Warden urges using cash to prevent crime
San Francisco, Aug 18 A Dated report quotes Warden James A. Johnston of Alcatraz urging more spending on citizen making to cut delinquency. He cites three danger signals for parents and schools and calls for coordinated home church and social agency child training to prevent crime. He says the finest prison is a monument to neglected youth.
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San Franciso
James A. Johnston
Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
American Prison Association
Johnston
San Francisco Bay
Mississippi Home Ownership Rises to 33.3 Percent in 1940
Census data show Mississippi gained owner occupancy from 32.5 percent in 1930 to 33.3 percent in 1940. Of 534,956 dwellings, 178,118 were owner occupied with white households at 50.2 percent. Rural non farm areas led with 38.4 percent ownership. farm areas rose to 31.3 percent while overcrowding affected 21.7 percent of homes.
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Washington
Mississippi
J. C. Capt
United States Census Bureau
Youth Drowns With Lifeguards Near Detroit
Albert G. Hagel 20, of Ferndale, drowned yesterday in a Detroit area swimming pool as lifeguards and about 150 swimmers failed to notice. His body was found after the pool closed when attendants spotted his clothing in a locker room. Police quoted pool operator Henning Rylander saying the water was nearly transparent and he could not fathom how the drowning went unseen.
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Detroit
Albert G. Hagel
Ferndale
Hagel
Henning Rylander
Venice Menace Stars in Mardi Gras Festival Preview
Nancy Brinckman models a trailing Mardi Gras grass costume as a sample of the attire to be seen at the annual Venice California festival showcasing local pageantry and parade wear.
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Nancy Brinckman
Venice
Calif
Deaths and Funeral Rites for Clyde S Brown and Doshie Wall
Funeral services were held for Clyde S Brown 45 a Monroe native and funeral home operator killed in a Friday auto accident near New Orleans. He had lived in Bogalusa for years led Dixie Cooperative Insurance as president and owned funeral homes in Bogalusa Kentwood Amite and Independence. Survivors include his widow Ila Venable Brown and daughter Doris Anne. Also noted are funeral services for Doshie Wall 58 who died at home White's Ferry with services at Rocky Branch church burial in Rocky Branch cemetery. She leaves husband Robin Wall two sons Clarence Wall Huey Wall a daughter Sarah Mae Brashier two brothers a sister and 13 grandchildren.
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Clyde S. Brown
Monroe
New Orleans
Brown Funeral Home
Bogalusa
Brown
Dixie Cooperative Insurance Company
Kentwood
Amite
Independence
Ila Venable Brown
Doris Anne Brown
Doshie Wall
White's Ferry
Rocky Branch Church
Rev. Freeman
Good Hope Baptist Church
Rocky Branch Cemetery
Billy Bayles
O. L. Bates
M. R. Harris
M. M. Bayles
Frank Johnson
Cobb Sawyer
Robin Wall
Clarence Wall
West Monroe
Huey Wall
Lake Village
Ark
Sarah Mae Brashier
Transylvania
Nicholas Thurston
H. W. Thurston
Downsville
Elizabeth Whitington
Funeral Held for Mrs Serleter Wilder on Monroe Swartz Highway
The funeral for 65 year old Mrs Serleter Wilder who died Friday at her home on the Monroe Swartz highway was held Sunday at 3 pm at the Dixie Funeral home chapel. Pallbearers included Alvin Harris Ver nes Griffin C C Brandenburg Jr Chester Morgan Billy Trimble Jack Trimble Carl White and M C Chase. Surviving are her husband William M Wilder three sons G L Wilder Washington D C Wendel Wilder West Monroe and J Wilder Corrigan Tex three daughters Mrs Ulrich Burkhart Monroe Mrs Gus Lazalier Corrigan and Mrs Lettie Newton El Dorado Ark a sister Mrs James Harris Hot Springs Ark and a ?.
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Serleter Wilder
Monroe
West Monroe
J. Wilder
Corrigan
Tex
Ulrich Burkhart
Gus Lazalier
Lettie Newton
el Dorado
Ark
James Harris
Hot Springs
C. C. Brandenburg
Denton
Despondent Japanese Man Starts Forest Fire Near Schofield
In Honolulu on August 18 soldiers at Schofield Barracks battled a forest fire started by an elderly Japanese pineapple worker. He carried a knife rice wine and kerosene into the woods and, after drinking, set the blaze and gravely wounded himself in a failed hara kiri attempt.
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Honolulu
Schofield Barracks
United States
Japan
Cotton futures slide as Roosevelts action looms in market
In New Orleans on August 18 uncertainty over Roosevelt's stance on the bill to freeze government cotton and wheat chilled futures trading. Closing bids were mostly lower with moderate declines across near months. spot cotton closed steady, sales count 1,442, with middling grades around 15.72 to 16.17 cents and receipts 1,386. The 30 day average for middling was about 15.93 cents per pound.
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New Orleans
Cotton futures hold narrow range as traders await action
New York cotton futures show limited movement amid light trade, hedging, and pending presidential action on a cotton freezing bill. Late trades drifted from 16.04 to 16.50 in the days' range with modest gains, while middling spot rose to 16.70.
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New York
Cottonseed Oil Prices Steady in New Orleans and New York
In New Orleans on August 18 futures for bleachable prime summer yellow and prime etude held steady with mixed quotes for September through March contracts. In New York on the same date bleachable cottonseed oil futures closed higher to lower with 31 contracts traded and quotes for September through March.
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New Orleans
New York
Chicago Livestock Prices Mixed as Demand Shifts
Salable hogs 12 000 and cattle 15 000 listed with totals 14 500, 10 500 sheep. Hogs steady to 10 higher on weights 240 lbs and up and sows. good and choice 180 240 lbs 11.40 11.70, top 11.75. Cattle and calves healthy with fed steers and yearlings steady to strong. several loads 1 200 to 1 400 lbs at 11.85 12.29. yearlings 12.50. best heifers 12.15. vealers weak to 25 lower.
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Chicago
USDA
Potatoes Market Report From Chicago on August 18
USDA notes arrivals 138 and on track 245 with total U S shipments 374 Saturday and 39 Sunday. Western Russet Purbanks and long whites demand moderate, market slightly stronger. Bliss Triumphs in good demand and steady, cobblers fair, best stock about steady. Prices listed include Idaho and Oregon Bliss Triumphs U S No 1 140-165, Long whites U S No 1 210-15, Idaho Russet Burbanks U S No 1 215-225, Nebraska Bliss Triumphs U S No 1 125-137 1 2, cobblers U S No 1 100-130, Minnesota and North Dakota Bliss Triumphs U S No 1 100-125, Warbas U S No 1 115.
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Chicago
USDA
U. S
Bliss
Idaho
Oregon
Russet Burbanks
Nebraska Bliss
Cobblers
Minnesota
North Dakota
Warbas
Sugar futures rally on New York market August
World Sugar futures rose after early irregularity as September delivery notices for 403 were absorbed by trade buying and covering. Prices late afternoon gained 4 to 6 points with September at 1.67 cents and March at 1.76 cents. Refined sugar held at 5.55 cents. Futures No. 4 closed 2 1 2 to 5 1 2 higher with 13 500 tons sold. Sept 1.65b, Dec 1.71 1 2b, March 1.75 1 2b bid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Stock Market Recovers Pace With Rails and Steel Leads
New York stocks firmed at the open with rails, steels, and aviation shares advancing. Gains ranged from fractions to over a point before midday, then eased as volume cooled. bonds steadied and commodities stayed thin.
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New York
Markets At A Glance Area Updates Aug 18
New York stocks rise with a modest recovery led by gains in bonds and rails. Foreign exchange remains quiet while cotton and wool show hedging and local selling. Sugar climbs on trade buying. metals and steel operations steady to higher. Chicago wheat soft on hedging, corn falls with rains in the corn belt. cattle steady to strong and hogs up to 11.75.
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New York
Chicago
Chicago Poultry Prices Move in Mixed Week Decline
Chicago market report shows live poultry and fowl prices steady to down across weights. Hens over five pounds at 19, Leghorn hens 15 1 2, broilers 2 1 2 pounds down, ducks and turkeys mixed with toms at 16 and hens 19.
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Chicago
Plymouth Rock
White Rock
Leghorn Roosters
London merchants refuse to sell cigarets to women
Some London merchants have followed the Berlin lead in refusing to sell cigarettes to women. The report notes markets and commodity figures for butter and eggs in Chicago with various receipts and prices.
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London
Berlin
Rhododendron Burls Turned to Pipe Bowls in Mountain Industry
Roan Mountain Tennessee reports a shift from tourism to mining rhododendron burls for pipe bowls. Workers collect burls weighing 15 to 500 pounds and saw plants cut and cure about 9,000 blocks daily for shipment, replacing European briars blocked by wartime trade.
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Roan Mountain
Tenn
Tennessee
North Carolina
Irked Juror Demands Silence in Kentucky Court
In Louisville Judge Joseph J. Hancock's court an attorney heatedly argued, slamming the table as jurors recoiled. Juror Ainslee Hewett rose to protest and the judge ordered a calmer tone. The report notes unrelated material from the British Museum moved to vaults 80 feet underground.
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Louisville
Joseph J. Hancock
Ainslee Hewett
Hancock
British Museum
Questionnaires Mailed Board No 1 S2958 A
A list of individuals with addresses in Monroe and surrounding areas includes David Earl Philley 217 Breard Street and multiple others such as Willie Alfred Scott Box 991 Monroe and Clayton Dee Johnson 101 Pine Street Monroe. Amounts vary from 2875 to 3312 and entries include colored designations and box numbers.
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David Earl Philley
Breard Street
Monroe
Willie Alfred Scott
Clayton Dee Johnson
Pine Street
William Redding Orchard
Richard James Anderson, Jr
DeSiard Street
Jessie Vanburen
Traina’s Bakery
Claude Larrimore McMullen
Louise Anne Avenue
Truman McCrea, Jr
Timpton
Tex
Charles Shack Smith
Colored
Bright Avenue
Leslie DeWitt Boyce
Thomas Franklin Bass
Plum Street
Clowe Bernard Smith
Hilton Avenue
George Griffin
Camp Livingston
Otis Starr
General Delivery
Richard Earl Sackett
California
Ruston
John Inzina
South Grand Street
Bay Hodge Hanspard
Vicksburg
John Louis Addington
Box 910
John Blanch Reitzell
Rochelle Avenue
Marvin Elmo Kidder
Dick Taylor
Hubert Spengler Breard
Riverside Drive
Warren Clifford Jones
Louise Anne
John Price
McCoy
James Mallory Cudd
North Second Street
Earl Butcher
Wilmer Paul Carter
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Bennie Lee
South Eighth Street
Forrest Handley
North Fifth Street
John Hutchinson Proves She Is Not a Man in Wyoming
Mrs Roy Hutchinson of Kent Washington traveled to Wyoming after a birth certificate listed her as John M Delk male at Stringtown in 1912 The error went unchecked until the Wyoming selective service board demanded she explain why John Delk hadn t registered The item also notes U S mortality from appendicitis being at a record low.
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Greybull
Wyo
Roy Hutchinson
Kent
Wash
Wyoming
John M. Delk
Stringtown
Wyoming Selective Service Board
Mrs. Hutchinson
Greenberg Could Seek Army Release From Active Duty
Fort Custer Mich August 18 Corporal Hank Greenberg baseball star may request release under a new law allowing 28 year olds and older to leave active duty If he files the request a commanding officer would likely recommend discharge to return him to the Detroit Tigers Greenberg conferred with Captain Glenn A Sikes who said he would approve the move if Greenberg files and does not oppose it Greenberg declined comment on yesterday’s reports of a possible immediate release
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Fort Custer
Mich
Hank Greenberg
Detroit Tigers
Glenn A. Sikes
Greenberg
Roosevelt
Sikes
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Alcatraz
Mrs. Sig Masur
Mrs
Mrs. Serleter Wilder
DeSiard St
Phosais
Monroe, la
Chicago Grain
Ola
Pure Oil Company
Radio Corporation of America
Sapeue Vee
Seeeewee
Reading Pany ‘ Sewn Teen Eeewee
Remington Rand Nee
Republic Steel
Tees Reynolds Tobacco
Richfield Oil
Taeereee
Bsafeway
Schenney Distillers
Atee Ray
Sears Roebuck
Servel Incorporated
Seeeee
Shell Union Oil
Eevee i4
Ase Aly Simmons Company
Ernee
Skelly Oil Company
Beeen Socony-Vacuum Oil Company
South America
Southern Pacific
Southern Railway
Sperry Corporation
Indiana
Serene Ener
New Jersey
Stone & Webster
Studebaker Corporation
Swift & Company
Syming-Gould
Texas Corporation
Texas Gulf
Ase Transamerica Company Eens
Eee
Trans & Western Air Sntwete Ee
Twentieth Century-Fox Film Underwood-Elliott Company KS
Union Bag & Paper
Union Carbide
Union Oil California
Union Pacific
United Air Lines
United Aircraft
United Corporation
United Drug
United Fruit
United Gas Imp Beveréveeenseee
Llsge
St. Louis
Peer Rweeees
Memphis
Eanenener
Arkansas City
Vicksburg i
Natchez
Peewee
Baton Rouge
Weer
Quachita
Camden
Tee Ereeete
Peter Eee
Ohio
Pittsburgh Spews
Cincinnati
Eeeneene
Victor Eubank
Air Reduction
Alaska
Juneau
Allegheny Corporation
Este Allied Chemical & Dye
Allied Stores
Esssencees
Allis Chalmers Baa
American
American Car & Foundry
American & Foreign Power
American Locomotive
American Metal
American Power & Ameican Rad & St S American Rolling Mills
Tancer
American Smelting & Refining
American Snuff Company
American Steel Foundries
American Sugar Refining
American Tel & Tel
American Tobacco
American Water Works
Anaconda Copper
Armour Ilinois
Armstrong Cork Chimney Tool
Chrysler Corporation
Colgate-Palmolive-Peet
Consolidated Edison
Consolidated Oil
Container Corporation
Sta
Continental Canal
Continental Insurance
Continental Motor
McClelland Stores
Ai Menge
Associated Dry Goods Atchison T & 8
Atlantic Coast Line
Atlantic Refinings Aviation Corporation
Baltimore & Ohio
Barnsdall
Crane Companys
Crown Zellerbach
International Paper & Power International Tel & Tel
Interstept
Johns-Manville
Kansas City Southern
Kennecott Copper
Kroger Grocery
Lehigh Port C
Lehigh Valley Railroad
Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass
Ligeett & Myers B
Lockheed Aircraft Loew's Incorporated
Lone Star Cement
Louisville & Nashville
National Lead
National Power & Light National Steel
Piasseeseeesthe
National Supply Nehi Corporation
Newport Industrial Ake
New York Central Railroad
Norfolk & Western North America Aviation North American Company
Gulf Mobile & Ohio
Mathieson Alkali
Northern Pacific Omid OU
Otis Steel
Owenu-Illnois Glass
Pacific Gas& Electric
Fegs
John
Carter
Monroe Office Equipment Co
Walnut St
LL Lynch
Browers
Ross
Securities Pierce, Fenner & Beanes
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Link Petwe
Atmenledge
Coe
Fiela Vy
Mantod T
Ervice
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New York S
Public Serviceuyitry
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Lephone
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