Favorite Lake St John Resort Hosts Busy Social Weekend
A Monroe crowd escaped the quiet of social season at Lake St John with trips to Azulikut Fudickar camp and the Monroe hardware camp. Guests from New Orleans, Memphis and Oklahoma joined Mrs. W. A. Hamer for a coffee hour honoring Senator James P. Pope, TVA director. A son, Milton Eugene Slaughter, was born to Sergeant and Mrs. Hector E. Slaughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake St. John
Azulikut
Fudickar
Fred Fudickar
Mary B. Johnston
Kate Morris
Ernest Fudickar
Ann Carter Johnston
Mary Louise Fudickar
Martha Jane Hill
Betty Reily
Nan Buckner
John Bennett Fudickar
Shelby
Miss
John Stewart
Navy
New Orleans
Kurt Touchstone
John Sherrouse
R. C. White
Bill Junod
Sally Favrot
Monroe Hardware
Monroe
Fensky Terzias
Leo Terzias
Lady Haas
Milledge Marie Haas
Hugh O'Connell
Leo Terzia
Jean Terzia
Martha McHenry
Duffy Brown
Fensky Terzia
W. A. Hamer
Louisville Avenue
James P. Pope
Tennessee Valley Authority
Knoxville
Tenn
Hamer
J. T. Pope
Jonesboro
Robert A. Tucker
Bobby and
Eunice
Amarillo
Tex
H. C. Gamble
Oklahoma City
Okla
Hope May
Alex
Howard Shipley
Milton Eugene
Sergeant
Hector E. Slaughter
Slaughter
Dorothy Upshaw
Community notices of meetings birthdays and visits in Monroe
Several local groups announce upcoming events including initiation at Monroe Assembly No 5 Rainbow for Girls at the Masonic temple and a Julia Reed club gathering. Fraternity Sigma Phi Omega hosts a by invitation summer dance at Frances hotel. Various circles meet at Methodist Church and Stone Avenue church. Birthday celebrations for C H Foster Sr and Freddie Spillers are noted along with births of Margaret Louise Staples and Judith Karen DeLouche and travel notes of visitors and a family returning to Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monroe Assembly No. 5
Order of the Rainbow
Masonic Temple
Julia Reed Club
C. R. Pedigo
Fairview
Sigma Phi Omega Fraternity
Frances Hotel
Stone Avenue Methodist Church
J. Zufall
Moore St
R. L. Hales
Polk St
Bobashelas Book Club
W. D. Clark
Parnell Street
West Monroe
H. A. Gentry
K. D. Hayes
Maternity dress pattern offers versatile cardigan set
Pattern 8013 presents a shirtwaist maternity dress with adjustable waist and generous front fullness, plus a straight back and sleeveless cardigan jacket. Sizes 12 to 20, 40 and 42. yardage listed for size 14. Send 5c, name, address, pattern number and size to The News-Star-World Patterns Service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Star— World
106Th Avenue
New York
N. Y
1000 Expected At Meet Here
About 1000 beauticians and barbers from Louisiana are to attend the ninth annual convention of the Associated Master Barbers and Beauticians at Hotel Frances in Monroe on Sunday and Monday. The event will feature a hair styling style show and a banquet with dance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welcome Garden Club
Frances Hotel
Louisiana
Associated Master Barbers and Beauticians
Hotel Frances
Otis Johnson
Monroe
New Orleans
Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Floyce Elliot
The
Beauticians
J. J. Clouatre
J. O. Pilcher
Ruth Norman
Neal Fuller
Vern ¥. Crowe
Bastrop
D. H. Burns
Sterlington
Cassiye B. Ringo
Mary Jane Elmore
Actress Virginia Bruce and J Walter Ruben Welcome Son
Hollywood reports actress Virginia Bruce and film executive J Walter Ruben became parents to a 6 pound son yesterday. Bruce already has a nine year old daughter Susan from her late marriage to John Gilbert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollywood
Virginia Bruce
J. Walter Ruben
Miss Bruce
Susan
John Gilbert
Land Call Gets Quick Response in Northern Parishes
The army reports rapid land acquisitions for a maneuver zone expansion in northern parishes. Major Niels I. Poulsen announced widespread landowner agreements received at Camp Beauregard, with LtCol George Madison coordinating in Ouachita Morehouse Union and Lincoln parishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Niels I. Poulsen
Army
Camp Beauregard
R. B. Cole
Louisiana
Poulsen
George T. Madison
Monroe
Ouachita
Morehouse
Union
Lincoln Parishes
Madison
KMLB
Ouachita Parish
Uncle Sam
Rainstorm Disrupts New York Traffic
A torrential rainfall in New York disrupted subway service for hours and caused at least two deaths. An unidentified pencil peddler was killed by a truck, and Martin Costello 66 was electrocuted at St Catherine's Maternity Hospital while adjusting a fuse box in floodwater. The city faced flooding, cave-ins, and stalled traffic as streets and tunnels flooded and power lines shorted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Martin Costello
St. Catherine's Maternity Hospital
Holland Tunnel
Manhattan
Jersey
Fulton Street
Brooklyn
Autumn Avenue
James Roosevelt Joins Donovan Information Staff
Captain James Roosevelt eldest son of the president has joined Colonel William J. Donovan's staff as a military advisor and liaison between the information office and other government branches. He returns from a world tour as a Marine Corps observer with information for his superiors. The coordinator of information was created by executive order on July 11 to gather data bearing on national security.
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Washington
James Roosevelt
William J. Donovan
Roosevelt
Information Office
Marine Corps
Marine Corps. the Office of Coordinator of
General Robert Alexander to be buried at Arlington
Major General Robert Alexander aged 77 veteran of the Sioux campaigns Spanish American war Philippine insurrection Pershing expedition and World War I will be buried tomorrow at Arlington National Cemetery. He died Monday night at the U S veterans hospital and is survived by a widow and two sons William a colonel at Fort Devens Mass and Robert Jr of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Robert Alexander
United States Veterans’ Hospital
Arlington National Cemetery
Alexander
Pershing
Villa
William
Fort Devens
Mass
Robert, Jr
Deaths Mrs Ruby Jourdan and Others In Local Obituary List
Multiple deaths are noted in a local notice. Mrs Ruby Hallman Jourdan dies at 37 after brief illness with funeral at Dixie Funeral Home chapel. interment Springhill Cemetery. Survived by husband A L Jourdan, two children, four sisters, four brothers. Additional obituaries: Mrs Ida Mae Brunson dies at 73 at 308 Stone Avenue. services at First Baptist Mangham. interment Gwin Cemetery. survivors include two daughters and four sons. pallbearers named. Mrs Jack Womack, 28, of 922 Montgomery Street West Monroe, dies after short illness. services at First Baptist Chatham. interment Chatham Cemetery. survivors include husband, daughter, mother, sister. pallbearers listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ruby Jourdan
Ruby Hallman Jourdan
Oak Street
Chapel of the Dixie Funeral Home
I. L. Yeager
Stone Avenue Methodist Church
Springhill
Swartz
Ida Mae Brunson
Stone Avenue
First Baptist Church
Mangham
A. K. Perego
Gwin
Floyd Brunson
Jack Brunson
The
Dixie Funeral Home
Jack Womack
Montgomery Street
West Monroe
First Baptist Church of
Chatham
A. E. Prince
Roger Hearne
Chatham Cemetery
Fred Willhite
Alfred May
Herbert Womack
Roy Steele
Lloyd Salter
Gordon Powell
Orleans Politician ONeill Dies After Illness
John J. ONeill aged 74 longtime civil district court clerk and New Orleans political leader died after a four month illness. He served 21 years as clerk and recently broke with the Old Regular machine to back Governor Sam Jones administration. Born in Ireland he came to New Orleans at 18, survived by his widow. A stray line notes an Indian tribes belief about a mother in law and son in law.
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Orleans
New Orleans
John J. O'Neill
Civil District Court
O'Neill
Sam Jones
Ireland
Benning Soldiers Return Homeward Trek Through Twin Cities
About 900 vehicles in the north column of the fourth division moved through the Twin Cities on the homeward route from the Dry Prong maneuver area toward Fort Benning Georgia. The 9 serial convoys took 2 hours 40 minutes, heading north via Winnfield and Ruston then east on highway 80 toward Columbus Georgia. They planned bivouacs in Vicksburg Mississippi Demopolis Alabama and Fort Benning. An earlier detachment of 800 soldiers in 140 vehicles passed nearby on Tuesday en route from Shreveport to Montrose Arkansas.
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Twin Cities
Fort Benning, Ga
Winnfield
Ruston
Columbus
Vicksburg
Miss
Demopolis
Ala
Fort Benning
Shreveport
Montrose
Ark
Also Mentioned on This Page
Monroe Society
Lake
Iuverstein
Catholic Daughters of America
Fairbanks
Julia Scott
Laura Slater
Thankful Black
Mamie Campbell
Marguerite Burgoyne
Rosalie Marsalla
Florence Dupree
Grace Aaron
Mattie DuBos
Isabelle Nash
Mercedes Ritter
Genieve Lohan
Olivia Scott
Leonia Biggar
Featrice Looney
Lizzie Morris
Josephine Blanks
Zephyr Tarver
C. H. Foster
St. John Street
Port Gibson
Gilbert and
Wisner
Foster
J. W. Trezevant
Delhi
Elizabeth Ward
Alice Kelly
Gilbert
J. E. Foster
Cheyenne
Wye
C. H. Foster, Jr
Drew Hearne
Freddie Spillers
W. E. Spillers
Ikey Harper
Katherine Springfield
Billie Robertson
Imogene Rawls
R. L. Spillers
Sonny Fitzgerald
Mrs
Edgar Brown
Waterproof
J. J. Ferguson
Shirley Ann and
Barbara
Memphis, Tenn
Louise Anderson
Margaret Louise
Bob Staples
Bedford Drive
Baton Rouge
General Hospital
J. J. Staples
Calhoun, la
Lester DeLouche
Judith Karen
Riverside Sanitarium
Ben Davidson
D. L. Davidson
Los Angeles
Calif
America
Morrison
Chicago
Leonard Hicks
Sieverstein
Donovan
Silvertone
Rembrandt
Bernhardt Bldg
Arlington
Home Appliance CO
N. Grand
Benning
Dennis O'Keefe
Bowery
Louise Campbell
Roger Pryor
Paul Hurst
James Newill
Yukon
Sing Sing Prison
Louisville
Rochelle Hudson
Bruce Bennett
Sidney Blackmer
Ruby Keeler
Ozzie Nelson
Harriet Hilliard
Donna Reed
Robert Sterling
Bob Benchley
Collier
Quentin Reynolds
Missouri
Dennis Morgan
Wayne Morris
Dive Bomber
Coca-Cola Company
Ouachita Coca-Cola Bottling Company
Walnut Street
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