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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
3
Preparations for the spring garden show opening Friday at 3 06 p m are nearly complete. The event runs Friday afternoon through Saturday with late Saturday selling of vegetables. Kiwanis members solicit prizes from local merchants for the exhibit at Peters Furniture company building on South Grand street.
Labour MP J C Wedgwood told the House of Commons a proposal to send German prisoners and suspected fifth columnists to St Helena in the South Atlantic. He argued Boer War prisoners thrived there and could largely feed themselves.
The ad links back pain to tired kidneys and claims Doan's Pills relieve symptoms. It notes kidneys flush waste from blood, describes frequent urination and swelling, and urges readers to ask a druggist for Doan's Pills. The message targets aged readers with a period voice.
The Monroe Lions Club will not meet at its regular hour next week. Members will gather at Camp Ki-Re-Li with the Boy Scouts on June 18 at 6 p.m. A. G. Klawke and Mrs. E. C. Gibson attended the last meeting. Garland Shell sang, and Harold R. Arlig was introduced as a new member.
The 69 mile Camden to Atlantic City route in New Jersey completes in 45 minutes, setting an fastest scheduled run in the United States.
Oklahoma's conservation department surveys state oil reserves to assess wartime production capacity. Analysts note peacetime pipelines and inland concentration limit coastal expansion and stress decentralization for defense. Saboteurs pose risk and major companies rely on internal police to guard facilities.
Shreveport La June 6 Special The Centenary college education department will run a larger summer session with diverse courses for teachers and teaching students including practice teaching for elementary and high school levels A curriculum making course and a comparative education course are available plus physical education options meeting state requirements Registration began Monday and continues through Saturday.
Twenty students have registered for the division pilots training course at Northeast Center starting Saturday June 15. Dean C C Colvert announced that Washington letter states no charge for the course. Age limit now 18 to 26, with one year of college required. A class of about 45 is expected. Applications available from Dean Calvert's office. The course provides ground instruction and actual flying, with a non commercial license on completion.
In Miami a lawyer protested when a juror slept during testimony in a $10,000 damage suit causing a judge to recess. A new six jurors panel started, then a seventh standby juror sat to cover any further naps.
Martinsville New Jersey June 6 William P Smith starts a local school to train machinists and mechanics for national defense. He teaches tool use and machine operation two nights weekly in his Somerset county hamlet shop. The class targets boys and men ages 16 to 60 with free tuition.
Washington reports that ten thousand bills have been introduced in the house during the 76th congress. Rep Hendricks of Florida proposed extending to January 31, 1941 the period for employer contributions to state unemployment funds for 1939. The article recalls the first World War loan to Britain in 1917 of 200 million dollars at three quarters of a percent.
A House subcommittee backed lowering exemptions to 2000 for married filers and 800 for singles and added a 10 percent super tax after regular tax. The article compares present payments versus the bill for typical earners under current 4 percent tax and the new structure.
F Luis Mora a Uruguayan born painter and muralist died aged 65 in New York. His portrait of President Warren G Harding hung in the White House in 1930. His works reside in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in multiple city museums across Atlanta Newark Oakland Dallas Toledo Youngstown and Richmond.
Sweden is home to Europe’s tallest men with an average height of five feet nine inches. Scotland ranks second with an average just over a quarter inch shorter than Swedes.
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