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Newspaper
Monroe Morning World
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1944
Page
7
Senator Wagner says President Roosevelt will veto the price wage stabilization act extension if the cotton textile l ceilings Bank head amendment passes. Wagner notes the President has called the amendment inflationary, and suggests no other course fits.
An advertisement claims over a million dollars yearly is spent on piles remedies while Peterson's Ointment offers minutes relief from itching. The product comes in 35c a box or 60c in a tube with applicator and offers money back if not delighted.
Senator Bankhead seeks to set new cotton goods price ceilings using a parity cotton price plus 9 percent profit. The plan, opposed by Wagner who argues inflationary risk, aims to extend the stabilization law by 18 months with retail costs projected at 350 million annually. A War Production Board alternative to boost low priced textiles is also discussed. Baboons are noted as the largest and fiercest monkeys.
Chinese communique reports Japanese forces push 12 miles toward Changsha from Changshou chieh and flank by Tungting lake as American planes join the air battle. Stillwell air units bomb Kweiyi and Milo river targets while Chinese positions along Pingkiang resist, amid broader Canton Hankow theater shifts. Simultaneously USDA projects 1944 spend for vitamin A supplements and the film industry payrolls and wages.
The War Labor Board directs 4000 Todd Johnson Drydocks employees in New Orleans to receive one week of paid vacation after a year of service and two weeks after five years. The decision, first in the Gulf, maintains union dues checkoff of 1.25 dollars monthly via the Industrial Union of Marine and Ship building Workers. Wage determinations to follow in a supplemental order. some workers in dirty tasks may get raises.
Graduating class of St. Francis School of Nursing Monroe marked events from May 30 boat ride on the Ouachita River hosted by Dr and Mrs J Q Graves to June 5 commencement at St Matthew s Catholic Church. Activities included a pool party dinner at Hotel Frances theater party and a coffee hour with mothers.
The will of Mrs. Edward M. Jewett of Boonville Missouri bequeaths a large share of her estate to her grandson Edward Jewett Martin age 24 who has been indicted in Durham North Carolina for murder in connection with her death. The will leaves Martin a one fifth interest in fifty acres of land near Boonville one half the stock in the Raytown Missouri water company all notes of the water company her automobile and a large diamond. The body of Mrs. Jewett was recovered from a lake near Durham after she was last seen alive in Boonville May 8.
St and Mrs H C Schaefer welcome son Richard born May 31 at Vaughan Wright Bendel Clinic. Mr and Mrs H C Hall at 101 South 25th street announce birth of a daughter also May 31 at the same clinic.
Rear Adm. William Brent Young released figures showing the Navy spends about 1 500 000 a day to keep aircraft aloft and nearly 2 000 000 000 annually on fuel. Weekly clothing costs reach 11 500 000 with food purchases up 450 percent while maintaining steady supplies for the public. Navy freight costs run 40 000 000 monthly and war bonds sales to naval personnel exceed 500 000 000 in two years.
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