Postoffice Sells Five Dollar Auto Stamps
The post office sells five dollar automobile tax stamps required for mite vehicles with a deadline of July 1. It will be illegal to drive without a stamped windshield after that date. About $10,000 in cash, representing 2,000 stamps, has been collected, far below last year's $50,000 from 10,000 stamps as a last minute rush is anticipated.
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Postoffice
G. L
Selman Field
Selman
Hunt
Orchid
Charlotte
USO
Sam Collins
JWB
Sol
O. K
John O'Brien
Ruston
John
Child welfare leader named in Louisiana appointment
Mrs. Lila W. Graves is named child welfare consultant for the Louisiana Department of Public Welfare with offices in Monroe. She will begin duties immediately, working with parish welfare departments to handle difficult cases and plan services for children amid defense-area migrations and other welfare challenges. Graves, from the state welfare office, has social work experience since 1935 and trained at the University of Nebraska and the University of Chicago. The United States has sore 1,000,000 miners.
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Graves
Monroe
State
Welfare Department
Emergency Relief Administration
WPA
State Welfare
University of Nebraska
School of Social Service Administration
University of Chicago
Ouachita Parish Forms War Meat Committee
W F Ross announces formation of a parish war meat committee to lead meat control efforts and combat the black market. The group based in West Monroe will oversee current and future programs with local leaders J W Standley Jr, W A Allen, C W Hays, John B Fithiel, and Mrs A D Tisdale, plus E D Dixon as area supervisor and G Chester Freeman as state meat marketing supervisor.
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W. F. Ross
Ouachita Parish
Usda War Board
B. W. Biedenharn
War Board
West Monroe
J. W. Standley
W. A. Allen
C. W. Hays
John B. Fithiel
A. D. Tisdale
Parish War Meat Committee
E. D. Dixon
G. Chester Freeman
Food Distribution Administration
Usda Board
Pythians In Body To Attend Judge Schulze Funeral
All members of Stonewall lodge Knights of Pythias are asked to meet at the lodge rooms Wednesday at 4 15 pm and proceed in a body to the funeral of Judge Charles Schulze at the residence 106 Grayling Lane at 5 pm The judge was a longtime prominent member of the Knights of Pythias lodge.
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Stonewall Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Charles Schulze
Grayling Lane
Knights of Pythias Lodge
Food problems called mess in Roosevelt food policy clash
Washington dispatch reviews the food price fight between the White House and Congress over OPA subsidies for meat and butter. President Roosevelt accepts Chester Davis’s resignation as war food administrator and names Marvin Jones to replace him amid debate on a centralized food czar. The piece traces Davis’s opposition to subsidies and Congress’s resistance, noting political maneuvering and potential shifts in authority.
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Roosevelt
Chester C. Davis
Congress
Davis
White House
Capitol Hill
Fire of Price Administration
OPA
Elamor
Farm Bloc
Senator Vandenberg
Michigan
Senate
House
Marvin Jones
Texas
Jones
Clark
Missouri
Miner Output Powers Long Haul Coal Energy
An average miner yields about 180 tons of coal every six weeks, enough energy to move a 20 car troop train from New York to San Francisco.
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New York
San Francisco
The War Today: Coal and Second Front Prospects
DeWitt Mackenzie reports the coal miners resuming work as critical to wartime production and troop mobility. He notes Stalin’s call for a western front, hints at possible invasions of Sicily Sardinia Italy or the Balkans, and urges coordinated Allied action to open a second front in 1943. The piece ties civilian labor to military outcomes and strategic timing for 1943.
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Hitler
Russia
Moscow
Europe
Germany
Mussolini
Sicily
Sardinia
Italian
Balkans
France
English Channel
Fuehrer
Civic clubs form advisory board for Louisiana Training Institute
Monroe civic clubs unite to aid Louisiana Training Institute. A luncheon meeting at Hotel Virginia formed an advisory board with D. Curtis Seamon as chairman and E. N. Thompson as vice chairman. The group will liaise between citizens and the institute and meet monthly. Attendees include John S. Fox Rotary E. N. Thompson Kiwanis C F Walker Lions F L Hanock Exchange Paul Reising West Monroe Kiwanis D Curtis Seaman LB Faulk American Legion N Q Freeman VFW Miss Harriott Hirsch BPW Miss Lib Williams Pilot Mrs George Varino Twin Cities PTA John C Bailey Central Trades Labor council. The Beacons Cape Henry Fresnel lens milestone noted.
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Monroe Civic Clubs
Hotel Virginia
Louisiana Training Institute
Monroe
Paul J. Armstrong
D. Curtis Seamon
E. N. Thompson
Norma Langston
John S. Fox
Rotary Club
Kiwanis
C. F. Walker
Lions
F. L. Hanock
Exchange
Paul Reising
West Monroe Kiwanis
D. Curtis Seaman
LB Faulk
Post American Legion
N. QO. Freeman
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Harriett Hirsch
Business and Professional Women's Club
Lib Williams
Pilot
George Varino
Twin Cities P.T. A
John C. Bailey
Central Trades and Labor Council
Differences threaten CCC subsidy rollback deadlock
Washington June 29 Differences in Senate and House bills halting the subsidy rollback on food prices threaten to hamstring the Commodity Credit corporation as conferees near a midnight deadline. Disagreements include borrowing power and anti subsidy provisions with potential for a presidential veto if revisions pass both houses.
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Senate
House
Commodity Credit Corporation
CCC
Senate Conference
Fulmer
South Carolina
Taft
Republican
Ohio
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Building Permit Granted for Frame Dwelling on Washington Street
A building permit was issued for a frame dwelling at 2406 Washington Sweet. The project will use second hand material and cost under 200 dollars. Georgia’s Okmulgee National Monument reported 35,105 visitors in 1940.
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Georgia
Okmulgee National Monument
Bond Pharmacy Ad Promotes Bondease Foot Treatment
An advertising notice from Bond Pharmacy Company of Little Rock Arkansas markets Bondease. It promises relief from Athlete's Foot Toe Itch and Ringworm and offers a refund if the first bottle fails to please with refusal of substitutes.
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Bond Pharmacy Company
Little Rock
Ark
Andy
Under-the-table pinches charged in divorce case
Arthur A. Cameron told an Arkansas court that his actress-wife June Knight regularly pinched him at social events to spite him while he conversed with Betty Grable. He recounted jealous scenes dating to 1942 and said Miss Knight once drove an interior decorator from their Evansville home after a night out, returning intoxicated.
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Little Rock
Ark
June Knight
Arthur A. Cameron
Betty Grable
Texas
Indiana
Arkansas
Cameron
Miss Knight
Mrs. Cameron
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