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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1925
Page
1
A Monroe chamber gathering heard Illinois Central officials outline a plan to take over the V S and P line to expand service. C M Markham said shops would stay, emphasizing that the merger aims to widen lines and boost regional prosperity.
A Monroe committee, including Mayor Arnold Bernstein and other city leaders, heads to Jackson to urge the proposed lease of Alabama & Vicksburg and Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific lines to Illinois Central. The Lions Club endorses the leasing plan, praising benefits to local business and region.
A unanimous vote approved the merger of the two railroads after remarks by Judge Fletcher, Mr Clift, Mr Jones, Mr Stamm and others. Bank and savings leaders and shippers attended. Mr Markham planned a trip to Jackson for an Interstate Commerce Commission hearing starting Thursday.
Charles H. Markham president of the Illinois Central railroad will deliver the commencement address at the University of Chicago on June 15. A Clarksville Tennessee native, he started as a Santa Fe laborer and rose to lead the Houston and Texas Central before becoming Illinois Central president in 1911.
A Shreveport Chamber of Commerce delegation will attend the Interstate Commerce Commission hearing in Jackson Mississippi on the proposed merger of the Illinois Central system with the Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific and the Alabama and Vicksburg lines. The committee led by E A Frost J B Ardis Andrew Querbes and Frank D Lee endorsed the merger as voiced by Shreveport business and civic interests. Continuous report notes most towns along the Vicksburg Shreveport and Pacific line extend toward the Mississippi River.
Hattiesburg Miss May 20 Frank Beard known as the wild man of Jeff Davis county is to stand before a Prentiss Mississippi jury on sanity after being captured near Carson by a sheriff’s party. Nude and carrying a Bible and hymn book he led officers to his camp then surrendered. He will be confined in an asylum in Jackson after the hearing.
Chicago officials press to locate state witness Robert White amid his reported vanishing with family and a rented car. Prosecutor Crowe vows action once White is found while a blind news vendor cites a $25 000 offer to leave for Florida backing the case’s tense atmosphere.
Reports from cities across the country show officials moving to ban magazines deemed obscene from newsstands and schools. Washington and Spokane spearhead actions with dozens of titles targeted, while Chicago and Omaha weigh federal and local prosecutions to curb salacious reading materials.
River stage updates show Cairo at 24.8 feet with a 1.2 rise, Memphis at 14.5 with a 0.0 change, and Vicksburg at 20.1 with a 0.1 drop. New Orleans sits at 3.5 while Shreveport rises to 18.5 and Alexandria climbs to 14.8. Camden records 6.2 with a 0.4 fall and Monroe at 14.2 with a 0.3 fall.
Bishop Thomas R. Quayle branded Mrs. Rena Elrod a political Sapphira after she backed the state boxing bill. Elrod fired back with a challenge to a boxing match saying she could make the bishop eat his words.
The United States Confederate Veterans convened in Dallas for their 35th convention with focus on Stone Mountain Memorial and a proposed memorial college for South women. Resolutions seek official VO representation on the Stone Mountain Memorial Association board while plans fight depictions of Union soldiers on the bas relief. Senator Morris Shepard urged backing a living memorial to Southern women and argued Civil War causes and state rights.
J W Reed of Pear Street sustains a contusion to his right leg and is a patient at St Francis sanitarium after an air hose burst at the Missouri Pacific shops yesterday morning injuring his leg. F Harris Nezve from Clayton, Lt. was also injured when a cross tie fell on Harris leg. Both men worked on a Missouri Pacific railroad construction gang and suffered bruises and cuts.
A $60,000 diamond robbery on the eleventh floor of the Capitol building in Chicago was reported to police by four victims. Charles P. Goldberg of New York City reported he was robbed of unset diamonds valued at soy.
Mobile region reports rum runners turning to the gulf after Atlantic patrols. Cutter Comanche confirms vessels with contraband off Chandeleur islands. Governments mass patrols at Gulf ports, with bases at Gulfport and Biloxi. Halifax harbors rum ships as prohibition enforcement tightens nationwide.
In Hattiesburg Mississippi Dale Adams formerly of the Boston Braves, farmed to Mobile Bears, will join the Hattiesburg club next Monday. Pitcher Slick Moulton from the 1924 pennant team reports next week. Criclow an outfielder from Vicksburg joined in Alexandria. Red Griffin a utility infielder joins Thursday. The Hubmen face Vicksburg at week end. lineup changes unnamed to make room for new recruits. In Vicksburg, May 20, the Laurel Jackson protest game, won by the Lumberjacks by President Frank Scott, will be replayed soon in Laurel after manager Propst objected to Blakely and General Pierre on the bench.
Robert Krum Holtz of Springfield Ohio won first prize of 750 in the National Essay Contest by the American Legion on the topic Why Communism Is a Menace to Americanism. More than 200000 school children entered the contest.
Oil shows at the Gould elite area in Urania district section 23-10-1E after a 1496 foot drill indicate a likely producer. The well, fourth test for the district and third offset to the discovery well, pushed oil under gas pressure and created a slush pit around the casing. Final test expected Thursday could extend Urania's productive area by over two miles southwest and spur development. additional tests and rigs are planned nearby by El Dorado capitalists.
A posse of county officers and citizens hunted near Lake Maranacock for a man suspected of shooting Mrs. Emma M. Towns and setting fire to her cottage. Towns’s niece Miss Aida Hayward is missing and thought abducted.
In Hattiesburg Mississippi Justice of the Peace T J Mixony released three officers on murder charges after a two hour hearing stating insufficient evidence for grand jury action Deputy McGilvray Constables Coates and Wilson were reinstated to duty The Broun hearing set for tomorrow may decide if the grand jury is reconvened and potential charges against Wiley P Broun.
Theodore J. Marie, jailed in New Orleans awaiting return to Kentucky, escaped to visit his ailing mother. He had two weeks left to serve but received a maximum six year sentence for the breakout. He said the visit helped his mother recover with the doctor’s approval.
North Louisiana congressman Riley J. Wilson speaks at multiple graduation ceremonies. He is slated to address the local high school and several towns including Fort Nevessity Wisner Centar Crownville Baskey Sicily Island Jonesboro with a final talk set for Tallulah in late June.
NEW ORLEANS May 20 The sensational jump in the price of July contracts which advanced to 23.62 from 92.85 was a big feature in today s cotton market. The steady shipment outward of certificated cotton from the stock here has been causing shorts uneasiness for several days culminating in a scare on realization that the July stocks control the certificated stock and are consequently in no position to squeeze the shorts by exacting delivery.
In Belgium eight people were killed by lightning during storms. The damage was estimated in the millions of francs across the region.
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