Glamour Boys Guarding Royal Visitors at North Africa Field
A North African air base detail features three American soldiers, two privates and a corporal, who guard a key plane and keep dignitaries at a distance. They have met leaders including Roosevelt Churchill Eden and, unexpectedly, the king of England stepped from a plane, thrilling the trio.
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North African
Hollywood
Roosevelt
Churchill
Anthony Eden
England
Corporal Irving Persoff
The
Bronx
Persoff
Joseph Bush, Jr
Seneca Street
Detroit
John E. Wright
Memphis
Bush
Scouts to Hold District Meet in Bastrop Courthouse
Rabbi F. K. Hirsch will address the northern district committee of the Quachita Valley Council of Boy Scouts of America at Bastrop courthouse Thursday night at 7 30. A court of honor will follow the committee meeting. The article notes Australia’s population concentrated in six big cities.
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F. K. Hirsch
Quachita Valley
Australia
Orchids of the Week Part of USC Calendar Public Choice
The USC Calendar invites readers to pick this week’s Orchids of the Week. Mrs. Oscar Kern of Bres Avenue is praised for aiding cadets at the information desk, with Miss Vallerie Couvillion also spotlighted for versatile duty. A week’s schedule notes dances, classes, and events at Selman Field, the USO, and WAAC/WINGS activities, plus social highlights and curios from the beau monde of campus life.
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Oscar Kern
Bres Avenue
WINGS
Mrs. Bennett
Pickens
Miss Scalia
Serivemen
Waacs
Selman Field Orchestra
USO
LaVerne
Elizabeth
Bob Sarbrough
Bob
Jean Hale
Alice Naylor
Paul
Mrs. B
Milt
Bennie
Harry
Zimmer
Penn State
Oil Contract Under Fire Over Elk Hills Pact
Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell told the House public lands committee that the Standard Oil Elk Hills contract with the navy went beyond Teapot Dome era agreements. He said the deal created a government Standard pooling arrangement giving monopoly power in five years, surpassing congressional oil conservation aims. Navy counsel Keith Kane defended the contract as in the public interest, noting it was cancelled on advice from the Attorney General and Byrnes while the probe continues.
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Washington
Norman Littell
House Public Lands Committee
Standard Oil Company of
California
Navy Department
Elk Hills
Calif
Teapot Dome
Harding
Standard
Littell
Attorney General
Justice Department
Navy
Knox
Lemke
Republican
North Dakota
Buck
Keith Kane
War Mobilization
Byrnes
Kane
Biddle
Widow's half not taxed under Louisiana inheritance law
The Louisiana supreme court ruled that a widow’s half of community property at a husband’s death is exempt from inheritance tax. In a Shreveport case the court held three sons liable for tax on only half of the late Sam Weiner’s estate totaling about $608 thousand. The decision affirmed that the widow’s half belongs to her and that taxing it would violate due process under the 14th Amendment.
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New Orleans
Louisiana Supreme Court
Shreveport
Sam Weiner
Weiner
Robert J. O'Neal
South Dakota Loyal Viewer Awaits Weekend Call
A local resident shows strong state pride by staying home Saturday night and eagerly awaiting a phone call from South Dakota. The remark highlights loyalty and community spirit as the week winds down.
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South Dakota
Court limits tax on decedent’s estate in inheritance ruling
The Louisiana Supreme Court, led by Associate Justice John B. Fournet, ruled that Section 402 B2 of the 1942 federal revenue act taxed only the decedent’s half of community property. State inheritance tax fixed at 80 percent of the federal, but the court overruled claiming the entire estate was taxable. The three sons Samuel G Weiner William B Weiner and Jacques L Weiner were assessed 8224.09 on their half, with the mother's half excluded from the mass of the estate.
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United States
John B. Fournet
Supreme Court
Samuel G
William B
Jacques L. Weiner
Synthetic rubber program to hit 900000 ton rate by 1944
Baltimore dispatch reports B F Goodrich chemist Dr. R V Yohe outlines the national synthetic rubber drive. He says the daily latex output would fill a tank virtually two miles long and that production will reach about 250000 tons this year and aim for 900000 tons annually by late 1944 as soap emulsifier use grows.
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Baltimore
National
R. V. Yohe
B. F. Goodrich
Yohe
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