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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1944
Page
3
June 12 1944 Monroe News Star reports on the Wilkinson trial with an interlocutory decree and a defense witness detailing an early life as an orphan and military career. He admits using four names and falsifying college credits to fly while challenging grounds for an annulment.
Maria Tours a Hotel De Ville chambermaid in Florence claims Primo Carnera is her cousin and that his postboxing fame comes from movie work in Genoa Rome and Milan. She recalls bouts like Baer Sharkey and Godfrey and says he is now popular on Italian screens and that his family awaits the bambino.
The Northeast Junior College of LSA second term opened Monday at 8 25 am with 190 students registered, well above last year's 177. Miss Olive Lusk, ill in hospital, is replaced by Miss Siby Daughtry. Dean Calvert notes 15 to 20 more may enroll this week, potentially exceeding 200. Five Latin American students are among registrants pursuing English and science courses.
In Santa Ana California the court martial of Captain Morrison J Wilkinson Jr enters its second week with Wilkinson denying force in morals charges from four women. Maj James D Garibaldi plans to finish cross examination and begin calling 11 witnesses to counter the governments allegations of lewd conduct rape bigamy and larceny. Wilkinson's fourth wife Rennie Murphy Wilkinson recently gave birth to a daughter May 29 and Wilkinson had married her while his divorce from Margaret Gonzales was pending finalization.
In Sumter South Carolina on June 12 the state NAACP filed a protest to Gov Olin D Johnston against the scheduled execution of 14 year old George Junius Stinney of Alcola for the killing of two girls 11 and 8. The governor declined to intervene saying no reason to commute.
Louis Babe Silver, 29, is held on homicide charges in the fatal shooting of Jake The Mayor Finkel a Brooklyn bookmaker and ex convict found dead with a bullet in the head in front of the Embassy Club Brooklyn. Silver sought treatment for a scalp wound at Beth El Hospital and may be arraigned in Brooklyn felony court today. Lila Harris 20 his companion is held as a material witness. Police connect Finkel to Murder Inc. and a gang trying to take over his bookmaking operation.
The Fifth district rallys volunteers and sponsors from Ouachita to Bastrop and beyond for the American Legion Boys' State session in Baton Rouge June 13 to 21. Local posts and clubs from Crowville to Winnsboro mobilize leaders and students for the event.
A court of honor for the Boy Scouts of the central district met at Central Grammar School auditorium. Many Scouts advanced to second class and others to first class star life and eagle while merit badges were awarded. Eagle badges were earned by Guy Jones Ernest King and Neil Matthews. Dr A M Serex led prayers and a plaque was given to Scout Executive Charles B Cook for his first anniversary with Ouachita Valley Council.
Mailman Lawrence Viale was halted on his route by a protester complaining of missing mail. The irate man claimed to have mailed a letter every week for six weeks, with none delivered, pointing to a green municipal garbage receptacle as the mailbox.
DeWitt Mackenzie notes Montgomery’s pledge of a firm Allied lodgment on the French mainland as Rommel defends the Cherbourg peninsula. He warns the peak battle awaits Rommel’s full armored counterattack and stresses air and naval superiority as key to isolating the peninsula and pushing toward Cherbourg, Caen, Saint Lo, and Carentan.
A Burlington farmer faced with underpaying his income tax by a cent applied for a money order. The clerk suggested including a penny to cover postage but the farmer refused saying it is worth 13 cents to obtain a receipt to stop the dunning letters from the government.
About 30 postmasters gathered Sunday at 11 a m in the federal court room of the post office building for the fourth district meeting. President James L. Treadway presided as talks by J R Wooten and Annie F Gambrell highlighted the event along with officer elections for Louisiana Chapter No 12 of the National Association of Postmasters. A noon dinner followed at a downtown cafe and attendees concluded with social time.
Grover Meisel secured hail insurance for his 400 acre wheat field in the morning then a severe hailstorm hit that afternoon destroying the crop. The loss occurred 26 hours before the policy became active.
An advertisement touts Dr Bond's Little Pills as a laxative remedy for temporary constipation. It claims the pills work through the intestinal tract to provide a quick morning effect with minimal taste and no fattening sweetness, advising one pill at bedtime.
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