Former Yeoman Espionage Hero Faces Charges
Los Angeles reports that Al D. Blake a 50 year old former US Navy yeoman is charged with two counts of conspiracy in an espionage plot. Also charged are Itaru Tatibana 39 a Japanese lieutenant commander and Toraichi Kono 56 longtime aide to Charles Chaplin. Bail set at 50 000 on Tatibana. 25 000 on Kono. Palmer says case strong. indictment possible.
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Los Angeles
al D. Blake
United States Navy
United States
Blake
United States District Attorney's Office
Wiliam Fleet Palmer
Itaru Tatibana
Imperial Japanese Navy
University of Southern California
Toraichi Kono
Domo
Charles Chaplin
Hollywood
Tatibana
Kenji Nakauchi
Kono
Palmer
U. S. S. Phoenix
Hawaiian
Hawaii
Naval
Deaths in Sterlington and Winnsboro mark two local funerals
Infant Mary Ann Montgomery daughter of Homer and wife in Sterlington died in a Monroe hospital. Funeral and interment at New London cemetery near Strong Arkansas. Dixie Funeral Home handled arrangements. Survived by brother Gene Autry Montgomery and maternal grandparents T. B. Hague El Dorado Arkansas. Isaac Franklin Parker, 75, Winnsboro resident, died in a Winnsboro hospital. Funeral at Lone Cedar church with Rev E T Smith and Rev C G Polk, interment Lone Cedar cemetery. Survived by widow four sons I D John Duncan Bob Parker all Winnsboro, two daughters Trella Brown Winnsboro Sadie Alford Houston, brother and sister.
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Mary Ann Montgomery
Homer Montgomery
Sterlington
Monroe Hospital
New London Cemetery
Strong
Ark
Dixie Funeral Home
Gene Autry Montgomery
T. B. Hague
el Dorado
Winnsboro
Isaac Franklin Parker
Lone Cedar Church
E. T. Smith
C. G. Polk
Lone Cedar Cemetery
C. T. Causey
Clyde Newton
Reynolds Graham
S. L. Aldridge
Arthur Carpenter
Charlie Aulds
Parker
I. D
John
Duncan
Bob Parker
Trella Brown
Sadie Alford
Houston
Tex
Welfare funds at risk if act invalid halts state program
Baton Rouge reports a Louisiana Welfare Director warns that a ruling against the state reorgan ization amendment could suspend public welfare grants to about 65 000 people for 60 to 90 days. Federal grants, matched by state funds in a $1 000 000 monthly program for the aged blind and dependent children, are now on a monthly basis. The suspension hinges on attorney general interpretation of the supreme court decision. A regional Social Security telegram seeks legal clarification.
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Baton Rouge
W. S. Terry, Jr
Terry
Louisiana Supreme Court
Social Security Board
Louisiana
Attorney General
Supreme Court
General Hershey Sees Duty in Selective Service Deferments
The article discusses a wartime order stressing that deferred workers must stay on defense production jobs. It quotes Hershey on keeping citizens on the job where they render the greatest service and that deferment status ends when they leave the essential position. It emphasizes the link between deferment and duty to the national defense program.
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Hershey
Calotabs Purify Your Liver and Blood Health Ad
An advertisement explains how bile flow from the liver cleanses the system. It describes symptoms of bile stagnation halitosis indigestion and gas and advocates Calotabs to purge the bowels and restore bile flow with a 25 cent family package.
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Science
Pilainly
Simulated army retreat misfires in Tennessee maneuvers
In a June war games in Tennessee fifty five thousand troops faced a staged retreat on the Cumberland plateau. Simulated enemy airpower exposed the plan when pilots observed but did not act, delaying discovery by staff officers until hours later. The month long exercise continues with divisions opposing each other.
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Tennessee
Cumberland
Chattanooga
El Dorado to Celebrate Oil Twenty Years Event
Monroe oil and gas operators plan to attend El Dorado Arkansas June 19 to 21 for the Twenty Years of Oil in Arkansas celebration. A 58 foot all steel derrick and early oil equipment will be on courthouse square. Dr Bussey Day on June 20 marks the first well site with Bussey as guest of honor. The Black Gold show featuring 500 cast members will run nightly with field and refinery tours.
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Monroe Oil and Gas
el Dorado
Ark
Arkansas
Monroe
Courthouse Square
Dr. Bussey
Bussey
Main Street
Deerfield
Mich
Much Needed Rains Help State Crops
Louisiana farmers received rains in late May easing drought, aiding cucumber pepper tomato and watermelon prospects while snap bean shipments, though mostly harvested, remain light for the next week or ten days. Potato shipments now originate statewide with variability in timing tied to prices.
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Baton Rouge
Federal Agricultural Marketing Service
Louisiana
Alexandria
Land Agreement Tours To Be Made In Parishes
Colonel R B Cole president of the fourth corps area rents board at Camp Beauregard will visit Quachita parish late this afternoon for a tour of inspection. Major Niels F Poulsen announces the maneuver agreements project is led locally by Lieutenant Colonel W A Cunningham who heads Group 1 including Quachita parish. Cole recently returned from Washington for review of parish and ward councils coordinating land for army maneuvers in the region.
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R. B. Cole
Fourth Corps
Camp Beauregard
Quachita Parish
Niels F. Poulsen
W. A. Cunningham
Cole
Washington, D. C
War Department
Northeast Louisiana druggists to tour Eli Lilly plant
About 21 druggists from northeast Louisiana will leave Monroe on June 13 for a tour highlight the Eli Lilly plant in Indianapolis Indiana. Sponsored by Monroe Wholesale Drug and Lilly the trip is led by W A Burgoyne and seen as one of the last plant inspections before government restrictions during the national emergency. The group will travel by air conditioned bus via St Louis Paducah and Memphis, attend a Merck hosted night game and banquet, and spend three days in Indianapolis before returning home.
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Louisiana
Monroe
Eli Lilly and Company
Indianapolis
Ind
Monroe Wholesale Drug Company
The
Lilly Company
W. A. Burgoyne
Leon G. Sugar
Monroe Wholesale Drug
Mr. Sugar
St. Louis
Merck Company
Brooklyn
Hotel Lenox
Lilly
Paducah
Memphis
Wheat Mill Nears Operation at Hollybrook Mill
WHEAT MILL NEAR OPERATION IN OAK GROVE Louisiana farmers watch the Hollybrook Gin Inc plant near Lake Providence advance toward opening next month. The mill will grind 50 barrels daily and also process corn, with East and West Carroll parishes expanding wheat growing as grain shifts from out-of-state mills.
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Hollybrook Gin, Inc
Oak Grove
Hollybrook
Lake Providence
East Carroll Parish
Hollybrook Gin Inc
Robert Amacker
Wheat Ground On Toll Basis Amid Cotton Quota Rules
Official states wheat will be ground on a toll basis due to AAA restrictions that limit cotton farmers from selling wheat beyond their quota except to land tenants with a surplus penalty. The mill may sell its toll to any buyer. Estimated 90,000 bushels needed from 3,000 acres in East Carroll parish. Texas remains leading cotton producer.
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AAA
Amacker
East Carroll Parish
Itching First Application for Eczema Relief
The ad promotes HLUE STAR OINTMENT for itching from eczema rash tetter ringworm pimples scabies. Apply as needed with promise of money back if unsatisfied. Try it today.
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Sheila Ryan
Robert Weldon
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Royal House of Windsor
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East Carrol! Parish
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China
America
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Lenox Rose Rock Garden
Blue Ridge
Cynthia Priscilla Essex
Syracuse
Sherwood Briarcliff
Stansbury Mietured
Wallace Gorham
Edward
Gorham
King Edward
Hunt Club
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Chantilly Buttercup
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