New Oil Campaign Lines Up Northeastern Louisiana Prospect
Geologists and major oil interests prepare a new sixty day campaign along the Monroe gas field northern edge. A Collinston Oil and Gas Company report estimates 150 million cubic feet daily gas from a gulf coastal plain aquifer with possible oil pools beneath Bainbridge strata.
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Louisiana
Monroe Gas Field
el Dorado Field
Cates
el Dorado
Boundary Line
J. H. Bowles
FE. S. White
Monroe
Collinston Oil and Gas Company
Collinston
Memphis, Tenn
Morehouse Parish
Boeuf River
Bayou Lafourche
Gulf Coastal Plain
United States Geological Survey
Bureau of Mines
Bowles
White
Lafourche No. 1
Chess Wymond No. 1
Lafourche
Wymond No. 1
Colling Oil On Gas Company
Monroe Field
Japan Pushes Seventy Percent Naval Ratio
Washington reports Vice Admiral Kato announced Japan seeks a seventy per cent naval strength, challenging the American preference for sixty per cent as the workable maximum. American experts oppose exceeding sixty per cent, citing liabilities and Pacific interests amid committee talks and a London press note on an association of nations via conferences and gentlemen's agreements.
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Kato
Japan
U. S
Washington
Committee of Naval Experts
Pacific
London
Harding
Association of Nations
Railroads to justify current rates in public hearings
The Interstate Commerce Commission announced December hearings to justify present transportation charges. Carriers must show aggregate reasonableness, territorial variations, financial returns, future prospects, and steps to cut costs.
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Associated Press
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Blodgett completes repairs on Monroe West Monroe bridge
The city overhauled the traffic bridge with tightening floors and repainting. Blodgett Construction Company carried out the work and experts say the bridge life after repairs may last up to five years before a new bridge is needed to connect Monroe and West Monroe.
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Blodgett Company
Monroe
West Monroe
Blodgett Construction Company
Monrée Police Warns On Fireworks Ban Amid Dry Grass Risk
Inspector Heap warns residents to stop shooting fireworks in Monrée city limits citing fire danger and legal limits. He notes fireworks are banned except on Christmas Eve and Christmas outside the fire district and threatens police action to enforce the rule.
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Monrée
Heap
Department
Trial enters fifth day with jury in progress
Los Angeles reports the Arthur Buch murder trial nears completion of jury selection with ten women among eleven tempo rarily accepted jurors. The case concerns Belton Kennedy's death and the legal battle continues.
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Associated Press
Los Angeles
Arthur €. Buch
Belton Kennedy
Four Armed Robbers Rob Cincinnati Home of Procter Gamble Chief
Four men robbed the residence of William Cooper Proctor, president of Procter and Gamble. They forced three women in the house to the cellar, ransacked the home, and escaped with jewelry valued at about $100,000, according to police.
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Cincinnati
William Cooper Proctor
Proctor Gamble Company
Theatre Collapse Kills Dozens in New York Construction
Police reports indicate fifteen or twenty work men killed as a new theatre under construction collapses in New York. In Washington Secretary Hughes calls a meeting of four American delegates for late today to discuss naval matters.
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New York
Washington
Hughes
Captain Selman Dies In Air Accident Near Portsmouth
Captain Augustus James Selman son of George Selman civil engineer of Monroe was killed in an aeroplane accident near Portsmouth Virginia while maneuvering late Monday afternoon telegram says. Funeral planned in Portsmouth with burial likely in Virginia. Survived by widow and child, brother George Jr and sister Francis plus distant relatives. He was a 1914 Annapolis Naval Academy graduate and formerly of the navy.
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Augustus James Selman
George Selman
Monroe
Portsmouth
Selman
Annapolis Naval Academy
Ouachita Parish
Virginia
George, Jr
Francis
Shreveport
Tourists Motoring Over Land to Sunny Mexican Gulf
North Louisiana towns report a surge in overland tourists from Wisconsin Michigan Ohio Iowa and other states. Many camp in the countryside en route to the Gulf Coast with New Orleans Biloxi Pass Christian Gulfport and Bay St. Louis among favored destinations. More visitors are expected after the new year.
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Monroe
North Louisiana
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ohio
Iowa
Middle Western
Gulf Coast
New Orleans
Biloxi
Pass Christian
Gulfport
Bay St. Louis
Mississippi
South
Training School For Workers Of Church Here Soon
A B Y P U training school will be held at First Baptist Monroe during the first week in January. J S Ramond will teach senior and junior B Y P U manuals. Noted southern leaders and secretaries from Dallas Shreveport Muskogee will attend and an Alexandria institute is planned for December.
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First, Baptist Church
Monroe
J. S. Ramond
The
Baptist Church
J. B. Moseley
Shreveport
W. S. Wiley
Muskogee
Okla
Louisiana Passes December Moonshine Enforcement Law
Louisiana enacts a state prohibition enforcement measure taking effect December 6. Local courts gain control over corn liquor manufacture and sale with penalties up to 100 dollars fine and up to 60 days in jail for first offenses, higher penalties for subsequent violations. Advertising and order solicitation are banned.
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Louisiana
A. W. Parner
State
Anti-Saloon League
Hood
Antisaloon League
Turner
Senate
Caddo Men Held on Grocery Theft Charge in Monroe
R L Hardaway and J A Lock of Shreveport are jailed in Monroe on a $500 larceny charge tied to the Smith Grocery robbery in the city on Thanksgiving night. Deputies say evidence is slim and they may be released. a thorough investigation and possible preliminary hearing are planned.
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R. L. Hardaway
J. A. Lock
Shreveport
Monroe
Smith
D. L. Roper
Former Head Sells Lot to Gas Line in Monroe
William A. Otis of Colorado Springs sells lot three in square twenty one of Filhiol's first addition Monroe to the Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri railway company Monroe. No price given. In New Haven two more burned in the theatre fire died bringing total dead to six. Arthur died of heart disease.
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William A. Otis
Southern Development Company
Colorado Springs
Col
Arkansas & Louisiana Missouri Railway Company
Monroe
Filhiol
New Haven
Conn
Artother
Weather Forecast Tonight and Wednesday Fair
Tonight and Wednesday look fair with gradually rising temperatures. Clear to partly cloudy skies and light winds expected across the region. Highs near the upper 60s to mid 70s and nightly lows in the 50s. Moderate humidity spares any precipitation.
Nine powers adopt China extraterritorial rights relinquishment plan
WashingtonNovember 29 The nine powers in a conference on Pacific and Far Eastern questions approved resolutions calling for the relinquishment of foreign extraterritorial rights in China.
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Washington
China
Meeting of naval experts postponed to tomorrow
In Washington on November 29 the scheduled meeting of the big five naval experts was postponed at the request of one delegation. No official reason was provided.
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Washington
Lions Club backs drive to sell Christmas Seals locally
At a Hotel Monroe luncheon the Lions Club pledged all members to aid the D A R in selling anti tuberculosis Christmas seals. Miss Fern Shannon outlined Ouachita parish efforts to curb the disease, noting funds stay in parish. Lion Percy Walker presided. Lion Banno Lamkin explained Napoleonic code laws. Lion McCoy spoke. Mrs. Henry Leibreich and Lowery Jefferson provided songs.
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Lions Club
Monroe
Fern Shannon
Ouachita Parish
Miss Shannon
Ouachita Par
Ouachita
Parish
Lion Percy Walker
Lion Banno Lamkin
Lion McCoy
Louisiana
Lion
Henry Leibreich
Lowery Jefferson
Capt Deslatte Forms National Guard Company in Monroe
Captain O W Deslatte inspector general of the Louisiana National Guards at New Orleans has organized a Monroe unit with 52 members. Thirty seven have passed examination. Federal inspection is set for December 8. Deslatte will depart for Alexandria and other towns to organize further units.
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O. W. Deslatte
Louisiana National Guards
New Orleans
Monroe
Deslatte
Alexandria
Louisiana
National Guard
Primary for Supreme Court under way in several parishes
New Orleans reports a second primary for the state supreme court seat vacated by Chief Justice Frank Monroe with Orleans Jefferson Plaquemines and St Bernard parishes voting Democrats Rosen versus St Paul with Lewis as Independent. riot last night left 250 policemen battling unionists for an hour across five blocks. arrests and injuries reported and a settlement expected soon.
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Supreme Court
Associated Press
New Orleans
Frank Monroe
Orleans
Jefferson
Plaquemine
St. Bernard
Charles Rosen
Orleans Democratic Association
John St. Paul
Regular
Walter
Lewis
River Front
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Dario Universal
Baltimore
Michael J. Gurley
James Cardinal Gibbons
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Fitzgerald
Baton Rouge
Louisiana Federation of Women’s Clubs
National Club
Mexican Gulf
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