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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1939
Page
6
A report from Columbus cites a prospective breakthrough in predicting coronary thrombosis, the sudden heart death, with research suggesting a method that could render the fatal ailment more predictable, enabling earlier intervention.
Harvard researchers report a pattern in coronary piping may predict heart trouble risk. Dr Monroe J. Schlesinger notes left sided hearts are most prone, with the electrocardiograph potentially revealing patterns. Evelyn Keyes arrives for Gone With The Wind premiere in Beverly Hills after Atlanta event.
Cambridge Massachusetts will not enforce a city ban on Lenin and Leningrad words. Mayor Lyons declined to sign resolutions replacing Leningrad with St Petersburg and banning the terms from books and publications. The council passed the measures unanimously but no enforcement provisions exist.
Henry G Dalton 77 of Cleveland led Youngstown Sheet and Tube as chairman and held a top stake at Pickands Mather. Rinaldo Cuneo 59, a landscape artist acclaimed in London Paris Rome and the US. William W Cole 73, Senate doorkeeper in Charleston. Dr LeRoi Goddard Crandon 66, surgeon and husband of famed medium Margery. Mrs Henry K Harrison 62 of Birdsboro, cousin to Abraham Lincoln. William Collins 49, chief of the tobacco section at the Agriculture Dept in Washington.
Philadelphia adopts a 1 percent city income tax on all earnings to raise 16.87 million dollars in revenue. The tax targets residents and non residents who work in Philadelphia with payroll withholding and local filing. Labor unions vow legal challenges calling it class legislation targeting non residents. The measure aims to run at least two years to replace rising real estate and school levies.
Monroe Kiwanis met at Hotel Virginia with an address by George D. Holland secretary of the Monroe and West Monroe Chamber of Commerce and a piano solo by Mrs. Margaret Ferguson. Holland spoke on Happiness as R. C. Stokes led the program and Ivy Jordan presided in Sid Moss’s absence. The annual officers installation is set for Wednesday night January 3 at Hotel Virginia with W. D. Cotton of Rayville performing the installation duties.
Transfers include G E Breece et al selling to James O Buckley land parcels totaling 143 84 acres for 863 04 dollars in township 18 north range 5 east west of Little Bayou Beauf and other lots plus two mules a cow two calves and a wagon sold by Lucius Davis et al to J E Tripp for 2207 78 dollars. E N Faulk sold lot 31 square 2 Blanks addition to Monroe for 150 dollars. Also note a safety device for army pilots a suspender like harness enabling quick release to secure them in cockpit.
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