Lawmakers Seek Probes Into Gas Industry and State Civil Service
Legislators propose a seven member joint committee to study conservation taxation and related aspects of Louisiana natural gas. The plan includes a $50 000 appropriation and six aides with daily stipends. A concurrent resolution calls for a seven member committee to study civil service with report due before adjournment. A New Orleans jaunt for lawmakers and staff is planned with a special train and sleeping accommodations.
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Louisiana
Morris Lottinger
Terree
Turner Morgan
Caddo
House
Senate
House Education Committee
State Department of Correction
House of Representatives
Brooks Oliver
Bastrop
Grove Stafford
Alexandria
Stafford
Germans Count Anew as War News Shifts to Ruin Industry
The article notes Germans report postwar calm with images of Czech life amid undamaged buildings and evacuated factories. It describes a booming ruin industry including salvage, block production from rubble, and a vast legal framework for war damage and compensation as Allied forces strike targets across the Mediterranean and Italy.
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Emil Hacha
Protectorate
Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung
Doughboys Face Fresh German Defenses on Landing Beach
BBC reporters with British troops describe a beach assault where three new German infantry regiments moved into anti invasion positions. Barriers, fortified houses, 88 mm guns, and minework protected approaches as crews sheltered behind thick concrete walls and tunnels.
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Car
Bricker Presidential Clubs Formed in Twenty States
Bricker for President clubs have been organized in twenty states including Arizona Arkansas California Indiana Iowa Maryland Missouri Montana Nebraska New Mexico North Dakota Oklahoma Oregon South Dakota Tennessee Utah Virginia Washington Wisconsin and Wyoming signaling GOP support for Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio.
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Vention
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Indiana
Iowa
Maryland
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Mexico
North Dakota
Oklahoma
Oregon
South Dakota
Tennessee
Utah
Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Births in West Monroe and Harrell families at St Francis
Mr. and Mrs. O. M. Fowler of Route No 4 West Monroe welcomed a daughter born June 8 at St. Francis Sanitarium. On June 9 Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Harrell of Route No 2 welcomed a daughter at the same hospital. Bamboo is a fast growing grass, reaching up to a foot and a half in a day.
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O. M. Fowler
West Monroe
St. Francis Sanitarium
J. W. Harrell
Normandy
Battles swirl as Allies push toward Cherbourg Caen Bayeux
Reports say American forces drive from Ste Marie Eglise toward Valognes and Formigny while Caen and Carentan see heavy action. Allied and German communiques claim advances, with air and sea support and heavy armor battles across the Cherbourg peninsula amid shifting weather and supply races.
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Ste. Marie Eglise
Cherbourg
Berlin
United States
Valognes
France
John Leslie Hall Jr
Formigny
Caen
Carentan
Bayeux
Supreme Headquarters
English
Fallen Bayeux
Bains
The
Orne
D-day
Normandy
Cherbourg Peninsula
Transocean
101St Airborne Division
English Channel
Anti Fourth Term Meeting Planned in Deep South
Democrats from Mississippi Texas Arkansas and Louisiana gathered in Shreveport for an anti fourth term meeting. E Wayles Browne the Shreveport host and vice chairman of the state central committee declined to reveal attendees or details, saying executive session was likely.
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Shreveport
E. Wayles Browne
Caddo Parish
Democratic Executive Committee
State Central Committee
Mississippi
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Vichy Government Fall Foretold by Berlin Broadcast
NBC reported Berlin radio suggested the Vichy regime could fall as France faced a pivotal meeting. The Berlin broadcast said the people's national government was ready to assume control if the French government failed to act.
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New York
NBC
Berlin
Allies advance in Italy approach near Rome and Tivoli
Allied forces push toward Tollo seven and a half miles from Chieti as shelling begins. Fifth army drives north to Bracciano and Sutri while Eighth army moves along the Tiber with slower progress due to mines. Monterotondo falls after bomb and tank losses. Tivoli area thrust extends northward with other towns occupied. Civitavecchia avoids heavy damage as rail and vehicle losses rise.
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Pola
Trieste
Nis
Yugoslavia
Mediterranean Army Air Force
Daniel Deluce
Fifth Army
Rome
Tollo
Chieti
Bracciano
Sutri
Lake
Eighth Army
Tiber
Monterotondo
Oliver Leese
Agosta
Palombara-Sabina
Tivoli
Vicitella Rovers
Avezanmo
Civitavecchia
Italy
First Division WWI and WWII Service Record Highlights
The First Division earned a bold combat reputation in World War I and saw decisive action in World War II across North Africa Sicily and Europe. It landed in France in 1917 and 1918 and later fought in North Africa landing in Oran 1942 and achieving key victories at Mateur Bizerte and in Sicily. The Northumbrian action at Arras and Ypres followed Dunkirk, aiding Allied withdrawals and later pushing Rommel toward Egypt before pursuing Axis forces into Italy. The division sustained 6885 battle casualties prior to its current engagement.
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France
North Africa
Oran
Tunisia
Mateur
Bizerte
Hitler
Sicily
Hermann Goering
England
Arras
Ypres- Comines
Dunkerque
Erwin Rommel
Libya
Eighth Army
Egypt
Africa
Italy
Allies Bombard Japanese Cruiser Near New Guinea Airbase
Liberator bombers dropped two five hundred pound bombs near the bow of a Japanese heavy cruiser at Waigeo Island off northern New Guinea. The strike comes as Allied forces push toward the Mokmer airdrome on Biak and secure the southwestern Pacific theater.
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Southwest Pacific
Waigeo Island
New Guinea
Biak Island
Schouters
Mokmer
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