Monroe Recreation Dept Opens HQ Ahead of Friday Parade
The Monroe recreation department moved into its new 1700 South Grand Street headquarters on Monday and awaits a grand opening. A patriotic parade Friday will showcase Boy Scouts Girl Scouts Camp Fire Girls school groups WAACs SPARs WAVES and American Legion units. Prizes include a diamond ring for most original costume and a prize for the best entry from a playground. Merchants and clubs are urged to enter floats and representatives.
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Monroe Recreation Department
South Grand Street
WAAC
Monroe
American Legion
Recreation Headquarters
Young Woman Guides Cadets At Keesler Field
Miss Denilla Wright of Swartz Louisiana trains cadets in airplane mechanics at Keesler field Mississippi. Formerly a science teacher at Lake Providence High, she completed aviation mechanics training at Northeast Junior College and a teachers course at Louisiana Polytechnic Institute Ruston. After finishing the program she became a regular instructor guiding students in aircraft maintenance.
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Denilla Wright
Keesler Field
Swartz
Miss Wright
Northeast Junior College
Louisiana Polytechnic Institute
Ruston
Lake Providence
Doctor Marvyn W. Johnson Visits Ouachita Friends
Dr. Marvyn W. Johnson, former Monroe physician now director of the Tallulah parish health unit, visited Ouachita parish friends on Monday, meeting several locals and noting community health interests.
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Marvyn W. Johnson
Monroe
Tallulah
Ouachita Parish
E R Kiper Dies Early Monday
Ernest Richard Kiper 62 Monroe and Wisner merchant died in a local hospital after four days there. Funeral at First Methodist Gilbert Tuesday 10 a.m. Interment Oakley cemetery Gilbert. Survived by wife Luella and four sons, two grandchildren, three brothers. Body in state at family home before leaving for Gilbert.
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Ernest Richard Kiper
Monroe and Wisner
First Methodist Church
Gilbert
Board of Stewards
Davis-Lawhead Funeral Home
Oakley Cemetery
Kiper
Clayton
Catahoula Parish
Monroe
T. B. Kiper
Fort Worth
Tex
E. V. Kiper
Ruston
L. O. Kiper
North Fifth Street
Former Kansas governor Jonathan Davis dies at 72
Jonathan M. Davis who led Kansas 1922 to 1925 died at 72 after an eventful term ending with a pardon bribery case and acquittals. Survived by wife Mary and three children Russell Davis Bronson Dewey Z McCormick and Lola Nelle Bicker. Meanwhile an aviation light signal uses fluorescent reflection of black light to show signals in total darkness.
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Fort Scott
Kans
Jonathan M. Davis
Kansas
Fred W. Pollman
Davis
War Today warns against complacency in Pacific fight
Max Hill reports on W J Haley’s assessment of Japan’s strength, noting Tokyo’s rapid empire expansion, the risk of stalemate, and the danger of delaying decisive action after Hitler. The piece urges vigilance to prevent a revival of war in the Pacific and warns against trusting pacificist hopes or Japanese deception.
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Max Hill
Associated Press
Britain
Berlin
Tokyo
W. J. Haley
Manchester Guardian
Evening News
Press Association of Great Britain
Reuters
Haley
England
South Pacific
Japan
Churchill
Rome
America
Pacific
East
Midwest
Jepan
United Nations
Hitler
Atlantic
Pearl Harbor
Chinese Marines Endure Hard March On Upper Yangtze Front
A Chinese battalion led by Lieutenant Colonel Chang Sze Liang crossed rugged mountains to the Yangtze front. Soldiers endured rain and 74 mountain stream crossings, carrying 40 pound packs of rice and ammunition with minimal meat. Officers earn higher pay, and daily rice is provided to all ranks. The column praised villages, supply stations, and medical improvisations amid harsh conditions as Allies gain momentum.
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Yangtze Gorges
Chang Sze Liang
Chang
Central Military Academy and Staff College
Yangtze
Nuns Honored by St Vincent's for St Matthew's Service
Catholic sisters who taught at St Matthew's in Monroe receive honors at St Vincent's college in Shreveport. Sisters M Philomena, M Stanislaus elevated to mother superior and mother assistant. counselors named Sis M Eugenia Bernadine Elizabeth. New reverend mother superior from Mansura.
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St. Matthew's School
Monroe
St. Vincent's College and Academy
Shreveport
M. Philomena
D. C
M. Stanislaus
M. Eugenia
M. Bernardine
M. Elizabeth
Daughters of the Cross
Alexandria
Auguste Martin
France
Louisiana
Hydropolis
Marksville
Mansura
Mary Hyacinth
Cross Hauling Under Senate Probe In War Program
Washington June 28 The War Production Board and other agencies study cross hauling where New York and San Francisco firms ship similar products across the continent. Senators probe wartime zoning and distribution shifts that deter prewar markets and harm wholesalers while keeping essential supplies flowing.
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James Marlow
George Zielke
Washington
New York
San Francisco
Pearl Harbor
War Production Board
Office of Defense Transportation
War Food Administration
WFA
Mississippi River
WPB
WPE
Gossamer
Moonshine
Tomatoes From Annie Baily Grow On Rich Ground
Annie Baily of 1719 Wilson Street presented large market tomatoes at the News-Star office. Each tomato weighed about a pound and she had grown them from seed at her home on rich ground with no irrigation.
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Annie Baily
Wilson Street
News-Star
Military maneuvers open in Louisiana as Hodges leads
Third Army commander General Courtney Hodges directed the opening of maneuvers described as the most extensive mock battle yet held in Louisiana in 1943. The next maneuvers period will involve increased armored and infantry forces with aviation and other units. Fresh overseas battlefront reports will be used in training.
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Third Army
Courtney Hodges
Louisiana
Hodges
Assembly attendees and anthrax warning across parishes
Mississippi delegates attend the assembly with expected higher turnout. Dr H A Burton warns farmers in Rapides parish after 70 cattle die from anthrax and urges burning carcasses and sending smeared samples to Baton Rouge for tests. Private Roy Smith faces murder charges in New Orleans for a Saturday shooting of Anthony Caracci. Ensign Kendall H Cram awarded the silver star for gallantry after aiding two gunners during a torpedo attack. Sykes promotes postwar free enterprise and a government role in guiding industry to avoid collectivism.
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Alexandria
H. A. Burton
Big Island
Rapides Parish
Burton
William L. Roark
Parish
State Livestock Board
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Frank Probst
Roy Smith
Anthony Caracci
Probst
Smith
Caracci
M. M. Odom
Jefferson Parish
Eighth Naval District
Kendall H. Cram
Tulane
Cram
Sykes Urges Free Enterprise At Michigan Conference
Wilfred Sykes president of Inland Steel urged a basic clearing of the postwar future for free enterprise at a Michigan region postwar conference of the National Association of Manufacturers. He said the industry must use its initiative now.
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Detroit
Wilfred Sykes
Inland Steel Company
National Association of Manufacturers
Sykes
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Staese
DR. Johnson
Osskier
Troy & Nichols
Quachita Bank
E.R. Kiper
DeWitt Mackenzie
Enshth
Yangtze Front
China
Louisiana Civilian Defense Council
Civilian Defense Council
D. OF C
Senate
Diaie
Brookhaven
Mountain Lakes
N. J
Loren H. Bowen
Lincoln County Times
Bowen
James Bowen
Sheffield
House
Naval Affairs Subcommittee
Gulf of Mexico
Edward Hebert
Congress
William 4
Wheat
George H. Bates
Massachusetts
L. M. Rivers
South Carolina
New Orleans Dock Board
Opelousas
Drew Bridges
139Th
Rotary
Mississippi
Bridges
Walnut St
Monroe, la
Tex Parker and the
Arcadians
DeSiard
Home Furniture Co., Inc
DeSiard Street
North Fifth
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