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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1941
Page
5
Proceeds support the church building fund. The same play will be shown at Crosley School in West Monroe at 3 00 pm and 7 30 pm on Saturday.
Five local gasoline dealers waived arraignment and pled not guilty in district court to charges under the fair trades act. Defendants include C. B. Hammett W C Murphy L C Latham Jimmie Girard and Bruce Farley of West Monroe linked to Economy Oil and Rose Oil. The case centers on selling below cost with Rose Oil and Economy stores allegedly running devious pricing waves.
Charles Feazel son of Mr and Mrs C E Feazel of 1801 Cypress street West Monroe received his master of arts degree cum laude from Harvard University. He was valedictorian of Ouachita Parish High School class of 1937 and holds a Harvard scholarship. He will work as a chemist in an Akron rubber plant.
In New York on June 19, Prince Ludovic Pignatelli, 63, and associate William M. Gibson, 45, were found guilty in federal court of conspiracy and extortion related to demands for 500000 dollars from Guido Pignatelli and Princess Henrietta Hartford Pignatelli. Sentencing looms with mercy for Ludovic but harsher penalties for Gibson.
Monroe state welfare director Kurt Thies spoke at the Y's Men's Club luncheon at Hotel Frances about relief operations. The group scheduled a July 16 barbecue with Henry Hinkle as barbecue committee chair. A resolution urging firm government action to avert strikes delaying defense prep was approved. Guests included Pen Pace, Henry Long, and Bill Mayo.
Washington reports the war department will erect an anhydrous ammonia plant at Sterlington near Monroe Louisiana at a cost of 16750000 dollars. It will operate by October 1 1942 and supply ammonia for nitrate and TNT production with hydrogen by‑product from the Commercial Solvents plant.
An anonymous worker at a major airplane maker claims a single daily commute consumes enough gasoline to power a clipper from New York to Liebert. The statement highlights concerns about fuel use in aviation industry travel.
At a Western regional AAAS meeting Dr. J. W. Hoover described a secluded Supai community in Havasu canyon within Grand Canyon National Park. About 200 residents live on just $35 per person annually, relying on crafts and occasional mailman trips for contact with the outside world.
The film Golgotha, regarded as a work of surpassing magnificence and importance, was shown Thursday at the Ouachita Parish High School auditorium.
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