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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1945
Page
8
The foreign office announced that China and Argentina will exchange ambassadors soon after talks at the San Francisco conference. Chinese premier T. V. Seong participated in the discussions leading to the agreement.
The funeral for 14 year old William Thomas Cupples of West Monroe is set for Saturday with services at Hall Funeral Chapel and Ridge Avenue Baptist Church. The tragedy occurred after he reportedly jumped from a small boat with three other boys at a lake behind the McGuire home. The inquest is scheduled for Saturday at 10 a.m. Local emergency crews responded to the scene.
The Cupples boy drowned around 5 20 p m and was recovered within 20 minutes with help from Perry G Zuber B R Farmer and Monroe firemen. He is survived by his parents a brother Raymond in the Army overseas three sisters Mrs Ellis Dowdey Mrs Sam Watson and Miss Maxine Cupples and grandfather Rev W P Cupples. The father works at Brown Paper Mill.
First Lt. William T. Jones of the Army Air Forces arrives in the United States after two years as a German POW. A former Neville High School Tigers center and Monroe Hardware employee, he flew B-17 missions with the Eighth Air Force and was shot down over Germany on May 19, 1943. He is en route to Camp Shelby Mississippi for a furlough. S/Sgt. Richard C. Rivers, a Neville halfback on the same team, is also en route to Camp Shelby after being held as a POW.
St Joseph residents Mr and Mrs Fred Miller and their young son Fred Jr plan a weekend in Dubach Louisiana. Guests on Mother's Day include Mrs Claire D Gray of Baton Rouge and Mr Winbur ne Drake of Thobadoux Louisiana. Mayflower host Holliman Cook and sister in law Mrs H R Elliott of Water Valley Mississippi entertain Mrs Elliott and Dr H R Elliott of Birmingham Alabama. Marable Harper hosts daughters Mrs Robert Matthews Tyler and Miss Sophie Harper from Monroe Louisiana.
Navy recounts swift submarine patrols that crippled Japanese shipping and aided Allied forces. Lt. Com. George L. Street led a first blood mission near home waters, while Lt. Endicott Peabody and GM H W Spence boarded fishing vessels to capture enemy sailors.
A submarine sighted by a nearby vessel attacked a downed Japanese plane crew on wing of a wrecked plane. Lt Com Beach fired to sink the craft, while the crew tried to flee into the water. The pilot played dead until revived, and the submarine boasted of sinking the aircraft.
Soviet commentators kept quiet on Syria and Lebanon while Moscow press and radio offered long reports. The morning newscast dedicated its full foreign affairs segment to the developing situation, signaling high interest. Work accidents cost the loss of 900000 man hours of labor in 1944.
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