Students named to participate in state tests
Spelling contest winners from Ouachita Parish and Monroe City Schools earn places to travel to Natchitoches for the state spellings on March 19. Declamation reps chosen from parish and city schools will compete the same day with public entertainment planned at Ouachita Parish High School.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ouachita Parish
Monroe City Grammar
St. Matthew's Parochial School
Natchitoches
Ouachita Parish High School
Monroe
James Digby
Georgia Tucker School
St. Matthew’'s School
Quechua Parish
Edna Penfield
Eva Dale Coon
Okaloosa
Maurice Smith
Claiborne School
Joe Renwick
Helen Sliffe
St. Matthew's School
Central Grammar School
Elizabeth McDonald
Neville High School
Albert Thomas
Lida Benton
Bernice Worthington
Georgia Tucker
James Shamblin
Billy Husted
Barkdull Faulk School
Stanley Dyer
Sherrouse School
Billy Armstrong
Howard Marx
Virginia Cox
Joan Veach
Ted Treadgold
Virginia Duty
Frville
Etheridge
Central Grigby
Mary Hester
Neville Ch School
Julia Wossmen
Priveina Barkdull
EL Sen
Burned Memphis man endures life in oven
A severely burned man in Memphis remains confined at home enduring extreme heat as engineers use a makeshift oven to keep his body warm while skin grafts are prepared. Neighbors report the man’s wife and helpers pad the oven with blankets to insulate heat and protect him.
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Memphis
Tonia
Dety
Ania
Doty
Boy Scout Troops Meet Friday at Local Halls
Troop 65 met at Missouri Pacific Hall with Scout master E K Hunt and visitors Parker McComb and Troop 37. Richard Harrington led the oath, McComb gave a talk, dues were collected, tests passed, and the meeting closed with the scoutmaster's benediction.
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Missouri Pacific Hall
E. K. Hunt
Parker McComb
Richard Harrington
McComb
Troop 51
West Monroe
Lee
Gene Shillcutt
Edward Hall
Grady
Harry McGee
Robert Browning
Police Bulletin On Baby's Case Leaves Details Unrevealed
A police bulletin explains agencies pursue leads nationwide to recover the missing baby. It notes many independent investigations are ongoing and not reported to headquarters, with no productive details in the past 24 hours. Further information will be shared if details arise.
Gem theft recounted in 1931 Monroe case details
An unsigned confession describes a 1931 burglary in Monroe Louisiana and Pine Bluff Arkansas. The speaker claims entering a house on Grand Street, forcing a rear door, discovering a safe, taking jewelry, and transporting it to Pine Bluff with aid from an accomplice. The account covers timing from December 16 to later that month.
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Land Street
Pine Bluff
Ark
Monroe
Grand Street
Layton Place
Pine Ark
Poultry Meet Scheduled Tuesday In Ouachita Parish
A poultry meeting conducted by C L Hill of the Louisiana State University extension department will be held Tuesday at 10 o clock in the office of Mrs Jewel McQuiller Ouachita Parish home demonstration agent. Hill will demonstrate curing baby chicks and treating poultry diseases and controlling mice and insects. The meeting is open to all persons interested in raising chickens regardless of flock size.
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C.L. Hill
Louisiana State University Extension Department
Jewel McQuiller
Quachita Parish
Hill
Chlorophyll Synthesis Nearing Breakthrough at Harvard
New York March 12 A riddle of chlorophyll the green plant pigment and key to photosynthesis is nearing solution at Harvard University Dr James B Conant head of Harvard chemistry described the findings when receiving the Nichols medal He noted two forms A and B with A a porphyrin base plus two hydrogens and B with one oxygen replacing those hydrogens.
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New York
Harvard University
Harvard
James B. Conant
Harvard Chemistry Department
American Chemical Society
Hans Fischer
Conant
Hurricane damages hit North Carolina coastline in sweeping storm
A northeast gale crossed Dare County causing widespread destruction from Manteo to the Oregon Inlet coast guard station. Houses and mercantile buildings flooded as waves created new inlets. nets worth 250000 and boats were lost. Roads, bridges, and piers suffered heavy damage. food supplies and trucking were hampered by later freezing weather.
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Manteo
Dare County
Colington
Oregon Inlet Coast Guard
Causeway
Nag's Head
Chinese and Japanese clash with mud and siege tactics
Continued from page one, the fighting turns roads to mud and trenches into catch basins as Japanese forces push through Nanjiang. Caterpillar tractors replace trucks for heavy guns while the Shanghai Nanking line aids supply via loaded freight cars moved by manpower. Villages along the front are heavily garrisoned and parts of the population flee as troops dominate the area.
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Nanjiang
Shanghai-Nanking
Chenju
Namziang
Liuho
Kating
Liuhang
Nanziang
Hospital Scuffle Ends With Noncharge Decision
In Houston a friendly scuffle left 35 year old Robert Jones with a leg injury after being struck by Alex Mims. Jones declined to press charges saying Mims will support his family while he is in the hospital and wants him out of jail.
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Houston
Tex
Robert Jones
Alex Mims
Jones
Mims
Alex
Dhe
Black man drops sack of five chickens in yard
Lida Williams of 1602 Short Wood Street reported to police that an unidentified Black man dropped a sack with five chickens in her yard last night and fled when neighbors discovered him. The suspect fled when the residents opened a door.
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Lida Williams
Short Wood Street
Eight names on presidency list up in key state
A Republican attorney and Oklahoma Democratic governor William H. Murray enter the race. Prohibition becomes a campaign issue with L. J. Taber backed by the Ohio Anti-Saloon League filing on the Republican ticket against Gilbert Bettman Elizabeth C T Miller and Charles A. Bracher. Bettman and the reelected senator Bulkley oppose liquor conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. J. Taber
National Grange
Ohio Anti-Saloon League
Gilbert Bettman
Elizabeth C. T. Miller
Cleveland
Charles A. Bracher
Dayton
Bettman
Robert J. Bulkley
Meeting of Twin Cities Colored Women Planned
A called gathering of all colored women will be held at Zion Hill Baptist Church at 3 30 tomorrow afternoon. The church sits at Tenth and Breard Streets. H W Johnson chairs the event to form a local National Council of Colored Women chapter and gain enough signatures for World’s Fair space in Chicago next year.
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All Colored Women
Twin Cities
Zion Hill Baptist Church
Tenth
Breard Streets
H. W. Johnson
National Council of Colored Women
Chicago
Anxious Father Seeks His Sons Mendlowitz Gordon Names
A Brooklyn father, Morris Mendlowitz of 353 Throop Ave, seeks news of his sons who formerly worked as levee laborers in Monroe and later used the names Gordon and Gordon. He says letters from them have gone unclaimed and appeals to Hotel Frances manager M. R. Jackson for any current address.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gordon
Monroe
M. R. Jackson
Hotel Frances
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BOY Scouts
Pege One
Harvard Donson Brink
Carolina
William H
Alfalfa Bill) Murray
Oklahoma
Gordon & Gordon
The
Lamar Life Insurance Co
Jackson, Mississippi
Treuranen
Louisiana
Central Savings Bank & Trust Co
Whitney National Bank
New Orleans
Ee Ee
Jaery Louis Hullum
Monroe News-Star
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