Standardizing Fish Names Aims At Blue Book Dictionary
At the American Fisheries Society convention in St Louis Walter H. Chute notes plans for a blue book or dictionary of fish names and family trees to standardize terms across regions. He cites terms like green trout and bull heads varying by region and promises a nationwide naming system.
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ST Louis
Walter H. Chute
Shedd Aquarium
Chicago
American Fisheries Society
Chute
Deep South
Wisconsin
Massachuetts
California recruits women parachutists for war work
The California state guard plans two hospital battalions of women parachutists to land rescue teams behind front lines. They would perform blood transfusions from powdered or liquid blood and other battlefield treatments, a first for the force. Major Frank G. Nolan leads the program, seeking qualified women among nurses, pilots, and jumpers, with eligibility restrictions and male support staff to form parachute sections.
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M. E. Barker
Los Angeles
Thelifornia State Guard
United States Army
Frank G. Nolan
California State Guard Medical Corps
Federal
State Guard
Nolan
Army
Navy
West Monroe Boy Killed as Truck Runs into Ditch
O C Cotton Jr seven was killed when the truck driven by his father veered into a ditch on the Jonesboro road west of West Monroe. Funeral services were held at Walnut Grove church with Rev O A Wright officiating. Interment followed in Walnut Grove cemetery. He is survived by his parents a sister and a brother. Pallbearers named. Dixie Funeral Home handled arrangements.
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Jonesboro
West Monroe
O. C. Cotton, Jr
Walnut Grove
O. A. Wright
Walnut Grove Cemetery
Young Cotton
O. C. Cotton
Sybile
Johnny
Howard Brown
L. V. Frith
Harold Frith
Harold Wallace
Dixie Funeral Home
Radio unit uses many languages in Arkansas war games
Lieutenant Colonel John Reynolds says New York's 27th division has teams of operators fluent in Polish Chinese Gaelic Spanish French and German. They translate messages in real time rather than using coded cipher to confuse enemy listening posts during war games near Prescott Arkansas.
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Prescott
Ark
New York
2Ith
John Reynolds
Revival Services Begin at Stone Avenue Methodist Church
Rev E W Scott of Clara Mississippi opens a revival at Stone Avenue Methodist Church with an 11 o’clock Sunday service. Daily prayers follow at 10 am and 7 30 pm through the first Sunday in September under Pastor I L Yeager.
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E. W. Scott
Clara, Miss
Stone Avenue Methodist Church
Scott
I. L. Yeager
Arkansas War Ilustrates Man to Man Combat in Training
In Arkansas on Aug 27 Second Army troops opened man to man combat as the 38th Illinois division defended the main railroad line from the Little Missouri to Camden against 55,000 enemy troops of the Seventh Army corps. Major General Samuel T. Lawton deployed 19,000 men along Cypress Creek with 107th Ohio Cavalry reconnaissance. The opposing force included the 27th New York division and the 35th Kansas Nebraska Missouri division. The exercise aims to end its first phase after 24 hours, then unite divisions for operations at the Ouachita river near Camden and move into Louisiana in early September. Two regular army divisions from Michigan and Missouri shift toward positions north of the Ouachita to face the Seventh corps in a weekend battle.
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Illinois
Little Missouri River
Camden
Seventh Army Corps
Samuel T. Lawton
Illinois Parole Board
Cypress Creek
Arkansas
107Th Ohio Cavalry
New York
Kansas, Nebraska and
Missouri
107Th Cavalry
75Th
Tennessee
Kotmk
Ouachita River
Fort Custer
Mich
Fort Leonard Wood
Quachita
Seventh Corps
Louisiana
Questionnaires Mailed for West Monroe Residents
A long list of questionnaires mailed to numerous residents in West Monroe and surrounding areas. Names include Leon Donahue Johnnie Howard Jesse Allan Brantley Adolph Adron Mathis and many others with addresses in West Monroe Monroe Shreveport Jackson Miss Alexandria La and Troy. The document records ordered responses tied to care of various employers and route boxes with multiple colored individuals noted in the roster.
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Johnnie Howard
Care Ollie DeBose
West Monroe
Jesse Allan Brantley
Adolph Adron Mathis
Coleman Avenue
Everett
Frank Shavers
Monroe
Roy Dallas Staples
Calhoun
Willard Eugene Green
Care
Hobart Brothers
Troy
Thomas Lee Hall
Jennings Street
Jackson
Miss
George Alen McKinney
Hall Street
George Williams
Dick Taylor
George Emmett Ramsey
Register
Gordon Edward Hill
Beverley Street
Bossier City
Arnold Gilbert Dunn
Care Brown Paper Mill
Oscar Lee Roy
Care S. L. Roy
Roy Lee
Pine Street
Frank Bernard Wellerman
Heart Adkin
Care St. Mary's Kraft Corporation
St. Marys
Milton Adam Coleman, Jr
Caré Louisville Cooperage
James Frances Sutton
Care Louisiana Veneer Company
Audie Peppers
Bosco
Oliver Gordon Henry
Mill Street
West
Ernest Rachal
P.O
Robinson Smith
Stephen Douglas Green
Vien
Oscar Waddill Hamilton
Sterlington
Thurman Perious Hale
North Second Street
Emmett Earlton Sanders
Mitchell Avenue
Harrison Parrott
Route 4
Roy Wilson Bayles
Cypress
Sam Enos Davis
Harvard Street
Shreveport
Cleophus Leon Zeigler, Jr
Moses Beck
Drew Street
Jack Benton McCormick
Calvert Charles Frantom
Conan Edward Bambure
James Alfred Rutledge
Star
Elzie Cummings
North Fifth Street
O. C. Bowers
Colored
Bros
Christopher Columbus Toliver
Emeal Price
Bobbie Caldwell
Reed Street
Alexandria
Lyman Curry Hendricks
Fishick Avenue
J. P. Jackson
Placid Oil advances in Olla and Little Creek fields
In the Olla and Little Creek fields of LaSalle parish Placid Oil reports Tremont Lumber Co No A-7 as a commercial producer near Little Creek. Additional tests at B-8, 104 and 94 in Olla field, and four new locations in Olla and nearby Caldwell parish, show ongoing drilling with hopes of extending field boundaries. H. L. Hunt's units and Arkansas Fuel Oil Co also pursuing tests with high royalty buying interest in Caldwell parish.
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Clarks
Olla
Placid Oil Company
Tremont Lumber Company No. A-7
LaSalle Parish
Little Creek
Cockerham
Little Creek Field
Tremont Lumber Company
Olla Field
Louisiana Central No
H. L. Hunt
Arkansas Fuel Oil Company
Kees
Louisiana Central
Caldwell Parish
David J. Flesh
Big West Drilling Company
Lowe
Esh
Township 11
Range 4
Southern Carbon Company
Wollie Howard
Catahoula Parish
Winn Parish
Coast Guardsman Is Guest of Honor at Monroe Lions
B. B. Rawls chief boats mate United States coast guard honored guest of the Monroe Lions club at a regular luncheon meeting at Hotel Frances. He showed a motion picture on coast guard work and maritime law enforcement and stressed the need to maintain the merchant marine. Roy Cole Jr performed saxophone selections.
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B. B. Rawls
Bas'n Mate
United States Coast Guard
Monroe Lions Club
Hotel Frances
Coast Guard
Roy Cole, Jr
Shelby Cage
Sam Walker
Epps Lions Club
R. T. Cole
Reese McCook
Raymond Spencer
Marion Perkins
Pete Mulhearn
Rotary Club
R. M. Sanford
Sergeant Griffith
Marine Corps
Many More Arrests in German-Occupied Paris
German police in Paris blockaded part of the Fourth arrondissement near city hall and arrested numerous people described as Jews and Communists. Residents were confined indoors and ordered to surrender identification papers as the new Paris court of appeals panel began speedy trials with authority to order imprisonment or death.
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Paris
France
Fourth Arrondissement
Seine
Palace of Justice
Paris Court of Appeals
Navy to Halt Dependent Passages to Hawaii
The navy announced it will no longer provide passage for dependents of sailors transferred to Hawaii due to an acute housing shortage and high rents. Some one bedroom homes currently rent at about $100 a month. The army issued a similar rule last month.
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Honolulu
Navy
Hawaii
Army
Mission buildings destroyed in Changsha raid
Chinese Central News says Japanese planes destroyed buildings of an American mission in Changsha capital of Hunan province during a Sunday raid. The possible target was the Methodist Missionary Society statement notes.
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Chungking
China
Chinese Central News
Methodist Missionary Society
Changsha
Hunan Province
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