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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1941
Page
4
Paris Nov. 30. Delayed report says France Socialist newspaper offers prizes totaling 8000 dollars for the best explanations of France's low birth rate.
Olan H. Black, longtime Boy Scout executive, spoke to the Civitan club in West Monroe on Thursday night about guiding Scout troop No. 12 as sponsors the club recently voted to take over. A special Scout committee was named including H. J. Eyre, O. B. Wilson and Charles Eby, with L. M. Webb as assistant Scoutmaster. The club plans to sell Christmas trees to aid underprivileged boys and expects them to arrive soon at Harper's Truck Line on North Riverfront for distribution by Civitan members.
Southbridge Mass December 5 The American Optical Company will deliver 100000 masks to the government for mechanized forces including tank corps and armored divisions The masks weigh one and a half ounces and filter particles as small as a micron The order was placed by the chemical warfare service.
The Southern Association suspended ten Georgia colleges from its accredited list amid Governor Talmadge’s political interference claims. The action, effective Sept 1, 1942, includes Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia. nine components of the university system were not affected.
A year old, Jack Wallace of 411 Catalpa Street released eight gas balloons with his name and address. One balloon was found by Clifton Collins in Yazoo City after more than three weeks, and he received a letter describing the find. The balloon was located Monday morning.
John W. Breedlove 23 of Ruston, jailed for life for killing City Policeman Hal Posey, arrived at the penitentiary with a college chemistry endorsement from Dr. G C Hilman of Louisiana Tech. Deputies arranged the statement after Breedlove requested access to his chemistry training, aiming to apply it at the prison sugar mill.
Louisiana State University students may get a campus bank funded by a $300 reserve held by the board of supervisors. The bank would cash student checks above $25 in parts until cleared, exclude faculty payrolls, and handle bad checks through the student honor court after approval by the university auditor and board of supervisors.
Paul H Buck recently named Harvard arts and sciences dean was chosen to give the 1942 Walter L Fleming lectures at Louisiana State University. Dr W H Stephenson, chairman, announced the lectures honor the late Fleming a southern historian and LSU history head 1907 to 1917. Probable dates are March 24 26.
Dispatches from Vichy report fresh anti Nazi attacks in Paris with the latest in the Rue de Seine Latin Quarter near Boulevard St. Germain where a German book shop was recently dynamited. Details were not immediately available.
Senator Taft of Ohio proposed inviting former President Herbert Hoover to advise the Senate on the price control measure already passed by the House. Taft, backing substitute price legislation, said Hoover gained extensive price fixing experience as federal food administrator in World War I. If the Senate wants guidance from a true expert, Hoover should be invited.
Senator Glass announced accelerated hearings on the disputed House price control bill. Leon Henderson, acting price administrator, will testify first as the Senate banking committee moves to rush the process despite Taft’s warning that hearings could last several weeks.
Ouachita No. 21.O. C. F. will hold an election Friday at 7 30 p.m. at the Woodmen of the World hall. Officers to be elected include noble grand vice grand recording secretary financial secretary treasurer two delegates to the grand lodge and two alternates.
In Dupont Georgia Grover Lee reports his hunting dog Sport survived a train collision that cost an eye and an auto crash with severe bruising. A third car strike and an accidental family car run over followed before the dog rose again and later flushed a covey totaling 17 quail.
State public works officials conduct a survey of the proposed Chenicre brake dam and fish and game preservation site following a preliminary scan by parish engineer W. H. Huckaby. The survey should finish in a few days.
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