Baptist Groups to Start Tour
Louisiana Baptist Children’s home boys and girls depart Wednesday for summer trips. Twenty five youths in two groups travel by bus, led by Rev. L A Materne and Superintendent B F Wallace. First group tours Florida parishes, second visits central Louisiana, returning June 20.
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Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
B. F. Wallace
Monroe
Rev. L. A. Materne
Wallace
Florida
Louisiana
Boy Scout Troop 55 to Attend Kiwanis Lunch
Boy Scout troop No. 55 sponsored by the Monroe Kiwanis club will attend a lunch at Hotel Virginia Wednesday noon as dinner guests of the club. Superintendent B F Wallace announced. Carl Brown is scoutmaster. new uniforms were purchased by the Kiwanis club.
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Monroe Kiwanis Club
Hotel Virginia
B. F. Wallace
Carl Brown
Kiwanis Club
Wallace
Ground broken for Huey residence on Island Drive
Ground was broken for the new home of S. E. Huey on Island drive. The frame and brick construction house will cost about $8,000 with J. A. Bowen, Monroe contractor, listed as builder.
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S. E. Huey
Island Drive
Art Prick
J. A. Bowen
Monroe Contractor
Absentee ballots cast in town race in Harrisonburg
Absentee voters have cast ballots in Harrisonburg Louisiana for the June 14 municipal election. Mayor hopeful Newell Nason is unopposed after Mayor L L McGuffee declined re election. Marshall race features P C Gibson against E L Rivers. Council candidates include H Johnson A L Gremillion Neal Randall Z Y Statson and J W Wright.
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Harrisonburg
Newell Nason
L. L. McGuffee
P. C. Gibson
E. L. Rivers
A. L. Gremillion
Neal Randall
Z. Y. Statson
J. W. Wright
MIT Graduation Honors 581 Degrees for 548 Candidates
The 71st MIT class graduated 581 degrees to 548 candidates with seven women among them. Dr. Karl T. Compton presided as Charles D. Maginnis urged beauty in modern steel architecture. Miss Rose Lunn earned a master of science in aeronautical engineering amid other notable graduates. Ralph Izard pledged his estate to the U.S. government in 1780 for Revolutionary War ship funds.
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Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karl T. Compton
Technology
Charles D. Maginnis
American Institute of Architects
Maginnis
Compton
Rose Lunn
Lunn
Los Angeles
University of Washington
Ralph Izard
United States
Grandmother's Day Planned by Western Massachusetts Group
Springfield Mass June 7. The Western Massachusetts Visitors association plans a Grandmother's day beginning June 18 with a Laurel week outing in Westfield. The group will host the oldest and youngest grandmothers found in western Massachusetts and dedicate the day to showing grandmothers an outing.
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Springfield
Mass
Western Massachusetts Visitors Association
Massachusetts
Westfield
Gillette Leads in Iowa Primary as Dems Split
In Iowa, Senator Gillette led Democratic competitors while Rep. Wearin trailed. Republican Dickinson topped Thurston in a strong GOP showing, with vote tallies across 1,930 precincts. National figures condemned court-packing efforts amid Roosevelt administration criticism.
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L. J. Dickinson
Lloyd Thurston
Dickinson
Thurston
Gillette
Wearin
J. J. Meyers
Ellsworth Richardson
W. G. Byerhoff
Refugees from Dust Bowls in Bad Situation
Portland reports meager subsistence for hundreds of Dust Bowl refugees in Oregon as families live in makeshift homes on fringe farms. Relocation records show some benefited, but many drift on back roads, eking out gardening patches and subsistence labor amid tents, shacks, and trailers.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon
Farm Security Administration
Colorado
Kansas Plains
Kansas
Northwest Regional Planning Commission
Washington
Idaho
Northwest
60,000,000 Face Hunger in China
New York June 7. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, national chairman of the United Council for Civilian Relief in China, estimates 60 million civilian refugees in China. He warned most lack food and face epidemics, saying the world has not seen a health danger like this since the middle ages.
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New York
China
Theodore Roosevelt
United Council For Civilian Relief
Roosevelt
Mississippi
Parish Bands to Be Instructed by Minniear
Walter Minniear, director of the Ouachita Parish band, will stay in Monroe through the summer to teach grade school bands on Tuesdays and Fridays at 8 am and the Ouachita Parish High School band on Tuesdays at 9 am and Wednesdays at 7 30 pm and Thursdays and Fridays at 9 am. Wednesday is devoted to Calhoun high school band instruction. The teaching is free and open to all interested in learning band playing.
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Walter Minniear
Ouachita Parish
Monroe
Calhoun
Minniear
Baptism Planned for Twelve Louisiana Baptist Children
Twelve children from the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home will be baptized Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Bayou DeSiard near the pecan grove. Rev. B. F. Wallace will officiate with musical selections by Miss Beulah Curry. Children aged nine to 15 will join the church at the grounds-maintained Baptist church.
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Louisiana Baptist Children’s Home
Bayou DeSiard
Pecan
B. F. Wallace
Japanese Bomb Canton Again: Nomura Promises Vigor
June 7 report quotes Admiral Naokuni Nomura stating Japan will intensify air raids on Canton and Hankow to force Chinese authorities to admit futility of anti Japan policy. He claims both cities are fully defended and aviation will target military sites while minimizing civilian casualties.
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Shanghat
Japan
Canton
Hankow
Naokuni Nomura
Great Britain
France
United States
Nomura
South China
Ferriday Legion Post Plans July 3 4 Celebrations
Ferriday Louisiana June 7 special plans are under way for an American Legion celebration to be held July 3 and 4 at a pleasure resort on Cross Bayou bridge near Ferriday. The Gray McCearley post No 148 will sponsor political speaking by prominent figures amateur motor boat and pirogue racing swimming contests dancing wild cow and bucking horse riding contests and other amusements. The main events are set for Sunday July 3. The moose stands six to seven feet high at the shoulders.
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Ferriday
American Legion
Cross Bayou Bridge
Gray-Mc-Cearley Post No. 148
American Legion of Ferriday
Woodmen Day Homecoming at Concord Church near Chatham
Woodmen of Monroe Jonesboro and Chatham with former and present members plan a big day Sunday June 12 at Concord church two miles west of Chatham near the Jonesboro highway Events include morning worship special music and short talks At 2 pm the Chatham camp of Woodmen of the World joins Jonesboro and Monroe camps to unveil and memorialize deceased Avord camp No 339 members All Woodmen and church members invited
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Woodmen of
Monroe
Jonesboro
Chatham
Concord Church
Woodmen of the World
Avord
Health conference for preschool children set Friday
Ouachita Parish Health unit will host a Friday 1:30 PM gathering at the Church of God in Bawcomville. Nurse Pauline Tarver leads the session with Miss Anna M Barr noting aims to advise parents on diet immunization and general health conduct to protect young children.
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Ouachita Parish
Mins Berr
Man Charged With Beating His Wife
Jesse Jordan, 34, of ward five, jailed after his wife Jewel Jordan swore out a warrant charging him with wilful and unlawful assault beating and wounding her short of maiming. He admitted a fight at their home last Saturday. Deputies Clyde Mitchell and Otto Horn arrested him Tuesday morning. bond set at $200.
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Jesse Jordan
Quachita Parish
Jewel Jordan
Jordan
Clyde Mitchell
Otto Horn
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John Hamilton
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