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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1941
Page
8
Ouachita parish cotton committee chair A R Wisenbaker says about 12 percent of current cotton textiles go to defense. He notes hundreds of cotton articles support U S armed forces and urges boosting domestic consumption as foreign markets shrink.
In Clarks Louisiana on August 19 oil field activity surged with Southern Carbon finalizing production at Vollie Howard No. 1 in Caldwell parish and reports of multiple oil sands found. Other fields saw Louisiana Central drilling in LaSalle and Catahoula parishes along with Tremont Lumber and Womack wells resuming activity and plans to drill deeper.
Mrs Mary Ann Park Brockbank the last Utah pioneer of 1847 died Monday a month after turning 99 born in 1847 she arrived in Utah shortly after Brigham Young led pioneers into the Salt Lake Valley her death closes a long life linked to early Mormon settlement in Utah.
Troop 1 Boy Scouts of America will start a Red Cross first aid course announced by scoutmaster J. W. Webster. Miss Eileen Thompson will teach classes Tuesdays and Fridays from 6 30 to 9 30 p.m. at the Knights of Columbus hall 206 Hall Street. Scouts and other interested persons are urged to attend.
Staff Sergeant Robert L. Schneider of Pine Camp New York is home on a 20 day leave and eyeing a promotion to technical sergeant next month. A former Monroe News Star newsboy who sold papers on Monroe streets for 14 years he enlisted in 1937 and served in the Panama Canal Zone before reenlisting at Fort Knox. He works at Pine Camp as assistant section chief of the armory and expects the 4th division to maneuver in the west on September 15. He plans to reenlist for a third term when due for discharge next April.
John Holmes a 36 year old blind former aviator was found guilty of manslaughter by an eight to four female and male jury after six and a half hours deliberation in Redwood City California. He admitted self defense but was sentenced to a one to fifteen year indeterminate term with possible parole after one year. The incident followed a quarrel at a San Mateo hotel room where McNary was shot.
In Kansas City on August 19 Patrolman John Caldwell twice warned a tall man crowding the accident scene. Sergeant Clyde Bowers intervened and announced the man as Harry Gambrell new member of the police board. Gambrell refused the greeting and kept his distance.
Dallas Texas August 19 11 year old Michael Scott McPherson offered 37 cartridges to a civilian defense official saying the army may need these after finding them while fishing.
DeWitt MacKenzie notes a Ukraine based attendant's hopes to smash Hitler. He discusses German advance toward the Volga and Persian border, possible Red Army resistance, and potential effects on Britain and the Middle East with plans to press into the Mediterranean and Atlantic if Russia falls.
London reports a German air attack on a merchant vessel. The captain, left in underwear after the first blast, watched the ship sink beneath him as a second direct hit struck. He escaped with only head cuts and bruises, recalling his gunner asking if he was all right.
Judge W. M. Harper presided as defendants including Joe Towe and others faced verdicts for intoxication with penalties from seven fifty dollars or seven to twelve days to ten days. Daniel Smith received one hundred days or one hundred dollars fine on DUI. Additional guilty rulings covered fighting vagrancy and habitual intoxication with various penalties. One dollar assessments were levied for overparking infractions.
Miss Boyce Jimmie Tolar and Marvin Murphy of Dubach wed August 12 at the Jonesboro Methodist parsonage. Mrs Tolar, a 1941 Jonesboro-Hodge graduate, and Mr Murphy plan to live in Alexandria. The piece also notes large numbers of filling stations on the eastern seaboard and gasoline usage.
Walt Disney Studio closed for two weeks after a union dispute over layoff of 266 workers chosen under government arbitration. The AFL Guild accused the studio of favoring strikers, while Disney argued most strikers were students and that key personnel could not be laid off.
Four young men recently accepted for enlistment in the United States Marine Corps were transferred to New Orleans Tuesday for enlistment. Named are Rufor Dennis Crain of Oak Grove Virgil Guy Johns Jr of Delhi A V Thomas of Trout and Thomas Jenkins of Oak Grove. After enlisting Wednesday they will proceed to the Marine Corps training base in San Diego Calif for six weeks of basic training before regular duties.
Two people die and four more are seriously hurt when a corn truck sideswipes a parked car on highway 45 ten miles north of West Point Mississippi. Victims include Dorothy Lake Broyles and Lee Mitchell Jr of Aberdeen. injured are Homer Cole John Therrell Robert Watkins and Carlyle Sikes. The truck occupants escape uninjured.
Dr Norman S Hayner of the University of Washington urged American prisons to consider conjugal visits like Mexico. He noted Islas Marias allows families or marriages, with two hour weekly visits and private cells. He observed the practice is partly commercialized in larger prisons and often requires guard tipping.
Members at the Frances hotel weekly luncheon voted to donate surplus Sunshine special funds to the iron lung fund for E. A. Conway memorial hospital. George W. Breece spoke on police jurymen duties and A. J. Fernandez on Firestone defense products. The group urged citizens to volunteer at the soldiers' recreation center.
Real estate transfers include Sherrouse Realty to Albert Johnson for lot 7 block B Booker T. Washington addition for 65 dollars. Ouachita Home Site and Realty to Olive Prendergast for lots 3 and 4 square 31 Cole addition for 3225 dollars in terms.
Centenary College president Pierce Cline will speak at First Methodist Church in Monroe during morning and evening services. Rev. A M Freeman notes Cline's strong pulpit messages. Freeman and Mrs. Freeman travel with daughter Miriam to Nashville for a Smoky Mountains vacation.
Members of Piney Grove Baptist church in West Monroe will hear an 8 p.m. Friday talk by Mrs. Sallie C. Wade of New Orleans, president of the Woman's Baptist State convention. Pastor Rev. G. W. Killens says Wade is an inspirational speaker and she will be accompanied by missionary Mrs. Katie J. Caldwell.
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