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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1941
Page
3
Delta Beta Sigma sorority guests gathered at Miss Satchie Cooper home for a charming Christmas party with gift exchanges and a tree draped in silver tinsel and baubles. Refreshments were served from a candlelit buffet as members celebrated the season.
Clarks Band Roosters host a Christmas party at Mrs W L McDermott home with a Santa reveal turning out to be Mrs Ernie McGhee. Gift to Mrs Bardwell a cookie jar. Christmas tree, decorations, and refreshments noted. Church holiday events, Junior Hormemakers plans, and enrolment drives also mentioned. Induction of Joe Warren Beasley to US Army and family travel for holidays recorded. The cantata The Christmas Star performed at Clarks Baptist church with readers including Miss Wanda Ballard.
The church staged a pageant featuring mas star Mrs Ellis Jones and 15 children with selected voices in two main parts across five scenes. Guests and locals, including the Three Wise Men and King Wenceslas, filled the program as C C Sheppard and Mayo M Iles prepared to attend a Kansas City directors meeting.
Mrs Pollard Coleman and Miss Boris McCreary co hosted a party for Les Petites at the community house with a social, bingo, and Christmas gift exchange for the Girl Scouts toy fund. 16 club members attended as college guests arrived for the holidays from Northeast Center Monroe Southwestern Lafayette and LSU Baton Rouge.
Marton Mrs. Maxie Lee Cooper and her son visit DeRidder relatives, joined by the Arrants. Several teachers return home for holidays including Miss Hopkins Shreveport Miss Maroney Lake Providence Miss Stewart Bastrop Miss Gresham Springhill and Miss Andrews Lillie. Mr B K Watson Jr of United Gas System Gulfport also at home. Mr and Mrs W A Edwards Jr of Mount Pleasant Texas visit his parents. Mr and Mrs Bryan Reeves and children of Pensacola Florida stay with S L Reeves family.
Free French forces occupied St Pierre and Miquelon after landing four corvettes under Admiral Muselier. Islanders supported de Gaulle, ousting the Vichy administrator and taking control of key ports, radio and government offices. A plebiscite showed strong support to join Free France and resume the Allied fight.
News reports describe heavy tank battles as Japanese forces push toward Manila and Baguio faces uncertain defense. US officials vow to fight to the last man while civilians in peril risk entrapment. British, French, and Canadian actions ripple through Atlantic theaters as Washington weighs diplomatic shocks and Singapore defense. Civilians train at Patterson Field to support mobile air units.
Willamette University players at Salem and San Jose State aided homebound wounded servicemen after air raids. Coach Spec Keene praised the squad for caring for the injured on the journey back, while Captain Merle Williams’s family shared Christmas memories aboard convoy ships at sea. Danny Williams expresses pride in his father remaining in the islands.
Angie Olevia Humphries 63 of Grayson Caldwell parish died at home Thursday evening. She was a Methodist, survived by husband J. L. Humphries three sons and six daughters living in Grayson West Monroe Choudrant and New Orleans. Funeral arrangements by Riser Funeral Home of Columbia incomplete. E J Allen 58 died at home in West Monroe. Survived by husband two daughters a sister and a brother. Mt Nebo Methodist church services planned with interment at Mt Nebo cemetery under Dixie Funeral Home Monroe. R W Wadley 74 of Olia La. funeral details follow.
A funeral service for Mr Wadley was held Tuesday at the First Baptist Church of Olla with Rev Smith officiating and Rev H W Adams assisting. Interment followed in Olla cemetery. Pallbearers were W M Cooper Frank Pete T D Hudson Parker Scott and Dan Weaver. He is survived by his wife Mae Wadley and nine children including Mrs T H Hudson Mrs Joe Cooper Mrs W M Cooper all of Swartz Mrs Parker Scott Herman Wadley of Olla B Wadley of Clovis California Frank Wadley of Ft Smith Arkansas Mrs Jessie Lacy Sallies Miss and Davis Wadley of Denver Colorado.
President Roosevelt arranged multiple meetings at the White House to advance anti Axis strategy with British and American leaders. Prime Minister King travels to join Prime Minister Churchill as plans unfold for a White House session and a 4 30 p m military conference with top Army Navy air force and lend lease officials. Lord Beaverbrook is the sole British representative at the supply meeting.
A large convoy of British empire airmen reached a British port to join Allied squadrons fighting over Europe. The cross Atlantic passage was partly protected by U S naval units. Canadians make up over half the air crew and ground staff with Norwegians Australians and New Zealanders also in the group. A second Canadian troop contingent led by Major General H D G Crerar landed with the ships.
New Orleans December 26. Dr Sherman S Pinto of Arlington Mass was named supervisor of a newly created industrial hygiene section in the states health department Preventative Medicine. The section will cooperate with Louisiana industries to solve environmental health problems and prevent occupational diseases A initial survey will study venereal disease A daily total of 27397 persons suffer accidental injuries.
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