Refugees in Bordeaux Need Aid Amid Surging Influx
Ouachita parish Red Cross relays a national bulletin noting 150000 homeless refugees in Bordeaux with thousands more arriving daily. Evacuation hampered by trucks and rails. 25000 refugees pass through the station daily. 10 infants born on trains yesterday.
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Ouachita Parish
Red Cross
Bordeaux
France
League of Red Cross Societies
Geneva
American Red Cross War Fund
Marshall
American Red Cross
Legislative Digest highlights House bills introduced
The digest lists numerous bills with sponsors like Brownell Carroll Morrison and others. Measures cover school district creation Morgan City, minor property sales, civil code reforms, tax, bonds, liquor fund, library support, and election costs. Several bills pass or withdraw with varied margins. many propose amendments, appointments, and financial actions.
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Ravich
Watson
Pearce
Carter
Banister
Vincent and
Graham
Calcasieu
Crais
Rainold
Blanchard
New Orleans
Middleton and
Morgan
Blasi
Bacque and Parker
Louisiana Sweet Potato Advertising Agency
Awards Set Monday for 126 Monroe Auto Mechanics
Certificates will be awarded to 126 auto mechanics Monday night after a banquet at the Virginia hotel. R A Ledet heads the Monroe clinic of the state education department and notes the ceremony ends a three month motor tune up course for Monroe and nearby towns. J A Costello of Ethyl Gasoline Corp. will speak on Development Modern Cars. S B Mallet will preside as instructors and officials outline the program under state education leadership.
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Virginia
R. A. Ledet
Monroe
Trade and Industrial Division
State Department of Education
Euto Mechanics
J. A. Costello
S. B. Mallet
Baton Rouge
John E. Coxe
E. G. Ludtke
Ir. Ledet
Legislative actions withdrawn on taxes pensions and insurance
The record lists several bills withdrawn or postponed including pensions exempted from credits and garnishments, a one cent severance tax on skins and hides, annual operating property assessment for railway companies, bids for city insurance, kerosene tax repeal, life insurance contracts definition, pensioning of judges constitutional amendment repeal indefinitely postponed, and parish audits publication requirement.
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Stich
Tax Commission
Orleans Parish
Jack
Robert E. Lee
Watson
Cangelosi
Duplechain and
Morgan
State Board of Health
Morrison
Orleans
Bohemia
Carroll
Jack Et al
Lottinger
F. E. Stinson
Crais and Edwards
Barranger and
New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board
Guilbeau and
Edwards
Rainold
Copeland
Sylvester Green
Vernon
Louisiana Highway Commission
Mary Othelia Landry
Highway Commission
BE. C. Parker
Moore
New Orleans
Gilmore
Bailey
Official Journal
James
Brown
Louisiana Bridge Commission
Mississippi River
Louisiana
Mississippi
S. M. Schwabe
Schwabe
Cotton
Oliver
Arkansas Line
Rayville
Johnson
Keller
Dolby
Calcasieu
Cameron Parishes
Carbajal
Graham
Vincent
Banister
H. S. Parker
National Guard
Monroe
Ruston
Benson
Brownell and Bullis
Hair
Smith
Graham and Vincent
Barringer
Armentor
Bullis
Broussard
Fernandez
Middleton
Blast
Williams
Saptos
Savarese
Santos
Borey
Crais
Lanier
Cawthorn and Boucher
Louisiana Tax Commission
Ellia
Jefferson Parish
Sevier
Good Will Tour Planned By Monroe Merchants
Monroe merchants plan a goodwill tour Thursday with about 60 local business men visiting Columbia Olla Clarks Urania Tullos Winnfield Jonesboro Hodge Ruston Dubach Bernice and Farmerville. The 8:30 a.m. start returns at 6:30 p.m. Ed Miller and his Louisiana Playboys will provide entertainment replacing the usual Monroe high school band.
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Monroe
Dave Silverstein
Merchants’ Committee
Chamber of Commerce
Columbia
Olla
Clarks
Urania
Tullos
Winnfield
Jonesboro
Hodge
Ruston
Dubach
Bernice
Farmerville
Silverstein
Ed Miller
Louisiana Playboys
Deaths from Jonesboro and Ruston in Louisiana
Two obituaries report deaths in Louisiana towns. J. G. Harlan, 73, dies at Rus ton Lincoln sanitarium after a lingering illness. services held in Jonesboro with burial there. Aylmer Conrad Gill, 68, dies of heart disease at Ruston Lincoln sanitarium. funeral at his South Bonner street home and Greenwood cemetery burial. Survivors listed for both.
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Jonesboro
J. G. Harlan
Ruston-Lincoln Sanitarium
Brown
Homer
Edmonds Funeral Home
Mr. Harlan
Elmo
E. E. Harlan
John Harlan
Jim Harlan
G. S. Wyatt
Tom Taylor
J. C. Harlan, Jr
Harry Harlan
Jimmie Harlan
Gus Phillips
Ruston
Aylmer Conrad Gill
Ruston- Lincoln Sanitarium
South Bonner Street
S. E. MecFadden
Ruston Presbyterian
Greenwood Cemetery
Meda Rowland Gill
Rowland A. Gill
M. Edward Cooper
Rayville
Frederick T. Praaus
Farmerville
J. H. Rigdill
W. W. Durden, Jr
M. L. Gill
Monroe
M. B. Gill
R. B. Gill
Memphis
Tenn
Potato Shipments To End This Week
Jonesboro and Chatham in Jackson parish completed potato shipments this week amid delays from heavy rains and March frosts. Last week 13 cars from Jonesboro and five from Chatham were moved via Rock Island, Tre mont and Gulf Railway. Growers expect 15 cars of tomatoes this season. last week six cars yielded $1.50 to $1.75 per hundred.
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Jonesboro
Jackson Parish
Chatham
Rock Island, and Tremont and Gulf Railway Company
High Speed X-ray Tube Opens New Science Tests
Pittsburgh reports the Westinghouse designed ultra high speed X-ray tube enables millionth of a second exposures. It captures events like bullets through wood and football kicks, promising new insights for engineering and ballistics while noting practical limits of current apparatus.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse
Charles M. Slack
American Physical Society
Slack
US Navy Cruisers Arrive On goodwill Visit South America
June 21 reports the cruiser Wichita arriving in Rio de Janeiro on a goodwill mission in South American waters. The destroyer O'Brien reached Buenos Aires yesterday and the heavy cruiser Quincy entered Montevideo harbor greeted by cheering crowds. The waterfront display was viewed as an armed guard symbol for the western hemisphere by the United States.
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Rio DE Janeiro
United States
Wichita
South American
O'Brien
Buenos Aires
Quincy
Montevideo Harbor
Fight unsuccessful for modified levy in Louisiana
Baton Rouge June 21 Representative G P Bullis of Concordia parish warns that the governor and all of us will get into serious trouble if nothing is done to...
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Baton Rouge, la
G. P. Bullis
Concordia Parish
Reading Clerk Set for Meeting in Philadelphia
Jacksonville Illinois June 21 Horace H Bancroft announces he is ready for the Republican national convention as reading clerk. He has served at every GOP conclave since 1912 and will preside in Philadelphia next week. The 65 year old Bancroft is an insurance executive in private life.
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Jacksonville
Ill
Horace H. Bancroft
Philadelphia
Bancroft
Nine planets melted into one would need 700 such planets for sun weight
A science note states that if all nine planets Earth through Pluto were melted into a single planet its mass would be dwarfed by the sun, requiring about 700 of these super-planets to equal the sun's weight.
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Earth
Jupiter
Mars
Mercury
Neptune
Saturn
Pluto
Uranus
Venus
Reform bill saved from postponement sent to committee
An administration reform measure requiring publication of audits of sheriffs clerks of court and assessors was saved from indefinite postponement and sent back to committee for amendments. Governor Sam H. Jones backed the bill though senate judiciary committee reported it unfavorably due to concerns it would burden sheriffs in undercover crime detection work.
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Baton Rouge
Sam H. Jones
Senate Judiciary Committee
New Orleans Teachers Plan Emergency Protest in Baton Rouge
Teachers from New Orleans plan an emergency meeting in Baton Rouge to protest Governor Jones and State Superintendent John Coxe over an administration bill that would constitutionally cap state spending for public schools. Louisiana PTA president Mrs. Paul A. Blanchard said the group would join the protest.
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Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Jones
John Coxe
Paul A. Blanchard
Louisiana Parent-Teacher Association
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