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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1937
Page
16
H B McClendon announces deadlines for pensions under the 1934 act. Widows must show 30 percent or more service connected disability and prior marriage to the veteran before July 3 1931, with no remarriage and no income tax last year. Children may receive benefits until age 21 if in school or 18 otherwise. Applications to Veterans Administration at 333 St Charles New Orleans.
Portly Stanley Puryear a 43 year old used car dealer stood as the fourth jury was chosen in Memphis Tennessee for his trial on charges that he hacked his wife and daughter to death with an axe five years earlier.
The Bank of Japan, Japan's central bank, was established in 1882 as a joint-stock company. It later became the nation's monetary authority and key financial policymaker.
The Louisiana Baptist Children's Home in Monroe gains vacant lots valued at 4500 dollars from Mr. and Mrs. E A Davis of near Baton Rouge. Rev B F Wallace reports plans to hold the lots for future sale as value grows. The home will continue summer trips for its children with itineraries to Southeast and Northwest Louisiana.
The obituary outlines Champ Clark a former speaker of the U S House and longtime Democratic leader. It notes his wife Genevieve Bennett born near New Bloomfield Missouri as a pioneering University of Missouri student who supported public affairs and national causes.
The article notes Mrs. Clark, a longtime companion of Champ Clark, moved to Bowling Green Missouri where she kept the Clark homestead. After his death she winters in New Orleans with her daughter Mrs. Thomson, publisher’s wife, and summers in Bowling Green. She is survived by two children and two siblings.
The Louisi ana Cotton Cooperative will screen Co op Cotton Moves to Market a sound film strip for members at Collinston Wednesday Oak Ridge Thursday Bonita Monday June 21 at 3 pm Mark W Stroud will preside and discuss how cooperatives can better serve members and the community in marketing cotton The film explains warehousing transportation ginning financing and classing with pictures and words It has been shown in other southern cotton communities and drew strong interest from members and farmers alike.
The article traces General Cronkhite’s push to clear his son’s name. He investigated irregularities, prompted arrests, and faced pressure from the War Department. Despite offers to retire, he refused, seeking to stay in the United States to pursue the case.
General Cronkhite is described as having an unblemished record after over four decades of service and participation in three wars. He commanded the 80th division and led the 9th and 3 Army Corps in France during the Meuse-Argonne offensive before retiring amid a rift over a letter accusing himself of a gross injustice.
The Northeast Center of Louisiana State University announced the first and second honor rolls for the concluding semester. At the dean S A Caldwell office the first list included Harold Anderson T Ben Arnold Gilbert Brown Mary.
A British air transport company that recently bought five American planes is advertising the purchase to raise air traffic on northern European routes.
Police and federal agents mobilize 200 searchers at Long Meadows Farm near Parsons home as efforts under the Lindbergh law expand. A car with a possibly Mrs. Parsons sighting is investigated on Tonawanda reservation, with a description given of a 33 year old woman in a blue polka dot dress.
Higgins said a driver and companion, after three days on the road with no sleep, sought permission to park in a woodlot near Abrams' home offering $10. Refused, they returned toward Rochester from where they had come.
A chamber party of tourists will be guests of honor at a noon banquet at Hotel Arlington hosted by the Hot Springs Chamber of Commerce. They will also perform a radio program on a local station with their band as headliners and continue the trip Wednesday through El Dorado and Bastrop with scheduled arrivals and short midpoints in Morehouse parish and Collinston before joining a Monroe leg by Missouri Pacific railroad.
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