
River Days Return as America Passes Bridge
Crowds of African Americans gathered on twin bridges to welcome the riverboat America. As the vessel rounded the bend its whistle signaled dinner on board and a chorus of songs rose from below deck while men debated work onshore and watched for planks to be lowered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montwin
America
Jerica
Sunday Leaves for Repairs at Mayo Clinic
Evangelist William A. Sunday leaves Memphis with his wife and doctor for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester to receive treatment for kidney and related disorders. He cancels his evangelistic campaign after two weeks of illness and a fever, with 5,000 at his tabernacle hoping for a final sermon. He travels by special car via Panama Limited, Chicago, and the Northwestern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Memphis
Tenn
William A
Billy) Sunday
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Tabernacle
Chicago
Northwestern
Soule College Head Celebrates Birthday
New Orleans May 14 Colonel George Soule educator author and mathematician marked his ninety tenth birthday today by granting the business college students he founded in 1858 a half holiday. Born May 14 1834 in Barrington New York he served as a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate army and remains active in leading the institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
George Soule
Business College
Col. Soule
Barrington
N. Y
Ais
De Ridder Churches Protest Fuqua Inauguration Ball
Emmanuel Baptist Church of DeRidder passes resolutions denouncing the inauguration ball for Governor elect Fuqua. The church says its members opposed modern dancing and believes their vote favored Fuqua. A DeRidder Methodist church adopted similar resolutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DE Ridder
Fuqua
Lake Charles
Emmanuel Baptist Church of
DeRidder
Henry L. Fuqua
Conference Deadlocks on Rail Wage Changes
A Chicago conference on new wages and working rules for about 55 000 engineers and firemen on 90 western railroads ended without agreement after a deadlock since Monday. A move to have the U S railroad labor board assume jurisdiction was urged by railroad managers. The railroads proposed about a five and one half percent wage increase as in the New York Settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United State Railroad Labor Board
Committee of
New York
Former wife refused bail by ex husband in forgery case
Mrs. Eleano r Elaine Lee Harris was arraigned in Tombs court on forgery charges pressed by her husband Beverly D. Harris former National City Bank vice president. Bail set at 2000 dollars then reduced to 1000 with surety bond. hearing adjourned to Friday.
Mrs Eleanor Harris Held on Forgery Charge in New York
Mrs Eleanor Elaine Lee Harris wife of Beverly D Harris a former National City Bank vice president was jailed on third degree forgery charges after her husband alleged she forged his name on a letter to seek a retrial of their annulment case Bail was set at 3000 dollars amid a courtroom dispute over her social and moral standing in the marriage and prior misrepresentation claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Eleanor Elaine Lee Harris
Tombs Court
Beverly D. Harris
The
National City Bank
Harris
Clinton Street
Supreme Court
Beverly
Lee
South
Memphis
Masked executioner ban eyed in Louisiana bill
Louisiana lawmakers draft a bill to ban masks used by secret organizations, targeting the masked hangman system where sheriffs hire a masked man to execute condemned prisoners. The job pays $50 and the hangman’s identity is hidden by a long mask.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Bank robbery at Delhi targets unsigned five dollar bills
Two unidentified men robbed the Macon Ridge National Bank of Delhi of unsigned five dollar bills from a non locked state vault area. Officials report all notes carry number 200 and lack cashier signatures, prompting a state wide examination of such certificates and warnings to merchants. Two suspects seen near the bank and a number of local men questioned. no arrests announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon Ridge National Bank of
Delhi
Bar Members to Honor Dawkins on Appointment
Louisiana Bar Association plans a ceremony to mark Ben C. Dawkins’s appointment as United States district judge for the Western District of Louisiana. The event, likely at 11 a.m. Saturday in New Orleans court rooms, will feature Denters J. Smith of New Iberia, Allan Scholars of Monroe, and possibly Chief Justice O’Neil. Dawkins has received his commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana Bar Association
Ben C. Dawkins
United States
Western District of Louisiana
Supreme Court
New Orleans Court House
Dawkins
Bar Association
Denters J. Smith
New Iberia
Allan Scholars
Monroe
O'Neil
Crepe on Camden square posts halted by police
Magnolia Arkansas dispatch reports Camden police enforce Sunday closing law by removing crepe draped on public square drive posts. Officers faced objections from business owners who opened late and two arrests followed ice factory sales on Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shreveport
Times Today
Magnolia
Arkansas
Camden
Methodist uproar over radicalism charge at conference
Springfield Massachusetts May 14 The Methodist Episcopal general conference erupted as a charge that the church aided communism and the Third International drew loud protests Harry F Ward head of the Civil Liberties Union and editor of the Methodist Federation for Social Service was declared beyond the conference's jurisdiction The report cited circulation of federation bulletins about the arrest of communists in Berrien County Michigan two years ago
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Mass
Methodist Church
Third International
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
Harry F. Ward
The
Civil Liberties Union
Methodist Federation For Social Service
Bulletins
Federation
Berrien County
Michigan
Dawkins to Assume Louisiana Federal Bench in Shreveport
May 14 report states Judge Ben C. Dawkins will arrive mid next week to take charge as the new U S district judge for the Western District of Louisiana. He is expected to keep existing appointees at first and may base in Monroe while retaining Shreveport headquarters. U S Attorney Mecom seeks a June 16 special term in Shreveport and relocation of Alexandria and Lake Charles terms to earlier dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawkins
Shreveport
Ben C. Dawkins
Western District of
Louisiana
New Orleans
Jack
Monroe
United States
Philip A. Mecom
Lake Charles
Mecom
Alexandria
Opelousas
Wilson Oil Pollution Bill Favorable Report Hearings
Word from Washington states the House Rivers and Harbors Committee returned a favorable report on the Wilson Oil Pollution bill. The measure, drafted by Congressman Riley J. Wilson of the district, places administration under the Secretary of War and sets penalties for violations to be assessed by federal district courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson
Monroe
Washington
House Committee On Rivers and Harbors
Riley J. Wilson
Secretary of War
Hughes denies role in Martha Washington sale
Washington May 14 Secretary Hughes declares the claim he aided the sale of the steamship Martha Washington to its former owners is absolutely false. He says he has had no involvement since joining the cabinet after reading correspondence before the House Shipping Board Investigating Committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hughes
Martha Washington
The
Shipping Board
House Shipping Board Investigating Committee
Davis
Tennessee
House Merchant Marine Committee
Trieste Corporation
Austria
State Department
Trieste
Meridian
Miss
Marion McKay Adams
Chancery
Virgil C. Adams
Mississippi
Meridian Am Commerce
Klan Leader Blames Underwood for Campaign Distraction
Nathan Bedford Forrest, grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia, declares that the Underwood committee’s statement was an effort to divert attention from their candidate’s wet record. He says the real issue in the Democratic nomination is the prohibition question.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Ku Klux Klan
Georgia
Underwood Committee
Washington
Underwood
Alabama
al Smith
New York
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