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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1941
Page
2
The Monroe News-Star is published every afternoon except Saturday by News-Star-World Publishing Corporation. Office address is 10 114 North Second Street, Basin Office Editorial Room and Managing Editor listed.
A column argues that all prior peace schemes failed from religious teaching to collective security. Douglas Johnson proposes peace through force backed by united action and a Monroe Doctrine approach extended to goodwill nations, a realistic but controversial shift from idealism.
New York scene notes George Tucker recalls C Aubrey Smith and Hobart Bosworth in town at age 78 and 74 respectively. Smith’s Broadway return with Grace George in Spring Again and Bosworth’s claim as “daddy of em all” after They Died With Their Boots On. Reflections on 1920s Biltmore era tea dances and Grand Central’s Commodore scene with Vaughn Monroe's orchestra and Mary Astor style piano, capturing youth vitality.
Education for living is the aim of schooling, not book knowledge alone. Schools must mix lifework with subjects so pupils understand community life, industry, and art. Early adolescence is the time to teach responsibility and real skills through community experiences. If graduates lack life readiness, marks are useless. Consult Patri’s booklet Your Child and Other People by sending ten cents to Monroe News-Star in New York.
Washington businessmen report shortages and odd specifications from national defense produce. Scraps of linoleum from furniture use prompt future price cuts and scrap pits. lumber yards flood with lower grades. a fountain pen ink lead to navy yard pen orders after brass collar finds priority. A New York pen maker defies the odds with felt final.
Four Tyczynski girls waved to their father, Arthur Tyczynski, as a fire engine sped by. He lost his grip, fell, and died from a fractured skull and broken collar bone at Geneva hospital after hours of hopeful waiting.
December 5 1926 Dr P M Gale of the American Legion building committee discusses tentative plans for a permanent home for the local Lo B Faulk post. Preparatory work by committees includes a wired show fund raising idea and an overall party to honor workers cleaning World War trophies. A dinner will follow. Lotus club Chamber of Commerce and Monroe city coordinate a radio program from St Louis to publicize Monroes progress. Building permits issued by inspector Richard Cassady for two one story brick buildings on Harrisons street with a $12009 contract by Greve and McKenzie Inc.
In St. Augustine Florida millions of tiny frogs formed a moving blanket on a street after heavy rains flooded lawns and vacant lots, tadpoles developing into the half inch square creatures.
A dense, OCR flagged schedule lists daily radio programs and time shifts for Eastern Standard Time with CST adjustments. Multiple shows feature musical acts, serials, news updates, interviews, and variety performances across networks CBS NBC and local stations, spanning 6 pm to 1 am with detailed program lines and host names.
In a stormy scene Riv Moore pleads with Sue Ellen to help the Colonel by turning Belle Acres back to manage the estate. Sue Ellen resists while Riv reveals his plan and fears, as other family tensions and an impending outcome loom.
Dr Roy Hansberry of Cornell reports discovery of a potent new organic insecticide from 76 interior China plants studied after a year long expedition near the Burma road. The milletia pachycarpa shows poisonous properties and seeds usable as an insecticide via dust, with commercial potential for southern states.
New York reports a four hour delay as Chilean health minister and staff sought to vaccinate a man against smallpox. He refused, saying he’d already been inoculated. After securing proof he was cleared, he returned home with no work performed.
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