Tom Bry Ana War Sloan Noted
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Tom Bry and Ana Sloan with a brief archival reference. No clear event dates or outcomes available.
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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1944
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR note mentions Tom Bry and Ana Sloan with a brief archival reference. No clear event dates or outcomes available.
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church hosts an old time religion revival two and a half miles southeast of Choudrant drawing people from nearby parishes. Rev B T Milford of Chatham evangelizes while Rev W S Bernhard leads singing with assistants Rosemary Combs and H Barnes aiding. The revival runs each week night and ends Sunday August 27 with old time songs featured.
Aug 24. Immense armada of 10 000-ton cargo ships, key to Allied invasion logistics, lay off the British coast for a month awaiting orders. U S Seamen's Service reports crew confinement and no leaves since arrival. ships carried mail, Stars and Stripes, candy and supplies. President Fuller of United Seamen's Service urges funding from the United War Fund to aid mariners and support fighters.
In Los Angeles Chester Bowles, head of the OPA, warns butter supplies will tighten and gasoline rationing may persist. He urges all groups Labor management agriculture and the armed forces to cooperate, saying production remains key to controlling inflation and deflation.
The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive examination for the position of area vent director with a salary of 4428 a year including overtime pay. Employment is with the Office of Price Administration in Shreveport Louisiana. Applicants may obtain forms from the manager of the branch regional office in New Orleans or the secretary of the board of U S Civil Service Examiners at any first or second class post office in multiple parishes. War work of equal skill excludes applicants.
Miss Hayes stars in a WAVES recruiting program "Something for the Girls" airing August 26 1944 at 815 p m over KMLB Lyn Murray conducts the score and leads a 24 member orchestra Jean Holloway and Kate Smith script the play Richard Widmark co stars as the husband Miss Hayes portrays an American wife and mother in a simple wartime romance The Navy produced the series and information is available at the Monroe Louisiana recruiting station
United Nations radio from Algiers quoted Gen. Sir Harold Alexander ordering patriot forces in northern Italy to stop or destroy escaping German troops moving from southern France toward the Italian border. He urged Italians to join with French patriots and to attack the enemy in areas where they flee. Holly Ridge, N. C. reports only five qualified voters, with just three casting ballots in the last election.
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