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Newspaper
Monroe News Star
Location
Monroe, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1944
Page
4
In Miami Beach the next ac ammment will be within personnel distribution Spainland at a redistribution station. Classification officers and both enlisted men and personnel officers are assigned to a redistribution station upon their return.
Next Sunday at First Methodist Church Monroe the 1200 Methodist students on the LSU campus are the focus of a conference wide campaign. A special offering on July 2 will fund a new building and facilities as a circular titled Do You Know highlights the churchs stake in colleges. Five thousand automobiles are junked daily in the United States.
J W Cunningham chief pharmacist and son of Dr and Mrs W Cunningham has returned on furlough after 18 months in North Africa. He was formerly a pharmacist at Sandman Pharmacy and says he is eager to be back in the United States. He enjoyed gaining freedom hours abroad and plans next duty assignment likely in the United States.
Reverend Ernest Duncan Holloway, pastor of Monroe First Presbyterian Church, will leave June 28 to study for 60 days toward a doctorate. During July and August his address will be care of Union Theological Seminary Richmond Virginia. Jack Powell of Columbia Theological Seminary Decatur Ga will preach in his absence. Holloway, a World War I veteran, joined Monroe church in 1927 after prior pastorates in Missouri and Mississippi.
The Caddo wartime price and rationing board revoked all gasoline books issued to Joe R. Fulco of 1449 Buena Vista for falsifying an application for extra fuel. He claimed to drive to Washington state but traveled to Colorado to visit a son, and his allotments are frozen until September 22 with penalties for early driving. An unrelated note estimates world dogs at 70 million.
War era plan directs all male workers in Ouachita parish and surrounding areas to channel through the Monroe USES office for job changes. The priority referral program allocates workers to war plants based on production needs while protecting worker rights and allowing appeals. The cross parish plan covers 21 north Louisiana parishes with offices at Shreveport Minden Monroe and Natchitoches.
Washington reports that two sets of plans for self propelled aerial torpedoes are on sale at the U S patent office for a dime each. Inventors Charles F Kettering and Lawrence Burt Sperry are named. Kettering filed in 1919 and the patent was granted in 1927. The devices were described as self propelled airplanes carrying explosive charges and guided to a target.
Chinese communique claims Japanese forces used poison gas east of Hengyang and at Ningjiang and Changsha before its fall. US and Britain warned of retaliation in kind. Washington officials had no official confirmation of the charge. Whitten's Father Dies in Water Valley Mississippi.
The Eighth Army pushed toward Perugia and Lake Trasimeno with gains at Monte Croce Pianello and Vallabbrica while Chiusi remained in enemy hands. Allied forces widened positions near Castiglione two miles from Chiusi as German junior officers’ weakness cited. Budapest bombed by RAF after large Allied raids on France. Allied air losses noted.
Gen. H. H. Arnold, army air forces chief, predicts air superiority over Japan will be won soon. He cited B 29 bombing as only the beginning and declared the days of wrath have begun. The War Department said photographs show the American air attack on 12 German synthetic oil plants was one of the most effective strikes against the war machine.
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