Socialites Gather for Glamorous Cruises and June Events
In a bright social scene, June brings glamorous cruises and World of Tomorrow trips to New York and San Francisco expositions. The Sigma sorority holds its national convention in Hot Springs with local reps led by president Gay Noe, while Mrs. James A. Noe chaperones. Notable visitors include Mrs. William Wallace of Birmingham, with extensive entertaining at homes such as Maine Place and the Frances hotel. Guests, luncheons, and al fresco suppers on Bayou De Siard mark a season of hospitality as members travel to Montreal and Me ridian for conventions.
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Sigma Sorority
Ional
Hot Springs
Gay Noe
James A. Noe
Arlington Hotel
William Wallace
Birmingham
Clyde Paine
Maine Place
Wallace
Walter Kellogg
James Sparks
Henry Hinkle
Dorothy Calvert
Foster Wallace
Charles W. Wallace
Clark Duncan
A. G. Stout
Dallas
Tex
Southland
Duncan
Harold Wood
Bayou DeSiard
Stout
Robert Kellogg
Frances Hotel
Walter Meyer
Violet Meyer
Montreal
Duchess of Richmond
Coming Events and Social Round in Courthouse Community
Thursday PTA meeting at the courthouse at 4 p.m. Miss Katherine White hosts supper for Miss Jane Burgess. Mrs Barlow Inabnet hosts during coffee for Miss Burgess. Friday barbecue supper for Miss Burgess and Mr William Adams. Saturday the marriage of Miss Burgess to Mr Adams at the Burgess home at 4 p.m. A June 17 radio program features Mrs Harper Sibley on Religion in the World Tomorrow.
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P.T. A. Aeleeds
Katherine White
Jane Burgess
Barlow Inabnet
James Burgess
Henry Chalin
William Adams
Porter Burgess
Women's National Radio Committee
Columbia Broadcasting System Network
National Committee of Church Women
Harper Sibley
Rochester
N. Y
Sibley
United States
E. H. Silverthorn
Philadelphia
Council of Women For Home Missions
National Council of Church Women
Committee On Woman's Work, Foreign Missions Conference
Women
Music of Tomorrow
Pioneers of Tomorrow
Patriotism of Tomorrow
H. J. Fernandez
C. A. Graham
Marjorie Wilborn
Memphis, Tenn
Mexico City
Louis Fernandez
Barbara
Memphis
Fernandez
Leon Davenport
Mabel Sharpe Davenport
Mer Rouge
Miss Davenport
The Army Post Murders
A midwestern Army post social devolves into danger as a dramatic confrontation unfolds among Katherine Cornish Elizabeth Charlie Spencer and Adam Drew. A gun incident ends with Adam badly injured and the narrator deserted by fear and guilt in a troubling, lethal night.
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Katherine Cornish
Elizabeth
Chariie Spencer
Deaths Last Night Harold G Simpson and Joseph Paterno
Harold Granger Simpson 76, retired musician and newspaper man of Columbus, Ohio, worked with the New York Metropolitan Opera company the Ohio State Journal the St. Louis Globe-Democrat and the Cincinnati Sun. Joseph Paterno 58, once an immigrant Italian newsboy in New York who rose to prominence as a real estate man.
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Columbus
Harold Granger Simpson
New York Metropolitan Opera Company
Ohio State Journal
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Old Cincinnati Sun
New York
Joseph Paterno
John M. Cleaveland Distinguished Milwaukee Transit Official
John M. Cleaveland, 69, longtime special traffic representative for the Pere Marquette railway and former president of the Pere Marquette Line Steamers. He played a major role in regional transportation and railroad company leadership.
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John M. Cleaveland
Milwaukee
The
Pere Marquette Railway
Pere Marquette Line Steamers Company
Negro education still lags behind in the South
A government survey released in Washington shows progress for Negro education over two decades yet big gaps remain. It estimates 1935-36 high school graduates at 18,500 across 18 Southern states, about 50 percent more than total Black high school enrollment in 1915-16.
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Washington
Office of Education
Nome Greets First Ship In Eight Months
Nome Alaska residents gather along the waterfront to welcome the steamer Sutherland arriving after eight months. The ship broke through ice in the Bering Sea as three other vessels struggled forward. Food supplies were running low and airplanes assisted navigation through the ice.
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Nome
Alaska
Sutherland
Bering Sea
Alaskan
Leif Ericson Day Sought in Senate Resolution
The Senate approved a resolution urging the president to proclaim October 9 as Leif Ericson Day. The House has not yet acted.
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Leif Ericson
Washington
Senate
House
Rural Mail-Box Improvement Week to Begin September
The post office department will start Rural Mail-Box Improvement Week on September 10. Carriers will inspect boxes as part of the program, threatening loss of postal service for Monroe rural residents and other areas unless boxes are upgraded.
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Monroe
Washington
Post Office Department
Postal inspectors target non approved mail boxes
Rural residents face high delivery costs as inspectors determine who uses non approved galvanized steel mail boxes with side openings and owner names. The post office department threatens to cut service for noncompliant homes. A company employs photo electric cells to inspect 20 million beans daily, with an electric eye discarding discolored units.
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Post Office
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Delta Beta Sigma Sorority
A. G. Cook
Grace Cook
Baton Rouge
Duncan Cook
S. B. DeLee, Jr
Meridian
Miss
Eta
Duncan, Jr
Shreveport
George Pryor
S. Arrid
Sea
American Institute of Laundering
Arrid
Reals
Boas
Eer
Sey A
Ete Fonger
Lainous Horets
Eastman
Biterstun
Miata Ees
U. S
Hotel
Saeger Manage
Hotel Majestic and Baths
Davenport
the State University
Business College
Bowling Green
Gloria Short
New Orleans
Reese Major, Jr
Alice Bauer
Louisville, Ky
George Schlosser
Houston
Eugene Windes
Jack Masur
Lake Charles
Earl O'Neal
San Francisco
Los Angeles
California
Milton Gorn
New York City
Mr. Gorn
Ne!l DeLee
Dora Anish
Melvin Anish
Chicago
Detroit
Mich
A. L. Smith
D. Y. Smith
Boulder
Colo
State University
Edwin Rheus
Catherine Lynn
St. Francis Sanitarium
Birmingham, Ala
C. W. Wallace
Island
B. F. Kelly
D. E. Kelly
J. D. Kelly
Jack Simmons
Roy Gora
Oscar McDonald
Helen Seiler
Florence Powers
Johnnie Smith Elbert
Kansas City
Betty Seiler
Northeast Junior College
Army Post
Virginia Hanson
Anne Carewe
Annie
Chapter
Adam Drew
Elizabe
Adam
Katherine
Charlie
Anne
Red
Barney
Gray
Associated Press
Harold G. Simpson
Dad
Ford Levine
DeSiard St
DeSiard
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