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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1946
Page
16
New York reports a strong supply of balsam Christmas trees as dealers expect ample stock despite a freight embargo. With advance shipping ahead of schedule, trees cut months prior will reach outlets, and any car accepted by station agents in northern areas by last midnight is guaranteed to move to its destination.
Mrs R W Herris plans a one story frame residence at 4100 Spurgeon Drive with a cost not exceeding 7000 using day labor. T Y Williams to build a one story frame dwelling at 108 Egan Street costing up to 1000 with owner construction. Accidental farm resident deaths rose eight percent over 1944 figures in 1945.
The November St Joseph Cosmopolitan Club meeting at the community house featured flowers and a program on public health school health nursing services and education week. Hostesses were Mesdames Biggs Cook and Rives with reports on Education Week at Joseph M Davidson High School.
In Reno Nevada on December 6 Mary Drew 31 is the final defense witness in the murder trial of William Appleton 34 a former sailor from Clifton New Jersey stabbed in a hotel room on September 25 Her estranged husband Elmer Drew 38 testifies of love and supports her case Dr Lynn Gerow reports blood alcohol tests two hours after Appleton died showing Mrs Drew was very drunk and asserts substantial force would be needed to drive the bayonet into Appleton yet notes a woman could have done it
Los Angeles dated Dec 6 report: two sets of divorced and remarried parents seek custody of triplets Carol 9 Russell and Gordon. A family friend temporarily takes custody as Superior Judge Kurtz Kauffman considers the dispute over the children amidst the housing mixup.
Haas labeled a three room house inadequate as the Simpson family, parents Maurice and spouse, face upheaval following a trailer fire. Lois Forbes agrees to care for the four children while the court conducts an investigation.
Fifty five members of a wartime underwater demolition team now assigned to the Antarctic expedition will test new six pound rubber diving suits in water at 28 to 35 degrees above zero. Led by Lieut. (jg) Halver Iverson the group expects fins to boost speed and endurance by about 40 percent.
Iverson notes divers aim to stay in water 20 minutes with no breathing aids as they enter feet first to vent air. They may help break up bay ice at Ross Sea shelf and face risk from killer whales and sea leopards. Officers Lieut. (jg) H L Garren Jr Kings Park NY Lieut. (ig) Thomas J Brady and Lieut. (ig) Robert C Marshall also onboard.
A maternity ward room was readied today in Los Angeles for the anticipated arrival of Mrs. James Roosevelt, widow of the late president's eldest son.
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