SEEK GOAL IN CANCER DRIVE
Ouachita parish leaders urge completing the American Cancer Society drive with a $6,000 goal. Campaign chair Fred Fudickar, Jr. says progress matters as cancer affects one in two homes and funds support research, education, and patient services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cancer Control Movement
Ouachita Parish
American Cancer Society
Fred Fudickar, Jr
C. P. Gray, Sr
E. H. Conway Memorial Hospital
United States
John Snellings
Ouachita Parish Cancer Society
J. R. Plaisanice
Monroe
Arms for Western Europe in the postwar debate
Brussels pact nations seek American arms to bolster the alliance but Congress has no authority to supply surplus weapons. State and commerce officials discuss limited U S arm distribution while Marshall Plan funds and private purchases remain constrained. In West Monroe, a million gallon tank and new well aim to relieve water shortages but residents are urged to conserve water.
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Britain
France
Belgium
Holland
Luxembourg
Europe
State Department
Armed Services
Army Department
Congress
Vandenberg
Senate
United States
United Nations
Western
Army
European strikes ripple across cities and crack currency talks
The report details a broad set of labor actions and political moves across Europe. In France a Communist led strike disrupted Paris transit and spurred worker sympathy for Clermont Ferrand rubber workers. Belgium eyes a possible general strike if metal wage talks fail while Prague clergy face suspensions for political activity. Greek forces seize Orlai heights after heavy fighting near Albania. Berlin rumors swirl of currency reform with Russians possibly minting new notes and debates over using West German marks in the city’s western sectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
General Confederation of Labor
Clermont- Ferrand
Paris
Belgium
Paul Henri Spaak
Belgian Trade Union Congress
Prague
Joseph Ploshar
Father Ploshar
Ceske Buidojevice
Josef Beran
Orlai
Albania
Berlin
Water downing piping delay slows new West Monroe well
Water supply work on Highway 80 is delayed by piping shortages. From two wells in operation only one ten inch line brings water to West Monroe, while a planned twelve inch line awaits enough pipe. Material is on order and some has arrived. the city’s only storage tank holds 10,900 gallons.
Publisher Says Arrogance Plagues Newspaper Trade
Ralph Nicholson of the New Orleans Item denounced treatment of arrogance as an occupational disease among publishers at the Texas Press Association meeting in San Antonio He warned that sanctimonious attitudes grant undue privileges and stain the profession while stressing the value of press freedom and ethical conduct.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas Press Association
Ralph Nicholson
New Orleans Item
Nicholson
Texas
Association
Senate clash on draft rules and pension strike relief
A heated Senate session over draft reforms ends with a voice vote after Senator Taylor’s marathon speech provokes Ives and Brewster. Changes include 21 months service, 161000 18 year olds volunteering, and a total armed forces strength around 2.01 million. Separately a court fight over miners pension payments continues as Justice Goldsborough weighs Taft Hartley objections and trustee duties in the Lewis Bridges settlement.
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Ima
Aiken
R-Vi
Congress
House
Federal Communications Commission
Taylor-Langer
Taylor
Langer
Senate
New York
Frances Swadesh
R-Me
Ives
R-Ny
Knowland
R-Calif
Moscow
Brewster
Idaho
Army
U. S
National Guard
T. Alan Goldsborough
Ezar van Horn
Lewis
Senator Bridges
R-Nh
Bridges
Mine Welfare Fund
UMW
van Horn
John Lord O'Brian
Bastian
Gromyko
Goldsborough
O'Brian
West Virginia Coal and Coke Company
Charles Dorrance
H. K. Cook
Knoxville
Tenn
Circus date change and local happenings in Monroe
Governor Long pressures a circus to move its date for the fall game, the Brownville Methodist Church welcomes new pastor with a pounding and community supper, a Monroe hotel sign warns against bed smoking, Seabee Earl Bowen missed by buddies in Chicago, longtime resident J A Naff rides a bus at ninety, St Matthew’s seeks a $1000 gym, and a recipe note suggests Spanish omelet with leftover vegetables.
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Governor Long
Louisiana
Huey
Brownville
The
Methodist Church
Louis P. Arkema
St. Joseph
Seabee
Earl Bowen
Monroe
Chicago
Clyde Pohl
Bowen
Kilpatrick held on drunkenness and bill dispute charges
A. E. Kilpatrick aged 41 of 122 South Grand street was arrested by Monroe police early yesterday afternoon on charges of failing to pay a restaurant bill being drunk and disorderly and resisting arrest. He is held in the city jail on a $125 bond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Kilpatrick
South Grand Street
Monroe
Prosaic Husbands and a Wife’s Love Question
Dorothy Dix responds to a forty year old wife of twenty years and five children who seeks guidance on whether husbands tire of wives, if a 40 year old woman should settle for comfort and shopping, or if love and daily tenderness can endure. She argues many men are not sentimental by nature and that wives crave constant courtship and verbal love beyond provision and meals.
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Mary Ann
Lions Convention Week in Monroe Draws 1000 Delegates
The Louisiana Lions convention opens Monday in Monroe with air conditioned sessions at Central Grammar School Auditorium. Necrology ceremony at the first business session, Centenary Choir of Shreveport to perform, and a dance on the Virginia Hotel roof. 126 active clubs with 6,425 members. 1,000 expected registrants through June 22.
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Texas and Pacific
J. Norman Coon
Virginia
A. M. Serex
Frances Hotel
Central Grammar School
Centenary Choir
Shreveport
San Francisco
Lions Clubs
Madison Square Garden
New York
Louisiana
Monroe
Farm Conferees Deadlock Ends Hope for New Price Bill
Two hours of closed talks left Senate and House conferees deadlocked over farm price supports. Aiken, leading the Senate group, said House conferees refused to allow joint consideration of the Senate bill, signaling the end of a farm program without new legislation.
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Senate
House
Aiken
Hope
Rkan
Department of Agriculture
Steagall
Representative Steagall
D-Ala
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Truce talks in Haifa amid British pullout pressure
UN mediator counts on Jewish and Arab input as Britain to withdraw from Palestine within ten days. Observers fear clashes over port control as Haifa prepares for possible supervision by the UN. A 100 truck daily convoy to Jerusalem expected to ease food supply for about 100000 city Jews.
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Haifa
Palestine
U. N
Israel
Bernadotte
Jerusalem
Senate debates shift as Ellender blocks conference
In a tense session the Senate faced a blocked conference on differing house and senate versions after Senator Ellender of Louisiana vetoed action. Unanimous consent would have been required to proceed, while a later move to curb a filibuster on oil taxes used a drastic, rarely invoked procedure to end debate, reopening competing disputes once set aside.
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Aiken
R.-Vt
Senate
House
Congress
Taylor
Henry A. Wallace
Taylor-Langer
Ellender
D.la
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Lodge
Wilber M. Brucker
Michigan
Jean W. Fuller
California
John E. Messervy
South Carolina
Ruth Stockton
Colorado
John G. Townsend, Jr
Delaware
Kenneth Tuggle
Kentucky
Taft
Ohio
Harold E. Stassen
Platform
Truman
Knutson
R-Minn
Ways and Means Committee
Treasury
Eberharter
Dpa
Martin
Rankin
Mississipian
Ernest J. King
Chester W. Nimitz
White House
Pan American Railway Congress
West Monroe
Bell
Jes’ Ramblin
Illinois
J. A. Naff
Ouachita
Jackson
Stephen Barbara
Mr. Naff
Naff
Barbara
Glenn
St. Matthew's
Dorothy DIX
Bell Syndicate, Inc
LIONS
Will Rogers
Trule
Crilefs
Nature
Our Architectural de
Ture
Barmnock
Turpin Lumber and Supply Company
Louisville & DE Siard
Monroe , Louisiana
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