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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1941
Page
10
The 800 dollar production Golgotha draws strong interest in Monroe. It will screen at Ouachita Parish High School auditorium Thursday and at West Monroe locations Saturday. Film Daily lauds its awe inspiring closeups and individual emotions.
Promises to reduce car payments by up to one half and provide extra cash. Claims no signature needed and no need to be in Monroe. Requires visiting 500 Walnut St. with nothing due until August.
A high standard motion picture described as among the greatest epochs will be shown in Crosley school on Saturday at 9 p m to benefit colored friends. The Monroe airing is sponsored by Warner Memorial Bible class of First Methodist church with net receipts aiding a new educational building for the church.
Judge W M Harper and Alvie Jones presided as several defendants including Clarence Hall, Guessina Williams, Uriah Johnson, Eddie Smith, Seth Blazier, Alfred Lewis, R E Walker, J W Peek, Duke McMay and Jake Hester were found guilty on charges from intoxication to disturbing the peace. Fines ranged from 1 to 200 dollars or short jail terms, with several 10 day suspensions and extra compulsory days. Minor parking and traffic violations added small penalties amid reports of battlefield medical triage noting quicker treatment for minor injuries.
Evan W. Carroll announced that 19 Kiwanis clubs in Louisiana are active in community service across youth work education and charity at the 25th Kiwanis International convention in Atlanta. He noted the district membership rising with 2,175 clubs and over 113,000 members in the United States and Canada. The Louisiana event schedule includes a district fellowship dinner and a reception for Mark A. Smith, with 1941-42 officer selections planned. The district convention will be held in Alexandria from August 31 to September 2.
In western Sudan salt is sold as sticks formed by crystallizing salt on straw stems. The sticks resemble candles, creating a distinctive rustic product for local markets.
The editorial notes Roosevelt's order to close German consulates and tourist propaganda agencies as a bold move against Nazi policy. It examines potential German reactions, the likelihood of further Reichstag rhetoric, and the Robin Moor crisis as context for the strained German American relation and possible retaliations.
A series of property transfers records sales and mortgages including William T Starks to Paul Hamrick for a Crescent Bend lot at 190, C P Owens to R L McKnight for a G B Haynes Cheniere subdivision lot, and R E Harrell to E W Cruse for multiple Hood's resubdivision lots totaling 5 700. Other transfers include Albertus L DeLoach, Grant Realty Company to G G Grant for mineral rights at 1 500 and Terrel L Flaherty to R A Gossett for a Morningside lot at 140. The Finnish government has established emergency bureaus employing over 15 000 due to the war.
Los Angeles and six southern California towns will begin receiving softened filtered water from the Colorado River tomorrow as the Metropolitan Water district nears completion of a $200 million project. Pasadena, Burbank, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Compton, and Torrance will tap in first. Los Angeles and seven others follow in months. The system originates at Parker Dam and pumps across Abu Mojave desert to La Verne for processing, with initial water priced at $15 per acre foot after August 18.
A large delegation from Monroe and West Monroe Civitan clubs joins Bastrop Minden and Little Rock members for Shreveport Civitan charter night at Hotel Cad Do. Arthur Cundy of Birmingham will deliver the charter and speak on America of Today. Dr H C Hughes of Monroe attends as district governor.
The account claims the 1906 San Francisco quake was slight, noting bigger shocks occurred in the United States but not in major cities.
Governor Paul B. Johnson suspended penitentiary sentences for two first time offenders. Jimmy Ramey aged 17 of Monroe county received an indefinite suspension for burglary and larceny, with a four year term begun in November 1959. Willie Kidd aged 20 of Union county got a day stay after a July 1940 sentence for burglary and larceny.
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