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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1944
Page
1
A veteran private Benard Fierst on home leave refuses the Purple Heart after a saber wound on Guadalcanal citing concern his parents would be informed and worry. Miscellany notes from Hartford Osage Hollywood Kansas City and Oshkosh with brief human moments and quirky lines.
A 19 point program by Representative Tolan outlines a national postwar reconversion effort. It calls for a single administrator, a central board, an advisory council from the states, funding for expert staff, a reconversion bill drafting committee, immediate local and state employment surveys, and the creation of a new agency akin to the Small War Plants Corporation.
Representative Cellar of New York denounced a national prohibition push as a sordid move to use soldiers in uniform. The New Yorker, ranking member on a judiciary subcommittee, urged prohibition must stay repealed saying soldiers cannot be trusted with alcohol and warning against opening the prohibition debate again.
A local notice seeks photographs of every man and woman from Quachita parish serving in the armed forces for a special Hero Edition. Readers are urged to contact the advertising department immediately for details and submission instructions.
Allied air forces hammer Japanese positions across the Pacific theater. U S units from China hit Lampang and Pingka in China while operations focus on Paramushiro in the Aleutians as planners eye future landings. The war of attrition continues with Marshalls defenses stiffening and debates over a broader drive in Asia.
James A. Dyke, 57, of Luna Star route Ouachita parish, was instantly killed when a gun in his wife’s hand discharged during a rabbit hunt near Jonesboro highway by Cheniere swamp. The coroner conducted a preliminary inquiry. Dyke will be buried at Hasley Cemetery after a 3 pm Thursday funeral in West Monroe with Rev. Mac Dean officiating. An inquest is planned for Wednesday afternoon. Dyke leaves Bertha Dyke and seven sons and two daughters in various Louisiana towns.
Governor Sam Jones granted a full pardon to Alvin Stanford after a pardon board recommendation. Stanford, convicted in 1943 for negligent homicide in Acadia parish, served time at Angola after entering prison in November. Petitions described the 1942 Church Point death as accidental and unintentional.
President Roosevelt, recovering from the grippe, began drafting his annual address to Congress in his upstairs bedroom today. He had no appointments and remained quietly at work without leaving his room.
A split among three Roosevelt appointees on economic law surfaced in formal opinions. Justices Black and Murphy challenged Justice Frankfurter on morals based interpretations in patent and utility rate cases, while Frankfurter dissented in both. the court ruled 5 to 3 on federal rate orders and 5 to 4 for Mercaid in a patent case.
Senator Lucas of Illinois unveils a revised federal absentee ballot bill replacing the prior leave it to the states plan. It creates a four man bipartisan federal ballot commission to prepare war ballots, deliver them to the armed forces and then forward them to 48 state secretaries, with limited administrative powers and no local official reporting or investigations.
Allied Headquarters in Algiers announces Lieutenant General Sir Oliver Leese as successor to Montgomery as commander of the British Eighth Army in Italy. Leese, 49, led the 30th Corps in North Africa and Sicily and is known for field leadership and fast travel.
Pravda denounces Wendell Willkie for an New York Times article on Russia and the Baltic states. Dmitry Zaslavsky accuses the 1940 candidate of muddying waters to gain support from distrustful and sympathetic voters. He says Willkie interferes in Soviet business and questions Finland and Poland without Balkans mentions. The piece notes Willkie’s NYT magazine essay warns against stirring distrust of Russia.
Winnfield La Jan 5 99 year old John Smith oldest resident of Winn Parish and patriarch of the Smish clan died at his home in Sikes. Confederate veteran captured at Vicksburg. Funeral at Mineral Springs church this afternoon. Survived by several sons daughters grandchildren and great grandchildren. Sister Mrs Ann Capbell nearly 99 also surviving.
Allied armies in Italy have seized commanding positions under strong Nazi resistance. Fifth Army advanced near Venafro and San Vittore, while Indian units of the Eighth Army moved southwest of Tommaso. US Fifteenth Air Force hit Bulgaria and Yugoslavia targets, destroying railway yards, a bridge, and barracks as Fortresses and fighters returned safely after the mission.
Seventeen Old Regulars in New Orleans pledge support for Jimmy Noe as their preferred Senate candidate to succeed John Overton. Senator Overton says the Morgan ticket is seen as a one man show run by New Orleans mayor Robert Maestri and ward leaders. He notes Ern est Clements as a worthy alternative and condemns a feared Nen-Old Regular deal, accusing a political dictatorship in Louisiana.
Washington reports argue that successors to Roosevelt Chamberlain Stalin and Chiang Kai Shek can walk away from wartime pledges. The big four limit themselves to conference commitments while in power, with details left to national leaders and public policy vague. Senators Hatch and Ball urge a United Nations council plan to enforce postwar pledges and question public tolerance for world organization without concrete steps.
Marshal Tito reports Yugoslav forces have regained occupied territory in eastern Bosnia including Vlasenica near Sarajevo. The communique says partisans are offensive in western Bosnia along the Bosansky Nove Prijedor Banja Luka railway with heavy street fighting in Banialuka.
In a major World War II front, General Vatutin presses a drive against German lines south of Belaya Tserkov as von Mannstein fights to shield crucial rail and road routes toward the Odessa-Lwow corridor. Russian forces breach flanks, threatening a possible encirclement of 500000 German troops along the Dnieper bend.
Allied dispatches report a bombing raid on railway yards and a bridge at Dupritse, 50 miles south of Sofia, with Berlin saying 60 killed and 100 injured. The political scene in Bulgaria remains unsettled as Germans extend control and government reshuffles occur amid pressure against the Axis.
Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Robinson of West Monroe learn their son, Sergeant Robert A. Robinson, has been wounded in action in southern Italy on December 4. He has served three years and completed a mission successfully on the Kiska raid.
Allied air forces pounded Kiel and Muenster in northwestern Germany as part of a large daylight attack involving about 3 000 planes. American heavy bombers and escorts dropped more than 3 000 tons of bombs while British and American fighters supported the missions across France and Germany, with fires and smoke reported at the Kiel naval base.
Police found a 9 month old boy tied to a daybed and a two year old girl in a drafty apartment with no clothes. The mother Mrs Flake Jivo was questioned after the children were discovered by a patrolman investigating a water leak. Both were treated for exposure at the New York Foundling hospital.
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