Fifth District V F W to Meet
Rodney J. Hobbs hosts a Fifth district VFW meeting Thursday at 7:45 p.m. Officials including Dr. Joseph Menendez J W McConnell Harvey Redman William Twigg Carl Finley Ray Dobyns Thomas Bingham attend from multiple posts in Monroe West Monroe Bastrop Rayville Winnsboro Ruston and more. Lawrence Himes will preside and outline national legislation affecting the VFW and the year ahead. Twenty posts are represented.
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Rodney J. Hobbs
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Joseph C. Menendez
New Orleans
J W McConnell
Shreveport
Harvey Redman
Senicr
Gretna
William Twigg
Carl Finley
Ray B. Dobyns
Baton Rouge
Thomas Bingham
Lawrence Himes
Rayville
Monroe
Visitation Plans Highlight 1999 Veterans Goals
Mayor H. H. Benoit will greet visiting groups hosted in the state with the auxiliary providing refreshments. National legislative aims for 1999 focus on disabled veterans assistance pensions for widows and orphans and employment or pension support for all veterans.
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H. H. Benoit
Harrison Urges Seal Purchase for Tuberculosis Fight
Claude Harrison campaign manager urges Monroe and Ouachita parish residents to buy Christmas seals to stamp out tuberculosis. He says every letter and package should bear a seal, turning mail into a message of health and local effort.
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Monroe
Ouachita Parish
Claude Harrison
Germany Tightens Rules On Jewish Property Emigration
Berlin decree limits Jews and others from removing property from Germany after January 1 except for strictly personal use. It targets assets and household goods amid the deadline for a billion mark fine tied to Vom Rath killing.
Monroe Man Retires From Navy After 16 Years of Service
D B Goza of Monroe retires after 16 years as a U S Navy radio operator. He served on the New Mexico and Tennessee and aboard Tatoosh Island in Alaska before earning a life pension and planning to settle in southern California. He recounts hazards, crashes, and a near-drowning rescue that tested his resolve. He urges youths considering enlistment to expect both easy and tough sailing.
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United States Navy
D. B. Goza
Monroe
West Monroe
California
Goza
Tatoosh Island
United States
Pacific Ocean
T. E. Gaza
Navy
New Orleans
Naval Training Station
San Diego
Calif
New Mexico
Charles Sisson
Gaza
Cordova
Alaska
Navy Motor Machinists School
Great Lakes
Ill
Tennessee
13Th Naval District
Washington
Oregon
Naval District
Gora
Atlantic Seaboard
New England
Cuba
West Indies
Hawaiian Islands
Midway Island
Arrest of James Thomas Tied to Sheriff Coverdale Wounding Case
James Thomas, a Black man, was arrested in Napoleonville Assumption parish by Sheriff Milton Coverdale of Ouachita parish on a warrant charging him with wounding less than mayhem in a knife assault on Roosevelt Sawyer. The report also notes England’s popularity of tennis with over 3,000,000 players.
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Coverdale
James Thomas
Napoleonville
Assumption Parish
Milton Coverdale
Ouachita Parish
Roosevelt Sawyer
Germany imposes special permit for gifts to foreigners
A decree grants broad discretionary powers to the bureaucracy restricting presents to friends abroad after January 1. Foreign residents face taxation and exchange rules like Germans, raising questions of foreign interests in these new limits. A Thursday fine targets Jews as part of an anti Jewish campaign sparked by Vom Rath’s November 9 death.
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Germany
Vom Rath
Herschel Grynszpan
Streetman Recovering From Illness At Local Hospital
Fay Streetman of the News Star World circulation department is convalescing satisfactorily at the local hospital, with health improving daily.
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Fay Streetman
News-Star—World Circulation Department
St. Francis Sanitarum Patient Undergoes Operation
A patient at St. Francis Sanitarum recently had an operation and friends may visit in room No 1.
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St. Francis Sanitarum
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Harrison
Chamber of Commerce
Calvert
America
Calvert Distillers Corp
Baltimore, Md
Louiville
Chrysler Ride
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Berlin
Ministry of Economics
Reich
Ernst Vom Rath
Paris
England
London
Mobil
Flying Red Horse
Magnolia
Magnolia Petriie Sam
Co. Mobilga
Via
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the Road of
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Jackson Dallas
New York
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Birmingham
Ft. Worth
Selman Field
Mira
Paramount
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