Pelican Boys State Awards Honor Students at Baton Rouge
A large Pelican Boys State session in Aton Rouge closes with 11 boys earning scholarships to LSU Loyola and other institutions, plus numerous “public spirit” and civic awards. Alternates named for scholarship acceptance accompany a long list of outstanding athletes and officials cited for service and leadership. Military cadets in Midland receive map reading and camouflage training.
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Aton Rouge
Pelican
State
Andy Lay
Homer
Edwin Edwards
Marksville
Louisiana State Mibraity
Walter Acosta
Crowley
Albert Sanders
Baton Rouge
Lynn Pesson
New Iberia
James Stelly
Lake Charles
Raymond Roy
Mansura
van Beary
Thibodeaux
Harold Thompson
Charles Ramirez
Carl Foster
Noreo
H. J. Champagne
Theriot
J. F. Kinler
Luling
Alfred Fee
New Orleans
Flood Garreet
Monroe
J. C. Flyed
Ossie Brown
Baker
Joseph Zuppardo
Vincent Cervera
Charles Bradford
William Veal
Shreveport
Kerrin Varnado
Franklinton
James A. Horton
Joe Haas
Alexandria
W. Edwards
Markaville
Donald Hidalgo
John Ayres
Neil Armstrong
Chalmette
Ralph Brewer
Edwin L. Brady
Donald Cayard
Lawrence Fox
Allen Williams
Ruston
John Scales
John Palmer
Midland
Texas, Army Air Field
Rubber Plant Is Completed In Charleston
The Charleston rubber plant story details the completion of the nation s first and largest synthetic rubber facility. Ford Bacon and Davis engineers describe a year and a half of building, with staff to be replaced by Carbide and Carbon Chemicals and United States Rubber Company operators. The News-Star notes local workers, a public contribution drive, and the inspection by Rubber Administrator William Jeffers and Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones as a 42 page two section issue highlights the milestone.
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Charleston
Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation
United States Rubber Company
A. F. of L
The
News-Star
Bridges
Davis
Washington
OPA
OWA
OWI
Short
Missouri
House
McCormack
Massachusetts
Chaplin and O’Neill Obtain Marriage License in Santa Barbara
Monte can HAPLIN OBTAINS LICENSE TO WED reports that Charles Chaplin and Oona O'Neill secured a marriage license in Santa Barbara California. Deputy County Clerk Ira Altschul issued the license at 8 40 a m and the couple left the courthouse quietly. Chaplin gave 54 as his age and Miss O’Neill 18.
Cigarette Drive Launched by Junior Chamber for Soldiers
The Junior Chamber of Commerce, led by president F C McConnell, has started a campaign to send cigarettes to overseas service men. For five cents a pack, the public can purchase cartons for troops who cannot buy them at the Battlefronts, with Monroe shipments bearing a sticker reading Compli ments of the Junior Chamber of Com-
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Chamber of Commerce
F. C. McConnell
Monroe
Chamber of Com
Allies Press Bombs Sicily Mission Details Largely Naval
Allied warplanes pounded Sicily during a detailed sortie over Trapani Milo Marsala Castelvetrano and Borizzo. Reports describe fires and wreckage at airports hangars and fuel dumps with multiple enemy planes shot down including a dramatic air collision as two fighters failed to rise off the ground.
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Mitchells
Trapani
Milo
Borizzo
Wis Oghta
Wilson J. Baronet
Crowley
Pantelleria
P. J. O'Neill
Philadelphia
Marsala
Sicily
Castelvetrano
Suthwestern
Scity
Fortreses
Charlee Greens
Squadron Navgator
Sacramento
Calif
Allied and Axis air actions across Sicily and Pantelleria
An Allied press summary reports RAF and Army Air Force strikes over the Mediterranean base and Sicily, with fires at Comiso airfield, and coastal raids near Cape Passero. Axis claims of ship and landing craft hits near Pantelleria are unconfirmed by Allies, while British long range fighters targeted shipping in the Aegean.
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Malta
Mid- Mediterranean
Sicily
Comiso
Cape Passero
Associated Press
Pantelleria
PNB
Berlin
ONB
Rome
Algerian
Palermo
Popola di Roma
Sapies
Lampione
Aegean
Cano
Red Army Breaks Through German Defenses Northwest Of Mtsensk
Moscow reports the Red Army severed a fortified German frontline segment northwest of Mtsensk near Orel amid violent fighting. German aims to retake four captured towns failed as Russians repelled counterattacks. Soviet planes hit a German tank concentration near Sevsk and downed four planes. German communique claimed several Russian thrusts in the Orel region were repulsed.
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Moscow
Red Army
Strongl
Mtsensk
Orel
London
Monitor
Sevsk
Berlin
Nine face charges in New Orleans meat and gas case
In New Orleans in June six meat dealers and three gasoline station operators were charged with violating OPA regulations. Hearing today before Israel Treiman of St. Louis, OPA regional hearing commissioner. Yesterday the commissioner ordered temporary business suspensions for selling meats above ceiling prices and gasoline without mileage coupons or mutilating rationing coupons.
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New Orleans
OPA
Israel Treiman
St. Louis
X Firme
Deaths Willie A Downs 42 in Shreveport hospital
Willie A Downs 42 died at noon Tuesday in a Shreveport hospital. Survived by wife Zadie of Rayville and five children Opal Margaret W A Jr Jordan Aletha Earl Downs, two brothers George and Jess Downs of Bay Springs Mississippi. Services at Bay Springs Methodist Church with local minister. Mulhearn Funeral Home Bayville in charge. burial Antioch Cemetery near Bay Springs. The article notes miscellaneous historical claims about Indian lands in Oklahoma and Idaho May is Last moth.
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Willie A. Downs
Shreveport
Zadie Downs
Rayville
Opal Downs
Margaret Downs
W. A. Downs
Jordan Downs
Aletha Earl Downs
George
Jess Downs
Bay Springs
Miss
Mulhearn Funeral Home
Bayville
Antioch Cemetery
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Institute of Apatite Runes
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C. C. Whittelsey
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B. G. Yeldell
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Louisiana State Police
R. N. Sanford
Louisiana
Chamber of Company
FE. H
Bing) Miller
Gen- Commerce
Miller
Cummins
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Haplin
Igarette
Chiogef
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Ivy
Dey, McAly Brin
Zemecol
McGregor
LUX
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Utedon
JEEP
New Guinea
Carl Thusgaard
Nea-Acme
Kenneth Downing
Lew Kamuto
Thusgaard
Doba Dura
Agrigento
Lentheric
Flacon
Gregor
Paris Belts
Oklahoma
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Ermine Foundation
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