Oddities in the News Courtyards and Courtroom Confusions
Readable fragments recount city council debates over ice rationing trash and rats, a misidentified lawsuit involving John Does and state judges, a Texas motorist fined for speeding after later refund, a California bank case tied to a dead man, and a prison incident where a prisoner hurled hawk parts to the floor amid a reflection on the event.
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Associated Press
Cure
Berkeley
Calif
Sam C. Hanna
California
John
Gibson
State Court
Unsted
George Harris
San Francisco
Hanna
Doe
Dge Harris
John Doe
Willkie Seeks Presidential Run as McCormick Cites Primary
Wendell Willkie signals candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination next April. He says he would consider primary runs and hopes rumors of Col Robert R. McCormick entering the race are true. A Republican revival committee vows to push Willkie as a nationalist candidate for the 1944 race.
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W York
Wendell Willkie
Republian
Robert R. McCormick
Isher
Chicago Tribune
Dlicos
Mepernick
Willkie
Colyn McCormick
Bis
Great& Sud
Cavicli
Canada
Republican Waist Revival Committee
Ican
William J. Grace
Vi Willkie
KENZIE TO OPEN OFFICE IN MONROE
Congressman Charles E. McKenzie announced from Washington that he will open an office in Monroe in room 306 of the office building next Wednesday. He said the door will be wide open and invited Fifth District residents to visit, with no behind closed conferences.
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Charles BE. McKenzie
Washington
Anan McKenzie
Tereport
L. B. Faulk
Aiiding
Orming
Menzie
Fifth District
FATHER DRAFT STILL DISTANT
The draft projection shows most fathers will be in civilian clothes by October with no deferment for those living with children born before Sept 1. About 6.3 million men qualify for such exemption. 146,000 single and childless married men are ready for immediate induction quotas for July to September.
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Washington
Armed Forces
Emmett Selomon
Selective Servicess Manpower Division
Paying Plant Trainees Faces Test In New Orleans
Louisiana widens wartime training pay plan with new 1500 trainee program in New Orleans at Gravier Street. Higgins Aircraft funds pay while learning as 1500 join in two weeks under Byron Armstrong and Ralph LeBlanc directing. Other sites include St Bernard Street factory for 300 trainees with Consolidated Vultee, plus Ruston and Mansfield schools facing closure or extension.
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Baton Rouge
Louiana
New Orleans
Andrew Triche
State Department of Education
Gravier Street
Higgins Aircraft
Byron A. Armstrong
St. Bernard Street
Consolidated Vultee Corporation
Ralph S. LeBlanc
Frenchman Street
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Ruston
Triche
Mansfield
Roosevelt Defends French Policy As Libération Effort Grows
President lauds French empire unity against the Axis saying Vichy and critics erode a long planned strategy. He notes Martinique and Guadeloupe limits to avoid bloodshed while building allied liberty with France. SHREVEPORT fire kills one and injures others at J S Williams Funeral home as two leap to escape flames.
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Washington
Roosevelt
France
Thas Pros Rilin
Martinique
Guadeloupe
Ture
State Department
United States
Axia
Vichy France
Georges Robert
Henri-Etiennet
Liberation
Shreveport
J. S. Williams Funeral Home
Eliza Thomas
P. W. Battiste
Dennis Hooks
Russians Repel German Assaults North and East of Orel
Russian dispatches report a two day battle near Orel with ten German divisions pushed back and heavy losses for the Nazis. Soviet counterattacks north and east of Orel penetrated toward the Orel railway, while further combats affected Belgorod and Sukhinichi areas.
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Moscow
Pots
Orel
Red
Belgerod
Suknini¢hi
Berlin
Belgorod
Perth
Orelleryernsk
Drwang
Legion Meet Opens in Shreveport With Streamlined Agenda
Delegates to the Louisiana American Legion convention arrive in Shreveport for three short sessions beginning tomorrow. Officials open convention headquarters at Washington-Youree hotel as Commander J Perry Cole presides and key meetings occur this afternoon and tonight. A high point is the contest for department commander between Dr A M Shaw of Shreveport and George Rollinson Crowley of Crowley.
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Shreveport
Louisiana Department of the American Legion
Municipal Auditorium
Washington-Youree
Matt Monaghan
Department
A. R. Isenberg
Lafayette
J. Perry Cole
Baton Rouge
Legion
Legion and Auxiliary
Crags Lake
Wall
Caddo
Niles P. Evans
A. M. Shaw
George Rollinsson Crowley
Unloaded pistol kills two boys in Louisiana
In Alexandria Louisiana on July 16 state police reported two Jonesville boys were killed by an unloaded pistol. Isaac Briggs 11 died instantly and Melvin Gilbert Briggs 12 died at Pineville Charity Hospital. Police deem the shooting an accident pending determination of which boy fired the pistol. The brothers were sons of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Briggs. The father had left to work at Orange Texas.
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Alexandria
Pistor
Jonesville
Isaac Briggs
Melvin Gilbert Briggs
Pineville Charity Hospital
Gilbert Briggs
Orange
Tex
Naples Port In Smoking Ruins After Allied Bombardment
Allied air forces blasted Naples reducing the port to ruins after twenty four hours of heavy bombers from North Africa. The strike hit Sicily’s reinforcements and supplies hub and sent smoke over 7000 feet. Daylight raids also hit southern Italian airfields as Lancasters targeted the Alps region.
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North Africa
Naples
Messina
Sicily
Italy
Middle East
Alps
Burton Defense Reveals Surprise in Tax Case
In New Orleans the Burton defense presented invoices totaling over 150000 from W T Burton Company to counter the government claim of evading 135730.93 in taxes. The cross examination linked bills for new equipment and silver purchases to alleged false repairs and boat hire.
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New Orleans
Burton
W T. Burton Company, Inc
W. T. Burton
L. Brown
S. W. Maxwell
Victor EB. Canfield
Burton Company
Hugh Wilkinson
Harry EB. Hawthorne
Internal Revenue Department
United States
Herbert Christenberry
Wayne G. Borah
Goebbels Warns Defeatists Amid War Victory Claims
Berlin radio quotes Propaganda Minister Goebbels warning Germans against defeatists spreading propaganda about enemy gains. He cites Allied victories as secondary and says Germany and allies fight with greater success, while the Allies exploit nerves to undermine confidence in Axis triumph.
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London
Berlin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Goebbels
Dax Reich
Germany
Axis
Roosevelt reshapes war agency by abolishing BEW
President Roosevelt orders abolition of the board of economic warfare stripping Wallace and Jones of powers and transferring BEW duties to Lee Crowley as director of a new Office of Economic Warfare. BEW officials to be reassigned. Crowley to also serve as alien property custodian. OEW to work with Byrnes Office of War Mobilization on domestic and overseas policies.
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Washington
Board of Economic Warfare
Roosevelt
Wallace
Standard Gas and Electric Company
Jones
BEW
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
RFC
Crowley
OEW
United States
Byrnes
Office of War Mobilization
BBW
North Africa
State Department
Hull
Morgenthau
Stimson
Biddle
Knox
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr
Lend-Itage
Nelson
OWM
Harry L. Hopkins
Fred M. Vincent
Perkins
Texas Bag
Flat-Tops Planes Beat Nazi U-Boats in Atlantic Battles
Navy recounts actions of auxiliary escort carrier B known as Carrier B in anti-submarine warfare. Planes attacked 11 submarines, sunk or likely sunk two, possibly destroyed eight more, and protected two convoys delivering war materiel and prisoners. One submarine escaped. all ships in convoys reached destinations damaged or unharmed.
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Washington
North Atlantic
Atlantic
Europe
United Nations
Allies issue ultimatum to Italy over Mussolini regime
Washington and London announce to Italy that the nation must surrender honorably or be crushed. United States and Britain emphasize overwhelming Allied air and sea power in the Mediterranean as Allied forces advance through Sicily toward the Italian mainland.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Churchill
Italy
Mussolini
Hitler
United States
Great Britain
Mediterranean
White House
London
United Nations
Sicily
New Orleans Teachers Seek Reversal of Merit Pay Plan
The Orleans Parish tenure committee of the New Orleans Teachers Association urged the state board of education to rescind its merit pay resolution for teachers. John E Coxe cited federal suits on unequal pay, noting rural parishes cannot raise black salaries without lowering white pay. Comments from Sarah Towles Reed and Frank A Godchaux framed the issue amid union voices and school groups.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Teachers Association
State Board of Education
Bass
John E Coxe
Jefferson Parish
Coxe
Orleans Parish
Lousiana
Frank A. Godchaux
New Orleans Public School Teachers Association
The
Louisiana Teachers Association
Lieutenant Travis Heard Reported Missing in Action
Mr and Mrs W S Heard of West Monroe learn their son Lieutenant Travis Harter Heard is missing in action. The Navy Department says he is missing after performing duty in service to his country. He was a Louisiana Tech graduate and worked at Central Savings Bank before joining the armed forces.
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Mra. W. S. Heard
Filhiol Street
West Monroe
Travis Harter Heard
Navy Department
Travis Harten Heard
United States Naval Reserve
Allies Seize 20000 Prisoners as Sicily Offensive Surges
Allied forces led by Montgomery press north along Sicily's coast and seize 12 towns while capturing more than 20000 prisoners. Patton’s Seventh Army advances on the western sector, taking key towns and reporting heavy German losses as Axis armor is driven back near Lentini and the Catania plain.
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Daniel de Luce
North Africa
Eighth Army
Catania
Sicilian
Berward L. Montgomery
Hermann Goering
Seventh Army
George S. Patton, Jr
Montgomery
Lentini
Sicily
Wil
Tunisia
Vizzini
Melitello
Scordia
Caetania
St Nand
Bernard L. Montgomery
Rome
London
Germany
15Th Armored
George Sees 1943 as Critical Year in War Effort
Senator Waller F. George, in Vienna Georgia, says 1943 will test the United States on land and home fronts. He predicts Germany crushed by summer 1944 based on informants, with Italy disposed of quickly but potential German strength rising. He forecasts production stabilizing if the year proceeds, and manpower issues easing in 1944.
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Vienna
Sen- Waller F. George
United States
Germany
Atlanta Constitution
Georgia
Italy
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