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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1944
Page
6
Six year old Mary Rose Tankersley told her mother she swallowed a pin. Early this month doctors found a pin lodged in her right lung but waited. A week later she coughed up the rusty pin, avoiding surgery.
A two day cooking school by the West Monroe Lions Club opens promptly at 9 am Friday opposite the Strand Theater. Demonstrations begin 2 30 pm daily with Mrs Jewel L MecQuiller and experts from Louisiana Power and Light. War pictures, bingo, an auction, and prizes accompany the event to raise funds for sight conservation and the blind.
Philadelphia August 31 Stege and screen star Lila Lee married stockbroker John E Murphy of New York in a magistrate ceremony. She listed her age as 39 and used the name Augusta L Peine. Her former husband was Chicago broker John R Peine.
Paris correspondent Hal Boyle reports that the German occupiers, who introduced the black market, soon became its prey as shortages pushed prices to 2000–2300 francs per item. A waiter named Alec Greciet recalls ration limits, rising costs for shoes and clothes, and the shift from European luxury to illicit buying as the war wore on.
Kate Smith appears in a Navy produced program for WAVES recruiting titled Something for the Girls on Friday September 1 at 815 p.m. over KSMB. Ted Collins Jack Miller Ward Wilson and Isabelle Cane assist in the show tailored to WAVES tastes at USS Hunter New York training center.
In Paris a cigarette shortage fuels a black market supplying Belgian packs at 140 francs per package. The phrase Have you another cigarette? is asked to American soldiers repeatedly as residents crave a lawful smoke over meals.
Rev and Mrs J H Keys of West Monroe confirm their son Cpl Royd Keys 25 was killed in action in France last June. He served with the 2d Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop after two years in England. He married Florence Farnaday of London on January 8 and had a brother Lt Fred A Keys, a fighter pilot overseas.
The sole inmate at Wabash county jail escaped after using hack saws hidden by a former prisoner. He left Sheriff M. M. Moberly a note detailing how he broke out and where the tools came from.
On or about September 1 a fine new package liquor store will be opened at 108 Harrison street a half block from Hotel Frances under the personnel management of Ben Caren known as Ben He has been in the hotel business for 25 years starting in the Waldorf Astoria and rising through the ranks
A seasoned head waiter previously at Washington's Hotel Carlton and later at Hotel Baker in Dallas becomes cafe shop manager and head waiter of the mural room. He offers liquor expertise for Monroe entertainments and cocktails while the store follows OPA price ceilings or lower.
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