Battaglia and Woman on Bail in 400 Club Case
Battaglia and a Gilbert woman were freed on bonds after an investigation by District Attorney Frank W. Hawthorne and Sheriff Milton Coverdale into alleged operations of the 400 club on DeSiard Street. Girls aged 16 to 23 were lured from north Louisiana and southern Arkansas with promises of wages and room but were allegedly exploited as part of a pattern of enslavement. Further charges are anticipated as investigations continue.
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Ouachitaparia
Battaglia
Monroe
Louisiana
Arkansas
400 Club
Sheriff's Department
Ouachita Farm Bureau Hosts 70th Anniversary Barbecue
The Ouachita parish farm bureau prepares a 5 p.m. next Friday barbecue at the Ouachita alley Fair grounds in West Monroe with prominent Twin Cities businessmen and guests from Baton Rouge. F W Spencer and Milton C Tainter will speak on agricultural issues. Mrs Jewel McQuiller mails invitations and asks attendees to respond by card. T T Jones is bureau president.
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Ouachita Parish
Jewel McQuiller
Monroe Woman Has Rare Talent As Illustrator
Irene Waller Pipes of 605 Calypso Street earns praise from trained artists for rapid progress in a two year correspondence art course. She sketches, designs and illustrates for commercial use while managing home duties, aiming to join a major firm or magazine. Her husband Spencer F. Pipes supports her work and is noted for rifle shooting with 35 medals and three cups.
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Irene Waller Pipes
Morning World
Calypso Street
Pipes
Fort Worth
Tex
Car loans and payment relief offered by Motors Securities Co
Motors Securities Co announces options to borrow cash against your car whether paid off or not or have car payments reduced. First payment due August 15 with 18 months to repay. no signature required and service available nationwide with quick approval.
Five Negroes Held After Drunken Free-for-All Fight
In Quachita parish near Sterlington a drunken brawl left Herman Walker with a fractured skull and others jailed. Richard Burley, Charles Reed, James McHenry, Martin Gospel, and Freddie Gospel face assault and battery warrants or related charges while Walker lies confined at home. Weapons included knives bottles bricks and heavy sticks.
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Quachita Parish
Sterlington
Milton Coverdale
Herman Walker
Walker
Richard Bur
Chares Reed
James McHenry
Martin Gospel
Freddie Gospel
Former Lake Providence Mayor Gillis Minor Franklin Dies
Funeral services for Gillis Minor Franklin 84 longtime Lake Providence planter and former mayor will be held Sunday at 10 a.m. at his home with Rev. Sidney A Seegers officiating and Masons at the graveside. He served 35 years as justice of the peace and was town treasurer and alderman. Survived by his wife Lula Goodwin daughter Mrs Minor Franklin Gross four grandchildren and a great grandson. The obituary notes a separate line about drowning deaths last year in the U S mentioning May to August.
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Lake Providence
Gillis Minor Franklin
Sidney A. Seegers
Masonic Lodge
Franklin
Ashley County
Arkansas
East Carroll Parish
Lula Goodwin
Daugher
Minor Franklin Gross
Pecan Grovelodge
A. M
Angola Prison Farm Life Notebook Reveals Self-Sufficiency
A Morning World and News-Star special correspondent visits the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola with Sheriff officials to observe the 17 000 acre farm and 3 300 prisoners. He describes the receiving station, inmate guards paid two dollars a month, farm production 13 000 000 pounds of sugar and 265 carloads of potatoes, and the prison cemetery. The tour notes uniform types for inmates and the self sustaining finances after legislative funding declined.
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Morning World
News-Star
Angola
Louisiana
Tom
Harry
Angola Farm
Herman J. Faucheaux
L. A. Jones
Haberdashery
Winnfield
Avery Island
Faucheaux
Louisiana Home Loan Activity Rises Sharply
A June report from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Little Rock shows Louisiana 68 insured homestead and savings and loan associations approved 3,306,600 in new home construction loans since January 1, up over 800,000 from last year. The five month totals for purchases of existing homes reach 1,126 loans amounting to 5,019,000, about 700,000 more than 1938, with strong buyer interest in existing dwellings.
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Little Rock
Ark
Louisiana
Federal Home Loan Bank of
Homestead and Savings and Loan
Joana
Local loans reach 8.235 million aggregate gain over 1938
Aggregate loans by associations since January 1 total 8.235 million with a 1.5 million improvement in home financing over 1938. Figures include First Federal Savings and Loan Monroe Building and Loan and Peoples Homestead and Savings in Monroe serving the local area. A Japanese opera Reimei dramatizes Commodore Perry and American sailors landing in Japan in 1856.
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First Federal Savings and Loan Association
Monroe Building and Loan Association
Peoples Homestead and Savings Association
Monroe
Commodore Matthew C. Perry
Japan
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Farm Bureau
Association’s Fair
Motors Securities Co., Inc
Paint Products Corporation
North Grand Telephone
P. P
Gillis M. Franklin
United States
Louisiana Penitentiary
Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Wonrof
Pene
Sears
Sears Easy
H.p
DuPont Dulux
H. P
Sears, Roebuck and Co
DeSiard
OLDS
Lansing
Michigan
Twin City Motor Co., Inc
S. Grand St
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