Longtime Breece Lumber Plant to Be Demolished and Moved
After 45 years the old Breece Lumber mill on the east bank of the river at Graylin head is being dismantled. The plant, once the Monroe Lumber Company and later the Grabber Company, moved to Albuquerque. The demolition follows large timber holdings being cut over and the mill’s removal will affect the lumber operations and future manufacturing plans of the successor company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breece
Graylin
Albuq
O Hlay
Woodworth
Monroe Lumber Company
Grabber Company
O. S. Hawes Lumber
Breece Lumber Company
George Breece
Nofiana
Breece Lumber
Arkansas
Northna
LaFourche
Threce
Monroe
The
Lumber Company
Sumi
Princesses Guard Post Hightens After Hysteria Killing Charge
Princess Concetta Leone de Nigeratze faces a preliminary hearing for the alleged shooting death of her second husband Prince Vladimir Nigeratze in Mexico City. A special guard was posted after she threatened self harm and suffered hysteria worsened by a prison suicide. She previously worked as a stenographer in New York and divorced Juan M. Velasco, a Mexico City businessman, five years ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico City
Concetta Leone de Nigeratze
New York
Vladimir Nigeratze
Augustin Urgia Sanchez
Concetta
Juan M. Velasco
Tech Y leaders elected freshmen cabinet chair and cochair
J. O. Stewart of Shreveport was elected chairman of the freshman Y M C A cabinet at Louisiana Tech. James Price of Many was named co chairman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. O. Stewart
Shreveport
Louisiana Tech
James Price
Cochairman
Louisiana Declared Tick Free Ending Quarantine
The Bureau of Animal Husbandry announced Louisiana is tick free and the quarantine lifted. The move covers 28,150 square miles across three states with 24 parishes in Louisiana released from restrictions. Parishes named include Allen Avoyelles Beauregard Caldwell Catahoula De Soto Evangeline Franklin Red River Rapides Richland Sabine Verdar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Animal Husbandry
Louisiana
Texas
Florida
Agriculture Department
CWA
FERA
WPA
Allen
Avoyelles
Beauregard
Caldwell
Catahoula
Mrs Gus Primos Undergoes Underwater Operation
Mrs. Gus Primos undergoes an underwater operation on Second Street at St Francis on Monday.
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Gus Primos
Second Street
St. Francis Jm
Louisiana Sets December Oil Allowable At 238 350 Barrels Daily
The Louisiana oil production allowable for December is set at 238 350 barrels daily by the state conservation commission, unchanged from November. The breakdown lists numerous fields with specific barrel allowances, totaling 155 850 in South Louisiana and 82 500 in North Louisiana, for a grand state total of 233 350 barrels.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
State Conservation Commission
Basile
Bayou Choctaw
Bayou Mallett
Black Bayou
Bosco
Bunkie
Caillou Island
Cameron Meadows
Darrow
Dog Lake
English Bayou
Evangeline
Four Isle
Garden Island Bay
Gillis
Gueydan
Hackberry
East
West
Iberia
Iowa
Jeanerette
LaFitte
Lake Barre
Lake Hermitage
Lake Pelto
Lake Washington
Leeville
Lockport
Port Barre
Roanoke
St. Martville
Sorrento
Starks
Sulphur Mines
Sweet Lake
Vin
Will Seek Bids for Kelly Caldwell Parish School Project
Bids will be sought soon for a new Kelly school building in Caldwell parish. Plans by J. W. Smith and Associates approved by the state education department. A $20,000 PWA grant and parish bonds finance the roughly $45,000 project. Also, Weston High gymnasium work begins in Jackson parish at $9,000 with J. R. Early and Company as contractor.
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Kelly
Caldwell Parish
J. W. Smith and Associates
State Department of Education
PWA
Weston High School
Jackson Parish
J. R. Early and Company
Jonesboro
Monroe
Southerner to play in Gone With the Wind
Producer David O. Selznick says the female lead will be a Southerner and that George Cukor and Selznick will search the South for Scarlett O Hara and Rhett Butler. Katherine Brown will start in Atlanta and they will visit southern universities.
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Hollywood
Deep South
David O. Selznick
George Cukor
Rhett Butler
Scarlett O’hara
Selznick
Katherine Brown
Atlanta
Pigskin Parade Opens at Paramount with Robotic Comedy
The Paramount screens Pigskin Parade featuring Stuart Erwin Johnny Downs Arline Judge Betty Grable Patsy Kelly Jack Haley Dixie Dunbar Anthony Martin Judy Garland and The Yacht Club Boys as a zany campus musical about a freshman team and a mismatch with Boola Boola. A later Capitol showing presents The Trail of the Lonesome Pine in Technicolor with Sylvia Sidney Fred MacMurray and Henry Fonda set in Cumberland mountains and a family feud intensified by a railroad project.
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Twentieth Century-Fox
Fresh Water
Boola-Boola
Yipee University
Yipee
Jack Haley
Patsy Kelly
Patsy
Jack
Stuart Erwin
Washington
Erwin
The
Capitol
America
Capitol Theater
Sylvia Sidney
Fred MacMurray
Henry Fonda
John Fox, Jr
Cumberland Mountains
Henry Hathaway
Hathaway
Miss Sidney
Fonda
MacMurray
West Monroe Worker Returns Home After Arm Injury
Marcelle Ronquille, an employee at Brown Paper mill, injured his right arm while on night shift November 13. He was discharged to his 811 Pine Street residence in West Monroe after a period at St. Francis sanatorium.
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Marcelle Ronquille
Brown Paper Mill
Pine Street
West Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
November building permits exceed last year's totals
Sam H. Awl city building inspector reports 27 permits in November for work costing 35 794, up from 15 permits and 9 850 last year. The breakdown shows 11 new residences totaling 21 004, 5 non residential buildings 379, and 14 411 for additions alterations and repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam H. Awl
Mr. Awt
Carrier Boys Hold Outing on Sunday
The News-Star-World reports a Carrier Boys club event at Bernstein's country place on Bayou DeSiard. Guests enjoyed oysters and a 28 28 football tie between McGowanites and Mc Coy Hog Callers, followed by a bicycle street-riding exhibition won by James Haynes aided by organizer T. J. Eldridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
News-Star—World Carriers’ Club
Bernstein
Bayou DeSiard
McGowanites
McCoy Hog
James ‘Jug
Haynes
T. J. Eldridge
Brenneman Traps Suspected Henhouse Thief Turns Out Polecat
Normal Brenneman in Grove City Pa. wait for a thief looting his hen house. He pounces but the culprit is a polecat, ending the night's mischief with an unexpected catch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Polecat
Grove City
Brenneman
Deathes Mrs Della Brownlee Funeral Held At Home
The funeral for Mrs. Della Bagwell Brownlee 42 died Monday at 6 pm at 200 South Second Street was held Tuesday at 1 pm at the residence with Rev. L T Hastings officiating. Burial in Forksville cemetery near Calhoun. Survived by husband W E Brownlee one daughter Beatrice four stepchildren Tina Ethel Annie Laurie Charles Otis, father J C Bagwell two sisters Mrs Ray Leonard Mrs Kid Bennett two brothers Coleman Bagwell J R Bagwell. Pallbearers Milton Coverdale C A Hunt Bob Kilgore Manta Ellis L Blanton and G G Johnston.
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Della Brownlee
Della Bagwell Brownlee
South Second Street
L. T. Hastings
First Baptist Church
Forksville Cemetery
Calhoun
W. E. Brownlee
Beatrice Brownlee
Tina Brownlee
Ethel Brownlee
Annie Laurie Brownlee
Charles Otis Brownlee
J. C. Bagwell
Ray Leonard
Kid Bennett
Eros
Coleman Bagwell
Virginia
J. R. Bagwell
Cuba
Wash
Milton Coverdale
C. A. Hunt
Bob Kilgore
Monta Ellis
L. Blanton
G. G. Johnston
Crystal Palace in London burns to ruin
Historic Crystal Palace in London burned last night destroying the mirrored structure built in 1851 at a cost of 1 350 000 pounds. No lives were lost though vast damage occurred as the Duke of Kent joined fire crews amid the battle and officials opened an inquiry into a cloakroom origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Crystal Palace
Queen Victoria
Duke of Kent
Duke
Stabbing at Wood Street Leaves Man Injured
George Davis, a Black man, was stabbed and cut below the right shoulder during a fight at 1409 Wood Street and treated at St. Francis sanitarium late last night. Police said the attacker is unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Davis
St. Francis Sanitarium
Wood Street
Injured William Parker Recuparating After Porch Fall
William Parker 83 remains in fair condition at St. Francis sanitarium three weeks after a left hip fracture from a porch fall at his son Police Officer H B Parker’s home at 100 South Sixth. Doctors say immediate danger is past but pneumonia possible and recovery will be slow due to age. Parker has another son, Monroe Detective L G Parker.
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William Parker
H. B. Parker
South Sixth Street
St. Francis Sanitarium
Mr. Parker
Monroe
L. G. Parker
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Hungary
Magda Sargas
Budapest
Franz Sargas
Sargas
Princess
Tulane
Lawrence Tif
Wenda Barr
Edmund Low
Lonesome Pine
Cam
Irene Her Charles Star
Doris Kenyo
H. B. Warne
Joan Crawford
Robert Taylor
Gorgeous Hussy
Lionel Barrymore
Franchot Tone
South
Big Bear Lake
California
Pacific Coast
Oregon
Carrier Boys
Alameda
Chase & Sanborn
Maxwell House Coffee
Subway
Daisy Air Rifles
Union How. CO
Or Hardware & Furniture CO
ST. John Street
Monroe, LA
TG & Furniture CO
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