Night Fighter Champion Here Night fighter ace visits city
Lt Commander Bill Henry of Bakersfield California, famed for downing ten enemy planes and holding multiple decorations, arrives at the Hotel Frances on leave with his wife and daughter. His host is attorney Charles Elliott Thompson. They plan a short visit and a fishing trip after serving as night fighter and dive bomber pilots from Guadalcanal to Pacific battles.
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Hotel Frances
Monroe
Independence
Pacific
Bill Henry
Bakersfield
Calif
Charles Elliott Thompson
Glenmar
Guadalcanal
Com
Henry
States
Vero Beach
Fla
Naval Air Training School
Annapolis
Sherry
France election shifts away from communism and toward democracy
DeWitt Mackenzie analyzes the French general election and Italy plebiscite, noting a shift away from Communist influence in France with the Popular Republican Movement leading in seats, while coalitions must form a new constitution and interim leadership faces tough choices. The piece outlines France's agri cultural base, possible return of de Gaulle, and Bidault’s rising profile amid a fragile political balance.
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DeWitt Mackenzie
Associated Press
Italy
Europe
France
Paris
Russia
English
America
England
Washington
Popular Republican Movement
MRP
General de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Georges Bidault
Cudworth Elected President of First Church of Christ Scientist
Luther P. Cudworth elected president at Boston church annual meeting on June 3. native of Iowa with Harvard training, previously served in Christian Science Publishing Society and welfare, with wartime relief efforts and numerous volunteer workers noted in church reports.
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Boston
Mass
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Luther P. Cudworth
Iowa
St. Paul
Christian Science Welfare
Portsmouth
N. H
Naval Prison
Oregon
Marshfield
Monitor
Russia
Far East
Middle East
Christian Science
Canada
United States
Great Britain
Foot disorders afflict over 96 million people
A health survey reports more than 96,600,000 individuals aged over two have foot disorders. The finding highlights a large public health burden and possible unmet needs in podiatric care and footwear.
Farmerville officer released to inactive duty at Jacksonville
Lt. (j. g.) Wiley Cammack Andrews, 23, of Farmerville, engineering officer aboard the destroyer transport Waters, who saw action at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, was released to inactive duty at the Jacksonville naval personnel separation center. He will return home to study mechanical engineering after special training at the Naval Academy Midshipman school. The Waters shot down 10 Japanese planes during 48 days of air attacks on the Okinawa picket line.
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Francovich
Myers
Green Cove Springs
Fla
Andrews
Farmerville High School
Louisiana Tech
Farmerville
J. G
Wiley Cammack Andrews
Iwo Jima
Okinawa
Naval
Jacksonville
W. C. Andrews
Naval Academy
Cemetery Working at Amity in Richland Parish
A cemetery working will be held at Amity in Richland parish on June 7. Interested residents are urged to come with working tools and a lunch for the noon hour.
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Amity
Richland Parish
Four Eastern Defendants Face Transfer in Tallulah Whiskey Case
A federal judge weighed motions to dismiss and to transfer the Tallulah whiskey case after daylong arguments. Four defendants from New York and Amston are charged with conspiracy and OPA price violations over 356 cases sold to John Beverage Co. in Tallulah last September. Defense cites relocation to New York for trial, government calls moves delay tactics.
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New York
Ben C Dawkins
Federal District Court
Join Kott
Louis Halle
That City
George Wesley Smith
Monroe
Harry Weiner
Israel Needleman
Joseph Lawrence
Washington, D. C
Jacob H Morris
New Orleans
N. Yully Semel
Amston
N. Y
Harvey G. Fields
Farmerville
Malcolm Lafargue
John Beverage Company
Tal‘lulah
New York Federal District
Halle
Lafargue
Weiner
Needleman
Semel
Western Louisiana District Court
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