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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1944
Page
7
Fragmentary lines mention players and a field event with unclear details. Names appear garbled and no teams or scores are readable. Context suggests a brief game or meet note but specifics are not discernible from the OCR fragment.
The West Lions Club held a regular meeting Thursday night at the First Baptist Church. P. P. Lynch, first vice-president, presided in the absence of Lion W. M. Mitchell who is recuperating from a major operation. Attendance was strong and plans were made for food-related activities.
West Monroe Lions Club hosts a two day event September 1 2 directed by Lion W C Minniear with guest speaker G B Manning on Malaria Control and a short film. New member Leo Walsworth joins the roster. Donations and support from Monroe and Twin City firms fund the cooking school building lighting and transport services.
Seventeen people were arrested on espionage charges after raids that police say crushed a German government spy network. The ring was led by a 30 year old German radio specialist who had fled Brazil. Among the detainees were eleven Germans, two Argentines, a Pole, a Spaniard and a Chilean, with the operation originally financed by the German embassy in Argentina.
Tom C Crawford 84 a pioneer Union parish family member died at his daughter’s Farmerville home. Funeral held at Mt Nebo Methodist Church with burial in Mt Nebo Cemetery. Survived by wife of 56 years, four daughters, five sons, 21 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren.
The bulletin notes Shirley Faye McCarty seven months old of Sicily Island died in a Vicksburg Mississippi hospital with funeral at Pine Hill Church. Samuel Summers seventy died at home near Mangham with services pending and burial to Union Cemetery near Baskin. Robert Tucker seventy six of Farmerville died at a son’s home in El Dorado and funeral held at Zion Hill Baptist Church with interment at Zion Hill Cemetery. survivors include multiple spouses, children, and siblings.
Funeral notices from Farmerville Winnsboro and Choudrant detail the deaths of Mrs Earl Aulds of Farmerville Jesse Lishman of Winnsboro and W W Jenkins of Choudrant The notices list surviving relatives and interment plans in local cemeteries.
Real estate transfers recorded yesterday in Ouachita Parish clerk of court include F G Hudson Jr to C G Pearce for a Riv erside addition lot at 1150 dollars, George M Snellings Jr to Cera Buttitta for a 75 by 1548 foot North Second Street fronting lot at Rochelle Street for 13250 dollars, Tom W King to Carl E Morgan for a 50 by 100 foot Glenmar and North Eighth Street lot for 6300 dollars, with movable property included.
Marshal Tito says in a delayed dispatch that British and American troops will conduct joint operations with Yugoslav partisans on a larger scale soon. A wartime report from Tito’s headquarters cites secrecy hindering full details.
The marshal told Morton that proposed joint operations were worked out at a conference in Italy with Prime Minister Churchill and Gen. Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, Allied commander in the Mediterranean. An American mission led by Col. Ellery C. Huntington has arrived at Tito's headquarters, with British and Russian missions already there.
The oldest national flag in use is Denmark's Dannebrog dating back to 1219. A note recalls that the iron from a hair dryer could manufacture six hand grenades now.
The USC calendar lists events for August: August 26 sewing service and a potential orchestra for an 8 30 bi formal dance. August 27 free fruit juice coffee and doughnuts for service men by St Paschal s Men s Club. August 28 square dances taught by Mrs Orrie C Rust for four weeks. August 29 USO hayride to Bernstein park with refreshments.
In Freckleton Lancashire the death toll from the bomber crash reached 57 with a six year old among the victims. Town officials considered selling tickets to restrict church funeral attendance to manage crowding at the village church which seats 250.
Sgt Karl Yoneda a Japanese American serving in Burma has been voted into Howard A Sperry Post No 3570 VFW San Francisco marking the first Japanese extraction admitted since the war began.
The War Department released the names of 1,687 U S soldiers wounded in action across the central Pacific, European Mediterranean and southwest Pacific theaters. Among the listings are Louisiana McEntyre T/5 Arthur R and Sgt. John D McEntyre with their spouses and addresses in Jonese ville and Jena, plus Pfc. Clifford H Thompson with his mother listed in Dodson Route 1.
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