18 Oct 1923
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1923
Page
1
Today's Belmont Park card features Papyrus facing Zev in a notable matchup with bookmakers unsettled. The piece also covers a murder confession, Heidelberg rabbit outbreak tied to theft, and Klansman Rev. Caleb Radley arrest alongside broader editorials on news values and the American Legion bonus debate.
Judge W. Westerfield was inducted today as a member of the state court of appeals in New Orleans. The ceremony concluded with remarks from the Louisiana Bar Association and officials, as he succeeds a former judge.
Jurors are being questioned in the Sixth District Court for the murder trial of Will Eason Will Simmons and Clarence Bailey accused in the shooting death of E De Graffenreid at his Bosco area home. Attorneys clash over procedures and capital punishment concerns as the pool is drawn and a recess ordered.
Governor Parker of Louisiana will outline agricultural problems at the fifteenth annual governors conference in West Baden Indiana. The program centers on farm issues ahead of a round table with governors, as plans for a memorial urging strict enforcement of the Volstead act are debated.
Berlin reports a dining room opening in the former emperor’s palace to feed Germany’s middle class. Franz Fritz Kreisler leads Austrian women volunteers with a small fee to ensure dignity. Public funds and private subscriptions fund daily hot meals amid relief shortages.
In Chicago Mr Lloyd George endorses Hughes proposal for a international reparations committee. Brig. Gen. Dawes chairs the gathering as Hughes emphasizes a practical business like study of Germany's capacity to pay. Police arrest three men and two women for Irish freedom handbills as crowds listen in rain.
Vanderbilt Commodores coach Dan McGugin leads the team as they depart Nashville for Dallas to face the University of Texas Longhorns this afternoon.
H W Scott member of the Federal Farm Loan Board will be in Monroe and Shreveport for the Louisiana Association of secretary treasurers meeting October 22 23. The gathering aims to discuss farm loan issues Muscle Shoals fertilizer plans and cooperation among farm bureaus and banks with speakers including Senator Ransdell and President Davis of the Federal Land Bank.
Senator William E Borah of Idaho, in New York for coal legislation talks of a coming Congress reduction plan to ease the tax burden for small incomes. He avoids details but endorses any plan that helps the lower income earner and says it does not refer to Treasury Mellon’s broader program.
Funds will be available at once from the Red Cross treasury to aid 300 families made homeless by the Canadian flood.
Oklahoma City officials report the lower house investigation committee is close to finishing a report on Governor J. C. Walton's conduct. The document will be tabled tomorrow to decide if impeachment charges proceed to the senate, amid a looming partisan clash. A challenger to nine members' seats sparked a notable dispute as debate builds.
At San Francisco and Frisco sessions, American Legion delegates clash over denouncing the Ku Klux Klan. A substitute proposal by Charles Kendrick failed 815 to 147 with 36 absent, returning to the committee the milder Resolution 407. Michigan urged full repudiation while bonus issues and harmonization dominated discussions. Samuel Gompers heads the program as delegates consider policy resolutions.
A weather bulletin reports a storm over the middle Mississippi Valley moving northeast with rains throughout the state east of the Mississippi within 24 to 36 hours. A second disturbance from the Gulf of Mexico has advanced northward to the middle Mississippi valley bringing general rains from the Gulf coast to Lake Superior. A third system over the western Caribbean Sea was centered southeast of Swan Island and moving northwestward.
Weather bureau warns shipping to proceed with caution in Gulf of Mexico as three storms move northward. Signals were lowered after advisory that a disturbance was off the Mississippi coast moving northeast, with warnings extending from the Mississippi mouth to Appalachicola Florida and noting another disturbance in the central gulf and western Caribbean.
Caleb Ridley known as Imperial Kludd of the Ku Klux Klan and former Central Baptist pastor faced police court on charges of drunken driving after his car zigzagged on Peachtree Street. He denied the charge, claiming a small amount of liquor. Bond set at 500 dollars. The ministerial association had earlier withdrawn relations with his church amid controversy.
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