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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1924
Page
1
A tax bill veto dominates today’s political brief. Lawmakers debate lines in committee while executive offices tout fiscal restraint and potential implications for budgeting and public services.
The piece discusses President Coolidge veto chances on a revenue bill, tax reduction themes, and the political climate of the era. It notes crowds for Carpentier and Gibbons in Michigan City on May 31, plus broader reflections on patriotism, veterans benefits, labor movement dynamics, and shifting social progress.
Harry K aw plans to surrender to New York prosecutors for an eight year old indictment alleging he assisted Frederick Gump in 1914. Me lie states Aw will face General Sessions Judge Olvany and seek bail and a trial date. Gump, once of Kansas City and now in California, had filed a damage suit against Thaw.
In Alexandria Louisiana May 20 the second annual Louisiana Trapshooters Association tournament crowned E Woodward of Houston as leader after breaking 150 birds. Other top shooters included F Me Lake Arthur Roy Bran Crowley W F Taylor Shreve T C Lewis Baton Rouge and uy Ward of Beaumont Texas who teamed in the doubles with strong percentages.
Fifty men from Evangeline parish gather in Ville Platte to trail Leo Wiggins, 27, son of the Evangeline Parish sheriff, whose body was found with gunshot wounds two miles from town. Bloodhounds from Crystal Springs expected to join as Erab Vidrine is held, while Sheriff Wiggins returns home from inauguration.
The 64th Presbyterian General Assembly in San Antonio, Texas, reaffirmed the church’s fundamental faith amid debates on modernism. It adopted caution in minister restoration, clarified disciplinary procedures, and prepared to decide on withdrawing support from the Nanking mission school over alleged modernistic teachings.
Washington May 20 A Republican representative Johnson introduces a resolution to silence amplifiers in the house chamber. He says the devices pick up every sound and create a loud babel of confusion. He claims voices are distorted to resemble a buzz saw squeal and other harsh noises.
Timothy P. O'Brien is jailed in Los Angeles on charges of stealing preserved human heads and other curios. Police traced the loot to a side show in Long Beach where O'Brien, owner of the show, kept Amazon treasures in his room.
New York newspapers published photographs transmitted from Cleveland via long distance telephone lines in a demonstration by American Telephone and Telegraph Company experts. The system promises quick, simple picture transmission on future lines with a ten minute delivery including development.
Clarence Cummings a Boonville farm worker said to admire Pearl Tidwell whose body was found with a crushed skull on a creek bank near her home. He denied knowledge of the killing as investigators detain him pending further inquiry. Tidwell disappeared while en route to a neighbor's home last Saturday and was found yesterday with head injuries and bruising.
Manchester report on the British communist party congress denouncing the Labor government for faithlessness and treachery to workers. The resolution calls for revolutionary action, nationalization without compensation, abolition of the monarchy, disarming the bourgeois, arming the proletariat, and imperial hostility to workers worldwide.
Baton Rouge crowds exceed ten thousand at the Fuqua inaugural reception and ball held at the University grounds in a large tent. Multi colored lights, an arch of lights, and a central band stand decorated the interior as about 60 university cadets and others managed entry and exit for orderly progression into the event.
The San Quentin prison crowd is embracing a bobbed hairstyle trend. Mrs. Virginia Clarke, serving a life term for murder, acts as unofficial barber. Clara Phillips, the Los Angeles hammer-murderess, is among those who have cut her hair. Louise Peet, also serving life for a Los Angeles murder, keeps hers long.
Washington May 20 The veto of the revenue bill pending in conference was forecast as administration spokesmen warned enactment of the bonus bill passed yesterday would force President Coolidge to disapprove the tax reduction measure. Re passage over a veto and conferees work to finish the main differences between Senate and House plans. The Simmons plan would raise the maximum surcharge to forty percent versus the 37 1/2 percent Longworth scheme.
Five were arrested and three automobiles confiscated during the inaugural ball last night by federal prohibition enforcement officers. Those arrested were Phillip S. Gilbert of Napoleonville a student at State University and son of the president pro tem of the senate J Maguire Kenneth Carlton and a Mr Gray from Baton Rouge and Percy Brown of Baker. Cars were confiscated from Gilbert Carlton and Gray.
New York May 20 Stock prices fell sharply at the opening on heavy selling after the soldiers bonus bill passed over the president's veto. Industrial leaders Baldwin Dupont Gulf States Steel and Stewart-Warner declined to their lowest levels of the year.
Tokyo reports say Ambassador Hanihara may resign his post in Washington after the immigration exclusion clause takes effect. Foreign Minister Matsui says retirement would be voluntary and no formal exchange with Tokyo has occurred. In Washington, Cyrus Woods resignation as ambassador to Japan has been accepted by President Coolidge.
Washington dispatch says the Veterans Bureau under Director Hines will directly run the new soldier bonus program after Congressional passage over Coolidge's veto. The plan covers over four million veterans with cash or insurance endowments, depending on service credits and days served, with policies issued starting next January and cash payments due after March 1.
Shreveport May 20 Shields Belmont Fields editor of the Leesville Leader and former Wilipus Cat says he was at his mother's bedside when a warrant was issued and he presented himself to authorities bonding for his appearance He denies fleeing charges and says he has never been a fugitive from justice and is confident he will be vindicated.
Park Benjamin, brother in law of the late Enrico Caruso, was arrested on a civil nonpayment of alimony charge to Catherine D. Benjamin and held in Ludlow Street jail in the "Alimony Club." The affidavit alleges he said he would defeat the decree if she pursued collection and notes about $3,000 owed.
Dispatches from Kasumigahara report large crowds gathering to greet the visiting United States Army fliers after they depart Minato. Japanese officials prepare a welcoming station as the team moves through Central and Northern Japan.
In Baton Rouge on May 20, officials stated outgoing Governor Parker need not be invited to the inaugural parade for Governor Fuqua. The committee argued custom requires Parker ride with Fuqua, but no invitation was deemed necessary.
G. W. Long a 48 year old farmer was shot and killed near Choudrant Louisiana as he rose from the dining table. His 17 year old son Oliver Long was seized by Sheriff Thigpen of Ruston after attempting to shoot other family members. Authorities cite possible mental imbalance as a motive.
In Kirksville Missouri the fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of osteopathy by Dr Andrew Taylor still will be observed during the week of May 25 at the profession s birthplace. The jubilee occurs in connection with the 28th annual convention of the American Osteopathic Association.
The Interstate Commerce Commission ordered a ten percent rate cut on express shipments of fruit berries vegetables butter and eggs when sent in carloads. The rule updates a prior 1923 order reducing express food article rates by ten percent.
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