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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1940
Page
7
Olan H. Black announces the formation of Bonita Troop 6 by the Ouachita Valley council with M. W. Seab as scoutmaster and L. Walcott as troop committee chairman. Twenty eight members are named including Clyde Arrington and Glendale Borong. Bonita town council to sponsor the troop.
Philadelphia's 5000 policemen were mobilized to check draft registration cards of men stopped or arrested. Director James F Malone said the U S attorney's office appealed for aid for hundreds of complaints about false registrations. The rola will be checked against addresses licenses or other IDs, while names will be compared to a master government list.
Ella 70, a resident at the Mary home, was killed when a Missouri Pacific passenger train struck her at 10 30 p m Wednesday on the railroad track just beyond Monroe city limits. State police and coroner Dr J T French described extensive injuries. Engineer Lon Burch and conductor Morris Graham supervised the scene with Flagman G I Butler aiding until removal.
In Stompsburg Nebraska a six year old girl Sandra Imm underwent an emergency appendix operation aided by a flashlight after a storm cut electrical power. Surgeons performed the procedure to remove the appendix using the available light.
Washington dispatch reports the U S Army rapidly expanding to train a projected 1.5 million personnel by next summer. Fort Knox Fort Riley Randolph Field Fort Benning Fort Sill Timely centers vie to teach radio and tank mechanics pilots infantry arts as selective service surges. A woman in Abbeville S C solicited funds for church work and was arrested for asking a church committee member.
M V Orr of the corporation says the two Lamar mills are being upgraded at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars. The Louisina mill receives extensive improvements over six to eight months with new machinery and replacements to outmoded equipment. The plan does not include building a new mill.
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