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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1946
Page
12
The Mentor calls boiled beans an unforgivable sacrilege on Boston bean fame. Warden Francis J. W. Lanagan admits the claim, noting that inmates have been served boiled beans in Boston and Guatemala, where cacao nectar yields honey.
Baton Rouge Louisiana December 20 About half of the 90 boys at the Louisiana Training Institute in Monroe will be allowed to visit their families during the Christmas holidays says Robert L Pettit director of the department of institutions Leaves will be granted on good behavior during the year Ninety two boys were allowed similar leaves last year from the reform school with every one returning at the expiration of his holiday Another note mentions one and one half pounds of peanuts in the shell making about one pound of kernels
The adult choir of First Baptist Church Monroe will present a Christmas cantata Gloria in Excelsis on Sunday night December 22 under Mr. B B Fields with Mrs B D Allbritton at the organ. The rendition of The Hallelujah Chorus from The Messiah marks the climax. The program credits Elsie Duncan Yale and Ellen Jane Lorenz for lyrics and music. Lottie Moon offering for missions will precede the cantata with an invitation to the public.
Anthony Burke a 46 year old prisoner at the District of Columbia workhouse asked the district attorney to keep him jailed for the public good He says release would lead to crime and notes he deserts the army in 1931 and defrauded the Red Cross He is serving 30 days for drunkenness and faces release Monday The district attorney sent the letter to Municipal Court Judge George D Neilson for consideration.
John C Thompson, 41, a Chicago resident, was arrested in Chicago on a Dyer act case and reported held by Monroe police. He had earlier appeared in Monroe driving a 1941 Olds coupe that was wrecked at Collinston, rebuilt, sold, and later found stolen in Los Angeles.
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