Mission Drive Boosts Church Support Across Parishes
A Monroe district report details a church led drive urging parishioners to fill quotas for a nationwide Methodist campaign. Leaders target Holywood and Richland parishes with a $27 million goal to fund missions in Europe Africa Asia and the Americas while supporting education and spiritual rebuilding after the war.
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Monroe Dist
Monroes
Vwirst Church
West Monroe
Ope
W. R. Harved
W. S. Henderson, Jr
Richland Parish
Rt Randle
I. T. Reamnes
J. M. Alford
Forth
Ming
Franklin Parish
W. . Woodward
Holly Grove
George
Gilbert
D. Howard
Hoeuff Prairie
H. Hatfield
Crowville
McKee
Wisner
Winnsro
Albert S. Lutz
Madison Parish
D. ¢Arr
Tallulah
Dro, Parr
Methodist Episcopal Church
South
Europe
Africa
Asia
America
Methodist Church of America
Church In America
Murdoc
Nashville
W. BR. Beauchamp
Unitec
Brough
Arkansas and Louisiana Midland seeks federal referees
The Arkansas and Louisiana Midland Railway Company asks for a board of referees to fix compensation from the government Railroad Administration. The dispute raises whether short line roads were ever under federal control amid earlier orders that later released them. The text also notes a large exhibition plan featuring international natives and missions as part of a centenary effort.
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Washington
iBy
Associated Press
Arkansas and Louisiana Midland Railway Company
Monroe
Ofder
Commercial courses lead disabled soldiers to new careers
Washington May 15 The Federal Board for Vocational Education re educates disabled soldiers through commercial courses in general office practice stenography typing bookkeeping cost accounting secretarial work and salesmanship Courses are offered in business colleges nationwide with near home placements. Soldiers receive at least 65 dollars monthly plus dependent allowances Tuition and incidental fees are paid by the Federal Board and transportation is provided. Upon course completion the placement division seeks employment for graduates ready to work.
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Washington
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Federal Board
Baptists Attack War Department Attitude at Convention
Atlanta May 14 The sixty fourth annual Southern Baptist convention opened with over 2,500 delegates, nearly 4,000 expected, and a plan to press Congress and President Wilson on what Dr J B Gambrill called the department's stance against denominational religious work. Total Baptist giving topped 17 million in the past year, including 1.225 million to foreign missions and 859,006 to home missions, up sharply from last year.
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Atlanta
Southern Baptist Convention
J. B. Gambrill
Dallas
War Department
Gambrill
Southern Baptists
Foreign Mission Board
Home Mission Board
Congress
Wilson
VET MONUMENT VANDALISM REPORTED NEAR AMERICUS
An investigation is under way in Southerfield near Americus after a group of aviation cadets allegedly visited Andersonville Ga to deface the grave marker of Major Henry E. Weize with red and black colors, staining the Civil War site honoring 15060 Federal soldiers.
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Macon
Associated Press
Southerfield
Americus
Andersonville
Henry E. Weize
Grand Jury Sets Special Road District Session Monday
Ouachita Parish judge Hon. Fred M. Odom calls the grand jury to meet at 10 o clock Monday to probe the sanitarium invasion and the shooting death of George Holt near Cheniere. The panel will investigate mob involvement and identify those responsible amid regional criticism. The Ouachita Police Jury approves Road District No. 3 west of the river and awaits a state supreme court ruling on a bond election in Jackson parish before final action.
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Fred M. Odom
Ouachita Parish
George Holton
Cheniere
Monroe
State Supreme Court
Jackson Parish
Austrian Peace Terms Likely to Be Presented Next Wednesday
Paris reports that Austrian peace terms are expected for the Austrian delegation next Wednesday. The terms reportedly require dismantling the Skoda Works and other armament plants. The Council of Four also discussed military terms, including the prohibition of conscription.
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Paris
Skoda
Council of Four
Republicans Set Official Senate Slate Amid Unity
Republican senators meeting in Washington unanimously approved a slate for Senate officers and committees. They chose Cummings for president pro tempore, Lodge as floor leader, Curtis as whip, Wadsworth as secretary, and Parry as sergeant at arms. A nine member steering committee was formed with McCumber as chair.
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Washington
Cou Énce
Senate
Penrose
Pennsylvania
Warren
Wyoming
Cummings
Iowa
Senato Horah
Idaho
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Senator Curtis
Kansas
Wadsworth
New York
David Parry
Providence
R. T
Brandigee
Senator McCumber
North Dakota
Lodge
Senator New
Semitas Borah
Johnson
California
Two Wives Too Many for Temple Arrest in Polygamy Case
Harry Temple was arrested in Grayling after his second marriage violated bigamy laws. Wife No 2 Myrtis Brown Temple accuses him of marrying in New Orleans in 1918 and notes an unsatisfactory union. Wife No 1, from Mississippi, had sued for divorce, and Temple admitted mistreatment and a recent beating.
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Harry Temple
Temple
Three 2
Grayling
Sheriffs Brothers
Rover
Myrtis Brown Temple
New Orleans
Wife
Mississippi
Tempe
Bank Statements Called For in National Banks
Washington May 15 The comptroller of the currency has issued a call for a statement of the condition of all national banks at close of business May 12.
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Washington
Comptroller of
Korean Privy Council Approves Partial Government Revision
Tokio May 15 The privy council met under the emperor and decided on a partial revision of Korea's organic governmental system.
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Corean
Tokio
Associated Press
Privy Council
Six Die As Coal Barge Sinks Near Isles of Shoals
Six persons drowned when the coal laden barge Manticoke sank off the Isles of Shoals near Portsmouth New Hampshire. The captain's wife and four children and the engineer perished. the captain and a deck hand survived.
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Portsmouth
N. H
Isles of Shoals
Raymond Fosdick Named American Representative to League Council
Raymond Fosdick a New York lawyer and former chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities during World War I will serve as the American representative on the council of the League of Nations when it is organized official word confirms Fosdick's selection by the United States government and the allied nations.
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Raymond Fosdick
Washington
New York
Commission
Council
League of Nations
Five Giant De Haviland Planes Start Cross Country Flight
Love Field Texas May 15 five Giant De Haviland airplanes left shortly after 11 o'clock on the first leg of a cross country flight to Boston with Oklahoma City as the first scheduled stop.
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Love Field
Texas
de Haviland
Boston
Oklahoma City
Balloon in Air for 26 Hours Across Atlantic Flight
Washington reports show poor weather delaying a possible nonstop run of the American dirigible C-5 from Trepassey to the British Isles. The craft had been aloft twenty five hours and forty five minutes from Montauk Point, with Commander Towers saying readiness remained intact and no orders yet issued for the next leg.
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Washington
Towers
Trepassey
Atlantic
St. Johns
N. F
British Isles
Montauk Point
N. Y
Peace terms disputed as German signoff looms on Rhine front
Paris May 14 The Women’s International Conference for Permanent Peace condemns Versailles terms as unjust. Mrs Snowden and Miss Rankin back a protest urging fair peace. Marshal Foch moves on the Rhine and warns of immediate action if Germany refuses to sign. Austrian mission at St Germain awaits terms. Adriatic issue may delay broader approval.
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Paris
Women's International Conference For Permanent Peace
Zurich
Peace Conference
International Conference of Women
Versailles
Snowden
England
Jeanette Rankin
United States Congress
Montana
Associated Press
Germany
Anothe
Council of Four
Marshal Foch
Rhine
St. Germain
Adriatic
Cotton Growers Form Organization Amid Controversy
At a secret New Orleans meeting 400000 acres of cotton lands were represented as the American Cotton Growers League was formed to consider a 190 million export corporation. A Houston member, R F Work, was named to draft plans to counter alleged influences from brokers and New England manufacturers.
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New Orleans
American Cotton Growers’ League
New England
R. F Work
Houston
Texas
Associated Press
League
Attorney General Rules 25 Percent Beer Illegal
Washington May 15 Attorney General Palmer advised Internal Revenue Commissioner Roper that beer with 25 percent alcohol is illegal but officials say the ruling will not halt production before a federal district court in New York decides the case under review.
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Washington
Palmer
Internal Revenue
Roper
Federal District Court of New York
German Labor Note Rejected by Council of Four
Paris May 14 The Council of Four declines to consider the note from Von Brock Rantzau on international labor legislation. Premier Clemenceau states Allied governments are satisfied with the decision and expect reforms workers have the right to demand after five years of trials.
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Paris
Council of Four
von Brock Rantzau
Clemenceau
Wilson to send brief message to Congress
Paris dispatch says President Wilson advised the cable company his forthcoming message to Congress will be only a few hundred words so it can be read aloud quickly on the day of delivery.
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Paris
Associated Press
Wilson
National Anti-Saloon League Sets Prohibition Enforcement Goal
A statement from the National Anti-Saloon League headquarters at Westerville Ohio says the league will prioritize enforcing prohibition nationwide as the statutory and constitutional prohibition nears effect. The note responds to inquiries about league actions once prohibition becomes effective.
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Columbus
Ohio
National Anti-Saloon League
Westerville
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